The night is like a curtain, the heat of the day gradually fades, and at such times, the more greedy people can reap more coolness.

I don't know when it started, the evening rush hour after work was quietly postponed, so even at this time, the entire dark bamboo road was still filled with a strong atmosphere of life.

When Li Qing found No. 57 Dark Bamboo Road, he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Different from the imaginary place such as a bar, which is quiet in the middle of the noise and uses a complex flow of people as a shield, what appeared in front of him was actually a bookstore sign.

Dark Bamboo Book House.

The old wooden door of the bookstore is painted dark green, and it is rare to see such a retro door in Fuyong, where everything is particular about novelty.

It's an old shop.

Judging from the flow of people during this time, the business of this old shop seems to be not bad, young people are generally busy, and they don't have time to patronize such a leisure place, and the people who come and go are mostly old people and children, but among these people, there is still no transcendent person that Li Qing wants to see.

If someone can hide their perception, Li Qing is not an arrogant person, and what he wants to believe in is the truth that there are people outside the world and there are heavens outside the world, but if it is said that a random transcendent person in Fuyong can do this, it is a bit outrageous.

The dark green door is always closed, but there is a wooden sign on the handle that says "Open", and the guests who come in and out are very well-behaved, whether they are in or out, everyone is very conscious of keeping the dark green wooden door closed.

It is such an old bookstore, and today, it is rare to welcome a young guest.

Standing at the door, he looked at the wooden sign on the handle for a while, then unscrewed the handle and pushed the door in.

The smell of books is fragrant, and after entering the study house, a sense of tranquility arises spontaneously, different from the forcible calming of taking medicines, which is the comfort and comfort brought by the environment from the inside out, in such an environment, Li Qing even feels that his spiritual world, which has been very active since the fusion with the void source, has calmed down a lot.

Books are classified, the shelves are not stained with dust, and the right plants are placed in the right places, and it can be seen that the owner of the book house either takes care of it himself from time to time, or he also supervises the people under him when he sees the reasonable remuneration in place, so that they dare not be lazy.

Li Qing let out a deep exhalation, bypassed the bookshelf from the edge, and came to the front of the counter.

In contrast to the ubiquitous tranquility of the bookstore, sitting at the counter was a drunken old man with red cheeks.

I don't know what kind of wine he drank, but even if he drank like this, he didn't have half of the alcohol on his body.

"Something?" In a vague voice, the old man rubbed his eyes, looked up at Li Qing in front of the counter, and looked at his appearance, as if he was trying to knead several shadows in his eyes into a figure.

This matter was obviously a bit difficult for a drunken man, and his efforts were fruitless, and the old man waved his hand, poured himself another glass as if he had broken the jar, and drank it all with his head up.

"If you want to borrow a book, the price is written on the sign, give me the money along with your resident card, and then you can take the book."

"I'm here to find Mr. Wen." Li Qing's eyes lit up, and he replied according to the pre-thought words.

This time, he could see clearly, the old man was drinking a red liquid, and in this red liquid poured out of the dark glass bottle, Li Qing felt a trace of an extremely faint essentia breath, a faint breath that had been diluted thousands of times.

On the side, the uncle who was reading an anthology with glasses interjected: "Young man, you are in the wrong place, I have lived here for most of my life, and I don't know what Mr. Wen is here, and the owner of this bookstore is not surnamed Wen, but surnamed Yang, I grew up watching it since I was a child, but this kid doesn't pay attention to this ancestral property, and he is not in the store for three days......"

"Where did you hear about this?" The old man behind the counter was silent for a while, and then suddenly spoke, interrupting the old man's chatter.

"The missing person notice in the Fuyong Daily, the address published in the newspaper, is it right here?" Li Qing smiled apologetically at the deflated old man next to him and replied truthfully.

The old man put down the wine glass, jumped off the stool with both hands, and Li Qing realized that his height was only up to his waist, his upper and lower body were not symmetrical, and his legs were short, like a dwarf in a fairy tale.

"Come with me, the person you're looking for is upstairs."

"Second floor? It's a VIP area, and people who don't have a card can't go up, if your boss knows about it, I'm sure you want to look good......" The old man seemed a little unconvinced, and muttered to himself.

"Thank you." Li Qing thanked the old dwarf man, and did not look down on the other party because of his somewhat funny appearance.

He knew that the old man's current appearance was most likely not real, and even his old face was probably not his original appearance.

Of course, the liquid in the dark glass bottle that has been diluted many times is not enough to change the physical appearance of a transcendent person, and the dwarf old man will take a sip from time to time to simply be greedy.

Li Qing didn't expect that the transcendent person in the bachelor sequence he saw for the first time turned out to be such an "extraordinary scientific madman" who experimented with himself.

In a creaking sound, Li Qing finally went up to the second floor, but the wooden staircase that zigzagged upwards did not end, and when he looked up, there was a big shadow overhead.

It's a small three-storey building, which is enough for anyone to call it a solid ancestral property.

"That's the boss's private space, and it's best for anyone not to go up until they have his permission." The old man glanced back at Li Qing and reminded.

Unlike the first floor, which is strewn with bookshelves, the second floor is divided into several rooms, and outside these rooms there are some miscellaneous items.

Turning on the switch of the gas lamp, the sudden light made Li Qing frown slightly, not that he was blinded by the light, but now he felt more comfortable and more secure in the dark.

Just like now, just after receiving the blessing of the shadows, Li Qingneng could vaguely find some traces of the existence of the formation in the entire second floor, but now that the lights are on, these traces have disappeared without a trace.

The old man took Li Qing through the various rooms in turn, and these rooms, without exception, had closed doors, and the words "Elixir", "Charm", "Formation", "Spirit Plant", "Refining", "History" and so on were written on the door plates.

Eventually, the two stopped outside the penultimate room, and the word "discussion room" was written on the door number.

"The person you're looking for is inside." As he spoke, the old man stood on tiptoe and grabbed the handle and pushed the door open.

The discussion room was not complicated, with a blackboard supported by shelves for writing and drawing, and a long table that could seat twelve people.

At the head of the long table, facing the door, sat a man with slightly curly hair, who looked to be thirty-five or sixteen, with a melancholy temperament on his body, and with a poetry anthology he was holding in his hand, this melancholy can be prefixed as a poet.

This should be Mr. Wen, apart from him, what he saw in front of him did not provide Li Qing with a second option.

"Slow talk."

The door of the discussion room was closed again, Li Qing stepped forward, pulled out a chair in the middle of the side of the long table and sat down, and without saying anything, he directly put the notebook obtained from the Invitation Moon Theater on the table.

At this time, Mr. Wen finally put down the poetry anthology in his hand, he first looked at the notebook, and then looked at Li Qing, and said, "What do you want?" ”

On the missing person notice, Mr. Wen promised to "thank you again", and the premise of this thank you is naturally not to find the body of the middle-aged man, but to find the notebook that the man is carrying, and to hold it or clues about its whereabouts in exchange for Mr. Wen's reward.

"There's no hurry," Li Qing pressed one hand on his notebook, "Before talking about the reward, I want to know what kind of place this is." ”

A flash of surprise flashed in Mr. Wen's eyes, he crossed his hands on the table, and looked at Li Qing with light blue pupils, "You don't know?" ”

This Mr. Wen turned out to be a member of the Northern Federation.

"Don't be surprised, academia knows no borders, and within the parliament, there is also no distinction between north and south," Mr. Wen expressed kindness with a smile, and the council in his mouth naturally refers to the fact that the transcendents of the bachelor sequence spontaneously established the exclusive organization of the sequence-the Vientiane Council.

Li Qing was slightly stunned, "What do you mean, here's the branch of the Vientiane Council in Fuyong?" ”

"Isn't it like?"

In Li Qing's imagination, the Vientiane Council should be the richest of the five sequences of exclusive organizations, knowledge is power, knowledge is wealth, and when the inventions and creations of the scholars are popularized and applied, they will naturally gain a lot of wealth.

No one is obliged to give unconditionally, and the Bachelors, who are transcendental, are undoubtedly more advanced in the awakening of self-consciousness.

"The Northern Federation is coming, and we have to start the retreat, the first rule of businessmen, 'don't make a deal that will definitely lose money'," Mr. Wen patiently explained, "Not every bachelor is a paranoid person who can give everything for academics, on the contrary, rich knowledge makes them more aware of the power of capital, in fact, the public funds of the parliament are very scarce, and we must reduce unnecessary losses in order to maintain the normal operation of the entire parliament." ”

Speaking of this, Mr. Wen's smile suddenly became a little weird, "The huge wealth you imagined was actually only in the hands of a very few people. ”

Li Qing silently savored this sentence and did not make a sound.

At this time, I heard Mr. Wen introduce again: "The places you just walked through are the Pharmacist Rating Center, the Charm Master Rating Center, the Array Mage Rating Center, the Alchemist Rating Center, the essentia plant cultivation room and the Historical Research Center of our Fuyong Branch. ”

"Have the opportunity to go to Xiangling, which is the headquarters of our parliament in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, where you can truly see the vastness of heaven and earth, and understand what the council is pursuing."

"Now, let's go back to the deal itself, what do you want to trade this notebook for?"

There was silence for a long time.

"All the information about the Xu Immortal Master I want to contact Chen Ke'an, including the sequence he belongs to, the extraordinary abilities he possesses, his past achievements, and the purpose of his trip, and ...... more"

Speaking of this, Li Qing took out a note from his arms and handed it to Mr. Wen.