For Viscount Glerinte's words, Hobert took a sip of red wine and smiled, looking at the neat table, but he suddenly thought of the meal in a cheap café.

After eating dessert and fruit, and taking a few sips of tea, the whole dinner process finally ended.

Glerint got up and said, "I still have a lot of questions for the 'pharmacist', please follow me to the study." ”

When the two of them arrived at the study, Gleilint took out his pocket watch and looked at it before whispering, "Mr. Hobert, I invited you here because I want to entrust you to help me investigate." ”

Hobert sat across from the viscount: "It stands to reason that we are both initiators of the 'Justice League', and I should help." However, your commission is too dangerous, and I'm sorry, I decline. ”

Gleilynt was stunned: "I haven't said what the commission is!" ”

"All I know is that someone kept an eye on us while we were making potions for you." Hobert leaned back in his chair: "I'm a Sequence 8, and my father doesn't seem to be very important, and he doesn't want to get involved in the struggle between the nobles. ”

Glerint smiled, "You're more alert than I thought. ”

He said: "Let me first talk about my commission, you can choose not to accept it." ”

Hobert smiled bitterly, "Dear Viscount, there are some things that I may just know that will cause me some trouble. ”

Gleilynt said, "Don't worry, no one is eavesdropping on our conversation, and the person who is quietly spying on me has already left in the afternoon after making sure that I have taken the 'Apothecary' potion. ”

He opened the pocket watch and showed it to Hobert, it looked a little old, and he didn't know if it was broken, and the hands stopped there motionless.

"It's a magical artifact, as long as I'm being listened to or watched, the hands of the pocket watch move normally, and if no one is listening, watching, or watching us, the hands will be motionless," Gleilynt said. ”

Hobert thought back for a moment, and did remember that Glerint often looked at his pocket watch, and he had thought that the viscount had a strong sense of time, but now he realized that he was checking that no one was spying on him.

"Okay." Hobert said, "I'll listen to your commission first, but you have to explain the danger of the commission. ”

"I've been observing you for a while, and you're very cautious and professional in your handling of some extraordinary events, and I don't think you can bring us any danger even if you can't fulfill your commission." Glerint pulled out a sketch from a drawer:

"The commission is actually very simple, I want you to retrieve one of my father's rings, which I drew in the afternoon."

The style of the ring looked very ordinary, with the words "Gold" written on the side, with a red gemstone.

Gleilint looked at the ring and exhaled a long breath: "On my eighteenth birthday, my father told me that the origin of the Gleilint family and the family history are in that ring, as well as many valuable materials left by my ancestors.

"My father once said that when I got married, he would let me inherit this ring and continue to write a legacy for the family.

"But ......"

Glerint said coldly, "However, I have not found this ring on my father's body. ”

His usual warm temperament disappeared without a trace, as if he had changed into a different person.

Hobert remembered the shape of the ring: "I remember that Ling Zun died of illness, right?" ”

Glerint nodded, "That's what they said. ”

Hobert didn't ask who "they" meant: "The contents of the ring may have fallen into the hands of the enemy." ”

"No, it won't." Viscount Glerint said, "A spell is needed to open the space of the ring, and that spell is known only to me and my father. ”

He added: "In addition, they did not give me my father's extraordinary characteristics.

"That's right, that's right. It's not that I don't know anything about the extraordinary world, and the Glerints have always been a family of extraordinary beings.

"But in my generation, because I was an only child, and taking potions was in danger of getting out of control, my father let me take potions after I had children.

"But I didn't expect that before I got married, my father died 'of illness', and I was also under surveillance."

Glerint smiled indifferently, "Only if I take a potion that is not a threat to them, can they completely reassure and give up monitoring of me." ”

These plans, these thoughts must have been suppressed for a long time, and when Glerint finished saying this, his expression was visibly soothed.

He covered his face and said, "Although I have escaped their surveillance, I may never be able to avenge my father." ”

Hobert has always been a good listener, and as he said before, he did not want to get involved in the struggle between the aristocracy.

After a while, Viscount Glerint came out of his emotions: "As for the risk of this commission, I don't know, because I don't know if my father's ring was hidden in advance before his death, or if it was taken by the murderer.

"These need to be investigated, of course, it is still necessary to focus on safety, if you perceive danger, you can give up the active investigation, in short, the choice is yours.

"It's important to me to keep the Glerint family legacy, so the family history and the valuable material have to be retrieved.

"It's going to be a long-term commission, and I'm well aware that it may take years or even decades to get results, and from today onwards, I'm not going to talk to you about it until you get something.

"As for the pay, all I can say is that you will be satisfied."

Hobart thought for a moment before saying, "Mr. Viscount, I have to say that your prudence is the most correct choice. ”

"Unless I come across obvious clues, I'm going to investigate when I'm stronger and have more means to avoid danger," he said. ”

Glerint smiled, "It's enough to have a promise like yours." ”

Although he had gotten rid of the watchers, Glerint seemed to have developed a habit of acting, and when he sent Hobart out, he was still discussing some occult issues with Hobert with great interest, and when Hobart got into the carriage, he still looked unsatisfied.

In the carriage, Hobert smiled: "The nobles also have the hardships of the nobles." ”

Back at home, Hobert hears from the butler that Christine is still in the study, so he knocks on the door and tells Christine about his plan to use Upton as bait.

Christine nodded, "Sounds pretty good." ”

Then he suddenly said something else: "I made a very important choice before, and now it's time to pay for that choice, and it may affect you."

"After about half a year, you will have to pay attention to every question I have and make your choice after thinking it through."

Hobert was stunned, it seemed that not only the nobles of Beckland couldn't help themselves, but Christine seemed to have his troubles: "Okay, I'll pay attention." ”

Back in his room, Hobert couldn't sleep for a long time, and always felt that today's conversation with Gleilynt and Christine was very informative, and there was a feeling of "the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings".

It was midnight that Hobart regained his nerves, fell asleep, and went back to reading the Bible of Life the next day.

On Wednesday morning, Hobert went out early to "visit clients," read the classics at Harvest Chapel, and had lunch.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Upton entered the church in a bit of a panic: "I just put on the 'astrologer's hair' and immediately felt the danger. ”