Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 651 Two hundred twenty eight. Jamie's story

  The silhouette of the businessman disappeared into the sparse forest.

   Looking back, Anna suggested to Lu Li, "You should ask about homologous goods."

   "The merchant only sells basic equipment."

   Lu Li once asked. It's a pity that the merchant is not a treasure house, and it sells the most basic homologous items, such as a psychic gun or a short sword that is not practical.

   Although they do recover other congeners.

   Now, they have more urgent things to do.

   It was less than three days before the time of silence enveloped the Ellen Peninsula, and they had to complete the expansion of the cave before the third scourge.

   Safety is more important to refuge than space. Therefore, the thickness of the deep-sea stone wall in this expansion will be increased from 10 cm to 1 m.

  It can be expected that after the expansion, the refuge point, or the safe house will be able to withstand most of the strange invasions.

   At least Anna, who is a wraith, has difficulty penetrating a one-meter-thick deep-sea stone.

  This safe house worth 100 billion contribution points seems to be worth the money.

   For the whole morning, the top of the cliff was occupied by the sound of excavation.

  The furniture of the refuge and the contents of the cellar were temporarily moved out of the cave to make room for Jimmy, a worker.

The   hard rock wall is similar to the solidified sand to the claws of Jimmy Monster's body, and every time it crosses, it will plow out three deep claw marks.

   However, the mining speed is much slower than the beginning.

  Because at first Ampere helped too.

   It just curls up and starts rolling, and the rock wall under the hard shell will be slashed like butter.

   It was just that Ampere made too much movement, and the sand on the top of the cliff trembled when he rolled. Remy had to stop Ampere's destruction and let him play in the Elm Forest - if he let it help, the cave would collapse before it could be expanded.

   But even if only Jimmy was working, the cave was nearly half dug as it approached evening.

  No accident, deep-sea stones can be laid at noon tomorrow, and you can stay in a safe house. It would be quicker to build overnight, but unfortunately it's not safe at night with the weird fog.

  The sky became dark, something seemed to emerge from the depths of the sea, and a strange fog spread to the land.

   Tonight, Lu Li temporarily stayed in the hut of Jimmy's brothers and sisters. Remi stayed and guarded Lu Li with Anna. Jimmy was driven to Ampei and the children. The two wooden houses are only a few meters apart, and they can appear quickly if something happens.

   Lu Li didn't go to bed, he sat in front of the fire and took out the book "The Sound of Misery" that he only read a few pages.

  The author Flo Mitchell is unknown. At least many of the books brought out from Erin's library contained the author's deeds, and the title page of this book was blank, except for the author's name.

  The protagonist is the most common name in the Lord's Continent, Jamie. But he himself is not at all ordinary. He is one of the youngest and most popular alchemists in Flo Mitchell's fictional world.

  When most alchemists were hiding in dark basements to develop alchemy products, Jamie was already making a lot of money with alchemy. He developed many popular alchemical products. There are hair growth medicines that will instantly grow lush hair even if someone is shining brightly in the sun. There are cases where you won't get drunk no matter how much beer you drink, but it's only limited to wheat wine. There are enchanting potions that give off a scent that persists for weeks on end.

   There is also the most sought after happiness potion that dispels any negative emotions and makes you happy.

   These alchemy potions amaze even kings.

   Jamie, who had already obtained wealth and honor in his twenties, was suddenly confused and felt that he had lost his goal of moving forward.

Thirty years later, Jamie is almost fifty years old. Although he remains popular as a jazz and alchemist, he has yet to find a way forward.

   Jamie didn't realize that he had been lost for 30 years and he was old when the doctor told him the bone was broken.

  Jamie didn't want to lose everything he had now, so he regained his goal of moving forward, only this time it was no longer a great alchemist, but... immortality.

  The story of the potion of immortality has been circulating among alchemists. Young Jamie scoffed at it, now Jamie scoffs at his younger self and starts looking.

   He got nothing.

  Jamie decided to develop the immortality potion by himself. After all, in the eyes of most people, he is the smartest alchemist.

   That's true.

   The first elixir of immortality was ready quickly, and author Flo Mitchell made a small mistake here.

   Flo Mitchell is obviously not a nobleman, or a middle-aged man with enough experience and contact with the upper class.

  Because in the book, honor and wealth are added to the body, Jamie, who holds the title, actually uses himself to test after making the medicine, instead of using death row or slaves.

   However, it may also be a loophole for the smooth progress of the plot.

  The story continues. Jamie's body was years younger after drinking the potion, but it also paid for it - he lost... pain.

   Jamie is not very satisfied. It's not because I didn't feel it when I was eating, or it wasn't because I was bitten by a non-venomous snake for a few days and found out later, but when he was a few years younger, he was still in his forties, and he had to pee for a long time to go to the toilet. middle-aged man.

   The elixir of immortality can still be improved, so there is no reason to give it up.

  Loss of pain sounds good, but many daily chores can bring trouble, such as being stabbed by a nail and feeling unconscious, and only discovering that the shoes are full of blood when slippers are used.

   Jamie had to hire a personal servant to take care of himself. As for the wife? Alchemists do not need wives, or the knowledge of alchemy is their wives.

   Soon, the improved version of the immortality potion was successfully developed, and he still used himself to do experiments. Jamie feels like he's back in his 30s, well... 39.

   But there were still side effects, Jamie lost his sense of smell.

   This is a bit bad for Jamie. Jamie is a very picky eater, but now, he has lost his sense of smell and has no concept of "smell" and "smelly". This greatly affects the sense of taste, and he can only taste the ups and downs when he eats.

   In other words, he can't tell which is better between a seven-mature steak and a seven-mature pork chop, they both have the same salty taste.

   So Jamie improved the immortality potion again, hoping to remove the first two negative effects.

   What I lost this time was my sense of taste.

  Jamie couldn't help but stop because he was back in his prime in his thirties, and he didn't have much left...

  Sight, hearing, touch.

   He can't lose either. Fail at most twice, and he will never have a chance to come back.

   More than ten years have passed, during which Jamie has been improving the potion and drank the potion of immortality on his 50th birthday.

  【Jamie drank it like he had been drinking coffee for more than ten years, without hesitation and without spilling it. The alchemists don’t like liquids all over the place—]

  嘭——

   A dull sound broke the silence.

   Lu Li turned over the pages and raised his eyes, Remi stopped sewing and Anna let out a breath to protect Lu Li.

   There was a knock on the door outside the mist-shrouded hut.

   (end of this chapter)