Mysterious journey

After following him in the alley for a while, the black shadow in front suddenly turned left.

Garen stepped aside from a puddle of water on the ground and followed him with gentle steps. No matter what, he had to find out the details of the person he killed that day and whether the other party had the ability to find out his identity. At this time, it was no longer just a matter of potential, but the most important issue was the safety of himself and his family.

Turning into a dirty, narrower alley, the faint sounds of men beating and cursing women could be heard from upstairs above the alley. The entire alley was filled with an unpleasant smell of fermented food residues.

The man following him was squatting next to a cylindrical trash can, reaching for something inside. There were two homeless people paralyzed next to them, sleeping soundly.

Garen stood quietly at the edge of the alley, looking in with the little light from upstairs.

The man rummaged around in the trash can, and soon he pulled out a black leather bag. He touched it and took out a small copper key. Putting the key in his pocket, he looked left and right, then continued forward.

When the man looked at him, Garen quickly retracted his head and hid by the corner wall, listening to the man's subtle footsteps gradually go away. Then he slowly poked his head out again.

There was no sound. The moment he stuck his head out, Garen only felt a pain in his waist, as if something had pricked him.

He hit his right elbow back like a reflex.

Bang!

A man groaned and staggered after being hit. He turned around and wanted to run, but he stumbled to the ground after running a few steps. He struggled a few times but still couldn't get up.

Garen's heart was pounding, but after all, this was the second time he had actually fought with someone, and the psychological changes after the murder were completely different from the first time. He was not so flustered and nervous.

He suppressed the panic in his heart, took a few deep breaths, and looked at his waist where he was stabbed. There was a small slit in the clothes there, which was obviously pierced by something like a dagger. The skin was not injured.

"If I hadn't used the explosive boxing technique to defend myself, my body would be as hard as hard qigong. A normal person would definitely be dead after this knife blow." Garen looked at the location of the knife edge, which happened to be the kidney area, and he suddenly felt a cold sweat in his heart.

Walking to the man on the ground, the man was holding a black dagger in his right hand. His clothes were dirty and looked like they hadn't been washed for a long time. He was dressed like an ordinary homeless man on the street.

"You won't be rampant for long, Lord James will avenge me!" The man chuckled a few times in a low voice, his small green eyes stared at Garen, a trace of blood faintly leaked from the corner of his mouth, then he tilted his head and died immediately. The blood that overflowed from the corner of his mouth turned slightly black, obviously it was poison.

Before Garen could ask about the situation, the man actually committed suicide. I squatted down and checked my heartbeat and breathing. I was indeed dead.

He just felt like he was involved in a fight between two forces. This guy mistook him for a member of another hostile force. In order to prevent him from leaking information, he committed suicide by taking poison without saying a word.

This kind of cruelty like a dead soldier made Garen feel cold for a moment.

"They probably didn't come here specifically to follow me. The guy in front must have come here specifically to get something. And this guy may be the person he sent to kill me after he found out I was following me. It's also possible that he was a spy from another organization who saw me exposed. It's unlikely." After inferring the specific situation, Garen breathed a sigh of relief. Apparently his accidental killing that night was treated as the other party's action.

"No wonder the man decisively asked someone to kill me as soon as I stopped the car. It was obvious that he happened to be misunderstood at the critical moment."

Garen analyzed the situation and felt more and more that this was the real fact.

Looking around, there was no sound around, except for the snoring of the homeless man sleeping and the quarrels upstairs. From time to time, you can hear the meowing of wild cats.

Garen bent down to examine the killer and found a black and gold gold coin from the inner pocket of his coat. Without looking further, he put the gold coins in his pocket and left quickly along the original path.

While there were few people around, he slowly walked out of the alley, pretending to be nonchalant all the way, and walked around the city many times until the big clock tower in the city started ringing the alarm. , then trotted towards home.

Click bang.

Garen closed the door, changed into slippers and walked into the living room.

The oil lamp was on in the living room, and his father, Lombard Eisen, was sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed, reading a newspaper. He was wearing black pajamas and frowning slightly.

Eisen is a slightly fat middle-aged man with messy black-purple hair and a large patch of white beard on his face. He looks like a very passionate football coach.

Seeing Galen coming back, he raised his fat face and nodded slightly to his son without saying a word.

"Where's Mom?" Garen took off his coat and hung it on the hanger by the door with a natural expression.

"On my rare day off, I went to Mrs. Cortini's house upstairs to have coffee." Eisen replied casually. "You didn't come back until the bell tower reported time. Don't play outside for too long in the future. It's too late and it's dangerous outside. There have been a lot of murders in the city recently, and they all happened in places with few people. You have to remember Don’t go to a less crowded location.”

"I know this. I heard it from my classmates." Garen nodded.

"Especially for you, you often run and like to go to places with few people."

"oh."

"Be gentle. Your sister has just gone to bed. She has to participate in preparatory practice before the competition tomorrow." His father Aisen put down the newspaper and drank all the coffee on the table. "I will go to bed when you come back. Don't wait for your mother. She is probably I won’t come back until very late from playing.”

"I got it." Garen sat on the sofa to rest for a while, drank a glass of water from a cup, and watched his father enter the bedroom and close the door. After waiting for a while, he heard the sound of turning off the lights inside. He got up and quickly washed up, turned off the lights in the living room, and entered his bedroom.

Sit down at the desk, turn on the desk lamp, then carefully take out the black gold coin from your pocket, and examine it carefully under the light.

The gold coin was only the size of a walnut and about as thick as a coin. On the front was a schooner with two huge sails blown up by the wind. There is also a coiled snake carved on the top of the ship, with its mouth open as if it wants to bite something.

There is a number engraved at the bottom: 1521

Turn back. It is engraved with a pair of knight's armor. A sword penetrates upward from the inside of the armor, from bottom to top, with the tip of the sword touching the helmet. The actual armor was surrounded by a garland of flowers.

Garen rubbed the gold coin repeatedly, and from some subtle places on the back, you could see the dark gold color exposed under the black paint of the gold coin.

He pressed his fingers on these dark golden colors, and suddenly the potential beneath his vision slowly jumped.

Jumped from 179% to 180%.

Then there was absolutely no movement.

"Gone?"

Garen put down the gold coin speechlessly.

Since he saved some attribute points from the old man last time, he has not used this attribute point. But keep it for now.

Originally he planned to add it to Baiyun Secret Technique, but later he considered that it might be better to add it to Explosive Fist Technique. After all, that is the one that can be effective in a short time. In addition, he had been unsuccessful in begging the old man to lend him the book, and he became more and more reluctant to randomly add this attribute.

"I thought I could find something good from him. The gang that stole so many antiques actually only got one gold coin. Should I say that he is really a minor player?"

Shaking his head slightly, he put the gold coins into the desk drawer.

"Since this matter is a misunderstanding, it ends here. I can't get involved anymore." Recalling that he had been stabbed silently by the man just now, Garen broke into a cold sweat.

"If I hadn't practiced the bursting boxing technique and my skin had become much harder, this knife might have killed me. This time, his strength was weak. If he had been replaced by a stronger one and some poison had been put on the knife."

He shuddered a little when he thought of this.

"It's better to go to school and practice martial arts honestly. These things are too dangerous. It's better to leave it to a great detective like Tali Mercury."

He had made up his mind not to interfere in this matter. Although the Bronze Cross Medal is precious, the old man has a new source of potential. Although it cannot be absorbed in the future, Garen's desire to retrieve the medal has also faded away.

"The last attribute should be added to the Baiyun Secret Technique. If you add this earlier, your strength and physique will increase much faster in the future."

He thought for a moment, and finally cast his sights on the Baiyun Secret Technique in the skill bar.

Slowly, the airflow in his mind rushed out and penetrated into Baiyun's secret technique.

The words "Secret Technique" jumped for a moment and gradually became blurred, slowly changing from intermediate to advanced.

Snapped!

Suddenly there was a crisp sound in my head, and the words that had become advanced were blurred for an instant, and returned to intermediate. A stream of air suddenly poured back into Garen's mind.

"What's going on?" He frowned and looked at the skill bar carefully.

Behind Baiyun's secret technique, a new symbol actually appeared.

Although he didn't know the pronunciation of the symbol, Garen strangely knew its meaning - incomplete information.

"It seems that the teaching of the secret method is not the key to the complete high-level secret method, which should be in the hands of the high-level martial arts officials and important disciples." Garen roughly guessed the truth of the matter.

After thinking about it, he looked at the Explosive Fist Technique again. It was the same situation. After the attribute points were added, the words were blurred and returned to the original basic level. There is a new symbol at the end, which means Galleons.

"Does the intermediate level of bursting boxing require external drug stimulation and simultaneous treatment? Otherwise, it will damage the physique and intelligence." He also knew that he was very lucky to be able to master the bursting boxing without any assistance.

The same goes for Baiyun Secret Technique. The martial arts school naturally wants to keep the core things in its own hands. It’s impossible to throw them all out at once. Otherwise it would be impossible to cohere into one piece.

"It seems that if you want to improve your martial arts, you can only improve your status in the martial arts gym." Since time travel, almost all of his thoughts have been obsessed with martial arts. This kind of thing that he has always dreamed of on earth can actually be achieved in the martial arts hall. Garen has been feeling excited about the world being exposed to it. Now feeling the importance and safety of martial arts, his pursuit of it became even more fanatical.

Although he is encountering some problems now, it doesn't matter to him. He just needs to participate in the ranking competition inside the martial arts hall and get a good ranking to get into the sight of the core figures above.

"Since you can't add skills, let's just add basic attributes." He shifted his gaze and wandered around the basic attributes column.

Strength 0.53, agility 0.23, constitution 0.33, intelligence 0.36.

"I've already increased my physique, strength and intelligence. Let's just add agility this time. Let's test the impact of this agility." As for the attribute points, Garen held the attitude that if you don't add them, it's useless.

Compared to other students who study together, no matter which attribute point he adds, his starting point is higher than others.

After all, he added attribute points to the body of an ordinary person.

Coupled with the effect of attribute solidification, once he reaches a certain attribute height, even if he does not exercise much afterwards, his body can still maintain his peak attributes and will not degrade. In such a situation, if he didn't practice martial arts and improve his physique, even he would feel like he was wasting his resources.