The career of an evil alchemist that started with picking up a crazy sword girl

After thinking about it, Lu Lin tried to pick up the fruit and handed some to Li Mi.

Tanuki immediately stepped back along the wall.

"Is this really a problem?" Lu Lin was a little stunned.

Can……

Numi's brain is in a state of agent hang-up all year round. How did she notice this thing as soon as she entered the room?

She was sleeping with her eyes closed just now.

Lu Lin picked up a fruit and brought it to his nose and smelled it. It did have a sweet smell, but the fruit was only so big and the taste was very weak.

"Is it because the five senses are too sharp? You can hear sounds that I couldn't hear before..." Lu Lin felt strange, so he took the fruit further away first.

After taking away the fruit, Li Mi was no longer as nervous as before, but he seemed unwilling to sleep. He sat at the end of the bed, hugging his knees, and stared blankly.

Of course, it looked like she was in a daze, but in fact, I'm afraid this was already her alert posture.

"If Li Mi is so alert, there must be something wrong with this fruit, right?" Lu Lin thought, and his attitude became serious.

Previously, he thought Lan Jie had bought a fake, but now it seemed impossible.

But this thing can actually be sold on the streets, not only in Oga City, but also in satellite cities. The situation here may be more serious than he imagined.

Putting on the crow mask and gloves, Lu Lin picked up a fruit and came to the alchemy table.

"You are so mysterious. I want to see what you are..."

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That night, at the dinner table.

Blue Jay is reporting earnings this time around.

For about twenty days in a row, Lu Lin, besides preparing his arsenal, spent the rest of his time refining intermediate magic stones.

After all, it is an intermediate formula, and its earning power is far greater than that of the elementary formula. After considering the cost, this batch of intermediate magic stones finally earned about six gold coins.

Lan Jie spent two gold coins to purchase the items Lu Lin needed. The two gold coins were used to repay the money Lu Lin had borrowed from Lan Jie before, and the remaining two gold coins went into Lu Lin's pocket.

Lu Lin's wallet finally received its first cash after a long period of dryness.

To be honest, two gold coins are really not a small amount. For an ordinary person to save two gold coins, he would have to work hard for at least a whole year.

You know, a year in this place is much longer than the world Lu Lin used to live in.

But how to put it...

After all, they were going to Oga City soon. This small amount of money made Lu Lin feel a little uneasy. In addition, Lu Lin always felt that Lan Jie's savings in the small vault were probably more than ten times that of his. This wave of people were so eager to borrow money. His money was taken back, which made him feel a little bit strange.

Seeing Lu Lin holding two gold coins at the dinner table, Lan Jie inexplicably felt a sense of crisis pointing toward his wallet.

After thinking about it, Lan Jie decided to change the topic proactively to prevent his wallet from being attacked.

"Ahem," he cleared his throat, "Um, boss, didn't you analyze those fruits before? Did you come to any conclusion?"

After hearing Lan Jie's words, Lu Lin's hand playing with gold coins suddenly stopped and his brows wrinkled.

"Well, that's weird," Lu Lin said with a slight frown, "Most of this thing is water, and the rest is some plant fiber and sugar. Judging from the ingredients detected so far, this thing is different from ordinary There really isn’t much difference between the persimmons…”

Chapter 88 Your soul is very valuable

When completing the composition analysis of the fruit, Lu Linzhen once suspected that Lan Jie had been deceived by the locals and took a bunch of good-looking persimmons and sold them to him as the fruit.

No hypnotic effects, no neurotoxins, no stimulants, no hallucinogenic effects, no addictive ingredients, no spells, not even magic.

No matter how you analyze it, the conclusion is that this is just a fruit with a very high sugar water content.

But if that was the case, why would Tanuki have such a big reaction to it?

In the end, Lu Lin had no choice but to conclude that there was some mysterious ingredient in this thing that Lu Lin could not detect with his current ability.

It was definitely inedible, and analysis couldn’t figure out the reason, so Lu Lin finally decided to go to the city to have a look.

Lu Lin wanted to leave Dilong, so Li Mi naturally chose to follow him as always.

Lu Lin was actually a little worried about this. After all, according to Lan Jie, there were shops selling Xishi fruit everywhere in the city. Li Mi was so resistant to this thing, and he didn't know what his reaction would be.

Therefore, Lu Lin had been cautious before entering the city, fearing that Li Mi would have an overreaction.

But the result was somewhat beyond Lu Lin's expectation.

When they came to the gate of the city, they took a quick look and saw that almost every store on both sides of the street had wooden boxes and frames placed in front of them, containing yellow and orange snacks.

Upon seeing this scene, Lu Lin could clearly feel that Li Mi was stunned on the spot.

However, after a brief daze, she still followed Lu Lin's footsteps, but she followed more closely than before.

They were still following behind before, but now they were walking directly beside Lu Lin.

"Huh? This reaction doesn't look like he is afraid of this thing, nor does he have any signs of losing control." Lu Lin looked at Li Mi and thought in his mind, "Then this reaction is simply disgust or dislike of that kind of thing? "

Um……

do not understand.

But anyway, it would be great if Li Mi didn't have a stress reaction. This girl is inseparable from him now. If she gets out of control because of this fruit, he won't know how to enter Erga City.

After entering the city, Lu Lin didn't rush to gather intelligence everywhere. He pretended to stroll around first, observing the people who bought these fruits while strolling, wanting to see if these people have any common characteristics or something.

But the result...

Except that none of these people look particularly poor, Lu Lin didn't summarize any decent common characteristics.

This is very strange.

If this thing is really as fascinating as Lan Jie said in the legend, it should be those who eat this thing and make themselves poor that buy more.

From the current customer group, this looks like a more expensive fruit. Poor people won't buy it, but those who have the conditions may watch and consume some.

In fact, five copper coins each, as a fruit, the price is indeed not low...

But if it is really an ordinary fruit, why can't it be bought elsewhere?

Regarding this point, Lu Lin tried to ask some passers-by casually, and the answer he got was also very ordinary.

That is, this thing is only produced in Erga City. It has a thin skin and a lot of water, which makes it difficult to transport. Once a large number of trucks are loaded with bumps and collisions, the loss rate is very scary, so it is difficult to see it outside.

Lu Lin also investigated the relevant legends everywhere, and the information he got was the same as what Lan Jie said. People here just regarded it as a joke, saying that the rumors outside were too exaggerated.

Everything is so prosperous, everything is so ordinary.

It seems that Lu Lin’s worries are purely unnecessary jokes.

Is it really so?

Lu Lin still remembers that Lan Jie said that those who were emptied of their property by Xishi and Erga City will eventually leave here, make money elsewhere, and come back after making enough.

People whose property has been emptied...

Lu Lin turned his eyes away from the stalls and pedestrians and turned to those who begged on the streets.

At a glance, Lu Lin saw the problem.

First of all, the number.

There were too many beggars. There were more than a dozen beggars scattered on the street. Although the number of beggars in the cities of this world was not too small, the number was two or three times more than that of other cities that Lu Lin had seen.

The second was clothing.

Although the clothes on these beggars were dirty, many of them were not particularly worn out, and it could be seen that the materials and workmanship were not too bad.

In other words, they were not the kind of people who begged in a city all year round, but more like people who had just fallen into this situation.

Perhaps Lu Lin could get some information from them...

At least that's what Lu Lin thought at first.

But when Lu Lin really went to chat with these people, he was shocked to find that these people were either gamblers who lost so much in the casino in Erga City, or fools who spent all their money on wine and women there, and they really had nothing to do with Xi Shiguo.

After a day of investigation, not only did he not find anything, but Lu Lin almost doubted his life.

Is that legend really false?

Is it just a pure legend?

It was a little hard for him to accept.

But up to now, apart from the resistance of Limi to this kind of fruit, he really didn't find any unusual clues.

Until...

"Thank you for your hard work, thank you for talking to me about this," Lu Lin said, putting three copper coins into a beggar's broken bowl.

"Thank you, good people will have a peaceful life..." The beggar took the coins and bowed to Lu Lin to express his gratitude.

Lu Lin smiled and stood up.

It was late, although since he couldn't find anything, it seemed that he should leave.

However, just when Lu Lin had taken two steps, he heard a sigh behind him.

It was the voice of the beggar just now.

"Alas... I only received more than a dozen copper coins this day. When will this day end..."

"If I had known earlier, I should have agreed to their conditions at the beginning... Alas, it's a pity that now I want to go back, and I can't even get the travel expenses together."

Hearing this, Lu Lin stopped.

What do "their conditions" refer to?

The conditions proposed by the casino?

Well, it's likely.

But...

Lu Lin turned around and asked, "What do you mean by the conditions you just mentioned? Who do you mean by 'they'?"

Hearing Lu Lin's question, the beggar was stunned for a moment, then said, "Ah, nothing, just talking to myself."

Lu Lin was silent for a moment, turned around, squatted in front of him again, and said, "Don't say that, tell me in detail, I can give you a few more copper coins."

"Really?" The beggar's eyes lit up when he heard it, "How much can you give?"

"That depends on whether what you said is interesting," Lu Lin said, "If it's interesting...it's not a bad idea to give you two silver coins?"

Hearing this, the beggar's eyes widened.

Two silver coins don't sound like much, but if they are exchanged for food and travel expenses, they are enough to leave here.

Even if it's just begging in another place, it's better than a place where a lot of peers are competing for business.

After thinking about it, the beggar spoke.

"It's like this, didn't I lose everything in the casino in Erga City?" he said, "In fact, when I left the casino, the people there gave me a proposal. As long as I agreed, they could give me enough money for my trip home, and even provide me with some capital for doing business, but as a condition, after I took the money, I could not return to Erga City within a year."

Hearing this, Lu Lin's eyebrows jumped.

Here it comes!

That's it!

Isn't this the same as the situation of the businessman mentioned by Lan Jie?

After asking for a day, he finally found a clue.

"Then..." Lu Lin suppressed his excitement and continued to ask slowly, "What is their proposal to you?"

"This... I'm not very clear," the beggar swallowed and said, "They only said that I need to pay a little bit of my soul..."

Chapter 89 Being a security guard here, wouldn't it save me 50 years of detours?

"Casino?"

Hearing Lu Lin's statement, Lan Jie seemed a little surprised.

"Yes, that's what the beggar said," Lu Lin said, "As for these fruits, I really didn't find out anything. If Li Mi hadn't been very resistant to them, I would have thought they were just a bunch of persimmons that looked like loquats."

"Hmm... Could it be that the rumor was really wrong?" Lan Jie scratched his head, "But we still don't know what the so-called taking away of souls is about. Do we have to pretend to be bankrupt gamblers?"