The Death Knell

Things are going very well, and it can be said that there is nothing that gold and dollars cannot do in Lourdes.

After staying in the bar next to the market for a few minutes, Su Ming and Mysterio came out. The enthusiastic bar owner also secretly gave a map of the nearby wasteland. It is said that a gunslinger once came here and exchanged it for drinks. Drinking.

"No wonder all RPG games have to go to the tavern to get information. There is so much information." Mysterio picked her ears, and she felt her head was buzzing.

When the teacher took out the money and said he wanted to buy information, the people nearby rushed over like crazy, rushing to tell all kinds of news. It was like being surrounded by hundreds of Deadpools or Spider-Man. surrounded, and they still took the time to argue with each other.

It's still more like Deadpool, because even though these people have their own will, they don't have the habit of bathing at all. The smell on their bodies smells similar to Deadpool, mixed with the smell of various inferior perfumes.

You must know that this is the most exclusive bar in the city. The people who spend money there are at least the petty bourgeoisie. Even so, their sanitary conditions are not very good.

Su Ming memorized the map in his mind and asked his adjutant to send out drones to scan several locations. He walked in the market with a smile:

"The adjutant is conducting the second step of verification. It will take a while. Do you want to go into the Green Palace and have a look? There is the largest indoor rose garden in the Almighty Universe."

"Well, forget it, I don't like flowers very much. That kind of thing is not necessary for life, nor can it improve my strength." Liana held her pointed chin and thought for a few seconds, then shook her head: "Just thinking about the big boss here I get angry when workers are squeezed just to create a useless wonder of the world.”

After saying that, she showed a cute grinning expression.

Liana has a pragmatic spirit like most Mao girls. She is not against creating wonders of the universe, but these wonders need to have a more realistic role.

For example, military space giants like Sepurk or Blackstone Fortress, or scientific research centers like the Savage Land Proving Ground or TVA Headquarters

Thinking of this, she suddenly discovered that the buildings that could be called wonders in the hands of her teacher seemed to have been bought from others? Even Kama Taj succeeded the ancient master.

She was indeed right. Su Ming was not very interested in creating wonders of the universe on his own. He preferred to use his intelligence advantage to 'pick up' others'.

For example, the Dark Tower itself, which connects 1,318 worlds, is both a space hub and the embodiment of the God of Creation. It must be called a wonder building. Isn't this the Supreme Mage here?

The Rose Garden in the Green Palace is a steampunk version of the hanging garden, larger and more luxurious than the one in ancient Babylon. With the current productivity level of Ludd, we want to maintain the normality of that garden high in the wasteland. Operation will probably take up half of the city's production capacity.

But who said that the wife of the city lord likes roses? Su Ming remembers a saying that men control the world, and women control the world by controlling men.

I forgot where I saw it from, and there was even a risk of getting punched, but it was true a lot of the time.

Lourdes is a big city. Although its area is not large, its total population should be about the same as Gotham. Everyone here is trying to please the richest city lord, and the city lord is trying to please his young and beautiful wife.

That woman is not inherently bad, and can even be said to be very innocent. She just likes roses, which are almost extinct in the wasteland and only existed in books in the past.

She didn't care about anything else, she just asked her husband to help her get more roses to plant in the garden. Because the outside world still had various radiations from the Cataclysm period, the mutant roses grown from each seed were different, she thought. Want this kind of happiness like opening a blind box.

For a rich husband, this is just a seemingly small thing, so let the tools go to the wilderness to find it.

Therefore, the city lord ignored it after giving the order, but things became more and more distorted due to people's habit of pursuing profits.

In order to obtain rose seeds in exchange for rewards, people left the city on the high platform and went deep into the wilderness to explore the ruins. Countless dark stories happened. It can be said that every flower in the garden grew up soaked in blood.

To this day, if the news that someone possesses rose seeds spreads, he will still be hunted by various forces, and various methods, whether popular or not, will appear.

"Okay, let's not visit the botanical garden. Let's go shopping in the market and buy some specialties for your friends to take back."

Su Ming gave up the idea of ​​sneaking into the Green Palace to enjoy the flowers with his students. Although he would drink tea and look at the flowers and trees in the courtyard when he was at Kama Taj, it would be better to have some flowers as decoration in his life. Okay, too much will just make your head spin.

Let's go to the market. The craftsmen in Lourdes City are also very involved. All kinds of ingenious brass crafts only sell for a few dollars. It would be a different world. No matter what it is, adding the word "handmade" will increase its value. How many times?

About half an hour later, without eating any of the various foods in the city that looked like ashes bibimbap, Deathstroke took the mysterious guest to the edge of a swamp about 200 kilometers away from Lourdes City.

This place has deviated from the range of the light river in the sky. It can only be seen hanging sideways on the far horizon, and this has taken away almost all the light sources.

Large areas of mud pools look dark, with large or small bubbles rising up from the bottom. On scattered dry islands, you can occasionally see some charred dead trees stretching out twisted dead branches in the darkness. , as if it might grab the shoulder of the person passing by at any time.

Like all swamps, the smell here is pungent, and there may be something alive among the waist-high mutated plants, making sneaky little sounds from time to time.

"Is this where the witches of the wilderness live?" The mysterious guest looked at the nearby environment and shook her head: "Living here is worse than living in the border of hell. At least there is no weird smell there."

"Based on the information I knew before, plus the information I asked in the city not long ago, I asked the adjutant to send a drone to investigate first and locked this place." Su Ming sat sideways on the flying carpet, letting his cloak slowly flow. Floating forward: "This swamp hag is called Leah, and she should have a Merlin Rainbow in her hand."

"Ghost, this is a word you don't often use." The mysterious guest leaned on the teacher's shoulder, with the giant sword in his hand lying across his thigh: "Witch, witch, female spell caster, witch, female shaman, you used to use them all Milder words.”

"Of course, I can be gentle, provided that this female spell caster is still a human being." Su Ming spread his hands and said that he did not mean to discriminate. He had any prejudice against witches living in the swamp: "But if she is a human being, It's another thing if you are ugly and do mischief."

"This is also good news. Since she is someone you hate, teacher, then I'll do it!" Mysterio smiled, clenched his fists, and made a hard hitting motion from the air: "Kill her directly, the crystal ball won't Have you got it?"