Chapter 62: Sewer
Giving it away is not a transaction.
It is not a transaction, so there is no prohibition.
That’s okay.
The question is, why should someone give such a precious thing to you for free?
Gothe was not only asking himself, but also wanted to ask Pierre.
To be honest, he admitted that Pierre had a lot of favors, and he thought that he could not repay Pierre with anything.
Seeing Gothe freeze for a moment, Pierre seemed to be able to understand what Gothe was thinking, and said with relief:
"Just follow it up as I give it to you. You must be the master of these three spells. It’s useful.”
“That little money is useless to me. It makes no difference whether I have it or not.”
After thinking about it, Pierre took out a pen and paper from the counter, wrote a few lines of words, and handed it to Gothe.
"Is this?" Gothe took the note and didn't react yet.
“This is my place to stay in Bremen,” Pierre explained: “If you go to Bremen one day and can’t find a place to stay for the time being, you can do it. Come to me."
"Of course, if it's too late, I can't guarantee that I'll be there by then." The little old man smiled heartily.
Gaode was silent for a moment. After a while, he put away the note, caressed his chest, lowered his head and said sincerely: "Thank you."
After sending Gothe away and watching his back carrying the package disappear from sight, Pierre took a sip of tea into his mouth, his eyes already wandering.
Among mages, there is a saying that is widely circulated:
Spells are a private realm open only to geniuses.
But those who have truly experienced it know that magic is a private realm only open to the rich.
If you are not very talented, you may not be able to become a high-level mage.
But without money, it is absolutely impossible to become a high-level mage.
It is often said that practicing Dharma is difficult, but the degree of difficulty is also very different.
Common people have a hard time making a living, and practicing magic is hundreds of times more difficult than those from rich families?
He was also born as a commoner, and he managed to find a path through his own efforts.
Now that his road has come to an end, seeing Gothe at this time is like seeing himself in his youth.
When he was young, he really hoped that someone would lend a hand to help him, but he never had such luck.
In this case, let’s be the one who reaches out now.
This is just a little effort that costs nothing.
Pierre was silent, poured another cup of tea, and poured it into his mouth.
“The precursors of frequent ley lines are enriched in magic power, ley line creatures increase, and the population is missing”
On the way back, Gothe kept repeating these key words in his mind. He always felt that he had grasped a key point, but he had ignored it.
He couldn't figure it out until he returned to the medicine garden.
Stepping into the medicine garden with a lot of worries, Gaode, who was a little worried, first went to the medicine field area to see how the seedlings planted some time ago were growing.
Aiqi and Raymond were taking care of the seedlings, fertilizing the soil and chatting while working.
"Aiqi, during this period of practicing the guidance method, have you noticed that for some unknown reason, the concentration of magic power seems to have increased a lot." Lei Meng asked smoothly.
"It's true. The two hours of practice these days are almost equal to the three hours of practice before. It's so cool!" Ai Qi said with emotion.
“I don’t know what’s going on”
“Why don’t you worry about it, it’s a good thing anyway”
The two of them chatted without a word.
Gaode was stunned on the spot.
"The concentration of magic power has increased a lot?"
He immediately turned around, returned to his room, sat cross-legged, and quickly entered the meditation state of the guidance method.
As usual, countless stardust appeared in Gothe's consciousness, floating around.
However, this time he could clearly sense the amount of stardust, which was almost 50% more than before. The next moment, Gothe suddenly opened his eyes.
His eyes were full of surprise.
During this period, he has been practicing the guidance method with the help of basic magic potion.
Because drinking magic potion eliminates the need to guide magic into the body from the outside world, it was only today that we learned from two apprentices that the concentration of magic in the environment during this period had increased for nothing. So much.
"Okay, how can the concentration of magic power be increased?"
Before the question completely popped out, Gothe had already thought of the answer: "It is the concentration of magic power!"
The two major precursors of the rebirth of the earth veins: the enrichment of magic power and the increase of earth vein creatures have been verified at this moment.
"The medicine garden is located in the suburbs, far away from the city center and close to the wild, so it can be the first to perceive changes in the concentration of magic power."
At the same time, I also want to understand why there is such obvious magic power. Why didn't the big shots in the city, including Pierre, notice the change in concentration?
That's because they live in the center of Hogan City, and the influence of the magic power has not yet spread there.
"A new leyline is really going to be born. It will be born outside Hogan City." Although I am not 100% sure, in Gothe's view, this is already a high probability event.
Gothe stood up and walked around the room.
Many thoughts are flashing through my mind.
"The phenomenon of magic power enrichment has already affected the medicine garden. It can be seen that the formation of earth veins must have started a long time ago."
"Wait." Gothe thought of another thing.
Two months ago, at Pierre's grocery store, the city guard came to deliver a notice.
At that time, the original words of the city guard were "the number of dark swamp crawlers in the city's sewers has increased sharply recently, and they are extremely active."
If the Dark Swamp Stalker were replaced by its actual identity of "earthline creature", wouldn't it be exactly the same as the anomaly that has been going on outside the city for a long time now?
And looking at it this way, the anomaly actually appeared in the city two months ago.
"The sewer, it's the sewer!" He subconsciously recalled his experience in the sewer. In an instant, a pair of crimson eyes suddenly flashed through Gothe's mind.
The doubts that had troubled Gaode for a long time were solved at this moment:
He might find out where the earth-line creature that caused the strange things in the city came from and where it was hiding!
Two months ago, he went into the sewer to help Pierre clean up the swamp crawlers in the sewer, and gained the second source from there.
While leaving, I vaguely saw a pair of crimson eyes in the sewer.
It was just that the threat of Master Seda was in front of him at that time, so he had no intention to dwell on the matter. As time passed, he actually forgot about it, and it was not until this moment that he suddenly recalled it.
How did the leyline creatures bypass the outskirts of Hogan City and reach the center of Hogan City?
How did he hide himself so that his traces have not been exposed for so long?
This is something that Pierre and the big shots in the city have been unable to figure out.
In fact, the answer is too simple.
Just take the sewer.
There are people on the ground. It is difficult to sneak into the central city quietly, so use the underground sewers.
The city guards searched back and forth, but could never find the hiding place of the possible "earth-line creatures".
Because they never looked for sewers.
Why do strange cases of missing persons always occur in civilian areas and near commercial areas, while the slums remain safe?
Because the sewer system in Hogan City is not developed, only wealthier areas have rudimentary sewer facilities.
As for the slums, there is no sewer system at all.
Poor people discharge domestic wastewater directly into the streets and nearby rivers.
It was not just because of this that Gaode was attacked when passing by the slums.
The so-called slime left at the scene is actually the sewage in the sewer, right?
Everything has a reasonable explanation.
(End of this chapter)