Yeager escorted Lu Li in front of him, taking over Kiruait's protective gap. Naxi stood aside, waiting for the next move of Lu Li, the core of the team.
Lu Li took out the sequence potion from his stomach bag again, dripped the pocket-sized revealing potion into his eyes, and looked around the room with his deep black eyes.
"Have you found the source?"
Kiruit, who stood in front of everyone, looked at the house.
"Notes on the table, faint traces of contamination."
Under the revealing potion, a light black mist formed a distinct mist around the notebook. Otherwise, the room was clean, with only a faint and shallow gray mist rising from the uneaten food on the dinner plate.
"Inspector Victor, no one entered the room after the incident, right?"
"...Ah? Yes, that's right, there is nothing wrong with anyone...Pisenlot, my colleague came in after receiving the alarm." The stunned Inspector Victor quickly replied.
"Is he acting abnormally?" Lu Li asked.
"No……"
"Call him over." Kiruait said.
"I'll call him right now!"
Inspector Victor quickly ran outside and disappeared on a quiet street corner.
"Let's check the surroundings again." Kiruait looked away and said to Lu Li.
Taking advantage of the duration of the revealing potion, they used other keys on the key chain to check around the unoccupied rooms. The only problem was Lanner's room.
The task was nearly solved when Jaeger then wrapped the notes in what alchemists call an alchemical blanket.
Ten minutes later, Inspector Victor returned with Pisenlot. This nervous police officer was clean, both in uniform and in his breath.
After Lu Li nodded, Kiruait said that there was no problem with Pisenlot and that when the mission was over, they would leave with the notes.
Yeager and Naxi were immersed in the dream of completing their mission.
Even a meager reward of 1 credit does not mean that the task is easy or simple... Because negligence may lead to serious consequences, the Holy Light Team must conduct complex and tedious investigations every time it performs a task, and even check every neighbor
situation.
This means it often takes them a day or more to complete the task.
But this time it only took two hours from the time they entered Deep Sea City, half of which was on the road.
Although the price is heavy.
Six serial potions are worth the reward of the Holy Light Team for several months of mission.
Even the teams at the top of the rankings cannot imitate that no one has the luxury to complete basic tasks with expensive sequence potions.
"What you just asked me to take... was a sequence potion?" A probing tone sounded from the side.
"That's right."
Naxi's tone was filled with pride, but Inspector Victor's subsequent behavior puzzled them.
"A sequence of potions that can feed the residents of a neighborhood! And you are just investigating a dead person!?"
Inspector Victor screamed in disbelief, and with regret, he roughly reached out and dug his throat to induce vomiting.
"What have I done...I drank my year's salary in one gulp..."
But in the past ten minutes, he had spit out nothing but tears and saliva.
"Every day, people starve to death or eat dirty food and are kicked out of Midnight City, and you never care." Inspector Victor, with tears and runny nose, collapsed on the ground, lost in thought. He even stopped trying to please this group of students and couldn't wave his hand: "
Go back to your ivory tower, you were born to be gentlemen of the inner city."
The Holy Light Team was silent due to Inspector Victor's change of attitude and silently left the dark alley.
"It's inevitable...that's why we have to change the world."
Back in the bustling neighborhood, Kiruit said, hoping that the team members would not feel depressed.
"What did he mean by dirty things?"
"Deformed meat... It is banned by Deep Sea City because it will become deformed in just a few months, but every day there are residents who are unhappy and buy this cheap food."
One shilling can be exchanged for a piece of meat as big as a fist. As long as you are willing to accept that you only have a few months or years left in your life, you will no longer be troubled by hunger during this time.
Returning to the Giant Tree Academy camp to save notes, the Holy Light Team returned to the streets again, this time the destination was the inner city.
Arriving at the cliff gate in the center of the outer city, the badge on the chest exempts the Holy Light team from guard inspection, and they can stand on the elevator and ascend into the inner city.
Looking behind you, you can almost overlook half of the stretching outer city.
Lu Li parted ways with the Holy Light Team at this time, he wanted to leave temporarily.
"Are you on your own?"
After receiving Lu Li's answer, Kiruait continued: "Then we and Naxi will go visit his family and meet at the camp later."
Watching Kiruait and others go away, Lu Li turned to another block.
The buildings on both sides of the stone-paved roads are exquisite and clean, sewage flows from the canals to the outer city, and guards patrol the streets more frequently.
Passers-by subconsciously avoided Lu Li because of his cloak like a cultist, but also lowered their guard because of the tree-shaped badge.
After walking silently in the inner city for a relatively long time, Lu Li arrived at the address given by Professor Chris.
【Exotic Museum】
This store called the Museum is not wide, it looks cramped and crowded, and is sandwiched between two stores.
Pushing the door open and entering the store, the bell on the door rang loudly.
The dark room was empty, with no guests or hosts, only strange items displayed on the shelves in the window.
Some are bones, some are clay pots, and some are hard to tell. But all of them have the weight of history.
"Humans are not the only intelligent race, what do you think?"
A stooped and plump silhouette that looked like a cicada larva emerged from the deep room.
"Obviously." Lu Li replied.
The outline curved the already stooped body, and he bowed and said: "It is an honor to meet the hero of mankind, Your Excellency Lu Li. You can call me Vita."
"Professor Chris said you wanted to see me."
Lu Li didn't like talking about lengthy nonsense before getting down to business. He preferred to be direct.
"Yes, please accept my gift first..."
Vita said, and the thin feet that supported the fat body moved to the coffin that was leaning on the edge.
Opening the coffin, which suddenly began to tremble slightly.
Due to Lu Li's arrival, the merchant opened his emotionless eyes.
"Go back to the other world and other merchants will tell you what happened."
The businessman silently stepped out of the coffin and disappeared into the dark corner.
"A long time ago, the world of an intelligent race was invaded..."
Vita slowly recounted the history of his race.
"Because of endless enemies and fierce resistance, they lost their tribesmen, lost their own world, and wandered in a long, lost history countless times. One day, an individual named Vita, who likes to study history, came to the new world
World. He knows that if no changes are made, this world will be like every invaded world: the native intelligent race resists, but the resistance fails, and the remaining tribesmen are forced to leave their homes, become a member of the weird, and are lost in the long river of time..."
"Vita has seen this scene countless times in its long history, and it hopes that things will change this time. So it found a hero of this race and persuaded him."
Weta's protruding dark eyes reflected Lu Li's figure.
"How you treat the world, the world will treat you."
