Chapter 86 Drinking makes things worse
Xia Zuo stood in the shadow of a forest, took out a night vision potion from his alchemy pocket and poured it into his mouth.
The dark night scene in front of me turned into a three-color picture of black, white and gray. The light was much brighter, but the tone was much drab.
He took out the second potion.
The icy blue color of the potion, with its crystal clear color and coolness, makes people think of the potion's efficacy.
This is a refreshing potion.
Skilled grade, perfect quality.
After taking it, you can maintain a clear and calm mind and significantly increase your spell casting speed for the next hour. Especially suitable for combat and continuous long-term operations.
After drinking this, there is only one potion left from Mars... I hope I won't have the chance to use it.
"Gulu."
Take the refreshing potion.
Xia Zuo felt that his fatigue was swept away in an instant, and he was as energetic as waking up in the morning.
Before deciding to explore the low house in depth, he had already taken in the surroundings.
This place is located in the northwest corner of Yenan Province, close to the provincial boundary of Sbreer Province. The nearest villages are ten kilometers away.
Karkov, Serenv, Puev.
These three names have obvious regional characteristics.
Professor of Poison Alchemy, Kurov's name is similar to these people.
Mr. XX, this naming method should be a characteristic of the western region of Sbrier Province.
This group of people from the far west of the kingdom set up a secret stronghold in such a remote place and set up traps around the low house to prevent outsiders from approaching.
Maybe there will be other people in the low house...
Xia Zuo took a deep breath, the air brushed against the remaining refreshing potion in his throat, and a piece of coolness hit his forehead, making his mind sharper.
He changed into the form of a gas cloud and slowly floated towards the depths of the forest.
A small wooden bungalow appeared not far away.
The windows were covered with curtains, and traces of candlelight came out from the holes in the curtains.
Xia Zuo groped for the front door, tried it against the thick wooden door, and successfully slipped in through the gap in the door hinges.
There was a sickening smell of alcohol and mold in the air.
Xia Zuo, who was in the form of a gas cloud, took a moment to adapt to the air environment in the narrow corridor with cracked and damp floors.
In the room on the left, flickering firelight shot out from behind a half-open door.
Five men sat around a round table. Three candlesticks on the wall barely illuminated the room. A longbow and quiver, and several weapons hung on the wall.
Xia Zuo threw the detection technique at the figure in the room, feeling a little heavy in his heart.
Among the five people, four had practiced breathing techniques, and only the sullen Kakufu was an ordinary person.
Among them, the tallest man has yellow teeth and a strength attribute value of 14 points, one point more than the strongman of the circus.
Xia Zuo calmed down his thoughts and stood behind the door shadow to observe them silently.
There was a round table in the room, the dirty tabletop reflecting the oily light. On the table was a small bucket of pickled tomatoes, a large basin of mashed potatoes, and sliced bacon lying on the plate.
In the center of the table was a vat of spirits, and in front of each man was an overflowing goblet.
"Long live Babarov!"
The five men shouted loudly, clinked their wine glasses, drank all the wine in one gulp, and made a sound of pleasure after drinking.
The tallest man picked up the spirit barrel on the table and poured wine for the others at the table.
A man with long hair covered his wine glass, "I have to make poison tonight."
"More, Piedov, more. We've known each other for so long, and you're still so pushy."
The tall man pushed away the long-haired man Piedov's hand that was half covering the wine glass, and poured half a glass of strong liquor into the wine glass. "I only give you so much, and the rest belongs to us!"
"Haha, Pidov, we won't leave you a drop." Puev, the cloaked man, said with a laugh, feeding his squirrel a peanut with his right hand.
"No, no, no, no!" Piedov looked anxious and hammered the table with the heel of his hand, "You have to leave me half a barrel of Babarov. My poison is indispensable for this operation."
"I left it for you." The tall man lifted the small wine barrel from his feet, "Look, this barrel is yours."
"That's good, that's good..." Piedov muttered, picked up the wine glass, took a sip, grabbed the bacon slices and stuffed them into his mouth.
The tall man looked at the gloomy Kakufu, "Kakufu, is your plan okay?"
Kakufu wiped the oil from his mouth, his eyes gleamed with hatred, and he said angrily:
"Boss, I've found out everything. That bastard will go out of the city in the next few days to search for the stray packhorse. Serenv and Puev will follow him. I will shoot him to death with a longbow. The bow and arrow will be coated with Pidov's poison. . Make sure that it is absolutely impossible for that bastard to come back alive."
"Sounds not bad." The tall man was the leader of the crowd. He touched his beard and looked at the cloaked man who was feeding the squirrels. "Puev, those mercenaries who secretly sell poison glands will cause us trouble. ?"
"Don't worry, boss. I have the handle on those guys. When this job is done, I will poke them out. These guys, do you think they will be fine without our goods? Huh, I have to drive them away. In the cell!" Puev said after taking a sip of wine.
After Puev finished speaking, he touched the squirrel's furry back and asked: "Boss, who is keeping watch tonight?"
The five of them looked at me, I looked at you, and then looked at the wine barrel in the center of the table.
Finally, four of them looked at Pidoff who was about to make the poison.
"Okay. I'll keep an eye on it." Piedov sounded helpless. Who asked him to drink the least tonight.
The five people at the table were chatting in low voices, picking up wine glasses and drinking heavily from time to time.
Alcohol messes with an alcoholic's mind and makes his or her speech muddle-headed.
Xia Zuoshou eavesdropped in the shadow behind the door for half an hour, and finally figured out the identities of this group of people.
They belong to a group of assassins who advocate personal revenge.
All members are from the western part of Sbrier Province.
Their fathers were natives of this continent, and their hometowns were occupied by the kingdom's army and transformed into standardized villages or towns.
There was bloodshed and riots.
Everyone in the assassin organization is an ordinary civilian who has submitted to the kingdom. They have even joined the army to defend towns or occupied other places.
Secretly, they are the Avengers who carry out assassinations and assassinations.
Their target of revenge was not the Starry Night Kingdom, but the soldiers who occupied their hometown at that time.
Personal revenge, gang help. Spread your life and follow orders.
This is the action outline of the assassin organization summarized by Xia Zuo.
The five people in the house took this action to avenge Kakufu, who was driving the carriage this afternoon. This wooden house hidden in the dense forest is his masterpiece.
Kakufu also prepared water and dry food in advance and prepared a rough assassination plan.
A person called the "sender" plays a crucial role.
After receiving Kakufu's assassination application, the "letter sender" will send a secret letter to the assassins near the assassination applicant.
The other four people came from all directions to help after receiving the secret letter from the "sender".
Although Kakufu was the initiator of the assassination, he was not the leader. Letting that tall man serve as the leader of the five people was decided by the "sender".
The target of this operation is the assistant to the boss of the town stable. This stable assistant killed Kakufu's father during the occupation war twenty or thirty years ago.
At this point, Kakufu drank a large glass of strong wine and shouted that he wanted the stable assistant to pay for the blood debt with his life.
As the wine poured into his stomach, disturbing thoughts emerged in his heart.
The five people in the room gradually turned the conversation to their respective current situations.
Some people want to wash their hands in a golden basin and find a wife to live with after finishing this job. Some people want to go to Sbreer Province and return to their hometown to make a living. Some people are still immersed in the pain of bereavement.
A group of grown men spoke with hoarse voices about their pain and expectations for the future.
Xia Zuo stood outside the door and felt bored. The joys and sorrows of human beings were not the same. He only knew that his points were lost.
This group of people may have just gotten together and are still getting along with each other. Whether it was the leader or a few others, they drank very happily tonight. While drinking and chatting, half a barrel of spirits was consumed.
Even Piedov, who was shouting not to drink too much, was so drunk that his face turned red. It seemed that he had forgotten about the vigil a long time ago.
Xia Zuo turned around and walked to the next room, searching the bungalow.
The structure of the bungalow is simple.
A large bedroom, a messy storage room, plus a drinking room for five people, there are three rooms in total.
In the cabinet in the bedroom, Xia Zuo found a poison alchemist's notebook in Piduof's package.
The author of this notebook doesn't seem to be very good at refining poisons. From isolating basic toxins to polymerizing complex toxins, he uses informal methods.
To put it more bluntly, you just throw everything into a crucible, heat it, steam it, and pray that a pot of useful poison will come out.
On the last few pages of the notebook, there is something unexpected: the learning experience of "Separation of Toxins".
Piedov found the textbook "Separation of Toxins" from Starry Night Academy somewhere and copied some contents into his notebook.
There is very little content in this part, but what has been recorded is very detailed, and it is all related to deadly poisons, and it is obvious that they were killed with poison.
There were other things in this package belonging to Pidov, all of which were letters with messy handwriting and vulgar content.
Xia Zuo put this important package back into its place and looked at the armors and leather jackets piled in the simple wardrobe.
He reached out and turned over these slightly worn armors, but found no patterns or embroidery that represented identification.
Should we hide these armors?
Xia Zuo touched the alchemy pocket under his robe.
Forget it.
If someone is drunk and wants to go back to the bedroom to sleep, and happens to find something strange in the wardrobe, clues may be revealed...
Well... the premise is that this person can still maintain keen observation skills under the impact of alcohol.
Xia Zuo thought about it and decided that it would be better to seek stability.
He put the flipped armor back into place and poked his head into the depths of the dark closet - a pile of old clothes and smelly leather boots, with no additional gains.
The same is true in the storage room. There are potatoes, vegetables and brown bread in the radish basket, and several large buckets of water are piled in the corner.
Xia Zuo turned into a human form in the storage room, turned the mechanism dial of the secret message ring in the dark, and sent out a secret message:
[The place where I am is a wooden house. Five enemies. Four breathing method practitioners. Very tricky. need help. Bring more people. 】
Xia Zuo paused and turned the switch again.
[There is a trap outside the wooden house. I'll relieve them. 】
Xia Zuo waited in the storage room for a while, and the ring on his finger vibrated slightly.
He lowered his head and looked at the secret message above:
【receive. Your location has been locked. On the way. Arrive half an hour later. We need to catch them alive. Keep an eye on them. keep in touch. 】
“Be there in half an hour”
Xia Zuo turned into a gas cloud and returned to the corridor to look at the room where the five men were.
They were drunk and singing quietly in a circle with their arms around each other's shoulders.
Well...it seems that tonight's dinner party for these five people will end with a special program.
Xia Zuo turned into a cloud of gas and floated outside, bypassing the sleeping packhorse, and quietly disarmed the trap to reduce obstacles for the incoming soldiers.
Disarming traps gives a small agility and experience bonus, but it's far too small. He glanced at the information in his mind and stopped paying attention.