Xia Yibing is shameless - not really... She has evolved to the point where she dares to hug someone under the pretext of practicing sword skills in front of outsiders. Running into the room to provide close protection can even be considered keeping a distance.
Hitzfeld rolled his eyes at her, listed out some necessary tools and containers, and asked her to pass them on to the nurse outside the door and then ask the nuns for them.
She took this time to open the brown paper package and took out a smaller sealed package and a letter.
The letter was unsealed and unsigned. Hitzfeld guessed who wrote it, opened it, glanced at it, and nodded to the woman: "Prue Si."
Xia Yibing was not satisfied with the oral transmission, so she ran around the small table and came behind her to read the letter with her.
[Soul-guiding incense is also known as the 'soul potion'. If converted into your agent clearance, it is almost level nine. I don't care who you plan to find to prepare this thing, you must first understand where its danger lies.]
The beginning has a very preachy flavor to it.
Hitzfeld raised his eyebrows.
This should be a letter written to Sixus. Not only does Priscilla like to preach to other people, but she also likes to preach to her. Doesn't she know that Sixus's real age may be several times older than hers?
No - but she quickly realized: Pusiens dominated Dream City, and she still played the role of Principal Grace in the eyes of many people... It was not difficult for her to guess that she had come to Bartlett Beach through her channels, so this sentence was for me...
What an old fox! Why didn’t she just make it clear at the beginning?
[引魂香的主要材料一共十九种，包含毒剑龙的蕨根粉末……1克拉、幻香草的叶片汁液……2克、苦饵茶的茶渣……6克、鬼形花的初晨蜜露……3克拉、波波草的主茎泥……。]
Although she is preaching, Pusiangsi is not verbose at all. She gets straight to the point in the second line, introducing the 19 main materials and 22 auxiliary materials needed for soul-guiding incense.
[The fern root powder of the poisonous sword dragon is extremely poisonous, so only 1 carat is used. If you need to prepare the amount for two uses, you can add a little more, about carats, to prevent the effect from fading when the second dose of the potion cools down. But remember not to put too much, this is a deadly poison after all.]
[The leaf juice of the magic herb, the honeydew of the ghost flower, the mud of the ghost maple leaves, the venom of the blue-veined wandering spider... these things are used to enrich the hallucinogenic effect of the potion. You have to remember that the soul-guiding incense is not an ordinary hallucinogen. It has a hallucinogenic effect, but this is not its main effect. You need to separate these things in the "periphery" of the water vapor under the coordination of the bitter bait tea dregs, so that they can become your strength, rather than being truly digested and absorbed by you.]
Hitzfeld frowned, she didn't quite understand what was going on.
What does "the periphery of water vapor" mean, and what does "becoming my power rather than being truly absorbed by me" mean?
Since it's already made into a medicine, it has to be drunk. Is there any difference between the outer and inner parts of the drink? I can't control my stomach and only digest certain ingredients.
"Here." A white and slender index finger pointed at a spot in the middle of the lower part. "Among the auxiliary materials, there is the murmur of the yellow-throated bird. This hallucinogenic poison is specially prepared and sealed in the murmur."
Hitzfeld read on as instructed and frowned again unconsciously.
Pusiangsi did explain everything very clearly. She made it clear below: the hallucinogenic poison was only a part of the soul-guiding incense, but it could not be mixed with the entire potion and drunk directly. Instead, one had to first take out the whole yellow-throated bird's throat, pour the poison into the tiny esophagus on top, and then sew up the esophagus with the finest stitches, and smear the beeswax of the poisonous sting wasp on its surface to further seal it. When using it, one had to drink the main potion of the soul-guiding incense first, or soak the throat in the cup of the main potion and swallow it together, or swallow it with one's hand after drinking it.
To put it simply, the digestion and absorption of the medicine needs to be carried out in stages - when taking the medicine in this way, her stomach will absorb the main medicine first, wait for the main medicine to be absorbed for a period of time and then burst, and then it will begin to absorb the hallucinogenic poison inside.
Using this method, first, the hallucinogenic poison will greatly stimulate her spirit and dramatically increase her spiritual acuity. Secondly, she can even use this hallucinogenic ability as a weapon within a certain period of time. After taking the soul-calling incense for thirty minutes, she can "manipulate hallucinations" in moderation.
In other words, if this thing accidentally alarms too many nightmare monsters, its hallucinogenic ability can help the person who takes it come back alive from the dream world.
There are too many traces of human improvement...Did she research all this herself?
The more he looked down, the more surprised Hitzfeld was.
Even without considering the danger level, just looking at the difficulty of making it, the Soul-Guiding Incense is the best potion she has ever seen. This thing is indeed no longer a simple perfume but must be called a potion. She couldn't help but start to worry about whether she could mix it well.
There were too many details, such as the step of using sobbing to delay the detonation of the poison. Everyone's digestive ability is different. How can she judge the specific time and decide whether to add more silver grass powder to the main potion to assist digestion?
I definitely won't be able to finish it today... I have to find someone to put some other medicine in, keep my stomach empty and measure my digestion efficiency...
Thinking of this, Hitzfeld rested his elbows on the table, held his forehead and sighed softly.
No wonder Madam was not accepted as a student by Pusiangsi despite her talent. Incense making is only a prerequisite skill for pharmacy and a threshold for the latter. Considering the energy required and the role it can ultimately play, it is not worthwhile to invest too much energy in it for an agent.
Just like she knew that being proficient in medicine would be helpful in solving cases, but she still didn't spend much energy to learn it, the identity of a pharmacy apprentice was also selectively abandoned by the lady.
"It's amazing." Xia Yibing sighed beside him, "This is the first time I've seen something like this."
She was even more surprised than the girl, because, how should I put it... Due to her job, she had dealt with all kinds of magical potions, but none of them required layering to take effect like the Soul-Guiding Incense.
Hitzfeld didn't even bother to look up at her; she was simulating in her mind how to prepare for the time being.
Then, as she was thinking, she caught a glimpse of the woman's hand pressing on the edge of the letter.
The left hand is on the girl's shoulder, this is the right hand.
To be honest, Xia Yibing's hands were not delicate. They just had a nice outline and fair skin, but the inside of the palm and some parts where the knuckles connected were quite rough.
Deserve it...
Who told her not to wear gloves, saying it would affect the feel of holding a weapon...
Hitzfeld chuckled, then suddenly noticed that there was something unusual about the nails on this hand.
The nails of the middle finger, ring finger and little finger are all well trimmed, but the nails of the index finger and thumb are deliberately exposed a little.
"..." After staring at the two pieces of nails for one minute, then two minutes, Hitzfeld's face became hotter and hotter.
Damn it, why am I thinking about this kind of question...
But why did I think her hands were rough at first...
No, that feeling...
"Aisun?" Xia Yibing called out suspiciously.
She put her left hand on the girl's shoulder and could feel that she trembled twice, as if she was a little uncomfortable.
Is it because simulating the preparation of soul-guiding incense is too troublesome?
It is indeed a high-level potion. Pusians is able to master this skill. We can’t underestimate her anymore.
Just as she was hesitating whether to get some water for the girl, there was three knocks on the door, and then Lu Xier led three nuns into the room.
Lu Xi'er and one of the nuns were carrying bags in their hands, while the other two nuns were moving a long table with some difficulty. Seeing this, the two people inside hurried over to help, and after some effort, they finally placed the table against the wall.
"Here are the containers for the experiment." Lu Xier opened the cloth bag and took out paper boxes one by one. He opened another paper box and took out a transparent beaker from a ball of stuffed cotton and waste paper.
"Are these things sold locally?" Xia Yibing asked blankly as she watched Hitzfeld unpack the boxes with her and take out one unfamiliar strange cup after another.
Of course, it was shipped from other places in advance...
Hitzfeld gave her a dead eye.
The box clearly states the origin, why don't you come and help me with it...
He laid out a tablecloth, a waterproof table, and explosion-proof glass panels, then placed a bunch of containers on top. Hitzfeld took a step back and looked into the house. It did look like what was going on.
At least it can be seen that this is a laboratory and not a place for locking people up... Then the next thing is to gather 22 kinds of auxiliary materials, and...
She lifted the parchment and glanced at it. "I also need a hose."
By the time everything was done, the sun was about to set. Hitzfeld was so tired that his whole body ached, but he still remembered that he had to complete the test task today.
Testing…testing…
What is the best thing to test?
If you just want to test the digestion efficiency, then you should definitely choose something that will give you the strongest reaction but at the same time have minimal harmfulness and side effects.
Thinking of this, Hitzfeld immediately knew what to choose.
She found a nun and asked, "What do you usually use to treat external injuries here?"
"Here, gauze and bandages?"
"I mean, how do you disinfect the wound before doing this?"
"Then we should use Salt Lake Wine. This wine has a high alcohol content and has a good effect."
"Go get me some Salt Lake wine."
The nun was obviously surprised by her request, but perhaps since Knight Blue had given the order, she didn't say anything and just did as she was told.
The waiting time is somewhat long.
The main reason was that Hitzfeld had nothing to do during this period of time... She had finished reading the letter, and the small package of materials was not suitable to be opened now. With Lushier and another nun present, it was not convenient to say some things to Xia Yibing, so she could only sit there in a daze.
This body doesn't seem to be very good at digesting alcohol. Last time, I was drunk after drinking just a little bit of alcohol...
So in theory, using alcohol for testing is the best.
"Well, Miss Hitzfeld."
Just as she was thinking, the remaining nun suddenly spoke.
Hitzfeld looked up at her.
She looked to be in her early 167s or s, taller than herself but shorter than Xia, about cm tall... She had an oval face with freckles, dark brown eyes and hair, and two small pigtails tied with white hairbands on both sides of her cheeks.
Like her companions, she was wearing a loose nun's robe, so it was hard to tell her figure. But when she was busy running around, the wind blew over her, and judging from her tight outline, her figure should be quite good, especially her hips, which were very amazing.
She's just a little thin, too thin for her age.
Hitzfeld secretly raised his eyebrows - what on earth am I using deduction for...
"Ms. Hitzfeld…I…my name is Peko, Peko-Tori."
The nun was obviously a little nervous, and spoke hesitantly: "I want to thank you... for coming here from so far away... to the beach... I don't mean to belittle Ms. Sixus by you, I mean you are all... all great."
Looking at Xia Yibing, Hitzfeld saw a big smile on her face.
Doesn't look like a little fan...
It doesn't sound like Mandarin, otherwise why didn't she speak it when her companions were present just now?
Well... it's not just a polite remark nor is it because I like her personally. The only possibility that prompted her to do this is...
"Is it Mr. or Mrs. Tori?" Hitzfeld asked her, and when he saw her dull expression, he immediately nodded: "Ah~ So you have a younger sister or brother..."
Poor little nun, she was completely stunned.
Unbelievably, she hadn't said anything yet! This legendary girl detective actually revealed that her purpose was to ask for help from her brother?
"You're being a little too eager."
Hitzfeld curled up the corners of his mouth, and even raised his legs under his skirt.
Who doesn't like the feeling of showing off in front of others? She glanced at Xia Yibing provocatively, but found that she pursed her lips tightly, as if she was trying to hold back a laugh.
I made it for her to see. Does she remember that my profession is a detective?
Remembering that the other party had even trimmed his nails early, Hitzfeld thought about it and decided to let his nails grow wildly during this period of time.
You can even go a step further and trim them into sharp, curved corners.
But that is something he will consider after the soul-guiding incense is finished. Hitzfeld glanced at Lushil again, signaling her to close the door, and began to have an in-depth communication with Sister Peko in detail.
"So your brother, Mr. Tori Jr., was also tricked."
"Yes... please..."
"I can't guarantee anything now. Can you tell me when the accident happened to him?"
"No more, no less than a week ago!"
"But I don't see the name Jack Torrey on the list."
"Ah, because he was just transferred in! We didn't notice anything abnormal about him before! That list is old and we haven't had time to write it yet!"
"He just came of age recently, too, didn't he?"
"That's it..."
"So there are quite a few children who have just reached adulthood recently? And you didn't label them all as suspects?"
Hitzfeld immediately noticed something strange here.
Otherwise, Jack Tory should have been taken here for quarantine immediately after the first case was discovered. How could he be allowed to wander around outside?
"That's true, Miss Hitzfeld." Peko pinched the hem of her skirt and kept her eyes on the ground as she spoke.
"There are a lot of adult children recently. Ms. Sixus suspected that they all had problems at first, but after a period of observation, she found that was not all... In order not to cause panic, we had to release all the healthy ones."
panic……
Sixus is right, there really is no way to add any more horror atmosphere here.
Hitzfeld thought for a moment, then began to read: "Xia."
Lu Xier and Pei Ke were confused, but Xia Yibing understood: "Do you remember what happened 18 years ago?"
The number of patients originally written on the register was already quite large, and if we include those who did not report and did not have any accidents, the number of children who have recently reached adulthood in Bartlett Beach is clearly abnormal.
There are only 60,000 people in this damn place. For this situation to happen, something must have happened 18 years ago that caused a group of couples to decide to have children at the same time, which is commonly known as the baby boom.
"Eighteen years ago..." Peko seemed confused at first, but soon remembered: "Are you talking about the tsunami?"
"Tsunami?"
"There are no obstacles to block the sea water at Bartlett Beach. Once the ocean has a big wave, it may directly flood the town. She should be talking about the particularly large tsunami riot eighteen years ago, but because it was a natural disaster, it did not attract the attention of the bureau."
