Bending down to pick it up, she carefully examined the inside of the cup. On the bottom and the inner wall, there is a layer of transparent crystals as fine as flour. If it weren't for Qi Ji's extraordinary eyesight, which is comparable to a human microscope, it would be difficult for ordinary people to detect it at first glance. "Sure enough, it has spirituality." She stretched out her finger and gently wiped the wall of the cup, letting a few particles stick to it. She held it in front of her eyes and examined it carefully. "It is also an effective medicine for extraordinary people." She didn't expect to see anything by just staring at it. However, when she focused her attention on the powder on her fingertips, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed through her mind. Then, a large amount of unfamiliar information appeared in my mind like an open book! ……………………………… "These are... the ingredients of this medicine!?" Qi Ji was shocked and quickly turned his head to shift his attention to the wooden wall. Pine wood fiber tissue...water...silicon oxide...lead... Moreover, if you focus your attention on one of them, you can see that the components of this material are endless, rootless and bottomless, like a giant fractal tree with infinite branches. Pine wood fiber tissue: carbohydrates... vegetable fats...
Surprised! She realized that this was a completely new ability, the ability to deconstruct and infinitely analyze the components of matter! "That's easier. I can write down the ingredients of this medicine and then ask someone to investigate who is selling or making it." Qi Ji thought as he quickly memorized the approximate composition of the transparent powder. This kind of spiritual object is very likely to be effective for warriors with righteous thoughts and above. Such a powerful drug should not be common in Stio, where the upper limit of extraordinary people is not high. If you want to trace the source... maybe it is not that difficult. "Who should I look for... Oh, I can go ask - Hey, Thomas has stopped, it looks like we've arrived." At the same time, in a hidden corner of the East District. Thomas looked around, made sure there was no one around, and then walked into an alley in a stealthy manner. "Sir, I'm here." He looked at the man leaning against the wall smoking in front of him and said with mixed feelings. The man held a cigarette in his mouth and glanced at Thomas with an impatient tone: "So slow? If you have something to say, please speak quickly." Thomas calmed down, carefully considered his words, and said with a complicated expression: "There is a very beautiful little girl in the room, with black hair and wearing a cloak. She was sitting in the room, saw through my disguise at a glance, and then asked me to tell you a sentence..." He did not lie, but deliberately concealed the part about his surrender and betrayal. He knew that such a clumsy Spring and Autumn style of writing could not be hidden from the client behind the scenes, and if any of those bigwigs were unhappy, the revenge would be something he could not bear. But Thomas also didn't dare to disobey Qi Ji's order, otherwise why would he come here? Wouldn't it be better to just slip away as soon as he left the hotel? So he had no choice but to bite the bullet and complete the task. His only plan now was to escape from Stio immediately after completing this task, run to the inland, or sneak through the Great Forest of the East to the Glorious Plantagenet Empire - it didn't matter, he could escape as far as he could and never have anything to do with these two forces again. "What?!" Hearing Thomas' statement, the man got anxious and threw the cigarette in his face angrily, "Could it be that you have switched sides?" Thomas was burned by the sparks, but he didn't get angry at all. He lowered his head and tried to argue: "No, that's not the case! I guarantee with my professional ethics that I have never betrayed my employer! I didn't say a single lie just now!" First, I have no professional ethics; second, what I said was indeed true, but I just didn’t tell the whole story. “You, you…” The man pointed his finger at the tip of Thomas’ nose, hissing through his teeth in anger, and he looked like he was about to explode. But after a few seconds, he finally calmed down a little, snorted coldly, and said quickly:
"You said that little black-haired girl was sitting in the room? Not asleep?" "Yes! She looks very energetic." Thomas nodded rapidly. The man frowned, as if thinking about something, and then said unhappily, "What did she ask you to relay?" "Sir, first of all, let me make it clear that these are her original words. I did not exaggerate them. I just told her the truth!" Thomas suddenly said in a serious tone, "Please don't blame me, sir!" The man's mouth twitched: "If you have to fart, do it now!" Thomas gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, put away all the expressions on his face, and slowly, without any tone, repeated Qi Ji's brief words in detail... The man was silent, and his previous arrogance and mania were completely restrained at this moment. He crossed his arms and lowered his head as if he was lost in thought. He glanced up at Thomas and whispered one word: "Get lost." Thomas breathed a sigh of relief. But he did not hold out any hope, and immediately moved his legs and feet, running out of the alley as fast as he could. While planning the specific procedures for escaping, he prayed to all the gods he could think of: I hope their revenge will not come so quickly, and their hands will not be so long, so that he can have a glimmer of hope to escape. In the dark and damp alley, the man still stood there, looking down in deep thought. After a long while, his body finally moved. He turned around and walked through the streets in an urgent pace without looking back. Soon he disappeared into the depths of the dark alley. He didn't notice a pair of dark brown eyes, which were now biting at his back like a shadow. Chapter 17 Investigation Progress The man did not take the main road, but spent most of his journey in narrow streets and alleys, obviously having a strong sense of anti-reconnaissance. He meandered south from his original East District and it took him almost an hour to reach the South District. After entering the depths of the South District, the man's route became more direct, perhaps because he thought that no one would be so blind as to follow him in this area. He walked to a semi-abandoned residential area and stopped in front of a very old single-story building. He stretched out his hand and knocked on the door, three long and one short. After a moment, the wooden door was pulled inwards a crack, accompanied by the sound of the lock opening. A pair of vigilant eyes hid in the dark crack of the door, looked the man up and down for a while, then closed the door, loosened the security chain, and opened the door completely. "Mr. Ins, please come in." Behind the door was a thin old man. He put on a poker face and made room for the man. Ins walked quickly into the room. The thin old man leaned on the door frame and looked outside for a while, then quickly closed and locked the door. The room was very empty, with nothing but unidentified debris on the floor. There was no furniture, not even any lamps. The room was entirely lit by outdoor light coming in through the windows. At first glance, it looks like just an ordinary abandoned house. Ince walked straight through the empty hall and opened a thick door on the wall. The true face of the evil of this building was revealed. Behind the door was a dim room with walls covered with earth bricks for soundproofing. If there wasn't this layer of mud barrier, the creepy crying sound would definitely be transmitted... In the dirty and smelly room, there were more than a dozen skinny and weak figures. There were men and women, big and small. Some had fear in their eyes and cried in terror; some were just numb and curled up in the corner without any movement. They were all covered with scars, and some of them even had wounds that had rotted and turned black and smelled, with white maggots as small as rice grains wriggling in them.
The ground was covered with blood, excrement, and vomit, all spread out evenly. This is a den for human trafficking. Ins frowned at the stench and kicked a little boy who happened to be at his feet away in disgust: "Cry, cry, cry, where is your mother? If you cry again, you will be chopped into pieces and fed to pigs!" The little boy who was kicked fell to the ground, his face covered with filth, but he still didn't say a word. After venting his anger, Ins closed the door and walked to the wall opposite the room. This wall looked normal, but there was a rectangular mark at the corner, which was difficult to detect in the dim light. He pressed hard on the edge of the rectangle, and the wall inside the rectangle actually started to rotate. It turned out to be a hidden secret door. "Danny, you don't have to guard today," he said to the secret room behind the secret door, "Remember to keep in touch when you go back." Outside the house, next to a broken wall. Qi Ji looked at the dilapidated house and his expression became gloomy. "It seems that I underestimated him." Listening to the wailing in the room, she had never been so rational. "It seems that this 'special person' is not an insignificant pawn, but a key figure who has some important information." A den of human traffickers? Qi Ji's six senses swept across the house, taking in the entire situation inside. "Thirteen women and children... five minions... one extraordinary person... um, a wizard?" She was somewhat surprised to find that the extraordinary person stationed in the house was a wizard, a high-level wizard! Mages, like other extraordinary beings, are divided into five levels. The lowest is "apprentice", which is divided into three small realms: low, mid, and high. Above that is "real master", which is also divided into three small realms. The extraordinary person in the room was a high-level righteous mage! In the Seven Seasons SABCD classification system, he was classified as C-level, corresponding to the peak of righteous thoughts of warriors. "Tsk, are extraordinary people so uncommon? A gang that traffics in human beings can even train a high-level righteous mage?" Qi Ji felt that something was a little odd. "Forget it. It doesn't matter if he's a master mage or a deputy mage. Let's destroy this den first and rescue the child. Uh, this aura is..." Just as she was about to smash this filthy house to pieces with one punch, she suddenly sensed a very familiar spiritual fluctuation... approaching this side! Qi Ji immediately hid behind the broken wall and looked in a certain direction. A thin figure appeared on the desolate street at some point. He was wearing a dark tight-fitting suit, a bag on his side, and a cloth covering his face. He looked very mysterious as he hid his head and face. This person was very agile and quick. In a blink of an eye, he came to the side of the human traffickers' hut and wandered around, seeming to be observing and thinking about something. A few minutes later, the masked man stood outside the wall of the house and pulled out a gleaming dagger from the cloth bag on his waist. The dagger was exquisite and sharp, and it did not look like an ordinary item. Qi Ji sensed a spiritual aura on the dagger, which meant that it was an object with extraordinary properties. The masked man held a dagger in his hand and waved his arms. With a flash of cold light, a neat circle was cut out of the wall instantly, just enough for the masked man to pass through! After quietly clearing a passage, the masked man flashed and entered the house. "You are... um!" After entering the house, the masked man went straight to the room where the child was imprisoned. During the process, he was discovered by several thugs who were guarding nearby. However, before they could shout out a warning to their companions, they were knocked out easily. Soon, the masked man moved to the outer wall of the rammed earth room from a different direction from Ins. He raised his dagger and was about to cut an opening in the wall to rescue the poor woman and child inside when a lazy voice sounded:
"Hmm? Warrior? You're not from Ghost Wolf, right?" The masked man jumped away as if he had been electrocuted, and stared at the figure that appeared in front of him without any warning with extreme vigilance. He was a middle-aged man with an inexplicably tired look on his face. He was thin and wore a grey robe with intricate dark gold patterns on it. In his right hand he held a cane that was almost one meter long. He was slightly hunched over, making his originally tall figure look listless. "Hmm... intruders?" The man looked around and nodded in understanding when he saw the guard lying on the ground. "This situation... should also be under my jurisdiction, right? But I'm off work... Tsk, what a hassle." "brush!" While the man was still talking to himself, the masked man suddenly attacked, rushed towards him, and stabbed him swiftly with the dagger in his hand flashing a faint green light! "Yeah, he's hitting me, so should I fight back?" The man opened his mouth as if he was yawning and silently recited a few syllables. A blue light suddenly lit up at the front end of the cane in his hand, and an invisible and strange ripple quickly spread out in all directions from this center. "Woo!" There was no way to hide, and the masked man was hit by the ripples. His hands and feet suddenly became cramped and he fell to the ground. "What should we do now... Just leave it here? Or should we kill it..." The man pouted as he looked at the masked man who was rolling on the ground, curled up in a ball and muttering to himself. "Bang!" A big hole suddenly appeared in the ceiling, and a black shadow fell from the sky like a meteorite, smashing into the man's side! The moment the two came into contact, a layer of deep blue light film appeared on the man's body. However, this light film did not play any role and was shattered in an instant by the thunder-like impact of the black shadow. “Wow!——” The man let out a scream and was hammered away like a cannonball, crashing through a wooden wall and embedding deeply in the second wall! "call--" Qi Ji stood under the ceiling where the sky was suddenly bright, stretched his hands and feet, lowered his head and tilted his head towards the masked man whose scarf had fallen off: "What are you doing here?" Chapter 18: Meeting an acquaintance The cloth wrapped around her head loosened and fell off, revealing a pretty and charming face with chestnut hair and green eyes. The daughter of Baron Edward Iris, Lancy Iris! "Miss Qi, Qi Ji!" Lun Xi's eyes widened, "Why are you here!?" Don't answer a question with a question... "Just now when I was in the East District, I saw someone sneaking around. I followed him out of curiosity, but I didn't expect to find a place like this." Qi Ji made an excuse, "——What about you?" It is obvious that Lunxi came here to rescue the women and children in this den.
Qi Ji was quite surprised by this. If the visitor was an ordinary adventurer, there would be nothing to say. Whether he got the news by chance and acted chivalrously, or was commissioned to destroy the monster, it would all be understandable. But why did Lunxi come here in person? She was a child of the city's aristocratic ruling class, and she was hiring someone to do the work, so why did she come here alone to take risks? Could it be that she was just acting like a spoiled brat and looking for fun? She was really too bold. Lunxi struggled to get up, rubbing his painful elbow with one hand, scratching his cheek with his index finger, and smiled awkwardly: "Um, I actually have a fake adventurer identity in the guild. Sometimes I come out to take on commissions..."
