Chapter 60 Pierre’s Speculation
Flowery month, 15th.

A bright magical light flashed through the potion.

Gao De dully divided the highly successful primary endurance potion into small bottles, without showing any joy at all.

After putting the medicine away, Gao De felt a little irritated and couldn’t calm down.

Ever since Oliver visited them that day, Phil’s Potion Shop no longer purchased the primary spider venom potion produced by their medicine garden.

According to what they said:
Due to the increase in sales of primary spider poison potion during this period, the potion masters in the city who mastered this potion also began to focus on preparing primary spider poison potion.

In addition, the potion shop has been purchasing in large quantities, and now the stock of primary spider poison potion in the pharmacy has been saturated, so the purchase has been suspended.

Although Gao De was skeptical, he thought the explanation made sense after all, so he just let it go.

It just so happened that he had already mastered the preparation of the primary endurance potion, so he simply gave up on the primary spider venom potion and bought twenty portions of wild wolf gland fluid and turned to preparing the primary endurance potion.

However, he didn’t expect that when he brought the prepared primary endurance potion to Phil’s Pharmacy, he was still refused to buy it.

The reason given this time was that “from today onwards, our store will only sell potions made by our own potion makers, and will no longer cooperate with potions makers other than our own.”

At this point, Gaode clearly understood that all this talk of stockpiling and saturation was nonsense.

The essence was to force him to give up the medicine garden, and at the same time to force himself to join their Phil Potion Shop and prepare potions for them.

This is not counting.

After this unpleasant parting, Gao De discovered that there were more idle people wandering outside the medicine garden.

Seda Medicinal Garden was originally located in the suburbs of Hogan City, with its own gate and courtyard.

There are no living facilities or shops nearby.

The apprentices in the medicine garden had to travel for more than half an hour to the market and commercial district in the city center to buy food.

Under normal circumstances, where would there be idle people wandering around in a place like this?

Apparently, these “idlers” were from Phil’s Potion Shop.

The intention is also very obvious, isn’t it just to monitor and “intimidate” Gaode?

This is a combination of coercion and inducement.

The thing is, Oliver’s methods actually work.

Although Gaode still has a certain amount of savings, without the income from magic potions, the medicine garden will go bankrupt sooner or later if it continues to live off its savings.

At that time, what else could he do except join Phil’s Potion Shop?
As for resistance?

How can a first-class wizard apprentice resist?
Gao De even secretly felt lucky that he had been more careful and demonstrated his value in time.

Otherwise, what he would be facing now would not be coercion or inducement.

Just what to do now?

The more Gao De thought about it, the more annoyed he became.

Should I swallow my anger and sell the medicine garden to them?

This seems to be the best decision at the moment.

After all, the other party offered a purchase price of 200 gold, and they also valued his potential very much.

If he really joins Phil’s Potion Shop, Phil’s Potion Shop will most likely focus on training him.

Although there will certainly be many restrictions, with Feng Ling Yue Ying around, as long as he endures it for a few years, he should be able to get rid of these restrictions.

From this perspective, it is indeed a good choice.

However, Gaode has never considered this option.

It’s nothing, I just don’t want to suffer this!

If your mind is not free, no matter how many other truths you have, they will be of no use.

As Gao De pondered, he took out his purse and counted it carefully, and found out his current cash balance: 12 gold, 2 silver, and 5 bronze.

“We have to make a decision soon.”

The next day.

Gao De left the medicine garden with a package. “Want to follow?”

“No need. We are just told to take good care of the medicine garden.”

Seeing Gao De heading towards the city, the two people who were monitoring near the medicine garden glanced at him and then retracted their gaze without any other action.

Although they were close to blatant surveillance, at least they did not go so far as to directly follow and track, thus retaining the last bit of dignity.

Business district.

Pierre’s Grocery Store.

Godard brought the magic potions he had stockpiled for many days, and before he even stepped into the store, he discovered that the content on the simple wooden sign at the door had changed.

“This store will be closed in the near future, and all items in the store will be sold at a low price.”

After only being away for a week, Pierre is planning to close down the grocery store?!

Gao De was stunned, and without caring about the purpose of his trip to “sell medicine”, he hurried into the store.

It can be seen with the naked eye that the shelves in the store are much emptier.

“Are you leaving?” As soon as God entered the store, he saw Pierre drinking tea leisurely behind the counter and asked directly, “Going to Bremen?”

“Yes, I’m already looking for the next owner of the store. As soon as I find one, I’ll leave and go to Bremen to enjoy my retirement.” Pierre Niu took a sip of tea, put down the cup and replied.

“What’s going on?” Gao De frowned, having a bad feeling in his heart.

“The strange incident of missing people in the city has not been solved.” Pierre first released a message.

“You mean the murderer is already…” Gao De replied subconsciously, and then he reacted with a start, “Then he is just a scapegoat?”

“Well, he was just a scapegoat. The strange incident of missing people was suppressed instead of being solved.” Pierre nodded and gave an affirmative answer.

“People are still disappearing in the city.”

He paused, “Three days ago, a family living on the same street as me disappeared inexplicably. The situation was exactly the same as before. The person was sleeping at home, and disappeared the next day when he woke up.”

“This was discovered by his neighbors beforehand, and everyone came over to watch the fun. I also took a look at the scene before the city guards arrived.”

“There was nothing left in the room except some strange slime.”

“And the items in the room were in perfect order. It was definitely not a murder for money.”

“I suspect that this was not caused by humans, but by a kind of earth vein creature that has never appeared in the Bremen area before. That’s why even the second-ring mage couldn’t solve the problem.”

“In the city center, there are underground creatures lurking in the dark and constantly committing crimes. This is terrifying.”

After a moment’s silence, Gao De spoke again.

“Is that why?”

“Not all of them. The main reason is.” Pierre sighed and said, “Didn’t I go to Bremen last month to make arrangements? In addition to this matter, I also checked some information through my friends in the Emerald Alliance.”

“Under normal circumstances, there is an upper limit to the number of leyline creatures that gather in each region based on the different concentrations of magic power.”

“But during this period, the number of earth vein creatures that appeared outside the city has exceeded the total amount that should exist in this area.”

“Do you know what this means?”

Without waiting for Gao De to reply, Pierre answered his own question: “This means that the frequent appearance of earth vein creatures outside the city is not caused by simple gathering, but the emergence of earth vein creatures from new sources.”

“And leyline creatures only come from leylines.”

El finally said something that seemed incomprehensible, but Gao De suddenly understood and his face changed drastically. “You mean the anomaly outside the city is caused by the formation of new ground veins?!”

He clearly remembered the following sentence in the Bremen Geography he had bought:

“After the planes intersected, earth veins were born frequently, and their number increased day by day. Earth vein creatures emerged, but no new earth veins were born in the Bremen area for two hundred years. Jellos XII once praised Bremen as a blessed place.”

A blessed land, will it no longer be blessed?
“I’m not sure, but I think it’s very likely.”

“At least now there is a high probability that a new species of earth vein creature has invaded Hogan City. Doesn’t this coincide with my guess?”

“The formation of new ley lines has brought with it new ley line creatures.” Goder murmured, understanding what Pierre meant.

(End of this chapter)