Chapter 62 Sewer

If you give it as a gift, it’s not a transaction.

If it is not a transaction, then there is no violation.

That’s fine, too.

The problem is, why would someone give you such a precious thing for free?
Gao De was asking himself this question and also wanted to ask Pierre.

To be honest, he had already owed Pierre a lot of favors, and he felt that he had no way to repay Pierre.

Seeing that Gode was frozen for a moment, Pierre seemed to understand what Gode was thinking and comforted him:
“Just take it if I give it to you. You will definitely be able to use these three spells.”

“That little bit of money is useless to me. It makes no difference whether I have it or not.”

After thinking for a while, Pierre took out a pen and paper from the counter, quickly wrote a few lines and handed them to Gode.

“What is this?” Gao De took the note and didn’t react yet.

“This is where I stay in Bremen,” Pierre explained. “If you go to Bremen someday and can’t find a place to stay, you can come find me.”

“Of course, if you go too late, I can’t guarantee that I will still be there.” The old man smiled heartily.

Gao De was silent for a moment, then he put away the note, touched his chest, bowed his head and said sincerely: “Thank you.”

After seeing God off and watching his back disappear from his sight with the package on his back, Pierre took a sip of tea, his eyes wandering.

Among the mages, there is a widely circulated saying:

Magic is a private realm open only to geniuses.

But only those who have truly experienced it know that magic is a private area open only to the rich.

Not having high talent does not necessarily mean you cannot become a high-level magician.

But without money, it is absolutely impossible to become a high-level magician.

It is often said that amending laws is difficult, but the degree of difficulty varies greatly.

It is difficult for children of common people to make a living, so how much more difficult is it for them to learn magic than for children of rich families?
He was also born into a common family, and managed to carve out a niche for himself through his own efforts.

Now his road has come to an end. Seeing Gao De at this time is like seeing my younger self.

When he was young, he hoped very much that someone would lend him a helping hand, but he was never so lucky.

In that case, I’ll be the one who lends a hand now.

It’s just a simple favor that costs nothing.

Pierre remained silent, poured himself another cup of tea, and gulped it down.

“The sign of frequent earth veins is that the magic power is enriched, the number of earth vein creatures is increasing, and the population is disappearing.”

On the way back, Gao De kept repeating these key words in his mind. He always felt that he seemed to have grasped some key point, but he had overlooked it.

He couldn’t figure it out until he returned to the medicine garden.

Gao De stepped into the medicine garden with a heavy heart and was a little worried. He first went to the medicine field area to see how the seedlings planted some time ago were growing.

Aitch and Raymond were taking care of the medicinal seedlings, loosening the soil and applying fertilizer, chatting while working.

“Aiqi, when you were practicing the Guidance Method during this period, have you noticed that for some reason, the concentration of magic power seemed to have increased a lot?” Raymond asked casually.

“It’s true. Practicing for two hours these days is almost equivalent to practicing for three hours before. It feels so good!” Aiqi said with emotion.

“I don’t know what’s going on.”

“Why worry about it? It’s a good thing anyway.”

The two chatted idly.

Gao De, however, stood there in a daze.

“The concentration of magic power has increased a lot?”

He immediately turned around, returned to his room, sat cross-legged, and quickly entered a meditative state of guidance.

As usual, countless stardust appeared in Gode’s consciousness and floated around.

However, this time he could clearly sense that the amount of stardust was almost 50% more than before. The next moment, Gao De suddenly opened his eyes.

There was surprise in his eyes.

During this time, he has been practicing the Guidance Method with the help of basic magic potions.

Because drinking magic potions saves the step of guiding magic into the body from the outside, it was not until today that I learned from two apprentices that the concentration of magic in the environment has increased so much during this period of time.

“Why is the concentration of magic power increasing when it’s fine?”

Before the question was completely out of his mind, Gao De had already thought of the answer: “It’s magic enrichment!”

The two major signs of the regeneration of the earth veins: the enrichment of magic power and the increase of earth vein creatures, have been verified at this moment.

“The medicine garden is located in the suburbs, far away from the city center and close to the wild, so it can be the first to sense the changes in magic concentration.”

At the same time, I also wanted to understand why such an obvious change in magic concentration was not noticed by the big shots in the city, including Pierre.

That’s because they live in a relatively central part of Hogan City, and the influence of the enriched magic power has not yet reached there.

“There really is a new earth vein emerging. It’s emerging just outside the city of Hogan.” Although he couldn’t be 100% sure, in Gaode’s opinion, this was already a high-probability event.

Gao De stood up and walked around the room.

Many thoughts kept flashing through my mind.

“The phenomenon of magic power enrichment has already affected the medicine garden, which shows that the formation of the earth veins must have begun a long time ago.”

“Wait.” Gao De thought of another thing.

Two months ago, at Pierre’s grocery store, the city guards came to deliver a notice.

At that time, the city guards’ original words were “The number of dark swamp wriggles in the city’s sewers has increased sharply recently, and they are unusually active.”

If the Dark Swamp Creeper is replaced with its actual identity as an “earth creature”, wouldn’t it be exactly the same as the anomaly that has been persisting outside the city for a long time?

And if you look at it this way, the anomaly actually appeared in the city two months ago.

“Sewer, it’s the sewer!” He subconsciously recalled his experience in the sewer. Suddenly, a pair of crimson eyes flashed through Gao De’s mind.

The doubts that had troubled Gao De for a long time were solved at this moment:

He might be able to find out where the underground creatures that caused the strange things in the city came from and where they were hiding!
Two months ago, he went into the sewer to help Pierre clean out the dark swamp worms in the sewer, and obtained the second origin from there.

When leaving, I vaguely saw a pair of crimson eyes in the sewer.

However, the threat from Master Seda was in front of him at the time, so he had no time to dwell on the matter. As time passed, he had forgotten about it until this moment when he suddenly recalled it.

How do the underground creatures bypass the outskirts of Hogan City and reach the center of Hogan City?

How did he hide himself without revealing his traces?

This was something that Pierre and the bigwigs in the city could not figure out.

In fact, the answer is too simple.

Just go down the drain.

The ground is full of people, so it is difficult to sneak into the central city quietly, so you have to go through the underground sewers.

The city guards searched back and forth, but could not find the possible hiding place of the “earth vein creatures”.

Because they never looked for the sewer.

Why do strange incidents of missing people always occur near civilian and commercial areas, while slums remain safe and sound?
Because the sewer system in Hogan City is not well developed, only the wealthier areas have rudimentary sewer facilities.

In the slums, there is no sewer system at all.

The poor directly discharge their domestic wastewater into the streets and nearby rivers.

Gaode was not only upset because of this, but also because he felt disgusted when passing by the slums.

The so-called mucus left at the scene is actually sewage from the sewer, right?

Everything has a reasonable explanation.

(End of this chapter)