Chapter 51: Chapter 51 Secret dicine (2nd update, please add to collection!)
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The quiet living room, the dim yellow light spilled from beneath the lampshade, illuminating the central area.
There, Tang Qi had already cleared the small table.
Only a dagger remained on it, pinning down the Essos Ghost Grass, or rather Professor Rick Cassel, next to it was a cup of clear water.
The two were engaged in a bizarre conversation.
Tang Qi had discerned the cause behind the serial tragedies at sser University, and subsequently brought back the real “culprit,” Professor Cassel in his activated state of the Shadow Cage Mushroom; certainly not out of sympathy for his plight.
This old professor doesn’t deserve sympathy on either a legal or moral level.
The reason for bringing him back was naturally because he possessed sothing Tang Qi needed.
And not just one thing.
Tang Qi’s gaze slowly retracted from the pile of note manuscripts, then he looked at the mushroom and asked, “Where did you obtain your secret dicine knowledge from?”
If Professor Cassel were still human, upon hearing this question, he would likely imdiately show a look of horror.
This was his biggest secret, being pointed out bluntly, he would naturally change color.
Regrettably, he was now just a bizarre plant.
He could only unconsciously twitch the black, slick tentacles, then realizing his current predicant, he decided against any concealnt, wetted his tentacle in the water, and wrote his answer on the table.
“I was inspecting an Old Calendar Thirteenth Century shipwreck when I stumbled upon so books that wouldn’t rot, containing a great deal of secret dicine knowledge. Since it was stormy that day, and besides , everyone else went to rest, no one else was willing to clean up those things.”
“I found the knowledge very interesting, so I studied it all night, but unfortunately, the next day was a scorching sunny day. When those books were exposed to sunlight, they burned up in an instant, and that knowledge vanished completely except for a portion in my mory.”
“Based on my later research, those books likely ca from one of the mysterious tribes that were enemies of the Ancient Maya Civilization, and the owner of that shipwreck was not simple. However, due to the passage of ti, I couldn’t clarify further.”
Compared to Tang Qi’s concise questions, Professor Cassel’s answers were very detailed.
Without much contemplation, Tang Qi asked again, “Besides secret dicine knowledge, do you possess any other mysticism knowledge?”
“No!”
“Other than that accident, the rest of my life’s explorations, although I have encountered so weird, mysterious events, they were all resolved by firearms in the end. I didn’t acquire more related knowledge, even though I had perceived the existence of the Mysterious Domain.”
“However, I couldn’t bear to lose my status and reputation, so I never exposed my knowledge of secret dicine, nor ventured into that unknown world.”
A reasonable explanation, Tang Qi silently noted.
The following question, however, Tang Qi did not voice out loud.
He wanted to know to what level Professor Cassel had advanced his knowledge of secret dicine, for instance, whether he had successfully beco a professional, as promotion to a profession required the successful compounding of those secret dicines to be granted professional certification.
The profession corresponding to secret dicine knowledge, as Tang Qi knew, should start with a “Secret dicine Apprentice,” followed by a formal “Secret Alchemist.”
But since Professor Cassel had not truly entered the Mysterious Side, those questions were unnecessary.
Tang Qi sat on the sofa, pondering silently.
Professor Cassel’s words should be true, at this juncture, he had no reason to deceive himself, and considering that he recklessly used Curse Secret dicine, turning the female assistant and the head of the security into Spider Demons, it was clear he wasn’t a person from the Mysterious Side.
Anyone with even a slight connection to the Mysterious Side would know that in terms of Extraordinary Power, the official forces were the truly fearso party.
In fact, even without Tang Qi’s intervention.
The serial bloodbath within sser University would eventually be smoothly resolved.
It’s just that by that ti, the aftermath would certainly have escalated to so extent, drawing official intervention.
By then, Cassel, the main culprit, would likely et a grim end.
From this aspect, Tang Qi seed to be Cassel’s savior.
Upon this thought, Tang Qi suddenly rose slowly to his feet, stood before the desk, reached out, and grasped the dagger, then drew it out directly.
But he heard a light “sizzle” as several droplets of black liquid shot out from the activated cage mushroom along with Tang Qi’s motion, splattering onto the desk.
However, the freed Rick Cassel didn’t move, just like a black Big Octopus sprawled on the desk, waiting for Tang Qi’s decision.
Smart man!
Tang Qi silently gave his assessnt, then without delay, he spoke the terms of the trade he initiated.
“Professor Cassel, I can find you a body that perfectly ets your requirents, and oversee the ritual for you, reciting the spell, giving you a chance to start anew in life.”
Upon hearing these words, Cassel did not exhibit an excited deanor.
Instead, he quietly waited, and sure enough, Tang Qi’s voice continued to carry over.
“In exchange, you need to pay a price, the only thing you have to trade now, your… Knowledge!”
“Secret dicine knowledge, you have to trade all the secret dicine knowledge that you’ve stumbled upon to .”
“Since you could acquire the Essos Ghost Grass from the wizards of the Saha Continent, then you should also know how to cut your own soul. As long as you inject all your secret dicine knowledge into a Soul Fragnt and cut it off, our trade will be considered complete.”
“Of course, you can choose to refuse, and I will send you on your way, killing the real murderer of a serial killing case, I will bear no burden.”
“Or, you could choose to deceive
during the cutting, but if I find out, I will still kill you.”
Having said that, Tang Qi then stood aside, silently waiting for it to make a choice.
On the surface, Tang Qi showed no signs of excitent or any other affect.
It seed that the secret dicine knowledge was not important to Tang Qi; the trade was just a casual undertaking for him.
Because from the very beginning of their contact, Tang Qi had held an absolute advantage. Although Professor Cassel was smart, in his eyes, this high school student, Tang Qi, might be a seasoned personage of the Mysterious Side.
The most crucial point was that it actually had no room for choice.
On one side was complete death!
On the other, exchange secret dicine knowledge for a new life!
Anyone who wasn’t a fool or a madman would make the “correct” choice.
Indeed, as Tang Qi’s ntal countdown reached three, the Black Octopus on the desk moved.
Under Tang Qi’s gaze, it slowly lifted its smallest tentacle.
“Squeak~Squeak Squeak”
The simple action seed to bring imnse pain, and it began to emit the desperate squeals similar to that of a dying rat being crushed.
Gradually, under Tang Qi’s watch, that short black tentacle began to redden, threads of red light incessantly pouring into it, glowing as if it were a red-hot iron.
At the sa ti, a special interface popped up at the bottom of Tang Qi’s eye.
Streams of Information Fragnts flowed past.
When the last fragnt passed by, that black tentacle was so red it glowed, and Cassel’s shrieks probably led people to believe that the resident of this small building was a pervert who took pleasure in torturing rats.
“Shssh~”
Tang Qi made his move, the sharp dagger slicing through the air, and at the sa ti, cutting through that tenacious tentacle.
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