Hearing the voice, Shen Luo turned around and saw the old shopkeeper walking up to him quickly and mysteriously stuffing a note into his hand.
"Sir, even if you travel all over the ten islands today, it is impossible to collect one hundred Water and Fire Ming Pills. But if you follow the address I gave you and find this person, there may still be a chance." The old man leaned close to Shen Luo's ear and whispered.
Shen Luo was delighted when he heard this, and after thanking him again, he turned and left.
After leaving the store, Shen Luo opened the note and saw that it read: Luoxia Island, Shuiyu Village, Zhu Mangqi.
He rubbed the paper lightly with his fingers, turning it into ashes, but did not immediately go to look for the person as he was told. Instead, he continued to be patient and went to each shop one by one.
By the evening, Shen Luo had visited all the shops, and the only things he got in the end were the three Water and Fire Ming Pills that the old shopkeeper had secretly sold to him.
At this point, Shen Luo gave up the idea of trying his luck on other islands and planned to go to Luoxia Island to find the person the old shopkeeper mentioned.
The sunset at sea is very different from what we usually see. It dyes a large area of sea into colorful colors from afar. There is no obvious boundary where the water and the sky meet, as if the sky and the earth have blended into a huge canvas.
Shen Luo faced the sunset and flew all the way to the westernmost Luoxia Island.
This island is obviously smaller than Bangyi Island. There is only one town with a large population on the island, but there are many scattered villages. Shen Luo took a lot of effort to find Shuiyu Village by asking for directions.
After asking around, I found out that Zhu Mangqi was a well-known pearl diver on the island.
There are many pearl divers on the ten islands, and almost all of them act in small groups. Because entering the big abyss is a dangerous thing in itself, they have three to five people at least, and more than ten people at most, and they dare to act together.
However, Zhu Mangqi was an exception. He always went into the sea to collect pearls alone and never cooperated with others.
It is said that he was in partnership with someone, but was betrayed and almost lost his life in a ravine.
Following the direction indicated by the villagers, Shen Luo came to a remote place deep in the village. Under a coconut grove, he saw a two-story wooden stilt house. It was dark inside, without a trace of light.
Before Shen Luo got close, he smelled a strong odor of alcohol. He rubbed his nose subconsciously and knew that he had found the right place.
"Master Zhu Mangqi, are you at home?" Shen Luo came outside the building and shouted loudly.
There was total silence in the wooden building, and no one answered.
"Master Zhu Mangqi..."
Shen Luo tried again, but still no one agreed.
When he released his spiritual sense and was about to start investigating, a door on the second floor of the wooden house suddenly creaked open, and a rough-clothed man reeking of alcohol staggered out with a wine jug in his hand.
He was not tall and looked a little thin, with a face full of dark stubble. He appeared to be about thirty or forty years old. He looked at Shen Luo with a frown and narrowed eyes.
"Who... who, who is calling..."
While shouting vaguely, he reached out to grab the railing outside the corridor, but before he could say "I", he grabbed onto empty space, and his body pitched forward, falling from the second floor.