Darkness, endless darkness.
Suddenly, a sliver of light came out of the darkness, and then a bright light.
Gutas slowly woke up from his coma, opened his eyes and saw Richard holding a candlestick and shining it in front of his eyes. After finding that he was awake, he moved the candlestick away and sat on a chair to the side, condescendingly It looked to him as something that made him extremely uncomfortable.
Then Gutas discovered more things that made him uncomfortable, such as his hands and feet being tied tightly with ropes, and his whole body lying on the ground in a weird posture, almost unable to move.
Damn it!
Gutas cursed in his heart, but at this time he had already figured out something. He turned to look at Richard who was sitting on the chair, and said with an angry look: "You are not a wizard, you are just a wizard apprentice, right?!"
"Even?" Richard raised his eyebrows and looked at Gutas, "Why do you say that?"
"If you were really a wizard, you would have knocked me out before without any effort at all. You could do it with just one spell." Gutas said.
Richard blinked and said calmly: "That's true."
"Damn it!" Gutas gritted his teeth, "I knew it was like this! I shouldn't have run away in the first place, I should have taught you a lesson."
"Are you so sure that you will be my opponent?" Richard narrowed his eyes and said, "Even if I am a wizard apprentice."
"Hmph, if you can, please loosen the rope around my body and let us compete, then we will know." Gutas said coldly.
"Ha." Richard chuckled, "Is it a provocation method? Okay, don't try this method, I won't be fooled. You can treat it as if I am not your opponent, and treat it as because you made a mistake in judgment. Catch it, but that doesn’t change your fate.”
"So." Richard looked at Gutas with a serious expression, "Why don't you cooperate with me and let me ask a few questions. For example... the first question, what is your name?"
"Gutas!" Gutas said coldly, with sharp eyes, "Gutas Chelsea! Boy, you'd better let me go!"
"Gutas, well, I understand." Richard nodded slightly, "Then the second question, what do you want to do when you come to my place? I believe that you are a smart person, so you might as well tell me everything. .After all, I don’t want to torture you.”
Gutas snorted coldly and didn't take Richard's words seriously, but he still answered after a moment: "I came here to find a medicine that is very important to me, a medicine called 'Sparta" Warrior's potion. It can stimulate the ancestral power inherited in my body and make the ancestral power stronger. As long as I get enough potions, it can make me more powerful than the wizard!"
"Then...where did you get the news about the 'Spartan Warrior Potion'?" Richard asked.
After hearing this, Gutas' face became slightly gloomy, as if he thought of some bad memories, and said in a low voice: "I got it from a damn fat businessman named 'Alex'. "
At the end of the sentence, Gutas couldn't help but cursed: "He is a damn black-hearted merchant! He is the most shameless person I have ever seen in my life. He should be sent to the gallows and burned on the rack." Burn him to death and send him to the slaughterhouse to be minced into pieces!”
"I?"
"He obviously only sold that potion for three low-grade crystal coins. After I used it, I found it was effective. I wanted to buy more, but he raised the price to five low-grade crystal coins! Damn it! I can't afford it at all!" Gu Tas was a little excited, with an expression of deep disgust on his face.
"Tell me more in detail." Richard said slowly.
Gutas started talking immediately, and after a while, Richard understood the whole process of the matter.
During the day, I entrusted Alex to sell the "Spartan Heroic Potion". Alex was obviously very hardworking. He got the potion in the morning and started selling it in the afternoon. At the beginning, the price he set for the other party was 2 low-grade crystal coins per bottle, with a 5% share for each bottle sold. This profit was obviously not small for Alex. But Alex was not easily satisfied, or he wanted to be even more greedy.
In Alex's view, if the potion can be sold, why do we need 2 low-grade crystal coins? The more expensive the better! All the extra money will be his.
Out of this idea, Alex served food to others. Some people who are not easy to fool will use the low price of 2 low-grade crystal coins to attract them. Some people who were interested in the potion offered a price of more than two low-grade crystal coins.
As for repeat customers like Gutas, Alex is going to kill them hard - in Alex's view, Gutas simply cannot have the financial resources to make long-term purchases, so if he can squeeze out the maximum benefit at once, he will try his best to squeeze out the maximum benefit. .
In this way, when Gutas bought it for the first time, it was three low-grade crystal coins, so he gritted his teeth and bought it. After trying it out, it was found that the effect was very good. Improving combat effectiveness in a short period of time was secondary. The most important thing was that it could stimulate the blood seeds in his body.
Excited, Gutas approached Alex again and prepared for his second purchase. However, Alex told him that due to tight supply, the price had been raised to 5 low-grade crystal coins per bottle. If he wanted to buy two bottles, it would cost 12 low-grade crystal coins. The more he bought, the more expensive the price!
At that time, Gutas had a total of 8 low-grade crystal coins. He thought he could take away 3 bottles through bargaining, but found that he could only take away 1 bottle.
Looking at Alex's hateful face, Gutas was so angry that he gritted his teeth again and again, but he didn't bite down.
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After listening to Gutas's painful complaint, Richard finally understood how evil Alex was, and thought of Gro's previous evaluation: a profiteer, an absolute profiteer!
He is indeed a profiteer.
But Richard didn't pay attention to this. He looked at Gutas and asked again: "Then how did you come to me? Where did you learn about my address? Did Alex tell you? He... didn't Isn’t that stupid?”
"Humph." Gutas sneered, with a murderous look on his face, "He is indeed not that stupid, but he is not that tough either. After the transaction failed, I caught him while it was dark and tortured him very hard. pause.
Before killing him, he trembled and told me your address while peeing into his pants. He said, you have more potions here, so I came. "
After hearing this, Richard looked at Gutas, while Gutas raised his head and looked at Richard without fear.
Gutas loudly said: "Believe it or not! Anyway, that friend of yours is already dead. If you want to know where he died, I can tell you the location. I have to say that before he died, The screams were really noisy, like a pig being killed.”
Richard narrowed his eyes, looked at Gutas and said, "No, you are lying."
"Humph, I didn't lie, I did kill him!" Gutas insisted.
"Since you killed him, you will get all the potions in his hand, which will be enough for you to use for a period of time. Why do you come to me so recklessly and unprepared?" Richard asked, "At least, Wouldn’t it be better to use up all the ‘Spartan Warrior Potion’ in your hand and strengthen your ancestor’s power before taking action?”
"I..." Gutas was speechless, but after a while he said firmly, "I'm going to do this, can you care? I did kill your friend named Alex and took away his potion. . The reason why I came here was just to confirm whether what he said was true or not, but unexpectedly, he bumped into your hand. He didn't tell me your strength at the beginning. This is definitely a deliberate revenge, absolutely!"
Richard's eyes flashed after listening to Gutas' words. To be honest, he didn't really believe that Alex was killed. But having said that, it’s better to be cautious about this kind of thing. Alex was not his friend, but he was of some use to him. If the other person really died, he would have to find a way to replace him with someone else.
In this case…
Thinking of this, Richard stood up from his chair and decided to go see Alex.
Ignoring Gutas's sneer, Richard looked at Pandora on the bed in the corner of the laboratory and said, "I'm going out for a while, so you can take a good look at the house. Well, the most important thing is to keep an eye on this person on the ground and don't let him escape." Yes, you know?"
Pandora turned over.
"That's good."
Richard turned around and walked out.
Gutas watched Richard leave, looked at Pandora on the bed in the corner, looked at it for a while and sneered. I couldn't help but think: Does such a sleeping little girl want to keep an eye on him? Huh, delusional!
Gutas rolled his eyes, scanning the surrounding furnishings, and his brain quickly thought of a plan to break free from the rope and escape.
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