the next day.
Du Dian came to the tailor's shop, got the robe and mask, changed the robe, the size just fit, he put on the mask, came to the Wall Street alley, and suddenly smelled the smell of two people inside, compared to yesterday One person is missing.
"Sure enough, it is here every day." Du Dian secretly said, entered the alley, put on a mask, stretched out his hand and rolled up the cloth that was smeared like a wall, and saw that there were piles of bricks inside. If ordinary people accidentally noticed this cloth , Even if it is opened, you will only see this wall, but Du Dian knows that there is a secret room inside, so you can see the gaps between these bricks at a glance.
Du Dian picked up a stone and tapped it twice.
There is no response inside.
Du Dian tapped twice again.
At this moment, Du Dian smelled the smell of two people inside approaching, just behind the block of bricks. He waited for a while, but didn't see them making a sound, and immediately tapped twice, controlled his throat and lowered his voice: "I'm your companion, I don't mean anything malicious, I'm also an alchemist, looking for an organization..."
The two behind the brick seemed to be thinking about it, but after a while, there was still no response.
Du Dian suddenly smelled a strange smell, he frowned slightly, and slowly pulled out a brick.
Whoosh!
As soon as the brick was pulled out, something shot out from the gap.
Du Dian had been prepared to dodge in time, but after the thing fell on the ground, it splashed out, and a few drops fell on the edge of his robe, and the black-dyed robe was corroded to a whitish color, which turned out to be sulfuric acid.
Du Dian took a look, turned back to the brick and continued: "I really have no malice. If it is a member of the Holy See of Light, I have already notified the Knights of Light to arrest you. I am your companion."
The two inside didn't seem to expect that their sneak attack didn't work. Hearing Du Dian's words, the two also knew that the initiative was in Du Dian's hands at the moment. If they were notified to the Holy See, they would be surrounded and suppressed soon.
"How can I trust you?" A female voice came from inside.
Du Dian asked back: "How can you believe me?"
There was a little silence inside, and the female voice said: "Please show the alchemy tattoo."
Du Dian smiled bitterly: "Then let me go in first, it's too unsafe here, and it's easy to attract attention if you stay for a long time."
Hearing this, the two people inside seemed to be reasonable, and slowly pulled out the bricks. The light inside was dim, but Du Dian's vision was not affected at all, and he could see the appearance of these two people at a glance, both wearing masks. Judging from their stature, they were children about the same age as me, a boy and a girl, but the boy I had tracked down earlier was not there. At this moment, the girl was responsible for pulling the bricks away, and the boy was hiding in a darker place beside him, holding a glass bottle with half a bottle of sulfuric acid in his hand.
"Come in," said the girl.
Du Dian nodded and jumped in. There is a staircase under the brick, and the place where the brick is sealed is like a ventilation window.
The boy showed a pair of vigilant eyes in the mask, stared at Du Dian, and said, "Now you can show your alchemy tattoo."
Du Dian nodded slightly, lifted his black robe, revealing the black cross tattoo on his chest, and said, "Can you see clearly?"
The girl took a closer look and said, "It's indeed ours, come with me."
Hearing this, the boy breathed a sigh of relief, greeted Du Dian, and followed the girl.
Du Dian followed them down the stairs and came to a secret room at the bottom. I saw that the secret room was very spacious, with many shelves inside, and various mineral powders or metal powders were placed on it. There were no animal remains, eyeballs And other biological parts, as he expected, they are all from the "Sage's Stone" faction, with the goal of refining this magical stone.
"Come here, please." The girl came to a table and said.
Du Di'an passed as promised.
"I want to take a look at your tattoo again." The girl said, obviously, the dim light in the corridor earlier prevented her from fully seeing it.
Du Dian nodded, revealing the black cross on his chest.
The girl and the boy came closer, looked carefully, and confirmed that it was a black alchemy tattoo. She suddenly approached Du Dian's chest and sniffed it gently. The warm breath exhaled from her nose made Du Dian's chest throb slightly.
"Perfume smell?" The girl was a little puzzled, and smelled the robe on Du Dian's arm, and couldn't help but look up at Du Dian, and said, "You are a boy, how can you apply perfume?"
Du Dian coughed dryly and said, "I'm used to it."
The girl gave him a weird look, but said nothing, "How did you find us? We should be hiding something very secret here, and only those inside us know the secret code. won't recognize it."
Du Dian said truthfully: "I saw a man in the market with a hook tattoo on his wrist, and followed him to find it."
The girl and the boy looked at each other, and couldn't help saying angrily: "This stupid 'rat', I told him a long time ago that tattoos on such a conspicuous part of the wrist are simply courting death, and I don't know how his teacher taught him back then!"
At the moment, the boy who was walking with his parents in a certain street suddenly sneezed twice with a dazed expression on his face.
Du Dian said sincerely: "Can I join you? Do research together."
The girl looked at him and said, "Don't you have your own circle? Didn't your teacher teach you that our circle rarely accepts other strangers."
"My teacher is dead." Du Dian said with a sad expression, "The partners who did research together before also broke up."
The girl froze for a moment, then said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."
Du Dian shook his head slightly and said, "It's all over."
The girl thought for a while, and said: "Well, if you are alone, you can join, but you are absolutely not allowed to bring outsiders in. You also know that the more people there are, the easier it is to be exposed."
Du Dian was full of surprises, and said: "I will keep it secret."
"Yeah." The girl nodded, with a smile on her face, and said, "My name is 'Nightingale', and his name is 'Viper'. The mouse went shopping with his parents today, but he didn't come here. If you want to join us, you have to afford one." code name."
Du Dian couldn't help wondering, and said: "Isn't the code name given when you join the Dark Holy See?"
"Yes, that's the official code name, and it's also the status symbol of our alchemists." Nightingale nodded and said, "But we also need to have a code name to call each other. It's impossible to use our real names. If anyone is arrested, we will What if other people are exposed? Did you use your real name in your previous circles?"
Du Dian said: "No, they are all replaced by one of the characters in everyone's name."
"That's a code name." Nightingale said, "We are using an animal to replace it here, think about it."
Du Dian thought for a while, then said: "Let's call it a hound."
"Hound?" Nightingale nodded and said, "Okay, I'll call you a Hound from now on."
Du Dian nodded, looked around, and said, "Don't you have a teacher to teach?"
Nightingale shook her head and said, "My teacher wouldn't come to a place like us where alchemists are apprentices. He's busy with his own experiments."
The boy named Poisonous Snake smiled at Du Dian: "Nightingale is our teacher, she is about to hit the meteor badge, and she will be the youngest one-star alchemist by then, isn't she amazing?"
Du Dian looked at the girl in surprise. From the time he came in, he felt that the girl had more power to speak, and she was indeed the leader in this small circle, and said: "That is really amazing. I have only been in contact with you for a long time, and I have to talk to you a lot. study."
The voice under Nightingale's mask was a bit shy, and said, "It's not as exaggerated as he said. There are too many smart people, and I'm not the youngest."
"Anyway, I think you are very powerful." The poisonous snake said with a playful smile.
Du Dian looked at him, thinking that this person's personality has nothing to do with "Viper". This code name is really a bit of a split personality.
"Alright, it's time to get busy with the experiment. Do you still want to get the Meteor Badge?" Nightingale waved.
The poisonous snake laughed, went to another room next to it, and closed the door.
Nightingale said to Du Dian: "We have limited rooms here, and there is still a grocery room next to it. You can use that after you clean it up. If you don't understand anything, you can communicate with me at any time."