Chapter 99: The Mosheng Fruit and the Wandering Apprentice
That night, Thor slept in Ada's house.
He slept on the table, Ada slept on the bed, and Penny slept in the closet.
Three people each occupied one place.
Perhaps the interaction between Sol and Penny in the evening stimulated Ada, so he took out a hemp rope, tied it between the table and the bed, and hung it on top as a door curtain without covering himself with the quilt.
Thor was not asleep. When the night covered the earth and all around was silent, he slowly opened his eyes.
He jumped off the table lightly and lifted Ada's tattered quilt.
The people inside were already fast asleep.
Ada rolled to the edge of the bed at some point, with one hand and one leg stretched out of the wooden bed.
Thor sat down on the wooden bed and gently opened the large cabinet above it.
This time the cabinet door made no sound.
Silent Portal, a very simple level 0 sorcery.
In the closet, young Penny was already fast asleep, and her sleeping posture was much more obedient than her brother's.
Maybe it’s because I sleep in the closet all year round.
But when Thor looked closely at Penny's eyes, he found that her eyelids were moving very violently.
This is a sign of a person dreaming.
Penny looked very bad, her brows were slightly wrinkled, her lips were tightly pursed, her hands and feet were curled up together, and she felt very insecure when she slept.
Thor immediately entered a semi-immersive meditation, observing Penny.
But she was very clean and there was nothing else unusual about her - including her eyes.
Thor reached out and gently touched Penny's eyes, then reached back and touched his own, only to feel that they were no different.
If it weren't for the diary's endorsement, Thor would not have noticed anything unusual except that he thought the eyes were beautiful.
But anything that can be appreciated by a diary is of considerable value.
Should I take Penny's eye? Sol has a way to safely remove Penny's eye.
Anyway, the other party has already disappeared.
But he finally withdrew his hand and closed the cabinet door again.
At this time, Ada turned over and rolled back to the center from the edge of the wooden bed.
Thor jumped off the wooden bed and left immediately.
At midnight, the full moon was high in the sky, with no clouds.
Under the slanting moonlight, the town was illuminated slightly.
For Thor, this light was enough.
"It seemed like it was a new moon yesterday, how come it suddenly became a full moon today?"
Thor stood on the deserted street of the town and looked up.
"The little bit of memory left by my original body seems to be true. It seems that the moon in this world is not just a celestial body."
Because Thor had been staying in the wizard tower, it was the first time he noticed something abnormal about the moon.
But now is not the time to look at the moon.
Before taking a carriage to Mofan Town, Thor carefully learned about the Mosheng Fruit.
He didn't bring many books with him when he went out, at least he didn't have the plant chapter on the cognition of all things with him.
Fortunately, there is an introduction to the Mosheng Fruit in the book that Nick left in the carriage.
The mosheng fruit is a vine plant that hangs down like a gourd and is shaped like a recorder. When the wind blows, a millstone-like sound is heard.
The sound is not unpleasant, but it is not friendly to ordinary people. Ordinary people will feel upset and dizzy after listening to it for a long time, or even faint.
But it is also a good witchcraft material, and it is difficult to cultivate and even more difficult to transplant.
It was for this reason that the Wizard Tower accepted the surrender of Mofan Town, which was beyond its own radiation range.
However, it is recorded in Senior Nick's book that the real function of the Mosheng Fruit is to soothe people's emotions, calm down excited people, and it also has a certain effect on spirits.
Like a sedative.
Since it is a fruit that needs to be supplied to the wizard tower, the Mosheng Fruit will definitely not be grown in the wild at will. Someone should carefully cultivate it and guard it at all times.
However, because the grinding fruit will make strange noises when it encounters wind, ordinary people cannot plant it in the open air or in windy places. Otherwise, it will be impossible to watch over it and the cultivation will fail if you are not careful.
Thor chose the tallest building nearby and climbed up. Standing on the top of the chimney, he looked around the entire Mofan Town.
The town was unusually quiet at this time, with almost no lights on anywhere.
But this also makes the light sources in the northernmost part of the town extremely obvious.
After locking onto the target, Thor pulled the algae used as a rope, slowly lowered himself from the roof, and ran towards the target.
When he arrived at the north of the town, Thor discovered that the light source was outside the town wall, so he climbed over the wall which was unguarded and came outside.
A few hundred meters away from the northern wall of the town, there is a row of brick and stone houses.
The houses surrounded an open space with a three-meter-high wall on the edge and a wooden roof on top.
There was no wind tonight, and many of the wooden boards were lifted up, revealing the dark green vines and branches inside.
The vines were not planted densely, and fruits could be vaguely seen hanging between the broad leaves.
Behind the open space stood a three-story tower. It was pitch black inside, and all the windows were sealed with wooden boards, giving off a faint ominous feeling.
Thor jumped off the city wall, carefully hiding his body, and approached that side.
He still remembered that Nick said there were two first-level wizard apprentices here. Although Nick described their fighting ability as scum, that was Nick's opinion, and Thor couldn't really let his guard down.
Once they found out that I was an apprentice from the Wizard Tower, they would definitely find ways to conceal the reason for the reduction in the production of the Mosheng Fruit - if there really was something fishy going on.
Thor performed another magic trick on himself, carefully avoiding possible prying eyes from all around, and finally approached the enclosed open space.
There were bonfires lit here, and there was a soldier guarding every few meters.
Their number was actually greater than the guards standing guard at the town gate and patrolling the town combined.
Finding an opening, Thor climbed onto the roof of a nearby house.
This time he could clearly see the plants planted in the open space.
The appearance of those plants was very similar to Nick's description, except that the fruits that should have been shaped like flutes were covered with a layer of pulp paper, with only a little tip connected to the stems and leaves exposed.
Is this how they prevent the mosheng fruit from making noise when blown by the wind?
But can the fruit grow well like this?
We need to build a wall to protect against the wind, and also wrap it with paper. This place doesn't look like a place with plenty of rain...
If this is the case, Thor thinks it is normal for the production of Mosheng Fruit to decrease.
Could there be other reasons?
Thor looked around and saw a house of the same size behind the row of houses, but with soldiers guarding on all four sides.
Thor visualized the image of the monster walking and carefully looked around, but found no unusual spirits.
Even the tower with its windows boarded up was clean on the outside.
Sure enough, outside the wizard tower, cleanliness is the common situation.
Relying on the lingering effects of his magic tricks, Thor broke into the house guarded by guards through the second-floor window.
There was no light in the house and it was dark.
Thor looked in many places, but there was no one there.
Finally, he finally found an underground passage in the kitchen on the first floor.
The entrance to the passage is carefully hidden under a stove.
Although the stove was disguised to a certain extent, Thor still noticed something strange.
The most important thing is that he felt a faint fluctuation of magical power from that entrance.
There is a wizard apprentice inside, and he is performing witchcraft.
Thor thought to himself, "This magic power fluctuation dissipation value is too high. It's obvious that he is a wandering wizard who has not received orthodox teaching. No, a wandering wizard apprentice."
Now Thor believed what Nick said. If they were two first-level apprentices like this, he could kill them at will.
Even though the enemy was weak, Thor did not rush in.
There would most likely be traps at the entrance to a dark room like this to prevent outsiders from sneaking in. Thor was not sure that he would not alert the people inside when he entered.
He came here to eavesdrop, not to assassinate.
The fifth update!
(End of this chapter)
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