Chapter 26
Li Hao looked at the three bodies and searched their belongings, but found nothing useful.
However, Li Hao found an exquisite bag on the first person he shot.
This exquisite purse did not seem like something these plainly dressed killers would have. When they opened it and counted it, they found that there were actually a hundred gold coins.
It was obvious that someone used this money to buy her life.
Li Hao put the money away and turned her eyes away from the bodies. Voices kept coming from her headphones, saying they were worried about her mental health.
Psychologists have been trying to help Li Hao manage her condition, hoping she wouldn't focus on the corpse.
When Li Hao returned to Charleston, he found a carriage and returned to the Mage Tower.
This time, upon entering the Mage Tower, she cast her sharp gaze towards a certain spot. Unfortunately, she only caught sight of the hem of a gray garment that quickly flashed by.
When Li Hao returned to the dormitory, she took a good rest as the people in the live broadcast room said, and even spent some silver coins to buy a glass of local wine.
Perhaps he had been prepared to experience all this, or perhaps it was because he felt that being in another world made all this seem unreal, or perhaps it was the psychological counseling in the live broadcast room and the glass of wine he drank that worked.
She did not feel any discomfort and had no dreams all night. The next morning, she went to Michelle's place to be infused as planned.
"Senior, can you help me check if these herbs are up to standard?" Li Hao asked Victoria. She was worried that there was something wrong with the herbs.
"The quality is pretty good," Victoria said after taking a look. "I'll stand by and watch you operate it."
Li Hao nodded, relieved, and began to make the potion.
From refining to fusion, Li Hao had completed the first two steps many times and was very familiar with them. Then he took out the medicine furnace.
She took a deep breath and used her mental power to guide the potion into the furnace. She held a small piece of magic stone and guided the white magic within, fusing the chaotic and diverse magic.
It felt like playing a game of building blocks, very interesting. Her mental power was flexible and free to act as she wished.
After the last bit of magic was put together, Li Hao looked at the perfect model and immersed himself in it.
"Alright! A perfect potion." Victoria's voice pulled her out of this state.
Looking at the liquid that had already turned light pink, Li Hao felt relieved. After completing this step, their purpose of coming to this world had been largely accomplished.
Li Hao, who successfully refined the potion, was appreciated by Michelle.
"You have a great talent for potions. By the way, you haven't started learning spell models yet. So, I'll open a meditation room for you. You can come here in the morning to continue learning herbs, and go to the meditation room in the afternoon." Michelle saw potential in Li Hao and decided to invest more in this student.
"Thank you, teacher." Li Hao said gratefully.
"Once you complete your first spell model, I will teach you new potions." Michelle said with satisfaction.
Li Hao entered the meditation room for the first time. As soon as she entered, she felt the magic power that her spiritual power had felt, which was like a few fireflies, but now it was as abundant as raindrops.
Another point was what kind of pattern was carved on the floor of the room. Li Hao asked the people in the live broadcast room to look at the pattern clearly and see if they could replicate it.
As she continued to meditate, she felt a smooth sensation. Her speed had increased by 30 percent. Instead of a 20-minute meditation session, it now took only 15.
However, Li Hao's mind was not completely in meditation. Instead, he was discussing something with the people in the live broadcast room.
"Li Hao, do you want to come back?" asked the person in the live broadcast room.
"No, I want to do something first." Li Hao rejected the live broadcast room's proposal, her eyes firm.
What Li Hao wants to do is revenge. In this world, no matter how peaceful she is, as long as she is not strong enough, there will always be people with bad intentions who want to kill her.
She still has three more chances to travel through time, and there are still many things to do. She wants to establish her own power here. Li Hao discussed with the people in the live broadcast room for a long time.
After the meeting at the base ended, Lin Lan couldn't help but sigh. "Li Hao is really different now." Previously, Li Hao would just do whatever the base said, whether it was asking her to enter the Mage Tower or learn various potions.
But this time, Li Hao was in control of the overall situation. She had even made her plan long ago and had already decided what she was going to do. She was notifying the base to help her improve the plan.
Li Hao's entire plan was very large and involved many people she knew.
Li Hao's last words gave Lin Lan goosebumps. "I'm a stranger here, after all. My goal is to establish myself here by forming a community of shared interests with the people I know, so that they can become my supporters. They will become the cornerstone of my development in this alien world, and this incident is a great opportunity."
Li Hao proposed a plan: to form a small group. One person's power in this world was too limited, but a group would be a different story. She proposed a general plan, with the specific details to be finalized by the people at the base.
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The Charleston herbal market has been bustling lately, with a particular herb being snapped up like crazy. It's said that a foreign merchant is paying a high price for this herb, claiming it's needed for a newly developed formula.
Many pharmacies have made a lot of money selling this herb, and it is said that they have earned enough to cover their expenses for a whole year.
Many people are stockpiling the herb, and as soon as it becomes available on the market, it will be sold out. The price of the herb has now tripled.
They all hoarded this herb in the hope of making a fortune.
"I heard there's a cartload of herbs. One of our guys got the news," the owner of Bruno's Pharmacy told the clan leader. Their last batch of herbs had netted them nearly 500 gold coins.
This time, he stocked up on herbs worth nearly a thousand gold coins. The foreign merchant said he would come every five days, and he had come three times already, so he could eat any amount of herbs.
"Well, how much does it cost to eat this batch?" asked Bruno's patriarch.
"It's about this amount." The store manager gestured to a number.
"One thousand?" said the patriarch.
"No. Yes, ten thousand." said the store manager.
"So many!" The clan leader was surprised. This was not a small number. It was even a question whether their family could come up with so many gold coins.
"That carriage has 30 cubic meters. Once it's sold... and that person said he'll keep it for us for one night at most. It will be auctioned off later," said the store manager.
The patriarch also thought that the merchant would come soon. Thinking of the many merchants in Charleston, if the item changed hands, it would be worth tens of thousands of gold coins.
"Let them stay, and we'll eat them," the patriarch said with a determined heart. He planned to find some way to pawn some items to raise the ten thousand gold coins.
Watching his men putting boxes of herbs into the warehouse, looking at these boxes of herbs, it was as if he saw boxes of gold coins.
No one in all of Charleston had more in store than their family.
"Chief, about that Li thing." David came from the Mage Tower to discuss it with the Chief. They had previously hired an assassin to kill Li Hao, but he had returned to the Mage Tower unscathed. This had left David restless.
"Don't worry. The clan is busy with important matters recently. Once this transaction is completed, we will directly hire a top alchemist to be your teacher." The clan leader said to David in a soothing tone.
"Really? That's great, Chief. But I still want that Li to die. Otherwise, I really can't swallow this." David felt happy at first, and then added in a vicious tone.
"Don't worry, after this transaction, I will ask a formal wizard to take action. I don't believe she can escape the attack of a formal wizard." The patriarch said in a good mood.
Chief Bruno arrived at the place where transactions were usually conducted early in the morning and waited. The outsider would purchase herbs here. There were many drug dealers here, and everyone was waiting to make a fortune.
Patriarch Bruno was bragging to the others about how he'd collected tens of thousands of gold coins, more than the entire market combined. Hearing the others' shocked and envious glances, he held his head high. After today, his family would never be the same.
The merchants were discussing how to get more of this herb from other places. But as time went by, the merchant who was supposed to arrive on time did not show up.
There was no doubt at first, but as time approached noon, some people could not sit still and sent their men to wait at the city gate.
As time passed, the entire market gradually became quieter from the initial bustling atmosphere, and many people began to panic.
However, they still thought that the foreign businessman might have been delayed for some reason, and were worried that he might have encountered some accident on the way, so they wanted to send someone to pick him up.
It was only then that someone realized they had no idea where this merchant came from. Some smart people had already noticed something was amiss and quietly left, returning to sell off their herbs at a reduced price.
The market is sensitive, and some people can find out through a little inquiry that they have not waited for the "big businessman".
But some people still refused to give up. For example, Chief Bruno had the most medicinal herbs and had invested the most. When it began to get dark, he could no longer stand, and the servant next to him helped him sit down.
When the moon rose to halfway in the sky, he could no longer bear it and ordered his men to sell off the herbs immediately.
But it was too late. Only a few people sold some herbs. The rest had no buyers at all. Most importantly, when the clan leader wanted to kill the store manager who had made him buy tens of thousands of herbs to vent his anger, he discovered that the store manager had disappeared.
"Chief, store manager Yak is missing, and his family went out a few days ago. There is no one at home." The subordinate said with difficulty.
After listening to the report, the clan leader looked at the storeroom full of herbs and sat down on the ground. He muttered to himself, "It's over, it's all over. We've been tricked."
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