"Strange, I clearly heard footsteps, but now there's no sound at all?" Luo En was a bit puzzled; he had indeed heard unusual movements in this alley earlier, but now it had become eerily quiet.
"Speaking of which, this feeling of ease right now, could it be..." Luo En carefully recalled everything that had happened today.
"Sure enough, as long as I do things that match the name of the potion, there will be a corresponding feedback."
The changes in his body today completely confirmed his previous guess: the name of the potion definitely held a more special meaning.
"What is this? Blood!" Luo En, who had been walking and thinking, suddenly stopped.
He saw a large amount of dark red liquid on the ground and walls all around.
"This is a corpse!" He looked up and saw a corpse lying in a pool of blood not far away, momentarily stunned.
"Calm down, calm down!"
Luo En, who considered himself well-traveled, calmed himself down and restrained his urge to run away.
He activated his Spirit Vision and began to observe.
"Definitely dead."
"This feeling, it's not something an ordinary person can have; this is a Beyonder." The corpse of a Beyonder shocked Luo En a bit.
"The surrounding spiritual energy is also very chaotic; could it be a case of 'dog-eat-dog'?"
If this corpse was a Beyonder, then the person who killed him was most likely also a Beyonder.
However, judging by the fact that the corpse was still lying there, not cleaned up, and there was no alert in the surroundings, it shouldn't have been done by an Official.
In Luo En's opinion, the most probable situation was a 'dog-eat-dog' scenario among wild Beyonders.
"The Beyonder world is indeed very dangerous; people like me, who are unlucky, need to be extra careful," Luo En sighed, looking at the corpse before him.
"However, since it's a 'dog-eat-dog' situation, then no one should care about the things on this corpse, right?"
His gaze fell upon the peculiar transparent object on the corpse.
Actually, Luo En wasn't originally interested in things from the dead, but for some reason, he always felt that the transparent substance emerging from that corpse seemed to have a special attraction.
"Why does this feel like being a tomb raider?"
After much thought, Luo En decided to follow his intuition and reached out for the transparent substance.
"Friend, I'm sorry, it's your bad luck, you can't blame me."
"I'm just recycling."
"What exactly is this thing? Why is it so smooth?" After picking it up, Luo En was puzzled by this strange transparent object.
"How unlucky, I didn't bring that monocle with me today."
The purpose of his outing today was to sell the potion formula, earn some money, and treat himself to a good meal.
He had absolutely no premonition that such a situation would occur, so he naturally didn't wear the monocle with its appraisal function.
If he had that monocle, he could definitely figure out what this thing was.
And the feel of this thing, how to describe it... it was somewhat like the crystal mud he played with as a child, but even smoother than crystal mud, with a feeling of being naturally formed.
"It feels so slippery, it could slip away at any moment." Its peculiar texture made Luo En at a loss as to how to handle it.
"How, how should I take this with me?"
Just holding it in his hand would be too much, and the feel of this thing was also very peculiar; if he held it for a long time, he might not be able to keep a grip on it.
"Putting it in my pants pocket feels like it would fall out too."
After much thought, Luo En put it into the inner pocket of his jacket. This inner pocket had been specially modified; it was very large and deep.
Feeling the slippery touch from his chest, Luo En felt an indescribable strangeness.
After putting things away, Luo En stood up, ready to leave. After taking two steps, he seemed to remember something and turned around to speak to the corpse in front of him:
"May the Steam bless you, and, well... may you have better luck in your next life." After reluctantly improvising a eulogy, Luo En turned and left the alley directly.
A few minutes later.
"Captain, the unusual place is that alley ahead," Leonard said to Dunn beside him.
...
"Hoo, hoo, hoo."
"Finally back!"
Because there was an unknown object in his inner pocket, he walked quickly, practically jogging the whole way.
Luo En first took off his jacket, then took out the leather case from under the bed, and from it, took out the monocle made of polished crystal.
"This monocle's appraisal function is quite strong; it should be fine to appraise what that thing is, right?"
Saying that, Luo En put the monocle over his right eye, then stood up to get his jacket.
"This! This!"
"Where is it? It's gone!"
Luo En directly turned his inner pocket inside out, but still didn't see the transparent object.
"No, why is this déjà vu so familiar!" Luo En remembered the day he lost his notebook.
"Could it be because I was running too fast, and that thing bounced out?"
"That shouldn't be; this inner pocket is very deep!" Luo En lowered his head in thought, his face looking a bit grim.
"Could it be that thing melted into the jacket?" Luo En remembered the semi-liquid texture of the item, guessing it might have melted into the clothes like water.
He picked up his jacket and examined it under the light, but no matter how he looked, he couldn't figure anything out.
"Strange." He injected his spiritual energy into the monocle on his right eye.
Windbreaker, Material: Cotton and linen, Value: Extremely low, Age: 2 years, Beyonder ability: None.
"The clothes are normal..." Luo En was puzzled by the appraisal result.
"Did it really fall out halfway, or was that thing a liquid gel that evaporated?" Luo En speculated uncertainly.
"Sigh, forget it." Although it was a bit regrettable, Luo En still calmed himself down.
"My fortune if I get it, my destiny if I lose it."
"Unlike the notebook I bought with money, this time it was something I picked up, so if it's lost, it's lost. Don't let it ruin my good mood."
As Luo En thought this, his mood gradually calmed down. He stood up, intending to take a bath and rest, but suddenly felt something strange about his body.
"Strange, why do I feel a sudden heat?"
"It feels like something more is inside my body..."
...
...
Above the Grey Mist.
Klein sat at the bronze long table, head bowed, hand on his forehead.
Even after coming to this space unique to him, he still felt a wave of embarrassment.
"How embarrassing, too embarrassing."
He felt a wave of collapse recalling the scene this afternoon, being watched by a crowd.
He didn't even know how he managed to leave under all those gazes.
"It's over, I'll have no face to go to the Divination Club anymore."
"But that peculiar flash, I seem to have seen it somewhere before." After the embarrassment subsided slightly, he began to think about serious matters.
"Right, it was that star from before." Klein remembered his previous experience of being flashed in the face above the Grey Mist.
"Could that person be..."
After a moment of thought, he decided to use his Seer specialty and perform a divination.
"The person I met at the Divination Club this afternoon..."
Before long, a scene appeared before his eyes.
Even in his spiritual body state, Klein instinctively closed his eyes, fearing he would be flashed in the face again.
"This, it's fine this time?" Seeing that his eyes were fine, Klein slowly opened them.
He saw a young man with brown hair, sitting by the bed.
Looking closely, he could even see a monocle on his face.
...
"Strange, what exactly is going on?" Luo En was a bit confused about his own state.
"What!" He suddenly felt something watching him and instinctively looked up at the sky.
...
"What!"
Klein saw the young man in the vision suddenly turn his gaze and meet his eyes across space.
For some reason, the moment he saw the monocle on the young man's face, Klein felt a tightening in his heart.