Chapter 184: Truth Serum

"What do you think, Ms. Yu Jianna?" Lu Mi smiled and responded to her with Yu Jianna's own words just now.

"Damn!" Yu Jianna raised her hand, turned around hatefully, and returned to the first floor.

Lu Mi pondered for a few seconds, knocked on the table in front of him, and said to Louis and Sa Ke Ta:

"Give me a glass of fennel absinthe."

As the 'protector' of the Breeze Dance Hall, he didn't have to pay for his food and drink here.

Thinking that most of the dance hall's profits had to be handed over to the boss and used to bribe police officers, he didn't want to save even more.

If you can't suffer, don't suffer yourself; try to wrong the boss as much as possible!

Lu Mi drank two glasses of the light green liquid with a bitter taste and psychedelic feeling, staying in the Breeze Dance Hall until almost midnight.

He stood up and said to Louis and Sa Ke Ta:

"I'm going to sleep. You wait until the dance hall closes and go back yourselves.

"If anyone makes trouble, throw them out directly. If you can't beat them, gather everyone together and dare to shoot. Don't worry, I'll take responsibility for whatever happens."

The second half of the sentence he didn't say was: if I can't take responsibility, then let the boss worry about it.

—The Breeze Dance Hall is open until 2:00 AM every day and opens around 10:30 to 11:00 AM.

"Yes, Boss." Sa Ke Ta and Louis answered in unison.

Returning to the bedroom, Lu Mi stayed for another quarter of an hour before picking up the brown suitcase containing Aurora's witchcraft notes, squeezing out of the window, and jumping down from the second floor.

He landed steadily, walked all the way in the shadows, turned from Market Avenue into White Coat Street, and entered the safe house he had rented earlier.

After hiding the witchcraft notes and putting some sulfur to repel insects, Lu Mi left the room, turned into the alley behind White Coat Street, and planned to go around to the Golden Chicken Hotel to sleep there tonight.

After walking a dozen steps, he saw garbage piled up next to a street barricade.

Scavengers and cleaners wouldn't come to clean it up until tomorrow morning. At this time, it had become a paradise for rats, cockroaches, flies, and stray dogs.

Seeing the rats and stray dogs, Lu Mi suddenly remembered one thing:

There was still one of the three small metal bottles he obtained from the pervert He De Xi whose use hadn't been confirmed.

Just right to test it... Lu Mi nodded imperceptibly.

Relying on his outstanding skills, extraordinary reactions, agile movements, and extremely strong observation ability, he quickly stepped on a rat with gray-black fur, then squatted down, took out the slightly heavy small metal bottle, and poured some of the liquid, which had no smell or color, into the 'prey's' mouth.

The rat quickly made a squeaking sound, and other than that, there was no abnormality.

"With that pervert's style, I thought it was an aphrodisiac. Now it doesn't look like it... That's true, that pervert himself possessed the Beyonder ability to stimulate desire, so he didn't need to prepare an extra bottle of potion with repetitive effects..." Lu Mi loosened his right foot, watching the rat escape to the side of other rats, squeezing here and there, squeaking non-stop, but without any other actions.

Strange... Lu Mi looked for a long time and still couldn't make a judgment.

Suddenly, a voice as clear as water sounded behind him:

"What are you doing?"

Lu Mi turned around with a swish and saw 'Red Boots' Fu Lan Ka walking out of the shadow at the end of the alley.

She was still wearing red boots, off-white breeches, a women's shirt with a black and white checkered tweed jacket, and her flaxen-colored hair was simply tied up.

Why are you here? Lu Mi originally intended to ask this, but immediately remembered that Fu Lan Ka lived at 3 White Coat Street.

He had to answer frankly:

"Doing an experiment."

"What experiment?" 'Red Boots' Fu Lan Ka walked over quite curiously.

Her bright lake-blue eyes swept over the group of rats and laughed:

"Did your sister teach you to use rats as experimental subjects?"

"Are you trying to say white mice?" Lu Mi felt that communicating with Fu Lan Ka was very easy, and many words didn't need extra explanation.

He turned to say:

"Didn't Yu Jianna tell you that after I killed that pervert, I got three small metal bottles? One of them contained gas that could make people faint, which was used up when killing 'Hammer' Ai Te. One was the stimulating gas that went with it, and there's still quite a bit left.

"The other bottle is liquid. I don't know what it's for, so I'm testing it with these rats."

Fu Lan Ka revealed an expression of sudden realization:

"So it's something left behind by that pervert."

She then asked with some expectation:

"Could it be an aphrodisiac?"

Why do you have the same idea as me, Lady? Lu Mi pointed to the rat that was still squeaking with amusement:

"Doesn't look like it.

"You seem a bit disappointed?"

Fu Lan Ka didn't hide her emotions and sighed:

"Yeah, if it really were an aphrodisiac, that would be so interesting."

"If it really were an aphrodisiac, what would you want to use it for?" Lu Mi suddenly suspected that Fu Lan Ka wanted to do something to Yu Jianna.

Fu Lan Ka glanced at him:

"Damn, are you slandering me in your heart, thinking I have no moral bottom line?

"I hope it's an aphrodisiac, mainly because I want to try what it feels like and how good the effect is. I'll drink a little myself, and I'll also let Ga De Na drink a little. His mistresses can drink it too if they want. Do you, a minor, understand what flirting is, what romantic interest is?"

"..." Lu Mi was speechless for a moment, and only said after a few seconds, "You Trier people play really wild."

"I'm not a Trier person." Fu Lan Ka retorted, "But I agree with what you said."

She tilted her head and looked at the small metal bottle in Lu Mi's hand:

"Let me help you see what it does?"

"Aren't you afraid of danger?" Lu Mi was somewhat stunned.

You have to know, it's not yet certain whether this liquid is a chronic poison or a curse medium!

Fu Lan Ka laughed:

"You really need to brush up on your occult knowledge.

"I intend to use divination. 'Witches' also have not-weak divination abilities."

Aurora's witchcraft notes didn't mention it, only recording that the 'Witch' potion would lead to gender change, and speculated that every 'Witch' was proficient in spells... Hmm, those proficient in spells should also have not-weak divination... Lu Mi handed the liquid to Fu Lan Ka.

Fu Lan Ka walked to the edge of the alley and stopped behind a five-story building.

She stretched out her right hand and wiped back and forth on the dim glass window.

At the same time, she whispered something in Ancient Hermes. Even with Lu Mi's hearing, he could only faintly hear a few words:

"Spirituality"... "Inquiry"... "Answer"...

A few seconds later, the glass window became gloomy and deep, as if it could lead to an unknown mysterious world.

Fu Lan Ka took a step back, held up the small metal bottle, and switched to Intis:

"What is the use of the liquid inside it?"

From the depths of the glass window, a voice that seemed to come from the bottom of a river, carrying a clear sense of age, answered:

"Induce the desire to confide."

Fu Lan Ka nodded, said thanks, and ended this divination.

When the glass window returned to its original state, she turned to Lu Mi and said:

"It should be a potion similar to a 'Truth Serum'."

"'Truth Serum'?" Lu Mi asked back.

Aurora had never mentioned this term.

Fu Lan Ka explained casually:

"It's a potion that makes people tell the truth.

"Once a person's desire to confide is induced, combined with the interrogator's questions, although there will be a lot of nonsense, it's hard to lie. What they say should be what they want to say in their hearts."

Desire to confide... Similar to the other abilities of that pervert, all involving different human desires... Worthy of being the gift of the 'Mother Tree of Desire'... For a Beyonder like me who is not good at spirit mediumship and divination, this thing is very useful... Lu Mi took the small metal bottle handed back by Fu Lan Ka.

Fu Lan Ka looked left and right and asked with a smile:

"Why did you run to White Coat Street to do an experiment?

"Shouldn't your range of activities be on Market Avenue and Chaos Street?"

Lu Mi didn't hide it:

"I rented a safe house here to put my sister's witchcraft notes, afraid they would be damaged when targeted by others."

"Very cautious." Fu Lan Ka nodded in approval, "It's a very lucky thing for your sister to have a brother like you. I also had a brother before, arrogant, loved to show off, and had no practical ability. I wanted to teach him a lesson every day..."

As she spoke, Fu Lan Ka fell silent and lowered her head to look at her red boots.

Had before, meaning not anymore? Lu Mi keenly sensed the layer of meaning Fu Lan Ka didn't want to express and immediately understood why the other party's emotions suddenly became low.

After a few seconds, Fu Lan Ka sketched a smile again:

"Your sister should also trust you very much, otherwise she wouldn't have told you about our organization. Although we didn't specifically emphasize not telling family members about the research society, almost no one revealed it, after all..."

Fu Lan Ka fell silent again, and her smile became bitter.

After all what? Although Lu Mi was puzzled, he didn't ask and simply explained the reason why Aurora did that:

"We were in the midst of a disaster at the time, not knowing who would die and who could survive, so my sister told me some secrets, hoping they would come in handy in the future."

"Understand." Fu Lan Ka nodded, adjusted her emotions, and said with a smile, "I thought you came to White Coat Street to find me, unable to wait to brush up on your occult knowledge."

"It's too late." Lu Mi already felt exhausted.

Fu Lan Ka clicked her tongue and laughed:

"I wouldn't do anything to you. Doing that kind of thing with someone who knows their original gender is too, too crazy, too shameful."

Is that so? I'm afraid that after you adapt, you'll feel that having a sense of shame is even more exciting... Lu Mi suspected that Fu Lan Ka, who could be persuaded by 'Life is short, why not try,' would do more unexpected things.

Bidding farewell to this Witch, he returned to the Golden Chicken Hotel.

Until Thursday, nothing happened in the honest Market District.

At 8:00 PM, Lu Mi came to 19 She Er Street in the Boulevard District again and saw Mr. K in the basement.

Mr. K pointed to the three waiters holding silver platters behind him and said:

"A total of three magical items, the prices are all between 15,000 and 20,000 Fei Er Jin. You choose for yourself."

PS: Asking for base monthly tickets at the beginning of the month~

PS2: Thanks to friend wz fast update for rewarding the Silver Alliance again~

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