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Taking a deep breath, Spark forced a smile and greeted Argus: "Hello, Captain Argus. When did you get back?"

As soon as Spark asked this question, he instinctively felt a sense of regret. He had witnessed Argus transform into a life element before, and the Argus in front of him was clearly not him. Asking this question would easily irritate him.

"I just got back." Argus's expression remained unchanged, still smiling, as he asked, "My crew and I are drinking in the tavern up ahead. Would you like to join us, Mr. Sparks?"

When asking this question, Sparks keenly noticed that although the other party was smiling, his eyes were staring at him without any smile. He remained calm and cautious, shook his head and said, "No, no, I have to go home first."

"Well, what a pity." Argus smiled and said, but he did not move his feet and kept looking at him straight.

Spark felt cold all over when he was looked at by him. It took a lot of effort for him to restrain the urge to run away. He said goodbye politely, not daring to turn his back to the other party. He deliberately took a few steps backwards. Only when he had put some distance between them did he dare to lift his hat on his head to say goodbye and turned to leave.

Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that Argus had not left yet and was still looking at him.

"What is going on..." Spark shouted in his heart.

His home was half a kilometer away from here. Thinking about what happened before, Spark returned home with his luggage and a heavy heart. As soon as he opened the fence gate, he was stunned to find that the lights in the main house of his house were on.

Since I was 24, I have been living alone. Could it be that...

Spark suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart. Suppressing his inner fear, he tiptoed to the west window, looked inside through the window, and his pupils suddenly dilated.

He saw a person who looked exactly like him sitting on a sofa in the room, chatting with someone. Also sitting in the room were two former members of the "Miracle Research Society": Davian and Jones, the senator's children. Also sitting there were his brother Joshua Lambert and his mistress Marilyn Squire.

"What should I do now? Rush up and expose him? No, the people here have basically been replaced, and my brother may not believe me. Besides, our relationship is not that good." Spark thought to himself. In fact, there was another thing he didn't want to face within his consideration: his brother might also be replaced.

At this moment, he suddenly found that the shadow in front of him suddenly expanded. His heart skipped a beat and he turned around abruptly.

Behind him, he saw himself standing there with a grim expression, staring straight at him. His voice was vague and cold, not at all human: "Who are you looking for..."

"Oh no!" Spark's scalp tingled, and goosebumps spread all over his body. At this moment, the clothing on the sides of Spark's body suddenly bulged out, and four illusory black tentacles suddenly extended, rushing towards Spark, who was still standing there.

"Pride makes people progress, humility makes people mean!"

Faced with the current abnormality, Spark, who was endowed with the proud tribal motto, raised his arm and drew out the greatsword on his back. The greatsword suddenly became larger, but still agile, and chopped at the tentacles that were sweeping towards him.

Spark on the opposite side let out a scream, and in an instant, the illusory tentacles emitted bursts of black smoke and fell to the ground.

But in the blink of an eye, more illusory black tentacles sprouted out and swept towards Spark.

Spark swung his sword quickly, cutting off the tentacles one after another. He saw more people gathering here from the corner of his eye. He finally found a gap, turned around and ran away. With a snap, he broke through the fence at the door and escaped.

The streets of Levia were bustling with people, even a few Earth Ring professionals patrolling nearby. Spark saw several adventurers standing at a nearby street corner, looking at him sinisterly. Behind him, his brother Joshua Lambert, Davion, and Jones were following him from a distance. It seemed his suspicions were correct; his brother Joshua had been replaced at some point.

"What should I do? Seek help from the Earth Ring? No, they have more people. A confrontation would be disadvantageous to me. And considering the strictness of the Earth Ring against heretics, I might be locked up as an alien first..." Feeling extremely helpless, Spark held back his tears, quickly turned into another street, and stopped a horse-drawn carriage.

"Hurry up and go to St. Raymond's Cathedral. I'll give you double the fare!" Spark said hurriedly as he sat in the back seat of the carriage, not caring at all that the carriage was full and that a tall and thin middle-aged man was sitting opposite him.

At this point, the only thing he could do was to hide in the church for shelter, and then think of a way to contact Wayne Stewell. Currently, he was the only one he could trust and who had the ability to help him.

"Who are you looking for, and where are you going?" the man opposite raised his head and asked. Inside the packed public carriage, the adventure group members all smiled at the same time.

"Are you... Argus?" Spark felt as if he had fallen into an icy cave.

……

Time goes back to more than an hour ago. Zhou Ning took a carriage to Doyle's Alchemy Shop in the western part of the trade zone. Like before, this alchemy shop still had no business. Apart from a sign hanging at the door saying that it was purchasing a large number of life cores, even the door was closed. It was impossible to tell that this was a shop of a grandmaster-level alchemist.

After paying the money, Zhou Ning jumped off the carriage briskly and knocked on the door.

"Tuk-tuk-tuk."

"Who is it? We are closed today!" Mr. Tulin's harsh voice came from inside.

"It's me, Wayne Stewell." Zhou Ning said loudly.

"Wayne? Wait a minute." Hearing that it was Zhou Ning, Mr. Tulin's voice became noticeably lighter. Not long after, he pushed the wheelchair open the door and said, "Come in and sit down first."

The room was filled with bottles and jars. Zhou Ning followed him to the only empty table. As soon as he sat down, Mr. Tulin couldn't wait to ask, "Wayne, did you get the life core?"

"Got it." Zhou Ning nodded.

"How much? How's the quality? Take it out and let me see it." Mr. Tulin urged.

"A lot." Zhou Ning wiped his right hand across the table, and suddenly a table full of life cores appeared. There were at least 200 of them, all of which were high-purity cores that Zhou Ning had carefully selected. "Is that enough? If not, I can get more for you."

"That's enough. I only need about 100, but I'll take the rest too. I can't let you work in vain." Mr. Tulin picked up a life core and smelled it. A smile suddenly appeared on his face. "Good quality."

"A total of 213." Since Mr. Tulin said so, Zhou Ning didn't mind making a fortune and said with a smile.

Mr. Tulin nodded, took a container from the shelf beside him, and properly stored the life core in it. Suddenly, Zhou Ning received a system prompt.

[D-rank mission [The Great Alchemist's New Invention II] Completed]

[The mission completion rate is 213%.]

[You gain 715000 experience points.]

[Darian Túrin's favorability +50, and several new items have been added to his personal shop]