This lich needs more money

Reason told Amberxiu that the Alchemy City would never give him five hundred gold coins for the real thing, but he couldn't help but want to see how authentic the fake was.

The saleswoman mysteriously handed a small bottle of silver solution to Amber Xiu's hand.

It feels heavy in the hand, but there is not much difference in weight.

But when Amber Xiu took a closer look, he suddenly showed a disappointed expression.

"Your mercury is already layered, no, it's just mercury."

Amber Xiu is not specialized in alchemy, but he is also an expert, and he can tell what this is at a glance.

A small amount of real living mercury solution is mixed with ordinary mercury. The appearance looks the same, but an expert can see the incompatible hue layering between the two.

Living mercury can melt almost most metals and can be easily replaced, but it cannot melt real mercury.

The level of counterfeiting of these five hundred gold coins is too low.

The saleswoman said with a guilty conscience: "I know you are an expert. Don't worry, this is a sample. It is just for people who know how to understand it before we can continue talking."

After saying this, the saleswoman quickly changed a bottle.

Amber Xiu was amazed by this bottle of living mercury.

At least there is no flaw in the appearance. Whether it is genuine or fake, it is estimated that the bottle needs to be opened for inspection.

"Two completely different levels of fraud, both five hundred gold coins?" Amber Xiu asked.

"That's definitely not the case. The bottle just now cost five hundred, and this bottle costs at least three thousand gold coins."

Amber corrected her idea of ​​inspecting the goods, but suddenly she had a flash of inspiration and praised: "You guys, this is not living mercury, this is corpse mercury solution. No wonder you can't tell it from the appearance. You are quite smart."

The saleswoman suddenly showed a surprised expression, and then lowered her voice and said, "Don't be so loud. Do you want to buy it or not?"

The saleswoman was panicking. She originally just wanted to sell the product to get some commission, but who would have thought that the young alchemist in front of her could see the principle of fake goods at a glance. This is a fake made by the Council of Alchemists themselves, claiming that it is impossible to see the problem.

As a result, this young man only took one look and guessed the principle without even opening the bottle to inspect the product?

How can this be? I am afraid that I will meet the kind of evil old man who pretends to be a pig and eats the tiger. Why is an old guy who is hundreds of years old pretending to be young? !

Looking at the young lady's expression, Amberxiu knew that he had guessed correctly. To put it bluntly, this trick was actually not complicated.

Living mercury was a failure in Alchemy City. Originally, they wanted to create a new type of slime, but what they ended up with was mercury slime in a "vegetative" state.

Alive, but without any consciousness, unable to even move, only the instinct to devour metal remains.

If this metal-eating instinct hadn't been quite effective, it would probably have been thrown away as scrap.

But the "vegetative" slime is also a living thing, and living things always die.

The dead mercury slime will not rot and looks exactly the same as when it was alive, so much so that the alchemists in the Alchemy City can't tell whether it is dead or alive. The only way to tell is to throw a piece of metal into it.

Living mercury slimes can also eat metal, but dead ones don't have this ability.

I don’t know which genius came up with this method, cutting out a little bit of the living mercury slime and mixing it with the dead mercury slime body, resulting in this half-dead state.

The effect of swallowing metal is there, but it is greatly reduced.

But laymen may not be able to figure out whether the quality of this kind of living mercury has declined, or whether the living mercury has been "weakened" during transportation. They may think that it can be restored after a few days of maintenance.

As for the ones with a lower level of counterfeiting, it is probably because the people below looked at them and figured them out on their own to create defective products. Maybe the saleswoman made it herself, trying to make some extra money for herself.

Just because he couldn't fool an expert like Amber Xiu, he came up with high-end fakes.

The City of Alchemy also knows that authentic products are too expensive to sell, and if there is no money to maintain them, these living mercury will just continue to die. This is because they are losing money every day, so they come up with this kind of damaging trick.

Amber Xiu felt that many people had been fooled into buying such high-end fakes at full price.

A clever but very mean trick.

It is indeed the city of alchemy. This city has been the richest city in the continent for many years, but it has never appeared on the moral ranking list.

Amberxiu originally wanted to refuse.

Because he wanted to do business with friends from the Mourning Poets Society.

He is very short of money, but he will definitely lose the money he makes through deception and deception very quickly. The eldest brother of the Headless Horseman is the son-in-law of the Bone Dragon family. Once he discovers that his private money has not been hidden, his wife will definitely find out, and this old brother will definitely not hide it for him.

When the time comes, he will face the wrath of a legendary bone dragon and the legendary headless horseman.

After this mixed doubles match between husband and wife, Amber Xiu, a parallel import legend, would have his life box exploded, and it would be a complete loss-making deal.

Just as he sent the bottle back, Amberxiu thought of a question.

Does a dead mercury slime count as a corpse?

Alchemy was something Amberxiu only knew a little bit about, but he was a real expert in necromancy.

He originally wanted to ask the Alchemy Association if they had ever used necromancy on such dead mercury slimes, but he swallowed the words before he spoke.

This idea was just a whim of his own. Maybe the Alchemy Association was also in the dark and didn't have this idea at all? Didn't he remind them by opening his mouth?

If it works, it will give the Alchemy Association a good chance to make a comeback. These capitalists will definitely not pay him royalties.

Thinking of this, Amber Xiu said to the saleswoman: "Three thousand gold coins is too expensive. Can it be made cheaper?"

"The price is clearly marked, no bargaining."

"The price clearly marked is genuine, you are a fake!"

"It really can't be cheap."

"Then I'll give you two bottles of this inferior product."

…

After some haggling, An Boxiu spent three thousand gold coins and got a bottle of high-end fakes and a bottle of low-end goods. By the way, he also got two packs of enchanted seeds as extras.

It can be seen that living mercury is really slow to sell.

Originally, Amberxiu was planning to go shopping a few more times. After all, to support people in the lich's territory, he needed to prepare more things. But now he only has this bottle of living mercury solution in his heart, and his intuition tells him that there are huge business opportunities here.

After leaving the Alchemy City, Amber Xiu rushed back to his castle as quickly as possible, even turning into smoke and getting in from the roof.

After removing the effect of the transformation spell, Amberxiu transformed into the evil and ferocious lich again, and went straight to the laboratory with these two bottles of fake products.

Isabel is still working hard to prepare the petrified lizard oil, and there are already many finished products on the shelf. After Amber Xiu's guidance, she finally mastered the preparation method of this potion. This little girl with solid basic skills prepared ten bottles of petrified lizard oil, and she only failed once. This result is already very good.

But when Amberxiu's eyes glanced at the wasted materials, Isabel still felt that her heart was about to jump to her throat.

Will this lich be angry because he wasted these materials, and will he be turned into an experiment for necromancy?

There was no expression on the lich's skeleton face. No matter how you looked at it, it looked ferocious. Such a lich walked towards Isabel without saying a word. She just felt the pressure of survival rushing towards her face and couldn't help but want to find someone. help.

What about the little boy who knew alchemy from before? He was also an undead, right?

Although he only gave me a few words of advice, he could still be regarded as his teacher.

Teacher, come out and save your students!