Chapter 1013 Yasen's Dark History

"……Oh well."

Yassen said reluctantly: "Any type of secret is fine?"

"If it's not enough, make up for it."

Aiwass simply said: "The Moon Deer will tell you then - you don't tell it to me, tell it to it. Children love to hear this."

…Secret, shame, guilt.

You mean, black history?

Yasen hesitated for a moment and thought about it for a long time before he finally came up with a few secrets that he couldn't even remember the details of.

"...When I was very young...when I was a sailor on the ship," Yassen said slowly, "I accidentally discovered the smuggled goods that the second mate brought on board. It was Dettol, The second mate hid them in some rum. When I was carrying them, I realized that they were lighter than normal rum, and the sound and center of gravity of the liquid when shaking were not too different. Same...so I checked it out strangely.

"But instead of reporting it to the captain, I secretly took part of it. When I got ashore, I sold them for money. That was my... first theft. And probably the first murder.

"Because later... the second mate disappeared when it was time to board the ship. We waited for him for a day, but he didn't come back... I thought at the time that he might have been killed by the gang that was trading because of insufficient cargo. This It made me regretful, so from then on I no longer kept the stolen money on me... The money I got from selling Dettol on the black market was donated anonymously to the orphanage.

"...Even then, I didn't even have a place to live."

"--not enough."

Yuelu suddenly said: "Add one more, or be more detailed."

Aiwass thought for a while, but did not ask Yassen to tell another story, but asked: "How did you take it away? How much did you take away?"

"That's rum in wooden barrels, one gallon per barrel. When we are on the ship, we will use these wines mixed with water to quench our thirst. Otherwise, the fresh water will be difficult to swallow... so these wines are actually part of the fresh water reserve ”

Yassen sighed and continued: "At that time, we had just passed the Theocracy's customs and were preparing to load the goods onto the ship. Originally, the stevedores should be responsible for this job, but the second mate said that I had also worked as a stevedore, and I was afraid that they would be clumsy. The barrel was broken, so I came to help load it.

"I don't know how he got through customs... But when I was carrying these wine barrels, I suddenly realized that the weight of some of them was not right. After I quietly opened one of them, I felt something wrong.

"Although the color and the taste of the wine were the same as other cheap rums. But I soon realized that these barrels were sandwiched - the wine was only two-thirds full. Each barrel There is another interlayer underneath. I took out the "bucket within the bucket" and saw some liquid with a beautiful silver light underneath.

"——I didn't know that this was Dettol at the time, but I immediately guessed that it should be some kind of good stuff, and it must be smuggled goods... So I put them into the kettle that I drank from, and there was There is probably enough Dettol for two pots.

"I determined through groping that these problematic barrels had an inconspicuous triangular mark about three centimeters above the ground. That mark was invisible to the naked eye and could only be felt with fingers.

"I didn't dare to stay in the cabin for too long, so I hurried out and continued carrying the barrels. I made excuses to go back to my room twice and poured the liquid in the kettle into the empty bucket in my room. The wood in question There were only four buckets, and I also filled four jugs of water into the buckets, which were almost exactly a quarter of the height.

"So I also learned from the second mate and used the same technique to make a wooden barrel bottom. I didn't dare to take it directly to the shore, but left it directly in the room. In the middle of the night, I swam back to the boat from the water , then took the things away.”

"……etc?"

When he heard this, Aiwass suddenly realized something was wrong.

He couldn't hold back: "There are four barrels in total. The Dettol in each barrel is enough to hold two pots. You transported a total of four pots back - good guy, does that mean you took half of it directly for him?"

People always take a little when they steal, but this guy dared to take half of it when he stole something for the first time.

He is truly a born Phantom Thief. Sure enough, you can see the big from the small...

"I was afraid of being discovered, so I held them evenly. I thought that if a part of a bucket was missing, he would immediately realize that it was me who had touched it. Because I was the only one who touched them. But if something went wrong with them too, , then he might think that there is a problem with the source of goods... I know this idea is naive, but I was also very young at the time.”

Yassen sighed: "I thought about it and recalled that it was weighed when it was put on the ship. I clearly remembered the weighing of each barrel, and I also knew how much water to add to restore the weighing, so I I also secretly took fresh water to make up for the missing parts. They also glowed silver after being mixed with water, and there seemed to be no problem with the naked eye... so I was very happy that I made it perfectly.

"I also thought that if the second mate comes to confront me, I can also prevaricate it by saying, 'Don't they weigh the same when they get on and off the ship?'... And I am very good at my craftsmanship, and I can explain every detail of them. They were all restored to their original appearance. There was also a notch in the 'barrel within the barrel' and the outer barrel. I also found them and aligned them and adjusted them back to their original angles - exactly."

"...I'll leave it alone, this reason is tantamount to self-defeating."

Hearing this, Aiwass couldn't stand it any longer: "You also turned the high-purity Dettol of the Elf into the low-purity Dettol of the Elf that was contaminated by impure water... This is basically useless! How do you take half and destroy the other half?”

The unlucky second mate should indeed have sent it.

Low-purity Dettol is inherently worthless, not to mention contaminated by sailors' fresh water that grows moss and insects at sea. It has basically lost most of its power, and its purifying effect is not as good as the holy water blessed by ordinary priests. If this thing were made into love liquid, I'm afraid it would turn into a madness potion after drinking it.

"No way," Yassen spread his hands, "I don't understand alchemy now."

"...How much did you sell this thing for?"

Aiwass asked: "This is a quarter of a gallon of high-purity Dettol. If you put it in Star Antimony, it would be worth a manor."

"Then... maybe I was deceived. Maybe I didn't store it well. But I ended up selling it for four hundred gold iris coins."

Yassen recalled: "I remember this number very clearly. I didn't dare to take them back to the ship, so I had to find a place to bury them. I spent a total of three gold coins - one of which was used to buy a A new dagger, and then the dagger was lost.”

The fleur-de-lis gold coin is smaller than the star antimony gold coin. Four hundred fleur-de-lis gold coins are roughly equivalent to more than three hundred and twenty star antimony gold coins, which is equivalent to about five hundred white crown coins.

"...Well, you did lose."

Aiwass nodded: "Your half barrel of raw materials alone is worth about eight thousand gold coins - the unit of this thing is 'drop', it can make more than four hundred bottles of love elixir. I don't know the number of finished products. Forget it. After you mixed it with sewage, this bucket is still worth fifty gold coins... The second officer died unjustly."

Rounding it off, it was a fraud of eight thousand gold coins... With his identity, it was impossible for him to smuggle this. Most likely they were commissioned by an organization.

He lost eight thousand gold coins worth of goods. If he could come back alive, Aiwass would be surprised by the courtesy of the local gang in Iris.

But judging from the fact that he didn't confess Yassen, the second officer probably didn't realize that Yassen had tampered with it. After all, Yassen is just an ordinary sailor with a background as a loader, and he has perfectly restored the "anti-theft measures" of this wine barrel. I'm afraid he really thought that the shipping party had tampered with it.

Thinking of this, Aiwass glanced at Yassen.

It can really cause trouble...

If the black marketeer who bought the Dettol from him did not belong to this gang, more than the second officer might have died in this incident. Eight thousand gold coins is not a small amount even for nobles, let alone underground gangs. If the shipment is traced to the source, the two sides will probably fight.

And Yasen also realized something, and his face became ugly.

"Hehehehe..."

Moon Deer suddenly let out a laugh that was so crazy that it reminded people of a clown or a madman: "That's enough, that's enough..."

After tasting the pain and regret in Yasen's heart, Yuelu took a deep breath of air intoxicated like a gourmet.

Then it jumped high into the sky.

It turned into a ray of moonlight and cut through the sky in an instant.

Just like the speed of light, and like the speed of longing——

In just a moment, they reached their destination.