Chapter 74 74. Eliminate Wrong Answers First

Huo Qi didn't want to provoke the law enforcement group. It would be easier if the original leader of the law enforcement group was still there. It was nothing more than a small threat and a money offensive. A lot of things could be done.

But this method is not suitable for Margaret, or for Margaret, who comes from the Lauren Frost family, if Hodge dares to do such a thing in the morning, he will be offended by noon. The nobles were taken away for their crimes.

Although Queen Aundair vigorously supports all kinds of talents from the common people, the power of the nobles has not weakened yet. Because of the queen's behavior, the nobles now want to take a bite of everyone to show their noble authority.

The losses caused by the law enforcement group to the pharmacist branch cannot be ignored. Hodge once spent a lot of effort to open up the relationship with the law enforcement group so that he could smuggle some contraband. Now that Margaret is airborne, all the efforts Hodge spent have become useless.

Damn, damn airborne leader! The nobles deserve to die!

Anger continued to stimulate his brain, but Hodge still remained calm. At this moment, the situation was no longer biased towards the Pharmacist Branch. As the president, he needed to remain calm to avoid making mistakes.

"Huh? You seem to have something to say."

Noticing that the masked thief was different from before, Hotch asked his men for their opinions, "What do you think?"

The masked thief hesitated for a while, then said: "Some short-sighted views, many mistakes and omissions."

"It doesn't matter, just tell me." Hodge picked up the high-heeled glass and tasted the red wine elegantly. "Maybe your opinion will be useful."

Since his immediate superior has said so, the masked thief has nothing to worry about:

"If Master [Karl] wanted to sell shimmering ointment secretly, why didn't he go to the [black market] instead of selling it in stores on the street? And the speed and quantity of Albert House's production are far beyond what we have under our name. Waiting for the manufacturer, with such high productivity, is it because the priest named Mo Cheng has mastered all the formulas of the ointment?"

"Also." The masked thief continued to add, "Ever since the Master [Karl] appeared once, we have never been able to find him again, and in the College of Winterhold, we have not been able to detect the person named [ Information about the mage from Carl.”

"I'm wondering if there is a possibility. Maybe Master [Karl] and his teacher's group of mages do not exist, and the focus is on Priest Mo Cheng? Is it possible that the shimmering ointment was developed by Priest Mo Cheng?"

"..."

Calm, without any sound, even Herman, who had been severely beaten, slowed down his breathing, watching Hodge still calmly drinking red wine, and no one made a sound.

"Pfft!"

Hotch suddenly laughed uncontrollably, laughing so loudly that he could not hold the red wine in his hand and kept shaking it, "Hahahahahahahahaha, this is really, really, so funny."

After a long time, Huo Qi stopped laughing and wiped the corners of his mouth, "Well, there are some things you don't have access to, so you have wrong predictions when encountering such things. I don't blame you."

Although he said this, the corners of Hotch's mouth were still raised, obviously he still reacted to the masked thief's words.

In this regard, the masked thief did not react at all, as if he was not the one who just spoke.

“Do you know how [the black market] came about?”

The masked thief nodded, "I know, because some businessmen are dissatisfied with the tax rate set by the Queen, so they secretly opened a black market using their personal reputation as a guarantee. Transactions in the black market do not need to pay taxes to the Queen."

This is the most widely circulated version and the one most people believe.

Hotch shook his head, "What kind of businessman dares to conduct transactions without paying taxes in the royal capital? And the law enforcement group and the knights did not arrest him. And what kind of businessmen unite to make people believe that the black market is confidential of?"

Hotch spit out the answer, a very simple two words, "Noble!"

Only the nobles with deep roots in Fairhaven can open a black market that cannot be traced, and only the black market opened by the nobles will not be blocked by the Knights.

Only nobles have the guts to resist paying taxes to Queen Aundair and have a large amount of invisible smuggled goods under their hands.

"The reason why Master Karl doesn't go to the black market is very simple. With his status as a teacher, he must know who is in charge of the black market. And he secretly used the funds and materials of investors to make shimmering ointment. If he took it to the black market, it would be easy to find out. Who is selling? The confidentiality of the black market is for others. For the nobles, there are no little secrets."

"A team of mage secretly used investors' things to sell them. If this was discovered, it would be extremely damaging to the reputation of the mage. If it were me, I would also specifically tell the students not to sell on the black market."

"As for the person who developed the shimmering ointment, it was a priest of the Church of Light? Why didn't I expect you to have such a sense of humor?"

Not only did Hotch laugh, but even Herman, who was beaten like a dead dog, covered his mouth and snickered, "A gutter rat who doesn't understand pharmacy... ow!"

As soon as he spoke, Hodge immediately used his cane to give Herman a blow, "You have no place to speak here!"

"You think potions are too simple. A new potion requires a mage to find the right combination from various medicinal materials, as well as the most difficult heat and technique, before it finally takes shape."

"To do this kind of thing requires a large amount of medicinal materials, sophisticated instruments, a team with corresponding knowledge, and a large number of medicine testers. If it is really the ointment developed by the monk Mo Cheng himself, then Albert's All the families died because of testing the medicine before it was successfully developed."

"Besides." A sarcastic smile appeared on Hotch's lips, "A priest from the Church of Glory wants to develop an ointment? Isn't it enough for them to pray to Glory?"

For the Principality of Aundair, which has many mages, the superiority of the mage profession has been deeply ingrained in people's minds.

A brand new, efficient and cheap ointment for them, tell him that no mage participated in the research and development, but was made by a cleric?

They will laugh hard at you for being fooled by a cheap joke.

By the way, I express my disdain for your intelligence.

That situation is like someone telling you in reality that the vaccine for the virus that is spreading around the world was not developed by scientists and doctors, but by experts and scholars.

Instead, a priest prayed to God and found the vaccine at his bedside the next day.

"But you are right. The priests of the Albert House need to investigate. Go ahead and find some gangsters to try out while the law enforcement team is busy with other things recently."

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