Marvel: The Alchemist Just Wants a Peaceful Life

Doro, in particular, kept tapping Sherlock's head with his chubby little hands. Eventually, Sherlock got a little impatient with Doro's tapping and summoned the Lancer.

Using the Lang Spear's ability to activate alchemy without physical contact, Sherlock used the Alchemy's Decomposition of All Things technique to carve out a relatively clean path through the blood- and corpse-strewn ground before leading the group to Sister Hua's side.

Lang Qiang probably never expected that he would end up playing the role of a vacuum cleaner in Sherlock's hands.

Seeing that Sister Hua's body reeked of blood, Sherlock forced himself to endure the nauseating smell and once again used his spear as a vacuum cleaner to clean the blood off her body.

While cleaning, Sherlock couldn't help but complain.

"Sister Hua, next time we fight, can we at least be a little more hygienic... Uh... You know, the blood of some creatures in the universe is comparable to strong acid. If you do this next time, you might end up hurting yourself."

Sherlock had barely uttered a complaint when he was met with Sister Hua's smiling gaze. Coupled with his blood-stained appearance, Sherlock shamefully backed down and forcefully shifted his complaint into a persuasive one.

On the contrary, Sister Hua looked 'surprised' and said to Sherlock after hearing his words.

"Oh my, really? I didn't expect there to be such creatures in the universe. I'll definitely be more careful next time. After all, I've gotten used to using the All-Encompassing Elixir in battle before, and I never considered the issue of blood."

Listening to Sister Hua's affected and manipulative tone, which was full of the flavor of green tea, Sherlock, who had barely cleaned the bloodstains off Sister Hua, twitched at the corner of his mouth.

Although the bloodstains on Sister Hua's body had been mostly cleaned up, the extremely strong smell of blood still lingered around her.

Slightly a headache from the pungent smell of blood, Sherlock could only rub his temples and decide to skip the topic, urging everyone to head towards the airport.

Aside from that muscular Akaza, the group didn't encounter any significant obstacles. Occasionally, they would run into one or two of the boss's henchmen, but Sherlock didn't need to lift a finger; the three seafood generals could easily handle them.

Sherlock and his group arrived at the connection point between the airport and the top of the Infinite City with almost no hindrance.

There was a whole squad of armed guards at the junction.

Unlike when Akaza and his men intercepted Sherlock, who were almost all armed with melee weapons, the armed guards here were all carrying firearms.

While they may not be as physically capable as Akaza, their superior weaponry and numbers can compensate for the difference to some extent.

Of course, such an enemy is also easy to deal with, at least for Sherlock and his group.

The three Seafood Generals alone could easily deal with the armed men in front of them, with at most the addition of Gandalf's 'Holy Light' magic, which was initially mistaken for a flashbang.

The group of people boarded the elevator leading to the airport with relative ease.

Meanwhile, in the airport, armed personnel had already been organized to ambush the elevator doors. However, to their surprise, when the elevator doors opened, they found only an empty elevator.

Given this situation, everyone's first reaction was naturally that Sherlock and his group had infiltrated the spaceport through some means. Immediately, the spaceport belonging to Infinite City began a secret search, and even the number of armed guards was greatly increased.

Moreover, in order to better locate Sherlock and his group, the armed personnel even brought in 'dogs,' aliens with a distinctive dog-like scent, to assist them in the search.

Because everything was done in secrecy, although it didn't involve boarding the spaceships docked at the airports, those who were interested could naturally discover the changes in Infinite City.

However, after some investigation, the armed men tasked with finding Sherlock came up empty-handed.

Forget about figuring out how Sherlock infiltrated the spaceport, they couldn't even find out which spaceship he boarded. The only clue they had was the whereabouts of the spaceships that had docked and departed from the spaceport in the past few days.

Sherlock and his companions seemed to have vanished into thin air from the elevator leading to the airport.

Because the elevator's surveillance cameras were damaged, no one knows where Sherlock disappeared or how he disappeared.

Aside from Sherlock and his group.

As for how Sherlock disappeared, it was actually quite simple.

Do you still remember the fruit pit that Sherlock threw into the abyss of the Infinite City the night before the operation began?

Although it was just a fruit pit, inside it existed a spatial anchor point created by Sherlock using alchemy.

After Sherlock and his group entered the elevator and destroyed all the surveillance cameras inside, Sherlock decisively used the power of the Space Stone to construct a spatial tunnel at the location of the fruit core.

And after everyone changed into spacesuits, Sherlock used the Space Stone to instantly transport everyone to the abyss of the Infinity City.

Still in that deepest, most remote part of the abyss!

Using tools like the bamboo dragonfly, Sherlock and his companions secretly searched for Sherlock's whereabouts in the Infinite City, and then traveled directly through the interconnected abyss to another city on the Eternal Night Star.

A city that can better fulfill their needs for modifying the spaceship.

The absolute king city of Eternal Night Star.

Night City.

Chapter 399 The End of the Big Stomach

Although it's called Night City, it has absolutely no relation to the Night City in Cyberpunk 2077. In fact, compared to this Night City, the Night City in Cyberpunk is practically paradise.

At the very least, the Night City in that story doesn't have an underground metropolis like the 'Abyss'.

Indeed, unlike Infinite City, which merely used the Abyss as a place to dispose of garbage and house low-level slave laborers, Night City, as the largest and original city of Eternal Night Star, has utilized the entire Abyss.

When Sherlock and his companions saw the abyss of Night City, almost everyone was incredibly surprised.

Fortunately, the management of Night City is not as abnormal as that of Infinite City. On the contrary, Night City can be said to be completely without rules, and people enjoy the ultimate freedom.

Entering Night City doesn't even require identity verification; you only need to provide 'ticket money' to enter.

Upon entering Night City, the person in charge of collecting 'tickets' will give each person a 'guide' and a 'map', which details the precautions for entering Night City and the 'private territories' that are off-limits to the public.

In summary, the 'explanation' and 'map' mean that Night City has no 'rules' at all!

To put it simply, everything in Night City has a 'price', and as long as you can afford the so-called 'price', Night City welcomes everyone to do anything!

Of course, one thing that is very similar to Infinity City is that Night City also has a hierarchy. However, unlike Infinity City, where the hierarchy is obvious and the closer you are to the core area, the hierarchy in Night City is hidden.

In summary, the higher you go, the more awesome you become!

To avoid trouble, Sherlock and his companions changed their identities before entering Night City.

Almost everyone wore Sherlock's mask, and even used the Avengers' faces.

Thanks to the money that Sister Hua and her group had obtained from their robbery on Xandar, Sherlock and his companions successfully found a place to stay in Night City.

An empty factory located at the lowest level of the abyss.

The spacious factory made it convenient for Sherlock and his team to modify the spaceship, and because of the structure of Night City, they didn't have to worry about the spaceship provided by Xandar being discovered here.

The only problem is that prices here are incredibly high. The funds that Sister Hua and her group robbed were almost gone after just renting this empty factory.

Given this situation, Sherlock and his companions could only try to find a way to quickly acquire money in Night City.

Thus, in this city where even life has a price tag, a new gang called the Avengers was born.

Despite Akahoshi's obvious reluctance and even his shouts that such behavior was a desecration of his justice, Zhang Zhi and Huang Mian seemed quite interested.

In Zhang Zhi's words, having been a naval officer for so long, this was the first time he had experienced what it was like to be a pirate.

While Sherlock was trying to raise money in Night City to buy various parts to modify his spaceship in this small factory, Infinity City was already in an uproar.

The impact of my third brother's death is far greater than I imagined.

The reason why the boss of the Big Stomach Slice was able to remain calm and even let Third Brother deal with Sherlock and his group was because of Third Brother's extraordinary fighting ability.

But when the news of Third Brother's death arrived, mixed with the news of Sherlock and his group's disappearance, the arrogance that had been on Big Eater's face vanished in an instant.

Almost immediately, the gluttonous boss instructed Nakime to cover up the news of Third Brother's death, and he even stopped paying attention to where Sherlock and his group had gone.

Instead, he used Sherlock and his group's escape to frantically distract everyone in the Infinity City, and even to better divert the attention that was focused on the Infinity City.

The gluttonous boss also subtly revealed the destination of the spaceship that recently arrived in Infinite City, as well as Sherlock's identity as an alchemist.

Just as the gluttonous boss had predicted, Sherlock's identity as an alchemist successfully drew everyone's attention, temporarily alleviating the gluttonous boss's crisis.

But it's only temporary.

Keep in mind that he's not the real Boss Zha, and he doesn't have Boss Zha's extraordinary fighting power.

The reason he has been able to maintain his position as the Lord of Infinite City and act arrogantly all these years is because of the wealth he possesses and his third brother's martial prowess.

Now that Third Brother is dead, once this news gets out, one can easily imagine how his 'enemies,' who have been terrified of his extraordinary fighting prowess for so many years, will treat him with utter contempt.

Unfortunately, the industrial structure of Infinite City means that the most important thing for the entire Infinite City to continue operating is safety and stability.

Once security and stability are lost, and the entire Infinite City is attacked, then the entertainment and sex industry that he has worked so hard to build over the years will vanish in an instant.

If they're unlucky, even the industry of banned drugs might disappear.

The worst outcome might be that even he himself would perish.

After witnessing the battle between Third Brother and Sister Flower, the thing that Big Eater Boss regretted most was probably his arrogance, which led him to scheme against Sherlock and his group.

If he had known that the woman following Sherlock would be this powerful, he shouldn't have provoked Sherlock and his jinxed gang!

But all the regrets are now too late. All the boss of Big Stomach Bag can do now is to secretly and frantically stockpile weapons and combat personnel on one hand, and try his best to cover up the death of Third Brother and delay the news of Third Brother's death from leaking out as much as possible.

However, what the gluttonous boss didn't notice was that after learning of Third Brother's death, the one-eyed Nakime who always stood behind him would always inexplicably reveal a strange emotion in her eyes when she looked at him.

Clearly, with the death of the third brother, the life of this gluttonous boss who is obsessed with anime and manga should also be entering its countdown. And the one-eyed woman who always plays the role of Nakime is very likely to be the sharpest knife that will stab the gluttonous boss.

Of course, these are all things of the future. Changes driven by interests have never stopped on Eternal Night Star. Just like the Big Eater Boss who first came to Eternal Night Star, didn't he also go from being an unknown person to becoming the master of Infinite City?

This time, however, he has gone from being the hunter to the prey about to be served on the dinner table.

And Infinite City will never lack ambitious new masters like the Gluttonous Boss.

Chapter 400 A Few Things About Night City

Sherlock, who was in Night City, was unaware of the turmoil in Infinite City and had no interest in knowing about it. The reason was simple: Sherlock was at work!

That's right, it's a regular job, not the kind of casual gang work, but the kind of serious job where you have to clock in and out every day for 996!

As for why Sherlock separated from Sister Finch and her gang who went off to join a gang, and why he had to go to work odd jobs, the reason is quite simple: it's because the damned Xandar planet didn't give him enough time, resulting in Sherlock's insufficient mastery of interstellar knowledge.

However, modifying a spaceship is not the kind of thing that can be done by simply treating the symptoms and replacing a part. Modifying a spaceship is a serious systemic project, where a change in one part can affect the whole system.

In order to ensure that his spaceship could successfully reach Asgard and not be destroyed in space or during faster-than-light travel, and to save his own life from becoming space debris.

Sherlock had no choice but to reluctantly go to the most famous spaceship modification workshop in Night City and become an apprentice.

The good news is that although there are many criminals on Eternal Night Star, Night City is a place where chaos and freedom coexist.

However, such places are not lacking in honest and hardworking people who were born and raised here.

Sherlock, thanks to his alchemy skills, was quite well-connected in the workshop. His daily routine consisted of following the master craftsman around doing manual labor while learning spaceship modification techniques.

Aside from being a bit dirty and tiring, there weren't many ups and downs. If there was anything to be dissatisfied with, it was simply that Sherlock was extremely unhappy with the 996 work schedule.

Sherlock finally understood that as long as the species of unscrupulous bosses exists, they can't escape this damned blessing of working 996.

Sherlock's daily routine consists of studying and working frantically during the day, and then using the knowledge he has acquired to modify the spaceship with alchemy in that small warehouse at night, followed by experiments to discover problems.