I traveled through time and space as a villain and became her heart-stealer.

Lianna glanced outside the building cautiously, and after confirming that no one saw it, she quickly took the note and nodded slightly.

"Do you need to buy medicinal herbs?"

"Yes."

"Okay, I understand. You should go back quickly and don't let anyone find you." She lowered her voice and spoke quickly.

Gu Qinghan smiled faintly and said, "Be careful on the road."

As night falls, the moonlight shines on the ground, creating a faint silver glow.

The two people acted as if they had never met before. They closed the door and returned to silence.

Outside of Building 38, the inspectors continued their patrol, carefully looking at each building.

Business as usual.

……

In the following time, Lianna would sneak out every night to investigate and go to various places.

In order to collect information, Lianna often went to places like taverns to increase the efficiency of intelligence acquisition.

Mr. Hohenheim would sneak out in the middle of the night to inform her of this matter, which shows that it is very urgent.

It must be taken more seriously.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Gu Qinghan was also not idle. He began to work day and night to improve his success rate in refining medicine.

The difficulty level of making soul hypnosis potion is LV.3, which is extremely high.

According to Gu Qinghan's current success rate, he has about an 1% chance of making a LV.2 potion, but only a % chance of making a LV. potion.

If you suddenly have to make a LV.3 potion, you can imagine the failure rate.

It is already dark today.

Within the next six days, he must improve his strength as quickly as possible and successfully produce a new hypnotic potion to defeat Lina in one fell swoop.

This is the only way to turn the tables.

Night gradually falls, and stars twinkle outside the window.

Gu Qinghan's face was solemn. He turned around and lit the oil lamp on the corner of the table to drive away all the darkness in the house. That was his only light.

During the following period of time, both of them were extremely busy.

In the early morning, Lianna would go out to buy the items needed for potions under the pretext of buying ingredients, and bring back food for the day.

Then, Gu Qinghan concentrated all his attention on refining the medicine.

The battle lasted from day to night, and from early morning to dawn.

Be it an energy potion or a charm potion, no matter what kind of medicinal material it is, as long as it can be used for practice, Gu Qinghan will not let it go!

Three days passed, and Gu Qinghan had two dark circles under his eyes, and his eyeballs were full of bloodshot.

During these few days, Gu Qinghan was like a machine on an assembly line, never allowing himself to be idle for a moment.

However, there was a glimmer of excitement in his tired eyes.

Because in just a few days, the results were quite fruitful.

After practicing with hundreds of potions, Gu Qinghan successfully raised the success rate of refining LV.2 drugs to %!

The success rate of LV.1 medicine refining has reached 100%!

For any alchemist, this was something that was too fast to be understood, but Gu Qinghan had obviously done it.

The so-called burning your boats, the greater the pressure, the greater the motivation.

Miracles always happen at the most unlikely times.

At the same time, Lianna also brought back another good news.

At noon on the fourth day, in the underground black market of the City of Love, Lianna finally found out the news about the heart of the inner demon.

"There are currently two hearts on the black market, and another one is being transported. It will probably be available early this evening."

Lianna was panting, her face flushed, but her eyes were shining with excitement.

"I want all of them. How much?"

Lianna opened her mouth, but bit her lips lightly, as if she found it difficult to speak.

"It's okay, just say it."

After a brief silence, she finally sighed:

"One heart, one hundred gold coins."

Gu Qinghan's expression stiffened.

Although he was mentally prepared, Gu Qinghan's heart still skipped a beat when he heard this number.

"It's really dark..."

He still couldn't help but complain.

"Then we only need one?" Lianna blinked, feeling a little distressed.

"No, we still want them all." Gu Qinghan said firmly, and then said:

"We have very limited time now, and the success rate of making a level 3 potion is only 40%."

“We must go all out to ensure success.”

"But this price..."

Lianna was in trouble.

Gu Qinghan smiled slightly, and looking at her worried expression, he couldn't help but reveal a meaningful smile.

“Although they are dark enough, are we not dark too?”

As he spoke, Gu Qinghan glanced towards Lian Jin's table, and the smile on his lips became more obvious.

Lianna was stunned at first, then she came to her senses and followed Gu Qinghan's gaze to look at the alchemy table.

Hundreds of medicines were placed in test tubes, cluttered on the table, reflecting the sunlight.

Lianna gradually froze in place.

Good man, you are such a black heart.

Chapter 13: Beating Heart

The next morning, Lianna came to Gu Qinghan's house early and brought the good news.

"I have sold all the potions."

She looked excited, her eyes sparkling, and she couldn't contain her joy.

Gu Qinghan stood there in a daze, looking at the pride that flashed in Lianna's eyes, unable to recover.

what's going on?

It’s only been half a day and they’re all sold out?

Lianna smiled gently, and she became even happier when she saw Gu Qinghan's surprised expression.

"A total of 456 gold coins and 6 silver coins were sold. After spending gold coins to buy the heart, the remaining gold coins are all here. Please count them."

As she spoke, Lianna stepped into the house and threw the sack in her jade hand onto the table, making a crisp sound of metal collision.

Gu Qinghan looked at the burlap bag on the table, stood there expressionless, and remained silent.

Could it be possible to sell off hundreds of doses of medicine so quickly?

Good guy, we can’t save the real estate in Zhiai City without you!

After secretly complaining in his heart, Gu Qinghan waved his hand and said in a tough tone:

"No need to check, let's go have barbecue tonight!"

Lianna chuckled softly, covering her face with one hand, her eyebrows curved like willow leaves.

"You are under house arrest now, you can't go out and walk around at will, okay?"

She reminded with a smile.

"Then bring the barbecue home and we'll celebrate!"

Gu Qinghan was still obsessed and it seemed that he had to eat the barbecue tonight.

This made Lianna laugh so hard that tears came out.

"Okay, let's have a good meal once this crisis is over."

After a pause, Lianna remembered that there were still some things that had not been completed, so she spoke seriously:

"You could have sold it for more, but you were in a hurry to sell it, so you made less money... I'm sorry."

"You did the right thing, there's no need to apologize."

Gu Qinghan nodded as expected, and then said:

"It takes a lot of time to make soul hypnosis potion. If we don't start now, it may not be completed before Monday."

"kindness."

Lianna also nodded and continued:

"The third heart will be delivered in about an hour. I'll go get it later."

"Thanks a lot."

Gu Qinghan nodded slightly, his eyes noticing that Lianna was holding a large black cardboard box in her other hand.

Needless to say, you can know what is inside.

"Here, the heart you asked for."

As she spoke, Lianna carefully placed the black cardboard box on the table, fearing that it would suddenly fall.

After finally placing the herbs, Lianna secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but her expression did not show any relief.

"What's wrong?" Gu Qinghan frowned slightly, noticing this slight incongruity.

Lianna smiled bitterly and shook her head, saying softly:

"nothing."

"There's no need to hide it from me. I can basically guess what you're thinking." Gu Qinghan's face was solemn and he sighed lightly.

Lianna opened her mouth, but in the end said nothing. She just bit her lips lightly and lowered her head.

Seeing Lianna's reaction, Gu Qinghan sighed lightly and became more certain of his guess.

"Do you know where the heart comes from?"

Gu Qinghan spoke slowly, his voice a little hoarse.

In the moonlight, Lianna nodded gently, her eyes slightly red.

"The heart of the Heart Demon is essentially a human heart, but killing someone in the Pure Love Kingdom is obviously illegal."

"The only way to get hearts in bulk on the black market is through human trafficking."

Lianna bit her lips lightly with her pearly teeth, hummed softly, and then spoke in a voice as thin as a mosquito:

"There was a little girl, dressed in rags, looking at me eagerly."

“When I saw her, I thought of myself.”

Gu Qinghan looked at Lianna's struggling expression and couldn't help but sigh softly. He looked at the black box on the table with his eyes fixed.

After a brief silence, he spoke in a hoarse voice:

"I will solve this problem after this incident is over."

"Don't worry about the little girl's safety. It will take at least a few years for her heart to mature in time to save her."

Lianna was stunned at first, then she opened her eyes wide and tears flowed out uncontrollably like a spring.