There was a secret passage between the secret room in the palace and the outside world. Following this secret passage, after Lu Yiming was sent out by Lilith, he appeared directly under a bridge.

It is very close to the inner city wall of the palace, and you can see the high red wall when you look up.

"Let's go." The blond girl told him to leave quickly with a look of disgust, "There is a dog hole in the city wall ahead, just bend down and crawl out. No one here has stopped you these days. Don't come back after you go out."

"That won't work." Lu Yiming smiled and said, "I will come over to find you if I have the chance. I have already memorized the location of the secret passage."

"Humph, I'd better not." Lilith snorted coldly, "I don't know how you charmed His Highness like that, but since His Highness approves of you, you shouldn't be a bad person."

Lu Yiming smiled noncommittally.

"How old are your Highnesses?"

"Almost 14, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, just asking."

"ill!"

Lu Yiming stepped ashore in a few steps under Lilith's murderous gaze.

It's getting dark now.

He followed the path all the way to the bottom of the city wall, and then saw the so-called dog cave.

...Made, it’s really just a dog hole.

The dog hole was about 50 centimeters high and more than ten meters long. Lu Yiming squatted down and moved for a long time before getting out. There was a dense forest outside.

There must have been guards guarding this place in the past, but something like that happened in the palace a few days ago, so I guess many of the guards were carrying buckets.

After all, the masters are gone, so what's the point of having guards.

[Side mission: Escape from the pursuit of the palace guards has been completed]

[Your available chess pieces +1/sanity +1]

Above the sky, in the gray space, there was an extra chess piece in Lu Yiming's hand.

Mr. Yang glanced at him and said, "Already out? Aren't you ready to pull someone in?"

He didn't believe that Lu Yiming hadn't met anyone he knew yet.

In the world of chess, unless you deliberately hide in a corner, your cause and effect will definitely find you.

This is inevitable.

Lu Yiming put the two chess pieces in his hands, rubbed them together, and said with a smile:

"This thing is so precious, I won't use it indiscriminately. If it turns out to be the same as the guy next to you, it will be a disaster."

Lu Wei suddenly said angrily: "Who are you talking about? This bastard tricked me first. Speaking of which, you were also tricked by him. Now you should join forces with me to kill him first!"

"No need." Lu Yiming shook his head and said, "I don't believe you."

Rather than being stabbed in the back by a gang of two at a critical moment, it would be better to do things alone from beginning to end.

Moreover, this guy had previously summoned soldiers to hunt them down.

Lu Yiming's consciousness was immersed back into the world of chess.

After he walked out of the dense forest outside the city wall, he began to wander around in the inner city.

The sky had completely darkened. It was already five o'clock when he entered the palace, and it was now after seven o'clock.

This city is a weird combination of modern technology and ancient streets.

Not to mention the fact that there are steel cars on the road is outrageous.

Occasionally, you can see figures walking quickly on the roof.

The atmosphere here at night is very luxurious. Men and women of all colors are drinking. The lights are brightly lit on both sides of the road. The girls in the bars are singing and dancing. There are also seductive women standing on the street looking left and right, white and white.

"Brother, come on, it's free."

"Brother, do you want to come for full maintenance?"

Facing the tacky temptation, Lu Yiming walked out of that street without hesitation.

What else to do next?

A so-called role-playing game will definitely have a big main mission, such as [Kill the Demon King] and [Revenge].

The main mission is still in the clue-gathering stage and cannot be completed overnight.

Lu Yiming touched the small tower badge on his chest.

After walking out of Custom Street, he had arrived at the bottom of the Alchemy Tower.

The Alchemy Tower is seventy or eighty meters high. It is the tallest tower in the city except the Royal City Tower. At night, the entire tower is brightly lit.

There are several guards under the tower guarding the gate and verifying the identity of those entering.

A guard took the initiative to greet Lu Yiming: "Louis, why didn't you come today?"

Lu Yiming didn't know this person, so he could only nod calmly and said: "Something's wrong."

The guard didn't notice anything strange. He sighed and said, "Hey, I don't know when you will be able to accumulate enough points to be promoted to an official alchemist..."

"If we find a new formula, can people be promoted?" Lu Yiming asked.

"New formulas are not easy to discover."

The guard lowered his voice and said: "Why don't you spend some money to find some alchemy masters' workshops and ask them to give you some soup to try? I have a master here who I know. Just give me a referral fee.

..."

Lu Yiming interrupted him, "No, and I don't have any money to give you."

After saying that, he went straight in.

The guard looked at Lu Yiming's back and cursed from behind: "Promote me if you have the ability! You don't know how to adapt, and you deserve to be a low-level apprentice for the rest of your life."

[Side mission has been generated!]

[Side mission: Obtain the official alchemist status in the alchemy tower]

[Reward: Your available chess pieces +1/sanity +1]

Lu Yiming twitched his lips.

Are all these online tasks so casual?

No matter, let’s try it first anyway.

The alchemy hall on the first floor is splendid, the hall is brightly lit like daylight, and many people wearing dark green and gold-patterned clothes are coming and going.

Those who wear this kind of clothes are alchemists officially registered in the alchemy tower, and their alchemy level is distinguished by the number of golden stripes on their clothes.

The more golden stripes there are, the higher the level, with the lowest being one and the highest being ten.

In addition, there are many people in light green clothes, these are alchemy apprentices.

Apprentices are assistants to the alchemists. In this tower, there is no independent workshop of their own. Some are like hourly workers in the usual sense.

"Brother Lewis, you came a little late today, but I happen to have a good commission here."

The young lady at the front desk handed a yellow commission letter to Lu Yiming with a smile on her face, "Master Moer on the 13th floor needs an assistant tonight. The reward is 200 copper coins and 30 points, a total of 8 in one night.

Hours of work.”

Lu Yiming did not receive the recruitment order, he asked:

"If I want to be promoted to an official alchemist, what do I need to do?"

"Huh? Do you have enough points? How could it be so fast? Let me check."

The lady at the front desk typed a few times on a computer-like device, and then said angrily: "You are still 9,000 points short! Why are you so anxious?"

Lu Yiming shook his head and said, "I'm talking about discovering a new alchemical formula."

"What did you say?" the front desk said with a shocked look, "Don't tease me, don't use the test opportunity casually, the first time it was 300 copper coins, but it doubled every time after that!"

...

After repeated confirmation at the front desk, Lu Yiming paid 300 copper coins as the exam fee, and was then taken to an alchemy workshop on the fourth floor that was filled with the smell of medicine.

He was a little curious about how to take the test. Is it the way to do experiments with reagents?

Dreaming back to high school chemistry class.

Back then, he secretly destroyed all the silver nitrate in the laboratory under the system's cheating mission, and the chemistry teacher decisively blacklisted him in future experimental classes.

However, this alchemy workshop was empty, with only a huge black stone slab in the entire room.

At this moment, besides Lu Yiming, there were more than a dozen people sitting cross-legged on the floor.

Above, a five-marked alchemist with a long beard said: "I am your examiner. In the illusion of the god-given alchemy tablet, you must create a substance that has never been refined before, or a substance of the same kind.

It’s okay if the formula is not recorded.”

"Your success or failure will be judged by this alchemy slate."

"To save time, testing begins directly."
To be continued...