40: Determine the rules and apply them reasonably

“Hmm? Is it already midnight?”

Ron looked up, only to see that the oil in the lamp was almost depleted.

So, he put down the book and checked the intelligence that had refreshed today.

【Ding! Today's intelligence is as follows—】

【1. Gevas and Mirar met yesterday afternoon and decided to temporarily cease hostilities. They will try to make a move on you again after things calm down.】

【2. After completing his mission, Gevas hopes to obtain the subsequent cultivation method of the Fighting Wolf Breathing Technique from the Saar Family, or receive help to get promoted and transferred to Kula City.】

【3. Gevas prepared an annotated version of the Fighting Wolf Breathing Technique for his illegitimate son, along with a small amount of gold, silver coins, and a property deed, hidden in a secret compartment of the bookshelf in his mistress's room.】

【4. Danfoss, a wealthy merchant in Hibo Town, owns a money pouch, which is a low-level alchemical item. Its effect is a tough outer skin, difficult to damage, and it requires a secret method to open.】

【5. Bowman, a missionary in Hibo Town, owns a pendant amulet, which is a low-level alchemical item. Its effect is to maintain a clear mind and slightly increase Mental Energy recovery speed.】

【6. Magila, the owner of the blacksmith shop, possesses a family heirloom alchemical weapon forging blueprint. However, since his ancestors' family fell into decline, he no longer has alchemical abilities, so it lies unused at the bottom of his clothes chest.】

【7. In the Exchange's storage room, cabinet number two of the sundry cabinet contains a failed alchemical product: a broken sword and its fragments.】

【8. In the Exchange's security room, cabinet number six of the safe contains an alchemical raw material: a piece of impure mithril ore.】

【9. Fearing the mastermind, Gevas plans to have his sister, using the reason of her husband's passing, seeing objects and missing him, and being heartbroken, move back to her maiden home with her son to temporarily avoid the limelight.】

【10. You will find three ji yu grass plants by the stream 3,500 meters southeast of your stone house shelter in the wilderness.】

After the intelligence refresh was complete, Ron quickly scanned it, just as he had yesterday.

“One, two, three, four, five... five pieces of intelligence related to alchemy!”

Ron's lips curved upwards. These five pieces of intelligence today were enough to prove that the system's intelligence refresh did indeed hide a certain pattern, as he had previously guessed.

And the last trace of uncertainty in his heart was completely eliminated.

“Once I master this pattern, I can fix the category and direction of the intelligence.”

Ron thought to himself, from now on, he would be able to refresh intelligence on whatever aspect he wanted, greatly increasing its practicality.

“Before, it was alchemical items. Next, it can be changed to Breathing Techniques, herbs and minerals, weapons and armor, strange stories...”

“It could even be problems encountered during cultivation, allowing the system to provide solutions through intelligence, just like the previous 【Click to Expand】.”

Ron began to brainstorm, and in just a few minutes, he thought of more than a dozen ways to cleverly utilize the system's intelligence.

Thus, Ron was somewhat eager to try.

But unfortunately, the daily refresh time was fixed, so he could only experiment tomorrow night.

Next, Ron carefully read the intelligence from beginning to end.

“Sure enough, Gevas and Mirar still don't want to let me go, but thankfully, my actions today bought me a lot of time to develop...”

Ron sneered. The deaths of Barto and his son made Gevas dare not act rashly.

The rumors behind the scenes would take at least half a month to gradually disappear.

That is to say, for at least half a month, Barto and Mirar would not dare to continue to make a move on him.

“Hmm? Gevas even personally prepared an annotated version of the Fighting Wolf Breathing Technique for his son?”

Ron's eyes lit up. Gevas was really good to his illegitimate son, directly placing the Breathing Technique at his mistress's place.

In that case, perhaps he could find a way to steal it?

However, he shouldn't rush. He had to refresh the intelligence a few more times to figure out when Gevas usually visited his mistress.

Otherwise, if he just ran over to steal it and bumped into Gevas on his way to a tryst, wouldn't that be courting death?

So, Ron temporarily noted this piece of intelligence as well and continued to read on.

“Two alchemical items, one alchemical weapon blueprint, one failed alchemical product, and one alchemical raw material...”

Ron pondered. He had secretly guessed before that, given the rarity of alchemical items, there wouldn't be more than a handful in the entire Hibo Town.

And excluding the alchemical mask and hidden books left by Harrington, as well as the failed products and raw materials...

The remaining usable alchemical items just happened to be five!

“Even raw materials have been refreshed. Perhaps there really are no hidden alchemical items in Hibo Town?”

Ron raised an eyebrow. He had originally planned that if there were still alchemical items like the disguise mask left in the wilderness...

He would find a way to get them to enhance his strength.

But now, all five alchemical items were owned by someone, and none of them were easy to acquire.

“It seems I can only find a way to go to Barto's Golden Courtyard first. There are self-defense weapons there...”

Ron thought of this and continued to read on.

“Hmm? Three ji yu grass plants?”

Ron's eyes flashed. This, like the previous cat tail grass, was also a relatively rare herb.

“Oh right, my half-bottle of nutrient ointment is almost used up. I need to go to the stone house to get the remaining half-bottle...”

After Ron made his plan, the oil in the lamp was also exhausted.

So, Ron changed his notes back into a novel and casually placed it by the bedside.

The night passed uneventfully.

The next morning, Ron followed his routine, got up, ate, and took Lisa to school.

“Lisa, is this your new hair accessory?”

Litton was surprised to see the butterfly hair clip on Lisa's head.

“Mr. Litton, I bought it for Lisa.”

Ron answered first, and stroked Lisa's head.

“I saw that she's a little girl but usually doesn't have any small ornaments, so I just bought one for her.”

Lisa nodded repeatedly, and Litton suddenly understood. Then he looked at the two of them with some remorse.

“I'm sorry, Lisa. Dad has been too uncaring about you lately. I actually forgot that you're still a pretty little girl.”

“Ron, thank you for the gift for Lisa, but this hair clip must be very expensive, right? How much is it? I'll pay you back.”

With that, Litton prepared to take out money.

However, Ron quickly stopped him.

“No need, Mr. Litton. Lisa is like my sister. A mere hair clip is nothing.”

“What's more, Mr. Litton, you not only took me in and gave me a job, but you also spoke up for justice yesterday, saving me from being framed.”

“How can such kindness be repaid with a small gift? So, please don't be so polite with me.”

Ron said sincerely, which moved Litton deeply.