The Whispering Verses Chapter 1758: The chains and transactions of greed

Old bamboo supports supported the rotten wooden boards, on which three items were placed. One of them was a severed finger as thick as Shade's wrist. The thick black blood at the base of the broken finger had solidified into ice. For the other two items, you can’t see what they are at all.

Miss Higgins took a few deep breaths, then plucked up the courage to say to the shadow behind the stall:

"Excuse me, do you know..."

She tremblingly took out a piece of paper and read out the ancient runes on it:

"Where are the soul-stealing merchants?"

Xia De blinked suspiciously, and the black shadow shook his head slightly, and then pointed to his stall.

The witch thought for a moment, lowered her voice and asked:

"I have to buy something from you so you can answer my question?"

This time it was a nod.

"I need time to think about it. I don't have much money after all."

As they spoke, they stepped back. Even if they had to buy something to ask for directions, they didn't necessarily have to buy it here. They could go to the market to have a look.

But the shadow was unwilling to let any of the guests go. As the witch retreated, dozens of blood-stained black chains flew towards the witch from the shadow's feet. Fortunately, Miss Higgins never let down her guard and quickly waved the torch forward while the golden light shone in her right hand. The warm light dissipated some of the chill. Shade was quite familiar with this power. It was the power of the sun.

Of the chains that attacked the witch, most of them slowed down a lot after being illuminated by the light of the torch, while the rest continued to approach the witch. So the fireball in the palm of the witch's right hand covered the surroundings like a bomb explosion, but because of the black mist, it could only extend a short distance to her side.

With those lights, Shade clearly saw that the black chains were made up of rune chains that represented [Greed]. This was definitely the [Sin Chain] he was most familiar with, but the Sin Chain was absolutely Not afraid of the power of the sun.

"Be careful."

Old Mrs. Miles and the timid boy Andor Ade hurriedly stepped forward to help. They waved the torches in their hands like witches, slowing down the remaining chains. At the same time, Shade's free left hand had already taken out the sword with silver moonlight from the black mist.

锵~

The big sword struck the chain, and while silver light shards and sparks flew everywhere, the two collided and made a scalp-numbing buzz. At the same time, more and more blood-stained chains appeared from all directions, surrounding the four people. Shade then ordered the four people to gather together and face different directions. The waving torches connected the afterimages of the firelight into a line, but that only slowed down a small part of the chains.

"Why can he have so many chains of sin!"

It was like being besieged by a swarm of snakes, but all this happened quietly. Shade, who was familiar with the characteristics of [Chain of Sin], reminded loudly:

"This thing has no attack power, but once it is entangled, the ability to cast spells and move will be imprisoned. Don't try to destroy the chain with ordinary methods, but use destructive power - Black Moon Talisman - Seaton Sigil ."

Shad reached out and grabbed the chain closest to him. The moment he touched it, the flow of spirit in his body stagnated, but the dark moon mark also appeared on the chain.

The chains slowly disintegrated into fly ash, and at the same time, the exploding golden shield pushed all the remaining blood-stained chains outward.

The witch Miss Higgins also understood and kissed her right index finger. Then the life-corrosive dust floating from her index finger also caused a small number of chains to rust and rot.

But whether it's Shade's thaumaturgy or the witch's secret technique, the casting of both powers is quite expensive, and the recovery of spirits in this weird place is almost stagnant. They can't just waste all their power.

"Chains of great sin!"

The chains protruded from Shade's sleeves, making a clattering sound. Under the control of the live rope trick, they got mixed up with the chains that were temporarily pushed away. Chains were intertwined with chains, and the six mortal sin runes were intertwined with countless [Greed], and Xia De suddenly felt a strange feeling in his heart. This was his first confrontation with the [Chain of Sin], and the power of the same source gave him a new understanding.

Although Shad only had one chain, he completely had the upper hand. The runes symbolizing the six deadly sins emitted a faint light that made his companions uncomfortable, but he was able to completely suppress those who only had "greed". chain.

But this is still not enough. Shade can deal with dozens of chains, but not hundreds or thousands. It seemed as if endless chains were flying out from all directions, even protruding from the soil under their feet and hanging from the sky above their heads.

Seeing that there were chains binding Mrs. Miles' ankles and tying the boy's neck - of course, the witch didn't care about the latter. Miss Higgins had no choice but to say:

"I'll buy it! If I don't leave now, I'll trade with you and take your chains back."

All the chains that were still squirming stopped, leaving only Shade's chain still clattering.

No one dared to move. The four of them breathed slowly, but their breaths were suppressed to prevent their body temperature from losing too quickly. Shade counted twelve numbers silently in his mind, and then the chains very slowly retreated into the depths of the black mist invisible to everyone's eyes. Looking at the dark figure behind the stall, it seems that it has been pointing at the goods with its finger and has not moved at all. But they all knew that if they dared to retreat now, the blood-stained chains that would pour out in an instant would swallow them up immediately.

After such twists and turns, even though there was still the light of the torch, Mrs. Miles and the boy were already pale. The witch had to hold the old man up so that she wouldn't fall, and grab her hand to keep her warm. Mrs. Miles now had just enough strength not to let go of the torch in her hand.

"I, let me help her."

The boy who had gathered his courage said to the young witch despite the cold and fear. The latter frowned but did not hesitate:

"Take good care of this lady. Protecting her means protecting you."

She asked the boy to support Mrs. Miles and stand behind Shade and her, and gave the two a glowing yellow stone, as if it could provide warmth. Then, she softly apologized to Shade for what happened just now. After all, she was the one who put the group of people in danger. But compared to danger, Shade cared more about time.

Although he cared about the chains with only the [Greed] rune, he also knew that this was not a good opportunity to investigate, so he asked the black shadow for the witch:

"What do you have here? We can only see one item."

The black shadow still did not speak, maintaining a still movement, and the black fog covering the items finally dissipated. Next to the thick severed finger was a coiled blood-stained rope and coagulated blood in a dirty glass tube.

The rope is a relic. As for the other two items, they should be powerful extraordinary materials.

"What are these?"

Shad continued to ask, but received no answer. The black shadow in this camp may not have the ability to speak at all. The witch then asked again, but also received no answer.

The light of the four torches illuminated everyone's uncertain faces. The firelight was obviously weaker than when they first set off.

Miss Higgins frowned and thought for a moment, breathed into her palm, and then said to Shade:

"I'm afraid this camp won't explain the purpose and function of the products. We can only pick one at random, which is no different from gambling on luck."

"Do you have enough currency with you? Judging from the situation just now, if you don't bring enough currency, it won't let us leave without paying...I'm afraid it will ask us Charge something else."

Miss Higgins pursed her lips and nodded:

"Before departure, His Majesty gave me and my wife a sum of money. I have 23 coins on me."

"I have 6 here."

The silver-haired old woman who was leaning on the boy said immediately. When Shade looked at her, she smiled hard:

"The rest is up to you, young people."

The boy who had not spoken until then said tremblingly:

"I have 7 coins here. My coins were sold to me along with the map by the witch who gave me the method to enter here."

"Then the remaining question is very simple - what is the cheapest here?"

It would be foolish to judge the value of an item based on its appearance, but sometimes it has to be done. There are three items, fingers, ropes and blood. Although the rope is the only relic, it cannot be considered to be the most expensive. Although the fingers are the only items whose appearance has been revealed in advance, it cannot be inferred that it must be the cheapest.

The two ordinary people had no chance to speak at this time, so Shade and the witch Miss Higgins still made the decision.

"I have no ability to evaluate, nor do I have the power to identify treasures."

Xia De spoke first, while the red-haired witch said hesitantly:

"Because it involves transactions, I learned the secrets of appraisal before entering here. Let me give it a try."

She rolled up her right sleeve to reveal her white wrist, then grabbed her right wrist with her left hand, opened her right hand and aimed at three items in sequence.

"Oh!"

She made a gesture of holding her breath while her eyes widened violently. But within two or three seconds, he groaned and black blood flowed from his mouth and nose. She let go of the breath, and fell backwards with trembling all over. Fortunately, Shade held her in time.

"Cough cough, cough cough."

After coughing violently, she spat the dirty blood onto the ground, quickly corroding the low weeds under her feet.

"It's okay, it's okay."

She covered her chest and waved, but she didn’t look like she was okay:

"I'm being attacked. It's like this camp is attacking me. It seems that you can't touch or inspect goods that don't belong to you without permission."

"Give."

Xia De handed over a bottle of No. 3 holy water. Witch Gudong Gudong drank it and then expressed her gratitude in a hoarse voice, but her face was still very ugly:

"What to do now? I have no choice."

"As you just said, you can only gamble on luck. The currency is your own, you decide."

The two looked at the three items together. After looking at each other, the red-haired witch pointed at the bottle of blood:

"I want this."

The originally almost stationary black mist began to flow, and the black mist condensed on the wooden board between the goods and the four Shade, forming a scale in a cloudy state.

The black shadow finally moved, picked up the bottle of blood and placed it on the left end of the scale. The scale tilted to the left, and then it made a gesture of please. This action was easy to understand, so Miss Higgins took out the leather bag from her skirt pocket, and with trembling palms, she placed the coins with her own image on them one by one towards the right side of the scale. Although I still don't know if this bottle of blood is the cheapest here, but fortunately, only 4 coins were placed in it, and the scales reached a balanced state.

At that moment, the balance, which was originally in a dense fog state, actually solidified into black metal. The scale reflected the metallic luster under the light of the torches in everyone's hands. The color was deep and extraordinarily heavy. Shade took a liking to it at a glance:

"Speaking of it, Yin Luna's birthday gift..."

The four coins were taken away by the shadow, and then it pushed the scale with blood on one end to everyone, and then returned to the motionless posture from the beginning.

Miss Higgins carefully collected the bottle of blood from one end of the scale, but she didn't know what the blood was, so she first put it into her shoulder bag.

Then seeing that the shadow had no objection, he touched the dark-colored scale, and Shade also reached out and touched it. There are incised patterns of shells, coins and olive branches on the surface of the scale, which is extremely cold and heavy. Both Shade and the Witch can confirm that this is just an ordinary item.

The witch asked softly:

"Now that the shadow is motionless again, do you think this scale is a clue to guide us to find the next businessman?"