I! Cleaner!

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Can this gold... buy my life? !

Hearing the gentle question in their hearts, tens of thousands of citizens in the entire shopping mall. They couldn't help but tremble all over, and their consciousness instantly fell into a trance.

When they came to their senses, these tens of thousands of citizens found with great horror that they were facing the big money box in the center of the shopping mall, standing upright, and arranged in a uniform fan shape.

And a huge toad that was two stories high was lazily lying on the big money box that was almost as high as it, with two huge golden compound eyes protruding outward, looking at everyone with interest.

"..."

So... am I in the middle of another abnormal event?

Touching the badge on his chest that was terribly hot, Leon, with a frown on his face, first checked the status of the sheep's head and broom. After finding that they were still usable, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then immediately tried to move his feet.

No, I can't move...

After looking down at his feet, Leon was surprised to find that a huge frog hand with a suction cup was growing out of the ground of the shopping mall, firmly sucking his calf.

On the back of this strange frog hand, there were a lot of dark green protrusions like bumps, which looked like copper wheels embedded in the skin, about twenty-three or four in number.

After confirming that he couldn't break free for the time being, Leon observed the other people around him and found that their situation was similar. They were all firmly sucked to the ground by frog hands, and could only struggle and scream in panic.

Unlike himself, the bumps on the skin of the frog hands that grabbed them didn't seem to be all dark green. There were also many cold silver-white, and occasionally some very eye-catching golden bumps could be seen.

Gold, silver, and copper... It felt like some kind of rule involving money.

After frowning and thinking for a few seconds, Leon, who had two sets of children's clothes and a sweater hanging on the broom, roughly guessed what these bumps meant.

The things piled up in Charles Department Store were indeed much lower than the market price, and when I passed by the shopping mall, I was also attracted by the particularly attractive prices.

With the idea of ​​taking advantage of a little bargain and saving some money for my family, I went around the clothing area and bought some things for my younger brothers and sisters. The difference between these things and the original market average price added up to about twenty copper wheels, which was similar to the number of blue bumps on the frog hand's skin.

So as long as you have "greed", you will be caught by the frog hand with the same strength as the greed?

Tried to drop the shopping bag in his hand, and found that he was still caught tightly. Leon couldn't help squatting down and tried to touch the frog hand, but he didn't touch any entity, nor did he get any prompts from the [Materialistic Soul].

It seems that these weird frog hands are not real things, but some rules that are materialized after the other party's ability is triggered. It is estimated that only by dealing with the main body can they get rid of control, but he is now six or seven hundred meters away from the toad. What should I do to hurt its main body?

...

"Why is no one willing to agree to my request?"

Just as Leon was hesitating whether to try the director's red hair, looking at the panicked crowd in the square, the huge golden toad on the cash box blinked and sighed softly with some disappointment:

"People, you obviously love money so much, and even deeply worship its magic, but when I follow your inner desire and send money to you, you don't even want to look at it. Why is that?"

"Because... because the price is too high!"

Seeing that this big toad did not behave particularly "violently", it seemed that it could Communication exists, a man surrounded by shopping bags answered boldly:

"Money is good, but it can't compare with life. Life is priceless."

"No."

Following the voice, the golden toad looked at the man, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and he chuckled and said to him:

"Based on my understanding of your species, life should be measured by money, and it is quite cheap."

Seeing the huge monster looking over, the man who talked to him instinctively wanted to run, but his legs were firmly grasped by the frog hands growing on the ground, and he couldn't leave the spot at all, so he could only scream in fear.

"You are so noisy."

Stretching out the webbed feet covered with transparent mucus, gently touched the golden mountain in front of him, and after sticking a large number of dazzling golden wheels, the golden toad's "palm" slightly clenched, and the golden wheels stuck on the webbed feet disappeared instantly, directly crossing a distance of more than 30 meters and piled in front of the man's feet.

"Sell me your voice, so you can learn to be quiet."

Accompanied by the gentle voice of the golden toad, the screams and pleas of the man who was talking to him suddenly stopped, as if he was strangled to death. Even though his eyes bulged with fear and he desperately dug his throat with his hands, he still couldn't even utter the most basic "ho ho" sound.

After "buying" the voice of the man who was talking to him directly, looking at the square that suddenly became silent, the golden toad nodded with satisfaction, and then turned to look at the people closest to it, a shivering young couple, and asked softly:

"What about you? Are you willing to sell your life to me?"

"No...no!"

The husband of the young couple was so scared that he couldn't speak, and the terrified wife tried to restrain her desire to scream while holding her husband's arm and shaking her head desperately to refuse:

"My life... we both have only one life! If... if I sell it to you, we'll lose it!"

"Really?"

After tilting his head with some regret, the golden toad said with a puzzled look:

"You said you didn't want to sell your life to me, but you've been selling your life all the time."

"We... we didn't! We haven't sold our lives!"

"You did."

After stretching out his webbed fingertips and gently sticking on the two golden wheels, the golden toad blinked his huge fly-like compound eyes and said without letting anyone refuse:

"You have to work in a cotton mill for seven days to get these two shiny little things, controlling the machines to process tens of thousands of kilograms of raw cotton, and your husband needs to wear long, airtight rubber shoes and walk in a potion-filled Soak in the dyeing pool of reagents for five full days.

So I judge fairly that your seven days of life is only equal to his five days of life, and his five days of life is equal to these two golden wheels. In the past four years, you have been making such exchanges, and it will obviously continue in the future.

So, instead of selling these precious lives cheaply to others, and spending most of your life in a hot and noisy factory, painfully repeating meaningless labor, why not choose an easier path and sell this part of your life to me directly and happily? "

After giving the conclusion of measuring the value of life, in the fearful eyes of the young couple, the golden toad began to grab the golden wheels in front of it one by one, and sent those expensive golden coins to their feet one by one.

As more and more golden wheels piled up under their feet, the hair of the two gradually turned pale, the muscles on their faces were also rapidly relaxing, and the ravines at the corners of their eyebrows and eyes continued to deepen. They looked like middle-aged people, and they were still aging.

What was even more terrifying was that although the golden toad was speaking to the young couple, there were far more people with golden wheels appearing under their feet than just the two of them. A large number of golden wheels appeared under the feet of more than 50,000 people in the entire shopping mall almost at the same time.

And with the clanging sound of metal coins colliding, everyone in the square who received the "payment" began to age uncontrollably!