Me! Cleaner!

Chapter 52 The Value of Life

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Can this gold... buy my life? !

Hearing the gentle question that echoed in his heart, there were tens of thousands of citizens in the entire shopping plaza. All of them couldn't help but trembled all over, and their consciousness fell into a trance.

When they came to their senses, these tens of thousands of citizens were horrified to find that they were facing the large cash box in the center of the shopping plaza, standing upright and arranged in an even fan shape.

And a huge toad that was two stories high was lying lazily on top of a large money box that was about the same height as it, with two huge golden compound eyes protruding outwards, looking at everyone with interest.

“…”

So...did I catch up with another abnormal event?

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

No, I can't move...

After looking down at the condition of 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 and firmly sucking his calf.

On the back of the hand of this weird frog hand, there are a large number of dark blue bumps like pimples, which look like copper wheels embedded in the skin. The number is about twenty-three or four.

After confirming that he could not break free for the time being, Leon observed the other people around him and found that they were in similar situations. They were all firmly sucked to the ground by the frog hands, and they could only struggle and scream with panic on their faces.

And unlike myself, the bumps on the skin of the frog hands that grabbed them didn't seem to be all dark blue, and many were cold silvery white. Occasionally, you could see some extremely blinking golden bumps.

Gold, silver, copper...it seems to be 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 knitted sweater hanging on the broom, roughly guessed the meaning of these knots.

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

With the idea of ​​taking advantage of it and saving some money for my family, I took a walk around the clothing district and bought some things for my younger brothers and sisters. The difference between these things and the original average market price added up to There are about twenty copper wheels in total, which is similar to the number of blue bumps on the skin of the frog's hand.

So as long as you act "greedy", you will be caught by frog hands with the same strength as your greed?

He tried to drop the shopping bag in his hand, but found that he was still held firmly. Leon couldn't help but squat down and tried to touch the frog's hand, but he did not touch any entity, nor did he get any information from [Materialism] Soul] tips.

It seems that these weird frog hands are not real things, but some kind of rules that materialize after touching the opponent's ability. It is estimated that only by getting rid of the main body can we get rid of control, but now I am six months away from that toad. Seven hundred meters away, what should I do to injure its body?

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"Why is no one willing to say yes to me?"

Just when Leon was hesitant 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 power. But when I follow the desire in your heart and send money to you, you don't even want to look at it. Yes, why is this?”

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

Seeing that the big toad was not particularly "violent" and seemed to be the kind of being that could communicate, a man with shopping bags all around him bravely replied:

"Although money is good, it cannot be compared with life. Life is priceless."

"No." Following the voice, he looked at the man. The corners of the golden toad's mouth were slightly raised, and he smiled softly and said to him:

"Based on my understanding of your species, life should be measurable in money, and it's quite cheap."

Seeing this huge monster looking over, the man who spoke to him instinctively wanted to run away, but his legs were being held tightly by the frog hands growing on the ground, and he couldn't leave the place at all, so he screamed in terror. .

"You are so noisy."

He stretched out his webbed feet covered with transparent mucus and lightly touched them on the golden mountain in front of him. After a large number of dazzling golden wheels stuck to them, the golden toad clenched his "palms" slightly, and the golden wheels stuck to the webs instantly disappeared. They disappeared, directly spanning a distance of more than thirty meters, and were piled in front of the man's feet.

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

Accompanied by the gentle voice of the golden toad, as if he was being strangled to death, the screams and begging for mercy of the man who was talking to him suddenly stopped. Even though his eyes bulged in horror and he desperately dug his own throat with his hands, he still couldn't understand the basics. I couldn't even spit out the "ho ho" sound.

After directly "buying" the man's voice, the golden toad looked at the square that instantly became silent. The golden toad couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction, and then turned to look at the person closest to it, a shivering young couple. He asked softly:

"Where are you? Are you willing to sell your lives to me?"

"No...I don't want to!"

The husband of the young couple was so frightened that he could not speak. The frightened wife, while trying to restrain her desire to scream, hugged her husband's arm, shook her head desperately and refused:

"My life... we both have only one life! If... if I sell it to you, we will be dead!"

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After tilting his head with some regret, the golden toad said with confusion:

"You said you were unwilling to sell your life to me, but you have been selling yours."

"We...we didn't! We didn't sell our lives!"

"You have some."

After stretching out the fingertips of its webbed feet and gently sticking two golden wheels together, the golden toad blinked its huge fly-like compound eyes and spoke without any refusal:

"To get these two shiny little things, you have to work in a cotton mill for seven days, controlling the machine to process tens of thousands of kilograms of raw cotton, while your husband needs to wear long rubber shoes that are airtight and work in a dyeing pool full of potions and reagents. Soak in it for five full days.

So I judge fairly that your seven-day life is only equal to his five-day life, and his five-day life is equal to these two golden wheels. And in the past four years, you have been making such an exchange, This will obviously continue in the future.

So, instead of selling these precious lives to others cheaply 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 directly and happily? What about me? "

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 wheel in front of him one by one, and sent the expensive golden coins to their feet one by one.

As more and more golden wheels accumulated under their feet, the hair of the two people gradually became pale, the muscles on their faces also relaxed rapidly, and the ravines at the corners of their eyebrows and eyes continued to deepen, making them look like middle-aged people. Human appearance, and continues to age.

What's even more frightening is that although the golden toad's words were addressed to the young couple, there were far more than just the two of them with golden wheels constantly appearing under their feet. In the entire shopping mall, there were more than 50,000 people appearing under their feet almost at the same time. Lots of golden wheels.

And with the clanging sound produced by the collision of metal currencies, everyone in the square who had received "payment" began to age uncontrollably!

(End of chapter)