Trafford’s Trading Club

"Would you like another drink?"

"No, thank you. This cup is enough. I haven't had such delicious tea for a long time." The red djinn held the teacup in both hands and sat on the steps where the lantern stand was placed.

Boss Luo also picked up the tea cup and sat next to him, but looked at the entrance where he came from.

"Is that woman outside your friend?" The red djinn suddenly lowered his voice and asked.

Luo Qiu thought for a while and said: "We are classmates at the moment. We have just met each other not long ago. We are not really friends. We came to the desert for some reasons... but we were accidentally involved in a certain incident, so we ended up here. "

The red djinn nodded, perhaps because it had poured out the anger it had accumulated over the years. At this time, it no longer looked too ferocious, and even seemed a little amiable.

It looked at Boss Luo and said in the tone of an experienced person: "It doesn't matter much. I can tell you that women are the most terrifying and unwanted creatures in the world! They will not only harm you, but also He will rob you of everything...especially beautiful women, and he is as vicious as a snake or scorpion...this bitch!!"

Snapped!

Due to excessive force, the cup instantly shattered in the hands of the red djinn... It seemed not to notice, staring at the passage in front of the entrance, gradually taking on a cruel color. But soon, it sighed, "Although she is a woman, there is no doubt that I hope she can pass this test, otherwise I don't know how long I will have to wait next time."

After Luo Qiu made his third wish, the magic lamp replied that he needed to wait for the next qualified person to appear. Judging from the situation on the curtain wall, Claudia would be the next candidate.

But obviously, the probability of her passing is quite low.

"Even if she can pass this test with willpower, she may not be recognized by the magic lamp. After all, this is just the last person who summoned me. The test that was later built by others is still different compared to the recognition ability of the magic lamp itself. The difference... is that if you can pass the test, you will be more likely to be recognized by the magic lamp." The red lamp god sighed again and said faintly: "Next time, I don't know when I will be able to wait until... The person who summoned...you, if you don’t leave in a hurry, can you talk to me more?”

"Of course." Boss Luo nodded, moved slightly away, and said with a smile: "I also want to know more about the Fountain of Youth...if you are willing."

The red lamp god casually said: "It is said to be the fountain of youth, but it is not actually a divine object. On the contrary, strictly speaking, it is still an extremely evil thing."

The red lamp god fell into memories and said slowly: "At that time, I was frantically looking for the magic lamp. After many tests, the place where the fountain of youth is located is one of them... Where it is, there are powerful monsters. Guard. In front of those monsters, even the strongest human warrior can be easily torn into pieces. When you defeat these monsters and finally come to the Fountain of Youth, there is still a test of humanity waiting for you."

"Is there something wrong with this fountain of youth?"

The red lamp god nodded: "It is not as beautiful as imagined. If you want to gain youth through it, you must make a sacrifice... You need to put the sacrifice into the spring water, and then drink the spring water. It can restore youth. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is equivalent to depriving people of their time and then transferring it to another person. If you want to keep your youth forever, you need to keep giving it to devour young life. Moreover, it is not just that you just go to the spring water. Throwing one person into it will lead to success. Those who walk into the spring must be willing to make a contribution."

"One life is worth one, well..." Luo Qiu couldn't help but lowered his head and pondered.

The red lamp god didn't seem to pay attention to Boss Luo's subtle expression at this time, "This fountain of youth is really too evil. At that time, I even wanted to destroy it. It's just that all things have animism. Since this spring water exists, maybe it also has it." The principle of existence is that I should not destroy the laws of nature, so in the end I did not destroy it, I just sealed it."

It said bitterly: "Now that I think about it, I really should have destroyed it! What's more, I shouldn't have told the wizard... until he could sleep with that bitch! The wizard must have a way to make people willingly Walking into the spring...just like he did to me...Hey, what are you doing over there? There's no place to sit?"

"Let me take a look at this mural." Boss Luo said calmly: "I am quite interested in history. This mural is a good opportunity to learn about history."

"Oh, that's it, then you see." The red djinn nodded, and then said enthusiastically: "If you don't understand anything, you can ask me... It's okay, I just want to find someone to talk to. Over the years, it's rare that someone is willing to listen. I'm talking. By the way, do you have a woman you love deeply? Let me tell you, women are such things..."

Claudia...can't get out yet?

The things in the fantasy world are all things that you want but cannot get...the things that can make people fall into it willingly, called Yuwang.

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"Claudia, what do you want to do when you grow up?" Professor Xie Jiatu asked softly while holding little Claudia in the courtyard.

"I... um..." The little girl looked at the blue sky and thought seriously. Not long after, she got the answer, "I want to be like my father and go on adventures around the world!"

"That's not called exploration." Professor Xie Jiatu said funnyly: "That's part of dad's job, which is to study the origin of ancient gods... Exploration will encounter many dangerous things. But dad's job is very safe most of the time. "

"Then...that..." She was too young and didn't understand this. She bit her little finger and thought for a while, then persisted and said, "Then I want to do research like dad!"

"If this is the case, then Claudia must study hard." Professor Xie Jiatu lifted her up.

The surroundings suddenly turned into a sea of ​​flowers, like a dream.

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In the passage, it was ice cold, there was no huge wealth, and there was no sea of ​​flowers... Claudia huddled under the wall and suddenly woke up.

She subconsciously touched her cheek and found something even colder...it seemed to be water.

She raised her head, and above her head, there were water drops dripping down from the passage, hitting her cheek.

Claudia took a deep breath and patted her cheek hard to make herself more awake... She seemed to be trapped in an illusion, but she couldn't explain why she fell into such an illusion.

But she remembered that she was following Luo Qiu's footsteps, and then they got separated... Claudia stood up quickly. There was only one straight path in this passage, and she could only walk along the passage.

Not believing in ghosts and gods, this is the basic accomplishment of a person who believes in science. She is determined to become a mathematician, so she will not be scared by this...that's strange!

It was just that she was frightened. Not long after, she saw light coming from the front... Claudia quickly ran towards the light source exit!

In front of them, there was a huge room with firelights all around. In the center, there were two huge statues that looked like guards. On the platform in the middle, there was an ordinary-looking oil lamp.

Claudia was stunned for a moment, and then saw Luo Qiu... Luo Qiu was standing in front of the wall in a corner, looking at the murals on the wall.

"Lo?" Claudia asked tentatively: "You?"

Boss Luo turned around, glanced at Claudia, and then a smile appeared on his face, "Did you encounter anything special on the road?"

"You...you've been waiting for a long time?" Claudia frowned.

Regarding what happened on the passage, when she thinks about it now, she doesn't remember much. She just remembers that she seemed to have fallen asleep while walking.

"It didn't take long." Boss Luo shook his head and said, "Even faster than expected."

Claudia looked puzzled, then pointed to the oil lamp on the table, "This...where is this...that thing?"

"It seems to be what the corpses outside the passage want." Boss Luo said casually: "An oil lamp... maybe it's a magic lamp."

"Then wipe it a few times, and a fat blue djinn will come out to grant you three wishes, right?" Claudia rolled her eyes angrily, "I know the story of Aladdin!"

"Do you want to give it a try?" Boss Luo suggested.

Claudia shook her head and looked around cautiously, "Can you have some common sense? Things are placed in such an obvious place. If you pick them up casually, you might trigger the mechanism!"

Luo Qiu smiled and said, "Classmate Claudia, you know so much."

Claudia said: "Father often goes out to explore newly unearthed ruins and the like. Although I am not interested, but there are quite a lot, and I will know something about it... For example, this stand where the oil lamp is placed is probably It is equipped with an ancient gravity device. When the oil lamp is picked up, the gravity will be unbalanced and the mechanism here will be triggered. Even though the things of the ancients look crude, in many cases, their exploration of principles is no better than that of modern people. Poor... they just lacked the ability to generalize and come up with a general formula."

"I'm glad that Claudia, you agree with the wisdom of the ancients so much." Luo Qiu chuckled, and then directly raised the lamp on the table under Claudia's shocked gaze.

"You...you don't want your life?!"

"But it's a pity that there doesn't seem to be the... mechanism you mentioned, classmate Claudia." Luo Qiu came to Claudia with a lamp, "Now, do you want to wipe it?"

Claudia opened her mouth, hesitated, and took the lamp... She was suspicious for a while, then turned away, and then wiped the surface of the lamp hard with her sleeves with a look of disgust. Down.

Luo Qiu smiled... Probably everyone will have such a thing.

When the miraculous scene that I had imagined when I was a child appeared in front of me... I would always do something that would seem quite childish when I grow up.

But the magic lamp didn't react at all... A magic lamp that didn't react was just the most ordinary lamp.

"Look, there is nothing." Claudia turned around, held up the lamp, shook her head and said: "Legends are legends after all, they are just used to deceive children... fools."

Luo Qiu smiled noncommittally, looked around and said, "This is the end, there is no road... It seems we can only go back."

"Then let's go." Claudia nodded and said without saying a word: "It's still dangerous here, it's better to leave as soon as possible."

With that said, Claudia stuffed the lamp in her hand into her backpack... Facing Luo Qiu's gaze at this time, she explained like this: "It's rare to come to this place, but it's just I found this thing, I don’t know if it’s good or not, I’ll take it back and look at it, maybe it’s a valuable thing… Even if it’s just an ordinary thing, wouldn’t it be nice as a souvenir?”

What Claudia said made sense, and Boss Luo couldn't even find any reason to refute... Just watching the magic lamp being stuffed into the backpack, Boss Luo seemed to hear the roar of the red lamp god living inside. the sound of.

As if to say: Look! I said it all! Women are not good things! Not a good thing! I said! !

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When she was about to walk out of the passage, Claudia suddenly asked: "By the way, Luo, did you encounter anything special when you were in the passage...for example, did you have a long dream or something?"

"No." Boss Luo shook his head and said calmly: "What about you? Do you have it?"

"I forgot." Claudia shrugged, and then stretched, "But it's true that sleeping on it...well, sleeping on the floor is really not good for your health...ah!"

She suddenly screamed.

It turned out that at the exit, a strong light suddenly came in... The sudden strong light made it impossible to open one's eyes. After my eyes got used to it a little, I saw a man standing more than ten meters away with a weapon in the room in front of the passage!

Those thugs chasing Aria through the desert!

Bang bang bang!

Continuous applause sounded, and among the thugs, a man in his forties slowly walked out, seemingly the leader of this group of thugs.

He was also wearing a combat uniform, but the combat uniform was put on top of a long-sleeved white robe, which looked a bit nondescript.

"You... don't come over!"

Claudia took two steps back in horror...but for some reason she remembered what she had said before, and stepped forward again, raising her hands tremblingly to lick the body before...found pistol.

"Give up your resistance." The leader of the thugs shook his head at this moment: "Give me what you got from it... I can let you leave this place safely. Otherwise... these corpses all over the ground will be your fate! "

Bang!

Just as the man was finishing his words, there was a loud noise... There was a flash of fire, and there was a burning feeling on the man's temples!

It was a bullet... The bullet grazed the thug leader's hair, and the shooter was... Claudia!

Claudia's hands were shaking even more at this time, and she even wanted to cry... She actually didn't want to shoot, let alone fight with more than a dozen rifles, but there was no way!

Because...because of the overly tense relationship, the small pistol went off...

The man immediately said angrily: "Kill...kill them!"