Whispering Verse

This traveling merchant mainly sells hand-polished jewelry and other shiny things in the countryside, which are packed in luggage and baskets. Of course, Shade didn't expect to find any treasures from them. In fact, these things were indeed commonplace.

He just glanced at it and knew that there was no element response, but during the simple rummaging process, when his finger touched a round metal coin the size of a fingernail, he actually noticed a slight element fluctuation:

"what?"

The coin was so small that I was worried about falling to the ground when I pinched it. The number 1 is engraved on both sides, but there are no other pictures.

Seeing that Shade was interested in this, the merchant found all the same coins. There are 8 pieces in total, all of which have similar weak element reactions, and they can only be detected by direct contact.

The merchant himself didn't remember where he got these things from. He gave them all to Shade, and Shade planned to take them back to Old John to see if he might have really gotten lucky.

Saying goodbye to the enthusiastic traveling merchants, he took the playing cards and those small coins with satisfaction, and wanted to return to the camp near the crossroads village with Professor Boulanger to find Captain Lades. But when I returned to the west side of the tavern where I had just eaten, I found that people had gathered together at some unknown time and seemed to be watching people quarreling. Listening to the voice, it was clearly Professor Boulanger.

Shade hurriedly squeezed through the crowd, and sure enough he saw the three professors confronting two men in short shirts who looked like dock sailors. The chaotic crowd around them had already explained the cause of this incident clearly. Two sailors accidentally spilled drinks on the professor's clothes. When the professor asked them to apologize, the sailors used insulting words and called the three professors "old southerners."

"professor."

Shade shouted, left the crowd and came to the professor's side. Neither the professor nor the two students seemed to be good at solving this kind of thing, so he nodded to Professor Boulanger and motioned for him to handle it, and then said to the two sailors:

"Gentlemen, this is a place to eat. Let's resolve this matter peacefully."

The sailor took a look at Shade's clothing and body shape, and made sure that he didn't look like a bodyguard or a boxer:

"As a Delarian, how can you hang out with the Southern Lao?"

Their statement was echoed by many people around them.

"So what do you want?"

Shade asked again.

"You compensate us because you wasted our time. Then get out of this tavern, you are not welcome here. Otherwise, we can use our fists to reason."

As he said this, the short sailor clasped his fists and clapped his hands twice. Now the onlookers started to cheer even more, encouraging both sides to fight. Although the bartender who came after hearing the news wanted to dissuade the sailors from their behavior, he was stopped by the taller one among the sailors.

Professor Boulanger behind Shade was a little embarrassed, but Shade didn't care at all:

"That's what you said."

As he said that, he walked over. The sailors didn't expect him to be so bold, but they weren't afraid of Shade either.

The two of them also rushed towards Sha De. One of them punched Sha De in the face, while the other raised his leg and kicked Sha De in the stomach. Shade, who could now even see the flying bullets, turned his head neatly to avoid the fist, then raised his leg and kicked away the leg that was kicking him.

While the sailor covering his leg screamed and fell to the ground, the other sailor tried to withdraw his empty fist, but was caught by Shade. The sailor tried hard to withdraw his fist, but found that Shade's strength was amazing.

"You asked for it."

Xia De squeezed the opponent's fist violently, let go, raised his foot, and kicked the second sailor toward the wall. The whole process was very neat and tidy.

"Professor, let's go."

He waved to Professor Boulanger and the other three, and then walked towards the door. After seeing the scene just now, of course no one dared to stop them, so Shade came outside the tavern.

"This is probably the second pub fight I've encountered in the Green Lake area."

He thought in his mind.

The first conflict was between a southerner in the Crossroads Village tavern and his rude words to the female owner of the tavern; the second time was a northerner's rude words to a southerner. Although it may seem like a trivial matter, without the tense atmosphere created by this negotiation and the emotions stirred up by it, the matter may not have developed into a brawl.

"Mr. Watson, I think we might as well hire you directly."

Professor Boulanger walked out of the tavern and followed Shade. The two walked side by side on the dirt ground in the village, with the students following behind.

Shade shook his head:

"Professor, you can't afford to hire me. Oh, I mean, I have a lot of trouble to deal with. But your judgment is correct. If you and the students want to stay on the north shore of Green Lake for a long time, find some Bodyguards are necessary.”

The professor nodded with deep understanding:

"Now we can still walk on the land of Delarion. Maybe in a few years... No one can say what will happen in the future. Let's go, let's go. What should happen will happen. Instead of worrying about this, It’s better to think more about my own articles.”

He was not frightened by the fight, but rather dejected by other things. Shade understands the professor's thoughts quite well. After all, although the stranger lives in Delrayon, he actually has no sense of belonging to Delrayon. His love for Delrayon is more because of Ka The Wendish girls.

Therefore, he can judge this negotiation and its impact from the perspective of a bystander better than anyone else.

"There is no such thing as good and evil, at least in my opinion, there really isn't."

After leading the professor and his group to successfully find Captain Rades, Shade left. The captain did not resist the professor's request for help. He did not have much prejudice against the Carsonians, especially Carson who was willing to give him money. Rick people.

As for Professor Boulanger's help in tracing the name on the pen, once he has the result, he will send a letter directly to the Green Lake Hotel. However, Shade didn't have much hope for this kind of investigation. He still thought that Bad-Eye Barry might be able to give him some surprises tomorrow.

Because there was a long-awaited group activity tonight, Shade threw away his glass slipper and returned home. I took a sip of pink essence and took a rest. Seeing that it was still early, I hugged little Mia who was watching the pigeons enjoying their nap on the window sill to deal with other things.

I don't know if it was Shade's illusion. Mia, who had been basking in the sun all afternoon, seemed to have a higher body temperature than normal. She seemed to be holding a small stove in her arms. He once thought the cat had a fever, but soon after leaving the sun, Xiao Mia's body temperature returned to normal. This phenomenon was very miraculous.

He took Mia to the Seer Association first, but this time it was not to ask Luvia for divination, but to bring the newly obtained Star 13 [Dove of Peace·Kansas Mountain Negotiation] to the association for appraisal. Hearing that Luvia was very busy, Shade didn't go out to see her. They would meet her in the evening anyway.

Then we went to Old John's pawn shop.

Ding dong~

"Good afternoon, oh, Priest Augustus?"

When I opened the door of the pawn shop, I immediately saw an old man wearing a priest's robe talking to Old John at the counter. Hearing Shade's voice, Priest August also turned to look at him:

"Oh, good afternoon, Shade. Let's leave together later. I think it's getting late. Let's go to the train station together."

"OK."

Priest August came to Old John to order a batch of special reagent bottles to store some ultra-high temperature liquids. After Priest Augustus finished handling his affairs, Shade carried Mia and walked to the counter. The cat placed it on the counter, and then discharged the eight fingernail-sized coins:

"Dad John, please help me find out what this is. It doesn't look like an ordinary item, but I didn't find anything unusual."

"Such a small coin is rare. You should understand that currency was invented to be used, and the size of the currency is therefore related to the size of the user's hand. Such a small coin may not be used by humans."

He took out his tools for inspection, while Shade chatted with Priest August about the church. The delegation sent by Kasenrik for the connection negotiations has recently been not only keen on participating in the social activities of the nobles in Tobesk, but also keen on visiting the Five Gods Church in this diocese.

The priest received more than one "distinguished guest" and thought that they were not very pious:

"They all come with their own goals, and I've never been in favor of using churches as a social place."

Old John's examination took a full twenty minutes. When he took off the retractable brass mechanical monocle, he also picked up the towel on the side and wiped the sweat on his forehead:

"Let me tell you, why is it so strange? Detective, you may be disappointed, this is not a coin at all."

"What? But something that is round and has numbers on the front and back, what else can it be if it's not a coin?"

Shade asked in surprise. The old man behind the counter glanced at the cat being stroked by Shade and gave a suitable example:

"Your cat is just like us. It has two eyes, a nose, a mouth and two ears, and it is also made of meat. Could it be that your cat is also a human being? Detective, don't let your conventional thinking mislead you. Own."

He stacked the eight small round coins together:

"This thing is very rare, I have only heard of it."

He opened the thick book he just took from upstairs, then turned it around and pushed it to Shade:

"It's this thing. Although its appearance is different from the one in the record, its function is the same. This is a derivative of a relic, and it is a derivative of an angel-level (level 1) relic."

Shade, the interested Priest August, and Mia all stretched their heads over, and Shade read out the text on the book.

"Angel-level relic [Feynman's Gold Storage Warehouse]. This relic looks like an ordinary warehouse and cannot be opened in a normal way. Any attempt to open the warehouse will cause the relic to go out of control. The specific description is omitted. Every natural day, you can A varying number of standard square, circular, equilateral trapezoidal or isosceles triangle metal pieces were found in the cracks of the door. Numbers were written on the surface of the metal pieces, and the relic derivatives were numbered using numbers.

The characteristics of this type of relic derivatives are as follows——

Metal No. 1, after spiritual resonance, can be shaped and manipulated by the Ring Warlock to change the color and shape, but cannot change other physical properties. This feature will become invalid after being far away from the operator;

Metal No. 2, when exposed to any metal, is transformed into that type of metal, and has been proven to be effective against extraordinary metals such as mithril;

No. 3 metal, after continuous consumption, there is a probability of obtaining the [Metal], [Iron] and [Hard] spirit runes, and there is a very small probability that one's own internal organs will turn into metal irreversibly;

Metal No. 4 is doped and calcined with pig iron in a specific ratio to make a mind-shielding alloy;

No. 5 metal. Once No. 5 metal appears, with the containment area as the center, any metal objects within three miles must be melted down within 24 hours;

No. 6 metal, slightly. "

"Is this a location-type relic? If I remember correctly, it was taken into custody by the [Church of Creation and Destruction], right?"

Priest August raised his head and said, and Old John nodded:

"Yes, there are rumors that this relic is actually an evil seal created in the Second Age. There are actually things we can't describe imprisoned in the warehouse. I also know more information. No. 5 metal is called 'intelligent metal' , after appearing, it will give soul and wisdom to any five metal products within three miles, and is extremely malicious to humans. Metal No. 6 is related to the relic itself. Once it appears, it means that the things in the warehouse are coming out. "

Priest August was not surprised that Old John knew so many things, but Shade was more concerned about his eight small round coins:

"I thought it was eight special coins... It turned out not to be such a good thing."

He followed the instructions in the book and used his spiritual power to resonate with the eight coins. Then, Mia saw eight stacked coins fused into a cylinder. The cylinder flew into the air, then deformed and changed color as if melting, and finally turned into a blooming metallic gradient red rose. . With Shade's mental interference, the gradient color of the flower changes along the direction of long wave to short wave within the visible light spectrum. After turning to purple, it changes back to the long wave band.

"It doesn't seem to be of any use."

Xia De said regretfully, and the old man behind the counter nodded:

"Your mental power is really strong... What do you think this can be used for? It's just a relic derivative, and it can't even be considered the most important feature of that angel-level relic. However, you can use it to copy Someone else's metal key, or hiding it on the body and temporarily turning it into a blade, or when you can't find a sewing needle... Some ring wizards who are good at manipulating metal like this kind of thing... Appraisal fee I won’t take it anymore, it’s so cheap and I don’t even bother to give you change, so I’ll put it together with next time.”

Shade nodded. He had the [Key to the Door] himself, and he also had the ability to turn items into toys. He doesn't actually need this derivative of an angel-level relic, but he has already thought of how to deal with it.