Whispering Verse

Hearing Shade's question, the doctor holding the fishing rod glanced at him suspiciously:

"Don't make a deal with the devil. This is common sense. Why would you want to actually make a deal with the devil? More importantly, how do you know that you can't beat him?"

"Because I don't have it"

Halfway through, Xia De realized the meaning of the doctor's words and couldn't help laughing.

The doctor shook his head:

"I can't stand the idea of ​​demons taking away souls the most. Since you said that I definitely won't meet you, I'll assume that you don't have helpers around you."

In fact, there is Miss Higgins, the high-level witch, but the other party is suppressed by the Black Mist Camp. Even Shade might not be able to win in a real fight, so Shade didn't mention it.

"The demon of greed can inspire greed in mortals, but it is also very greedy. You can find a way to make it agree to bet with you, and then use that soul as a bet, so you might not even have to fight."

The doctor reminded, Shade nodded, this method is indeed good:

"But I may not win the bet."

"You're right, so you have to cheat. This is a just cause. You don't have to talk to the devil about morality. You bet with it on whether the coin is heads or tails. It itself is made of coins and will definitely agree. I will give you a coin I made in advance. , so that you can deceive it, so that you can win. Of course, if you can't win, you can find a way to let the other party absorb the coin. Then you don't have to worry."

The doctor easily solved the problem that Sha De thought would be very troublesome.

"Detective, when do you want to use coins? Although it is not difficult to make that thing, it takes a long time. It will take about a week to a week and a half before I can give you the finished product."

"It doesn't matter. Let's deal with the maze first. I'm not in a hurry."

"That's fine."

The doctor nodded and was about to talk to Shade about the anomalies in this lake area. Suddenly, the fishing rod in his hand shook and he actually caught a fish:

"You're finally here!"

The doctor didn't care to speak. He jumped down from the coffin and turned the wheel to retrieve the fishing line. However, the force in the water was so strong that the doctor staggered and almost fell into the lake:

"Detective, help!"

"coming!"

Shade also reached out and grabbed the fishing rod, and then felt the huge power in the lake. Whatever it was, it couldn't possibly be a fish, unless there were whales in Green Lake.

But no matter what, seeing the black energy coming out of the doctor's hands, obviously using thaumaturgy, Shade also activated the [Red Dragon Power]. So under the power of the dragon and the devil, the things caught in the water finally moved closer to the shore as the two of them retreated step by step. The two sides struggled for ten minutes, and after repeated pulling again and again, the glass bottle filled with colorful smoke was finally pulled ashore by the fishhook.

When it flew out of the lake with water droplets, Shade could even see the blue "giant"'s stunned expression in the bottle.

"Oh~"

Now Shade understood what the doctor was doing when he came here early in the morning.

The glass bottle hanging on the fishhook was grabbed by Dr. Schneider. The bottle cork was popped open neatly, and as colorful smoke came out, the blue giant spirit appeared in front of Shade again.

The sage-level relic [Repayment of Greed] has the "Wish Demon-Zatanna" sealed in it. Counting the meeting during the "Seven-Day Journey" in the Fifth Era, this was the third time Shade had seen it.

After the blue "giant" appeared this time, he did not immediately talk about the three wishes. Instead, he asked Shade quite dissatisfied:

"We had agreed at the time that I would give you clues and you would let me go. Why don't you just let me go now?"

Being questioned by demons about your lack of integrity is probably a rare experience.

So Shade, who thought he was very honest, still defended himself:

"Look what you said. What does this have to do with me? I didn't catch you! Besides, you actually stayed in Green Lake? What are you thinking?"

"Detective, I said yesterday that the chaos and depression in the Green Lake area are very attractive to demons. Although it has been turned into a relic, the nature of the demon has not changed. Now that it is here, how can it leave? From our perspective When I set out for the city, I had the idea of ​​finding it, and lo and behold, the plan went well."

The doctor said with a smile, a dark red light flashed in his eyes:

"Do you know me?"

The giant spirit then turned to look at the doctor, hesitated for a moment, and shook his head slightly:

"Maybe. But since you ask, I definitely don't know you."

"Well, I have some troublesome things to deal with in Green Lake. I need your help. After I leave Green Lake, I will let you go. I can sign a contract to guarantee this."

After speaking, he also explained to Shade:

"Although Yaru is not powerful, you said that there are many dangers on the island. To be on the safe side, it is better for us to find a helper."

Shade also felt that the doctor's arrangements were very appropriate. He was worthy of being someone who made three plans before leaving Tobesk.

As for the wish demon-Zatanna, when he saw Shad and the doctor talking, he shook his bottle violently and tried to escape, but the bottle was firmly held in the doctor's hand. Seeing the blue-eyed middle-aged man looking at it suspiciously, it could only sigh:

"I knew that I should have left here directly at that time. Okay, I can help you. But if you ask for my help, it will not be free."

"We can talk about this later."

The doctor was very satisfied with the result, so he asked Shade again:

"I'm going to walk around the lake for a while, and I'll go into the lake to check out the situation soon. Do you want to come with me? Can you introduce this place to me?"

Shade shook his head regretfully:

"I have something else to do. I will go to the outskirts of the city to investigate a circus in a while. That circus involves a lot of things, related to Gray Gloves."

This is the task Margaret gave Shad.

"It is also suspected to be related to a relic."

This was something listed on the witch's task list. Since the two things were in the same place, Shade stopped by to solve them. The mushroom samples harvested at the end of the count's last mission with poisonous mushrooms were very useful. He wanted to see what he would encounter this time.

"Well, you go and do your business. Once I'm ready, I'll leave you a message at the hotel. So far, things are going very smoothly. I originally thought I would have to fish for a whole day about the coins. I’ll remember that too, don’t worry about that.”

The doctor said with a smile, Shade waved goodbye to him and left here.

After confirming that Shade was gone, the doctor looked at the giant spirit still floating in the air, who also looked at the doctor. One person and one demon stared at each other like this for a long time, before the "giant" folded his hands in front of his chest and asked:

"This friend of yours once asked me some interesting questions. The Devil."

"Do you really want to say it?"

The psychiatrist asked, and "Djinn" nodded:

"What do you want to do? I'm warning you, the guys on the island are not that easy to deal with."

The circus Shade is investigating today is not a local performance organization. They are a troupe organization that wanders around the Old World and makes a living by performing. The reason why they choose to come to Green Lake City is naturally because the number of outsiders in the Green Lake area has increased sharply recently due to negotiations between the two countries. Now that they come here, business will Pretty good.

A group of people known as the "Blue Star Circus" is now stationed in the southern suburbs of Green Lake City, setting up camp and performing in small villages adjacent to the city. Although it is a village outside the city, it is a traffic artery and the only way from the southwest of Green Lake City to the City of Glass, so people entering and leaving the city can see them.

Moreover, this location can also be used to perform in the city at any time, making it a very convenient camp.

Margaret's mission was to ask the "Grey Eagle" to find out what her brother, Prince Samuel of Anjou, had done in the city of Green Lake after sending Gray Gloves agents. On the witches' task list, the great witch of time suspects that there is a cognitive-altering relic hidden in the circus, and it is not recommended for girls below the middle level to investigate alone.

When he left the city to find a doctor just now, Shade had already asked the coachman about the circus, so he found the location of the circus easily.

The somewhat hard-to-remember "Cotswolds Village" is actually completely adjacent to the city. It doesn't even have a moat or city wall, and only a dirt road separates the city and the countryside. The Blue Star Circus's camp is in the threshing floor outside the village.

In the spring, when the villagers no longer needed to use the place frequently, they rented the venue to the circus. The circus formed a large circle with more than ten carriages and set up several stalls selling various souvenirs, forming a small camp.

But it is Thursday morning, and the circus obviously has no performances. The animals were all locked in the tent, and the members of the troupe gathered together in twos and threes, playing cards or hanging clothes to dry.

Three policemen from the city were questioning a man wearing a black silk top hat about the circus members; on the open-air wooden stage in the southeast corner of the camp, a middle-aged man holding a dagger was pointing at a target ten steps away. ; The middle-aged bald man guarding the souvenir stall sat on a chair, folded his hands on his chest and yawned; in the temporary stable not far away, the groom brushed the back of the red horse with a large brush; the most lively place was the camp In the open space to the west, a young juggler stood on a wooden stool, surrounded by children from the village, and was performing a show of tossing three red balls at a time to them.

When he was throwing the ball, he would also deliberately make tricks from time to time that he almost couldn't catch the ball. At this time, the children would all sigh "Oh~" together, and after the young man caught the ball, they would applaud.

The weather outside the city is good. Just looking at this camp, although I can detect an extremely low reaction of the elements, but if I look carefully, I can't see anything unusual here. No one stopped Shade as he walked over. After all, the circus could still sell souvenirs even if it wasn't performing.