Whispering Verse

Chapter 2912 Raised Pigeons

The devil said, pinching a few beans from the plate between the two, and then threw them to the pigeons on the ground who looked very expectant. The city of Vesta is located in the forest area of ​​the central part of the Old World. Winter temperatures are far less low than in coastal areas. Most of the birds here do not go to distant places to spend the winter:

“Do you know the relationship between pigeon farmers and pigeons?”

Shade watched the pigeons peck the beans without any sense of danger:

"If it's just a literal relationship, I think I know."

"Pigeons are the eyes and ears of pigeon farmers. Sometimes they can even be regarded as the embodiment of pigeon farmers, but the pigeons themselves may not be aware of this at all."

The devil asked Xiang De:

"The answer you want is probably this. Bennett is the pigeon in the woods who raises and reproduces it from generation to generation."

"So you just told me so bluntly?"

"You want the answer, and I'll give it to you. If you said you should worry about the person outside the city, maybe you haven't noticed that this town is safer than the forest outside. The enlightenment elements formed by the human community can completely block that person. A big tree that doesn't want to show up yet, otherwise there would be no need for it to raise pigeons from generation to generation.

Besides, tonight’s celebration is really lively.”

Shade was actually very worried about the safety of the pigeons - referring to the pigeons that had eaten the beans thrown away by the devil. He lightly tapped the wooden table with his fingers, and then shifted his gaze from the pigeons to the lively crowd around the campfire:

"I originally thought it was omnipotent, but now that you've said it, it seems like it's nothing."

The demon also followed his gaze and looked at the crowd around the campfire. It did not continue to follow Shad's topic:

"The current scene reminds me of some transactions from long ago. Although human beings are developing and changing, human nature has never changed. Men always like eighteen-year-old girls, and rich people always want With more wealth, even the most beautiful witch will be jealous of the appearance of her companions, and the person sitting on the throne is always jealous of everyone except himself.

Someone once made three wishes to me with his soul: immortality, and meeting me once every hundred years. Only after making the third wish can I take away his soul. He seemed to want to prove that he could defeat the greed in his heart, so I agreed to this seemingly unreasonable wish. You know, what happened in the end? "

"He lost?"

"It's hard to say whether I won or lost, but I got his soul. After our eighth meeting, the man who had tasted all kinds of life made a wish for me to kill him and end his life. He said that he had fed up."

It was obviously another story about someone selling their soul to the devil, but Shade laughed and then looked at it again:

"In the eyes of ancients like you, human nature is so simple. With a little use, you can get anything you want from mortals, right?"

The devil also moved his eyes away from the dancing bonfire in the center of the square and looked at Shade again:

"Yes, the ancients all understood this truth, so raising pigeons is a very simple matter for them."

After these words, they both fell silent. The two of them kept looking at each other while people behind and around them walked by. The flame of the gas lamp overhead flickered a few times due to the air pressure, but the pigeons still wanted to eat the beans, so they looked at the "person" who just threw them food.

No one turned their attention to this corner of the square, and the colorful picture seemed to have turned into a silent film. It wasn't until Shade took the initiative to close his eyes and sighed that the silent confrontation just ended. He still had one question to ask, but this question was definitely not free.

"Are you asking how you are going to deal with it? The strength of the chosen ones has not grown enough to fight against such a powerful enemy, and the flames of the First Fire have not yet regrouped. It is indeed difficult to defeat it at the moment."

The devil asked, but Shade shook his head:

"That's not what I want to know. I want to know, when the story ends this time, will I have to face the choice I have to make?"

The young man across the table raised his eyebrows:

"Don't think that I am too omnipotent, but if you say so, I can probably guess something."

He twirled his fingers at Shade, but Shade shook his head:

"No, I just want to see if you understand this matter and get your attitude. However, if you really want to trade with me, I would like to know how you got here."

The devil's eyes narrowed slightly, and it stretched its head towards Shade across the table, its neck seemed to be stretched a lot:

"Tell me, do you really want to know this?"

Shade shut his mouth tightly and even controlled his head not to make any movements that might be mistaken for "agree".

Seeing Shade's appearance, the devil across the table retracted his head, narrowed his eyes and warned:

"Don't try to ask about the origin of any evil spirit, never. Even if the little story I'm about to tell you is just a story about a wish but defeating it, the price is not something you can bear now."

"My doctor friend said something similar."

Shade then spoke, and the red light in the eyes of the devil across the table faded:

"About Bennett, I can give you one last warning. That family is protected by the tree. Don't think that any spying spells, relics or magic can work on them."

Shad nodded to show that he understood:

"Since this is the last warning, then you are leaving? Before you leave, can you tell me why you are in Vesta City? You came here last night, didn't you? But you chose to trade tonight for this young man under your control?"

The devil showed a sneer on his face:

"It seems that you haven't realized this yet, but it doesn't matter, you will understand soon."

It closed its eyes and lay on the table. After a while, the young man sat up again in a daze. He looked around in surprise, as if he didn't understand why he was here.

But soon he seemed to have found a reason to convince himself, and stood up with his head covered, stumbling and disappearing in the crowd in the square, without even looking at Shad during the whole process.

"He is possessed by an evil spirit, and he probably won't live past the age of thirty."

Shad looked at the halo in the wine glass that was stained by the gas lamp and thought that if he was in the mood, he might have called the other party and asked him what wish he made. But he was in no mood now, so he could only use the [Moon Library] to draw the other person's face when he returned, and then throw the information to the church for them to deal with.

"The Bennett family?"

Tonight, their family must be listening to a concert in the magnificent concert hall not far away. In the past two months in Vista City, except for Linda Bennett in the Love Lake incident, Shade has not been able to find any evidence of major problems with any Bennett:

"Could it be that Desire asked me to collect the debt, and said that the other party hid in a place it could not go to, because Bennett was protected by the tree?"

He thought again in his heart, but if this idea is true, it means that Desire cannot compare with the remains of the World Tree:

"Any reconnaissance magic and relics are useless to them. Speaking of which, I am so It seems that they have never used such a [family stabilizer] on them! "

He thought of Miss Danister's document-level relic, which is used to determine blood relationships:

"Whether they have other relationships or not, at least now I can't be sure whether Mr. Bennet's five children are related to him or not."

Thinking of this, he widened his eyes slightly:

"So, as long as two children are not his biological children, Mr. Bennet may actually have only three children, which meets the description of the mermaid. "

[Only one child is not his biological child to meet the conditions. Linda Bennet, the third daughter of the Bennet family, was sent to the church to be a nun after the dead apostle Bronte and the Love Lake incident. It can be considered that she was expelled from the Bennet family. 】 (2747)

The "she" beside him reminded him softly, and Shade also remembered this:

"But at least Mrs. Bennet, who is very worried about her daughters' marriage problems, really exists. This cannot be faked."

This time, "she" did not refute Shade, but the Bennet family has become the core of everything at this time, so it is really unclear what secrets Shade will discover next.

He also picked up a few beans and threw them to the pigeons that had not left yet. Everyone was very happy about the festival today, and these pigeons that walked in the square all year round got a lot of food.

This reminded Shade of the pigeons that lived in St. Teresa's Square outside his house and were stared at by cats basking in the sun all year round. They may have flown to this forest to spend the winter now.

Sighing slightly, he happened to see a little girl selling flowers to passers-by nearby, so Shade called her over:

"Do you have roses?"

The flower girl with two braids on her head looked like she was in her teens, and was much shorter than Vanessa now. She was wearing thin clothes that were inappropriate for the season, and the washed-out skirt looked like a summer outfit.

But even though she was shivering with cold, she still carried the flower basket and tried to show her enthusiasm:

"Yes, sir, these are very fresh red roses. How many do you need?"

"How many do you have?"

The flower girl, who was used to seeing all kinds of customers, immediately realized what the other party wanted to do:

"There are 9 left, sir, do you need to wrap them separately for you?"

Her flower basket itself was not big, and the nine flowers already occupied a large part.

Shade calculated:

"Nine flowers, one for each person should be enough. No need to wrap them separately, just tie them together with old newspapers."