Chapter 52: 52 The Value of Life

52 The Value of Life

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This gold... can it buy my life?!

Hearing the gentle inquiry ringing in their hearts, the more than 50,000 citizens in the entire shopping plaza couldn't help but tremble all over, and their consciousness instantly fell into a trance.

After coming back to their senses, these tens of thousands of citizens discovered with incomparable horror that they were standing upright facing the large money box in the center of the shopping plaza, and were arranged into a uniform fan shape.

And a giant toad that was two stories high was lying lazily on the large money box that was about the same height as it, drumming its two huge golden compound eyes that protruded outward, looking at everyone with interest.

"..."

So... I caught up with an anomalous event again?

Touching the badge that was hot on his chest, Li Ang, whose brows were tightly locked, first confirmed the state of the sheep head and the broom, and found that they could still be used, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then immediately tried to move his feet.

No, can't move...

After looking down at the situation of his feet, Li Ang was surprised to find that a giant frog hand with suckers was growing from the ground of the shopping plaza, firmly sucking his calves.

On the back of this strange frog hand, there were a large number of dark cyan bumps like pimples, looking like copper wheels embedded in the skin, with a quantity of about twenty-three or twenty-four.

After confirming that he could not break free for the time being, Li Ang observed other people around him and found that their situation was similar. They were all firmly sucked on the ground by frog hands, and could only struggle and scream in panic.

And unlike him, the bumps on the skin of the frog hands that caught them didn't seem to be all dark cyan. There were quite a few cold silver-white ones, and occasionally some extremely eye-catching golden bumps could be seen.

Gold, silver, copper... it feels like some kind of rule involving money.

After pondering for a few seconds, Li Ang, who had two sets of children's clothes and a knitted sweater hanging on the broom, roughly guessed the meaning of these bumps.

The things piled up by Charle Department Store were indeed much lower than the market price, and he was also attracted by the exceptionally tempting price when passing by the shopping plaza.

Holding the idea of taking advantage of a little bit and saving some money for his family, he went around the clothing area and bought some things for his younger siblings. The difference between these things and the original market average price added up to about twenty-something copper wheels, which was similar to the number of cyan bumps on the frog hand.

So as long as there is "greed," will you be caught by a frog hand with an intensity equal to the greed?

Trying to throw away the shopping bag in his hand, he found that he was still firmly caught. Li Ang couldn't help but squat down and try to touch the frog hand, but he didn't touch any entity, nor did he get any prompt from 【Materialist Soul】.

It seems that these weird frog hands are not things that really exist, but some kind of rule materialized after triggering the other party's ability. It is estimated that only by fixing the body can he get rid of the control, but he is now six or seven hundred meters away from that toad, how can he hurt its body?

"Why is no one willing to promise me?"

Just when Li Ang was hesitating whether to try the Director's red hair, looking at the panicked crowd in the plaza, the giant golden toad on the money box blinked and sighed softly with some disappointment:

"People, you are clearly so passionate about money, and even deeply worship its magic, but when I follow the desire in your heart and send money to you, you don't even want to look at it, why is this?"

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

Seeing that this giant toad was not particularly "violent," and seemed to be an existence that could communicate, a man who was covered in shopping bags gathered his courage and answered:

"Money is good, but it can't compare to life.

Life is priceless."

"Not so."

Following the sound to look at the man, the golden toad curled its mouth and asked with a smile:

"Based on my understanding of your species, life should be measurable by money, and quite cheap."

Seeing this giant monster looking over, the man who spoke instinctively wanted to run, but his legs were firmly caught by the frog hands growing from the ground, and he couldn't leave the spot at all, so he had to scream in horror.

"You are so noisy."

Stretching out the foot web stained with transparent mucus, he gently touched the gold mountain in front of him, stuck a large amount of dazzling gold wheels, and then the golden toad's "palm" clenched slightly, and the gold wheels stuck on the foot web disappeared instantly, directly crossing a distance of more than thirty meters and piling up in front of the man's feet.

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

Accompanied by the golden toad's gentle voice, as if he had been strangled directly, the man's screams and pleas stopped abruptly. Even if his eyes bulged in horror and he desperately dug his throat with his hands, he still couldn't spit out even the most basic "he he" sound.

After directly "buying" the man's voice, looking at the plaza that instantly became silent, the golden toad nodded with satisfaction, then turned to look at the pair of people closest to it, a pair of small couples who were trembling, and asked softly:

"What about you? Are you willing to sell your life to me?"

"No... not willing!"

The husband of the small couple was already too scared to speak, and the terrified wife, while trying to restrain her desire to scream, hugged her husband's arm and shook her head desperately to refuse:

"My life... both of our lives only have one! If... if we sell it to you, we will be gone!"

"Is it?"

Tilting its head with some regret, the golden toad said with confusion:

"You said you are not willing to sell your life to me, but you have clearly been selling your own lives."

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

"You have."

Stretching out the fingertips of the foot web, he gently stuck two gold wheels, and the golden toad blinked its huge compound eyes like a fly, and said without allowing refusal:

"These two shiny little things, you have to work in the cotton mill for seven days, controlling the machine to process tens of thousands of pounds of raw cotton to get them, and your husband needs to wear airtight long rubber boots and soak in the dye pool full of medicine and reagents for a full five days.

So I judged very fairly that your seven days of life are only equal to his five days of life, and his five days of life are equal to these two gold wheels. And in the past four years, you have always been making such exchanges, and the future will obviously continue."

After giving the conclusion of measuring the value of life, in the fearful eyes of the small couple, the golden toad began to grab gold wheels from in front of it in handfuls, and sent the expensive golden currencies to their feet one by one.

After giving the conclusion on measuring the value of life, amidst the fearful gazes of the young couple, the golden toad began to grab handfuls of the golden wheels in front of it, sending those expensive golden coins one by one to their feet.

What is even more terrifying is that although the golden toad's words were directed at the small couple, there were far more than two people who had gold wheels appearing at their feet. In the entire shopping plaza, more than 50,000 people had a large amount of gold wheels emerging at their feet almost at the same time.

And with the ding-dong sound produced by the collision of metal currencies, everyone in the plaza who received the "payment" began to age uncontrollably! ===== CHAPTER 53 =====

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