Chapter 703

Apple? Save life?

Confused by the lazy young man's suggestion, Hearing Hearing Li Ang couldn't help asking:

"Why is it an apple?"

"It doesn't have to be an apple. Four-leaf clover, rabbit's foot, transparent amethyst, coins produced on a specific date and carried for a long time, or some red items symbolizing good luck are all fine.

I chose the apple because it is the easiest to obtain. It is not as easy to wither as four-leaf clover, or needs to be carried for a long time like a lucky coin, and the price is particularly cheap. One amethyst can buy dozens of carts.

As for why I say it can save lives... that's because eating the apple and throwing away the core is a simplest mysterious ritual to pray for good luck."

"Ritual?"

"Yes, it is a ritual."

After pointing to Hearing Hearing Li Ang's brow center, the lazy young man explained slowly:

"For example, this action of mine pointing to you is a simple ritual in a mysterious sense, meaning 'guidance', 'selection', or 'locking', and the effect can be strengthened when combined with your name.

Eating an apple is about the same. This sweet fruit with a mostly red skin has four meanings: 'good luck', 'peace', 'temptation', and 'enlightenment'. It is a very classic ritual prop in mystery.

And you ate the fruit meat, which is equal to eating the temptation, throwing away the apple is equal to losing the peace, and not eating or planting the apple seeds is equal to giving up enlightenment. After the four meanings of the apple are gone by three, what remains is the pure good luck with four times the strengthening."

After talking about a bunch of god-like things, the lazy young man drew a wave line in the air, and then continued to explain to Hearing Hearing Li Ang, who was a bit confused:

"I said before that because we are disliked by the world's will, we are much unluckier than ordinary people, but this does not mean that we have no luck, it's just that our luck is forcibly suppressed by the world's will.

So if we take things that represent good luck and throw them proudly toward this world, it is equal to linking with this bastard who suppressed our luck, and completing a simple luck secret ritual.

In this way, a large amount of luck that was forcibly suppressed by it will spray out from the opening provided by the luck secret ritual, bringing us sudden good luck, and reducing the fluctuation degree of fate, making our 'wave line' relatively stable, avoiding those overly dangerous wave valleys.

Of course, after learning this secret ritual, you'd better not eat apples at ordinary times. After all, these lucks are not generated out of thin air, but exchanged for the bad luck we accumulated, so the total amount is limited.

And you are not like me, having an anomalous object that can see through fate directly. It is very dangerous to change your fate randomly and too frequently, so it is best to use it only when needed, to ensure that you don't die of bad luck."

So that's how it is...

After roughly figuring out why throwing apple cores can bring good luck, Hearing Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but nod suddenly, but after looking at the cat claw badge on his chest, he couldn't help asking suspiciously:

"But before, I only spat out a mouthful of fruit meat, why did it also bring good luck and get the badge to enter the Weighing Gold Sect gathering?"

"Because you bit too much, and brought out the seeds in the apple core, which can barely be considered as completing the secret ritual."

"So that's it..."

Hearing Hearing Li Ang nodded clearly, then asked worriedly:

"Senior Tang Mu, are there any other 'simple secret rituals' that need attention? For example, eating an orange or black fruit, won't it suddenly bring bad luck?"

"No, only when the initiator knows the effect of the secret ritual and does it consciously, will this thing take full effect." The lazy young man walked forward in the dim underground alley while answering in a steady tone:

"You were able to successfully launch the simple secret ritual just now, it is estimated that you felt that spitting out the apple like me could bring good luck, and subconsciously partially imitated my posture, which can be considered as reaching the basic launch conditions, otherwise the secret ritual would not be so easy to succeed.

And our secret ritual effect is so powerful, it is because we are disliked by the world's will itself. This qualification is not something ordinary people can have. For those who don't know, doing anything is impossible to launch a secret ritual.

Even if they really gathered the conditions and luckily launched a simple secret ritual, with the soul strength and aptitude of ordinary people, at most they would pick up a few copper wheels... Get ready, the gathering place of the Weighing Gold Sect is past this door. You should put away the anomalous objects on your body first!"

After reminding Hearing Hearing Li Ang, the lazy young man stopped, stood in front of a thick door nailed with one hundred and eleven copper wheels, and then reached out and groped in his pocket, taking out a pile of strange things.

A small bottle of mercury, sulfur powder wrapped in moisture-proof paper, salt in a bag with "Charle Department Store" printed on the packaging...

Two sets of pure copper weights, a tin balance with an iron plate, a small silver mirror, two big gold teeth from nowhere...

Amber, matches, cut fingernails, stained draft paper, curved horns like cattle and sheep, tails of unknown creatures...

It's very weird.

Looking at the lazy young man who took out a pile of messy things from his small pocket like Doraemon and started "setting up an altar" outside the big door, Hearing Hearing Li Ang, even though the situation was urgent, couldn't help but ask:

"These things are..."

"This set of mercury is the sacred three elements, representing the fire of spirit and sex, the soft water of change and adaptation, and the realistic material of stability and support, which also means body, soul, and the bridge communicating the two."

Seeming to know that Hearing Hearing Li Ang would ask questions, the lazy young man who was fiddling with the ritual field answered without even raising his head:

"The latter two sets are five elemental metals with symbolic meanings, and three pairs of materials with opposite meanings. Among them, amber is solidification and eternity, matches are transience and extinction; children's fingernails represent growth, old people's wills mean ending; horns and tails imply beginning and ending... All right, I'm almost ready, let's go!"

After taking out an apple, gnawing it clean in three or two strokes, and throwing the core into the middle of the ritual field, Tang Mu, who had big dark circles under his eyes and looked more like an internet addict than a "wizard," pushed open the door in front of him and entered the gathering place of the Weighing Gold Sect first.

"..."

So what on earth did you prepare?

After looking at the ritual field on the ground that couldn't be said to be sloppy and disorderly, but could only be said to look like a garbage dump, Hearing Hearing Li Ang, who had no clue, was silent for a while, then carefully bypassed these things with unknown meanings, followed into the gathering place of the Weighing Gold Sect, and then...

"Cling-clang"

At the moment he stepped across the door, a sound like precious metal coins colliding rang out. The cat claw badge on Hearing Hearing Li Ang's chest shook slightly, and suddenly threw out a heavy cloth money bag, dropping it at Hearing Hearing Li Ang's feet.

What appeared in front of Hearing Hearing Li Ang was not a scene of sneaky people wearing thick robes kowtowing to the statue in the middle, but a bustling huge square.

A large number of men and women in gorgeous clothes with unclear faces were wearing badges composed of three kinds of animals, walking back and forth on the square, and occasionally stopping at a certain "stall" to buy their favorite...

Wait!

Looking at the dozen roaring fish people in sealed fish tanks on the shelves of the stall next to him, and a micro-manor that was only the size of a palm but had fluttering flags and horn sounds, and even the texture of the outer wall stone was clearly visible, Hearing Hearing Li Ang couldn't help but open his eyes wide in surprise.

The goods sold here... are they a bit wrong?

(End of chapter)