Chapter 1715

The group continued to move forward according to the guidance of the black scale. The firelight swayed constantly as the four walked, illuminating the terrifying and strange black shadows, and then throwing them behind.

"In other words, wanting to get certain things here isn't just about paying, including currency."

The witch walking at the front summarized in a low voice; she was of course talking to Xia De:

"Before we entered here, that Majesty didn't mention this situation."

Xia De looked at the witch's back in front:

"Never think you understand this kind of strange place. That Majesty being able to prepare currency for you in advance was already unexpected. However, I always feel that the currency has something strange... Mrs. Myers, are you okay?"

Because he placed his hand on the old woman's shoulder, Xia De could feel that the old woman's walking movements were becoming more and more difficult:

"Miss Higgins, how much further is the road?"

"Cannot estimate the specific time required."

"Don't worry about me, continue to move forward. No matter what, I must find his soul and let him tell me personally why he didn't return. I have waited too long; even if I die here, I must see him again."

"You contacted Her Majesty, but after all, you could only describe the appearance simply, so Her Majesty only confirmed what this thing was."

Compared to the numerous vendors, the number of "roles" like magicians was quite small. However, they soon saw the third strange black shadow, but this time everyone avoided it without thinking, because the other party was standing in a fence surrounded by branches after the crowd appeared, holding a sword and gesturing.

"There will be opportunities later." 【Middle.】

"Mrs. Myers, please relax your body—Puppet Manipulation."

The black shadow reached out with a cup, covered the coins that were originally placed on the table, and then moved both hands at high speed at the same time, swapping the positions of the three inverted teacups in front of it.

Anyway, it had to be tried sooner or later.

"Can you hear me? Is it Her Majesty? Okay, yes, yes, broken sword, pink-white conch, bra, yes, not joking. Rune? Sorry, no way to contact and observe carefully, feeling? Should all be related to the undead, the details are like this... Yes, didn't say wrong. Okay, I will take good care of Mrs. Myers. Oh, I will also take good care of myself, wish you also... Time is up."

The witch tried to walk forward and was not blocked. The other three followed closely behind. This time, no one was stopped.

"Which one?"

She stood straight, very respectfully talking to the conch. Except for her, no one could hear the voice from the conch. After the call ended, Miss Higgins took the conch away, and seeing Ers looking at her, she explained as if defending herself:

The last item was a tin-like adult statue; the statue was a noble man with hands spread out and a terrified expression on his face, about the size of a finger.

Miss Higgins discussed with Ers in a low voice:

Ers pointed to the middle teacup, the black shadow turned it over, and pushed the coin inside to Ers. The coin flipped to the front, and it surprisingly had Higgins' own portrait on it.

A pink... bra, neatly folded there, not only out of place with the surroundings, but even out of place with this region. Ers once thought he had also hallucinated.

As if to prove she could continue walking, she tried hard to stop her body from trembling, but she couldn't overcome her instinct. Fortunately, Ers didn't want to say go back now:

She stated her request very clearly, so the black fog covering the three items dissipated, revealing the appearance of the trade goods.

"Relic 【Undead's Charm】, can only be used by women. After wearing it, it significantly increases the probability of pregnancy after mating with undead creatures. Of course, the other party doesn't have to be undead that originally had reproductive ability, such as vampire species, it can also be... forget it, won't say. However, this relic is ineffective for witches. It seems this isn't something Mrs. Myers wants to use; it's impossible to attract undead. Speaking of which, Her Majesty said, if a man wears this relic, it will... you wouldn't want to know."

She pointed to the fossil conch, and the static black shadow pointed to the scale, and the scale became unbalanced again. But the witch only placed one currency, and the balance was reached again:

"But at least one possibility was excluded, and the first two pieces of meat were excluded, so it's also a choice between two. No, it's a choice between two."

"Hello. We want to call a soul. If he has already left, please bring it to our front; if he hasn't died yet, please tell us he hasn't died."

Speaking of this, she also had an idea. So she placed the black metal scale on the ground and said to the black shadow sitting behind the stall:

We didn't think about avoiding it, so we walked straight over. This time, at the strange stall, the black shadow had no action after the crowd appeared in front of it.

Ers pointed to the man's bra. It could be seen that the young witch wasn't surprised by its appearance, indicating that in their era, the textile industry had also reached a very high level, at least decorations like lace were already common. And, after Xia De told the little girl about the steam industry in "Hope Town," which made her awaken to become a witch, hundreds of years had passed, and presumably the material world had also entered the steam industrial era.

Mrs. Myers' attitude was very firm; her weak and elderly body couldn't hinder her determination. She was even begging Xia De not to care about her:

Fortunately, the destination guided by the black scale was finally determined. After encountering a dead end again and carefully taking a detour, they stopped in front of a stall placed on the ground.

But fortunately, there was a perception method that would not be restricted no matter what.

This led to the group having to spend more time moving forward. The light of the torches in everyone's hands only had about two-thirds of the light left compared to when they first entered the camp. If they still couldn't reach the destination, even if the mental power of the two ordinary people could still support it, they would have to end their first exploration of the camp.

"I'm not buying, can I borrow one of those?"

Ers thought for a while, feeling that he needed to get his own currency:

On the yellowish-brown broken cloth stained with blood, four items were scattered. Only two of them revealed their appearance, and the remaining two items were completely unclear under the black fog. "Soul?"

"The things on the table, that should be the classic gamble, one of the three cups covers the coin, and then changes positions for us to guess... are you interested in this?"

"That's not what you want either. I know this bottle of water; I haven't heard of anyone naming it, so I gave it a name myself: Water of the Underworld. This is water from the River Styx, where souls pass through in true death. This is a top-tier death-type material, and it has miraculous effects when used to assist in rituals of destruction, death, and corruption of life. However, this is the first time I've seen this kind of water outside of death."

A blood-stained pink-white conch, about the same size as Ers' palm;

She tried hard to raise her head to show her ambition, and Ers said with a smile:

"Being respectful to a witch of such status is of course correct, even if Her Majesty can only hear your voice... There will always be a day when I can become such a witch."

The black shadow behind the table raised its hand and pointed to the black scale floating beside the witch, and then it flew onto the table automatically. The end facing it pressed down immediately. Ers held the torch and looked at the witch:

"Let me try."

She wasn't very used to this kind of topic, so she didn't go deep into it. Then, she lowered her voice and urged Ers while looking into his eyes:

The importance of coins in that place naturally didn't need to be said, it was just that the participation conditions were unknown, and the possibility of losing couldn't be excluded.

He said while white smoke also puffed out of his mouth. Even with the blessing of "Moon Shadow" forever under the moon and "Moon of Life" forever tireless under the moon, he still felt a little fatigue:

The witch let out a long breath. After the white fog in her mouth dissipated, she pulled her skirt and bent down carefully, placed the scale in front of the stall, and then asked softly:

"You see, Her Majesty choosing me was indeed reasonable."

Although the conversation between Miss Higgins and the Witch Emperor of the Desert was brief, at least there was a harvest:

Suddenly, the witch at the front slowed down. She extended three fingers toward the back. This was the secret signal she had agreed upon with Ers; one finger represented danger, two represented reaching the destination, and three represented encountering a black shadow other than a vendor again. "Do you want to try?"

Among the three items, only the runes on the gray fossilized conch revealed themselves toward Ers' direction, so Ers could only see the text on this thing.

【Missing, so communicate】. She said to Higgins, and saw the pale Mrs. Myers, who was almost unable to hold the torch under the boy's support, so she threw the coin to the black shadow, while she herself picked up the gray fossilized conch and held it to her ear:

He asked the young witch, and the latter pointed to the fossilized conch:

Death actually had nothing in it; Priest Ao Gu Si had talked about this with Ers. But through special means, it was indeed possible to bring the water or even the stones on the beach there to the material world. This was a top-tier death-type material, and it had miraculous effects when used to assist in rituals of destruction, death, and corruption of life. However, this was the first time Ers had seen this kind of water outside of death.

Mrs. Myers and the boy were still hiding behind the two, then Higgins and the witch returned to the wooden table with the cups again.

"Young man, I have waited for a lifetime. Even in my dreams, I think about meeting him again on a sunny day at the crossroads filled with sage, rosemary, and thyme where we parted. Please continue to move forward, I know he must also be waiting for you."

"Choose one of two, what do you recognize?"

"That, relic 【Missing Conch】, speaking to the conch can transmit one's missing to the ears of the person being missed and establish a short-term call. Of course, the other party must be a living person."

"It seems this isn't forced participation." "Yes, wish you success."

Mrs. Myers and the boy's state was getting worse and worse. The consumption of physical strength was not a big problem at this time, but after their mental power was excessively consumed, they already had slight auditory and visual hallucinations. According to the boy, he now had the urge to stay in place and sleep, or find a stall at random and trade his soul to obtain "permanent sleep."

The three items revealed at this moment were a bottle of colorless transparent water, in a sealed glass container;

Higgins temporarily took over the walking of the elderly old woman, as for the boy behind him, he could still persist by himself, so he didn't need Higgins to take special care of him.

Before Ers could speak, Miss Higgins couldn't help covering her mouth in horror. She didn't look at other items, but stared at the tin adult statue, and said to Ers in a trembling voice:

"Miss Higgins, can you lend me some coins? I promise I will return them to you."

"Yes, solidified soul. This place actually sells this kind of thing? Only demons would do this kind of thing. Solidified souls will never have the possibility of continuing to walk forward. Unless destroyed, they can only constantly endure suffering until the end of the world. This is turning a soul into an item; this is a deadly sin, and all gods will abandon everyone who tries to do this."

The black shadow stood quietly behind the wooden table and had no action after the four people reached in front of it.

A gray fossilized conch, similar in size to the former, with whispering elements and strong miracle elements coexisting;

This was likely to use a duel to obtain coins or other items, and the degree of danger naturally didn't need to be said. In that place, if one could avoid fighting, one should try to avoid fighting.

Ers pointed to the bottle of transparent water and said very surely:

The two items that were not covered by the black fog were bloody remains, so they were definitely not items used for calling souls.

The witch placed the coin with her own portrait on it. With just one coin, the scale returned to balance, representing this was a game of betting one coin for one coin.

The black shadow stopped its hand after twenty seconds, signaling Ers to guess. Ers didn't know which was the correct answer at this time, and the suppression of perception also made him unable to seek the answer through his own inspiration.

"That is a soul."

Its hand speed was extremely fast, and it wasn't that the transmission of sound in the fog was obstructed; Ers even suspected he would hear a sonic boom. Dynamic vision wanting to capture the position of the correct teacup was quite weak, plus the drifting black fog would also cause a large area of blind spots in front of his eyes. Even if it was just for a moment, it was enough to lose the correct choice.

The road ahead was quite long. The group held torches, placed their hands on the shoulders of the person in front, and walked through this strange place like that. The cautious witch didn't talk to Ers again, but patiently found the direction according to the pointing of the scale. She took the wrong road several times, because there existed "dead ends" in this market like a labyrinth, which was only discovered after turning into a certain path and finding the end of the road blocked by a certain stall.

Actually, the water in true death wasn't water. This dark water area, this beach, and this dark moon were only generated because someone appeared, allowing people to observe them.

Ers and the witch both breathed a sigh of relief. After Ers returned Miss Higgins' coin, Miss Higgins also looked at the table again. Unfortunately, no second coin appeared on the table, which meant that they could only play this seemingly simple "game" once.

A broken sword, metal material, even just looking at it, there was a feeling that the soul would be sucked out;