Chapter 1734

The two continued to draw cards, and the old gravedigger, who was in a very good mood, did not forget to continue the story:

"The villagers' legends are not much different from the rumors you can hear elsewhere. They think that a ghoul is hidden in this cemetery, but it is not interested in corpses and living people, but occasionally goes to the village to steal chickens, ducks, geese, and sheep raised by the villagers."

Xia De glanced at his hand:

"But is it really a ghoul? Could it be a wild animal like a wolf or a fox?"

"The church also thinks so. The church sent people here to conduct routine inspections, but you also know that there is no evidence for this kind of rumor, and there has never been any injury to living people, so the investigation ended without results."

The old man shrugged, looked at his hand, and showed a confident smile:

"Two cards to stop, today's luck is too good, Moon 10, Flower 9, I am 19 points."

Although Xia De didn't stop, he also showed his hand:

"I am Sun 5 and Sun 13 now, so I have to continue drawing cards, I hope I don't explode..."

He lifted a corner of the third card and then slammed it onto the chair surface. The card hit the wood and made a slap sound. The two poked their heads to see, Flower 2.

"20 points, I win the second game."

Xia De breathed a sigh of relief, and the old gravedigger didn't care:

"Continue, now it's up to the third game. I don't believe you are still 20 points in the third game."

The two reached out to draw cards, and the local story continued:

"Then has anyone really seen that ghoul? Not seeing strange shadows, but really seeing monsters."

Xia De was very curious about this, and the old gravedigger shook his head:

"If you exclude the words of those drunks, of course not. But if you are interested, you can go to the row of broken houses on the east side of Lower Griol Village. Some people say they have seen strange things there. The house originally belonged to the Mika family, but their family moved to Pukhov Village more than ten years ago. The house has been empty, maybe what was seen was actually a tramp."

After speaking, he stopped talking and devoted himself to the final round of the card game.

In the third round of the card game, after the two quickly drew their two cards, they both put the two cards together, then took them to their eyes and slowly twisted them open, and then they both showed confident smiles.

They reached out to draw the third card again, and then showed the final result:

"Flower 3, 11, 5, they are all the same suit... I am 19 points."

This is the old gravedigger's result, and Xia De arranged his three cards in order on the chair surface:

"Moon 4, Sun 4, Star 13. Sorry, I am 21 points."

He brushed his hand over the three cards arranged together, looking at the chair surface with obvious wood grain, the thick cards, and the three points, feeling that the pressure accumulated over the past few weeks because of various things disappeared at this moment.

The old gravedigger looked at the result in surprise, and it took a long time to nod:

"Okay, losing to 21 points is a good result. Young man, what else do you want to ask, continue to ask."

"Put the ghoul's question aside, I actually have other questions."

He smiled embarrassedly and pointed to his "Moon 4":

"Your Moon 4 is 【Urban Legend - Non-existent Street】. I don't know if you are willing to resell this card?"

Xia De likes the card with the picture of an empty street under the moon:

"I can buy it at a premium to the market price."

He was very sincere, after all, true Rod card lovers would not easily sell their cards:

"Don't rush to refuse, I'll offer this price."

He wrote a number in his notebook and handed it over:

"With this money, your old age might be able to go to more places to see, and meet more players. Maybe you can also participate in the next City Player."

The old gravedigger hesitated and touched his chin, then looked at the tempting number:

"I won't easily sell my Rod cards, I even want to let them go to the grave and accompany me. But your proposal... how about... we play three more games, no, five games, not good, seven games. If you win me, I'll sell it to you, how about that?"

"That would be great, so we have time to continue telling the ghoul story."

Sunlight spilled from the church gate, illuminating Xia De's face and the scattered cards beside him. The outsider might occasionally miss such a spring morning in the future, after all, the weather was really too good.

An hour later, Xia De left the cemetery satisfied with 【Urban Legend - Non-existent Street】, added it to his real deck in a place where no one was around, and assimilated it with 【Cherished Object】.

He really wanted to control the smile on his face, but because he was in such a good mood, he couldn't help but curl his lips. The bad feelings about water ghosts, islands, ancient families, desires, bloodlines, etc. in the past few weeks really disappeared all at once. Xia De remembered that he hadn't played cards with others for a few weeks, and recently he had been dealing with girls at banquets, and had no time to contact players in the Green Lake area:

"I put too much pressure on myself."

He even thought that nothing could disturb his mood this morning.

【Loyal love.】

"She" said suddenly, Xia De was startled, but continued to walk forward without stopping:

"The facts cannot be changed, and now I can't give up anyone around me. Since that's the case, it's better to use other ways to prove my feelings and intentions for them, and to express my guilt for them. Loyalty to love? I won't lose to desire, I will definitely win. I am very greedy, but I will never let go, never."

"She" laughed softly, not knowing what she meant.

The old gravedigger said that the rumored ghoul might live in the broken house on the east side of Lower Griol Village. Xia De left the cemetery and walked toward the village. The weather outside the city today was exceptionally good. Even though the clouds of conflict between the two countries were still hovering in the sky above Green Lake, for the villagers living in the countryside, this did not affect their lives.

Rural life in the steam age has not changed much because of the development of steam industry. The farmers who go out with hoes are very similar to their ancestors living on the same land.

However, the outsider has already heard news about large steam mechanized farm tools from the newspaper, and also heard that large grain merchants in the city have used equipment such as semi-automatic shelling machines, but I don't know when these changes will spread to the countryside.

The sky is very blue, large clouds are floating in the air, like cotton softened by little Mia. The neat seedlings in the farmland on both sides of the country road are pleasing to the eye, and the wind blowing in the face also carries the smell of the countryside in spring... probably a mixture of cow dung and soil.

Xia De did not enter the village, but went around the village to the vicinity of the "broken house on the east side". There was an apple orchard between here and the village. I don't know where a sheep came from, raising its head and eating the drooping treetops. Its back was slightly raised, and its limbs were slender and flexible. When Xia De passed through the woods, the sheep turned its head and looked at Xia De, then continued to chew the leaves slowly. Watching it eat like this, Xia De even felt that time was becoming slow.

Passing through the woods, he came to the building that indeed looked like there were no signs of life. The fence surrounded four houses, and the roof of the smallest one had collapsed. Although dilapidated, I have to admit that the scenery here is indeed good, completely different from the style of the city.

Because there was no one, Xia De didn't have to greet anyone. He jumped into the fence and checked the houses in turn. Because there had been no owner for a long time, everything in the house had been emptied, and even the windows had been removed.

In the place where the wind blew from all sides, there was not much dust on the ground. But there were traces of campfires that had been lit, footprints of children running, animal feces, and even firewood stored by villagers.

After a rough turn, he found nothing, so Xia De returned to the woods to look for the sheep just now. It was still in the same place, but changed to another tree to eat leaves.

Xia De recalled and confirmed that sheep do not belong to species that like to eat fish, and then put the 【Fish Training Ring】 on its horns.

The sheep, which had originally drooping bloodshot eyelids and looked not very smart, looked up at Xia De again after the relic took effect, but immediately continued to eat leaves.

"Relic useless?"

Xia De thought suspiciously, deliberated on the wording, and asked:

"You can talk now, right?"

"Yes."

The sheep dragged its voice and answered slowly. It used Delarian with a slight accent, and its voice was really slow.

"I thought that after you had the ability to speak, you would speak immediately."

Xia De was relieved, and the sheep said while chewing, staring at the leaves:

"Eating is important, speaking is not important. I want to survive."

It made a swallowing action, and the gray-white wool reflected warm light in the morning sun of spring:

"Do you have anything to do?"

The sheep asked, signaling Xia De to follow it, and then found another place where it could lower its head to eat leaves.

Xia De felt that this sheep was very interesting, and began to look forward to whether little Mia would be as interesting as this calm sheep once she could speak:

"I want to ask, do you always live around here?"

"Yes."

"Do you know the house over there?"

"Often go to rest."

"Have you seen dangerous things there?"

This time the sheep did not answer immediately, but paused. Of course, it may also be because it had to try hard to swallow what it was chewing:

"Man, how do you define danger?"