Chapter 4092

As for Xia De's other information source, "Desire", its only description of the Tanners is that every death of a Tanner will cause permanent damage to the leather items on its body. Only by damaging all the leather items they wear can a Tanner be completely eliminated, so that mermaid thinks Xia De should not waste time dealing with the Tanner.

"Test... that lady didn't tell us about this. Do you know what our identities are? If we disappear here, no matter what you are, you will definitely be investigated."

Xia De said, but the maid just smiled:

"Guest, what is your purpose?"

So Xia De said again:

"Where did the others who came with us go?"

"The guests finished the visit and have already left from the back door. They are all old guests and don't need to pass the test."

Xia De then answered the other party's question:

"We want to modify the leather items in our hands."

He said it again according to Vigo's statement just now, but the maid shook her head:

"Any leather item, once made, is the most perfect. I can repair leather items, but I will not modify leather items."

It changed the subject again:

"But if you can help me do some small things, I can make an exception to help you once. This is very simple. Help me find some men and women with good looks and let them come here too. After the new leather items are made, you can enjoy priority purchase rights, and you can get some other... good things from me."

This sounds like the Tanner opened a special task shop for Xia De and Vigo, but Xia De has no interest in buying any items from here. His only purpose for coming here is to find the Tanner, and then obtain clues about the location of the 【Leather Item Hall】 body from the other party.

Maybe if you keep doing the Tanner's tasks and accumulate enough tasks, you can find the Hall through its introduction, but Xia De doesn't have the patience to wait. There are still many things related to various illegal organizations that he has to deal with. Not to mention that solving the Hall will also let Angelina sleep at ease at night.

However, before he took violent means, he still planned to try peaceful means first:

"This proposal is good, but before that, I want you to look at this leather item first. This is the second purpose of our coming here. This leather item is very old and is a treasure left by my family, so I know some information about leather items. The elder left a last word, saying that this can be used to exchange for a good thing from the Tanner."

He reached out to Vigo, and Vigo took out a small folded package from her pocket. High-end leather items are smoother than silk, and they are very convenient to carry after being folded.

Xia De unfolded the leather item of Nicolas Lemay, and the maid-like Tanner reached out and touched it:

"Yes, there is indeed a token mark on this leather item."

Xia De raised his eyebrows:

"Then what can this leather item be exchanged for? The elder didn't tell us, just said it was a good thing."

"It is not certain yet. This requires you to personally take this leather item to our Hall."

She made a gesture of invitation:

"Two, please follow me."

Vigo looked at Xia De, and Xia De nodded and followed with Vigo. The three left the room and returned to the third-floor corridor, and just as Xia De passed through that door—

Bang!

The small knife stabbed at Xia De by the maid was blocked by the golden barrier, and the "Heaton Seal" that exploded instantly blasted the maid directly to the wall opposite the corridor with a loud noise.

It was just that when Xia De and Vigo came to the wall, they didn't see the maid's figure.

As a user of relics, the Tanner has the ability to move and travel in this scene, and even control the rooms inside the scene to change according to its nostalgic memory. Although the other party hid, Xia De was very sure that the other party would absolutely not leave like this. This is the other party's home field.

"Contact them to surround this place."

He said to Vigo, and then reached out to Vigo. The witch bit directly, and while sucking Xia De's blood, she carried out the contact work.

Xia De closed his eyes to perceive the surroundings, and then suddenly moved a step to the side, avoiding the small knife stabbed from the gap in the wooden floor under his feet. And as that knife slid in the gap of the floor, it directly cut open the floor, creating a gap that looked like a zipper opening in a spatial sense.

The Tanner poked half of its body out of it, and below it was not the second floor, but a chaotic black space:

"The appearance of you and your female companion are both very good. I think, when I wear her leather item, I will be very happy."

Xia De didn't launch an attack directly:

"I am very curious, since you recognized the leather item I took out, why do you still want to fight with me?"

"The content of the agreement that year was that the descendants of the agreement holder carry that leather item to the Hall, and we will give out the items we are keeping. You didn't find the Hall. Killing you and recovering that leather item, the agreement will not take effect."

Xia De laughed, and in the laughter, the brilliant silver moonlight was slashed out, but it only shattered the floor of the third floor, revealing a big hole leading to the second floor.

Vigo had already let go of Xia De's hand at this moment:

"Although I thought they would play tricks, I didn't expect them to do it so straightforwardly. Relics are relics... 【Leather Item Hall】 wants the things left by Mother... Lemay? Is the value of that thing so high?"

Xia De shook his head:

"Leave here first and go outside to meet with others."

But they also understood that the Tanner would not let them leave so easily. After the two returned to the first floor from the third floor, the door downstairs could still be opened. After opening the door, although they saw the desolate forest outside the city, when the two crossed the door of the building, they returned to the foyer just now.

At this moment, there is a thicker nostalgic dim yellow filter in the field of vision, and both Xia De and Vigo heard the pleasant dance music coming from the second floor of the building.

The characteristics of the Document-level relic have been activated by the Tanner, and the most effective way to get rid of this state of the building is to find the body of the relic currently hidden in this scene, which is that oil painting.

Once the scene is unfolded, the position of the oil painting cannot be moved, and touching the oil painting can absolutely safely leave from this place.

"Wait for me a moment."

In the music that was getting clearer and clearer on the top floor, Vigo leaned on Xia De with one hand, and tried to take off the high heels that were not convenient for action with the other hand. A semi-god great witch can fight wearing high heels, but she can't yet.

"Let me do it."

Xia De knelt on one knee in front of Vigo and took out the flat shoes he had prepared in advance to change for her. Vigo's face flushed, but she still let Xia De help change the shoes. They didn't go to find the source of the music. Vigo then threw a coin and pointed to the corridor on the left hand side of the first floor.

The door of the corridor was closed, but after opening it, the music rushed toward them. In front of them was not a corridor at all, but a banquet hall where a ball was being held.

Men and women wearing masks were dancing gracefully with the performance of the band. Behind the bar on one side of the banquet hall, the bartender was enjoying people's dance while mixing drinks. Everyone was wearing leather items, and everyone was a corpse. They didn't even cover it up at all.

Indulging in eternal enjoyment, dancing in the dance music, ointment, and cold rooms, this grotesque scene didn't scare Xia De and Vigo. Xia De sighed and reached out toward the front:

"Vigo, close your eyes—Light Spell!"

Even if she closed her eyes, Vigo could still feel that ray of brilliant sacred moonlight with all her senses in the next second. Touch, hearing, and even smell, these senses that originally couldn't perceive light also knew the secret of "moonlight".

The moonlight in the touch was cold, the moonlight in the hearing was crisp and clanking, and the moonlight in the smell clearly carried Xia De's taste.

Only after the light disappeared did Vigo open her eyes. The music had stopped at this moment. On the floor were large areas of fallen corpses. The sacred moonlight suppressed those undead, letting them temporarily return to the peaceful sleep of the summer night.

Even in the dim yellow scene, there was a faint silver moonlight at this moment. Only Xia De could exert the basic "Light Spell" to this extent.

This "corpse ball" was obviously not a scene that should appear in this oil painting. Xia De looked at the bartender who was still wiping the glass. The bartender put the glass on the bar, took out a bottle of wine from under the bar, filled the glass, and made a gesture of invitation to Xia De:

"Want to have a drink?"

The Tanner asked:

"These are my private collections. Sometimes I will also peel off the leather items I collected from my body and let the corpses wear them to show me. This is also very interesting. However, I didn't imprison the freedom of these souls. They chose to follow me voluntarily."

It asked Xia De and the witch a question:

"Two, do you know what the most significant characteristic of those souls who pursue leather items is?"

Seeing that neither Xia De nor the witch answered, the Tanner drank the wine himself and said:

"It is vanity. They spent their whole lives craving a more decent, more glamorous, and more admired skin. When alive, they wore silk and satin, wore gold and silver jewelry, and wished to nail everyone's eyes on themselves; after death, they still couldn't settle down, still obsessed with that layer of skin wrapped around bones, obsessed with being watched, being praised, being collected.

Just like this corpse ball, they were already cold corpses, but they still had to wear my leather items, stand in the dance floor that shouldn't exist in the painting, pose gracefully, and wait to be looked at and praised. Even death couldn't peel off their obsession with 'being seen', and even after the flesh and blood rotted, they still had to support a good-looking fake appearance.

However, if there were no such obsessions of these people, how could the 【Leather Item Hall】 I belong to have a constant stream of guests coming to visit?"