Chapter 4194: Madame Butterfly's Persuasion

Poet-level relic 【Griffith's Rhapsody】. Although the coin is metallic, it presents a strange purple color. Its size is the same as a normal 1-crown gold coin. One side is imprinted with the number "1" and countless blurred human faces, while the other side has only a simple sentence—

【Inspiration is the most precious miracle】

The characteristics of this coin are simple: after throwing it, the coin itself is not consumed; instead, at the cost of permanently consuming a segment of one's own memory, the artist gains a segment of inspiration related to art. Painters, musicians, writers, and so on can all use it, and even ordinary Ringed Shushi using it can obtain some inspiration related to spellcasting.

The simple characteristic is both positive and negative, and the consequences triggered after losing control are not large-scale memory erasure, but large-scale provision of various crazy inspirations to all intelligent life around.

In this world with supernatural power, this is a very dangerous thing.

Its characteristics well reflect the "transaction" attribute of currency, and because this coin can be used multiple times, and the cost of a single use is very low, many artists like this kind of relic.

Weige's friend obtained that coin because she heard the story of a genius painter who was only in his thirties but seemed to suffer from Alzheimer's because he lost too much memory.

"This thing is like a contraband drug. I know many artists like to obtain inspiration through inhaling contraband drugs in illusions that are both true and false. This relic itself has no addictiveness; the addictiveness comes from the hearts of those people."

Weige said very philosophical words at the dinner table, and then handed the coin to Xia De. Now it can also be called "artist" Dorothy also has many feelings about this. Writer Miss sat beside Ajelina, and she also came to visit the little princess on the way.

However, Ajelina didn't care about what Xia De, Weige, and Dorothy were discussing. She was happily telling the long-eared little elf about the new skills she had learned from Weige recently. As for Ellie, she was tasting a new dish related to apples with satisfaction.

That is a dish brought by the Outsider from his hometown. Although he couldn't make it himself, after communicating with the cook girl in the kitchen, the other party reproduced the dish called "Pulled Silk Apple" after a simple attempt.

Weige thought the dish was too sweet, while Ajelina preferred apple tarts with crispy crusts. Ellie just tasted this delicacy as an "apple connoisseur" and gave a high evaluation after the meal.

Emilia and Ellie still had to return to the Academy, and Dorothy was responsible for sending them home first, so Xia De didn't have to go to the Blue Ink Library again.

And after saying goodbye to the girls who left, Xia De and Weige also changed their clothes and prepared to go to the "Charming Lady Club". The last time Xia De wore a mask was the one given by the "Mermaid". That mask was used by him at the 【Skin Goods Hall】, and afterwards Xia De never found a chance to return it to the "Mermaid".

After considering for a while that night, he still chose to wear that mask, and thought that he could return the mask to "Desire" when he went to Moon Bay tomorrow.

After the sun went down, the moderate rain turned into light rain. And when Xia De appeared on the garden path of the Hazel Manor holding Weige's hand, he could hardly feel the raindrops even without an umbrella.

Probably because those guests who had been in contact with skin goods were taken away by the church, today's club seemed much more deserted than last week. Weige was not troubled by the church, of course, because the club didn't know Weige's background. Her invitation was obtained by Xia De from the "Female No. 3" of the opera troupe, and the source could not be traced at all.

And that night, when Weige and Xia De sat on the sofa by the wall of the greenhouse flower room, and the "Madame Butterfly" responsible for hosting the club's activities came to greet the two with a smile, Weige said unceremoniously:

"Madame Butterfly, I didn't expect you to dare to send me an invitation. I recently received some news that those fellow travelers who once visited the 'Craftsman' with me and my male companion seem to have been approached by the church recently.

I also have some connections locally, and someone told me that it was the club that sold the membership list."

Madame Butterfly certainly would not admit it; in reality, the news that Miss Luweiya was able to hear also came through Ringed Shushi channels. Most people do not know the truth:

"Lady Redstone, you are really good at joking. The club never leaks secrets, yes, never. We have the support of very powerful gentlemen and ladies in Willondale, and the church dare not easily trouble us."

She clearly didn't want to entangle more with Weige on this issue, and after Xia De and Weige visited last time, the leather craftsman disappeared. Madame Butterfly also didn't say much. She introduced to Weige with that skilled smile:

"Although that respectable craftsman cannot provide services to the club's members for the time being, we still have many activities here that you will be interested in. Tonight's auction will have many interesting things."

Weige came here just for the item with her mother's mark. She actually didn't want to entangle with the middle-aged woman in front of her, and didn't want to step into this place for the third time:

"If it wasn't for my male companion saying that this place is very suitable for dating and finding some excitement, I wouldn't come again."

Madame Butterfly smiled and covered the lower half of her face with the feather fan in her hand:

"Yes, Mr. 'Wrist', I have a deep impression of this gentleman. However, Lady Redstone, in addition to the craftsman and the auction, the club actually has many interesting activities."

Because there were not many guests coming now, Madame Butterfly didn't mean to leave in a hurry. She probably saw that Weige's identity must be very extraordinary, and wanted to persuade her not to really give up participating in the club's activities:

"Masquerade balls, reading clubs, wine parties providing special drinks, secret seances, we can provide any activities you can think of."

Weige just nodded perfunctorily:

"After attending tonight's auction, I will decide whether to come next time."

She didn't immediately go to inquire about the auction item she cared about, but grabbed Xia De's hand:

"My male companion and I have other... activities tonight. We will leave after the auction ends."

"That's certainly no problem."

Madame Butterfly looked at the two ambiguously:

"The night belongs to you young people. Then do you need me to provide some... drugs to help the fun? This is free, just treat it as my gift."

"He doesn't need that kind of thing."

Weige said, and Madame Butterfly stood up with a smile:

"Then see you at the auction in a while, Lady Redstone, you will like it here."

The auction was to start at 8:30 in the evening. Before that, Weige had no intention of participating in other activities. Even the reading club that started at 8 o'clock, she didn't want to participate.

She just curled up on the sofa, holding Xia De's hand and cuddling with him, sometimes telling small jokes, but finally making herself laugh first. No matter who it was, they would think this was another girl who was head over heels in love.

Weige also couldn't tell whether she was acting or really enjoying such a night. She hated this kind of occasion, but she liked this kind of time. The contradictory psychology made her think of the answer Ajelina gave when answering "what is chaos" a few days ago, so the witch was curious about what kind of complex psychological activities her future student had experienced.

Before the formal auction started, there would be a period of time reserved for the guests attending the auction to observe the items to be auctioned at close range. But it was not formal here, so the booklet was just distributed to everyone at 8 o'clock, with some information about the wonderful items to be auctioned tonight written on it.

The auction items not only included suspected supernatural items, but more were things that were not convenient to be brought into the sun. For example, some special drugs, wonderful products produced by the fabric store called "Dream Silk Language", illegally published books, female art figure paintings with great artistic value, etc.

As for those suspected supernatural items, in the eyes of Xia De and Weige, even if they were true, they were just inferior alchemical products. Xia De had thought about whether he would encounter uncontained relics on this trip before coming, but it seemed he didn't have such luck.

As for the item Weige was waiting for, it was a silver cube. The introduction of this item was—

【Place the item on a flat water surface, and it can float in the air above the water surface.】

This sounds useless, but for ordinary people who have never come into contact with the mystical world, it is fresh enough. Alchemical items that low-level Ringed Shushi can produce are to be auctioned here with a starting bid of 1 crown, but such things at Old John's... Old John does not sell these "toys."

Xia De flipped through the booklet and didn't see the shadow of Luo De cards, so he began to guess how 【Origin·Creation】 would appear in front of him. He was very sure that with the appearance of the Chosen One, the Wanxiang Wuchang cards would definitely appear.

Weige probably saw that Xia De was a little distracted, so she squinted and kissed him on the side of the face.

Xia De was a little surprised:

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, can't I kiss you?"

"Of course you can."

He put down the booklet and hugged Weige gently. The witch leaned on Xia De's shoulder with a smile, enjoying this uneventful night.

The subsequent auction was not held in the greenhouse, but moved to the banquet hall of the manor mansion. The manor, which looked like it hadn't been taken care of for many years from the outside, was very well maintained on the inside.

No accidents occurred during the auction. Although someone wanted to compete with Weige for that silver cube, the other party gave up after Weige raised the price slightly.

Of course, Weige didn't want people to see that she was here specifically for this, so she also bought some other things at the auction—original manuscripts of banned books that had a lot of green content but were well-received in literary circles, and ancient seance boards said to have been passed down from the Delin'aoer era.

?? PS: Remember what Weige said every time they came to the "Charming Lady Club". ===== CHAPTER 4195 =====