Chapter 831: [Golden Lucky Rabbit Foot]

"Improving luck, choosing the most favorable one among countless possibilities. Yes, I think this relic should meet your requirements."

In Old John's pawnshop on Thursday morning, Old John sat behind the counter and stretched his head out from behind the newspaper. The page of the newspaper in his hand facing outward was exactly the news that Margaret Anjou was about to arrive. This news was the front page of most serious newspapers today:

"You are lucky, I really found it. However, those who play with fate will eventually be played by fate, so if it is not very necessary, young man, I do not suggest you do this."

The old man said lazily while flipping through the newspaper. This was a well-intentioned reminder.

"Which relic did you find?"

Xia De also knew that Old John was right. He had already experienced it many times on the 【Twenty-Sided Dice of Fate】 and 【Puppeteer's Notes】.

"Or, is it not a relic? Is it a special ancient era luck-turning ritual? Or the so-called lucky potion?"

"Detective, please think carefully. If I had lucky potions and luck-turning rituals, wouldn't I have sold them to Schneider long ago? It is a relic, Keeper-level, 【Golden Lucky Rabbit Foot】."

Xia De thought for a while:

"Never heard of it."

Old John continued to look at the newspaper, and his voice introduced lazily. In early winter, the smog in Tobesk was particularly severe. From the shop window, one could see most people on the gray street walking forward with their heads down, wearing hats and covering their mouths, but the interior of the auction house was warm and comfortable:

"This is not a very famous relic. Its characteristics are very simple:

Touching the relic grants luck, and every choice made afterward will lead to the optimal option. When you feel that this extra luck is not needed, pour cold water on your head to terminate the characteristic. And the negative characteristic is also quite simple: the more luck you borrow, the more rabbits you will dream of in your dreams at night. So, this characteristic is not completely controlled, because people often don't know how much value the best choice they make has."

Xia De nodded and then asked suspiciously:

"Rabbits... in the dream?"

He had only dreamed of cats in his dreams.

"Yes, swarms of rabbits will invade your dreams, forcing you to go crazy and mad in your dreams. This relic has no difference in the impact on ordinary people and Ringed Shushi. As long as you borrow luck, don't think about escaping the rabbit swarm."

Old John nodded and continued to flip through the newspaper.

"Is that all? Then how did the Keeper-level (3rd level) evaluation come about?"

Xia De had had many strange dreams and did not think that ordinary rabbits in swarms in dreams could give such a high danger evaluation.

"Just borrowing a little luck to complete a crucial choice will only make those with fragile spirits who touch the rabbit leg go crazy for a few days and like eating carrots for a period of time. But if greed arises and you use luck too many times while the luck effect is in effect, then..."

Old John raised his eyes from the newspaper and looked at Xia De:

"You have probably heard that there are a large number of evil things sealed in the subspace adjacent to the material world. Among them is an evil thing born in the Fourth Era. Its own image cannot be described. Even if it can be described, I cannot tell you, but in the eyes of mortals, it has a flesh body like an ugly rabbit, is good at drilling into dreams, and manipulates fate. That thing is even more terrifying than the undead aggregate that appeared in Midhillburg last month.

If you borrow too much power from the 【Golden Lucky Rabbit Foot】, then it is possible to summon a projection of that terrifying evil thing."

He sighed and finally closed the newspaper:

"So, the danger level of this relic is actually not low. It mainly depends on whether the user is greedy. Perhaps the holder of the relic can always remain rational and refuse temptation, but how to ensure that everyone who touches the relic can remain rational? The containment conditions are not harsh. Just cut off a small piece of rabbit meat and eat it every few days, but what kind of determination does the person in charge of looking after it need to have to be able to control both themselves and others?"

"Rabbits visiting dreams and changes in recipes? I think I should be able to bear it."

Listening to this, it seems that keeping this relic in the Zhengshen Sect Society is the safest option. But now, the owner of the relic is a friend of Old John, a historian named Mr. Logan Rodriguez whose surface identity is a visiting scholar from the Kingdom of Casenrik.

Old Logan is also a member of the Ringed Society. After Old John confirmed that Xia De wanted to borrow this relic, he made him pay a usage fee of 10 pounds and asked him to help look after the pawnshop temporarily before grabbing his coat to borrow it.

The Keeper-level relic 【Golden Lucky Rabbit Foot】 is not the dried rabbit leg less than a palm size that Xia De imagined, but a sturdy fresh rabbit leg as big as half a pig. The fluffy white hair feels very textured, and there are even fresh bloodstains at the broken end of the rabbit leg.

Old John put it in a box and greeted Xia De to help him lift it out of the carriage into the pawnshop with effort.

When the old shopkeeper wiped his sweat and sighed that he was old after all, Xia De opened the box. For a moment, he saw a pair of eyes staring at him from the white rabbit fur, but when he looked again, there was nothing.

"Soul is too sensitive, inspiration is too high."

Muttering in his heart, Xia De smelled the smell of flesh and blood and reached out to touch the rabbit leg. The touch of the soft white rabbit fur was completely incomparable to the cat fur of the gentle and cute Little Mia.

【Outsider, you have obtained temporary luck.】

"Is that all?"

Xia De quickly withdrew his hand. Except for "her" prompt, he did not find any changes in himself.

"What else do you want? Golden light coming out of your whole body, or hearing music in your ears?"

Old John asked with a smile, and then greeted Xia De to help lift this thing onto the carriage again.

"Paid 10 pounds, always thinking that there should be some movement."

After leaving Old John's auction house, he immediately returned home. The travel preparations had been made. The relics carried this time did not include 【Night Watcher】. This sword is a bit sensitive at the moment. Xia De wants to determine the specific situation of this destination before making plans.

Greeting the cat dozing on the sofa on the second floor, he put on his hat and entered the basement holding the white stone crystal.

"May the original crack protect me in infinite space."

As the voice fell, Xia De, who touched the Old God statue, successfully entered the space maze filled with white mist.

The 【Space Maze】 is different from most other spaces left by Old Gods. One must not walk around at will here, otherwise, one might be involved in disordered space. The safe area in the white mist is that small path in the mist. Now there are three old waypoints corresponding to the basement of St. Deran Square in Tobesk, the sea cliff cave in Coldwater Port, and the mountain ruins tower in Midhillburg.

Although it is not certain that there are statues of Old Gods near Huntington, this adventure for divinity cannot be delayed.

Holding the white stone crystal with both hands:

"Sacrifice."

【Obtained new information, can search for new waypoints, please choose a general direction.】

"South!"

The crystal melted silently into the mist, and the mist scattered on the path dissipated a little, revealing the fourth waypoint.

The dilapidated wood was inserted obliquely into the mist, with a wooden arrow nailed to the wood, and the number four was written crookedly on the arrow.

Xia De walked over, adjusted his mood to face the brand-new adventure, and then placed his hand on the brand-new waypoint:

"Now, set off."

【The original crack will guide you.】

The whispering sound in his ears fell, and the white mist around him dissipated accordingly. What came into view was a circular space almost identical to the one behind the hidden wall of his own basement.

But there was no debris piled up by Xia De by the wall here, only a human skeleton leaning against the wall with its clothes almost completely rotten.

The two-headed Old God statue in the center of the space radiated light with Xia De's gaze, illuminating the place, while the skeleton just leaned quietly against the wall without any movement.

"If there can still be undead in a place so close to the Old God statue, then I should doubt whether I haven't woken up."

The first thing Xia De did was neither to check the skeleton nor to leave here, but to take out the water bottle toy from his pocket, restore it, and pour the full bottle of water all over his hair.

The good luck given by the rabbit leg ended immediately. Xia De still breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, wiping his hair with a towel while approaching the skeleton by the wall.

There was no text or letter around the skeleton, and the severely damaged clothes could not let Xia De judge the identity of the corpse. The skeleton itself had nothing special. Relying on his superficial knowledge, Xia De could only judge that this was a male. Although the specific time of death could not be determined at all, judging from the degree of decay, it was definitely not a matter within the last 10 years.

Every circular hidden space where the Old God statue was located was almost exactly the same, so Xia De left different marks as identifiers in different locations. The skeleton in front of him was obviously not a good marker, but Xia De did not touch it, but thought about exploring where this place was first, and after confirming whether this space was also unknown to anyone like other locations, he would bury it.

"Starting to explore again, I hope this place is not too far from the civilization gathering area, and I don't need to dive or swim. Climbing mountains is fine, but I remember that there are plains near Huntington, no mountains."

Xia De prayed softly in his heart, drew the holy emblem of Mr. Dawn on his chest, then summoned his life ring, and used the spiritual light of the 【Space-Time】 Spirit Rune to illuminate the wall pointed to by the statue.

The hidden wall revealed a pitch-black passage. The good news was that it was pitch black outside, and there was no sound.

"It's morning now, there is no light, which means there are not even windows around. This time, is it still underground? Speaking of which, it seems that every hidden wall is below ground."

He did not walk out immediately, but sniffed a few times lightly. The air outside the passage flowed to the back of the hidden wall, and Xia De smelled the smell of red wine:

"Could it be that a drunkard was drinking here recently? No, the air is very dry, and this wine aroma is very mellow."

Not only the wine aroma, but if you sniff carefully, there is also the smell of oak and hay.

After confirming that there was no one outside, Xia De walked out of the wall cautiously, but did not call for moonlight illumination immediately, but relied on dark vision to look around in the dark. What he saw were neatly arranged oak wine barrels.

The area of the space he was currently in was about three times the area of Xia De's master bedroom. The ground was covered with hay, and oak wine barrels of exactly the same standard were neatly arranged by the wall. Each wine barrel was equipped with a copper faucet, and the only shelf was placed with tools such as crowbars, measuring cylinders, fire stones, wine cups, and wooden spoons.

The room he was currently in was generally divided into upper and lower floors, but the upper floor was just a circle of wooden boards around the wall. Besides the arranged wine barrels, there were only narrow walkways and railings on the wooden boards. Although the space was expanded, it did not look very safe.

There was no light at all around, the walls were not painted, directly revealing the rough surface, and the wooden fence door was locked with a hinge. The air was dry and stuffy, but this environment could better ferment these red wines. ===== CHAPTER 832 =====