Chapter 175: Exploring the Mystery of the Small Town (3) “I should have put your body...
After leaving Luciano's residence, Si Ling and Xuan Chi quickly found a suitable house. The two of them simply decorated the room, and when the bank opened, they went to withdraw money with the certificate issued by Luciano.
"Fifty thousand Cubes." The teller counted the Cubes and placed them in a palm-sized magic drawstring bag, handing them through the window beneath the glass. Si Ling picked up the bag, and the teller handed him a card. "This is a sample of the face value."
"Thank you." Si Ling nodded, without stopping to look, and left the bank with Xuan Chi.
After returning home, they sat on the sofa to rest. Hyun Chi enthusiastically brought two bottles of homemade soda from the town that he had just bought from the roadside, while Si Ling looked at the card and grabbed a handful of Cubes from his drawstring pocket for comparison.
The first few pieces she saw were exactly the same as the ones she saw from Jianshuoyao yesterday. They were all ordinary gray cubes, about one centimeter long and wide.
Then she started looking for the larger denomination Cubes mentioned on the card.
"Hyun Chi!!!" Si Ling suddenly shouted. Hyun Chi, who was adding ice to soda in the kitchen, trembled in his hand and the soda spilled all over.
"What's wrong!" He put down the bottle in his hand and turned to go out. He originally thought that something had happened to Si Ling, but when he walked into the living room, he saw Si Ling still sitting on the sofa.
"Look at this!" She pushed a few Cubes aside.
Hyun Chi looked at her and then at the cubes in confusion, sat down next to her, picked up one and looked at it carefully, and suddenly his eyes flickered.
This cube, which also has a side length of about one centimeter, actually has words on it!
Moreover, it is a Chinese character written in official script, with one and a half characters. The first character is "绿", and only a radical can be seen in the second character.
Xuan Chi immediately looked at the other coins. Regardless of size, they all had words on them. The largest one was three centimeters long and had words on both sides, all in Chinese characters.
"What's going on?" He frowned and looked at Si Ling, his eyes full of confusion.
Si Ling pursed his lips and said slowly, "I've checked. There are four denominations in total. The lowest denomination is one centimeter long, with six sides blank. The next is the same size, with writing on one side. Then there's the two centimeter long, with writing on one side. The more valuable one is the three centimeter one, with writing on both sides."
As Hyun Chi listened to her, he carefully examined the three-centimeter cube with words on both sides. Unlike the smallest-sized inscribed version which only had one and a half Chinese characters, the words on this cube were divided into two lines, with a total of five characters.
The first line is:
The second line is: disgusting ashes
Xuan Chi recognized these as two names at a glance. Moreover, although he didn't know these two people, he felt a sense of familiarity from these names.
Because the style of people's names changes with the times, whether they are human or divine.
In the era when he was still a god, the popular names of gods were "Xin Bi", "Xuan Chi" and "Feng Xiaozi"; now, the gods that people are familiar with are "Yang Jian", "Sun Wukong" and "Xie Bian".
A guess popped up in Xuan Chi's mind, but he himself didn't dare to believe it, so he didn't say it directly.
He thought about it, reached into his drawstring pocket and took out a few more Cubes, put the largest one aside, took a few smaller ones, and stacked them into two piles.
The first pile consisted of four one-centimeter-long coins with writing on one side and one two-centimeter-long coin with writing on one side. He placed the two-centimeter-long coin with writing on it face down, and on top of it placed four smaller coins with writing on it face up.
The second stack is made up entirely of coins with a side length of one centimeter. The top four coins have words on one side, with the words facing up. The middle four coins have no words on six sides. The bottom four coins also have words on one side, with the words facing down.
This coincided with Si Ling's thoughts, and she naturally saw what he was doing: "Do you think these cubes are cut from stone slabs?"
"Hmm." Hyun Chi casually flipped through a few more newly taken Cubes and examined the words on them. "These all look like names."
Si Ling said solemnly, "How many names are there in this entire town, including the Cubes that Luciano has that haven't been distributed yet?"
Xuan Chi asked, "Hundreds of thousands, or even millions?"
Both of them fell into a long silence.
Hundreds of thousands of ancient names, engraved on the indestructible divine stone, happened to appear in Si Ling's world, and not far from the Puerto Rico Trench.
Nothing could be more coincidental than this. At this moment, the effect of the karma curse seemed so simple and crude that it seemed unrefined.
Bad news, though: the list is chopped.
Si Ling took a deep breath and asked, "Is there any way to make Luciano give us all the Cubes?"
"..." Xuan Chi raised his eyebrows and laughed, "Although everything is going well for us here, don't forget that the basic setting of this town is 'everyone is evil'."
Si Ling: "So?"
Xuan Chi sighed softly, "There's probably no better way than to rob it."
Wei Xiang pondered and shook his head: "No, at least not now. The Heavenly Court has come to us under the guise of cooperation. If we make too much noise, it will be like self-destruction."
"Yes." Hyun Chi nodded and added, "Then another feasible plan is... we report this town to Satan, let him catch the fugitive, and give us the Cube. But..."
He stopped talking at the right moment, and Si Ling understood what he meant: "It's a bit shameful."
——The shameful part is not the “reporting” operation. If they had told Satan when they discovered the existence of this lawless place, or when these people almost hurt Si Ling last time, then they would not be the light of righteousness, but at least they were acting in self-defense or revenge, without any flaws.
But now it's different. They came here to hide, and the residents here welcomed them well. And then they turned around and lured the Lord of Hell to raid everyone's house? ?
Looking at the past and present, China and the world, this is shameful and detestable to the heavens and the people.
As for "robbery," this is also shameful in the human world, but it is different in the world of heaven and earth. Strength is the consensus of both heaven and earth, and fighting for things like magic tools and secret manuals is quite common.
Si Ling thought it over again and again, but he still couldn't bring himself to do such a stupid thing. He sighed and said, "How about this, let's wait for news from Hyun-ryeon and see if she can help you get rid of the Immortal Bone. By the way, let's also think about whether there is anything that can replace Cube as currency. Then when you have the Immortal Bone again, we can go and wake up the Heavenly Soldiers of Cangming Palace. Then we can negotiate with Luciano. It would be best if we can reach an agreement directly. If we can't reach an agreement, we have the Heavenly Soldiers here. If we try to seize it by force and alarm the Heavenly Court, we can just fight it out directly."
Anyway, the original plan was to kill the heavenly soldiers and fight back.
Xuan Chi nodded in agreement: "I think it's okay."
"I don't know if Hyun-ryeon can find a way." Si Ling held his forehead with a headache. Facing the current dilemma, he felt very regretful. "If I had known earlier, I would have preserved your bones as well."
But what she said was actually meaningless. She couldn't think so much at that time, and she didn't actually think about leaving her own bones behind. It was an accident that they lay there peacefully. It should be the result of the magic power contained in Cangming Palace and the karma curse.
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Author's words: Si Ling: If I had known it would be so troublesome, I would have at least left you a box of ashes...
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