Chapter 235: White Orchid Rain Festival (Seventeen)
Bei Xi had already heard the system's prompt sound, and because he was about to enter the real pawnshop, he disappeared from this space.
But she had doubts. After all, Yizhihua was the owner of the pawnshop. Although he did not show any hostility or murderous intent just now, it was obvious that the other party was not small in ability. She couldn't understand why the other party needed her protection.
Moreover, she always felt that this transaction seemed a little abnormal. After all, according to Bei Xi's original understanding, she always thought that the pawned items should be her own things, or at least some outstanding abilities of her own. This was more like a transaction between the two of them. Strictly speaking, she did not seem to have lost anything, but she passed the screening and entered the real pawnshop.
In the virtual space, Yizhihua looked at the pawn ticket in front of her for a few seconds, which was almost the same as other contracted ones, and then silently looked down at her fingers.
At that moment just now, it seemed that it was not her own decision, but she was driven by instinct to write that line. She did not quite understand why she needed Bei Xi's protection. The other party was obviously a powerless human, and she was a high and mighty dragon.
This problem did not bother her for too long. After all, she had heard a certain person's name in other people's wishes one after another, so she couldn't wait to meet the next interesting client.
Nan Huan did not have as sharp a perception as Bei Xi, so for her, the darkness did not seem to stay for too long. The moment she opened her eyes, she saw a, no, it should be a human figure with a long dragon tail. The woman looked seductive, but she looked at her with an almost probing look.
It didn't sound quite hostile, and it didn't seem like there was any malice involved, but the look wasn't kind either.
"You are really interesting." Yizhihua seemed to have sensed a lot from Nanhuan before she even opened the green bubble. "Compared to other guests, you are a wealthy person. I haven't even taken a closer look, but I can already smell the scent of a very luxurious pawn."
She pretended to twitch her nose twice. The inexplicable sense of awe she had when facing Bei Xi finally disappeared without a trace after meeting Nan Huan. The familiar self, the beautiful boss who could control the wishes and pawn belongings of her customers, was back again.
She couldn't wait to look at Nan Huan, with obvious eagerness and excitement on her face. The way she looked at him didn't seem like she was looking at a person, but rather a commodity to be sold.
The prompt at the door was very clear, because Nan Huan was not surprised by the other party's ability, but just felt that the process seemed a little wrong.
But Nan Huan didn't have the mind to care about these procedures for now, and temporarily ignored the strange emotions that Yizhihua showed to him. He just looked at the opponent's dragon tail with his eyes, and didn't move his gaze away for a long time.
It had been so long that it was hard for Yizhihua not to notice, "What are you looking at?"
She shook her beautiful tail and looked at me with some disdain, saying, "I know I'm beautiful, and of course my tail is more beautiful, but now is not the time for you to peek. You don't even know what you're going to lose, and you're still staring blindly here."
If Yizhihua said this in front of others, she would have no psychological burden at all, after all, the facts were there. But she didn't know whether it was Nan Huan's delicate face that made her feel a sense of crisis, or there was something in the other's eyes that she couldn't explain. In short, although she looked arrogant on the surface, she was very weak in her heart.
In order to cover this up, she didn't wait for Nan Huan to speak, "In order to make your wish worthwhile, why don't you let me see what you have?"
After saying that, without caring about Nan Huan's reaction, the huge green tail threw out a green bubble.
After being pointed out, Nan Huan could no longer stare at the other party's tail, but her face looked very solemn. It was unknown what she was thinking about. Even when the green bubble covered her whole body, she did not react at all.
"Wow, flying, soul leaving the body, supersonic speed..." Yizhihua saw all the abilities and props on Nan Huan through the green bubble, "And what do the petals mean?"
She muttered to herself. This was the first time she saw something she couldn't identify in a guest. "You seem to be different from others. Others usually only have one ability, not excluding the ability to control others. But you seem to have many?"
Just as she could see that the skill of the Corpse Driving Leader was the ability to drive corpses, Miaojiang's skill was spider silk, but Nanhuan's seemed different. She had many abilities, and they were not related to each other.
Nan Huan knew that the petals Yizhihua was talking about should refer to He Er, but he did not explain it. He just asked, "Can you see everyone's abilities? Are these abilities our pawns?"
Ever since she saw the tail of a flower, Nan Huan's attitude seemed to have changed. After all, she had guessed at the beginning that the system's task prompt had not sounded, so this wishing stage was most likely just screening. She needed to find a reason for the screening and make the most of this wish.
But now she suddenly had other ideas, and she seemed to feel something from Yizhihua's few words.
"Of course there's more than that." She seemed to be very talkative after seeing that Nan Huan had many things that interested her. "I can see anything valuable, just like the four pieces of faith totem fragments on your body. Although I don't know what they are used for, they are still quite valuable."
Although Yizhihua said this, Nanhuan seemed to hear a hint of disappointment in the last sentence.
"Why? You really want this thing?"
Nan Huan smiled and asked without any concealment.
"Who said that?" Yizhihua denied it, staring at him with big eyes, "It's just that I saw that you have four of these things. Even if you use one to pawn, it won't affect you. Compared to others, you are already very lucky."
Yizhihua couldn't let herself show it too obviously, and finally added with a bit of hopelessness, "Maybe the wish you put forward is worth more than this, and I can also take something else with great reluctance."
Although she said it was with reluctance, her eyes betrayed her, as if she was hoping that Nan Huan would make a difficult wish so that she could take more things openly.
If Nan Huan didn't understand now, she would be really stupid. She laughed heartily, then leaned back in her chair in a relaxed manner. Although it was a narrow space, she managed to give off the aura of a returning king.
"I see," she stretched out a finger and tapped the table, speaking casually, "I guess the guest in front of me made a wish for a piece of the faith totem fragment in my hand, right?"
Yizhihua's green tail was originally dangling, but it was not controlled well and almost fell directly onto the table. He was stunned for a long time without closing his mouth.
Obviously, she had concealed it very well. After all, Nan Huan had so many good things. She was a little regretful because, as the previous person wished, she could only take one thing away. That was too much of a loss, so she couldn't help but call more often, but the other party was too perceptive.
The excitement on Yizhihua's face was gone. The huge shock made her temporarily lose control of her expression, but the fear that followed forced her to force herself to come back to her senses immediately.
"You don't have to deliberately cheat me," she pretended to be calm, with a look on her face that said, "I don't know what you are talking about. You don't have to worry about what my deal with others is. The deal between you and me has nothing to do with others. Anyway, you have a lot of pawn items to choose from, so you can make your own wish."
As long as the other party didn't pay attention to the important points, Yizhihua decided to use bluffing and handed the initiative back to Nanhuan seemingly casually and indifferently, as if saying, "You can make any wish you want and I won't say anything."
Nan Huan was not fooled by her words, and even smiled maliciously, supporting his head with one hand, "Are you sure?"
Her voice was filled with laughter and a hint of mischief. "What if I only make a simple wish? What if the value of this simple wish is not equal to or far less than the value of a piece of the faith totem fragment?"
Nan Huan was in a playful mood, and the tone of each word he spoke was distorted, as if he had finally caught the opponent's flaw. "The rules don't just restrict us, you are also restricted by the rules. For example, we have already agreed on the wishes that need to be fulfilled and the pawn items that need to be taken away. You shouldn't be able to unilaterally tear up the agreement, right?"
Nan Huan's light words successfully made Yizhihua's tail drop directly from mid-air. She seemed to be frightened and looked at Nan Huan in disbelief.
"I'm actually very curious, what will happen if you can't get this piece of the faith totem fragment from me and can't fulfill the agreement you've made with others?"
Yizhihua wanted to struggle and quibble, but she opened her mouth and finally asked dejectedly, "How did you guess that? I didn't say anything."
She didn't understand where she had let herself be fooled.
"The NPCs in the game... the characters, have no idea what the Faith Totem Fragments are or what they are used for," Nan Huan said without keeping the secret. "Even the person who gave me these things doesn't know, let alone anyone who is interested in them. The only ones who are interested in them are the players... or what you call guests."
"Plus, this opportunity to make a wish doesn't come often. Those people came to Bailan City for this thing. Now that there is a ready-made opportunity, there must be someone who wants to try it, right?"
In fact, Nan Huan had thought about this possibility when he heard the pawn shop's explanation, so when Yizhihua brought up the topic of the faith totem fragments, he was sure that a player must have made this transaction with Yizhihua.
Yizhihua didn't know the purpose of the faith totem fragments. In her eyes, it was just a wish, within her ability, and getting the pawn from the other party made her feel that the deal was worthwhile. However, she didn't expect that she would fail in Nanhuan.
What's worse is that Nan Huan guessed that the rules were not unilaterally applicable to the customers, but also restricted her as well. Once the pawn ticket was signed, if she could not execute it, there would probably be no good results.
When she met that man, she still had a little hope and felt that she was one step closer and that maybe she could succeed this time. However, she didn't expect that she was now seen through by that man.
"Tell me, what do you want to wish for?"
She didn't say anything else, just wanted to make a quick decision, "Since this thing is very important to you, and you understand the principle behind it, just make a wish now."
Yizhihua became as nonchalant as before, as if she was sure that Nanhuan would make a meaningless wish just like those paupers at the beginning, so that she could not directly take away such valuable pawns as the faith totem fragments. She suddenly felt a little bored.
Nan Huan was also a little surprised. She thought that after she had exposed a flower, she had to abide by the rules. The other party might try to negotiate with her, or at least make some concessions. But now the other party had no intention of redeeming the deal. Instead, he had an attitude of giving up everything.
Nan Huan couldn't help but look at the other party's tail again, and seemed to understand something.
She was silent for a moment, "I want to make a wish to become the new owner of this pawn shop."
Yizhihua didn't think much of it and had intended to let Nanhuan's words go in one ear and out the other. She thought it was just an ordinary wish and didn't need to put much thought into it. It was just a job and she just needed to get it done quickly.
After understanding what the other party meant, the uncontrollable tail finally swung towards the fragile table.
The table couldn't bear the weight and it wobbled and fell apart.
It took Yizhihua a few seconds to find her voice again, "Are you kidding me?"
She even suspected that in these few short seconds, the human outside had suffered some major change, which caused her attitude to change so drastically and she said such horrifying words.
"The value of this wish should be enough for you to take away a piece of the Faith Totem Fragment, right?"
Nan Huan withdrew his empty hand indifferently, patted the dust off his clothes, and explained nonchalantly.
Yizhihua felt that her brain seemed to have been stimulated all day long, so that she did not understand the current situation. For a moment, she did not know whether she should explain to Nan Huan first. Since she took over the pawnshop, no one had ever mentioned such a wish. She should first ask why the other party wanted to help her.
Several emotions mixed together. The last flower sighed for some reason, as if it had finally torn off some kind of mask. It looked at Nan Huan with a deep gaze, "Do you know what it means to be the master of this place?"
The eerie tone seemed to be intended to discourage the other party from the idea.
But Nan Huan didn't care. Under Yizhihua's gaze, he looked up and glanced at the other party, then shifted his gaze to the other party's big green tail, "If you mean the iron chains made of black energy wrapped around your tail, I don't think it should be a big problem..."
Snap——
Yizhihua's tail hit the air with a loud noise. She couldn't believe what she heard, and she couldn't believe that Nan Huan could actually see the chains wrapped around her body.
In fact, Nan Huan saw the chains formed by the black air wrapped around Yizhihua's tail from the first moment he saw her, so he kept staring at her tail at the beginning, so that he was noticed by Yizhihua.
The other party's behavior is also subject to the rules. On the one hand, it is my own guess, and on the other hand, the black air indirectly explains it to some extent.
"You you you..." Yizhihua stuttered for a long time and couldn't utter a complete sentence.
As a result, Nan Huan didn't explain anything, but just hooked his little finger at himself. To be more precise, he hooked his finger at his own tail.
She didn't understand what the other party wanted to do at first, but the moment she lowered her head, she saw the iron chain made of black air that she couldn't break free from. After Nan Huan's actions, it seemed as if it was tempted by something and moved towards Nan Huan, and finally sank into Nan Huan's body.
It turns out that she was not bragging. What she meant by this should not be a big problem was that it was not a problem at all.
After all, she watched with her own eyes as part of the black air on her tail was absorbed into Nan Huan's body. Although there was a constant supply of black air replenishing her, Nan Huan looked very relaxed.
"Didn't you say that once you make a wish, you are not allowed to regret it as long as it is within your ability?"
Nan Huan tried it and found that the black air was exactly the same as the one he usually absorbed, and was no different from the one floating in the high priest's mansion.
But judging from the fact that I absorbed a little and added a little to the tail of a flower, the amount should not be small.
"Is this wish within your capabilities?" She sat on the chair with her legs crossed. The roles of the two seemed to have changed. "After all, you don't look like you volunteered to join the company."
Yizhihua was a little unable to keep up with the other party's thinking. After all, she had never seen anyone rushing to die. But judging from the current situation, it was not certain who would die.
Moreover, after Nan Huan expressed this wish, she did not feel any obstruction from the system, which means that this task was in line with the rules and within her capabilities.
"But didn't you say that thing was very important to you?" Yizhihua didn't answer Nanhuan's question, but asked what she had wanted to ask him since just now, "Why did you choose to teach it? Why did you make such a wish?"
Yizhihua didn't know why Nanhuan wanted so much. After all, from a personal point of view, it was completely unnecessary and even put herself in danger.
Nan Huan shrugged nonchalantly, "It's just a small effort to maximize the benefits."
This was not entirely said to please Yizhihua. After all, making a wish was a good opportunity. Of course, she wanted to maximize the benefits and pass this screening. Of course, she also had to get back what she had lost.
Judging from Yizhihua's reaction, this plan should be feasible. She thought about it and added, "And I want to let certain people know that things that come without effort are not so easy to get. I also want him to give me back the same amount he got it from me."
Along with these last words, Nan Huan gave a fake smile.
"So now can you tell me what price the customer who wants my things has to pay?"
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