Hearing Shade's question, the doctor holding the fishing rod looked at him suspiciously:
"Don't make a deal with the devil. This is common sense. Why would you even think about making a deal with the devil? More importantly, how do you know you can't beat him?"
"Because I don't have it"
Halfway through, Xia De realized the meaning of the doctor's words and couldn't help laughing.
The doctor shook his head:
"I can't stand the idea of demons taking away souls the most. Since you said that I definitely won't meet you, I'll assume that you don't have helpers around you."
In fact, there is Miss Higgins, the high-level witch, but the other party is suppressed by the Black Mist Camp. Even Shade might not be able to win in a real fight, so Shade didn't mention it.
"The greedy demon can inspire greed in mortals, but it is also very greedy. You can find a way to make it agree to bet with you, and then use that soul as a bet. In this way, you may not even have to fight."
The doctor reminded, Shade nodded, this method is indeed good:
"But I may not win the bet."
"You're right, so you have to cheat. This is a just cause. You don't have to talk to the devil about morality. If you bet with it on whether a coin is heads or tails, it itself is made of coins and will definitely agree. I will give you a coin I made in advance.
, so that you can deceive it and win. Of course, if you can't win, you can find a way to let the other party absorb the coin. Then you don't have to worry."
The doctor easily solved the problem that Shade thought would be very troublesome.
"Detective, when do you want to use coins? Although it is not difficult to make that thing, it takes a long time. It will take about a week to a week and a half before I can give you the finished product."
"It doesn't matter. Let's deal with the maze first. I'm not in a hurry."
"That's fine."
The doctor nodded and was about to talk to Shade about the anomalies in this lake area. Suddenly, the fishing rod in his hand shook and he actually caught a fish:
"You're finally here!"
The doctor didn't care to speak, and jumped down from the coffin, turning the wheel to retrieve the fishing line, but the force in the water was so strong that the doctor staggered, and he almost fell into the lake:
"Detective, help!"
"coming!"
Shade also reached out and grabbed the fishing rod, and then felt the huge power in the lake. No matter what it was, it couldn't be a fish, unless there were whales in Green Lake.
But no matter what, seeing the black energy coming out of the doctor's hands, obviously using thaumaturgy, Shade also activated the [Red Dragon Power]. So under the power of the dragon and the devil, the things caught in the water were
, and finally as the two of them retreated step by step, they also approached the shore. The two sides struggled for ten minutes, and after pulling repeatedly, the glass bottle filled with colorful smoke was finally pulled up by the fishhook.
Arrived at the shore.
When it flew out of the lake with water drops, Shade could even see the blue "giant"'s stunned expression in the bottle.
"Oh~"
Now Shade understood what the doctor was doing when he came here early in the morning.
The glass bottle hanging on the fishhook was grabbed by Dr. Schneider. He popped open the cork neatly, and as colorful smoke came out, the blue giant appeared in front of Shade again.
The sage-level relic [Repayment of Greed] contains the "Wish Demon-Zatanna" sealed in it. Counting the meeting during the "Seven-Day Journey" in the fifth era, this is the third time Shade has seen it.
.
After the blue "giant" appeared this time, he did not immediately talk about the three wishes. Instead, he asked Shade quite dissatisfied:
"We already agreed at the time that I would give you clues and you would let me go. Why don't you let me go now?"
Being questioned by the devil about your lack of integrity is probably a rare experience.
So Shade, who thought he was very honest, still defended himself:
"Look what you said. What does this have to do with me? I didn't catch you! Besides, you actually stayed in Green Lake? What were you thinking?"
"Detective, I said yesterday that the chaos and depression in the Green Lake area are very attractive to demons. Although it has been turned into a relic, the nature of the demon has not changed. Now that it is here, how can it leave? From our perspective
When I set out for the city, I thought of finding it, and lo and behold, the plan went smoothly."
The doctor said with a smile, a dark red light flashed in his eyes:
"Do you know me?"
The giant spirit then turned to look at the doctor, hesitated for a moment, and shook his head slightly:
"Maybe I know you. But since you ask that, I definitely don't know you."
"Well, I have some troublesome things to deal with in Green Lake. I need your help. After I leave Green Lake, I will let you go. I can sign a contract to guarantee this."
After speaking, he also explained to Shade:
"Although Yaru is not powerful, you said that there are many dangers on the island. To be on the safe side, it is better for us to find a helper."
Shade also felt that the doctor's arrangements were very appropriate. He was worthy of being someone who made three plans before leaving Tobesk.
As for the wish demon - Zatanna, when he saw Shad and the doctor talking, he shook his bottle violently to escape, but the bottle was firmly held in the doctor's hand. Seeing the blue-eyed middle-aged man, he became suspicious again
Looking at it, it could only sigh:
"I knew that I should have left here directly at that time. Okay, I can help you. But if you want my help, it won't be free."
"We can talk about this later."
The doctor was very satisfied with the result, so he asked Shade again:
"I'm going to walk around the lake for a while, and I'll go into the lake to check out the situation soon. Do you want to come with us? Can you introduce this place to me?"
Shade shook his head regretfully:
"I have something else to do. I will go to the outskirts of the city to investigate a circus in a while. That circus is involved in many things, related to Gray Gloves."
This is the task Margaret gave Shad.
"It is also suspected to be related to a relic."
This was something listed on the witch's task list. Since the two things were in the same place, Shade stopped by to solve them. In the last mission between the earl and the poisonous mushrooms, the mushroom samples harvested at the end were very useful, so he thought
Let's see what happens again this time.
"Well, you go and do your business. Once I'm ready, I'll leave you a message at the hotel. So far, things are going very smoothly. I originally thought I would have to fish for a whole day about the coins.
I’ll remember that too, don’t worry about that.”
The doctor said with a smile, Shade waved goodbye to him and left here.
After confirming that Shade was gone, the doctor looked at the giant spirit that was still floating in the air, and the latter also looked at the doctor. One person and one devil looked at each other like this for a long time, and then the "giant spirit" clasped his hands on his chest and asked
road:
"This friend of yours once asked me some interesting questions."
"Do you really want to say it?"
The psychiatrist asked, and the "giant" nodded:
"What do you want to do? I'm warning you, the guys on the island are not that easy to deal with."
The circus that Shade wants to investigate today is not a local performance organization. They are a troupe organization that wanders around the Old World and makes a living by performing. Naturally, the reason why they chose to come to Green Lake City is because of the recent negotiations between the two countries.
The number of outsiders in the Green Lake area has increased dramatically. If you come here now, business will be quite good.
A group of people known as the "Blue Star Circus" are currently stationed in the southern suburbs of Green Lake City, setting up camp and performing in a small village adjacent to the city. Although it is a village outside the city, it is an important transportation thoroughfare.
They are the only way to the City of Glass from the southwest of Green Lake City, so people entering and leaving the city can see them.
Moreover, this location can also be used to perform in the city at any time, making it a very convenient camp.
Margaret's mission is to ask the "Grey Eagle" to find out what her brother, Prince Samuel of Anjou, did after sending Gray Gloves agents to Green Lake City. And the witches' task list
Above, the great witch of time suspects that there is a cognitive-altering relic hidden in the circus, and it is not recommended for girls below the middle level to investigate alone.
When he left the city to find a doctor just now, Shade had already asked the coachman about the circus, so he found the location of the circus smoothly.
The somewhat hard-to-remember "Cotswolds Village" is actually completely adjacent to the city. It doesn't even have a moat or city wall, and only a dirt road separates the city and the countryside. The Blue Star Circus camp is outside the village.
in the threshing floor.
In the spring, the villagers did not need to use the place frequently, so they rented the venue to the circus. The circus arranged more than ten carriages in a large circle and set up several stalls selling various souvenirs here, forming a
A small camp.
But now it is Thursday morning, and the circus obviously has no performances. The animals are all locked in tents, and the members of the troupe gather together in twos and threes, playing cards or hanging clothes to dry.
Three policemen from the city were asking a man wearing a black silk hat for information about the circus members; on the open-air wooden stage in the southeast corner of the camp, a middle-aged man holding a dagger was pointing at a target ten steps away.
; The middle-aged bald man guarding the souvenir stall sat on a chair, folded his hands on his chest and yawned; in the temporary stable not far away, the groom brushed the back of the red horse with a large brush; the most lively place was the camp
In the open space to the west, a young juggler stood on a wooden stool, surrounded by children from the village, and was performing a show of tossing three red balls at a time to them.
When he was throwing the ball, he would also deliberately make tricks from time to time that he almost couldn't catch the ball. At this time, the children would all sigh "Oh~" together, and after the young man caught the ball, they would
applaud.
The weather outside the city is good. Just looking at this camp, although I can detect extremely low elemental reactions, if I look carefully, I can't see anything unusual here. When Shade walked over, no one stopped him, after all, the circus
Even without performing, you can still sell souvenirs.