Herds of cattle, sheep and horses were being driven, dark-skinned men wearing felt hats and thick blue or red robes, local women wearing multi-layered robes and skirts of many and gorgeous colors, various kinds of corn food, a lot of
Franca and Jenna's eyes were completely overwhelmed by the white buildings and the shops selling leather goods. This was fresh and interesting.
In the biting cold wind, Franka passed by a four-wheeled wooden cart pulled by long-haired oxen, and turned to Lumian and Jenna and said:
"Why don't you talk? Let's talk about the local customs."
What's the point of walking dryly?
Lumian was silent for a second and said, "I don't understand."
Jian Na then felt ashamed: "I don't understand either."
She had heard the love legends of the Pharaoh Queen and the stories of adventurers discovering treasures in the rainforest.
"Uh..." Franka waved her right hand and said, "I don't know much."
How much is not more? Lumian did not ask further questions and led his two companions into the store called "Highland Secret Medicine".
Intis boss Saliente Empaia, who was wearing a blue jacket with gold edges, recognized Lumian at a glance. After all, he was impressive in both hair color and appearance. Moreover, it had not been long since the last time they met.
past few days.
Saliente looked at Franca and Jenna for a few moments, then smiled warmly at Lumian: "What do you want this time?"
Lumian, who was so spiritually exhausted that he had a headache, said bluntly: "Real mummy ashes, I want to see the mummy!"
Saliente's eyes moved slightly, but he didn't ask why: "Okay, I'll take you to see it."
As a long-term seller of mummy ashes, he knew very well that this thing had no effect on improving abilities in that area. It was mixed with some truly effective secret medicines for sale. But since the other party did not ask whether the real mummy ashes were useful, then he
Too happy not to mention it.
Besides, he suspected that the man and the woman wanted to buy a mummy directly and resell it for a profit. This was big business.
Saliente temporarily closed the door of the store, led Lumian, Franca and Janna into the rear warehouse where ordinary herbs were stacked, and went down the narrow stairs to the door of the basement.
He turned around, looked at Lumian and others, and asked as if to confirm, "Do you really want to see it?"
This doesn't feel like a guilty conscience, but closer to a reminder.
"Of course." Lumian answered without hesitation.
While speaking, his eyes fell on the dark wooden door of the basement.
There, several twisted and mysterious symbols were outlined in a mixture of dark green and pale white.
Some of them resemble simplified skull heads, some look like intertwined arms and vines, and some are composed of inverted triangles.
Surrounding these symbols, there are thin lines of the same color, which extend in all directions and penetrate into the walls, floor and ceiling.
When Saliente took out a gold-like key and took a few steps forward to open the door, Franka lowered her voice and said to Lumian and Jenna: "Those occult symbols are like the realm of death.
of."
"What's their significance?" Jenna asked without understanding.
Franka shook her head:
"I don't know. Normally, this should be a component of some ritual magic, but ritual magic without a source of power cannot always function.
"As far as I know, the large churches of the Zhengshen Church have more or less similar arrangements, and what keeps the ritual magic running are the believers who pray every day. The spirit and spirituality each of them devotes individually is different.
It’s a lot, but when accumulated, it’s enough.”
"Maybe there is the power to maintain ritual magic here." Lumian smiled and said to Franka, "You should be happy. From this perspective, there may really be a mummy here."
Franka breathed a sigh of relief and said, "There should be less fakes here than in Trier."
She asked with some confusion: "Why do you have to drag us to see the real mummy? I can directly divine whether the mummy's ashes are real."
"Let's see it." Lumian replied confidently.
Without waiting for Franka to curse, he added:
"If I directly ask for the mummy's ashes, he will most likely give a fake one. When the time comes, after you divine the results on the spot, do you think I should just kick down his cabinet or beat him up? It's not good to kill him.
ah."
Lumian used a phrase that Aurore often said.
Of course, what he didn't mention was that there were also negative effects brought about by the three contracts: "Abscess Hand" made him always want to break the target's neck, and "Human Face Mantis" made him hate those who slandered innocent people even more than before.
As a human being, the shadow of armor makes him sometimes imprisoned by life, and he has the urge to run around trying to break through the constraints.
It may be due to the testimony of Mr. Fool, or it may be the benefits brought by "bribery". The degree of these three is quite slight, and they are negative effects that Lumian can control with concentration, but they are combined in
At the same time, let him occasionally have random thoughts
Franka and Jenna made disdainful sounds at the same time.
Only "hunters" love to fight and kill!
At this time, Saliente, who fiddled with the door lock for a while, sometimes turning it to the left and sometimes to the right, finally opened the dark wooden door with mysterious symbols painted on it.
Lumian then saw oil lamps in the corridor of the basement. They were embedded in the wall and seemed to have never been extinguished.
The firelight, which was dyed a little green, swayed slightly, and Franca and others followed Saliente, the owner of the secret medicine store, into the aisle behind the door.
There was clearly light here, but it gave them the illusion of going deeper into darkness.
The already cold temperature seemed to have dropped by several degrees Celsius.
Saliente walked forward seven or eight meters, passed through the closed gray and white stone doors, and stopped in front of a room in the middle of the corridor.
These stone doors and the surrounding walls have symbols similar to those at the entrance to the basement.
Saliente pushed open the stone door in front of him, revealing a small tomb in front of Lumian and others:
A very exotic and colorful human-shaped sarcophagus with gold background is quietly placed in the middle of the tomb.
"This is a mummy from five centuries ago." Saliente introduced, approaching the sarcophagus and pushing the lid down.
"He doesn't seem to be afraid of us snatching away the mummies here..." Lumian muttered in a low voice.
Franka laughed softly and said, "Maybe she just looks down on us."
Jian Na did not join in their exchange, and looked curiously and fearfully at the inside of the gold-bottomed sarcophagus.
There lay a corpse wrapped in yellow-brown cloth. Its mouth was slightly open, its eyes were only dim black holes, and there seemed to be traces of grease that had spilled on its body.
Being in a foreign country, Franca didn't have much scruples. She took out a mirror and started divination in front of Saliente.
Saliente's eyes changed slightly and quickly returned to normal, as if he had seen similar things too many times.
Not long after, an old voice with the sound of water came from Franka's mirror:
"It's a real mummy, but not an ancient mummy."
Franka suddenly raised her head and looked at Saliente, the owner of the secret medicine store.
Saliente smiled awkwardly:
"I just lied. This is not a mummy from five centuries ago. In fact, it was made and sent here just two weeks ago. But no matter what, it has gone through a complete and long mummy making process.
, the only difference from those ancient mummies is that they haven’t been placed in the tomb long enough.”
The "ancient" mummy that was just released two weeks ago? Lumian looked at Saliente and asked casually:
"You hunt living people to make mummies?"
Saliente shook his head slightly:
"It's not necessary. So many people die every day in the Southern Continent. You can buy a lot of fresh corpses for a little money. Hiring people to hunt is much more expensive than this. If you do it yourself, the time cost is too high."
He unconsciously analyzed the pros and cons of several options.
After listening to the explanation from the owner of the secret medicine store, Jenna had a completely different feeling when she looked at the mummy:
That was a man who had not been dead for many years.
And his body was placed here and sold as goods.
Although a mummy that is only two weeks old can be used and is also a qualified auxiliary material, Franka definitely hopes to get better ones.
She sadly looked away from the fresh mummy and asked Saliente:
"Are there any older mummies?"
Saliente said "uh" for a few seconds before carefully asking: "Is last year's okay?"
This is the oldest mummy in the basement.
Franka sighed helplessly: "That's okay."
A little disappointed, Saliente led the three people into another tomb.
He originally thought that Lumian and the others wanted to buy a whole mummy, so he showed them the most intact one, but now it seemed that the other party only wanted a part of it.
The tawny mummy from last year was very incomplete. Not only was there no parts below the torso, but there were also hideous holes in the chest and abdomen.
After Franka's divination confirmed the authenticity, Saliente asked less enthusiastically than before: "How much is needed?"
"50 grams." Franka planned to reserve more.
Saliente calculated and said:
"500 Firkin."
Franka immediately paid the money and watched as Saliente took out a hammer and a short knife from nowhere, and knocked off the mummy's small arm with a series of cuts and cuts with a gesture like mining ore.
.
Jenna was stunned. To her, this was really bloody and cruel.
She had watched gang fights and killed people herself, but she had never seen anyone treat human bodies like cheap goods.
Franka sighed secretly, forcing herself to suppress all kinds of emotions in her heart.
This is the cruelty of the extraordinary world and the potion system, but compared to the "gift", it seems extremely beautiful.
After taking over the small half of the mummy's arm, Franka took Jenna and walked out of the tomb in silence, followed by Lumian and Saliente.
They went back less than three meters, and the kerosene lamps in the corridor shrank at the same time, and the light became extremely dim.
Saliente turned his head in astonishment, his face uncertain.