Magus Tech Chapter 416: The fool and the devil

Looking at the enthusiastic divination woman, Li Cha raised his eyebrows and asked aloud, "A charge?"

"No, divination is free." The woman shook her head.

"So...divination is free, but interpretation is charged?"

Woman: "..." Slightly stunned, she fell into a long silence.

After a long while, he shook his head again, and said with certainty: "Divination and interpretation of card meanings are all free, all free."

"Is that so?" Li Cha narrowed his eyes, feeling more and more strange about this matter.

He never believed that there is a free lunch in the world, the freer it is, the more expensive it is. If there is a free lunch delivered to your door, then you must be vigilant about what will follow.

Li Cha thought.

Looking at Li Cha's hesitation, the woman said, "Why, don't you want to?"

"I don't think I need this kind of divination." After thinking for a moment, Li Cha said, looking directly into the woman's eyes while speaking, wanting to see how she would react.

The woman's reaction was obviously a bit louder.

"I don't think there is any need for divination? How is this possible!" The woman raised her voice and said in a very expressive tone, "Every one of us is like a lost lamb, walking in the long river of fate, stumbling , I don’t know where the end of redemption is. Divination can point out the direction for you, light an ever-burning lamp for you in the long river of fate, save you from taking some detours, and even allow you to avoid traps. It's very important. Come on, kid, do divination once, you will never regret it."

"Uh..."

"So what?"

"If we are lambs, why should we walk in the river? If we light the ever-burning lamp in the river, won't it go out?"

Woman: "..."

Because there was a black cloth covering his face, he couldn't see the other person's expression, but his eyes widened, looking a little... as if he wanted to bite someone.

"Huh——"

The woman under the black robe let out a long breath, as if trying to calm down, she stared at Li Cha and said, "What I said is just a metaphor, a metaphor! In a word, divination is very important to you , you must divination!"

"Forget it." Richard said, "I don't really believe in fate, so I really don't need divination."

After speaking, Li Cha stood up and was about to leave.

The divination woman was in a hurry, she reached out her hand from under the black robe, and grabbed Li Cha's clothes: "No, no! You can't do this, you can't just leave like this! You are in great danger now, you must let me help you Divination, must!"

Li Cha's body stopped. According to his strength, it is very simple to break free from the woman's entanglement, and he doesn't need to use any spells. But he didn't do that, because he suddenly discovered that the woman's hands holding his clothes were a pair of unusual hands.

It was a pair of smooth, white and tender hands, as if they had just been scooped out of milk. According to common sense, such hands should grow on a beautiful girl who is rich and pampered since childhood, not on an old woman in her 40s or 50s.

Even if you have been doing maintenance and applying ointment all the time, you can't do it to this level.

What made Li Cha even more suspicious was that as soon as his eyes fell on the woman's hand, the woman quickly shrank her hand into the black robe as if she was afraid. However, the woman didn't give up pestering him, she kept saying: "If you want to divination, you must do it!"

"Do you have to do divination?" Li Cha said in his heart, sat down again the next moment, looked at the fortune-telling woman, and said, "Okay then, please do a fortune-telling for me."

Li Cha decided to see what kind of medicine was bought in the fortune-telling woman's gourd.

After listening to Li Cha's words, the fortune-telling woman was taken aback for a moment, then breathed a sigh of relief, showing slightly surprised eyes. After sitting in the seat, the woman said: "Then let's start, I will teach you how to operate the fate card first."

"No, I'll do it myself."

"Are you sure, child?" The fortune-telling woman said with some distrust, her tone was very serious, "I must tell you that every operation step of the fate card is very important, and if you make a mistake, it will affect the final result. It has a serious impact on the results, leading to the wrong interpretation of the information, or even the opposite."

Li Cha responded with actions.

Shuffle the cards.

"Wow..."

Put the tarot cards face down, stack them in your hand, draw some cards from the inside, put them on top, repeat three times.

Next, place the cards on the table, spread them out in a circle, and shuffle them clockwise with both hands.

After a while, gather the cards in a clockwise direction to the middle, restore them into a pile of cards, and place them horizontally.

The shuffling is complete.

Cut cards.

"Wow..."

From the top of the horizontal cards, quickly pick up a part of the cards and put them close to the body, so that one stack of cards becomes two stacks of cards.

Next, take out another stack of cards from the second stack and place it away from your body, so that the two stacks of cards become three stacks, arranged in a "three" shape.

Afterwards, take the first pile of cards and put them on top of the second pile, and then put these cards on top of the original third pile of cards to restore all the cards to a pile of cards again.

Finally, rotate the card from landscape to portrait.

The card cut is complete.

The divination woman was watching Li Cha's movements, and she was a little absent-minded. It's not because of anything else, but because Li Cha's movements are too skilled and smooth, and there is even a strange beauty in the skillful and smooth movements.

But the problem is, this is divination! What's the use of proficiency and fluency? The most important thing is sincerity!

During the divination process, you should constantly think about the questions you want to ask in your mind.

However, there is no sincerity in Li Cha's appearance?

Exactly like a craftsman operating tools.

While the divination woman was thinking this way, Li Cha had already drawn a card from the deck, and flipped it over from left to right, revealing the pattern on the card.

Pushing the card in front of the woman, Li Cha said softly: "Okay, you can explain the meaning of the card to me now."

"Uh..." The divination woman came back to her senses, her heart was a little complicated, because she found that Li Cha had done everything that should be done and should not be done by turning against customers, and did not give her a chance to use his means at all. It's really all about explaining the meaning of the card.

Then explain.

"Huh——"

The fortune-telling woman took another deep breath to calm down, and looked at the pattern on the card, and saw a young man painted on it.

The man is wearing beautiful clothes and a gorgeous headdress, holding a rose in his left hand and a wooden staff in his right hand. On the wooden staff is a bundle representing all his belongings, as if wandering happily.

At this time, the man was walking on the edge of the cliff, and a puppy was biting his foot vigorously, as if preventing him from moving forward.

Fools!

This is the "Fool" in the 22 major arcana cards in the Tarot, numbered 0.

"0" means empty, which means nothing and great potential. Among the 22 cards of the Major Arcana, the status of "The Fool" is extremely special. It can be said to be the beginning of everything, and it can also be said to be the end of everything. There are countless interpretations.

The divination woman looked at it for a long time, and explained aloud: "My child, this card can explain your current problem very well. The people on it are a demonstration of your situation:

You see, walking on the edge of a cliff means that you are starting an adventurous action; carrying a bag with a wooden stick means that you live far away; wearing beautiful clothes and a gorgeous headdress means that you are Facing the future, I am very confident; but the puppy that bites your foot is a serious warning. "

The fortune-telling woman looked at Li Cha and said bewitchingly: "My child, your current situation seems to be safe, but it is actually dangerous. You must carefully follow the advice of the elders to save yourself from danger. You are going to travel far out to sea. Right? I advise you, don't act rashly in the last few days, it's better to wait until an appropriate time, and then set off, so that you won't have any accidents, and you can have a smooth journey."

Li Cha asked the divination woman: "Then when is the right time?"

"I don't know about this either, only the fate card can tell you." The fortune-telling woman said seriously, "If you want, I can do another fortune-telling for you in three days, and you will know the answer then Of course, the same will be free.”

"Then why must it be three days later?"

"Son, you have to know that it takes a lot of energy to explain the meaning of the card. So, every time I do a divination, I have to wait at least three days before the next one, understand?" the woman explained.

"Divinations can only be done once every three days, so you can only do divinations seven or eight times a month. Now you can do divinations for free, so the "enthusiastic" and "generous" fortune-tellers did not starve to death, but a It's a miracle." Li Cha thought to himself, already somewhat guessing the purpose of the divination woman. That is, within three days, he cannot leave the port.

"This is delaying time, waiting for my companions to come and do something?" Li Cha thought to himself, looked at the divination woman, and said, "This is a bit hard to say. If there is a boat, I may leave early , if there is no boat, we can wait until three days later."

"No, you have to wait until three days later." The woman said loudly, like a crappy actor proving her acting skills hysterically, "If you don't wait until three days later to set off, you will encounter many unimaginable things !You will..."

"Let's do this!" Li Cha interrupted the divination woman, "Actually, the reason why I don't want to wait until three days later is because I don't trust you. After all, you are just a stranger to me. I don't know if you are kind or have ulterior motives."

The divination woman showed a slightly unnatural gaze, and said: "Then why do you believe me?"

"It's very simple, since you are a fortuneteller, then use the simplest method to prove it - divination.

"But as I said, I won't be able to do the next divination until three days later."

"Don't get me wrong, the divination I'm talking about is for you to ask, and I'll help you explain the meaning of the cards. Although I'm not a professional fortune-teller, I'm quite familiar with the Tarot cards... well, the fate card , you have seen my operation just now. How is it?" Richard said.

"This..." the divination woman hesitated.

Li Cha looked at the other party, waiting patiently for an answer.

After a while, the fortune-telling woman couldn't help but say: "Okay, I promise you, fortune-telling will be fortune-telling, I just hope you don't misinterpret the meaning of the cards. Every card in the destiny card is mysterious and unpredictable. Have two sides, don't give out wrong information because of your inner tendency."

"Then when you explained the cards before, why were they all negative? I remember that the Fool card should be neutral, and there are even more positive explanations than negative explanations." Li Cha said slowly.

The woman shut up, as if she didn't hear anything, she lowered her head and began to shuffle the cards.

"Wow..."

The movement of the woman shuffling the cards is obviously not as proficient and smooth as Richard, but there is no mistake.

After a while, the cards will be shuffled, and then the cards will be cut.

After the cards are cut, the woman finally draws a card.

"Open it." Richard said, "I hope I can see your identity."

"You will get what you want." The woman said, "I have absolutely no malice towards you, and the fate card will prove what I said."

After speaking, the woman opened the card, and the next moment, her face changed instantly.

I saw a grinning devil painted on the card, and at the feet of the devil were two slaves bound by iron chains.

Demon card!

There is no need to explain this card at all, because the meaning itself is straightforward enough-absolutely negative!

Deceit, temptation, lust, greed, ulterior motives, lost future...

Li Cha looked at the woman with a smile on his face: "Do you want to say something?"

"I...I..." The woman was obviously flustered, her eyes flickering constantly, and after a long while she forcibly calmed down and said, "My child, as I said before, every card in the fate card is mysterious and unpredictable." , both have two sides..."

"But yours is a demon card." Li Cha said seriously.

"This is not the key point, think about your card - Fool! You are on the card, but you are walking on a cliff, you must be careful!"

"Indeed, thank you for your reminder. But... yours is a demon card~IndoMTL.com~ child, I heard me, I really have no other thoughts about you, just..."

"Your card is a demon card." Li Cha reminded solemnly.

"I..." The divination woman was going crazy, "Can you stop talking about the devil card? The devil card can't prove everything, and the devil card doesn't necessarily mean that I am a bad person!"

"Then don't talk about the devil card." Richard said, changed his tone, looked at the divination woman and asked, "I've always been curious about your hands, it seems that your hands don't match your age , would you be interested in telling me how to do it?"

"You!" The divination woman's voice froze, her eyes widened, as if she had been touched by the scales, and she said angrily in the next moment, "What does my hand have to do with you! Just take care of your eyes!"

"Then..."

"That's enough! Boy!" the divination woman roared, "I'm exhausted of patience, you can do whatever you like! Go to sea whenever you like! But I want to tell you , if you don’t obey my words, you will definitely have bad luck, yes, bad luck! It will start from tonight!”

After finishing speaking, the fortune-telling woman put away the cards on the table and hurried towards the outside of the tavern.

"Can't we continue?" Li Cha said to himself, but he didn't take it too seriously. He stood up and asked the tavern owner, "Boss, is my room ready?"

"Second floor, the one on the left at the end."

"Thank you." Li Cha nodded, glanced at the direction the divination woman left, and took Pandora upstairs. As he went upstairs, he said to himself: "I've been plagued by bad luck since tonight? Well, is there any other way, then I'll wait."

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