The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 18: Trading and plunder
"Hidden Eye?"
Hearing Neuser's words, Nefertari frowned slightly.
She is a young lady with skin as pale as a stone statue and hair as red as flames, full of strange vitality.
Her figure and skin are well maintained, but correspondingly, at a glance, it is impossible to determine her approximate age. The flaming light danced in her eyes, as if she could see a blazing bonfire through her pupils.
She is one of the "wise men" of this city.
At the same time, he is also Neuser's friend since childhood.
"Are you sure that's your name?"
"Well, they claim to be here to solve nightmares."
"Nightmare at the Sporomill? Are they serious?"
Nefertari walked around the room twice, his expression became slightly serious, and asked Neuser again: "Have you checked it with the command spell?"
"Of course I did, everything within the scope of my duties. My spell told me that they didn't lie - there is indeed such an organization, and they do belong to this organization. But other than that, I can't find anything, and I've never heard of the name myself."
Nieussel shrugged helplessly and looked at Nefertari who was spinning around in the room with some uneasiness. Green light seeped out of his eyes: "That's why I came to see you. See if you know more than me."
"Sorry, Neusser. I haven't heard of that name either."
Nefertari frowned: "But I may have some ideas... the problem may be more serious. Wait a minute, I want to do an experiment."
"——What? Naifei, what did you think of?"
Nieussel's eyes lit up, and he chased after Nefertari and asked endlessly.
"Don't come so close to me - you stepped on my shoes, idiot! Now, bring me the bucket of true insects from the basement, and I'll hold a ceremony to test my guess."
Looking at Nieussel, who was following him around like a big dog and stepping on his shoes, Nefertari felt his blood pressure rise in an instant.
"Bring them all? Or just one piece?"
"I only use one for the ceremony, but how do you plan to get it out?"
"...How to take it out?"
Nieussel asked following Nefertari's words.
The woman suddenly grinned, feeling her brain hurt for a moment, and added helplessly: "So don't take it out! Bring me the bucket!"
"Oh, if you had said so earlier, it would have been over."
The brown-haired, blue-eyed, strong and handsome supervisor Neuser nodded repeatedly and ran to Nefertari's basement.
Nefertali pressed his temples hard several times, trying to calm down.
Neousel is great everywhere. I have a very smart brain, but I never use it...
She quickly used crystal powder to decorate the ceremony venue - a hexagram made of two overlapping triangles. And take out the polished citrine fragments, place one, two and three crystals on the three tops of the six-pointed star at two o'clock, six o'clock and ten o'clock respectively, and place them behind the citrine. Put on three light sources.
"Is this the barrel?"
Nieussel came up carrying a small oak barrel and said with some confusion: "I only saw this 'bucket'..."
It is said to be a barrel, but it is actually about the size of a can of beer.
It had been immersed in ice water before, so it looked a little wet.
Before handing it to Nefertari, he diligently picked up the cotton cloth on the table and wiped the damp and cold wooden barrel.
"Well, you can just watch and don't have to go out. But don't disturb me."
Nefertari warned: "This is a ritual to communicate directly with the mysterious lady - from now on, don't say anything until I say yes."
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nieussel nodded silently, watching Nefertari perform the ceremony intently.
Nefertari shook his head helplessly and put the bucket on the corner of the table.
She opened the lid of the bucket, revealing the white translucent worms inside, numbering about a dozen.
Looking like a child's ring finger - as the temperature gradually returned to normal, these 'true insects' with a layer of frost on their skin began to slowly shake their bodies and slowly regained their activity.
Nefertata used a glass, wine grape-like vessel to pull out three worms. And carefully dumped it in the middle of the ceremony venue.
This is a monster called "Zhen Zhi Zhi".
In ancient times, ritualists believed that if someone suddenly became obsessed with studying or reading, it was usually parasitized by the true knowledge insect.
When they touch the flesh and blood of living creatures, they will immediately turn into transparent spirits and become one with them; and if they touch any metal, they will become very fragile...the kind that uses metal chopsticks Lift it up and it will break in half with a shake of your hand.
The higher the temperature, the more active and restless they become, turning into transparent spirits; when the surrounding temperature is low enough, they will become entities. This is also the reason why ancient people understood "why the brain does not work well when it is hot."
Of course, today's ritual masters already know that the previous view of the Zizhiworm was incorrect.
In other words, the relationship is reversed.
It is not because of being "parasitized by the true knowledge insect" that one becomes obsessive in seeking knowledge, but because the desire for knowledge is refined and embodied in the ritual, the "true knowledge insect" is born. Once this "desire for knowledge" is extracted, it will disappear together with the "original intention of wanting to know". Unless something happens to encourage you again, you will no longer study skills and learn knowledge, and become half a useless person.
Due to various reasons, the ritual of "Activation Extraction: True Insects" has been widely spread, but so far, only the underground federation can produce large quantities of True Insects.
Because here there are the largest number of smart people in the world who are willing to learn, read, and strive to become "smart people".
There are also the most "smart people" who are willing to "sell themselves" in exchange for money.
Whether it is passive plunder or active trafficking, the underground federation exports a large number of true insects every year.
It is true that the wise men are the founders of the underground federation.
But at the same time...not all wise men ~IndoMTL.com~ are willing to selflessly dedicate their wisdom to others.
A wise man does not kill.
That was not a "mysterious move."
But some wise men do not want many wise men to appear in their city.
They will arrange rituals to directly take away other people's wisdom, or give them curses to gradually make their minds worse, or take away the other person's "desire for knowledge". Some wise men will even give the other person too much Live a happy life, treat each other to food, drink and have fun - depending on their personalities, wise men have different methods.
However, even wise men who do not make their own "Zi Zhi Zhi" will inevitably buy some Zhi Zhi Zhi from others.
Whether you use the true knowledge bug on yourself to let yourself study hard for a while; or you use the true knowledge bug in rituals to gain short-term prophetic spell abilities, they are both very practical "consumables".
Yes, consumables.
In the free underground federation, trafficking relationships are also quite free.
In the hands of these "wise men" who are proficient in various rituals, whether it is common things such as life span, health, wisdom, strength, part of the body... or even curiosity, someone's love for themselves, or a certain language The ability to control, the beautiful face, the moving singing voice, and even the illusory destiny can all be freely transferred through various rituals.
It can be transferred...which means it can be sold.
Being able to reach a formal deal means that the behavior itself will also be protected and supervised by Sir Silver.
It is precisely for this reason that in the underground federation, everything can be sold and anything can be bought.
Only "taxes" are absolutely inevitable.
This is not a tax paid to a "king" that does not exist.
It is to make Yinjue recognize it as a "transaction" through "taxation".
—rather than plundering.