Chapter 25: The Pumpkin Man
As a "newcomer" who has just entered a different space by accident, Zhu Jue naturally has no opportunity to speak in this team exchange.
But he was happy to be a listener, and he stepped back from his desk early and leaned against the nearby bookshelf, thinking that he might be able to learn more useful information from the conversations of these people.
However, when the discussion began, Zhu Jue realized that there was no imaginary information exchange meeting, just like the gentleman said before, he was an intermediary and guide, and he would not normally exchange some of his ideas with these people.
Therefore, this state is not a team exchange at all, it is more like a routine meeting in the gentleman, the main content is not to discuss what he has seen and heard during the trip, but the gentleman is constantly talking about some problems that need to be paid attention to in the next trip and explaining what time to meet tomorrow and what to prepare.
Is that a team?
Zhu Jue's eyes looked at several other people without a trace, and he was surprised to find that these people seemed to be used to this state, and the rhinoceros and AK nodded frequently with some flattery after the gentleman finished every sentence, which was undoubtedly two "licking dogs".
However, the black swan kept silent, not only did she not nod her head, but Zhu Jue even vaguely felt that she was not very interested in this one-sided meeting like herself.
Her wealth of experience makes her not care about the superficial things that the gentleman says?
Or is there some other reason......
Taking advantage of the time when no one took care of them, Zhu Jue recalled the gentleman's introduction to them when the three of them first entered the door, the black swan was 5 trips, the rhinoceros was 2 times, and AK was simply a newcomer 1 time.
And he remembered correctly, the gentleman said that the squirrel who gave him the key to the gold bank before was also a traveler who only made one trip five years ago.
This is a bit strange, since Shuo Rat already existed in the gentleman's team five years ago, and from the tone of the latter's words when Zhu Jue and the gentleman first met, it can undoubtedly prove that the gentleman had a similar status five years ago as he does now.
So here's the problem.
In five years, the team has traveled the most times except for gentlemen, and it is actually a black swan?
As a man's wardrobe, Heilan House has to be visited twice a year, even if it is bought once and returned once...... And this fantasy world is only allowed to go once a year?
This speculation is patently incorrect.
So, where have the rest of the team gone in the last five years?
The lack of information made Zhu Jue's mind constantly produce all kinds of doubts, and he wanted to ask clearly, but he also knew that it was not the right time.
But the gentleman seemed to think of something in the middle of his words, turned his head to Zhu Jue and said: "Mr. Wind Chime, you need to prepare a set of clothes that are in line with the social environment of the European Middle Ages by tomorrow night, this is very important, I suggest that you can start looking for custom merchants in this area on the Internet now, and if necessary, I can also introduce my personal tailor to you." ”
"What?"
Zhu Jue, who was immersed in thinking, didn't understand the meaning of the gentleman's words for a while.
"If you want to hide your identity, you naturally have to change from the inside out, are you going to wear the current outfit?"
The social environment in the dream realm is not the same as modern society, and the shirt and trousers Zhu Jue wears are obviously inappropriate, as if he was wearing an assassin suit to play assassination.
Handsome is handsome, and it's nonsense to hide your identity.
"Well, I see...... In fact, after listening to it for so long, I found that I don't know anything about the situation in the dream realm, can you ask this friend to tell me more about it later?"
If there is a problem, it has to be solved, Zhu Jue can't believe the gentleman, and if he asks him directly, he is afraid that he will get some information that is true or false, which is not only not helpful to himself, but also may disrupt his thinking in turn, so Zhu Jue directly took a step forward and raised his hand to press AK's shoulder, choosing to let him tell him.
Although he had only experienced one trip, he had been to that world and must have known some information, and judging from the first reaction of the three people when they saw him when they entered the door just now, the black swan estimated that there was a high probability that they would refuse, and the rhinoceros and the wild boar seemed to have some friendship, probably because of the animal code names that both had rough skin and thick flesh?
Only this AK clearly shows goodwill, and under the premise that the situation is not clear, Zhu Jue naturally wants to choose a good "coaxing" person.
"Of course, as long as Mr. AK has no opinion, I will not interfere with the private communication of the members. ”
The gentleman seems to be very generous about this, but if someone stands in AK's current position, they will find that the gentleman's eyes are actually turned to this side, and there is not much please.
Zhu Jue asks others instead of gentlemen, which in itself is a kind of distrust, and for the latter, it is naturally unpleasant that the kind actions he did before were not reciprocated.
"I ......"
AK, who can participate in this kind of team, will naturally not be stunned, and realizes that if he nods, he may make the boss of this team unhappy, and immediately puts on an embarrassed look and wants to refuse.
"Hey~ friend, you may have misunderstood, this is not unpaid. ”
Zhu Jue pulled his hand out of his pocket, deliberately put his hand behind the back of his hand towards the gentleman and held AK's hand, what was in it was not a coin, let alone a prayer scroll from the Usa Church, but the gem he had obtained before, and waited until AK turned his head sideways and was surprised to see what was in it, and then continued,
"I got the collection of wild boars before, and I don't have anything in it, this is a deposit, as long as you say it in detail enough, I will give you more. ”
"Well, I don't think it's good, forget it, since these things are Mr. Boar's inheritance, I have no reason to take them, you can take them back first." ”
AK refused again, but the palm of the gem clenched tightly, then released.
"That's a pity, it seems that those coins can't impress you, I thought it was a good thing. ”
Zhu Jue was not attached, so he took back the gem and continued to go back to standing.
"If Mr. Wind Chimes has any doubts, you can ask me, I am still interested in the coins in the dream world. ”
The gentleman interjected at this point.
"Haha, forget it, I don't want anything that AK doesn't want, I don't want to take advantage of you. ”
This time, it was Zhu Jue's turn to refuse, because he didn't have any coins with him at all, only the gems he carried with him.
The gentleman said nothing more, and waited until the meeting was over that he mentioned that he was going to take the group on a common task on his next trip.
"This is something I bought from other groups of travelers, you can take a look. ”
Opening the zipper, the gentleman took out a yellow and clear thing from his backpack, and Zhu Jue took a step forward to see it completely.
Attached to the thumb-sized dark green end is a round orange-yellow pumpkin, but it is not a simple fruit and vegetable, but a pumpkin the size of a human head, and the inside looks like a hollowed-out Halloween ghost-shaped pumpkin.
"What is this?"
Not only Zhu Jue was puzzled, but AK next to him asked out loud.
The gentleman did not answer, but turned his hand to take a fountain pen on the desk, removed the cap, looked around at the people around him, and then pointed the tip of the pen downward, and without hesitation, pierced the dark green end of the Halloween pumpkin head.
However, at the moment when the tip of the pen was about to pierce in, more than a dozen dark green threads that looked like plant stems sprouted from the end, blocking the pen in mid-air, and the gentleman had already let go of his hand.
The pumpkin head, which had been motionless, suddenly began to tremble, accompanied by a "grunt" sound, and those who directly twisted the fountain pen immediately rose as if they had been stimulated by something, and it covered the entire desktop in just a few seconds.
The gentleman and the black swan took two steps out, the rhinoceros and AK posed as if they were facing a great enemy, and Zhu Jue walked around to the back of a bookshelf and secretly observed through the gap between the compartments.
But the number of stems and filaments exceeded a certain limit, and Zhu Jue found that they were actually showing signs of entanglement.
The pumpkin head was still on the table, and the stems that should have been spread out were frantically shaking in mid-air like "angry hair rushing to the crown", and finally began to gradually entangle and change into a humanoid torso about two meters tall and composed of stems!
There are no hands or feet, only the throbbing stems that are still alive and twitch extend on all sides like the tentacles of an octopus.
I saw that the two "slender" stems and long legs hemmed down at the moment of formation, and fell directly to the floor of the room, and the stems spread out to stabilize the body, and then it was like a person who had just woken up, a "carp beat up", and brought the pumpkin head up, and the pumpkin head that had not had the slightest expression before seemed to be given life at this moment, whether it was the pair of hollow eyes that were picked out or the wide mouth were distorted at the moment!
"Pumpkin Man?"
Zhu Jue, who was behind the bookshelf, looked at the monster in front of him that was transformed from a pumpkin, and whispered to himself in some surprise.
"This is the monster we found in a deserted farmhouse near Neal City, it has been defeated now, but I let it bask in the sun for a while so that it will come back to life when it runs out of energy. ”
The gentleman was only halfway through his words, and the pumpkin man who was still majestic just now had completely withered, and after the energy in his body was used up, the stem retracted, turning back into the pumpkin and falling back to the table, and the gentleman put it back in his backpack before he continued,
"This pumpkin can help you perceive mental power and strengthen your life force to a certain extent...... I bought the news from someone else at a great price, and now I choose to share it with a few people and I'll take you there on tomorrow's trip, and correspondingly, if there's a harvest, then I'll take half of each pumpkin as payment!"
This is what the gentleman said before about providing information and rewarding, he can use his network to obtain some information that they newcomers don't know, and the latter needs to pay in return.
50%
This rate of return is undoubtedly a bit high in Zhu Jue's opinion.
It's just that the rhino and AK next to it don't seem to have any objection to this, and it can even be said that they happily accept the price.
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