This sudden emotional breakdown seemed to come to an end quickly.

The people of Linyuan left the entertainment area when they got the deposit refunded, no one knew which wealthy boss the giant warrior was bought by in the end, no one knew what Yuhir's sudden collapse was for, and Yuhir didn't mention it to anyone again.

"We'd better not be in front of her." Jiang Beihe quietly patted Qiu Xuan behind the crowd, "That kid must have a reason if she doesn't say it, and that warrior ...... We can't do anything, even if we take 10,000 steps back and say that we cut people off, he can't survive in a desperate situation. Yuhir She ...... It should be that he understood this truth, so he didn't say it. ”

"Hmm."

stayed in a desperate situation for two more days, during which Qiu Xuan originally wanted to go out according to the list given by Shen Jingxue to find newcomers who happened to be in those turns, and by the way, earn some extra money with newcomers, but when she passed by the affairs center, she checked the information about her next trial, and it happened to be "famine".

When she got this title from Shen Jingxue at the beginning, Qiu Xuan suspected for a moment that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse had gone to the wrong set. After all, from now on, there are plagues, deaths, and famines, so one more war is missing, and it is just the right time to gather the four sons of Doomsday.

However, this speculation is mostly a fantasy, after all, the gap between the civilizations of the small world planes is really too large, and on the basis of a considerable number of civilizations, there is no "Apocalypse" at all, and the titles of these rulers are most likely just a coincidence.

She had planned to leave immediately after learning about the trial, but the day before she decided to leave, Hephaestus returned from the trial.

In order not to be caught cheating or violating the agreement, Qiu Xuan set off to go to the foundry's shop, but what she didn't expect was that when she saw Hephaestus again, it was actually in the sanctuary.

The so-called sanctuary is actually a place like a medical point. As long as your major or side support ability is so close to "healing", you can enter the "sanctuary" and receive a certain share of the subsidy every month after passing the interview. Essentially, the Sanctuary is the equivalent of a guild, except that it is filled with executioners with healing powers.

Following an apprentice smith in a robe to Hephaestus' room, she pushed open the door and paused as she looked at the gel-covered man on the bed.

"Yo, it's rare to see you like this." Qiu Xuan immediately laughed, as if he didn't see the apprentice next to him who was about to swallow his anger. "You're in a hurry this trial, haven't you had time to finish it? It's okay, I'm not in a hurry, you take your time. ”

The Smith lay on the bed and smiled—in fact, it was impossible to tell whether he was smiling or not, and even the whole face was wrapped in gel and could only be judged by the arc of the lower part—his tone sounded very weak, but he was also very stubborn in holding on to his dream of acting in theater.

"Oh, my dear Aph! You don't have to worry about that, if I knew I was going to see you today, even if there were the Ten Hells of the Underworld ahead, I would have walked through the angry swamp lava and came to you covered in flames! ”

When the apprentice standing next to her heard this, he was about to swallow her alive.

"Less." Qiu Xuan walked over and moved a chair and sat next to the hospital bed, "Have you repaired it?" ”

Hephaestus: "Almost. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Well, my original plan was to do the final forging after I returned from this trial." Hephaestus beckoned the apprentice out, then sat up a little, and spoke to her with the gel wrapped under his face. "But as you can see now, there was a bit of an accident in the trial...... Tut. Originally, this little accident was actually nothing, because it was really only the last step, and I could start it immediately when I got out of the sanctuary, but what kind of speed are you? ”

The man with his whole body like a swollen bubblegum tilted his head with great difficulty, squinting at her. "We originally agreed on three worlds, and if you estimate the period according to your current number, so I planned to set a time of half a year to a year...... You know, it's not a fraction of the time I planned, and you tell me you're back? ”

"Is that my problem?" Qiu Xuan also squinted at him, "It's you, not me, who didn't complete the agreement as required." ”

Hephaestus sighed, "Okay, okay, that's really my problem. Well, I happen to have a few knick-knacks for apprenticeship here, and I will sell them to you at a low price as compensation. ”

As his words fell, his swollen arm pulled straight out of the accompanying space, feeling out a few bits and pieces...... Tattered.

"Look at this, a simplified version of the Bamboo Dragonfly Flying Machine, as long as you hold on to this small pole, it can take you to fly close to the ground, and it will only sell you fifty passes. There's also this, a fully automatic casual wig, you can wear it when you accidentally meet an opponent or an old acquaintance you hate in a certain proving ground, and once you wear it, it will grow real hair on your scalp, and you don't have to worry about being recognized by the disguise. Now it's only selling you fifty passes, that's pretty good, right? ”

To tell you the truth, when Qiu Xuan saw them set up a stall to sell antiques in the original world, the boss also held a glass bottle and boasted to her that this was Xiaoding, the medicine king dug up by the Qin Dynasty.

She restrained her desire to roll her eyes in the sanctuary, threw back the bamboo dragonfly that had been pushed under her nose with one hand, and said expressionlessly, "No need to thank you." Well, I'm going to go to the next trial, and I'll give you a little more time, and when I come out, we'll pay for it with one hand and deliver it with the other. ”

Hephaestus restrained some of his movements, and he silently took back the pile of rags he took out, and after a while, he said, "Qiu Xuan...... Do you remember how we agreed three worlds ago? ”

"I'll help you fix it all, and you can take out something equivalent to the heart of the original god in exchange for three worlds." He faintly repeated the words at that time, leaning on the head of the bed and looking at Qiu Xuan. "Otherwise, the thing will be mine. Qiu Xuan, are you really sure now, can you exchange something of equivalent value? ”

"I'm sure." Qiu Xuan didn't squint at his gaze, "Then are you sure you can really fix it?" ”

Then the smith laughed again.

As soon as he raised his hand, a shrunken, familiar cannon barrel suddenly appeared in the air.

"Honestly," Hephaestus gently rubbed the texture of the barrel with the only ungelated fingertip skin on his right hand, delicate as if he were treating a lover. "Actually, I can say that it's already been fixed. However, "

The movement of his fingertips paused, "There's something I can't figure out. ”

"The propulsion balance mechanism is normal, the aiming is normal, and the shield is normal...... And, of course, the most important point. He tapped his knuckles to a spot on the barrel, "Steam internal combustion engine...... If nothing else, this is a technology left over from the technological revolution, so I said that the whole desperate situation is something that only I can repair, because there are almost no manuscripts left behind in the desperate situation from that era full of steam condensation magic elements, and ordinary craftsmen forging will not understand the operation of this kind of machinery at all. ”

"But it won't work, Qiu Xuan."

Hephaestus looked up, eyes hidden in layers of swollen gel fixed on her. "Everything is normal, and even some of the remaining Ancient Magic Arrays have been restored by professionals. But it just doesn't work, it's that last step, I can't do it. You said...... Why? ”

Because you don't have the Earpis virus on you.

Qiu Xuan looked at him calmly, and just said, "If I knew that I would cultivate it myself, and I would still use it to find you?" ”

“…… That's right. ”

She suddenly reached out and placed something in front of Hephaestus. "In that case, it's better to follow the original agreement."

"What did you say?"

"You don't have to fix it anymore, it's my pay. Once we have the exchange, we will end the transaction. ”

Hephaestus held up the key in his hand that had just been handed to him, and the crystalline key was carved into the shape of a heart, which looked as if it was about to come to life in the next second.

"It's ......"

"The heart of the Leviathan." Qiu Xuan said lightly, seeing the pupils of the forger in front of him constricted for a moment. "But it's not the old god Leviathan in that canon, it's a replica model, which I obtained from an Easter egg quest in a proving grounds, and when I got it, I could drive a giant snake down the street...... Oh no, you can get the entire prototype of the god that symbolizes the world's most high-tech, and you can change it yourself and use it as a weapon of war. ”

She folded her arms and said very naturally: "It's fair, when the time comes, you give me a weapon that is still the last step to be completed, and I will give you a simulated heart of the original god." It couldn't be fairer that everyone took a step back. ”

“……”

Qiu Xuan intensified: "Don't be ignorant. ”

Hephaestus: "......"

The forger who was wrapped into a ball stared at the key in his hand that resembled a heart for a moment before saying, "I don't think it should be like this, don't worry, I will find a solution to the last step of operation, and you will pay me...... Although it is a good thing, it is still a fake in essence, and it certainly cannot be compared to the true heart of God. ”

Qiu Xuan: "According to your smith's own rules, this transaction has already reached its deadline after I returned from the Third World. It's because you didn't fulfill the agreement, and you owe it, don't you? ”

Hephaestus: "...... You're going to stop thinking about it, I'm ......."

Qiu Xuan: "No, and you also know how rare the easter egg task is, I'm already giving you the stairs, don't be ignorant." ”

Smith: "Tsk. ”

Qiu Xuan lowered her eyelids and looked at the forger, deep in her own entourage, in the small clearing that was hidden beneath the pile of rubble. The true heart of the god beats in small increments, again and again, slowly but surely.

It's not that she can't get something of equal value, and even more so that she can take out the original thing now to trade with Hephaestus, not to mention that it is much more useful for her to guard a heart that can't do anything than to take the model key and open a snake out.

It's one thing to understand the truth, it's another to think about it.

Hephaestus now almost sent himself to the door with an opportunity to exploit the loophole, not to mention the loophole that he can't do with the plague virus bloodline now, even if he can really solve the problem of the bloodline and activate the artillery, at that time Qiu Xuan will definitely be reluctant to hand over his heart.

It's just that this may not exist, because when she agreed to the agreement at the beginning, she expected that the forger would definitely get stuck on the last step, which is why she was so comfortable using the stinky and long impact cannon as collateral.

"That's it, don't dwell on it anymore."

Qiu Xuan pushed the model key into Hephaestus's hand and made a gesture to put away the shock cannon. Her movements were stopped by the forger, and the person who looked extremely weak at the moment lay on the hospital bed and stretched out his hand, even the force of the stop was soft.

"Actually," Hephaestus began. "In my current situation, you can easily stop me from calling for help, or even ...... Kill me. ”

"The rewards from Easter egg missions are precious," he says. "If you do it to me now, not only will the weapon come back to you, but you will also be able to get the key back into your pocket."

"What am I doing to you?" Qiu Xuan looked at him with caring foolish eyes, "Besides, that sister saw me coming before, if you die in the hospital bed after I walk out, not everyone will know that I did it." It's a thankless job, and when those apprentices of yours chase me down, why should I do more? ”

Saying this, she was suddenly stunned, her eyes fixed on the window, and she didn't know what to see.

"What's wrong?"

"I saw a child." Qiu Xuan said no more, hurriedly shoved the key into the caster's hand, picked up the impact cannon and stood up. "I won't tell you, I have something to do first. Overall, this transaction is still okay, and I won't give you a bad review. ”

Hephaestus: "Tsk. ”

Immediately, he also looked in the direction Qiu Xuan was looking, and saw a child more than 1.9 meters old passing by the window.

Forge Haffy: "......"

"Gone."

Qiu Xuan left in a hurry, Hephaestus was lying on the hospital bed, and looked back at the person who was pulling with the one-meter-nine "child" outside the window, and suddenly sneered. He tore straight open the gel wrapped around his body, and under the gel, it was clear that there was a healthy and undamaged body.

n.