Chapter 9: Undercurrents
The old lady smiled gently, "Twenty cards really can't see through a person's life, but they can get a glimpse of some characteristics about him. ”
"For example?" Rorschach looked at her curiously.
The old lady walked into the counter, picked up the card that Rorschach had casually thrown on it, and asked, "Why would you pick up a card for some reason?" Why did you choose the most corner of the twenty photos? ”
Rorschach opened his mouth, just about to say something, but heard the old lady say: "It's not a coincidence, it's not a random thing, personality, state, emotion, consciousness, even the light, the breeze, the height of the counter, all the invisible factors add up, prompting you to reach out and pick it up." ”
"There's nothing in the world for no reason, right?"
The old lady smiled so hard that her eyes narrowed into a slit, and in her hand, she was showing the cards that Rorschach had just drawn.
"Maybe." Rorschach shrugged.
"Do you know what this card's name is?" The old lady asked.
Rorschach glanced at the cards again, "One-eyed Yinyo or something?" ”
"Hahahaha......" the old lady seemed to have heard such an interesting answer for a long time, and laughed tremblingly, "You are indeed from afar, young man. ”
"yes, maybe a little farther away than you think." Rorschach laughed.
The old lady put down her cards and said, "Beyond the Four Kingdoms? You're from the North? ”
Rorschach was noncommittal, instead glancing at the card, "What's its name?" ”
The old lady put away the twenty cards and shuffled them together, and said with a smile: "For you, its name is the one-eyed yin-yang man." ”
"But don't say that out there, each of these twenty cards is a deceased god." The old lady instructed.
"Understood, I've seen something like this before." Rorschach looked aware.
The old lady became interested and asked, "Oh? Is it a legend of the North? ”
"Maybe......" Rorschach glanced out the window, "what is it called the Sky Dragon of Osiris, the Wing God of the Sun God, the Obelske Giant Soldier or something." ”
The old lady looked more serious, but heard Rorschach say, "My name is Rorschach, and I am a student of Professor Logan. ”
"Little Logan...... I didn't expect such a thing to happen to him," the old lady was a little depressed, "you wait." ”
As she spoke, the old lady bent down, took the key from her neck, and opened the safe on the counter.
After a while, she held a locked wooden box and placed it on the counter.
"He said, give this thing to his student, you can take it."
Is that it?
Rorschach looked at the wooden box lying on the counter silently, and couldn't see anything magical.
"Thank you and goodbye!" Rorschach picked up the wooden box, turned and left.
"Young man!" Old lady Huo Yi stretched out her hand, "Can you talk to me for a while...... I'm ...... alone."
"No," Rorschach waved his hand back without looking back, "go to your grandson, I don't like to talk to the elderly." ”
“……”
Old Lady Huo Yi may have seen someone who could refuse the old man's request so neatly and neatly, she looked at Rorschach in a daze, and waited for his back to disappear before coming back to her senses.
"It's not accurate...... He doesn't even have a ...... of hypocrisy."
……
Avella stared at the completely uncontrolled necklace in her hand, which kept drawing inverted triangles like crazy.
What she didn't notice, however, was that the old soothsayer's gaze was already full of malice.
He grinned slightly and spat out a forked tongue.
A crumpled and shriveled old hand quietly reached for her......
The shock in Avella's mind continued, and suddenly, she accidentally noticed a strange shadow projected on the table.
A slender hand, reaching for itself.
Avella's reaction was quick, but it seemed too late.
She jerked her head up, but the hand was already at the edge of her neck!
Oops......
Avella's pupils quietly dilated, and regret welled up in her heart, why should she be curious about his divination ritual?
And why did you somehow enter this divination shop?
Speaking of which, it's all his fault, and if he hadn't acted too strangely, she wouldn't have ......
However, the expected tactile sensation of being choked by the neck did not arrive, and instead, the shadow of another person was projected onto the table.
Avella stared at the hand that was holding the old soothsayer's arm.
She turned her head in disbelief and saw a completely unfamiliar face.
She's so beautiful......
At such moments, Avella's mind was lost for a moment.
"Get out." The young woman's voice made Avella shiver.
She has always been arrogant, and she immediately listened to the other party's words.
"Thank you......"
After whispering this, she ran out of the divination room.
Listening to the footsteps of Avella leaving, the woman's surroundings gradually became cold, "Esoteric Sect." ”
The old soothsayer spat out his forked tongue like a snake dangerously, and his deep blue pupils turned into vertical pupils.
"Believers in the false gods of order, the foul stench ......"
The old soothsayer said hoarsely.
"Whew-"
A grim and cold sword light appeared in the divination room.
In an instant, it slashed across the old soothsayer's arm!
"Shhhh
The old soothsayer's face changed suddenly, he threw himself back sharply, and immediately flew backwards!
His right arm snapped off from the crook of his arm and slammed to the ground with a thud, but the little arm that had detached from his body writhed like a snake on the ground like a snake.
"Shhh
The terrifying breath of the snake echoed through the gloomy divination room, and the old soothsayer lay on the ground, his dangerous vertical eyes staring at the young woman.
"The true God is coming, you ...... It's a good offering, hehe......" The old soothsayer twisted his body, a pair of vertical pupils glowing with strange colors, he spat out his forked tongue, and grinned, "Protect yourself, I'll find you, next time, it's your arm......"
With that, his body flew away as if it had no bones, like a snake without a shadow.
"Whew-"
The woman returned the knife to the sheath, her expression remained unchanged, and she quickly left the place.
Hiding far away in the shadows, Avella watched her disappear, but her heart could not be calmed for a long time.
Just now...... What's going on?
Is this still the world I know it about?
And also...... Who is she......
Avella had never been so eager to know someone's name, but when she recalled it at the moment, she could only remember that the other party had a pair of ice blue eyes.
……
"Smack......
The way to open the wooden box is simple, find a stone and smash it.
It took almost no effort for Rorschach to smash it open.
"Books?"
Inside the wooden box, there was a book that looked fairly thick, and Rorschach took it out and flipped it back and forth a few times, but he didn't see a word.
Not only was there no word on the page, but even the cover of the book was bare, gray, and there was no word at all.
"Professor Logan isn't that boring, is he?"
Rorschach was a little skeptical.
He walked out of the alley and back into the street, holding the bare, empty book.
There's always a feeling of being cheated......
Just then, a man in a gray cloak bumped into him.
"Hiss......"
The cold, slippery touch gave Rorschach goosebumps.
He looked back and glanced at the man who had hurried away.
Hey?
Suddenly, Rorschach felt as if something strange was happening.
He stumbled to open the wordless book he was holding in his left hand, the first page.
"Followers of Kugar, snake demons, divination, greed, poison, breath of oblivion."
And underneath this line of words, there is a looming ...... Boa.