Chapter 38: Secrets
"Mr. Li......!" Jiao Yiming was a little stunned by the strange staring, he just wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Li Mo.
"Don't worry, it's okay."
These weird things are like they're going to pounce, why are they all right?
Well, it seems that it is indeed fine, Jiao Yiming found that although these weird things were terrifying, although they seemed to be about to rush towards them in the next second, in fact, there was no further action.
[Just pretending? Then there really is no need to be afraid. Jiao Yiming couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Then he found that Li Mo still didn't take another step when he stopped.
"Mr. Li, isn't it okay? Why don't you leave? ”
Li Mo frowned and replied, "Look at their faces." ”
"Face?" Jiao Yiming focused his attention on these strange faces.
These faces are still the same as before, as if they were painted, but ......
"It's all a look of fear?!"
"Yes!"
"Why is this happening?"
"I don't know, but it has something to do with what we just did."
After Li Mo finished speaking, he frowned and pondered for a while before he continued to speak:
"I don't know if it's because the owner of the gambling house died, or because we took the money from the gambling house......"
"Forget it, let's go."
After speaking, Li Mo took a step and walked towards the outside of the gambling house.
The "people" in the gambling house were still staring at them, but there was no other action.
In this way, the group left the gambling house without danger.
In fact, it is not as easy as it seems to leave the gambling house with the money, the reason why Li Mo can leave is because he has met a hidden condition, although the process is a bit improper, but the money is indeed won by him in gambling, not directly robbed.
Otherwise, all the weirdness in the gambling house would attack Li Mo and them, instead of just staring at them like now.
Li Mo actually didn't know this condition, he was just more obedient.
Of course, even if he doesn't follow the rules, the small print will remind him.
Leaving the gambling house, the group returned to the city gate, what they didn't know was that after they had left for a long time, something strange happened in the gambling house.
Under the light of the candle flame, three looming figures could be seen gradually appearing in the void, and these three figures were becoming clearer and clearer, although they had not yet been completely transformed into entities, but it seemed that it would not take long.
If Li Mo and the others were still here, they would definitely be able to recognize that these three figures were the gambling house owner and his two guards, and they had actually been resurrected!
But even if Li Mo was here, he shouldn't be surprised, because he had seen such a sentence in the book before: "Weirdness can be killed, but it can't be eliminated." ”
Killing means that after being fatally injured, the weird will also die normally, turning into ashes and disappearing as before; Cannot be destroyed means that after killing the Weird, after an unknown period of time, the Weird will come back to life.
The resurrection of the spooky will be refreshed, forgetting what happened before and continuing to follow the original rules.
Because of this strange property, people can barely explore the restricted area, but they are never able to completely occupy the restricted area.
But...... Li Mo knew that this sentence was actually wrong, and weirdness could be eliminated, at least he had seen it......
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Led by the smiling face scholar, the group returned to the city gate, and Li Mo noticed that the direction where the smiling face scholar walked was standing the profiteer they were familiar with selling apples.
It seems that the boss who sells apples that the smiling face scholar said is the one Li Mo and the others met when they first entered the city.
"Boss, I've got the money back." Sure enough, after coming to the profiteer who sold apples, the smiling scholar said respectfully.
"Begged!?" A sense of surprise could be heard in the gloomy voice.
"yes, I asked for it."
The smiling scholar said this, but he didn't take out the money in his hand for a long time.
Li Mo noticed that it was not so much that the smiling face scholar did not take out the money, but that the smiling face scholar was trying to restrain himself from taking out the money.
At this time, the profiteer who sold the apple suddenly laughed for some reason, and the laughter seemed to be conjuring up bad things.
"Where's the money? Give it to me! Give it to me and your job is done! Hey! ”
Under this gloomy voice, the smiling scholar couldn't help but move, and he took out four coins from his bosom, but when he was about to hand them to the profiteer who sold the apples, his movements stopped.
"Boss, this debt is collected by this son, I promised him before, if he can help me get it back, I will give him a money, this money is what I owe you."
As he spoke, the smiling scholar stuffed a piece of money directly into Li Mo's arms.
It can be seen that this action seems to make the smiling face scholar exert his strength.
The expression on the face of the profiteer selling apples also seemed to be painted, a fierce expression, and at this time, there seemed to be a little more surprise in this fierce expression, as if he did not expect this to happen.
The profiteer who sold the apple looked at Li Mo, and Li Mo looked at him while thinking.
"Childe, is it really like what he said?" The profiteer who sold the apples asked.
"yes, that's it." Li Mo replied very simply, he seemed to have a little understanding of what was going on.
He also kind of understood what the secret of the smiley face was.
"Childe, can you bear to watch such a poor man owe me a penny?" The apple seller said in a sympathetic tone, but the sympathetic tone that came out of his mouth seemed extremely strange.
"It's not a matter of forbearance, if he doesn't owe you money, then won't he have no point in continuing to exist?" Li Mo replied.
A seller of apples, how can he have a subordinate who is responsible for debt collection?
Unless...... For some special reason, this subordinate has completely sold himself to this profiteer.
Thinking of the reason why the smiling face scholar said before to collect debts, then, why can't the person who borrowed money from the profiteer who sold apples and then gambled, and lost all his money!
Li Mo speculated that the situation might be like this:
Li Bang also came to this painted world because of some special circumstances, and then entered the city, but he may not be as lucky as Li Mo to have a small reminder that he ate the apple of the profiteer who sold the apple for a moment or for other reasons.
After being cheated out of a few "money", the profiteer who sold the apple did not immediately make him pay the "money", but continued to borrow a few money for him to gamble.
Because only by earning "money" can Li Bang redeem his body, he had to go to the gambling house.
There was no doubt about what happened next, he lost a lot.
And because of some hidden rules, Li Bang's ownership belongs to the profiteer who sold the apple, so the owner of the gambling house returned Li Bang, that is, six dollars.
And the remaining four profiteers who sold apples for money certainly wanted to get it, so Li Bang did not become "money" but turned into a strange way to collect debts.
Once this debt is fully recovered, Li Bang will lose the meaning of existence, and all that awaits him is to become the kind of copper plate engraved with his body.
And Li Mo vaguely guessed that Li Bang may not have completely become weird, because of some special reasons, he was still conscious, so when he introduced himself to Li Mo, he said Li Bang, not his weird name Lin Zhengyang.