Chapter 18: I Want Your Soul

Lu Ming hurriedly grabbed Xiao Yuhan and ran out of the door, and said hello to the woman by the way, and abducted her daughter in front of her.

After a few people left, Old Man Lu sat back on the recliner and laughed out loud, as if he was thinking about something happy, and then looked at his trembling right hand, and hung a haze on his brows, took out an old yellowed book from the drawer, and wrote something on it tremblingly.

Lu Ming pulled Xiao Yuhan to walk quietly on the road, Xiao Yuhan, who was originally extremely annoying and noisy, was as kind and cute as an angel in his eyes today.

The weather was as hot as ever, but fortunately the bazaar was not far from the Mukden Tavern, two streets away.

"Brother Lu Ming, what happened just now", Xiao Yuhan was a little curious about what happened just now.

"It's okay, it's okay, Xiao Han just needs to know that you are very cute and beautiful today", Lu Ming touched the little girl's head with a smile.

"Ah, hmm~", the girl didn't seem to have heard any compliments on weekdays, her face turned red all of a sudden, she couldn't speak, and her little hands tightly grasped the corners of her clothes.

The two streets are not far away, and soon they will arrive, there is a large open space next to the blue-gray stone slab, with a black shed, and rows of stalls below, there is no business at noon, and most of the stall owners take a small horse, sit together to drink tea and chat.

Lu Ming wasn't quite sure what metals were sold here, but Lu Ming's money was not enough to support him to go to a better place, so over the years, Lu Ming had saved more than two hundred copper soul coins and three silver soul coins, which was already a lot of deposits.

For many people, nearly five Silver Soul coins are a huge amount of money, but in terms of metals, this money is a little thin, this world does not have mature smelting technology, and can only mine some stable metals, as for aluminum, magnesium, zinc, these active metals, Douluo Continent has no output at all.

But it's all here, Lu Ming decided to look for it, and bet on today's luck, in case he can pick up a leak and come across some rumored rare metals, wouldn't it be better.

The surrounding stall owners saw the two children wandering around, and they didn't want to do business, but they didn't know whose children ran out. Lu Ming bought some snacks for Xiao Yuhan and walked around while eating.

It's like an open-air market in some places, where most of them have a cart and a black cloth on the floor with items for sale.

Necklaces, jewelry, clothes, cloths, toys, etc., you can see almost anything, but I don't see any place to sell metal when I turn around.

Until Lu Ming arrived at a stall selling strange objects, with all kinds of strange and beautiful stones, the stall owner was a middle-aged man wearing small round-framed glasses, very thin, like a hemp rod, smoking a long pipe, long face, wearing a black hat, like a dealer selling dog skin plasters, like a blind half-immortal in folklore.

"Hey, this little friend, let's see if there's anything you're interested in, you might as well pick a few", the man's voice was shrill and long, and he was still dragging a long tone when he spoke, which sounded very uncomfortable.

Lu Ming looked at all kinds of strange-shaped stones, as if there was a voice in his heart telling him that these stones were very precious and very important, this vague feeling made him pick up a blue stone, the stone was very small, only Lu Ming's small hand was a small and half the size, crystal clear, and it seemed that there was a little bit of starlight circulating inside.

"Little friendly eyesight, this stone is my treasure, I don't know what you are willing to exchange it for?" The man rubbed his hands, his eyes narrowed slightly, with some anticipation.

"How much is it, if it's too expensive, don't want it", Lu Ming looked at the stone, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, and he was afraid that men would ask for a price, so he didn't dare to show any clues.

"My goods here are not traded for money, and their value is not comparable to that of gold, silver, jewelry, and other dreams.

The world never understands that soul bones, soul rings, money and power, even people, are just a bubble. These mundane things are not worthy of my eyes", the man spoke with madness, his face flushed, and his eyes stared at Lu Ming.

"And what do you want?" Lu Ming suddenly felt a little panicked, this strange man was really weird, like a patient running out of a mental hospital.

"Your soul, are you willing to exchange it with me, this stone only needs one-ninth", the man slowly spit out this sentence, the corners of his mouth raised, the corners of his eyes lowered, as if crying and laughing, revealing an exaggerated and funny smile, and his hideous red face was full of fanaticism.

Lu Ming suddenly felt like he was entangled by a poisonous snake, and the whole person fell into the cold and slippery cave, and a burst of cold and sharp sounds pierced into the temple like an ice pick, freezing the whole mind, as if insects crawled up to his body, and worms drilled around his clothes with slippery and cold slime.

"I think you should go and see the soul master of the healing department", Lu Ming was so frightened that he dropped the stone all of a sudden, and his body's perception system was frantically warning him, tending to make him leave this place.

"It seems that when we meet for the first time, you still don't trust me very much, don't worry, this stone will be used as a meeting gift, to show my sincerity, you will come back to me."

Before Lu Ming could retreat, the man grabbed Lu Ming tightly with his cold hand, no matter how Lu Ming struggled, he couldn't break free, like a dead corpse, with coldness and demonic evil, leaning into Lu Ming's ear and whispering in that sharp and slippery voice.

"By the way, if you don't save your little friend, she will be eaten", the man's bright red tongue stretched out like a python, licked his lips, and showed a mocking and playful smile on his pale face.

"You'll come back to me, my big client", the cold voice gradually became smaller, and the slippery and cold feeling gradually disappeared as the voice faded away. The man and the stall dissipated inch by inch as if they had been erased by an eraser.

"Hey, dead child, don't stand here if you don't buy it, disturb my business", the stall in front of her turned into a middle-aged woman selling jewelry.

Only the cold sweat behind his back and the cold stone in his hand reminded Lu Ming that all this was true.

By the way, Xiao Yuhan, what about Xiao Yuhan, Lu Ming remembered the man's last words, and suddenly found that the little oil bottle was gone.

Damn, how could it be gone, how should I explain it to her mother, Lu Ming's heart panicked suddenly, although he usually thinks that the little girl is very annoying, but in his heart he has already regarded the little girl as his sister.

"Uncle, have you seen the little girl who came with me just now, with blue hair, a little lower than me."

"Auntie, do you have ......?"

"Grandma'......"

......

"Damn, damn it", Lu Ming turned around anxiously, asking around but getting no answer, as if the memories of the people around him had been erased by a pair of invisible hands.

At this moment, I felt a familiar and slippery coldness in my breast pocket, and when I opened it, I saw a silver coin lying quietly, with intricate patterns engraved on the back, and a cold snake biting its tail on the front.