Chapter 16: The Unexpected

With great anticipation and enthusiasm, Shug watched as Geraldra opened the carriage, and the shopkeeper, who had Eastern ogre blood, stretched out his strong arms and began to remove the things that were placed in the carriage.

It was a large wooden box, which looked rather heavy, and the lid of the wooden box had been nailed shut, but Shuge could still smell a strange smell through the cracks in the lid.

Shuge didn't find it strange, after all, the things he needed were complex and mostly parts of magical creatures, and it would be abnormal if they didn't smell.

"It's all in there."

Gerald helped Hug move the wooden box into the foyer of the old mansion, and then reached out and patted the wooden box twice: "To tell you the truth, Mr. Ernst, your requirements for these materials are so tricky that I have searched almost the entire warehouse, and I can only make up these three copies. ”

Hearing this, the enthusiasm in Xiuge's heart suddenly subsided, and at the same time, an extremely ominous pre-cold came up.

"Wait, Mr. Gerald...... And if there are only three copies? So why use such a large box? ”

"Because two of them are very heavy, they take up a lot of space."

Gerald was oblivious to Hugg's astonishment, and as he explained, he reached out and grabbed the edge of the wooden lid, and his thick arm violently lifted the nailed lid altogether.

An extremely terrible smell burst out of the box and swept through the foyer at an alarming speed.

Xiuge's face changed instantly, and he ran as fast as he could, closing the doors of almost all the rooms, crushing the bedroom curtains, and opening all the windows in the old mansion, before covering his nose and returning to the wooden box.

At that moment, he couldn't find a short word from his memory that matched the taste.

Xiuge felt that even if the sewers of the entire city of Salem exploded together, I am afraid that this would be the smell.

Looking at the wooden box again, there was a mess of pitch-black shadows, and it was impossible to distinguish its appearance, so Xiuge asked with a grim face, "What the hell is this!" ”

"Of course it's what you want."

Gerard's boss teammate's resistance to this strange smell was obviously extremely strong, and he reached out with a calm face and took out the contents of the wooden box one by one.

With the smell of terror growing stronger, Shug finally saw the goods that Gerard had brought.

The first is a delicate, clean-looking wooden box, which appears to be a multi-layered structure, covered with a layer of red flannel, on which is painted a four-winged harpy with its wings extended.

Legend has it that the four-winged harpy is the embodiment of the god of love and beauty, Kellydar, so this image is often found in places and things associated with women, such as clothing, jewelry, cosmetics, and shops that sell them.

Before Xiuge could take a closer look, the second thing had already been taken out.

It was a huge cloth bag, which looked bulging, and the contents of it stretched the whole cloth bag into a disc, and Hug reached out and touched it, only to feel that the thing in it was unusually tough, like a rope twisted with wire.

"And one last thing...... You go away a little. ”

Gerald gave a kind reminder, and then took out the last item in the wooden box.

A basket, to be exact.

At this moment, the ominous omen that had been brewing in Xiuge's mind was fulfilled, and in the light of the magic lamp in the foyer, he saw a basket of thick hair.

"Grass!"

At this moment, Xiuge finally could no longer contain his emotions, and the extremely explosive syllables blurted out, echoing in the empty foyer with a strong sense of disbelief and absurdity.

He didn't expect that he had put forward so many requests for goods, but in the end, the first to be satisfied were the two that he felt were the most outrageous!

Finally, at Shogg's insistence, Gerald put the basket of "Swamp Witch's Fresh Hair" back into the wooden box, and thoughtfully put the lid back on the box for Shog.

"The Alchemy Thieves always provide goods that meet the requirements of the guests, and everything is prepared according to the list you have given, Mr. Ernst."

After closing the lid of the box, Gerald also breathed a sigh of relief, Rao was well-informed, and he was also choked by the strong smell of hair in this basket, he introduced: "In addition to this basket of filth, the two remaining items are 'a set of Ottel's Orthodox Female Noble Ornaments' and 'Three Plains Adult Belly Rat's Long Tail', you can check the goods now, or you can find me to deal with the problem later...... However, only in the last three days. ”

"Do you have any doubts, Mr. Ernst?"

"Nope."

Xiuge's face was pale, and his head was shaking.

"By your patronage, then, there are two universal gold coins and twenty-five silver coins in circulation...... In view of the discount mentioned above and the special nature of the goods you purchased, is it okay to cross over the twenty-five silver coins as fractions? ”

Shug nodded his head twice in pain, then took out two universal gold coins and slapped them into Gerald's massive palm.

The latter, apparently not wanting to stay here any longer, slapped a pre-prepared slip on the wooden box, turned around and took two steps, and then turned back and reminded, "By the way, Mr. Ernst...... It doesn't matter what you're going to do with the fur of those swamp monsters, but I personally recommend that you do it before they smell good, because when they do, they're not fresh! ”

"Thanks for the reminder!"

Dead.

After an extremely difficult ideological struggle, Xiuge finally overcame his nose cleanliness habit, and he took the three goods that Gerald's boss brought to his bedroom to meet the requirements, among which the swamp witch hair that Xiuge regarded as the enemy of life and death was naturally still sealed in a wooden box, and he didn't want his room to become like a toilet.

Although the act of asking Gerald to search for the items he wants according to the list is itself "opening the blind box", the result of this "blind box" is really beyond Xiuge's expectations.

"The first 'exchange' I made in the dream world was in silver...... However, the silver coins themselves don't have much symbolic meaning, so until now, I haven't been able to determine whether the 'conditions themselves' will be related to the 'exchange results'. ”

As he pondered, he carefully studied the cloth bag and jewelry box in front of him, the set of female aristocratic ornaments from the Wattle Kingdom was not worth inspecting, and Gerald had already sorted them out well, from earrings to necklaces to rings, etc., all neatly placed in the wooden box.

The three long tails of the plain-bellied rats, which had been rolled into a disc-shape, were specially taken out by Xiuge and carefully examined.

The Plains Rat is very common in the wilderness of the Goddess Plains, and this magical creature is much larger than the average mouse, and in addition to its size, another characteristic of the Plains Rat is its tail.

No one knows why the rats have such exaggerated tails, which are not only extremely long but also extremely tough, and are surprisingly flexible and powerful when swung, and some adult rats are even able to use their long tails as whips and other weapons.

Some hunter villages active in the plains of the goddess will even use the tails of the rats to make bowstrings or traps, but it is not easy to properly remove the tails of the rats, whose tenacity comes from the magic contained in them, and the rats, like almost all magical creatures, will exhaust their magic power in order to survive before they die.

Once the mana in their tails is drained, these tails will naturally break off and completely lose their tenacity properties.

Therefore, hunters who hunt belly rats always need to use the fastest and most direct method to kill these prey, only in this way, can they really achieve their goals.

Xiuge pulled out a long tail from the cloth bag, and shook his wrist vigorously, so that the long brown tail immediately pulled forward, and the flick actually brought a whistling in the air.

He nodded in satisfaction, then rolled it up again, put it back in the sack, and placed it on the bed along with the jewelry box and the remains of the three vials of shapeshifters he had collected during the day.

As for the basket of hairs......

Xiuge didn't have the idea of checking it, he decided to take this thing directly into his dream world and then deal with it, whether it could be used completely casually.

When he had made his preparations, he took out the ash grass and lay down after the purifying smoke had swept twice over his bed.

Amid the scent of the gray grass and the orderly ticking of the magic clock, Xiuge quietly waited for the arrival of weariness.

……

Perhaps because of the violent mood fluctuations, Xiuge's process of entering the dream world this time was not too smooth, but in the end, the dream world still responded to him.

Shuge opened his eyes at his familiar workstation, and he tried to sense his own spiritual world, where the metal disc used to engrave magic was sitting quietly, a faint magical luster on the empty slots.

In the groove inscribed with Xiuge's first magic, the pattern of black tentacles was slowly writhing, and as Xiuge watched, it became active, and those black lines continued to tremble, as if trying to get out of the groove.

"Looks like you're lonely, don't you? Wait, maybe I'll find you two companions tonight. ”

Shug pulled his attention away from the spirit world, he took the lead in picking up the remains of the three vials of changeling insects, and walked towards the office corridor next to him, and soon he was in front of his first target.

This is a figure cabinet, which is a common display in almost all game companies, and generally speaking, it will be filled with all kinds of anime or game characters of different sizes, but now, the cabinet in front of it is no longer a delicate figure or model.

Through the glass of the figure cabinet, Xiuge saw a thick black fog that was constantly drifting, and in this thick fog, there seemed to be something...... He could only vaguely tell that it was a human form, but he couldn't tell it in detail.

Quirky words representing quid pro quo emerge.

"A bottle of adult phantom bodily fluid essence."

"I'm not mistaken...... It needs to be a shapeshifter, but what is the concept of bodily fluid essence? It sounds like some kind of beauty serum in the advertisement. ”

Xiuge frowned and looked at the three bottles of shapeworm slime in his arms, a little undecided.

"No matter, love to accept it or not!"

He thought as he shoved one of the bottles towards the figure cabinet.

So a strange change immediately appeared.

Like those hungry predators waiting for food, the moment the shapeworm slime came to him, the black mist in the figure cabinet suddenly became agitated, and Xiuge saw that they began to continuously pound the inner wall of the figure cabinet.

At the same time, the strange words that sealed the cabinet began to change, and they quickly turned into two tiny palms made of black mist, and actively reached towards the bottle of slime.

The bottle that was originally used to hold the wine turned into powder the moment it touched the two black palms, and the shape-changing slime contained in it was suspended in the air in an extremely strange form.

Then, the two black palms changed their appearance again, they looked like the mouthparts used by insects to suck, they stabbed into the mucus hungrily, and then sucked frantically, but in a few breaths, the large cloud of shapeworm slime disappeared completely under their sucking.

But......

Shuge frowned, he waited quietly for a while, only to see the two "mouthparts" retract, they turned back into palms, and then turned into black strange words again.

"Is it not enough?"

With this in mind, Hug pushed the remaining two vials of changeling slime forward together, and the previous scene happened again, and a moment later, as the amorphous black fog of sucking mucus returned to its original state, Shug noticed that the text as a condition seemed to fade a little.

"It seems that the so-called phantom body fluid essence should only make up a very, very small part of this slime...... At this rate, an adult changeling will only be able to meet one-quarter to one-fifth of the body fluids, which means that I will have to dispose of at least four more changelings and clean up all of their remains to achieve my immediate goal. ”

Xiuge smacked his lips: "Okay, at least I have come to a conclusion that I can 'pay in installments', and then I'll go and see what to do with the other things...... Don't let me down. ”