The Ring: Sell Dung Beetles in Junction

Chapter 270 The Secret of the Volcano

The sky is bright and it is the most peaceful moment.

Even people who party all night fall into a deep sleep at this time.

Tanis and the Furnace Knight didn't stay in their seats anymore, they had disappeared at this time.

"Good opportunity." Wuming judged.

It was the night of the murderous night when the moon was dark and the wind was high, and it was the time for Wuming to visit the shop.

Wuming didn't bother Diaros, took the room key, and was going to visit other places in the volcano.

He noticed that several traitors staying overnight lived in the nearest room one by one, but no one entered the room next to Dialos' room, which was closer.

Obviously there is already a master here, but no one has ever been seen coming out.

Nameless took the room key and gently opened the door.

In order to prevent being discovered, Wuming also used a silent magic to eliminate the sound of unlocking.

But after entering the door so cautiously, waiting for Wuming to look at the scene in the room, he didn't know what to say.

He suddenly understood why Diaros could hear the sound of scales rubbing against each other.

A snake-man with a snake head and a body, but with slender limbs was rubbing his back comfortably on the wall.

The snake man squinted his eyes and rubbed the scales on his back against the wall, as if he felt very comfortable.

When Wuming came in, his voice had dropped to the minimum, but the snake man still opened his eyes and stared straight at Wuming.

One person and one snake, you look at me, I look at you.

You look at me, I look at you.

The snake man opened his mouth wide and was about to scream.

Wuming hurried forward and covered the snake man's mouth.

Because the mouth was too big, I had to press the upper and lower jaws with both hands, pressing the snake man's mouth tightly to prevent her from making a sound.

"Laya, right?" Wuming said, "Don't worry, I don't mean anything malicious, remember me?"

The snake man rolled his frightened little eyes and nodded.

"Sorry, I went to the wrong door. The key your mother gave me is multi-purpose. You see, I told your mother that it would expose the privacy of the guests. Look, your unlucky child's privacy will be exposed."

What Wuming said was just and dignified. Anyway, Tanis was not around, so she blamed them all.

The snake man's slender legs shook like chaff, and the scales all over his body stood upside down, and he didn't know if he listened.

Wuming let go of his hand slowly, taking a few steps away from the snake man:
"Have you calmed down now?"

The snake man looked at Wuming with tears in his eyes, and made a girlish voice:
"Are you... are you here to eat me?"

"Didn't your mother clear up the misunderstanding with you?" Wuming said, "I just watched you walking outside, but I didn't have any precautions. I wanted to educate you!"

"That is to say, you lied to me?" Laya said.

"A lie in good faith is a lie in good faith." Wuming vowed, "Tanis and I are as close as siblings, how could I harm you."

Laya looked suspiciously at Wuming for a while, her tense body relaxed a little.

With this relaxation, Laya suddenly realized a problem.

She found that Wuming was talking to him with his head up.

Only this slight change made her realize it was a bit late——

"Ah! I haven't changed back yet!"

The snake man stretched out his small hands and covered his cheeks.

Laya looked at Wuming in horror, observing his reaction.

Nameless didn't have much reaction.

Laya thought she wasn't exposed, so she looked down at her body.

Scales, white belly, slender limbs...

"Aren't you afraid of me?" Laya asked Wuming in surprise.

"As early as the first time we met, I could see it."

"When you were in the Lake District...you didn't care about my body?"

"It's okay." Nameless said, "Is there any problem?"

"No problem." The snake man shook his head. "It's just that many people in the borderland cannot accept my appearance. They will think that I am very ugly."

Nameless rolled his eyes, recalling what he had seen before.

What kind of hippopotamus with a head like a palm, a dog with a human face, a bald dragon with a big head, a multi-legged man compressed in a cage...

"It's so cute." Wuming gave Laya a thumbs up.

"Really?" The snake man's eyes lit up, bursting out with golden light.

But soon the golden light dimmed: "Isn't this another white lie?"

"Look at what you said, I'm a businessman, and the most important thing for us businessmen is honesty." Wuming said.

"But you already lied..."

Laya said so, but her body has already relaxed, it seems that after hearing that Wuming doesn't mind her body, she is no longer so wary of Wuming.

"Don't care about those details, don't you lie a lot yourself?" Wuming dragged Laya into the water based on the principle that if everyone dies together, no one dies.

"Me?" Laya's eyes widened.

"Isn't your disguise a kind of lie?" The ring finger pointed to Laya's snake body.

This was a critical blow, and Laya was speechless.

The snake man's long neck was curled up into a ball, and he muttered:

"I'm sorry... I'm a recruiter, someone who recruits heroes for the Volcanic Mansion. But if I show myself like this, everyone won't listen to me anymore. There are very few people like you who don't care about my appearance. In the borderlands, the snake is a traitorous, blasphemous, hateful image. If I show people this body, they will no longer believe me."

"But if you are like this, after being found out, people who trust you will not believe you even more." Wuming said, "Once they find out that they have been cheated, everything this person said will become unbelievable."

"How could this be..." Laya seemed to be frightened by Wuming's vision of the future, she tried her best, and a flash of light flashed through her body, and she turned back into that hunchbacked noble girl again.

Also eager to argue:
"Please believe me, I am the only one who is false. About the volcano mansion, no, not only that, but also every word that Lord Tanis said, these are absolutely true!"

"You love your mother very much." Nameless said.

"Mom loves me very much."

Wuming inspected Laya's body, and suddenly leaned in front of her, and said mysteriously:

"Although this question is inappropriate, are you really your mother's child?"

"Of course I am my mother's child." Laya blinked, not understanding what Wuming was talking about.

"I mean, how do you prove that your mother is your mother."

"There is no need to prove it." Laya was even more puzzled, "Mom said that I am her child, so of course I am her child."

"You guys don't look alike..." Wuming said.

When Laya heard this, she raised her head, her expression was a little proud, she tried her best to straighten her back, and put her hands on her chest:
"My mother told me that my mother was once favored by a great king, and I was born because of it. So my appearance is also a symbol of my mother's joy. My mother always told me that this is a symbol of me being a descendant of a great king, Said that I represent the crystallization of the love between my mother and the great king."

Laya's face was filled with a sincere and proud smile:

"It's my honor to look like this."

"Very good." Wuming nodded, "Then I won't bother you, I just came to see it because I heard there was a strange noise in the room."

Laya said, "Uncle, did you also hear a strange sound?"

Wuming paused, and looked back at Laya suspiciously.

What's the meaning?There are secrets?Didn't that voice come from Laya?
No, some people will be frightened by the echo of their footsteps when walking at night, and some people will be awakened by their own snoring when sleeping.

Laya seems to be such a person.

"What sound?" Wuming asked.

"I heard the sound of breathing from the next door, and the sound of scales rubbing against each other." Laya said, "Uncle, what is that sound you heard?"

"I also heard the sound of scales rubbing next door." Wuming looked at Laya with the eyes of a caring silly child.

"Sometimes I can still see dark shadows wriggling in the corridor at night." Laya said, "That black shadow has the outline of a snake, just like me."

"Are you sure you didn't see the mirror?" Wuming asked.

"I'm sure, this is my home, and I know where the mirror is." Laya puffed up her cheeks, earnestly and seriously, "I saw that black shadow enter the opposite room, and never came out again."

"opposite……"

Wuming opened Laya's room, and there were several doors on the opposite side.

"Which door?" Wuming asked.

Laya pointed to a guest room with some uncertainty.

Anonymous remembered that this room was occupied.

"Is there someone around during the renovation of the room?" Wuming asked Laya.

Laya shook her head: "Room repairs? I haven't heard of any room repairs. Could it be when I was outside?"

"How long have you been at the volcano?" Wuming asked.

Laya blushed a little: "The last time I came back from the lake area, I have been at home. It is because I stayed for a long time this time that I can notice these changes."

Then she stayed longer than Diaros.

Comparing the rhetoric of Laya and Diaros, Wuming felt more and more confusing.

Laya approached Wuming with some worry, and timidly said:

"The volcano mansion, is there some secret that I don't know?"

"Do you care?" Wuming asked.

Laya hesitated for a moment, then spoke:

"My mother said she liked me the most, but when I saw that shadow, I was afraid... I was afraid that my mother might have other children outside behind my back."

"Afraid that your mother will have a second child and you will fall out of favor?" Wuming said.

Laya nodded a little ashamedly.

Wuming thought for a while and said to Laya:

"Laya, let me help you investigate."

"Thank you uncle." Laya said.

"But don't tell your mother, just pretend that I haven't been here, and you can help me cover up normally, and this matter will be our secret."

"Okay, okay." Laya nodded repeatedly.

"It's a deal." Wuming hooked Laya.

Laya has some doubts:
"Uncle, you are not lying to me again, are you?"

"That depends on you."

"What do you mean?"

Nameless said: "If you think about it carefully, even if I lied to you, have I ever lied to you for more than half an hour?"

"No, I'll tell the truth after dinner." Laya thought for a while, it shouldn't take half an hour for her to finish eating that pot of shrimp.

Wuming nodded and smiled:
"Actually, I don't want to lie. I would rather accept the cruel truth than be deceived by lies."

Laya was stunned: "Uncle, you are a strict person, but you are also very warm..."

"How do you know I'm warm?" Wuming was proud, "I'm not bragging, there should be no one in the junction warmer than me—I can spread eggs on my forehead."

"I can see it." Laya pointed to her eyes, "When uncle you came in, I felt an extraordinarily hot heat source coming in."

Wuming suddenly said: "No wonder I was discovered. I said, I obviously hid it so well."

"So the lie depends on yourself." Wuming said, "If the truth is cruel, would you like me to tell you the truth?"

Laya thought for a while, clenched her fists:

"My mother always taught me to face uncleanness and blasphemy. I also want to be as strong as the rebellious heroes. I have to dismiss lies!"

"Very well, I support you, Laya." Wuming encouraged Laya, vigorously patting Laya's snake skin.

"By the way, Uncle, my real name is not Laya." Laya said, "I can't lie to you anymore. My real name is Zelaya—Si~"

When the last word was spoken, the snake man stuck out his tongue and made a snake hiss.

"Zelaya—bah." Wuming repeated.

"It's Zelayas." Laya corrected his pronunciation, "You have to stick out your tongue, and you have to bite your tongue lightly, Si~"

"Sigh~"

"It's better, but it's still not authentic." Laya said, "Pay attention to my mouth shape, follw me, Si~"

"Si—oh, it's so troublesome, I'll call you Laya." Wuming waved his hand, "Laya, I'll help you find out the secret of the volcano, and you help me keep it secret from your mother, it's a win-win situation."

"Win-win." Laya and Wuming shook hands, forming a sacred alliance.

Wuming left Laya's room and gently closed the door.

Turn around and walk to the opposite room.

Laya is a snake person, and she can see her warm self approaching.

Believe it or not, the person on the opposite side can still find himself.

As usual, use the silencer magic, and take the key to open the door.

The door lock did not open.

"Huh?" Wuming turned the key repeatedly, but the door couldn't be opened no matter what.

"Where's the agreed-upon GM?" Wuming muttered in a low voice.

This impractical door immediately made Wuming interested.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. There is really some secret hidden behind this door.

Wuming was not impatient, he didn't want to startle the snake.

First, I went back to the camp stationed in front of the Volcanic Sinner Bridge.

After that, I went to the academy through the teleportation array, went back and forth twice, and returned to the camp of Dick's Great Elevator.

Wuming found the warehouse covered by the fake teardrops:

"How is Blazer? Have you found a way to block the curse?"

"I didn't find it." The imitation body teardrops simply cut off the nameless thoughts.

"Then tie it up first, and follow me to do some errands." Wuming said.

"Hold on."

There was clanging and clanking in the warehouse, and a moment later, the warehouse door swung open, revealing Blazer, who was tightly bound.

The rope is wrapped around the neck, along the outline of the majestic chest, and knotted at the collarbone, chest and pelvis in turn.

Under the tight knot, Blazer's chest and abs became more prominent.

"It was tied professionally," Wuming said.

"Thank you for the compliment." The liquid body resembling a teardrop gathered in front of Wuming.

"But is it strong?" Wuming looked at the bundle, and felt that with Blazer's physique, a little effort could blow it up.

"Don't worry, during this time, although I haven't found a way to lift the curse, I have found a way to control him." The imitation teardrop's body that has not yet fully formed has completed the finishing work.

She stuffed the last length of the rope into Blazer's mouth and connected Blazer whole to a guillotine.

There are a few little Lani dolls under the guillotine.

"Don't let go, don't force yourself." Fade said with tears, "Otherwise you won't be able to keep Lanico."

Blaze was corrupted by the curse, his red eyes whimpered irrationally, and the saliva kept dripping between his teeth, but he remained motionless.

"It's done." The imitation teardrop said to Wuming.

"Is this actually possible?" Wuming said.

"His obsession with Lani is extremely deep, deeper than a curse. No matter what, he is unwilling to hurt Lani." Imitation Teardrop said, "But it's not necessarily true for others. You can control him in this way, Prevent him from hurting other people."

"Then let's go first." Wuming said, "Go and come back quickly."

"What do you want from me?" The imitation body teardrops attached to the nameless armor, asking about his mission.

"Help me open the lock."

Returning to the volcano again, Wuming chose another month of dark and windy days to get close to the guest room.

During this period, Wuming Baituo Laya stared at the room, but no one came out.

Obviously a tenant entered the room, but no one came out.

Nameless carried a teardrop in his body, and his liquid body stretched into the door lock.

"This is locked from the inside." Imitation said with tears, "There is a mechanism, which is quite hidden."

The door lock was unlocked, and Wuming pushed the door and entered.

There was no one in the room.

There was also a pool of blood on the bed.

(End of this chapter)