I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 78 The price is emotion

After hearing Midas' complaints, the gangster sighed: "It's not easy."

Midas wiped the tears from his cheeks, feeling a little strange.

"It's been so cold lately that I'm crying."

He returned home and sat in an empty home, the bustle of the past no longer existed.

When the call came from the bookstore where his wife worked, Midas made an excuse, saying that his wife was sick, and refused a visit from his wife's colleagues.

He suddenly felt that there was no point in going to Olive Garden.

The endless emptiness swallowed him up, and after a few days, until he felt hungry and the fear of death came over him, he found something to eat in the refrigerator.

Then fell into emptiness again.

The strange behavior in Midas' house finally attracted the attention of neighbors and called the police.

When the police arrived at Midas' home, they saw him lying on the sofa with disheveled hair and a pair of gloves on the table next to him.

"Mr. Midas, where is your wife?" The police officer who came to Midas' home was the one who helped their family before.

He was also very cautious, fearing that Midas had been stimulated in some way.

But Midas didn't answer him. He searched the house but couldn't find Mrs. Midas. He also found piles of gold in the garage.

Such anomalies finally alerted him and called the headquarters.

When police cars surrounded Midas' home, he finally woke up in fear and found various excuses to free himself.

However, the police have launched an investigation and found that Midas' wife has disappeared.

After digging deeper, what happened to the Midas family finally came to light.

The gangsters involved in selling stolen goods and the gold sold were also found one after another.

The police also found the pair of gloves, which were sealed and handed over to the authorities, where official researchers identified the artifact.

In the end, the researchers also gave corresponding names:

[Relic: Golden Touch]

[Cost: All the user’s emotions except fear]

[Ability: After wearing it, the material of the object it touches can be changed]

[Place of Discovery: Earth]

[Discovered by: Midas]

……

Through experiments on the Midas Touch, researchers found that the Midas Touch can not only turn stone into gold.

You can also change the touching object into other materials, but in addition to the relatively small cost of turning into gold, the cost of changing to other materials is very staggering.

In contrast, turning into gold only slightly loses some of the emotion, which is why Midas was able to use it for so long.

If you want to change it to other materials, you need to have an extremely firm intention in the user's heart. If you relax a little, the object you touch will turn into a strange item mixed with gold and the desired material.

This is a well-deserved Midas touch.

Although the price is small, Midas has been using it for so long, and it has been eaten away by the price, and he has no emotion at all.

He was an empty shell save for fear.

There are endless debates among researchers about the use of this relic. Some people insist that the price of this relic is small, and they can try to use it in rotation to solve some emergency situations.

But the case of Midas was so impressive that the relic was eventually officially sealed.

The record of the Midas Touch also ends here.

……

The more Mo Ling looked at it, the more he felt that this was completely opposite to the situation of abnormal pulse disease. Those miners who got the disease went from being only fearful at the beginning to being full of all kinds of emotions, completely opposite to the price of the Midas touch.

The changed material is the same as the ability of the Midas Touch.

"No wonder Li Luo found the information about this relic." Mo Ling suddenly realized.

It seems that this golden hand is also a relatively famous relic, otherwise Li Luo would not have thought of it so quickly.

Reminiscing about the strange things happening inside the Acupuncture Stone Forest, Mo Ling couldn't help but guess: "Could someone be using the Midas Touch?"

Maybe the Midas Touch has some hidden effect on the mining people.

The patient from the Quartz Tribe said he felt someone touching him when he was sick. Could it be that the Midas Touch touched him?
  Thinking of the blue spots on the patient's body and the gradually spreading lapis lazuli material, Mo Ling felt more and more that someone was using the Midas touch to cause trouble.

Mo Ling told Li Luo her guess, and she agreed with it very much.

"The reason why I searched for information about this relic is because I feel that this relic fits the current situation too well." Li Luo explained.

So who can fool all the mining tribes and create abnormal vein disease?
  Mo Ling was puzzled.

Although this mine is connected in all directions and is easy to hide, there is still someone who can sneak into the veins quietly, touch one of them while being surrounded by a group of quartz tribes, and then escape unscathed.

It's impossible no matter how you think about it.

Unless that person is invisible.

Mo Ling and Li Luo discussed for a while, but neither came to a reliable conclusion.

At this time, Shi Beng poked his head out of the cave and looked at it fearfully. When he saw that the patient had left, his face became expressionless again and asked:

"What are you doing with that alien patient?"

"Look at his symptoms. He said he felt someone touching him and that's why he got the disease. Did the previous patients have this condition?" Li Luo replied.

Shi Beng nodded: "Everyone says so, no one will believe it."

Sure enough, no one listened to the words of the patients with different veins, nor did they care about their explanations. When facing these patients, the attitude of all the mining tribesmen was one of fear.

No one will be "curious", and no one will be "pity".

They don't even have emotions, let alone being expected to care about others.

Mo Ling became more and more aware of the nature of the Mining clan, and now it seemed that Shi Bang was considered a relatively "normal" one.

Perhaps in the eyes of the Mining tribe, people like Shi Beng who run out to find things to do every day out of boredom are considered aliens.

"Have you ever seen any glove-like objects in the Acupuncture Stone Forest?" Li Luo thought for a moment and asked.

Shi Beng shook his head, it seemed that he was completely unaware.

Li Luo did not continue asking, but showed Shi Beng the information on the Midas Touch.

Then, he told Shi Beng about his speculation about the abnormal vein disease.

While listening, Shi Beng's indifferent expression showed some waves.

After listening, he said with some fear: "If someone spread it deliberately, then I think the alien disease will be even more terrifying."

"There is an invisible person who has been secretly planning the alien disease in the entire Acupuncture Stone Forest and spreading the plague. This is such a terrible thing."

This fact made Shi Beng unable to calm down, and the fear on his face did not fade away for a long time.

"So, that person is still nearby?" Shi Beng's body began to tremble again, and he began to scare himself.

He turned his head and looked around carefully, as if someone was beside him now.

He moved his body to the wall, and the rocks began to cling to the wall, nervously.

Li Luo looked at Shibeng speechlessly, probably regretting telling her guess.

(End of this chapter)