Above the gray fog

The Three Sacred Mountains are vast and boundless, and it is difficult to find Huang Liu's specific location.

Lin Shan decided to research this secular bookstore first.

The voice just said that the main function of secular bookstores is trading, and the chips are the emotions and desires of creatures below Sequence 7.

Although the voice said that he only needed to stay in Gemini and did not need to worry about things in the bookstore.

But now that he has become the agent owner of this peculiar bookstore, Lin Shan must study it carefully.

Accompanied by Jiuqi, Lin Shan walked around for more than an hour and found no other special places except the rows of bookshelves.

The buyer’s bargaining chip is all emotions and desires, so what is his bargaining chip? Could it be these books?

The voice just said that the traveler would come to pick up these books at some point. Since someone picked them up, they shouldn't be used as bargaining chips in exchange.

After searching for a long time and finding nothing else useful, Lin Shan and Jiu Qi sat there and looked through the books here.

Although these books are just ordinary story books, they will have different feelings after reading them. Lin Shan doesn't feel much at all. According to Jiuqi, these books have the effect of increasing human nature. After reading a book, it is like experiencing The life of the characters in the book, if such a book is placed outside, each one is a treasure.

Lin Shan couldn't feel it because his humanity now far exceeded his divinity and the increase was too little, so he couldn't feel it.

The two of them read books in the old bookstore for more than two hours, when a gust of wind chimes suddenly sounded outside the door.

With a creaking sound, the door of the bookstore was pushed open.

"Is there anyone?"

"Is there anyone?"

Jiuqi and Lin Shan, who were reading, looked at each other.

"Hel me over and take a look."

Due to his aging body, it is now difficult for Lin Shan to walk alone. He must be supported by someone to walk smoothly.

With Jiuqi's support, Lin Shan came to the entrance of the bookstore. A woman in simple clothes stood awkwardly at the door.

"I'm sorry, it's raining outside. Can I come in and take shelter from the rain?" The woman put her hands on her lower abdomen, a little cautiously.

"Raining?" Lin Shan was confused. It should have been sunny when he first arrived, but it rained just a moment later?

The simple clothes on this woman's body were almost completely soaked, which showed that it was raining quite hard.

"Go out and see if it rains." Lin Shan kept an eye on it and asked Jiu Qi next to him to go out and take a look.

"Yes." Jiuqi nodded lightly, stepped out, and quickly turned back. With a strange look on her face, she whispered in Lin Shan's ear, "It's still sunny outside, and it's not raining."

No rain?

So where did the rain on this woman come from?

Lin Shan soon thought that there might be more than one entrance to this bookstore.

Moreover, the attire on this woman's body is incompatible with the current Huaxia Kingdom. Most of the Huaxia Kingdom now wears robes or simple modern clothes. The clothes on this woman's body are wrapped in layers.

"Where are you from?" Lin Shan asked.

"I'm from Zijin and I came to Nanning to look for my daughter."

Purple gold? Nanning?

Is this the place name of the Three Holy Mountains?

They don't even know where the Three Sacred Mountains are.

Lin Shan was more partial to the fact that this woman came from somewhere other than the Three Holy Mountains.

"Well, let's sit inside for a while." Lin Shan guessed in his heart that since this woman can enter the bookstore, she is probably a suitable customer of the bookstore.

But she was just here to take shelter from the rain, which made Lin Shan a little confused. Should he take the initiative to give her a hint and ask her if she wanted to buy something?

Or...she really just happened to come in to take shelter from the rain...

"No, old man, I'll wait outside until the rain subsides and then go out." The woman in plain clothes declined Lin Shan's invitation.

"Yeah." Since the other party didn't want to come in, Lin Shan didn't force it.

Jiuqi went inside and moved some stools out, letting the woman sit and wait.

Lin Shan sat next to the woman and made innuendoes. He didn't see what her needs were. It was most likely that she just happened to come in to take shelter from the rain.

From a simple chat, Lin Shan learned some basic information. The woman had a conflict with her husband, and the husband took his daughter into Nanning.

Missing her daughter so much, the woman walked from Zijin to Nanning, hoping to find her daughter.

The woman did not reveal too much about other specific matters, and Lin Shan did not ask any more questions.

The three of them sat at the door of the bookstore for about ten minutes. The woman stood up and said, "The sound of rain has stopped. It may have stopped raining outside. I'm leaving. Thank you to the old man and the girl for taking them in."

After thanking the woman, she opened the door and left the bookstore.

The moment the woman opened the door, Jiuqi also walked out, and then turned back.

"The man disappeared as soon as he left the house. It was still the same street outside."

The two of them looked at each other, a little confused.

Before that, Lin Shan had told Jiuqi about the bookstore. When the woman first walked in, Jiuqi thought she was a buyer.

"Huh?" Jiuqi looked at the floor and his expression suddenly became solemn, "The floor that the woman just walked on... seems to have been corroded."

Lin Shan also discovered anomalies on the floor. There were several holes the size of raindrops where he just entered. There were tiny wood buds growing in the holes and they were being slowly repaired.

The floor is a kind of black sunken wood, which looks very solid. Apart from looking a bit old, there are no gaps. These holes were obviously brought in by the woman just now.

"There is a drop of water on the chair." Jiuqi once again pointed to the chair where the woman had just sat.

The water droplets rolled slightly on the chair and slowly corroded downwards. The material of the chair was harder than the floor, and there were only slight traces of corrosion caused by the water droplets.

"The floor should also be corroded by these water drops." Jiuqi said, reaching out to pinch the water droplets.

The moment the white fingers came into contact with the water droplets, the entire fingers turned directly into bones, and quickly spread to the wrists and elbows.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Jiuqi cut off his arm without hesitation. When the arm fell to the floor, only a piece of white bone was left. The bones were still aging rapidly, with cracks visible to the naked eye, and eventually turned into white fragments on the ground. end.

"This water droplet has a strong curse power." Jiuqi was still frightened. Fortunately, she reacted quickly enough. The curse seemed to extend from the body to the soul, causing secondary damage to the soul.

"You are the body of a god, so you will become like this. The woman just now was walking in the rain intact..."

Thinking of this, both of them felt a little numb. What kind of monster is that ordinary-looking woman in plain clothes with a kind face? Walking in this cursed rain, my clothes only got wet...