Goddess Wanhua Mirror

So just like a chameleon, Tring's attitude towards Lude became respectful in an instant.

"Master, I'm really sorry! I didn't expect it to be so serious, but you just said that there is another set of divination that can be used to find artifacts, please help this junior. As long as you can help me find this artifact, I accept it." The Varo family will definitely reward you with a lot of money!"

In front of Lude, Tring reported the name of the family for the first time. Although the Navarro family is not a nobleman enshrined by the kingdom, its influence in the southern border of the kingdom is comparable to that of the duke. Both black and white have a very deep relationship. background relationship.Even Erwin, who was on the side, showed a look of surprise after hearing Trin's self-introduction of his family.

And Lude was still rubbing his temples with his eyes closed, and after a long time, he spoke slowly in a slightly tired voice.

"Three days! Come back to the old man in three days. Divination is not a technique that can be used continuously. It can lose one's lifespan or die suddenly on the spot. What's more, what you are looking for is a divine weapon. The corresponding divination needs to be prepared. To choose a special time, come back when the moon is dark three days later!"

After waving Shanisi to see off the guests, Tring and his party were sent away. Lude sat on the recliner in the reception room and still closed his eyes.I wanted to take a nap while I was busy, but the clear sound of copper coins colliding suddenly sounded in the quiet room. Lude opened his eyes and saw that Hume had sat on the seat opposite him at some point, and was flipping coins with his legs crossed.

"To be honest, I think that if there is a God of Liars, you are definitely the number one choice. I really can't find anyone in this world who is better at fooling around than you."

"Are you complimenting me?"

"Forget it!"

Hume smiled, tossed the copper coin to Lude, then took off the over-the-knee boots in front of his face indifferently, and moved his small jade feet.

After two days of continuous monitoring, Hume didn't sleep, and naturally he didn't have time to change his clothes.Thanks to the god's special physique, he can sweat without producing any peculiar smell, otherwise the scene at this moment would not be "fragrant".

Lude knew that Hume had been working hard these days. Although she worked so hard for herself, she did help Lude a lot.

"It's been really hard for you these two days."

"Hmph! Now that you know how hard I am, don't you have to reward me?"

"Uh...how do you want me to reward you?"

"I want to eat that milky white thing from last time."

Deliberately using a very ambiguous term and licking his lips, although Lude subconsciously thought about it for a second, he quickly realized what Hume was referring to... She wants to eat ice cream!

Ice cream is a new dessert that Ludd created on a whim last month. For him, it belongs to "the food that I have eaten in my previous life".

At Rude's suggestion, Pine built its own ice bank last year.The specific method is actually very simple. When the river surface is completely frozen in winter, there will be inexhaustible ice cubes, which can be fished out and stored in a specially built ice cellar. As long as the internal water is drained carefully, the ice cubes can be stored throughout the summer.

The town has introduced more than a dozen cows this year, and with the supply of fresh milk, Lu De tried to make homemade ice cream, which won unanimous praise from all the goddesses in his family once it came out.

Hume also likes this kind of cool dessert, but it's a pity that Lude only made it that once, because the output of this batch of cows is still very limited.

At the beginning, Lu De entrusted the cows ordered by the chamber of commerce from other places to strengthen nutrition for the students.There were supposed to be twenty, but only fifteen arrived alive, of which only eight were milkable cows.

Unlike the modern dairy industry on the other side of the earth, the breed of Lude's cows is incomparable with that of the earth, and the output of pure hand milking is very low.The hundreds of students in the school can only provide each with a small cup of 150ml on Monday, so Lu De is quite reluctant.

However, considering that Hume has been really hard recently, Lude decided to make an exception and give her a small recipe to do it again.

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Using a homemade hand-operated ice cream maker, Ludd made Hume a separate serving of sherbet.Originally, I wanted to make more, so that everyone could have a share, but unfortunately today was just Monday, and most of the milk was sent to the school. Lu De had to go to the pasture with a wooden barrel and squeeze some back, barely making it. bowl.

Such a little ice cream is obviously not enough for everyone to share, so Lude can only let Hume eat the ice cream secretly.If Aina finds out about this, it will be awkward for at least half a month.

"Hey! It seems that I have to study carefully in the future, whether it is possible to use magic to milk the cows, otherwise the output will be too low."

"I said, you are a priest after all, can you stop thinking about doing strange things with magic?"

While eating delicious ice cream, Hume complained about Ludd's endless blasphemous thoughts.It's thanks to him for thinking of using the power of gods to lactate cows!

However, the bowl of ice cream was finished quickly, and Hume even scraped the bowl clean with a spoon, still feeling a little unsatisfied.This made Hume, who was still complaining about Lude's abuse of divine power just now, suddenly feel that it is not so unacceptable to use divine magic to lactate cows.

"Speaking of which, you bought more than a dozen cows, and the milk produced was given to the children in the school for free. It is so difficult for us to eat ice cream. Is it necessary to do good deeds to such an extent?"

"You're wrong. I'm not doing good deeds, but investing in the future."

"Investing in the future?"

"Yes, a future that will be better than the present."

He didn't explain much, and Lude didn't expect Hume to understand his thoughts now.As a time traveler, Lude has always had a sense of loneliness in this world that is difficult to tell others. That's why he put so much effort into running the school, and he put his wishes on those children.

Three days passed quickly, and Trin finally waited until late Thursday night when the moon was dark, and brought people to the temple to meet Lude early.

Unlike the mysterious ceremony he had expected before, Lude did not arrange any complicated and mysterious altars, it was still the simple reception room. Lude took out a black metal plate engraved with many ancient characters and numbers, and a A small object in the shape of a ring.

Tring had never seen this thing before, so he asked curiously.

"Master, what artifact is this?"

"This is called a psychic disk. The so-called divination is essentially using those invisible objects floating in the world to spy on and eavesdrop on secrets. Since what you are looking for is a divine weapon, then naturally you have to talk to someone who is not bound by the gods." Only by the existence can we inquire about the news.”

"Then, who are we going to ask?"

"I don't know. A major feature of the Ouija board is double-blindness. The questioner and the respondent don't know each other's identity. But the moment the responder makes the answer, it is equivalent to establishing a contract with us questioners. , he can choose not to answer, but he will never lie."

"How exactly?"

"I will teach you, just follow my guidance step by step."

Referring to the Japanese Yinxian game on the other side of the earth, Lu De directly imitated one, fooling Tlin, this is the divination technique that can inquire about artifacts.

The metal disk they used was urgently built by the three sisters, and it was tampered with according to Lude's requirements, so that it can be controlled remotely.Tring has a mortal body, so he doesn't even notice that there is something tricky about it.

Lude explained the precautions of the psychic ritual to Tring, and asked Tring and the three men he brought to sit around the psychic disk, and then lit another circle of twelve candles around them .

According to Ludd, these candles represent the orientation and the time limit of the entire ceremony.When the candle burns out, the answerer may not leave immediately, but the contract with the questioner has been terminated, so honesty will no longer be guaranteed.

And Lu De is only responsible for guiding from the side, and he will not personally participate in it.The reason is that as a priest, if he touches the psychic disk, some evil spirits and heretics may not dare to approach and answer.

Throughout the process, Lude deliberately created a sense of mysterious ritual, in order to make Tring believe in the information obtained from the divination.It's not a particularly clever deception, but as long as it is used properly, it is also the most effective routine.

Tring was obviously intimidated by Lude. At this moment, the whole person became tense, his breathing was short, and his eyes flickered.

After the ceremony officially started, Trin and the three men recited the summoning spell according to the note given by Lude. The spell was not long, but it needed to be chanted repeatedly until someone responded to them.

The four of them recited the incantation over and over again, and Tring seemed to hear illusory whispers in his ears, and then saw that the metal arc held by the four of them with their fingertips suddenly moved by itself, circling the psychic The disc starts spinning.

Tring hurriedly looked around, and the other three subordinates were all surprised, saying that they didn't use any force, and the ring was moving by itself.Among the three subordinates brought by Trin, two were magicians. They shook their heads silently at Trin, expressing that they did not sense the "familiar power".

Things have developed to this point, and Tring has no reason to continue to doubt.

At this moment, Ludwig Trin on the side held up a sign with reminders of the steps of the ceremony.As an "outsider", Lu De could not make a sound until the end of the ceremony, so he could only write to them to remind them.

So Tring took a deep breath and started asking questions.

"Hello! Are you there?"

As the first question was raised, the circle stopped circling, quickly moved to the word "yes", and then moved to several other characters to form a phrase.

Since the characters on the Ouija board are an ancient phonetic alphabet, Tring didn't know what the short sentences formed meant, so he looked at Lude, who was in charge of translating, and the other party quickly wrote it on the prompt board, and then Show him.

"Ask about business, I'm in a hurry... tsk! This guy is still in a hurry."

After getting an exact response, Tring started to ask questions, and the respondent answered some of his questions selectively.

Tring first asked the most concerned question, where is the artifact he was looking for?The respondent told him that he was in the Spiral Abyss, but when asked about the specific location, the respondent chose to refuse on the grounds that he did not want to provoke the creator of the maze.

Then Tring asked where Dick was?In front of Lude, Trin did not say the name of "Undead Warlock", but it is not difficult to see from this that Trin and the Navarro family behind him knew Dick's real name.

The entire questioning process lasted for nearly an hour, during which Tling also asked some other questions, which belonged to the kind of things that only he and a very few people knew. I want to test the respondent again.

The result was a slightly teasing rhetorical question from the respondent.

"Do you really want me to speak in front of the other three?"

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The entire divination process was under the control of Ludd, but the "Ludd" who directed Trin on the spot was not himself, but a substitute pretended by Hume. The real Ludd was in another room directly below the reception room. Nei, as an "answerer", is having a question and answer with Tring.

In the entire layout, the answerer is the most critical role, and needs to master excellent speech skills and adaptability to the situation. Therefore, apart from Lude himself, there are no other suitable candidates around him.

Lude's purpose is to lure Tring into the maze himself, and then make him clash with the necromancer Dick, so that he can reap the benefits of the fisherman.

The advantage of doing this is that it can have double insurance. He has established a relationship with both parties separately, accepted the necromancer as a disciple, and cooperated with Terlin to let them compete with each other. Help out, and finally gain the trust of the winner.

This trick was learned by Lu De from a senior anti-narcotics policeman!

When Lude introduced spiritism at the beginning, he instilled in him the first impression of "respondents are moody and willful", and they often refuse to answer some questions based on their mood.This allowed Luther to act as if he knew everything even though he had limited information at hand, giving Tring the illusion that the answerer knew it but didn't say it.

The specific method is to be a "riddler" and not give the other party any clear answers except yes or no, forcing Trin to use multiple questions to continuously narrow the range of answers, making him think that the answers he has deliberated, and then explain the experience. The information obtained after twists and turns is convinced.

Similar words are used by scammers and police officers alike. The former is used to fool victims, while the latter is used to defraud criminal suspects during interrogations.

So under Lude's intentional guidance, Tring got the information Lude wanted him to get, and he himself was also in the process of asking questions, and was induced by Lude to reveal a lot of information about the Brotherhood of the Black Hand and the Navarro family. .

Relying on the combined questioning prompted by Lude on the small blackboard, Tring successfully learned that the artifact he was looking for was located somewhere below the second floor and above the fifth floor of the spiral abyss of the maze.And Dick, the necromancer he had been following before, was currently lurking somewhere in the town, less than 300 meters away from him.

Since the respondent had to rely on a Ouija board to communicate, after chatting for more than an hour, Tring only asked about a dozen questions, but the surrounding candles were almost burnt out, and the brightness in the room was rapidly declining.

During this period, one of Tring's subordinates suddenly burst into flames without warning because of his insults to the questioner, and the burned skin was torn apart.

This sudden scene really frightened Tring. The two magicians present were also very frightened. They shook their heads at Tlin, saying that they did not feel any fluctuations in magic power, which meant that it was a higher-level power than magic, but Lude, the only priest present, did not move at all. This sudden mysterious power obviously did not come from him.

This reminded Tring of the precautions that Lu Deqian had instructed before the ceremony began, that is, never offend the respondent, because you don't know what you are talking to, and sometimes you will attract some more than gods. The existence of terror is also possible.

Obviously!The respondent who is currently having a conversation with them has an unusual identity, and his power is far above that of ordinary people, but he is such an existence, but he is extremely afraid of the foreign demon Heid Taka who created the maze.

Soon, the first candle was extinguished, and the extinguished candle announced the termination of the psychic contract, and the fingers of Tring and others were still firmly stuck to the ring, which indicated that the respondent had not left, but Without the constraints of the contract, he no longer has to tell the truth.

So Trin hesitated and decided to ask one last question.

"Answer, I have one last question. I want to know... Was my mother's death three years ago an accident?"

Suddenly, Tring asked a question that was completely out of line, but Zhen Lude, who was on the other side of the Ouija board, keenly sensed a hint of insider information from this question, which shows that in the Navarro family Inside, there are also some discordant dark sides.

In addition, Tring, a dude, is unexpectedly a filial son!

Lude pondered for a moment, then suddenly had an idea, and then manipulated the psychic disk on his side, and responded to Tring's question.

"Do you want to ask your mother directly?"

When a rhetorical question was thrown back, Tring's heart suddenly set off a storm.His mother had passed away three years ago, but the respondent asked him if he wanted to talk to his mother. The true meaning behind this made Tring extremely excited.

Could it be that the mother has become an undead, or is this unknown "answerer" who has the ability to resurrect the dead who have been dead for more than three years?

At this time, "Lude" on the side reminded Tring to pay attention to the time again. The twelve candles were half extinguished, and the rest were crumbling.

The psychic ritual is not like going to a brothel for consumption. You can continue the clock if you add more money if you are still unsatisfied. It is also a big taboo to force the answerer to be summoned!

And at this moment, the metal ring started to move again, and quickly spelled out two words - "Necromancer" and "Blood".

Before Trin could ask another question, he suddenly felt his right arm sink, and the fingers that were firmly fixed on the metal ring were instantly loosened, and the last few candles around him were also extinguished at the same time, and the room was suddenly plunged into darkness. Lude's voice came.

"Master Tring, the channeling is over."

In the darkness, Lu De clapped his hands, and Shanis, who had been guarding the door the whole time, immediately walked in with an oil lamp, restoring the light to the reception room.

Regardless of the numbness in his arm, Trin stumbled up and grabbed Lude and said.

"Master, can you do the ceremony again? I still have questions to ask the answerer just now. Is there any way to contact him again?"

"Master Tring, please calm down. Listen to me first. Generally speaking, the psychic ceremony can only be held once a month, and no one can guarantee that the same respondent will be drawn to the two holdings. But there are exceptions to everything. Sometimes the answerer will set out the conditions for the next meeting, hasn't he already told you?"

"Conditions? Oh, yes! He said he wanted the necromancer's blood...he wanted the necromancer's blood! Is that what he meant?"

Tring, who was unknowingly brought into the rhythm, is now full of thoughts on how to get in touch with the previous respondent again, and find out the truth about his mother's death three years ago.And his desire for the truth has even completely overwhelmed the pursuit of the God Thief Artifact.

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Lude's fraudulent tactics were a great success, and Klin did not doubt him in the information obtained by psychic divination.After all, in his eyes, Lu De was a "Master of Divination" who could figure out that he was looking for an artifact with only a few copper coins. The psychic divination just now was so weird that there was no flaw in it being a scam.

And based on the information he got, Tring made a decision, that is to kill the necromancer first, and then concentrate on attacking the maze.

Tring's idea is very simple. Although Necromancer Dick is a member of the Brotherhood like himself, he is also a competitor. If he leads the team into the maze now, it is very likely that he will be interfered by the other party.

In fact, Tring did not reveal in front of Lude that he followed the necromancer to Pine Tree Town this time. In addition to wanting to snatch the artifact, his father also specifically told him to find a way to kill Dick if there is a suitable opportunity. Let this unsightly guy disappear into some unknown corner.

Trin didn't know what kind of feud Dick had with his father, and he had to kill him.

Now that it has been confirmed that Dick is also in the town, and that he is still very close to where he lives, Trin immediately bid farewell to Lude, led his men back to the residence, and shared the important information he had just received with the accompanying "butler".

The "housekeeper" is the old man beside Tring. Tring doesn't know his real name, but only knows that he is a close follower of his father, and he is a very powerful master.His father sent him to follow him in order to help him kill the necromancer.

The steward was cautiously skeptical about the information that Trin brought back from Lude.There are indeed some very powerful fortune tellers in this world, but more are liars.However, in view of Lude's reputation, the butler was only suspicious.

"Try not to be in the town, so as not to cause trouble. That Lude is a man of some ability. It is said that he also knows the dragon and the fire lunatic Hamilton of the Three-Man Tower. It is best not to have an enemy with him."