novelonline Chapter 2912: The Pigeons Being Raised
Chapter 2912: The Pigeons Being Raised
Chapter 2912: The Pigeons Being Raised
The demon said, pinching a few beans from the plate between the two of them, and then threw them to the pigeons on the ground beside him who looked very expectant. Vesta City is located in the central forest area of the Old World. The winter temperature is far lower than that of the coastal areas. Most of the birds here will not go far away to spend the winter:
"Do you know the relationship between pigeon breeders and pigeons?"
Xia De watched the pigeons peck at the beans without any sense of danger:
"If it's just a literal relationship, I think I know."
“Pigeons are the eyes and ears of pigeon breeders. Sometimes they can even be seen as the embodiment of pigeon breeders, but the pigeons themselves may not be aware of this at all.”
The devil asked Xiang Xiade:
"That's probably the answer you want. Bennett is the one who raises and breeds pigeons in the woods."
"So you just told me straight out like that?"
"You want an answer, and I'll give it to you. If you say you have to worry about the one outside the city, perhaps you haven't noticed that this town is safer than the forest outside. The enlightenment elements formed by the human community are completely capable of blocking the big tree that is unwilling to show up for the time being, otherwise it would not have to raise pigeons for generations.
Besides, tonight’s celebration is really lively.”
Shade was actually very worried about the safety of the pigeons - referring to the pigeons that ate the beans thrown away by the devil. He tapped the wooden table lightly with his fingers and shifted his gaze from the pigeons to the lively crowd around the campfire:
"I originally thought it was omnipotent, but now that you put it like that, it seems to be nothing."
The demon also followed his gaze and looked at the people around the campfire. It did not continue to follow Shade's topic:
"The current scene reminds me of some transactions that happened a long time ago. Although humans are developing and changing, their nature has never changed. Men always like eighteen-year-old girls, rich people always want more wealth, even the most beautiful witches will be jealous of their companions' looks, and the person sitting on the throne is always afraid of everyone except himself.
Someone once used his soul to make three wishes to me: immortality, meeting me once every 100 years, and I could only take his soul after making the third wish. He seemed to want to prove that he could overcome his inner greed, so I agreed to this seemingly uneconomical wish. Do you know what happened in the end? "
"He lost?"
"It's hard to say whether I won or lost, but I got his soul. After our eighth meeting, the man who had tasted all kinds of life asked me to kill him and end his life. He said he had had enough."
Although it was a story about someone selling their soul to the devil, Shade laughed and looked at it again:
"In the eyes of ancients like you, human nature is so simple that you can get anything you want from mortals with just a little bit of manipulation, right?"
The demon's gaze shifted away from the flickering bonfire in the center of the square and turned back to Shade:
"Yes, the ancients all understood this principle, so raising pigeons is a very simple matter for them."
After saying this, they both fell silent, the two of them kept looking at each other, and people behind and around them walked by. The gas lamp above their heads flickered a few times due to the air pressure, and the pigeons had eaten the beans but still wanted more, so they looked at the "person" who had just thrown them the food.
No one cast their eyes towards this corner of the square, and the colorful picture seemed to have turned into a silent film. The silent confrontation ended only when Xia De closed his eyes and sighed. He still had a question to ask, but this question was definitely not free.
"Are you asking how we can deal with it? The Chosen Ones have not grown to the point where they can fight against such a powerful enemy, and the flames of the First Flame have not yet regrouped. It is indeed difficult to defeat it at this point."
The demon asked, but Shade shook his head:
"That's not what I want to know. I want to know, at the end of this story, will I have to make a choice?"
The young man across the table raised his eyebrows:
"Don't think I'm omniscient, but if you put it that way, I can probably guess something."
He twisted his fingers at Xia De, but Xia De shook his head:
"No, I just want to see if you are clear about this matter. Just to get your attitude. However, if you really want to trade with me, I would like to know where you are from."
The demon narrowed its eyes slightly, and stretched its head towards Shade across the table, its neck seemed to be stretched a lot longer:
"Tell me, do you really want to know this?"
Xia De closed his mouth tightly, and even controlled his brain not to make any movements that could be mistaken for "agreement".
Seeing Shade's expression, the demon across the table retracted his head and warned with narrowed eyes:
"Don't try to ask any evil spirit about its origins. Never. Even if the story I'm about to tell you is just a story about 'being involved in a wish but overcoming the wish', the price you pay is not something you can afford right now."
“My doctor friend said something similar.”
Xia De then spoke, and the red light in the eyes of the demon across the table faded:
"I can give you one last warning about the Bennetts. That family is blessed by the tree. Don't think that any spell, relic, or magic that peeks into them will work on them."
Shade nodded to show that he understood:
"Since this is the last warning, you are leaving now? Before you leave, can you tell me why you are in Vista City? You came here last night, didn't you? But you chose to set the transaction time tonight just for this young man under your control?"
The devil showed a sneer on his face:
"It seems that you haven't realized this yet, but it doesn't matter, you will understand it soon."
It closed its eyes and lay flat on the table. After a moment, the young man sat up again in a daze. He looked around in surprise, as if he didn't understand why he was here.
But soon he seemed to have found a reason to convince himself. He stood up, holding his aching head, and stumbled away into the crowd in the square. During the whole process, he did not even look at Xia De.
"He's possessed by an evil spirit. He probably won't live past thirty."
Xia De looked at the halo in the wine glass that was stained by the gas lamp and thought, if he was in a good mood, he might have called the other party and asked him what wish he made. But he was not in the mood now, so he could only use the [Moon Library] to draw the other party's face when he returned, and then throw the information to the church for them to deal with.
"The Bennets?"
Tonight, their family must be listening to a concert in the magnificent concert hall not far away. In the past two months in Vista City, except for Linda Bennett in the Love Lake incident, Shade has not been able to find any evidence of major problems with any Bennett:
"Could it be that Desire asked me to come and collect the debt, and said that the other party had hidden in a place that it could not go to, because Bennett was protected by the tree?"
He thought again in his heart, but if this idea is true, it means that desire cannot compare to the remains of the world tree:
"Any reconnaissance magic or relics are useless against them. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever used this [Family Stabilizer] on them!"
He thought of Miss Danister's document-level relic, which was used to determine blood relationships:
"Whether they have other relationships or not, at least now I am no longer sure whether Mr. Bennet's five children are related to him by blood."
Thinking of this, he widened his eyes slightly:
"So, as long as two of the children are not his biological children, Mr. Bennet may actually have only three children, which would fit the description of the mermaid."
[You only need to have one child who is not his own to meet the requirement. Linda Bennet, the third daughter of the Bennet family, was sent to the church to become a nun after the incident with the dead apostle Brontë and the Love Lake. It can be considered that she was expelled from the Bennet family. 】(2747)
"She" beside him whispered a reminder, and Xia De also remembered this:
"But at least Mrs. Bennet, who is worried about her daughters' marriage problems, really exists. This cannot be faked."
This time "she" did not refute Shad, but the Bennet family has become the core of everything, so it is really unclear what secrets Shad will discover next.
He also picked up a few beans and threw them to the pigeons that had not yet left. Everyone was very happy about the festival today, and these pigeons that had been walking in the square all year round got a lot of food.
This reminded Shad of the pigeons living in Saint Teresa's Square outside his house, which were always stared at by cats basking in the sun. Perhaps they have now flown to this forest to spend the winter.
He sighed slightly, and happened to see a little girl selling flowers to passers-by nearby, so Xia De called her over:
"Are there any roses?"
The flower girl with two pigtails on her head looked to be in her teens, much shorter than Vanessa now. She was wearing thin clothes that were inappropriate for the season, and the washed-out skirt looked like a summer outfit.
But even though she was shivering with cold, she still carried the flower basket and tried to show her enthusiasm:
"Yes, sir. Very fresh red roses. How many do you need?"
"how much do you have?"
The flower girl, who was used to seeing all kinds of customers, immediately realized what the other party wanted to do:
"There are nine left, sir. Do you want me to pack them separately for you?"
Her basket itself wasn't very big, and the nine flowers already took up a large portion of it.
Shade calculated:
"Nine flowers, one for each person should be enough. No need to wrap them separately, just tie them together with old newspapers."