"It seems that I haven't seen the increase in the reward for the man in black."
After finally soothing the cat and scratching its chin, Jenkins asked again.
"How can it be so fast, this incident only happened yesterday afternoon. But anyway, he did snatch a strange thing. We can't tell whether the fall of the deceased Si Dule was related to him. The bounty will definitely Improve, but the scale will not be determined until the investigation is over. Pass me that pen... "
Dad has also been notified of the script writer's deal yesterday. But he didn't think that gentleman was strange. After running this shop for so many years, his father had seen many strangers. Most of them are ordinary people, but because they are ordinary people and cannot touch the extraordinary, awe and curiosity can give birth to those weird and even perverted hobbies.
Especially those rich people with money and time.
Dad even told Jenkins about a big businessman who bought ancient female corpses in Norland about five years ago. At that time, even the Orthodox Church suspected that he was the white glove of an unruly giver, but [Death and the End Church] intervened in the investigation and discovered that that person was just...
"Do you want me to tell you what he wants to do?"
"No, no, don't tell me, I'm afraid of having nightmares."
Jenkins still remembers the malicious smile on his father at that time.
"So, what did you do yesterday?"
He was still curious about this matter, but he was afraid that it would be confidential, so he asked around the bush after a long time after the conversation between the two started.
Seeing Jenkins' gesture, the old man chuckled:
"Don't do this, it's not a secret, especially for you."
Put down the pen in your hand, fold the document you are writing in half, put it in a kraft paper bag and stick a seal, then say:
"A two-story residential building in the south of the city is going to be remodeled. When digging the basement, a strange thing was accidentally 'dug' out."
"dig?"
Jenkins noticed some hesitation when he used the word.
"Yes, digging is not accurate, because the appearance of that kind of monster is related to space. It will only appear in an area between 72 square yards (approximately 60.2011699 square meters) to 50 square yards (approximately 41.806368 square meters) ), in a sealed space with a separate door. And that basement coincidentally met this requirement during the remodeling process, so A-01-1-0034, Mr. Mischief’s counterfeit shop, appeared.”
"Mr. Mischief?"
The pen under his hand slipped and almost wrote the wrong word. He didn't expect to hear this name again. So far, the only Mister Mischief series of items he has encountered are A-11-5-2071, [Mr. Mischief's Toy Ticket] and B-07-4-8848, [ Mister Mischief Pocket]. But being able to put a name or a code name in the name of a special item is definitely not a simple character.
"Sir, can you explain this word? I have also seen some items with the prefix 'Mr. Mischief' in the data before, but I tried to search the data again, but I couldn't find it at all."
"Of course I can't find it. The church's materials on Mr. Mischief in this diocese are only two pages at the bottom of the Gate of Vientiane. Even the Holy See doesn't know much about this creature. It is not a god itself, nor is it Any of the numbered ABC series, but scarier...”
The old man suddenly stopped talking. Seeing that Jenkins was still looking forward to it, he closed his eyes and drew a holy emblem on his chest, then recited softly:
"Knowledge is valuable, and the light of wisdom drives out darkness; knowledge is valuable, and mortals should be in awe of the unknown."
This is a sentence in the religious scriptures of the Church of the Sages. Jenkins is very familiar with it after coming here, so he understands that it is telling him that it is better not to know some things.
"So what exactly does that counterfeit shop do?"
He tactfully gave up the matter related to Mister Mischief, and instead asked about the monster that was just mentioned.
"It was a shop selling counterfeit goods, that is, a fake shop, and only one person was allowed in at a time, and everyone saw the interior of the shop differently. The shop was run by a poorly made puppet, but could not Find out if you have a soul. The reason why it is called a counterfeit shop is because all the items sold in the shop are fakes of special items that people who enter the shop have seen.”
Seeing that Jenkins was puzzled, the father patiently explained:
"That is to say, if I enter the store, what is sold in the store is the imitation of all the ABC series of special items I have seen. The performance of those imitations is generally worse than the genuine ones, and the malicious effect will be doubled, and It can only be used once and it will be irreparably damaged, which cannot be changed under any circumstances.”
"Then what price does he charge?"
Jenkins asked quickly, guessing things like soul and emotion in his mind.
But the answer is none of these.
"The story, to be precise, is the original story."
The old man looked up at Jenkins, who really showed a surprised expression.
"The puppet in the store needs stories from customers that have never been seen in the world. If you ask it why it wants these, it will explain that it is a request from its owner, Mr. Mischief. The puppet will evaluate the stories to determine This determines what customers can buy."
"What about the weird features? I noticed that the counterfeit store has a safety rating of 1."
"Normal storytelling-buy-leave, there will be no problems, including the use of counterfeit props, there will be no problems other than their own effects, after all, the price has been paid. But if you don't tell the story after entering the store Come up with a story..."
He touched his chin. The old man didn't grow a beard, which is said to make him look younger. Jenkins tried to grow a beard. In addition to being opposed by chocolate, he also found that even with a beard, he would not look mature. The actual age of this body is too different from the appearance age.
Of course, this is also related to the immature personality of the soul occupying the body.
"After entering A-01-1-0034, if you don't shop within 30 minutes, that is, if you don't tell a story, or the story can't meet the puppet's needs, then the puppet will regard it as an unwelcome guest. Currently Look, even a demigod-level bestower is no match for that puppet, it will expel unwelcome guests from the store in the form of a puppet."