Richard noticed Jasmine's change, glanced at Xizhe, and thought thoughtfully: It is abnormal for a person's personality to change suddenly. Either the surrounding situation has changed dramatically, or the situation itself has changed.
According to what Xizhe said before, the most likely possibility is the latter. You guessed it right, Xizhe cast the curse twice, and the cost was greater than imagined. Even if he didn't die immediately, he would die soon after leaving the ruins.
Therefore, Xizhe, who was always serious, would throw away too many scruples and rarely joke. Maybe, I want to have less dullness and more joy in the remaining days, or it may be something else.
As Richard thought about it, Xizhe made a new move.
"Okay, no more rambling, time is precious, let's choose a lover for that escaped beast." Xizhe said to everyone, reached into his arms, felt for a long time, and took out a thin piece of paper Come.
"This is… "
Just when everyone was a little confused, Xizhe made a "stab" sound and tore off a corner of the paper, then another corner, and then a long strip... slowly tearing out a pattern.
The pattern was very rough, and it was almost hard to see what it was. Xizhe took a glance and noticed this, poked a small hole in it with his finger, nodded and said to himself: "Well, not bad, this looks like it." "
Everyone looked at it and finally vaguely saw that it looked like a mouse.
Yes, it looks like a mouse.
It's just that the treatment was too rough and a bit miserable: for example, the originally round head was torn into a square shape, with ears on one side and no on the other, the tail was balled up, and all four legs were missing, as if it was born with a deformity.
Xizhe didn't seem to be so aware. He showed the pattern and said, "Now, this is the lover I chose for the escaped beast - a paper mouse. How about it? Does it look like it?"
"Uh-" Everyone protracted their tone and did not directly answer Xizhe's question, because if they wanted to answer, honesty and politeness would inevitably fail to be comprehensive.
"One Eye" pursed his lips and said to Xizhe: "Mr. Xizhe, are you serious? Do you want that big mouse to fall in love with... this paper mouse in your hand? Why do I feel that it is a bit risky? …”
"Don't worry." Xizhe interrupted "One-Eye" with confidence and said, "If it is some advanced life, this will not work. It is not so easy to deceive. You must find an intelligent life to be your lover. But look at that The beast has no strength, but its IQ is not much different from that of an ordinary mouse. A paper pattern like this is enough. In short, this piece of paper is her wife!"
After saying this, Xizhe held a paper mouse in one hand and a wooden stick in the other, and recited a similar but slightly different spell to the one before.
"Coret... Er... Lawu... Fouev... Voros..."
After reciting the incantation, Nishizawa pointed with the wooden stick, and pink light flew out and landed on the paper mouse.
You can see that the surface of the paper mouse is quickly dyed pink.
The pink light pulsed like life, then faded after a long time, creating complex lines on the surface of the paper, forming incomprehensible characters, shining brightly.
Almost at the same time, a scream suddenly came from the distant ruins. It was very faint, but everyone could still hear the sound of the giant rat that had escaped before.
Xizhe said: "Succeeded."
Everyone looked at each other and felt that it was a bit too childish, but facts speak louder than words, and they had to admit that it was indeed useful.
Su spoke up and asked Xizhe: "Mr. Xizhe, how long will it take for that big rat to come back to us? In other words, how long will it take for us to be ready to deal with that big rat?"
"It's hard to be sure. It depends on how far away the other party is from us. It also depends on how deeply it loves this paper mouse. If it's short, it could be a few minutes. If it's long, it could be hours." Xizhe said.
"Then we have to wait forever?"
"No." Xizhe shook his head, "There is a way to stimulate that beast and greatly shorten the waiting process."
"How to do it?"
"Like this." Xizhe said.
I saw him grabbing the square head of the paper mouse with one hand and the flat body of the paper mouse with the other hand. With a slight force, he directly tore the paper mouse into two pieces of paper. Then fold the two pieces of paper together and tear them off again, so that the two pieces of paper become four pieces of paper.
Repeat this process, and soon four pieces of paper will become eight pieces of paper, then sixteen pieces of paper, and thirty-six pieces of paper.
Before anyone could react, Xizhe tore the paper into dozens of irregular scraps of paper, stretched out his hand and tossed it lightly, and suddenly "the sky was filled with snow".
Deep within the ruins in the core area, there was first a period of silence, and then an extremely miserable and angry scream sounded out, each sound louder than the last, indicating that the target making the sound was rapidly approaching here.
This is revenge!
This is to avenge the loss of a loved one!
This is revenge at all costs!
"You heard me, I tore up the other person's paper wife, made the other person crazy with anger, and made the other person try their best to come here to get revenge - hate is more powerful than love!" Xizhe sighed at the end.
"Uh..." Everyone responded, looking directly at Xizhe as if they were meeting him for the first time.
They finally understood why Xizhe had said before that when the giant rat came back again, it would attack crazily and fight to the death. Obviously Xizhe had already made this plan.
They couldn't help but find that the old man Xizhe was a little... badder than they thought, so they subconsciously moved a few steps away.
Xizhe saw everything in his eyes and didn't care. He said: "Okay, I have done what I have to do, and the rest is up to you. Next, you should be prepared to deal with that beast's attack. Believe me, the other person will be crazy."
"As for me, I'm a little tired. I need to take a rest and take a nap." Xizhe said, sat down cross-legged on the spot, and said in a deep voice, "Don't disturb me next, wait until that beast comes, then call me Attack. Well, that’s it.”
After saying this, Xizhe quickly closed his eyes and remained motionless.
Everyone was stunned, and tentatively called out Xizhe's name. However, Xizhe didn't respond, and they were a little surprised.
Richard raised his eyebrows and noticed that Xizhe's hair was originally gray - white hair was the majority, but there were also a few black hair mixed in. Now I don't know when, it has turned completely white, and it is like withered weeds, without any color and lifeless.
Is this the price of casting the curse before? Damaged vitality? It seems to be more serious than void energy erosion.
And if nothing unexpected happens, the curse will be cast again soon... No matter whether it succeeds or not, he really won't be able to survive for long.
Are you willing to sacrifice your life for an energy furnace that you haven't obtained? From this point of view, the energy furnace is really important, and what the other party needs the furnace to do is also important.
What could it be
As Richard was thinking about it, he heard a "hiss" sound, and a small mountain-like figure broke out of the darkness. It was the giant rat that went away and came back.
The other party looked with a pair of blood-red eyes, scanning the crowd and the scraps of paper on the ground, with the flames of revenge burning in his eyes.