Garden of Eden, machining sector, research room.
Two chairs were placed more than one meter apart, with Richard and the old lich sitting on them respectively.
Richard looked at the old man Lich and said, "Tell me about it."
"What did you say?" the old lich asked. While speaking, he kept rubbing the red and swollen parts of his body, grinning in pain, because half of his teeth were knocked out by Pandora during the ravage, and his voice was a little leaky, which made him look a little funny.
Richard spread his hands and looked at the old man Lich calmly: "Let's start from the most basic. Now that I know that you are the soul in the Lich's phylactery, you might as well tell me your name. What are you currently doing? The name of the body's previous owner is Ford, you should have a different name."
"Ford." The old man Lich curled his lips after hearing this. He didn't know whether it was pain or just disdain. He continued in a leaky voice, "This... this name is quite silly. Every character is full of stupidity and disdain." Vulgar. My name is much better than his, elegant and noble."
"That is?" Richard asked.
"Let me tell you, my name is... Hey!" The old man Lich suddenly froze in mid-sentence, his expression froze little by little, and his eyeballs remained motionless.
A few seconds later, the old lich scratched his head and said with some distress: "Hey, I seem to have been asleep for too long and can't remember what my previous name was."
"You can't have no impression at all, right?" Richard said.
"Yes, I have an impression. It seems... It seems to be a little close to the name you mentioned before... It's called..."
"Ford?"
"Ah, I remembered." The old man Lich slapped his thigh excitedly. He gasped in pain because he touched the injured area and said, "My previous name seemed to be... called Fordsick· Russell Domharza Buck Romantore… ”
The old man Lich kept talking like this for more than a minute, and read out a name of more than a hundred words.
After listening quietly, Richard opened his mouth and suddenly felt that it was really normal for the old Lich to forget such a name for a while. It’s even more amazing that I can remember it.
The old man Lich looked over at this time, glanced at Richard with a surprised expression, and said with some dignity: "How about it, kid, are you intimidated by my elegant name?"
"That's not true."
"Then why are you like this?"
"I was just thinking, your name is so... well, so elegant, how should I call you more appropriately? If I call you by your full name every time, then more than half of the time we talk may be wasted. "
"Is that so?" The old Lich thought for a while and said seriously, "Then you can call me Mr. Afu."
"Mr. Ah Fu? Okay." Richard nodded with an expression and looked at the old man Lich, "Mr. Ah Fu, my name is Richard. Now we know each other, and then we can talk about your compensation for me. Problem."
"Compensation issue?" The old man Lich raised his eyebrows and immediately became vigilant. He opened his eyes wide and looked at Richard and asked, "What do I owe you? You... why do you ask me to compensate you?"
"Mr. Ah Fu, what did you say you owed me? Isn't it obvious in front of me - you used the body I brought back without my permission." Richard said.
"This!" The old man Lich's expression froze and he opened his mouth to refute, but nothing came out because what Richard said was the truth.
In this regard, Richard was not going to let it go easily. He looked at the old man Lich seriously and said: "Mr. Afu, I understand your eagerness to be resurrected, but before that, we didn't seem to have reached anything effective." Agreement. Because your conditions were too high, I did not agree to help you resurrect.
Under this premise, if you use the corpse I brought back casually, have you considered the consequences? Like, have you considered what this body means to me? Have you considered what the identity of this body is? "
"This!" The old man Lich blinked and subconsciously curled up. He touched his face, then looked at Richard's face. He thought of something, looked flustered, and asked tentatively, "The corpse I... used couldn't be any of your relatives, right? For example... Your grandfather? Great-grandfather? Great-great-grandfather?”
Richard opened his mouth, took a deep look at the old man Lich, and said angrily: "That's not true. In fact, he was a beggar who died suddenly. I met him and wanted to find out what happened to him. The cause of death was brought back.”
"Huh." After hearing this, the old Lich breathed a sigh of relief and said with great relief, "That's good, that's good."
"Is this really good?" Richard asked sternly, "For me, it may be good, because I won't have an inexplicable relative. However, for you, Mr. Afu, it may not be good. Because No matter what the identity of the body is, after I bring it here, it is considered my personal property. If you use it, you damage my property, then I have the power to use some methods to restore it to its original form. .”
"You want to kill me?" The old man Lich suddenly became uneasy and moved his buttocks in his seat.
"No." Richard corrected his mistake seriously, "I don't want to kill you, I just want to kill the corpse that belongs to me but was accidentally resurrected due to external forces."
"You!" The old Lich jumped down from his seat this time and cautiously distanced himself from Richard, lest Richard really attack him. In his current situation, he really didn't have the confidence to block him.
However, Richard remained firmly seated in his seat, motionless, and looked at the old man Lich quietly with a meaningful expression.
Five seconds pass.
The old man Lich wanted to understand something. His expression changed from vigilance to hesitation, then to thinking, and finally to solemnity, and he sat back down little by little.
Looking up at Richard, the Lich Old Man said: "You don't want to kill me at all, right? You are a very smart guy and know that there is no benefit at all from killing me. A corpse will not bring you any benefits." How much is it worth? On the contrary, let me live so that you can get what you want. What you say and what you do are just to force me to cooperate with you."
Richard spoke up: "Mr. Ah Fu, I don't think it's appropriate to say 'forced'. In fact, from the beginning, I was prepared to have a fair deal with you. But at that time, the initiative was in your hands. If you didn't agree, I do not know what to do.
Now that you are resurrected, and you are resurrected using the body that I own, and you want to destroy my personal space after resurrection, the initiative is in my hands. Of course I won't be polite and will try my best to facilitate the transaction. "