Since the rules did not say that one could not talk to these artworks, Shade stopped. He had never thought of taking anything he didn't need out with him. He just wanted to know what this guy wanted to do:
"But you have to explain clearly, the original sin of greed, the treasure 3.2 minutes, what does this mean?"
The golden head immediately said on the mat:
"This represents my greed level. You see, I only have 3.2 quarters, but I know that many people are close to double digits. I just accidentally took something I shouldn't have taken. Sir, I'm not greedy. Please save me!"
"Some people are close to double digits. Mine is 9.9 minutes."
Xia De said this and walked away quickly, ignoring the head's muttered curses:
"However, my greed is not as great as that of treasures."
There were no accidents on the way back to the lobby of the art museum from the exhibition hall. The chilly feeling on his tarsus and the sense of unknown crisis that made his nerves tense only made Xia De a little frightened, but did not actually cause any accidents.
Getting the golden needle means that he can leave the art gallery and find the deepest part of the city, where the throne of the great man sits. But Shade still can't wake up the red dragon girl. Not only does he not know how to combine the needle with the compass, he doesn't even know what mission Fiona is carrying out.
"Do we really have to wake her up by force?"
Although he was in a dormant state, he could wake up if he encountered a fatal crisis, but Xia De was very reluctant to do so.
There was no other good solution at this time. Xia De paced around the front hall for a few times and looked at the exhibition manual on the front desk:
“There should be a way here, right?”
The journey took a total of 40 minutes, and only 10 minutes had been used so far. In addition, this key was extremely special, giving four chances to enter, and this was the third time, which meant that Xia De had plenty of time to try out his ideas.
He quickly walked to the front desk again, but the items for sale in the exhibition brochure were more than those in the watch shop and the cafe combined, and it was obviously impossible to read it page by page.
Xia De then closed the entire booklet, and then held the golden needle in his hand. The function of the divine item, the golden needle of the lost goddess, is actually quite similar to Xia De's bright yellow gem, the source of chaos. It only guides the direction and does not have the function of finding items, but at this time, Xia De only has this in his hand.
"Goddess bless you."
He spoke softly, inserting the golden needle from the side of the manual into the pages. After turning over the page where the golden needle was inserted, the words on the right read:
Fragments of the Heart of the Earth, special items that comprehensively enhance the power of the earth.
The legendary Heart of the Earth, conceived by the power of the ancient gods and the world itself.
The beautiful illustration on the right is of an ordinary-looking black stone that seems to be found everywhere on the ground.
To purchase, you need to pay for the Earth Rune that is stained by the night.
Although only the name of the traded item was stated here, Shade inexplicably felt that the "Earth Runestone" was the one he got from the Plague Merchant.
"So that runestone is so useful... Although I really want to find the Heart of the Earth, this is not what I need most right now."
Xia De covered his forehead and sighed, then turned back casually, and then suddenly widened his eyes:
"That's it! It turns out that needle really works."
"The Book of Dragons: Reproduction and Growth", a dragon shell book made of eggshell fossils, records the reproductive secrets of dragons.
The book is made of fossilized eggshells of ancient dragons from the First Age, and the content was written in the Third Age. The complete set of "The Book of Dragons" consists of 32 volumes.
The illustration on the right shows a stone slab with an irregular edge and a slight curvature. There are words engraved on the stone slab, but the illustration blurs the symbols.
To purchase, you need to pay for dragon blood soaked in darkness.
According to the old god "Gray Robe Sage" who appeared in the Dead Valley-Gaddis Library, any information and texts from the First Age are taboo for the following eras. The destruction of the Gadis Library is related to their research on the ancient books of the First Age.
Although the carrier of this book comes from the First Age, the content is not, so it is not contraband.
"But the price is the dragon's blood stained by the night..."
Xia De was in a dilemma. He certainly didn't have such an item, but it was not impossible to get it. When he was looking for the "Sand of Time Stained by the Night", he had guessed that the night in Evernight City might be enough to infect any special item.
If he tried it in Evernight City, not only would he be taking a huge risk to his safety, but once he failed, there would be no way to remedy the situation. That was why he was looking for the Night Temple in the Randall River Valley instead of bringing the Sands of Time directly.
But now, he could only give it a try.
Fiona is a red dragon hybrid, so her blood can also be called dragon blood. Because he didn't know the exact amount, Shade planned to take more.
He entered the tent again, carefully apologized to the sleeping girl, cut her smooth white skin on the wrist with a knife, and then took two test tubes of warm blood.
After doing all this, he sprinkled the liquid with the effect of "Satisfaction Food" on her wrist to stop the bleeding and eliminate the wound, and then came to the door with the two test tubes.
There was the sound of dripping rain outside the door. Without special candles, Shad could not enter the thick night by himself, but fortunately he was with Mia.
After restoring Mia, he held her in his arms. After opening the door, he carefully leaned forward, and then Shad's body began to emit a soft light.
Continuing forward, Mia's body also came into contact with the night, and then the cat's body began to emit the same warm yellow light as last time, like the midday sun.
Shad breathed a sigh of relief, used his clothes to shield the timid Mia from the rain, and then completely left the store and entered the street.
They were surrounded by the night and the rain, but they were afraid of the light of the sun and the moon and dared not move forward. Xia De looked at the two tubes of blood in his hand, but found that the blood itself had not changed at all.
"Failed... Oh, now they are not completely in the night."
Shade summoned the pitch-black chains of sin, tightly wrapped the chains around the two test tubes, then took a few steps forward and placed the test tubes on the bumpy cobblestone pavement filled with water. He then took Mia back to the front of the store so that the light from the man and the cat could not reach them.
He planned to wait five minutes and then take the test tube back. If that didn't work, then he would have to force Fiona to wake up.
The sound of the raindrops made the cat in Xia De's arms quite interested. In the past, when it rained, it often lay on the living room window and watched the rain outside through the glass. At this time, being protected in Xia De's arms, the cat, who didn't know the danger here, also looked at the street scene in the thick night as usual.
Maybe Mia was more perceptive, but before Shade noticed the abnormality, the cat cried out in alarm. Then, Shade felt that his chain was being pulled:
"What's going on?"
He immediately pulled the chain towards himself, hoping that the test tube would not be broken. As the two tubes of blood that had turned half black entered the field of vision of Shade and Mia, a humanoid creature with a pitch-black body also appeared.
"What?"
Its entire body was black, even its face was smooth black, so that you couldn't even see its hair. It looked like a criminal character in the memory of a stranger.
The black hand tried to grab the two test tubes, but seemed to be afraid of the chains of sin and could only try carefully. Shade was sure that this thing was definitely not his hallucination, because Mia also became restless, and the cat also saw it:
"Want to steal my stuff? Moonlight Slash!"
A brilliant silver light streak flashed forward, but as the dark shadow re-entered the area where the light could not illuminate, the moonlight slash also melted into the darkness.
Xia De realized that the other party did not leave, but was spying around, so he did not pick up the two test tubes immediately, but drew out the Moonlight Greatsword from the night rain and looked around vigilantly.
The rain was pattering, and Shad tried to distinguish the unusual sounds from the noise.
"Meow!"
Suddenly Mia screamed again, and Shade immediately swung the sword forward. Then he felt the half-melted sword hit something soft and colloid-like in the darkness.
A not-so-obvious scream was heard in the night, and Shade knew that he had found the right target, so the other three greatswords summoned by the Blade of Chaos Time and Space stabbed out from the void and obviously hit the target as well.
Xia De continued to move forward, and then he saw the dark figure being pierced by four big swords. As the light from him and Mia completely illuminated the figure, its body quickly melted in the light, and finally only some black colloid was left on the ground, and it completely disappeared.
"What on earth is this?"
Xia De squatted down to examine the black colloids left in the rain. They were scattered in the puddles between the broken bricks. It looked very much like some kind of food that the stranger had eaten in his hometown.
A living person melting into the darkness.
"She" whispered softly, and Shade nodded and agreed with this guess. Then he touched the remaining colloid with his hand, and his glowing fingers turned black almost immediately.
Xia De quickly removed his fingers and watched the skin color slowly return to normal, with a look of surprise on his face:
"Concentrated power of the night? This is really... great!"
He opened the two half-black test tubes, picked up the colloid on the ground, divided it into two equal parts, and quickly threw it into the test tubes.
He trotted back to the art gallery, shook the test tube slightly, and found that the colloid had completely dissolved into Fiona's blood.
The original blood was half-black, as if it had decayed. But now the blood was completely black, a color with a texture that was even more refined than the highest-grade black ink. If Xia De were to describe it, this was the color of the night.