Chapter 238 What I Saw on the Street

Xiao Jian followed Hopper and slowly moved forward in the winding cave.

The narrow cave sometimes turned left and sometimes turned right, but generally it was still going down.

Xiao Jian unexpectedly discovered that there were "people" living here!

From time to time, intelligent creatures wearing torn grass skirts and coarse fiber fabrics opened the door and walked out of the caves on the wall.

And they would look at Hopper with contempt, but when it was Xiao Jian's turn, they would smile ingratiatingly.

Although some races with sharp teeth were not very friendly even when they smiled, combined with their body language, they were still in awe of Xiao Jian.

Why is this?

After walking to a corner where no one was, Xiao Jian asked his question.

"Oh, they are the 'children of light', people who live in the light forever... The daily cost of living here is enough for our entire village to eat for two weeks."

"As for me... I can't even afford a formal dress, so of course I will be despised by these 'children of light'. It's nothing, it's normal."

"... formal dress?" Xiao Jian blinked.

At this time, a "children of light" with a face full of tentacles happened to pass by, and then he glared at Hopper fiercely, bent down slightly, showed a terrifying smile to Xiao Jian, and then slowly left.

Xiao Jian took a special look at his clothes - yes, it was an ordinary grass skirt and a coarse cloth made of something like bark fiber.

"Is this called a formal dress?"

Xiao Jian pointed at the back of the tentacle face and asked in a low voice.

"Yes... a set of formal dresses is worth at least 30 female slaves, very expensive."

Hopper looked as if it was a matter of course.

"Oh."

Xiao Jian looked down at his clothes.

If a grass skirt and a coarse cloth are considered formal wear, then the ordinary sportswear he is wearing is definitely a rare treasure.

No wonder those "people of light" respect him so much...

Using clothes to distinguish wealth, and determining the superior and inferior according to wealth.

Hiss, why does this setting look so familiar?

I always feel like I have seen it somewhere.

The cave winds down, and the surrounding environment gradually becomes dark and humid.

However, except that the obsidian ground becomes a little slippery due to water, Xiao Jian did not see any moss plants.

Thinking of the countless plants that emerged overnight after the disaster, they turned into mist-like dust in front of Xiao Jian in the blink of an eye and disappeared.

... In a sense, this is pretty good.

At least the inside of the cave is very clean, without any musty smell or any smell of corruption.

As Hopper led Xiao Jian deeper and deeper, the number of torches around began to decrease significantly.

Suddenly, Hopper turned around, leaned forward slightly towards Xiao Jian, and stretched out his hand to guide him: "The front is Xiajie..."

After turning the corner with Hopper, a straight and narrow stone cave appeared in front of Xiao Jian.

Xiao Jian's first impression of Xiajie was that it was lively.

It was so lively here!

Looking around, there were people... intelligent creatures of various shapes.

Some of these intelligent creatures had scales, some had colorful patterns on their skin, and some were covered with feathers or dense hair...

And if you look more carefully, you will find that this Xiajie is different from other places. There are no caves on its stone walls, and the obsidian stone walls are wet, with water droplets dripping from time to time.

The light here is dim, with only sporadic firelight and a few swaying torches providing weak light sources.

The jumping firelight illuminates the various creatures that are like a group of demons dancing wildly.

Along both sides of the wet cave wall, various stalls are placed unevenly.

Between these countless stalls, there is the crowded "people".

Countless stall owners of different shapes, speaking different accents, and even unable to be described by a certain animal, shout and hawk, and there are even rhymes like "Don't miss it if you pass by".

In the meantime, customers occasionally quarrel with stall owners, curse each other loudly, and suddenly reach a deal and shake hands at a certain point.

Compared with the deserted place on the upper floor, the lower street is obviously a more vibrant trading market.

Although it is humid here, although the firelight is dim, and even the air is filled with the stench of various unknown creatures.

Although the lower street is chaotic, complicated, and smells bad... But it has to be said that compared with the deserted place above, it is more like what Xiao Jian imagined a trading market should be like.

As Xiao Jian walked down, countless pairs of eyes stared at him.

"Sir, look here! I have treasures here!"

"No, no, no, what are you looking at? Look here! I have the eyeballs of the Fire Lady and the ribs of the Fragrant Dragon..."

"That's nothing! I still have the original foot-washing water of the Great One! Drinking a mouthful can directly increase your endurance by 3 points!!"

"Fuck, you liar! You are cheating me again! Last time you lied to me that it was the foot-washing water of the Saint, but I drank it and found out that it was the water from the Fei Suo foot tank!"

"How do you know it is the water from the Fei Suo foot tank? Have you drunk it secretly?"

"Nonsense!... That's not important! What's important is that you cheated me of my money! Pay me back! I'll beat you to death if you don't pay me back!"

"Ah! Murder..."

The exposed liar screamed and disappeared into the crowd.

And the warrior who liked to drink foot-washing water knocked away the crowd and quickly disappeared. Only the screams of the knocked down victim gradually faded away...

However, such a small episode did not affect the enthusiasm of the people on the street. They crowded in front of Xiao Jian one after another, and most of them were holding unknown "treasures", hoping to defraud Xiao Jian of some money.

For example, one of the men with a fish head and antlers holding a black stone desperately recommended the "sacred stone" to Xiao Jian, saying that it had the function of aphrodisiac when placed next to the pillow, and he even tested it himself!

Not to mention that the black stone is just an ordinary obsidian, nor does it have any aphrodisiac effect...

But with his head full of antlers, how did he ever use a pillow?

And when this guy reproduces, doesn't he just discharge the essence into the water? Why do you need aphrodisiac?

Xiao Jian never expected that his ordinary clothes in Fortress Town would actually cause a huge noise like a roaring mountain and a tsunami in Xiajie.

Obviously, people on the street have never seen such a "rich" person.

"Get away! You filthy bastards... get away! Stay away from the great Eye of Fire!"

"Get out! Get out of here! Get out of here!"

Hopper stretched out his slender arms and stood in front of Xiao Jian, but the people on the street were too enthusiastic!

Moreover, Hopper, who is not even an awakened person, is far from a match for these street aborigines - their attributes are at least equivalent to 2 to 3 star monsters!

Therefore, under the "siege" of many big men, Hopper's interception seemed so fragile. The most active man with fish head and antlers quickly carried him to Xiao Jianjian's side.

"Get away! Get away!"

Hopper punched the scaly chest of the fish-headed and antlered man crazily with his small fists, but the other party didn't pay attention at all, and just stretched the disgusting fish head in front of Xiao Jian:

"How about it? Buy it? It's cheaper to buy now..."

Xiao Jian glanced at the obsidian in his hand, raised his head and smiled: "Get away."

The moment Xiao Jian opened his mouth, there seemed to be countless echoes unfolding one after another, echoing and superimposing in the narrow cave of Xiajie, gradually turning into gibberish that could no longer distinguish its original meaning and lingering around everything. human ears.

This ability is one of the passive skills that all spirits must have, and it is also the reason why Xiao Jian can communicate with various intelligent creatures.

After Xiao Jian obtained the [True God] characteristic, this passive became as large or small as he wanted. It could eliminate almost all echoes, or it could increase the echoes to the maximum as it is now.

"Buzz..."

The murmur formed by the layers of echoes constantly stimulates everyone's eardrums, causing symptoms including but not limited to dizziness, tinnitus, difficulty breathing, insufficient blood supply, etc.

And because the man with the fish head and antlers was the closest, he fully withstood the maximum effect of the raving...

I saw this huge, muscular creature. After retching several times, he fell to the ground and lost his voice.

After the fish-headed and antlered man fell, most of those who tried their best to get over also fell to their knees in a daze, and the intelligent creatures further away also covered their mouths in discomfort.

When the echo disappeared, the once bustling Lower Street suddenly became audible.

"Tick-tock...tick-tock..."

On the wet obsidian walls, the sound of water dripping to the ground began to become deafening...

The people walking down the street even kept their breathing at a minimum and did not dare to attract the predator's attention at all.

Because it was only then that they discovered that the "great one" Hopper mentioned was actually very likely to be true!

A great one!

Living greatness!

And He actually appeared in Xia Street! !

The smart guy who thought he had thought of something began to secretly lower himself and hide behind others, preparing to find the right time to leave this place of right and wrong.

"...He's not dead, right?"

Hopper got close to the fish-headed and antlered man and tested his breathing with his hands... As a result, his fingers were cold and he couldn't feel any breath. Now Hopper suddenly became anxious and whispered into Xiao Jian's ear:

"It's broken, it's broken, the great Eye of Flame, that person is dead... The saint's ban has been broken, we have to leave quickly..."

"No, he's not dead." Xiao Jian said with a smile, "He was just a little dazed for a while."

"But……"

"He is a fish! He uses gills to breathe... Although I don't know why the gills can be used in the air, but you can try pressing his gill cover and he will wake up after a while."

In Xiao Jian's field of vision, the health of this fish-headed and antlered monster didn't even move! It's just that he has a temporary feature of [Dizziness] in his feature column. Generally speaking, he should wake up when this temporary feature disappears.

"Yeah?"

Hopper held down the gill cover on the fish's neck in confusion, and the fish-headed deerclops began to twitch soon after.

"Alive! Really alive! It's great..." Hopper finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, an old female voice suddenly sounded behind Xiao Jian.

"A very clever way of coercion..."

Hearing this voice, Xiao Jian turned around and saw an old woman looking at him with a smile.

This is... the saint?

However, Xiao Jian couldn't see her attributes, not any attributes.

Just when Xiao Jian's eyes were slightly ignited and he wanted to use [Broken] to observe the old woman's attributes, she smiled and gently pulled it in front of him like a curtain...

Then, Xiao Jian saw the following attributes:

[Non-existent curtains]

You can't see me, you can't see me, you can't see me...

…

Compared with the last time I was countered by using [Breaking], using a curtain to block myself was obviously gentler.

"Close your eyes, the great one who likes to peek... I am not your enemy." The old woman still said with a smile.

"I'm sorry...are you the saint?" The flame in Xiao Jian's eyes gradually extinguished.

After all, since you can’t see through it, you shouldn’t watch it. It doesn’t mean you can’t play without opening the picture.

"Me? Hahaha, of course I am not. You can call me blind mother-in-law. I am the manager of the street."

The old woman's tone was kind, as if she were talking to a friendly junior.

"As great as you are, why did you come to the filthy Xiajie? Do you have any requests? Please don't hesitate to teach me... My mother-in-law has no other abilities, but she is still very familiar with Xiajie."

The blind mother-in-law said so.

"I'm here to find an... old liar?" Xiao Jian poked Hopper, and Hopper quickly described the appearance of the old liar.

"Oh? I have an impression of the person you mentioned, but after I found out that he was a liar, he was quickly expelled... I don't know where he went afterwards."

The blind mother-in-law paused slightly when she said this, as if she was afraid that Xiao Jian would go crazy, so she quickly continued with a smile: "But I have a few friends outside Xiajie, why don't you stay here temporarily and wait for me to find out the news? How about I come back and report to you?"

"No need, I don't have that many pesos." Xiao Jian waved his hand, "Let's do this. I'll come back to you tomorrow."

"This..." The blind mother-in-law seemed to be about to say something, but Xiao Jian had already dragged Hopper away.

The blind mother-in-law watched Xiao Jian climb up the stairs, and then watched his back disappear into the passage...

Then the gentle expression on the blind mother-in-law's face disappeared in an instant, and was replaced by something as violent and cruel as a cursed witch.

"Who can tell me what happened here!? Why did you scum get into trouble with that kind of terrifying existence!?"

"explain!!"

The blind mother-in-law said angrily.

However, she did not notice that a small pure black hummingbird flew down and stopped in the shadow where the torch could not reach, silently observing the development of the situation.

"It's him!"

Under the gaze of the blind mother-in-law, everyone pointed at the weird man with a fish head and antlers, and recounted what happened before in detail.

The detailed part is of course how the fish-headed and antlered man collided with Xiao Jian, and the omitted part... is of course the other hecklers who want a piece of the pie.

The blind mother-in-law's eyes slowly moved to the fish-headed and antlered man.

"Mother-in-law! I'm sorry, mother-in-law! I know I was wrong... vomit..."

The fish-headed and antlered man has not fully recovered from the dizziness. Although he wants to control his instinct, he can't help it... he can't help it at all!

"Hehehe... don't worry, since He didn't kill you, I won't kill you, I will only take away your eyes... Hehehehe, hahahaha..."

"Mother-in-law doesn't want it!"

"No……"

"ah--"

"..."