Dharma Ring: Selling Dung Beetles at the Border

Chapter 250 Kallia’s Mysterious Society

The Three Sisters Tower is a royal territory behind the Kaliya Walled City. Mist lingers all day long, driving the cold into the stone bricks.

Selian was wearing a Rhea Lucalia robe and a witch's hood, calling out to an unknown person in the mist, like a ghost hallucination.

An illusion indeed. Wuming looked carefully and found that it was not Se Lian.

The figure is slimmer and slender, the stance is slightly different, and the bare feet are whiter and tenderer. It is obvious that her owner is younger. The emotion conveyed by the tone of voice was not like Se Lian, but more like that of a waiter.

"Se Lian's student?" Wuming guessed.

The witch bowed to Wuming: "The master wants you to meet him in his magic tower."

"Who is your master?"

"Selves."

Wuming looked at the witch's strange words and deeds, and suddenly felt that they made sense:

"It turned out to be a puppet."

The witch puppet made a gesture to Wuming: "Please."

"Why should I go?" Wuming asked, "Selvis is not a good person."

Wuming still remembered that when Selvis sold him the secret technique of puppets in Stone City, Lani came to the door.

"The master said that you will be interested in the information he has." said the witch puppet.

"Give me some hints." Wuming said, "How could my secret information be related to postpartum care for sows? Although I am indeed interested, it is obviously not enough for me to meet Servis."

"The question of the whereabouts of the silk of the Kaliya royal family." said the witch puppet.

"Lead the way."

Wuming immediately abandoned Lena's magic tower and followed the witch puppet to the third magic tower south of the Three Sisters Tower - Selvis's Magic Tower.

"Speaking of which, I have never seen the true form of Servis." Wuming said, "What does your master look like? Is the one who comes this time still a puppet? That is not sincere."

The nameless person answered with that familiar bitter tone:

"The puppet is a good thing, how can it be insincere. But since you have arrived in my living room, I'd better meet you with my true body - see you, my great true body."

A figure turned around the load-bearing pillar in the middle of the magic tower and walked up to Wuming.

A large hat with a wide brim and painted with stars; a bright blue robe with the movement of stars on it; and a mask with a gold thread sealing the mouth.

Standard magic professor outfit.

"So ordinary." Wuming said.

In the previous battle where the black knife attacked the college, Wuming saw many people wearing this professor's uniform. At that time, those professors did not even make any noticeable moves, and those who did were quickly subdued.

"What did you say!" Servais puffed and glared, as if he couldn't bear the nameless comments.

"It's nothing. You have a kind of mediocre beauty hidden in the smoke and dust." Wuming said, "You can hide it at a glance."

Selvais clicked his tongue: "We are old acquaintances, let's talk business - I know you are a businessman, and like me, you will use any means or whatever to pursue what you want. We are on the same page."

"A fellow traveler?" Wuming's eyes were unkind, "You want to compete with me?"

"This is a metaphor, a metaphor." Servais said: "I am a magician, not a businessman. What I want is a puppet."

"Actually, I am also a magician, good at turning one rune into two." Wuming said, "What puppet do you want this time?"

"La-nee," Servais said.

"Lani." Wuming repeated, "You want to make Lani into a puppet?"

"nature."

"Isn't that what she is?" Wuming asked.

"Not mine," Servais said.

He played with the witch puppet:

"Lani's body is just a puppet, but her soul still belongs to her. She is a cute girl who carries sins, behaves calmly, but is still weak at heart. Ah, she will be the best puppet. Don't you want to taste her beauty?"

Wuming thought about it for a moment and nodded:

"She's got a really nice, dry body."

"So you agree?" Servais said.

"I think you are crazy." Wuming said, "On the one hand, I want to offend the demigod, the princess of Kallia, and on the other hand, I want to get the whereabouts of the silk of Kallia. Which one do you think a normal person would choose?"

Wuming looked at Servis:

"It's crazy enough for you to tell me directly. Aren't you afraid that I'll tell you?"

Servais said: "There is no time. Lani moved too fast, beyond my expectation. If we don't take action, we will have no chance."

"And I am willing to tell you because you and I are already accomplices. You have already offended Momochi, why not provoke another demigod?"

Speaking of Baozhi, Servais smiled happily:

"I met him once when we were in Stone City. I also specially sent two of my favorite puppets to fight with him. His reaction was pleasant and unforgettable."

Servis came close to Wuming and whispered:

"If you can help me get Lani, it's not impossible to give Neferi's puppet to you."

"I've never seen that puppet. Can you let me have a look?" Wuming said.

"It seems that you are indeed interested." Selvais smiled, "Wait a moment, I will ask her to come."

Servis patted the witch's butt: "Se Lian, bring her here."

The witch puppet walked past Wuming, left the magic tower, and disappeared into the mist. Wuming smiled half-heartedly and said to Servais:

"Se Lian?"

"Sooner or later she will become a new vessel for Servais." Servais said, "Before that, I have to take good care of this body for her."

After a while, the witch puppet came in with another puppet.

A warrior's leather headband, simple cloth armor, a muscular body, and two eagle axes in hand. He just lowered his head, without the compelling light in his eyes.

In appearance, she is no different from Neferi.

"It's really similar." Wuming commented.

"Of course, this is made with her soul." Servais said, "The body, or body, will change with the soul. So the soul is the essence of human beings. Only when you get the soul, you will get it. The essence of the person.”

"The soul is indeed very important." Wuming agreed.

He looked thoughtful: "Will the body show its own characteristics along with the soul..."

When Servis heard Wuming's words, he felt more and more happy to talk to his confidant: "How is it? You agreed?"

"I don't agree."

"Why?"

"I can't trust you." Wuming said, "After the last transaction, you sold me, right? Everyone is not stupid, so don't hide it."

"But I did give you the puppet skills, didn't I?" Servis smiled, "I fulfilled the contract very well. If you don't want me to cheat you, you have to write it clearly in the contract terms. The contract terms are very complicated. important."

"Are you looking down on my intelligence?"

"I am a magic professor. I hope you can understand that the people I interact with are all people with high IQs." Servais did not answer directly, but he seemed to express this meaning in his words.

"Trick me, right? Okay." Wuming pointed at Servis, "I don't understand."

"Very humble." Servais put on the air of a magic professor, "Very good. Recognizing one's own mediocrity and mental poverty is the beginning of progress."

Wuming continued: "So I'm looking for someone who understands."

He took out a communication magic circle from his pocket.

In the magic circle, Patch's bald head appeared.

"What's the matter?" Patch asked, "Didn't you go to find Lani?"

"It's about the contract." Wuming asked Patch to call Se Lian together and briefly explained the situation he was facing. "My think tanks, you can discuss the contents of the contract among yourselves."

Servais even felt that Wuming was a bit unreasonable:

"Are you crazy? Did you tell others about this?"

"After all, my IQ is not high enough." Wuming repeated.

Servais stared at the projected image:

"Who's on the other side?"

"Se Lian." Wuming said.

"I know Se Lian." Servis said angrily, "And I know her quite well. She doesn't have any dealings with the Kaliya royal family either. I asked about the other one."

"He's Patch." Wuming added.

"Who is that?"

"My partner, another caravan owner." Wuming said.

"Is he as evil as you?" Servais asked.

"He is ready to join the Volcano Residence."

Servais was completely relieved now:

"Well, it seems you're not hopelessly stupid."

Wuming pulled the small table from the magic tower over and placed a small magic circle on the table, with three parties sitting across from each other.

"Then let's start the meeting and discuss the contract in detail." Wuming said.

Negotiations began, mainly with Patch and Se Lian discussing the contract and all aspects of implementation details with Servis.

Wuming was standing aside, observing Servais's two puppets, the Nefeli and Serian puppets.

I have to say that Neferi does look very similar, and the hood on Se Lian’s doll is enough to look real.

"Selves, I want these two puppets." Wuming interrupted the conversation on the negotiation table and added new conditions to the contract.

Perhaps the temptation to get Lani was too great, so Servis agreed to Wuming's request.

Most of the content of the meeting was that Se Lian and Patch battled wits with Servis on the detailed terms, and used limited language and words to pursue and intercept in areas that could have been resolved in good faith.

The rest is how to solve the details of obtaining Lani's soul.

The only thing that Wuming listened to with interest was how Servais hid Lani and concealed the fact that he coveted Lani, and the two parties agreed to keep it secret.

In the end, Selvais and Serenpatch finalized a satisfactory plan that could guarantee the safety and confidentiality of both parties, not disclose the current conversation to any third party, and ensure that Selvais could obtain Lani's body and soul.

After the meeting, Servais and the unknown think tanks had a cordial and friendly farewell, waving goodbye to each other.

Se Lian waved and Patch waved, Patch waved and Latarn waved, and Latarn waved and Lenala waved.

"Wait a minute...two things just passed by?" Selvais reacted.

"Oh, La Tarn." Wuming said, "This communication is for La Tarn. After all, I only have contact information with him."

Wuming turned around and saw the smiling Full Moon on the other side of the projection: "Why is Full Moon here too?"

"Multi-location communication, advanced, right?" Latane said, "My mother developed it right after she woke up, and put it on me with her backhand, like a dog leash."

Lenora wiped away tears: "I saw that the children were all far away, so I thought we could use this method to get together more often."

Servais almost suffocated as he looked at the chatter and laughter over there:

"Lady Lenara...recovered?"

"After all, you are a servant of Kallia, but your intelligence is a bit too behind the times." Wuming pointed at Servis.

Also, it seems that Selvais doesn't even know who the new king of Stone City is, and he is probably just patronizing and cozying up to the puppets.

A strange sound surged in Servis's throat, as if a frog was stuck in his throat, making a dying sound.

Servais said: "So when we were talking just now, Latarn and Lenara were both there?"

"They're all here." Se Lian gave an affirmative reply.

Servais belched and was about to faint.

Before he fell to the ground, Wuming grabbed Servis up:

"Wake up, tell me first where the silk is going."

"I'm going to die anyway, don't ask me," Servais said.

"I can protect you, as long as you tell me your information." Wuming said with a smile. He looked at Latan in the virtual image, "If you tell me, you can change your life, right?"

"It doesn't count if I say it." Latarn looked at the full moon, "Say it, and it will save my life, right?"

"Since our friends need it, I won't take action." Man Yue said.

"Thank you, great queen..." Servis trembled.

Wuming looked on with cold eyes. Servis, who had just survived the disaster, had obviously forgotten the wisdom of the magic professor that he was proud of. With Man Yue's status, he didn't need to take action himself if he wanted to kill Servis.

But Wuming didn't want to point it out, he still needed the knowledge in Servis's head.

After saving his life, Servis relaxed a lot after the disaster. It took him a long time to finally calm down:

"I'll tell you, where the silk goes..."

Wuming straightened his body and listened attentively.

Servais said: "There has always been a secret society in the Walled City of Kallia, and this society is the main consumer of silk."

"A mysterious magic association?" Wuming was curious, "It looks very much like Calia."

"Magic association?" Servis shook his head disdainfully, "They are not studying magic."

"What is that?" Wuming was curious.

"La-nee," Servais answered.

"L-Ni?"

Servais said: "Their association is called the Lani Society. I thought they were in the same hobby, so I got in touch with them before. It turns out that their ambition is to make clothes for Lani's little dolls."

"Making clothes for the little doll?" Wuming didn't understand.

"It's the kind of small doll that you can hold in your hand and play with. It's made to imitate Lani's image, and then the doll's clothes are made." Servais said, "It's weird and disgusting, right?"

Wuming glanced at the dolls of Serian and Nefeli, turned his face away, and did not continue the topic:

"Then why does this Lani stop making clothes?"

"Then I don't know." Servais said. "The style of these people is too vulgar, and I don't bother to understand it. But the people around Lani must know it very well. Blazer is said to be a member of that association. He used to There were other members, but they all disappeared recently.”

"All gone..."

Wuming murmured to himself, and he thought of the red-eyed werewolf again.

"As a strategist, Iggy certainly knows about it," Servais said. "He was originally the props master of the Lani Society."

"Why didn't Iggy tell me..." Wuming said, "He didn't mention this association at all."

"That's why it's a secret society." Servais said, "There are too many secrets in the border area, full of lies. If it weren't for an emergency, I wouldn't ask you to deal with Lani, and I wouldn't be in this situation. Already..."

Servis thought of his own situation again and began to lament, looking at Wuming as if asking for help:

"I can indeed have your protection, right?"

"Don't worry, Man Yue Broken Star is a man of his word. If he can't move you, he won't move you." Wuming said.

"That's good..." Servis looked relaxed after the disaster.

"But Lani herself may not let you go." Wuming added.

Wuming patted Servis on the shoulder who was slumped on the ground:

"I will take these two puppets with me. We will meet again by fate."

Can readers see if the author used a leave note? I don’t want to issue a separate request for leave. If I have the chance, I will update the request the day before, but it would be better if I could be reminded when I use the leave request slip. After all, I'm not sure myself. (It’s still not sure tomorrow)

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