Chapter 158 The Fisherman and the Devil
"So, this is your way, using large-scale samples for comparison and observation..."
Alhaz in the mirror said thoughtfully.
Sean smiled and said, "Of course, what happened to you?"
"Indeed, if it were me, I might have been unable to help drinking it when I observed that No. 5 was not hurt."
"If it were you, maybe I'd just drink it the first time."
"Hmph, I was a little impulsive, but I'm not that stupid."
"If you weren't that stupid, you wouldn't be hiding in a mirror and talking to me now."
"You-" Alhaz's face turned blue and black, obviously a little broken.
But Sean ignored him, but instead felt secretly happy in his heart, asking you to scare me if you have nothing to do, and let you keep pestering me to see who was torture whom.
He asked the four short goblins in the reference group to go back to rest, and entered the dungeon again with the remaining short goblins.
Today we are preparing for a new round of summoning.
The last summoning spell successfully summoned a magical creature with almost no risk, so Sean decided to continue using the same spell this time.
Standing in front of the summoning formation, Sean recited the spell again
"A nameless thing from the Atlanche world."
"Common objects, ordinary materials, can be used to accommodate the strange existence of matter."
"Use Graham's magic array to open the door to another world."
The crack in the space was opened again, and Sean stared at the crack, and a ball of things shrouded in the dark red light appeared and disappeared in the crack.
"In my name, Sean Forest."
"I call you to come to this world."
When the crack disappeared and the red light dissipated, the thing that appeared in front of Sean was much smaller than the last time.
It was a bronze bottle less than a foot tall, with complex patterns and ancient traces attached to them. There were two bottle ears on both sides of the bottle, which were quite exquisitely shaped.
"Nine, go and pick up the bottle."
After hearing this, No. 9 walked over and picked up the bottle with both hands.
"Okay, let it go."
Sean just wanted to see if it was dangerous to touch directly.
He walked over and picked up the bottle on the ground.
The bottle was light and seemed empty, but Sean did not dare to make a decisive judgment because the mouth of the bottle was sealed with red wax, and there was a strange mark on the cap, and a weottosnake was surrounded by a surrounding mark.
The snake's head wrapped around the bottle cap and bit his tail, looking lifelike.
This mark looks a bit like some kind of magic seal, which makes Sean feel a little alert.
He put his ear on the bottle and vaguely heard a strange gurgling sound in the bottle, something inside!
He knocked on the bottle a few times.
With a ding-dang block, the bottle also rang out from inside, as if something was responding to him.
Sean nodded, thinking that he was right that he guessed, and this mark should be some kind of seal.
That means that some supernatural existence is sealed here.
What would it be? Devil? Elf? Lamp God?
Just as he was thinking—
"Is anyone outside?"
A little girl's voice actually came from the bottle.
It sounds extremely immature, and it should be no more than ten years old.
Sean was surprised, but did not respond immediately. The sound of human speech came from the bottle, and it always felt a little strange.
"I know you're outside, can you help me open the bottle? I'm really embarrassed to say that my sister and I were playing hide-and-seek, but I was accidentally locked in the bottle. Can I open it for me?"
Sean was speechless when he heard this. This lies were too unprepared. "Such a small bottle? How did you get locked up?"
"This is a magic bottle." To the point of concise, Sean was not that easy to fool. He smiled slightly and asked an irrelevant question: "What is your sister's name?"
The bottle was silent, and after a while—"Misla."
"Does a name take so long? Or does it take time to edit it now?"
"I really didn't lie to you. Can you help me open the lid? Good brother, it's so dark here, I'm so scared." As he said that, a crying sound came from.
The little girl's crying voice should have been adorable, but at this moment, listening to the crying that came from the usual days in this quiet dungeon, Sean felt horrified.
"Man, if you can't make up a better argument, then I don't think we'll have anything to say."
The sound in the bottle stopped crying, and after a while, it turned into a thick and old voice.
"Hahaha, smart human, you did a good job. In fact, it was just a test just now. If you opened the bottle cap so easily, you will find that there is nothing inside.
But you showed enough caution, which is good, as a reward, I will fulfill one of your wishes, now open the bottle cap and receive your reward."
Sean smiled: "It's only one wish. Don't the devils usually fulfill three wishes?"
"Devil, no no no no no, you misunderstood. I am not a devil. I am Dijing. Have you never heard of the legend of Dijing?"
"Dijin? What the hell is that? It sounds like a devil's guise."
With the bottle in his hand, Sean thought of a similar story.
A story about a fisherman and a devil. A fisherman fished by the sea, caught a bottle, and after opening it, a devil was released. Of course, this devil may not be the devil in Western mythology, or it may also be the reference to some kind of monster.
The devil told the fisherman that he was originally a demon god, but because he made a mistake, he was sealed in a bottle and threw it into the sea.
Because of his desire for freedom, he vowed to give him endless wealth if anyone could release it.
As a result, after a hundred years, he still did not gain freedom.
So the devil swore again that if someone could release it, he would make that man king.
As a result, another hundred years have passed, and no one has come to release it.
So the devil swore again that if someone could release it, he would realize the three wishes of that person.
The result is still the same. A hundred years have passed, and the devil is still locked in a bottle.
Finally the devil was angry and swore that if someone let him go, he would eat the man—and then he was released by the fisherman.
The fisherman was very scared after hearing this, but he thought of a plan.
He told the devil that he did not believe that the devil was sealed in a small bottle, and that it must be fake.
In order to prove that he did not deceive the fisherman, the devil got into the bottle. The fisherman immediately closed the bottle and threw the bottle back into the sea...
Sean thought that the seal inside this thing would be that kind of thing, right?
He was silent here, but the sound in the bottle didn't know what he was thinking, and was still induced.
"Do you want three wishes? That's fine. Although it's a bit unruly, I can make an exception for you. Don't you want to get a wish? Think about the things you dream of, think about the dreams you will never get in your life, I can make you realize them, just unscrew the lid."
Sean smiled and said, "Brother, the more you hear this, the more you look like a devil."
"I am really not a devil, damn it. Don't compare me with those inferior creatures. Let me go out. I promise to fulfill your wish and will not be detrimental to you. This is my oath and my contract with you. You must know that Dijin cannot disobey the power of the contract."
"Who said this?"
"Um……"
Listening to the conversation between Sean and the voice in the bottle, Alhaz, who was beside him, couldn't help it.
"Shawn, I know we don't have a good relationship, but I think the guy in the bottle's words make sense, otherwise you can just let him out."
Sean looked in the mirror speechlessly, "Don't you think I'll listen to the advice of someone I killed?"
"No, I'm not trying to harm you, but actually I want you to do me a favor. Can one of the three wishes be resurrected? I've had enough of this ghost look now. As long as you can resurrect me, I'm willing to follow you and serve you from now on."
Alhaz said it very sincerely, but Sean didn't believe a word.
"So why don't you tell me what you are now and show your sincerity?"
Alhaz suddenly became anxious, "I don't know what's going on now, believe me, don't forget that you are the one who betrayed us."
Sean shrugged, "So what? You go and sue me."
He looked at the bottle in his hand. Perhaps there was a devil in it, and if he released it, he would kill himself.
Maybe if you keep Di Jing in check, you can fulfill your wishes.
In a sense, this thing is a Schrödinger's magic bottle, and no one knows what will happen before it is opened.
But it's about life and death, and he doesn't want to be Schrödinger's cat.
Sean was instantly determined to take the risk.
He thought about throwing it into the smelting furnace and refining, but then he thought, once the bottle was damaged when it was melted, would the things inside be released directly?
Thinking of this, this thing is really a very stubborn thing.
Of course he couldn't imitate the fisherman to throw the bottle into the sea. After thinking about it, it seemed that he could only lock it temporarily.
When you are strong enough, then consider whether to open it or go back to the library to check the information. The symbols on this bottle look familiar, and maybe you can find any clues in those ancient classics.
Thinking of this, Sean left the dungeon with the bottle, walked through the hall, and came to the basement on the other side of the castle.
There is a secret refuge deep in the basement. When building this ancient castle, it always designs some secret passages and secret rooms, and this castle is no exception.
Chapter completed!