book of old days

Chapter 162 The Fisherman and the Devil

"So, this is your method, using a large-scale sample for controlled observation..."

Alhaz in the mirror said thoughtfully.

Sean smiled and said, "Of course, why, beyond your expectations?"

"Indeed, if it were me, I might not be able to resist drinking it when I observed that No. [-] was not harmed."

"If it was you, you might have just drank it the first time."

"Hmph, I was a little impulsive, but I'm not that stupid."

"If you weren't so stupid, you wouldn't be hiding in a mirror talking to me now."

"You—" Alhaz's face turned blue and black, obviously a bit off guard.

Xiao En ignored him, instead he was happy in his heart, telling you to scare me and keep pestering me to see who is torturing whom.

He sent the four dwarfs in the reference group back to rest, and took the rest of the dwarves into the dungeon again.

Get ready for a new round of calling today.

The last summoning spell successfully summoned a magic wonder, and there was almost no risk, so Sean decided to continue using the same spell this time.

Standing in front of the summoning circle, Sean recited that spell again
"An ordinary thing from the world of Atlanta."

"Common objects and ordinary materials can be used to contain the strange existence of matter."

"Use Graham's magic circle to open the door to another world."

The rift in the space was opened again, Xiao En stared at the rift, a mass of dark red light shrouded in the rift loomed.

"In my name, Sean Forrest."

"I summon you to come into this world."

When the crack disappeared and the red light dissipated, what appeared in front of Xiao En was much smaller than last time.

It was a bronze bottle less than one foot high, with complicated patterns and ancient traces. There were two ears on both sides of the bottle, and the shape was quite exquisite.

"Nine, go get the bottle."

After hearing this, No. [-] walked over and held the bottle in both hands.

"Okay, let it go."

Sean just wanted to see if it would be dangerous to touch it directly.

He walked over and picked up the bottle on the ground.

The bottle is very light and seems to be empty, but Sean doesn't dare to make a decisive judgment, because the mouth of the bottle is sealed with red wax, and there is a strange mark on the cap, and there is a piece of mouthpiece around the mark. snake.

The snake's head circled around the bottle cap and bit its own tail, looking lifelike.

This imprint looked a bit like some kind of magic seal, which made Xiao En unavoidably vigilant.

He put his ears on the bottle, and vaguely heard a weird gurgling sound in the bottle, there is something in it!
Clang, he knocked on the bottle a few times.

Dangdang blocked, the bottle also rang from inside, as if something inside was responding to him.

Xiao En nodded, and said in his heart that his guess was indeed correct, this imprint should be some kind of seal.

That means that some kind of supernatural existence is sealed inside.

What could it be?devil?Elf?Djinn?
While he was thinking—

"Excuse me, is there anyone outside?"

A little girl's voice came out of the bottle.

It sounds extremely immature, and the voice should be no more than ten years old.

Sean was taken aback, but he didn't respond immediately. Human voices came from the bottle, which always felt a little weird.

"I know you're outside, can you do me a favor and open the bottle? I'm really embarrassed to say it. My sister and I were playing hide-and-seek, but we were accidentally locked in the bottle. Can you open it for me?"

Sean was a little speechless after hearing this, and the nonsense made up was too low-level, "Such a small bottle? How did you get locked in it?"

"This is a magic bottle." The words were concise, but Sean was not so easy to fool. He smiled slightly and asked an irrelevant question: "What's your sister's name?"

There was silence in the bottle, and after a while——"Mystra."

"Does it take so long to think about a name? Or does it take time to make it up now?"

"I really didn't lie to you, can you open the lid for me, good brother, it's so dark in here, I'm so scared." As he spoke, there was a crying sound.

The little girl's crying sound should have been endearing, but at this moment in this silent dungeon, listening to the usual crying, Xiao En only felt horrified.

"Man, if you can't make up a better story, then I don't think we've got anything to say."

The voice in the bottle stopped crying, and after a while, it turned into a thick and old voice.

"Hehehe, smart human being, you did a good job, in fact, it was just a test, if you opened the bottle cap so easily, you would find that there was nothing inside.

But you showed enough caution, that's good, as a reward, I will fulfill one of your wishes, now open the bottle cap, and receive your reward. "

Xiao En chuckled: "It's only one wish, don't ordinary devils grant three wishes?"

"Devil, no, no, no, no, you misunderstood. I am not a devil. I am Dijing. Haven't you heard of the legend of Dijing?"

"Dijing? What the hell is that? It sounds like a devil in disguise."

Resting the bottle in his hand, Sean thought of a similar story.

A story about a fisherman and a devil. A fisherman was fishing on the seashore, and he caught a bottle. After opening it, a devil was released from it—of course, this devil may not be the devil in western myths and legends, or it may be some kind of monster. On behalf of that.

The devil told the fisherman that he was originally a demon god, but because of a mistake, he was sealed in a bottle and thrown into the sea.

Desiring to be free, he swore to give him untold riches if anyone could set it free.

As a result, 100 years later, he still has not been freed.

Then the devil swore again that if anyone could set him free, he would make that person king.

As a result, another 100 years have passed, and no one has released it.

So the devil swore again that if someone could release it, he would fulfill that person's three wishes.

The result is still the same, 100 years later, the devil is still in the bottle.

At last the devil got angry, and he swore that if anyone set him free, he would eat him—and he was set free by the fisherman.

The fisherman was very frightened after hearing this, but he thought of a plan.

He told the devil that he didn't believe that the devil was so big that he could be sealed in a small bottle, it must be false.

In order to prove that he did not deceive the fisherman, the devil got into the bottle, and the fisherman immediately closed the bottle and threw it back into the sea...

Xiao En thought in his heart that the seal inside this thing must be that kind of thing, right?
He was silent here, but the voice in the bottle didn't know what he was thinking, and was still guiding him.

"Do you want three wishes? That's fine too. Although it's a bit against the rules, I can make an exception for you. Don't you want to get your wishes? Think about the things you dream of, think about the dreams you can't get in your life , I can make it happen for you, just unscrew the lid."

Sean smiled and said, "Brother, the more you sound, the more you sound like a devil."

"I'm really not a devil, damn it, don't compare me with those lower creatures, let me out, I promise to fulfill your wish, and I won't do you any harm, this is my oath, it's between me and you The contract, you must know that Dijing cannot defy the power of the contract."

"Who said that?"

"Um……"

Hearing Sean's conversation with the voice in the bottle, Alhaz couldn't help it.

"Sean, I know we don't have a good relationship, but I think what the guy in the bottle said makes sense, or you can just let him out."

Sean looked at the mirror speechlessly, "You don't think I will listen to the advice of a person I killed, do you?"

"No, I don't want to hurt you. Actually, I want you to do me a favor. Can one of the three wishes revive me? I've had enough of this ghostly state. As long as you can revive me, I'm willing to live forever." I will follow you and serve you in the future.”

Alhaz said very earnestly, but Xiao En didn't believe a single word.

"Then why don't you tell me what you are now and show your sincerity?"

Alhaz became anxious immediately, "I don't know what's going on with me now, trust me, don't forget, you are the one who betrayed me between the two of us."

Sean shrugged, "So what? You should sue me."

He looked at the bottle in his hand, there might be a devil in this bottle, and if he released it, he would kill himself.

Maybe shutting down Di Jing can fulfill one's wish.

In a sense, this thing is a Schrödinger's magic bottle, and no one knows what will happen until it is opened.

But it was a matter of life and death, and he didn't want to be that Schrödinger's cat.

Sean made up his mind in an instant, never taking this risk.

He thought about throwing it into the smelting furnace for smelting, but then he thought, if the bottle is broken during smelting, will the contents be released directly?
Thinking about it this way, this thing is really a tricky thing.

Of course, he couldn't follow the fisherman's example of throwing the bottle into the sea. After thinking about it, it seemed that he could only lock it up temporarily.

When you are strong enough, you can think about whether to open it, or go back to the library to check the information. The symbols on the bottle look familiar. Maybe you can find some clues in those ancient books.

Thinking of this, Sean took the bottle and left the dungeon, walked through the hall, and came to the basement on the other side of the castle.

There is a secret refuge in the depths of the basement. When this kind of ancient castle is built, some secret passages and secret rooms are always designed, and this castle is no exception.

It was supposed to be used as a refuge, but Sean decided to use it as a storage room to seal these dangerous magic items.

(End of this chapter)