Listening to Jessica's question, Feng Xue shook his head:
"Madam, please use your brain before asking questions. Then you will find how funny the questions you ask are."
"What do you mean?" When Jessica heard Feng Xue's obviously sarcastic words, her face was a little ugly. However, due to the "rareness" of the person in front of her, she still did not speak out immediately, but Start thinking about what exactly is wrong with your problem.
Then she realized her mistake——
The demon in front of him who calls himself "Trading" and the demon he calls "Cooking" have a common characteristic, that is, they do not show intuitive desires themselves, but are more inclined to make humans have desires.
So if there really is a raging demon, his behavior should be "angry", rather than like a religious terrorist who bombs churches everywhere.
If you think about it this way, the person who bombed the church is indeed of a much lower level. No wonder the other party became thorny in the conversation after hearing this question.
Although she is a wealthy daughter, Jessica has traveled around for several years and knows how to deal with people. She immediately apologized:
"Sorry, my question is indeed a bit out of my mind."
"It doesn't matter." Feng Xue waved his hand, but found that this woman seemed to be thinking about the seven deadly sins intentionally or unintentionally. But once it is linked to such a big proposition, the difficulty of becoming a ghost story will increase exponentially, so he He immediately waved his hands as if he didn't care, and then added——
"By the way, 'cooking' and 'trading' are not jobs, but hobbies. After all, we are all colleagues. Just like a group of reporters give each other code names, they will not use 'reporter' as their code name."
"I see." When Jessica heard this, she thought of the rumor about the "Devil Chef" saying something like "eat something good after work."
In other words, does the other party really not have the seven deadly sins?
Jessica, who was slightly disappointed, but then took it for granted, readjusted her mentality and continued to ask:
"You said it's a hobby. In other words, Mr. Cooking likes to cook, and you like to make deals with people?"
Feng Xue did not answer this, and Jessica just regarded it as acquiescence, and then continued:
"Then tell me, why did you distribute those 'inferior imitations' you called them before?"
"Because the power possessed by genuine products can easily be abused." Feng Xue replied matter-of-factly, and Jessica recalled the situation where she even got stuck in changing clothes in order to keep quiet. She couldn't help but nodded in agreement, but at the same time, I cursed in my heart - this didn't sound like the answer given by a devil at all.
However, she did not say these words because she still remembered that the other party did not seem to like the term "devil".
After sorting out her thoughts for a while, Jessica began to think about whether there was any more exciting topic.
After all, although the content of the questions asked so far is considered secret, it is not enough to arouse the "interest" of readers. In this information age, it is no longer like a hundred years ago, publishing a royal recipe in a newspaper can arouse readers' interest. interest.
She needs something more explosive!
However, the story of the Devil's Coin itself is no different from those stories about righteous thieves and killers, except that it happened in reality. Even in terms of the incident itself, it is not as popular as fictional stories.
Of course, as an exclusive interview with Mr. Devil, there must be some popularity, but she couldn't prove that she really did an exclusive interview, rather than just imagining a "setting" out of thin air.
"Wait, a hundred years ago?" Jessica suddenly sat up straight, and she remembered what the other party had said before.
Those few lines of Sherlock Holmes' famous sayings engraved on the number side of genuine coins seem to be the motto of a century-old organization?
"What was that organization you mentioned earlier? Do they still exist?"
Hearing Jessica's question, Feng Xue finally breathed a sigh of relief. He immediately picked up the valuable-looking porcelain cup and took a sip of water. Then he clasped his hands on the table and said in a "I have a story, Do you have any wine?" he said in a tone of voice:
"'Libra', you can call it, as to whether it still exists now... This is also something I want to know, so I will spread those imitations, but unfortunately, it seems that they have indeed disappeared."
"Libra...an organization I've never heard of." As a member of a wealthy family in Victoria, Jessica learned about many secret organizations from her father and brother. While going on various adventures, she also learned many secrets and legends from those explorers. , but she has never heard of this name, but there is no doubt that it should be related to the scale on the "Devil Coin" with gold on one end and heart on the other.
"This is a... well, you can think of it as an 'assassin' organization. Although I don't want to use this word derived from narcotics (referring to Assassin) to refer to it, but this organization is indeed a group that trades human lives."
Feng Xue told the story he had prepared long ago. This was originally a story he planned to spread through the Internet after the issuance of the "new currency". However, if it could be published in newspapers and periodicals, the weight might be different.
Listening to Feng Xue's deep words, Jessica was also aroused, pretending to be listening attentively, and even checked the recorder to confirm whether it was still working normally.
And Feng Xue did not show off, but said slowly in a "Victorian legendary narrator" style tone (the kind of reciting feeling at the beginning of The Lord of the Rings, The Dark Dungeon, and Elden's Ring):
"More than a hundred years ago, an archaeological team discovered an ancient Sargon ruins. The scale of the ruins far exceeded their imagination. At that time, archeology was actually no different from tomb robbing. In order to compete with the official and other Their peers competed for time, so they chose to hire a group of laborers to excavate the outer layers.”
Having said this, Feng Xue's lips curled up in a mocking arc:
"Of course, a young lady like you might not understand what the labor force represented at that time."
"I also studied history!" Jessica heard this and immediately retorted, "The labor you are talking about should be 'quasi-slaves' defrauded and sold in the name of 'indentured labor' from underdeveloped countries and colonies during the colonial era. Bar?"
"That's right." Feng Xue nodded lightly, but did not say more about the labor issue, but continued his story——
"During the excavation process, a certain team discovered a heavily weathered metal box with a scale pattern. Inside the box was a palm-sized text in ancient Yan language, ancient Sargon language, and Aztec ( Azct's country was destroyed, so there are no metal plates carved with three characters in the ancient language..."
“You must know that the composition of the labor force is very complex. There are poor farmers and fishermen from the Yan Kingdom, Aztec survivors from Colombia, and of course the indigenous people of Sargon...
“Those called intermediary companies, who are actually slave owners, will mix workers from different regions and countries together to facilitate management, making it difficult for them to communicate with each other.
"In this case, the relationship between the labor teams is often quite unfamiliar, and naturally there is no tacit understanding. Even if they dig up some treasures, they can't even communicate or divide the spoils. This is why the archaeological team dares to hand over the excavation work to Reasons given to labor.”
At this point, Feng Xue suddenly stopped talking, picked up the porcelain cup and took a sip of water, but Jessica couldn't wait to ask:
"Did this team keep the secret? Did they hide something?"
I think the judgment of coins is very clear. The person who proposes the transaction is Party A, and the person who accepts the transaction is Party B. You can bring this relationship into the reality of Party A’s father and Party B’s wage earner.
First of all, as a wage earner, your reason for rejecting a customer's order can only be "getting the price" (that is, the price is not enough), not "I don't want to take it."
Secondly, the price can only be determined based on Party A’s needs. Just like when a company negotiates a project, you can ask Party A to increase money on the grounds that Party A’s needs are too complex, the cost of materials has increased, or the technology is difficult, but you cannot. Asking Party A to increase money in the name of "our project team's salary has not been paid for several months", "I need to save money to marry a wife", etc.
Of course, if Party A "deliberately" lets you work when your wife is about to give birth, you can ask for extra money, and the difference lies in whether Party A has this intention.
That is, it depends on whether the order is "you make this for me" or "you make this for me when your wife gives birth to the baby."
That's why I said "Coin only considers Party A".
Because Jessica had no intention of cheating the protagonist and didn't even know that he was being hunted, the order was just to "go home" instead of "go home at the risk of being caught", so the coin determined that the protagonist would accept the order. , so the transaction is established.
(End of chapter)
