Chapter 625: Punishment of Equivalent Exchange
The moment he stepped onto the film and entered the passage, Zhou Qing felt an inexplicable warmth and the air was quite humid.
Then——
At first he was extremely narrow, but only then did he understand people.
After walking for dozens of steps, he suddenly became enlightened.
Walking out of the passage, Zhou Qing felt suddenly enlightened. Every cell in his body seemed to be cheering for joy, as if he had returned to the place where he was born.
[Strictly speaking, this space seems to have really evolved from Namichi's womb? ]
After such a strange thought inexplicably emerged in his mind, Zhou Qing immediately shook his head and looked at the peculiar buildings in the village to divert his attention.
"Excuse me, what is the name of this village?"
"Nami Village."
Miss Clock introduced everyone, "Ribbitna, now the Bunny Girl, should have told you about Namichi, right? Since we all live in Namichi's body, this village, also called Nami Village, is a worship of Namichi."
On the streets, the alien creatures, whose body shapes are very different from those of humans, still have the same basic cognition as humans, and they even engage in barter trade with each other.
"Isn't there currency here?" Romantina took out a gold soul coin.
"Gold coins, I haven't seen them for many years."
Mr. Watch stared at the gold coin in Romantina's hand with his one eye, then took out a ball of silver silk thread from his backpack, "Can I trade this with you? This is jade silk, a silk thread spit out by a kind of silkworm that has become extinct in the Abyss Ruins. It can ward off fire. If you can find a branch of the Phoenix Wutong tree, then I can also help you make a soul guide prop that can control fire for free."
Phoenix sycamore?
Romantina really exists!
But she still wanted to ask first: "Do you know Feng Wutong?"
"In the myths and legends of Abyss, there is a story about the Phoenix-Phoenix Tree. The jade silkworm is different from other silkworms. It does not eat mulberry leaves, but instead eats Phoenix-Phoenix Tree leaves. It spits out jade silk, which can strengthen the fire of the Phoenix-Phoenix Tree and thus help the Phoenix to be reborn."
Mr. Watch explained, "Legend has it that after the phoenix died, it was reborn in the phoenix sycamore tree. Because the phoenix sycamore tree was cut down, it could not be reborn. However, the rhizome of the phoenix sycamore tree still exists in the world. As long as it is combined with jade silk, it can be reborn... However, this is definitely false. However, with jade silk and phoenix sycamore as the main materials, it is indeed possible to create an offensive soul guide that can release high-temperature flames."
"Then I'll make a deal with you."
Romantina agreed.
As the words fell, the gold soul coin in Romantina's hand automatically floated up and exchanged positions with the ball of jade silk in Mr. Watch's hand.
During the whole process, no one present noticed the slightest fluctuation of soul power, as if the jade silk and gold soul coins had completed the exchange autonomously.
"Is this the rule of equivalent exchange?" Zhou Qing was very curious.
"Yes."
The person who answered was Miss Zhong, "In this space, do not agree to trade with other aliens at will. Once the transaction is completed, even if you don't want to pay, the rules here will forcibly strip you of what you agreed to.
It is best not to play games with words, otherwise the rules cannot be accurately judged and will directly deprive you of the valuable things that the rules believe you have.
In this case, the rules do not recognize anything you carry with you, except your own property, that is, your body and its organs.”
exactly.
Not far from the crowd, there was a huge soul-guided alien being doing business.
The soul-guided mutant had a humanoid shape, with pits and rust on its surface, completely different from the smooth skin of the clock trio. In front of him, there were a lot of strange things randomly piled up: rusty kitchen knives, strange stones, the flesh and blood of unknown animals, the fruits of unknown plants, etc.
From Zhou Qing's perspective, these items seemed to have no value.
But the rest of the beast-type and soul-guided aliens crowded together, using their claws, tentacles, and even mouths to grab, entangle, or hold up what they wanted, and paid their "value" - eyes, mouths, teeth, kidneys, etc. - to the tall soul-guided alien.
They are all body organs!
When the transaction was completed, these body organs, under the "rules", took the initiative to separate from the bodies of these alienated beings and fell in front of the soul-guided alienated being.
The other party also accepted everything, whether it was flesh, blood, organs, or mechanical arms, all were put into the huge steel basket behind him.
Miss Zhong used this as an example and said to Zhou Qing and others: "As you have seen, if you play word games in a transaction, the rule is to directly remove your body organs and give them to the transaction partner based on the value required by the other party.
We are alienated bodies, and we will not die if we lose our organs.
Beast-type mutants can grow back lost organs by eating the flesh and blood of other creatures; soul-guided mutants, like us, can also assimilate specific metal minerals to repair lost parts.
But it’s different for you. If you lose any organ, you will bleed profusely, and if you don’t receive timely treatment, you will die directly.”
Watching the various organs detaching from the bodies of the mutants, Zhou Qing, Romantina, Dugu Bo and Rico all felt physically uncomfortable.
The bunny girl, on the other hand, perhaps had seen even more disgusting scenes than this, and looked indifferent.
"Hey, newcomer!"
At this time, the giant soul-guided mutant had already reaped a full harvest, so it carefully squeezed out from the group of mutants surrounding it, for fear of hurting them.
"This guy walks a little funny." Romantina couldn't help laughing when she saw him swaying from side to side as he walked.
But Miss Clock has another explanation.
It turns out that the scope of equal exchange also includes "harm". If someone hurts others, even if it is accidental, the rules will forcibly deprive the perpetrator of his or her organs to compensate the injured person.
"It's a bit outrageous." Dugu Bo complained.
"really."
Zhou Qing also agreed.
In the world of soul masters, there is indeed mutual restraint among soul masters' martial arts abilities, but in the final analysis, the strength of most soul masters is still judged based on factors such as soul power level, combat experience and qualities.
But in this space, the ability of "equivalent exchange" is already close to a conceptual rule, and I'm afraid no existence below level 100 can forcibly disobey it.
Apart from Namichi's own resentment, the thing that created this strange rule is the "heart of dreams" that can realize wishes.
Namiqi's first dream is to have a child...
The Heart of Dreams helped her realize her dream, but the way it was realized was different from what normal people imagined. The child was not in human form and could only live for one day. Even on the fourth level, her child became food for all the villagers in Nami Village before he died.
Now, these former explorers have also become mutants and lost most of their memories... Perhaps this is the punishment for eating Namichi's children...
(End of this chapter)
