Free? Free things are the most expensive! Zhou Mingrui muttered silently. He planned on firmly rejecting any additional services.
If you have the ability, divine that I'm a transmigrator!
With this in mind, Zhou Mingrui followed behind the woman with red butter-colored face and entered the low tent with his back bent.
It was extremely dark inside the tent. Only a little light seeped in, faintly illuminating a table filled with cards.
The woman in the pointed hat wasn't affected at all. Her black dress fluttered on water as she circled around the table and sat opposite him. She lit a candle.
The dim yellow light flickered, making the tent seem both bright and dark. Instantly, there was a sense of mystery.
Zhou Mingrui sat down without batting an eyelid. He swept his gaze across the tarot cards on the table and discovered familiar cards like Magicians, The Emperor, The Hanging Man, and Temperance.
Could Comrade Rosell really be a 'senior' … I wonder if he's from my hometown in the Foodie Empire … The corners of Zhou Mingrui's mouth twitched as he fell into a trance.
Before he could finish looking at the cards on the table, the woman who claimed to be very good at divination had already gathered all the tarot cards into a pile and pushed it in front of him.
"Shuffle and cut the cards," the fortune-teller from the circus said in a hoarse voice.
"Me?" Zhou Mingrui subconsciously asked.
The red butter-colored face of the fortune-teller squirmed as she revealed a faint smile.
"Of course, everyone's fate can only be divined by themselves. I'm only a reader."
Zhou Mingrui immediately asked warily,
"There's no extra charge for the interpretation, right?"
As a keyboard folklorist, I've seen many such tricks!
The fortune-teller was visibly stunned. After a while, he said in a muffled tone,
"It's free."
Zhou Mingrui relaxed and stuffed the revolver into his pocket. Then, he calmly extended his palms and skillfully shuffled and cut the cards.
"Done." He placed the tarot cards in the middle of the table.
The fortune-teller clasped her hands and looked at the cards seriously.
Without hesitation, she said, "Sorry, I forgot to ask. What do you want to divine?"
Back when he was chasing after his first love, Zhou Mingrui had also studied tarot cards. He said without hesitation,
Without hesitation, he said, "Past, present, and future."
This was a form of tarot card divination. The three cards were arranged in order, symbolizing the past, present, and future respectively.
The fortune-teller nodded, then his lips curled up into a smile.
"Then please shuffle the cards again. Only when you understand what you want to ask will you be able to shuffle the cards that are truly symbolic."
You were playing with me just now … Do you have to be so stingy? Didn't I keep emphasizing that it was free … The muscles on Zhou Mingrui's face twitched. He took a deep breath, took back the tarot card, and shuffled and cut the cards again.
"No problem this time, right?" He put the cut cards on the table.
"No more." The soothsayer reached out and picked up a card from the top. He placed it on Zhou Mingrui's left and said in a husky voice, "This card represents the past."
"This represents the present." The clairvoyant placed the second card in front of Zhou Mingrui. ,
She picked up the third card and placed it on Zhou Mingrui's right.
"This one symbolizes the future."
"Alright, which card do you want to see first?" The fortune-teller raised his head and looked at Zhou Mingrui with his grayish-blue eyes.
"Let's look at the 'present,'" Zhou Mingrui said after some thought.
The fortune-teller nodded slowly and flipped over the card in front of him.
The card depicted a young man dressed in gorgeous clothes and a gorgeous headdress. He carried a cane on his shoulder with a piece of luggage hanging from the end of the cane. Behind him was a puppy. The serial number was "0."
"The Fool." The fortune-teller read out the card softly, his grayish-blue eyes fixed on Zhou Mingrui.
The Fool? Tarot number zero? The beginning? A beginning that encompasses all possibilities? Zhou Mingrui wasn't even a beginner tarot enthusiast. He could only make a superficial interpretation based on his impressions.
Just as the fortune-teller was about to speak, the tent flap was suddenly lifted. Strong sunlight shone in, causing Zhou Mingrui to instinctively narrow his eyes.
"Why are you pretending to be me again! It's my job to divine for others! "a female voice bellowed angrily." Go back! Remember, you're just a beast-tamer! "
Beast-Tamer? Zhou Mingrui adjusted to the light and saw a woman wearing the same pointy hat, black dress, and red butter paint at the door. However, she was taller and thinner.
The woman sitting in front of him quickly stood up and said unhappily, "Don't mind me.
I just like this. I have to say, sometimes, my divination and interpretation are quite accurate. Really … "
As she spoke, she lifted the hem of her dress, walked around the table, and quickly left the tent.
The real fortune-teller looked at Zhou Mingrui and asked with a smile, "Sir, do you need me to interpret it for you?"
Zhou Mingrui's lips twitched as he asked sincerely,
"Is it free?"
"… No," the real fortune-teller replied.
"Then forget it." Zhou Mingrui put his hand back into his pocket, pressed down on his revolver and notes, and bent over to walk out of the tent.
Seriously, he actually found a beast-tamer to do tarot divination!
Isn't a beast-tamer who doesn't want to be a seer a good clown?
Zhou Mingrui quickly threw the matter to the back of his mind. At the Lettuce and Meat market, he spent seven pence to buy a pound of lamb that wasn't that good. He also bought tender peas, cabbage, onions, potatoes, and other items. Together with the bread from before, he spent a total of twenty-five copper pence, which was two soli a penny.
"He really can't stop spending money. Poor Benson …" Not only did Zhou Mingrui lose the two notes he had brought out, but he also lost the penny he had in his pocket.
He casually sighed, stopped thinking about it, and hurriedly returned home.
With the staple food, he could carry out the luck enhancement ritual!
…
After the tenants on the second floor left, Zhou Mingrui wasn't in a hurry to carry out the ritual. Instead, he first translated the words "Blessings Stem From The Immortal of Heaven and Earth" into ancient Feysac and Rouen. He planned on trying again in the local language the next day if the original incantation didn't work!
After all, he had to consider the fact that the two worlds were different. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
As for translating it into Hermes, which was used for ancient prayers and sacrifices, Zhou Mingrui found it difficult to complete it due to his lack of vocabulary.
After doing all of this, he took out four loaves of rye bread from the paper bag. He placed one in the corner where the coal stove used to be, one at the bottom of the mirror, one at the top of the cupboard where the two walls intersected, and one at the junk pile to the right of the desk.
Taking a deep breath, Zhou Mingrui came to the middle of the room and calmed himself for a few minutes. Then, he solemnly took a step forward and walked counterclockwise in a square.
With the first step, he chanted softly,
"Blessings Stem From The Immortal of Heaven and Earth."
The second step, he sincerely chanted in his heart,
"Blessings Stem From The Heavenly Lord of Heaven and Earth."
The third step, Zhou Mingrui held his breath and whispered,
"Blessings Stem From The Emperor of Heaven and Earth."
The fourth step, he exhaled a turbid breath and chanted in his heart,
"Blessings Stem From The Heavenly Lord of Heaven and Earth."
After returning to his position, Zhou Mingrui closed his eyes and waited for the results. He felt anticipation, unease, hope, and fear.
Can I go back?
Will there be any effects?
Will there be any accidents?
The darkness in front of him was dyed crimson by the light. Thoughts surged through Zhou Mingrui's mind, and he found it difficult to calm down.
At that moment, he suddenly felt the air around him stop flowing, becoming thick and strange.
Following that, he heard murmurs that were sometimes dense, sometimes sharp, sometimes illusory, sometimes alluring, sometimes manic, and sometimes crazy.
Despite not understanding what the murmurs were saying, Zhou Mingrui couldn't help but listen and decipher them.
His head hurt again, as though he had been stabbed with a steel drill.
Zhou Mingrui felt like his head was about to explode, and his thoughts were dyed with hallucinatory colors.
He knew that something was wrong and tried his best to open his eyes, but he couldn't complete this simple action.
His entire body tensed up, as though it could snap at any moment. Zhou Mingrui inexplicably had a self-deprecating thought.
"You won't die if you don't court death …"
He couldn't take it anymore. Just as the string in his mind was about to snap, the murmurs of countless voices receded. The surroundings became very quiet, and the atmosphere was rather ethereal.
It wasn't just the atmosphere. Zhou Mingrui felt that his body was similarly ethereal.
He tried to open his eyes again. This time, it was very easy.
The pervasive gray fog reflected in his eyes. It was hazy, blurry, and boundless.
"What's going on?" Zhou Mingrui looked around in shock. He then lowered his head and realized that he was floating at the edge of a boundless gray fog.
The gray fog flowed like water, dotted with crimson "stars." Some of them were very large, while others were tiny. Some were hidden in the depths, while others floated on the surface.
Looking at this holographic scene, Zhou Mingrui reached out his right hand in a half-puzzled and half-exploratory manner. He tried to touch a crimson "star" floating on the surface to his right in search of a way to leave.
Just as his finger touched the surface of the star, water ripples suddenly surged out from his body, causing the "crimson" star to erupt like a dreamy firework.
Zhou Mingrui jumped in fright and retracted his right hand in a panic, accidentally touching another "crimson" star.
Thus, the "star" also shone brightly.
Zhou Mingrui felt his head go blank and his mind go blank.
...
In a luxurious villa in Empress Borough, Baekeland, the capital of the Rouen Kingdom.
Audrey Hall sat in front of a dressing table, stroking the bronze mirror with ancient patterns and cracks on its surface.
"Magic mirror, magic mirror, wake up …"
"In the name of the Hall family, I order you to wake up!"
…
She changed her words one after another, but the mirror didn't respond.
After more than ten minutes, she finally chose to give up. She pursed her lips and muttered,
She pursed her lips and muttered softly, "Dad was indeed lying to me. He always tells me that this mirror is a treasure of the ancient Solomon Empire's Dark Emperor and that it's an extraordinary item …"
Before she could finish her sentence, the bronze mirror on the table suddenly emitted a crimson light that enveloped her.
...
On the Sonia Sea, a three-masted sailboat that was clearly behind the times was sailing through a storm.
Alger Wilson stood on the deck, his body bobbing up and down as he easily maintained his balance.
He wore a long robe embroidered with lightning patterns and held a strange-looking glass bottle in his hand. Bubbles sometimes tumbled inside, frost sometimes gathered into snow, and sometimes there were traces of wind blowing.
"I'm still short of the Ghost Shark's blood …" Alger whispered.
At this moment, a crimson light erupted between the glass bottle and his palm, instantly drowning the surroundings.
...
Above the grayish-white fog, Audrey Hall regained her vision and looked around in horror and confusion. She saw that the man with a blurry head and hazy figure diagonally opposite her was doing something similar.
Following that, they almost simultaneously noticed a mysterious man shrouded in grayish-white fog standing not far away.
The mysterious man, Zhou Mingrui, was also dumbfounded.
"Sir, where is this?"
"What do you want to do?"
Audrey and Alger were stunned at first and fell into silence. Then, they spoke in unison.
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