OBS Chapter 3549 God's Gold Coins (Seeking votes at the end of the month)
Chapter 3549 God's Gold Coins (Seeking votes at the end of the month)
Chapter 3549 God's Gold Coins (Seeking votes at the end of the month)
As people age, their sleep time tends to decrease, so Mr. Smith, like Shad, goes downstairs around 6:50 every day. He asked Shad if he would participate in this year's citywide riding competition, and then they chatted about the rumored gas price increase.
Even the former First Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, now retired and at home, is no different from any other elderly person. As for the gas price increase in Tobeske, it's said to be to address energy consumption issues during wartime. Of course, there hasn't been a price increase yet; this is just the city hall releasing a rumor to prepare the citizens.
When Shad said goodbye to Mr. Smith and went upstairs, he didn't forget to take the "Gift Box of God" up with him. So, Mia, who was going downstairs by herself, ended up being carried upstairs by Shad into the box.
Dorothy and Luvia, who were preparing breakfast for everyone in the restaurant, noticed that Shad was about to collect his gifts after receiving the milk and goat's milk from him.
So Dorothy, amidst the crackling of the gas stove in front of her, said in a very soft voice:
"Now we finally understand why Shad has been able to be identified as a child by this artifact."
Luvia understood she was referring to the "two-year-old" thing, glanced sideways at Shad in the living room who seemed to be praying for good luck, then picked up the salt shaker:
"Right now, it seems that only Shad himself, Daniste, Lacey, you, and I know about this, right?"
"That's probably true. Shad himself wouldn't say it casually; he doesn't want to put any pressure on anyone, and he hasn't even investigated his own background yet. As for the four of us... Luvia, you probably wouldn't dare admit what you did, right?"
Dorothy nudged Luvia's arm with her elbow as she spoke, and the fortune teller retorted with a mocking tone:
"First of all, the account in that book may not be accurate. Anything strange could happen when it comes to Shad. Secondly, do you dare admit that?"
So barring any unforeseen circumstances, Xia De's true age will likely remain a secret from others for a long time to come.
Shad was unaware of the girls' morning conversation. As usual, he offered a casual prayer, then solemnly touched Mia before earnestly reaching into the gift box.
"What will it be this time? Why isn't it there anymore! It's at the bottom!"
A gold coin was taken out of the box by Shad, and Xiaomia immediately came over and sniffed it.
This gold coin is slightly smaller than a one-pound alloy coin, and its material appears to be pure gold. It is no ordinary item; it possesses a miraculous element, though not particularly powerful. One side of the coin features the emblem of the Old God, the Creator of Innocence, surrounded by a wreath of flowers, while the other side displays a strange image of the number "1" wearing a clown hat.
"Oh? A divine item from the [Creator of Innocence]? The task is to complete three solo shopping trips this week... Does the gold coin come with an instruction manual?"
Shad reached into the box again, but unfortunately, no instructions appeared. He flicked the gleaming gold coin, wondering if it might have some kind of effect like "randomly obtaining a toy after consumption."
The cult of this ancient god has disappeared, a fact Shad confirmed two years ago in the underground ruins of Tobesk, so he had no chance to ask anyone what it was.
Just then, the girls called Shad and Mia to breakfast, so Shad handed them the gold coin at the table to check, while he himself began to peruse the letters:
"The bills at the beginning of the month, bills, bills, advertising letters, bills, advertisements, huh? A letter from Professor Manning—nothing, he's just asking if I'm going to the private cocktail party for the history professors at the end of the month."
A letter from Ms. Marilyn Handel? Let me see what it says. They found an antique coin and are asking if I know how to retrieve it.
Letters delivered through ordinary channels certainly cannot use words like "relics," so the "antique coins" mentioned in Ms. Handel and Joey Barton's letters were actually the coins that Shad needed.
"Where are they now?"
Dorothy asked, while Luvia played with the gold coin while eating breakfast.
"They sent a letter at the end of the year saying they would be spending the holiday there, not far from Randall Valley. It seems they've run into some trouble and haven't left yet. I'll have Vanessa's followers go and fetch it for them."
Shad stroked the cat, which was drinking goat's milk with its head down, and then saw that the address on the last letter was a familiar small town on the eastern coast of the North:
"It's the beginning of the month, and this is a letter from Miss Gaode."
Before the year-end holidays, the beautiful blonde lady visited No. 6 St. Teresa's Square again, and Shad finally saw her face. She had already returned to her hometown by the end of the year. The unusual weather this winter had also affected the small town on the east coast of the Old World, so Miss God had no free time after returning home, except for the holidays.
Now that the plague in the town has largely subsided, she continues to organize a team to explore the secrets her family left behind. The exploration of the abandoned courtyard, rumored to be haunted by "vampires," has yielded results. The harsh winter weather has significantly reduced the number of strange blood-sucking mosquitoes in the courtyard, allowing her hired mercenaries to successfully enter the labyrinthine depths of the courtyard.
After defeating a crocodile of unknown origin, the exploration team found an ancient female corpse in the blood-red rose bushes in the courtyard.
The corpse was extremely large. Although its old-fashioned clothes looked new, the body itself was severely dehydrated and mummified. Miss Gao said the church had already disposed of the corpse; there was no need to keep such remnants from ancient times, and it was better to destroy it.
She has no plans to leave the town anytime soon. In the year and a half since returning to her fallen family's ancestral home, the town's infrastructure has been largely restored. Next, she plans to recruit more mercenaries, absorb more outsiders to bolster the town's strength, and explore as much as possible the secrets of the abandoned areas left behind by her family.
"Miss Gao said, 'Ancient means secret, and secret means power and knowledge.' She's quite enthusiastic. I wonder when she'll visit again."
As he spoke, Shad placed the letter and the banknotes inside aside, intending to store them in his study after breakfast. Shad kept all of Miss Gord's letters together, and except for the initial time when he was short of money, he also kept the 10-pound notes that the lady later sent with her letters, keeping them with the letters.
He didn't intend to return the money to the lady; he simply thought that the banknotes, like the letters, were very meaningful and collectible.
As for the gold coin that Shad pulled out, which was clearly a divine artifact, neither Luvia nor Dorothy noticed anything amiss. However, considering that the god who loved creating toys for children had a history of helping Shad through the "Gift Box of God," they also believed that this gold coin would play a significant role in the future.
Although Luvia's "special divination" could also consume this special intangible cultural heritage coin—although the effect wasn't particularly good—she instructed that this coin be kept safe:
"The help that deity extends is always unexpected, yet very useful. I wonder what will happen this time."
After breakfast, Shad kissed Luvia and Dorothy goodbye before beginning his day's activities.
"Mia, want to go out together?"
"Meow~"
"Okay, I'll come back at noon and prepare lunch for you."
The first stop was Moon Bay, where Shad delivered the notes Matilda and the others had compiled after using the [Internal Organ Origin] technique. And indeed, Mr. Albert was in the morgue in Spider Alley. If Shad hadn't visited his new apartment when he first arrived in Moon Bay before meeting him for the first time, Shad might have even suspected that this gentleman slept in his workplace at night.
The vampire coroner, wearing a burqa, was quite satisfied with the feedback Shad brought back. He then listened to Shad recount the events of the previous day, including the confrontation with the "House of the Pseudo-Humans."
Even this chosen one of light was quite surprised by the flesh-and-blood city described by Shad:
"The Sage-level rating of 【The House of Pseudo-Humans】 is definitely problematic."
When Mr. Albert asked if he could teach this extraordinary art to the church for a fee, to facilitate the current and future hunts down false people, Mr. Albert agreed without hesitation:
"No problem. My initial purpose in developing this magical technique was to benefit the public. Although the initial purpose was to help find unidentified corpses, it's even better since it also works on pseudo-humans. It's just a pity that the learning threshold for this magical technique is still very high. If you are not a vampire, you must have divination talent and be at the middle level, which limits the spread of the magical technique."
The second stop today was the Randall Valley, but Shad didn't linger. He simply handed the letter he wrote to Vanessa to Sirius, who was attending daily services at the Church of the Forsaken. In the letter, he asked Vanessa to send someone to the town to retrieve the coins.
The third stop was Vista Grove, where Shad had come in the morning to retrieve his clothes left behind at the Moon Sanctuary. He reappeared more than two hours later, and the girls feeding chocobos under Emilia's treehouse laughed.
"You're here again. Did you leave any other clothes here? Do you need our help to look for them?"
Shade shook his head:
"I want to find a chocobo to carry me to the hermits in the forest. Who's willing? No, I only need one. Don't all crowd around!"
The fluffy little heads eagerly crowded around Shad, who ultimately chose a blue, adult one. With a chocobo that could soar through the snow-covered forest, the visit became much easier. Shad didn't forget to use his special ability, "Forest Path," and as he sat on the chocobo watching the white forest landscape recede into the distance, he truly felt that the forest had returned to peace and tranquility.
Twenty minutes later, he arrived at the outskirts of the hermits' camp.
P.S.: It's the last day of July, please vote for me! I'll also update more next month! I updated 23 words this month.
(End of this chapter)