Whispering Poems

Chapter 1792 Earl and Mushroom

Although the content of the Witch's task list is full of strange things, it is worth mentioning that even if you use the power of time and fate to peek into the future, it is impossible to see everything that is bound to happen at once.Therefore, the descriptions of most tasks on the list are relatively vague. If you want to complete the task, you must first figure out what the task actually says.

When Xia De had breakfast at home this morning, he had already decided what he was going to do.The simple tasks are left to the Witch's followers to handle, and the most difficult tasks must be handled by the big Witches themselves.

Xia De took a fancy to a task of dealing with unknown materials, and the task that Shad took a fancy to was called "Peaceful Ascetic".

The task description is relatively simple. An expensive Delari family who came to the local meeting to participate in the meeting, indulged in carnival when he was young, but lost his wife, children and most of his family members due to accidents one after another in middle age.As a result, the middle-aged nobleman repented and set strict demands on himself with a pure and simple life, and imitated the ascetic monks of the church, hoping to achieve double peace of mind and body in the next life.

After arriving in Green Lake City, the nobleman was suspected to have come into contact with some kind of hallucinogenic drug, and thus gradually separated his life form from flesh and blood creatures.The task requirement is to save the nobleman and recover those hallucinogenic items.

Xia De had a hunch that he would definitely encounter an interesting story this time.

Who is the nobleman of Delarion referring to? The witch's message didn't make it clear.But because of the restriction of "coming from Tobesk", Xia De just went to the city hall to find Miss Galina who was preparing for this morning's meeting, and he knew that the "ascetic monks" in the negotiating delegation were interested in each other. Earl Trake.

He himself is one of the representatives of the negotiating team and usually lives in Tobesk.The residence in Tobesk is also in the city center, and it is not far from Saint Teresa Square.

However, although the Earl is a member of the delegation, he only follows and does not often attend meetings, so he cannot be found in the Green Lake City Hall.

Xia De wanted to leave after asking her address, but since Xia De came here, the Duchess naturally wanted to keep Xia De to have a meeting with her. Fortunately, with Tifa's help, Xia De was able to escape.

Earl Petrarch was a member of the first delegation, and the Green Lake City Hall arranged proper accommodation for these distinguished guests from Tobesk.But the ascetic earl didn't like such extravagance and waste, so although he couldn't refuse the accommodation arrangement, he actually moved into the hotel on the second day after arriving in Green Lake City.

As for the hotel where he lives, it is naturally the Green Lake Hotel that is the closest to the Green Lake City Hall, and has good quality, low price and good service.

Even Miss Galina didn't find out the house number of the earl's rented room in a hurry. Fortunately, Shade can directly ask the female shopkeeper Helena Green behind the counter.

"Oh, the gentleman. He lives on the third floor like you, but on the opposite side of the stairs from your room, so you probably never saw him."

Ms. Helena Green said with a smile.

So Xia De counted the house number and came to the door of room 308, closed his eyes to make sure there was a heartbeat sound inside the door, and then knocked on the door.

dong dong dong~
A moment later, the door opened a gap, and half the face of a middle-aged man with extremely powerful eyes, taller than Xia De, and who seemed to be able to kill a lion with one punch appeared behind the door:

"Who are you?"

Shad introduced himself:
"I am ashamed to say it, count, not only do you not know me, but I do not know you either."

The door was about to close immediately, but Xia De had already blocked the crack with his foot:
"Listen to me. I have heard from a long time ago that Count Petrarch of Tobesk likes meditation, meditation and penance, and is a good-hearted person. I have the same hobby as you and have always wanted to visit you. To communicate and learn with you, do you have time?"

Xia De asked, and the earl inside the door stared and asked:

"Do you think I'm a fool? I would believe this reason?"

"Then let me say, I'm here to play Rhodes with you, can you open the door?"

"Of course not. I don't like playing cards. How did you come up with such an excuse?"

Xia De smiled:
"Well, no kidding. I really want to talk to you about meditation and penance. I heard about you from the 'Umbilical Cord Club' in Tobesk, where I'm a member. You see."

As he said that, he opened his palm that had nothing.As for the "Umbilical Cord Club", it is a club set up in the city of Tobesk for occult lovers to gather.It is monitored by the church 24 hours a day, and even the manager at the front desk is a ring warlock of the church.

The illusion confuses this ordinary person, and the earl looks at the medal in Xia De's hand suspiciously, and then nods:
"People from the club? Judging by your appearance, you look like a young nobleman from Tobesk. However, I will not trust you easily. Let me answer one of my common sense questions in the club first——Meditation enters the first stage What are the characteristics of the three stages?"

In the orthodox ring warlock meditation, there is no division of meditation into stages, so Xia De doesn't know what these ordinary people's theories are:
"I don't know, I've never heard of it."

He decided to tell the truth, since the count lived alone, he would force his way in at worst.

The count nodded and finally untied the anti-theft chain:

"That's right, meditation is only divided into shallow and deep, there is no third stage at all."

The layout of this room is similar to that of Shade's rented room. Although the Earl did not let his servants accompany him to live in, the interior is still very clean and tidy.He didn't have much luggage, and there were hardly any personal items in the room.

After entering the door, Xia De looked around for a week, and easily found traces of the elements.It was a plate of dried and dehydrated colorful mushrooms on the coffee table. Such bright colors seemed to be glowing, and even the greedy Mia probably wouldn't eat them.In addition to mushrooms, there are scissors, a quartz bowl for grinding and a small hammer on the coffee table.

"There is no whispering element, and it seems to have nothing to do with the relic."

Seeing Xia De looking at those mushrooms, the Earl introduced himself:
"With the help of medicines and plants, the effect of meditation can be better achieved, and even the legendary 'pineal gland' can be stimulated to open the originally closed 'spiritual vision'."

"Um illegal drugs?"

Xia De asked hesitantly, and sat down with the earl, who shook his head indifferently;
"I have friends at Ridwich Field. Without further ado, now that you're here, I'll share with you my new catch. See these mushrooms? I accidentally found this particular species in Green Lake, And found that these mushrooms are dried and ground into powder and then absorbed, which can better help us enter a deep meditation state, and then see the reality of the world."

When he spoke, he was full of vigor, and he stretched out his hand to gesture, as if he had really made a major discovery.

But Xia De hesitated even more:
"Wouldn't it be a series of dancing elves after you eat the mushrooms?"

"Of course not, I saw a series of dark cracks opening in the air. Look there, there is even a huge gap that is big enough for me to pass through, and through there, I can reach the Paradise of Ultimate Bliss!"

The Earl said happily, and stretched out his hand to continue handling the mushrooms:
"You may not believe it now, let me demonstrate it to you."

Xia De looked at the wall pointed at by the earl in surprise, but there was nothing on the wall.If it wasn't because he was sure that the mushrooms were special materials, he even wondered if the Earl would have gone crazy after eating poisonous mushrooms.

The Earl quickly made the dried colorful mushrooms into mushroom powder, and then divided the powder into two handfuls.Keep a pinch for yourself, and put a pinch in front of Xia De:
"Try it with me and you'll see what deep meditation really is."

He sent out the invitation with great anticipation, and added his own powder into the tobacco, and rolled it up with cigarette paper:
"You can also take it directly, but the effect is too fast, and it is easy to have head pain, memory loss, and lethargy after waking up, so rolling it into a cigarette is just right. Come on, young man, you are the first person to have this honor, The taste of deep meditation is really good."

Of course Xia De couldn't accept this kind of thing. Seeing his hesitation, the count said again:
"Don't worry, although this looks like a banned drug, haven't you seen it? It's a pure natural plant. Not to mention me, even the aborigines on the island and primitive tribes deep in the rainforest still maintain Is there a similar tradition of picking and utilizing mushrooms? Besides, the development of our medicine originally originated from the exploration of plant diversity, otherwise, how do you think plant anesthetics appeared?"

"Does this thing really have no side effects?"

Shard asked suspiciously, Earl Petrarch thought for a moment:
"As long as you keep no distracting thoughts in your mind, abandon all desires, and don't think wildly, you will be absolutely safe."

He said with certainty:

"In a state of deep meditation, there will be many scary scenes and sounds, and the world will become different in our eyes. But as long as our own beliefs are firm and we are not disturbed by external forces, we will not be affected."

"This"

Although Xia De believes that he is firm in his beliefs, he knows himself and knows that he is definitely not the kind of person who is very ascetic.

"This is a good thing. Since you don't believe it, I will come first. If you want to follow up later, you will find me. Paradise of bliss, here I come."

"Wait, you wait first!"

But before Shad finished speaking, Earl Petrarch put the hand-rolled cigarette in his mouth and lit it with a match.

Xia De was sitting opposite the earl, so if he wanted to stop him, he could just reach out his hand.But Xia De really wanted to find out what happened to these mushrooms, and he thought he could handle the count's madness, so he watched the count muttering, and soon drooped his head, as if he fell asleep past.

　PS: Don't eat wild mushrooms casually
　
(End of this chapter)