Chapter 830: Capricorn King (2)
One by one, the gold coins fell to the ground with a crisp and clanging sound, and then large bags of gold coins fell, and the golden coins even quickly flooded the instep of the person's foot.
Meggie's eyes widened, and even the stereotypical Aunt Eleanor, who was gagged on the side, was full of incredulity, after all, listening to Folchart talk about his ability to speak of his silver tongue and seeing the illusory stories in the books come to life were completely different concepts.
The shock of the latter cannot be described in words at all.
Meggie had indeed lost the ability to speak at this point.
Capricorn smiled, and then as the rain of gold coins grew, the corners of his mouth widened more and more, and all the minions around him began to laugh out loud, greedily grabbing the gold coins in their hands, or going to pick up the gold and silver jewels that fell from the sky.
The stronger the Capricorn King, the happier they are, why are they like this, don't ask me, I don't know.
But I have to say that Capricorn's smile is not ugly, but it is indeed a bit funny, he came from the fantasy Middle Ages and shaved his hair and finally did not have to endure lice.
But this makes him hideous and vicious into ridiculous, and sometimes the look is really important.
"See?" The Capricorn King stood up in the rain of gold coins, then grabbed a handful of gold coins, slowly stretched out his arms, and said, "See...... That's what I want. ”
But his voice came to an abrupt end, for just as the Capricorn King had finished speaking, an unfortunate fellow fell from the sky with a shout, and fell to the ground with a heavy clamour.
"Did you see that?" Furchart stopped reading and shouted, "I told you. ”
The Capricorn King put away his intoxicated expression, and then said angrily, "Pull this boy to the stable, and feed the ticking crocodile!" ”
A few minions rushed up, and then dragged the boy down, who didn't even understand the situation.
"If he came out, then who went in." Meggie, who had been silent, said suddenly, and Capricorn King and his men were stunned for a moment, but then realized that they were still standing there safely, so it didn't matter which unlucky person it was.
But at this time, Gray Finger couldn't wait to stand up, "It's my turn." He said, "As I promise you." ”
The people present turned sideways and looked at the somewhat sloppy gray fingers, and the Capricorn King sneered, "It's your turn." He seemed to be thinking, and then showed a look of sudden realization, "Oh...... You mean this. ”
He took out a book from his bosom that looked like it was a few years old, it was the ink heart.
"It's a rare book." "There aren't many left in the world, but you've found them." ”
At this time, Furchart next to him had already preemptively said, "I can't send you back, and I don't know what to do." ”
Folchat only knew that Silvertongue's ability was to read things out of books, but he didn't know how to read back into books what had already been turned into reality.
Because of his relationship with his wife in the book, he has been so afraid of his own abilities for so many years that he is afraid of Silver Tongue, and he does not even let Meggie go to school, let alone use his abilities.
I have to say that Folchat's operation was really unplanned and uninvestigated.
But you can't blame him, he's just a bookmaker.
"Send us back?" But the Capricorn King laughed, "Why do we want to go back, your world is so wonderful. ”
"You've got phones, you've got guns, you've got ...... What's that goo thing called? ”
"Wart strips." There was a minion next to him reminding.
"That's right, wart patches." The Capricorn King continued, "I love to die with wart stickers." ”
"What am I in the ink heart?" He shook the book in his hand, "I am the humble servant of the evil duke, and I live in the forest with disgusting beasts. ”
"But look at me now." He stepped forward and whispered a secret, "I have a whole castle that I will never go back to, and no one wants to go back here." ”
"Just in case, whenever someone finds this boring book, I'm going to do what I've always done......"
The Capricorn King finally put away his smile, and he said lightly with a calm face, but at this time, Gray Finger already had a bad premonition in his heart, "You promised me to send me back." ”
"Yes, I remember, I lied to you about what I said, as you know, I am a liar, I lie all the time, lies, lies, lies."
"After all these years, you must all think he should know." He said to the minions as if he were staging a stage play, and then without stopping, he turned around and threw the ink heart in his hand into the flames of the fireplace behind him.
"No, no! Take it out! Amid the shouts of Greyfinger and Furchart's father and daughter, the Capricorn King said faintly to his men who gathered around, "Lock them up, it's not time yet." ”
The minions quickly dragged these people down.
Now that he has two silver tongues, it means that the possibilities are endless......
After the drama in the hall was over for a while, Ricky also gave up on surveillance, and after handing over the task to the agent next to him, he slammed into Zas's side, "Hey, I said man, do you know what's going on?" ”
"I don't know." Zas gave him a faint look, then shook his head.
"But you brought us out."
"I didn't expect such a strange situation."
At this time, Zas was also a little blind, originally he just came out to look for Jim, trying to find some useful clues about Jim's disappearance, but he didn't expect to be involved in such a strange thing.
He wasn't interested in any dragon incidents, maybe he would have been a little interested when Jim wasn't missing, and tried to look it up a bit, but for now, his mind was full of getting Jim back.
The two have not been together for a long time, not even a year, but he feels that Jim has a special appetite for himself, and it is not easy to find a compatible partner, which means that if nothing else, maybe his partner will be Jim for the next few years.
But now, apparently, it was an accident.
Zas is a good agent for the FBI, and he forces himself to calm down and grasp the important clues in the chaos.
Even quickly, he sorted out some clues.
"Books." "Books are the key," he said. ”
"I also know that books are key." Ricky said angrily, "But what's the point." ”
"The book Furchart has been looking for is called Ink Heart." He continued, "Our people came out of the mouth of the owner of the antiquarian bookstore, you know, that black-hearted guy asked us for 10,000 dollars. ”
"If it weren't for Italy, he would have closed his doors tomorrow."
"What's in the book?" Ignoring Ricky's complaints, Zas asked.
"What else could it be, it's a fairy tale." Ricky shrugged, "I took a brief look at the old-fashioned story, the little between the evil Duke and his servants who lived in the forest, and the messenger of justice, and of course it must have been the triumph of justice in the end. ”
"But the Inkheart is also a bit of a fantasy, there are wizards, there is magic, and one of the protagonists is a wizard, a wandering wizard to be exact." "His name was Gray Fingers, and he could release flames from his hands, and a ...... One...... Pet mink ......"
But the more Ricky spoke, the more he felt that something was wrong, and his voice slowly weakened, and sometimes the clues were not unaware, and he did not notice them in a certain direction at all, or he did not dare to imagine them at all.
It's just that with the retelling, the clues in it are slowly connected.
Pet mink, gray fingers, strange men whose hands can catch fire suddenly appeared......
Ricky and Zas were stunned, they stared at each other blankly, and then Zas said, "I think I know what the key thing is......"
"I think I thought of it too, but I don't want us to think of the same thing at all......"
"That's right...... Where did such a big storm come from......"......
While Zath and Ricky were spitting at each other, Folchart, Greyfinger and the others had already escaped, and Silvertongue was very powerful if used thoroughly, even terrifyingly.
Furchart used the Wizard of Oz to read a great storm that swept through Capricorn's castle and nearly brought it to its knees, but it finally crumbled to hold on.
Under the cover of the storm, Furchart and the others escaped.
They were looking for a new inkheart, but the goal was clear, because Furchartt deduced that the author of the inkheart, Finolio, must have had a copy there, or at least an original, from the original.
But what Furchart didn't know was that he searched for it, thinking that his wife, who was still in the book, had already come out, and that she had been read out by the stammering silver-tongued Darius, and that she had lost the ability to speak, and had been left in Capricorn's castle as a maid.
Grey Finger knew about it, but he didn't tell Folchat because he needed the ink-hearted manuscript and he needed to go back.
Furchart wants his wife back, but he also misses his family.
When Furchart and Meggie go in search of Finolio, Greyfinger performs juggling in the city square, his old profession, using the magic of fire magic.
The iron ropes and clubs made of flames seemed to come to life in his hands, with a light flight of souls, like a wonderful spirit around him, rubbing his hands, and a flame suddenly rose from his hands, and the gray fingers blew his hands.
As he breathed, the flames rose like a regular fire dragon circling the crowd, then swirling into the air before fading away.
Finolio, who came by at some point, was already stunned, "exactly as I imagined." He muttered to himself, "I feel like I'm seeing my own flesh and blood......"
But in the face of Finolio's feelings, Meggie and Furchart are very helpless, because now this story is not beautiful and exciting, because the shadow of the Capricorn King is still behind them.
It's fun to watch, but it's not so fun to experience it or get into the story.
But just as Meggie was about to speak, a young man in a hurry suddenly bumped into her, so hard that he almost knocked her on the heel, "Ahhhhhhhhh She cried out in pain.
By the time Furchart could react, the young man was long gone.
Meggie was also very strange, but then she was stunned, and quickly reached out and touched her pocket, but fortunately, the sugar was not lost, uh...... The money was not lost, and the book was still there.
Meggie wouldn't have been so alert, but who let her pass with a thief.
It's the hapless guy who was read out by Furchart in Capricorn's castle before, the boy Farid, Ali Baba and the great thief of the forty.
Trained by him, Meggie already knew how to beware of thieves and pickpockets.
But alas, it wasn't a pickpocket who hit her just now.
"How's this magic trick?" Ricky and Zas hid in the crowd, pretending to be casual tourists and watching the Grayfingers.
"If it's magic, I think it's exciting, but if it's magic, I think it's dangerous." Faced with Ricky's question, Zas also frowned.
At this time, the agent's message was also transmitted back through the headset, "The bugging device has been placed on the target." Ricky said.
Zas nodded, and in the next moment, the conversation between Furchart and the others clearly appeared in the ears of these agents.
"What's the last trick called?" From the headset came Farid's curious questioning Grey Finger.
Gray Finger replied with little interest, "That's called Dragon's Breath." ”
Beside him, Furchart gets the manuscript of Finolio, but just as he thought he could read his wife, Greyfinger tells him that his wife is not in the book, but in Capricorn's castle, she has been read by Darius.
After a series of arguments and exchanges, the group finally decided to disperse, with Farid Greyfinger and Furchart returning to the castle to save his wife, while Meggie and Finolio stayed here.
As for Aunt Eleanor, she had already taken the return train and was away from this crazy journey.
"They're going back to that place." Ricky, who had a full view of Furchart and the others, frowned, and said to Zas with a headache.
"I see it."
"Trust me, they're not going to end well when they go back to that place." Seeing that Zas didn't seem to have any intention of acting, Ricky was a little anxious.
"Why?"
"Because that's how movies often end, and if it's a story, it's going to be like this."
"They're the people in the story, but we live in the real world." Zas looked at Ricky helplessly.
"Then why don't you do it now, although it has some impact and trouble, it is better than breaking into that Capricorn King's military fortress."
"I've also seen the surveillance, the little girl happened to be looking at a book when Jim disappeared, and since Folchart thinks he can read his wife back, then Meggie can definitely read Jim back too, and then our mission is complete, and we can go back and report on the dragon."
"That's what I thought, too." Zas looked at Ricky, "But the flame of the Gray Finger just now, and the ability of the Silver Tongue, are you sure you want to do this?" ”
Ricky stopped talking, and Zas shook his head, then commanded in a low voice, "Leave the two of you to watch the girl, and the others follow me." (To be continued.) )