Weird story about rules: I can see hidden hints

Chapter 274 No choice

In the hall filled with gold, the air seemed to smell of wealth.

After being severely shocked, Gu Sheng gradually regained his composure. Although this scene was very shocking to his mind, he had not lost his mind after all and knew that this was not a good place.

Gu Sheng looked forward along the right side.

Next to him is a glass counter, which contains various necklaces. The most eye-catching one is a chain as thick as a thumb. Just by looking at it, you can feel the weight of it.

Next to the necklace counter are bracelets, followed by gold jewelry such as rings and earrings.

On his left are various gold bricks, ranging from five grams to five hundred grams, just like what he once saw on TV, stacked crosswise on the bottom.

In addition to the gold on these glass counters, the walls and floors are paved with gold foil.

As for these things being pure gold, Gu Sheng didn't dare to think that. If these things were pure gold, even the floor tiles could easily buy the entire supermarket.

"Guest, what do you want to buy?" The girl's voice interrupted Gu Sheng's thoughts.

The girl in front of him appeared suddenly and told him that he could only go to the second floor after walking out of the gold shop.

"Must buy something?" Gu Sheng asked with squinted eyes.

The girl's expression remained unchanged and she smiled sweetly and said, "Of course, as long as the customer buys gold, he can pass the escalator smoothly."

Although the situation was like this, Gu Sheng still felt that something was wrong. The sign at the escalator seemed to be placed there intentionally by the gold shop.

After saying a few words to the girl, Gu Sheng squinted and looked around.

Finally, he found what he was looking for on the wall directly opposite.

On the splendid wall, a pair of dragons and phoenixes are depicted in dark patterns. In the middle is a golden ball symbolizing the sun, with the same pattern next to it, very symmetrical.

On the golden ball, there were a few lines of small words painted with gold powder. If Gu Sheng hadn't known that there would be rules here, he wouldn't have discovered these things.

[Don't take away any gold. 】

[Please abide by the rules of equivalent exchange. 】

[There are no gold earrings in this store. 】

[You can only leave here if you want to buy something. 】

Seeing these three rules, Gu Sheng suddenly became confused. What kind of place is this? A gold store. How could he not take away the gold?

Moreover, there are no gold earrings here, so what is that shiny thing on the right, an iron earring?

Gu Sheng walked to the gold brick counter on the left, turned around and asked, "There are no prices for the things here?"

The girl walked into the counter, her black business attire quickly turned golden, but she still had a smile on her face and said: "Life has a price, gold is priceless, these things have to be paid by the customer before they can be taken away."

"Life has a price... gold is priceless?"

Gu Sheng kept chewing on the words of sales, and a strange feeling arose in his heart. This sentence should have been the other way around, but now it turned out to be that life has a price.

"Could it be..."

A bad feeling arose in his heart, and he immediately asked tentatively: "Does gold need to be exchanged for life?"

In Gu Sheng's somewhat desperate eyes, the girl nodded happily and affirmed: "Yes, for ordinary people, this price is very high, but for the guests, it is nothing."

"What do you mean?" Gu Sheng looked at the thin face in the golden mirror, "I have a lot of vitality in me?"

"It's not life force. We don't want that kind of thing. We only charge life force." The salesperson said something very convoluted.

Gu Sheng understood it clearly. In fact, it was very simple. Vitality can be expressed in many ways. Life span is one kind, and physical strength is another kind of expression.

However, there is only one manifestation of life, and that is life. This means that only one life can have a buying opportunity here.

"One life, one gold brick?" Gu Sheng said in surprise.

The salesman's smile slowly faded and he straightened up slowly, "Guests, please don't joke, gold is not that cheap!"

Gu Sheng tightened his palms suddenly, and a huge wave rose in his heart. His life turned into a cheap product in front of gold.

"We all rely on eyesight here. Customers only have one chance to choose. If the price is not right..."

The saleswoman did not continue, but pointed to the wall directly opposite, where there was a famous painting, The Last Supper, framed in gold.

Gu Sheng looked carefully and saw that except for Jesus whose face was unclear, the other faces were lifelike, but at the end Judas' place was empty.

"These faces are all oriental faces..." Gu Sheng was shocked. Although he had never seen this world-famous painting, he also knew that it was a famous foreign painting and there would never be oriental faces on it.

"Guests, please choose carefully!"

The saleswoman had a half-smile expression on her lips, and the anticipation in her eyes seemed to overflow.

Gu Sheng didn't know what was going on at this time. He had definitely fallen into a trap. I'm afraid there were other ways to open the escalator.

His first reaction was to run away, but when he turned around, he saw that the glass door had long since disappeared, leaving only the golden wall standing there.

Suddenly, he understood why there was a rule of equivalent exchange.

"No, I was almost led by this woman..."

Gu Sheng hurriedly lowered his head and took the opportunity to observe the gold and said in his heart: "Qiu Ning...can you hear it?"

"Okay!" Mi Qiuning's voice was smooth.

"Can you see anything wrong here?"

Mi Qiuning was silent for a long time, and said in a complicated tone: "I can only see a golden color here..."

She seemed to have something else to say, but she didn't say it in the end. She just said in an extremely serious voice: "Gu Sheng, if you can, try to buy the most expensive jewelry!"

Hearing this, Gu Sheng raised his eyebrows and asked, "The most expensive jewelry? Why?"

"I can't say, if you just trust me once, I will definitely not harm you!"

After saying that, Mi Qiuning cut off contact with Gu Sheng.

In a golden light, Mi Qiuning stood in nothingness, staring at nothing in front of her and said: "Can you guarantee that what you say is true?"

"Haha, you have no choice..."

A thunderous sound flashed past, and then Mi Qiuning's eyes turned into darkness again, as if it was just her hallucination.

"Gu Sheng, if we follow what that voice said, this will be our last chance. If an accident happens, I will definitely..." Mi Qiuning looked at her pale arms and murmured to herself.

Gu Sheng couldn't hear these words. He kept moving along the glass counter and looked at all the gold here.

In addition to the ones he saw at the beginning, he also saw a lot of gold in the shape of animals around the corner, among which the lucky Pixiu was the most common.

These brave figures are all vividly carved.

Gu Sheng didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that these Pixiu eyes seemed to be alive and would move according to his movements.

But when he looked carefully, he could only see cold gold.

(End of this chapter)