"Alright!"
Mr. White took off the black glove and said, "Lord, you can speak now!"
"Just now I detected magical fluctuations nearby, so I figured those wilderness witches had left a backup. That's why I didn't let you speak earlier. I hope you don't mind."
"Of course I don't mind. How could I mind?"
Ethan waved his hand, then glanced at the exclamation marks all over the ground and said, "I just want to ask, the invisible eavesdropping bug you slapped to death earlier, is that thing valuable?"
"It's pretty valuable," Mr. White looked at Ethan meaningfully and said, "Why? Don't tell me the lord keeps these things too?"
"Not really. It's just that quite a few ran into my house, and I was thinking of catching a few to sell."
Ethan looked at the red exclamation marks covering the ground.
The moment he heard the words 'pretty valuable', his eyes instantly lit up.
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"A lot ran into your house?"
Hearing this, Mr. White's heart skipped a beat, "No way, that's impossible, right? These things are colorless, odorless, silent. How did you even notice their existence, Lord?"
"Even for me, I have to rely on this magical fluctuation detector to find them."
As he spoke, Mr. White immediately fished something out of his clothes.
'A purple frog?'
[Magical Fluctuation Detection Frog: Extremely effective at detecting certain invisible insects, especially invisible eavesdropping bugs. It is the third-generation detection frog newly bred by the Grand Magus Blue Shore, and is very popular with the military.]
"So… does it have any reaction right now?"
Although Ethan couldn't see the invisible eavesdropping bugs.
Those red exclamation marks all over the floor were basically their markers, afraid he might miss them.
[Invisible Eavesdropping Bug Generation 99: By continuously selecting larvae with the strongest concealment abilities, then feeding them various concealment-enhancing and odor-eliminating plants over a long period of time, they are raised into optimal adult invisible eavesdropping bugs. Then they are bred with the best specimens, and after countless generations of selection and cultivation, the most valuable Invisible Eavesdropping Bug Generation 99 was produced.]
"No!"
Mr. White glanced at his magical fluctuation detection frog, then at Ethan, "If it detected an invisible eavesdropping bug within a twenty-meter radius, it would immediately rotate toward that direction, open its mouth, and stick out its tongue."
Hearing this, Ethan also glanced at Mr. White's purple frog.
But the thing was sitting there calmly, looking completely unbothered, like a stone statue.
Yet… Ethan watched several red exclamation marks crawl right up to the frog's mouth.
Either his eyes were bad, or this frog was blind. No, scratch that, this frog was useless.
"If… I mean if," Ethan asked again, "If there were invisible eavesdropping bugs that even this magical fluctuation detection frog couldn't detect, wouldn't those be… even more valuable?"
"That's impossible!"
Mr. White shook his head, "My magical detection frog is the newest model, the latest version."
"Even the latest twelfth-generation invisible eavesdropping bugs can be detected easily. How could there be something it can't detect."
"If there really were such a thing, I'd be willing to buy it for ten thousand dragon coins per bug."
"You're serious?"
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Ethan's eyes lit up explosively.
"Absolutely serious. After all, that thing shouldn't even exist yet. Ten thousand per bug would actually be cheap."
Before Mr. White even finished speaking, Ethan had already reached out his hand, "Lend me your glove, and give me something to hold those bugs. I guarantee I'll catch you several hundred thousand dragon coins' worth."
"How is that possible?"
Mr. White didn't believe him at all.
But he still handed the black dragon-patterned glove to Ethan, and also took out a glass jar.
"I'm just saying, even with the magical fluctuation detection frog, I can only rely on instinct to slap these things to death. And you think you can catch them?"
"I think you're joking."
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"Whether I'm joking or not, you'll know very soon," Ethan rolled up his sleeves and put on the dragon-patterned glove, "You just get the money ready!"
Then, Ethan stretched out his gloved hand and lunged quickly toward the ground.
Sure enough, wherever the red exclamation marks appeared, although he couldn't see anything, he could always grab something with a hard shell and a soft, squishy underside.
The thing was no bigger than a fingernail, with the smallest ones only about the size of a soybean.
Extremely small in size.
But unfortunately, the exclamation marks were even bigger than they were.
So for Ethan, catching them was ridiculously easy. One grab, one catch.
Before long, the glass jar Mr. White gave him was almost full.
"Here!"
Ethan slammed the jar onto the table with great confidence, "Pay up!"
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"T-This… this… how is that possible!"
Mr. White's squinty eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, "My magical fluctuation detection frog didn't react at all. You're not trying to fool me with an empty jar, are you?"
As he spoke.
Mr. White took out some powdery substance from one of the gemstone storage rings covering his fingers and sprinkled it evenly over the surface of the jar.
[Magic Revealing Powder: Pollen extracted from revealing flowers. A powder that can make certain invisible objects reveal themselves. Not suitable for large-scale use, as it's extremely expensive. Even the rich can't afford to waste it like that.]
From the prompt, Ethan recognized the pale yellow powder Mr. White had sprinkled.
And as that pale yellow powder landed on the transparent jar.
Ethan finally saw… Inside the glass jar were countless large and small snails, slowly crawling around.
Their shells were almost transparent, and their bodies had chameleon-like scales. Whenever they came close to human skin, their bodies would change to the same color.
And their color-changing speed was several times faster than a chameleon's, almost changing instantly the moment they moved.
No wonder they were impossible to see.
They really were hard to catch.
"My god!"
"These… these are all invisible eavesdropping bugs?"
"And not the latest twelfth generation either, but some unknown generation. Look at this soybean-sized body, it's much smaller than the twelfth generation. And even the latest magical fluctuation detection frog can't detect them."
"My god, I'm going to get rich!"
Mr. White completely lost his composure.
Only then did Ethan smile and say, "So… Mr. White, I suddenly don't feel like selling them anymore."
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