[T/N: For next 4 days, till next Wednesday, there will be one 1 chapter per day instead of 2. Have a great day~]
[Land of Treasure]
The stone man did not sleep all night. He kept counting on his fingers, calculating the changes in the stars and the variables caused by the curve shifts of shooting stars across the sky.
After a whole night of calculations, the stone man's eyes suddenly lit up and he said, "That little brat actually wants to shave his head bald and trick me?"
"Heh! Heh! Heh! Does he really think I'm that easy to fool?"
Counting! Counting! Counting!
Then, the stone man's eyes flashed again. "He's finally here!"
Clop! Clop! Clop!
Just as the stone man finished speaking.
Sure enough, a man rode over on a bone horse, carrying a scarecrow on his back.
Beside him was a yellow cat, and above his head soared a fiery bird flying through the sky, looking extremely cocky.
"Hey! Brother Stone Man, are you still sleeping? I'm here!"
Ethan arrived at the stone man's feet and raised his hand to greet it.
Hearing this, the stone man slowly opened his stone eyelids and looked down at Ethan from above, "Hmm! Since you're here, hurry up and answer my question!"
"No way. We agreed yesterday, you answer my question first!"
Ethan naturally refused to fall for it. He looked up at the huge stone man and said without hesitation, "How many hairs do I have?"
"That's your question?"
The stone man gave a cold, faint smile, "I watched the stars last night. Just a few glances were enough. I already calculated it."
"A question like this is simply an insult to my intelligence."
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The stone man was almost laughing himself crazy. Just thinking about someone taking over guard duty for it right away… it could finally go out and play in the colorful world outside, it felt so happy.
Maybe it had been holding back for too long. It realized that even looking at that orange cat, it suddenly found it kind of good looking.
This couldn't go on. It needed to hurry into the city and find a female.
'No, a woman to vent a little!'
"Brother Stone Man is truly smart!", Ethan flattered it, "So what's the answer?"
"Hmph! I watched the stars last night and already knew you'd try something tricky."
The stone man spoke proudly and slowly, "Last night I saw the Greedy Wolf Star move. I knew my opponent would be a crafty fellow. That means you would definitely try to play sly tricks."
"So you deliberately made your hat black to pretend you have hair, right?"
"Heh! Heh! You don't have any hair at all!"
After saying that, the stone man looked at Ethan with a proud face.
But Ethan shook his head, "No, I do have hair."
"Oh? Are you saying my calculation was wrong?", The stone man sneered, "Then take off that black hat and let me see!"
"Fine!"
Ethan nodded and took off the blackened red goblin hat.
What he revealed was a dark black head. At that moment, the stone man's eyes, which had been narrowed to slits, suddenly widened in shock, "How is that possible? I clearly calculated that you shaved your head bald. How can it still be full of black?"
"Heh! Heh! Brother Stone Man, shouldn't you admit defeat and open the door now?"
"Bullshit!"
However, the stone man suddenly flew into a rage, "That hair of yours is fake. It's obviously the hat's color fading!"
After saying that, the stone man began chanting a spell.
"Holy Light! Cleanse!"
Immediately, a white and holy beam of light shot out from the hilt of the stone sword and fired straight toward Ethan.
In the end, that ball of white holy light landed on Ethan's smooth head. As the holy light fell, Ethan discovered that the stains on his body and hands disappeared in that instant.
Through the reflection in the scarecrow's glassy eyes, he also saw that the black color on his head had been wiped away.
Alright, the fact that he was bald was finally exposed.
"Heh! Heh! Heh! Hahaha!"
The stone man burst into hearty laughter, "I can finally turn back into a human. I've been standing here for far too long."
"With your little tricks, you still want to fight me!"
"Hahaha!"
"I've eaten more salt than you've eaten rice!"
"You're just a little brat. What do you know, hahaha!"
Ethan helplessly reached up and rubbed his smooth head, "I really have to admire your wisdom, Brother Stone Man. So your final answer is that I'm bald, right?"
"What else could it be?", The stone man sneered, "What, you want to trick me into changing my words?"
"With that shiny bald head of yours, forget a low level color changing spell!"
"Even if you used a high level fluffy hair spell, you still couldn't fool me."
"You can't judge things by their surface."
"You must follow the changes of the stars."
"That is the eternal way."
Looking at the self satisfied stone man, Ethan shrugged helplessly. Then he turned around and used his hand to smooth the back of his head, touching a single strand of hair, "Well, Brother Stone Man, as long as there's even one hair left, you have to admit I'm someone with hair."
"After all, the difference between one and zero is still pretty big."
"Brother Stone Man, don't you think so?"
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At that instant, the stone man turned to stone on the spot.
"There's actually still one hair left?"
At that moment, the stone man felt like it was about to collapse.
It used its stone carved finger to scratch its smooth stone head hard and shouted in frustration, "When I calculated last night that you little thief were the Greedy Wolf, I should have been even more careful."
"I didn't expect you to use four layers of crafty tricks!"
"I'm so mad! This is driving me crazy!"
The stone man shouted, but its body suddenly split open down the middle with a loud rumble that shook the ground.
Then, like a mummy's coffin, it opened directly.
Only then did Ethan see, the door leading to the Land of Treasure was actually inside the stone man's body.
The huge outer door frame was just a trick to fool the eye.
'Damn!'
'So the stone man itself is the real door.'
Right in the middle where the stone man split apart, there was a dark hole over two meters tall. No matter whether it was light or Ethan's line of sight looking inside… all he could see was pitch black darkness. He couldn't see anything inside at all.
Fortunately, he still had a hint.
Otherwise, he really wouldn't dare to rush in blindly.
[Entrance to the Land of Treasure: This is a teleportation array entrance. It can send a person to a secret place. There is currently no danger at the entrance]
"In that case, let's go!"
Ethan took a deep breath and then walked toward the teleportation gate.
As the saying goes, wealth comes from taking risks.
Whoosh!
Ethan jumped down from the bone horse and whistled at the white eagle in the sky.
The white eagle instantly understood, landed, and then waddled along behind Ethan as they walked together into the black hole.
[T/N: I am still confused. Did they specifically mention hair on the head? Body hair still counts as hair though.]
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