[Detected a partial remnant of the Prophetic Statue. Merge?]
[Yes!]
The moment Ethan took out the Prophetic Statue, he received a system prompt.
There was nothing to hesitate about. He merged it directly.
[Merge complete. Prophetic Statue +1]
Finally, it was no longer a fragment. It had become a complete statue.
Looking at the white jade statue in his hand, so white it was almost translucent, Ethan directly fed it a spirit stone.
Didn't this stupid Prophetic Statue previously say, "The Prophetic Statue has not yet been completely repaired and cannot make predictions for now. Please repair it completely before requesting a prediction"?
Now that Ethan had finally put it back together, if he still didn't use it for a prediction, he wouldn't be human.
Bzz~
White light flickered inside the Prophetic Statue.
Then the cold, emotionless robotic reading voice sounded in Ethan's mind.
[Prophetic Statue: "What would you like to predict?"]
Ethan: "Since you have the ability to predict, then predict what I want to predict."
Prophetic Statue: "..."
Ethan: "What? You can't predict it?"
[Prophetic Statue: "I predict that you're about to die."]
Ethan: "What do you mean?"
Bzz~
However, before Ethan could ask another question, the Prophetic Statue had already shut down.
It was just like one of those scam claw machines. It didn't care whether you could grab anything. The moment you pressed the button, you had already lost control of it.
The Prophetic Statue worked the same way. The moment you made a prediction request, you lost the right to ask questions.
After it answered, it shut down directly, and then... that was it.
If you wanted to ask again, then recharge it.
"Damn!"
Since it concerned his life, Ethan didn't dare be careless.
He could only grit his teeth and feed another spirit stone to the Prophetic Statue.
Actually, he wasn't short on spirit stones.
He just didn't want to give them to this damn statue.
'Bloodsucker!'
Bzz~
The Prophetic Statue flickered a few more times. Another spirit stone had all its energy drained away and lost its glow.
The depleted spirit stone fell from the statue's hands onto the floor.
It had become an ordinary stone.
[Prophetic Statue: "What would you like to predict?"]
Ethan: "F*ck your mother, can you stop talking in half sentences? Even if you predicted that I'm going to die, at least tell me why!"
[Prophetic Statue: "Yes!"]
Bzz!
'It shut down again?'
Just because he had asked if it could stop speaking in half sentences?
'Damn it!'
'So infuriating!'
Then...
Ethan fed it another spirit stone.
At that moment, he felt like an innocent young man being manipulated by the statue.
[Prophetic Statue: "What would you like to predict?"]
This time, Ethan had learned his lesson. He didn't ask any more pointless questions and went straight to the point.
"Why am I going to die? Please tell me the exact reason!"
[Prophetic Statue: "The waters of the Yellow River come from the heavens, rushing here and never returning."]
Ethan was speechless once again.
"Can you stop talking in riddles? Just tell me how many spirit stones you want!"
[Prophetic Statue: "One to power on, two for a fortune, three for an explanation, ten for the full story."]
Ethan: "..."
Who would have thought that a Prophetic Statue could be this obsessed with money?
'Ten for the full story?'
'Forget it! Forget it!'
He had just gotten over fifteen thousand spirit stones from the goblins. Even if it cost ten each time, that was still fifteen hundred uses. He couldn't spend them all anyway, so he wouldn't argue with it for now.
Ethan directly placed ten spirit stones into the Prophetic Statue's hands.
Ethan: "Ten for the full story!"
[Prophetic Statue: "Very good, boss. Listen while I explain it to you in detail."]
[Prophetic Statue: "The fortune reads: 'The waters of the Yellow River come from the heavens, rushing here and never returning.' The meaning is that water from the Yellow River, of course, the Yellow River is just a metaphor. Anyway, a great amount of water will come from the sky. You can think of it as rain!"]
[Prophetic Statue: "'Rushing here and never returning' is even simpler. It just means flooding."]
[Prophetic Statue: "Since you're underground right now, boss, once the flood covers the entire surface and pours into the underground, it'll be hard for you to leave."]
[Prophetic Statue: "That's why I said you're going to die."]
Ethan: "You mean there's about to be a torrential downpour, or a flood that's about to submerge the entire underground world? How much longer until the flood arrives?"
[Prophetic Statue: "That's the next question. You may choose: one to power on, two for a fortune, three for an explanation, ten for the full story."]
Ethan: "..."
This was the first time he had encountered something even more of a profiteer than himself.
And yet... this thing was addictive. Every time it stopped right at the point that hooked you. Even though it made you furious, you still couldn't give it up.
Ethan couldn't be bothered arguing with a rock. He lavishly tossed ten spirit stones to the money-grubbing statue and said, "Here's ten. Cut the nonsense!"
[Prophetic Statue: "You got it! Boss is generous! This rain is actually the mastermind behind the scenes punishing you. It decided that running around during the Crisis Day of the Polar Night was bad enough, but you even led a whole group of people around. It says that's too hard to manage, so it's decided to bring a heavy rain to Region A7 to punish you for cheating."]
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