The two guards didn't know how to respond for a moment. If Lulunaka showed the slightest bit of fear, they would be more than happy to continue scaring this ignorant little girl.
However, Lulunaka actually asked the two of them how much she was worth. This wasn't something that happened often.
Those who would ask others how much they were worth were either poor people who had nowhere else to go, or women who had fallen into prostitution … or people who were willing to sell their lives.
Seeing that the two guards didn't answer, Lulunaka continued to ask. "What's wrong?
Did you not understand my question?
Then let me be more specific. For a young, pure, cute, beautiful, and healthy girl like me, how much would I be worth if I were to be sold to someone else?
If a noble or a wealthy merchant took a fancy to me, how many gold coins would I be able to exchange for? "
Lulunaka's words became more and more shocking, but this time, the guards recovered from their shock.
The female guard replied, "If it's a girl like you …" Then she named a price.
Hearing this price, Lulunaka smiled and looked very satisfied. "Isn't this very cheap?
Even a healthy living person is worth so little now. Only a few gold coins. "
"You do have a pretty face. Even if you are wearing that tattered cloak, I can still see it." The male guard said, "But this doesn't mean that you are worth much.
There are many people selling their lives and bodies now compared to before, especially after the Elven Enslavement Act. "
Lulunaka looked a little surprised. "Uncle, I didn't expect you to be so knowledgeable. You even know about the Elven Enslavement Act that was abandoned more than a hundred years ago.
No, it's already so late. I can't continue chatting with the two of you. "Lulunaka took out two coins from her pocket and threw them to the guards.
The guards caught the coins and found that they were two gold coins. The surface of the gold coins was no longer shiny, only a dull gold.
However, no matter the hardness or the touch, these were undoubtedly two gold coins.
"Since I'm only worth a few gold coins, why don't you pay me back?"
Lulunaka laughed. "Then, if I give you a similar entrance fee, you won't be so kind as to block me here, right?"
Just as Lulunaka had said, there was no need for them to block Lulunaka from entering.
They stepped aside, and there was a ladder between the two of them. "You can go down now."
The female guard said to Lulunaka, and the male guard didn't say anything else. "If you die down there, someone will probably collect your corpse … but it probably won't be very nice."
For people like them who were responsible for guarding the entrance and collecting money, it was not their job to dissuade ignorant girls from wasting their money.
Furthermore, Lulunaka had given him two gold coins, which was a ridiculously high price for the entrance fee.
This also meant that the two of them could actually take the opportunity to make some money for themselves. No one would know that the two of them had earned two gold coins from an ignorant girl, but they only needed to pay a few silver coins.
This was a big temptation.
"Thank you for being reasonable. Thank you so much for letting me go." Lulunaka smiled and walked to the edge of the ladder.
"But it also made me feel the magic of money. A few gold coins can make you turn a blind eye to the life of a lovely girl."
In the face of Lulunaka's sarcasm, the two of them didn't react angrily. The money in their hands was more important than anything else.
"You gave us the money on your own initiative."
The female guard laughed and said, "Are you selling yourself and buying yourself back?"
"Interesting way to put it."
Lulunaka suddenly realized. "You can say that. Then the responsibility is not on you, but on me." Lulunaka reached out and pointed at herself. "So, I'm a lunatic?"
"But no one said that." The male guard said.
"Someone did say that, but I forgot who it was. It's a pity." Lulunaka laughed. "This made me forget who I am. Thank you again."
Lulunaka stood on the edge of the ladder, but looking at her, she had no intention of climbing down.
She tilted her upper body slightly and looked into the hole.
Except for the ladder and the faintly visible wooden planks, the pipe leading down seemed to be bottomless.
"Are you afraid?" The female guard said, "If you are, then go home quickly."
"I'm not afraid."
Lulunaka said, facing the abyss below the pipe and closing her eyes as if she was feeling something. "I can't feel the wind … What an interesting change."
Then, Lulunaka straightened her back and looked at the guards on both sides. "So, it's time to say goodbye. Probably we won't see each other again.
Before I go, there's something I want to say to you.
Your evaluation of my value is quite sad. Don't treat me like a child who doesn't know anything. Even when the market was at its worst, a healthy girl without scars and a decent looking girl was worth dozens of gold coins. In the end, you said some hurtful words … If it wasn't like that, I would probably pay you more than ten gold coins, right? "
The guards were stunned, as if they didn't understand what Lulunaka was saying. It was as if they heard the nonsense of a lunatic.
"Goodbye, the two of you. Don't waste your life on the rat path."
After saying that, Lulunaka bent down and jumped into the bottomless black hole.
Without any warning or hesitation, Lulunaka jumped down just like that.
The guards who were standing on both sides of the room didn't react at all when they saw what was happening. They didn't have the time to react.
After a while, the female guard said in a low voice, "She jumped down?"
"If we didn't hallucinate because of those inferior potions, then she really did jump down." The male guard said, and then took out the gold coin that he had put in his pocket.
The gold coin was hard and cold. The surface was rough with bumps and a blurry pattern.
This was indeed a real gold coin, not an illusion. Then the girl who just disappeared in front of them was also real … She should be real.
"This is not a small pool. Maybe the wells on the ground are not as deep as this …" The male guard murmured, and with a tone of disbelief, he repeated the female guard's words. "She jumped down just like that?"
The two of them bent down to look at the pipe.
The cave was so deep that he couldn't see the bottom. It was dark, and there was only a simple ladder and wooden planks installed on the wall.
"She's gone." The female guard said.
"Nonsense." The male guard replied, "She jumped down just like that, of course she's gone.
She's already dead. "
The two of them recalled Lulunaka's words. "She said that she would never meet again, but if she wants to return to the surface and not get lost, she can only come back through this entrance." The female guard said, "I think I understand what she meant."
"If she's dead, then we won't meet again."
The male guard continued, "But if she has something valuable on her, she will still come back through here … Maybe there will be perverts who need a young girl's fresh body parts.
This can be considered a part of her body returning, right? "
"So what she said is wrong. We will meet again in the end, no matter what she becomes," the female guard said.
The two of them weren't affected by the loss of a life. In a place like the Rat Tunnel, this kind of thing wasn't rare.
"She's indeed a lunatic. She's a lunatic who spouts nonsense and is quite rich."
"A beautiful girl went crazy just like that."
The male guard thought that the girl had probably suffered something inhuman and perverted, which was why she came to the Rat Tunnel to seek death.
Perhaps she was originally a resident of another Rat Tunnel and was tortured by life in the Rat Tunnel. In the end, she chose to die in a place even lower than the Rat Tunnel.
Regardless, the girl named Lulunaka had paid them a generous entrance fee and had gone down. As guards, there weren't any problems.
They weren't here to protect others. They were here to protect this tunnel.
In any case, perhaps the next time they would see Lurunaka again would not be too long in the future. It would probably be today, or tomorrow, or the day after … Perhaps they would not see each other again. It was also possible.
After that, the two guards never saw Lulunaka again. They didn't really take Lulunaka's matter to heart.
In a place like the Rat Tunnel, it wasn't strange for a lunatic to exist. As for someone dying, it wasn't rare either.