The Creators: From Night City

"Of course, we won't let you down at all costs. You can name your price."

The current situation was not beyond Jiang Bing's expectations. He had been staying at home since he came here, and the other party only came to him because of the medical skills he demonstrated during the day.

"Anna!"

Following the rancher's call, a tall and graceful girl, with her thick golden hair covering most of her face, came down from the second floor and sat on the sofa next to the rancher.

"My daughter, Anna." Eugene introduced her to the two with a complicated expression.

He waved his hand to dismiss his attendants, leaving only one confidant behind. He lowered his head and whispered a few words in Anna's ear. The other party was a little resistant at first, but was finally persuaded and obediently tied up her long, smooth hair.

Under the light, Anna's face was a combination of angel and devil.

The reason for saying this is that on the girl's delicate face, there is a large crimson birthmark that covers the left half of the girl's face, precisely dividing the beautiful face into two halves along the central axis of the face.

Half angel, half devil.

"As you can see, Mr. Sable."

"As long as you can cure Anna's disease, no matter how much money you spend, it won't matter."

The rancher's words were filled with expectation and hope.

"Is this a birthmark?"

"Yes." The rancher sighed deeply.

"I've taken Anna to various major hospitals in New York and San Francisco for modern medical help, but they've only disappointed us. Mr. Sable, you snatched a mortal soul from the clutches of death in broad daylight. Your medical skills must be exceptional. I implore you to think of a solution."

The girl named Anna was obviously not used to exposing her ugly side to strangers. This ugly birthmark almost destroyed all her social confidence. For this reason, she has been a secluded person since she was a child, and rarely leaves the house.

But at this moment she still tried her best to remain calm in order to gain some chance of escape.

Even though shame and resistance made the hairs on her back stand up, she still held her neck firmly, her beautiful big eyes filled with tears and hope.

Chapter 197: Flattering Man

After asking for consent, Jiang Bing began to look closely at the other person's face, which was ugly, hideous, and covered with curved hairs and scabby birthmarks.

The more he looked, the more amused he found it, and the more he looked, the more serious his expression became.

Eugene only felt that the face of this mysterious doctor gradually became filled with an inexplicable smile.

It's like being preyed upon, or discovering something surprising.

It was not until his gaze stung Anna's angelic face and neck, where a large wave of pink surged, that Jiang Bing reluctantly withdrew his gaze.

"Mr. Eugene, I don't think you're telling me the truth. How about you guess what I found out?"

Before the rancher could respond, Jiang Bing looked at his hypocritical smile and dropped a bombshell.

"This isn't a birthmark, it's more like a curse."

"curse!!"

The ignorant maid screamed, but Anna's expression became visibly cold.

Although Anna never leaves her house, it does not mean that she is illiterate. In fact, during the long time she was imprisoned at home, she could only rely on books to pass the time, which also made her insights and knowledge level far beyond ordinary people.

In her eyes, Jiang Bing had already been classified as a fraudulent shaman.

Jiang Bing had long anticipated the existence of extraordinary powers in this world.

Ever since he landed, he discovered that the concentration of chaotic magic power between heaven and earth was just stuck at a level where it was almost mysterious and difficult to show itself before humans. However, the rise of science and technology had not allowed reason and logic to completely drive away the so-called ignorance and superstition.

Anna's good upbringing and kind character prevented her from exploding even though she was filled with rage. Instead, she simply let her hair down again and prepared to leave.

But just as she was about to stand up, she saw her father's solemn face, her heart skipped a beat and she froze in place.

Eugene's face was gloomy and his eyes were almost popping out. Anyone could see that he was frantically weighing the pros and cons in his mind.

It seemed that Jiang Bing had directly revealed the dark secret that the other party was most reluctant to mention.

His confidant was very good at observing people's words and expressions. With a wave of his hand, five or six gunmen surrounded Jiang Bing and the poor maid. They were waiting for the boss to smash the cup as a signal, then pushed the two out of the door, shot them as a warning, killed them to silence them, and buried them.

The confidant looked at Jiang Bing with malicious eyes, and the malice in his heart almost solidified into substance.

"Anyway, he's just a yellow pig without braids. Maybe his scalp can be used to pass him off as an Indian."

In order to avoid an awkward situation for both parties, and mainly because Doctor Jiang was genuinely curious about the curse, he had to be the first to break the almost frozen atmosphere on the field.

He first coughed dryly, signaling everyone to look up at him, then he held up the extended metal cane with one hand and casually pressed most of the cane into the floor.

"Oh my, Mr. Eugene, your house needs repairing. Look at the floor, it's been eaten away by termites. Hahaha."

Eugene's face was so full of veins from these sarcastic remarks that he almost fainted.

Not to mention whether the overall brick and stone structure of the building would attract termites, the material of the room floor was not wooden flooring at all, but Victorian bricks that he spent a lot of money to transport from the east.

The fired bricks are seven or eight centimeters thick!

Not only that, but we still have to go in twenty to thirty centimeters of stone foundation.

Looking at the black hole in the ground poked by the cane, what else could he say?

He could only agree.

"Mr. Sabul is right. I will hire someone to exterminate the pests tomorrow."

Jiang Bing suddenly changed his previous civilized behavior and seemed to have returned to his original nature.

He unceremoniously placed his crutches across his knees and sat down on the sofa beside him.

The huge weight made the sofa creak under the heavy load.

"That's right, personal safety is more important than anything else, Master Eugene."

The threatening words made the other party break out in a cold sweat in a short period of time.

"Can you talk now?"

Eugene, who was hit hard, honestly told the secret in his heart.

After all, he had no choice but to tell her. Jiang Bing's curiosity had been aroused, and even if he wanted to run away, there was no way.

"Do you believe in the existence of the devil, Mr. Sable?"

Eugene did a lot of mental preparation before saying this.

"That depends on how you define the devil." Jiang Bing glanced at the other person.

The farmer scratched his hair in annoyance, unwilling to recall his past experiences.

"With eloquence and perceptiveness, he can easily arouse the deepest desires in people. Then, with his eloquent words, he can weave a web of lies to strike deals with people, giving everything and taking everything away."

"Oh"

Looking at the other party's confident expression, Jiang Bing rubbed his chin and said, "From the looks of you, you must have encountered the real thing. Did you make a deal with him?"

"Not me." Eugene smiled bitterly.

"It's my wife."

Anna couldn't help but exclaimed when she heard this.

"Mother!?"

Eugene patted his daughter's arm, signaling her to be patient.

"Don't worry, Mr. Sabul, I'm not going to laugh at you. My wife, Karlin, and I were childless until we were in our thirties. We went everywhere, seeking medical advice and medication, but nothing worked. Eventually, we both lost hope and even considered giving up."

"Until one rainy day, when we were returning home from Saint Denis in a carriage, we met a strange man on the side of the road."

"Strange man?" Jiang Bing repeated the other party's words.

Eugene rubbed his face. "He was wearing a black suit and a black top hat, just like the gentlemen you see everywhere in Saint Denis, walking alone in the rain."

"And then?" Jiang Bing became interested.

"Karlene invited him to the carriage to take shelter from the rain, and we had a very pleasant conversation for a while."

Eugene's expression was complicated. "Somehow, we got to talking about not having children. Then the man in the tall hat suddenly asked us very seriously, if we could make a wish, what would it be and what price we would be willing to pay for it."

He looked at Anna with an extremely complicated expression.

"Karlene was still upset about not being able to get pregnant. She followed the other person's topic and poured out her thoughts without hesitation."

Eugene closed his eyes in pain. "I still remember every word she said."

"I dream day and night of having a lovely little princess. She will come to my side and stay with me. I would be willing to sacrifice half of my life for her."

"I didn't expect it to come true, right?"

Jiang Bing continued his unfinished words.

Chapter 198 This is a trap

The rancher frowned and looked at the birthmark on Anna's face.

"From that day on, Karlin soon became pregnant with Anna, and everything that happened afterwards was just as promised in the vows we made that day."

"So, Mom didn't die of illness?"

Anna's words were very emotional.

"I don't know." Eugene looked at his daughter, his words full of pain.

"Karlene's departure is something none of us can accept, Anna. I don't know whether it's because of the illness or the oath we made that day, which seemed like a joke."

The sobbing sound gradually grew louder and louder, echoing in the room.

"Stay with me." Jiang Bing suddenly said.

The two people who were caught in a sad atmosphere were suddenly stunned by Jiang Bing's words.

Eugene reacted quickly.

"Mr. Sable, you mean?"

Jiang Bing paused with his cane, "Your wife's original words, stay with me."

"As you said, the devil is a difficult being no matter what legend it is. He will seize on the loopholes in your words and fulfill your wishes in a 'limited' manner."

Under the confused gazes of the maid and Anna, Eugene's expression became more and more solemn.

Soon, he said with a bit of realization: "You mean?"

"You mentioned before that because of the birthmark on Anna's face, she hardly ever left the house since she was a child. Does this count as a disguised way of accompanying your wife?"

Jiang Bing's words made the three people present feel dry in their mouths.

"After all, misinterpreting people's intentions, exploiting loopholes in language, and twisting the wishes of the wisher are the classic stereotypes of the devil."

"However, these are not a big deal. They are not incurable anyway." Jiang Bing glanced at the rancher with a meaningful look and added a follow-up statement.

"As long as you're not lying."

"Really, Mr. Sabul, do you really have a solution?" Eugene didn't know whether he deliberately ignored or simply didn't care about Jiang Bing's warning. He excitedly confirmed with Jiang Bing again and again.

Jiang Bing really didn't lie about this.

Whether it is a normal birthmark or a curse, he has a way to treat it

In the world of "The Witcher", curses are not uncommon because of the abundant chaotic magic power everywhere.

Strong emotions, careless words, dramatic conflicts, mass deaths or simply man-made causes can all form various curses.

Witchers have dealt with these curses a lot. Correspondingly, the last chapter of "The Witcher Principles" produced by Master Mirror records a large number of curse cases and methods of breaking the curse.

And Viletta's teaching materials also clearly mention the principles of curse formation and treatment methods.

In the eyes of wizards, curses are not mysterious. At best, they can only be regarded as a "magical disease" that can be studied, reproduced, and treated accordingly.

It is worth mentioning that the demon hunters’ solutions and the mages’ problem-solving ideas are very similar to the stereotyped differences between Chinese and Western medicine.

One is more of an empirical discipline, summarizing cases, drawing conclusions, and conducting biochemical control, while the other focuses on the analysis of corresponding principles, academic research, and a bird's-eye view. The solutions are also directly targeted at the root causes.

This results in the witchers using mostly bizarre folk remedies to break curses, some of which are based on personal experience, and some are simply based on records in reference books. Mages, on the other hand, will start with the curse itself, either by dismantling the structure, severing the links, or simply using a huge amount of chaos magic to directly flush out the cursed form, using force to overcome cleverness.

However, the number of curses in the world of "The Witcher" is far greater than the number of wizards, and not everyone has the ability to afford a powerful spellcaster to take action.

Although the witcher's method is not elegant, it is effective enough and the cost is low enough. Anyone can solve the problem most of the time as long as they follow the prescription and imitate it.

Of course, in most cases, even spellcasters will use some labor-saving folk methods to break the curse, after all, it is really useful.