Rhapsody of the Skeleton – Chapter 18

Ch 18: Peculiar Skeleton

In the following days, Yun Ming was completely free. He sparred with Sake and the others every day, and when tired, they sat together to chat, indirectly learning a lot about the army.

“Bang!” Yun Ming dodged the oncoming iron fist, squatted down, and slammed hard into the ape-shaped jade bone’s hip bone. Sake was pushed back two steps by the impact, and the several jade bones watching cheered in unison.

Just as Sake was about to say something, Weisenter came out of the bone house. “Lord.” The jade bones quickly greeted him. Weisenter came to Yun Ming’s side and handed him a leather pouch. “Send this soul water to the Bone Forest Bookstore on East Ninth Street, go now.”

This was a very skeletal place name. For skeletons, the most important things were battle and living souls, so many place names were directly indicated by numbers and directions. For example, East Ninth Street, where Yun Ming was going, represented the ninth street in the east of the city.

“Nine” was the number that skeletons hated the most, and all places with the number nine were considered unlucky by the skeletons. East Ninth Street was also the most dilapidated street in the entire East District, with hardly any skeletons in sight.

The only advantage was that the rent here was cheap enough. For the same amount of soul water, you could buy nearly ten times the land here compared to other districts.

Looking at the somewhat dilapidated sign, Yun Ming thought to himself that he shouldn’t have come to the wrong place. He walked up the steps, and the small shop had several bookshelves filled with books, but they were covered in dust, indicating they had been there for a long time.

“Is there a skeleton?” Yun Ming looked inside.

“Weisenter sent you, right?” The voice was not loud, but it had an old feeling. Yun Ming turned around, and a snail skeleton appeared on the counter at some point. “That’s right, Lord Teluniyisi asked me to deliver soul water.” Yun Ming took the leather pouch out of his chest cavity and placed it on the counter.

The snail skeleton glanced at the leather pouch: “Not even 10 *jin*, it seems that ox really gave up.” The snail skeleton seemed to be talking to himself: “Oh well, consider it helping him one last time.” After saying that, the snail skeleton carried its bone shell and slowly headed towards.

Weisenter asked him to deliver soul water to the snail skeleton, which meant they knew each other. Looking at the snail skeleton’s pale bone quality, it should be a white bone, but it wasn’t in a superior-subordinate relationship with Weisenter. Also, what the snail white bone said earlier, what did Weisenter give up? How could a white bone help a war bone?

One question after another formed in Yun Ming’s mind. Weisenter didn’t seem that simple. Then Yun Ming changed his mind: Weisenter was his superior war bone, even if he had secrets, he wouldn’t tell a jade bone.

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, the dazzling array of books on the bookshelf attracted Yun Ming’s attention.

Skeletons weren’t interested in books at all, and the material of these books wasn’t the common bone material either. Many were paper books. Yun Ming guessed that these books were probably transported from Fengyuan Continent. Just as Yun Ming wanted to pick up a book to take a look, a square “bone block” on the ground entered Yun Ming’s sight.

Yun Ming squatted down to see clearly that this wasn’t a “bone block” at all, it was clearly a huge bone book. The entire bone book was almost half as tall as Yun Ming. Gently brushing away the dust on it, Yun Ming saw the words on it, “So this book is called the Bone Compendium.” Yun Ming roughly estimated that the entire book probably had thousands of pages, each page was a thin bone plaque, and it was covered in writing.

Opening the first page, it introduced the skeleton’s level divisions and the characteristics of each stage. Yun Ming was overjoyed, this was exactly what he wanted to know most right now. Yun Ming simply sat on the ground and began to read it seriously.

Yun Ming focused on the jade bone stage. The Bone Compendium said that after a skeleton was promoted from white bone to jade bone, in addition to being able to use soul speech, it would also gain a “Tong Yan” ability. The so-called “Tong Yan” meant that after being promoted to jade bone, no matter what language the other party spoke, you would be able to understand it, and the other party would also be able to understand what you said. In addition, you would automatically learn the skeleton’s writing: bone script.

Seeing this, Yun Ming couldn’t help but marvel at the magic of the skeletons. No wonder he could recognize the words on the signboard and in the Bone Compendium, he hadn’t even noticed it.

In fact, not only was Yun Ming not concerned about these things, but 99% of the skeletons on the Skeleton Continent wouldn’t pay attention to them. Just the jade bone stage had such magical places, he wondered what would come later. Yun Ming’s curiosity was aroused, and he quickly became immersed in the Bone Compendium, completely forgetting the time.

“You’re very interested in this book?” The snail white bone looked at Yun Ming with interest, holding a roll of sheepskin in his hand. Yun Ming was interrupted and looked up outside. The moon had long disappeared, it was night now. He looked down at the Bone Compendium, he hadn’t even finished one-tenth of it.

“Yes, this book is very interesting,” Yun Ming said. Interesting? In all these years, the snail white bone was the first to hear this evaluation. This skeleton was a bit interesting.

“Give this to Weisenter.” Saying that, the snail white bone threw the sheepskin to Yun Ming. Yun Ming took the sheepskin, carefully put it away, and was about to leave when a voice rang out outside.

“Old Snail Head, I got what you wanted.” A humanoid jade bone appeared at the door, carrying a bag on his back, muttering: “This trip almost killed me, I almost lost my life for your things.” Seeing Yun Ming, his tone was a bit surprised: “Oh! Old Snail Head, is your broken bookstore open today?”

“Humph! My bookstore is doing very well, it’s none of your business,” the snail white bone said coldly.

“Doing well my ass! Since I moved here, let alone selling books, besides that ox-shaped battle bone, has any other skeleton come here?” The humanoid jade bone retorted unceremoniously, then turned to Yun Ming, his bone face full of curiosity: “You’re here to buy books? A skeleton buying books, did you grow bone spurs? Looking at you, you should be a military bone, right? Whose war bone lord are you under? Maybe I know them, do you know something big is going to happen recently…”

The humanoid jade bone’s questions came one after another like a string of firecrackers, Yun Ming couldn’t handle it. Yun Ming swore that he had never seen such a talkative skeleton. Even Sake wasn’t this talkative when he was drunk. Yun Ming wasn’t interested in answering this chatterbox jade bone’s questions, and lifted his leg to leave.

Seeing that Yun Ming wanted to leave, the chatterbox jade bone quickly put down the bag and followed: “Don’t go, military bone brother, do you need bone ornaments? I have a complete range of products here.” Seeing that Yun Ming ignored him, he said again: “If you don’t want bone ornaments, I have other things too, all good things transported from Fengyuan Continent…” The chatterbox skeleton’s voice stopped abruptly, as if he saw something terrible, and suddenly hid behind Yun Ming.

Yun Ming really had a headache because of this skeleton. They acted like they were very familiar as soon as they met, then immediately tried to sell him goods, and now he was hiding behind him. Obviously, it was because of the scene in front of him.

More than a dozen skeletons stood opposite Yun Ming, led by a pig-shaped jade bone. Two fangs grew from the huge nasal bone, looking majestic, but Yun Ming saw that there were several white spots on the pig-shaped jade bone’s body. He knew that this group of skeletons weren’t military bones, and like the chatterbox skeleton, they should be residents of Kaye City.

Generally, in cities the size of Kaye City, in addition to having a main soul rift, there would be many small soul rifts. The skeletons that climbed out of these soul rifts, if they weren’t recruited into the army, would become residents of Kaye City.

The pig-shaped jade bone saw the jade bone hiding behind Yun Ming and said, “Jin Shan, quickly hand over that bag of strong bone material.”

“Why? Whoever finds those bone materials gets them,” Jin Shan replied from behind Yun Ming, but his tone was completely lacking the toughness he had when he retorted to Old Snail Head earlier.