An Eye for a Gold Coin

The abrupt question caught the one-eyed Butterfly Girl off guard; she had absolutely no idea what this customer wanted.

Is he nitpicking her flaws or deliberately finding fault?

Having worked in this industry for so many years, I've seen all sorts of people, especially the latter, who always seem to have ways of extorting kickbacks from me.

"Sir, are you not satisfied with my service? If you would like, I can call another lady for you," the Butterfly Girl said gently.

Li Ziran shook his head and laughed, "Losing your arms and eyes must have affected you a lot. I must say, you have a great figure and very delicate skin. You're considered top-tier among the Butterfly Clan. It's a shame you've ended up in Mill like this."

The Butterfly Girl's face was very unpleasant. Even though she was now a service worker, no one could stand it when the other party directly reopened old wounds. Just as she was about to get angry, the other party suddenly spoke again, "I can give you an eye."

These words were like a bolt from the blue, as if spoken in a dream.

"Sir, you must be joking."

Li Ziran touched the ring on his hand, and a gift box appeared in his hand. "Look what this is?"

The Butterfly Girl opened the gift box with some skepticism. Inside was a yellow cotton cloth, bulging as if something was stuffed inside. Gently lifting the cloth, she saw something resembling a pearl lying quietly in the center.

"This is..." She couldn't understand it. It looked a bit like an eyeball, but it wasn't this pale white, and it was full of bloodshot veins. It was ugly.

Li Ziran smiled. "Good stuff, the Blinding Eyeball of Cavefolk, mutated seven times, worth one gold coin on the market. Interested?"

He did raise the price, of course, but it depends on the situation; right now it's just right.

"Blinding Eyeball?" the Butterfly Girl murmured softly. She had heard of it; it was a very special eye that could be used to make Blinding Staff. She quickly realized—could this person be going to give her this eye?

She could hardly believe it. Her eyes had been blind for countless years. If it weren't for this blindness, with her beauty, even with a missing arm, she wouldn't have been reduced to only seventy or eighty copper coins. Even a Mill would be working in Mill in the Slave City, not serving these lowly guests like this.

"You... you mean... you want... you want to give me this eyeball?" The Butterfly Girl stammered, almost unable to believe such a good thing could happen.

Li Ziran smiled and said, "Of course, I'm willing to help, but not this one. That costs a gold coin, which you probably don't have."

"No! I have!" the Butterfly Girl suddenly said, but seemed to realize she had said the wrong thing and wanted to take it back, but then she closed her mouth and stared intently at the man soaking in the pool.

Some might have considered robbing her when they heard she had this money, but the opportunity before her was too good to pass up.

However, this surprised Li Ziran somewhat. Although this kind of woman could earn money, it would take her quite a few years to save up even one gold coin.

"Oh, that's very good. This is the Blinding Eye, possessing the innate ability to Blinding others. However, this eyeball cannot see anything; it's Magic Organ." Li Ziran explained carefully, "If you just want beauty, you can buy any slave and have their eyeball transplanted to you. Of course, I'll charge a relatively lower price."

"No, no need, this eye is fine." How could the Butterfly Girl not know the benefits of Magic Organ? Whether she could see or not didn't matter. If it could be both beautiful and give her an extra talent for self-defense, she couldn't ask for more.

After saying that, he suddenly turned around and ran towards the door. There was a clattering sound of stairs, followed by the laughter of the Mill customers. After a series of sounds of people climbing the stairs, the door slammed shut.

When she reappeared before Li Ziran, the Butterfly Girl was panting heavily, but she stretched out her only arm, and in her palm was a glittering gold coin.

Li Ziran didn't immediately take the gold coins. Instead, he examined the girl again and asked in a low voice, "Do you have any more?"

"What?" the Butterfly Girl asked, puzzled.

"Money!" Li Ziran replied readily, "If you have enough money, I can reattach an arm for you."

"You can even reattach an arm?" The Butterfly Girl was truly astonished. If her eyes and arm were intact, she would be a complete woman.

But she quickly fell silent. Although she still had some money, it was all in copper coins, which was not enough to buy an arm.

She felt a sense of despair, despair at her own poverty, at being unable to seize such a good opportunity.

"I'm out of money?" she whispered, as if afraid Li Ziran would hear.

"I don't have any money!" Li Ziran patted his forehead and lay back down in the pool. "This is a bit difficult. Nobody's things fall from the sky. It's tough. Sigh, if I only transplant one eye for you, it's a bit imperfect."

"I can do anything. You can make me do whatever you want. I know a lot," the Butterfly Girl quickly said. Compared to having a perfect self, everything else was worth throwing away, including herself.

To show his sincerity, he placed all the copper coins Li Ziran had given him, along with all the other goods he had on him, by the pool.

"Oh, well... alright, you can owe me that, but I have something to ask you later, so don't hide anything, okay?"

This was an idea that came to Li Ziran on a whim. They were about to enter the Hippo Ancient City, but currently, apart from the information on paper, they didn't know much about this city-state.

Besides the so-called Shadow Gathering, Li Ziran had only one goal in mind when he came to Hippo Ancient City.

No matter what, you must get a set of organs specifically designed for you here, and ensure that your organ system matures.

To achieve this goal, one must have some understanding of the slaves, markets, trade, and even the people who controlled the Hippo Ancient City.

Without a doubt, this person in front of him can help him, and will be even more meticulous.

"Of course... no problem, I can... I can explain in detail now." The Butterfly Girl was so excited that she started to stutter, and she even trembled uncontrollably after seeing Li Ziran put the copper coins away.

Li Ziran shook his head and laughed, "No rush, no rush, but the premise is that you have to bring me a slave girl. I don't have any ready-made ones. It would be best if she had beautiful arms. You don't want to just use a rough arm, do you?"

The Butterfly Girl snapped out of her daze and was about to leave when she suddenly realized something. She turned back, placed the precious gold coin on the edge of the bathtub, chuckled twice, and hurriedly ran outside.

The customers in the Mill were completely puzzled, especially the regulars, who had never seen the Butterfly Girl in such a hurry, as if she were about to get married.

Especially the girls on the millstone, they all know each other very well. Butterfly Girl has rarely been this active since she came to the Mill.

At this moment, the Butterfly Girl didn't care about the feelings of these people. She found the slave owner she had a relationship with before and exchanged him for a bunny girl for three nights' worth of service.

This bunny girl isn't pretty, but her arms are intact.

Are you ready?

The Butterfly Girl nodded. She was very nervous; the man's question seemed more important than the sky falling down.

"She's a slave, isn't she?"

The Butterfly Girl nodded again, but in an instant, a layer of mucus suddenly appeared on her body, enveloping her as if to strangle her to death.

"No, no... Help... Help me... Please... Quack... Quack... Quack quack..."

Li Ziran walked out of the pond, picked up the still trembling Frog, placed it in his palm, and smiled, "Don't be afraid, it'll be fine in a moment." As he spoke, he walked to the corner, took out two Frog, threw them on the ground, and transformed them into Corpse Witch. The Corpse Witch skillfully took out a red rope from their pocket, tied it to the frog's hind legs, and placed it by the pond.

He skillfully pulled out a scalpel and cleaned away the necrotic eyelid.

Transplanting an eye wouldn't be too difficult for Li Ziran now, but the Butterfly Girl's necrosis had been going on for too long, so the rotten flesh inside the entire eye socket needed to be removed, and some of the nerve networks connected to the eye needed to be re-treated.

Although it's a bit troublesome, Li Ziran doesn't need to do it himself. The current Corpse Witch is very skilled and can perform this kind of low-level surgery.

Blood was spurting, leather was splitting, and Li Ziran leaned against the pool, enjoying the caress of the warm water.

He casually grabbed a Fishman girl, gently patted her belly; the skin was shriveled, and she showed no sign of waking up.

"Am I really going to die?"

Li Ziran felt it was a pity. Putting aside the three girls' innocence, it was such a waste to let that delicate Devouring Curse go to waste.

It's somewhat laughable that he, an Organ Witch Doctor, could obtain three girls but be unable to wake them up.

Looks like I'll have to cut them open myself to take a look; I really can't let these three girls die like this.

Looking up into the distance, I saw that the Corpse Witch had already removed the bunny girl's arm and was removing the remaining blood vessels. The arm transplant was estimated to take another hour or so.

Li Ziran bit his index finger and touched it to the center of a Frog's forehead. Blood-red patterns slowly enveloped the frog's body, and its two legs began to molt, forming a golden fish tail. This enormous fish tail almost occupied the entire pond. When the fish tail reached halfway up the body, it transformed into a girl's unique form, and was now climbing on Li Ziran's shoulder.

However, she had lost her former delicacy and fragrance; this sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl looked like an eighty or ninety-year-old woman, her body withered and wrinkled.

"What happened?"

Li Ziran couldn't understand it. He could feel the girl's heart beating and her internal organs functioning slowly, but her physical characteristics were aging rapidly.

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would believe that just being exposed to the sun could cause this?

She's far too delicate.

Under normal circumstances, these Fishman should have gone extinct long ago.

He gently patted the Fishman's skin, hoping to Resurrection Spell without surgery.

Buzz!

A sudden sensation flashed in his mind: the Corpse Witch had completed the surgery. Li Ziran looked up at the now-healed Frog and touched its still-wet index finger to its brow.

Crimson patterns covered her entire body, and slowly, a complete Butterfly Girl appeared at the edge of the bathtub.

He was staring blankly around, but then something occurred to him, and his gaze suddenly fell on his extra arm.

"Come on, give me a shoulder massage!" Li Ziran flicked the other person's slender belly and pointed to his own shoulders.