Chapter 12

Lu Mi seemed to be leaving in a very cool manner.

However, in reality, he simply moved from the southeast corner of the garden to the southwest corner.

I guess the old man and the young boy who are currently on the other side, still thinking about what just happened, have no idea that the person they are looking for is not far away at all.

At this time, it was already several minutes past the agreed transaction time of 21:00.

Lu Mi took advantage of the cover of heavy trees and walked out from the shadows.

A man who had been waiting here a few minutes ago was startled by the sound of nearby bushes being pulled aside, and then suddenly turned around to follow the sound.

Seeing the owl mask on Lu Mi's face, the man's alert expression faded slightly, but he still spoke tentatively: "Are you the person who contacted me on the forum?"

It seems that I didn’t recognize the wrong person this time, Lu Mi thought.

The man in front of him had curly hair and was holding up a brown owl mask on his face, looking at him cautiously.

Lu Mi nodded under his gaze, "I am, sorry, I'm a few minutes late."

"Huh..." The curly-haired man finally breathed a sigh of relief. "You've brought the stuff, right? Let's finish the deal quickly. You're late, but you didn't realize there was a gunshot over there. Things are definitely going to get rough in the palace tonight! Guards might be arriving soon. To avoid getting involved, we'd better get out of this troubled place as soon as possible."

Lu Mi, the center of the vortex, had just left a troubled place: "What you said makes sense."

When killing the leader of the snake-headed pterosaurs before, Lu Mi also harvested a lot of other snake-headed pterosaurs, so naturally he had no shortage of their teeth.

But he didn't take it all out, but took a quantity that wouldn't attract attention.

But even so, the curly-haired man still looked surprised.

"This is much more than I thought!"

The curly-haired man looked at him in surprise, "How could you possibly get so much goods right under the noses of those extraordinary people..."

You know, the remains of abyssal creatures are very important materials, and they are strictly controlled by the higher-ups. Even the largest headhunting company in the underground world finds it difficult to get in!

Lu Mi just smiled and said nothing.

The man quickly counted the goods in his hands, and then carefully glanced at the silver-eyed young man in front of him wearing a mask.

He didn't know if it was because the moonlight tonight was particularly dreamy, but he actually felt that the young man shrouded in the hazy moonlight seemed to have melted into that faint glow, and against the backdrop of the heavy shadows of the trees behind him, he looked incomparably beautiful and mysterious.

The curly-haired man clenched the heavy teeth in his hand, his mind raced, and he quickly made up his mind.

The curly-haired man looked up. "Twenty-four in total. I'll give you all of them at the highest market price per unit. I'll pay you 2.4 million star coins."

Lu Mi was stunned for a moment, but he was not blinded by the money. He calmly reminded: "Some of them are worn out."

The curly-haired man smiled when he heard this. Although he had seen it at a glance when he had just counted, Lu Mi told him so frankly that the meaning was still different.

"I know, so I want to do you a favor and make friends with you," said the man.

Lu Mi immediately understood what the other party was thinking. "You want to become a long-term customer of mine."

The curly-haired man smiled in acquiescence.

Lu Mi: "But I don't plan to trade again. I may never have such an opportunity again."

After all, he would just sit in the case room and organize documents. In other words, he was a standard civil servant.

The Blue Steel Empire's incident was simply a fire at the gates of the city, and he was just an innocent bystander. Such incidents might not happen again for decades, and as for other places further away, that was beyond his control.

"It's okay, we really just want to make friends." The curly-haired man has been in this business for more than ten years. Utilitarianism and sincerity have never conflicted. He believes in his ability to judge people and really wants to leave a good impression on Lu Mi.

On the other hand, he also knew that what Lu Mi said was right—encountering an abyssal creature and returning alive once was a good thing. How could a person have such luck every time in his life!

Even those crazy mercenaries in the underground world are always prepared to never come back, truly exchanging their lives for money.

Ordinary extraordinary people like Lu Mi would naturally avoid such orders.

Then, the curly-haired man said that he could transfer the money on the spot.

However, the curly-haired man looked at the terminal that Lu Mi took out with some surprise.

A third-generation terminal? Someone who casually bought so many expensive monster fangs actually used something like this that was already obsolete...

He was shocked.

Could this be the world of the strong?! As expected, every powerful person has some strange hobbies that are beyond the comprehension of ordinary people like them. Perhaps this is the reason for their weakness!

Lu Mi looked at the curly-haired man's expression changing back and forth, and finally he looked sighing with emotion, and suddenly felt that the other party might get along well with Aronfoss.

"I don't have that much liquid capital at the moment, so I'll give you 2 million star coins first. I'll make up the remaining 400,000 as soon as I return to the company. I hope you can forgive me."

The headhunting company where the curly-haired man works can barely make it into the middle of the underground world, and in the past it could only survive in the cracks between the giants in the industry.

The transaction amount was beyond his expectations, so much so that the money he had on hand was not enough.

But such a huge achievement would be astonishing even for those top companies. If I bring it back, it will surely attract the attention of the entire company.

Lu Mi said he didn't mind, so both parties left their contact information.

"Then I look forward to our next cooperation." After saying goodbye to him, the curly-haired man looked around and hurriedly left with his head down.

When the man's figure disappeared into the woods, Lu Mi heard a commotion in the distance, as well as the sound of well-trained footsteps of a large number of soldiers.

The king finally recovered from the shock and ordered people to block the scene.

"We should go too."

Lu Mi put one hand on the mask, and his lips under the mask curled up slightly.

"I remember there was a fountain in the middle of the garden?"

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The power to travel through space requires a mirror as the medium. The water surface is actually a little difficult, but it is not a problem for Lu Mi.

This time, there were two of us going out, including Fei Zhang.

When I came back, there was a third existence that could not be ignored.

"Aaron."

Lu Mi looked at the demon who had returned to the manor dormitory through the mirror and was now secretly observing the surroundings, and he couldn't help but twitch his lips.

Apart from anything else, the demon's inhuman appearance alone exudes an astonishing presence, completely out of place in the dormitory of ordinary humans.

It felt like a foreign object had been inserted into my peaceful life, completely shattering the painting style. I can only say that it was a good thing that no one else was around, otherwise I would have screamed and fainted on the spot.

"I'm here," the demon replied meekly. Its crimson eyes glanced across the mirror, and it said meaningfully, "This is that person's 'knowledge'. It's really convenient. It seems your insistence on including his real name in the book was of some use."

Lu Mi's eyes moved.

Here it comes, the familiar compliment and implicit criticism. Of course, the target isn't him, but the other person mentioned in the words.

Mirror, space—this power and knowledge came from his Book of Keys, Sequence One.

That’s right, it was the first demon that Lu Mi contracted.

Perhaps because of this special meaning, Aronfoss always felt that the other party was Lu Mi's most legitimate right-hand man. This made the devil who wanted to become Lu Mi's most trusted confidant always feel a great sense of crisis.

However, Lu Mi felt that Sequence One would not think so at all. After all, that guy... a figure emerged from his mind.

"Master?" Aronfoss suddenly spoke.

Lu Mi came back to his senses and looked at the other party in confusion.

The demon narrowed his eyes slightly and lowered his head to ask, "What should we do next?"

……Next step?

The next step, of course, is to continue his comfortable and leisurely daily life, finish sorting the information in the archives, and work hard to become a full-time employee from an intern.

But then, Lu Mi thought of the abyss crack hidden under the palace -

"It is completely under your control." The devil's words are still ringing in my ears.

This is not good. Why does it feel like he becomes a dangerous person just after going out?

Lu Mi said expressionlessly, "Before that, I want to know what the current situation in the abyss is like."

"I was negligent," the demon said, bowing slightly. "I believe you have also seen those cracks in the abyss. In fact, as more and more cracks appear, the entire abyss is now in an unusually turbulent atmosphere."

"Powerful abyssal species that have been dormant for endless periods of time are awakening one after another, and the East, West, and South regions are completely out of control."

The land of the abyss is so vast that no living creature has yet fully explored it.

So the "domain" here refers to the infinitely vast land extending outward in all directions.

"The Northern Territory is home to the most demons, and the strongest ones have basically already revealed their true names to you. Therefore, the situation in the Northern Territory is the best."

Generally, big demons have their own territory, which can also be said to be their hunting range.

In the past, these great demons would completely ignore the other abyssal creatures within their territory. They treated them like little bugs at their feet, crushing them to death and keeping them at a distance without even bothering to dig them out.

These top-tier monsters were always extremely selfish and cruel. They needed no companions or followers. They were born alone, and then fought alone until they were slain by a being stronger than themselves.

Then their territory will be taken over by the stronger one, or abandoned with no interest.

The abyss has always been chaotic and disordered. People die every second, and territories are changed every second.

Everyone has long been accustomed to it.

However, it is not known whether there is a contractual relationship between him and Lu Mi.

These demons who might have never met in their lives, or who would have instinctively fought to the death upon their first meeting, met and even worked together.

Although it was difficult, they found the only acceptable balance point, which was Lu Mi.

The other party is Lu Mi's follower - thinking so, he endured it.

Then, in the continuous overt and covert frictions in the future, they strangely reached some consensus, such as -

“The land of the master’s followers is, of course, also marked with the master’s mark.”

It doesn't matter even if followers die, but the territory belongs to the master and must always be so!

Thus, a scene appeared in the abyss that stunned countless bewildered people—those great demons who never appeared together actually joined forces to fight against the invaders of the territory and protect the ownership of the territory? ! !

Shocked!!!

No one knows what prompted these great demons to join forces, what connected these top monsters, but they were indeed bound together by an invisible rope.

Later on, as more and more abyss creatures - especially those at the bottom, were so weak that they were not worth destroying at all, they were able to come back alive from those big demons.

These weak creatures of the abyss witnessed with their own eyes one time a young man with silver eyes, who was guarded by many great demons on a cliff.

At that moment, they suddenly realized that the center of the world had appeared.

The moon surrounded by stars and the light source that moths fly towards were finally born into this world.

Starting from this land before him, this is the kingdom they built for him.

The author has something to say:

Lu Mi, I would like to call him the largest real estate developer in the Northern Territory.