Chapter 18

The huge monster flew into the sky with injuries.

If there were other people here at this moment, they would be horrified to find that there was a huge nest of monsters hovering in the sky.

It's like a beehive, only more sophisticated and huge. Insect-like monsters are constantly flying in and out of it, rapidly improving it bit by bit.

The monster stumbled into a corridor, its body slowly shrinking into a humanoid male. He still had moth-like wings, and the antennae on his head were drooping limply.

In the abyss, high-level Zerg only account for a small part of the huge Zerg group, and they all have the ability of mimicry.

The Zerg, disguised as a humanoid, walked in step by step with difficulty and was soon discovered by another humanoid Zerg.

The young man who was walking slowly towards them had an unprecedentedly powerful posture. His footsteps, one after another, were like knocking on one's heart, and an astonishing sense of oppression quickly spread in the air.

When the injured Zerg saw the other party, he immediately felt like he had seen a savior, and called out with a look of surprise and grievance: "Big Brother!"

The man looked down at him condescendingly, his dark eyes shone with a faint blue light, like a surging deep sea hidden in the darkness.

"What's going on?" he asked briefly.

The injured Zerg hurriedly explained something, and the man frowned slightly after listening. "How could there be someone among humans who could hurt you?"

"More than that! I feel like they haven't used their full strength yet. It seems like they deliberately asked me to come back to report..." The injured Zerg was in a panic. "Brother, the Queen Mother asked me to go hunting, but I didn't bring anything back. If she asks me for food later...!"

At this point, the injured Zerg looked terrified.

The "Queen Mother" is the king of the Zerg and the mother of all high-ranking Zerg. In the past, there were many Zerg groups, large and small, in the Western Regions of the Abyss, and each group had its own Queen Mother.

But not long ago, their mother awakened from the abyss - the ancient insect queen quickly swallowed up the rest of the insect swarms, and then gave birth to them, her children, as supporters of her new dynasty throughout the Western Regions.

High-level Zergs grow very fast, so they now have the appearance of adults, and the man in front of them is their mother's first child, the elder brother of all of them, and the strongest among them.

At this moment, the injured Zerg almost instinctively sought shelter from the man.

After all, the Zerg didn't have blood ties. Especially for the Queen Mother, the last thing she lacked was children, especially those like them who were brought in later to fill the gaps and didn't inherit much power.

——It will definitely be eaten!

The injured Zerg looked at the man in despair.

Facing his pleading eyes, the man seemed to think of his mother's cruelty, so his eyes moved and he said coldly: "You wait here."

After saying that, he spread his wings and flew out of the nest, heading towards the direction where the injured Zerg returned.

The injured Zerg breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this—

Great! If Big Brother were to personally take action, he would surely be able to find prey that would satisfy Mother!

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As a young nobleman, Grant has never come face to face with any abyss creature since he was born, so it can be said that he is well protected.

Who knew that I would be almost caught just for coming out to give a hint this time? This can no longer be described as just a shock.

"Young Master, why don't we go back to our room and rest first?" The guards tried to take the young man away.

However, Grant shook his head frantically and refused to leave Lu Mi's side.

He is now just like a fool whose materialistic worldview has collapsed. He madly hugs the Taoist priest's thigh and starts howling, "Master, Master, save me!"

"That monster won't come back, right?" Grant nervously rubbed against Lu Mi.

Lu Mi glanced at him, his silver eyes flickering as he casually replied, "As far as I know, the Zerg are very loyal to those they like."

"……What's the meaning?"

"It means that He will persist in wanting to eat you, young master." The guard came up to explain in a flattering manner.

"Get out!" Grant glared at him.

Do you think he doesn’t understand? Is this what he wants to hear now!?

Grant tried his best to make his legs less trembling. He chased after Lu Mi tremblingly and asked, "How did you beat that monster away? It was that whoosh! I didn't even have time to see it clearly. Do all extraordinary people have this kind of power? Are they all as powerful as you? Do you think I have that kind of talent?"

The words are full of desire to survive.

Amid the young man's frantic questioning, Lu Mi patrolled the surroundings of the giant ship completely undisturbed, repeatedly recalling and confirming the direction in which the vanguard Zerg had departed, and slowly sketching out a route map in his mind.

At this time, a bodyguard from the giant ship came over and informed the two that the auction would be moved forward to half an hour later, so please be prepared.

Grant had already asked someone to report the previous Zerg attack, and Lu Mi thought they would return directly.

It now seems that the organizers of the auction still do not want to give up this event, perhaps because they have not seen the monster with their own eyes, or they think that there are a large number of extraordinary people and mercenaries on this ship, so there is no need to be afraid.

Ignorance is truly fearless.

At this moment, Grant seemed to have finally grown tired of talking and suddenly asked, "Do you want to go see the auction items?"

Lu Mi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows in surprise. "They are now kept in a key storage room, a place where outsiders are not allowed to enter."

Grant was immediately cheered up when he saw that Lu Mi was finally willing to pay attention to him. He patted his chest proudly and said, "Others certainly can't do that, but my family often cooperates with them in business, so it's no problem for me to go and take a look!"

Once the auction starts, the items will be taken away directly to the bidders, and there will be no chance to broaden your horizons.

Lu Mi happened to be quite interested in the things in the mission, so the two of them went directly to the other end of the ship.

Unexpectedly, as soon as we approached the key storage room, we saw people lying on the ground in front of the door.

Grant jumped up instantly, "What's going on? Is the monster coming again?"

A group of bodyguards in black were lying there motionless. Lu Mi squatted down and checked their breath, and found that they were just knocked unconscious.

"It shouldn't be. Someone broke into the storage room." Lu Mi said as he slowly lowered his gaze to the half-open door.

This is really a case of one problem after another.

Grant swallowed carefully and said in a low voice, "Should we go back and call for help?"

Lu Mi shook his head, signaling the young man to stand here and not move, and then, under the other's nervous and suffocating gaze, he pushed open the door of the storage room.

In an instant, a dark shadow hanging upside down on the ceiling attacked from above.

Lu Mi took a step back as expected, raised his hand and called for the silver spear, and the other party seemed stunned for a moment.

"when--!"

The silver spear collided with a scarlet scimitar, and fierce fireworks burst out at the intersection of the ice blades. The strong wind brushed across the cheeks of both parties and blew off their hats in an instant.

This person turned out to be the hooded man on the second floor who was innocently targeted by the enemy!

His black hair naturally fell from the hat, revealing a handsome face. His eyes were fixed on Lu Mi, and he looked extremely young.

Young people nowadays are becoming more and more incredible. Lu Mi, with an inexplicably vicissitudes of life in his mind, sighed like this.

"Now is not the time for the auction to start." Lu Mi looked at the box in the other party's hand and smiled slightly, "It's better to put the goods back."

The black-haired boy felt the growing power of the silver spear pressing down on him and gritted his teeth. "I'm only here to take back what's mine!"

Hey, it sounds like there's a story here.

But after all, it is an auction in the underground world. It is not surprising that the items here are of unknown origin or have other hidden secrets.

While Lu Mi was thinking casually, he repelled the black-haired boy who tried to resist, and the red scimitar was easily knocked away.

"Bang--!"

Salien fell to the ground, looking at the silver-eyed young man walking towards him with a gun in the distance. He clenched his hands little by little, and his pupils trembled.

——How can he be so strong!

For a moment, Saleen even wondered if the fame he'd built up in the underworld over the past few years was just a dream. Otherwise, how could he, feared by countless people as a top assassin, be defeated so easily by someone here?!

An assassin always aims to hit the target with one strike, but no matter how many times he attacked from which direction, he was always taken down with ease.

The silver spear, wrapped in a strong wind, was pressed against his throat. The young man with silver eyes looked down at him, his expression never changing from beginning to end.

"Want to come again?" he asked.

Like an adult indulging a child with a toy, Salien stared intently at those silver eyes, as if intent on etching them into the depths of his mind. Then, as if giving up, he collapsed onto the ground, his tightly pursed lips betraying a deep sense of shame and unwillingness.

Grant looked at him with admiration. Seeing this, he immediately ran over, ignoring Saleen's warning and fierce look. Relying on Lu Mi's presence, he boldly picked up the box that had fallen on the ground.

"Hey, this is the finale item!" Grant had the channels to see the list of items for the auction in advance, so he recognized it at a glance.

Lu Mi took a look and was stunned by the things inside.

——That’s a flute.

Miraculously, he sensed the aura of a dragon on this flute. He knew this because, while most of the monsters he had contracted were demons, there happened to be one dragon among them—probably the last remaining dragon in the Abyss; at least he hadn't seen another one yet.

But it is still a young dragon, and the one responsible for taking care of it now is... Sequence One.

Lu Mi thought about this and asked, "Is this a flute made from the bones of abyssal creatures?"

Salien shuddered, looking at him in astonishment. "How did you know...?" He said quickly, "This is something my grandfather left behind. He was a craftsman, and he found a bone from somewhere and made this flute out of it."

Grant: "So you are now?"

Salien's eyes turned cold. "My grandfather realized that this flute possessed some magical powers. Its sound could even intimidate some creatures of the abyss. But later, someone spread the news, and they snatched it from my grandfather! Before my grandfather passed away, he told me to find it."

"Your grandfather was right." Lu Mi said slowly.

Although we don't know which dragon this bone belongs to, the abyss dragon species are almost extinct now, so there is no need to investigate.

The flute made of dragon bones can indeed deter weak abyss creatures, but correspondingly, it will also attract powerful abyss creatures to come and challenge.

The latter is simply a nightmare that will only bring disaster to oneself, and the effect can be described as devastating.

Grant's hand trembled instantly, and he felt that the thing in his hand was full of danger, so he subconsciously handed it to Lu Mi.

Lu Mi just stretched out his hand——

"boom!"

There was a sudden huge tremor, and the entire storage room shook a few times.

Lu Mi's eyes flickered and he looked up, "Up there."

"There's an auction venue above the storage room!" Grant also noticed the movement. "Something must have happened!"

Inside the auction venue.

Since the auction is about to begin, almost everyone on the ship has gathered here.

Suddenly, all the glass in the cabin exploded, and the flying fragments made everyone scream subconsciously.

"ah--"

The next second, an extremely brilliant light appeared in everyone's vision, like the dawn in the far north, or like a diamond refracting in the sun.

A howling wind rushed in through the broken window, and as the sea breeze and moisture hit their faces, everyone suddenly saw clearly - the brilliant colors were not an illusion, but came from a pair of beautiful wings.

He possesses wings so beautiful they are almost dreamlike, but he is a man who exudes a creepy and dangerous aura.

He opened his dark eyes, and a deep blue light flashed from the bottom of his eyes. Those eyes swept over everyone present calmly, like a top predator searching for his prey.

Just as he was staring at someone, suddenly, a strange flute sound rang out - as if it came from the distant ancient times, deep, ancient, dangerous... It echoed in his mind like a huge bell, as if warning outsiders to stay away from this land.

He paused, suddenly turned around and stared in the direction of the booth.

The floor there suddenly sank like an elevator. It was originally designed to more conveniently transport auction items, but now it suddenly transported three people.

For a moment, everyone in the venue looked in that direction, and those who were almost targeted as prey collapsed to the ground.

The auctioneer was hiding in the corner, staring at them with wide eyes. If it wasn't for the wrong timing, he would have looked like he was going to yell, "How did you get out of there!?"

"You weren't scared off. It seems you are very smart. Did you send someone more powerful this time?" Lu Mi put down the flute from his lips and tilted his head slightly.

At the same time, in the abyss, a hundred-meter-long young dragon suddenly woke from its rest. Its ears twitched, and it suddenly let out a burning cry into the void.

Beside it, the white-haired demon, with blood stains from the battle still on his face, slowly opened his eyes.

Reflected in those weary, frantic eyes was a sky above, boundless even beyond desire. Countless insects swarmed through the air, gathering toward the growing black crack in the distance of the desolate land.