Chapter 9 The Fruit Keeper and His Slave
The door was completely pushed open, and Mo Youli temporarily hid behind an auction item. The person who opened the door did not notice his figure. He opened his mouth wide and looked at his companion who was knocked unconscious by Mo Youli on the ground, trembling.
Just as he was about to turn around and call for help, Mo Youli noticed that there was no one else behind him.
Without the slightest hesitation, he acted decisively, grabbed a smaller cloth nearby, and quickly threw it at the other person's throat. Under the other person's astonished gaze, he ran over, grabbed the other person's hand and pulled it behind him, then turned around, raised his left leg and gently kicked the door, and the door quickly closed again.
The operation was smooth and completed in one go.
Looking back at the person who opened the door, Mo Youli quickly took out his white jade flute and put it against the other's neck. At this time, his face was disguised, with pockmarks all over it, his eyes made small and his mouth made big, so he was not afraid that the other would remember his appearance.
"If you make a sound, my flute will pierce your throat directly." Mo Youli said coldly.
Looking at Mo Youli's cold eyes, the other party knew that he was telling the truth, and quickly raised his hands high, showing a stiff smile, indicating that he was ready to cooperate at any time.
"That girl from the Watermelon Clan, where did you put her here?"
"This..." The other party hesitated for a moment.
Seeing this, Mo Youli Yudi deliberately moved forward.
"I say! I say! The girl from the Watermelon Tribe you're asking about is the final item in this auction. Naturally, she's been placed in a separate spot. How could she possibly be mixed in with these vulgar items?"
Mo Youli frowned and said sternly, "So where is she?"
The other party wanted to cry but had no tears, and hurriedly explained:
"It's not that I don't want to tell you! How could a mere minion like me know about this kind of grand prize?!"
At this point, the other party seemed to be afraid that Mo Youli would be unhappy, so he simply ended it and got rid of him. He continued to add:
"How about this? I know the exact location of the other auction items. Besides here, there are other rooms with other auction items. If you want to know where the other auction items are, I can tell you right now!"
After he finished speaking, he looked into Mo Youli's eyes with an expectant and nervous look, hoping to get a hint of hesitation from them.
Mo Youli glanced at him, and the next second, he flicked his fingertips, and a small insect entered the other person's body.
"If you expose me, this bug will strangle you to death immediately."
After saying that, Mo Youli knocked the other person unconscious with a knife.
Looking around, he couldn't help but sigh softly:
It seems that we have to adopt the second plan, and find a way to intercept Tang Qiuyue directly at the auction and take her away.
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Xu Ren'er and Qingti Yaoming had not been following the maid for long when they suddenly saw a group of guards walking back and forth in a hurry in front of them.
This unusual scene obviously attracted everyone's attention. The maid couldn't help but pull one of the guards and ask the reason.
"What happened?"
The guard was suddenly pulled over, feeling somewhat displeased. He turned around and saw that it was one of his own, so he said patiently:
“In one of the rooms responsible for placing the auction items, all the people in it were knocked unconscious.
The current status of the auction items is unknown. It is very likely that some of them are missing. We must urgently catch the thieves and we need people to immediately count the auction items to determine which one is missing!
At this point, the guard looked the maid up and down, then suddenly had an idea and said, "I remember you. You were the one who was responsible for recording the auction items some time ago. Do you have time now? We need your help!"
The maid was stunned for a moment, then reacted. She hesitated, her eyes wandering back and forth between Qingti Yaoming and the guards.
Qingti Yaoming was almost laughing like crazy, and he said to the maid:
"Go ahead and get busy! Just tell me the approximate location of the drinks, and I'll take care of the rest.
Don't worry, I know how to deal with my master and I promise I won't implicate you."
The maid breathed a sigh of relief, bowed slightly to Qingti Yaoming, thanked him solemnly, and then left with the guards.
As soon as they left, Qingti Yaoming looked at Xu Ren'er and said, "Be good and help me cover when the time is right."
Due to the effect of the badge, Qingti Yaoming was not sure about Xu Rener's reaction, but he thought it would not be too far off.
Xu Ren'er would naturally help Qingti Yaoming. She also needed to investigate the matter of the auction. They hit it off in this regard.
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After successfully memorizing the general route of the auction, Qingti Yaoming went to the place where the maid said the food was prepared. He made the drinks with a few strokes of the pen, and then took Xu Ren'er back to the lobby.
Unlike before I left, the lobby was now almost packed with people, and at a glance, it was filled with passion fruit peels.
There are many more barriers on both sides of the lobby, and behind each hazy barrier, there is a corresponding person sitting.
These people hold musical instruments in their hands, playing them with immersion, oblivious to the people around them. The sound is calm and pleasant, which is refreshing.
Although there were so many people that it was dizzying at first glance, the seats were all fixed. According to his memory, Qingti Yaoming quickly found Pingguo Xinshan and handed her the drink.
Apple Xinshan took the juice in the cup, shook it casually, then held it up and sipped it slowly.
Sure enough, when she lowered her head, she saw an auction route map carefully carved by Qingti Yaoming on the inner wall of the cup.
Apple Xinshan took note of it silently, and secretly complained in her heart: This Qingti Yaoming is simply poisonous and extremely unpalatable!
The brain tried hard to record the route map, and there was indeed no problem. Apple Xinshan pretended to shake the cup accidentally again, and the next second, the route map in the cup disappeared silently.
"The auction is about to start."
Apple Xinshan looked at the platform below and spoke slowly.
She had some impression of the song played in the lobby. It was a song that the Passion Fruit Tribe would play specifically to welcome important guests. She had heard it earlier when Apple Xinshan followed Durian Lifeng to the Passion Fruit Tribe to discuss something.
Qingti Yaoming nodded and was about to say something, but when he glanced at the lobby door, he was stunned.
Pingguo Xinshan and Xu Ren'er noticed that something was wrong with the person next to them, and looked at him with some confusion. Seeing that he was staring blankly in a certain direction, they followed his line of sight and looked back.
In an instant, Apple Xinshan understood why Qingti Yaoming was shocked.
As for Xu Ren'er, her brain froze on the spot. By the time she reacted, she was already so angry that she was in tears.
At the same time, in another corner of the lobby, Mo Youli had the same reaction as Xu Ren'er, his eyes were red, and if he hadn't been rational, he would have wanted to go up and kill someone.
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At this auction, all the fruit tribes chose to wear badges and disguise themselves as passion fruit tribe members out of consideration.
However, the person representing the Hami melon tribe this time did the exact opposite. He did not wear the badge provided by the auction, but instead openly displayed his identity with an extremely conspicuous Hami melon pendant around his waist, which was even an enlarged version.
What surprised Pingguo Xinshan and Qingti Yaoming was that they knew the person representing the Hami melon tribe.
No, strictly speaking, there is probably no one present who doesn't know him.
This person is the leader of the Hami melon tribe and one of the nine fruit managers in charge of managing the fruit kingdom.
Although it is indeed attractive to get the support of the durian tribe, it is ultimately just a small auction, and it is enough to send someone who is relatively influential in the cantaloupe tribe.
How could one of the nine fruit managers be alarmed?!
"Crash! Clang!"
It was the sound of chains sliding against each other. Only then did people notice that the fruit manager was holding a chain in his hand. Looking along the other end of the chain, they saw a handsome man in green.
The man in green was covered in scars, his face was expressionless, and his eyes were empty. His hands were placed in front of him, with iron rings fastened to them, and the iron rings were connected to chains. With a casual pull of the fruit-controller's hands, the man in green had to move his body forward.
Who is this man in green?
Fruit lovers all made guesses.
They all looked towards the waist of the man in green, but saw nothing.
Oh! They understood. It was a slave! They just didn't know which fruit tribe's slave it was.
At the same time, Xu Ren'er and Mo Youli shouted in their hearts:
He is not a slave, this man in green is our companion, the reason why we have come all the way to this strange world!!
The man in green in front of him, who looked obviously abused, was Tang Beiju, who had disappeared for a long time.
The moment they saw Tang Beiju, Xu Ren'er and Mo Youli's memories were completely restored.
"Just do whatever you want, don't take me too seriously."
Ignoring everyone's various gazes, Hamigua Hehuai raised the corner of his mouth and spoke slowly.
Hamiguahenhuai, this man looks to be about thirty years old, with a pair of charming peach blossom eyes and a faint smile on the corners of his mouth. At first glance, you would think he is a kind and gentle person.
But his smile did not reach his eyes, and he exuded a sense of alienation, his white clothes spotless. Fortunately, the cantaloupe pendant around his waist added a bit of liveliness, so that he was not too unapproachable.
The organizer of the auction was also caught off guard. The person in charge hurried over, bowed and nodded to Hami Melon He Huai, and came forward to talk to him.
While speaking, he secretly rejoiced in his heart that the Hami Melon Clan was powerful and the Passion Fruit Clan had arranged the best front row seats for them early on.
Otherwise, they would probably die on the spot when they thought about arranging second-class seats for the fruit manager.
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Hami Melon He Huai was the last to be seated at the auction.
The people at the auction repeatedly counted the auction items and confirmed that there were no missing items. They then repeatedly tested the authenticity of the items again. After knowing that none of them were fakes, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
No matter what the thief's purpose was, at least there was no problem with the current emergency.
So, when everyone was present, the person in charge of the speech on the auction items also got the tacit approval of the higher-ups and quickly went backstage.
The curtain covering the platform rose little by little, and everyone immediately became alert, stopped what they were doing, calmed their minds, and watched the stage intently.
When the curtain was completely drawn, the music in the hall finally stopped.
The auction officially begins!
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