Chapter 43
The auction held every three years in Morton City is the event that the city lord is most proud of.
Not only will the fallen wizards, princes and nobles from across the continent, and high-ranking officials from various ethnic tribes come to participate, but even the normally righteous members of the magic guilds will disguise themselves and sneak in, hoping to see if they can find some treasures at the auction.
The city lord looked down on these guys, but on special days, he would still turn a blind eye to them. After all, no one can resist money.
For those who are attending the auction for the first time, they need to submit an auction item as an admission ticket. The grade of the auction item determines their seat in the auction.
Especially those mages who were able to enter the Central Inquisition, the treasures they handed over to the city lord were more rare than each other. In order to gain the favor of the city lord, they would even go around snatching treasures before the auction began. Many small tribes and poor countries had suffered from their hands because of this.
This time when Gu Liang and his companions entered the city, they naturally brought a "big gift" for the city lord.
"What?" The city lord's eyes widened when he saw the list. "They said they wanted to auction off the demon god's organs?"
As for the story about the devil, the city lord naturally no longer believed it; but everyone present had witnessed with their own eyes the power of the "mechanism" in Yi Yan's hand!
He was willing to auction off such a powerful weapon? Wasn't he afraid of it being disassembled and copied?
Although it is hard to understand, I have to say that the city lord was indeed moved.
Moreover, judging from the list of auction items they submitted, there are far more than just one machine.
The city lord reached out and stroked the poison bottle on his chest, then stood up, walked to the window of the tower with his hands behind his back, and looked down at the endless stream of people moving back and forth on the road below like ants. A smug smile slowly formed at the corners of his lips.
On the rooftop of a three-story building about 1,100 yards away from him, Yi Yan looked up at the tower with a sense of something, pressed the microphone and said:
"Code 02 is in place."
There are still two hours and four minutes until the auction officially begins.
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"Damn it... Shit, what the hell are these things? Why are they so weird!?"
Inside the warehouse, an orc who was in charge of moving the auction items struggled to move the items to the designated location and couldn't help but complain loudly.
"Stop talking nonsense. This is an auction item sent by the mages of the Judgment Seat. Be careful here. If you damage it, I will skin you alive and you won't be able to pay for it!"
The dwarf wizard who was supervising the work nearby glared at him fiercely, wielded a whip and cursed loudly, "Stop being lazy and get to work!"
The orc dared not say anything but secretly spit at the square iron lump that was a full cubic meter in size.
What a piece of crap!
Suddenly, a dazzling light appeared on one side of the square——
"Connecting..."
The orc was startled and subconsciously took a step back, only to find that more than twenty similar iron blocks around him were all vibrating, like curled up spiders stretching out their limbs. Almost in the blink of an eye, they transformed into intelligent military robots with multiple rotating arms!
There was a sudden chaos in the warehouse.
In order to ensure the safety of the auction items, there are guards here all day long, and the gate can only be opened by people inside. It is said that once a powerful wizard defeated the guards outside and tried to force open the gate, but the whole tower "made a terrifying scream", alarming a group of judgement mages and the city lord on the upper floors.
In the end, the intruder's head was hung on the wall of the fortress by the enraged city lord, and it took more than a year for the city lord to feel relieved.
"Who is it? Who is so bold!"
The dwarf wizard jumped to his feet and wanted to destroy these "puppets", but soon his eyes widened in disbelief - these "puppets" were still able to move normally even when surrounded by raging fire!
Of course, he couldn't know that these robots were waterproof, fireproof and high-temperature aviation-grade, both in terms of material and coating. They could even withstand the high temperatures of the atmosphere when the aviation cabin returned from outer space to the earth, so how could they be afraid of the fire magic of a mere wizard?
"Don't make too much noise, this is still a stealth operation," Zong Qinyuan, who saw this scene on the surveillance screen, couldn't help but remind him, "Is it almost time to start?"
Gong Ming nodded, picked up the communicator at hand, and ordered: "Mechanical team of the second team, control the warehouse entrance and start releasing the anesthetic gas."
The mechanical team responsible for remote control of the robot: "Roger that!"
A puff of white smoke poured out from the switch inside the robot. After a while, the entire warehouse was filled with people lying all over the place. The orc with the best physical fitness was the first to fall.
"I want to ask... the city lord..."
The dwarf staggered around half a circle, trying hard to stay awake. The robot behind him raised its camera and waited for him for several seconds until he didn't get dizzy. It then simply raised one arm and hit him on the head with a "bang" as if swinging a baseball bat.
The dwarf wizard rolled his eyes and fell to the ground in an instant.
“Nice!”
The two members of the mechanical team raised their hands and clapped at the same time.
Almost at the same time, all the guards outside the warehouse were knocked down. Two octopus robots walked to the warehouse door and easily opened the entrance for the special forces members outside.
Looking at the mountain of magic crystals inside, everyone gasped.
This, this, this...they sent it out!
The scientists in the headquarters almost fainted with happiness when they saw this scene. Of course, some of the smarter ones had already left the hall in a hurry and started calling the embassy and relevant national departments.
Before, there were too many magic crystals and too little resources, so it was fine that ordinary research institutes couldn’t get any; but now if we don’t stand up again, that would be a bit unreasonable, right?
It’s better to strike first! If you don’t grab a spot now, it will be too late!
"There are so many good things here," Jin Xuan walked into the warehouse and looked around. When she saw the head of a death row slave that had been made into a specimen, she immediately showed a look of disgust. "I don't know where they were looted from. This time, we are acting in the name of justice!"
Yaroslav asked honestly, "Isn't it just a case of thieves robbing thieves?"
"Well, even if Gu Liang is not here, you should be more tactful." Jin Xuan coughed dryly and quickly changed the subject. "Anyway, put these things here first and count them slowly later. The most important thing now is to pack up and prepare to go on stage. Gu Liang should have arrived at the courtroom, right?"
At this time, Gu Liangyi, wearing a black robe and hiding his true face under a silver mask, followed the servants through the long corridor and came to the location of the Central Court alone.
Ever since he witnessed You's ability to summon the bone dragon in the desert that day, the command center's protection of him has gradually changed from overt to invisible. But for the sake of safety, Lu Lang still arranged for Jin Xuan and the others to sneak into the warehouse first, ready to act together with Gu Liang.
"Come in."
When he arrived in front of the courtroom, the servant opened the door for him, stopped outside and bowed to him.
Unlike what they had seen in the drone surveillance before, the courtroom was now filled with mages in black robes.
A beam of light was projected from the top onto the auction table in the middle of the open space. There stood a man in a black robe whose face could not be seen clearly. He was pushing a cart with the auction items covered with scarlet velvet.
Judging from the shape, it seems to be a square.
Hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, everyone looked up in unison, with countless gloomy eyes looking at the young man in black robe standing behind the door. The instantaneous sense of oppression almost froze the air.
But the person involved seemed to feel nothing at all. He just paused for a moment and then casually stepped in.
Gu Liangyi let out a long sigh in his mind: "You, I'm lucky to have you."
Gu Liangyou snorted coldly: "The city lord is deliberately trying to intimidate us."
The seats in the judge's seat were already full, but the seat that should have belonged to him did not rise. The city lord propped up his chin and stared down at him from the steps:
"You're late."
Gu Liangyou looked up at him. Although he was below him, his aura was not weaker at all:
"Where do I sit?"
"Well," the city lord raised his lips playfully, "I'm sorry, Lord Demon, you're late, so there's no seat for you here - how about I have someone bring you another chair? You can pick any seat you want."
The whole audience immediately burst into laughter.
Malice glances were cast over him, almost piercing Gu Liangyou into a sieve.
The reason for this is that not many people know about the battle between him and the demon outside Morton. In the eyes of these fallen mages, the truth is that the mage behind the Seris shop angered the newly awakened demon, causing the shop to be destroyed. The people in the shop should have died long ago, and no one knows what confidence he has to dare to come here.
The fallen mages who were already sitting on the judgment seat were also watching the fun. No one thought of speaking for this nominal "new member". Anyway, the city lord's fear of him was almost written on his face, so they just had to watch the show from the sidelines.
A fallen wizard even picked up the crystal glass placed on the velvet cloth beside him with great interest, took a sip of the wine in the glass leisurely, and felt that this trip was really worthwhile.
But he didn't realize that the table was actually also a square in shape.
Under the thick velvet cloth, the faint light of the electronic eye is flashing at a stable frequency.
"Hey, Devil! What did you bring to the auction?" someone shouted at him, "Isn't it an antique you just dug out of the grave?"
As soon as the words fell, there was another burst of laughter around.
Gu Liangyou shifted his gaze to the man, tilted his head, and suddenly chuckled.
"Who gave you the courage," he said, "to stand on high and speak to me with your head bowed?"
The young man in black robe raised his hand and snapped his fingers with a crisp "snap".
“Aaaaaaaaaah!!!”
A shrill scream brought the laughter of everyone in the courtroom to an abrupt halt. Seeing their companion suddenly catch fire, the people sitting around him screamed and fled from the place. The entire auction suddenly became a mess.
The city lord, who was originally sitting on a high place, was angry. Although he was the one who started the fight, he never expected that Gu Liangyou would actually have the courage to take action at his auction!
And what did he mean by that? He was the person sitting the highest in the room. Could it be that this bastard was trying to challenge his position?
"I said before, just because you are qualified to enter the Judgment Seat doesn't mean you can do whatever you want here!"
He stood up suddenly, but when he saw Gu Liangyou's fearless dark eyes, the city lord's brain, which was filled with anger, suddenly calmed down - this guy was able to escape from the hands of the devil, which showed that he still had some skills, and he could not fight him head-on for the time being.
He suppressed his anger, took a deep breath, and used the "key" to raise a judgment seat for Gu Liangyou.
Seeing Gu Liangyou's eyes fall on the key in his hand, the city lord curled up the corner of his mouth into a sneer. He knew that the other party must have some plans for his treasured treasures.
His murderous intent gradually grew, but on the surface he showed an attitude of trying to keep things quiet, and even poured a glass of wine for Gu Liangyou himself: "Although it's not as good as the wine you brought that day, it is also a rare wine I found in the goblin cellar. What happened just now was due to the lack of consideration of the people below, Lord Demon, I hope you can forgive me."
He raised his glass towards Gu Liangyou from a distance, staring at Gu Liangyou as he picked up the glass of wine that he had added something to, and shook it lightly in his hand twice.
"I appreciate it." Gu Liangyou was too lazy to exchange pleasantries with a dying man, and simply crossed his legs and said arrogantly, "But this glass of wine, you'd better wait until my things are sold out before drinking it."
The city lord's face twitched.
"Haha, that's fine." He put down the wine glass, wishing he could skin Gu Liangyou alive and pull out his cramps in his heart. His fingers on the key twitched several times, but he tried hard to hold them back.
No, it's not time yet.
The complexity of the demon mechanism is well known to the world, so Gu Liangyou specially noted on the roster that there would be an explanation session. He and the city lord both knew that once the explanation was over, that would be when the real purpose would be revealed.
However, the city lord was thinking of killing Gu Liangyou after he finished his explanation, but Gu Liangyou happened to think the same way - it was not a waste of time, but he just needed an assistant to help him solve the problem of the unintuitive explanation.
Gu Liangyi chuckled and said, "A one-time assistant?"
Gu Liangyou raised his eyebrows: "Who said it wasn't?"
As he said this, he calmly tapped the headset.
Outside the tower, Yi Yan's lips slightly raised as he concentrated. He knew that this was Gu Liang reminding him to pay attention and that he was about to take action, but he just didn't want to talk to him directly because he felt awkward.
"02 received." He replied, "I'm ready here and can start anytime."
Gu Liangyou's eyes flickered.
"The next lot is from the mechanism of the demon god Seris—"
The scarlet velvet cloth was pulled aside, and everyone couldn't help but open their eyes wide, sit up straight, and stretch their heads to look at the strangely shaped item below.
Placed on the square auction table was an unremarkable L-shaped black hard object.
The fallen mages who had witnessed Yi Yan kill his opponent with one shot at the banquet were immediately excited, but the other races who didn't know the value of the thing frowned and began to question:
"What is this?"
"I've never seen it before. Is this the legendary devil's mechanism?"
"Ha, how is that possible? It must be another thing made by Seris Shop under the banner of the devil. I don't know what it is used for, but I can tell at a glance that it is just a decoration..."
"Not only does it lack mana fluctuations, but the design is also completely unattractive. Anyone who buys it will be a sucker!"
On the other hand, the direction of the barrage in the Earth live broadcast room was completely different from that in the courtroom.
The moment they saw the homemade gun, countless netizens flocked to the headquarters' official account and blasted their ancestors:
"Are you out of your mind? This is a gun! A gun! Can you put something like this up for auction?"
"I really... have you ever thought about what we would do if someone used it against our own people? Even if this is just a homemade gun of an outdated standard, it is still a firearm!"
"Command, do you want all of humanity to perish along with you?"
"Didn't they say that shops can sell anything except firearms? Why are they putting it up for public auction now? They even need to explain it, are they afraid that others don't know how lethal this thing is?"
"Give us an explanation of what the command center is thinking!"
Inside the command center, Lu Lang held his thermos cup, squinted his eyes and took a sip.
"Netizens should have started cursing at us by now, right?" he asked his subordinates.
The subordinate smiled bitterly and said, "It's more than just scolding. Some people have already started holding up signs to protest below our building."
"It doesn't matter," Lu Lang waved his hand. "This kind of situation happens every day. If this group of people don't come one day, it would be the sun rising in the west."
The Earth Command Center is directly connected to the school administration of Desert University. Although managing online public opinion is also their daily work, they certainly will not disclose all their work content to the public.
The second step of the God-killing plan:
Jiang Taigong fishes, and those who are willing will take the bait.
Considering that Gu Liangyi already had the ability to protect himself, the experts at the command center added the bait plan that had been prepared into the plan.
Don’t underestimate this ordinary homemade gun. At first glance, it looks like the epic equipment that made the Sakura Country’s No. 1 male gunner famous. But it is an excellent bait designed by the scientific research team of several Bald Eagle Army and Fire Giants, specifically for "fishing" the devil.
When the project proposal was first received, the experts all sighed in agreement:
When the company gave them funding in the past, the targets they set were all to strive for the greatest lethality, the highest accuracy and the widest impact area. They never imagined in their lives that one day they would have to run in the opposite direction.
The headquarters' request was simple: to create a piece of junk that was the most cumbersome and least lethal of all the guns currently known to mankind, and that could only hit the butt if aimed at the head from seven steps away.
In addition, a positioning device should be added to each detachable component.
The experts did so.
But after the finished product came out, no one even wanted to give it a name. Because it was so rubbish, so rubbish that if anyone knew that such a weapon had been made, they would immediately change their careers and sell balloon-shooting toy guns in amusement parks.
However, this thing, which is often referred to as the shame of hot weapons, aroused great interest from the city lord.
He sat on the main seat, clenched the armrest under his palm with his five fingers, and asked impatiently: "What is this mechanism?"
“…………”
No one answered.
The city lord stared at the black-robed young man below, but found that the other party had been sitting on the seat with his chin supported, maintaining this motionless posture, as if he did not hear what he said, as if he was asleep.
"I'm asking you a question!"
The city lord suddenly raised his voice.
Because he had been humiliated by Gu Liangyou in public many times, his tone could no longer conceal his murderous intent.
Before Gu Liangyou could say anything, the goat-horned orc mage whose brother was shot dead by Yi Yan jumped out, pointed at him and cursed: "You bastard! Do you really think you are a demon god?"
"I'm not a demon, so who are you?"
Gu Liangyou glanced at him sideways and thought that this guy was extremely noisy.
"you!"
There was a buzz of discussion in the auction. The fallen mages who were about to bid stopped talking and held their breath as they watched the young man in black robes stand up and walk to the center of the courtroom. He picked up the strange thing and played with it. The sound was not loud, but it reached everyone's ears:
"This is not actually a machine gun, but a weapon that uses the energy of gunpowder gas to fire bullets and attack unprotected or weakly protected living targets."
"I call it a gun."
The city lord's expression gradually eased, and he asked again: "Then how should it be used?"
Gu Liangyou was surprisingly patient this time: "Load the bullets with the magazine like this, then aim at the target and pull the trigger."
“…Is it that simple?”
“It’s that simple.”
The city lord still didn't believe it: "Then show us how powerful it is."
Gu Liangyou smiled happily: "Okay, but the light here is too dim, let's open the window first."
The city lord did not suspect anything. Although he felt that Gu Liangyou was a bit troublesome, he had endured it for so long and it was nothing.
While he was thinking in his mind that he would kill this nemesis here no matter what after Gu Liangyou finished his demonstration, he picked up the "key" again, opened all the windows around the courtroom, and erected an air wall around himself just in case.
At dusk, the blood-red afterglow of the setting sun dyed the sky red. Clear beams of light penetrated through the clouds. The floating clouds looked like clusters of burning flames, immersing the sky in a grand and brilliant firelight.
Such a dazzling sunset glow made everyone who had been in the dim courtroom for a long time very uncomfortable.
They complained and raised their hands to block the light, just like rats living in the sewers that were suddenly exposed to the sunlight, huddled in the corner and screamed in panic.
The young man in black robe still stood tall.
He tilted his head and looked out the window.
In the sixteen-fold mirror, Yi Yan saw his figure.
The brilliant sunset melted half of his body in the light, the silver mask covered his face, the hair by the ears of the black-robed young man fluttered slightly in the twilight breeze, and his pair of dark eyes looked at him from afar, the cold and soft qualities intertwined together, forming the most complex and unique existence in the world.
Yi Yan, wearing earplugs, quietly crawled on the edge of the rooftop.
The whistling sound of the wind in his ears was far away from him. His index finger was on the trigger, and his body had become stiff from crawling for a long time.
He even slowed down his breathing, not daring to be distracted in the slightest.
"Wind speed calculation..."
"The angle of elevation... the level gauge measured is..."
When the plan reached a critical stage, listening to the calculations of the observer on the rooftop and Gu Liangyi's real-time proofreading in the headset, even Lu Lang couldn't help but pray silently in his heart.
At a distance of 1100 yards, the hit rate is actually very low.
Even the most experienced sniper could hardly guarantee a successful shot. Moreover, the wind was unexpectedly strong today, so the trajectory of the ball could easily deviate.
At this time, one can only rely on the sniper's own gun sense.
In the courtroom, the city lord impatiently asked the black-robed young man who seemed to be distracted: "Hey, is this okay?"
Gu Liangyou retracted his gaze and nodded: "Of course."
After saying that, he raised his gun and pointed it at the city lord, pulling the trigger without hesitation.
“Bang!!!!”
At a distance of 1,100 yards, a bullet broke through the air!
In just a few tenths of a second, the air wall shattered like brittle paper, directly blowing off half of the target's body!
This shot was so clean and sharp that Lu Lang almost wanted to slam the table and shout "Great shot!"
Dark black blood was splattered all over the ground, most of it splashed on the wall, and some of it was even vaporized the moment it approached Gu Liangyou.
The city lord's expression was forever frozen at the most horrified moment.
The whole place was dead silent.
The next second, screams broke out!
Almost at the same time, the robots covered by scarlet velvet opened their covers and turned into shackles, locking more than a dozen panicked fallen mages firmly on the judgment seat; the black-robed man who was thought to be the auctioneer took out a gun from his waist, fired three shots in a row into the air, and scared many of the guys who had just laughed at Gu Liangyou in their seats and ran away;
The only door of the courtroom leading to the outside world was knocked open by the special task force members who were already ready for action. A group of members wearing black combat uniforms and holding guns entered one after another, spread out like lightning, and firmly guarded the entrances and exits to ensure that no one could escape.
——By the time everyone reacted, everything had already been settled.
Under the horrified gaze of the crowd, the culprit who initiated this change bent down and picked up the "key" that rolled to his toes.
In the twilight, the young man in black robe walked up the stairs step by step.
The dark sunset glowed behind him, and the slanted shadow on the stairs stretched by the setting sun looked like the silhouette of a devil from hell. The guests who came to the auction looked at this scene with pale faces and were even speechless for a moment.
Without a doubt.
——From now on, he is the undisputed Demon Lord in everyone's mind.
The young man in black robe stood in front of the blood-stained throne, frowned in disgust, took off his black robe and put it on, then turned around and sat on it.
Looking at the trembling faces of the people present, the young man sitting at the highest point propped up his chin, crossed his legs, smiled nonchalantly, and said to them as if nothing had happened:
"Okay, next, I will continue to host the auction."
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