Chapter 124 Heavy Rain, Tokyo, Bloody Auction (VIII)
The time was three minutes ago, inside the Mirror Auction venue in the Amemiya Building, Tokyo, Japan.
Looking from the entrance, the scene inside the auction hall could be described as a mess.
The red seat fragments were scattered on the ground, and the smoke from the explosion had not yet completely faded, shrouding the sky like a mist. Crows flapped their wings and flew slowly in the mist, dropping black feathers.
The light from the crystal chandelier spread out, revealing that two intact chairs were still preserved in the center of the auction room, which were out of tune with the surrounding environment.
Sitting on the middle seat was a young man in a Zhongshan suit. He rested his fist against his cheek, sleeping soundly like a puppet, motionless. Even the loud noise outside could not disturb his sleep.
On another chair not far away sat Li Qingping, his hands crossed. He lowered his head and stared at the members on the auction table expressionlessly.
The second prince was currently being protected by the Octave Prism.
Lan Hu was silent for a long time, looked up at the ten members who walked out from behind the wooden door, and then looked at the young man in front of him, the leader of the White Crow Brigade - Qi Yuanli.
"Where is Jing Shou?" he asked in a low voice.
"Dead." Qi Yuanli said expressionlessly, "The crows ate his body, and you can't find him."
"Why kill him?" Blue Arc asked word by word.
Qi Yuan lowered his eyes, teased the crow on his fingertips, and said slowly:
"According to my understanding of SkyDrive, after his death, the exit to the mirror world will be temporarily blocked... In other words, during this period of time, there is only one way for you to leave here: kill us all."
He paused and said, "Oh, right, because the flow of time in the mirror world is slower than that in the outside world, my team members should have almost dealt with the people outside while we were chatting."
As soon as the words fell, Qi Yuanli's deep pupils suddenly reflected the blue lightning. But the next second, his figure suddenly disappeared from the spot and appeared on the auction table.
Lan Qi stopped in the center of the crows and looked up at Qi Yuanli who suddenly appeared on the auction table.
He instantly realized one of the effects of the brigade leader's special ability: exchanging positions with the controlled crows.
At the same time, he saw a horrifying scene out of the corner of his eye:
——Every crow in the flock has a playing card in its beak, and the corners of the card are vaguely visible in its mouth.
In an instant, the playing cards in the crows' mouths exploded at the same time, leaving Blue Arc no time to react even for 0.1 second.
Fortunately, he was fast enough and lightning burst out from his body, forming a magnetic field that spread out.
After a while, the flames of the explosion dissipated, and the blue arc still stood motionless in the same place.
Lan Hu slowly turned his head to look at Li Qingping, the second prince, and Zhou Jiuya who was dozing off in a chair.
After a moment, he turned his head and looked towards the exit of the mirror world. It was just as the lacquer principle said: the mirror left by the mirror keeper had lost its original luster.
Moreover, cracks are spreading on the mirror surface. If one wants to leave the mirror auction house now, he or she may only be able to go through the door opened by the brigade's No. 7 member, "Robert".
But... if I use the enemy's ability to leave here, I don't know if I will fall into the enemy's trap.
Thinking of this, Blue Arc took a deep breath and said, "No, I have to go back to find Xiaomai. If only the door of the brigade can let me return to the real world, then I will go through that side..."
The hacker and Robert had already left the auction table and went to the vault at the back to move the auction items. So the only four members left at the mirror auction table were "The Ripper", "An Luns", "Andrew" and "White Wolf".
"Captain, how do we assign opponents?" asked the Ripper expressionlessly.
"Hey, my little gun is about to cry because of idleness. Commander, please find me something to do." Andrew said with a beaming face, half-kneeling on the ground and setting up the sniper rifle.
The gun body was flowing with night-like light, like a beast ready to attack.
Qi Yuan thought without hesitation: "The Ripper, An Lance and Andrew against Blue Arc." He paused, "White Greedy Wolf, test the Strange Talker sitting on the chair."
However, from beginning to end, Qi Yuan's deep gaze stayed on only one person, that is, the young man in a Zhongshan suit sitting on the chair in the center of the auction hall.
An Lunsi's eyes flashed with a strange light, and he summoned a huge slot machine beside him. He leaned on the side of the slot machine and pulled the joystick, and then the slot machine's lottery wheel began to spin at high speed.
Finally, on the slot machine's electronic screen, two of the three icons stayed above the "pool cue" and the other stayed above the "bomb".
Then, with the sound of "clattering" of gold coins being scored, a hole suddenly opened at the bottom of the slot machine, and a two-meter-long billiard cue fell out of the hole.
"It's a medium-quality pool cue... I'm not very lucky, but it's okay." An Luns muttered softly, bent down reluctantly, and picked up the pool cue from the slot machine.
Soon, he and Jack the Ripper disappeared from the auction table at the same time.
At this moment, Blue Arc suddenly felt the wind pressure sweeping from both sides, as well as the murderous intent mixed in it, like two wild beasts pouncing on them, ready to devour their prey.
Jack the Ripper's dagger drew a graceful dark red arc in the air and cut straight down towards his face;
An Luns swung the pool cue towards Lan Qi's waist like he was swinging a baseball bat.
Blue Arc's eyes clearly captured the trajectory of the two weapons.
At this moment he crossed his arms, raised his left palm with the palm facing the right, and his right palm with the palm facing the left. Then, roaring lightning shot out from the palms of both hands, forming two lightning pillars that smashed into the dagger and the billiard cue!
The Ripper and Anluns were both knocked back dozens of meters. Anluns turned smoothly in the air, his golden hair dancing upwards.
He made a billiard-playing gesture, and suddenly an air-ball appeared in his left hand.
An Luns narrowed his eyes, adjusted the position of the billiard ball, and then thrust the billiard cue in his right hand forward.
Lan Qi saw this scene out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly leaned back to avoid it. An invisible air table tennis ball passed in front of him, plowing a spider web-like trail in the air.
Despite this, the fierce wind pressure still tore holes in his armor.
"Good shot." Ann Lance said with a smile.
The next moment, a loud gunshot was heard - Andrew on the auction table seized the moment when Blue Arc's body leaned back and was suspended in the air, and pulled the trigger of the sniper rifle.
The bullet shot out from the muzzle, turning into a beam of dark light that flew straight towards Lan Hu's heart!
In a fleeting 0.5 seconds, the oncoming bullet was reflected in the blue arc pupils!
As he leaned back, he quickly raised his arms and crossed them in front of him to protect himself.
In an instant, the raging electric arcs formed an electric grid covering the front.
But the large net failed to swallow the potential energy of the bullet. The body of the blue arc was blasted back a hundred meters and hit the wall of the auction hall, forming a huge hole.
Before he had time to catch his breath, An Lance swung the billiard cue and shot another air billiard ball into the dark pit! With a deafening roar, the wall of the auction house completely shattered, revealing the boundary of the mirror world - black nothingness.
The next second, An Luns suddenly blinked his eyes, and saw a deep blue track that had appeared in the darkness at some point, wrapped in layers of terrifying electric arcs.
Lan Qu rushed behind him at lightning speed, and the five fingers of the metal glove were put together to form a hand knife, slashing downwards with dazzling electric light.
But at this moment, a dark red dagger turned and chopped over, blocking the metal hand knife.
The blinding electric current traveled upward along the blade of the dagger, illuminating the Ripper's eyes which were as dark as the midnight night, but she was like a machine, ignoring the numbness, and the strength she applied to her wrist did not decrease at all, but instead increased.
With a "click", the dark red long knife suddenly cut through the metal on the surface of the glove. Amid the flying metal debris and electric arcs, the three figures were simultaneously bounced away for a distance.
Then there was another deafening gunshot, and Lan Hu's back was intercepted by Andrew's bullet in mid-air.
The bullet was like a dark meteor, carrying huge kinetic energy towards Blue Arc, as if a train was heading straight towards it. Blue Arc's body crashed through one giant pillar after another.
Amid the loud noises of "Bang! Bang! Bang!", a cloud of dust spread out and the pillars of the auction hall collapsed one after another.
At the same time, Lan Hu's figure was knocked into the wall in a corner of the auction hall.
His body was deeply embedded in the pit, like Jesus nailed to the cross.
Both Anluns and Jack the Ripper looked sideways at the same time and walked quickly towards the exaggerated pit.
But at this moment, an electric arc suddenly flashed across their cheeks, and a faint feeling of anesthesia came over them. Then a ghostly figure covered in blood suddenly appeared in front of them, and a deep blue light was drawn in the air from the corner of his eyes.
The two raised their eyebrows, and Blue Arc grasped their heads with the broken metal gloves and clamped them in the middle.
Anluns's head collided with the Ripper's, almost giving him a concussion, and the whole world seemed to be spinning.
A terrifying flash of lightning came towards them, and half of their faces were burned in an instant, turning into a hideous piece of flesh and bones. Blood spurted out, and there was not even a piece of flesh left on half of their faces, only white bones.
Lan Qi took a deep breath, his expressionless face was embedded with a broken mask, and metal fragments pierced his cheek. Blood flowed down, staining his eyes and nose red.
He suddenly tore off a piece of bone from the faces of the two men, then retracted his hands, and punched out with his left fist wrapped in electric light, hitting An Lance's head, and his right elbow hit the Ripper's chest.
At this moment, Anders raised the billiard cue to block his left fist; the Ripper held the dagger upside down against his right fist.
The bodies of the two men flew backwards and hit a pillar. Strands of electric light were still jumping on their bodies, and their whole bodies twitched slightly.
The two men slowly raised their heads, and a face that was half bone and half flesh came into view, looking like an evil ghost.
Half of An Luns' face was still covered with a calm smile. He slowly got up from the ground and brushed the dust off his suit.
He whispered, “I don’t know if the strange fragments of sister Lan Duoduo can repair our faces.”
"Be serious... otherwise the other half of your face will be gone too." The Ripper wiped the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand.
The blood on her face slid down and dripped onto the dark red short knife. The blade seemed to absorb the vitality of the blood and grew longer visibly. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a ten-foot-long sword.
The Ripper stood up, changing the way he held the dagger to that of a katana, his eyes as deep as the midnight reflected the figure of Lan Arc.
Andrew raised his head from the scope, and a mumbling voice came from the auction table: "I'm serious... you two are in the way. It's troublesome for me to shoot with you around! Otherwise, this guy with the blue arc would have been killed by me long ago. Can't you see that it's my bullets that are doing the work?!"
"Shut up, or I'll kill you too." said the Ripper coldly.
"Be careful or I'll put your head in the slot machine as a prize." An Luns said with a smile.
Lan Qi lowered his head, blood flowed out from the broken armor, flowed down along the broken fingertips, and splashed onto the floor.
He was breathing heavily, his shoulders drooping, and he slowly raised his eyes and looked at the three people with a cold expression.
At the same time, in another corner of the auction hall.
Li Qingping, dressed in a black suit, sat upright on a chair.
He looked up at Bai Tanlang who was walking slowly towards him, and said expressionlessly: "I have no interest in fighting with you. I will take my people away, and then we will pretend that this incident never happened."
"You're right." Bai Tanlang paused, "But the leader's order is to leave no one behind in the auction house."
He blinked his left eye which had a cataract and a scar. Suddenly, heat rose from his body. His muscles bulged like hills and his whole body was shrouded in white light.
"What a shame... I was planning on sparing your lives."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Qingping summoned the Atlas of Strange Stories and held it in his hand. He casually crushed four cards, and silver light patterns flashed in the air:
——Popular-level wonders “Phoenix”, popular-level wonders “Volcano Giant”, popular-level wonders “Phosphorus Fire Ghost Bride”, popular-level wonders “Flame Acrobat”.
Bai Tanlang glanced at the Octave Prism on the Second Prince, then looked at the four cards that had shattered into dust. He said:
"Binding five pieces of oddities at the same time, an A-level oddity user?"
Li Qingping did not comment, "Don't get me wrong... I just don't need to use the last card to hit you."
As soon as he finished speaking, four shadows appeared at his sides. The one blocking the front was a giant covered in volcanic lava. A giant fiery red bird like a phoenix was hovering above the giant's head, and a clear and long cry could be heard.
Then a woman in a wedding dress and a veil appeared beside Li Qingping. In her hand was a lantern with a faint blue will-o'-the-wisp burning in it.
The last one is a red-nosed clown in a circus costume. He is only 0.5 meters tall and looks very inconspicuous.
Bai Tanlang moved forward.
The woman in the wedding dress suddenly threw the lantern in her hand, and the lantern expanded in mid-air, covering Bai Tanlang's body. Thousands of ghost lights illuminated the lantern, turning the inside of the lantern into a huge steamer, with wisps of flames rippling out from it.
The circus clown somersaulted and leaped over nimbly, then suddenly drank a mouthful of oil and water, and his cheeks suddenly swelled up like a toad.
Then he opened his mouth and blew fire towards the lantern. The paper surface of the lantern began to burn, and the fire inside became more and more fierce, as fierce as a burning forest.
When the circus man saw that the white wolf in the lantern did not move, he lay on the ground on his side, supporting his head with his hand, humming a song and drawing circles in the air with his fingers.
Circles of fire patterns spread leisurely into the air, gradually converging into a clown's smiling face.
But the next moment, the burly figure reflected on the surface of the lantern suddenly raised his right hand, put his five fingers together into a fist as if to accumulate strength, and then his fist tip suddenly burst out with a dazzling light like daylight, and punched! The world was silent, and a fist that was enough to make a person deaf and blind shattered the lantern.
A pillar of white light swept over, the circus clown opened his mouth in an "O" shape, and his body instantly turned to ashes.
The woman in the wedding dress standing behind could not escape death either, and was taken directly to the other side of the world by the white light.
Li Qingping raised his eyebrows.
Bai Tanlang walked out of the sea of fire. His cloak and clothes had been burned, his body was covered with a layer of gray wolf hair, and his pupils were flashing with a strange white light.
Amidst a loud rumbling sound, a five-meter-tall volcanic lava giant came forward.
Bai Tanlang clenched his fists, leaped up, and hit the lava giant in the abdomen, causing the giant's body to shrink inward and its head to bend down. He then threw an uppercut at the lava giant, knocking this huge body upward.
Then, Bai Tanlang flashed to the top of the giant's head, and smashed down with his fists together like a hammer. A burst of light like daylight burst out. In an instant, the giant's head shattered into thousands of pieces.
The overwhelming force was transmitted from the top of the head to the whole body, and the giant's body cracked layer by layer.
In the end, the fiery red lava blocks wrapped in magma poured down like a waterfall, and a hot white mist rose up on the ground of the auction hall.
In the rain of fire and white mist, Bai Tanlang landed on the ground and stepped on the molten lava all over the ground to move forward. His facial lines were as tight as iron, and his left eye with white cataract stared at Li Qingping's face.
"Well... you are better than I thought, but not that much."
Li Qingping shrugged and spoke expressionlessly, then stood up from his chair. The phoenix hovering in the air landed on the back of his hand.
Then he slowly took out a card with orange light patterns from the strange story album in his right hand. The pattern on the surface of the card was extremely luxurious and elegant, and it was in the shape of a giant dragon.
"Orange light pattern..." Bai Tanlang frowned, a trace of surprise flashed across his face, "Generational wonder?"
The next moment, Li Qingping crushed the orange card in his hand, and a deafening dragon roar resounded throughout the auction hall.
The raging flames rose up, as if they were going to submerge the entire world.
(End of this chapter)
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