Chapter 49
"Snap"
Another loud knock on the forehead echoed in the empty stairwell, instantly attracting the attention of Tong Ming and Wu Sa.
Cen Xun covered his head with one hand, took a deep breath, and asked through gritted teeth, "Which floor are we on?"
Wusa and Tong Ming said in unison: "23rd floor."
"How many more floors are there?"
Wusa and Tong Ming still said in unison: "21st floor."
Cen Xun fell silent. Wu Sa felt really embarrassed. As he climbed up the stair railing, he explained in a low voice, "We can't open the mirror passage where Qin Xiu is, so we can only go up the stairs. Does your head hurt?"
"It hurts," Cen Xun said expressionlessly, "Qin Xiu caused me to be hit so many times. When he regains consciousness, shouldn't he give me some compensation?"
"Give it! Of course I will!" When the owner made a mistake, the cat was embarrassed. Wusa was very ashamed and immediately assured him, "Qin Xiu is very rich. Don't worry, he will definitely not refuse to pay the compensation."
Tong Ming deliberately said, "What if he just reneges? Merchants are very cunning. He might only be generous to you."
"Qin Xiu is not treacherous." Wu Sa defended his master and then assured Cen Xun righteously, "Then come to me and I will compensate you."
Tong Ming was so mean and wanted to put down his plan: "Do you have money? The only thing worth money on you is the silver bell around your neck, right?"
The cat was honest and became anxious when he heard it: "I have money. It's the New Year's money Qin Xiu gave me."
After saying this, its voice lowered a little: "The bell is made from Qin Xiu's mother's relics. It is a very important thing and cannot be given to others casually."
As they were talking, they reached the 30th floor.
Cen Xun signaled to stop and take a rest.
The cat jumped onto the armrest next to Cen Xun and stood up to check Cen Xun's head. Cen Xun let Master Cat check him. With a quick glance, he used his slender fingers to pick out the silver bell from the long white hair on Wu Sa's neck and asked lazily, "Isn't it a bell? Why didn't I hear it ring?"
As he spoke, he pinched the exquisitely crafted hollow bell and shook it twice.
Wusa carefully used her claws to push aside the loose hair on Cen Xun's forehead. As she leaned in for a closer look, she explained, "Qin Xiu said the sound of bells is bad for cats' ears, so he asked the housekeeper to make a silent bell."
Cen Xun narrowed his eyes, pinched the bell with his fingers, and kept changing the angle of the bell: "But it seems inside..."
Before he could finish his words, Cen Xun's eyebrows suddenly raised meaningfully.
Wusa didn't notice Cen Xun's strange pause. He glanced at Cen Xun's forehead and found it was only slightly red. He breathed a sigh of relief, as if suddenly remembering something. Wusa glanced at Tong Ming not far away, hesitantly approached Cen Xun, and asked in a whisper, "Is he really the butler?"
Wu Sa thought his voice was already very low, but Tong Ming seemed to have amplified his hearing a hundred times and still heard his doubts. He immediately covered his chest and said in pain: "Sa Bao, you actually doubted the housekeeper. The housekeeper is so hurt! I punish you to compensate the housekeeper with a 1,000 square meter villa!"
Usa plane was speechless: ""
Cen Xun leaned against the armrest and spoke slowly, "He is omniscient. He knows a little bit about everything."
Wusa opened his eyes wide when he realized he was being deceived, and immediately glared at Tong Ming angrily: "I knew he was a fake butler!"
Seeing that he was exposed by Cen Xun, Tong Ming stopped pretending and covered his mouth with his hands and laughed: "Do you really know that I am fake? I thought you were stupid and always took me as the real housekeeper. Even if you admit that you didn't recognize me, I won't laugh at you for being stupid~"
Wusa was almost fainted from anger. He breathed at Tong Ming and pounced on him ferociously.
Tong Ming dodged with a cry and quickly hid behind Cen Xun.
Cen Xun swiftly caught the cat under his arm and stopped the farce: "Stop it, keep going up."
Tong Ming folded his arms and snorted at Wu Sa, then walked up. Cen Xun glanced at the furry cat under his arm, then looked at Tong Ming, and suddenly remembered a skill he possessed.
It is a Qingyi-level skill under the special identity of [Nightmare Principal] [When three people walk together, there must be one who can teach me]
When three people are traveling together, Cen Xun has a chance to randomly learn new skills from the other two. The higher the level of the learned skills, the shorter the usage time limit.
And now, they just meet the conditions for three people to travel together.
Cen Xun had never used the skill [When three people walk together, one of them must be my teacher], but he suddenly remembered it and couldn't help but want to try it out.
Whether it is Tong Ming's omniscience skill or Wu Sa's mirror space, it is worth learning either one.
So Cen Xun secretly used the skill [When three people walk together, there must be one who can teach me].
The skill was released successfully, and the nightmare system soon had a new prompt.
Congratulations on learning the new skill [Realm of Ten Thousand Mirrors]
[Special Stunt Introduction: You can freely manipulate the space in the mirror and go anywhere you want through the mirror]
[Time limit for using this skill: 5 minutes]
[Is it currently in use? Yes/No]
Cen Xun's mind moved, and he chose no, then released the skill [When three people walk together, there must be one who can be my teacher] again.
This time, he learned the skill from Tong Ming: [Eight Diagrams Printer].
When Cen Xun activated the skill [When three people walk together, one of them must be my teacher] again, the nightmare system suddenly reminded him that the storage slot for this skill was full and there were only three learning opportunities left.
In other words, a Qingyi-level [When three people walk together, one of them must be my teacher] can only learn other people's skills five times a day, and can learn a maximum of two skills at the same time.
Cen Xun thought for a moment and discarded the skill [Eight Diagrams Printer], freeing up a storage slot.
Tong Ming and Wu Sa knew nothing about this. Five minutes later, they arrived at the 44th floor.
When you open the door of the fire escape, you can see an empty corridor. There is an escape sign every two meters. They emit a faint red light that covers the entire corridor. At a glance, you can't see the end of this corridor.
Wu Sa squatted at Cen Xun's feet and said seriously, "There are many rooms here. Each room will randomly show something that the person entering the room fears or desires. Only one room is the CEO's office, and Qin Xiu is in it."
Cen Xun frowned and asked, "What if three people enter the room? Will one appear as well? Or one for each person?"
Ursa said, "It's just one person. It randomly grabs one of us and turns the illusion into a physical entity."
Tong Ming felt a little guilty. He was not afraid of being caught by the thing he feared the most, but he was afraid of being caught by the thing he desired the most because the thing he desired the most was a little perverted. If Cen Xun saw it, he would definitely be beaten to death!
Tong Ming was sweating profusely, and he was extremely alert: "Then I must carefully observe where he is and try to take the shortest route."
Looking around the corridor, Tong Ming carefully chose a door.
After entering the door, what I saw was a bright and clean processing workshop.
Tong Ming asked curiously, "Whose hallucination is this?"
Cen Xun grabbed a handful of distinct grains from the assembly line and placed them in his hand. He stared at them for a moment and suddenly fell silent: "This is..."
"It's the delicious Supreme Royal Cat Food!" Wusa sniffed it and said rather embarrassedly, "Qin Xiu used to buy it for me often, but I haven't eaten it for a long time, so..."
Tong Ming breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately it's cat food. What can cat food do? It can't fill us to death, right? Hahaha?"
Feeling the abnormal tremors of the ground, Tong Ming's smile gradually disappeared. Turning back, he saw an extremely shocking scene.
The cat food piled up as high as a mountain suddenly collapsed, like an avalanche, like a tsunami, rushing towards them like a tidal wave.
Tong Ming: "It can really fill us to death."
Cen Xun reacted extremely quickly, pulling out the joystick and tapping it on the ground, manipulating the shadow to block the huge wave of cat food. Tong Ming pointed in a direction: "Brother, that door!"
Before the cat food completely overwhelmed them, the three ghosts rushed into the next door in time.
"Bang" the door was slammed shut, and the cat food that was hitting it could not even close the door enough to overflow a little. Wusa Tianren struggled for a few seconds, and finally made a decision to obey his ancestors. He quickly lowered his head and stole a few bites of the cat food before it could react.
Tong Ming looked at the room's configuration and swallowed hard: "Brother, this room is really vicious."
This is a room full of needles, both long and short, and without exception, they are all stuck in the simulated eyeballs.
To Tong Ming, whose true form is a thousand-eyed being, the scene in this room is simply a hell that he cannot bear to look at!
Tong Ming felt phantom pain in his eyeballs all over his body. He tried his best to ignore the steel needles piercing his eyeballs. Tong Ming quickly pointed in a direction, just wanting to escape from this horrible place as soon as possible.
As a group of people were running towards the door, the steel needles suddenly rose into the air, changed direction, and shot towards them, but were blocked by a shadow wall that suddenly rose up halfway.
Cen Xun retracted the joystick, followed Wu Sa nimbly, and quickly entered the next door.
This room was very different from the previous two rooms. It was completely shrouded in darkness without any light. As soon as he entered, Cen Xun keenly sensed some differences.
It's a very subtle feeling.
As the domain lord of Nightmare University, when encountering other domain lords, Cen Xun can more keenly perceive the "field" around other domain lords, or more precisely, a kind of rule force.
There is no domain without rules. Each domain is composed of certain rules. These vague forces surround the domain master and form a special "field".
And now, Cen Xun sensed this "field" in the darkness.
Qin Xiu, the domain lord of Jingdu Business District, is in this darkness!
Unlike Cen Xun who inferred based on perception, Tong Ming saw it directly with his own eyes. As for Wu Sa, he was most familiar with Qin Xiu's aura and discovered Qin Xiu's presence almost instantly.
In the darkness, an indistinct being seemed to sense their presence and slowly raised its body.
Tong Ming sighed, "Oh my god, he looks like a mountain of gold. Brother, if we kidnap him, we'll be rich!"
"Bang" the ground shook, as if a huge foot stepped on the ground, shaking the earth violently.
Tong Ming reported to Cen Xun in real time, like a live commentator: "He stood up and walked towards us. He retracted his [Money Balance] skill and used [Money Binding] on us."
The space was pitch black and Cen Xun had no vision at all. Upon hearing Tong Ming's warning, he immediately used [Paper Makes Reality] to enlarge the paper airplane he had prepared long ago.
The darkness posed no obstacle to the omniscient vision. Tong Ming picked up Wu Sa from the ground and sat on Cen Xun's paper airplane.
The skill [Qian Shu Shen] has a weakness, that is, it can only attack enemies on the ground, but is helpless against enemies in the air.
Taking advantage of the time when the master of Jingdu Business District had no chance to use his ultimate move, Cen Xun flew directly to the location of the master of Jingdu Business District on a paper plane.
"3 o'clock, angle 80 degrees, 11 meters!"
As soon as Tong Ming finished speaking, the nightmare ruler in Cen Xun's hand flew in the direction he said.
The passive skill of the Nightmare Ruler is to assist the bound person to wake up. It can of course also be used to help others wake up, but if you want to use this active skill, you have to deduct Cen Xun's own energy.
To put it simply, after Cen Xun triggers the passive skill of the Nightmare Ruler, what is consumed is the Nightmare Ruler's own energy, which is equivalent to the old principal's out-of-pocket payment. The trial version is free for Cen Xun.
But the old principal only cared about waking Cen Xun up. What did it have to do with the old principal whether the others were awake or not?
Therefore, if Cen Xun wants to use the extra functions of the Nightmare Ruler, he has to spend extra energy to unlock them.
Although using star-level items across levels will speed up the awakening process and even bring unknown negative effects, Cen Xun feels that if Qin Xiu can wake up, overall the benefits will outweigh the disadvantages.
Cen Xun threw out the nightmare ruler, but unfortunately it missed.
Tong Ming, sitting behind Cen Xun, reported in real time: "He dodged it! He actually split himself into countless gold coins and dodged it directly!"
The nightmare ruler missed the target and flew back into Cen Xun's hand.
Tong Ming said excitedly, "Right now, a pile of gold coins is rushing towards us like a tidal wave. It's starting to transform! The gold coins have transformed into a giant hand, slapping us right now. Rise ten meters immediately, or we'll be hit!"
As Cen Xun ascended, he felt the hurricane sweeping down from below. He steadied his paper plane and heard Tong Ming continue to give him the direction without stopping: "Nine o'clock direction, 50 degrees, 6.3 meters!"
Cen Xun found the right angle and threw the nightmare ruler again, but as expected, it missed again.
Tong Ming was also anxious: "No, brother, he can split himself at any time. As long as he can see the position of your nightmare ruler, you will never be able to hit him!"
Cen Xun pondered for a moment, then suddenly said, "Wusa, please enter the space in the mirror."
Although Wusa was anxious, he subconsciously obeyed Cen Xun's order and immediately jumped into the space in the mirror.
Now there are only "three people" left. Cen Xun uses the skill [Three people walking together, there must be one who can teach me] again.
The completely dark battlefield was too unfavorable for Cen Xun. He could only rely on Tong Ming's vision to fight, and the information given by Tong Ming through oral narration was often delayed.
Cen Xun must create an advantage for himself. If he can use the skill [When three people walk together, there must be one who can be my teacher] to learn Tong Ming's [Omniscient Vision], that would be great. He can directly see the trajectory of Qin Xiu's movements.
If you are lucky enough to learn Qin Xiu's skills, it would be even better. Whether it is [Money Balance] or [Money Bound], learning is gaining, and they can cause certain obstacles to Qin Xiu's movement.
This time, good luck favored Cen Xun.
Congratulations on learning the new skill [Money Balance]
[Special Skill Introduction: You can give an estimated value higher or lower than the total amount of your opponent's wealth, thereby driving them into madness or despair.]
[Time limit for using this skill: 30s]
[Is it currently in use? Yes/No]
I'm so sleepy, someone gave me a pillow!
Cen Xun chose "yes" without hesitation!
"How much money does Qin Xiu have on him now?"
Cen Xun suddenly asked Tong Ming a question. Tong Ming was already used to answering questions quickly, so he subconsciously gave a number: "103.456 billion."
Cen Xun nodded and gave the estimated value of 103.5 billion.
The estimated value was greater than the actual value, and the [Money Balance] was successfully released to Qin Xiu.
The flowing mountain of money suddenly froze.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Cen Xun threw the nightmare ruler in his hand again.
This time, the nightmare ruler hit the target hard.
[Awakening Progress: 31%]
[Congratulations, you've triggered the negative effect of using the Nightmare Ruler across levels: Money Mania!]
"Cen Xun's forehead jumped. Why is the system going crazy? What is there to congratulate?
Tong Ming keenly sensed the changes in Cen Xun and hesitantly asked, "Fourth brother, has your awakening progress increased?"
Cen Xun hummed, his tone unchanged: "I don't plan to remain unawakened for the rest of my life."
In the future, he will fight against stronger monsters, and the human body will inevitably affect his ability to fully exert his strength. When that time comes, he will not hesitate to abandon this flesh and blood body.
Therefore, you still have to use the nightmare ruler. There is no point in staring at the awakening progress.
Cen Xun changed the subject: "So, can you give me all the money you have?"
Tong Ming was stunned: "Huh?" How did the topic turn to money?
"It's the negative effect of using the Nightmare Ruler across levels. Money mania," Cen Xun pressed his solar plexus, a headache coming on. "I can't stand seeing money appear on other people's bodies right now. Can you give me the money right now? Otherwise, I might beat you up until your eyes go blind."
Tong Ming: “”
What else could he say? He was speechless and paid tribute with all the money he had.
Cen Xun asked irritably, "Is it really gone?"
Tong Ming actually felt as if he was being robbed by bandits, and tried his best to prove his innocence: "It's really all gone! Not a cent left!"
Only then did Cen Xun reluctantly take his eyes off him.
The darkness in this space is fading away, gradually revealing the true appearance of the owner of the Jingdu Business District.
The huge golden mountain collapsed, dropping gold coins as it retreated towards its core. The Domain Lord seemed to be in great pain, and a few vague wails from monsters could be heard faintly from the golden mountain.
Cen Xun controlled the paper airplane to land on the ground and began to pick up gold coins with an expressionless face. Compared to his slightly impatient movements, Cen Xun's voice seemed particularly calm: "Wait a little longer, the validity period of the [Money Balance] hasn't expired yet."
The sound and picture were out of sync, and the disjointed behavior made Tong Ming unable to bear to watch and cover his face: "Brother, please be normal, I'm scared!"
"And brother, how on earth did you use the skill [Money Balance]!?"
However, Cen Xun was already addicted to digging for gold coins and was too lazy to bother with him anymore.
At this time, Usa poked his head out from the mirror space and was surprised to find that the battle was over.
The blood-stained pile of gold had turned into a familiar person. Wusa opened his eyes wide, called out "Qin Xiu" in a trembling voice, and then ran towards Qin Xiu quickly, just like many times before.
Qin Xiu seemed to have had a very long dream.
The dream began on a very gloomy rainy day.
Qin Xiu hates rainy days because the rain was so heavy and cold on the day his mother passed away.
The driver held an umbrella for him. His neat suit and tie made it hard for him to breathe. He stared at the mud spots on his leather shoes and felt very bad.
As he stepped over the small puddle on the road and was about to walk towards the car parked on the side of the road, another subtle sound in the rain caught Qin Xiu's attention.
"What's that sound?" Qin Xiu suddenly stopped and listened carefully.
The driver asked uncertainly, "It sounds like a cat's meow?"
Qin Xiu was not the type to meddle in other people's business. He nodded upon hearing this and indifferently walked up to leave. However, the cat's originally subtle meow suddenly became louder, as it waited pitifully and stubbornly for a glimmer of hope.
But perhaps until it dies, this indifferent world will not give it any response.
Qin Xiu finally walked back and found the cat in a puddle in the green belt.
It was not even as big as his palm, tiny, covered in mud, with its eyes closed and crying wetly, looking like it would die in the next second.
Since you have been abandoned, why struggle? It is better to die than to live.
Qin Xiu thought so and looked at it indifferently, watching it struggling helplessly in the rainstorm, the rain and the wind, the whole world was telling it that it was not welcome.
If left alone, this small puddle would surely become its grave. Qin Xiu was never a savior who would show off his kindness. On the contrary, he was a capitalist who put profit above all else. Saving this cat would obviously not bring him any rewards, so he should have just stood by and watched.
But that day, the cold-hearted capitalist was foolish enough to take on this deal that would not bring any return.
He asked the driver to pick up the cat, changed his itinerary temporarily, and went to the nearest pet hospital.
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