Chapter 018 Chapter 18

Ah Yan pulled Zhu Jue and ran away in a hurry. After all, they had already entered the world of a supernatural ghost movie. It was obvious at first glance that the middle-aged man was not a good person!

Whether in novels or classic scripts of movies and TV dramas, this kind of evil demon, which is obviously a villain, will definitely make a big move before being destroyed by the righteous protagonist. Maybe it will pull a poor passerby over to sacrifice his life. Then the protagonist's anger value reaches the limit and he will use a big move to successfully destroy the enemy.

Ah Yan is very self-aware. Her experiences from childhood to adulthood have told her that she has never been the protagonist of this world.

As an ordinary person around a Halo Person, it is really easy to get into danger.

How does that sentence go?

Everyone around the protagonist is offering sacrifice to the heavens!

Although Ah Yan felt a little sorry for leaving Ding Ling a ghost there...but, Lord Ghost King will definitely be fine!

She transformed herself into a "wind-like woman" and quickly left the scene holding Zhu Jue's hand. While running, she dialed 110 to report the incident, speaking breathlessly.

"I want to call the police. There's a fight going on in Liang's Garden on Antique Street. Ahem, someone's dead. Hurry up and take a look! Oh, hurry up and send the police."

After running out of the wall of Liang's garden, Ah Yan held his knees with both hands and gasped for breath.

"Is there any movement?" She looked at her childhood friend beside her. At this time, Zhu Jue was also leaning against the edge of the wall.

The two of them were running for their lives at the speed of a 100-meter sprint. Ah Yan was fine, after all, he only had a small bag on him. He ran too fast, and the Five Emperors' Coins swung in the wind in his hand. He was a little out of breath.

But there were actually quite a few things in Zhu Jue's backpack, including six bottles of mineral water, Five Emperors' Coins for his roommates, and some expensive pigments he bought in the morning.

Zhu felt that he was in good physical condition, but he was also a little out of breath. After all, this was equivalent to a sprint with a heavy load in a short period of time.

"No." He shook his head.

A Yan took off his backpack and put it on the ground. The two of them leaned against a corner of the wall and quietly peeked in to observe.

"No movement, has the fight not started yet?" Ah Yan couldn't help but ask.

I thought there would be an earthquake behind them as they ran away, but after waiting for a long time, there was still no movement. Is that it? Or has something else happened?

At this moment, the two of them didn't dare to get any closer. Zhu Jue skillfully picked up Ayan and supported him up. Ayan kept his balance by climbing on the wall on this side and stretched out one hand to look into the distance. His sense of balance was extremely good.

"No, no, I can't see anything. It's too far away and I don't have a telescope." Ah Yan sighed.

This is not the same as when she climbed over the wall as a child. Now she doesn't dare to climb over into the yard.

After spinning around on Zhu Jue's arm, Ah Yan suddenly saw someone coming from the direction they came from, and quickly hugged him.

"Hurry, hurry, I'm going to get down. Someone's coming. I don't want to be mistaken for a suspect." A Yan put on his shoes at the speed of light.

If someone saw them climbing over a wall, coupled with their full backpacks, they might think they were a pair of thieves.

The two men leaned against the wall and drank water, looking like they were tired and looking for a place to rest.

Apart from the fact that the diamond-encrusted mineral water bottle in his hand was too eye-catching, there didn't seem to be anything strange.

Ah Yan watched the police car drive in and immediately felt relieved.

Although it was not known whether the police could deal with the villain, Ah Yan paid special attention at the time and saw that the middle-aged man's feet did not leave the ground, proving that he was still alive!

A living person can't stop a bullet, so Ding Ling's safety should be guaranteed.

After a while, A Yan received a WeChat message from Ding Ling, and he felt completely relieved.

"Ding Ling said she's done it, there's no problem, we can go now."

Ah Yan and Zhu Jue had rested well by now. She stretched her back and sighed to the sky: "It's finally over."

If nothing unexpected happens, there shouldn't be any more surprises today.

Today, she and Jue Jue have experienced too much. Ah Yan believes that the single events she has experienced may not happen to other people in their lifetime.

He sent another message to Ding Ling, asking her to be careful, and the two of them walked back slowly.

As the police car with red lights flashing entered, people nearby came to watch. Although they didn't know what was going on, they were all talking and taking photos with their phones to broadcast the incident.

"Come to think of it, I remember when Ding Ling misunderstood me before, she seemed to have mentioned something official to me. She, a ghost king, actually has a relationship with the country." A Yan whispered in Zhu Jue's ear.

When Ah Yan thought of this, he found it a little unbelievable.

She was actually told by a ghost king that he would not report her.

Normally speaking, shouldn't an ordinary person like her go to a Taoist temple to find someone to exorcise the ghost after encountering a ghost?

Why does Ah Yan feel that the positions between himself and Ding Ling have been reversed?

"There should be a specialized organization, like the Xia Guolong Group or something like that." Zhu Jue guessed.

"Yes, Ding Ling was talking about the Heavenly Eye and the people in the Mysterious Veins. Since there is a Ghost King, then the Heavenly Master and the Mysterious Sect also exist. It seems that she came to Binda specifically to treat and supervise the campus at Mingzhi Hall."

"If that's the case, ghosts also have a civil service system. Ding Ling, the ghost king, is able to manage a campus-level organization. He must be at least the director of a Binda Street Office." Ah Yan made an analogy.

"The seed of the ghost king of the underworld is selected to go to the countryside? According to her level of ghost king, this is only temporary." Zhu Jue replied.

The two of them made some wild guesses, and it was already nearly five o'clock in the afternoon.

Zhu Jue had luxury mineral water in his backpack. He would probably have to drink every bottle on the subway, but since he wanted to bring it back to his roommates, A Yan simply called a taxi back to school.

In the online car-hailing service, the driver looked in the mirror and talked to the two people.

"Are you a college student? You came to the antique street for fun. You didn't get tricked into buying anything, did you?"

"No, no."

"Hey, have you been to the jade store? I saw someone betting on jade in the antique street today, and what was it called? Glass-type imperial green! I heard that a gold shop spent 100 million to buy it, and people had to line up!"

"There was also a little celebrity who was also there today. I don't know if it was hype or not, but he said he had missed out on 100 million worth of ink."

"Hey handsome man and beautiful lady, tell me, a piece of ink, the ink used for calligraphy, can this thing be worth 100 million?"

"I saw on a certain video that these two are young people. They are so young that they can retire and be financially independent."

"What do you call this? It's just like those people who win the lottery. They have this luck and this fate! If I could have this luck, why would I drive a car?"

Listening to the driver's spitting words, A Yan and Zhu Jue nodded silently.

Yes, I am lucky.

"But let me say, maybe there is a conspiracy here!" The driver suddenly changed the subject.

"I saw that the jade stone from the shop that sells imperial green jade was called what? The raw material? It was immediately sold out. Marketing hype is popular these days, and it may be the scheme used to sell jade."

"And the same thing about that little celebrity. I've seen people say that she's on the hot search list every other day, and she's never acted in any TV series. If this isn't hype, then there must be something fishy going on!"

The driver's sudden change of topic almost caused Ah Yan and the other man to sprain their backs.

No, what is your attitude? How can you change so quickly? Ah Yan couldn't help but complain in his heart.

Because she was afraid of motion sickness, she didn't look at her phone the whole time. There was a 120-second red light ahead, and Yan took out her phone while thinking about what the driver said.

She and Zhu Jue each opened an APP, and as expected, the topic became a hot search on Weibo and Tik Tok.

#Surprise! A woman found Zhou Dynasty blue ink at a street stall. Experts: It is a priceless treasure! #

#A mysterious handsome man in the antique street of Baobin City won hundreds of millions of imperial green diamonds in gambling! #

Ah Yan silently crossed out the word "handsome guy" in her heart. It didn't mean handsome guy, it meant beautiful woman.

Well, the ones who shocked you are all my roommates.

As expected, there are a lot of videos about these two hot topics.

There was chaotic bidding in Mr. Xu’s jade shop, and photos of chicken-oil yellow and imperial green jadeite taken with a mobile phone held high.

In the crowded roadside stall, you can see the profiles of Gu Jiasui and Master Zhu, as well as Master Zhu's excited voice identifying this as Zhou Chaolanmo's. The crowd's exclamations continued.

After seeing the videos, Ah Yan quickly began to search for himself and Jue Jue in these videos.

Damn, they were neither too far nor too close to each other wherever they were watching, they wouldn’t be in the camera together again!

The two of them quickly started checking the most popular videos. Fortunately, most of the videos that appeared were of the back of the head and the side of the face.

During the Gu Jiasui incident, the two of them were neither ahead nor behind in the crowd. When Yi Zhi was opening the jade, he was close to the shop owner because he was next to him. Fortunately, the video was basically focused on the jade and the disguised Yi Zhi wearing a mask.

There were no cameras at the place where Ding Ling's incident happened, and the auction that Chu Bingbing and I went to were all attended by billionaires who would never allow their privacy to be exposed, so we can worry less.

I miscalculated today. I should have welded the mask and sunglasses to my face, but I was careless again.

Ah Yan reflected on himself and decided to cover his face next time even if it was so hot that he died.

She looked through the comments of the public in these related hot searches. At first, most of them were shocked and envious. Is it true? After a period of fermentation, the attitude turned into doubt, hype, it must be marketing!

Hmm... Ah Yan nodded. According to the familiar process now, it shouldn't be long before the rumor is refuted, endorsed, and proven to be wrong.

Any malicious attack against Halo people will always be met with a huge shock wave when it reaches its peak, hitting the person in the face with a loud bang.

Before the evening rush hour, Ayan and Zhu Jue returned to Binda smoothly.

The two had originally planned to have lunch and dinner outside, but they were a bit tired after a day of work.

After leaving an opened bottle of precious mineral water for Zhu Jue, Ah Yan waved his sleeves and returned to the dormitory carrying a heavy backpack.

She took out her key and tried to open the door, but with a slight push, the dormitory door opened.

Hmm? Is Gu Jiasui back?

After entering the room, A Yan saw Yi Zhi walking out of the bathroom, and they were both stunned.

"Ayan, you're back." Yi Zhi was the first to greet him.

"I'm back, I'm so tired." Ah Yan put down his black backpack and waved his arms twice, avoiding Yi Zhi's gaze.

Did Yizhi finish it so quickly? This was beyond my expectation!

That's a jadeite worth 100 million! Ah Yan thought, if she got it, she would take the high-speed train back to Ningcheng immediately, deposit it in the bank vault, and find a top hotel suite to stay in at night.

I wonder if Yizhi has sold the jade? And his clothes and outfits have completely changed. He doesn't look like the handsome guy anymore.

He is indeed a supernatural being of the end times!

Yi Zhi noticed that A Yan was not paying attention to her, but was busy with her bag, and she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

She had never expected that she would become a trending topic.

It turns out that we have been away from such a peaceful era for too long and lack sufficient understanding of real life.

Fortunately, she disguised herself well enough that no one in the trending searches could tell her true identity. They all thought she was a handsome guy, and some people even asked for her contact information in various ways to curry favor with her.

Yi Zhi didn't have any opinion on those who said that the imperial green jade was a marketing hype. Instead, she hoped that more and more people would say so and regard it as a marketing hype so that they would not look for information about her disguised identities, which would be more conducive to her hiding her identity.

But...she never expected that she would run into Ah Yan and the other guy in such a big antique street.

As luck would have it, Ah Yan and her boyfriend were actually the younger generation of the store owner, and they even saw her breaking stones from a close distance.

Yi Zhi felt that she had really bad luck. She didn't think that A Yan recognized her. After all, A Yan had mentioned in the dormitory long before that he wanted to go to the antique street to visit the elders he knew at home to buy things.

Alas, Yi Zhi could only sigh in his heart that there is no coincidence in the world.

How could it be such a coincidence?

Yi Zhi was not familiar with jade jewelry. Today, the Longyang Imperial Green and Chicken Oil Yellow jades were unveiled in public. With the enthusiasm at the scene, she couldn't take them away even if she wanted to.

So many businesses were eyeing her covetously, and when she made the first move, with her intuition from having experienced life and death in the apocalypse, she had already realized that someone was targeting her.

A young man who came to the antique street alone with a backpack looked like an easy target, a fat sheep.

One piece of jade is worth tens of millions, and two pieces are worth hundreds of millions.

How many people can resist the temptation of such sudden wealth?

Even when the gold shop raised the price to 100 million, Yi Zhi felt as if he was surrounded by countless hungry wolves, staring at him with green eyes, wishing they could tear him apart and eat his flesh.

Because Yi Zhi didn't know much about the gambling industry, she was very wary of the boss and many possibilities of murder and robbery flashed through her mind.

After all, these two pieces of top-grade jade rough materials were bought from Boss Xu's store, and the store owner did not discover that they were in her hands, which meant that the boss suffered a loss of 100 million yuan.

A powerful dragon cannot defeat a local snake. On someone else's territory, even though we live in a society ruled by law, Yi Zhi suspects that Boss Xu wants to use tough measures to keep the jade or to share the profits.

However, the result surprised her.

Boss Xu's gaze when he looked at her was indeed extremely scorching, as if he was looking at a goal that she could never reach.

Boss Xu took the initiative to host the event and invited reputable store owners he knew who could endorse him to the VIP room for bidding, and even had a ready-made template contract prepared.

In this short hour in the VIP room, Yi Zhi met for the first time so many eloquent masters, all of whom were trying to persuade her to sell the jade to their store.

From introducing girlfriends to security protection and cash payment, there are conditions for everything.

In the end, Yi Zhi sold the chicken-oil yellow jade and kept the imperial green jade for himself.

The chicken fat yolk was quite large and could not fit into the backpack she was carrying at the time. How to take it away safely was a problem, after all, her own space could not be shown to others. The not-so-big piece of imperial green was very convenient.

Yizhi chose the Laoxiang Gold Shop as her partner. She checked and found out that it was a century-old gold shop brand, and the core condition that attracted her the most was that it could exchange gold.

Gold is a hard currency in any era, and she also wants to try whether gold can have an effect on space.

Converted to the domestic gold price of 550 yuan per gram on Saturday, a standard one-kilogram gold bar would cost 550,000 yuan. Yizhi would have to exchange it for 20 gold bars directly.

The Xiang family gold shop still had old gold bars from a hundred years ago. Yi Zhi also asked for twenty of them, and the rest of the transactions were done in cash.

This is because the jade ring that Gu Jiasui gave her before seemed to be a hundred years old. Yi Zhi was not sure whether the space was attracted by the ring because of the antique factor, so she replaced it with some old gold bars.

The gold agreement stipulated that the transaction would be conducted in two installments in the bank's safe, and the imperial green jadeite had already been transferred by Yi Zhi to his own space.

Just now she was in the bathroom of the dormitory. She actually locked the door and sneaked into the space. As soon as she put the jadeite in, Yi Zhi could feel the boiling of the space, as if the emotions were extremely excited.

The space knew that she was the owner, and after Yi Zhi said, "This jade is for you," the imperial green jade instantly disappeared from her sight, and then the entire small space was filled with emerald green air.

It really works, and it's so obvious! Yizhi guessed that there should be some space upgrades?

But she didn't know when it would end. She went in and out several times, and felt relieved when she found that the green mist did not hinder her entry and exit of the space.

The imperial green has been swallowed up by space, and no one would have thought that the mysterious man on the hot search turned out to be her, a female college student.

Yi Zhi naturally saw his roommate Gu Jiasui who was also on the hot search list.

Gu Jiasui left after class on Friday, and Yi Zhi was also surprised to see her in the Antique Street.

Is this Lan Mo something so valuable? In her eyes, it is just a piece of black coal!

But thinking about the antique jewellery in Gu Jiasui's makeup box, Yi Zhi didn't think it was a surprise that the other party was able to pick up a bargain.

Come on, this is a rich girl, a young lady, who usually wears jade and uses antiques, so it's not surprising that she has such good taste.

At this moment, Ah Yan took off his small bag, changed into slippers, and took out five bottles of diamond-studded mineral water from his backpack and placed one on the table. Yi Zhi looked at the bottles of diamond-studded mineral water with a puzzled look.

"Is this mineral water? Why is it inlaid with diamonds?" Yi Zhi suppressed the word "flashy" that was about to come out of his mouth. After all, this was something that A Yan brought back. Could it be that this thing was sold in the antique street?

"It's mineral water. I accompanied Bingbing to buy things. It was provided for free so I took it back. It would have been a waste if I didn't take it. Unfortunately, my backpack can't fit it anymore." Ah Yan said, feeling very sad.

Ah Yan accompanied Chu Bingbing to buy things? Yi Zhi was stunned.

No wonder, when she left the VIP room through the back door, Ah Yan and her boyfriend were nowhere to be seen.

It's not surprising that such a exaggerated bottle of mineral water was bought together with Chu Bingbing. Although I don't know how Ah Yan suddenly got together with this rich woman, Yi Zhi guessed that this should be provided free of charge by some luxury store to high-spending customers, and he probably went shopping with Chu Bingbing.

A Yan changed his clothes and took a shower, then saw the news from Jue Jue that all the things he bought from Uncle Pan in Panxitang had been sent to Zhu Jue.

She patted her head and almost forgot about it. It happened this morning, but it felt like it happened a long time ago.

At night, Ayan was too lazy to order a takeout and ate while browsing his phone.

Yi Zhi was also eating. The two of them were watching videos with their backs to each other. Ah Yan was still choosing a video to watch with his meal when he heard the speaker of Yi Zhi's phone behind him.

"It's explosive! Friends, just today, three major events happened in our Bincheng Antique Street! Some of you may have seen the news. One is that a woman picked up a priceless Zhou Dynasty blue ink at a stall, and the second hot search is that a handsome man won an imperial green jadeite worth 100 million yuan in gambling. But I dare say that 90% of people don't know the third news! That is that the Liang Family Courtyard, a cultural relic building located in the Antique Street, was badly damaged! Just around four o'clock this afternoon, the alarm bells rang through the Antique Street. The four doors of the Liang Family Courtyard, which was originally closed, were wide open. The situation inside the courtyard was miserable, as if it had been violently invaded. According to insiders, it was a kind passerby who found it and called the police!"

“Ahem…”

Ah Yan, who was eating, almost choked on a mouthful of rice and started coughing violently.

A kind passerby? Huh? You're not talking about her, are you?

"Are you okay, Ayan? Did you eat too much?" Yi Zhi almost cried when he saw her coughing suddenly.

"It's okay." Ah Yan patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.

Because Ah Yan coughed, Yi Zhi immediately paused the short video playing in his hand.

At this moment, the short video interface just reached a photo inserted by the blogger, which seemed to be taken by someone near the Liang Family Garden.

But...Yi Zhi suddenly stared at a corner of the photo.

She had never passed by the Liang Family Garden and didn't know exactly where it was, but in this photo, someone accidentally captured two figures standing under the ancient brick wall. They were wearing purple skirts, black backpacks, and holding a very conspicuous bottle of mineral water. They were Ah Yan and her boyfriend!

So Ah Yan didn't accompany Chu Bingbing to the luxury store, but bought things near the antique street? Then they went their separate ways after buying? How did they end up at the Liang Family Garden by such a coincidence?

Why are they everywhere? Are they going to see the excitement again?

Yi Zhi said nothing and ate her meal in silence.

After finishing the takeout, Ayan took her and Yizhi's takeout boxes to the trash can on the first floor and threw them away. Then she returned to the dormitory and found that the other three roommates had all returned.

She heard Yi Zhizheng asking Chu Bingbing: "Bingbing, Ah Yan said that this mineral water was bought with you while shopping. It's quite expensive, isn't it?"

Chu Bingbing was removing her makeup at the time. She hummed when she heard this. "It should be quite expensive, but it's free so why not take it? Ah Yan even said that if he had known there were free drinks, he would have brought a suitcase with him."

"This bottle is very good. You can keep it to grow flowers." Yi Zhi felt relieved when he confirmed that A Yan had indeed been with Chu Bingbing.

"If I had known that everyone was going to the Antique Street today, we could have had dinner together," said Ding Ling.

Yi Zhi's ears moved. Everyone, today, all. Ding Ling is also there? Wait, what does that mean?

"Yizhi didn't go." At this time, A Yan's voice suddenly rang out, and she glanced at Ding Ling.

Ding Ling shrank instantly. She ignored Yi Zhi's pretense. Fortunately, A Yan came to her rescue. A Yan's reaction was so quick. She was worthy of her!

"Oh, yes, Yi Zhi is in school." Ding Ling tapped his forehead, looking embarrassed for forgetting.

"Ding Ling, you went too?" Chu Bingbing and Yi Zhi asked in surprise. Gu Jiasui also looked over. What was their fate?

"She came here for research with her classmates this afternoon, and Juejue and I were about to run into her when we came back." A Yan said.

In order to prevent Ding Ling from being suspected by other roommates, she made up a reason and was really worried. Anyway, Ding Ling was majoring in archaeology and had to take cultural relics and art classes, so this reason was very reasonable.

"Well, we have a class that requires us to do a one-semester research on the circulation of art objects. We went to Antique Street to select shops. My classmates and I originally wanted to check out the night market, but there were too many people in Antique Street so we returned." Ding Ling followed immediately.

Yi Zhi nodded. So that's how it was. She had already left by then. But when she said that, everyone in the dormitory went to the Antique Street for different reasons, but she only met A Yan.

It was just because he had just started school and had military training that he had already started to have doubts about Ah Yan, so after what happened today, Yi Zhi was still a little worried.

Yi Zhi climbed onto the bed and muted her phone. She checked Weibo again. The three local antique streets in Bincheng were still trending today. Huh? Has the Liang Family Garden been reported to the police? So fast!

She looked around and found that an underground gang had stolen into an unattended private garden and caused great damage.

Yizhi saw in the comments below that someone from nowhere posted an enlarged bird's-eye view, which looked like it was taken by an ultra-high-pixel camera from a high altitude nearby.

The isolation cordon covered a large area. Yi Zhi took a closer look and his pupils shrank instantly.

Did an underground gang cause damage? No, no, no, these traces on the ground could not be caused by ordinary people!

Judging from the remains of the courtyard that can be seen from above, it can be seen that the environment was completely torn apart by the huge shock wave.

It was like a storm or air wave controlled by a wind-type psychic in the previous life.

This is not a trace of gunpowder or ammunition, and there is no charred area at all. Yi Zhi, who was in the quilt, looked solemn. Could there be other superpowers?

She touched it with her finger, and the next second the picture disappeared from the comments, as if it had been deleted. When Yizhi continued to look for it, she could no longer find the picture, even when searching.

If the picture is normal, why is it deleted?

This is not an underground gang, I'm afraid a big war has taken place.

Yi Zhi's pupils moved slightly, as if she had thought of something. She immediately went to watch the short video with A Yan's photo.

In the photo, Ah Yan's hair looked very messy, and the two people leaning against the wall looked more and more tired.

As expected! Yi Zhi's pupils shrank.

Could this be the trace of the end of the fight? Some kind-hearted passerby called the police. It is very likely that Ah Yan called the police after the fight.

Then he thought about what Ding Ling had accidentally said just now. She said that everyone went to the Antique Street, but he didn't say anything. Instead, it was Ah Yan who immediately reacted and said that Yi Zhi didn't go.

Normally, she was not in the dormitory when A Yan left, and A Yan didn't know where she went. Why was she so sure that she didn't go?

Most people would probably express their doubt by saying, “Yi Zhi didn’t go, did he?”

But Ah Yan used an affirmative sentence!

This is more like a cover-up! It's a patch!

A patch specially made for her.

Yi Zhi recalled the time when he was gambling with stones. Almost 99% of the people watching in the store were envious and jealous of him and wanted to replace him. But what was in the eyes of Yan and her boyfriend?

They were so close to her, seeing her so clearly, yet they were like outsiders, watching from the sidelines, praising and sighing, but without a trace of jealousy or hatred! They were genuinely surprised.

Even... there is still a hint of understanding!

At that time, Boss Xu seemed to let them guess. Ah Yan said that he would mine very good stones, perhaps the best ones.

It sounded like random talk at the time, but now that I think about it carefully, could it be that Ah Yan had already anticipated the outcome?

Recalling her skilled target practice during military training, she was able to accurately control the number of rings on each bullet. Only two kinds of superpowers could make this possible.

One is the wind system and the other is the air system.

It just happens to match the traces she analyzed in the disappeared photo!

Connecting all the dots, Yi Zhi suddenly felt like falling into an icy cave. Ah Yan, had she seen through her disguise a long time ago?

At this moment, Ayan, who was lying on the bed and chatting with Juejue, suddenly started sneezing continuously.

"A-choo——"

“Ah—”

Ah Yan couldn't help but mutter, "Who is talking about me so late at night?"