Chapter 143 Sales Promotion
Lu Yan's words stirred up a hornet's nest. The audience felt as if they had waited in a cold kiln for eighteen years to see a treacherous man. They clattered furiously on their keyboards and asked angrily:
[Why are we still awake?! We just want to see how hot it is...ah, we're just worried about you! !]
[Anchor brother! You actually came back alive! Where is that wanderer? ! ]
[Three hours ago, there were more than a million people in the live broadcast room. They couldn't bear it anymore and went to sleep. We are the only ones left. Tell us, what happened when you chased him out just now? ! ]
Netizens had never seen an ordinary person who could chase away vagrants with just a kitchen knife, and they were extremely curious about what happened during the time when Lu Yangang had just left, and they asked questions in the comment section.
Lu Yan really didn't know how to explain what happened next door. He was silent for a moment, then suddenly pointed at the watch on his wrist and said in a low and serious voice: "Do you want to know what happened? Hurry up and place an order for a solid gold watch. Xiao Lu will tell you the story. All items will be 10% off. You won't lose money or be cheated!"
Audience: [? ! ! ! ! ]
This man is such a dog! ?
After saying this, Lu Yan immediately logged off and turned off the computer screen. What just happened was so outrageous that no one would believe it if he told others about it.
The door that was damaged by the female ghost could no longer be repaired, so Lu Yan could only pull out a torn bed sheet from the closet and hang it on the door with nails to barely block the wind. He also closed the half-open door of the next room to avoid scaring anyone.
There are no patrol teams in the Devil's City. It's hard enough for them to live their own lives, so who would waste time investigating how a stranger they didn't want to have any business with died? In this world, wasting time means wasting life, and even a cemetery is an unattainable luxury.
Lu Yan walked into the bathroom to take a shower. There was a damp and moldy smell inside. The glass windows, which had been in disrepair for a long time, whistled when the wind blew, and cracks spread everywhere. He stared out at the dusty glass and saw only an unlit sky and dilapidated buildings. The sun rose slowly from the horizon, but it could not dispel the darkness.
Lu Yan suddenly thought of the woman next door who was chained with iron chains, and also thought of the sadness that flowed from the empty eyes of the female ghost.
This is not only a world where ghosts eat people, but also a world where people eat people.
The system said that if you kill the wanderer, you can get 5,000 points. You should know that one true heart can only be exchanged for 10,000 points, which shows how difficult this task is. Lu Yan saw many human emotions in the eyes of the female ghost, which shows that the other party is not an ordinary low-level ghost. His current strength is not enough to compete.
After taking a shower, Lu Yan went to bed feeling exhausted. Little did he know that not long after he fell asleep, more than a dozen patrol cars appeared on the street, bringing with them a group of unusual people.
"Yesterday, the Monitoring Institute detected a high level of energy fluctuations in this area. We suspect that there is a T4-level wanderer lurking nearby, but she disappeared after dawn. We have not yet found the whereabouts of this T4. This morning, we received a report from the landlord that a family of residents in this building had died collectively. The situation was a bit unusual. We don't know if it was the wanderer who did it."
The director of the Monitoring Institute, Lou Guangming, almost flatteringly welcomed the supernatural people in Sky City from the car, and his old face was smiling like a chrysanthemum: "The elevator in this building has not been maintained and has been broken for many years. The crime scene is on the 15th floor. I have to trouble you to make a trip."
Luoyang looked around and felt that it was a bit absurd: "T4? Are you sure there are T4 level wanderers here? I haven't seen such a tough guy in half a year, you better not..."
Before he could finish his words, a deep voice suddenly interrupted him:
"There is indeed a remnant of T4."
Xing Yuan looked upstairs and fixed his gaze accurately on the window on the fifteenth floor. In the field of vision that only he could see, a very faint black mist shrouded the surroundings, indicating that the wanderer had just left not long ago.
Luo Yang sighed in surprise. Since Xing Yuan said there was one, it must be true. "Is there anyone still living in this building?"
Lou Guangming, director of the Monitoring Institute, interjected at the right time: "Yes, yes, yes. There is one household living on the 15th floor, three households on the 7th floor, and two households on the 5th floor."
Xing Yuan closed his eyes slightly and moved his neck impatiently. He felt a little irritated under the sunlight. He was not happy with the director of the waste yard who called them over early in the morning: "There is a family living on the 15th floor? Are they still alive?"
Lou Guangming said uncertainly: "Should...should he still be alive?"
Although the Monitoring Institute is located in the Devil City, their main job is to monitor the movements of wanderers. Once they find high-level or large groups of wanderers, they will immediately report to the Sky City. As for how many civilians have died, this is not within their consideration.
Xing Yuan narrowed his eyes and said, "Let's go up and take a look."
T4-level wanderers basically leave no survivors, so it was strange that there were so many residents alive on the same floor. They went upstairs in a mighty manner. For the esper, climbing the 15th floor was nothing, but Lou Guangming, who had lived a life of luxury for many years, was almost exhausted.
Luo Yang leaned over to Xing Yuan's ear and whispered, "Whoever can catch this T4 will get at least 200 years of life. No wonder the dean is so attentive to him."
Xing Yuan said nonchalantly: "Your family is so wealthy, why do you care about a mere two hundred years?"
In this world, children can not only inherit their parents' wealth, but also their parents' life value. The residents of Devil City only know that babies are born with a life span of 18 years, but they don't know that babies in Sky City can receive blessings from their parents from birth and have a life span of hundreds or even thousands of years. Luoyang's family has been doing business for generations and is considered a famous rich man.
Luo Yang: "Who would complain about having too much health points? It takes twenty hours to buy a bottle of water in Sky City, how can you not save more? Do you think everyone has as much health points as you do?"
Xing Yuan wore a black functional watch on his right wrist, not for telling time, but to cover up the astronomical amount of life value on his wrist. However, this kind of thing is like money. When you have too much of it, you lose all feeling and it becomes just a string of meaningless numbers.
Xing Yuan put his hands in his pockets and lazily said two words: "Boring."
Luo Yang rubbed the goose bumps on his arms, thinking that he was too Versailles: "Then transfer your life points to me, I won't find it boring."
Xing Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly and glanced at him: "You are not my type, so why should I do that? For the sake of our friendship, I will give you a transfer fee of 250 at most."
Luo Yang: "Then you should just be a miser and go into the coffin with it."
Xing Yuan: “What do you mean?”
Luo Yang complained angrily: "People like you are destined to be alone and will never find a partner!"
Xing Yuan sneered: "I don't like those inferior goods."
While they were talking, they had already arrived at the crime scene. When they saw the horrific situation inside, Lou Guangming covered his nose and rushed outside to vomit. The patrol officers who were escorting along the way stood outside with guns in hand, their faces also turned green.
Through the wide-open door, they could clearly see an entire wall of glass jars filled with baby corpses. On a worn wooden bed lay a man with a horrifically twisted death. Blood was flowing to the ground, leaving a dry dark color. At the end of the blood lay a woman who had died peacefully.
The stench of decay, blood, and dampness penetrated my nose all at once, like a knife crushing my brain, causing an unimaginable shock of terror.
Even the psychics who were used to seeing such scenes couldn't help but look at each other, and saw shock in each other's eyes. The patrol team put on masks and went in, put all the corpses inside into body bags and moved them out one by one. There were nearly a dozen bodies, big and small.
At this moment, Lou Guangming finally came back after vomiting. He covered his mouth and nose tightly with a handkerchief, his face was extremely ugly, and he cursed angrily: "This wanderer is too cruel! He is simply insane!"
Xing Yuan, who was standing nearby, asked calmly, "Which eye of yours saw that they were killed by the wanderers?"
Lou Guangming choked: "This, this, this... Could it be that someone killed him?"
Xing Yuan's dark pupils stared at the corpses being moved in and out, with a barely perceptible hint of sarcasm. He raised the corners of his lips slightly and said meaningfully, "Humans can sometimes be much more insane than wanderers."
Lu Xiaozhao went out to sell watches yesterday, but he was late, so he stayed at a classmate's house for the night and came back at dawn. He climbed the stairs to go home as usual, and just as he reached the corridor door, he found a group of people crowded inside, the stench was overwhelming, and it made people nauseous.
"Make way, make way! Who are you? Why are you crowding at my door? Can you let me pass?"
Lu Xiaozhao, holding his small backpack, squeezed through the crowd with great difficulty, only to find a group of people in black uniforms with cold expressions standing inside. He felt something was wrong, so he took a few steps back, turned around and wanted to run.
"Stop! Where are you running to!"
Luo Yang was quick to catch him, and with a twist he pressed him against the wall, shouting, "Tell me, what are you doing sneaking around like that? Did you kill the family next door?!"
Lu Xiaozhao was shocked when he heard this and struggled even harder: "What nonsense are you talking about! I don't even know them, let me go! Let me go! If you don't let go, I'll call my brother out to beat you up!"
In Lu Xiaozhao's heart, his brother is the most powerful. He could beat him with a stick until he cried since he was a child!
Luo Yang was amused when he heard this: "Your brother? Who is your brother?"
Lu Xiaozhao's face flushed red: "My brother lives next door, if you don't let go he will definitely make you suffer!"
Luoyang still had some of the characteristics of a rich young man who looked down on others. He said with contempt: "I tell you, there is no one in this land of Devil City that I dare not provoke. If you have the guts, call your brother out. I will kill both of you..."
Before Luo Yang could finish his words, a hand suddenly appeared on his shoulder, as if it wanted to crush his shoulder bone. The pain made Luo Yang's face pale and he couldn't even shout.
The scene was dead silent.
I saw a man appearing from the opposite door. He was wearing a loose black casual suit with a slightly low collar that made his neck look slender. His face was handsome but with a languid and lazy look. At this moment, he held Luoyang's shoulder with one hand, as easily as holding a chick, and spoke nonchalantly:
"I am his brother. Do you have something to ask me?"
The physical fitness of people with special abilities is much stronger than that of ordinary people. Logically, Luo Yang should not be held by the man in front of him, but no matter how hard he struggled secretly, the hand on his shoulder did not move at all, as if it was made of steel and concrete.
Luoyang managed to utter: "Let go!"
Lu Yan asked back: "Why don't we relax together?"
Luo Yang gritted his teeth silently upon hearing this and could only let go of Lu Xiaozhao. As soon as the latter was free, he immediately ran to Lu Yan's side and complained angrily: "Brother, this person just slandered me for murder without any reason and didn't even let me go home!"
Lu Yan let go of Luo Yang, put his hands in his pockets, leaned against the door frame, and asked with a smile: "Why, are you still afraid that they will arrest you and put you in jail?"
This sentence sounds like a cold joke, because the order in Devil City is chaotic and there is no law. To put it bluntly, no one will care even if someone is killed.
Luo Yang finally realized that the man in front of him was a tough guy. He covered his shoulder and took a few steps back. His face was pale and he returned to his team. He lowered his voice and said to Xing Yuan: "Fuck, this guy is quite powerful. I guess he is a tough guy."
He was still counting on Xing Yuan to help him, but he ignored the hint of surprise and darkness that flashed across Xing Yuan's eyes when he saw the man opposite him appear.
I thought that the Devil City was full of thin vases, but I didn't expect that there was such a beautiful woman hidden inside. Xing Yuan felt as if his heart was gently tickled by a feather, and he felt a subtle itch. However, he didn't stare at her for long. He glanced at her and then turned away.
"Clean up the scene as quickly as possible and do not disturb unrelated residents."
Upon hearing this, the patrol team immediately sped up the speed of moving things. Luo Yang couldn't help but choke: "What if they really killed someone?"
Xing Yuan glanced at Luo Yang and thought he was talking too much: "Then go back and perform an autopsy on the body yourself, and bring the evidence back to arrest the person."
Didn't he understand Luoyang? He just felt embarrassed after being intimidated by the other party and wanted to get back at them. He didn't mind being embarrassed to argue with a little brat.
The little brat refers to Lu Xiaozhao.
As soon as Lu Yan saw the clothes of those people in the corridor, he knew that their identities were definitely not ordinary. The man in the lead was not dressed in a uniform like his companions. He was wearing a white shirt with his sleeves casually rolled up to his elbows, revealing his muscular forearms. His black uniform jacket was casually draped over his shoulders. His stern profile was immersed in light and shadow, perfectly interpreting how the word "abstinence" was written. But Lu Yan only needed to look at his half-buttoned and half-unbuttoned shirt to know that this man was definitely a bohemian person in his bones.
In addition, the other party also exuded a faint aura of danger, which made people feel creepy even at a distance of several meters. Lu Yan had only experienced this feeling from those wanderers.
He is a person who should never be provoked.
Lu Yan came to this conclusion in just a few seconds. He subconsciously raised his eyes and suddenly found that Xing Yuan seemed to be looking at him, but he quickly withdrew his gaze, so fast that he couldn't catch it in time. Lu Yan was stunned for a moment, then he chuckled softly, because of his good looks, he was particularly blushing:
"That makes sense. Once we have evidence, you are welcome to arrest him anytime."
He said this to everyone, but his eyes fell on Xing Yuan, and he looked away after a few seconds.
Lu Yanyu and Lu Xiaozhao turned and went back into the house. The bed sheet that served as a curtain quietly slid down, blocking out everything inside.
"Hiss, he looks really cool."
Luo Yang smacked his lips and spoke out Xing Yuan's inner thoughts: "Unfortunately, he is a tough guy and hard to deal with."
Xing Yuan stared at the door curtain with a hint of interest in his eyes. He was not sure what he was thinking: "Deal with those girls in your family first. You are not afraid of getting killed if you try to play two games at once."
Luo Yang sighed sadly: "Ah, do you think I want to? But Bobo cried, made a fuss, and cut his wrists. He just refused to leave me no matter what."
Xing Yuan curled his lips and said, "He is not reluctant to leave you, he is reluctant to leave Sky City."
Xing Yuan said that Luo Yang was simply out of his mind. If he wanted to keep a mistress, then he should just keep her and provide her with enough living expenses. But he actually had the urge to bring her from Devil City to Sky City to live. Now he is tired of her and wants to break up. Only a fool would agree to this and get himself into a big trouble for no reason.
Lu Yan didn't know what was happening outside. He vaguely heard the sound of people moving things. Soon, those people dispersed, leaving only the empty house next door with even the door sealed.
A group of strange people.
Lu Yan sat on the sofa and lit a cigarette. The curls of white mist rose up, covering the pervasive stench in the air, finally making people feel a little relieved.
It was the first time in his life that Lu Xiaozhao had come into close contact with a dead body. He was so frightened that his face turned pale and he sat down on the ground. He trembled and grabbed Lu Yan's trousers and said, "Brother...Brother, did you hear them say that the whole family next door is dead?"
Lu Yan flicked the ash lightly and hummed, "I heard it."
Lu Xiaozhao was about to cry: "Brother, let's move. I'm scared. What if they turn into ghosts and come looking for us at night?"
Lu Yan frowned and said, "What are you afraid of? You didn't kill the man. Moving? Do you have time to move? How many watches did you sell yesterday?"
Lu Xiaozhao said aggrievedly: "I didn't sell any of them, brother. There are fewer and fewer fools in Devil City now. It's not easy to cheat them."
The people living in Devil City are all poor. It is certainly not easy to cheat poor people. They would save their lives whenever they have spare time. Who would use it to buy a broken watch?
Lu Yan slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, he was so worried. Before he could come up with a solution, he heard Lu Xiaozhao say with tears in his eyes: "Brother, can you give me a little time? I only have 102 hours left. I can't even make it through this week! Wuwuwuwuwu!!"
Hearing this, Lu Yan hooked his finger at Lu Xiaozhao with a blank expression: "Come here."
Lu Xiaozhao didn't understand why and stepped forward: "Brother, what's wrong?"
Lu Yan asked without any emotion: "Is it worth it to see the life on my wrist?"
Lu Xiaozhao nodded seriously: "I see it clearly."
Lu Yan: "How much is left?"
Lu Xiaozhao: “26 hours.”
“…”
Two grown men together can't even make up seven days of life, it's fucked up.
Lu Xiaozhao burst into tears: "Brother, what should I do? I don't want to die!"
Lu Yan was too lazy to even raise his eyelids and kicked the boxes of fake watches at his feet: "What else can I do? Sell the watches. If I can't sell them outside, I can sell them online."
According to the original plot, wouldn't Lu Xiaozhao fall in love with a powerful man from Sky City online? Lu Yan wouldn't compete with him for it anyway. He planned to take advantage of his younger brother's status to rise to the top. After Lu Xiaozhao became successful, he would definitely take care of his biological brother, right?
Thinking of this, Lu Yan suddenly reached out to wipe away Lu Xiaozhao's tears, and said in an unprecedentedly gentle tone: "Be good, go and fall in love online. Find as many people as you want. When you find the right one, just marry her. I'll give you a wedding dowry."
Lu Xiaozhao: “????”
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