Chapter 193

The auction ended, and Gu Hongying paid half of the [True Word Dream] handling fee, as well as the 420,000 yuan worth of [Fox Mask]'s value fee.

Looking at the two large bills on his phone, Gu Hongying felt like he was going to suffocate. The moment he got the [Fox Mask], although he still had a smile on his face, it looked a little distorted.

He gritted his teeth and said, "This 420,000 yuan lot better be useful..."

What he didn't notice was that the expression on his face of the little friend who came out of the other room next to him was as if he wanted to say something but didn't.

Before the three people could open their mouths to remind him, Gu Hongying saw the two fox-eye-shaped gems inlaid on the inner corners of the mask in his hand rolled their eyes at him. The red pattern behind the gems changed from flat to three-dimensional, and the three-dimensional pattern bit his thumb fiercely. Blood flowed from Gu Hongying's fingers, fell on the mask, and was absorbed into the pattern by the mask.

"Wow!" Gu Hongying was so surprised that he almost dropped the mask from his hands. "What is that?"

After the pain passed, Gu Hongying could see clearly that the red pattern had formed a mini fox. The red fox only had a tuft of white hair on the tips of its ears. It was now squatting on the mask, with disdain written all over its face.

"You bought me for 420,000, so you should just be happy." The little fox looked unhappy. "How dare you complain about me?"

Gu Hongying: “……?!”

He stared at the little fox, his eyes filled with shock: "The mask is alive?"

He looked at his thumb, which was still slightly bloody, and his mind turned to a strange direction: "Do I need to get a rabies vaccine if I get bitten?"

Little Fox: “……?”

Although he didn't know what rabies vaccine was, the little fox instinctively felt that it was not a good thing. He gritted his teeth and wanted to give him another bite.

Because they were studying the fragments of the town tower, the original body and Eric left the auction house first. Buyehou lagged behind a few steps, but as soon as he came out, he saw the original body and several other friends were looking in the same direction. Yu Tu turned his gaze and saw... Little Fox and Gu Hongying were "fighting".

To be more precise, it was the little fox who unilaterally ruffled Gu Hongying's hair into a mess.

Gu Hongying tried to catch the fox several times but failed. He said in frustration and rage, "I'm going to shave my head tomorrow and see how you can get me!"

The little fox shouted: "Then I will pull out all the knots for you today!"

He kicked Gu Hongying on the side of the head with his claws and did a perfect backflip: "Die!"

Yu Tu: “……?”

How did things get to this point?

He diverted his attention from the town tower and recalled what his original body had just seen. Yu Tu opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say. He had to step forward quickly, restrained Gu Hongying with one hand, and grabbed the little fox by the back of the neck with the other hand: "Stop."

The war between man and fox has come to a temporary halt.

To Gu Hongying: "You don't need to get a rabies vaccine if you're bitten by a memory."

To the little fox: "Why don't you tell Hongying that you bit him for the purpose of Void Positioning?"

Gu Hongying and the little fox snorted at the same time and turned their heads in opposite directions.

Yu Tu: “…”

Are you two three years old together?

Eric, who had witnessed everything, sneered, "What a great guy."

He received an unconvinced look from Gu Hongying.

Eric: "[Antique Fragment] 1.89 million. If you keep staring at me, do you want cash or credit card?"

Gu Hongying: "What is this?!"

"Congratulations, you have been marked by the Fallen Nine-Tailed Fox." Hao Zhizhi patted his shoulder, "[Antique Fragment] was used by the Marquis of Nevernight to locate the coordinates of the Fallen Nine-Tailed Fox."

The little fox pouted at Gu Hongying's hair a few times, then leisurely returned to the mask, changing into a half pattern and half fox appearance: "I have marked you, and your blood will be added faster."

The little fox smacked his lips and suddenly uttered a puzzled "Hmm?", then he emerged from the mask and bit Gu Hongying's thumb, which was still bleeding.

The little fox's teeth were very sharp. Gu Hongying gasped in pain. He resisted the urge to throw the little fox away. "Isn't the blood enough to locate it?"

"That's enough." The little fox continued to smack his lips, "I just want to bite."

His words really deserved a beating, so he was grabbed by the scruff of the neck again.

Yu Tu: "Although the Classic of Mountains and Seas records that you can eat people, I remember that you eat people's emotions."

"It just feels a little weird..." The little fox said, "I want to take a bite. I'm not sure."

Gu Hongying, who had four small bloody holes on the base of his thumb, asked: "Are you coming again?"

Yu Tu: "Don't try, he is Bai Ze."

The little fox that was almost twisted into a doughnut in the hands of the Buyehou stopped moving. He blinked his eyes, and after being stunned for a while, he suddenly said in a very low voice: "He is the Bai Ze that the big fat chicken mentioned..."

"He is Bai Ze?!" The little fox, who had been silent for a while, started to struggle more violently. It asked in a voice that was almost weird, "Is this thing Bai Ze?!"

His reaction was like that of a fan who discovers the true face of his idol after his reputation has collapsed, a victim who suddenly realizes he has been scammed, or a retired old man who spent his life savings on health supplements and then found out it was all a scam. His reaction was filled with despair and disbelief.

The little fox pointed its claws straight in the direction of Gu Hongying: "Is this Bai Ze?!"

The legendary wise man Shirosawa who led humanity through natural disasters, avoided dangers, and guided humanity forward... is this the guy? !

Although he didn't know why the little fox reacted so strongly, Gu Hongying crossed his arms and smiled brilliantly: "Ah, yes, yes, I am Bai Ze!"

The phrase "like losing one's parents" was vividly expressed for the first time on a fox's face.

"It's over, I knew that the big fat chicken's brain was not working well after his rebirth..." The little fox muttered to himself, "This thing is Bai Ze... This thing is actually Bai Ze..."

Seeing Gu Hongying's slightly provocative eyes, the little fox felt hopeless: "Forget it, just come find me..."

He used his claws to weakly pull at the sleeve of Buyehou: "Locate, quickly locate in the void..."

He would rather face his fallen self than look at this terrible thing in front of him.

After pulling the sleeves of the Marquis of Buye, the little fox turned around and put back on the mask, turning back into the red pattern on the mask.

Although he had clearly won the brief argument, for some reason, Gu Hongying had a very strong feeling of being looked down upon. He knocked on the mask with a white background and red stripes and said, "Don't hide. Come out and talk to us."

The red pattern didn't move, and the gem shaped like a fox's eye didn't move either. Gu Hongying turned his gaze to Buyehou and suddenly realized something belatedly, and felt a little embarrassed. His performance just now... was so childish!

Gu Hongying defended himself in a weak tone: "Senior, I am not usually like this."

This is all a misunderstanding, he is usually very reliable!

"Yeah." Yu Tu tried not to let the corners of Buyehou's mouth curl up. He pointed to the fragment of the tower in his hand and said, "It's time to get down to business."

The aura of the town tower itself is vast and ancient, but the aura carried by the fragments of the town tower is greatly reduced. In addition, the fallen Nine-Tailed Fox seems to have been dependent on the town tower for a long time. The mysterious aura of the Nine-Tailed Fox almost overwhelms the aura of the town tower itself. Using the fragments to locate in the void is indeed a delicate job.

Yu Tu took off the monocle on his face, picked up the mask from Gu Hongying, and put it on his face. The mask with a white background and red patterns adhered to his skin, bringing a strange cool feeling.

Yu Tu blinked, and everything he saw in front of him changed. Before, in order to absorb emotions, [Fox Mask] combined the talents currently possessed by the main body to fabricate the "future", but now, looking from the perspective of the Marquis of Buye, he saw the stars in the daytime. These stars scattered throughout his field of vision, each of them was a coordinate.

The stars have no pattern. More than 90% of them are in the present, only a few are in the past long ago, and even fewer are related to the future.

Yu Tu can’t feel the existence of other people around him now, but he can feel the vague “river of time” in everyone, a rushing, forward-flowing river of time—but he can’t sense his own.

Yu Tu used his energy to crush the fragments of the town tower in his hand. Using the fox mask mixed with Gu Hongying's blood as a medium, the powder of the town tower floated towards the depths of the stars like smoke blown by the wind, searching for the void coordinates of the same aura.

What the Buyehou saw was invisible to others. In their sight, the always mysterious senior casually crushed the bronze fragments in his hand. Red lines were entangled with green smoke, which floated and tore a huge gap in the air that was big enough for people to enter.

Gu Hongying: "So strong..."

This year of study was not in vain, as they all knew the meaning of this gap.

If the small cross-domain teleportation array is the transmission between two already determined "stars", this directly opened void gate is to autonomously find coordinates and forcibly position itself. Its operation is no less difficult than the tea tree that blocked out the sun in the old courtyard. And because it involves time and space, the operation requirements are more sophisticated. To put it simply, the difficulty is high and the success rate is low.

Although Buyehou seemed to be making light of it, in fact, Yu Tu was so busy trying to find the coordinates that he was almost blinded by pleasure—it had been too long, and even with the help of Gu Hongying's blood and the little fox in the memory group, it was still difficult to identify.

Energy is like money, it can be earned bit by bit, and used like a dam releasing floodwaters. Even if he made a fortune in the old family, Yu Tu still felt heartbroken by this way of using it.

After the energy splashed out like water, Yu Tu finally found the right position. The gap torn by the green and red smoke was completely stabilized, forming a long and narrow crack like a door.

At the moment when the crack stabilized, the breath that originated from the mask surged out from the crack. After coming out of the crack, it split into two streams, one stream rushing towards the masked Buye Hou, and the other stream rushing towards the confused Gu Hongying.

The aura that surged towards Buyehou was easily dispersed, but the aura that surged towards Gu Hongying... After Bai Ze's limited-time experience card, Gu Hongying once again got the Fallen Nine-Tailed Fox Experience Card. He had nine black furry fox tails behind his tailbone, which was very unscientific. He also had a pair of ears like a small fox on his head, with a tuft of white smart hair on the tip of the ears.

This point subtly overlaps with the "future" that Yu Tu had seen before.

Gu Hongying, who was still confused, pulled his head from ear to ear, really; he pulled his tail, also really.

Gu Hongying: “…”

For a moment, he was glad that he had experienced the beastly Bai Ze before, and at least knew how to control himself so as not to step on his own tail when walking - what was there to be glad about!

Gu Hongying turned his gaze towards the Marquis of Buye and called out hopefully, "Senior Marquis of Buye..."

But the Buyehou, whom Gu Hongying hoped for, did not look at him. He was wearing a mask, and his eyes were fixed on the door of the void, as if he was looking at something through the door.

For a moment, Gu Hongying felt that the masked Mr. Buyehou looked very much like the little fox—a reliable and mature version of the little fox.

But soon, he threw this slightly scary thought out of his mind. The little fox that had made a mess of his hair would never be as mature and reliable as the senior Marquis Buye even if he practiced for thousands of years!

"The door is open." Just as Gu Hongying was daydreaming, he heard Buyehou say, "You can go in."

Gu Hongying's body was faster than his brain. He dragged his nine big furry tails and "whoosh" dived into the narrow crevice. When he was fighting with the little fox, he was actually afraid of what he would face, because his parents' jobs were very dangerous. But when Buyehou opened the door to the void, he suddenly felt a sense of peace that came from nowhere.

It may be because the younger friends are all around and the elders who help are particularly reliable.

Gu Hongying took the lead and went in, and the others followed him into the crack. The Buyehou was behind to support them, so no one was worried about whether something would happen if they went in first.

When Yu Tu recovered from the heartache that consumed a lot of energy, he only saw Robert's staggering back. Of course, his real body was affected by his thoughts and he was the last one to fall behind.

Yu Tu and his original body looked at each other, he took two steps forward and pulled his original body back. The situation on the other side of the Void Gate was still unclear. He said they could go in, but why were they so anxious? It only took a short while!

Leaving his original body behind the Buyehou and following, Yu Tu walked into the Gate of Void with one mind and two thoughts. He thought that entering this special Gate of Void would give him a different experience, such as a different feeling impact, or the surrounding scenery suddenly changing... But the reality was, there was nothing.

It seemed as if he was walking on an exceptionally flat road, but this road was particularly dark and long, so that he had to stop and wait every time he walked a certain distance, waiting for the entity behind him to catch up, because perception did not work well on this road, and each time he had to control the entity to touch the back of his hand to prove that it had arrived, and then he would continue to move forward.

After walking like this for a while, Yu Tu suddenly saw a little light in the pitch-black darkness. It was a dim blue-gray mixed with some red.

He walked over quickly, and when he got closer to the dim blue-gray, he saw many black cracks emitting a sense of emptiness, covering the blue-gray ground which was the same color as the sky.

In the very center of the blue-gray ground is a tower where green and red meet. The green part is now very small, almost like thin threads, while the red part looks like rust from a long time, attached to the tower whose original shape can hardly be seen.

Gu Hongying and his companions, who entered first, were standing on the ground separated by countless cracks, jumping forward one block at a time like hopping on squares. Gu Hongying dragged nine big furry tails, and his movements were not a second slower than those of the others.

Yu Tu stood on a small piece of ground where two cracks intersected and looked in the direction of the tower. He waited for about half a minute, and when his original body came out safely and his senses were reunited, he began to move forward.

He came out the latest but arrived the earliest. When Gu Hongying was still one-sixth of the distance away from the tower, Buyehou was already standing at the bottom of the tower.

This red tower had no door. When Yu Tu stretched out his hand, he only touched copper rust.

The fragments of the town tower that he had crushed before turned into smoke and followed him in. The smoke attached to the red tower and made a sizzling sound like corrosion.

Yu Tu gathered the energy in his palm. He placed his hand back on the tower. With his hand as the center, the light blue energy quickly corroded the tower wall. The corroded edges dripped onto the ground like flowing liquid, emitting an extremely unpleasant smell.

After the light blue energy corroded a gap in the tower wall that was big enough for one person to pass through, Gu Hongying, the fastest runner, also arrived. Perhaps it was a real sense of induction between family members, for through the gap in the tower wall, Gu Hongying immediately locked onto a corner of clothing inside the tower that would have been overlooked if one didn't look closely.

Most of his body was inside the tower: "Mom!!!"

Gu Hongying rushed in the direction he saw, but was grabbed tightly by the shoulders. He turned his head sharply. His eyes seemed black at first glance, but upon closer inspection, they were dark red like a little fox.

When Gu Hongying turned around, the red lines on the mask worn by Buyehou began to spread and meandered onto the skin outside the mask.

The red lines rose high, and then chopped off cleanly—

A drop of blood splashed into Gu Hongying's eyes.