Chapter 64

"Did you hear any noise?"

Lu Susu stopped digging a hole with his claws, raised his furry head, and looked puzzled.

In the pitch-black underground cave, the light from the flashlight on the mobile phone can only illuminate a small area, and the rest of the place is dark.

"The surface world will limit my spiritual power. I can only calculate where is the best place to dig a hole, but the scene outside the hole—" Yin Li said, "I can't calculate it with my current spiritual power."

"How can a hollow old locust tree be used as the starting point for the relay formation?" Lu Susu looked at the mud on his furry paws and said angrily, "This doesn't make sense at all!"

Gu Hongying complained: "Who told you to drag us and swear that you smelled the 'fragrance of souls'?"

"Does it really smell like a living soul?" Lu Susu waved her furry tail and said unconvincedly, "The living soul that has been away from the body for a long time will emit a strange fragrance in the process of gradually escaping. This fragrance has a certain nourishing effect on living beings. But extracting the living soul to nourish oneself is included in the death penalty regulations in the second level of the barrier law. Almost no one does such a crazy thing——"

She argued confidently: "We can't be so unlucky that we just happened to encounter such a rare thing as extracting a soul from a human body! Although it is rare for a soul to leave the body, there are so many people in the outer world, there will always be a few unlucky people who are unconventional. If we find a soul that is escaping and send it back to the body, it will also be a good deed!"

"What you said makes sense." Gu Hongying tilted the phone upwards to illuminate the place where Lu Susu needed to dig a hole. "The premise is that we can get out."

Su Su: "You look down on my ability to dig holes, don't you?"

She swung her furry tail vigorously, bringing up a handful of fresh soil: "I must dig it through today!"

The red fox's claws almost dug out a shadow with the help of the formation. With a loud "boom", a ray of light shone above their heads. Before the three people in the cave could be happy, the cave above collapsed and someone fell down... a person? !

Gu Hongying: "...I have a bad feeling."

Yin Li: “You are right.”

Along with the man, there fell another object about two meters high, but this object was heavier than the man and smashed through the soil under their feet.

Su Su raised her hairy paws that were covered in mud: "...Fuck! Am I digging a hole in the mezzanine?!"

No wonder she thought the soil was particularly easy to dig!

The objects that smashed through the soil fell into the space below. There was a crisp cracking sound, and instantly, a rich red light emerged from the hole, illuminating the narrow passage of the mezzanine into a bloody color.

In the red light, someone muttered to himself: "It's not bad luck, it's destiny..."

"What are you saying? It's so unlucky———" Lu Susu retorted subconsciously, but halfway through the retort she realized that the one who spoke was the unlucky guy who fell down because of the hole she dug.

The auctioneer was stunned by this unexpected change and his face was filled with despair: "The black light is bad luck, and the red light is a disaster - it must have been nine times of heavenly disaster to be so popular!"

Just when he thought his life was over, he suddenly felt someone poking his shoulder. He turned his head and saw a fox with fur redder than the red light grinning with sharp white teeth in the dazzling red light of the corridor: "Dear, what did you just say?"

"Life Tribulation Transformation?!"

The auctioneer's eyes widened and widened.

His eyes rolled back and he passed out.

Susu: “???”

"I swear!" Susu's furry ears almost turned into question marks. "I just wanted to ask him what the situation is now!"

Judging from the man's attire, they probably... went straight to the auction site.

"Should we go down or up now?" Gu Hongying asked with a sad face in the red light that filled the corridor.

I don't know how the auction house in the inner world calculates the venue fee, but I estimate that the repair fee and the item that just fell down together are worth a lot. He may have to bear a huge debt before he even enters school.

The two men and the fox looked at each other, they looked very miserable going up, and they would probably be no less miserable going down.

"How about we just not go anywhere..." Lu Susu suggested weakly, "surrender right here?"

*

In the auction venue, where the light is so dim that it seems like old-fashioned kerosene lamps from the 1970s and 1980s are lit, people wrapped up tightly have already started bidding. The bidding here is not like the lavish bidding on the ground, where millions are spent at every turn. Instead, it reveals a kind of prudence and poverty that is unique to ordinary people.

The price increase is not in units of "ten thousand", but in units of "hundred" or even "ten".

At the beginning, a man covered in a strange black mist pushed a person in a wheelchair to the center of the crude auction table. The person in the wheelchair had lost both legs and had nothing below the knees, but his expression was not decadent and gloomy, but rather a kind of fanaticism that seemed wrong.

"I will show you the magic medicine that will be auctioned soon." The man in the black mist raised his skinny hand. In his palm was a transparent cylindrical glass bottle with a turbid and sticky green liquid inside. "The magic medicine is called [Time Reversal], and it can make your broken limbs grow back from your body! I know many people don't believe it, so we found a volunteer to let everyone witness the miracle."

He unscrewed the cork on the glass bottle, and a foul odor that ordinary people could not smell spread. He poured the cyan liquid in the cork onto the end of the knees of the person in the wheelchair. The liquid did not flow down like water, but wrapped around his knees in a state that violated gravity and science. Under the gaze of many people in the stands, something was wriggling violently at the end of the knees, where the cyan liquid was wrapped. Then, a pair of calves slowly "grew" out - first, bones with a hint of green grew out, and then muscles, blood vessels, and epidermal hairs... In just one minute, the disabled person in the wheelchair had legs again.

"Want to get up and walk around?"

There was a hint of satisfaction in the voice of the man shrouded in black mist. The volunteer, who was sweating profusely from the pain but dared not make a sound, looked at his legs which were intact below the knees, and felt a sense of unreality as if he had fallen into a dream.

He was holding on to the wheelchair with his hands, and his newly grown legs were a little uncomfortable when they first touched the ground, but that did not prevent him from standing up crookedly. He walked a few steps on the spot and suddenly fell to the ground. He kept touching his legs, crying and laughing like a crazy lunatic. The pit-shaped auction floor was filled with his hoarse cries and the wild laughter after he had legs.

No one paid any attention to his gaffe, as everyone was stunned by the efficacy of the "magic drug". After witnessing the efficacy of the magic drug with their own eyes, the tightly wrapped people finally lost their last psychological defenses. If they had not repeatedly understood the rules of the auction before entering, they would have already rushed to the auction table.

"This is [Time Travel]—the master's most outstanding work." The man in the dark mist sighed, and his skinny hand pointed upwards, "The starting price of the auction above is 5 million—"

He sneered: "You guys... you can't afford it even if you work until you die."

"But the Master is a kind and great man. He couldn't bear to see you living in the pain of losing your limbs, so he sold the magic medicine to the rich at a high price, and then used the money he earned from the rich to make new medicine, and sold the magic medicine to you at a low price!" He said, "Shouldn't you thank the Master?"

"Thank you, Master! I will be grateful to you for the rest of my life!"

“It was the master who gave me a new life!”

"I will never forget the great kindness of the Master!"

…

In such a fanatical atmosphere, Wu Yulan, who was wrapped in a serious and conservative manner, was not brainwashed by the scene before her. Instead, a huge fear surged in her heart.

People around her were cheering at the top of their lungs, expressing their gratitude to the Master for his great kindness, but she was the only one who felt terrified.

She couldn't explain why, but she found the first greenish bone to appear disturbing.

The atmosphere of the auction was stirred to an unprecedented fever pitch. The man in the dark mist seemed somewhat satisfied. He raised his hands and pressed them down: "Everyone, be quiet."

"It seems that everyone wants the magic medicine very much. Let's not talk too much." He waved his hand lightly, and the black mist covering his body instantly went to the side. When the mist disappeared, a silver-gray iron platform appeared next to him. On the iron platform were ten glass bottles filled with cyan liquid. "There are ten copies of the magic medicine in total. The starting price is 10,000. The highest bidder wins."

His voice rose slightly, and the upcoming harvest made him extremely excited: "Now let's start auctioning the first bottle!"

There were only ten bottles of medicine, but there were more than ten people. The price of ten thousand soon increased more than fifty times, and was finally sold for five hundred and sixty-seven thousand six hundred.

"Let us congratulate the success of the first bottle of miracle medicine——"

"BOOM!!!"

Suddenly, a sound of an earth-shaking movement sounded above his head. The simply compacted soil above his head fell down, and a huge object smashed down and landed on the iron platform, smashing the ten bottles of magic medicine into pieces. Green liquid flowed everywhere, and glass fragments mixed with mirror fragments were scattered all over the ground.

Black Mist Man: “……?”

He saw his own shadow in the mirror fragments. In an instant, a red light filled the entire conference hall, making it almost impossible for people to open their eyes.

At this moment, two shadows rushed onto the auction platform like a gentle breeze and attacked the Black Mist Man directly.

They are Tu Jiaojiao and Lan Huiyu.

The two of them cooperated well and almost restricted the actions of the strange Black Mist Man. Seeing that the situation was not right, the Black Mist Man wanted to escape, but in order to prevent people with ulterior motives from outside, he had sealed the entrance and would not open it before the time was up.

The only option now is to go out from the top that was inexplicably broken!

It's not that he was completely unable to beat these two people who suddenly appeared from the ring position, but when fighting with them, he felt that they were very much like official people.

Official people are the most difficult to deal with. Although their overall strength varies, they are distributed over a wide area and are well-informed with each other. Once you are entangled with them, it will be like a pursuit to the death.

After releasing most of the black mist on his body and throwing it towards the two official men, the black mist man decisively leaped up and escaped from the broken hole.

In the mezzanine passage between the upper and lower spaces, two people and a fox who were sitting there planning to surrender suddenly discovered that a dark figure suddenly emerged from the rectangular hole below.

The dark figure suddenly looked in their direction—three children who looked like they had just reached adulthood and whose spiritual power was weak.

New and old hatreds overlap, and hatred accumulates instantly.

The man in black mist was originally worried that this cave entrance was a new trap, but when he saw three excellent hostages in front of him, he decisively grabbed the neck of Gu Hongying, who was closest to him.

As his fingers slightly sunk inward and his spiritual power fluctuated, trying to make the hostage in his hand lose the ability to move first, an extremely strong light suddenly burst out from the hostage in his hand.

In the white light, a cluster of thorny bushes swept out and hit the man in black mist fiercely in the face, almost dispersing the little mist left on his body.

The thorny bush was still not satisfied, so it grabbed him and started to move him up and down the 360-degree drum washing machine. The rich rose scent spread in the narrow passage.

The underground space was originally dug temporarily by the black filmers, and the reinforcement was not done carefully. First, it was dug by Gu Hongying and others, and then it was pulled by the bushes. The upper and lower layers began to shake violently, and then... a bigger collapse occurred!

Tu Jiaojiao and Lan Huiyu, who had caught up in the underground space, had no idea that in just a few breaths, the situation had become uncontrollable. They did not recognize the black mist man, nor the crazy bush, but they recognized the two people and the fox staggering here and there—————they recognized them clearly!

"Gu Hongying! What's wrong with you!" Tu Jiaojiao shouted at the top of his voice. He didn't care about pretending any more. "Stop the bushes. The underground space is full of ordinary people. If it collapses, people will die!"

"I don't know this bush, ahhhhhh———" Gu Hongying was nearly thrown out of the newly added hole because of the vibration of the passage. "I don't know the situation either. Wait for me to make a phone call first!"

Before Gu Hongying's call was connected, screams came from the bottom of the cave where the black mist man emerged. Tu Jiaojiao and Lan Huiyu ignored the crazy bushes and went back, only to see that the simple auction table was completely shattered. After the smoke and dust cleared, zombies of different colors jumped out from inside.

Tu Jiaojiao: “???”

Lan Huiyu: “!!!”

Good fortune never comes in pairs, and misfortune never comes alone.

The bushes in the mezzanine passage between the upper and lower spaces finally stopped growing wildly, but this space could no longer bear the weight. The soil fell down and the entire space collapsed completely!

The magnificent auction house on the ground collapsed, and the bushes in the interlayer swam downwards, wrapping up the ordinary people in the auction house and tying them together, and weaving a protective cover above their heads. Zombies of different colors were pulled out one by one by the bushes, some were buried in the soil but still jumped forward, and some almost bit people...

The fragments of the mirror glowed red, piercing the rational human mind and bringing tears to its eyes. The remnants of the "magic medicine" were rolled into the soil, and when they touched the zombies, they grew strange limbs. From time to time, a piece of the gorgeous decorations in the auction house above would fall down, some landing on the protective cover of the bushes, and some landing on the zombies. The main attack was to attack all enemies equally...

Ordinary people's screams were getting louder and louder - the word "chaos" is simply not enough to describe the current chaos.