"Meet at the place where we last traded at three o'clock in the afternoon."
"OK."
After replying to the message from Qisehua, Wang Yun stood up, put the books in her hands back on the bookshelf, and left the library.
After walking out of the library door, she took out her mobile phone from her pocket and called the truck driver she had contacted earlier.
"Hello, Master Wang, I need to use the car in the afternoon... I will notify you of the specific time."
Wang Yun informed the truck driver and returned to her dormitory. She took out the 1 million yuan needed for the transaction from the bank yesterday afternoon.
Qisehua also sent the same notice to the other two buyers. Although the transaction times were different, the transaction locations were all in the West District, which was not far from Qisehua's secret base.
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"The latest international information received by this station is that at 1:15 this morning, an international cruise ship was attacked by a strange sea beast in the South Pacific.
The hull of the cruise ship was severely damaged, and it sank more than two hours later. Although other cruise ships passing by came to rescue, 112 people were still missing.
The National Tourism Administration reminds domestic tourists who are preparing to travel that when traveling in the summer, try not to choose cruise ships that travel across the ocean because safety cannot be guaranteed."
The ocean is getting more and more dangerous! In the future, it should become like Cold Water Lake, full of strange beasts entrenched everywhere in the sea...
Lin Fei, who was holding a large bucket of ice cream in his left hand and a big spoon in his right hand, watched the news host on TV reporting the sinking of the ship, and he remembered the big whale and strange beast that was making trouble in the waters of Qingxi Town before.
"Ding dong."
The doorbell rang at home. Lin Fei put the spoon in his hand on the ice cream, then put the ice cream on the coffee table, got up and went to the entrance.
"Click." Lin Fei opened the door and saw a man and a woman standing at the door of his house. The man had a fierce face, and the woman was very beautiful, but she exuded a cold temperament.
"Hello, Mr. Lin." Tie Qiong and Lin Yuchun, who had been here in the morning, saw Lin Fei at home and greeted Lin Fei with a smile.
Lin Fei, who was wearing a T-shirt with cartoon characters' faces on his upper body and plaid beach pants on his lower body, exuded a lazy atmosphere and said to the two of them, "What's the matter?"
Tie Qiong, who was smiling in front of his younger brother, now had a bright smile on his face. He handed an envelope with both hands and said, "If you hadn't come to the rescue this time, Mr. Lin, my fate would have been left in the hospital."
I’ve got it, I hope you will accept this, Mr. Lin.”
It's for reward... Lin Fei glanced at Lin Yuchun, who was standing next to Tie Qiong, and said, "You're welcome." After saying that, he took the envelope handed over by the other party.
"Mr. Lin, I have made a reservation at the hotel. I wonder if you are free?" Tie Qiong invited Lin Fei with a smile.
"I have something to do tonight, so I won't have to eat or anything like that!" Lin Fei, who didn't want to go out, shook his head and said.
"Okay, let's have dinner together when we are free later. This is my business card. Mr. Lin, please accept it. If you need to visit my place in the future, you can call me." Tie Qiong smiled and took it from his pocket.
He took out a business card and handed it to Lin Fei with both hands.
Lin Fei said "hmm", took the business card handed over to him, then turned around and closed the door.
Back in the living room, Lin Fei put Tie Qiong's business card into the dimensional space first, and then opened the envelope in his hand.
Lin Fei poured a bank card out of the envelope. There were several numbers written on the back of the bank card, which should be the password.
"They didn't even tell me how much money the card has. They asked me to go to the cash machine to check."
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After meeting Lin Fei, Tie Qiong went back first. Lin Yuchun came to the home of her good friend Xue Yitong. Tie Qiong's matter was finally over, and she was going to give herself a long vacation.
Xue Yitong encountered a crisis in the Panshan Forest before, and she wanted to take a good rest afterwards. The two hit it off and decided to eat, play, and go shopping to relax their tense nerves.
"Yitong, why don't we go back to our hometown first! I haven't seen my aunt for a long time." Lin Yuchun came to the living room and sat down and said to Xue Yitong.
"Okay, let's go back to our hometown tomorrow!" Xue Yitong nodded.
"Yitong."
"Um?"
"Brother Qiong wants to recruit you."
"I have no idea of changing careers for the time being."
"Oh, if you have any ideas, remember to tell me." Lin Yuchun mentioned it casually and stopped talking about solicitation.
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In the elf world, there is a vast desert in the south of the white elf country.
In this vast desert, there are scattered oases. Among them is a small oasis that looks like a crescent. In the oasis, there is a group of people digging holes everywhere.
The leader of the team had dug a fifteen-meter-deep hole in the ground in the center of the oasis. It became darker and darker as it went down. He used his spiritual weapon to condense two illuminating light balls to follow him.
When the depth reached twenty meters, the leader used his awakened power to form stone steps in the passage while operating a circular compass to identify the direction of the excavation.
After spending nearly two hours, the leader finally found the target he was looking for, the entrance to a ruins.
It is said that there once was a city in this place thousands of years ago, but for unknown reasons, it was buried nearly 80 meters underground by yellow sand.
"It took me 10 years to finally find this ruins. Don't let me down!" The leader sat on the stone steps to rest while sending a message to his companions.
Not long after, all the leader's companions arrived.
The entrance of the cave is slanted, and because it is too deep, the light from below cannot reach it at all. It is completely dark, and there seems to be some strange sounds coming from below. It is extremely gloomy, as if it is a cave leading to the netherworld.
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An elf man with braided hair asked the leader through the communication device, "Brother, are you really down there?"
The leader responded, "Come down! I'll wait for you at the bottom."
Several people took out torches and walked down slowly. The hole opened by the leader was not big enough for one person to walk down.
As we all know, walking in the dark, even with a torch, will give people a sense of nervousness if they cannot see far, and then it will feel like the road is very long, or that a long time has passed.
The braided man and others seemed to have gone through a long period of darkness before they saw the white ball of light at the bottom. When the four of them saw the white ball of light, they breathed a sigh of relief almost at the same time and walked quickly down.
They came to the leader's side and were about to speak when they saw a square hole in front of the leader. Through the hole, they could see a deep and vast darkness.
The light ball condensed by the leader using the spiritual weapon emitted light into the darkness and was not 'reflected' back at all, so they could not see anything.
This clearly means that there is a huge cave ahead, with almost no side visible, and standing at the entrance of the cave, you can feel the smell of decay coming from it, and there is also a faint breeze blowing on your face.
"This should be the entrance to the ruins we found." The leader said happily to his companions.
After saying that, he turned around and looked at the entrance. A spiritual light bloomed in his hand, and he pointed upward. At the entrance of the cave, soil began to pour in, and soon the long entrance was blocked again.
Everyone understood that the leader was afraid that strange animals would break in while they were exploring the ruins, so this was a prudent move.
I just understand that this situation of no way forward and no way out always makes people feel a little worried.
After the leader used his supernatural power to block the entrance of the cave, the breeze brought by the air flow also disappeared.
This place was very quiet, so quiet that you could almost hear the heartbeats of others. Just when the five people were silent, the leader walked into the cave entrance first and spoke.
"No matter what, after spending so many years, even if there is danger, we still have to go in and take a look."
The others all took a breath, and then immediately followed the leader's footsteps. On the first step into the cave entrance, the leader felt that he was stepping on a piece of soft material. Then he looked down and found that he was standing on a piece of soft material.
On a pile of dead grass.
These withered grasses were spread on the ground. When he stepped on them, the grass leaves under the bottom turned into powder, and some dust was also raised.
"It's weathered. The years here have indeed passed as long as the legend says." The leader murmured softly.
The group of people continued to move forward. After all, this is a ruin that is at least ten thousand years old. After such a long time, no matter how well the things here are preserved, they may have weathered.
The leader continued to move forward, stepping on the withered grass and making a chirping sound, and then the braided man and others quickly followed.
The footsteps of the five people sounded in this empty place and spread into the distance.
After several people walked for a few seconds, there were suddenly layers of footsteps all around.
It was very weak and quite dense, as if countless people were hiding in the darkness, slowly walking toward them from all directions.
The sudden noise startled all five people. They stopped at the same time, and then quickly formed a small circle back to back, clenching the weapons in their hands, and watching the movements around them.
But soon, these footsteps gradually disappeared, as if they had never appeared.
No one spoke. After all, this was an unfamiliar environment, and they were afraid of attracting the terrifying beasts living in the darkness.
The five people waited for a long time, but the footsteps did not sound again. The leader was stunned for a moment, and seemed to realize something. Then he took the initiative to continue walking forward. The other four people originally wanted to stop the leader, but they followed suit when they saw this.
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After all, the leader has been the backbone of the five of them for so many years, so just follow them.
A few people walked forward slowly. After a few seconds, the numbing sounds of footsteps appeared again.
The braided man and others became nervous again and were about to form a circle again.
The leader walked slowly in front and said at the same time, "Don't worry, it's multiple echoes."
Hearing this, the braided man and others were relieved, and they followed the leader.
In the darkness, the sounds of dense and overlapping footsteps were still heard, and not many seconds later, the leader's voice came back.
Don't worry, it's multiple echoes...
Because it was reverberation, the sound was severely distorted, and coupled with the layer upon layer of footsteps, it seemed like there were people talking and walking in all directions. It was so eerie that it made people feel goosebumps all over their bodies.
Originally, the man with the braid wanted to talk as a member of the atmosphere team to liven up the atmosphere, but when he saw this situation, he suddenly lost interest in talking.
The same goes for the others. The five of them walked forward in silence, enduring the constant echo of footsteps and the somewhat irritating noise.
The group of people didn't know how long they had been marching in the dark, but they were walking in one direction anyway.
It seemed like they walked for a long time. They rested twice in the middle, and then finally arrived in front of a high city wall. And here, the layered echoes finally stopped a lot. Although there were still echoes, they were no longer so loud.
Terrible.
After resting for a while, eating something casually, and replenishing their energy, the five people walked in one direction along the old city wall. They were lucky, and they saw the city gate before walking very far.
The huge solid wood city gate had rotted away, half of it was leaning, and the other half had fallen to the ground. The leader stepped on it, directly punching a big hole in the seemingly thick city gate.
"It's already weathered and has no value." The leader said to himself.
Several people walked in from the city gate and found that the ruins in front of them were almost intact. The bluestone slabs on the ground were still hard, but the vast streets were empty.
The group of people walked into the city along the street. The leader found a house closest to him and poked the window. The seemingly intact wooden window was quickly turned into a pile of powder when the leader touched it.
The leader looked into the house and saw that the furniture was well arranged and there were dishes on the table. It was very neat and there was nothing messy.
Then they checked most of the houses nearby and found that all the rooms were neat and full of life.
It's just as if time suddenly stopped at a certain period of time, nothing has changed, the only problem is that everyone in the city has disappeared.
There are no bones here, no corpses, not even animal corpses.
The entire ruins are clean and complete, which is surprising. It seems to be frozen in a gap in time.
The group of people exploring the ruins searched separately for a while, but did not find any useful clues or abnormalities.
When they reunited, the leader moved the light ball further away and looked towards the center of the city.
The faint light reflected back, and there seemed to be a huge object rising into the sky in the darkness.
The leader said to his companions, "Let's go to the city center and have a look. Maybe we can find something valuable."
Everyone continued to move forward, and not long after, they arrived at the center of the city. With the help of the leader's light ball, they finally saw clearly what the huge object in front of them was.
This is a huge trapezoidal building, made of large, loud gray square stones, which may be more than 100 meters high.
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This chapter has been completed!