vrcanaries Chapter 373 Action
Chapter 373 Action
"Knock Knock Knock-"
The door of this room always opens immediately in the next second, and the waiter has apparently become accustomed to it in the past few days.
"Sir, your meal--" He gave a professional smile.
"Thank you, give them all to me!" The blue-haired boy in the room took them enthusiastically, not at all disgusted by the fact that there were mushrooms on the plate.
"Guests, do you really not need me to clean?" The waiter looked at them with curiosity in his eyes. He knew that those who could come to the black street on the tenth floor were not ordinary people, but these three young guests had not left the house for several days after staying there, which was also rare.
"No, no!" The blue-haired guest patted his shoulder enthusiastically, "I have a friend who is very good at these little magic tricks."
He handed the only dish of meat on the tray to the waiter with a friendly smile. The waiter looked grateful, said goodbye to the guest and left without saying anything more.
Lucas turned around and came to the middle of the three houses they had booked, pushed the door and walked in.
"Hey! You should knock when entering a lady's room." Lilith was slumped in a chair, drinking from the small blue bottle she made, waiting for her mental strength to recover.
"How long will it take?" Lucas ignored Lilith's words and put the plate on the table. No matter indoors or outdoors, one could not see the movement of the sun or moon, which made the passage of time increasingly blurred.
Lilith didn't say anything, but pointed inside with her chin. Lucas turned his head and saw that the luxurious carpet with star and moon patterns had been thrown aside. Several mottled stone slabs were pried open. The black and purple vines that had been transformed by Lilith's magical hybridization were advancing into the soil under the floor like a dragon. Not only did they dig a big hole in the room, but they also advanced all the way towards the direction of the auction site, squeezing out all the surrounding soil and rocks and creating a passage that a person could move forward by bending over.
"I have to say -" Lucas stood at the entrance of the cave and looked around for a few seconds, then gave Lilith a thumbs up, "This is the time when we are most in agreement."
The days of staying on guard in the room were too boring, and he only survived until now by relying on the zero-dollar pancakes drawn by Lilith.
Lilith raised her head and drank a whole bottle of mental potion, burped and said, "That's enough for tonight, everyone get a good night's sleep in the afternoon, and we'll act in the second half of the night."
She was going to steal—Pah!—her sword back tonight!
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The hustle and bustle of the auction has faded, and the bright lights illuminating the center of the venue are still hanging high. However, the display stands that were once filled with rare treasures are now empty. Only the bid papers scattered on the ground show the frenzied competition that occurred when those treasures stayed for a short time.
Under the booth, the hall filled with chairs was isolated from the lights, but if you looked closely, you could see that there were still a few people sitting sparsely in it, like scattered stars in the night sky.
"Any new findings tonight?" A tired voice echoed in the empty space, sounding like the leader of this group.
No one from the other people who had disappeared into the darkness responded, and it was obvious that they had not received any useful information.
"I'm going to the Gaia Empire again."
A figure stood up as she spoke and walked under the light of the display stand. Her skin was as pale as most people in Shadow Lokri, but the difference was that she was slender and light, with a pair of pointed ears that could not be ignored.
——An elf, a night elf.
"Be patient, Giselle," said the first speaker in a soothing tone.
"Admit it, Legolas. The benefits you offer are not enough to make the cowardly king of Mulet send troops." The female elf on the stage was unmoved. "I know you want to muddy the waters and gain more safety space for everyone, but who is afraid of death here?"
"I'm afraid." The elf named Legolas said calmly, "How many of us are left, Giselle? If we all die, who can continue to search for the truth about the Mother Goddess? Can we count on those naive little kids in the Elf Forest?"
"...In the past few years, several of our companions have disappeared, and they were all on Gaia or near Gaia. Even I almost couldn't come back. Doesn't this prove something?" The female elf on the stage insisted on her own idea -
"They are targeting us, those knights, that church. The more this happens, the more it proves that we have found the right direction. The truth must be there. We were too quick to exclude those inferior things back then, but now look at how fast they are developing. Even those tieflings have become believers of light. This is wrong."
"Oh, look at her, back to her old ways." A male elf in the corner teased as he looked at the female elf standing at the display stand and talking incessantly, but what greeted him was a dagger coming through the wind.
"Dang--" The dagger couldn't penetrate the thick stone wall behind the elf and fell to the ground. The elf went to pick it up with a smile. Although he made Giselle angry, he finally broke the tit-for-tat atmosphere.
"when--"
When his slender fingers touched the small and sharp dagger on the ground, another very light, dull sound was heard, causing the male elf's hand that was about to pick up the dagger to pause.
The auction room suddenly became quiet, and there was no sound of conversation.
"Did you hear that?"
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Deep in the dim underground, bricks and stones covered with spores trembled slightly, and the mortar between the bricks and stones seemed to be drained of vitality and peeled off bit by bit. With hidden sounds, the gaps between the bricks and stones began to expand rapidly, and dark green shadows crawled out through those gaps like nimble snakes.
One piece, two pieces...the bricks and stones became loose and collapsed outwards one after another with a dull sound. The originally tightly arranged wall turned into a broken puzzle in the blink of an eye, and a hole that a person could squat through suddenly appeared.
A figure, ignoring the flying dust, appeared at the entrance of the cave and immediately jumped down, followed by a second one.
As soon as Lucas landed, he covered his mouth and nose with the mask and gasped - the basement of the auction hall was more spacious than they thought!
There were rows and rows of shelves that stretched as far as the eye could see, and even on the ground against the wall, many things that were obviously valuable were piled on the ground like garbage. Lucas was stunned at the sight of them.
"Li--" Lucas just opened his mouth, but was poked hard by Lilith's elbow and immediately shut up.
Due to Ian's devout faith, Lilith didn't want to embarrass him, so she left him on the other side to watch. This time, only Lilith and Lucas came down. After being hit, Lucas finally woke up. With the dim light of the spores on the wall, he saw Lilith lift the mask on her face and mouthed something to him -
"Find the sword!"
Lucas nodded regretfully, and he and Lilith took each side and acted quietly and quickly.
Fortunately, she was lucky. After searching in one direction for a while, she saw a bunch of glittering silver light in the corner of the wall with the light of the spores. She ran over in surprise and was stunned -
Damn it! There are swords without scabbards here, which one is hers! ?