Chapter 457: Trump Card

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Aren't you talking nonsense? Who the hell would want to sell their life to you!

Although he really wanted to refuse like this, the other party's ability was forced purchase. The operation when it just dragged him over even allowed it to buy things like "distance". He simply didn't have the ability to refuse.

Looking at the toad in front of him that was smiling quite creepily, Li Ang, having no other choice, could only face the other party's dense compound eyes and bite the bullet to question:

"Selling my life to you... it's not impossible, but the price you give is really too low!"

"Oh?"

Hearing Li Ang's answer, the golden toad, which originally just wanted to tease this human and chat with an "old friend" by the way, tilted its head and asked back with a smile:

"Then how much do you think you are worth?"

"..."

I think I'm priceless, okay? I don't want to sell no matter how much money you give!

However, although this was a fact, looking at the golden toad's playful eyes, Li Ang knew that saying this would be useless, so he finally swallowed the words back and changed the angle:

"I think... many things cannot be measured by money."

"So you not only question my judgment of value, but even want to question my understanding of this world?"

Hearing Li Ang's words, the golden toad, which had always appeared quite gentle, suddenly turned cold. Its giant compound eyes slightly recessed, and the centers of countless small spherical surfaces aimed at Li Ang in unison, staring at him almost word for word:

"Money is omnipotent."

"From the moment the first shell used as currency conquered humans with its shine and beauty, currency and the wealth it represents have become the goal pursued by all intelligent life!"

And it's not just your small kingdom; down to the mermen in the deepest part of the boundless ocean, up to the natives on the back of the moon, every place where intelligent life exists cannot do without omnipotent money.

Only money is the cornerstone of this world's operation! And your insignificant lives are nothing but the most pitiful things it can be exchanged for!"

"Sigh... forget it, what's the use of me telling you these things?"

Looking at Li Ang, who although didn't immediately refute, was clearly still thinking about how to talk back, the golden toad couldn't help but shake its head and say in a bored manner:

"Even if you are a familiar chosen by a Great Devil, at the end of the day, you are nothing more than a servant. You don't need to understand these things at all; just honestly accepting your subjugation is enough... Come! Let me put a price on your insignificant life!"

Accompanied by the golden toad's words, the countless Li Angs reflected in its eyeballs trembled in unison, and then were quickly replaced by countless messy new images.

The innocent and ignorant childhood, the happy childhood enjoying the love of parents, the wailing and crying after losing both parents, followed by large, empty patches of pitch black.

And after a large patch of empty dark color, it was the long half-year of being bedridden with a high fever that wouldn't go down. Because a serious illness spent most of the family's savings, he began to run around desperately for money.

Painting villa walls under the scorching sun, using his thin body to carry bags at the wharf, holding a two-meter-long special wiping pole to scrub the ferry boat that had been blackened by chimney smoke.

When the river froze and the ships stopped operating, he took over a discarded newspaper stand by the road, selling newspapers while shrinking his body in the cold winter, occasionally raising his shoes to fake his age, sneaking into various temporary factories with loose management, doing some odd jobs that didn't require a resume, and earning a little bit of insignificant pocket money...

Unfortunately, after two full years of hard work, the poor little family in the picture not only didn't become wealthy, but seemed to become more and more empty. The girl who occasionally flashed by had a gradually pale face, coughed more and more seriously, and the two children whose faces couldn't be seen clearly also began to lose weight...

"Boring life."

In less than a second, after watching five thousand days and nights, the golden toad shook its head and was just about to "cut off" the image, but suddenly caught a glimpse of a bright red hair.

?!!!

That woman?!

Hurriedly bulging its eyes and interrupting the subsequent images in time, the golden toad's expression sank slightly. It turned its head to look at the sheep head in the shopping bag and said in disbelief:

"Damn it! You actually cooperated with the people from the Cleanup Bureau?"

"Go, go, go! What nonsense are you talking about?" Hearing the golden toad's questioning, because he was too down and out and didn't have the face to see acquaintances, the Black Sheep could no longer pretend.

It only saw it trying hard to stretch out its tongue, licking two holes in the shopping bag, revealing its eyes full of anger, and glaring at the familiar toad in front of it:

"I didn't cooperate with the people from the Cleanup Bureau! I'm just staying there temporarily, and then, at the cost of accepting a few extremely evil sacrifices periodically, I casually bestowed a little bit of ability upon them."

"You're not even cooperating... Are you hired by them? Or... you haven't completely fallen into the hands of the Cleanup Bureau and become their running dog, have you?"

"..."

"You ** are the running dog!"

Stung in a sore spot, the Black Sheep instantly broke its defense and roared while cursing:

"I'm just staying there temporarily! Staying temporarily, do you understand? Are the holes on both sides of your damn head blocked? F***! It's just that I haven't recovered yet, you damn toad, just you wait!"

Heh, running dog!

After glancing at the Black Sheep with contempt and ignoring its furious cursing, the golden toad turned its head back, stared at Li Ang with two giant compound eyes, and questioned with an icy tone:

"So... are you from the Cleanup Bureau?"

"That's right!"

Hearing the meaning in the golden toad's words and knowing that it was mostly a mortal enemy of the Cleanup Bureau, Li Ang simply let go, directly picked up the Black Sheep and shook it, raised his head and took the initiative to provoke:

"Now you might look down on it, but when you fall into our hands and are also made into an anomalous object, I guarantee your end will be ten times more miserable than it!"

???

No? You f***ing talk about it if you want to talk about it, why use me as an example?

Amidst the Black Sheep's cursing, whose tone suddenly rose by eight degrees, the golden toad didn't get angry, but squinted its two giant compound eyes, carefully observed Li Ang's expression, and then tilted its head in surprise.

"You want to provoke me?"

Noticing Li Ang's suddenly tense muscles, the giant golden toad smiled, grabbed a large handful of gold wheels from the side, and while piling these gold wheels in front of it, speculated unhurriedly:

"Human, you don't seem to think you can run away, but you don't look like you're prepared to be killed, and you even dare to take the initiative to provoke me... This is very interesting."

"If I didn't guess wrong, you should still have a sufficiently powerful trump card, but you can't control it, or it can only be triggered after being attacked?"

?!!!

Seen through again?

Looking at the toad that guessed his situation with just a pair of eyes, Li Ang's breathing suddenly stagnated, and he couldn't help but think of the evaluation the red-haired bureau chief gave him.

Could it be... I really am a person who is easy to understand?

"Hehe, it seems I guessed right."

Looking at the confusion that couldn't be hidden in Li Ang's eyes, the golden toad's mouth couldn't help but curl wider and wider, then it pointed to the pile of gold wheels in front of it that had already become a small mountain, and said playfully:

"Sorry, I don't like to rudely attack others with my body. Instead, I like to directly buy the life I want to harvest through fair and reasonable transactions. Your trump card is afraid it won't be of any use."

"Come, take these thirty thousand gold wheels and give me everything you have. For your boring life, this is already the most generous price I can give."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 458 =====