Chapter 3341

Su Xiao had no intention of saving the Ouroboros Slab. Ever since he obtained this thing, apart from the initial gains, he had been playing a battle of wits and courage with it ever since.

Not only that, once Benny took the Ouroboros Slab to explore ancient ruins, and as a result, a scepter obtained was blackmailed by the Ouroboros Slab.

This scepter was discovered by Benny, intended for Su Xiao to use; it was a rare item similar to the 【Ancient Mask】.

Calculating it this way, Su Xiao not only didn't make a profit from the initial cooperation with the Ouroboros Slab, but instead lost a large sum.

Having tasted sweetness, the Ouroboros Slab became insatiable; it represented greed until it met Caesar. The two sides clashed, and the Ouroboros Slab immediately had diarrhea.

On the speeding convertible armored vehicle, Hunting Tide sat in the corner of the back row, her face slightly pale.

Caesar, sitting in the row in front, had already pressed the mud ball in his hand onto the Ouroboros Slab, flattening it with his thumb and then spreading it evenly with his index finger.

A golden shimmer gradually appeared on the slab. Caesar's gaze froze, clearly a bit unhappy, and he made a move to take off his shoe. This action not only made the Ouroboros Slab shiver, but Hunting Tide in the back seat also nearly had a mental breakdown.

Golden light shone brightly on the Ouroboros Slab, and several golden characters appeared on it. Gold represented lucky events, while one black character represented a potential threat.

"My dear friend, look at this mark."

Caesar turned the direction of the Ouroboros Slab, and Su Xiao saw the black symbol on it.

The symbol represented Apocalypse Paradise, which means that in the period following, Su Xiao might encounter misfortune and unlucky events from Apocalypse Paradise.

"Wait a moment."

Caesar took a deep breath, his index finger quickly turning oily green, and he pointed it at the black mark on the slab. Whether it was an illusion or not, Su Xiao faintly heard the miserable hissing sound of a snake.

This point from Caesar seemed to consume immense mental energy, his expression becoming a bit fatigued, and the color of his index finger returned to normal.

The black mark on the slab quickly decomposed, turning into two patterns. Both patterns were very miniature: a small frog and a small rabbit with a crescent moon on its body.

This was the maximum amount of information that could be obtained through the Ouroboros Slab. In Caesar's words, if it weren't for being summoned this time, he wouldn't use this move; it was too damaging to his vitality. He would need to drink at least half a month of "Geham Thick Soup" to make up for it.

Hearing that it was because of the summons that Caesar was so active, actually, it wasn't. In the previous world, Caesar and Su Xiao cooperated to loot the Sun Church's treasury and the Sea God Kingdom's treasury. The gains from the cooperation made Caesar feel it was truly too fragrant, so this time he brought out his trump card, which he hadn't obtained long ago, to detect fortune.

Apocalypse Paradise, small frog, crescent moon, small rabbit.

The people or events represented by these four types of information would bring danger to Su Xiao, but not to the extent of causing his death.

Apocalypse Paradise is a broad scope; the small frog and the crescent moon + small rabbit are the subsequent two hints. Seeing these two icons, Su Xiao immediately thought of the silly girl sisters, namely Morey and the Moon Apostle.

If those two were in this world, it would really be possible for them to bring him a major defeat. The Moon Apostle is one person equal to a legion, with hundreds of thousands of Moon-type summoned beasts.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao knew this was a threat, but also an opportunity. If the silly sisters were "ATM machines" in the previous world, then now they were "mining machines + ATM machines," provided they could be caught.

Once caught, it wouldn't just be a huge sum of money that makes one's heart race; catching the Moon Apostle leaves a lot of room for operation.

Someone like the Moon Apostle likely signed a contract with the Moon Goddess. After catching the Moon Apostle, coercing the other party's summoned creatures to fight is very unrealistic. The contract the Moon Apostle signed with the Moon Goddess has a 99.99% probability of avoiding this; this is common sense.

Letting hundreds of thousands of Moon-type summoned creatures fight and bear the risk of death won't work, but letting them mine has a very high probability of being feasible.

One can guess with their butt that the Moon Apostle is so rich, it should be related to this aspect. In other words, most of her summoned creatures understand some mining knowledge, so mining active mineral veins by brute force is even less of a problem.

This plan is very feasible. The only problem is that he doesn't know the locations of Morey and the Moon Apostle yet. At the current point in time, Su Xiao could hang Morey and the Moon Apostle up and whip them.

"Caesar, is there a way?"

"No way, look at it, it's already cracked."

Caesar raised the Ouroboros Slab in his hand, indicating that it couldn't be used to lock onto the locations of Morey and the Moon Apostle.

The vehicle drove back to Free City. This fortress city with a steampunk style had become busy. There were many pedestrians on the street, and more than a dozen scavengers sat on the steps by the street, their eyes like jackals sizing up every passerby.

Free City does not reject hunters and scavengers; both bring high economic income to Free City every year.

The convertible armored vehicle stopped in front of a hotel. It was very dark inside. Behind the bar was a woman with smoky makeup and black lipstick, who was also yawning.

After paying a few grams of active ore, Su Xiao opened a few rooms on the third floor of the hotel. First, the Doomsday Fortress hadn't reached the vicinity of Free City, and second, he hadn't rested for a moment since entering this world.

Caesar had already gone to act freely. That guy took 8,000 kilograms of active ore from Su Xiao and promised that the channel aspect would be handled as soon as possible, and that he would also inquire about 【Cataclysm Solution Type V】 and the internal reconstruction of the fortress.

When Su Xiao woke up from his sleep, it was already 4:00 PM. He washed up and completely sobered up.

Taking out the communicator, there were 49 unread messages from Caesar's side, and only 1 from Li Xiniwei's side. After checking, it was still bad news: the control of 【Cataclysm Solution Type V】 was very strict. The channel was found, but the other party demanded 60,000 kilograms of active ore, the price having more than tenfold.

Li Xiniwei's meaning was to give him more time, and he would find a way to pressure the seller through Free City's official channels. Not to mention getting it at cost, at the very least, it shouldn't be higher than the previous selling price. This was clearly bullying the newcomer.

From this matter, Su Xiao saw that Li Xiniwei was not suitable for this aspect of work. The other party was better at handling problems that could be put on the table, such as the aftermath of robbing the six fortresses before, which Li Xiniwei handled beautifully.

This is one of the shortcomings of most Kin merchants, typically bullying those within their own circle. When encountering scavengers, hunters, or underground smugglers who don't follow the rules, they start to have no way to deal with them, always wanting to use rules to pressure the other party.

Li Xiniwei has many shortcomings, but everyone has their bright spots. Su Xiao's idea was whether he could pay a certain price in active ore to stuff Li Xiniwei into the "Tribunal," letting the other party hold a position there. The position didn't need to be very high, but it couldn't be too low either.

Being able to plant a nail inside the "Tribunal" would make many things easier to handle, for example, being able to buy second-hand weapons retired by the "Kin Alliance" military.

Those things are not expensive at all, but the problem is the channel. Without a channel, even if one took 1 million kilograms of active ore to go there, they wouldn't buy it. It's not that they don't want to, but they don't dare. If someone from the Tribunal acts as a go-between, the result would be different.

Just looking at the degree of decay in the Tribunal, if operated well, even the Kin Alliance's heavy artillery-grade weapons could be obtained.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao decided in his heart that even if he spent a little more money, he had to arrange for Li Xiniwei to go to the Tribunal.

Su Xiao isn't worried about Li Xiniwei stabbing him in the back? Of course he is worried. With Li Xiniwei's style of conduct, after the other party enters the Tribunal, there is a more than 90% probability that he will stab Su Xiao in the back.

Li Xiniwei has a fatal weakness. He says he is a 40-year-old bachelor, which is not a lie, but he once had a wife and daughter. Later, his wife died in an accident, leaving only one daughter.

Li Xiniwei's weakness is his daughter. Originally, Su Xiao didn't know this. When robbing the fortresses before, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang left plant-based monitoring means in the general control room of those six fortresses.

From the sister of the Kin siblings, namely Ao Niya, Su Xiao monitored one thing: Li Xiniwei has a daughter, right in Free City. That pair of Kin siblings were preparing to kidnap Li Xiniwei's daughter to threaten the other party into submission.

Originally, Su Xiao intended to help Li Xiniwei block this disaster, after all, this was someone helping him do things, but Su Xiao was surprised to find that after letting Li Xiniwei out for only one day, this 40-something Kin bachelor merchant started trying to contact the high-level officials of the "Sentry Tower," implicitly indicating that as long as they helped him solve a trouble, he could reveal a major event.

This is already obvious: Li Xiniwei wants to request the "Sentry Tower" high-level officials to help him detoxify through their means, and as a reward, he will reveal everything he knows to them, which is stabbing Su Xiao in the back.

Kill Li Xiniwei? Too wasteful. This person, without much foundation in Free City, contacted the high-level officials of the "Sentry Tower" within one day, and contacted three high-level officials. This damn, what a talent.

If it weren't for Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang planting plant-based monitoring equipment on the other party, no one would know how Li Xiniwei did it. This guy deceived layer by layer, bearing the risk of death with a slight mistake, and in a total time of 7 hours and 21 minutes, he directly spoke with three "Sentry Tower" high-level officials, and kept himself in a relatively safe environment.

The three "Sentry Tower" high-level officials were also a bit confused at first. After ordering an investigation, they learned of Li Xiniwei's general operation. Those three high-level officials probably all slapped their thighs and said, "This damn is a talent, go find him immediately."

Li Xiniwei really didn't know he had this talent before. This time, encountering Su Xiao, his potential was completely stimulated, and he successfully showed off.

Li Xiniwei's most beautiful operation during this period was that the three "Sentry Tower" high-level officials he contacted had factional struggles with each other. Just as the investigation into Li Xiniwei began, the people from those three parties bumped into each other and nearly started fighting.

The current situation is that once Li Xiniwei is moved to the "Tribunal," those three parties will all think that one of the others planted Li Xiniwei there. They are indeed in factional struggles, but they won't let it spread to the "Tribunal" side, which would attract external forces.

Li Xiniwei can be called a natural rebel. Originally, Su Xiao wanted to get rid of this person, but the situation this person is in now is truly too wonderful. Not sending him to the "Tribunal" to hold a position would be too much of a pity.

To control a person, it is not necessarily required to do something to them personally, let alone Li Xiniwei. This is a desperado with a gentle appearance. Using life and death as a threat cannot control him.

Since Li Xiniwei is already sharpening his knife, preparing to stab a beautiful backstab, then Su Xiao won't be polite.

Leaving room 309 of the hotel, Su Xiao walked into the guest room next door. Just as he opened the door, steam drifted over. These steam, as if having life, drifted out of the door and formed thin tentacles.

Walking into the steam, there was a bathtub in the very center of the room, with a naked figure lying inside. Sensing Su Xiao's arrival, the person in the bathtub opened their eyes.

"The power you crave has been given to you. How should you repay me?"

Su Xiao stood by the bathtub. Amidst the dripping water, the figure in the bathtub stood up. She opened her eyes, her pupils crimson.

The girl with crimson pupils looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, not tall, with tattoos covering her back to cover the scars left in her childhood. She wore a pair of black gloves on her hands.

The girl with crimson pupils pressed one hand to her chest, feeling the power in her body and the thing symbiotic with her, and asked, "What... is it called?"

"Devourer, Boiling Red."

Leaving this sentence, Su Xiao walked out of the room and came to a restaurant on the inner side of the first floor where there were few people.

Half an hour later, he sat opposite the girl with crimson pupils, enjoying lunch. The girl with crimson pupils wore a tea-colored coat and a hood on her head. While eating, it was obvious she didn't know how to use the tableware here.

During the meal, the door was pushed open, and a figure draped in a black robe walked in. It was Li Xiniwei. Of course he didn't want to come, but he didn't dare not to, otherwise he would die on the spot.

"Li Xiniwei, can I trust you?"

Su Xiao spoke while enjoying dinner.

"Of course, we are business partners."

"That's good. I'm prepared to spend a great price to send you to the Tribunal to hold a position. Although feeding those vampires requires a large sum of money, it's worth it."

"Okay, when are we leaving?"

Li Xiniwei's expression was as usual, exactly the same as in the past. He is worthy of being an acting talent.

"A vehicle will come to pick you up in 30 minutes. At 11:00 PM, you will be able to reach the Tribunal."

"Too rushed, give me some preparation time."

Li Xiniwei bit the bullet and objected. He couldn't understand why Su Xiao wanted to send him to the Tribunal side so quickly. If he left now, it would be equivalent to offending three big shots of the Sentry Tower at the same time. Leaving now would be playing with those three parties. After letting those three parties fight internally, he ran away. One can imagine how much those three parties would hate him afterward.

"Time waits for no one, Li Xiniwei. In the blink of an eye, your daughter is already this big. She, like you, chose to help me do things. This is truly a strange fate, don't you think?"

Su Xiao held a goblet in his hand and tilted his head to look at Li Xiniwei. The center of his pupils faintly revealed red.

While Su Xiao was speaking, the girl sitting opposite Su Xiao raised her head, and Amu, standing behind her, pulled down the hood on her head from behind.

Seeing the girl's appearance clearly, Li Xiniwei was like being struck by lightning. His mouth opened and closed, wanting to say something, but he was like a dead fish on the shore, dyingly swallowing the air.

"Do, ro, thy."

Li Xiniwei took a big step back, slipped under his feet, and sat on the ground with his butt, no longer having the demeanor of planning strategies.

"Li Xiniwei, look at how excited you are, sitting on the ground. Get up quickly."

Baja spoke. It landed on the back of the chair behind the crimson-pupiled girl, Dorothy. Hearing this, Li Xiniwei, with trembling lips, hurriedly stood up.

"I..."

"No need to thank us, everyone is 'our own people', don't you think?"

The back of the chair under Baja's claws cracked. Seeing this, Li Xiniwei nodded. He was like a deflated balloon, exhaling a long breath. He knew he had lost.

Li Xiniwei looked at his daughter Dorothy. Dorothy's gaze didn't give way at all, her teeth biting until they clicked, and the fork in her hand was pinched out of shape.

This made Li Xiniwei sigh in his heart. How did his wife give birth to such a pit-father thing back then?

The pit-father girl Dorothy continued to eat. That's right, she is the host of the second-generation Devourer, Boiling Red.

The matter developed back to being completely controllable. After Su Xiao drank the wine in the cup, he checked the messages from Caesar's side, totaling more than 40. After checking, he understood the situation.

1. Caesar has contacted the local Pig-headed Man trading alliance and, through various means, established a preliminary cooperative relationship with them.

2. Regarding the internal construction for the fortress to be promoted to T4 level, after Caesar investigated, he recommended Su Xiao use a type of detachable wood + metal hybrid house. This type of residence is indeed a bit expensive, but the rest conditions are better. Most importantly, it can not only be built inside the fortress but also in other places. This type of hybrid house has a large amount of stock, and once bought, it can be taken away through the team storage space, and then the Pig-headed Men can build it. This thing is like building blocks, difficult to manufacture, high price, low assembly difficulty.

3. Regarding the purchase of superior food, if Su Xiao can buy more than 300 units at a time, the seller is willing to provide an equivalent amount of compressed fresh water. After the compressed box is used up, it must be returned.

4. 【Cataclysm Solution Type V】 is priceless and has no market. This thing only circulates in a small circle. Without the connections and channels of someone who has been in the fortress city for many years, it is impossible to get this thing. There is a group of sellers selling for 60,000 active ore, which is fishing. Whoever goes to buy will be robbed. Caesar had already inquired about the information of several groups of sellers of 【Cataclysm Solution Type V】 with Baja last night. At 8:00 PM tonight, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang will go to steal it.

The several things Su Xiao entrusted, Caesar's side had either already solved or provided a plan. It can only be said that this reinforcement is very top-notch!

PS: (Two updates today, 8,000 words. The rainy weather here at Feiwen is still continuing. I can't keep typing to avoid neck pain. I have to write for a while and rest for a while. The typing speed is much slower than before.)