Chapter 687

It took 2 minutes and 50 seconds to open the door lock. In fact, Su Xiao could also open the rolling shutter with a remote control, but there was no response, which meant the power had already been cut off.

With a clatter, he pulled up the rolling shutter, and a faint smell of dust surged out from inside the shop.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang took two steps back, looking disgusted.

"Why are you backing away? We'll live here from now on. Don't be lazy; all three floors need to be cleaned."

Su Xiao walked into this familiar shop. He had lived here for a long time before. Unlike drifting across the four seas, there was a sense of belonging here.

One man and one dog began to clean the entire three-story building. The first floor was the shop, the second floor was for living, and the third floor was a warehouse used for storing goods.

During this time, Su Xiao went out once to pay the water, electricity, and gas bills.

In the evening, the ornament shop opened quietly. The lights illuminated the first floor brightly. The first floor was about 130 square meters, with more than a dozen rows of shelves filled with various expensive ornaments. The jade emitted a gentle glow under the lights, and the pale yellow amber ornaments looked magnificent.

But it was of no use; there wasn't a single customer.

Su Xiao was happy with that. He sat at the bar inside the first floor, where there was a computer and many tools.

Su Xiao put down the electric branding pen in his hand. In front of him were a large number of mechanical components; he was assembling a security system.

Ding-ling, the shop door was pushed open. Su Xiao's hand paused, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who was sleeping on a small bed nearby, raised his head.

"Is anyone there?"

A weak female voice came. Su Xiao didn't speak and continued to perfect the security system.

"Huh~"

That customer seemed to have seen something inconceivable.

Ding-ling~

The customer left the shop. That's right, the lethality of this shop was just that great. The goods sold were really too expensive. If this shop were opened in the city center, there would be business, but it was difficult in this kind of low-traffic area.

After Su Xiao set up a perfect trap + security system, his stay in the real world reached its limit.

After returning to his old haunt, Su Xiao found that relaxing his mood here was far more effective than traveling around.

Watching anime or making some small things while tending the shop made the time in the real world pass very quickly.

Locking the shop door, Su Xiao went up to the second floor and activated those traps and security systems.

【Hint: A new derived world is about to open. The Hunter will return to Reincarnation Paradise. Please ensure there are no witnesses around.】

【Transmitting... Transmission complete.】

When Su Xiao's vision recovered, he was already in his exclusive room.

【Hunter Level: lv. 16. You can receive notification thirty minutes before entering a derived world (After promoting to Second Tier, the time to foresee the next derived world's information is reset, and every level gained advances it by five minutes). The Hunter will enter the derived world in one hour. Please wait patiently.】

【Hint: The Hunter possesses "one derived world multi-choice opportunity." Use/Not use.】

"Use."

【Used "derived world multi-choice opportunity." Before entering this derived world, the Hunter has one multi-choice opportunity.】

A new derived world was about to begin. Su Xiao's strength was much stronger than before, so he couldn't help but feel eager to try.

Other contractors couldn't help but feel some fear before entering a derived world, but Su Xiao was the exact opposite. Not only did he not have fear, but he was somewhat expectant, looking forward to what kind of opponents he would encounter in the derived world, or competing for treasures with strong people.

And this derived world was very special. Su Xiao would activate his talent awakening mission in this derived world.

After a successful awakening, the level of the talent skill would be from E-rank to SSS-rank. He was somewhat curious about what level his talent would be after awakening.

It wasn't that a powerful talent would be powerful after awakening; the final talent level would be determined by the completion degree of the talent awakening mission.

If the mission completion degree was high, the talent level would naturally be higher. If the completion degree was low, even if the talent ability was originally strong, it would only be slightly enhanced.

Whether the awakened talent ability was powerful depended on personal ability, not on bloodline theory.

Su Xiao checked the supplies in his storage space. Food, drinking water, etc., were all available. 10 No. 1 Potions; he only carried this one type of recovery potion.

Because of manufacturing No. 1 Potions, Su Xiao only had 2,300 Paradise Coins left. These Paradise Coins were kept for emergencies.

Time passed in a flash, and an hour passed quickly.

【Derived world about to open.】

【Please choose one of the following derived worlds to enter.】

1. A Certain Magical Index

2. Fate/Zero

3. Fairy Tail

【Hint: The Hunter must choose within 10 seconds; otherwise, it will be chosen randomly.】

Su Xiao hesitated for a moment. He had many things to do this time, so he couldn't choose too large a world. After only a moment of hesitation, he chose a world.

【Spatial coordinates stable, consuming 0.021 ounces of space-time power.】

【According to the space-time power consumed, the contractor's minimum comprehensive evaluation for this world must reach C- rank.】

【Beep, detected that the Hunter's strength differs too much from other contractors in the same derived world, special identity will be arranged.】

Su Xiao subconsciously lowered his head, but the back of his head was still struck as if by a hammer.

That's right, it was a hammer strike. It was fine before, at most a blackjack. As his strength grew stronger, the heavy strike sensation during transmission became more intense. Could it be that they were afraid a blackjack wouldn't knock Su Xiao unconscious? So they switched to a hammer level?

When Su Xiao's consciousness recovered again, he was in a "battlefield."

Just arriving at this battlefield, Su Xiao found that something was wrong. This was not in a derived world at all. The overwhelming corpses around were all fake. This was a place similar to a barrier.

"Who are you?"

A knight in full black armor stood on a pile of corpses in the distance. Except for his eyes, the armor covered the knight's entire body.

At this moment, the knight's figure was somewhat illusory. Judging from his aura, he was not in his prime state.

"Who I am is not important. You only need to know that only one of us can live."

Su Xiao drew the Dragon Flash from his waist. Because the strength difference between him and the contractors about to enter the derived world was slightly large, and what he was about to enter was not an open world, Reincarnation Paradise arranged a special identity for him.

"A warrior full of blood and battle-hardened, you are qualified to fight me."

The black-armored knight walked down from the pile of corpses, seemingly feeling that Su Xiao was qualified to be his opponent, and even nodded to Su Xiao to show respect.

"As a knight..."

The black-armored knight suddenly thought of something and shook his head. He was no longer qualified to call himself a knight. Just the fact that he committed adultery with the queen destined him to be unqualified to call himself a knight.

"State your name."

The black-armored knight held the hilt of his knight sword with both hands and held the long sword upright in front of his eyes. This was the etiquette before a battle.

"Bai Ye."

Su Xiao moved his shoulders. Although the opponent was not in his prime state, he was not easy to deal with.

"I am a Round Table Knig... no, I am a traitor to the king, Lancelot."

Boom!

Su Xiao and Lancelot stepped on the ground beneath them at the same time. The long blade and the knight sword slashed together, and a wave of air spread out within the barrier.

In this barrier, the two began to slaughter each other, because only one person could leave here.

Inside the derived world.

In a dim basement, an old man who was about to die was looking at a man with white hair.

The old man had a smile on his face, and his eyes looking at the white-haired man were full of mockery. He didn't even bother to hide this mockery.

The white-haired man turned his head, seemingly not wanting to look at this old thing anymore. The insects in his body were swimming in his blood vessels, and every millimeter they swam brought unimaginable pain. Fortunately, the left half of his body had completely lost sensation.

"What are you stunned for? It's already set up, let's start."

The old man tapped a magic circle drawn with human blood on the ground with his cane and laughed sinisterly a few times.

The white-haired man took a deep breath, trying to ignore the severe pain in his body, and began to chant a spell.

"Thy body is under my command, my fate is on thy sword..."

The white-haired man's voice grew louder, and a certain object within the magic circle in front of him began to glow.

"Following the will of the malicious, make thy eyes chaotic, thy heart violent, a prisoner trapped by the cage of madness. I am the one who manipulates this chain..."

Boom!

The light flared, and a corpse cut into four segments appeared on the magic circle, with rolling black smoke permeating the corpse.

The old man on the side was somewhat dumbfounded. He had lived for hundreds of years and had never seen such a thing.

"This corpse... can it really be used for battle?"

The white-haired man's voice trembled, his heart full of despair. The reason he participated in this matter and turned himself into this ghostly appearance was just to save two people. As long as he could save those two people, it wouldn't matter if he went to hell immediately.

"Wasting a year of my time, trash is indeed..."

Just as the old man finished speaking, a crisp sound came from above the magic circle. Within the extremely unstable space caused by the summoning, a hand wrapped in a crimson metal gauntlet suddenly reached out.

With the appearance of this hand, a crack gradually appeared in space, and rich blood energy surged out from the crack, pushing the old man and the white-haired man back a few steps.

The white-haired man staggered and wanted to rush forward, but he stopped after taking two steps, his pupils trembling, seemingly seeing some terrifying scene.

In that spatial rift, the white-haired man saw a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!

A man wearing a black trench coat and holding a long blade walked out from the spatial rift, followed by a dog, and a cold chill sprayed out from the spatial rift.

"Hoo~"

The man who walked out of the spatial rift exhaled a cold breath. The old man and the white-haired man faced a formidable enemy.

"Old bug, what are you looking at?"

In the cold air, a pair of sharp eyes looked at the old man.

Discovering this scene, the white-haired man's hands trembled. He wasn't afraid, but excited.

The white-haired man's somewhat dim pupils were full of longing. He longed for this old guy who had tortured him for a full year to die, even if the other party was his "father."

The old man's expression stiffened. He felt a threat from the cold air. This feeling hadn't appeared for a long time; the other party seemed to have some kind of ability to kill him.

"Kariya, control your Heroic Spirit!"

The old man roared, but he didn't notice that the white-haired man named Matou Kariya had a twisted smile on his face.

"I can't do it, hahaha, I... can't control him."

Matou Kariya looked up and laughed, looking at the three red imprints on his arm.

"I am just his mana supplier, I can't control him. If you anger him, he might even kill me."

Hearing the white-haired man's near-maniacal laughter, the old man slowly retreated.

Su Xiao walked out of the cold air. He finally knew now that he had arrived in this derived world as a pseudo-Heroic Spirit. This was the Fate/Zero world, the Holy Grail War world.

Unlike Heroic Spirits who were half-energized, Su Xiao's body hadn't changed. A pseudo-Heroic Spirit was just an identity. As for Matou Kariya's true servant, Lancelot, he had been slashed into four segments by him a few minutes ago, and the energy that drifted out had already been absorbed by the Holy Grail.