Yulaika was quickly brought back to the city.
Just once, Xuechu did not choose a small shabby house with average accommodation conditions, but directly opened the door of the most luxurious hotel with a bag of star coins.
The little dragon cub happily rolled on the bed which was more than twice as soft, and fell into the soft quilt, babbling with its tail like a round ball.
"Yulaika," Xuechu, who was familiar with the little cub's eating status, was rarely worried.
I have already finished eating the eggshells and want to buy some gems... There are no auctions at this point.
"Huh?" Yu Laijia showed half of his face and shook his head, then he came over in confusion and rubbed his eyes eagerly against Xue Chu's hand.
Xuechu: "..."
Xue Chu raised her hand and poked the little guy backwards, obviously very helpless.
"Where is your inherited memory? How come you still can't speak?"
"What a stupid cub..."
"Hmm!" Yulaijia, who understood, groaned in dissatisfaction, buried his head in the quilt and twisted around, looking like a coquettish person, which made people reluctant to say more serious things.
Xuechu simply looked away.
She looked at the dusk sky outside, and her originally clear black eyes began to glow with purple light.
——Something is wrong.
Xuechu walked to the window to look at the street that had been deserted for some time, and the feeling of disobedience in her heart became even stronger.
She carried the little dragon cub and walked downstairs. Just after passing the corner of the stairs, she saw the middle-aged shopkeeper wearing long gloves and struggling to move several strange-shaped rocks to the door of the shop.
Those stones still had a faint blue light under the dim light. Xue Chu's mind moved and he directly opened the system interface to scan the boulders in front of him.
"...Shop, are these stones for sale?"
"Wha. What...?" When the hunched-over shopkeeper heard these words, he slowly straightened up and rubbed his ears, as if he couldn't believe it.
"I asked, are these stones for sale?"
Xue Chu relaxed the bag in his hand, and the star coins piled inside made a crisp and pleasant sound when they collided.
A few plain bluestones and the star coins here are definitely enough.
Even the system certification indicates that these are of no great use other than making some ordinary jewelry.
"Miss, are you kidding me?" The shopkeeper laughed after hearing this, and looked at her as if he were looking at some weak rabbit running out of the greenhouse, with a hint of preaching: "This place is Wu Fang City, these 'bluestones' can only be shipped to your hands, how can anyone be crazy enough to sell them?"
"Cyan bluestone?" Xue Chu was really confused. He slowly walked down the steps and approached. Just as he was about to raise his hand to touch it, he was stopped by the displeased shopkeeper in front of him.
The store owner's attitude suddenly changed: "Hey, little girl, no matter how naive you are, there must be a limit... Today we found traces of strange beasts early. This baby can't gain too much popularity. If you can’t deter the strange beasts, so be it! You want to die but I don’t want to die yet!”
Xuechu, whose true form is a powerful monster: "..."
Xue Chu pressed her little head, trying to poke it out of her arms, and tried to persuade her again: "Did the store make a mistake? This is plain bluestone, not cyanotic bluestone..."
"And it can't deter strange beasts."
If you really want to use this thing to block it... except blocking your escape route, there will probably be nothing left.
As soon as he finished speaking, the lingering heat of dusk dissipated as quickly as possible. The shopkeeper propped himself up on the dusty table next to him, and when he came back to his senses, he could already hear the trembling sound in the air.
"This is impossible -" the store owner gasped, his originally cloudy eyes even more bloodshot, and even his tone became hoarse and hoarse like a boulder of gravel.
"This is absolutely impossible!"
Not sure whether he was trying to convince himself or if he really believed it, the store owner picked up an empty cup from the table with trembling hands, as if to prove something.
"Look, this cup hasn't even been shaken! Normally, if there was such a big movement, the cup would have been shattered on the floor! This is a high-quality bluestone that I specially bought from other channels. The price is several times more expensive! How is that possible? It’s fake...why doesn’t it glow, why doesn’t it form a barrier yet——”
"Bang!"
With the sound of the store owner slumping to the ground, all the strong arguments came to an abrupt end.
Xuechu sighed quietly.
After a moment, he pointed to the boulders on the edge of fragmentation again and asked, "What about now? Are they still for sale?"
"..." There was silence.
Xuechu, who was standing as steady as a mountain, looked back at the store owner who had curled up in despair. He couldn't bear this kind of deception and ruthlessly destroyed the situation: "There is no light, no barrier, the cup is not broken because you are holding it in your hand, and now …”
She glanced at the fragments that fell on the coarse linen clothes and held her forehead helplessly: "...it's already broken."
"Also, as long as I'm still standing here, nothing will happen to you," Xuechu said calmly, "But I suggest you stay in another place. I don't think the light above your head is worse than your life."
"..."
"Really?" The store owner suddenly raised his head and stared at Xue Chu, whose clothes were worth a lot of money. He asked cautiously as if he was holding on to the last life-saving straw: "Which family are you from? Our lady, right?"
"Someone will come to save us, right? As long as you are willing, miss..."
"No," Xue Chu's eyes were numb from the noise, "That's not the case at all."
The shopkeeper didn't speak, and the eyes that were like weak candles just now disappeared instantly.
"This is the fate of Wufang City..." the store owner murmured to himself. The roars and cries from outside came in through the cracks in the door. It was as if he didn't hear them at all.
His rough hands got stuck in the cracked ground, and he even lost the desire to escape.
Xuechu didn't speak anymore, and calmed the dragon cub's excited little head. He raised his hand and gathered all the plain bluestones that the store had moved with difficulty behind him.
She was blocked at the front as she should be, as if she was alone on an island outside the world. Her eyes reflected the ferocious scene of mud and sky outside, but behind her, nine snow-colored tails soared into the sky.
"Fox, fox clan..."
The shopkeeper, who was originally curled up and waiting to die, looked blankly at this miraculous scene, and then realized the true meaning of that sentence.
saved!
The surprise of surviving the disaster instantly replaced the tearing hell outside the door. The store owner remembered that advice and almost crawled out from under the chandelier - and then heard a falling sound that was extremely close to the eardrums.
Before the suffocation of almost death completely overwhelmed him, he was called back by an inhuman voice.
"Stay far away."
Xue Chu looked sideways, her cold purple eyes slightly exuding a bewitching fluorescence.
"Ah -" The burning and stinging feeling in his throat made it impossible for the store owner to say a complete sentence. He was stunned for a moment, but his body's instinct was still smart and he hid behind the plain blue stone.
Those boulders still have the mottled cracks from before, but since Xuechu took them behind him, there has been no more damage to the plain bluestone.
