Sequence Beyond: My Wife is a Mysterious Boss

Lan Xiao ignored Lin Bai and walked straight to the counter.

He pulled a delivery note from his pocket and slammed it on the table.

"Old Jack, is my order ready?"

"Oh! Young Master Lan!" Old Jack immediately switched to a completely different fawning expression.

"Alright, alright! We've been offering it to you for a long time!"

He carefully took out a long brocade box.

Open the lid.

An extremely flamboyant longsword lay in the velvet.

The blade is crimson, engraved with flame patterns that resemble a breathing light, and a large ruby ​​is set on the hilt, exuding an aura of "I'm very expensive".

"As per your request, I've added three grams of 'Flame Breath Steel'! Although it's a semi-finished product, with just a little spiritual energy infused into it, this one cut will be enough to burn a hole through the steel plate!"

Old Jack gave a thumbs up, his flattery ringing out loud:

"Only someone as generous as you, Young Master Lan, would spend six hundred gold coins on materials alone, right? Most people wouldn't even dare to look at that!"

Lan Xiao reached out and grasped the hilt of the knife.

hum-

A faint red light flickered, and the heat was oppressive.

The special effects are top-notch.

He nodded in satisfaction, his gaze seemingly casual but actually deliberate as he glanced at Lin Bai and smiled slightly.

"It's alright." Lan Xiao twirled the knife gracefully and said calmly, "It's barely usable, nothing special."

This Versailles performance deserves full marks.

However, Lin Bai didn't even look at him.

His attention was entirely focused on the parchment in his mind.

A line of blood-red text slowly appeared:

Answer: Yes.

[Look at that dusty shelf on your left, on the bottom shelf, there's a treasure inside that greatsword that looks like it could break at the slightest touch.]

[Note: Ugly but powerful. This thing perfectly describes you—plain on the outside, filthy on the inside.]

And also, I'm your father!

Lin Bai: "..."

Automatically filtering out the parchment's counterattack, Lin Bai walked towards the corner.

In the pile of scrap metal, there lay a massive heavy sword, as wide as a door panel.

The sword was covered in cracks; it looked like it would fall apart after just one strike.

Lin Bai walked over and grabbed the sword hilt with one hand.

"How much is this sword?"

Lan Xiao, who was reveling in the brilliance of his new sword, paused for a moment, turned his head, and almost burst out laughing.

Old Jack also looked puzzled:

"Sir, that thing... was dragged back from the ruins by a scavenger yesterday. It was incredibly heavy and full of cracks; before it was repaired, it was just a piece of scrap metal."

"I just want to know how much it costs." Lin Bai weighed it in his hand; it was at least fifty kilograms, quite heavy indeed.

"Uh... if you really want it, give me a tip, 20 gold coins to take it away." Old Jack tentatively held up two fingers.

"make a deal."

Lin Bai readily tossed out twenty gold coins.

Lan Xiao, suppressing a laugh, flicked the crimson blade in her hand.

It emitted a clear, crisp sound.

"Old Jack, this knife is well-made. I'll definitely come back to you if I need anything in the future. Maybe even better quality!"

He deliberately emphasized the words "higher quality".

"Alright! Come whenever you need me, Old Jack is always at your service!"

Lin Bai ignored the two of them.

Instead, he stood the huge rusty sword upright on the ground with a "thud".

Then, under Lan Xiao's gaze that looked at him as an idiot, he raised his right foot and kicked the spine of the sword hard with his black military boot!

boom! !

A muffled thud.

The entire greatsword shattered with a crash.

It revealed a hint of gray-white hidden within.

"This...this is?" Old Jack's eyes widened in disbelief.

Lan Xiao's smile froze instantly, turning into a comical blank stare.

Lin Bai's eyes narrowed, and he grabbed the grayish-white thing and pulled it out sharply!

......

The enormous greatsword was just a disguise!

The real murder weapon was forcibly pulled out of the "steel corpse" by Lin Bai.

It was a bone dagger about 25 centimeters long.

It is not metal; it is grayish-white all over, with a rough surface that exudes a chilling aura.

The curved blade has an eerie arc; just one glance at it seems to distort and suck your gaze in.

The moment it was exposed to the air, the surrounding light seemed to dim a bit.

[The Dagger - An Echo of Deception]

[Special Effect: When a wound is cut, the chaotic spirit will block pain receptors for 2 seconds.]

Painless killing, an essential tool for sneaking around at home and on the go.

Lin Bai gripped the bone blade and casually slashed it through the air.

Silently.

It didn't even make the sound of air being cut; it was like a gray ghost.

grunt.

Old Jack swallowed hard.

He didn't recognize the thing, but based on his experience, the spiritual energy emanating from that dagger was more than a level higher than the "Flame Breath Blade" from before!

This is truly a high-end item! The kind that's available but priceless!

"This...how is this possible..."

Lan Xiao stared intently at the bone blade.

Comparing goods leads to discarding them, comparing knives leads to tears.

Compared to his dazzling, special-effects-laden longsword, Lin Bai's bone blade appeared simple and unadorned.

But his superhuman intuition told him that if the two knives were to clash, the one that would break would be his 600-gold-coin "toy".

In that instant, Lan Xiao felt a burning pain on her cheek.

Twenty gold coins... I picked up a high-level alchemy equipment?

Is there any justice in this world?

Lin Bai smoothly shoved the dagger back into his waistband.

He turned his head, looked at Lan Xiao whose face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and gave her a kind smile:

"Young Master Lan, some things aren't necessarily better the more expensive they are, nor are they necessarily stronger the brighter they are."

After saying that, without even looking at Lan Xiao's face, which looked like he had swallowed a fly, he waved to A Ya.

"Let's go home."

Watching Lin Bai's departing figure, Lan Xiao felt like she was grinding her teeth to powder.

"Lin Bai...!"

Why is it that you're everywhere, you jinx!

......

Inner City, the Secret Society of the Silent Ones.

The lights in the alchemy lab were blindingly white.

Nie Chenyuan bowed slightly, his eyes behind his monocle were bloodshot as he stared intently at the "Spirit Separator" in front of him.

"Thump, thump, thump..."

He held a scalpel blade between his fingers and tapped it rhythmically on the table.

The subordinate beside him, bowing and scraping, was flipping through the newly delivered outer city bulletin when he couldn't help but sneer:

"Mr. Nie, those peasants in the outer city have completely gone mad. The Dust Brotherhood, together with the city defense forces and Sky Bank, have launched some kind of sewer cleanup. Now all those stray dogs have gone into the sewers to catch rats."

"Catching mice?"

Nie Chenyuan smiled dismissively.

"Have these outlying city scum sunk so low as to survive by eating rats? What cheap creatures."

His subordinate laughed even harder, his tone brimming with superiority:

"Who says otherwise? I heard that the sewers in the outer city are so clean that you can't find a single rat hair. Only those good-for-nothing bastards could do such dirty work."

"drop--!"

Just then, the indicator light on the separator turned green again and emitted a short beep.

Nie Chenyuan concealed the disdain in his eyes and moved closer with some eagerness.

He is Blackrock City's top "analyst," and no one is better at reverse engineering alchemical creations than him.

However, when he saw the core material that had been peeled off from the instrument tray...

His face froze instantly.

Nie Chenyuan rubbed his eyes hard, even suspecting that he was hallucinating from staying up too late.

He took a deep breath and almost pressed his face against the instrument.

Mouse brain?

The very things he dismissed as "wild dogs" and "scum" are now frantically cleaning up, killing, and treating as garbage...

It turned out to be the "god-level material" that he had been searching for for half a month and that was enough to completely rewrite the arms market in the outer city.

......