Antique Shop Zero: Disfigured School Beauty Becomes a Succubus to Pay Off Debts

South China Sea, Black Stick Bar.

On a corner table, the red-haired youth was huddled up.

He gulped down the liquor while nervously scanning his surroundings.

"Please sit here."

The waitress led several college students who had come to the bar to relax on the weekend to a nearby lounge area.

"Ah! Ah!!!"

The red-haired youth was shouting and screaming nervously, as if he had been frightened by something.

The guests looked at the red-haired youth with suspicion.

The waitress glanced at the red-haired young man, then smiled and apologized to the guests:

"I probably had too much to drink, please don't mind."

The guests merely glanced at the red-haired youth with curiosity before taking their seats without a second thought.

The red-haired youth timidly hid himself under the platform.

He is Zhu Chuanwu.

He has become neurotic ever since the assassin he sent out disappeared on Anxiang Street a few days ago.

Zhu Chuanwu had already devised three strategies: superior, middle, and inferior.

These three strategies—superior, medium, and inferior—are how one deals with the sheriff after committing murder.

The results of it?

It's completely useless!

The other party is terrifying; they managed to make more than a dozen living people disappear without any explanation.

Even if a homeless person dies, someone will know about it the next day!

These past few days, Zhu Chuanwu has been hiding in lively bars.

Only in crowded places can he feel a tiny bit of security.

'Zero zero zero.....'

The phone rang.

Zhu Chuanwu quickly took out his phone.

Upon seeing the caller ID, Zhu Chuanwu's eyes overflowed with disappointment.

After failing the task given to him by the Buddha, he panicked and called the Buddha.

However, the Buddha refused to answer the phone.

He thought the call was from the Buddha, but it turned out to be his father.

Zhu Chuanwu took a deep breath and answered the phone:

"Dad, what's wrong?"

It was my dad's voice on the other end of the phone:

"Where is my son?"

Just as Zhu Chuanwu was about to answer, he suddenly trembled, and fear welled up in his eyes.

His father never called him "son," but rather "Xiao Wu."

and also!

Something's off about Dad's voice?

It sounded like... the dry, grinding sound of a corpse's throat!

The punctuation is also strange.

Zhu Chuanwu dared not reply; his hand gripping the phone trembled uncontrollably.

On the other end of the phone:

"Where...is...my...son?"

The voice on the other end repeated mechanically.

Zhu Chuanwu yelled, dropped his phone, and ran out of the bar.

......

escape!

escape!

escape!

Escape...where to?

Zhu Chuanwu was driving, not knowing where he should go.

"Lotus City! Yes, to Lotus City!"

Zhu Chuanwu recalled that the Buddha had once unintentionally mentioned that he was in the Lotus City.

He didn't know who to turn to, but he felt that Liancheng would give him a sense of security.

The car drove into the suburbs, preparing to get onto the national highway.

There was a figure ahead waving at the car Zhu Chuanwu was driving.

The screeching sound of brakes echoed through the night.

Zhu Chuanwu stared in horror.

The car lights shone on the man.

The man was in his fifties and was wearing a bathrobe.

His hand waved mechanically, his face was pale, his eyes were dull, and a strange smile hung on his lips.

Zhu Chuanwu swallowed hard.

"Dad?"

Zhu Chuanwu pulled a pistol from under the car seat and got out of the car cautiously.

"Dad, what are you doing here?"

Zhu Chuanwu increasingly felt that his father was like a puppet on strings, being controlled by something.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Feng's limbs twisted as if the 'thread' he was holding was knotted, and he slumped to the ground with his head tilted back at a 180-degree angle and his mouth wide open.

Holy crap!

Zhu Chuanwu cursed in surprise and turned to run towards the car.

"Son, where are you? Why didn't you tell your dad?"

"Son, where are you? Why didn't you tell your dad?"

Zhu Chuanwu turned his head shakily.

On Zhu Feng's side, a strange man in a purple suit appeared out of nowhere.

The strange man had two black lines on each of his index and middle fingers, which were difficult to spot in the dark.

A black line connects Zhu Feng's mouth and throat.

As the strange man pinched between his index and middle fingers, the black lines trembled, and Zhu Feng's mouth and throat began to move:

"Son, where are you? Why didn't you tell your dad?"

The strange man stopped shaking his finger and said quietly:

"If you keep hiding in the bar, it'll be really hard for me to deal with you."

Zhu Chuanwu swallowed hard:

"Who exactly are you?"

Yang Xiao wore an unpleasant smile:

"Is this another question-and-answer game?"

Let me ask the question first.

Who exactly gave you permission to cause trouble on Anxiang Street?

Zhu Chuanwu plopped down on the ground.

His body was shaking violently.

Anxiang Street...

They finally found them.

Zhu Chuanwu shook his head and muttered to himself:

"It's not my fault, it was the World-Honored One who told me to do it."

Yang Xiao approached step by step:

"World Honored One?"

Zhu Chuanwu felt as if an evil spirit was approaching him:

"The Evil Qilin, his name is the Evil Qilin!"

Yang Xiao's eyes twitched:

"Evil... Qilin?"

Prince Qilin?

"The kid with the umbrella?!"

As Yang Xiao spoke, his voice rose in pitch.

......

South China Sea, Zero Antique Shop.

Jiang Chaosheng sat at the counter, flipping through a book he hadn't finished reading in six months.

Helian stood in front of the counter, reciting the text she had learned that day, swaying her head back and forth.

He became a homeless child before finishing first grade.

Jiang Chaosheng insisted that he must go to school.

Xie Ya didn't understand why Jiang Chaosheng did this, why he insisted on going to school.

Helena is already learning a lot.

As soon as it was light, Helian began learning magic from Daji.

Don't be fooled by Daji's gentle and kind attitude towards Jiang Chaosheng; she can be quite fierce towards Helian.

In the morning, he was going to find Shirley.

Shirley prepared many famous teachers for Helena.

You will need to study high school subjects such as mathematics, Chinese, English, physics, chemistry, and biology.

The teachers initially thought Shirley was being silly, after all, Helena was still so young.

However, when they attended class with a disdainful attitude, Helian's intelligence shattered their worldview, and they exclaimed that she was a "prodigy".

Helian was already smarter than ordinary children, and after her spiritual awareness was awakened, her learning ability far surpassed that of her peers.

In the afternoon, Helian will also have an "interest class".

This was something he requested on his own initiative.

Fighting, cooking, and music.

In Helena's worldview, fighting and cooking are necessities for survival, while music is a source of comfort for the soul.

In a little while, Yang Xiao will come to pick up He Lian to learn how to be an excellent street cleaner.

With so many learning resources available, the school curriculum seems somewhat meaningless.

Jiang Chaosheng's answer was:

After all, we are human beings, and we should walk the paths that most humans have walked.

Evil Crow didn't understand, but Helian was obedient.

Xia Li has already used her connections to give Helian a new identity and found her a junior high school.

Helian can become a proud junior high school student as long as she passes the entrance exam.

Helian is currently memorizing the texts she should be learning in elementary school.

After a while, the wind chimes rang.

Helian saw the person who came and said with a smile:

"Uncle Yang Xiao".

Yang Xiao patted Helian's head:

"Go out, get in the car, I need to say a few words to your master."

Helian glanced at Jiang Chaosheng.

Jiang Chaosheng nodded slightly, and Helian picked up her schoolbag and ran outside.

Yang Xiaochong bows to Jiang Chaosheng:

"Master, we've found the mastermind behind this."

Jiang Chaosheng continued looking at the "Sin and Punishment" sign on the counter and asked:

"Who?"

Yang Xiao's eyes were icy cold:

"The Prince of Qilin of Taiping Road is in Liancheng."

Jiang Chaosheng paused slightly as he turned the pages of the book, then parted his thin lips:

"Lotus City".

There's so much going on in Liancheng.

Yang Xiao bowed again:

"Yes."

Jiang Chaosheng was about to speak when his expression suddenly froze, as if he had been struck by an acupuncture point.

Yang Xiao noticed Jiang Chaosheng's unusual behavior and looked very nervous, but dared not make any rash moves.

A dozen seconds later, Jiang Chaosheng returned to normal.

He frowned.

Just now, a forbidden object has resurfaced.

Number 0-26, Blasphemous Bell.

Sure enough, things can change...

The frequency with which forbidden things resurface is somewhat excessively fast.

Jiang Chaosheng pondered for a moment:

"Is Zhongshu in Liancheng?"

Yang Xiao nodded:

"Yes, Master."

Yang Xiao thought for a moment, then cautiously began to speak:

"Is it Zhongshu who needs to deal with the evil Qilin?"

"Sir, to be honest, Zhongshu is no match for the Evil Qilin."

Jiang Chaosheng shook his head.

The evil Qilin possesses a three-thousand-year-old female ghost.

Let alone fighting the Evil Qilin, Zhongshu couldn't even find the Evil Qilin.

Jiang Chaosheng believed that if Yang Xiao went to Liancheng and spent some time, he would eventually find the Evil Qilin.

However, it is time-consuming and laborious.

The Scavenger is the Forbidden Society's only basic combat unit; it cannot be wasted on the Evil Qilin.

He began:

"A forbidden object has revived in Liancheng. Zhongshu is tasked with taking it in."

Yang Xiao asked:

"Then... what about the Evil Qilin?"

Jiang Chaosheng continued reading:

"Ignore it."

Yang Xiao's eyes were full of confusion, but he still bowed and said:

"Yes."

Yang Xiao thought for a moment and asked:

"So what should I do?"

Jiang Chaosheng said:

"Go to Liancheng and keep watch, but don't do anything."

Yang Xiao slowly left the Zero Antique Shop.

Jiang Chaosheng murmured the three words "Evil Qilin".

He suddenly chuckled softly:

"Are all members of the Taiping Dao as audacious as you, or are you the only exception?"

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