Warning! The evil god's minions are invading the eerie dungeon.

The stall owner scratched his head, completely bewildered by Qi Xie's thunderous language system.

But then he beamed with joy.

Who cares? Let them eat whatever they want. Just don't put this pile of poop in your mouth.

"Alright, alright, I'll respect that. Hehehe, so regarding the price, would you like to barter or...?"

Qi Xie thought about it for a moment and realized that he didn't seem to have anything to exchange.

He carried a bronze plaque and a ceremonial dagger that even the system couldn't identify. The former came from Jia Yu, and the latter came from the "Red-Eyed Demon" he encountered when he went to Guying Town to rescue Jiang Zhengyi.

These obviously cannot be used to exchange for anything.

As for the sealed artifact...

Aside from the non-exchangeable [Blood Axe of the Dismemberer], [Ghost Eye], and [Shadow's Gaze], the only other items left are [Singularity], [Human Skin Handkerchief], and [Corpse-Driving Paper Doll], which was an extra gift from the Evil God when I exchanged for [Daydreaming] because I exceeded my quota.

【Corpse-driving Paper Doll】is a one-time level 4 sealed item, which is obviously not enough. After all, no matter how bad 【Sacrifice】is, it is still a level B skill. The difference between the two is too great.

The same applies to the human skin handkerchief, but its application scenarios are too limited.

[Singularity] is comparable, and Qi Xie doesn't find it convenient to use.

However, considering the effects it produces each time it's used, Qi Xie isn't really keen on selling it...

hiss……

Qi Xie frowned slightly, feeling as if he had forgotten something.

What is it...?

The stall owner, seeing the young man fall silent again for no apparent reason, began to wonder if the man was mentally unstable.

"Bro, are you buying or not? Just give me a straight answer!"

"Buy it, pay with Weird Points."

Qi Xie drew his attention back.

The stall owner immediately breathed a sigh of relief:

"Alright, since you're so straightforward, I'll be too. One price, forty thousand Strange Points! How about it?"

"Not very good."

Qi Xie grinned and chuckled softly:

"Twenty thousand strange points."

"How many?!"

The stall owner's eyes widened:

"Forty thousand, half price? You might as well just rob it!"

"May I?"

Qi Xie's eyes lit up, and excitement and joy appeared on his face, even a little shyly. He scratched his head and said somewhat embarrassedly:

"In broad daylight, isn't this inappropriate?"

Stall owner: ...

This person is definitely not mentally sound!

But thinking that only this mentally ill person could prevent this mess from falling into his hands, he took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down, saying:

"The normal price of a level 2 sealed item is between 40,000 and 60,000 Strange Points. Skills of the same level are more expensive than sealed items, usually between 50,000 and 80,000. I have already given a price that is below the bottom line."

He wasn't lying. Qi Xie's previous level-two sealed artifact, [The Light Chaser], was sold to the Li family through Li Song for 50,000 Strange Points, but with a bit of trickery involved.

"You said it yourself, that's normal. Do you think this thing is normal?"

Qi Xie tapped the human skin scroll in his hand.

The stall owner fell silent.

"The effectiveness of this thing depends entirely on the type of sealed artifact it sacrifices. As you said, a typical level 2 sealed artifact costs between 40,000 and 60,000. That means if I use this thing as a level 1 skill, to get it to have the effect of a level 1 skill, I'd have to spend another 40,000 to 60,000 to buy a level 2 sealed artifact. And it's a one-time use item!"

Qi Xie said leisurely:

"Normally, this thing is only useful for breaking level 3 sealed artifacts at most. It's considered a luxury to use it as a C-rank skill, and a regular C-rank skill only costs eight to twelve thousand. I'm giving it twenty thousand because it's a B-rank skill."

The stall owner opened his mouth, feeling somewhat unwilling but unable to find a reason to refute it.

In the end, he waved his hand helplessly and said:

"Take it, take it..."

The two completed the transaction by anonymously listing the item on the Walker system.

Soon, Qi Xie saw the system panel display a message saying "You have obtained: [Sacrifice] Rank B skill book". Without hesitation, he chose to use it on the spot.

The human skin scroll began to writhe in Qi Xie's hand as if it were alive, accompanied by the sound of blood seeping from the paper.

The blood formed strange and peculiar unknown characters, which floated off the scroll and landed in Qi Xie's hand.

"You have acquired the bizarre skill [Sacrifice] (Rank B)"

"That's it?"

Looking at the notification that popped up on the system panel, Qi Xie still had a feeling of 'That's it?':

"It feels a little strange that it doesn't hurt..."

The stall owner next to him breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the strange dots that had appeared on the system panel.

Although it's outrageous that a B-rank skill would sell for this price, the skill itself is equally outrageous, and keeping it for yourself is utterly useless.

If you can avoid losing the money to yourself, then you've made a profit.

"I'll be going now, nothing else."

Qi Xie was planning to find a place to test the effect.

"Wait a minute, young man."

The stall owner suddenly called out to Qi Xie.

Qi Xie turned his head in confusion.

"What's wrong?"

"You haven't been to the edge of this abandoned city yet, have you?"

After Qi Xie shook his head, the stall owner said with a serious expression:

"Remember, if you want to explore this instance, never choose a sanctuary on the edge of the city."

Qi Xie raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"The city's edge is surrounded by a wall of billowing gray fog. Someone tried to go in but never came out, and the number of survivors on the system has decreased, indicating his death."

The stall owner continued:

"Moreover, the gray fog wall is shrinking inward. This morning, a team living on the edge of the city saw that the gray fog wall was closer to the city than it originally was, and some shelters were swallowed up by the gray fog as a result. The people inside were undoubtedly dead. According to their calculations of the gray fog's shrinking speed, perhaps in six days, the entire city will be enveloped by the gray fog."

In other words, there are only six days left to explore?

Qi Xie frowned slightly.

Although he had long suspected that this instance couldn't be left for them to explore forever—otherwise he could stay here and eat at the buffet forever.

However, six days was still too short for him, as he still needed to find two more fragments of the Night Wanderer within those six days, making the timeframe somewhat tight.

We need to speed things up, but there's no use rushing. At worst, we can just feed the fragments to the evil god.

Qi Xie's brows relaxed, and he smiled as he said:

"Does a 50% discount come with free information?"

"This information was shared by everyone for free. You'll probably hear it from somewhere else later anyway, so I'm just mentioning it in passing."

The stall owner didn't hide anything and replied with a smile.

Qi Xie nodded slightly, then turned and left.

Inspired by this, he recalled that Mo Ze had mentioned that this place not only traded various spoils of war, but also intelligence.

He planned to look for more information.

Although people rarely tell others about obtaining even a part of something of this caliber to avoid attracting covetousness, who knows if someone actually knows about the remaining fragment?

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