“Welcome, everyone! Thank you all for attending the auction. We will now grandly introduce the final item of the evening. Staff, please bring the item up! This item is extremely rare and difficult to come by. The bidding starts at ten million!”
As the beautiful female auctioneer spoke, Nan Xuan put down the knife and fork in her hands and stared at the stage below without blinking.
As the center of the stage opened, an iron cage slowly rose up.
Inside was a woman.
The woman was wearing a white dress and sitting inside the cage with her knees drawn up. An iron chain hung around her neck. Her head was lowered, making it impossible to see her appearance clearly. Her hair fell over her shoulders and looked slightly dirty and disheveled.
Each iron bar of the cage was about as thick as a person’s arm.
Nan Xuan narrowed her eyes and released a strand of her mental power to investigate.
The corners of her lips curled upward.
Heh, it really was one.
Good grief, she was having a rough time. The apocalypse had not even erupted yet, and she had already been captured?
As the cage continued to rise, bidding paddles appeared in various VIP rooms.
Nan Xuan swept her eyes over them disdainfully and secretly sighed.
How disgusting…
The price continued to climb.
Meanwhile, everyone on Xiao Beiyu’s side had gloomy expressions.
It really was a person.
While the people outside continued competing against one another, Xiao Beiyu received a message from their employer.
No matter how much it cost, they had to buy her.
The employer would pay.
Xiao Beiyu frowned and showed the information to his teammates.
Everyone’s hearts sank at the same time.
Xiao Beiyu contacted Min Ke through the communicator and asked whether he could hack into the system.
The result was that they discovered someone else had already hacked into it.
And Min Ke could not compete with that person at all.
Meanwhile, the culprit who had accomplished all this without leaving a trace, Xiao Xuanzi, was wagging his tail while lying by the window… (˵¯͒〰¯͒˵)
Xiao Beiyu fell silent.
There was no other choice. He could only signal Sun Miao with his eyes to compete against the final bidder.
In the end, they successfully bought the woman for three hundred million.
Upstairs, Nan Xuan watched their movements below with a complicated expression through her mental power.
Sigh.
You silly boys. How dare you bid on anything without knowing what it is?
Putting the money aside, based on her years of experience, the woman down there was obviously undergoing evolution.
If they waited just a few more seconds, once she finished evolving, everyone in this auction house would get eaten!
Sure enough, things went exactly as Nan Xuan expected.
The woman inside the cage slowly stood up.
The iron chain around her neck rattled.
She slowly raised her head.
Everyone who saw her sucked in a breath.
Good grief.
Her face was bluish-white.
Her eyes were gray, with only a tiny trace of scarlet in the center of her pupils.
Her lips were pale with a hint of black.
When she opened her mouth, it was filled with sharp teeth that looked like those of a shark.
As she raised her arm, her purple-black fingernails visibly lengthened.
Black veins covered her entire body.
Nan Xuan silently stuffed a piece of apple into her mouth as she watched the woman’s transformation.
She counted down in her heart.
Three.
Two.
One…
Suddenly, the woman violently bent one of the bars.
It was as easy as snapping a piece of tofu.
The iron bar twisted apart.
She slowly stepped out of the cage before suddenly lunging at the auctioneer.
She bit down on the auctioneer’s neck and tore off a large chunk of flesh in one bite, chewing it inside her mouth.
The auctioneer did not even have time to make a sound before she died.
Just a few seconds later, she stood back up and began making hoarse “huffing” sounds.
Then she lunged at the person beside her.
The entire hall descended into chaos.
Security guards protected various important figures while firing their guns repeatedly.
Crying, screaming, cursing, and the shrieks of people being bitten all blended into one terrifying mess.
Compared to the chaos below, things were much more relaxed in Nan Xuan’s room.
After finishing her apple, she raised her hand and stored away the food she had not eaten.
Then she stood up and took out the laser blade Xiao Xuanzi had prepared for her.
She leisurely walked toward the second floor.
In just this short amount of time, more than half the people in the entire auction house had already been infected and turned into walking corpses.
“Holy crap… The employer has quite a heavy taste.”
Sun Miao’s eyes widened as he stared at everything happening below. He stiffly turned his head toward Xiao Beiyu.
Xiao Beiyu had obviously been extremely shocked by the sudden incident.
But Sun Miao’s comment instantly turned that shock into speechlessness.
He quickly recovered and began thinking about how they could evacuate safely.
Knock, knock, knock.
“Who… Who is it?!”
Sun Miao was startled.
The three people inside picked up their guns and slowly approached the door.
Xiao Beiyu signaled for Sun Miao to move away from the door and indicated that he would open it himself.
“It’s me, Nan Xuan~”
A familiar voice came from outside.
The three men froze for a moment.
Xiao Beiyu quickly opened the door and pulled Nan Xuan inside.
“Why did you come here?”
Xiao Beiyu stared at the little girl in front of him. His gaze was so intense that it seemed as though he wanted to stare a hole through her.
“I came to the auction too. I’ve never been to one before, so I wanted to take a look. Then I happened to run into this situation. I was in the room directly above you.”
Nan Xuan smiled back at him.
The other three silently clicked their tongues.
Good grief.
She’s rich!
Xiao Beiyu gave her a complicated look before turning his attention back toward the hall below.
A look of surprise appeared in his eyes.
The woman from earlier was gone.
Suddenly, a hand slammed against the glass.
The three men were startled.
Then they saw the woman from before staring into the room through the window.
She let out a sinister “kekeke” laugh.
The sound was extremely shrill.
Saliva was even dripping from her mouth.
Nan Xuan: …
So dirty. ། – _ – །
Xiao Xuanzi: Damn! That’s disgusting! (ᇂ_ᇂ|||)
Xiao Beiyu’s entire body tensed.
A bone-chilling sensation sent shivers through him.
He tightened his grip on his gun and aimed it at the female zombie outside the glass.
The other two men behind him were even more nervous than Xiao Beiyu.
They had goosebumps all over their bodies, and every hair stood on end.
Compared with the tension of the other three, Nan Xuan was simply overflowing with disgust.
Good grief, a second-order zombie.
But it was so disgusting.
Just as the zombie outside was about to smash through the window, Nan Xuan suddenly raised her head and looked directly at the female zombie.
Under the astonished gazes of the other three, her eyes slowly turned golden-black.
In an instant, the zombie outside exploded at the head.
The crystal core flew out.
Nan Xuan reached out and grabbed it from a distance.
The crystal core appeared in her hand.
Then she turned around and went into the bathroom to wash it thoroughly.
A moment later, she happily ran back out.
Xiao Beiyu: …
Sun Miao and Yan Yi: …
“Hehe, sorry, sorry. I got too excited and forgot you guys were still here.”
Nan Xuan explained without the slightest hint of embarrassment.
Xiao Beiyu looked at her with a complicated expression.
“What is that? And what did you just do?”
Sun Miao and Yan Yi nodded frantically.
“Uh… how should I explain this?”
Nan Xuan scratched her head.
“To put it simply, the thing outside was a zombie. What I just used was a supernatural ability. This world is about to enter the apocalypse. After people survive, some of them will become supernatural ability users, while others will remain ordinary people.”
“Zombies will also evolve. The slow ones running around down there are ordinary zombies. The one I just killed was a supernatural zombie, and judging from its appearance, it seems to have been deliberately cultivated.”
“The thing in my hand is the crystal core inside a zombie’s head. This thing can help supernatural ability users level up and evolve. If an ordinary person uses one, there is a certain chance they will become a supernatural ability user, but there is a much higher chance that they will turn into a zombie.”
Nan Xuan scratched her head again.
To be honest, she really had no idea how to explain this.
If she simply told them everything directly, no one would believe her anyway.
Xiao Beiyu pursed his lips and looked outside.
Almost the entire auction house had fallen.
They could no longer hear anyone else screaming.
Perhaps the only survivors left were the four of them.
Thinking about this, worry appeared in his eyes.
He frowned tightly.
The three of them had already ended up like this.
Then what about Min Ke?
What was happening on his side?
Was he still alive?
Nan Xuan seemed to notice Xiao Beiyu’s concern.
She released Xiao Xuanzi.
“Xiao Xuanzi, sweetheart, go. We’ve got a big job for you. Go see if there’s a safer route for us to get out.”
Xiao Xuanzi: …
Reluctantly, Xiao Xuanzi ran out of the room.
He moved through the mass of zombies like a streak of light.
Xiao Beiyu and the others turned their heads toward Nan Xuan.
Their foreheads twitched.
Just what kind of person was this little girl?
And where had this dog come from?
Who had ever heard of a dog that could run this fast?