Because Chen Chu was so good, in the following auctions, no one dared to snatch the bid whenever Lin Yan raised it. After raising it twice in a row, Lin Yan felt that she was bullying others, so she stopped raising the bid and waited until the auctioneer started counting down or when the bid was close to the reserve price given to her by the six groups of colleagues.
After the auction, the two came out of the venue and were about to go to the restaurant for dinner when Tang Lanyue suddenly caught up with them from behind and blocked their way.
"Lin An, right? Could you please step aside for a moment? I have something I want to talk to Chen Chu alone." Tang Lanyue said to Lin An.
You have to say that your name is Chen Chu, why are you ordering me around
Lin Xi was a little unhappy, but for Chen Chu's sake, she took two quick steps and went to the elevator to wait.
"What's the matter?" Chen Chu frowned and looked at Tang Lanyue. "This is for you." Tang Lanyue handed Chen Chu a box.
Chen Chu took a look at the box and recognized it. It was a key that could be used to force open the space door when the secondary space was opened. One key cost 200,000 points. A total of ten keys were sold at the auction, and Tang Lanyue bought six of them.
Chen Chu looked at Tang Lanyue in confusion and didn't answer it.
Tang Lanyue: "I know you have a strong sense, but it will be safer with the key. This time when the Soul Locking Tower is opened, Jiamu and I will go in with you and will definitely help you find the props."
Some people with strong perception can quickly sense the location of the space gate when it is opened, and enter the space gate on their own. Last time in Blizzard City, after Lin Yan was swallowed, Chen Chu and Wu Wang relied on perception to enter the space gate.
"Yeah." Li Jiamu also came over at this time, "Last time we went up to the seventh floor and got out smoothly, so we should be able to do it this time too."
Chen Chu looked at Li Jiamu: "Aren't you afraid of being cursed?"
Li Jiamu: "You were unlucky last time, but it won't be the case this time."
There was a hint of self-mockery in Chen Chu's drooping brows: "I was indeed unlucky last time."
Tang Lanyue smiled and said, "It's settled then. When the Soul Locking Tower opens this time, we will go in together."
As she spoke, Tang Lanyue handed the key in her hand forward again, motioning Chen Chu to accept it.
"No." Chen Chu still didn't answer, "I don't plan to enter the Soul Locking Tower."
Li Jiamu: "If you're not going into the Soul Locking Tower, why are you taking pictures of the Cursed Eye?" He even took action to shock the deputy leader of the Xuanwu Group.
Chen Chu: "I took the film of Cursed Eye for a colleague, he is a curse master. I will leave the capital this afternoon. As for you... it is up to you whether you want to enter the Soul Locking Tower or not."
After saying that, Chen Chu nodded slightly to the two of them and walked straight to the elevator. He did not let the two of them enter the Soul Locking Tower to help him find the props to lift the curse. If they insisted on entering, that was their own business.
"Let's go and have dinner." Chen Chu pressed the elevator button. The elevator just stopped at the 20th floor. He walked in without looking back.
After lunch, the two returned to their room to pack their luggage. Actually, there was nothing much to pack. They only stayed for two days and did not go shopping or buy local specialties. The supplies they bought at the conference were also stored in the space props and did not take up much space.
When they came here, they were at the airport and it was easy to get a taxi, but when they went back, it was difficult to get a taxi at the resort. Fortunately, the resort provided this service and specially prepared a special car to take guests to the airport.
Rolling down the car window and letting the mountain breeze mess up her long hair, Lin Yan said with some disappointment, "What a pity. It's a rare opportunity to come to the imperial capital, but I can't even enter the city."
Whether coming here or leaving, she just took a taxi. Lin Xi felt as if she was just passing through the imperial capital.
Chen Chu looked at the girl and said, "If you want to go shopping, we can go back a day later."
Lin Yan immediately shook her head: "No, we can't stay in this troubled place for long."
Chen Chu laughed. Ever since she knew that Soul Locking Tower would be opened soon, Lin Yan had been preparing to return to Jincheng. He told her that she could leave the resort after the auction, and she actually bought a plane ticket for today overnight. And she calculated the time well, for the earliest flight after the auction.
The auction ended around noon. They spent half an hour eating, half an hour packing, and budgeted an hour and a half to take the bus to the airport and board the plane at 3:30.
The only thing that made Chen Chu feel relieved was that this time Lin Yan finally did not buy an economy class ticket.
Chen Chu suggested: "You can buy some local specialties at the airport."
Lin Yan: "I'm stupid. Things at the airport are so expensive. I might as well buy them online."
"..." Chen Chu, a fool who often buys things at the airport, silently opened a magazine in the car.
Lin Yan took out her phone and reported the good news to everyone in the group: [I have bought everything. You can come to the company to pick it up tomorrow afternoon.]
Lin Xi originally wanted to say in the morning, but after thinking about it, she changed it to the afternoon. She was not sure about the working and sleeping habits of the big guys in the group, so she changed it to the afternoon, where she might have more time.
Aquaman: [You're back so soon? Doesn't the conference end tomorrow?]
Lin Yan: [Tomorrow is an exchange meeting. I don’t know anyone and there is nothing to exchange.]
Aquaman: [That’s true, but it’s a rare trip to the capital, you can go around and have a look.]
Lin Xi: [You can’t stay in a place full of disputes for long.]
Dirt King: [Right or Wrong? ? ]
Aquaman: [Someone bullied you? Let Chen Chu beat him up. @Chu, there is only one girl in our group 6, and you can't even protect her?]
They are all veterans in the supernatural world. They know that for such a conference that gathers a large number of supernatural people, even if the official comes forward, it can only guarantee that no one will die. Friction between supernatural people is inevitable. In fact, Assistant Tan has suffered many setbacks in previous years, especially at auctions, where he could never get what he wanted. Everyone even speculated that Assistant Tan chose this time to retreat in order to force Chen Chu to go to the conference by tricking Lin Yan. As long as the S-level supernatural people are there, the conference will definitely go smoothly. This is why they all added to the list of supplies when they knew that Chen Chu went to the conference.
Chen Chu should be very clear about this, so since he went there, it meant that he would protect Lin Xi.
Chen Chu knew that Lin Yan was chatting in the group, but he and Lin Yan were sitting together. Since Lin Yan had explained the situation in the group, he didn't need to show up. He continued to flip through the magazine with his head down, occasionally glancing at his phone. It was not until Aquaman @ him that he reopened the group chat.
When Chen Chu saw Neptune’s question, he turned to look at Lin Xi.
"He misunderstood. I'll explain it right away." As she spoke, Lin Xi lowered her head and began typing away on the keyboard. If Chen Chu hadn't been right next to her, she would have wanted to send a voice message directly.
Lin Yan: [No, no, it’s because the Soul Locking Tower is about to open, and I’m unlucky. I’m afraid of going in again, so I want to leave quickly.]
Aquaman: [So that's how it is.]
Qingkong: [With your luck, this worry is indeed necessary.]
Lin: [Is that so?]
Lin Xi looked at the blue sky and suddenly felt like she had found a close friend.
King of Dirt: [When will the Soul Locking Tower open?]
Lin Xi didn’t know this, so she turned to look at Chen Chu.
Tang Lanyue did not tell him the specific opening time of the Soul Locking Tower, but it was not difficult to guess from her words that the time should be shortly after the conference.
Lin Yan got the answer and lowered her head to reply: [Senior Chen Chu said it would happen in the next two or three days.]
Aquaman: [Why did Chen Chu ask you to speak?]
Qingkong immediately deduced the only possible reason: [His phone ran out of battery or was it broken?]
As for the possibility that the phone was lost, Qingkong ruled it out. Are you kidding me? Who can steal a phone from an S-level psychic? An S-level thief psychic
How do you answer this
Chu: [Because I'm too lazy to type.]
Lin Xi breathed a sigh of relief. Yes, that’s exactly what happened.
Wu Wang: [What time does your flight arrive in Jin City?]
Lin Yan: [Our flight is at 3:30 and we will arrive in Jinshi around 6:00.]
King of Dirty: [Then I will buy a flight after 6 o'clock. I will wait for you at the exit of the airport. You give me the Cursed Eye.]
The King of Pollution is going straight to the airport to get the Cursed Eye. Is he in such a hurry
Qingkong: [You want to enter the Soul Locking Tower?]
Lin Xi suddenly realized, yes, the King of Wu just asked her when the Soul-Locking Tower would open, in order to find out the time so that he could rush over.
Lin Yan immediately replied in the group: [Okay, I'll wait for you at the exit.]
Dirt King: [Thank you.]
Lin Xi replied, "You're welcome."
When mentioning the Soul Locking Tower, Lin Xi naturally thought of Chen Chu's curse, and she couldn't help but turn her head to look at Chen Chu.
Chen Chu noticed when Lin Yan looked at him, and guessed what Lin Yan was thinking at the moment. He deliberately did not look up, pretending not to notice Lin Yan's gaze, and did not give her a chance to speak.
Lin Yan knew that Chen Chu didn't want to mention the curse, otherwise Chen Chu wouldn't have had that attitude during lunch yesterday, but he must have a curse. Although Chen Chu never admitted that he had a curse, he didn't deny it either. With Chen Chu's personality, if he didn't have a curse, he would never let others take risks for him. So Chen Chu must have a curse, and it's not easy to get rid of.
Lin Xi hesitated for a long time, but finally did not ask Chen Chu.
Chen Chu waited until Lin Yan turned around before turning the magazine to the next page.
Lin Yan glanced at the group chat, thought for a moment, clicked on the King of Dirty's avatar, and entered the private chat interface: [Can't the Curse Eye see curses? Then can you see the curses on others when you put on the Curse Eye?]
The King of Dirt reacted in a second: [You want to know what the curse on Chen Chu is.]
Lin Yan: [Yes, Senior Chen Chu has saved me many times, so I want to help.]
King of Dirt: [How did you help? Go into the Soul Locking Tower to find the item to remove the curse? Didn’t you buy a ticket and come back immediately after hearing that the Soul Locking Tower was going to open?]
Why does the dirty king speak so bluntly? !
Lin Yan was so angry that her lips pouted: [Just because I can’t help you now doesn’t mean I can’t help you forever.]
Why underestimate her? After all, she is a person with cheats. Maybe one day her luck will suddenly change and she will suddenly pull out a purification artifact from the system that can break all curses.
King of Dirt: [The Cursed Eye can indeed see the curse, I will see it when the time comes. As for the props to remove the curse, if I have the chance, I will bring them out of the Soul Locking Tower.]
When Lin Yan saw the reply, she was delighted and quickly thanked him: [Thank you.]
Although this guy, Wu Wang, has a bad mouth, he is still a good person.
King of Dirty: [How can you thank me? Are you his girlfriend?]
When Lin Xi saw the reply, she was shocked. Why was the dirty king talking nonsense? What if Senior Chen Chu saw it and misunderstood what she said to him
Lin Yan glanced at Chen Chu guiltily, and after making sure that Chen Chu was still concentrating on reading the magazine, she lowered her head and typed fiercely: [Filthy King, what are you talking about? ]
King of Dirty: [This is to tell you not to flatter yourself. I am not going after you, but Chen Chu. I owe him a favor for the incident in Blizzard City last time.]
If Chen Chu hadn't brought Lin Yan with him last time in Blizzard City, he wouldn't have been able to enter Blizzard City. He didn't like to owe favors to others. If he really had a chance to bring out the curse-removing item in the Soul Locking Tower this time, he would try his best, but not risk his life.
The King of Wu knows Chen Chu better than Lin Yan, and he also knows more about the Soul Locking Tower. Although he doesn't know when the curse was cast on Chen Chu, Chen Chu has not yet broken the curse, which proves that the curse must be difficult to break. Otherwise, with his S-level strength, why doesn't he go in and break it himself? Even if he needs the assistance of a curse master, with his merits and level, the authorities will definitely send a curse master to assist him.
Lin: [Now that you figured it out, can you tell me what the curse is?]
King of Dirty: [Thank you for helping me take the picture of the Cursed Eye.]
Lin Yan grinned, knowing that the King of Wu agreed, and subconsciously wanted to say thank you again. Suddenly, she thought of the scene where she was just scolded, and she was so angry that she deleted the words she had typed.
Switching back to the group, Lin Xi just saw Neptune sending a message.
Aquaman: [I had originally planned to go eat roast duck with my sister tomorrow and come back with you guys, but it seems that’s not going to work.]
Lin Yan was surprised: [You are also in the imperial capital?]
Aquaman: [I'm next door to you.]
Then, Aquaman posted a photo in the group. In the photo, a man with eight-pack abs, wearing briefs and a coquettish ponytail was standing on the beach with a surfboard on his shoulder. Behind him was the blue sea and beautiful women in bikinis.
"You are worthy of being the King of the Sea." Lin Xi couldn't help but complain, her tone full of disdain.
Most girls probably wouldn't like the fish-raising Aquaman, especially someone as high-profile as Jie Xingyu, who directly writes the existence of Aquaman in his online name.
Feeling the strong disdain in Lin Ping's tone, Chen Chu curiously picked up his phone and opened the group again, and saw Li Xingyu's coquettish look.
Chen Chu: "He is at Mudai River, and our plane will pass over his head."
Lin Yan: "River? Isn't he by the sea?"
Chen Chu explained: "Mudai River is a district under the jurisdiction of Jiangbei Province. There is a beach in the district. It was a summer resort for dignitaries in ancient times. Now it is a tourist attraction."
Lin Xi said "oh". She had not traveled much, let alone the north, where she had never been before, so she was not very clear about the tourist attractions.
Qingkong: [@Sea King, you are not Lin Yan, what are you afraid of? ]
Aquaman: [I don’t want to go into the Soul Locking Tower. What if I get cursed?]
Qingkong: [@海王, that's too much. How come yours is only one in a million, while Lin Yan's is ten thousand? Hers is at most a hundred.]
Aquaman: [Hahahaha… ]
Lin Yan: [Still laughing, be careful or I’ll take you in.]
Lin Xi viciously added a picture of the kitten’s angry expression.
Aquaman: [If you were by my side, I might be scared, but you're going to take a plane soon, how are you going to take me with you?]
Lin Yan: [You are at Mudai River, our plane will pass over your head soon.]
Aquaman: [You don’t know this, right? The Mudai River is to the east of the imperial capital, and the Soul Locking Tower only appears to the south of the imperial capital, so it can’t affect me.]
Qingkong: [According to the research of subspace researchers, the movement of subspace in space turbulence is irregular. In theory, it will overlap with any place on Earth. The only difference is the time of opening. The Soul Locking Tower only appears in the south of the imperial capital because it happened to open the space gate in a place that can cover the south of the imperial capital, but it does not mean that it will not appear in the east of the imperial capital. What if it suddenly opens the door in advance?]
Aquaman: [Don't talk nonsense, my hair is standing on end. The prophet has said that the Soul Locking Tower will not be open during the conference!]
King of Dirt: [The prophet's perception is not that accurate. At most, it is the location of the conference. There will be no sub-space coverage in the near future.]
Qingkong: [Most importantly, Lin Yan is not at the resort now.]
Aquaman: [Oh shit, Lin Yan’s bad luck won’t be so bad that it will affect the opening of the space gate.]
Dirt King: [Who knows?]
Qingkong: [It’s hard to say.]
Lin: [You also know that I have bad luck.]
Aquaman: [… I was wrong, please forgive me.]
Lin Yan smiled smugly: [Be careful with your words next time. I won’t curse you, but you will be unlucky.]
Chen Chu, who had been paying attention to the group chat: "… "
You are unlucky and yet you are still proud
While browsing the phone and chatting, the car soon arrived at the airport. When entering the airport, there were too many people rushing to catch the plane, and the car was stuck outside the airport for a while. Lin Yan was worried that the reserved time would not be enough to pass the security check and board the plane. As a result, the VIP channel was unobstructed all the way and security check was passed in a few minutes. In the end, not only did they not run out of time, they even arrived early and had to rest in the VIP waiting room for twenty minutes.
It turns out that money really can buy time.
This is what Lin Xi felt after eating snacks in the VIP lounge for twenty minutes.
Twenty minutes later, Lin Xi sat in the first-class cabin for the first time in her life. There was a spacious space, seats with massage function, and she could even eat before taking off. This treatment was indeed different.
Because she had eaten a lot of snacks while waiting for the flight, Lin Xi suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in her stomach not long after the plane took off.
The food in the VIP lounge couldn’t have expired. I didn’t eat anything.
Lin Xi covered her stomach and walked towards the toilet with a painful look on her face. As soon as she stepped in, everything went dark in front of her.
Chen Chu, who was sitting in the first class cabin, suddenly jumped up and rushed into the same bathroom at an incredible speed under the astonished gaze of the flight attendant.
Stewardess: Is China so open now
(End of this chapter)