“Alright, Mr. John!”
Wu Ming spoke up at this moment: “I don’t care how you obtained the ‘Book of the End Times’ or what agreement you had with my subordinates. Now, do you still want to complete the transaction?”
“Subordinates?”
John clearly only half-listened, glancing at Meihoo and then at Wu Ming. At this moment, Wu Ming in his eyes was completely an image of a short, thin middle-aged man: “He is your boss?”
“Exactly!”
Deya said: “Three hundred thousand gold coins, we’ve brought them. Where is the book?”
“Let me see the cash first!”
John licked his lips, his eyes gleaming with a green light.
“No problem!”
Wu Ming opened the box, revealing bundles of gold note bills in front of John, and casually threw a stack over: “You can count them and check their authenticity. Just give me that book, and the deal is done.”
“I’ve hidden it in a very safe place.”
A trace of mystery flickered across John’s face: “I’ve paid too much for it. I want to raise the price—One million! One million gold coins!”
“Too much!”
Deya’s face turned red with anger.
“Agreed! You give it to me, and I’ll immediately pay the remaining balance!”
Unexpectedly, Wu Ming readily agreed: “But let me warn you solemnly—greed is man’s original sin. Be careful not to be consumed by it!”
“A million and he still agreed…”
John’s breathing suddenly became heavy, and he changed his demand: “Plus this woman! Then we have a deal!”
“Haha! Deya, it seems he’s quite taken with you!”
Wu Ming looked somewhat amused: “This fool! He probably doesn’t even know your nickname, yet he dares to ask for you… Haha… Haha…”
He seemed to have heard a very funny joke, almost laughing to tears.
“Nickname?”
A momentary confusion flashed across John’s face.
“Right, I have an international nickname called ‘Meihoo.’ Have you heard of it?”
Deya looked at John with pity: “Your little tricks are all under my control!”
Clap!
She snapped her fingers, and suddenly several burly men in black emerged from the surrounding bushes, their hands resting on gun handles.
“You’re all very tired. Sleep now, and when you wake up, you’ll forget everything!”
Deya said in a mesmerizing voice.
Immediately, these men really collapsed and began to snore heavily. Judging from their posture, they probably wouldn’t even wake up even if thunder struck or someone was killed.
“Meihoo? Hypnotism?!”
John’s face turned pale: “You’re Meihoo? The international Class-A fugitive?!”
“Indeed it’s me!”
Deya laughed sweetly: “Now, do you still want me?”
“No! No!”
John kept backing away, large beads of sweat rolling down his forehead. Suddenly, he screamed and ran away.
“Don’t play around anymore. Go get the ‘Book of the End Times’!”
Wu Ming’s calm voice came from behind, filling John’s heart with despair…
…
Half an hour later, Wu Ming was already on his way back to the inn, holding a thick ancient book in his hand.
The black cover and the pale yellow parchment pages inside carried a sense of age and transcendence. At first glance, Wu Ming knew this item was genuine.
“Strange…”
Yet Wu Ming still had doubts in his heart: “Everything went too smoothly… It doesn’t match my premonition and divination!”
If it were really this simple, he would have long let Meihoo handle it. Why would he need to come in person?
“But since we’ve already gotten the item, let’s first decipher the text on it!”
Back at the inn, Wu Ming saw Alice, Lanny, Philip, and Angelina playing tarot cards on the sofa.
“Victor and Neville said they won’t be back tonight!”
Philip turned his head, saying with a slightly regretful tone: “Those bastards!”
Wu Ming was certain that from his eyes, he saw a well-hidden trace of envy and jealousy.
“Ah… They’re already adults or nearly so. They need to be self-disciplined…”
He didn’t say much more, directly entering his room, lighting the gas lamp, and spreading the ‘Book of the End Times’ on the table.
On the pale yellow parchment pages was a blood-red font, more akin to ancient pictographs and cuneiform script from his past life, brimming with a mysterious aura.
With Wu Ming’s expertise in ancient languages and magical arts, he could barely decipher a little of the content at this moment.
“It’s definitely the real thing… And it seems to record some kind of power?”
After reading the first few pages, Wu Ming’s expression slightly changed: “There’s even a special magical aura imprinted on the book, which will periodically be sensed by certain beings, giving them a general direction?”
“It must be removed immediately!”
Wu Ming’s expression turned serious, and a thread of mental energy began invading the ‘Book of the End Times’.
Buzzzz!
A faint red glow began to appear on the ancient book, looking very strange.
…
At the moment Wu Ming’s mental energy invaded, within Victoria Harbour,
“Damn it, why exactly now!”
Joseph and the gorgeous woman were quickly running through the streets, with a large group of Special Investigations Division members chasing behind. Even police sirens could be heard in the distance, showing an encircling formation.
“Damn ordinary humans, damn firearms… In hand-to-hand combat, I could kill a dozen of them!”
Joseph was quite furious, his appearance quite disheveled.
“You think you’re so tough, why don’t you take on those armored vehicles single-handedly?”
The gorgeous woman giggled, then her expression quickly turned serious: “You and I, it seems we’re still those so-called international fugitives. They’ve even deployed armored vehicles this time to capture us. They must be really determined!”
“Shit! Is this really the time to be talking like this?”
Joseph shouted: “You also felt it, right? The seal on that secret book has signs of being broken. What should we do?”
“We can only let Zak go!”
The gorgeous woman said casually: “After all, in terms of direct assault, he’s the strongest among us!”
…
“Phew…”
Under the gas lamp, Wu Ming wiped the sweat from his forehead.
“Just one more time, and I should be able to eliminate this signal… Was my premonition earlier pointing to this?”
“It seems I should go out tonight and not bring danger here.”
He pushed open the door and was somewhat surprised to see Neville and Victor had returned.
“Weren’t you two planning to enjoy yourselves all night?”
Wu Ming’s expression was very strange, while Philip had already unreservedly glanced at Victor and Neville’s crotches.
“I… We were indeed planning to stay the whole night!”
Victor’s face turned red with anger: “I hadn’t even done anything yet, but damn… There was a police inspection tonight, and Neville and I were driven out!”
Neville also looked very dejected: “You still dare to say that? If it weren’t for me, you might have spent tonight in the police station!”
“Police inspection?”
Wu Ming was somewhat surprised and pulled back the curtain, immediately seeing some chaos in the suburbs, with police cars frequently rushing to support, their sirens wailing.
“What’s going on?”
“It’s said they’re capturing several very dangerous international fugitives!”
Victor shrugged: “Anyway, tonight won’t be peaceful. I guess tomorrow’s detention center will be full of unlucky guys!”
When it didn’t concern him, he started to feel schadenfreude.
“International fugitives?”
Wu Ming’s expression was very subtle, immediately thinking of Meihoo first.
“No! Wait! With Deya’s current abilities, such a big show would actually ruin things!”
But as he thought, he immediately considered more: “Not Deya, then perhaps other criminals?”
For some reason, Wu Ming immediately associated the ‘Book of the End Times’ in his hands. Perhaps the others were attracted here by this.
However, considering the conditions of Victoria Harbour, it was also a breeding ground for crime, a convenient transportation hub, and the best hiding place for supercriminals. One couldn’t generalize.
Anyway, necessary safety measures should still be taken.
“I’m planning to go out tonight and won’t come back!”
“Give it up. No one can go out now; the police have already imposed a curfew!”
Victor shrugged.
“Just a few patrol officers. They won’t notice me!”
Wu Ming silently thought, of course, he couldn’t say this in front of these people.
After all, in Alice’s eyes, he was merely an exceptionally talented high school graduate, not some kind of superhuman.
“Damn, if I disappear tonight and they think I’m missing, they’ll probably call the police. That would be even more troublesome…”
Wu Ming suddenly felt helpless.
…
Late at night.
The door opened, and a dark shadow crept out.
“Angelina! What are you doing coming out now?”
In the dark environment, a sudden voice made Angelina’s face change.
“Brother Steven? Why aren’t you asleep yet?”
After recognizing the figure sitting cross-legged on the sofa, Angelina was surprised.
“Can’t sleep!”
Wu Ming casually made up an excuse.
“You’re reading? Why not turn on the light?”
Angelina looked at the ‘Book of the End Times’ placed in front of Wu Ming and reached out to take a look.
“Don’t touch it!”
Wu Ming’s face suddenly turned serious.
“I want to!”
Angelina proudly huffed and reached out even faster.
“Ahh!”
As soon as her fingers touched the first page, a scorching heat was transmitted, causing her to scream and retract her fingers: “Did the book catch fire?”
“No…”
Wu Ming stood up and sighed: “I just didn’t expect it to come at this time.”
Whether something would come to track the ‘Book of the End Times’ was still uncertain, so Wu Ming had just been waiting quietly.
But he never expected that the precautions he had taken just in case would actually encounter something.
Bang!
At the next moment, a loud noise came.
Glass shattered, walls collapsed, and a gigantic dark shadow rushed in, suddenly letting out a mighty roar!
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