My rival is allergic to pheromones

"Where did this... come from?"

After a few seconds of silence, Gerald finally asked.His voice was dry and hoarse, as if it had been severely polished on sandpaper.

"Claude gave it to us, Claude Levi, he told us to come here to find you," Lin Luoyi and Huo Xishan exchanged glances, pursed their lips and said, "He said you have everything here , including blank invitations. He also said..."

"what?"

"'The Madonna of Steel'." Lin Luoyi said quickly, his eyes caught Gerrard's whole body seemed to be stunned for a moment, "He said that as long as he tells you these four words, you will understand everything."

Gerald nodded, it was just a simple action, but he did it very hard, but he didn't say anything, and then staggered back to the depths of the room.

"?"

Why did you leave?

Lin Luoyi looked at Huo Xishan, wondering if she had said something wrong.

"Wait a minute." Huo Xishan whispered.

"Oh." Lin Luoyi said, and couldn't help but asked a little curiously: "His eyes and throat are damaged, and his legs and feet look inconvenient. Could it be the sequelae left over from that year?"

"Well, it should have been stabbed by an iron nail when I was locked in the Steel Virgin," Huo Xishan said. He stood there with his usual expression, as if he was thinking about something but didn't seem to think about anything. There are medical measures, not to mention that he had just offended some important person at that time."

Lin Luoyi has always thought that she is not a person with a very rich imagination. Maybe it is because the surrounding environment is dark at this moment, and the bustle and noise in the distance are like the tide at night. It became a vague background sound, and Lin Luoyi couldn't help but imagine what it would be like when Gerald was imprisoned in the Madonna of Steel.

It must have been dark, and as the door was closed, thick rusty iron nails pierced deeply into the body, and there was unbearable pain in the eyes, throat, legs, feet, and other parts of the body.The viscous blood gushed out at first, but soon turned to dripping, the body gradually became cold and numb, the pain also subsided, and all the sensations became blurred.

At first he could still hear the movement outside, people passing by, guards joking with obscene language, work and rest bells rang, but soon he couldn't hear them anymore, the voice became a blurred one It was as if an invisible hand rolled them into small balls and stuffed them into his ears. In the silence of death, there was only the sweet, painful tick, tick, tick, tick, which he knew was the countdown of life.

"what happened?"

Suddenly, Lin Luoyi felt a piece of warmth fall from her shoulders.He turned his head and saw Huo Xishan frowning slightly, looking at him worriedly.

"It's nothing, I imagined it casually." Lin Luoyi squeezed out a smile and let out a deep breath at the same time.

Sure enough, this dungeon is just like the color it shows, gray and decayed, full of unbearable crimes everywhere.

A few minutes later, Gerald came back, and a white invitation letter appeared in his hand. He was still the same as before, with no human expression on his tense face, and he said dryly: "Only one, if you want a hundred yellow crystals, no banknotes of the same price will be accepted."

Huo Xishan didn't move, he just glanced at the invitation letter, and saw that it was outlined with complicated golden patterns, which seemed to be some kind of totem.

"Claude said you can handle it," he said in a deep voice, without any intention of giving in. "I want two."

"..."

Gerald was silent again.

"Claude...how is it?"

"It's very safe. It's just a little bit of trouble, but it's nothing." Knowing what he wanted to ask, Huo Xishan replied concisely, "You should know that we only want to participate in the auction. In fact, if If he hadn't caused trouble first, we wouldn't have found him."

Lin Luoyi thought that Gerald would be a little angry when he heard this sentence. After all, Claude was his savior, and they were still friends, but unexpectedly, Gerald nodded again with difficulty, as if to Huo Xi Shan agreed very much, "You're right, he should learn a lesson...but he's not a bad person."

Huo Xishan smiled and asked, "The only good people in this dungeon are probably concentrated in the mining area, aren't they?"

"..."

Gerald didn't answer this question, but turned around and closed the door, and walked towards Area B on his own.It wasn't until this time that Lin Luoyi realized that Gerald was actually tall, only half a head lower than Huo Xishan. Although he was hunched, his shoulders were open, which seemed to be a habit he had developed for a long time.

"Come with me," his voice became more hazy in the darkness, as if it would be blown away by a random draft of air, "I know where this thing is, I hope you can pay the price."

What Lin Luoyi didn't expect was that he and Huo Xishan walked around behind Gerrard, and finally came to the enthusiastic young man who sold him various sports cars.

"An invitation letter for the auction? Why do you want that thing? Do you want to participate too?" The young man looked puzzled, raised his hand and scratched his hair, messing up the messy hair even more, as if being caught When the camp was hit by the storm, his eyes lit up when he saw Lin Luoyi coming back, "Hey, it's you again! Why, did you finally figure it out and want to take a car? Hey, sorry, I raised the price ha!"

Lin Luoyi: "..."

"Just now I was selling to you. It's a buyer's market. I discounted it, but it's different now. Now it's a seller's market. Of course I have to raise the price!" the young man said eloquently.

Lin Luoyi shook her head again and again, expressing that she really didn't come to buy a car, the young man couldn't help but feel puzzled: "Then why did you come back?"

"Invitation," Gerald said. He looked at the young man with drooping eyelids. "You talk too much. I told you that the first rule of living here is to talk less and not to ask questions."

"That's your way of life. I can't live like you, Gerald." The young man stuck out his tongue. Although he said so, he didn't mention those illegal cars again, and said seriously, "I do still have the invitation letter." He reached into his pocket and took out a crumpled cardboard card, but it was light yellow. "150 topaz, this is not a bargain." ha."

Lin Luoyi moved her lips slightly, and was about to say something when Huo Xishan stopped her.

"Don't want this kind of thing. Do you have a blank one?" Huo Xishan asked.

The young man clapped his hands and said regretfully, "It's a pity, I just sold it out, it would be nice if you all came a few minutes earlier."

Huo Xishan didn't speak.

Gerald was silent for a few seconds and said, "Walpole, they are my friends, please make a price."

"Oh! So that's the case, thank you for those three hundred yellow crystals."

Lin Luoyi: "..."

"For the same invitation letter, Gerald offered one hundred yellow crystals, and you want three hundred?" Huo Xishan raised his eyebrows, his tone subtle.

"Is it not possible? If you come earlier, I can also sell you a hundred yellow crystals, but now, it is said that it is a seller's market, and since you said that Gerald has sold the one in his hand I’ve given it to you, so the one in my hand is the only blank invitation letter in the entire black market. The only one! Is the price increase too much?” The young man sat on the ground and raised the price confidently, with the intention of playing a rascal.

Lin Luoyi really didn't know what to do. Except for one intermediate energy crystal, they only had dozens of yellow crystals on them.He had noticed in the money exchange shop before that one mid-level energy crystal could be exchanged for three hundred yellow crystals, which was still not enough for them.

Is it necessary to finally solve the problem by force like Lewis and Claude?Lin Luoyi thought about it while secretly observing the surroundings. Unfortunately, the place they are currently in can be called a place full of people coming and going. It would be fine for Huo Xishan to make a move, and there is a high probability that he will be delayed.

Huo Xishan nodded, did not answer Walpole's words, but turned to Gerald and said, "You can figure it out." He smiled, and at the same time took a step back to show that he would not interfere with Gerald and Negotiations between Walpole.

That posture seemed to be playing a rascal just like Walpole, but Lin Luoyi felt that he was a little serious for no reason.

It could even be called cold.

Every word has an orderly tone, which Lin Luoyi has never seen before.

Gerrard sighed, obviously his expression was still lifeless, no different from before, but Lin Luoyi felt that he was very helpless at this time, as if he knew this would happen a long time ago, and he was very used to compromise.

"Walpole," repeated Gerald, addressing the young man emphatically, "as I said, they are my friends."

"...Okay, those 250 yellow crystals." The young man reluctantly said, and glanced at Gerrard resentfully, "I am finally glad that you have very few friends, I never thought you would give The one who gets a discount from friends."

Huo Xishan still didn't speak, and even his smile didn't change a bit.

"Two hundred! I'll give you another set of cars, it can't be cheaper!"

Lin Luoyi suppressed a smile and shook his head at Gerald.

Gerald: "Walpole..."

"Stop barking! One hundred and fifty, buy it or not! If you want to bargain again, I'd rather tear it up now!"

"Deal." Lin Luoyi said, he glanced at Walpole, who would rather die than die, and deliberately joked: "Is that car still available?"

"Think beautifully!"

The two blank invitations cost a total of 250 yellow crystals, which was within the acceptable range of Lin Luoyi and Huo Xishan. Knowing that they were paying with intermediate energy crystals, Walpole took them back to his temporary foothold , took out a set of tools to start cutting the mid-level energy crystals.

"The purity of this crystal is amazing. I guess few people except Juan can see such a wonderful crystal. Where did you get it?" As soon as he exited, he realized that something was wrong, and quickly said: "Don't answer this, I'm just talking casually."

Walpole's foothold looked like a crude waste recycling station, with a pile of things in a mess. Lin Luoyi looked around curiously, and found a pile of very worn-out books in the corner.

"You still sell books?"

"Oh, that," Walpole took a moment to take a look, and said nonchalantly, "That's not for sale. These are Gerald's. He used to teach me how to read."

Huo Xishan walked over, bent down to pick up a book, and patted off the dust on it. He opened it and looked at it, then turned a few pages backwards, twitching the corners of his mouth, showing a mechanical smile.

"Huo Xishan?"

From just now, Lin Luoyi felt that something was wrong with him, so she called him in a low voice. "What's wrong?"

"No." Huo Xishan shook his head and put down the notebook casually, "I saw something familiar."

Lin Luoyi looked over curiously, and found that it was full of things that he couldn't understand, and there were dense markings, which seemed to be a design sketch?

"This is..." Lin Luoyi was about to ask what it was, but when she turned her eyes, she suddenly saw a khaki human head placed abruptly in the middle of many broken cardboard boxes piled up in another part of the room Lin Luoyi turned pale with shock, suddenly choked on his own saliva, and suddenly coughed violently.

"what is this?!!"

"Ok?"

Huo Xishan was puzzled and followed his gaze.

It was a khaki human head sculpture, perhaps because of many years of experience, the sculpture's facial features are not very clear, only the fracture is obviously uneven, it seems that it was forcibly knocked off from a complete statue.

——It was the head of a terracotta warrior.