Worlds’ Apocalypse Online

Laura yawned loudly and asked: "Gu Qing Shan, how much longer are we going to be standing here?"

"A little bit longer" Gu Qing Shan said.

He was observing the entire city with a serious and focused expression.

"Do you trust that chicken that much?" Laura asked.

"There's no harm in being careful, and I need to observe this city closely so that if anything out of the ordinary occurs, I would be able to detect it before anyone else" Gu Qing Shan replied.

------the colorful rooster was actually the manifestation of the [War God Intelligence] function, so he had no choice but to trust it.

"But we've already been standing here for 10 minutes------"

Halfway through, Laura suddenly stopped.

The loudspeaker echoed with a voice which sounded across the entire city:

[Attention please, the city-wide charity auction is about to begin]

[All Professionists who have come to Black City can bring out your most precious treasures in to be publicly auctioned off]

[Attention, this is a charity auction that's only held once every 3000 years]

[Black City will not be taking the usual 50% royalty,, the entirety of your auction profits will go to yourselves]

[Recite 'Black City Manager' to summon the auction menu]

[Treasure this opportunity]

[The auction will begin now!]

The entire city fell into a brief moment of silence before breaking out into a large commotion.

Everyone practically went berserk.

Black City not taking any royalties, this was a literal one-in-thousand-years chance!

"Is it this?" Laura asked.

"Probably" Gu Qing Shan remained standing on top of the skyscraper and muttered: "Black City Manager"

A ray of gentle light was projected from above and appeared in front of him as a concave screen.

[Mister Gu Qing Shan, as you are a Combatant who had comprehended Realm Force, I have provided you with the esteemed guest interface]

This line of text was displayed on the screen.

"Thank you, what can I do here?" Gu Qing Shan asked.

[You may provide items to be auctioned off, or see the list of auctioned items to participate in them] an electronic voice replied.

Gu Qing Shan said: "I want to see the list of auctioned items"

Several ten thousand items were instantly displayed in front of him--------

There were over 100 pages of weapons of various types; defensive items were categorized through use and function, taking up over 400 pages; various cultivation methods, minerals, plants, unique covenants, works of art, machines, historical records, recipes, formulas, information, intel, mechanisms, slaves, wondrous items, structures, airships, ruins, certificates, bloodlines, samples, Apocalyptic images, specialized knowledge, etc. were all over the list.

As time went by, even more auction items showed up, rapidly expanding the list in a visible manner.

Gu Qing Shan thought briefly before asking: "Can I filter the auction items?"

[Naturally] the electronic voice answered.

Gu Qing Shan said: "In the Dusty World, there used to be world systems that existed for a very short time before disappearing. I want to focus on items that those world systems had left behind"

------Shroud had once discussed the Dusty World with me.

It was about when he entered the Dusty World to retrieve the fake Divine Artifact for Reneedol.

He said that when he left, the entire base of the Pantheon in the Dusty World completely crumbled to dust and no longer existed.

------but they surely left certain things behind.

After thinking for a while, the only thing that Gu Qing Shan could think of that had a connection to him in the Dusty World from countless years ago was the Pantheon.

The Pantheon held essentially no significance in the Dusty World, and Shroud had only gone there once, so what kind of connection would such a place have with me?

[Currently filtering, please wait a moment] the electronic voice said.

Many of the listings on the screens started to disappear.

-------there were only about a thousand listings left on the auction list.

They were displayed to Gu Qing Shan one by one through both writing and image.

Gu Qing Shan solemnly observed each of them, removing them from the list one by one.

Time slowly passed.

Gu Qing Shan had removed over seven hundred listings.

In reality, the Pantheon wasn't the only world system that had attempted to hide in the Dusty World, there were also many others.

For that reason, Gu Qing Shan still had to look over numerous artifacts of various natures.

------but none of them had any connection to him.

Laura obediently sat on his shoulder without uttering a peep.

She knew what Gu Qing Shan had done in the Age of Immemorial, so she was scanning through the items together with him in silence.

Suddenly, she noticed that Gu Qing Shan was a bit different.

"Gu Qing Shan?"

Laura whispered.

No answer.

She leaned forward, only to see that he was staring straight at something on the screen with an expression of disbelief.

Following Gu Qing Shan's gaze, Laura also noticed that auction item.

It was a pendant with a black string.

The face of the pendant was a stone effigy.

The effigy depicted an old man with a peaceful expression, nodding off while sitting on top of a rock with one hand propping up his face and the other hand holding a long-handled scythe.

It was the Life Exchange Contract, the relic of the Death God.

"No! That's clearly-----" Laura exclaimed out loud.

She quickly realized and shut her mouth.

--------I definitely cannot expose any secrets in front of the Black City Manager.

She moved her gaze towards the description of the pendant:

[Pendant of the Death God, named Life Exchange Contract, a treasure left behind by the Pantheon]

[Description: Those who hold this item will have their life prolonged by the Death God before the item holder's death. Such a miraculous ability isn't without restrains, as the Death God will siphon twice as much vitality from the previous owner of this item as the price]

Gu Qing Shan regained his calm and said: "I want this pendant of the Death God"

The electronic voice answered: [This is an artifact of the Grand Archive, estimated to be 8 million Evil coins in value]

Gu Qing Shan replied: "I'll provide some precious gems, please help me exchange them into Evil coins"

[No problem, your grace Gu Qing Shan] the electronic voice answered.

Without wasting much time, the pendant of the Death God was brought in front of Gu Qing Shan.

Gu Qing Shan didn't take a careful look at it.

He simply focused himself on looking over the rest of the auction items, selected a few of them, then completed the transactions on the spot.

After this was done, he changed to another category, buying a number of other strange and unusual items.

It wasn't until he had bought a total of 100 items that he finally stopped.