122: Chapter 122 The Great Sweep Through the Ghost City! Not only will they rob women, but they'll also rob money!

As the last reckless evil ghost was swept into the ten thousand souls banner, the black vortex that had covered the sky finally slowly dissipated.

The Loulan Ancient City, originally noisy, chaotic, and teeming with ghostly shadows, was now plunged into a deathly silence.

Only that large black flag planted on the ground was still trembling slightly.

Occasionally, faces of agony appeared on the flag's surface, seemingly recounting the one-sided "slaughter" that had just taken place.

"Burp~" The ten thousand souls banner seemed to have eaten its fill, emitting a muffled sound like a hiccup, before automatically rolling up and flying back into Su Yang's hand as a streak of light.

It felt heavy and bone-chillingly cold in his hand, but Su Yang couldn't stop grinning from ear to ear.

"Good heavens, there must be at least thirty or forty thousand of them, right?"

"This isn't just a ten thousand souls banner; it's practically a 'Ghost Census' bag!"

With this new batch of reinforcements, whether used to refine higher-grade Magic Treasure or taken back as fertilizer for the Black Demon Flower...

...or even used as a power source for the upcoming nuclear submarine modification, it would be more than enough!

"Boss, um... where is that female monster?"

Reba poked her head out from behind a broken wall and asked cautiously.

"Dead."

Su Yang pointed to the pool of green slime and several broken shell fragments at the top of the high tower.

"Chu Ling punched her head into pieces, and then Mary... well, dismembered her."

"Too brutal."

Su Yang shook his head, expressing his condemnation as a "civilized person," then turned to call out to the two women: "Well done! Extra chicken legs later!"

"Yeah!" Chu Ling and Mary high-fived on the high tower.

"Since the monsters are finished, it's time to... loot the bodies!"

Su Yang rubbed his hands together, the light in his eyes brighter than the moon in the sky.

"This city is now empty, which means... everything inside is ownerless!"

"Ladies! Time to work!" Su Yang waved his hand, full of heroic spirit.

"Search for me! Dig three feet underground if you have to, just get all the good stuff out!"

"Anything with Spiritual Qi, anything made of gold or silver, or anything that looks valuable—take it all!"

"We don't create Treasure Trove; we're just the porters of Treasure Trove!"

"You got it!"

If only Chu Ling and Mary were good at fighting, then all the women present were top-tier experts at "shopping" and "sweeping the shelves."

A grand and vigorous "Loulan Ancient City Zero-Dollar Shopping" event officially began.

One hour later. A small mountain had been piled up in the central square of the ancient city.

"Boss! Look at this! A pure gold wine pot! It's even inlaid with rubies!"

Reba ran over holding a gold pot larger than her face, smiling so wide her eyes disappeared.

As a top celebrity in the entertainment industry, what luxury goods hadn't she seen? But this was a genuine thousand-year-old antique! And it was exclusively for the Western Regions royal family!

"Not bad, I'll take it." Su Yang nodded and casually threw it into the System space.

"Master, Master! I found this!" Mary flew over dragging a huge chest. Opening it, it was filled with colorful silk.

Although a thousand years had passed, nourished by the Demonic Qi, these silks hadn't rotted; instead, they were shimmering with light, and the texture was amazingly good.

"This is Shimmering Brocade, impervious to water and fire; made into clothes, it can be bulletproof." Su Yang felt the material.

"Good stuff, take it back to Yuqing and have her make a few new sets of clothes for each of you."

"Boss, there's also this!" Chu Ling walked over carrying a thick pillar. The pillar was pitch black and covered with carved runes.

"This is the load-bearing pillar of that tower. It smells quite fragrant; it seems to be made of sinking wood."

"..." Su Yang looked at the pillar, which was thick enough for two people to wrap their arms around, and the corner of his mouth twitched. "Are you trying to tear their house down?"

"But... it is indeed good wood. Take it! I'll turn it into beads when we get back!"

Besides these mundane items, Su Yang himself found quite a few good things.

On the top floor of the high tower, which was the Loulan Enchantress's boudoir, he discovered a hidden compartment. Inside were several fist-sized stones emitting a yellowish-brown halo.

[Earth Essence Crystal]: A supreme treasure of the earth element, containing the heavy power of the earth.

"Perfect, it's complete!" Su Yang was delighted.

He had the wood spirit pearl, and now he had the earth element essence crystal. Combined with some Materials collected earlier, the "Five Elements Spirit Gathering Formation" for his spiritual field could finally be upgraded!

Once the upgrade was successful, the yield and quality of the spiritual field would definitely double again!

"That's about enough." Looking at the square that had been almost completely emptied, Su Yang clapped his hands in satisfaction. "Let's camp here tonight."

"Camp?" Reba glanced at the eerie ruins around her. Although the ghosts had all been captured, this was, after all, a place where dead people had stayed.

"What? Scared?" Su Yang teased. "With me here, is there any place in this world safer than this?"

As he spoke, he took out those "paper camels" from the System space. "Transform!" Several puffs of smoke flashed. The paper camels transformed back into a luxurious RV.

Su Yang directed them to arrange the four camels in a circle to block the wind and sand outside. Then, he lit a campfire in the middle.

The firewood used... was exactly that rotting wood of unknown age that Chu Ling had picked up earlier.

"Come on, let's have a good meal tonight to reward everyone."

Su Yang, as if performing a magic trick, pulled out a barbecue grill, charcoal, and a large pile of marinated meat skewers from his space. There were even a few cases of ice-cold beer and soda!

"Wow! Barbecue!" Reba, who had been a bit scared earlier, instantly revived. She sat directly on the carpet, her eyes fixed intently on the meat skewers.

"I want spicy! Extra spicy!" "Me too! I want garlic flavor!" Mary also squeezed in.

"Boss, I want to roast that..." Chu Ling pointed to a scorpion corpse not far away.

"That won't do! That's poisonous!" Su Yang hurriedly stopped the zombie girl who wanted to try everything. "That's highly poisonous; you'll get a stomachache if you eat it. Be a good girl and eat the lamb skewers."

Sizzle— The fatty and lean lamb skewers sizzled on the charcoal fire, and after sprinkling a handful of cumin and chili powder, that overpowering aroma instantly filled the entire ancient city ruins.

In the depths of this silent, desolate, and even somewhat eerie desert, a group of humans and ghosts gathered around the campfire, eating meat in big mouthfuls and drinking wine from big bowls.

Above them was the vast starry sky, and beneath their feet were thousand-year-old ruins. This sense of contrast was simply mesmerizing.

"Su Yang, thank you." Reba took a sip of beer, her little face flushed. Looking at Su Yang's profile, her eyes were a bit hazy.

"If I hadn't met you, I might have already..."

"Stop." Su Yang stuffed a grilled chicken wing into her mouth. "Don't say sentimental things. If you really want to thank me, take on more big orders for me when we get back, or help Yuqing with the accounting more."

"Got it! Money-grubber!" Reba took a big bite of the chicken wing and mumbled indistinctly.

"But... you're actually quite good." "Although you're greedy for money and lecherous..." "But... you really give a sense of security."

"What did you say?" Su Yang was grilling an "incense meal" for Su Qingcheng.

"Nothing! I said this chicken wing is really delicious!" Reba said loudly to cover it up.

Just when everyone was eating happily. "Buzz—" The phone in Su Yang's pocket suddenly vibrated.

He took it out and looked. It was an encrypted message sent by Zhang Daoxuan.

It was only a short line, but it made Su Yang's eyes turn cold instantly.

[Urgent Intelligence: Someone is offering a bounty for your head on the dark web, the bounty is... one hundred million US dollars!]

[The one who took the order is... the number one assassin organization on the dark web—Yellow Springs.]

"One hundred million US dollars?" Su Yang glanced at the phone, then at the group of happy gluttons around him, a cruel curve forming at the corner of his mouth.

"Looks like my value has risen quite quickly."

"Yellow Springs?" "Perfect, my ten thousand souls banner is still missing a few fierce ghosts with strong Evil Qi to serve as main souls."

"Since they've delivered themselves to my door, then... I'll take them all."

Su Yang put away his phone and nonchalantly picked up a skewer of kidneys. "Come, come, come! Keep drinking! Let's not stop until we're drunk tonight!"

"Tomorrow morning, we're going home!" "Next stop... waiting for people to come and die!"