361: Chapter 361 Unexpectedly, there are still "tough nuts to crack"?

"Old Lu!!!"

Standing behind, Gou Fugui saw this scene and was scared out of his wits!

His Legs, which had been weak just moments ago, suddenly found a surge of strength from somewhere. He took a violent step forward, pointed at the Faceless Man, and let out a shrill, furious roar:

"You liar! You went back on your word!!!"

"Didn't you say that if we handed over our storage rings, you'd let us leave the secret realm safely? What did you do to Old Lu! Where did you eat him off to?!"

Watching the furious Gou Fugui, the Faceless Man rolled his dead-fish eyes beneath his mask, yet he still answered patiently:

"He isn't dead; he has already been teleported out."

"You're lying!"

Xiang Batian, also with reddened eyes and muscles tensed, looked ready to charge up and fight for his life: "I saw with my own eyes that he was swallowed by black mist! The official teleportation array clearly emits white light! There is no way that pitch-black commotion of yours is a teleportation!"

"You must have used some evil technique to digest him!"

Facing these two blockheads who were so eager to protect their friend, the Faceless Man sighed and tapped the zixiao thunder bamboo in his hand casually against the ground.

That calm yet overwhelming voice, which possessed the power of dimensional suppression, interrupted their accusations:

"Use your not-so-well-functioning Brain."

"If I wanted to kill you, crushing you would be easier than crushing an ant. Is there any need for me to waste so much breath lying to you here?"

"Hurry up, who's next to pay up?"

The Faceless Man pointed at the tattered burlap sack in his hand, his tone revealing undisguised impatience:

"Make it snappy. Don't delay me from going to restock elsewhere."

"..."

This one sentence left Gou Fugui and Xiang Batian completely speechless.

They looked at each other.

Although the words sounded quite harsh and were even extremely insulting, when one thought about it carefully...

They made perfect sense!

An old monster with overwhelming strength truly had no need to put on an act with a few weaklings like them at the entrance of a dilapidated shack.

What would he gain?

Was he after those two bottles of second-hand hair gel belonging to Old Lu?

Realizing this, Gou Fugui swallowed hard, and his previously valiant and spirited aura instantly deflated.

He silently removed his storage ring, which was stuffed with good things, and handed it over as if he were cutting off a piece of his own flesh.

"B-Big Brother... well, go easy, I'm afraid of the dark..."

The Faceless Man coldly extended his hand, took the spatial ring handed over by Gou Fugui, and a strand of powerful mental energy forcefully probed inside.

He didn't know until he looked, and he was shocked once he did.

[Kidneys (letting out a loud retch on the spot)]:

"Ugh... Fugui! This is way too unhygienic!"

"Is this a storage ring or a junk recycling station?!"

In Fugui's personal space, the supplies were piled up in a truly heinous manner.

In the most prominent spot, a huge pile of second-hand junk, scavenged from who knows where, was stacked in a chaotic mess.

A broken steel longsword, second-hand gravity training suits emitting a weird smell, and even a few pairs of unwashed tactical socks with holes in them!

Yet at the very bottom of some of the trash, a few secret compartments were tightly wrapped in pieces of rags.

Inside those, several priceless Tier 4 spirit herbs were truly hidden, along with over a dozen bottles of high-tier demonic beast blood essence emitting rich blood-energy fluctuations.

This kid was quite shrewd.

He intentionally mixed the valuable treasures with this malodorous trash, betting that an average robber wouldn't have the patience to dig through a garbage pile.

This meticulousness was worthy of someone who made a living as a scalper.

However, Fugui's little tricks were still unable to hide from the organs.

[Brain (unable to help but shake)]:

"We are all roommates who live together day and night; it's not easy for this profiteer to save up some family assets. If we really empty him out, he'll definitely hang himself after getting out."

"Just take two bottles of high-tier beast blood to go through the motions; consider it collecting two hundred yuan as a toll fee."

"Do the whole act; don't blow our cover."

The moment the order was received, the Faceless Man outside acted very decisively.

He didn't bother searching through those rags at all; he simply grabbed two bottles of Tier 4 demonic beast blood essence from the ring and tossed them into his black snake-skin bag.

Afterward, with a flick of his wrist, with a "whoosh," he tossed the storage ring, completely intact, back into Fugui's arms.

"Huh?"

Fugui caught the ring in a flurry, his mind completely blank.

The goods he had brought in were still there!

The Tier 4 spirit herbs he had worked so hard to dig up were also there!

The other party had actually only taken two insignificant bottles of beast blood?

"Could it be... this big devil thought my second-hand goods were too dirty and didn't want them?"

Fugui was secretly overjoyed in his heart, forcefully holding back his laughter for fear that the other party might notice something amiss.

However, before he could even utter a word of thanks.

The Faceless Man couldn't even be bothered to say a word of nonsense, directly extending a slender, pale finger and tapping it on Fugui's forehead.

"Hum!"

The floor tiles beneath his feet instantly turned into a pool of viscous black cloud.

Fugui felt his body lighten, and with a shrill "Ah!" he was swallowed whole by the dark space beneath his feet, disappearing without a trace.

"Gulp."

Xiang Batian, standing nearby, saw another good brother vanish just like that, and his muscles tensed in fear.

He was an honest man, without so many twists and turns.

Seeing the Faceless Man's gaze sweep over, Xiang Batian very consciously slid off his ring and handed it over, saying in a muffled voice:

"Big Brother, my ring only has a few dozen barrels of high-tier protein powder and the hind leg meat of a few Tier 3 demonic beasts. Take whatever you want."

The Faceless Man nodded, took a few pieces of high-quality demonic beast meat, and similarly tapped a finger on Xiang Batian's forehead.

Black clouds churned, and this muscular hunk, who revered biomechanics, followed in Fugui's footsteps and was smoothly kicked out of Forbidden Zone No. 009.

Having dealt with the three boys, the dilapidated hall was instantly empty, leaving only the two girls, Senior Ji Youyou and Qiu Yunan.

The Faceless Man turned around, his pitch-black mask aimed at them.

Just like before, he calmly extended that pale palm, palm facing upward, and made a gesture of demanding payment.

The meaning was clear: pay the toll, and I'll send you off the clock.

However.

The scene, at this moment, fell into an eerie standoff.

Senior Ji Youyou not only didn't reach out to remove her ring, but instead pulled Qiu Yunan back two large steps, her back pressing tightly against the mottled wall of the hall.

Her pair of typically cold, alluring, and beautiful eyes were now filled with wariness and determination, and one hand was tightly guarding her chest.

And Qiu Yunan, standing beside her, had an even more unusual reaction.

This typically cool and capable older sister, who usually controlled lightning, now had a fair and pretty face flushed bright red, and her eyes were even misting over.

She bit her lip, tightly covering the storage ring on her finger, in a posture of refusing to yield even in death.

Now, the organs behind the Faceless Man's mask were completely bewildered.