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Chapter 122 Torrential Rain, Tokyo, A Bloodbath at the Auction (Part Six)

Xia Pingzhou walked towards Su Zimai step by step, his face expressionless, but his eyes were as cold as a deep abyss.

The auction hall was clearly in an uproar due to the battle between Lan Duoduo and Xu Lin, with a constant, earthquake-like cacophony and a never-ending rumble of noise. But to Su Zimai's ears, the footsteps of this cold-faced young man were remarkably loud.

Her heartbeat almost overlapped with his footsteps, like ten thousand tiny people kicking and stomping on her heart.

“If I lose… I will die.” Su Zimai took a deep breath and thought to herself, “I can beat him… even if I can’t, I must hold out until the commander comes back.”

She silently lowered the brim of her magic hat, observing Xia Pingzhou from the shadows like a wary little wolf.

At this moment, a circular chessboard with a radius of forty meters appeared in Xia Pingzhou's mind, centered on himself, helping him to see every detail on the chessboard.

In front of Xia Pingzhou, the Empress statue had already rushed to Su Zimai's front.

He stomped the ground, leaped into the air, and spun around in mid-air, the daggers in his hands spinning rapidly like bladed tops as he slashed at Su Zimai.

With lightning speed, Su Zimai grabbed the red cloak and flung it toward Xia Pingzhou.

Immediately afterward, her figure vanished without a trace, as if she had suddenly evaporated into a wisp of gas. The dagger from the queen statue fell with a whooshing sound, but missed its mark.

The Queen's statue slowly turned its head, and saw the red cloak that Su Zimai had just thrown flying at high speed in mid-air. In just two seconds, it had flown more than twenty meters.

The next moment, Su Zimai's figure suddenly appeared below the cloak.

"As long as we kill him, this broken rock he summoned won't be able to move!"

Thinking of this, Su Zimai grabbed the magic cloak and put it on her back, then suddenly raised the magic glove on her right hand, her palm facing Xia Pingzhou in front of her.

Su Zimai lowered her face, pressed her right wrist with her left hand, and adjusted the direction of her palm.

It's like the moving crosshair of a sniper rifle.

In the next instant, spheres formed from condensed flames appeared in front of his palm and shot towards Xia Pingzhou with a "bang!" The fireballs roared through the air in the auction house, and the air within a ten-meter radius seemed to have heated up considerably.

The rolling flames merged into a curtain of fire, rushing towards him and reflected in the youth's pupils.

Xia Pingzhou remained expressionless, moving forward like a robot, while simultaneously picking up a chess piece from the circular track:
"king."

The colossal statue of the king appeared in response and stood motionless ten meters to Xia Pingzhou's side.

The barrage of fireballs unleashed from the magic glove was blocked by a black and white energy barrier, but Xia Pingzhou's forward steps remained unimpeded.

Su Zimai was slightly taken aback, then looked at the source of the black and white barrier.

A black and white chain could be seen floating faintly in the air, with its two ends connected to Xia Pingzhou and the scepter in the king's statue.

She frowned, immediately realizing something was wrong: "Is that the thing causing this?"

At this moment, the Queen statue had already chased after them from behind, crouching slightly, approaching in the posture of a hunter, raising a short dagger in its right hand and stabbing it towards Su Zimai's back!

The killing intent emanating from behind him, and the gust of wind whistling from the blade, all reminded Su Zimai that a demon was pouncing from behind.

She frowned, and without turning her head, she hissed, "Scarecrow Demon!"

At that moment, the dagger of the Queen's statue pierced Su Zimai's back, but it didn't feel like it was actually piercing a human body. Instead, it felt like it was stuck into a pile of straw.

Looking up, I realized that Su Zimai's body had been replaced by a motionless scarecrow.

This scarecrow wears a straw hat on its head, and its body is made up of two crossed broom handles and tangled straw, with its arms outstretched to the sides.

The scarecrow demon suddenly turned its head stiffly, revealing a strange smile.

The moment the queen statue saw that smile, her body was suddenly covered with straw. A cross-shaped pole suspended her in mid-air, and no matter how much she struggled, she could not move.

The two daggers slipped from their hands and fell to the floor of the auction house with a clang.

The scarecrow demon has disappeared.

From Xia Pingzhou's perspective, Su Zimai appeared instantly eight meters in front of the King's statue.

As Su Zimai lunged forward, she removed the black magician's hat from her head.

She flipped her hat up, and suddenly a swarm of rabbits and doves emerged from it. The pure white creatures rushed forward, the rabbits darting nimbly across the floor, the doves flapping their wings and soaring through the air.

On Su Zimai's magic gloves, invisible magic lines were connecting the backs of the rabbit and the pigeon. She manipulated the magic lines with the magic gloves, and the lines moved the running rabbit and the soaring pigeon.

“Kill that stone golem!” she said.

As soon as he finished speaking, amidst a series of comical magic sound effects, the creatures rapidly grew larger with a "poof poof".

Finally, the small animals transformed into giant beasts the size of adults, with eerie red eyes—the rabbit's teeth were like two diamonds, and the pigeon's wings were as sharp as knives.

They all rushed toward the king's statue, as if they wanted to tear him to pieces.

"Cannon carriage".

Xia Pingzhou watched this scene and read on expressionlessly.

The next moment, the silver cannon appeared beside him, its muzzle resembling an abyss ready to burst forth with flames.

"Castling."

[The second-tier exorcist skill of Unit 2 has been released: "Casting" (instantly swaps the positions of the "King" and "Rook" pieces on the chessboard)]

The moment the mutated animals swarmed the king's statue, the king's statue vanished...

Instead, a silver cannon vehicle, glowing red and rapidly heating up as if it might explode at any moment, appeared in the middle of them!

"Self-destruction."

Xia Pingzhou issued commands to the stone statues on the cannon.

As soon as the words were spoken, the stone statue of the cannon reached its peak temperature, then exploded in the middle of the mutated animals. The giant rabbits and pigeons were instantly engulfed by the surging flames, turning into ashes in a flash.

Immediately afterwards, the magic threads on Su Zimai's magic gloves snapped with a "snap," dangling one by one onto the floor before retracting between her fingers.

"how come……"

She slightly widened her eyes and murmured to herself, but instead of standing there dumbfounded, she raised her magic gloves to gather magic power.

Su Zimai's expression hardened. She put her magic hat back on and ran towards the king's statue, her red cloak billowing wildly in the wind.

Raise the magic glove, press down on the right wrist with the left hand, adjust the aim, and burst out a series of fireballs from the palm of the hand. The huge fireballs flew towards the king statue!

"Soldier statues".

Xia Pingzhou spoke calmly, reaching out to pick up the three chess pieces on the black and white ring track.

Three fully armed silver soldiers arrived at the call, crouching low to block the king's statue, raising their enormous shields to form a massive shield wall in front of him.

Boom! Boom! Boom! The oncoming fireballs were completely blocked by the shield, and the flames scorched the shield black, revealing layers of cracks.

Immediately afterwards, the three silver soldiers rose simultaneously. With a rumble of footsteps, they approached Su Zimai's figure, like the Grim Reaper wielding his scythe.

"Refrigerator Demon!"

Su Zimai calmly gave a low shout and swung his right arm.

Suddenly, a colossal refrigerator, five meters tall, appeared directly in front of her. Embedded on the refrigerator door was a face with thick eyebrows and large eyes, looking listless.

Xia Pingzhou's face twitched slightly.

It's unclear whether he was trying to suppress a laugh or was inwardly awestruck by the imposing figure of the refrigerator demon.

The next moment, the refrigerator door suddenly opened, revealing three freezer compartments, followed by a burst of cold air from the super-large refrigerator.

The soldiers' advance was frozen, their bodies covered in layers of frost, and the ground beneath their feet gradually turned into ice.

Then, three jet-black chains shot out from the three freezer compartments of the refrigerator.

The chains moved incredibly fast, quickly binding the three silver soldiers tightly and dragging them violently toward the cryogenic layer.

The soldiers' swords and shields fell to the ground, their armored bodies twisted into a jumbled mess as they were dragged by chains into the cryogenic chamber.

The refrigerator door slammed shut with a "thud." The colossal refrigerator, along with the silver soldiers trapped inside, vanished without a trace.

But just then, the Queen statue finally broke free from the Scarecrow Demon's curse.

The queen knelt on the ground, and the straw that was constantly growing on her body disappeared layer by layer. Her body slowly regained its mobility, and she slowly picked up the dagger that had fallen to the ground with her right hand.

She raised her head, her eyes burning with a chilling flame, radiating murderous intent.

"Hurry up, that thing will be able to move soon!"

Su Zimai glanced at the Queen statue out of the corner of her eye, then raised her hand again and shot a fireball at the motionless King statue.

Xia Pingzhou summoned the Shadow Demon, which dragged the King's statue into the Shadow Lake beneath it.

“Shadow Demon?” Su Zimai was taken aback.

She snapped out of her daze, abruptly raised her gloves, and instead fired a fireball at the isolated and helpless Xia Pingzhou.

She soon discovered that even though the king was in the shadows, his power still protected Xia Pingzhou—the fireball was blocked by the black and white barrier, turning into a chaotic curtain of flames that brushed past Xia Pingzhou's calm face.

The next second, the queen statue stomped the ground, its figure leaping up from the floor like a cheetah, pouncing towards Su Zimai. The dagger stabbed towards Su Zimai.

Su Zimai's magic gloves flashed. Suddenly, a huge magic wardrobe appeared behind her. The wardrobe doors opened automatically, and she took a step back and entered.

The queen statue simultaneously plunged both daggers into the cabinet, but there was no real sensation of them penetrating a human body. When the magic wardrobe door opened again, Su Zimai's figure had already vanished.

The cabinet was completely empty.

At the same time, another magic wardrobe appeared behind Xia Pingzhou. Su Zimai opened the wardrobe door and landed outside.

Seeing that the king's statue was still hidden underground by the shadow demon, Su Zimai knew that attacking the shadow would be useless.

At that moment, she turned her attention to Xia Pingzhou, who was standing right in front of her, and launched her killing move.

“Execution cabinet.” Su Zimai’s gaze turned cold.

A gigantic magic wardrobe suddenly formed behind Xia Pingzhou, like a monstrous beast devouring him, slamming the doors shut. Immediately afterwards, phantom images of magicians appeared outside the wardrobe, each wielding a bayonet, stabbing towards its interior from all directions.

But the next second, the magicians' bayonets broke apart at the same time, and the fragments of the blades scattered in mid-air, like a rain.

The king's power shielded Xia Pingzhou from everything inside the wardrobe.

"How can it be……"

Su Zimai murmured, her face pale, realizing that even her ultimate move couldn't break through the king's barrier.

In that instant, Xia Pingzhou pushed open the door of the magic wardrobe and walked out expressionlessly.

At the same time, the maximum duration of the Shadow Demon's existence disappeared, and the King rose from the Shadow Lake. He stood motionless, holding his scepter high.

"Cannon carriage".

Xia Pingzhou summoned a second cannon, which twisted its barrel and fired a shell at Su Zimai, who was standing there dumbfounded.

Su Zimai tore off her red cloak, frowned, and waved it forward. The oncoming flames were instantly swallowed up by the cloak!

Immediately afterwards, the cloak was burned, but the fire from the cannonball disappeared.

Two seconds later, an explosion occurred behind Su Zimai, her high ponytail being blown high by the howling wind.

But at this moment, the Queen's statue was already closing in on Su Zimai step by step.

She twirled the daggers in her hands, holding them upside down. A chilling blue flame burned fiercely in her slightly narrowed eyes.

Su Zimai stared blankly at the Empress, a flicker of panic crossing her eyes.

She had exhausted all her methods, but she couldn't even harm Xia Pingzhou in the slightest, let alone sabotage the king...

"Don't come any closer, don't come any closer... don't come any closer!"

As Su Zimai retreated, she muttered to herself in a daze, the shouts coming from her throat growing louder and louder.

She then raised her magic gloves and fired fireballs at the Queen statue.

The fireballs were far fewer in size and number than at the beginning, as if they were almost out of ammunition.

The queen statue didn't even bother to dodge the oncoming flames; her body vanished in an instant, facing the fire head-on. The fireball weakly swept through her body, striking the auction house floor and burning charred holes in it.

Su Zimai froze, her pupils contracting.

She froze for a second, then took two steps back helplessly, and screamed hysterically:

"Don't come any closer—!"

Not far away, Xu Sanyan, who was entangled with the strange fragment "Headless Knight", heard Su Zimai's shout.

He paused for a moment, then opened his umbrella to deflect the spear thrust at him by the headless knight. He flew backward, tumbling once in mid-air before finally managing to land on the ground.

"wheat!"

Xu Sanyan suddenly turned her head, glanced at the Empress statue, then at Xia Pingzhou, and finally chose Xia Pingzhou as her target.

"As long as I kill that man, his Sky Drive will also fail!" Thinking of this, Xu Sanyan gritted her teeth, her eyes turned cold, and she suddenly raised her black umbrella, pointing the tip of the umbrella at Xia Pingzhou's profile.

Seemingly having witnessed this scene from an overhead perspective, Xia Pingzhou turned around unhurriedly and glanced at him expressionlessly.

The muzzle of the gun, pointed directly at Xia Pingzhou's face, was on the umbrella.

But there was no fear in his eyes, and his calm expression seemed to be a challenge to Xu Sanyan:

"You can try firing a shot."

Xu Sanyan pulled the trigger, and the fog bomb shot out from the tip of the umbrella, heading straight for Xia Pingzhou's head!

With a loud "Bang!", the bullet exploded in mid-air, turning into a cloud of scorching white mist that rushed towards Xia Pingzhou, but was blocked by a black and white barrier, unable to touch Xia Pingzhou's body at all.

The white mist swept away, and Xia Pingzhou's body remained standing in place, like a reef standing in the midst of a raging tide.

He then looked away from Xu Sanyan's astonished face and turned back to Su Zimai with a cold gaze.

The queen statue was getting closer and closer to the girl with the high ponytail.

"Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer—!"

Su Zimai was trembling all over. She screamed and backed away, gritting her teeth as she raised her trembling right hand.

She aimed the magic gloves at the queen statue, but no matter what she did, she couldn't get the flames out.

The magic patterns on the gloves appeared and disappeared repeatedly until finally, not a single glimmer of light remained, just as her last hope had dimmed.

The Empress is getting closer.

The footsteps of this silver creature were cold and clearly audible; the blue flames in its eye sockets flickered in the wind, full of murderous intent.

dead……

Will I die?

In that instant, the thought popped into Su Zimai's mind, and she suddenly realized that she had always been under Ke Qirui's protection, and had easily killed many demons. She was respected as a genius by the people of the Exorcist Association, so she naturally thought that she was omnipotent.

But all of that was just playing house...

Because from beginning to end, she never fought alone away from the leader, and she never experienced the feeling of risking her life to fight others.

If we lose, we really will die...

No, I don't want to die...

I don't want to die here...

I still have so many things to do...

The world seemed utterly silent at that moment. Su Zimai's body was as pale as paper, her mind racing with thoughts. She couldn't even hear the footsteps of the Queen's statue.

"Xu Sanyan, Lin Zhengquan, come quick..."

Su Zimai cautiously turned her head to look at Lin Zhengquan, who was entangled with the snowman in the deep mountains, and then at Xu Sanyan, who was fighting with the headless knight.

The two men were pale-faced and gave her a tense look, shouting something at her.

But she can't hear.

She could hear nothing anymore; all she could hear was the footsteps of the Queen's statue.

The whole world fell silent, except for the Queen's footsteps, which grew louder and louder, like a cold tide washing over her, about to engulf her.

"Commander... Commander, save me, save me..."

Su Zimai muttered to herself as she slowly, step by step, retreated backward.

Suddenly, her legs gave way and she fell to the ground with a thud. The black magician's hat floated down from her head, but she was still wearing a deer stag hat—which Ke Qirui had just put on her.

Su Zimai gasped for breath, collapsing to the ground in a panic. She pushed herself up with her legs and shuffled backward, shouting, "Don't come any closer!"

But the Queen's statue is like a cold executioner, never stopping its march.

The giant shadow drew closer and closer.

Su Zimai had nowhere to retreat, and her back soon pressed against the wall of the auction house.

She leaned against the wall, her head tilted back blankly, her trembling pupils reflecting the image of the queen's statue.

At that very second, Su Zimai's stag hat also fell off her head.

She clutched her hat helplessly, trembling all over, her lips moving as she let out a hoarse sob:
"Commander... Commander, Commander, where are you? Please come and save me..."

Slowly, the queen statue came to a stop in front of her.

The colossus looked down at the girl, its shadow enveloping her entire figure.

The proud girl lowered her head.

This second seemed to pass very slowly, as if an eternity had elapsed. Many thoughts flashed through Su Zimai's mind.

The first image that came to mind was Gu Qiye's gloomy face.

She stared blankly, wondering if things would have turned out differently if she had listened to her older brother the night before last, hadn't thrown a tantrum, and had instead chosen to go home with him.

If only she were a little more obedient.

Does that mean I won't die?

Her brother really cared about her, but because of her pride, she refused to admit her mistakes and instead hurt him...

The image of Gu Qiye suppressing his anger and speaking to her in a humble tone kept replaying in her mind. At this moment, she suddenly felt that her brother's face was getting farther and farther away, and was about to leave her.

I'm sorry, brother...

Thinking of this, Su Zimai's eyes suddenly reddened.

She longed to see Gu Qiye again; there were still so many things she wanted to say to him.

As she was thinking, Gu Wenyu's face suddenly appeared in her mind again, that annoying, cheeky, but always protective second brother.

Su Zimai suddenly remembered that when she was in kindergarten, Gu Wenyu would always rush over shouting and chase the other children away when she was bullied by other children.

Then I took her hand and led her to play in the small park near the kindergarten.

As the sun set, the two sat on the swing watching the crowds come and go. When no one was around, Gu Wenyu would reach out and pat her head, comforting her in an awkward tone:

"Little sister, you're such an idiot. You can't beat others and you're so stubborn. I can't come to your rescue every time."

Su Zimai would wipe away her tears, grit her teeth, raise her head, and say unreasonably:

"But...but, didn't you come?"

"What will happen when I'm gone?" Gu Wenyu rolled his eyes at her helplessly.

"I can do it all by myself!" Su Zimai shouted loudly, her eyes filled with tears of resentment.

"Then you'd better not regret it!"

Gu Wenyu was also shouting loudly and was about to leave in a huff, but at that moment Su Zimai grabbed his arm. Gu Wenyu was stunned for a moment, then turned around and looked at Su Zimai's lowered face.

She did not speak.

But in the end, Gu Wenyu didn't leave. He silently sat back on the swing and sat quietly with Su Zimai for a while.

At that time, night quietly enveloped the peaceful park like a curtain.

In the darkness, the boy's gentle voice whispered in her ear:

"Okay, okay... I was just kidding you. No matter how many times, your brother will come to save you."

So, stop crying.

The cold flames were still burning with a hissing sound.

The queen's statue bowed its head, the blue flames in its eye sockets flickering, pulling Su Zimai back to the cold reality.

In the shadow cast by the colossus, the girl slumped, trembling and curled up in a ball.

She murmured silently:

"Brother...save me."

For some reason, the statue of the queen held the dagger up, but it remained suspended.

Just then, Lan Duoduo's somewhat exasperated voice came from afar, "Newbie, what are you doing? Hurry up and kill that weakling, then come help me!"

Xia Pingzhou's back remained motionless.

Unbeknownst to him, a shadow suddenly appeared behind his shadow.

Oda Takikage, dressed in a black ninja outfit, appeared behind Xia Pingzhou and asked in a cool and indifferent tone:
"Mr. Xia Pingzhou, do you need any help? I've already taken care of all the bodyguards on the fifth-floor corridor."

He paused, then looked at Su Zimai in the distance: "If you're not good at making advances on girls, then I can do it."

Xia Pingzhou shook his head and replied expressionlessly:
"unnecessary."

The moment the words left her lips, the queen statue moved, and her dagger slashed down from above Su Zimai's head.

Su Zimai stared at the shadow on the ground. The giant within the shadow swung its arm, and sharp objects fell from above her head. But her throat was so hoarse she couldn't make a sound, not even a cry…

Slowly, she closed her eyelids.

However, no pain was felt in the darkness... the queen's dagger did not seem to fall on her head.

After a long pause, Su Zimai slowly raised her head and looked ahead.

Then she saw an unbelievable scene: the arms of the queen statue were tightly bound by one black restraint after another, unable to move. A dagger hung a foot in front of Su Zimai's forehead, reflected in her pupils.

The blue flames in the Empress's eyes flickered, and a hint of surprise appeared on her expression.

The next second, the Queen statue and Su Zimai looked up together.

At that moment, a figure completely wrapped in black restraints was hanging upside down from the ceiling, holding a Japanese light novel, "My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute".

Black Chrysalis lowered his eyes as he read, turning the pages and muttering, "Oh, those bastards from the White Raven Brigade... This lady is my collaborator, and I can't let you kill her."

In the auction hall, Lan Duoduo, Xu Sanyan, Lin Zhengquan, and Oda Takikage caught a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of their eyes.

They both paused, stunned.

At the same time, Su Zimai raised her red and wet eyes, and the face of the black chrysanthemum was slowly reflected in her tear-blurred pupils.

For some reason, she suddenly remembered Gu Wenyu's mischievous and smiling face when they were children.

Clutching the hat in her arms, she stared blankly at the figure of the black chrysanthemum, murmuring silently:

"……elder brother?"

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)