Ita Era

Chapter 90 Contract of Sale

Ding Shi said, "The invitation from the Grim Reaper isn't difficult, especially with the protection of the first rule." Even a corpse can survive for 24 hours.

Yu Yuan said, "There's a candy auction tomorrow. Death is trying to lure everyone out of the room to make money."

"If you can bear it, then bear it." Ding Shi thought for a moment: "Yu Yuan, did you tell Wang Meng that the assassin was a rat?"

Yu Yuan: "I told you."

Ding Shi then asked another question: "I have a friend who has a city lord card, but the starting price for building a city is 100 million dollars. Is there any good way to solve this?" Ding Shi felt that Yu Yuan was a very knowledgeable person who had some understanding of various industries.

After asking a few questions, Yu Yuan said, "You can help your friend raise funds."

Ding Shi said, "Tell me in detail."

Yu Yuan said, "Social wealth will inevitably shift to a few people. Sooner or later, someone in Four Symbols City will have 1 million dollars. You can freely travel to and from Four Symbols City, negotiate with the other party, and invite them to invest in the city lord's project. Someone with only 1 million dollars will not invest, but if the other party has 10 million or 100 million dollars, I believe they would be happy to spend 1 million dollars to invest."

Yu Yuan: "Give this money to your friend, and he can buy land and take out a loan to build a city. Neither you nor I know what additional benefits will be available after the city is built, but you can promise him great things. For example, you can offer him the right to challenge dungeons again, invite him to live in the city he built, and let him enjoy special privileges, etc."

Yu Yuan said, "Judging from the development of the Four Symbols City as you described, it is estimated that someone will have assets of tens of millions in about six months. If the stock market goes crazy, it may create a millionaire in a month. You can find more millionaires and get more one million each. You can enter and leave the Four Symbols City, which means you can go to the Four Symbols City to raise funds. You have the City Lord Card and the Four Symbols Teleportation Card, raising billions is not a problem."

Ding Shi said, "It suddenly makes sense." But there's a hint of deception in that.

Yu Yuan asked, "Could you introduce me to your friend?"

Ding Shi said, "She and I are good friends, but I didn't bring my friend card with me."

Yu Yuan said, "I brought one."

Ding Shi said, "Wouldn't that be too wasteful? After all, we can have a group chat." Both of them were Ding Shi's friends and could go to the island villa.

Yu Yuan said, "No, I'd like to get to know your friend. Perhaps we can have a business collaboration."

Ding Shi said, "Okay, let's trade next time we meet."

Yu Yuan said, "I live in room 211. Call me if you need anything."

……

At 4 PM, the radio broadcast the system's announcement: "There are currently 22 guests. Now, we'll begin the 'Friends and Enemies' mini-game. Each person will receive two sets of cards, each set containing masks of the 22 guests. Place one card in the 'Friend' slot. Shake hands with this friend within two hours to receive 2000 yuan. Place the other card in the 'Enemy' slot. Shake hands with this enemy to kill them and receive 3000 yuan. During the mini-game, Death, Evil Spirits, Traps, and Fighting are prohibited, including but not limited to poisoning." The word "prohibited" encompassed a wide range of possibilities.

There was a knock at the door. Ding Shi opened it and took two sets of cards and a wooden box from the maid. Without hesitation, Ding Shi put the elephant into the friend slot in the box and the rat into the enemy slot.

After finishing, Ding Shi went straight to room 211. The door to room 211 happened to open, and Da Xiang Yu Yuan came out, saw Ding Shi, chuckled, and shook hands with him. They each received two thousand yuan. Xiao Ji Wang Meng walked over, looked Ding Shi up and down for a moment, and asked, "Ding Shi?"

Ding Shi lowered his voice and asked, "Who?"

Wang Meng looked at Ding Shi for a while longer, then shook hands with Yu Yuan and received two thousand yuan as well. Wang Meng said, "Shall we go inside and talk?"

Yu Yuan gestured, and Ding Shi and Wang Meng entered the room together, with Wang Meng keeping a close eye on Ding Shi.

Ignoring their personal grudges, Yu Yuan clapped his hands and said, "This little game is strange. Unless it's someone you know, no one will easily shake hands with another person. Why does it take two hours?"

Ding Shi agreed, but the rat would absolutely refuse to shake hands with him. Even though Ding Shi was the rat's enemy, the rat wouldn't dare to shake hands with him, considering that Ding Shi's enemy might be the rat.

While the two were pondering, Ding Shi considered another issue, saying, "I've noticed that some maids have been promoted to butlers, but I'm not sure if all maids have been promoted to butlers." He was considering whether or not to tell Wang Meng this information.

Wang Meng reached out to grab Ding Shi, angrily saying, "I knew it was you, you idiot." He still denies being Ding Shi? Has he no shame?
Ding Shi reached out and met Wang Meng's hand: "Come on, let's have a one-on-one fight."

Yu Yuan: "Stop, stop, stop. We're all from the same tribe, give me some face."

Wang Meng snorted, paused for a moment, and asked, "How do you know they've all been promoted to housekeepers? I saw them still wearing maid outfits."

Ding Shi replied, "They had employee ID badges on their left breasts. I saw the maid who gave me the card; her employee ID badge had the butler's name written on it in Italian."

Wang Meng was shocked: "Aren't you illiterate? How do you know Italian?" The former was sarcastic, the latter was the subject of his shock. He didn't forget to make a sarcastic remark before expressing his shock.

Ding Shi said leisurely, "Kelly."

Wang Meng found out. Kelly, a woman of German, Japanese, and Italian Axis descent, was Ding Shi's girlfriend for three months, but they broke up because they couldn't share common interests. Kelly was originally Lao Wu's sister's housekeeper. Ding Shi was injured and stayed at Lao Wu's estate to recuperate. Following Lao Wu's instructions, Kelly opened a small kitchen for Ding Shi every day to deliver meals, and eventually, she ended up delivering them to his bed.

This bastard's every word and action is nothing like a cop.

Yu Yuan said, "The maids have removed their name tags and replaced them with the butler's name tags. Rule Thirteen: Theft must not be discovered by the butler. In other words, these two hours are open hours, two hours for us to plunder."

Wang Meng said, "One person will keep watch, and the other two will search and loot, then divide the spoils equally."

Yu Yuan immediately agreed: "OK".

Ding Shi said, "Go to the fourth floor."

……

Many players have left the villa; some are shaking hands with friends, while others are looking for opportunities to steal. They are all intelligent people, aware of what the prohibitions against death, evil spirits, traps, and fighting mean. Nothing besides the rules can harm them. It is known that there is currently only a female housekeeper in a suit inside the villa; as long as they avoid her watchful eye, they can freely rob the villa.

Half of the people chose the first floor, where there were many cold weapons. The supermarkets and shops in Ham Town did not sell professional cold weapons, only weapons such as kitchen knives, watermelon knives, and fruit knives.

In addition, there are those with cunning minds who secretly follow their enemies. What's a handshake? With lightning speed, they snatch the hand and deliver the final blow.

Those who wanted to loot the fourth floor lacked comrades and had no one to keep watch, making them hesitant to act.

Wang Meng kept watch while Yu Yuan and Ding Shi entered room 401. Room 401 was similar to the other rooms, consisting of a large single bedroom, a living room, and a bathroom.

Ding Shi first observed the room, and Yu Yuan rushed to the bedside table. He opened it and saw a stack of new banknotes worth 10,000 yuan inside.

"Don't move!" Ding Shi shouted urgently, walked over and pulled back the curtains. A maid, like a spider, was perched on the window, staring intently at Yu Yuan through the gap in the curtains.

Yu Yuan broke out in a cold sweat. Ding Shi: "Open the window for ventilation." The window was opened, and the maid and housekeeper hurriedly climbed away.

Yu Yuan said, "The maid is not human."

Ding Shi said, "The non-player creatures in the scene invited by the Grim Reaper should not be human."

Yu Yuan was about to take the money again when Ding Shi said, "Don't move yet."

Yu Yuan scratched his head: "What?"

Ding Shi pointed to the mirror on the wall: "A two-way mirror."

The two walked to the bathroom behind the mirror, where they saw a maid slip through a ventilation duct and escape. There was a glass panel there that offered a panoramic view of the entire large room. Earlier, when they had inspected the bathroom, a towel had been used to cover the glass.

Yu Yuan broke out in a cold sweat: "Then..."

Ding Shi took off his black trench coat and covered the bedside table with it. Yu Yuan crawled inside and took the money. "As long as you don't see me take the money, you haven't witnessed the theft." As a fake criminal, he knew the law better than any legitimate police officer.

Following this method, the three of them searched ten rooms. Then Death got impatient and sent a maid to watch them closely. Wang Meng used his physique to guard the door, keeping the maid out. If the maid dared to touch him, he would fall to the ground and accuse her of beating him.

Inside the room, the two were looting and discussing their options when Ding Shi suggested, "We'll split it 442, we'll take 4 and give him 2."

Yu Yuan rejected the idea: "No, I keep my word."

Ding Shi: "You have a letter. I didn't agree to divide it equally. I'll take mine. Just pretend you didn't see it."

Yu Yuan was speechless and said, "Ding Shi, this is just cleverness, and it might backfire."

Ding Shi couldn't refute it for a moment, after all, he was often betrayed by his own cleverness, such as last night's search of the corpse and failure to leave the scene, which was identified by the system as dereliction of duty.

Yu Yuan then said, "I can lend you money." He knew that Ding Shi was worried about bidding against Wang Meng the next day.

Ding Shi waved his hand and said, "Never mind."

Yu Yuan said, "How about this, we'll coordinate: for odd-numbered items, only one of you will be allowed to bid, and for even-numbered items, only the other person will be allowed to bid." Sigh! What if my right-hand man is my enemy?
As the two were talking, they casually opened the wardrobe, and Yu Yuan broke out in a cold sweat. Inside the wardrobe was a half-rotten body, half bone and half rotting flesh. It was wearing a black suit, standing inside the wardrobe, its eyes closed, and a name tag on its chest that read: Yihao.

Ding Shi said, "This thing is the true form of the evil spirit." The evil spirit has no physical form and wanders around. It only reveals its true form and attacks its target when it discovers someone has triggered its killing rules. This attack is a thunderous strike, and there is almost no chance of survival unless one has a skill or item like a water substitution technique or a substitute doll.

Now that evil spirits are forbidden, they have become physical entities and hidden away.

Ding Shi crawled into the wardrobe, closed the door, and began groping Yi Hao. This was the boss, how could he not touch him? How could he let his ugly appearance cause him to miss out on money?
Dante was overthinking it; he didn't find anything, after all, the other person was a ghost and didn't have any daily shopping needs.

Ding Shi pushed open the cabinet door and came out, clearly unhappy. Yu Yuan immediately knew Ding Shi hadn't found anything and advised, "Next room."

Ding Shi shook his head, his eyes fixed on Yi Hao. With such a good opportunity, how could he not squeeze some profit out of himself?

With a change of heart, Ding Shi walked to the table, took out paper and pen and wrote a contract of servitude: I, Yi Hao, sell myself to Ding Shi as a slave for one yuan, and will never harm Ding Shi, will always obey all of Ding Shi's orders, and am willing to give all my property to Ding Shi free of charge.

Ding Shi took out a yuan and stuffed it into Yi Hao's pocket. Then, he used a pen to blacken Yi Hao's thumb and pressed it on the signature area. After that, Ding Shi took the yuan back, since Yi Hao had agreed to give him all his property free of charge.

Yu Yuan, watching from the side, nearly popped his eyes out: "Will this work?"

Ding Shi carefully put away the indenture and said, "I don't know, but I'm not the one who'll suffer." He reached out and slapped Yi Hao on the head: "What are you sleeping for? Get up and have some fun." It felt so good to bully the BOSS.

They ransacked ten more rooms, but the rest had already been emptied by others. At least four people were caught by the housekeeper during the theft and taken to the dungeon. They now face a new mini-game where only three can survive for the time being.

Ding Shi and the other two went to Yu Yuan's room and used the last half hour to divide the spoils.

8 in cash. One kilogram of gold jewelry; gold can be exchanged for currency in Ham Town. Ten sets of silver cutlery, which can also be exchanged for money. Additionally, there is a 4 of Clubs playing card; it has no secrets, is of low level, and has no attached skill. However, it can be fused with cards of the same affinity.

Wang Meng immediately said, "I want the 4 of Clubs."

Ding Shi: "Outside?" Why?
Wang Meng: "I have a Plum Blossom 3."

A straight flush? No way. My 14 of spades and reds is only a four-card triplet. How can you expect to get a five-card straight flush? Ding Shi objected: "How can you go back on your word about splitting it equally? I'll split the 4 of clubs into three pieces right now, and each of us will take one piece."

Wang Meng pressed his palm on the 4 of Clubs and said, "You can have everything else, I only want the 4 of Clubs."

“Alright.” Ding Shi took out Black Red 14 from his skill slot and said, “Then Yu Yuan and I will discuss this one.”

Wang Meng looked at the black and red 14 card that emitted a faint golden light, and picked it up: "I think it's okay to divide it equally."

Ding Shi said with a grin, "Sorry, this is my personal card."

Wang Meng, having been tricked, glared angrily, clenched his fists, and prepared to fight.

Ding Shi stared directly at Wang Meng, then raised his hand and punched the coffee table three times with lightning speed, creating three holes in it.

Wang Meng was stunned. He gently placed his hand on the 4 of Clubs and lowered his voice, saying, "I only want the 4 of Clubs." He could challenge a powerful professional boxing champion, but he wouldn't provoke the giant ape. The difference in their current fighting strength was equivalent to the difference between a human and a giant ape.

Ding asked, "Are you sure?"

Wang Meng looked at Yu Yuan, who said, "You two discuss it first." (I'm just a passerby.)

Wang Meng nodded: "Confirmed."

So Ding Shi and Yu Yuan divided the loot, each receiving 41,000 coins. Yu Yuan took the gold jewelry, and Ding Shi took the silver knives and forks. Wang Meng breathed a sigh of relief; thankfully, there were no other stolen goods. "No, this kid's progress is too fast," he thought. "I have to catch up too. I must find a way to challenge a high-level class dungeon."

Around 6 p.m., everyone returned to their own rooms. Ding Shi noticed that there was a television set in his room, a very old-fashioned television set, which was playing static.

I wonder what tricks Death will pull this time.

(End of this chapter)