Gacha games can't save this bizarre world.

Little Softie, on the other hand, has a good temper and lets it wriggle around like a pretty lump of soft green rubber.

Zhao Hao selectively shared some information about the extraordinary inner world with Gou Quan.

The main reason was that I felt I was unfamiliar with the place and people, and I couldn't do without Gou Quan's help in many things. Moreover, I was close enough to Gou Quan.

Of course, there are downsides as well. After all, letting ordinary people know about the other world is inherently risky. The most significant risk is the psychological impact.

However, Zhao Hao's conclusion from his observations over this period was that Gou Quan was heartless and would probably not be affected by this amount of oral information.

In his words: I've even seen refugee camps from the south, what kind of shock is this?

The city is in chaos now, and the police often arrest people with suspicious identities or illegal immigrants, especially those who have been smuggled from other countries, and throw them into detention centers.

It is said that the conditions there are extremely poor, and forced labor is required. Many people go in upright and come out horizontal.

Besides the mental shock, there was also an enhancement of spiritual vision.

However, this little bit of information is not enough to improve Gou Quan's spiritual vision.

However, Zhao Hao suspected that his spiritual vision was not low, because many inexplicable things had happened around this kid since he was a child. For example, the class leader had been cursed to death, and he always managed to escape unscathed from street fights, etc.

After learning some information about the Inner World and extraordinary individuals from Zhao Hao, Gou Quan jumped up and down excitedly: "Isn't it as cool as a magician?!"

Zhao Hao performed a mage's hand and chaos magic on him, turning his hair into five colors!

Gou Quan: "Wow~ Bro, that's so cool! We could open a barbershop with that!"

Zhao Hao: "I'm afraid not. First of all, extraordinary individuals cannot be made public, and secondly, I'm not skilled enough yet. I was originally planning to give you a mohawk!"

Gou Quan clutched his head in terror, his eyes wide, feeling as if he had been given a second chance at life.

Gou Quan pointed at the orange cat, who was pawing at Xiao Ruan, and exclaimed, "You fat cat are also that... magical pet?!"

Zhao Hao: "Yes."

Orange-shaped gaze: You have a problem with that?

Gou Quan: "What can it eat? Is it just a voracious eater?"

Gou Quan just saw Ju Zuo devour an entire bowl of cat food!

Zhao Hao gestured with his chin towards Ju Zuo: "Come on, give him a good whack!"

Orange stood up next to Gou Quan, put his hands on his hips, and suddenly pulled out a large wooden barrel with a burning fuse from behind him and threw it at Gou Quan's feet!

The wooden barrel was entirely red, with two iron hoops, and was about a meter tall. It had an explosion symbol painted on it, along with the word "Boom~".

"Wow, that's it!" Gou blew hard into the hissing, burning fuse!

In the end, it was Orange who put away the explosive barrel, but no one knows where she put it. Maybe in her stomach?

Although Gou Quan was initially excited to come into contact with the underworld, he lost interest after asking a few questions.

Gou Quan: "If it can't make money, it seems pretty useless?!"

They really do only care about money!

Gou Quan stayed at Zhao Hao's house that night, sleeping in the second bedroom.

Zhao Hao lit incense as usual and used the Hidden Dragon Sleeping Elixir Technique to fall asleep.

Zhao Hao awoke from his sleep. He found himself once again in a sea of ​​light!

After several days of trying, Zhao Hao finally returned to this place.

If he's not mistaken, this is people's dream world!

According to Uncle Tie, dreams are the surface of the spiritual energy sea, a place that all sentient beings can reach in their dreams.

It is also the place where God resides!

The Heavenly Court in the East, the Western Paradise, Takamagahara; Mount Olympus and Asgard in the West…

The countless bubbles of all sizes, stretching as far as the eye could see, were the dreams of countless living beings.

Zhao Hao saw his neighbor Xiao Human's dream last time, which was a coincidence. Generally, without special methods, seeing a specific person's dream is like finding a needle in a haystack.

Entering this dream state is the beginning of cultivating the Hidden Dragon Sleeping Elixir Technique.

Zhao Hao needs to remain conscious within the dream world and then construct a dream environment suitable for his cultivation. Within this dream, he will receive training…

The next morning, Zhao Hao cooked two large bowls of noodles, ate them, and then left.

Gou Quan is still asleep; he'll leave on his own once he wakes up.

Upon arriving at the antique shop, Uncle Tie glanced at him and said with displeasure, "Your cultivation isn't all that great, yet you've learned to fight and brawl with people? You want to be the number one in Tianjin?!"

Zhao Hao quickly explained with a smile, "I didn't want to get involved either, but Zhenfan Martial Arts Academy is, after all, a symbol of the Song people, and we can't let anyone smash it up so easily."

At this moment, Ma Xiaoyu suddenly lifted the curtain and came out from the inner room, tugging at Uncle Tie's clothes and acting coquettishly: "Uncle Tie, it was Xiaoyu who asked Brother Zhao to go and help! You don't know how bad those troublemakers are, they injured five or six masters!"

Uncle Tie pursed his lips at Zhao Hao: "Let me warn you, you'd better not get involved in the affairs of the National Martial Arts Academy and Songren City. There's a lot more to this than meets the eye!"

Zhao Hao didn't stay in the store for long before he and Uncle Tie drove out.

It turns out that a wealthy person in the suburbs was moving and had many antiques and old items to sell.

Many antique shops and secondhand stores in the city have heard the news and are going to see if they can buy anything.

It took about fifty minutes by car to get there, and we were already not far from the south coast of Brooklyn.

This area is considered affluent, but not the most upscale. The most affluent areas are around Central Park in Midtown Manhattan. This would be considered a second-tier affluent area.

These are all manor-style villas that are quite far apart, with each household often requiring a ten-minute drive to reach the other. Each manor also occupies a considerable area.

Zhao Hao and his companion were looking for a medium-sized, somewhat old manor.

A smartly dressed middle-aged man greeted the visitors at the gate with a slightly arrogant expression. This was the estate owner's real estate consultant, responsible for handling estate affairs.

By this time, the owners of four or five secondhand shops had arrived. Zhao Hao had even met two of them at the antique appraisal event.

These people are probably competitors, but they can't just blindly raise prices; that would only damage the market.

Every circle has its own unspoken rules, which are generally followed tacitly.

The sales consultant glanced at the time: "It's almost time. Let me explain things to you gentlemen in detail..."

It turns out something happened at the manor; the manor owner's family was in a hurry to move, so they had to get rid of some things.

Keep in mind that this manor has been built for almost 130 years. Putting aside everything else, the lamps, porcelain, tableware, and solid wood furniture inside are all of high quality. They can usually be resold for a profit of 10% or 20%.

Moreover, there are also some truly valuable items such as antiques and oil paintings collected by our ancestors.

The real estate agent led the group into the estate, introducing each room and explaining what they wanted to buy, then having them bid against each other...

At this moment, Zhao Hao quietly tugged at Uncle Tie's sleeve and whispered, "Uncle Tie, there's light..."

Uncle Tie was taken aback for a moment, then continued to follow the group forward without making a sound.

During a break, Uncle Tie asked several of his colleagues if anyone knew what had happened.

Believe it or not, there really are well-informed people like that.

It turns out that after the beginning of this year, the estate owner's youngest daughter often said that she encountered a strange little girl in the house.

At first, the adults didn't pay attention, thinking that the little girl was playing a prank or had misread it.

Just two weeks ago, the lady of the manor also accidentally bumped into a little girl, and was so frightened that she fell down the stairs and was badly injured. The whole family panicked!

Later, they also consulted mediums, exorcists, and even priests from the church.

A few nights ago, the manor owner ran into the little girl again and was so frightened that he almost peed himself on the spot!

I can't stay here any longer, I have to move out immediately. That's why this massive bargain-hunting scene happened...

Uncle Tie and Zhao Hao exchanged a glance: Something's up!

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Chapter 45 Treasure Hunting!

In the stillness of the night, with a bright moon and few stars, the silvery moon cast a layer of frost on the ground.

The daytime heat had vanished, and the coolest time of day had arrived.

It was around 11 p.m. Uncle Tie and Zhao Hao waited quietly in their car by the woods.

Orange was sprawled out on the back seat, fast asleep and snoring loudly.

Zhao Hao brought Orange with him so that it could become familiar to Uncle Tie.

After all, she had too many secrets, and it would be very difficult to keep them completely hidden from Uncle Tie, with whom she spent every day.

However, he couldn't reveal everything, so he could only slowly "release" a portion of it so that Uncle Tie could accept his special characteristics.

For example, the Orange Constellation, Zhao Hao said he found it himself, but when he was cultivating, he discovered that it could see spiritual energy.

This kind of thing is neither common nor particularly unusual.

After all, felines surpass most other animals in terms of spirituality. Felines often awaken their spirituality, or unintentionally appear in dreams on the surface of the psychic sea during sleep.

In the legends of the Song Dynasty, there were also tales of cats possessing spirituality, and of corpses that would rise from the dead if touched by a cat.

So Uncle Tie didn't suspect much, only saying, "I've heard of things like this before. But those cats are all exceptionally beautiful. How come yours is so fat? You'd better not feed it too much!"

The orange cat, who was licking its paws, stopped: Old man, I'll give you one more chance to rephrase your words! Hope you get some mouse tail juice! (*￣︿￣)

……

During the day, Zhao Hao noticed something unusual in the old manor.

Somewhere in the house, a faint light was emanating. It wasn't the distorted, chaotic light of some eerie object, but rather the light of something extraordinary.

There is clearly an extraordinary item in this house, but the owners are unaware of it. They don't even know if it belongs to the current owner.

Connecting this with the news he'd gathered earlier that day about the mysterious little girl who had inexplicably appeared in the manor, Uncle Tie concluded that some precious item in the manor had gradually developed sentience over time.

In both the inner and outer worlds of the Song Dynasty, there were people who traveled to various places specifically to search for rare and exotic treasures.

In terms of behavior, he's roughly equivalent to a superhuman bounty hunter or treasure hunter from another world, like the fat guy.

However, during the later period of psychic dormancy, the supernatural beings gradually ceased their activities in the surface world. But this treasure-hunting behavior did not disappear.

After all, this is a business with no investment and huge profits. Even though psionic energy has subsided, people have gradually figured out how to use the principles of mutual generation and restraint to find and capture treasures.

In the Song Dynasty, such people were called "treasure hunters" in the south and "sheep herders" in the north, both implying the act of taking advantage of others.

While looking at the sky, Uncle Tie chatted with Zhao Hao: "The southern barbarians are treasure hunters, while the northern ones are called 'sheep herders.' When I was young, I knew a sheep herder who had a very magical technique of calling out to summon treasures."