About five or six minutes later, the noises coming from the carpet finally faded away. It seemed that the animals on the carpet had already jumped back onto the ground.Tolly asked his shield to have an eyehole in each of the four directions so that he could have a thorough view of the carpet.After confirming there were no dangerous creatures on the carpet, only then did Tolly dare to sneak out of the box to the carpet.“I want to get out!” He said to his shield.“All right, my master, I’ll get a door in the box for you.”The same AI voice rang out. Suddenly, a door appeared in front of Tolly. Tolly pushed it gently and walked out of the box.When on the carpet, he found it was a big mess. Several brown squirrels and grey hares had been sliced off into small pieces, their flesh going almost everywhere. And there was even a Sword Swan that had been cut in halves.On top of that, the carpet was also covered with a lot of brownish-red rocks, all thrown by Needle Scorpions obviously, bec
Tolly removed the lid from the wok gradually.He then visualized the picture of an embroidery needle in his mind again, which soon made his lid-like Stone Turtle Shield turn into a tiny needle. Once again, Tolly put it in his ear.After that, his eyes fell on the nine shiny golden pellets swirling around in the wok. Needless to say, they were the Golden Throat Pills that he had just made to counteract the poison of the Rotten Throat Wind.‘Well, finally!” Tolly exclaimed, very excited.Without any further delay, Tolly immediately picked up three of the pills and threw them into his mouth. He had no idea whether three pills were enough or not to detoxify the poison in his body. It was just that he had always been fond of the number three.Back on Earth, he had used to read a book called ‘All About Taoism”, which had been written by a famous oriental philosopher named Lao Tzu. In the book, it said:Tao gave birth to the One; the One gave birth successively to Two things, three things, u
“How can the Golden Dragon Gang be compared to us?” the old man said, annoyed,“They are just a bunch of bandits who only know how to collect protection money everywhere. Everyone hates them.”“Indeed!” Tolly replied.“We Nine Voice Sect are quite different. We all bank on ourselves by looking for niche markets to make profits. Though some of our businesses might be illegal, we never do anything bad to harm other people.“Really?” Tolly said in disbelief.“Yeah. Our mission is to work for the well-being of our families and friends. As for our vision, we strive to be the best smugglers in the world of Goldearth…”“Okay, okay, I get it,” Tolly cut in on him, “Do you need me to be your helper?”“No, you don’t need to do anything. We’re pros, you know.”With that, Old Peter pulled out what looked like a glow stick.‘It must be used to send signals.” Tolly thought.Sure enough, Tolly saw the old man press a small button on it gently. In a minute, something shiny was flicked into the air, a
“Three low-grade feather coins!”“I can take it for four.”“Seven.”“Nine.”“Nine! Is there anyone else who can bid higher? Okay, one…two…gone!”The auction lasted for about an hour and went very well. Michael and his men sold all the animals and the people who participated in it were all excited, for they thought they had picked up some bargains by chance.Michael and his men were also excited because the animals they had sold provided them with a total of over three hundred low-grade feather coins.Overjoyed, Michael and Old Peter decided to give half of them to Tolly.“Here you go! Thank you for your gift. We’re honored to have had this great opportunity to do the job for you.” the old man said to Tolly gladly.“You’re welcome.”Tolly was happy, too. However, he didn’t take half of the money. He added,“I should thank YOU. I really appreciate your help. Without your help, I would have never been able to sell all of these animals in such a short time.”“Whatever you say, but we’ve b
It was not long before they strode back on the narrow path that could only allow one person to go past at one time. After stepping on that steep flight of stairs, they went through the special door in the wall and arrived at the dark dead-end alley. Tolly, Michael, and Old Peter did not talk much during the journey, as they didn’t want to be noticed by others. In fact, the black market was not as secretive as one might think. The authorities had simply turned a blind eye to it and acquiesced in its existence. The alley was not very long. Five minutes later, they were back on the bustling Bridge Street. However, it was much busier than usual. They saw numerous people rushing in one direction for something exciting. “What’s going on?” Tolly asked curiously. Frowned, Old Peter and Michael shook their heads, indicating that they had no idea what had happened. Old Peter immediately stopped a tall man who was walking briskly and asked, “Hey, dude, what’s the rush? Can you tell us wha
Before anyone else could react, the kite rider launched a large fireball at Fanta Lord.Fortunately, the iron wall that had been transformed from Tolly’s Stone Turtle Shield blocked that attack once again. The fireball went straight at the wall and made an explosion. However, it hurt no one.‘Hew…” Tolly heaved a relieving sigh and thought, “It’s not my business. I should not have got myself involved. It’s too dangerous. But it also shows that I’ve got the potential to be a hero.”“Holy shit!! Who’s courting death? I want to tear you apart, bastard!! How dare you ruin my plan??” the kite rider roared on his bird-like kite.“The bastard is cursing who??!” Tolly spat back with a sneer on his face.He hid behind the iron wall so that the kite rider could not even see his face, much less his sneer.“The bastard is cursing you!!” the kite rider replied subconsciously.“Ha-ha… you’re right. You are the bastard that is cursing me!!” Tolly said in amusement. His lips curved into a mocking smi
“Ha-ha! Mr. George Lange, I’m just kidding! Don’t be afraid!” Tolly laughed, shining his eight white teeth, “I’m not a zombie!”George immediately turned back and found it was true. He fumed with indignation,“What the hell are you doing? Are you nuts? You’re scaring me to death!! My father used to play such a game when I was a little boy. You’re reminding me of that horrible memory!”“Don’t be mad with me! See, I’m coming to pay the loan back.” Tolly grinned.With that, he swiftly took out fifty-two low-grade feather coins from his pocket and stacked them on the counter.Seeing those coins, George quickly put on a big pleasing smile on his face, saying,“Great! it never occurred to me that you would come back alive. I thought my investment would go down the drain. You’re my little hero now!!”George’s helper, the old ugly man Sam, was also surprised that he was able to see Tolly again. While counting the coins on the counter, he said smilingly,“Since the first time I saw you, I’ve k
Tolly jumped on his Sound Sword without any hesitation.And the sword under his feet carried him to fly in the shop. In a split second, Tolly was taken from one side of the shop to the other before he knew it.‘It’s fantastic! It surely is as fast as sound.’ Tolly thought, ‘it’s exactly the vehicle I want for traveling. I don’t need to torture my two faithful dogs anymore.’With that, lowering his head and having a look at his own two feet, he whispered to them happily,“Thank you for the great efforts you’ve made. You’ve earned your plaudits. I guess in the future you two will have holidays often.”With that, he had already circled the little shop a few dozen times on the Sound Sword in a second. He was moving so fast by riding on it that the others could not even be able to see him clearly. What they could see was a blurring figure moving like a dazzling silver shadow. However, it also made George and Sam tremble with fear. It looked as if the silver shadow would bump into the she