Steel Chang'an

Chapter 29

Wuge City, appreciate Yingge.

From the outside, this is just a small pavilion, the metal carved window panes are impenetrable, under the sunlight, the fluctuation of the energy shield can be faintly seen.

There is something special in the small pavilion.

At first glance, the space used to hold the Yingying Festival looks like a large theater garden. In the center is a small stage with painted pillars and carved beams, surrounded by red lacquered golden thread railings, which are used to display the auction items.A beam of light was projected from above, and it was shining on the small stage, but the seats around the stage were hidden in the darkness, and it was impossible to see how many seats there were for a moment.

As the time for the Appreciation Festival approached, a figure lit up in the darkness, and it was unclear whether it was a real person or a holographic image of a customer linked to this space through a special encrypted channel.

I saw the figures surrounding the stage, like the stars in the night sky, increasing little by little.The space in this small Appreciation Pavilion seems to be boundless. It seems that no matter if it is a hundred people or a thousand people, this space can accommodate them.

But no matter whether it is a hundred people or a thousand people, there are only two people who are the most eye-catching in the Shangying Pavilion.

One person was wearing a moon-white cloak trimmed with red. The wide lapel of the cloak was turned up, covering most of his face, only revealing his clear eyebrows, but he could still be identified as Zhuo Renyue, the current chief knight of the Chang'an Knights.

The other person, wearing a gray cloak, pushed the hood down so low that people couldn't see his face clearly, only the ferocious wolf head painted on the hood.The juvenile chin exposed under the hood, which has not yet grown a beard, let people know that this person is still a teenager, not the wolf lord himself.

It is not the wolf owner of the Northwest Canglang himself, but he dares to use the symbol of the wolf's head. There is probably only one person in the entire Pangu Continent.

"It turns out to be the young wolf master of the Northwest Canglang, sorry." Zhuo Renyue smiled and leaned slightly in his seat, revealing the identity of this young man.

"Zhuo Renyue." The young wolf master was unceremonious, and called him by his first name, "You just drove away Li Jing, the chief knight of the Chang'an Knights, and you have not yet sat up, and you are in a hurry to come to Wuge City What are you doing?"

As a man who was often slapped in the face by Li Jing in the past but could not change his face, Zhuo Renyue certainly would not take the young wolf master's level of provocation to heart, and the smile on his face was undiminished, and he replied: "Young wolf master why? Come here, why do I come here. Why does the young wolf master know what to ask?"

"Hmph." The young wolf master was still young, and he choked on such a soft nail like Zhuo Renyue, so he was a little helpless, so he could only snort and turn his head away.

The slim lady on the stage came forward holding the lot, turned around slowly, and showed the real thing to the audience.At the same time, a holographic image of the lot emerges from the darkness above the entire Shangying Pavilion and directly in front of each seat, rotating 360 degrees, showing the auction to the guests of the Yingying Club in all directions.

"Lot No. 1 has been displayed, please bid according to the meter on the right side of the seat..."

The Appreciation Club is proceeding according to the process.Although the most important item to be auctioned this time is Su Sheng's hand, since it is the Yingying Festival, naturally there will not be only one item to be auctioned.

It's just that the young wolf master doesn't pay much attention to the weapons or rare materials that can be auctioned in Wuge City.After looking at it for a while, he finally became impatient, turned around, and said to Zhuo Renyue, "Is it interesting? Why don't we just go out and fight, whoever wins will get the thing, how about it?"

"What can be solved with money, why bother to be violent?" Zhuo Renyue gracefully folded his legs, leaned on the seat, and showed his charming smile to the young wolf master, "It is still the young wolf master who treats his own financial resources, Why don't you have confidence in your own strength?"

"Hmph..." Young Wolf Lord turned his head back again.He really doesn't have much confidence in anything other than fighting.

As the young wolf master of the Northwest Canglang, he was able to lead the "Spike Fang" at the age of 14, an elite troop composed of [-]-ton assault mecha cavalry, galloping on the battlefield, and he was also a famous genius boy on the Pangu Continent .People in the northwest desert believed that he had inherited the wolf lord's fighting talent, and that the wolf lord's ghost wolf smoke would definitely be passed on to him in the future.But few people know that he is actually not the wolf lord's biological son, but the only son of the wolf lord's most beloved sister.

Liangyue was originally not his surname, but his biological father was a little man who didn't even deserve to keep his surname.

What he inherited from his father is only a single name.Before he became the young wolf master of the Northwest Wolf, he was just a wild child named A Fei in the Northwest Desert.

Perhaps because of this, the young wolf lord Liang Yuefei's personality is not like that of the wolf lord, who seems to be unruly but actually rough and fine.His fighting style is wild and powerful, and he is indomitable and invincible on the battlefield. Some people think that he is even tougher than the wolf lord back then.But his behavior is also like a lone wolf in the desert, arrogant and rough, not careful, not deep in thought.

So the young wolf master has no idea about something that sounds so elegant about appreciating Yinghui.

This time, he was ordered by the wolf lord to bring the most elite troops of "Spike Fang" to Wuge City. Price, take Su Sheng's hand, grasp the whereabouts of Li Jing, Mu Yun and their party, and wipe them out.

Then, at the foot of Wuge City, he met Zhuo Renyue who had the same purpose as him.

Because it was not during the war, no one could drive a [-]-ton special mecha around, and it was impossible for Zhuo Renyue to take all the Chang'an Knights with him, so he just drove a second-hand machine named "Yanyue". The ten-ton mechs transferred a team of "Wind Riders" from Chang'an City, and rushed to Wuge City overnight.But this "Wind Rider" is the most mobile team under the Chang'an Knights.

The two teams met in front of Wuge City, which posed a difficult problem for the owner of Wuge City: Who should the goods be given to?

Wu Ge City Lord can't afford to offend anyone, so he simply shamelessly claimed that he was sick and didn't go out to meet guests, but the Ying Ying Party was held as usual.

The Young Wolf Lord was still too immature, he never expected that the City Lord Wu Ge would pretend to be sick, and he was lured to the Shangying Pavilion by the shopkeeper in a daze, only now did he come to his senses.

What should I do now?

Seeing that the well-dressed ladies on the stage have won the most important lot at this Yingying Festival, which is the thing that the wolf lord told him to take down, the young wolf lord put his hands on his cheeks in annoyance and stared blankly. Looking at the stage: the amount of money he can mobilize in his capacity is not small, but if he really comes up with a sky-high price, even if he wins that thing, I'm afraid he will be regarded as an idiot by the wolf lord.

However, if he just sat and watched and let Zhuo Renyue take down that thing, he might be regarded as an idiot too.

In short, let's bid first and then talk...

Young Wolf Lord's hands moved faster than his brain, especially after seeing Zhuo Renyue's hand on the meter, his fingers could not help but quickly pressed down...

Then, seeing Zhuo Renyue smiling at him, he withdrew his hand back.

This is a false move to lure the enemy!
The young wolf lord yelled in his heart that it was terrible, but the previously pressed price had already appeared above the stage.

Not the highest bid!

The young wolf master was also taken aback, and then noticed that this puppet master's work had attracted a lot of attention. In the entire Shangying Pavilion, he and Zhuo Renyue were not the only ones bidding.

But fortunately, most of the guests who participated in the first round of bidding had already noticed that Zhuo Renyue and Lord Young Wolf were bidding. Those who did not intend to offend the Chang'an Knights and the Northwest Wolf had long since had no intention of bidding with them.There were only a few who had bad eyesight and bid a few times, but found that the price was getting more and more outrageous, and after asking the people next to them, they also gave up bidding.

After a few rounds, only Zhuo Renyue and Young Wolf Lord were left to bid.

"It seems that at the end of the day, you and I will have to fight to win!"

Although it was not a duel in a mecha, the atmosphere of the numbers jumping and exclaiming one after another had completely ignited the young wolf master's fighting spirit.

But as soon as the words fell, the young wolf master had already noticed that something was wrong——

Zhuo Renyue had already stopped bidding!

Could it be that he won?
The Young Wolf Lord couldn't believe it, but found that Zhuo Renyue was also looking in a certain direction with disbelief——

In that direction, there is a light.

An antique lantern, with a small blue flame floating in the round lampshade, floating above a certain seat.

Obviously, this is a holographic image, a holographic image that will only appear after someone presses a special button on the meter.

"This is... a sky lantern...?"

The ending of Zhuo Renyue's words rose, and he had already recognized that this was the Yingying Festival in Pangu Continent, a commonly used symbol - sky lantern.This symbol is usually designed for some special situations, such as someone who is determined to win a certain lot, but is too lazy to bid repeatedly, as long as you press this special button on the price meter next to your seat, it means that no matter how much you bid If the price is too high, I will definitely add another one to your bid.

In these years, Zhuo Renyue has seen sky lanterns at Yingying Festivals, but he never thought that someone would dare to light sky lanterns on something that the Chang'an Knights and the Northwest Canglang wanted to win, and he was a little lost for a while, even The young wolf lord was yelling over there, but he didn't hear anything clearly.

After all, once the sky lantern is lit, it cannot be taken down casually.

People who can light sky lanterns are either rich enough to burn money for fun, or they are very powerful.The former is obvious, as long as there is enough money to raise the price to a height beyond the reach of everyone present, no one will dare to bid again.And the latter must be powerful enough to shock the audience. After his bid, everyone stopped bidding because they did not dare to offend him, or at least no one dared to raise the price to an unbearable height.

However, it is not easy to order this sky lantern when someone is evenly matched with him.

Zhuo Renyue didn't dare to light the sky lantern because he knew that as long as he lit the sky lantern, the Young Wolf Lord would keep bidding, which made him very uncomfortable until he reached a price he couldn't afford.For the same reason, the young wolf master who was as arrogant as himself did not dare to light a sky lantern in front of Zhuo Renyue, because he knew that Zhuo Renyue would definitely blow up his lantern.

But now, someone dared to light a sky lantern in front of the two of them.

Could it be that a local rich lord who has never seen the world, did not see clearly the identities of the two of them?
Zhuo Renyue was still in shock, but the Young Wolf Lord had already shouted:

"Who is it? How dare you light a sky lantern in front of this young master!"

At this time, Zhuo Renyue had already seen the face of this person clearly.

This person's attire can be called elegant and decent, not like a local rich lord who has never seen the world, but like a noble butler.

The uniform-like black tuxedo was neatly tailored to wrap his tall body, his silver hair was combed neatly behind his head, his hands were folded on his knees, and his sitting posture was upright, just like any well-trained noble servant.Only the wedge-shaped blood crystal shining red on the smooth and full forehead hinted at his true identity.

——More precisely, it implied the identity of his master.

"Who exactly are you?"

The Young Wolf Lord finally noticed the man, turned his head, stared at the man and asked.

"Hehe, what the young wolf master said is wrong." Zhuo Renyue had already roughly guessed the identity of this man, and he couldn't help feeling superior in IQ to the young wolf master. He wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief, and said with a light smile, "This one, I'm afraid he is not human at all?"

"Mr. Zhuo has good eyesight." The tall man in a black tuxedo stood up and bowed to Zhuo Renyue and the young wolf master with impeccable elegance. Humble android butler."

"It turned out to be the housekeeper of Teng Jiaxing." Zhuo Renyue is now the chief of the Chang'an Knights, and his knowledge is naturally wider than that of the young wolf from the northwest desert. Originally, when he saw the blood crystal on this person's forehead, he immediately I already had some guesses, and then I heard the name reported by this person, and I confirmed that my guess was correct.

"I have admired Butler Ji's name for a long time, and when I saw him today, I found that Butler Ji is not small. He just lighted the sky lantern with me, but why did he light the sky lantern on the head of the young wolf master?" Zhuo Renyue's pair of beautiful eyes Turning his eyes between the housekeeper Ji and the young wolf master, he seemed to be joking, but in fact he had already provoked the two of them.

Sure enough, the Young Wolf Lord, who was originally upset because Steward Ji interrupted his "single duel" with Zhuo Renyue, after hearing these words, his eyes lit up again, and his lips moved, looking Come wording is brewing.

However, before Young Wolf Master could speak, Steward Ji showed a modest smile and said calmly: "You misunderstood.

"With Ji Yan's humble status, he was originally not worthy to appear in front of the two of you. It's just that Ji Yan's master ordered that Ji Yan must take down this puppet master's work. The two bids just now were too fast. , Ji Yan has no time to bid, so he can only light this sky lantern first."

Bidding also depends on hand speed... This is the first time Master Young Wolf has heard of it, but recalling how hard he pressed the meter just now, he has to admit that he wants to make a difference between him and Zhuo Renyue, two master knights. It is indeed difficult to seize the opportunity to bid.

Facing Butler Ji's humble appearance, Young Wolf Lord was really hard to get angry. After brewing for a long time, he finally snorted coldly and said: "Then you are not afraid that I will blow up your lamp?"

"Huh?" Ji Butler's usual calm voice finally showed a trace of surprise, "Ji Yan doesn't understand, why did you do this?"

The young wolf master was also taken aback, but he finally came to his senses: Yes, what was he trying to do by blowing up the butler's lamp?
His real purpose was not to take pictures of Su Sheng's hand, but to get the whereabouts of Li Jing and Mu Yun.It's just that Wu Ge's city master excused himself from illness, and he and Zhuo Renyue made repeated bids at this prize appreciation meeting, which has become a situation of riding a tiger.No matter who succeeds in the end, the other party will not withdraw willingly, and a fierce battle is inevitable in the end.In the end, it was a lose-lose situation.

From this point of view, Ji Steward's sky lantern can be said to be lit in time.

Because of this, when Steward Ji lit up the sky lantern, Zhuo Renyue took advantage of the situation and immediately stopped bidding.

Because he realized that things had turned for the better—Teng Jiaxing represented by Ji Steward, that is, a third-party force had appeared.

What Zhuo Renyue has more experience than the Young Wolf Lord is that after he realized this turning point, he disregarded Butler Ji's real intentions, and immediately provoked a conflict between the Butler Ji and the Young Wolf Lord: If the Young Wolf Lord really Unable to hold back, insisting on blowing the housekeeper's lamp, it would be tantamount to putting himself on the fire, and also helping Zhuo Renyue to win the housekeeper to his side in a disguised form.

Zhuo Renyue's intentions can be described as quite sinister.

Fortunately, although the young wolf lord was a bit slow in reacting, he finally came to his senses.

The young wolf master gave Zhuo Renyue a hard look, and finally closed his mouth and stopped talking.

This time, Zhuo Renyue had no choice but to speak clearly, "Since Steward Ji has made a move, it seems that Teng Jiaxing is going to make a move. I just don't know whether Teng Jiaxing is looking at people or things this time." ?”

"Master's mind, how dare Ji Yan make wild guesses." Butler Ji said, as always, modestly.His voice is soft and pleasant, even the pitch is just right, which is very in line with his status as a noble butler.

"The master just ordered Ji Yan to take down this puppet master's work. Since Ji Yan has come, he will surely fulfill his mission." Having said this, Ji Yan changed the subject, "But fortunately, the master only ordered Ji Yan won the work of the puppet master. From Ji Yan's point of view, although Zhuo Gong and Young Wolf Lord seem to be determined to win this lot, they are actually not interested in the lot. Why not let Ji Yan take this lot? As for information other than this lot, Ji Yan can share it with the two of you."

Zhuo Renyue and the young wolf master glanced at each other. Although Steward Ji's words were sound, both of them felt that something was wrong.

It was Zhuo Renyue who asked, "Is Steward Ji coming to Wuge City alone?"

"Mr. Zhuo was joking." Butler Ji still smiled modestly and politely, "Although Ji Yan's status is humble, in the eyes of the world, he is considered a rare commodity, so in order to ensure that Ji Yan can go back to serve his master in good condition, every time Ji Yan When Yan goes out, there is a team of Tengjia soldiers accompanying him."

The young wolf master finally realized what was wrong, "Then when you find out about Li Jing and Mu Yun's whereabouts later, your team of Teng Jia soldiers will also follow?"

Butler Ji just smiled, but Zhuo Renyue sighed.

Lord Young Wolf's words unintentionally confirmed the identities of the two wandering knights for Steward Ji.

Now, I am afraid that Teng Jiaxing was really only interested in things, but he will also become interested in people.What's more, the young wolf lord's voice was not low at all, and the people in Shangying Pavilion could have heard it clearly, and there would be more than a group of Tengjia soldiers who followed him.

"If Lord Young Wolf has no objection, then so be it."

In the end, Zhuo Renyue could only say helplessly.

"Ah!" Only then did the young wolf master realize that he had made a big mistake, but the matter had come to an end, so he could only follow Zhuo Renyue to make a statement, "Then it will be up to each other when the time comes! Let's see, who will win in the end!"

"Then I would like to thank both of you for making the concession." Steward Ji still politely bowed to Zhuo Renyue and Young Wolf Lord, turned around and walked aside, and negotiated with the big shopkeeper of Wuge City.But his last words were not pleasant to Zhuo Renyue and the young wolf master.

Fortunately, after a while, Butler Ji came to the two of them again with a delicate box under his arm.

"Congratulations to Butler Ji." Zhuo Renyue guessed that the hand left by Su Sheng was in the box, and also stepped forward to say a polite word.

"Where is the person?" The young wolf master asked hastily, regardless of etiquette.This rewarding performance will make him extremely aggrieved, wishing to get the whereabouts of those guys immediately, so that he can rush to kill them.

Especially when he caught a glimpse of Zhuo Renyue's face that was as beautiful as a mask, the young wolf master hoped that he would kill this hypocritical and insidious guy.

Regarding Steward Ji, the young wolf master also has some opinions: this inhuman thing looks kind, how could he talk to him, and was taken into the pit by accident... Anyway, it's not a good thing , if there is an opportunity in the future, it is best to kill them together.

Butler Ji didn't know that the Young Wolf Lord had so many activities in his heart, so he still smiled very respectfully, and said in his usual soft and pleasant voice: "According to what City Lord Wu Ge said, if there is no accident, Li Jing and Mu Yun and his party will It should be going to the Sea of ​​Thorns."

(End of this chapter)