Author: The fog dissipates

"Ge Hai, let's go up and take a look. You'll protect me from the front."

Chu Ming glanced at Ge Hai beside him.

The man was in a daze, as if he had returned to those days of adventure with Chu Ming.

It's just that this time Chu Ming protected him instead of him protecting Chu Ming.

"Don't worry, young master."

Ge Hai looked calm and walked quickly upstairs to the room where the sound came from.

The man's frightened cries became louder and louder, and the sound of objects being smashed and the sound of a woman's fighting breathing came from the room.

"I just want to cry. You scolded me just now!"

Chu Ming paused, and he felt a strong dark aura shrouding him like a shadow.

"Ge Hai, be careful!"

A strange dark purple tentacle suddenly broke through the wall and headed straight towards the two of them.

"Dark creature?!"

Chu Ming's face was gloomy, and he squeezed the two cards in his hand. The secret technique of the gryphon returned to his body, and an aura close to the green quality level appeared from his body.

Maintaining the secret technique requires mental energy. Chu Ming did not hesitate and immediately grabbed the incoming tentacle and pulled it out.

This weaker dark creature could not resist this force and was dragged out of the wall.

"Roar!"

A monster with an extremely large, flat head and a lower jaw covered with tentacles that looked like a human and an octopus appeared in front of him.

The monster fell to the ground, and before he could crawl out, Chu Ming grabbed his neck.

"Uh...cough..."

The monster struggled hard, and the tentacles on its lower jaw tried to cling to him.

Chu Ming looked at the disgusting twisting tentacles, frowned, and squeezed them hard with his right hand.

Only a "bang" sound was heard. The monster could not bear the pressure and burst.

Putting down the monster corpse, Chu Ming looked into the room.

The man who had been shouting before had been frightened and fainted in the corner.

The woman also exhausted her mental energy from using cards to fight dark creatures, and fell to the ground gasping for breath.

Chu Ming fixed his gaze on the woman and asked, "What happened?"

The shop owner's wife gasped, shook her hand, and then pointed in the direction of the corpse of the dark creature.

He looked back and saw that a card had been condensed where the monster's body had been lying.

With doubts, Chu Ming picked up the card.

"This is?!"

Chu Ming's eyes suddenly shrank, as if he saw some incredible scene.

[Hybrid strange octopus]

[Quality: Gray]

[Race: Mixed race]

[Skill: Shadow Whip]

"Why isn't this card a black card?!"

Chu Ming took a deep look at the card in his hand, and then looked at the proprietress with doubts.

"Don't look at me, I don't know either."

The woman held her chest, stood up with difficulty, and pointed at the fainted man.

"This card was resonated by this guy from the resonance ritual, but I don't know why it is like this."

"So that's what he was arguing with you about just now?"

The woman was stunned and nodded.

After learning the answer, Chu Ming stared at the strange card in his hand and fell into deep thought.

There must have been some changes that he didn't know about in the future era, which led to the emergence of this kind of dark creature card that can be recognized by the Ancient Tree of Time.

"Could it be..."

Looking at the word "hybrid" on the card information, an idea suddenly came to his mind.

"That's right, after I broke the bloodline shackles on humans from other worlds, while gaining the qualification to explore the depths of the bloodline, I also lost the isolation of the power of gods, making the bloodline more susceptible to contamination."

"That's why this hybrid creature was born."

After thinking about this, Chu Ming couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Blessings and misfortunes depend on each other. It turns out that the gift of fate has been marked with a price in secret."

Although it is still unknown what kind of impact the birth of this hybrid creature will have on the other world, judging from the completely irrational appearance of the card just now, it is probably not optimistic.

After standing there and thinking for a while, a woman's voice suddenly brought him back to reality.

"Are you here to buy a card?"

The proprietress threw the fainted man out of the store and came up with a broom.

Chu Ming nodded subconsciously, then shook his head.

"We need to get some materials and build a resonance ceremony."

The landlady put down her broom, shook her head, and tied up her long hair.

"Originally, I wasn't in the mood to open the door anymore when this kind of thing happened, but since you saved me just now, I still have to help."

"But you need to clean it up first."

Chu Ming was stunned for a moment and asked: "What should I do with that man just now? Is he just left outside the door like this?"

The woman spread her hands, changed her patient image, and cursed: "Today is also unlucky enough. If I meet such an idiot, I wish I didn't throw him into the trash can."

"Don't worry, disputes like this are still very common in the black market, with several happening almost every day."

"At most, some gangsters will come over to inquire about the situation. It will not hinder my work."

"As for that card, it's not my concern."

Chu Ming nodded, waited patiently for the woman to finish cleaning, and then followed her to the counter.

"What kind of goods do you have? Show me what you have. The price is absolutely fair."

Opening the card pack, Chu Ming took out a few cards that needed to be sold.

The woman wearing white gloves carefully picked up the cards arranged on the counter one by one.

She murmured something in her mouth and commented: "[Universal Knight Secret Technique], a gray quality card, the quality is so-so, but because it is a secret technique, the market price is about 10,000."

"[Jet Black Spider Leg] comes from the human-faced spider, a dark creature with green strength. It is a relatively inferior resonance ritual introduction that can sell for up to five thousand."

"..."

"[Bear Bear Secret Technique], a dark green quality Great Knight Secret Technique."

A flash of surprise flashed in the eyes of the landlady, and she raised her head and asked Chu Ming: "The card of the Great Knight's Secret Technique is rare, and its skills are extremely practical. It can be sold for 350,000 at least."

"Are you sure you want to take action?"

Chu Ming nodded without any hesitation.

In terms of secret techniques, he already has the [Gryphon Secret Technique] for self-defense, and the [Bear Secret Technique] is useless in his hands, so he might as well sell it.

Seeing that Chu Ming was so determined, the woman stopped trying to dissuade him and took out her calculator to do some calculations.

"It's about 480,000 in total. Counting your 500,000, you can use it as a thank you for saving me just now."

"How should the resonance ceremony be calculated?"

The woman stretched out her slender fingers and gestured: "The lowest specification D-level resonance ceremony is 650,000, and the C-level resonance ceremony is 1.2 million."

"What about C-level and above?"

The woman shrugged.

"That's not an area that my level can cover."

"But I can give you the official standard price for these rituals."

"D-class five hundred thousand, C-class one million."

Chu Ming hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and pulled out five blue-quality magic crystal cards from the card pack.

"C-level, I want a big one."
Chapter completed!