Chapter 141
Chapter 141 [“Bad Luck? Not Conserved!”]
“Eh? Trade, what? Ah?”
Zhao Lin snapped out of it from that voice, but Zhu Xingtu, that Charlatan, had already left this place.
Ye Qiyan walked over, his gaze flickering as he looked at the dark golden card on the desk.
Without a doubt, even without using the system for appraisal, he could tell that this was an unknown card sequence.
“Brother Qiyan, that person just now?”
“Don’t know.”
“Ah?”
Without paying attention to Zhao Lin’s completely dumbfounded expression, he walked straight over, picked up the dark golden card, and brought up the Light Screen for appraisal.
[Fate Card – Unequal Gift]
[Unequal Gift: Use this as currency to trade half of a Talent at an unequal price.]
“Trade a Talent? There’s such a thing? Wait, half?”
Ye Qiyan suddenly thought of something, lowering his gaze to look at Zhao Lin with a slight raise of his brow.
Her Talent consisted of two parts: good luck and Bad Luck.
If half of the Talent was traded away, which half would it be?
No, the answer didn’t actually need to be guessed at all.
This Platform was Zhao Lin’s lucky Platform.
And before this, she had experienced a massive bout of Bad Luck that almost cost her her life and nearly destroyed her Train.
Then, the half traded away by Zhu Xingtu…
There was a very high probability that it was Bad Luck.
Ye Qiyan raised his brow slightly, looking at the card in his hand with great interest before tossing it to Zhao Lin.
“Did you finish buying the carriages?”
Zhao Lin nodded.
“I bought one, plus the blueprint for manufacturing basic carriages. Brother Qiyan, do you really not know the person from just now? But she said…”
“I don’t know her. Maybe she’s just a crazy woman, no need to bother with her. Besides, what are you worried about? Have you forgotten what this Platform means to you?”
Zhao Lin blinked, a confident expression appearing on her face once again.
“Yeah! Brother Qiyan, you’re right. There’s nothing to be afraid of. As long as it’s a lucky station, how could we encounter bad things? This card looks very special at first glance. Maybe the pretty big sister from just now just felt a connection with me and came to give me a gift.”
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The pretty big sister in Zhao Lin’s words was currently happily riding in a car traveling through the highways of the City of a Thousand Stars.
She hummed an unknown tune, joyfully flicking the air in front of her with her fingers.
Her system Light Screen appeared. Before she could continue manipulating it, the car suddenly let out a “wail” and with a loud boom, broke down midway.
The driver collided head-on with the steering wheel.
He hurriedly got out of the car to check and found that the vehicle’s engine was spewing white smoke like crazy, clearly on the verge of being scrapped.
“Customer, you should get out quickly. The car has broken down, and it might explode in a moment!”
“… Alright~ Fate tells me that your car should explode quite prettily?”
Zhu Xingtu chuckled twice, not annoyed at all as she pushed open the door and got out.
“Is the lucky Talent activating now? Hehe~ That’s really fast. What on earth is this Talent?”
She prepared to continue checking.
However, right at this moment.
A brilliant golden radiance caught her attention.
She looked up.
She saw a man wearing casual clothes, sunglasses, a face mask, and a duckbill cap standing in front of a snack stall buying food.
Thump——
The snack dropped to the ground.
“It’s… you.”
The corners of Zhu Xingtu’s mouth twitched a few times as she awkwardly greeted him.
“Hi, hello there, Senior. Um, I have something to do, so I’ll be leaving first.”
This man was none other than the master of the Order Card who had relentlessly slashed her several times back in Solomon City, the very person who provided Order Cards for all powerful cities.
One could even say that the establishment of all cities was inseparable from this man.
Furthermore, his Order Card had been stolen by Zhu Xingtu once. Although he snatched it back in the end, it also let this man know about the existence of Zhu Xingtu and the Emperor Sequence Organization, which collected card sequences.
He had come to the City of a Thousand Stars to recuperate and originally intended to experience the life of an ordinary person for a bit.
He truly didn’t expect that here…
He would run into the other party.
Clatter——
Meeting an enemy makes one’s eyes burn with hatred.
His upper garment was ripped off.
The man, covered in golden patterns all over his body, flew into mid-air, crossed his arms, and gazed coldly at Zhu Xingtu.
“You deserve to die.”
Boom——!
The street was blasted apart by a single slash.
Amidst the smoke, Zhu Xingtu was shrouded in a layer of Light Screen, rushing out of the smoke as the Astrologer in her hand flickered slightly.
“Is this side safe?”
Barely escaping the fate of being hacked to death, Zhu Xingtu panted heavily, touching a long scratch on her left arm, quite puzzled.
“That shouldn’t be right. Didn’t I just trade for that girl’s Talent? How could I be so unlucky? Besides, why can I suddenly no longer hear the voice of fate? How strange! Isn’t that girl’s Talent good luck? It can’t be wrong, this is the result fate told me.”
Looking at the system Light Screen that had always followed by her side, she glanced at the man in the air and hurriedly brought up her personal information.
In the Talent section, besides her original Talent, after seeing that line of new text, Zhu Xingtu’s face was filled with question marks.
[Bad Luck? Not Conserved!]: Supposed to descend alongside good luck, but forcibly separated by some kind of power. Now, only Bad Luck remains.
“Huh??? What kind of Talent is this? How, how did I steal this? It shouldn’t be! Didn’t fate say that the girl had good luck?”
There was no time to think more.
Because the man above her had spotted her once again and swung another slash down toward Zhu Xingtu.
“Hey, don’t go too far, I—”
Rumble!
For the first time in her life, ever since she obtained the Astrologer and could hear the voice of fate, she was in such a wretched state.
Because she could no longer hear it.
Fate, which had once constantly lingered by her ears, was suppressed by that eerie Bad Luck.
Fate had become mute.
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Leaving the Train Exchange with Zhao Lin, Ye Qiyan looked at the golden man in the distance and rubbed his chin.
“Isn’t this guy the one from Solomon City? Who provoked him again… Oh, I see.”
Ye Qiyan suddenly found it somewhat amusing.
Turning back to glance at the smiling Zhao Lin, he could roughly guess who the golden man’s target of attack was.
“As expected, it’s the Bad Luck half.”
Good luck turns all bad things into good things.
Zhu Xingtu believed in fate.
It was not hard to guess that this Charlatan would suddenly run over here to find Zhao Lin, and then use that card to trade for the Talent on Zhao Lin’s body, with the sole purpose of obtaining good luck.
It was a pity that those who walk by the river often get their shoes wet; fate had probably played a colossal joke on her.
Good luck had turned into Bad Luck.
And it was extreme Bad Luck.
This time, without Zhao Xi, Fan Huo, or the one using the dragon card, wouldn’t she be so unlucky as to die directly at this Platform?
If that really happened, this would undoubtedly be somewhat humorous.
