“Sir, do you want to respond to the other person?”
Seeing that Xu Sili didn’t move for a long time, Andrew couldn’t help asking in a low voice.
Xu Sili thought for a while before turning his head and saying, “I will see.”
No matter the other person’s purpose, there shouldn’t be any problems if they chatted casually.
Andrew stood in front of the light curtain. The words on it had been secretly converted to Roland’s language by Xiao Wu and he didn’t have to worry about not being able to understand it.
He performed a simple operation and the trading interface on the light screen disappeared. A dialog box popped up.
Anonymous 02: [Hello, I have a deal I want to talk to you about. I hope you can accept it.]
On the dialog box, the profile picture and nickname of the other person were displayed. The profile picture was a question mark and the nickname was also anonymous. This should be the pre-set rules of the black market communication.
“Ask him what deal?”
Hearing Xu Sili’s words, Andrew responded. He edited the message to ask the other person.
Anonymous 02: [I hope you can help save someone. The price is negotiable.]
Xu Sili was alarmed in his heart. He originally thought that he just bought what the other person wanted or the goods he bought were from the other person.
According to the rules of the black market, it was only in this way that the other person could find him to make a transaction request.
However, the situation was clearly different from what he had guessed.
Anonymous 015: [Saving someone?]
Anonymous 02: [Yes, I have a friend who is seriously injured and needs medical treatment.]
Anonymous 015: [Then you should take your friend to the hospital.]
The underground exchange, Room 02.
Wang Kun manipulated the light curtain to negotiate with the other person, but it was clear that the conversation had hit a soft nail from the beginning.
He wasn’t in a hurry and replied in an old-fashioned, polite manner.
Anonymous 02: [Your Distinguished Self is joking. If he could be cured in the hospital, there would be no need to find you.]
Xu Sili frowned.
The other party was obviously aiming at him.
Under such strict privacy protection rules of the black market, the other person could accurately find him. They must’ve been staring at him from before he entered the black market or…
They had already been eyeing him at the hotel.
If it was from Roland…
No, he remembered.
Xu Sili remembered the only time he had used Sprouting on Kechibal Star was the day he went to the beach with Si Sheng.
At that time, a floating car suddenly lost control and rampaged on the street, eventually killing the driver on the spot. One of the passersby who was hit was also in a critical condition.
He heard the passerby’s daughter crying sadly. In a moment of sympathy, he used Sprouting to save this person’s life and waited until the ambulance came before leaving.
If an outsider knew he really had this ability, it could be because they encountered it. Si Sheng did sense an abnormality when he was about to leave…
The other person didn’t show up at the time but must’ve had a way to know that it was him who made the move. Otherwise, it would be impossible to come directly to the door like this.
With just a few words, Xu Sili thought a lot. Since the other person chose to contact him this way, it meant they didn’t want to expose their identity.
This point coincided with his thinking.
In any case, he was using a false identity on Kechibal Star. It didn’t matter if it was known by the other person as long as he paid attention to possible tracking when leaving later.
Xu Sili was a bit interested but didn’t immediately agree.
Anonymous 015: [What price can you pay? I’m not interested in money.]
Looking at the other person’s response, Wang Kun raised his eyebrow with surprise. “He is quite easy to talk to.”
“The other person doesn’t want money.”
Kuris, the brown-haired young man standing next to him, couldn’t help frowning when he saw the reply message. “Is he going to demand an exorbitant price?”
Wang Kun thought for a while before saying, “Even if he demands an exorbitant price, it would be better than trading with the people of Blood Dance.”
If it wasn’t a last resort, they wouldn’t have chosen to make a deal with Blood Dance, which was the stupidest way to strengthen the enemy.
Now, they seemed to have another choice.
Anonymous 02: [Indeed, most of the people who can trade on the black market aren’t interested in money. What do you need? We will do our best to satisfy it.]
Xu Sili looked at his reply and didn’t answer immediately.
This was the other party begging him.
And he… for now, there was nothing he particularly needed. The black market transaction list was enough to meet his needs.
It was probably because the waiting time was too long. A message came from the other party again.
Anonymous 02: [Please believe our sincerity. My friend needs your help very much. His body won’t last long.]
Xu Sili hesitated. He finally asked Andrew to edit the reply again. He needed to know who the other party was.
If the other person’s identity wasn’t sensitive, he didn’t mind making more friends. After all, Roland was in a difficult situation now. There was the Bewatt Empire next to them.
If he had multiple allies then they might be able to help at critical moments.
Wang Kun and Kuris looked at each other. They had discussed this issue.
They didn’t mind exposing their identities but they were afraid that the other party would hear they were star thieves and refuse to make a move. Judging from the information they had investigated in the past two days, the other party was quite decent.
Xu Sili had asked Andrew to negotiate with the other person but he actually ordered Xiao Wu to investigate the identity of the mysterious person.
Even if the other party told their identity, he wouldn’t believe it at all. These days, it was necessary to be on guard against others. If he wasn’t careful then he was likely to fall into a pit.
In fact, the safest way was to meet each other and use Insight to take a look. He would know immediately if the other party was a person or a ghost, but this wasn’t easy to do.
Anonymous 02: [Even if I say it, I guess you won’t recognize it.]
Anonymous 015: [You can move unimpeded on Kechibal Star. Not only did you find my hotel information but you also directly found me in the underground exchange. I don’t think such a person will be unknown.]
Anonymous 02: [Your Distinguished Self’s praise…]
Andrew was talking with the other person to delay time while Xiao Wu started to quickly investigate after receiving Xu Sili’s order.
They used black market equipment where no specific information could be revealed and while there were no secret devices such as instant cameras in the room, Xiao Wu could reach it as long as there was an Internet.
He scanned the face data of Wang Kun and Kuris through the light curtain. He filtered through the big data of the Star Network while passing through the traffic camera system of Kechibal Star. Then he quickly found the movements of the two people.
According to these clues, he sent the investigation results to Xu Sili in less than three minutes.
Xu Sili guessed countless identities of the other party in his heart, but he hadn’t expected them to be star thieves!
Moreover, they belonged to the organization called Flaming Fox.
Xu Sili didn’t know this organization. There weren’t many posts describing star thieves in the future forum. It was also a relatively mysterious group, especially the head of the star thieves, Mu Xingzhou.
Xu Sili still felt sour in his heart when thinking that the CP of that guy and Si Sheng was still ranked first in the future forum. He naturally didn’t have a good impression of Mu Xingzhou.
However, he didn’t expect that as soon as he thought of Mu Xingzhou, the information given to him by Xiao Wu actually mentioned this name!
Xu Sili was slightly stunned. How could it be so coincidental?
Judging from the results of Xiao Wu’s intel, the leader of the Flaming Fox star thieves organization was indeed Mu Xingzhou!
The two people negotiating with him, Wang Kun and Kuris, were both Mu Xingzhou’s capable subordinates. They were also high-ranked interstellar criminals on the wanted list.
Based on the information found by Xiao Wu, he also discovered that he almost had contact with the other person. Wang Kun had forged the identity of a researcher on the Star Network to buy Snow Valley.
It was the one he found when collecting money-making information on the Internet in order to pay the alliance fee of the Interstellar Alliance. Later, he started to plant Snow Valley to make health medicine.
Then he made money by singing and opening a milk tea store, so he didn’t choose to sell Snow Valley later. Then the other person wanted to buy Snow Valley to study health restoration potions?
Xu Sili hadn’t expected there to be such a coincidence.
After repeatedly confirming that he wasn’t mistaken, Xu Sili frowned and thought again.
This meant Mu Xingzhou was now seriously injured and his subordinates found him after seeing his skills.
But according to the information of the future forum, Mu Xingzhou was alive and well after ten years and became the head of the star thieves. In other words, he unified the star thieves?
In short, Mu Xingzhou couldn’t die.
Since he couldn’t die, why enter this muddy water? Was Roland’s situation not difficult enough?
Among other things, the star thieves were all wanted criminals. As long as the Star Alliance discovered that Roland was connected to a star thief organization then all the assistance and convenience he enjoyed now would no longer exist.
With this alone, Xu Sili couldn’t do such a stupid thing.
What’s more, since a long time ago, he had been unhappy with this guy Mu Xingzhou. How could he risk getting into trouble to save his ‘love rival?’
Xu Sili became indifferent and instructed Andrew to refuse the other person. Then he packed up his things, followed the previous instructions of the employee and left the room through another door.
After seeing the other person’s clean refusal, Wang Kun couldn’t help being dumbfounded. Wasn’t this person quite talkative just now? Why did his attitude suddenly change?
“Brother Wang, it isn’t good. They are leaving the room. They are really going to leave!”
It wasn’t known what type of method Kuris used but he could ‘see’ Xu Sili and the others leaving.
Wang Kun gritted his teeth, took out the computer and operated the light curtain.
He decided to hack into the young man’s communicator and talk to him directly.
It wasn’t impossible if it was really necessary to reveal their identities, but it couldn’t be in the black market. They had to meet at another agreed-upon place.
What was usually easy was hindered to a great extent today. Just as Wang Kun was feeling surprised, a message suddenly popped up.
[I’m not interested in this transaction. Please find someone else. As for you hacking into my communicator, I will give you a small lesson this time. Next time, it won’t be so simple.]
Then his computer screen went black.
No matter how Wang Kun tried, he could no longer turn on this computer.
There was definitely a master around that person!
Wang Kun felt numb. However, the more the other person did this, the more it proved that he was a capable person.
“Brother Wang, what now? Do you want to execute Plan B?” Kuris asked him anxiously.
“If we don’t start now, we won’t have a chance.”
Sweat broke out on his forehead as he seemed to be making a difficult decision.
Wang Kun looked at his hacked computer and finally gritted his teeth. “Do it!”
In the first place, their star thieves weren’t reasonable. Since the other person didn’t want to talk sense, they could only use other methods.
“Okay.”
Kuris replied and closed his eyes again. It wasn’t known what he was doing.
On the other side, Xu Sili, Si Sheng and the guards walked into another passage. An employee was waiting there. Under his guidance, their group headed toward the exit of the black market.
He had just forcefully refused the request of the star thieves but Xu Sili didn’t have much fear. There was Si Sheng there and his support skills. He wasn’t worried about the star thieves.
However, just as he was about to step out of the exit of the black market, he suddenly felt his eyes go dark. His body spun and he lost consciousness.
Before he lost consciousness, he could still hear the shouts of the guards as well as Si Sheng’s anxious and panicked voice.
What happened?
After a torturous dizziness, Xu Sili’s consciousness finally gained some clarity. He wanted to rub his temples but found he couldn’t even do such a simple action.
His body seemed to be imprisoned in some small thing and the range of movement was too small.
Xu Sili endured the discomfort and opened his eyes with difficulty.
He should be contained in something and it was dark all around him. It felt very bumpy like he was being moved.
Was it the Flaming Fox people?
Xu Sili guessed that there was probably no one else who would attack him at this time except for Wang Kun and Kuris.
But how did they do it? He was openly taken away under Si Sheng’s nose. Before today, Xu Sili never thought that such a thing would happen.
It was because he underestimated Starry Sky Age. Even though the level gap was large, the secret magical skills possessed by some NPCs didn’t lose their effect despite their low level.
After going through a dizzying jolt, the thing holding him seemed to be put down. Xu Sili felt the calmness around him and his body was more comfortable.
He took advantage of this time to quickly look at the system notifications that he had no time to look at before.
Xu Sili was stunned when he saw the message records of the system.
[‘Kuris’ is casting a secret skill on you: Card Transformation.]
[Card Transformation: Able to turn any object, both living and inanimate, into a card.]
[You have become a card.]
[‘Kuris’ is casting a secret skill on your card: Card Swap.]
[You were successfully swapped by ‘Kuris.’]
Xu Sili looked at the notification and was completely confused. He actually turned into a card? What a joke!
Moreover, he was swapped by Kuris into his hands.
What type of secret technique was this?
How could he have never heard of it?
Xu Sili could be sure that he had never seen such a skill in the future forum. He had never seen a profession that could turn people into cards and manipulate cards.
Just looking at the skill, he would definitely be interested. The problem was that he was tied up now.
He must’ve been put into some type of box and taken away, right? Xu Sili thought like this and threw an Insight at the dark thing in front of him.
[Card Master’s Wooden Box]
[Description: The wooden box contains cards with various magical abilities that should be used sparingly.
Quality: Silver
Belongs to: Kuris.]
Card master?
Xu Sili murmured a few times.
This profession sounded quite new but… these two people didn’t want to take him directly to outer space, right?
Xu Sili was very skeptical. After all, as star thieves, their personalities definitely weren’t good. In the case of absolute control, how could they have a discussion with him like they did in the black market?
If it was him and the person was already in his hands, he would definitely take them back first before talking.
Xu Sili thought about it carefully. He looked at his panel again and determined that the ‘summoning’ skill could be used. He was temporarily relieved.
He didn’t summon Si Sheng over immediately. Now the situation was unknown. What if Si Sheng was also turned into a card?
In this way, Xu Sili lay quietly in the wooden box and waited patiently. After an unknown amount of time, the lid of the wooden box was opened and he saw the light again.
A young face came into view. It matched the young man named ‘Kuris’ in the information that Xiao Wu had transmitted to him.
Xu Sili saw the other person reach out his hand. It was a hand that a normal adult man should have but it pressed down like a mountain in front of his eyes. Then he felt his frame being pinched and his entire body…
No, the entire card was pinched and flew up.
This was a very special experience. He had changed from 3D to 2D. This was probably a real ‘paper man’, right?
“Sorry that we needed to bring you here this way. However, we really couldn’t help it. Please understand.”
At this time, Xu Sili heard the man called Wang Kun say this.
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