My Avatar is Becoming the Ultimate BOSS-Chapter 166 - 123: Storm, Tokyo, Bloody Auction (Part 8)

The time is three minutes ago, Tokyo, Japan, inside the venue of the Mirror Auction at the Yugong Building.

Looking from the entrance, the sight inside the auction hall can be described as a complete mess.

Fragments of red seats are scattered chaotically on the ground, with the smoke of an explosion yet to fully dissipate, hanging in the air like a hazy mist. A flock of crows flaps their wings, slowly flying in the mist, their black feathers rustling as they fall.

The light of the crystal chandeliers spreads out evenly, revealing two intact seats at the center of the auction hall that stand in stark contrast to their surroundings.

Sitting in the very middle seat is a young man in a Zhongshan suit. He rests his fist against his cheek, sleeping soundly like a puppet, undisturbed by the noise outside.

Not far away, in another seat, sits Li Qingping with his fingers interlocked, his face lowered, staring expressionlessly at the members on the auction stage;

The Second Prince is currently being protected by the Octave Prism.

Blue Arc, silent for a long while, lifts his eyes to glance at the ten members emerging from behind a wooden door, then looks towards the young man directly ahead, Urushibara Osamu, the leader of the White Crow Travel Brigade.

"Where is the Mirror Guardian?" he asks in a low voice.

"Dead," Urushibara Osamu responds without expression, "The crows ate his corpse; you won’t be able to find him."

"Why kill him?" Blue Arc enunciates each word clearly.

Urushibara Osamu lowers his eyes, idly teasing a crow with his fingertips, speaking slowly:

"Based on my understanding of the Celestial Driver, the exit to the Mirror World will be briefly sealed after his death... which means, during this time, the only way for you to leave here is to kill us all."

He pauses: "By the way, because the flow of time in the Mirror World is slower than the outside, while we’ve been chatting, my members should have nearly dealt with the people outside."

As his words fall, a sudden blue lightning is reflected in the deep pupils of Urushibara Osamu. But in the next second, he suddenly disappears from where he stands, appearing on the auction stage instead.

Blue Arc stops at the center of the crow flock, raising his eyes to look at Urushibara Osamu now on the auction stage.

He instantly realizes one of the troupe leader’s superpowers: swapping places with a controlled crow.

At the same time, he catches a glimpse of a spine-chilling scene from the corner of his eye:

—Every crow in the flock, with their beaks holding a playing card, the faces of the cards faintly visible at the corners in their mouths.

In an instant, the playing cards in the mouths of the crows simultaneously explode, not even leaving Blue Arc a split second to react.

Fortunately, his speed is fast enough, electricity bursts from his entire body, forming a magnetic field that spreads out.

Moments later, the flames of the explosion dissipate, and Blue Arc stands still, unmoved from his original spot.

Blue Arc slowly turns his head to look at Li Qingping, the Second Prince, and Zhou Jiuya, who is still dozing in the chair.

A moment later, he turns his head to look at the exit of the Mirror World, and indeed, as Urushibara Osamu said: the mirror left by the Mirror Guardian has lost its original luster.

Moreover, cracks are spreading across the mirror’s surface, and it seems that now to leave this Mirror Auction, the only option is through the door opened by troupe member No. 7—"Robert."

But... using the enemy’s ability to leave here, who knows if that might be falling into their trap.

Thinking of this, Blue Arc takes a deep breath: "No, I must go back to find Xiaomai. If only the troupe’s door can get me back to the Real World, then I’ll go that way..."

The hacker and Robert have already left the auction stage to transfer the auction items to the vault, so currently, the members still on the Mirror Auction stage are "Jack the Ripper," "Anluns," "Andrew," and "Bai Tanlang."

"Chief, how do we distribute the opponents?" Jack the Ripper asks expressionlessly.

"Gee, my little gun is getting bored, Chief. Hurry and find me something to do," Andrew says, eyebrows dancing, kneeling on one knee as he sets up his sniper rifle.

The gun’s body flows with a night-like gleam, like a beast ready to pounce.

Urushibara Osamu responds without hesitation: "Jack the Ripper, Anluns, Andrew, take on Blue Arc." He pauses, "Bai Tanlang, probe that Anecdote Envoy sitting in the chair."

Yet from start to finish, Urushibara Osamu’s deep gaze remains fixed on one person, the young man in the Zhongshan suit sitting in the center of the auction hall.

Anluns’s eyes flash with an unusual light, and he summons a massive slot machine beside him. He leans against the machine, pulling the lever casually, and the prize wheel inside starts spinning rapidly.

Finally, on the digital screen of the slot machine, two of the three icons stop above "Cue Stick," while the other stops above "Bomb."

Suddenly, in the sound of scoring coins clanking, a slot opens at the bottom of the slot machine. From it drops a two-meter-long cue stick.

"A medium-quality cue stick... not the best luck, but it’ll do," Anluns mutters softly, reluctantly bending down to pick up the cue stick from the slot.

Immediately, he and Jack the Ripper vanish simultaneously from the auction stage.

In that second, Blue Arc suddenly feels the wind pressure sweeping in from both sides, mixed with a killing intent, as if two beasts pounce, ready to devour him.

Jack the Ripper’s short knife traces a dark red, graceful arc in mid-air, slashing straight toward his face;

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