Chapter 413: Opening for Business

"Our manpower has been wiped out. If this continues, we won't be able to reach the Ancient Opera Treasury, nor will we be able to return to the Red Dust Realm. We will die at the hands of the disasters sooner or later... Only by following him will we have a chance to survive," the girl answered seriously.

"Miss, that person is traveling alone in the Gray Realm, can retain his color, and scared away a Tier 5 disaster with one look... I'm afraid it's not that simple."

The girl turned to look at him. "At least he didn't hurt us. Following him is safer than those disasters that want to kill us, right?"

Uncle Quan was speechless.

The girl and the old man followed far behind Chen Ling, keeping a distance of more than ten meters. She didn't rush up to talk, nor did she fall too far behind. She just walked quietly, trying not to cause any impact on Chen Ling.

Chen Ling naturally noticed their following, but just glanced back and didn't care, continuing to walk toward the Red Dust Realm.

Under Chen Ling's deterrence, no disasters approached along the way. They walked for a long time without any danger, and even the girl following behind felt sleepy.

You must know that they had encountered seven or eight waves of disaster attacks on their way from the Red Dust Realm, and now they had stayed in the Gray Realm for so long, yet not a single disaster approached... And the source of this eerie "peace" was self-evident.

The girl and the old man looked at the red-clad man pulling the cart alone, and the horror and suspicion in their eyes became even more intense.

"Are we almost there..."

Chen Ling checked the time. It was not far from noon. On the black earth in the distance, a field of snow-white flowers swayed in the wind.

Seeing that field of flowers, the girl also let out a soft "Oh" and whispered to the old man:

"Isn't that the flower field we came from?"

"It seems his destination is the Red Dust Realm..." The old man breathed a sigh of relief. "I didn't expect us to be able to return alive."

"But isn't it said that once you leave the Red Dust Realm, it's very difficult to go back? The road we came from is gone..."

"This red-clad man is not simple. Perhaps he knows the way to enter the Red Dust Realm from the Gray Realm."

Just as the two were whispering, the person and the cart in front drove into the flower field and slowly stopped.

The girl and the old man also stopped outside the flower field immediately.

The red-clad figure turned his head slightly in the swaying white flower field, and a pair of indifferent, deep eyes swept over the two. Just this one look made both of them tense up!

The old man subconsciously reached out to protect the girl behind him, his face slightly pale.

"Where are you from?" Chen Ling asked lightly.

"Red... Red Dust Main City."

Sure enough...

Chen Ling had guessed that they were from the main city the first time he saw them. Otherwise, those surrounding towns wouldn't have been able to gather so many God Way possessors who dared to go to the Gray Realm to seek death.

"Do you want to go back?"

"Of course." The girl lowered the old man's hand that was protecting her, gathered her courage, and took two steps forward. "Thank you, sir, for saving our lives. If you are also going to the Red Dust Main City, please be sure to come to our Huang family for a visit. I..."

"No need for a visit."

Chen Ling reached out his hand toward the two.

Seeing this, the girl was stunned. In this instant, countless thoughts flashed through her mind;

A gentle breeze blew through the flower field, and the red robe swayed with the wind. Under that unquestionable, sharp gaze, the girl's thoughts began to get confused.

Could it be that he wants to...

She struggled for a long time, looked at the old man covered in wounds beside her, then looked at the young mysterious man in red in front of her, gritted her teeth, and silently stretched out her fair palm, carefully placing it on Chen Ling's hand.

"Is this what you want...?"

Chen Ling: ?

With a "slap," Chen Ling swatted the girl's hand away and said coldly:

"Five hundred thousand."

"Ah?"

"Five hundred thousand, silver notes only."

By the time the girl reacted, her face had turned bright red. She retracted her hand into her sleeve in a flash, not daring to look up at Chen Ling at all, wishing she could slap herself twice on the spot.

"No, no problem!!"

The girl hurriedly took a stack of silver notes from her arms and stuffed them into Chen Ling's hand.

Chen Ling confirmed the amount and put it away. After hesitating for a moment, he pulled a gold bracelet out of his sleeve like a magic trick and threw it to the girl.

The girl caught the gold bracelet and asked in confusion, "This is..."

"I came to the Red Dust Realm to do business, not to rob people in distress," Chen Ling pulled the mountain-like cart and turned to continue walking. "This bracelet is what you bought for five hundred thousand. As an after-sales service, I'll send you into the city."

Watching Chen Ling pull the cart away, the girl still stood there holding the gold bracelet, seemingly not having recovered yet...

By the time Chen Ling was about to walk away, she let out a cry of surprise, hurriedly followed, and put the gold bracelet on her wrist, muttering to herself: "What a strange person."

Only the old man, looking at Chen Ling's departing back, seemed to remember something.

"Powerful and mysterious outside the realm, alone, going to the Red Dust Main City to do gold business..." The old man's pupils contracted sharply. He looked at the black mountain that was tightly covered beside Chen Ling, and his face could not hide the horror.

"Could he be..."

Chen Ling felt the stack of silver notes in his pocket and sighed in his heart.

Judging from the girl's agility in paying just now, he had asked for too little... Although the gold bracelet he gave was worth at most one or two thousand, in this situation, even if he had asked for one million, the girl probably could have afforded it.

But in any case, he had opened for business, and the first order was absolutely "profiteering." It was a good start.

Chen Ling walked around in the flower field, locked his gaze on the smallest and most wilted white flower, walked around it a few times as if unintentionally, and then clapped his hands gently.

Clap—

The next moment, the surrounding scene was covered like a prairie fire. The girl and the old man behind only felt a blur before their eyes, and they arrived in a desolate mountain forest!

Chen Ling scanned the surroundings. The original black earth and gray sky had disappeared, and wisps of cooking smoke rose from the distance. It seemed they had successfully returned to the Red Dust Realm.

"We really came back?" The girl's eyes lit up.

Chen Ling's movements just now were too subtle, and the two were at a distance from him. They only saw Chen Ling walk to the center of the flower field and clap his hands gently before returning to the Red Dust Realm.

However, judging by the location, this should still be a town on the edge of the territory, quite a distance from the main city of Red Dust.

Just as Chen Ling was about to move on, the old man opened his mouth and asked with three parts fear and seven parts awe:

"May I ask, sir... are you a special envoy from the Golden Society?"

……

*Hum——!!*

Amidst the blaring of a steam whistle, a territorial train slowly pulled into the station.

A man wearing a black leather jacket with a wolf-tail hairstyle stepped off the train. His gaze swept across the station, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly:

"Red Dust Territory, I, [Spade 6]... have returned."