This gaze is too strange.
From Hei Dou’s eyes, Chen Yu seemed to see the look of the city’s overbearing bullies in ancient costume dramas who preyed on the weak and did evil.
Not similar, but exactly the same.
Identical!
Hei Dou, squatting on Chen Yu’s shoulder, was still fantasizing about being the City Lord.
As long as he became the City Lord.
Hey!
He wouldn’t do anything, just walk the streets with a stick. Whoever he saw, he’d bash them directly, and then carry them back to the City Lord’s mansion.
At that time—
Bang!
An ruthless palm strike, landing at the perfect moment, brought him back to his senses.
“What are you thinking about?”
Chen Yu stared at him intently, his gaze akin to a homeroom teacher glaring at a student playing with their phone in class.
Gulp.
Facing the encroaching pressure, Hei Dou subconsciously swallowed.
“I…”
“You brat, you’d better behave yourself,” Chen Yu pointed at his nose and glared, “Promise me, be a gentleman, don’t be a hooligan, alright?”
“Aye!”
Hei Dou, squatting on Chen Yu’s shoulder, nodded his little head repeatedly, like a bird pecking at rice.
“Tch~” Unexpectedly, the little demon beside them let out a scoff, “You’re all the same kind of people, yet you act so self-righteous. Don’t you want to be the City Lord and beat a young girl with one stick?”
“How did you know?!”
Chen Yu and Hei Dou exclaimed in unison.
As soon as they heard each other’s voices, they both grinned and high-fived.
“As expected, my second brother!”
“Big brother.”
“Second brother!”
“Big brother!!!”
The man and the cat became more and more animated, causing the little demon to cover his face.
“Two lunatics,” the little demon muttered, then patted Chen Yu’s shoulder, “Stop embarrassing yourselves. How do you plan to attack that city?”
“Heh~” Chen Yu grinned, “A wise man has his own strategies.”
Attacking a city?
For him, it was as simple as that.
He was just that confident.
“Tch~”
Seeing Chen Yu being secretive, the little demon didn’t bother asking further. He stretched lazily and burrowed into the wristband.
“Boss, do you really have a strategy?”
Hei Dou whispered.
“Absolutely,” Chen Yu’s eyes were full of confidence, “I’m fully confident now. It’s just that… I estimate my麒麟臂 (Qilin Arm) will also be done soon.”
As he spoke, Chen Yu glanced at his own arm.
His eyes were filled with pity.
Hei Dou’s head was full of question marks.
“Anyway, forget about it. And this gold, we can’t touch it in the short term,” Chen Yu whispered, “If we really capture the city, rebuilding it will require a huge amount of funds. Using this money to rebuild a city-state, I’m afraid it won’t be enough.”
Twenty million gold coins, seemingly an astronomical sum.
But for a city, it might not be enough.
City construction consumed immeasurable funds. Comparing Chen Yu’s camp to a city-state was incomparable.
Perhaps—
In the future, Chen Yu’s camp might expand into a kingdom.
At least, not yet.
To give a simple example.
Outside the underground, buying a house costs millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions for luxury ones. Looking at the entire city, it’s like a fallen leaf in a lake, barely causing a ripple.
“Ah?”
“We have twenty million, and it’s still not enough?”
Hei Dou was stunned.
For him, this was already a fortune he had never dared to imagine. Yet, in Chen Yu’s mouth, it sounded almost insignificant.
“We’ll see then,” Chen Yu whispered.
Lifting his wristband, Chen Yu prepared to contact Kailin. She had gone to recruit talent, and he wondered how her situation was.
If she was still in the city-state, they could travel together.
However—
Several figures suddenly appeared. Chen Yu, who felt his face, which was shaded by darkness and his head bowed, showing a slight smile.
He looked up slightly.
He saw the crocodile, the nouveau riche who had clashed in the auction’s private room.
“Young Master Chen.”
“What is it?” Chen Yu raised his eyebrows and cupped his fists with a smile, saying, “Congratulations in advance, Sir, for bidding on the pseudo-Yellow grade sword skill. Your clan’s strength will surely advance by leaps and bounds.”
“This is all thanks to Young Master Chen’s intervention, which allowed me to buy it for six hundred thousand.”
“Oh dear.”
Sensing the crocodile’s almost bursting anger, Chen Yu wanted to pat his shoulder, but after being slapped away, he just shrugged.
“Such a temper.”
“I’m known for my good temper in the city-state. Perhaps encountering Young Master Chen makes me feel a bit heated inside,” the crocodile said in a low voice. Chen Yu grinned, “I understand, I understand.”
With that, Chen Yu spread his arms and said with a smile.
“Being constantly surrounded by sharp-tongued people, it’s normal to feel heated inside when you suddenly encounter someone as handsome as me,” Chen Yu whispered, “That sword skill is worth every penny. Haven’t you heard the saying that you get what you pay for? I was just helping you improve the product quality. Besides, in an auction, money talks.”
“Well said, ‘money talks’.” The crocodile sneered.
“Tsk~”
Chen Yu was also starting to get impatient.
“Is there a problem?” Chen Yu licked his lips and whispered, “If it’s not about money talking in an auction, is it about whose head is bigger? If it’s about who has a bigger head, then you win.”
“You!”
The crocodile raised his hand and glared.
“Don’t point your finger at me. Don’t do it before my sword cuts you,” Chen Yu rebuked coldly, holding his colorful sword. Sensing the coldness of the blade, the crocodile sulkily retracted his hand.
Others in the street gasped as they saw Chen Yu’s colorful sword.
“Participants in an auction have the right to compete. I was interested in the sword skill, so I bid. Is that not allowed?” Chen Yu’s lips curled into a sneer, “The Elton Chamber of Commerce is yours, so if you bid, I can’t? What’s wrong with that?”
“But there’s no need to maliciously drive up the price!”
“Maliciously?”
Chen Yu threw his head back and laughed, then his gaze suddenly froze.
“How did you figure that out? Your brain works quite well. I thought your crocodile head was just filled with water, swaying back and forth to the symphony,” Chen Yu scoffed, “Then I’ll tell you now, I was indeed maliciously driving up the price. What can you do to me?”
“Young Master Chen!!!”
“Shhh~”
Chen Yu put a finger to his lips.
“If you thought I was maliciously driving up the price, and you had completely given up bidding midway, then it would have been my own loss.”
“But you didn’t, did you?”
“You insisted on following me and raising the price, and in the end, you got what you wanted. Yet, you blame me for driving up the price. How ridiculous.”
“The bidding right was in your hands. Did I force you with my sword?”
“Is there something wrong with your brain?”
Chen Yu pointed at his own head, glaring at the crocodile with disdain and scoffing.
“Buddy, do you know what people like you are called where I come from?”
“A fool!”