Misery: There is a pawn shop here

Chapter 1: There is a Pawnshop with a Predestined Partner

The Central Plains is a place of hardship, with beautiful mountains, rivers and scenery, but it is a place with no village in front and no shop behind.

If a famous person or wise man wanted to live in seclusion, this would naturally be an excellent place, but the attic here happened to be a place for business.

On the black plaque made of nameless wood, four large red characters with a faint golden hue appeared:

There's a pawn shop!

The name is strange, and the attic has a weird atmosphere from top to bottom.

However, no matter how weird something is, it will not be so weird in the world of suffering.

In the lobby of the pawnshop, a figure in a rocking chair swayed rhythmically.

The young man had eyebrows of different colors and eyes as bright as stars. He was wearing a black and white robe with gold embroidered on the cuffs, which made him look very luxurious. His black hair was casually tied up and only passed through with a black wooden hairpin, but it was precisely this casualness that added a sense of free and easy style to his hair.

The young man's name is Li Xuanxiao. Of course, this is not his original name. However, as a time traveler, his original name itself is not particularly important.

A few days ago, he traveled to the world of Thunderbolt Puppet Show that he was familiar with, and was automatically connected to the pawnshop's system.

When naming the pawnshop, Li Xuanxiao waved his hand and decided on the name "Youjian Pawnshop" without thinking.

It's nothing, just for fun, it's just a name.

To briefly summarize the functions of the system, in simple terms, "people with a destiny" enter the pawnshop to trade, and Li Xuanxiao, as the host, can obtain transaction points from the transaction and exchange them in the system mall.

There is only one rule in trading, and that is you cannot lose money.

Li Xuanxiao could understand this. After all, no one opens a business just to do charity.

The transaction scope of the system is also very wide, including soul, emotion, luck, body, life span and so on. Li Xuanxiao understood it very quickly. It was simple, just like Pawnshop No. 8 where there was only entry and no exit.

In addition, Li Xuanxiao enjoyed a certain degree of dominance within the pawnshop and a certain range outside the pawnshop, which also prevented some people in this world from directly robbing or refusing to pay their debts based on the belief that the bigger the fist, the more right it is.

Also because of the limited range, Li Xuanxiao has not left the house these days. Anyway, the pawnshop has all the basic living facilities and enough food. He knows very well the dangers of the Bitter Realm. Although he doesn't know which time point he is in now, in the Bitter Realm, there is no time point that is not dangerous, especially for ordinary people like him who have no cultivation.

That’s right, Li Xuanxiao has a clear understanding of himself. Without the plug-in, he will be one of the people in the suffering world who can be sacrificed at any time. He is even worse than Awang and Amiao. Therefore, he will never put himself in danger before he has enough strength to protect himself.

As for business, Tongzi will find a way. How can the system be so inconvenient? A pawnshop shouldn't actively solicit business.

Just as Li Xuanxiao was humming "Lonely Boat" for who knows how many times, the system's voice suddenly sounded -

[The destined person is approaching the pawnshop. Please be prepared to receive the transaction.]

Reception preparations? What should we prepare?
Li Xuanxiao continued to squint.

[This time, the destined person: Ming Zhan. 】

Famous battle?

Li Xuanxiao opened his squinted eyes. Although the population density in the Bitter Realm meant there was a chance of having people with the same name and surname, but considering the system's requirements, there should only be one Mingzhan who could be listed as a candidate for trading.

His home was destroyed by Dongfang Dingli, one of the Five Sword Masters of the Northern Ocean and Prajna Sea. Carrying a deep blood feud, the young master of the Ming family traveled thousands of miles, seeking apprenticeship in hopes of revenge. However, all his teachers were killed by Dongfang Dingli. Finally, he became Ye Xiaochai's apprentice, which revealed another hidden secret behind his journey of revenge... "Ming Zhan is still alive, but he hasn't become Ye Xiaochai's apprentice yet. So he is now in the early stages of Sword Trace or Holy Shadow?"

"Never mind, it doesn't seem very important."

Because he never leaves the main gate or the secondary gate, Li Xuanxiao has never had any contact with outsiders, so he has no way of knowing the current situation in the martial arts world, and naturally he doesn't know which period it belongs to. However, he is open-minded. This kind of thing is really not important. After all, there has never been peace in the bitter world. If you have the strength, you can easily deal with the battle between the gods. If you don't have the strength, it is not impossible to die at the hands of the demon. At present, it is more reliable to work honestly.

Let's make some preparations to welcome this first guest.

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……

After the heavy rain, the road was muddy, but the figure running for his life at this moment no longer cared about anything else.

Escape, only escape. The fiery red figure and the voice in my mind are like evil spirits in purgatory, which cannot be shaken off no matter what.

Live, only by living can I have the possibility to avenge my family and my parents. Everything, even the things I promised, are only temporary expedients. I want to survive and take revenge!
That’s why I agreed. Yes, that’s why I agreed.

Ming Zhan was panic-stricken, with a look of fear on his face. He looked behind him from time to time, but there was clearly no one behind him.

"That...that's..."

Just at the end of Ming Zhan's sight, a dark black attic with a hint of bright red stood under the setting sun, looking extremely strange.

But for some reason, there was a mysterious force in the dark that pushed Ming Zhan forward, bewitching him in his mind and making him go there.

Ming Zhan gritted his teeth and ran all the way to the attic within his sight. He saw a plaque hanging above the door with four words coming into view.

"There is one? A pawnshop?"

Is this, a pawn shop?
At this time, the door of the pawnshop was wide open. Behind the desk, Li Xuanxiao's originally black and white robe had now turned completely black. The gold lines on it outlined the shapes of various strange beasts, and even the strange beasts on it were changing every moment, as if they were living things.

Ming Zhan opened his mouth wide as he looked at the unclear figure whose half body was in the shadow.

I wanted to leave, but Li Xuanxiao's voice at this moment seemed to carry some kind of magic.

"Welcome to the pawnshop, my most precious customer."

“Here, you can get everything you want and need.”

Everything you want, everything you need...

Ming Zhan swallowed his saliva and clenched his fists. The hesitation in his heart only lasted for a moment, and then he resolutely walked through the door of the pawnshop.

Li Xuanxiao looked at this scene and nodded slightly in his heart.

Well, it seems that a pawn shop can indeed open today.

(End of this chapter)