I'm Really Not the Lord of the Abyss - Chapter 12

Lu Mi seemed to have left nonchalantly.

 

However, in reality, he had merely moved from the southeast corner of the garden to the southwest corner.

 

Presumably, the old and young pair who were reminiscing about the scene just now at the other end had no idea that the person they were looking for hadn’t gone far at all.

 

At this point, it was already a few minutes past the agreed transaction time of 21:00.

 

Lu Mi, under the cover of the dense tree shade, emerged from the shadows.

 

Hearing the nearby bushes being pushed aside, a man who had been waiting here for a few minutes was startled, then quickly turned his head towards the sound.

 

Seeing the owl mask on Lu Mi’s face, the man’s alert expression faded slightly, but he still asked tentatively, “Are you the person who contacted me on the forum?”

 

It seemed that he hadn’t mistaken the person this time, Lu Mi thought to himself.

 

The man in front of him had curly hair and was adjusting the brown owl mask on his face, cautiously sizing up Lu Mi.

 

Under his gaze, Lu Mi nodded, “Yes, I am. Sorry, I’m a few minutes late.”

 

“Phew—” The curly-haired man finally breathed a sigh of relief, “You brought the stuff, right? Let’s finish the transaction quickly. You don’t know because you came late, but there was a gunshot from the other side just now. There’s bound to be unrest in the palace tonight! The guards might come over soon, so to avoid getting involved, it’s better for us to leave this place of trouble as soon as possible.”

 

Lu Mi, the center of the vortex, who had just left the place of trouble. “You make a lot of sense.”

 

Previously, when he killed the leader of the Snake-headed Winged Dragons, Lu Mi also harvested quite a few other Snake-headed Winged Dragons, so naturally, he wasn’t short of their teeth.

 

But he didn’t take them all out, instead, he took out a number that wouldn’t attract attention.

 

Even so, the curly-haired man still looked surprised.

 

“This is much more than I imagined!” he exclaimed.

 

The curly-haired man looked at him in surprise, “You actually managed to get so much stuff under the noses of those extraordinaries…”

 

You should know that the bodies of abyss creatures are very important materials, and they are tightly controlled from above. Even the hands of the largest headhunting company in the underworld can hardly reach in!

 

Lu Mi just smiled without saying a word.

 

The man quickly counted the goods in his hand, and then carefully glanced at the young man with silver eyes wearing a mask in front of him— He didn’t know if it was because the moonlight was particularly dreamy tonight, but he felt that the young man, shrouded in the hazy moonlight, seemed to have melted into that shallow glow, appearing incredibly beautiful and mysterious against the backdrop of the heavy tree shadows behind him.

 

Holding the heavy teeth in his hand, the curly-haired man’s thoughts turned quickly, and he soon made up his mind.

 

The curly-haired man looked up, “A total of twenty-four, I will calculate all of them at the highest market price for you, and pay you 2.4 million star coins.”

 

Lu Mi was taken aback, but he wasn’t blinded by money. He calmly reminded, “A few of them are already worn out.”

 

The curly-haired man laughed when he heard this. Although he had noticed it when he counted just now, it was different when Lu Mi told him so frankly.

 

“I know, so I want to do you a favor and also make friends.” The man said.

 

Lu Mi immediately understood the other party’s thoughts, “You want to develop a long-term customer with me.”

 

The curly-haired man smiled in agreement.

 

Lu Mi: “But I don’t plan to trade anymore, such opportunities may not exist in the future.”

 

After all, in the future, he would mostly just sit in the office and sort out data, in other words, he was a standard office worker.

 

This time, the Blue Steel Empire was purely a case of a city gate catching fire, and he was just an innocent fish caught in the disaster. And such incidents might not happen again for decades to come, as for other more distant places, that was even more beyond his control.

 

“It’s okay, it’s really just making friends.” The curly-haired man had been in this line for more than ten years, and profit and sincerity never conflicted. He believed in his own judgment of people and genuinely wanted to leave a good impression on Lu Mi.

 

On the other hand, he also knew that Lu Mi was right—encountering abyss creatures and coming back alive once was good enough. Where would a person have such luck every time in their lifetime!

 

Even the mad mercenaries in the underworld, each time they were prepared to go and never return, truly risking their lives for money.

 

For an ordinary extraordinary like Lu Mi, naturally, he would avoid such orders.

 

Then, the curly-haired man said he could pay on the spot.

 

However, the curly-haired man looked somewhat astonished at the terminal that Lu Mi took out.

 

A third-generation terminal? A person who casually took out so many expensive monster teeth, actually used this kind of outdated thing…

 

He was shocked.

 

Could this be the world of the strong!? Indeed, every powerful person would have some strange hobbies that ordinary people like them could not understand, perhaps this was the reason for their weakness!

 

Lu Mi looked at the changing expressions on the curly-haired man’s face, and finally a look of sigh and lament, suddenly felt that the other party and Alonfus might get along well.

 

“I don’t have that much working capital for now, I’ll give you 2 million star coins first, and the remaining 400,000 will be made up as soon as I return to the company, I hope you can understand.”

 

The headhunting company where the curly-haired man worked barely squeezed into the middle stream in the underworld, and in the past, it could only survive between the cracks of the industry giants.

 

The amount of this transaction was indeed beyond his expectation, so much so that he didn’t have enough money on hand.

 

But such a big performance this time, even in those upper-level companies, would be astonishing enough. If brought back, it would surely immediately attract the attention of their entire company.

 

Lu Mi said he didn’t mind, so the two left each other’s contact information.

 

“So, looking forward to our next cooperation.” After bidding farewell to him, the curly-haired man looked around and hurriedly left with his head down.

 

When the man’s figure disappeared into the woods, Lu Mi heard the noise from afar, along with the disciplined footsteps of a large number of soldiers—

 

It was the king who had finally reacted from the shock, so he ordered a lockdown of the scene.

 

“We should go too.”

 

Lu Mi pressed his hand on the mask, and the lips under the mask slightly hooked up.

 

“I remember there’s a fountain in the middle of the garden?”

 

****

 

The power to traverse space required a mirror as a medium. The water surface was a bit of a stretch, but it was not a problem for Lu Mi.

 

This time, when they left, including the Flying Octopus, there were only two.

 

When they came back, there was a third presence that couldn’t be ignored.

 

“Alon.”

 

Lu Mi looked at the demon who had returned to the manor dormitory through the mirror and was now cautiously looking around. He couldn’t help but twitch his mouth.

 

Not to mention anything else, just the demon’s non-human characteristics were emitting an astonishing presence, completely out of place with the entire ordinary human dormitory.

 

There was a feeling of a peaceful life being stuffed with foreign objects, completely breaking the style. It’s just as well that no one else was there, otherwise, they might faint from screaming on the spot.

 

“I’m here.” The demon replied gently, his scarlet eyes glanced over the mirror and said meaningfully, “This is the ‘knowledge’ of that one, it’s really convenient, it seems that your insistence on keeping his true name in the book was somewhat useful.”

 

Lu Mi’s eyes moved.

 

Here it comes, this familiar praise and derogation. Of course, the object was not him, but the other person mentioned in the words.

 

Mirror, space—this power and knowledge came from his Book of Keys, Sequence One. (TL: can also be “First Sequence”)

 

Yes, it was the demon that Lu Mi first contracted.

 

Perhaps because of this special significance, Alonfus always felt that the other party was Lu Mi’s rightful right-hand man, which always gave the demon who wanted to become Lu Mi’s first confidant a great sense of crisis.

 

However, Lu Mi felt that Sequence One wouldn’t think so, after all, that guy…A figure emerged from his mind.

 

“Master?” Alonfus suddenly spoke up.

 

Lu Mi came back to his senses and looked at him in confusion.

 

The demon slightly narrowed his eyes and lowered his head to ask, “What should we do next?”

 

…Next? The next step, of course, was to continue his comfortable and composed daily life, finish categorizing the data in the archive room, and strive to transition from an intern to a regular employee.

 

But then, Lu Mi thought of the abyss rift that was currently hidden underground in the palace—

 

‘It’s completely under your control.’ The demon’s words were still in his ears.

 

This is not good, why does it feel like he has become some dangerous character after going out once!

 

Lu Mi spoke expressionlessly, “Before that, I want to know what the situation in the abyss is now.”

 

“I was negligent.” The demon slightly bowed and slowly said, “You must have seen those abyss rifts. In fact, with more and more rifts appearing, the entire abyss is now in an unusually agitated atmosphere.”

 

“Some powerful abyss species that have been sleeping for endless time are waking up one after another, and the east, west, and south, these three areas are completely out of control.”

 

The land of the abyss was so vast that it had no end, and no creature had fully explored it yet.

 

So here, “areas” referred to each direction, the infinitely vast land extending outward.

 

“The north area is where the most demons are, and the strongest ones have basically given you their true names, so the situation in the north area is the best.”

 

Generally, big demons all have their own territories, which could also be said to be hunting ranges.

 

In the past, these big demons would not care about other abyss creatures within their territory. Those things were like little bugs at their feet, stepping on them would kill them, and if they hid far away, they wouldn’t bother to dig them out.

 

These top monsters have always been extremely self-centered and cruel beings. They didn’t need companions, they didn’t need followers. They were born alone, then fought alone, until they died to a being stronger than themselves.

 

Then their territory would be taken over by the stronger one, or discarded if not interested.

 

The abyss had always been chaotic and disordered, every second someone died, every second a territory was changing.

 

Everyone had long been accustomed to it.

 

However, it was unknown if it’s because of the contract signed with Lu Mi.

 

Demons who might never meet in their lifetime, or whose first meeting would be an instinctive death fight—met, and even worked together.

 

Although this was difficult, they found a balance point that they could accept, and that was Lu Mi.

 

The other party was Lu Mi’s follower—thinking this way, and then endured it.

 

And then in the subsequent continuous overt and covert friction, they strangely reached some consensus, such as—

 

“The land of the Master’s follower, of course, is also marked by the Master.”

 

Even if the follower dies, it doesn’t matter, but the territory must always be the Master’s!

 

So, in the abyss, a scene that made countless people who didn’t understand it dumbfounded, appeared—those big demons who would never appear together, would actually join hands to fight against the invaders of the territory, to defend the ownership of the territory?!!

 

Shocked!!!

 

No one knew what prompted these big demons to join forces, what made these top monsters connect, but they were indeed brought together by an invisible rope.

 

Later on, when more and more abyss creatures—especially those bottom creatures, because they were too weak to be worth exterminating, thus on the contrary, could actually come back alive from those big demons.

 

These weak abyss creatures saw with their own eyes a certain time, on the cliff, the silver-eyed youth guarded by many big demons.

 

At that moment, they suddenly realized that the center of the world had appeared.

 

The moon that let the stars cluster, the light source that the moths headed towards, finally was born in this world.

 

Starting from this piece of land in front of them, this was the country they built for him.