novelraw Chapter 413-2: Coleman Workshop, A Lawful Good Apostle (2)
Chapter 413-2: Coleman Workshop, A Lawful Good Apostle (2)
[You follow the direction the security guard points again and see that the so-called fast lane has slightly fewer people, but judging by the number, you would still have to line up for at least an hour.]
[You point at your own face and loudly tell the security guard to open its eyes and look carefully. You are the President of the Direct Vision Association! How do you still need to line up? Why can’t you enter the VIP Room?]
[The security guard’s expression does not change. It continues that this is the auxiliary capital near Saint Etienne, not some rural town. Giving you a fast-lane queue ticket is already excessive respect.]
[As it speaks, the security guard turns its head and ignores you. It even puts back into its pocket the fast-lane queue ticket it was originally offering you.]
Lin Xun: “…”
“Damn, so what you’re saying is I’m the president of some rural backwater?”
“So you really don’t treat a village chief like a cadre!”
Lin Xun thought about whether to switch to the Star Spirit Envoy Shell and broaden this guard’s horizons.
But seeing so many scholars in the hall, he temporarily gave up on the idea. If he switched to a Polar Star Society heretic Shell here, he would probably get righteously mobbed.
[Seeing the fast-lane queue ticket being taken back, you can only go line up for the two-hour ordinary queue…][Suddenly, someone tugs at your sleeve from behind. You turn around and see a shifty-eyed boy.]
[No. It is not a boy, but an adult man. It is just that he has dwarfism, and at a glance you mistakenly thought it was a boy.]
[The dwarf signals that you should not get too tangled up here. If you don’t want to line up, follow it!]
[Confused, you follow the dwarf to a corner of the hall, and see it pull out three paper tickets from its pocket.]
[You focus your gaze…]
[Ordinary Queue Cut-In Line Ticket: With this ticket, you can unconditionally cut ahead five people in the line at the ordinary counters. Spirit Essence Cost: 10,000 points]
[Fast-Lane Queue Ticket: With this ticket, you can line up in the fast lane and enjoy service speed faster than others. Spirit Essence Cost: 50,000 points]
[VIP Room Trial Ticket: With this ticket, you can cross class and status, enter the VIP Room that only powerful scholars or noble aristocrats can enter, and enjoy the ultimate superior service. Spirit Essence Cost: 100,000 points]
[The dwarf quietly asks which of the three tickets you want. Judging by your look, you are a new face. For first-time customers, it can give you a 20% discount.]
Lin Xun froze, then his mouth twitched, his face full of black lines.
He never expected that he could run into a ticket scalper even inside the hellish game.
“This is absurd opening the door for absurd, absurd to the point of going home.”
“No. I can’t encourage scalpers’ crooked practices. If everyone buys tickets from scalpers, wouldn’t it disrupt market order?”
As a righteous envoy full of integrity, Lin Xun decided to crack down on this evil practice.
The hellish game did not give a devious-operation option, but that did not stop him from using Flesh Authority to forcibly control the Shell and do devious operations.
[You nod and tell the dwarf that you want all three kinds of tickets!]
[The dwarf is overjoyed. It did not expect that you, the President from a rural town, would actually have such deep pockets.]
[But then it thinks carefully. Something is off. It observed you for a long time and saw you came alone, which was why it approached you… You are alone, what do you want so many queue tickets for?]
[Under the dwarf’s puzzled gaze, you snatch the three queue tickets from its hand and stuff them into your pocket.]
[You calmly tell it that you are taking all three tickets. Judging by its face, it is a first offender, so you will not pursue it this time. But if you see it offend again, you will definitely send it straight to ascend and go meet the great Omniscient True Knowledge.]
[The dwarf stands there blankly, watching you turn and walk toward the VIP Room. Only when you reach the VIP Room entrance and pull out that VIP Room Trial Ticket does it come back to its senses.]
[It flies into a rage. It never expected that in broad daylight and before so many eyes, someone would dare to rob it!]
[But the business it does cannot be publicly advertised…]
[You take out the VIP Room Trial Ticket and hand it to the security guard. It changes from its official, businesslike demeanor to a friendly smile, bows respectfully, and is about to accept the trial ticket with both hands.]
[But the dwarf suddenly dashes to your side, gives the security guard a look, then takes a few steps back, crosses its arms, and coldly watches you.]
[The security guard’s expression changes. The friendly smile disappears, and the hand it extended halfway withdraws.]
[It puts on that official, businesslike manner again and says that with your status and position, you can only line up in the ordinary queue. Do not use counterfeit, shoddy trial tickets to try to fool its eyes.]
[The dwarf chuckles and looks ready to enjoy the show. It even loudly exclaims, oh dear, how can there be people trying to use forged trial tickets to sneak in and mix into the VIP Room?]
[Only those with noble status can enter the VIP Room. Forging a trial ticket just for vanity… that is truly disgraceful.]
[The dwarf’s voice is quite loud, drawing many people in the hall to look at you, showing expressions of slight contempt.]
[What will you do, apostle whose face has been disgraced?]
Lin Xun fell silent, not expecting the scalper to be colluding with the organizers.
No wonder the dwarf could sell tickets in the hall while the security guard turned a blind eye.
[1. Enraged and humiliated, you decide to stop disguising your identity. You switch to the Child of Evil Shell, take out the Scarlet King’s Sword, and cut down the dwarf and the security guard with one slash.]
[2. Swallowing your anger, you decide to pretend you did not hear. Ignoring the guard and the dwarf’s mockery, you turn and go obediently line up in the ordinary queue. As long as your heart is strong enough, you can endure all of this.]
[3. Righteous and upright, you decide to expose evil. You loudly call for the workshop hall’s management staff and report the crime of the security guard colluding with the dwarf to sell tickets. The three queue tickets in your pocket are evidence.]
Lin Xun narrowed his eyes.
As the saying goes, when the top beam is crooked, the lower beams will be crooked. For a low-level security guard to collude with a scalper so openly, there must be someone higher up supporting it.
If he chose the third option, he likely would not achieve his goal.
And the second option…
Lin Xun gritted his teeth. “I’m already a demigod-level figure. Do I still have to swallow the crap from you little mobs?”
He pressed the first option without hesitation.
“I wanted to be a lawful good apostle, but the world has fallen so low. If an honest person like me keeps retreating again and again, people will only push their luck.”
“In that case, you can… die.”
[You Possess the Shell of Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil!]
[You roar in rage and stomp your foot hard onto the floor, shattering the hall’s flooring into pieces. Rings of spiderweb-like cracks spread out from you as the center, extending across the entire hall.]
[A surging gale lifts the shattered floor, erupting with a thunderous boom!]
[You twist your waist and swing your arm. The unmatched terror of strength fills your body, transmitting from your toes to your waist, then surging up your arm!]
[The Scarlet King’s Sword erupts with thick bloodlight. Under the security guard and dwarf’s extreme terror, they are instantly drowned by the bloodlight…]
[…]
[When the bloodlight fades, the two have already become a floor of minced flesh. Spraying, splattering blood dyes the floor and walls red.]
[In an instant, screams erupt throughout the hall. Countless nobles shriek and flee.]
[And the many school scholars simultaneously turn their heads in unison, their gazes cold as they look toward you…]