Chapter 3630: Ghosts Everywhere (2)

As she was unable to find any items that could allow her to resist obliteration, Ning Shu closed the system exchange marketplace. Truthfully, Ning Shu felt that this system exchange marketplace was pretty much useless.

On top of that, it was a program that every task-taker was bound to. She wondered how much transaction volume it had in a single day.

This was especially true for people who had just become task-takers. They had no way to enter the fabricated space and could only exchange for items from the system exchange marketplace.

Thinking back to the beginning, Ning Shu had also viewed this feature as incredibly high-end and luxurious. Looking at it now, it was too much of a scam.

The chat system chimed. Ning Shu opened the system and saw a message sent by Si Tian. He stated that he wanted to take over the auction house, but requested that Ning Shu collect slightly fewer taxes. After all, the auction house had already collapsed, and rebuilding it to its original state would take time and money.

Si Tian sending a message was firstly to secure the auction house, and secondly to test the waters and see if Ning Shu was still alive.

Giving the auction house to Si Tian was quite good. Si Tian was a man who covered all his bases and did everything according to the rules. He would not do things like defaulting on his debts. She figured that after experiencing the restaurant incident, not many people would dare to default on their debts anyway.

If the city lord smashed a cracked pot to pieces out of desperation, others would not dare to smash it with her.

Ning Shu thought about it for a moment and then gave the auction house to Si Tian. It was better than leaving it sitting empty.

Ning Shu had lost too much in this incident. Not only were the debts the auction house owed her gone, but she also developed friction with Young Master Ronghua. She even lost 500,000 merit points and was reduced to a fugitive.

If she and that adjudicator met on a narrow path, she would definitely be executed on the spot.

Ning Shu propped up her chin. What was the reason for things developing to this point? Was it because she was too overbearing?

If she had not sealed off the auction house, this incident would not have happened. However, every time she saw the auction house, she could not vent the anger in her chest, leaving her heart knotted with frustration. She had made a move and paid the price for making that move.

Therefore, in this matter, Ning Shu felt that whether she endured it or not, she would be wronging herself in the end. It was because her strength was not great enough, and because she had acted without considering the consequences, that such a thing had occurred.

She had drew power from outside the city.

If she had constructed her world, she would only have been symbolically punished, rather than directly erased. Hong Yu’s death was caused by the same reason as Ning Shu’s situation. It was because she was not strong enough and had not constructed a world of her own.

Even with Wen Yan speaking up for her, she still could not escape the fate of being obliterated. Therefore, right and wrong were very ambiguous concepts.

Ning Shu let out a long breath. Her biggest mistake was that she was not strong enough.

She had to work hard to construct a world! Only with a world would she not be casually erased. Wen Yan, Young Master Ronghua, and Ah Wan were exactly like this. Even though Wen Yan was the one who struck first, he was merely punished by losing half his soul power.

There was nothing to be unwilling about. It was simply because she was too weak.

Si Tian asked Ning Shu about a few things and tried to pry into Ning Shu’s current situation. Ning Shu simply said that she was fine and that there was no need to worry.

Working hard to become stronger was still more practical than anything else.

Ning Shu poured some agarwood into the incense burner and began to train her soul attack power over and over again.

It was said that armed brawls were not allowed in the city, but that rule only regulated ordinary task-doers. Once a task-doer transcended, they would at most receive a minor punishment.

However, half their soul power was enough to make Wen Yan and the others ache with regret. After all, losing half of such powerful soul power in an instant was a huge loss. Even if it was just half, it was still more than Ning Shu’s current soul power.

Once she thought it through, she did not feel as terrible in her heart.

In short, she should not resent others because of her own incompetence. She had to correct her mindset.

Ning Shu thumped her chest and then puffed it out.

This big sister will boldly march forward!

However, Ning Shu still did not want to go do tasks. She had originally wanted to go to the City of Water to see if there were any problems with the barrier, but she kept feeling like Tai Shu would be waiting there for her to walk right into his trap. She was so scared, and a little too afraid to go.

She did not need to go for the time being. If there really was a problem with the city, someone would definitely notify her.

She had no idea when these days of hiding here and there would end. She could only end it by constructing her own world. But the question was, when exactly would she be able to successfully construct a world?

Moreover, constructing a world was not the end of it. There was also the damn reincarnation world. With so much torment, so much hardship, and it being so incredibly difficult, Ning Shu could immediately understand why Young Master Ronghua and the others were only symbolically punished.

They had all endured so much to get here, so on what basis should they have to die along with some weakling? On what grounds? What right did she have to demand equal treatment? They had also climbed up step by step. Would it be fair to them?

Therefore, the greatest fairness was based on strength.

If one day, Ning Shu was required to accept the same punishment as a novice task-doer and be obliterated just the same, on what basis would that be fair?

What was fairness? What was right and wrong?

If it was fair to herself, would it be fair to others?

Forget it. She would not think about these things anymore.

Right now, Ning Shu just wanted to successfully construct her world as quickly as possible. She released some energy and threw it into the black hole. The black hole swallowed her energy, and Ning Shu saw absolutely nothing.

She felt that black holes were truly mysterious things. There were black holes that took in souls, the black hole in Wen Yan’s palm, and it seemed Tai Shu also had a black hole.

In short, they were very mysterious things.

This black hole made Ning Shu a little irritable. She tried fusing things with it, but she could not fuse anything out of it. It just kept hanging there like this, and she had no idea how long it was going to hang there.

She really did not know how long this game was going to last.

She exchanged for some fasting pills and medical tablets. She prepared to go do a task after all. Agonizing over these matters was utterly useless.

However, when exchanging for the fasting pills, she saw that there were also fresh fish for sale. They were the ornamental type of fish.

Ning Shu didn’t know if she could keep them alive in the system space, but she still bought a few small fish and a small fishbowl. She placed the small fish into the bowl, and they swam around very cheerfully. They did not look like ordinary fish.

However, the fishbowl looked very monotonous. Ning Shu casually grabbed an ordinance stone. She had no idea what this ordinance stone was used for. She only knew that it was born in the ordinance sea, and she had gotten it as a reward from a task.

It was completely useless sitting here right now, so she threw the ordinance stone into the fishbowl to act as a bit of decoration.

She also put some water weeds inside. With the swimming little fish, the entire space had much more vitality.

Ning Shu smiled faintly and said to 2333, “I think I will go do a task after all.”

Ning Shu asked again, “When I am doing tasks, I won’t be hunted down, right?”

2333 replied, “…Uh, he probably won’t come specifically to kill you. You aren’t worth that much effort yet. He has so many things to handle, so why would he fixate on your matters? At most, if he encounters you in the future and remembers you are the person he failed to kill, he will just fire another shot.

“Who would care about an unseen ant? If you don’t commit any more crimes, the chance of you two meeting is roughly zero.”

Ning Shu: …

2333’s imprisonment was definitely because of his venomous tongue. That must be why someone locked him up for hundreds of millions of years, leaving him without even a single person to talk to, hoping that he’d suffocate to death from boredom.