The lifelike butterfly is a species that is difficult to capture with spiritual consciousness.

Its scale powder can induce hallucinations, confuse people's minds, and explore the origin of people's minds. However, unrefined scale powder is only effective for monks in the Qi refining stage and ordinary mortals.

She has already passed the golden elixir stage, so why did she almost get caught today? Mu Xue was a little confused.

In front of you is Fuzhou City's largest trading market, Huo Street.

The messy streets with several floors above and below sell everything. Some sell materials, some sell magical weapons, some sell magic weapons, talismans, and puppets. There are also those who buy and sell people, and those who trade spiritual beasts.

And enough.

Those various types of cages and shacks built haphazardly made the road more winding and crowded. The butterfly's golden light suddenly flashed a few times, turned into an alley, flickered in front of a small iron window, and disappeared.

This is an area of ​​human trafficking. Those who voluntarily or are forced to sell themselves into slavery are imprisoned in dark stone houses, waiting to be sold like commodities.

Mu Xueqi, who had lost the butterfly, couldn't care so much. She bent down and leaned into the low iron window, endured the pungent smell, and looked into the house.

There were twenty or thirty people who were sold into slavery sitting in the low stone room. There was no other exit here, and the butterfly was obviously in the hands of one of them.

"Excuse me, has anyone seen a golden butterfly? It flew in from this window."

In the dark corner, dozens of unkind glances looked over.

Those eyes are filled with unkind emotions such as numbness, hatred and disgust.

She was answered only by deathly silence.

Although the price of the lifelike butterfly is not expensive, Mu Xue spent a lot of energy and time to get this butterfly that rarely appeared in the market, and she didn't want to give up so easily.

So she begged the slaves in a gentle voice: "That's a butterfly. It has no effect on most people. I just need it. Can you give it back to me? Please."

"You can pay, you can discuss what you want, and you will never regret it."

There was a sneer in the darkness, and a man with sunken eyes in the shadows in the corner took a mouthful of thick phlegm.

"People like us have no other hope. We have no place to spend the spiritual stones. We don't want any food. The only thing we think about is...hehe."

The man looked at the smiling lotus face outside the iron window, slowly stood up, and laughed twice very openly,

"Girl, come closer and I will give you the butterfly you want."

Mu Xue stood quietly by the window, waiting for the man to come over. The gentle smile on her face did not even change.

Just because she doesn't like to cause trouble doesn't mean she's easy to bully.

Her good friend Ruan Honglian once said this: "Xiaoxue, you look gentle and gentle, with no temper at all. In fact, when you cut it open, you will see that it is all black."

Mu Xue didn't take it seriously: "Those of us who grew up in Futong City, how can any of us not touch a little bit of black? The real white lotus has long been buried in the soil."

The wretched man didn't have time to step forward.

A hand stuck out of the low window of the stone house. The hand was thin, pale, and scarred, and the frame had not fully grown. It was still the hand of a young man. It was just that there was a golden butterfly gently sandwiched between the index finger and middle finger.

The hand was raised in front of Mu Xue, but the owner of the hand was hidden in the shadows inside the wall. Mu Xue could not even see his face.

"Take it away." The voice was very cold, with a unique voice belonging to a boy.

Mu Xue was stunned for a moment, then carefully took the butterfly, "Thank you, do you need anything from me?"

"No need, just leave." There was a sense of boredom and exhaustion in his tone.

Mu Xue waited for a moment, and there was silence inside the window. The people inside the window obviously had no intention of continuing to communicate.

A few days later,

Mu Xue and her friend Ruan Honglian were walking side by side on the street of the goods street. She had just sold her latest refined magic weapon to the head of the Lei family and made a lot of money. She was in a very beautiful mood.

The magical artifacts produced by Mu Xue were always of high quality, and Boss Lei was very satisfied with them, so he specially sent Liangzi beside him to send them out.

"Alian, just two days ago, I almost lost the Xumou Butterfly here. I chased it frantically for several streets before I recovered it," Mu Xue said.

"You can't even see a butterfly, how could you be any more stupid?" Ruan Honglian did not hesitate to seize the opportunity to harm her.

"Xiaoxue, I think it's time for you to buy a servant. Look at how messy your house is, and it looks less and less like a woman every time. Go and buy a housekeeper who can cook and take care of the house.

Or buy a little girl who can help you buy clothes and tidy them up for you."

"Do I need to buy one? I don't seem to like people messing with my things."

"Don't talk nonsense. For a refiner of your level, who doesn't have a few servants to help run errands and support the facade?" Ruan Honglian turned to Liangzi with a smile and said, "Since we are all at the goods street, while Brother Liang is here, let's

He helped us, Xiaoxue, pick a capable one."

The demon world does not have the habit of sect inheritance, and most inheritances are carried out on a family basis.

The Lei family is a family that makes a living in the business of buying and selling, but everyone in the Lei family is very good at talking about things.

Sure enough, Liangzi replied cheerfully: "The Mu family and the Ruan family are buying people here to give my Lei family face. This street is full of family business, what type of people do you want, a maid, a woman, a handsome husband?"

.You can take any venue you like with a written deed, and the price will definitely be the most affordable."

Mu Xue thought of the mountains of weapon-making materials piled up at home and the large and small storage bags that were difficult to classify, and suddenly felt that Ruan Honglian's suggestion was right.

"Thank you to Brother Liang for this. I mainly want someone who can help with refining weapons." She clapped her fingers and said, "First of all, of course, you must be literate, and you must also be able to distinguish all refining materials below the third level, and finally

It’s better to learn a little more about pharmacology and have some exposure to the basic monster encyclopedia. It would be best if he can help me pre-process low-level material refining. If he is also a foundation-building monk and can transform objects and help control fire..."

"Stop, stop, are you buying a maid or inviting a master of weapon refining to go home?" Ruan Honglian saw Brother Liang's face getting darker and darker, and hurriedly interrupted Mu Xue.

"No, there's no such thing?" Mu Xue was immediately disappointed.

"If there are low-level monks in the Qi refining stage who are willing to sell themselves as servants, there are still some occasionally, but the price is relatively high." Brother Liang coughed and managed to save some face for himself, "If everyone in Mu wants such an assistant,

You can purchase a low-level monk and take him with you to teach him slowly. Over the years, he will always be able to meet your requirements."

"It's too much trouble, so let's forget it first." Mu Xue waved her hand.

When several people were talking, they were walking through a small courtyard, and there was a shouting and noisy sound from the other end of the verandah.

A boy's figure flashed out from around the corner. He stepped on the wooden railing, climbed over the railing and jumped down. When he landed, he squatted down to relieve his momentum, and quickly slipped towards the side door.

Slender limbs, clean and agile movements.

Like a deer running in the forest, a thought suddenly came to Mu Xue's mind.

The elk in the forest are destined to be captured by jackals, and the same goes for the boy in front of him.

Several burly men shouted and swarmed out from behind the corridor. They blocked the escaping little slave. When he couldn't escape, they grabbed his ankles and pinned him to the ground.

The boy struggled desperately, and a bald man grabbed his hair, raised his hand and gave him a few hard blows.

"Stop... stop fighting, brother, I won't run away." The boy immediately began to beg for mercy.

The panting bald man pressed his head and cursed: "Why are you running? Can you run?"

Seeing that the other party had surrendered and begged for mercy, he finally relaxed a little bit.

"ah!"

The bald man screamed, jumped away and covered his bloody fingers.

The deer, which showed its teeth and bit someone, took the opportunity to break away and rolled down the steps of the corridor, landing right next to Mu Xue.

Mu Xue lowered her head to look at him. He was a skinny boy who was no more than ten years old. His face was covered by his messy hair and his face could not be seen clearly.

The boy also looked up and saw Mu Xue, and suddenly knelt in front of Mu Xue, "Are you here to buy a slave? Can you buy me?"

As he spoke, he wiped his face and parted the long bangs on his forehead, revealing a pair of very beautiful eyes.

It should be said that the skinny boy in front of me has very delicate facial features, but his eyes are particularly brilliant. He has long and soft eyelashes, pure-colored eyes and beautifully lined eyelids.

When you look at someone from below with these eyes, they are so beautiful and touching. It is hard not to feel a little soft towards him because of this.

He himself may also know his own advantages very well. He usually covers his face with bangs and only shows them when he needs to use them.

Mu Xue noticed that even in these few short movements, he adjusted his disordered breathing, straightened his back, and began to introduce himself.

"My name is Xiaoshan."

As the boy spoke, he quietly looked at Mu Xue. The first thing he looked at was Mu Xue's hand. It was a palm that had been soaked in the refining room for many years, smelting substances, and making magic weapons. It had a unique cocoon and skin color.

Then he looked at the rings she wore on her fingers to control the puppet, and then saw the monster skeleton she had just bought from the market and was carrying in her hand, so his next words became smoother.

"I'm literate, and I can identify all refining materials below the fourth level. I've studied "Monster Beast Comprehensive Examination", "Elementary Smelting" and "Chemical Materials Chronicles".

When he said this, he raised his eyelashes and looked at Mu Xue with his wet eyes.

Mu Xue admitted that her heart had been moved ever since she heard the words "Monster Test".

When he looked at me like this, I almost agreed.

"No," Ruan Honglian reminded her with his ear attached to hers, "You're too smart. He took one look at us and figured out what we were doing. If you raise someone like this at home, you will become a wolf when you grow up. I'll eat you someday.

Take it into your stomach and you won’t even spit out the bones.”

Mu Xue hesitated.

"What's going on?" Ryoko asked with a frown.

"Brother Liang. It was just a little accident." The bald man saw Liang Zi present. Although he felt extremely hateful, he did not dare to pull her away directly. He only bowed his waist and explained in a low voice, "We have decided to send him to No. 3 on the fourth floor tonight."

The waiter in the room, this little brat doesn’t know how to behave and actually wants to run away.”

"It's outrageous, why don't you drag it away quickly?" Liangzi winked.
To be continued...