Yu-Gi-Oh!, the Roar of the Weak

Chapter 15 Elevator

Di Xing was very excited to hear that it was for sale, and without paying attention to the shop name, asked, "Is it far from the pillar?"

"It's not too far, it takes about 40 minutes by car."

The thought of soon being able to buy [Neighbor's Lawn Mowing] instantly lifted Di Xing's spirits. The bitter taste of the unknown liquid in his mouth seemed to fade. He could then check if the shop had any other cards. This world shouldn't have a banned card list, right? If he could buy Pearl Tear, hehehe... Thinking of this, Di Xing wished he could fly to the card shop on the fourth floor immediately. "Why are these stairs so long?" he wondered. "Seriously, isn't there an elevator to this pillar? I've been walking for ages!"

"Well, actually there are elevators from the fourth floor upwards. Lower-level citizens can increase their star level through duels, and by increasing their star level through duels, they can take elevators to the upper areas. They even have panoramic elevators, which is a kind of honor. However, the fifth floor is a graveyard, and generally no one goes up there, so there are no elevators installed there."

"How did those corpses get down there?"

"Each section of the fourth floor has a dumping chute; the bodies are usually dumped through those chutes."

"Oh, so you're saying I was just thrown down from the chute that was closer to the pillar? Looks like I was lucky?"

"I don't know either, since I'm not from this city."

"You're not from this city?"

"Yes, I belong to the Demon Exorcism Sanctuary and have an equal cooperative relationship with this city. I came here on a demon exorcism mission."

"So what was your original mission?"

"They said there were strange fluctuations of death energy on the fifth floor of Dulun at Dusk, and they commissioned us to investigate. That's why I saw you take action directly."

"Could that deathly aura fluctuation be caused by the Death King?"

"The assessed danger level is at most at the Breaking Army level, far from reaching the level of the Necromancer King's Realm Collapse."

"Now it seems that either there are other Breaking Army-level threats on the fifth level besides the Undead King, or someone is setting a trap to get rid of you. Be careful, you can never be too careful."

Li Fei Hua Yue nodded silently. Was this person concerned about me? She felt a little happy.

The two continued their conversation until they finally reached the fourth floor. There, on the platform, were only two guards who looked at the two men coming up the stairs with alarm. One of them shouted, "Who...who are you?"

"I am Li Fei Hua Yue"

"Ah, is that Miss Hanazuki? What happened down there? The entire fourth floor is in complete chaos!"

"A world-destroying level monster appeared below and fought with King Nagil. We barely managed to escape."

"What? It's a World Collapse-level monster?"

The other guard, seemingly a little calmer, asked Li Feihua Yue, "And who is this person?" He pointed to Di Xing.

"This is the guide I hired from the fourth floor. He helped me a lot, but he was seriously injured. Please call a car to take him to the hospital immediately."

"No need. Did the pillar just get damaged and there was an earthquake on the fourth floor? I'm worried about my family in the scrapyard; I need to get home quickly."

The guard looked troubled. "The fourth floor is a mess right now. Most people have gone to help, and there are only the two of us here. We really can't help."

"It's okay, I'll figure out how to get back myself."

"Then be careful, I still need to go to the first floor to report the situation here to the lord," Li Fei Hua Yue said, pressing the button for the elevator to go up. She found the elevator was locked. The guard said, "The elevator has already undergone a self-check and there are no problems. It's locked up because they're worried someone might try to climb up in the chaos."

Li Feihuayue took out a gold ID card and swiped it on the elevator's control screen.

"Beep, 8-star citizen detected. Elevator access lifted." Before Li Fei Hua Yue entered the elevator, Di Xing whispered something in her ear. Li Fei Hua Yue nodded expressionlessly and then entered the elevator.

After greeting the two satellites, Di Xing also stepped out of the pillar. Only then did he realize that the outside of the elevator was made of transparent glass, allowing passengers to look down on the entire fourth floor. This was probably to let citizens who had received the honor of being promoted to a star enjoy the feeling of looking down on the fourth floor, so as to sever their psychological ties with the fourth floor. It was truly a clever plan.

At this moment, the elevator began to slowly start moving. Di Xing saw Li Fei Hua Yue inside. She was sitting on her suitcase, wearing Di Xing's sports jacket, with her legs closed. This was a trick Di Xing had told her to prevent wardrobe malfunctions; otherwise, this girl might have stood there foolishly until the fifth floor. Li Fei Hua Yue seemed to be looking for him through the glass as well. After seeing him, her usually expressionless face actually showed him a smile. Wow, that deadpan smile was incredibly powerful.

Di Xing watched as Li Fei Hua Yue slowly rose into the sky, then turned to prepare to depart himself. At that moment, Lei Xi, in her shy ghost form, slipped out of the deck.

"That exorcist girl is finally gone. I was terrified spending two hours with her," Leixi said, her eyes brimming with tears.

"She's actually a pretty nice person; you could try to be friends with her."

"No, she'll purify me without hesitation the moment she sees me, waaaaah!"

"Haha, no, and I'll protect you," Di Xing said, patting Lei Xi. To be honest, Lei Xi felt really comfortable to touch in this form, and Lei Xi seemed to be enjoying it too *(≧w≦)* "Didn't you say you came to the fourth floor for something? Where are you going?"

"I don't know either, I can only vaguely sense the location."

"Let's go buy the cards first. Improving our strength is always the top priority." Di Xing was really craving those two [Neighbor's Grass Cutting] cards. As for money, he had taken a lot of "cards" that looked like long strips of paper when he was licking Zhuang Sini's bag. They might have some amazing effects later (￣▽￣)/.

Di Xing began looking around for vehicles heading to the scrap metal area. He noticed that the buildings in the Pillar District, as the core area of ​​the Fourth City, were still in decent condition, mostly two- or three-story buildings. The previous tremors hadn't caused much damage to these buildings; they had only knocked down some of their fixtures, like coat racks and roof tiles. Di Xing and his companions had been climbing the stairs for almost two hours, so the residents had mostly finished cleaning up and were mostly gathered together, chattering about the tremors.

Di Xing was about to walk over and ask them how to get to the scrap metal area when a siren nearby caught his attention. He looked in that direction and saw a large parking lot, which, judging from the sign at the entrance, was a used car market. It was now engulfed in flames, with a quarter of the area already covered by fire. Numerous fire trucks were spraying water, trying to extinguish the flames. A Mediterranean-looking old man who looked like the owner was kneeling in front of the parking lot gate, crying and wailing.