When 'God' Decides To Start Over
Chapter 220 - 124 The Last Gentleman_3

Chapter 220: Chapter 124 The Last Gentleman_3

"Let’s try it first." Li Xiu originally intended to come in and have a look around.

If this is a Radiant Contract, then he can consider it as his Symbiotic Contract, saving a trip to the Sea Heaven Trial Ground. If it’s not a Radiant Contract, he’ll give it up.

Seeing this thing now, if it’s not a Radiant Contract, he’d even more surely not choose it.

Li Xiu reached out and grabbed the brim of the hat. It was much lighter than he expected, even lighter than the Fire Lotus Sword, which made him more confident that this wasn’t a Radiant Contract.

"Trial Taker, please make a life agreement with the contract using your blood..." The eerie voice sounded again.

Li Xiu looked at the gentleman hat emitting a faint green glow and calmly asked, "What rank is this contract?"

He was almost certain that the rank of this green hat wouldn’t be very high.

"The Last Gentleman is a Radiant Contract..." When the eerie voice revealed the answer, Li Xiu was stunned.

"Radiant Contract... this thing is actually a Radiant Contract... are you sure?" Li Xiu asked again in disbelief.

"No mistake, it is indeed a Radiant Contract." The eerie voice replied with certainty.

Li Xiu looked at the gentleman hat with the ghostly green glow in his hand, hesitated repeatedly, and still decided to put it back.

"Radiant Contract... I don’t need it..." Li Xiu resolutely put the hat back on the stone table, thinking to himself, "The Blood Pattern Revolver is my true destiny contract, I have to get it, how can I be blinded by any other Radiant Contract, absolutely not."

Li Xiu thought for a moment, "To think there’s a Radiant Contract in here, no wonder even the Red Sand City Lord is desperate to fight for this Trial Gate. In the future, I could have that boy Chu Jun try it; with his handsome looks and demeanor, only he could match such a radiant artifact. I just wonder if it would still be a hat if he came here."

The ten minutes passed quickly, and the copper lamp before Li Xiu went out, plunging him into darkness. When the light returned, he was already in front of the Trial Gate.

Zhou Bailong and Mr. Yu were shocked to see Li Xiu’s figure appear before the Trial Gate, filled with disbelief on their faces.

"Boss Zhou, it seems our luck isn’t bad." The Red Sand City Lord said with a smile as he walked towards Li Xiu, patting his shoulder and saying, "Well done, I’ll prepare the best celebration banquet for you when we return."

"Can I cash it in?" Li Xiu asked.

"Haha, of course." The Red Sand City Lord laughed heartily.

Watching the Red Sand City Lord leave with Li Xiu, Zhou Bailong looked a bit conflicted, "How did he win?"

"Good thing you didn’t bet with the Red Sand City Lord, or you’d have lost everything." Mr. Yu said with relief.

"Truly unexpected." Zhou Bailong shook his head with a bitter smile, never imagining that the one coming out would be Li Xiu.

Li Xiu originally intended to go straight back to his place to find Chu Jun, then head back to Zhongshan City overnight.

But the Red Sand City Lord insisted on giving Li Xiu a gift, convincing him to visit the City Lord’s Mansion first.

Holding the Ghost-faced Magic Armor in his hand, Li Xiu wasn’t afraid of any tricks from the Red Sand City Lord.

After the Red Sand City Lord brought Li Xiu to the City Lord’s Mansion, he surprisingly took him to his residence and opened the passage to the underground vault.

"These items here are the collections I’ve gathered over the years in Red Sand City, are they interesting?" The Red Sand City Lord used his fingerprint and retinal scan to open the heavy vault door, led Li Xiu inside, and pointed to the glass cabinets on either side displaying collections.

Li Xiu frowned as he took a good look at the items inside the glass cabinets.

The rows of glass cabinets, each tens of meters long, did not contain antiques, paintings, jewelry, jade artifacts, Demon Armors, or any weapons.

Instead, they contained sheets of skin, resembling flayed human backs, skinned whole, and stretched out within the glass cabinets with silk threads.

At least dozens of such skins were displayed in the two glass cabinets, creating a sinister and eerie spectacle, extremely horrifying.

"What is this?" Li Xiu asked, looking at the Red Sand City Lord.

"What do you think this is?" The Red Sand City Lord squinted and countered.

"Human skin?" Li Xiu said.

"Correct, it is human skin." The Red Sand City Lord did not deny it; he actually admitted it.

"Did you kill people to flay these skins?" Li Xiu had long heard of the Red Sand City Lord’s extreme cruelty but never thought he could be so perverse.

"Indeed, I flayed the skins myself." The Red Sand City Lord looked at Li Xiu playfully and, seeing Li Xiu’s increasingly grim expression, added with a smile, "But I did not kill anyone."

"If you didn’t kill anyone, how did you flay these skins?" Li Xiu demanded coldly.

"I flayed my own skin. Do I need to kill someone? Should I kill myself first and then flay the skin?" The Red Sand City Lord said, neither laughing nor crying.

"Your own skin?" Li Xiu was astonished as he looked at the human skins.

"Yes, they are my own skins. Each year, I must flay a layer, or I’d feel uncomfortable all over, unable to eat or sleep well... This is the skin I flayed sixty-one years ago... and this is the one from fifty-nine years ago, my most cherished piece; I was at my prime then..." The Red Sand City Lord explained the origin of each skin as if he were discussing antiques, not human skins.

Finally, they reached the end of the vault, where a sandalwood rack held a black wooden box.

The Red Sand City Lord took the black wooden box and handed it to Li Xiu, smiling as he said, "Open it when you get back, and if you like what’s inside or find it interesting, you can come to see me anytime."

Li Xiu didn’t ask what it was. If the Red Sand City Lord wanted to tell him, he wouldn’t have asked him to wait.

After going to great lengths to bring him here, the Red Sand City Lord only showed him those human skins and gave him a wooden box before leading him away from the underground vault once again.

"You have quite a unique aesthetic," the Red Sand City Lord commented to Li Xiu before he left, without any context.

Initially confused, Li Xiu didn’t understand what the Red Sand City Lord meant, but then he realized the Red Sand City Lord was not looking at his face but slightly above it.

Li Xiu’s expression changed slightly as he quickly reached up to touch his head, and the sensation under his fingers made his expression turn a bit ugly.