Are all the love-brained villains my apprentices?

I saw a small iron turntable in front of the stall owner.

The stall owner was dressed in fancy clothes and opened a box in front of him for everyone.

It was filled with spiritual stones.

He smiled and spoke to the people gathered around the stall.

"Now that it's the end of the year, I want to do some good deeds for myself.

In this way, everyone can choose their own lucky number, and it only costs fifty spirit stones to choose once!

Let's spin the wheel and draw the numbers. If the number you choose comes up, I'll give you 5,000 spirit stones!"

Listening to the stall owner's words, Lin Wenyu touched his chin.

Wow, there are scammers in this world?

Hearing the stall owner say this, the onlookers were excited, but no one responded for a while.

Although five thousand spirit stones are really tempting.

But you still have to pay fifty spirit stones first...

It would take them at least four or five days of work to earn these fifty spirit stones.

In case of loss...

Seeing that everyone was hesitating, the stall owner continued to increase the amount.

"I also know that fifty spirit stones is a bit too much.

Otherwise, no matter who plays this game for the first time, I will waive the fee.

Even if it doesn't transfer to the number you selected, I will give you some other small gifts, how about it?"

As the crowd was hesitating, a young man suddenly stood out from the crowd.

"I'll do it. It's free anyway, so I might as well give it a try."

When the stall owner saw the man stand up, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.

But that gleam of light was fleeting, and he greeted her enthusiastically.

"Okay little brother, which number do you want to choose?"

The young man hesitated for a long time before he picked out the number "5".

"That's it."

"okay!"

When the stall owner saw that he had made his choice, he immediately started the turntable.

As the speed of the turntable became slower and slower, the people who were originally hesitant nearby also stared at the turntable.

As the turntable slowly stopped, the pointer on the turntable finally stopped on "5".

The crowd watching couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

The young man who was chosen shouted even more exaggeratedly.

The stall owner took out a cloth bag with a smile, and under the gaze of everyone, he filled it with five thousand spirit stones and handed it to the man.

"Little brother, you are so lucky!"

The young man stood in the crowd holding a cloth bag with a joyful look on his face, showing everyone the spiritual stones he had obtained.

The young man successfully received 5,000 spirit stones, which undoubtedly gave a shot in the arm to those who were still hesitating.

Those who were originally waiting and watching also began to get restless.

"Well, let me try it too." A middle-aged man with a simple and honest look stepped forward hesitantly.

"Okay!" The stall owner's face was filled with a warm smile.

Lin Wenyu, who had been observing with her arms folded, was a little surprised.

She just looked carefully and found that the stall owner actually did not do anything wrong.

Could it be that she is overthinking?

Lin Wenyu turned her gaze to the person who got the spirit stone and frowned.

Wait, this person seems to have less "energy".

As a system circle, it is clearer.

[Host, part of that person's soul has been sucked away]

When Lin Wenyu heard Quan'er say this, she closed her eyes and felt the flow of the "qi" here.

As expected, the person who had just received 5,000 spirit stones had the "energy" in his body flowing continuously to the stall owner.

Not only him, but also the people who had just participated in the stall owner's activities, the "energy" on their bodies was slowly flowing towards the stall owner sitting in the center.

But it seems to be related to what they got from the stall owner.

The loss of "Qi" in the bodies of several people who received five thousand spirit stones was particularly obvious.

The distribution of the "qi" on the stall owner's body is also obviously different from that of ordinary people.

The "qi" in an ordinary person is evenly distributed throughout the body.

The "qi" of this stall owner is highly concentrated in his abdomen.

At first glance, it seemed as if the stall owner had eaten up the "energy" from these people.

Lin Wenyu opened her eyes, stared at the stall owner quietly, and slowly uttered a few words.

"Collecting spirits?"

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As the last spirit stone was sent out.

The people surrounding the lantern stall gradually dispersed.

The stall owner looked at the stall with only a few lanterns left and the slowly dispersing crowd.

He stood up and stretched.

“Today is really a fruitful day.”

The stall owner sighed to himself.

When he was about to close his stall, he saw a woman whose face was beautiful even under a veil, walking up to his stall.

The woman was holding a kitten in her arms.

Seeing the woman start to choose lanterns, the stall owner spoke.

"My dear customer, I am so sorry, I have to close the stall, why don't you come back tomorrow?"

The woman raised her eyes to the stall owner and made eye contact with him.

"But I think these lanterns are pretty good. I heard you were doing an event, so I came here specially."

The moment their eyes met, the stall owner was very surprised.

He had never seen a soul with such good quality.

If we offer this kind of soul to the Lord, I believe it will surely please the Lord.

And he could secretly keep some for himself.

Thinking of this, the stall owner changed the subject and nodded and bowed to the woman in front of him.

“Sir, it’s not that I don’t want to, but these lanterns are really not presentable.

How about this, I have some better quality ones at home, come with me and I'll get them for you?"

The woman hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.

"Oh well."

When the stall owner saw the woman agreed, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.

He would not be satisfied with just absorbing a little from a soul of this quality.

He planned to lure the woman to a deserted corner and then suck away her soul.

What he didn't see was that behind him, the woman had a faint smile on her face.

I took the bait...