Douluo: Law of Heaven and Earth

Chapter 989 Team Conflicts —

With a plan in place, Dai Mubai and his group no longer wandered around like headless flies. The seven of them split up and instead of specifically looking for Tang San, they went to investigate the places where Tang San often went to work and hold meetings.

As expected, in just two hours, everyone shared and analyzed the information from relevant personnel in various departments, and determined the approximate time range of Tang San's visits to the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry, the Workers' and Peasants' Council, the Red Society, and the Tang Sect within a day.

However, among the seven, Ma Hongjun had collected the least information.

This displeased Dai Mubai: "Skinny, you're no good. How come you've gathered so little intelligence? Are you slacking off?"

"I've already tried my best!"

Suppressing his anger, Ma Hongjun was gathering intelligence. It wasn't enough to just go to a designated location and ask someone; if that person didn't answer, he couldn't get angry. He had to find other people, or even go to another location... Due to the problem of his inner fire, coupled with the long period of rapid movement, he recalled his past memories of long-distance running weight loss training. His mind was becoming increasingly chaotic, even to the point of exploding.

"Hongjun, don't be angry. Boss Dai was just joking with you. Isn't that how we always are?"

Oscar's heart skipped a beat when he heard Ma Hongjun's deep voice. He quickly used his third soul skill to create two crystal spirit sausages, and as soon as Ma Hongjun opened his mouth, he put one into his mouth.

"Calm down!"

"Don't let the evil fire control your mind!"

Ma Hongjun made two "smack" sounds, just as he bit off the first crystal sausage, Oscar shoved the second one at him. He quickly covered his mouth and cried out, "I can do it myself! Don't do it! You almost pierced my throat!"

Oscar chuckled awkwardly and handed the second crystal sausage to Ma Hongjun: "Don't mind, you were just a little too excited."

Ma Hongjun snorted, ignoring Dai Mubai, swallowed the Crystal Spirit Sausage in his mouth, then picked up the second one and bit down hard.

Realizing he had gone a bit too far, Dai Mubai didn't apologize. As a prince and the captain of the team, he couldn't bring himself to apologize.

Furthermore, when he clashed with Oscar and Ma Hongjun at Shrek Academy, even though he was unreasonable, the matter was eventually dropped.

Apologize?

Totally impossible!
"Let's get started."

Dai Mubai stopped mentioning Ma Hongjun's faults and led everyone directly to the Ministry of Works.

With anxious anticipation, Tang San's figure appeared in their sight...

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After obtaining Tang San's signature, Dai Mubai and the others, based on their previous experience, collected and analyzed information related to Wang Sheng's work. They found him at the village office under the Workers' and Peasants' Council and obtained his signature.

It was already evening.

All fourteen people had returned to the woods thirty miles outside of Holy Soul Village, and Zhou Qing arrived on time as well.

Dai Mubai handed the paper with Tang San and Wang Sheng's signatures to Zhou Qing.

"good."

Zhou Qing took it and offered a word of encouragement, "Although the process was somewhat bumpy and didn't meet my expectations, you did use your brain instead of just going to Tang San and Wang Sheng's house to wait."

Immediately, Dai Mubai and the others realized that all their actions had been under the other party's surveillance, or that they had been using Romantina's soul skill.

Then, Zhou Qing held up two pieces of paper with Tang San and Wang Sheng's signatures and asked the fourteen people in front of him, "Who wants these two people's signatures?"

"Me!" X4
Meng Yiran, Li Yao, Arthur, and Baili raised their hands at the same time, their eyes shining as they coveted the two autographs.

"Four people, two signatures, it's a bit hard to decide, let's decide with rock-paper-scissors." Zhou Qing smiled casually and decided to settle the matter with rock-paper-scissors.

In the end, Meng Yiran won against Li Yao's scissors with rock and obtained Tang San's autograph; while Arthur won against Baili's rock with paper and obtained Wang Sheng's autograph.

This scene was hard for Dai Mubai and the others to accept—even though they weren't fans of celebrities, the autographs they had spent a whole day getting were being given away in such a childish way.
Then, Zhou Qing clapped to attract everyone's attention and handed out white papers, each about five centimeters long and two centimeters wide, with the words "meal ticket" printed on them, to the fourteen people, saying, "Today's training is over. Let's go eat dinner." "Can we eat now?" Ma Hongjun's eyes flashed with a sharp light. "I haven't even had lunch yet."

"why do not you eat?"

Zhou Qing countered, "You can only cultivate if you have enough to eat. Or do you not have money for food? That shouldn't be the case. Given the original situation at Shrek Academy, the first lesson your teacher taught you should have been how to make money, right? Oh, right, I almost forgot, you guys used to make money by gambling in the Soul Arena at most, and you didn't have any proper jobs."

"Well, I still have money for food, but I'm just too busy with missions," Ma Hongjun said softly.

"Really? Remember to eat next time." Zhou Qing didn't elaborate further and instead asked Qingzhu, Zhu, and the others.

"I'd like to go to a restaurant, but—"

Ning Rongrong looked at Qingzhu Zhu with a resentful gaze.

Qingzhu Zhu chimed in, "There are fish in the stream, so I used what I had on hand to make a grilled fish dish."

"I really don't know how you can eat this, there's not a single seasoning." Ning Rongrong complained, rubbing her stomach, clearly she hadn't eaten much.

Meng Yiran said with a grin, "I got a free meal from Teacher Tang San. It was four dishes and a soup, a perfect mix of meat and vegetables, and it was delicious!"

Baili said, "I also got a free meal from Teacher Tang San."

Arthur said, "I had lunch with Teacher Wang Sheng in the public canteen of the Workers' and Peasants' Council."

Li Yao said, "I practiced until the afternoon and didn't feel hungry at all!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yao's stomach started growling.

"Okay, I lied." Li Yao readily admitted it, grinning as he tried to cover up his embarrassment.

Ouyang Sun concluded by saying, "I ate at Uncle Wang's house."

Hearing the seven people chatting and laughing, Dai Mubai and the others were full of questions—why were they the only ones who had to go hungry? More importantly, they brought it on themselves! There was no way to reason with them!
As they spoke, Zhou Qing led them to the public canteen of the Workers' and Peasants' Council, where many members of the Council and villagers from Holy Soul Village had already gathered.

Upon seeing Zhou Qing, they all gathered around him, greeting him or waving, their faces beaming with smiles.

"Everyone, go eat. Don't crowd around here; others need to get their food."

"Brother Zhou, you should eat well too!"

"Definitely! Definitely! You all need to eat your fill! That way you'll have the energy to work tomorrow!"

"Hahaha!"

Zhou Qing chatted with the group for a few minutes, then led the fourteen people beside him to line up for food.

The meal tickets are specially made, each worth twenty gold soul coins. As long as you don't waste them, you can eat as much as you want.

As Soul Masters, Qingzhu Zhu, Dai Mubai, and others naturally had large appetites. The rice in the public canteen was Blue Silver Rice, the vegetables were fresh, and the meat included home-raised pork, sea fish transported from Hanhai City, and lean meat from Abyss Town.

In particular, the beasts inside the Abyss Ruins absorb all the energy of heaven and earth and use it to enhance their physical strength, making them extremely nutritious and far superior to soul beasts!

After all, the powerful physique of a soul beast relies not only on its innate species talent but also on its cultivation level. Otherwise, it wouldn't be much different from a soul master—once too much cultivation is consumed, the strength of its physique will be greatly reduced.

But the ferocious beasts and monsters in the Abyss Ruins are different; they are physical bodies that evolved to adapt to the environment, rather than relying on cultivation.

It's just that ordinary people find it hard to digest...

(End of this chapter)