Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 143 Leaving
"hiss!"

Looking at Mo Ju in front of him, Xiao Ran was stunned at first, then he felt a chill in his heart and wanted to run but it was too late.

Sensing the fear in Xiao Ran's eyes, Mo Ju couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Walk with me."

"I……"

Xiao Ran covered his mouth and nodded at Mo Ju.

The two were walking on the street, and wherever Mo Ju passed, golden flames began to surge on the ground. Then the flames quickly spread to the surroundings, setting the doors of the houses on both sides on fire.

It was just strange that apart from the crackling sound of burning flames, there was no sound of any townspeople crying for help.

He took Xiao Ran to a private house, looked at the open door, and glanced inside. His heart sank immediately. He saw a family of all ages lying in a pool of blood.

Even babies in their arms are no exception.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran couldn't help but look at Mo Ju.

Mo Ju raised his hand and threw a ball of fire into the house. The flames caught fire on the ground and soon set the whole house on fire. He turned around and looked at Xiao Ran and said, "I didn't kill him."

Xiao Ran looked at the corpses carefully in the light of the fire and found that they were all killed by a single knife. The exaggerated inverted knife wounds on their bodies went straight through the chest to split the lumbar vertebrae. Such injuries immediately made Xiao Ran think of the two fat guys who were like meat mountains.

"Fresh breeze and bright moon!"

Xiao Ran looked at Mo Ju in astonishment. Could this be what Yinshan Taoist meant by clearing a bloody path for him? ?

Just as Xiao Ran was wondering, he saw the door in the distance being pushed open, and a shirtless young man walked out, holding three incense sticks in his hand, staring blankly at the flames burning around him.

Then he turned his eyes and noticed Xiao Ran and Mo Ju standing next to him. He twisted his body unnaturally for a few times, then raised the incense in his hand; "This is my father, this is my mother, this is my... wife, I am going to get rich, rich, if I burn three incense sticks, I can also become a god, and I can also be a master..."

The man's head kept shaking, his body swelled up like a giant, and began to emit a strong stench. He sat on the ground with his hands raised: "I want my father, my mother, my wife, please come back, please come back, I don't want anything, nothing..."

At the end of his words, the man spread out his hands weakly, and the three red incense sticks broke into several pieces and scattered on the ground, until they fell into the ditch at the entrance.

When Xiao Ran and Mo Ju walked up to the man, his face had already decayed to the point where only a pile of bones remained.

Mo Ju reached out her hand and gently stroked the man's face: "Uncle, rest in peace. You don't need to burn incense anymore."

As he spoke, a wisp of fire emerged from Mo Ju's palm, and the light golden flame quickly ignited the man's body.

"In fact, many years ago, although this place was poor, it was also peaceful. Until a caravan came from outside the town and helped the town to open a canal and build a town. Gradually, I don't know when it started, shrines were erected in front of every household."

"Then everyone in my family went crazy. My father, uncle, aunt, they all went crazy. They pulled out all the children in the family and stuffed them with incense ashes to make human incense. My mother hid me in a water jar. My father couldn't find me, so he hanged my mother outside the ancestral hall..."

Mo Ju talked about what happened in the past with a calm expression, as if he was telling someone else's family story.

"That day, the ancestral hall was filled with thick smoke. They nailed the old man to a chair in the hall and burned him with incense. It was not until dusk that I climbed out of the water tank. The old man waved his hand and told me to leave quickly..."

Xiao Ran covered his mouth and listened silently.

Mo Ju just kept walking forward. The village behind him had begun to turn into a sea of fire. The firelight reflected on Mo Ju's face, making him look particularly sacred and peaceful.

At this time, Mo Ju stopped and looked at the monument standing at the entrance of the village in front of him with the three words "Taiping Township" inscribed on it. His eyes wandered, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Looking back at Xiao Ran, "That night, when I saw you climbing down the stairs, I really wanted to take me away, anywhere would be fine, as long as you take me away, I would even be willing to make you a human incense."

Then he turned around and looked at Xiao Ran: "I'll give you another chance. Either take me away or stay with me. Which one do you choose?" Xiao Ran covered his mouth with his hand, unable to tell whether Mo Ju was telling him the truth or fooling him.

After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Ran put his hand down and said, "If I run now, will it be too late?"

Mo Ju was stunned for a moment, staring at Xiao Ran's eyes, and suddenly couldn't help laughing: "Then you have to run faster." Then he turned around to look at the sea of fire behind him in the distance, only to hear the screams of the big-headed monk coming from the sea of fire.

"Master, Master, I'm hungry, so hungry. You said that I could only eat monks, but there are no more monks. I ate all the monks!!!"

The big-headed monk reached out and grabbed the cow's eyes and legs wrapped in his cassock: "Namo Amitabha, Amitabha!!"

As he spoke, the big-headed monk bit the ox leg's head and blood splattered on ox eyes' face. No matter how ox eyes struggled frantically, it was of no avail. He could only watch as the big-headed monk finished eating the ox leg, and then turned his gaze towards him, putting it in his mouth and starting to eat it in big mouthfuls.

"Come on!"

"Ah?" Xiao Ran looked up at Mo Ju in confusion.

Mo Ju turned around and glanced at Xiao Ran: "This place is my home. Now that I'm back, I'm destined to never leave. If you have a chance, remember to come back to see me."

As she spoke, Mo Ju's face was like the rising sun, emitting irresistible warmth and light.

He turned around and strode towards the sea of fire behind him.

"Hey!"

Xiao Ran turned around and looked at Mo Ju: "What is the relationship between Yinshan Taoist and you?"

This was the doubt that troubled Xiao Ran, and he couldn't help but ask.

Mo Ju looked back at Xiao Ran, then turned around and continued to walk into the sea of fire: "This situation has just begun, stay away from Changchun, or you, a little thief, will be struck to death by thunder!"

"Evergrande Society? Could this bureau be targeting the Evergrande Society?"

Xiao Ran frowned. To be honest, he didn't have a good impression of the Changchun Society itself, but he had to admit that the Changchun Society was huge and unique.

Just as my grandfather said, they are not a simple organization that can be solved by killing the leader.

If it were really that simple, I believe the company would have taken action long ago.

To dismantle such an organization is not something that can be accomplished through a simple and ordinary scheme.

Xiao Ran didn't think about it any more.

It can be foreseen that this situation is very big, so big that it is beyond the comprehension of a small person of my level. The only thing I have to do is to stay away from Changchun Society, so as not to be inexplicably dragged into it and become cannon fodder.

After leaving Taiping Township, the fire light from Taiping Township behind us illuminated the path under our feet especially clearly.

Xiao Ran didn't know how long he had walked along the path. When he could no longer see the flames behind him, he heard the sound of mission completion.

[You have completed the main mission: Wang Family Banquet, and your score is E.]

[Side quest: Wang Mansion, mission failed! ]

[You can choose to leave this maze, or continue exploring. ]

(End of this chapter)