Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 259: An urgent call from old man Lai Tou
The hole in his throat made Huang Jinye never understand until his death why he twisted his neck for no reason.

But after Huang Jinye's body fell heavily to the ground, these questions were no longer important, or he no longer needed to consider them.

"You're going to die now?"

Looking at Huang Jinye's body, Xiao Ran couldn't help but feel a little surprised. In fact, he had made another preparation.

Next, as long as Huang Jinye can still hold on, he just needs to continue to delay time. When the sun sets, it will be transformed into the second privilege of [Spiritual Clothes] - Night Travel.

[Flowing Eight Treasures Mirror] combined with the night's escaping ability, Xiao Ran is confident that he can seize the opportunity and kill with one strike in an instant.

It just seems that it is no longer needed now.

After putting away Huang Jinye's body, the wristband, the long stick in his hand, and the cursed object stuck in his chest naturally fell into Xiao Ran's hands.

D-level cursed item [Five Elements Beast Head Wrist Guard]

E-level cursed item [Chiwen double fire stick]

D-level cursed item [Four Evils Curse Cone] (damaged)

"Not bad. Regardless of whether this guy was sent by Changchun Society or not, it was just his bad luck that he met me."

To be fair, if I didn't have the [Taishan Stone] Golden Leaf in my hand, it would be enough to make me suffer just by relying on the art of exorcism.

Especially the use of corpses to initiate the art of disgust, which completely overturned Xiao Ran's understanding of the art of disgust.

Fortunately, after I dodged the first attack through the door, I went to find the old man right away and got the talisman [Taishan Stone]. Otherwise, it would be hard to say who would win.

After collecting Shen Kuaidao and the others, he controlled the spirit robe to circle around for a while and then quickly returned to the mortal realm.

After returning to the mortuary, Xiao Ran calmed down and replayed the whole process in his mind.

"The effect of the four bowls is stronger than I thought. If it weren't for the restriction that four people need to cast a curse at the same time, it would be at least a D-level curse. At least half of the credit for killing Huang Jinye goes to these four bowls."

"The archer didn't keep his profession, but he's pretty good at archery. In the future, I can use the third privilege of the [Evil Suppression Order], Soul Transformation, to help him upgrade."

"Shen Kuaidao's combat power is still a bit weak. Hmm... Is it because he lacks a suitable cursed item?"

After reviewing the whole process again, Xiao Ran already had some new ideas in his mind.

Then he opened his eyes and looked at the female corpse that had not yet been stitched up. He couldn't help but sigh: "I'm sorry, I think you two were implicated in this matter."

The cause of death of the two was mostly due to the plan carefully prepared by Huang Jinye.

This woman in particular should have been spotted by Huang Jinye a long time ago.

As for men, it’s just buy one get one free.

After sewing up the woman's body, he gave himself 100 energy points.

Adding the 50 energy points contributed by the man's corpse, [Evil-Suppressing Order] now has 600 energy points reserved.

It’s not far from a thousand energy points.

After looking at the time, he saw that there was still plenty of time before the end of get off work, so he simply took out Huang Jinye's body and sewed them together.

Huang Jinye's body was a D-level corpse. When Xiao Ran began to suture it, poisonous wounds immediately began to fester on the body. Even the hole in the throat, which was the fatal wound, actually grew a gray-white eyeball.

However, these were not a problem at all for Xiao Ran. He activated the [Evil-Suppressing Order] and smashed it on the forehead, and Huang Jinye's body immediately became obedient.

"You repaired Zhang Yifan's body, and were rated A. You received 200 energy points."

After all, there is a lack of assistance from some professional tools, so the stitching is not perfect.

But it doesn’t matter. Xiao Ran turned around, picked up the axe beside him, and chopped down Huang Jinye’s chest with the axe.

He is not his client, so Xiao Ran uses his corpse to increase his energy without any psychological burden.

Suture again.

"You repaired Zhang Yifan's body, and your score is S-level. You get 200 energy points."

“The energy value of [Evil Suppression Order] has reached 1000 and can be upgraded!!”

Immediately afterwards, the upgrade conditions for the Suppressing Evil Order appeared in front of Xiao Ran.

Suture 5 D-class and above corpses and obtain an S-class rating or above.

Suture a C-grade corpse and get an A-grade or higher rating.

The two conditions are similar to last time, but the difficulty is obviously much higher.

Especially C-level corpses. C-level professionals are rare nowadays, let alone their corpses.

But fortunately, I happened to have one in my hand.

As for the other five corpses, plus the one in front of him, he would need to find the bodies of four more D-level beginners.

The other three bodies were just what he happened to have on hand. When three members of the Changchun Society surrounded him and tried to kill him, he killed them instead. They should be D-level.

In this way, at most, he was only short of one corpse above D level.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran's expression suddenly relaxed a lot, and he looked at Huang Jinye's body in front of him.

"Privilege [Occupation] activated!"

As expected, there were only a skill book and a memory book, but no spell patterns.

There are only two possibilities. Either his luck is too bad, or all of Golden Leaf's runes are D-level, and the ability to steal karma cannot plunder runes above E-level.

"It seems that we need to upgrade the [Evil Suppression Order] as soon as possible."

Xiao Ran was thinking about the next plan in his mind, and at the same time picked up Huang Jinye's skill book to look at it.

The abilities in this skill booklet are all the skills the deceased had when he was alive. Huang Jinye didn't have many skills. Xiao Ran flipped through it and found a skill from the Sutra of Yansheng.

The Sutra of the Victory of the Witch (Extraordinary)

The exchange requires 2000 energy points.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran frowned. The art of witchcraft was not a professional skill. This guy was able to reach an extraordinary level in the art of witchcraft. It was obvious that he was already a master of witchcraft before he became a beginner.

To put it bluntly, the beginner's profession only provides him with the convenience of performing the art of annihilation. It would be a lie for Xiao Ran to say that he was not tempted by this thing, but it required 2000 energy points to exchange, which he currently did not have.

Keep it for now and wait until you finish upgrading the [Evil-Suppressing Order].

"Bang bang bang!!"

At this time, there was a knock on the door. It was Lao Zhou's voice: "Xiao Ran, it's almost time."

The funeral home will not cremate bodies in the afternoon. This time is used by employees to clean the furnace, carry out repairs, provide training and other chores. They usually go off work after six o'clock.

Xiao Ran looked at the time. It was already twenty past six. It was hard for Uncle Zhou to wait for her.

"It's ready!"

As he said that, Xiao Ran put away Huang Jinye's body and the memory book, waiting to look at them slowly after returning home in the evening.

Then he opened the door and said with an apologetic look on his face: "Sorry, Uncle Zhou, I didn't pay attention to the time this time."

"I understand. It's a huge project."

Old Zhou nodded. There was nothing to blame about this. Although it was against the rules, special cases required special treatment. This time the corpse had been smashed into a lump, so it was natural to waste some time.

Old Zhou glanced at the stitched corpse in the back. Although he knew Xiao Ran's skills, he couldn't help but praise him after seeing the repaired corpse: "Your skills are really... a waste of talent."

I mean what I say.

With this skill, even if you don't become a doctor, you will have a bright future as a medical aesthetician.

How can one not feel regretful that he has to do this line of work?

"It's not a waste of talent. Dealing with living people is tiring. Although these clients are not good-looking, at least they don't have too many demands."

"Hmm...that's true."

After the two men were talking as they put the body into the freezer, Xiao Ran sent a message to Uncle Li, saying that the body had been sewn up.

After a while, Uncle Li gave the commission to Xiao Ran.

Two families, each contributed 20,000 yuan.

Uncle Li has already taken his 3% commission, and the remaining 30,000 yuan belongs to Xiao Ran.

Although he had received Shen Kuaidao's 4 million bonus, Xiao Ran still felt happy when he saw the remaining balance in his account.

I rode my bicycle towards home, wondering whether I should buy an electric car for transportation.

Except for the fact that wearing a helmet is not very comfortable, everything else is quite convenient.

After returning home, Xiao Ran went straight upstairs, picked up Huang Jinye's memory book and started flipping through it.

The result disappointed Xiao Ran.

I thought there might be some secrets about the Changchun Society in here.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out that the brother codenamed Huang Jinye was not a member of the Changchun Society, but belonged to an organization.

The name of this organization is particularly interesting.

It's called the Tobacco Bureau.

It has a system of its own.

People in the organization use code names based on the local specialty cigarettes.

For example, this Golden Leaf is a relatively popular tobacco in the central area, and of course he himself likes to smoke Golden Leaf.

There are also Red Flag Canal, Dihao and so on.

If it is the East District, the code names will be Liqun, Red Boss, Big Red Eagle and Hard China.

In the east, the main brands are Furongwang Hard Yellow, Double Happiness, Red Rose King, and Good Days.

They call killing people "collecting taxes."

Mission failure is called tax evasion.

When killers from other places come to the local area to complete tasks, it is called cross-border goods.

In short, this unique set of jargon is basically based on the jargon of the cigarette industry.

Xiao Ran looked quite interesting.

Since he had successfully evaded taxes this time, according to the rules of this organization, the mission would be considered completed. Unless someone continued to raise the price, they would not attack Xiao Ran again.

What concerned Xiao Ran was that this organization did not accept ordinary beginners. Their members were masters who were proficient in certain abilities. For ordinary beginners, the profession was a guarantee of survival, but for them, it was just an auxiliary ability to serve their own skills.

There are many people like Huang Jinye who are good at misogyny in the organization.

Xiao Ran was particularly interested in this Tobacco Bureau. He held Huang Jinye's memory book and read it from beginning to end. He read it all night long. He read all the life experiences of this useless guy Huang Jinye.

Including the scene of him peeping at the girl next door taking a bath.

Hmm... it's too dirty. (I'm sure you don't like it, so I won't write it.)
Around noon, Xiao Ran had eaten and rested for a while, when a phone call came in. It was Uncle Fang, informing Xiao Ran that the second batch of corpses for making specimens had been delivered.

From the proud tone of Uncle Fang's voice over the phone, it was clear that the number was not small this time.

It's the perfect time to get a pillow when you're sleepy.

"After we finish stitching up this batch of corpses, it's about time we return to Bone Spirit Street..."

After returning, with professional equipment and Sister Liu in charge, there is no need to worry about the leader's corpse causing any more trouble.

Just as I was wondering, the phone beside me rang again.

Xiao Ran thought it was from Uncle Fang, but when he picked it up, it was Lu Cheng's call.

Looking at the call from Lu Cheng, Xiao Ran estimated that it was most likely about the girl in the mystery city.

But when he pressed the answer button, the voice of the bald old man came from inside: "Come quickly, Lu Cheng has a problem..."

(End of this chapter)