Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 279 Yu Deng
The young man felt a sharp pain in his chest. The pain in his chest was like a hole that quickly devoured his consciousness. His body swayed slightly for a few times, and when he was about to fall to the ground, Xiao Ran grabbed his arm with one hand and said, "Go!"

"Oh!" Yang Mingjie didn't know what Xiao Ran was going to do, but he nodded immediately, picked up the purse on the table, and supported the young man's other arm with one hand.

The two walked into an inconspicuous alley nearby.

"Stay here and don't let anyone in."

"it is good!"

After Xiao Ran dragged the young man's body into the alley, he took out the [Evil-Suppressing Order] and activated it with the [Corpse Collector]. With the red light flashing on the Evil-Suppressing Order, Xiao Ran began to sew up the young man's chest.

If it were in reality, I might be patient and slowly find a guide here, but that’s not possible now. Whether it’s myself or Lu Cheng, what they lack most now is time.

Yang Mingjie was an official on the run. When it came to Xifang affairs, he was not much better than an outsider like himself, and he even understood the rules less than himself.

Therefore, the most convenient and crudest way is to provide yourself with enough food and clothing.

This is the biggest advantage of beginners. When faced with many problems that ordinary people find difficult or even difficult to solve in a short period of time, beginners can easily find the information they want through their professional abilities.

Although the lighting around was poor, it was not a problem for Xiao Ran. He knew the knife he had drawn, the entry point, and the depth of penetration.

The suturing can be done even with eyes closed.

"You sewed up Wei Quanhua's body. Your score is D. You gain 50 energy points."

"Zhenye!"

Xiao Ran raised the [Evil-Suppressing Order] and a red light shone on Wei Quanhua's body. Soon, the skill book and memory book appeared on the body.

There is no need to read the skill book, this is a beginner's guide to becoming a thief.

Compared with his own magical power, it is completely different.

He opened the memory book and quickly flipped through its contents.

After about ten minutes, Xiao Ran walked out of the alley.

"Big... Eh!!" Yang Mingjie was about to say something when he saw Xiao Ran coming out, but his eyes suddenly widened and he looked at Wei Quanhua behind Xiao Ran and almost couldn't help but scream out.

"Don't shout, he's just a puppet now."

Fortunately, Xiao Ran immediately looked at Yang Mingjie and explained to him.

"puppet?"

Yang Mingjie looked him up and down and nodded in confusion. He didn't expect that the Lord had such a method. He was worthy of being the confidant of the Jiedushi.

"Come with me."

Xiao Ran didn't explain too much to Yang Mingjie on this issue. He took him inside, passed through an inconspicuous alley, turned left, and disappeared into the darkness.

Yang Mingjie, who was following behind, hadn't reacted yet as this man disappeared in an instant. Then he saw Xiao Ran grabbing him with one hand, pulling him sideways to the left. Suddenly, the light in front of them became pitch black and he couldn't see his hand in front of him. If Xiao Ran hadn't been holding him, Yang Mingjie would have turned around and ran away.

Fortunately, after he took two steps, when a ray of light penetrated the darkness, Yang Mingjie's eyes suddenly lit up. His pupils tightened involuntarily. He looked at the streets and alleys in front of him in shock, and was so surprised that he couldn't speak for a moment.

Although it was his first time to come to Xifang, the street in front of him was completely different from the streets outside. It was more like another world hidden in Ruzhou City.

On both sides of the street, silks of various colors were hung. The light shining on the silk made the colors colorful, dazzling the onlookers.

Amid the rising smoke, many men and women were lying on large soft couches. What shattered Yang Mingjie's worldview the most was that the Kunlun slaves were actually enjoying the services of Hu concubines, Silla maids, and even Han women just like their masters.

The scene of these men and women swallowing and exhaling smoke from each other made Yang Mingjie feel that his entire soul had been greatly shocked, and his head was dizzy. If Xiao Ran had not patted Yang Mingjie's shoulder, which shocked Yang Mingjie and made him suddenly wake up, he would have fallen to the ground at this moment.

"This……"

Yang Mingjie looked at Xiao Ran in shock.

Xiao Ran said calmly: "Don't mind it, this is called Halloween Street. Whether you are a slave or a prostitute, no matter what kind of lowly person you are, when you come here, you must give up your identity. All beings are equal."

Of course, this is too abstract. If Xiao Ran understood it, this place was more like the backstage of a nightclub.

If the outside world is like a nightclub, these people have to face all kinds of guests and deal with the customs of life.

So this is the place where they temporarily rest after get off work.

No matter whether it is the lady in charge of public relations, the receptionist, or even the waiter in charge of serving drinks, they can all get a moment of comfort here, even though they know that it is all false and they cannot change their fate, but no one will expose this falsehood.

"Sir, how come you are so familiar with this place?"

Yang Mingjie looked at Xiao Ran in confusion. Even he, a local boss, didn't know much about such a place, but Xiao Ran knew so much about it. He couldn't help but feel shocked and confused.

"He told me." Xiao Ran pointed at Wei Quanhua behind him and said.

Fortunately, I read Wei Quanhua's memory directly and found out that Xifang was actually a decoy. The Halloween Street hidden behind Xifang was the biggest secret in Ruzhou City.

All kinds of businesses, from all walks of life, are here.

Whatever you can buy outside, you can also buy here, and what you can’t buy outside, you can still buy here.

As long as you can afford the price, it would be easy to get a slave, or even a killer to kill for you.

In comparison with the prices here, you will even find something magical: what you ask for here is ten times more cost-effective than what you get by offering sacrifices to those evil gods outside.

Even if you want to be an official, the prices here are clearly marked. If the matter fails, the money will be returned to you. It can be said that everyone is fair.

"Sure enough, this information gap is really... fatal."

Xiao Ran sighed and walked forward with Yang Mingjie.

He did not find any clues about the Tianji Sect in Wei Quanhua's memory, but he did find an interesting place, where perhaps he could find news about the Tianji Sect.

Jingle bell, jingle bell…

Waves of white mist spread across the square. A woman covered in a black robe, with her feet bare, was dancing lightly in the square to the sound of exotic music.

The music was moving and the dancing was even more graceful, but the faces could not be seen clearly. The white mist that was sprinkled from time to time made these women twist their bodies like fairies.

"Stop looking and let's go!" Xiao Ran pulled Yang Mingjie's arm and urged him to walk faster.

"Sir...Brother, who are those women?"

"They are all dancers sent to the Chang'an brothel. They are being trained here. Didn't you notice that they have red bells hanging on their ankles?"

"Oh, what a pity! Such a good girl." Yang Mingjie couldn't help but sigh. Xiao Ran was not surprised by this. All men were like this. They hoped their sister-in-law would go to the sea and the whore would become a good woman.

Cross the square and walk into a door.

"Hit, hit, hit!!"

Before I even walked into the door, I heard many people roaring fiercely.

The house was brightly lit as day. There was a five-meter-deep pit at the entrance, with a space of about fifty square meters underneath. There were two naked men with weapons in their hands. Every sword strike drew blood and every punch hit flesh. It was like a fight between trapped beasts, and the scene made people's blood boil.

"Stop, there are mountains and water ahead, do you know how deep it is?"

Two men in front of Xiao Ran were blocking his way back. Xiao Ran said calmly, "I'm asking for directions and building a bridge. Please give me some convenience."

"Who gave you the pull rope?"

Xiao Ran took a step back and pushed Wei Quanhua out from behind him.

Wei Quanhua nodded dully at the two of them.

The two of them obviously recognized this guy and curled their lips: "Hey, you caught the fish." Then they looked at Xiao Ran and said: "Go in."

Then two of them made way: "Please come this way!" One of them turned around and led the way for the three people.

"When did this group of people do it?" Yang Mingjie was dumbfounded as he looked at the tunnels dug all around.

The tunnel was winding and bottomless. The surrounding stone caves of varying sizes were like prison cells, and from time to time trivial whispers could be heard from inside.

In some of the caves, men and women dressed in silk can be seen being imprisoned, with wooden expressions and no signs of life.

Such a huge project, and no one in the entire Ruzhou Prefecture knew about it?

"Hey, isn't this Master Lu!" At this time, Yang Mingjie suddenly stopped and looked at the man in the cave next to him.

He recognized him at a glance. This man was Lu Hongwei, the second son of the Lu family. He disappeared three months ago. The Lu family came to report the case and they had been searching for him for a long time but there was no news. They didn't expect that he was imprisoned in this place.

As if he heard someone calling him, Lu Hongwei's wooden face twitched a few times, and he suddenly got up from the ground, rushed to the fence of the stone cave, and shouted almost pleadingly: "Save me, save me, brother, help me send a message to my family, no matter how much money it is, save me out, I will give you any amount of money."

Yang Mingjie turned around to look at Xiao Ran, but saw that Xiao Ran was too lazy to even look at him and just kept walking forward. Seeing this, Yang Mingjie didn't dare to respond and followed Xiao Ran.

I walked up the steps until I arrived at the door of a stone house.

Xiao Ranren walked into the small house.

The house was even bigger than it looked from the outside. Xiao Ran looked at the polished stone walls around it and realized that it was obviously a large project.

"Over the years, many people have come to my place. Today, I was really enlightened. I didn't expect that someone would use a dead body to pave the way."

When the two walked into the house, they heard a burst of teasing voices coming from the room. They saw an old man sitting cross-legged on the couch. He glanced at Wei Quanhua who followed him in, and a look of regret appeared on his face:

"Child, the last time you came here, I told you that you were destined to be killed. I told you to be quiet for a while, but why didn't you listen?"

Then he looked at Yang Mingjie again, his face darkening: "Sir, the public servants are not allowed to enter the West Quarter. Don't you know this rule?"

As soon as these words were spoken, footsteps were heard outside the door, and several Kunlun slaves holding axes immediately rushed in. These Kunlun slaves were tall and strong, nearly two meters in height, and standing there were like a small mountain.

Yang Mingjie was only about 1.7 meters tall. When he saw these Kunlun slaves, his face turned pale.

Xiao Ran casually pulled over a chair and sat down: "I heard that you can buy everything here, so I thought of doing some business here."

Xiao Ran didn't take these black slaves seriously. He looked at the old man carefully, but couldn't see anything special about him. However, behind the wall behind the old man, there was a dragon wall made of white marble. He felt a strong sense of being peeped from behind the dragon wall.

"Business?"

The old man curled his lips and said, "Although you have some tricks to manipulate the dead, you may not be able to walk out of here today. What qualifications do you have to talk business with me?"

After all, the Jianghu is a place without morality, no matter what era it is.

Don’t think that you can do whatever you want just because you are an official. Even the sun in this world has places where its light cannot be found.

Xiao Ran knew the behavior of these people very well. He stood up and stared at the dragon wall behind the old man. "You are so generous. You dug a cave in the mountain and dug a hole for yourselves. Aren't you afraid that one day the mountain will collapse and crush you to death?"

As he spoke, Xiao Ran took a step back and punched a brick next to him.

There was a dull sound of "bang".

The brick was intact, without even a crack. Everyone looked at Xiao Ran in confusion, as if they were looking at a clown.

But who knew that the next second, a handful of dust fell from the top of his head, followed by a loud bang of a door slamming from behind, and then screams and cries were heard continuously.

"Rumble..."

As the shaking sound became louder, I heard screams from outside: "Water is coming out, it's going to collapse! Run!"

The chaotic voices gradually became harsh, and the old man looked at Xiao Ran in panic: "What did you do?"

"Nothing. I just thought your place has bad feng shui, so I'm helping you fix it."

Xiao Ran said with a cold face.

After the words fell, a hoarse voice came from behind the dragon wall: "I thought you were a corpse-seeker, but it turns out you are a jinx. I was wrong. Let's talk business now."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Ran turned around and looked around. Seeing the walking stick in the old man's hand, he snatched it away and thrust it directly into the stone next to him.

It’s strange to say, but after the crutch was inserted, the noise in the cave quieted down after a while.

This move made Yang Mingjie and others look shocked.

In fact, only Xiao Ran knew that this was nothing at all. He just used the magic of hatred to slightly change the local geomancy.

Even if I don't do anything, the noise will stop on its own after a cup of tea at most.

By the way, this magic of exorcism was something Xiao Ran plundered from Huang Jinye's skill book.

Having suffered losses from the art of exorcism, he naturally wanted to master this technique. He never thought that it would come in handy here.

As soon as the earthquake stopped, the old man hurriedly climbed down from the couch, and then he saw a man walking out from behind the dragon wall.

The man had blond hair, a high nose bridge, and big black eyes. He was obviously of mixed race. When he came out, he spoke authentic Mandarin: "Welcome, my name is Yu Deng. May I ask what kind of business you would like to do..."

(End of this chapter)