Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 281 Assassination
Wancheng is surrounded by mountains on three sides and has an opening in the south. Its terrain is like a bowl, hence the name "Wan".

Wancheng is a hundred miles away from Ruzhou City, and it would take at least two days to get there even if you ride a horse.

However, at this moment, it was just getting dark, and Xiao Ranren had already arrived near Wancheng. His figure was like a roc, lightly landing from mid-air on a tree crown, silently, and even the birds sleeping on the tree crown did not notice it.

Looking down from a high vantage point, I surveyed the land in front of me and couldn't help but sigh for a moment.

“What a great place!”

There is a vast basin here that can produce food and a strategic terrain for defense. The army stationed here can be completely self-sufficient relying on the output of the basin.

"No wonder the so-called Nuo sect wants to occupy this place. Once the world is in chaos, they will station troops here to wait and see. It is adjacent to Guanzhong and Shaanxi in the west, where they can recruit soldiers and horses. It reaches Jianghuai in the east, where they can transport grain. It connects to Jinghu and Bashu in the south, where they can obtain wealth and goods.

If we resist the three capitals in the north, we can go straight to the Central Plains if we advance, and we can be invincible if we retreat."

Compared to Ruzhou City, this place is more suitable for stationing troops. Thinking of this, Xiao Ran suddenly felt a strong sense of crisis in his heart.

There is only three months left and the yellow disaster is bound to hit. If we can't find a way to take it back soon, when the yellow disaster comes, the Nuomen will take advantage of the situation and Lu Cheng will be passive. If he wants to recapture Wancheng, the troops under Lu Cheng's command are not enough. After much thought, he still has to rely on the epoch-making product of gunpowder cannons to be the best siege weapon.

There was a curfew in the city at this time, but this did not affect the singing and dancing in the restaurant.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

In the shadows of the street corners, a few furtive shadows flashed from time to time. Finally, all these shadows gathered around a brothel called Xianmiaofang in Wancheng. They cautiously poked their heads out and stared at the door of the brothel in front of them.

A moment...with a breeze.

Xiao Ran's figure had already floated down above the brothel, like a banished immortal in mythology, hanging in the air motionless, looking at the gate in front of him that was covered with green, red, white and white lanterns. He took out a handful of banknotes and gold ingots from the space, lit them casually, and scattered them downwards.

"I'm sorry, that's all I can do. When we recapture Wancheng in the future, I will hold a ritual for you and pray for your salvation."

All of a sudden, the ghosts hiding in the corners came out like catfish smelling food and quickly snatched all the banknotes and gold ingots. After hearing Xiao Ran's promise, they retreated joyfully until they disappeared into the night.

Looking at the huge brothel in front of him, Xiao Ran could see a dark red aura in the brothel. He compared it with the contents of the witchcraft technique he got from Huang Jinye in his mind.

Although the art of Yan Sheng was looted with many memories and practical contents about its use, many details still need to be slowly experienced by oneself before they can be digested.

Just like the brothel in front of you, it was specially renovated by an expert who arranged the feng shui layout.

Alas, isn’t it a method of exorcism? How does it involve Feng Shui?

In fact, the two are not in conflict, or they are from the same source. It's just that Feng Shui masters pay more attention to Feng Shui layout, eliminating evil spirits, finding dragons and locating caves, and benefiting one side, while the evil-averting masters are completely the opposite, creating evil spirits and killing people invisibly.

The door of this brothel faces south, which is good for making money.

Behind the door is a Feng Shui wall of happy mandarin ducks, and above the door hangs a red lantern.

It is said that red lights bring joy to people, and mandarin ducks and phoenixes stimulate kidney water.

This is what is called the Red Joy Evil.

It's not really an evil spirit that can harm people, it just helps to arouse people's sexual desire.

There is a river behind the brothel, also called the Sewage River.

This is why most brothels were built near water.

There were no sewers in ancient times. With so many women gathered here, not to mention sewage and laundry, the key point is that those dirty things had to be dealt with.

So if you look at most ancient brothels, there must be a river behind them.

From the perspective of Feng Shui, the Yin energy here is already very heavy, and with the addition of the Red Happy Evil, there are endless guests every day. If the evil energy from the combination of Yin and Yang is not released, it will lead to disaster over time.

A sewage river can often get rid of bad spirits.

But the unlucky ones are the people living downstream of the brothels. Their fortunes of wealth, fortune, longevity and happiness will be affected. So in the past, people from poor families lived downstream of brothels, and no rich family has ever been seen living downstream.

If you want to bring about evil, you will need the cooperation of some cursed objects and professions.

Xiao Ran naturally didn't have these, but this didn't pose a problem for him. He just casually summoned a corpse from the space.

This person was the painter that Xiao Ran had transformed into a corpse slave. Retaining the profession of [Worshiping Evil], Xiao Ran took out another item, which was the magic weapon that he had obtained from Huang Jinye's corpse before.

After the painter took the magic weapon and activated it, the three remaining baby heads on it began to twist and revive.

D-level cursed item [Four Evils Curse Cone - Worship Evil] (Damaged)

Privilege 1: Four Evils (The power of the cursed item is reduced by % due to its damage.)
Allow yourself to gain the power of the four evil spirits.

Duration: 30 minutes
Cooling time: 3 hours
Privilege 2: Attract Evil Spirits

After activation, insert this object into your heart, and you can draw upon the evil spirits around you at will.

Duration: 3 hours
Cooling time: 24 hours.

"What a pity." If this thing was activated by a professional [Psychic], it could be like the golden leaf, causing immediate evil and disgust.

But the painter's other two friends were unable to keep their professions when they were transformed into corpse slaves, otherwise one of them would have been a [medium], which would have saved him a lot of trouble.

"Just make do with it."

Xiao Ran threw the painter down, only to see the painter land steadily on the ground. Then he rolled over and slapped the ground lightly with his hands.

In an instant, two black snakes emerged from the painter's arms. The two black snakes were shrouded in three different evil auras. After being summoned by the painter, they quickly split apart and turned into more than a dozen small snakes that drilled into the surrounding sewers.

These little snakes crawled into the ditch and immediately tangled themselves into a ball, blocking the ditch.

There is one good thing about this artist. As a D-level profession [Worshipping Evil], most of his abilities are in tattoos, and the cursed objects mostly play a supporting role.

Therefore, even if he was transformed into a corpse slave, in the absence of the blessing of cursed items, the painter could at least retain 70% of his combat effectiveness before death. If he was combined with cursed items, his combat effectiveness would not be much worse than before death.

Then the painter inserted the [Four Evils Curse Cone] in his hand into his heart. As the iron cone pierced into the flesh of his heart, the three big-headed babies that were left on it began to open their eyes and open their mouths to breathe.

I saw the red evil spirit in the brothel being swallowed into the mouth, and then spit out, over and over again. In just a moment, the red evil spirit became stronger and stronger.

Xiao Ran had said before that the so-called art of exorcism, to use a scientific explanation, is to throw firecrackers into a toilet.

You can understand the art of Yan Sheng more as a method of creating a cesspool, finding a cesspool, and detonating a cesspool.

The size of the power has nothing to do with the skill level of the caster, but more to do with how big the pit you created is. If you find a dry toilet, the power might just blow up some shit, but if you find a sewer, the power might be enough to blow up the manhole cover.

But if you can find a septic tank, hey! ! Once a firecracker is set off, the villagers will come to praise you.

At this moment, the brothel in front of him was a septic tank prepared by Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran saw that it was almost time and was about to give the people inside a big blow, but just as he was about to make a move, he suddenly looked sideways and saw a group of figures in night clothes in the distance, quietly approaching the brothel.

"what!!"

Seeing this, Xiao Ran immediately stopped his attack. He stood in the sky, looking down at the group of people sneaking into the brothel like a string of little mice.

"What a coincidence! It looks like this evening is a little more lively than I thought."

Xiao Ran simply took out a bag of melon seeds, sat in mid-air and started watching the show.

It can be seen that these people have good martial arts skills. They moved around on the roof tiles without alarming anyone.

As soon as they arrived at the door of a room and looked at each other, they heard a man's loud laughter from inside the room: "Come on, come on, another drink, another drink, we won't go home until we are drunk."

There were three men in the room, sitting at the table, hugging each other.

The two on the left and right were wearing silk robes, and the one in the middle was a middle-aged man with a black eye patch on his left eye.

"God, I heard some news today that the governor of Ruzhou has taken office. This person seems extraordinary. He killed Lady Tieshan as soon as he arrived. He should not be underestimated."

The man with a mustache on the left is holding a fan in his hand. He Yuanfang, the prefect of Wancheng, is considered the top leader of Wancheng. But in front of the middle-aged man in front of him, he has to think carefully before speaking carefully.

"What is a small military governor afraid of? These military governors in the court are being thrown out in waves, and they are becoming less and less valuable. He is an outsider, what waves can he make?" The man on the right said with disdain.

This man is a famous businessman in Wancheng. His surname is Luo and he is known as Luo Baiwan.

He didn't take the so-called Jiedushi seriously at all.

As the two were talking, Zhao Shixiong, who was sitting in the middle, raised his glass and said, "My father-in-law is holding Ruzhou back, so he won't be able to make any progress for a while. Now the Yellow Calamity is getting more and more serious. Let's wait and see. If there is really chaos in the world, hehe, it will be a great opportunity for us."

"Hahahaha, that's right."

While the three were talking, Zhao Shixiong's ears suddenly moved slightly, and he put down his wine glass without making a sound.

He stood up slowly and said with a smile: "Read it short! Liang's descendants are stuck on the cloud shed!"

As soon as Zhao Shixiong said this, Luo Baiwan and He Yuanfang looked at each other, put down their wine glasses tacitly, then suddenly lifted the table, stood up and ran out.

While running, he shouted outside: "Hurry up, there is an assassin!!"

"broken!"

When the people on the roof heard this, their faces changed drastically. They stomped their feet hard, shattering the tiles beneath their feet, and jumped down from the roof. Two of them stabbed Zhao Shixiong with swords as sharp as lightning.

However, Zhao Shixiong was well prepared to face the swords of the two men. He suddenly turned around and opened his arms, revealing a ghostly mask on his face.

Zhao Shixiong let out a muffled roar from under the mask, and suddenly an invisible force was released from his hands, instantly twisting the swords that were stabbing at the two people into a twist...

　Sorry, I was sleepy yesterday afternoon, so I took a nap. I wanted my wife to wake me up at night, but she saw that I was sleeping soundly and didn’t wake me up. So I slept until the early morning…

　　
　
(End of this chapter)