Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 284 Yu Family Gossip
Zhao Shixiong's eyes were dazed for a moment, and a group of hideous figures rushed towards him, holding white steamed buns in their hands, with greed and expectation written all over their faces.

Just like... a group of hungry refugees, staring at a pot of meat.

That’s right, I am the meat in the pot.

"No!! I don't want to die, I don't want to die!"

In horror, Zhao Shixiong's right pupil twitched and a red light flashed under his left eye mask. The blood-like light suddenly pierced through the illusion in front of him.

His bones crackled and he struggled violently, actually breaking free from the illusion. He rolled sideways to avoid Xiao Ran's sword.

"what!!"

Xiao Ran half-closed his eyes. This was the first time someone escaped from his killing blow since he became an extraordinary swordsman. He couldn't help but feel very surprised.

However, the sword had already fallen, and Xiao Ran had no reason to cut into the air. He raised the blade in his hand slightly and quietly changed the angle.

"puff!!!"

As the big knife flashed past Zhao Shixiong's head, Zhao Shixiong threw himself forward in embarrassment and fell heavily to the ground, but he felt lucky in his heart.

"Want to kill me? Dreaming!"

Zhao Shixiong turned his head viciously, his eyes like a poisonous snake, wishing he could pull out the skin and tendons of the two men.

However, it would have been better if he had not turned back. When he turned back, he found that under Xiao Ran's big knife, the body of an evil ghost whose head had been chopped off was slowly dissipating in the void.

"Jingle Bell……"

The [Guillotine] made a clanging sound, and part of the body of the evil ghost whose head was chopped off flowed into the knife, making Xiao Ran feel that the knife seemed to have some changes. Before he could think about it, he heard a "click!" sound.

The mask on Zhao Shixiong's face made a crisp sound, and a crack appeared from the place where the arrow had just hit. It spread quickly like a spider web until it broke into pieces and fell off his face.

"No!"

Zhao Shixiong suddenly panicked. He quickly picked up the fragments on the ground and put them on his face, but how could he restore the broken mask to its original state?

"Thief, die!"

Just when Zhao Shixiong was panicking, a cold shout suddenly came from behind him, and the next second a long sword pierced Zhao Shixiong's heart.

A biting chill spread from his heart. Zhao Shixiong turned around and looked at Gao Lan's face unwillingly. He slowly fell to the ground and stopped breathing immediately.

Looking at the villain she had stabbed to death with her sword, the woman heaved a sigh of relief. She looked up at Xiao Ran, still trying to figure out his origins and whether he was a friend or foe. Then she saw him step forward and nod at the woman, "Girl, are you okay?"

"Thank you for your help, big brother."

"You're welcome. We have the same goal. I am the one who took advantage of you."

Xiao Ran did not hide his purpose.

"I see. Thank you for your help. If we had known that there were experts helping us, we would not have dared to show off our skills. May I ask your names?"

The woman was very smart and immediately realized that the sudden change in the brothel was obviously caused by the help of this master. However, they might have ruined the other person's layout and disrupted his plans.

"You're welcome. Don't call me big brother. I'm only a few years older than you. Just call me Xiao Ran."

Xiao Ran thought to herself, "I'm used to calling you brother now. If you marry Lu Cheng in the future, I'll have to change my name and call you sister-in-law."

"It's Brother Xiao. I'm Gao Yuting. I can't talk much today. If you have time, we, the Righteous Alliance, will hold a gathering in Langkou Peak, 30 miles east of Wancheng, in three days. You may come and join in the fun."

"Okay, if I have free time, I will definitely go." Xiao Ran nodded in agreement. He was still very curious about the world of martial arts in this era.

Gao Yuting didn't dare to stay any longer. It was already daybreak and there were too many people here, so she couldn't stay for long. After bowing and saying goodbye to Xiao Ran, she turned around and left immediately.

Xiao Ran brought Tiger and others back.

He walked to Zhao Shixiong's body and reached out to remove the blindfold on Zhao Shixiong's face. He was surprised that this guy had just forced himself out of his soul-slashing wound. It seemed to be related to this eye.

After removing the blindfold, Xiao Ran took a closer look and discovered that there was actually an eyeball carved out of dark red stone in the eye socket.

"No wonder he has to wear an eye patch. It seems what Yang Mingjie said is true. He is indeed a one-eyed man."

Xiao Ran took off the eyeball.

"You discovered the D-level cursed item [Eagle Eye]"

"Or is it a cursed object?"

Xiao Ran was a little surprised and tried to activate it using Scholar.

【Lingjiu Pupil·Scholar】

Privilege 1: Spiritual Eye

After activation, it can penetrate D-level spells and skills, and forcibly tear the spells apart in an instant.

Duration: 10 seconds

Cooling time: 10 minutes
Privilege 2: Eagle Eye

After activation, you can make your eyes see different things.

Duration: 30 seconds

Cooling time: 10 minutes
(Note: If this item can be embedded in the body, it can exert special effects.)
Looking at the properties of this thing, Xiao Ran curled his lips. It has little effect on him, but it should have nothing to do with this thing. The effects of D-level cursed objects are often very strong. According to the annotation, this eye should be embedded into the body.

"Keep it for now, and try installing it on Senbei's eyes when we get back." After putting the things and the corpse together, Xiao Ran did not delay any longer and hurried back.

It can fly at night and pass through mountains and underground during the day. It can even shrink the distance into an inch and its speed is ridiculously fast.

As he walked back, he thought to himself, "I didn't expect that my sister-in-law is actually a gangster. I don't know if Big Brother Lu can subdue her in the future."

"and many more!!"

Suddenly, Xiao Ran paused, as if he was frozen in place. He looked back with wide eyes: "Hiss~ That's not right, isn't my sister-in-law blind?"

Xiao Ran patted his forehead.

"Alas, care leads to confusion, and even a single mistake can lead to error."

At that time, I was only looking at the woman's face and ignored this point.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on Xiao Ran. He was not familiar with the girl in the first place, and what's more, when he suddenly saw an identical face, the first thing that came to his mind was his sister-in-law, and he did not bother to think about it carefully.

But this is human nature. He is not an intelligent robot and it is inevitable that he will make wrong judgments when encountering things.

"Forget it, let's go back first. Even if she's not my sister-in-law, based on this face and last name, she is most likely related to me."

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran stopped worrying about it.

He controlled the [Spiritual Clothes] and rushed back to Ruzhou City quickly.

By the time Xiao Ran returned to his physical body and put away his [Spiritual Clothes], it was almost noon.

"Zhao Shixiong is dead, so the next thing will be much easier."

Xiao Ran was not in a hurry to send Zhao Shixiong's body to Yu Deng. Instead, he took out the body and started to sew it up.

The chest wound was extremely easy for Xiao Ran to heal, and he sewed it up in no time.

Then he picked up Zhao Shixiong's memory book and started reading it.

After a closer look, Xiao Ran couldn't help but frown. There was no need to read the first half in detail, as it was all about Zhao Shixiong's past when he was unsuccessful. But the content of the second half surprised him.

This kid was originally a failed scholar. As for the imperial examination, it has already existed in this era, but nowadays, rituals and music are in decline, and even the imperial examination is controlled by major clans in the court. Without connections, even if you have some talent, it is difficult to pass the exam.

With no hope of passing the imperial examination, he originally wanted to go home and find another job, but somehow he got into a caravan and encountered a group of robbers.

In this way, Zhao Shixiong was taken up the mountain by the robbers.

Fortunately, Zhao Shixiong was young at the time. Although he was not good at either literature or martial arts, he was good-looking. He was favored by the bandit leader and became his transvestite for a while.

That is how, Zhao Shixiong, surrounded by bandits, gradually began to manage the finances of these bandits with the little knowledge he had.

Relying on his own connections, he broke down the money robbed by the robbers into small pieces and slowly purchased land, and began to launder the money little by little for the robbers.

Zhao Shixiong was also a good money-maker. He made a fortune quickly by relying on his own brain and the methods of the robbers. Gradually, the robbers had a fixed share of money every month, and it was not a small amount.

Money paves the way for everything to go well.

The robbers received high salaries every month, so who would risk their lives to rob people? They all obeyed Zhao Shixiong's orders.

By the time the bandit leader realized what was happening, he found that he had been sidelined by Zhao Shixiong. So he decided to strike first and openly invited Zhao Shixiong to drink, but secretly planned to kill him.

But he didn't expect that this idea coincided with Zhao Shixiong's.

The bandit leader was stabbed in the back by his confidant, but he fought back desperately and blinded one of Zhao Shixiong's eyes. He himself was then cut into pieces by the crowd, and Zhao Shixiong took the reward for his head and formally led his brothers to surrender.

From then on, Zhao Shixiong began to abandon literature and practice martial arts. He learned a set of palm techniques of the Great Spinning Hand of Heaven and Earth. Later, he became a disciple of the Nuo Sect and inherited the Nuo Sect's tradition, which enabled him to improve by leaps and bounds.

Become the Ruzhou Southwestern Tiger.

"This guy is really talented."

After reading about Zhao Shixiong's experiences, Xiao Ran couldn't help but sigh.

Life is like a play. Although Zhao Shixiong is dead, his life was full of ups and downs. This guy was a hero. If he was given time, when the yellow disaster broke out on a large scale and the world was in chaos, I am afraid that this man would definitely rise up in the troubled times and become the king.

"I'm sorry, brother. It's just your bad luck. There's no room for you on this road to becoming the king."

Xiao Ran put down the memory book and thought to himself, "This guy Zhao Shixiong is actually the son-in-law of the governor of Ruzhou. No wonder the governor of Ruzhou dared to play such a trick and deliberately delay and refuse to cooperate. I'm afraid he is just trying to buy time for his son-in-law."

In addition, what surprised Xiao Ran was that in Zhao Shixiong's memory, the governor of Ruzhou had an illegitimate son, and this person was none other than Yu Deng.

He was a mixed-race child of a Russian female slave of the Ruzhou governor. When he was six years old, the governor's wife found out about it and sent people to beat his mother to death.

Although Yu Deng survived, he was looked down upon since childhood.

Although he shared the same surname as the governor, his name Yu Deng was destined early on. In the eyes of the Yu family, he was just like a horse stool used to step on when mounting a horse. He could only be a stepping stone for the Yu family.

Later, he had an argument with Zhao Shixiong over a sentence, and was kicked by Zhao Shixiong, breaking his penis.

This is also the reason why Yu Deng wanted to kill Zhao Shixiong.

"No wonder he wants to be an official and must kill Zhao Shixiong."

Xiao Ran immediately understood Yu Deng's thoughts. If he didn't have the ability to kill Zhao Shixiong, even if he became an official, he would only be inferior to his father, and there would be no hope of revenge.

"When will the cycle of revenge end..." Xiao Ran said, narrowing his eyes: "But I like it..."

(End of this chapter)