Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 394 A Small Thing

It has been almost two months since I left Wancheng.

When Xiao Ran came to Wancheng again, the destroyed city wall had been repaired.

One can see the newly recruited defenders on the city wall, each of them looking high-spirited. Although they have not yet formed that elite spirit, they look much better than before.

Xiao Ran arrived above the Wang family's house and groped his way to the outside of Gao Yuting's boudoir with ease.

Before I could knock on the window, I suddenly heard Gao Yuting's voice coming from the window: "You bastard, you said you would be gone for a month, but now you've only been back for almost three months."

Xiao Ran was stunned. He didn't expect Gao Yuting's strength to have improved so much. He flew all the way back silently, and was noticed by her as soon as he got close.

I was just about to say something.

"Om!!"

The door and window in front of her were pulled open, and Gao Yuting was seen standing outside the window with a pout on her lips.

Her eyes widened as she glared at Xiao Ran, and she said unhappily, "Come in now."

After saying that, he reached out and helped Xiao Ran pull his body into the window.

Just as Xiao Ran's spiritual clothes returned to her body, Gao Yuting closed the window. She turned around and saw Xiao Ran coming close to her with a grin on his face, holding her slender waist.

"There are so many things to do and the tasks are heavy. I rushed back as soon as I finished them."

As he spoke, Xiao Ran took out many prepared gifts from the space. In fact, they were not expensive items, just some small jewelry, perfumes, skin care products, etc. that girls liked.

I bought them all at Guanlin Market. They are just small common items worth very little.

It's not that Xiao Ran is stingy, but he has no experience in giving gifts. He can only buy it if he likes it and it's useful.

Although this thing is cheap, it is novel and makes Gao Yuting's resentful eyes suddenly become much happier.

Xiao Ran happily introduced to Gao Yuting the uses of these things. For example, lipstick, facial cleanser, and skin cream might not be of much use to girls from ordinary wealthy families.

But Gao Yuting often has to run around outside, so these skin care products always come in handy.

"That's perfect. I was just thinking, if you were a few days later, I would have gone to Chang'an."

Gao Yuting played with these new things in her hands and spoke to Xiao Ran.

"Going to Chang'an? What to do?"

Xiao Ran was a little confused. Chang'an was not a good place. The Huang Zai Army had already formed a large scale in Jiangnan. Once Jiangnan was annexed, the next step would be to directly attack Chang'an.

Besides, Shuang Fei herself is a wanted criminal, and Gao Yuting is her disciple, so there is no reason for the court to let him go.

"Don't think too much. My swordsmanship has reached a bottleneck. Although I am only one step away from reaching the ultimate state, I still can't break through. My swordsmanship is inherited from my master's understanding of the swordsmanship, so I plan to follow my master's example and go to Chang'an to travel and study the swordsmanship."

After saying that, Gao Yuting narrowed her eyes and blushed a little, "Of course, I have a little thought. The twelve-year sword competition is about to begin. My master won the championship with one sword that year. As his apprentice, I must join in the fun."

Xiao Ran nodded. This was understandable.

It's pure nonsense to say that one doesn't care about false reputation in the path of cultivation. His wife is not a saint, so naturally she wants to make a name for herself with her own strength.

If you don't fight for anything and don't grab anything, then what's the point of being a gangster? Wouldn't it be better to go home and farm?

"That's perfect. Let's go together. I'm on my way to Luoyang to worship the mountain. It's just on the way."

After Xiao Ran finished speaking, a prompt appeared in front of him.

"Trigger the side quest, Chang'an Sword Review."

Mission description: Participate in this sword review and obtain the conclusion of the sword review.

Mission Difficulty: E
Looking at the task before him, Xiao Ran's heart was filled with joy.

Accompanying my wife to complete tasks, is there anything better in the world?

I guess other beginners would be envious and jealous if they knew about this.

"But you have to wait for me for two days. I just came back and I have a lot of things to deal with."

"There's no rush. We're not far from Chang'an, so it doesn't matter if we wait a few more days."

Gao Yuting said as she leaned closer to Xiao Ran's arms: "Besides, you are still with me."

The candlelight shone on Gao Yuting's little face, which was so red that people wanted to take a bite of it.

Both of them are young men and women who have tasted the forbidden fruit, so how can they abide by the rules?

Soon the bed upstairs began to make thumping noises...

The next day, before dawn, Xiao Ran quietly walked out of the window of the room.

Take a deep breath and feel refreshed.

He turned around to look at the girl who was putting on her makeup and grinned, "I'll come again tomorrow night."

"Bah, next time just go through the main entrance. I won't leave any windows for you."

Gao Yuting spat and glared at Xiao Ran unhappily.

"Hey, that's not so exciting."

After saying that, Xiao Ran leaped up and used his lightness skills to jump down the building. In three or two steps, he disappeared into the street and headed straight for the Zonglou in Wancheng.

Zonglou was originally the base camp of the Nuo sect. It was located in the core area of Wancheng and covered a vast area, like a city within a city.

Now that Nuomen is gone, Zonglou has become Lu Cheng's base camp.

It was renamed General's Mansion.

When Xiao Ran arrived at the door, the soldier guarding the gate immediately locked his eyes on Xiao Ran.

Just a glance made Xiao Ran feel a strong sense of murderous aura.

These people were originally soldiers trained by Lu Cheng, and after the battle of Wancheng, they have become a strong and elite army. If he is not afraid of more than ten people attacking together, he can easily escape with more than a hundred people.

But if the number of people reaches thousands, Xiao Ran can only avoid their attack or even surrender.

They had never seen him, so they didn't know the relationship between him and Lu Cheng. Xiao Ran came to the door and said to the soldiers guarding the door: "Please inform them that Xiao Ran is here to see you, sir."

The guard nodded, then turned and walked quickly into the door.

After about ten minutes, the guard came back.

"My lord, please come inside."

As he said this, he walked in front to lead the way.

Xiao Ran had been to this place before, so it was not unfamiliar to him. However, after entering, he immediately received a prompt.

"Warning! You are within the suppression range of the Ruzhou Tiger Army. All attributes are reduced by 20%."

"Warning! You are suppressed by the military might. The activation of the cursed item will take five seconds."

The appearance of the two prompts did not make Xiao Ran nervous. Instead, he felt relieved. This showed that the elite troops under Lu Cheng's command indeed met the standards of an elite.

Come to the lobby.

I saw Lu Cheng sitting in front of the desk, looking at the articles on the desk with a bitter face.

"Oh my god?? Why has this guy changed so much??"

When Xiao Ran saw Lu Cheng, she couldn't help but be startled.

In the eyes of others, Lu Cheng was just sitting there quietly, wearing a robe, looking no different from an ordinary person.

But in Xiao Ran's vision, the light golden smoke surrounding Lu Cheng was rising into the sky like a wolf smoke.

The light golden smoke is ethereal and invisible, but in a trance one can see the figure of Guan Yu appearing in it.

"Divinity!"

Xiao Ran could tell at a glance that the golden smoke was divine. He had seen it before in the mountain temple.

But what I saw at that time was just a ray of golden light the size of a grain of rice.

Compared with the golden smoke in front of us, it is completely a different concept.

It can only be said that even if a little mountain god practiced hard for a hundred years, he could not compare to this little bit of Lu Cheng.

Just as Xiao Ran was staring in a trance, Lu Cheng raised his head, and when he saw Xiao Ran, a look of relief immediately appeared on his face, and he threw the document away.

"Xiao Ran, you're finally back. I've been wondering when you'll come back these past few days. You left me here all alone. I'm so lonely."

Lu Cheng walked down with a smile on his face and opened his arms to give Xiao Ran a big hug.

Xiao Ran smiled and raised her hand to hit Lu Cheng's chest: "Lonely bullshit, I heard from my wife last night that you go to see your sister-in-law every few days, sneak into the house, chatter and spend the whole day together, don't tell me how happy you are."

Lu Cheng's face was already red, and now that his lie was exposed, it became even redder.

It was because Xiao Ran and Lu Cheng were too familiar with each other. If it were someone else, Lu Cheng would just glare at them and the other person would probably be scared to death.

"Come on, come on, we haven't seen each other for a long time. Let's have a good chat today. Someone prepare the banquet."

As he said that, he pulled Xiao Ran towards the back of the lobby.

He complained to Xiao Ran as he walked.

"I can accept everything else, but there are too many rules, and the words written on it are so difficult for me to read them by myself."

While the two were talking, they came to the small courtyard at the back and sat down.

Xiao Ran brought himself back to reality and helped him explain the matter of delivering the letter to the bald old man.

Hearing that the bald master was still waiting for him to come back, Lu Cheng couldn't help but reveal a look of guilt on his face.

But even though he felt guilty, Lu Cheng knew in his heart what he was doing.

It doesn't matter if he feels guilty now, but if he can't create a safe haven here, when the maze city crashes to the ground in the future and he doesn't even have the ability to protect his family, Lu Cheng will only regret it even more.

After a while, the food and wine were ready, and Xiao Ran and Lu Cheng sat down to eat and chat.

Sometimes Lu Cheng also felt that everything was too dreamy. He was just a famous actress in an opera, a person of the lowest class.

But fate changed in a flash, and he transformed from an actor into a general with the power of life and death.

This huge change made Lu Cheng sometimes pinch his face, a little bit unable to believe it.

In fact, it’s not just Lu Cheng, Xiao Ran himself sometimes also has this feeling.

However, every time Xiao Ran had this feeling, he would think about how he had come this far, and slowly he no longer felt that there was anything empty about it.

"I'm planning to go to Chang'an for a stroll next. Do you have any good suggestions?"

"Chang'an..."

Lu Cheng frowned and pondered for a moment, then he suddenly raised his head and asked, "Do you have any good suggestions?"

Xiao Ran knew that Lu Cheng was asking about his friends.

"Oh, oh, I see."

Lu Cheng nodded to the air and listened very carefully. Xiao Ran was sitting beside him. She couldn't see or hear anything for a while, but she could feel that there seemed to be a special power around Lu Cheng.

After a few minutes, Lu Chengcai sorted out all the information and looked back at Xiao Ran: "It's just a small matter."

"what's up?"

"Well... go and kill the emperor!"

(End of this chapter)