Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 523: The Leader’s Favor

The Crown Prince's soul was shattered and the human-skin umbrella lost control.

Xiao Ran and Xu Yan were suddenly distracted, and their souls returned to their bodies.

Xiao Ran shook his head slightly and came back to his senses. However, it was the first time that Xu Yan's soul was pulled out so abruptly. After his soul returned to his body, he suddenly felt dizzy and sat down on the ground.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran stepped forward and massaged his acupoints a few times. Only then did Xu Yan open his eyes, feeling uncomfortable all over.

"Restorate more and get more sun when you go back home. Try not to go to cold places at night."

Xiao Ran reached out and pulled Xu Yan up. He was in a bad condition. If he walked at night, he might easily run into a ghost.

Xu Yan covered his head and nodded: "Brother Xiao, where is that guy?"

"where."

Xiao Ran looked at the crown prince lying on the ground in front of him. This guy's soul was shattered by himself. Without his soul, he was no different from a vegetable.

Coupled with the shots Xu Yan fired just now, this guy's breath is getting weaker and weaker, and it's obvious that he's dying.

All I can say is that this guy deserved it. If he had run for his life the first moment, as long as he rushed out into the crowd, Xiao Ran and Xu Yan would have been cautious and might have let him escape.

Or he could attack Xu Yan first. Xu Yan only had one horizontal training at D level. Xiao Ran estimated that this guy should be strong enough to seriously injure Xu Yan in a short period of time, and then break out from Xu Yan and rush to the front hall to take hostages.

If this guy rents a house in a place like Guling Street, he can also directly move into Guling Street through the rental contract.

But he just happened to choose the most wrong option among so many correct answers.

Although he seemed to be able to pull everyone into a soul state, he actually lost the protection of his physical body, and he deserved to end up like this.

Xiao Ran squatted down, stretched out his hand to pinch the crown prince's neck, and gently twisted it. With a "click", the crown prince's face quickly turned pale, and he stopped breathing in a moment.

After all, living people have no value to him, and corpses are what Xiao Ran needs.

Xiao Ran patted the [Yin Bing Gourd] on his waist and temporarily put the corpse into it. As for the [Human Skin Umbrella] on the ground, Xiao Ran picked it up and examined it.

It is indeed a D-level cursed item.

"Here you go."

Xiao Ran threw the thing to Xu Yan. The cursed object, the human skin umbrella, was indeed quite powerful, but it was completely useless to him.

When I have cultivated the soul cultivation technique to the second level of returning to the rebirth, this kind of thing will not have any effect on me, so I will just give it to Xu Yan. It can be regarded as having meat to eat.

After Xiao Ran and Xu Yan cleaned up the crown prince's body, Xu Yan sent a message to Shi Jing.

The situation on Shi Jing's side was not as smooth as Xiao Ran's. Xu Han was seriously injured and Shi Jing himself broke an arm.

Fortunately, although the injury was serious, the target Huang Guangyao was also killed.

“This group of people is not simple.”

Xiao Ran was not surprised when he got the news.

Shi Jing was a double D-level beginner and was caught off guard. Huang Guangyao and the others had no idea that they had been exposed, but they were able to seriously injure Shi Jing and Xu Han. From this point of view, we can see that the strength of this group of people is indeed good.

But fortunately the mission was accomplished.

At this time, the door belonged to the previous store manager, who was hiding behind a flower pot and looking over here carefully.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran waved at the other party and said, "It's done, please come out, old man."

After hearing what Xiao Ran said, the store manager breathed a sigh of relief and quickly took out his cell phone to send messages to other people.

"Thank you, old gentleman first. Without your cooperation, we would be in a passive position."

"Yeah, I was also sweating just now." Xu Yan nodded, as if he had thought of something and asked, "Are you from the same hometown as this old man?"

"how could be."

"But the dialect you just spoke..."

Xu Yan thought about what Xiao Ran had just said to the old gentleman when he sat down. Xu Yan thought it was dialect.

"That's the underworld jargon. It's been so many years, I almost forgot it completely. I didn't expect there are still people who can speak it so fluently."

Master Zhu and the store manager who had just left had walked in. Hearing Xu Yan's words, Master Zhu explained to Xu Yan with a smile.

"Underworld jargon... Oh, I was wondering why it sounded so weird, what's the chief leader, scattering leaves?"

Xu Yan scratched his head. The company actually did teach this thing, but they could only teach a few polite words.

Because jargon is something that needs to be constantly used and accumulated, and each field has its own uniqueness.

For example, the jargon used by thieves and the jargon used by robbers is so confusing that no one on either side can understand it.

Or the jargon spoken by beggars and opera troupes, which he couldn't understand at all.

If there is a jargon that everyone can understand, it is the errand runner who can handle it.
So without practice and without a traveling master to teach you slowly, you really can’t learn it.

Xiao Ran started learning since he was a child. His grandfather taught him step by step. If he said something wrong, he would be beaten with a stick. Only then was he considered a stinky spring.

After that, I used it more and more, and gradually I understood its meaning, and I could speak it fluently.

Master Zhu walked up to Xiao Ran, put his right arm across his chest with his thumb pointing to the sky, put his left hand with four fingers together in front of his chest, and asked in a heavy Sichuan accent, "Are you in Yuan?"

Xiao Ran took a step back, clasped his hands together, and made his thumbs into ears, like an incense burner: "I have admired it for a long time, but I have never joined it. It's in the shaded alley, Erpi Hutong."

After hearing Xiao Ran's introduction, Master Zhu understood immediately and quickly reached out to hold Xiao Ran's arm: "So you are a Yin Xing master, please take a seat."

After that, he motioned the store manager to bring his tea over and personally made tea for Xiao Ran. "Little brother, since you are not a member of my Pao Ge Society, how dare you use Chun Dian Zi to point at me?"

Xiao Ran pointed at the pipe in Master Zhu's hand and said, "Although I have never joined the sect, I know that the Pao Brothers will go out and use Liu, Guan and Zhang as their guides. Your pipe is quite good. The front is Guan Gong holding his beard, so the back must be Liu Bei, and the one under the pipe should be Zhang Fei. I tried my luck, but I didn't expect to be so lucky and meet a real god."

What Xiao Ran said was half true and half false. It was really a matter of luck, but Xiao Ran was 50% sure in his heart.

Firstly, Master Zhu is already quite old, and secondly, as a craftsman, it is very likely that Master Zhu will join the Pao Ge Society.

Because the nature of the Pao Brothers Society was like that, it recruited people from the lower classes of society, such as the bangbang, boatmen, and craftsmen of that era, almost all of whom were members of the Pao Brothers Society.

There is no other way. If we hadn’t stick together and keep each other warm, we would not have been able to survive in that turbulent era.

For example, if you encounter robbers when you go out, if he is also a member of the Pao Brothers Society, the robbers can be overcome with just a few words. But if he is not a member of the Pao Brothers Society, how can he get away without leaving something behind?

Or maybe there was a conflict between two sides, and after talking to each other, they found out that they were all members of the Pao Brothers Society, so there was no fight and everyone just laughed it off.

You may ask me why I have to have conflicts with others when I go out. Can't I just be honest and behave myself?

Of course you can, but in turbulent times, you have no say on whether or not there will be conflicts. The lower you are in the society, the smaller the living space you have. If you fail to survive today, you will starve to death tomorrow.

If you don't form a group, others will. What can you do when you can't win the fight?

It was because Master Zhu looked quite old that Xiao Ran could be so sure.

However, if the old gentleman did not respond after he finished speaking, Xiao Ran would not care so much and would still take decisive action.

As long as the action is fast enough and the crown prince is not given the opportunity to act, the old man's safety can still be guaranteed.

"Master Zhu, although we are here to arrest someone, we are also serious about the cheongsam issue."

"Hahaha, fine, fine, you saved my life today, so I have no choice but to give you this set of clothes."

Master Zhu pinched his beard and responded with a smile.

Then, with the help of the store manager, he helped Xiao Ran choose a set of dark green satin and embroidery style.

As for the size, it is probably around 80-58-84.

This is Sister Liu’s three-dimensional figure. It can be measured with just a glance, so Xiao Ran is very confident.

Sister Liu helped me to manage Guling Street, and because of her existence, the property had the privilege of being promoted half a level, so it was not excessive to spend some money and buy some gifts.

When I finish the work at hand, I will find a way to bring Yuting out and personally take her to make a more suitable set of clothes.

After deciding on the clothes, Xiao Ran originally wanted to get up and say goodbye.

But suddenly he remembered something, and took out the pipe his grandfather had given him from the space and handed it to Master Zhu.

"Master Zhu, please help me take a look at this thing."

"Ok!"

Master Zhu didn't take it seriously at first and just took it, but when the old man took a closer look, his expression suddenly changed.

"How do you have this thing??"

"This was given to me by my family. I don't know where it came from. They just said that I could use it to find the local Pao Brothers Society when I get into trouble. I don't have any trouble, I just want to know where this thing came from."

To be honest, there are a lot of these kinds of stuff in his grandfather's box. Xiao Ran really has no idea how many favors his grandfather has accumulated.

Some favors are still useful, while others are already a thing of the past.

Xiao Ran was not sure what the uses of this pipe were, so he asked Master Zhu to help him take a look so that he could know the origin of this thing.

Hearing what Xiao Ran said, Master Zhu nodded, looked at it carefully for a moment, and then put the thing on the table.

"That's right, this is our Uncle Wang's pipe."

The Pao brothers’ families are not divided by size, only by class and seniority.

The eldest uncle is the leader, the second uncle is the sage, the third uncle is the head of the family, the fourth uncle is the housekeeper, the fifth uncle is in charge of armed fights, and the sixth uncle is in charge of patrolling.

The Uncle Wang mentioned by Master Zhu means Wang Longtou.

As he spoke, Master Zhu couldn't help but shook his head and laughed, and said to Xiao Ran: "If you take this thing out a few years later, I'm afraid no one will recognize it."

Xiao Ran knew that the favor his grandfather gave him in the form of the pipe was of great importance, but he never expected it to be so significant.

It turned out to be a dragon head.

Although the Pao Brothers are mostly composed of people from all walks of life at the bottom of society, not everyone can sit in the position of leader. One must have a military or political background or high enough prestige in the underworld to sit in this position.

"Wang Longtou is long gone. Only the older generation like us can recognize this thing. If you need it, take it to the tailor shop in the west of the city and find Zhang Mazi. He is the youngest among us. Otherwise, you may not be able to find him in a few years."

"I see," Xiao Ran nodded and wrote it down.

He then stood up and said goodbye, and after leaving the store with Xu Yan, the two took a car back to the company.

On the way, Xu Yan received news from the company one after another. This operation was more successful than they expected.

Although one or two people escaped, most of them were either shot dead or caught. The remaining escapees could only hide in the embassy. Now they dare not even show their heads out, and there is no need to worry about them causing trouble.

The company hopes that Xiao Ran will go back to dissect the body as soon as possible. The body will belong to Xiao Ran, but the company must obtain information about the Hand of God.

Xiao Ran looked at the gradually darkening sky outside and knew that tonight would probably be another sleepless night with overtime work...

(End of this chapter)