Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 552: Whose territory is it?
Zhu Rong was cut in half, and his body fell into the Yellow Spring and was immediately sucked into the depths. No one knew what was going to happen to him.

Xiao Ran looked at it with a sense of regret.

"What a pity! This is top-quality material."

As a corpse seamer, Xiao Ran shook his head when he saw such good material was gone.

But if we talk about the coolest, it has to be the ferryman. Without his sneak attack, Zhu Rong wouldn't have died so easily. But where is this old thief hiding now? ?
Through the Xuanguan mirror, the scene before my eyes was already surging with yellow springs, and most of the evil ghost market had been submerged.

Those many evil ghosts sank immediately after coming into contact with the Yellow Springs.

No matter whether they can swim or not, without the protection of their physical bodies, they basically have no chance of floating up from the underworld.

What is even more distressing is that in this dim yellow spring, from time to time, some blurry shadows flash by.

If this continues, it is only a matter of time before this place is swallowed up.

Xiao Ran looked at the torn wound. Instead of healing, the wound became bigger and bigger due to the continuous outflow of Yellow Spring.

"Won't this thing heal? What if the things in the underworld come out?"

Xiao Ran looked at Jin Chanzi.

Jin Chanzi spread his hands and said, "It can only be said that these people are unlucky. However, anything that is too powerful cannot escape, and anything that can escape will not be that powerful."

Just as Jin Chanzi finished speaking, a dark shadow suddenly emerged from the water, opened its bloody mouth, and swallowed the entire house in one gulp.

The corners of Jin Chanzi's mouth twitched a few times, and he looked at Xiao Ran helplessly: "There are always a few fish that slip through the net."

"boom!!"

At this time, there was a loud rumbling sound in the distance.

Xiao Ran signaled Jin Chanzi to turn the Xuan Guang Mirror. Through the Xuan Guang Mirror, Xiao Ran noticed that it was Shanlong and Jinniu, who were still chasing a young man.

The three of them stepped on the roof beams, moving left and right, and from time to time they triggered cursed objects to attack each other.

"Could this guy be Doujiao?" Looking at Shanlong and Jinniu's relentless pursuit, Xiao Ran began to secretly suspect.

Doujiao's strength is obviously much stronger than Shanlong and Taurus.

But now the terrain is complex, and the Yellow Spring is rising rapidly. I am afraid that it won’t be long before the entire evil ghost market will be completely swallowed up.

"I wonder how Xu Yan and Wenwen are doing now."

Just when Xiao Ran was worried about the two of them, the sleeves in front of him suddenly shook, followed by a huge force that shook out Xiao Ran and Jin Chanzi together.

The two men fell to the ground and rolled over before they found their footing. Looking around, they saw the roof of a building.

Mother Xi stared at Xiao Ran with her eyes fixed on him and stretched out her hand towards him: "Give it to me!"

Xiao Ran knew that what Xi's mother wanted was the dragon ball that she had obtained from Zhu Rong.

He looked at Jin Chanzi, but saw that Jin Chanzi was nodding slightly at him, as if signaling him to give the dragon ball to Xi's mother.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran took out the so-called dragon ball from the space.

I didn't even check this thing carefully. I just threw it into the space after taking it in my hand.

Holding it in his hand at this moment, he felt that it was quite heavy. Before he could check the properties of the thing, Mother Xi snatched it away.

After getting the Dragon Ball, Mother Xi couldn't wait to hold it in her hand and examine it.

But as she watched, Mother Xi's face gradually turned pale, her hands trembled, and the dragon ball rolled along her fingers to the ground.

"Bang! Gurgle..."

Xiao Ran was also puzzled. He picked up the dragon ball that had fallen at his feet and took a look at it without understanding why.

"Discovered the special cursed item [Dragon Lip Bead], no need to activate it."

【Dragon Lip Beads】:
Privilege 1: Dragon Lips

The holder can understand dragon language and change his own language into dragon language.

Privilege 2: Dream Lips.

Activating this privilege can turn all false thoughts into illusions.

Duration: 30 minutes
Cooling period: twenty-eight days.

(Note: After the item is activated, it can also affect everyone within a one-kilometer radius.)
Looking at the properties of this thing, Xiao Ran didn't think there was anything special wrong with it. It did explain why Zhu Rong liked to let the evil ghosts in the evil ghost market pretend to be gods, as long as they were coordinated with this dragon ball.

Then the false god seems to be able to transform into the appearance of the real God in a short period of time.

"Fake, it's all fake."

Mother Xi fell to the ground, and all her energy seemed to be drained away.

"Infinite Heavenly Lord!"

Jin Chanzi placed one hand on his chest and said to Xi Mama, "In this world, there is nothing that can make a wish out of nothing. Even Zhu Rong probably knows this. The Dragon Ball is just a cover for his own amusement and to mislead others. Xi Mama, you understood a long time ago that the dead cannot be resurrected."

Mother Xi's already pale face lost all its luster at this moment.

Xiao Ran came over and asked, "What's going on?"

"Mother Xi spent all her money to take a photo of me. In fact, she didn't want to eat me, but just wanted to use me to resurrect her son. She heard a long time ago that Zhu Rong had a dragon ball that could turn all illusions into reality. That's why Zhu Rong has always been so eager to become an immortal."

In fact, Xi's mother also knew that the dragon ball in Zhu Rong's hand might not be so magical, but she thought that it would be good even if she could just summon back her son's remaining soul.

But she didn't expect that this thing was so completely fake, and what could be transformed were just illusions and not reality.

As the saying goes, the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

Gambling her entire fortune, only to find that it was all just an illusion in the end. You can imagine how devastating this must have been for Xi's mother.

"You go."

After a while, Mother Xi sighed and waved to Xiao Ran and Jin Chanzi to leave. She looked at Jin Chanzi and Xiao Ran and said, "I'm not interested in eating you, and I don't want to be with this kid. Let's go, leave as soon as possible."

Back then, she couldn't get over the death of her son, and she accidentally entered the world of the maze city in a daze.

Here she saw many impossible things.

This gave her hope, and it was this hope that supported her, allowing her to transform step by step from an illiterate person who could not even recognize a word into a tycoon who dominated a region.

It is said that money can make things happen, so she became a treasure collector, hoping to use money to buy her son's resurrection.

But no matter how much money she spent, she could not bring back her son's soul.

She also wanted to go to the underworld to look for it.

However, as an A-level treasure collector, she is not even qualified to get close to the Yama Palace.

Not to mention asking the King of Hell to open the Book of Life and Death and release her son's soul.

What's even more ridiculous is that her money is only enough to bribe the ghost officials. Those above her are too lazy to pay attention to her, and will even beat her out if they are not satisfied.

The so-called money can make people powerful is just a joke. In the eyes of others, your money is nothing but a pile of garbage full of the smell of copper.

Now even the last bit of thought is gone, and Mother Xi doesn’t want to care about anything anymore.

Now she just wants to sit here and be alone.

"Take care of yourself."

Seeing that Mother Xi let them go, Jin Chanzi didn't even bother to say a word and pulled Xiao Ran up: "Hurry, hurry, hurry up and go."

He is not a monk, so he cannot comfort others by himself.

However, just as the two were about to leave, they turned around and saw waves rolling above Huangquan and a wooden boat slowly emerging from the water.

The old ferryman dragged his broken body and sat on his small boat.

What is even more surprising is that he actually placed the dragon stele on his boat.

This dragon stele is a good thing, but unless you are a descendant of the royal family, you cannot use it at all.

However, this did not pose a problem for the ferryman. Xiao Ran saw from afar that there was half a dead body next to the old man, which was the upper half of Zhu Rong.

The ferryman stretched out his hand and tore off Zhu Rong's arm, then twisted one of his own arms and inserted the broken arm into the broken end. He then pulled out a hair and quickly sewed it up. In a moment, the arm was sewn back to its original state.

After stitching up his arm, the ferryman looked up at Xiao Ran with pride and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to take a boat, you'll need a ticket."

The higher the professional level of a corpse stitcher, the more likely it is that the parts on his body will be replaced according to his needs.

So what if I don’t have royal blood? I can just take Zhu Rong’s body apart and put it on my own.

In a blink of an eye, both arms were replaced, and the ferryman also replaced and mended his own injured parts. He did not act rashly and just sat on the boat.

When the water in Huangquan becomes more and more and there is no place to stand here, the life and death of Xiao Ran and others will be decided by him.

"Damn it, none of these old guys are easy to deal with."

Xiao Ran cursed inwardly, thinking to himself that even if he asked Taoist Plum Blossom to come out at this time, it might not work. This old man was too cunning, and he might sneak into the underworld at the slightest sign of trouble.

"Gululu..."

What is even more distressing is the bubbles that appear from time to time under the Yellow Spring. The huge bubbles roll around, and occasionally, they are mixed with some broken limbs.

Xiao Ran glanced over and saw a black shadow flash quickly in front of him. He didn't dare to say whether he had seen this thing before, but it was definitely not something good.

“Old friend, old friend!!”

On the roof in the distance, the old ghost Black Wind and the ghost ox driver stuck their heads out and waved towards this side, hoping that the ferryman would come and pick them up.

The Yellow Springs around them were getting deeper and deeper, and the things in the Yellow Springs made them feel fearful. They even dared not to approach the water's edge rashly, for fear that the things in the water would suddenly jump out.

As a ferryman, the old man is not afraid of these things at all. The special nature of his job gives him extraordinary convenience here.

But in the face of the calls from the two, the old ferryman ignored them completely, and even glanced at them with contempt, and continued to sew new organs on his body.

"Oh no! This old guy is clearly trying to take everything!"

Jin Chanzi looked back at Xi Mama with a bitter face, but at this time Xi Mama seemed to have been completely drained of her energy, and the five words "tired, destroy" were almost written on her decadent face.

She is now stuck in a dead end and doesn't care about the life and death of Xiao Ran and Jin Chanzi. It is a kind-hearted act of a bodhisattva that she doesn't use them as a vent for her anger.

It would be a pipe dream to expect her to save them from suffering.

"Crash..."

In just a short while, the Yellow Spring rose a lot and the water had begun to submerge up to the feet.

The old ferryman seemed to sense something and slowly stood up, staring at Xiao Ran and Jin Chanzi, the greed in his eyes could no longer be hidden.

"Hahahaha, this opportunity doesn't come once in a thousand years. How could this old man be so worthy of such an opportunity?"

The ferryman's smile became brighter and brighter.

"It's over, it's over. We are really finished this time." Jin Chanzi's face became more and more ugly. He subconsciously turned back to look at Xiao Ran. However, when he turned back, he saw Xiao Ran staring straight at the crack behind him that led directly to the underworld.

"What are you looking at? Are you planning to run to the underworld?"

Seeing this, Jin Chanzi immediately reminded him, "Don't be silly. Don't say that the ferryman is faster than us. Even if we go to Huangquan, it is his territory. Even if he is not there, we will die if we go to Huangquan."

"not necessarily!"

"What?" Jin Chanzi didn't hear Xiao Ran's voice clearly.

Xiao Ran looked at the crack with a feeling, and the feeling became stronger and stronger. Suddenly, he took out the positioning gun that Xu Yan had given him from the space: "I said, it's not certain whose territory it is!" He aimed at the crack in the distance and pulled the trigger...

(End of this chapter)