Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 597 Fishing in troubled waters? No, I'll drain all the water from your pond.

There are many kinds of acquaintances. As the saying goes, familiarity breeds contempt.

But some people are naturally outgoing and friendly.

Just like the old demon from Qinghai, when he went to the bathhouse and saw that it was steaming hot inside, and the huge bath was filled with people soaking in it like pigs going to the toilet.

These people were itchy all over but couldn't scratch anywhere, so they simply soaked in hot water. The hot water poured over their skin was so refreshing and invigorating, it was a true relief.

Seeing them soaking in the fire, the old demon from Qinghai decided to add fuel to the fire.

Upon arriving at the boiler room, he opened the water tank, made a hand seal, bit the tip of his tongue, and chanted an incantation. A ball of dark flame slowly appeared in his hand.

He was an old demon from the White Bone Hell, and his fire control skills were second nature to him. This wisp of black fire looked inconspicuous, but it was a notorious and ferocious fire in the underworld.

When this tiny flame is thrown into the water tank, the temperature of the tank begins to rise slowly within moments.

"Oh, that feels so good!"

A group of people were soaking in the hot water in the bath. As the water temperature gradually rose, everyone felt their muscles and bones go weak and they lay in the pool like mud.

Some people sensed something was wrong, but when they stepped out of the bath, a cool breeze blew and their skin tightened suddenly. The intense itching all over their body drove them crazy, and wheals of varying sizes rose on their skin. Helpless, they could only jump back into the bath.

The sudden change from hot to cold created an intense, tingling sensation, causing people to drift off to sleep until the water in the bath began to bubble. They were too weak to move.

Before long, the water began to boil.

Standing outside the bathhouse, the old demon Qinghai looked at the familiar faces inside before turning away with satisfaction.

"Ugh~~~"

Upon hearing Taiyi's words, everyone's faces twitched. They were already used to the bloodshed of dissecting living people, and the sudden image of cooking a human being caught off guard.

The nauseating stench of meat in the air was so strong that even Pumpkin couldn't help but gag.

"This bastard!!"

This debt was naturally attributed to Xiao Ran. After a barrage of curses, the group hurried towards the observation tower without delay.

Upon arriving at the building entrance, they saw the security guards who had been killed by Xiao Ran.

Taiyi squatted down and reached out to examine the wound, his brows furrowed: "A fine knife, a very sharp knife."

Just by touching the wound, Taiyi could feel an unstoppable killing intent rushing towards him. The cut looked deep, but the cut was delicate and neat, without even a bit of extra force.

If this were swordsmanship, it would be somewhat understandable, but for a knife technique like this, the sheer control over power was simply beyond Taiyi's comprehension.

"This guy's swordsmanship is probably far superior to ours."

Di Jun said with a frown.

Both men were skilled with knives, so they could naturally see how profound the techniques were. Di Jun couldn't help but ask Pumpkin, "Are you sure that when you last met this guy, he was only an E-rank? Was he already skilled with knives back then?"

"Of course, would I lie to you? We've talked. He spent about two years in the Lost City. As for his swordsmanship, I'm sure he didn't know any swordsmanship back then."

Upon hearing this news, the two looked even more incredulous.

"Two years? A near-leapfrog improvement in strength? Is this guy a monster?"

The Emperor and Taiyi felt a pang of shame.

As 3D masters, they have been stuck at this bottleneck for almost four years.

"It's alright. Just look for an opportunity later. If all else fails, cover Ghost Master and the others as they leave. Even if this guy is Sun Wukong, he can't escape my grasp."

Pumpkin thought the two were scared, so he took it upon himself to deal with Xiao Ran, making a big show of it as if he didn't care about Xiao Ran's swordsmanship at all.

Pumpkin dared to do this not without reason.

He is a Spirit Master, specializing in countering Corpse Stitchers. With this skill alone, the opponent would cripple half of his martial arts. However, killing Xiao Ran would not be easy for him either. At the C-level professional level, each professional has a very strong survival ability.

If Xiao Ran is determined to fight to the death, I'm not sure I can keep him here.

However, it's still easy to keep him occupied and prevent him from being able to spare any attention.

As they spoke, the group had already entered the observation tower.

As soon as he entered, Ghost Master's face immediately turned ugly.

The test subjects inside the observation room had already fled.

What Ghost Lord cared about was not these test subjects; there were plenty of such useless people outside. Once the area where the hospital was located was established, the amount of consumables needed for the experiments would be countless.

Compared to these test subjects, Ghost Lord was more worried about Qilin.

"It seems that Qilin is likely to meet with a grim fate."

Taiyi glanced at the open door in front of him and exchanged glances with his younger brother. According to the rules they had signed with the trial participants, these participants were not allowed to leave the room.

But now these people have all come out unharmed, which means one thing: someone helped them break the contract.

The contract had always been kept in Qilin's hands, and now that such an important thing had fallen into Xiao Ran's hands, Qilin was probably not going to have a good ending.

Sure enough, they soon found the torn contract on the ground.

Ghost Master, his face dark, looked at Pumpkin beside him: "If we can't stop him this time, we're both in big trouble."

Po Jin still loves his nephew quite a bit. If he were to find out that Qilin had gotten into trouble, he and Nan Gua would probably find it hard to bear Po Jin's wrath.

But the two had no time to discuss these things and hurriedly went upstairs.

The second floor is empty, and the third floor is also empty.

When they arrived on the fourth floor and pushed open the door, everyone was stunned.

On the fourth floor, everyone stood there with wide-eyed rage; they were all drug test subjects who had been tricked into coming by Changchun.

Upon seeing Ghost Master and his group, they immediately raised the tables, chairs, and benches they were holding and smashed them down.

Such petty tricks could hardly threaten Ghost Master and his men.

Without even Pumpkin's intervention, Di Jun and Tai Yi simultaneously drew their swords, the blades whistling in unison, conjuring a gust of wind that blew the incoming projectiles back, instantly throwing the group into disarray. "Hmph, a bunch of rabble. Even without the bonds of the contract, what can you do?"

Ghost Master snorted coldly, his face full of contempt.

In his eyes, the greatest value of these people was only as consumables; to even glance at them was a waste.

Come to think of it, if these people had any real ability, why would they become test subjects?

"You bunch of beasts, I'll fight you to the death!!"

A blond-haired boy with red eyes grabbed a glass bottle from the ground and smashed it.

Seeing the glass bottle flying towards him, Ghost Master casually slapped it, causing the bottle to shatter and spill out a yellowish liquid that splashed onto Ghost Master's face.

A foul stench wafted over, causing Ghost Master's expression to change drastically.

"Hahaha, old man, how's it? Does my piss smell good?"

The blond-haired man gave the Ghost Doctor the middle finger.

"Fuck your grandma, I'll skin you alive, get on top of them, kill them all."

Being mocked like this by a worthless consumable, Ghost Lord was immediately enraged and said to Taiyi and Dijun beside him.

Upon hearing Ghost Master's order, the two immediately grabbed their knives and moved forward, ready to unleash a massacre.

"Amitabha Buddha, Heaven cherishes life. You have already committed heinous crimes, and now you are about to start a massacre. Are you not afraid of falling into the Avici Hell after death and never being able to be reborn?"

Among the crowd, Jin Chanzi had changed back into his original Taoist robe and was carrying a whisk. Although he was not old, he had an extraordinary aura about him.

His gaze was cold and his expression solemn, which made it impossible for Di Jun and Tai Yi to see through the young Taoist's strength for a while.

"Avici Hell?"

Facing Jin Chanzi's rebuke, Guiye said nonchalantly, "Have you not heard that with 100,000 banners, one can slay Yama? Even if I were to go to hell, I would still be a local overlord."

As soon as he said that, another burst of laughter came from the crowd.

"Ten thousand banners to slay Yama?? Hahaha, the last guy I remember saying that is still being ground up in the Grinding Wheel Hell every day. Ten thousand? Even if you had a million, you probably wouldn't be able to get through the gates of the City of the Wrongfully Dead."

The speaker was none other than the Old Demon of Qinghai.

To be honest, the old demon of Qinghai has heard this kind of talk more than once: "With ten thousand banners to slay Yama, and a hundred ghosts walking the night road, I stand here with my sword drawn."

Anyone who says such things will almost always meet a bad end, whether in the underworld or the world of the living.

What if it's 100,000? A million? Ten million?
Not to mention the underworld, the five ghost emperors have tens of millions of ghost soldiers under their command. These are all brave ghost soldiers who have carved out a peaceful place in the underworld since ancient times. Even the thirty thousand ghost messengers under the command of the underworld, each with a mutilation stick, can beat you until you doubt your existence.

Even millions of ghosts wouldn't be enough to fill even one layer of hell.

So every time he hears someone make such boastful claims, Qinghai Laomo can't help but laugh.

"Taurus, you've gone mad! You betrayed the Changchun Association! Your entire family will be executed!"

Seeing Taurus hiding behind the crowd, Ghost Doctor stared at him in disbelief.

I thought Taurus might be in grave danger, but now not only is he alive, he has also betrayed the Changchun Society.

"Oh, then go ahead and kill them. What does it have to do with me?"

The old demon of Qinghai didn't care about the life or death of Jinniu. He just stared at Pumpkin and the others in front of him with a sinister look: "Enough nonsense, hand over the things and let us leave."

"Let you leave? On what grounds? Let the white cat out! That guy spouts all that morality and righteousness, but what kind of person is he, hiding behind these old, weak, sick, and disabled people!"

After saying that, Pumpkin reached out and summoned six enormous spirits. These spirits were neither ghosts nor demons, with ferocious appearances, and each of them had the strength of a beginner at the 3D level.

“If he doesn’t come out, you will all be buried with him.”

"you dare!"

Jin Chanzi raised an eyebrow in anger and took something out of his sleeve: "If you dare to touch it, I'll destroy this thing first."

"do not want!"

Before anyone could see what it was, Ghost Master's expression changed drastically, and he quickly stood in front of the pumpkin.

The thing in Jin Chanzi's hand was none other than the medicine pouches from the other five test subjects, which were the lifeblood of Ghost Master.

It turned out that after Xiao Ran and his group stormed in, Xiao Ran went straight into the room of the two surviving test subjects, killed them on the spot, and dug out the medicine sacs from their bodies.

Because both of them were still alive, the bodies were not damaged too badly, and the runes inside had not yet mutated, so it would be easy for Xiao Ran to take out the medicine pouch.

However, at this moment, Xiao Ran herself was not in the observation building. Instead, when Pumpkin and the others entered the observation building, Xiao Ran quietly returned to the hospital's inpatient department.

Walk through the corridor and arrive at the mild case area.

"It should be about time. Once the riots start, I can go straight to the intensive care unit."

Xiao Ran rushed to Zhang Qi's ward, intending to kill Zhang Qi first. Although the other party posed no threat to her, Li Xuyin had poisoned her, and she and Li Xuyin were in cahoots.

They clearly had ill intentions, killing people before the riots even started to eliminate any future trouble.

"Hey, trying to fish in troubled waters?? I'll just drain all the water out of you."

No one knows how to fish in troubled waters better than Xiao Ran, so naturally he won't give others any opportunity to take advantage of him.

However, when Xiao Ran arrived at Zhang Qi's ward, she found that Zhang Qi was not there.

Not only was Zhang Qi missing, but the other patients were also nowhere to be found.

Just as Xiao Ran was wondering, the head nurse's voice came from the corridor behind her.

"Dr. Wu!" Xiao Ran turned around and saw the head nurse staring intently at her, holding a ward round form in her hand: "It's time for your rounds..."

As the head nurse's voice faded.

Alarms began to appear in front of Xiao Ran, and various strange rules that Xiao Ran had never seen in the Qilin Notebook appeared one after another...

(End of this chapter)