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Chapter 49 Su Ruiliang

Su Ruiliang suddenly opened his eyes and woke up with a strong feeling of palpitations and panic.

Realizing that he was lying on the ground, he sat up suddenly and supported himself on the ground with both hands.

At this moment, the sticky feeling from his left hand made him shudder.

He turned his head and saw a human figure lying motionless on the ground within his reach.

Although the dim environment prevented him from seeing more clearly, it had already made him wake up.

This is the "fat sheep" that he and his companions just killed.

But he was clearly about to step out of the tunnel into the underground black market, so why was he here again?

At this moment, the severe pain from the back of his head finally reminded him of the violent blow that seemed to smash his head into pieces.

"you're awake."

Just then, a voice suddenly sounded.

Terrified, Su Ruiliang suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound. Faintly, he saw a figure slowly approaching and stopping a few steps in front of him.

He opened his eyes wide, but apart from seeing a vague outline, he could not make out any details.

This only magnified the fear in his heart.

"I...I...you...who are you?"

“It doesn’t matter who I am, and you don’t need to care about it. Now I want to understand something.

I ask, you answer. "

The voice sounded very young, but to Su Ruiliang it was as if his heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally fell to the bottom.

He didn't speak.

The figure standing a few steps away also did not speak.

The invisible pressure gradually made him feel difficult to breathe. Su Ruiliang swallowed hard and said in a trembling voice:
"You're going to kill me, aren't you?"

"Yes." The figure gave him a simple and clear reply.

After hearing this answer, Su Ruiliang did not become more frightened. Instead, he became calmer and his voice was not so shaky anymore.

"In this case, do I still need to cooperate with you?"

"If you cooperate, I can let you go easily.

If you don't cooperate, I will cut off your hands and feet so that you can't run away, cut off your tongue so that you can't shout, and then throw you into the pit... There are so many corpses and feces and urine, I think you should be able to live for a long time."

The young-sounding voice calmly uttered words that made Su Ruiliang tremble with fear both physically and mentally.

He was prepared to face any torture, and he even felt that he could withstand it.

But now, just listening to the other party's calm description, he was already terrified to the point of losing control.

He had even imagined the horrific scene of himself, without hands and feet, unable to shout, "swimming" in feces, urine and rotting corpses like a maggot.

For the first time, he felt that a cultivator's excessive vitality was not a good thing.

"You...are...venomous!"

He was terrified, angry, and helpless.

"Thank you... Now, are you willing to cooperate?"

The voice asked politely.

"I... cooperate."

"Well, now I ask and you answer."

"go ahead."

"what's your name?"

"Su Ruiliang."

"age?"

"Forty-three." "Cultivation?"

“Just entered the blood refining realm.”

"Do you have any family?"

"..." Su Ruiliang was silent for a moment and asked, "Why are you asking this?"

"Just answer it."

"No."

"you sure?"

"Do you want to use my identity?" At the critical moment of life and death, Su Ruiliang found that his mind was clearer than ever before, and he quickly guessed the possible reason why this person questioned him so carefully.

"..."

The figure did not answer.

But for Su Ruiliang, this was equivalent to having a clear answer, and he quickly said:

"…My wife has passed away, and I only have one daughter who married far away and hasn't come back for many years. My relationship with her was not good to begin with, and since my wife died, I haven't even sent her a single letter.

I also have a younger brother who went out to make a living more than ten years ago and we haven't heard from him since. No one knows whether he is dead or alive.

I run a small inn in the market, called Yunxiangju. On weekdays, an elderly couple who cannot practice cultivation help me run the hotel. We seldom see each other and they don’t know me very well. I only see them a few times a month when we settle accounts at the end of the month.

At other times, I hang out in the bazaar and underground black market... and try to find some suitable targets.

The four people who surrounded and killed this man with me just now were in a similar situation to me. They all gathered together for profit and were not even friends. Their name was..."

Without waiting for the other party to ask, he began to introduce the matter in detail.

Such proactive cooperation makes communication between the two parties efficient and fast.

……

An hour later.

Geng Xuan kept his promise and slowly pulled the guillotine out of Su Ruiliang's heart. A ball of red air rushed towards his forehead.

Soon, as Geng Xuan refined it, he gained twenty-two points of good luck, plus four points of black luck.

Geng Xuan lit a torch and moved closer to Su Ruiliang, staring at his face with his eyes closed in thought for a long time. He even reached out his hand to smooth out the distorted expression on his face, making it look like he was sleeping peacefully.

Only after he had memorized the man's face and body shape clearly did he put out the torch again, quickly searched the body, and took out any useful items and wrapped them up in a pile.

Then, he picked up a corpse in each hand and quickly left the place.

Coming to the entrance to the lower level, he now knew that this place was called the "sump", which was now used to discharge excrement from the underground black market right below the recreation center, and to discard all the unidentified corpses found around the underground black market.

There are many entrances to the "pit" near the black market. If the range is expanded to the outside, there will be more. The one that Geng Xuan had discovered before was just one of them.

However, because there are too many uncertainties in these areas, even the current top leaders who hold the dominant position in Kangle Group dare not send their forces to explore these areas.

The more the power belongs to the Kangle Group, the greater the danger will be if it spreads into these areas, and the more likely it will be to encounter large-scale hostility.

On the contrary, individual practitioners like Su Ruiliang would be safer, but they would never rush to these areas for no reason.

So, everyone knows that there is a wider network of tunnels surrounding the underground black market, but no one has ever explored it in detail.

This is also where the greatest uncertainty lies in the entire Kangle Group.

There may be nothing there the previous moment, but the next moment there may be a powerful, bloodthirsty and cruel person lurking there. No one would wander around in these places for no reason.

"Boom, boom."

With two muffled thuds, Geng Xuan threw the two bodies far into the pit.

Then, he returned through the newly excavated secret tunnel, which had been blocked at both ends and was completely isolated from the underground network under the market, and which ran through the entire Changpingfang.

He cleaned the basement carefully, making sure that the bloody smell after the murder and the stench from entering and exiting the pit twice were washed away, and then returned to the ground.

It's lunch time now, so put everything else aside.

(End of this chapter)