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"He's disliked me ever since Biyou Village... He noticed my interest in the collection, and he's been making things difficult for me at every turn..."

"I had no choice but to ask Brother Liu to come over and try to keep him in check... But I didn't expect that he would make things difficult for me in front of Brother Liu and deliberately put me in the back. I had no choice but to sneak in."

Faced with Zhang Chulan's accusations, Wang Zhenqiu felt like he was swallowing a bitter pill—he had no way to explain himself.

He admitted that he had made things difficult for Zhang Chulan a little... but he definitely didn't do anything as evil as Zhang Chulan claimed!

How come he seems to have become the bad guy after Zhang Chulan said that?

"Zhang Bilian, Zhang Bilian... I have never seen such a shameless person as you!" Wang Zhenqiu said, on the verge of tears.

As he spoke, he looked around at the crowd, wanting people to prove that he was a good person.

He looked at Xia Liuqing, his half-master.

The latter chuckled and then said to Jin Feng, "I can vouch for you, Jin Feng, this little bastard is exactly that kind of person!"

"..."

Hearing Xia Liuqing's words, Wang Zhenqiu could only point at Xia Liuqing and say, "Slander! This is slander! Old man Xia!"

After he finished speaking, he turned his gaze to Zhou Fengliu.

“Commander Zhou, you know me. In Biyou Village, I follow the orders of the organization. You have to help me clear my name.”

“Uh…” Upon hearing this, Zhou Fengliu scratched his face.

He didn't like Wang Zhenqiu's scheming way of speaking when he was in Biyou Village... so naturally he couldn't say anything for Wang Zhenqiu now.

"Qiu'er, your contributions to Biyou Village are evident to all, but this is only the second time I've met you personally."

"How about you pay me three thousand? I can find someone for you, hire some online trolls on the Yiren Forum to clear your name?"

"Then you can use your online trolls to wash away your reputation as a scourge of Southwest China, and then further tarnish your shamelessness..."

Hearing Zhou Fengliu's words, Wang Zhenqiu became even more silent.

While Zhou Fengliu's suggestion was indeed a solution,... what use was it now? Besides, his reputation as a scourge of the Southwest was notoriously tarnished...

Wang Zhenqiu was very sad, but he couldn't say it. He could only turn his attention to his two colleagues, Feng Baobao and Chen Duo.

However, the clever Feng Baobao and Zhang Chulan were wearing the same pair of pants.

Chen Duo was completely unfamiliar with Wang Zhenqiu, and it was impossible for her to say anything nice about him.

Upon seeing this, Wang Zhenqiu revealed a pained smile.

"I finally got serious this once, and you guys made me lose so completely..."

"Boiled!"

...

"Forget it, Zhang Chulan, get up. This matter has little to do with you... and you weren't the one who stole the sect leader's collection..."

Just as Wang Zhenqiu was preparing to "seal his heart and stop loving," Jin Feng, who had been silent for a long time, slowly spoke up and told Zhang Chulan to get up.

"Grandma Jin Feng... Now that things have come to this, please tell me what exactly the sect leader's collection is?" Zhang Chulan asked Jin Feng after standing up.

"Um..."

Upon hearing this question, everyone present looked at Jin Feng with great curiosity.

"Clay Figure Zhang...camera, kite, pocket watch..."

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Jin Feng recited Wu Gengsheng's collection one by one. After hearing these so-called collections, everyone remained silent for a long time, unsure of what to say.

"Perhaps there are a few valuable items among those collections, but most of them were just picked up by the sect leader... They're not rare items, so they don't attract ordinary people, let alone people with supernatural abilities."

Jin Feng said this.

“Valuable things? Who says they aren’t attractive?” Zhou Fengliu said, indicating that he was interested in valuable things.

"I came here for the valuables..."

"..." Jin Feng silently looked at the small pavilion on the high platform in the distance, then sighed and said:

"But they're all gone now..."

“Indeed, let alone 30%, there’s not even a trace left.” Zhou Fengliu said this while glancing at Zhang Chulan.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chulan knew that Zhou Fengliu was mocking him, and he could only give Zhou Fengliu a bitter smile.

"But this makes things quite interesting," Wang Zhenqiu said at this moment.

"If these collections really don't have much value to people with supernatural abilities, and the people who kidnapped Granny Jin Feng had already taken the collections beforehand, then why did they bring these people here?"

Wang Zhenqiu's words surprised everyone slightly, as they found them to make a lot of sense.

"They calculated that Grandma would also come... Judging from the hidden information Liu Mingyuan gave these people, the person behind it all wants us to fight each other..."

What are they trying to do?

Wang Zhenqiu stroked his chin, pondered for a moment, and then answered his own question:

"Could the person behind this be targeting these changes?"

Wang Zhenqiu pointed to the several ordinary corpses on the ground that had been transformed by Tongtian Valley...

"It's such a pity that all these people are dead. It would be nice to have someone alive to compare them with."

Chapter 221 Since we're already here, there's nothing wrong with taking a photo, right? (Second Update)

"Live?"

Upon hearing this, Barron stepped forward.

"Yes, that unlucky guy should still be alive... I'll go bring him over."

Barron went to bring over the unfortunate fellow they had initially used to gather information, and the rest of the group waited there for a while.

At this moment, Zhou Fengliu took out his far superior mobile phone and took a few photos inside the cave.

"Brother Liu, what are you doing?" Zhang Chulan asked, puzzled by Zhou Fengliu's actions.

"Taking photos... If I can't get anything valuable, can't I at least take a few pictures as a souvenir?"

Zhou Fengliu glanced at him.

"..." Upon hearing Zhou Fengliu's words, Zhang Chulan was taken aback at first, then quickly revealed a smile as bright as a blooming chrysanthemum as he said to Zhou Fengliu:

"Brother Liu, you're right. Do you want your little brother to take a couple of pictures of you?"

"Get out of here..."

"okay..."

Hearing that Zhou Fengliu didn't need him, Zhang Chulan quickly and decisively left.

Standing behind Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao seemed to notice something and stared intently at the half-drawn revolver peeking out of Zhou Fengliu's back pocket.

This thing... actually looks pretty good.

Feng Baobao scratched her face, then noticed Zhou Fengliu's revolver sticking out of his back pocket.

A bold idea suddenly came to her mind.

...

After a moment.

Zhang Chulan, Wang Zhenqiu, and the others began to study the remaining ordinary people, while Zhou Fengliu led Chen Duo to the pavilion on the high platform. He remembered that there should be another mechanism here that could lead to a cave below.

Since we're already here... it wouldn't hurt to check out this legendary place where Zhang Boduan of Ziyang Mountain gave his last gift, right?

With this thought in mind, Zhou Fengliu searched the ground and finally found a pair of footprints imprinted on the stone floor.

Seeing him gather Qi with his index fingers and then press it towards the Yongquan acupoint at the footprint.

hum-

Click!

With a jolt, the ground he was standing on cracked open, rotating to both sides in a yin-yang symbol, revealing a square passage.

"what happened?"

Zhang Chulan and the others below were studying the last remaining seedling when they heard a sound coming from above the pavilion.

"Is that Brother Liu?"

Zhang Chulan quickly realized that Zhou Fengliu had just led Chen Duo to the small pavilion on the high platform.

Thinking that Zhou Fengliu might have made a new discovery, he quickly went up the steps and headed towards the high platform, with the others following closely behind.

Soon they spotted the source of the sound.

Faced with the bottomless passage, everyone present fell silent, and then all eyes turned to Zhou Fengliu standing to the side.

"Commander Zhou... what have you been doing? We've been looking for ages and we still can't figure out what the trap is."

Hearing Wang Zhenqiu's words, Zhou Fengliu casually said, "That footprint, the footprint is the mechanism."

"footprint?"

Hearing this, Xia Liuqing raised an eyebrow, then shook her head: