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Chapter 866: Beggar's Game
A brand new ingot was spit out from the beggar's mouth.

I don't know if it was originally in my mouth or if it was vomited out from my stomach...

but.

The new ingot that was spit out was shiny and bright, without any filth such as saliva or gastric juice.

Except that the rag did have some lice, so taking this opportunity was like sitting on a mountain of gold…

Seems pretty clean?
Chen Ye immediately narrowed his eyes and said, "Sure enough, there is something wrong with this ingot!"

Before, Chen Ye used the [Eye of Luck] to discover that this ingot did not have any mysterious yellow energy flowing through it.

Instead, it is filled with evil spirit!
therefore.

There must be something wrong with this ingot. At least, it definitely does not appear to be an ornament made of gold coins.

Can it be spit out directly from a beggar’s mouth?

To know.

The identity of the bamboo pole old man is actually a gold digger.

Apart from anything else, when it comes to gold, silver and jewels, a dog’s nose is more sensitive than that of a hound!
Not to mention holding the gold ingots in his mouth, even if the beggar swallowed them in his stomach, or even digested the gold ingots into golden pebbles and defecated them, the bamboo pole old man's dog nose could still penetrate them and smell the scent of money.

Even if you have to dig for gold in a pile of garbage, you can get all this gold!

It's like returning lost property!

and so.

Chen Ye immediately realized that the reason this beggar could hide the gold ingots and even produce them was that there must be some secret behind it.

Transforming into a "hidden dragon", Chen Ye lay in ambush in the dark, hiding in the shadows cast by the ancient buildings on both sides of the alleys in Xining, quietly following the beggar's steps and tracking him all the way.

Sure enough, after the beggar strolled for two steps, another [Gold Digger Hunter] immediately came and pinned the beggar into a corner.

This time,
[Gold Hunter] was not as kind as the bamboo pole old man. He even communicated with them verbally and played some shady tricks.

He simply used brutal force to snatch the gold ingots from the beggar's hands.

And then just get away!

How fiercely they come, how fast they leave.

After all, this [gold digger] also knew that this wealth was not earned by good people. If it was obtained by someone even more evil, then his fate would be no different from that of a beggar.

The beggar's gold ingots were robbed, and he cried and made a fuss, but when he watched the gold digger go away, his crying suddenly stopped.

Then, he spat out another gold ingot from his mouth, put it in his pocket, hummed a little tune, and continued to wander aimlessly around the alley.

She is completely different from the crying face just now!

"With such acting skills, if everyone in this weird era wasn't an Oscar winner, I would have given you an award!"

Chen Ye looked at this scene and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

These days, things are so crazy!
Even a beggar can act so well!

In order to survive, the natives of this world really had to use all thirty-six martial arts!

that's it……

The second and third victims followed one after another.

Some would ask the beggar where his gold ingots came from, while others would simply rob them and leave.

but,

Chen Ye discovered a special point - that is, no matter whether he asked the beggar where the gold ingot came from or not, after taking the gold ingot away, they all ran towards the same direction.

"Does this gold ingot have any psychedelic effects?"

Chen Ye thought secretly in his heart.

at this time.

Most of the day had passed, and dusk stretched the low buildings in Xining's alleys.

It's like the shadows of demons.

In the afterglow of dusk, prepare to welcome the dark stage of dawn!
At this time, Chen Ye no longer had the patience to continue to see what the beggar wanted to do.

At the moment, it seems that this guy is not going anywhere. His task is just to wander around the alleys of Xining and deliberately release the scent of gold ingots.

Let the indigenous people passing by come and grab the money!
Chen Ye directly found a homeless man who paid for his food nearby and played the suona for him.

After playing a little tune for the other party, the homeless man said that he had never heard such wonderful music before, and promised that no matter what Chen Ye asked, he would answer it in detail as the performance fee required for listening to this performance.

"When did the Queen Mother of the West, the white-faced woman with flour all over her face, come here?"

"At the beginning of the month, noon."

After the homeless man answered, he thought for a moment and added: "From now on, I will be here on time every noon."

"What are you here for?" Chen Ye asked.

"Sprinkle the rice." The tramp said, "She did nothing but sprinkle a handful of rice and let that eunuch Wu Ding shout a few times with a drake. What he shouted was something like recruiting and buying horses. I guess it was all a lie."

The older you get, the wiser you become... Chen Ye realized that although this homeless guy was of a low rank, he had at least lived for several decades.

For the indigenous people of the Strange Era, whether they can change their jobs and become stronger depends on opportunities. It is difficult for them to cooperate with each other, form guilds, fight monsters and level up like players do.

In this world, very few indigenous people will interact with each other. After all, everyone’s survival rules are very special, and they are all for survival.

If you accidentally offend someone who is not in agreement with you, you might end up in trouble.

Therefore, the indigenous inhabitants of this world, the weak ones, can only rely on the way of survival and constantly look for gaps to survive.

Although it cannot be said that it can avoid misfortune and bring good fortune, at least it can avoid disaster.

Minor disasters may occur, but major disasters must be avoided!
Whenever a disaster strikes, play dead to avoid disaster!

The status of the tramp may not be as high as that of the [Gold Digger] and the [Gold Hunter], but sometimes weakness is also a kind of protection.

At least, this homeless man would not embarrass the beggar, and he might not have the ability to do so...

The tramp is just a little older than the beggar, but in terms of running speed, he may not be as fast as the beggar!
The beggar ran away so fast that I couldn't say he took ten steps at one step, but if I were to take three steps, that was still enough.

Walking fast and with agile steps is a standard feature of almost every homeless person.

Chen Ye continued to ask, "Has anyone nearby been tricked by the Queen Mother of the West?"

“Yes, but most of them are from outside.”

The homeless man scratched his head and thought for a while, then reviewed the recent situation in Xining alleys and said:

"Ever since the Queen Mother of the West came, no one in the alleys of Xining can live in peace!"

"All the nearby villages and towns have already known that there is a benevolent Queen Mother of the West here. She would scatter some white rice for everyone to eat whenever she had nothing to do. Even the lonely ghosts living in the deserted mountains heard the rumor and rushed over."

"Since then, this alley has become a mess, full of bullies who bully the weak and fear the strong, leaving us, the old, the weak, and the disabled, with nowhere to go to live in peace."

"But if you go to other places, not to mention food, even survival will be a problem!"

"Just make do with it... After all, there are a lot of people here, and sometimes a few kind people come and ask for a meal."

At this point, the homeless man's words were full of helplessness.

In fact, it is true... As long as you leave the alleys of Xining, there are evil spirits everywhere, and you never know whether you will encounter any bad things.

But at least staying in this alley is still familiar territory.

Moreover, although those outsiders are overbearing, they still know the priorities.

If all the indigenous people here were angered and united together, these outsiders might not have such cohesion.

"Since the benevolent Queen Mother of the West has come here and sprinkled rice every day, you have food to eat, so why are you still begging for food?"

Chen Ye caught a key piece of information and asked.

after all.

Among all the people passing by in the alleys of Xining, this homeless man who insists on setting up his bowl on the roadside is the one with the best luck aura!

As for the "gluttons" passing by, including the beggars who managed to grab some rice in the square, they were not as lucky as this homeless man.

but,

These white rices are all normal. Chen Ye also tried to pick one up, but the result showed that it had no effect on himself.

Although this thing is considered a rare and precious thing in the world of the strange era, it is after all just food with very low energy and has little value.

As long as there is no poison in it, it won't kill people.

And those beggars are not fools. As the natives of a strange era, they all have the instinct to "seek benefits and avoid harm". If the white rice was really sprinkled with some poison, they would have smelled it long ago.

Of course I won’t eat there casually!

But as to why one’s luck would become worse after eating it, Chen Ye was somewhat interested in the mystery behind it.

"In that case, let's just go over and take a look."

Chen Ye made up his mind and began to look for the beggar.

But when I got there, I found that the Beggar's Shop was also closed!
He found a roof that barely had any gaps, covered himself with a rag blanket, and fell asleep.

As for the last ingot in my pocket...

That was also swallowed by the beggar.

Chen Ye walked straight up to him and patted the beggar.

The beggar was immediately awakened by the fright, and asked:

"What are you doing?"

Chen Ye stretched out his hand: "Hand over the gold ingots from the day."

"What gold ingots?" The beggar played dumb, as if he knew nothing.

"Oh, the gold ingot you mentioned looks like this."

Chen Ye's face suddenly exploded and turned into tentacles, which quickly drew the scene of the old man with bamboo pole, the gold hunter, and several robbers snatching the gold ingots from the beggar.

The realistic painting style makes the pictures lifelike, just like what they were taken with a camera.

Instead, it looks like it was taken with a camera, and then adjusted later to become this black and white pixel ink style.

The beggar's face changed and he asked, "You followed me?"

"What do you mean by stalking you?"

Chen Ye moved the tentacles on his face: "Can you please reorganize your words for me?"

The terrifying demonic aura suddenly emanated.

The beggar stood up straight immediately and changed his words:

"Sir, this is called monitoring me, not following me."

"You're talking so quietly to an adult? Not loud enough! Not spirited enough! Say it again!"

"Yes! Sir! You are watching me, not stalking me!"

The beggar's voice became so loud that it seemed as if it could be heard throughout the alleys of Xining.

"Yes, Not Bad."

Chen Ye nodded slightly, and then said: "Now do you know where the gold ingot is?"

"My lord... there are no gold ingots at all!"

The beggar said with a sad face.

"Then what was that thing you spit out during the day?" Chen Ye asked sternly.

"That...that is the villain's...heart!"

The beggar had a sad face and was vomiting.

then,

A heart mixed with black blood, covered with tentacles, and as if it still had a living heart, was spat out from the beggar's mouth.

A foul-smelling wind blew in my face!

It was an indescribable stench!

It seemed even stinkier than a corpse that had been fermenting in a stinking ditch for 365 days!
The stench was like a grave being dug up and the coffin opened. Countless maggots were wriggling in the bones lying in the coffin. There were also pieces of rotten flesh that had rotted and turned black. Fat worms were wriggling on top of them, absorbing the rotten and smelly flesh and growing new tissue cells, emitting that stench.

After Chen Ye smelled it, he immediately retreated several meters.

But the beggar ate the heart again and then fell asleep.

"It seems like it's time for the beggar to go to bed today!"

Chen Ye frowned. The smell was extremely stinky and exuded a rare smell in the world...

evil!
This evil encompasses all the darkness and negativity in human nature... No, even on Gui, this kind of "evil" is rare in the world.

"It seems that an investigation is indeed necessary."

Chen Ye knew that he couldn't get any more information from the beggar.

After all, this guy was just a puppet from beginning to end!

Moreover, the gold ingots did not exist from the beginning to the end. It was completely a scam created by that strange heart.

Anyone who gets the gold ingot will be pushed unconsciously to the barren mountain.

but,

This heart is conscious. After noticing Chen Ye's arrival, it immediately realized that it had no chance of touching this giant Buddha.

Instead of being mysterious with such an expert, it is better to show your true self directly.

Scare Chen Ye away!

Of course, it is impossible to scare him away, but at least it means that this heart has confessed to Chen Ye:
"I'm a monster. Don't mess with me, and I won't mess with you."

As for the beggar, he was probably already in this state when he went to that barren mountain, and had been controlled by this black heart.

"If you want to know everything, you still have to follow those controlled beings and go to a deserted mountain!"

(End of this chapter)