Lord of Puro

Chapter 571: Old man, don’t get excited!
Guan Zhengzhang, Zou Maoqing, Cao Dayong.

The three people were in three different rooms and were questioned by Li Banfeng, Ji Ji and Hong Ying respectively.

Li Banfeng was in the main room: "What's your rank in the Ferry Gang?"

Guan Zhengzhang replied: "I am the leader of the boatmen. Normally, the boatmen don't have to go into the water, which means they don't have to do business. But if something goes wrong, they have to find a way to tow the boat out."

As the leader of the boat trackers, Guan Zhengzhang had a high status.

"Who has a higher status, you or Du Wenming?"

In fact, this question is obvious. Guan Zhengzhang did not dare to mention Du Wenming's name, which shows that Du Wenming's status is higher than Guan Zhengzhang's.

The purpose of Li Banfeng asking this question was to see to what extent Du Wenming restricted the members of the Ferry Gang. Guan Zhengzhang, at his level, should be able to tell some inside information.

Unexpectedly, Guan Zhengzhang didn't dare to mention anything related to Du Wenming. In every sentence he said, words like Director Du, Boss Du, Brother Du, and that person's surname Du could not appear. Even the word "Du Jue" was not something Guan Zhengzhang dared to mention easily.

Li Banfeng asked, "If you mention these things, will you explode on the spot?"

Guan Zhengzhang nodded and dared not say more.

Li Banfeng took out the information Shen Jingye gave him: "You just said that the boat pullers don't participate in the business, but as far as I know, some time ago, someone sent a batch of ghost servants from Pro Province, and you sold them through your hands."

Guan Zhengzhang bowed his head and said, "This is his order. I can't do anything about it."

"Whose order? Du Wenming?"

Guan Zhengzhang nodded repeatedly: "Recently, the gang needs money, and the business on the black market is not good. Good ghost servants cannot be sold at a good price. There are many businesses that can only let me come forward to make connections."

"When did the Ferry Gang start to be short of money?"

"When there was no Ferry Gang, everything was fine. It was because times were tough that the Ferry Gang came into being."

"What do you mean? You knew Du Wenming before the Ferry Gang came into being?"

Guan Zhengzhang lowered his head and said, "I am still from Xuehuapu. Xuehuapu formed the Ferry Gang with those foreigners because they were short of money."

"Have you ever been to Provo?"

"Yes, we went together." He said half of the sentence because there was a name that Guan Zhengzhang couldn't say. His full meaning was that he went with Du Wenming.

"How many residences does the person who went with you have in Yuezhou?"

Guan Zhengzhang lowered his head and said nothing.

Li Banfeng asked again: "Just tell me the most crucial point, and find a way to tell me."

Guan Zhengzhang thought about it for a long time, and for the sake of safety, he chose to remain silent.

Li Banfeng took out the bloody pendulum and said, "If you don't listen to my advice, we have to find another way to communicate."

……

The record player was in the second room and asked, "Did you take medicine or were you cursed? How did Du Wenming curse you? Tell me the truth, and I might be able to help you get rid of the curse."

"We don't have any curse on us," Zou Maoqing looked at the record player, his tongue twirling as he spoke.

The steam from the record player burned a lot of blisters on Zou Maoqing's body. "I only asked you to say the spell, not to mention Du Wenming. Isn't it good to leave yourself a way out?"

Zou Maoqing endured the severe pain and shook his head repeatedly: "There is really no spell. We, don't have..."

Hong Ying was in the third room, piercing Cao Dayong's left shoulder with her sword: "You're going to die anyway, don't you want to die quickly?

Just tell me the truth. Does Du Wenming have a place to stay in Yuezhou? If so, tell me the address. The more you tell, the faster the explosion will happen, and the quicker you will die. "

Cao Dayong didn't want to die, so he gritted his teeth and refused to say anything.

Hong Ying smiled and said, "I really admire your courage. I'll pick out your bones and see how much courage is inside."

The three people interrogated for two hours and found out a total of nine dens. The record player found out five, and Li Banfeng and Hong Ying found out two each.

It's not that these three people are stubborn and unwilling to speak, but if they voluntarily reveal the location of the hideout, it will explode.

The record player had the skills of interrogation. After going back and forth dozens of times, he got Zou Maoqing to reveal three more addresses. Li Banfeng compared the nine addresses together and found that four of them were repeated, but the remaining five addresses were all different.

We arrested three people just to verify each other's statements to avoid being misled, but we didn't expect this to be the case.

Among these five dens, the record player was not sure which one was valuable, and neither was Hong Ying. Since sending Lu Huazi to Daogui Ridge, Du Wenming had become the toughest opponent Li Banfeng had ever encountered.

With no other choice, Li Banfeng decided to go all the way.

The first hideout was in a residential building, closest to the city, and was a house of more than 50 square meters.

This area is obviously not suitable for placing large equipment. Li Banfeng inferred that some key information should be stored here.

The house has one bedroom and one living room, and the layout is very compact. As soon as I entered the door, I found several secret compartments.

There are some in the closet, under the floor, and in the walls.

The secret compartment is not big and is empty inside.

Li Banfeng was late. Du Wenming should have come to this hideout and moved all the things away.

The second hideout was in a warehouse in Baiyuan District.

In this warehouse, there is a warehouse that was rented by Du Wenming for a long time. After entering the warehouse, Li Banfeng found several boxes of radio equipment. Most of these equipment were unopened and should have been purchased by Du Wenming just now.

It is not a crime to have a hobby of science, and these devices are also obtained through legal channels. Gloves did not find anything valuable in these devices, which means that these devices have not been modified and there are no good things like Tianxin Stone inside.

Du Wenming had not had time to move the things in the warehouse, and perhaps these things were indeed not worth transferring.

The third hideout was a basement.

This basement is located in a village in the city. Someone rented it before, but it was later rented by Du Wenming.

After entering the basement, although Li Banfeng did not find any useful information, he figured out the purpose of the basement.

This is a conference room with a long table, leather chairs, white porcelain cups, and a kettle. Just seeing these things makes Li Banfeng feel sleepy.

The Ferry Gang should hold meetings here frequently, but Du Wenming will definitely not be in the mood to hold meetings for some time to come, so this meeting room is basically useless.

The first three hideouts were of little value. Li Banfeng brushed off the dust on his trouser legs and continued on his way.

Fortunately, I am a traveling cultivator. If I were a lazy cultivator, I would feel physically and mentally exhausted, let alone walking around in person, even thinking about the locations of the five hideouts would make me exhausted.

The fourth hideout is a fish pond.

Du Wenming rented a fish pond and hired a worker to raise fish there.

According to regulations, Du Wenming's position strictly prohibits commercial activities. Is raising fish a violation of regulations?

Not really. I learned from the workers at the fish pond that Du Wenming never sells the fish he raises, he just does it for fun.

Even if this was against the rules, Li Banfeng didn't bother to care. He was interested in this fish pond because the gloves sensed something good.

At night, when the workers got off work, Li Banfeng dived into the fish pond and, judging by the gloves, dug out something very valuable from the mud at the bottom of the pond.

This valuable thing is money.

A total of eight million in cash was sealed in a waterproof bag and buried at the bottom of the pond. The money was for emergency use and Du Wenming did not have time to take it away.

"Atao, we've been running around for a whole day, and this is all we get?"

"Keep it. It's better than nothing. Isn't there another place?"

The last hideout was in a factory in the far suburbs.

This factory produces cement boards. When he arrived at the factory, the workers had already gone off work. After walking around the factory, he found nothing. Li Banfeng couldn't even think of what the purpose of this factory was.

There was one thing that had sensed something, the begging bowl.

There is a dark dimension here.

Behind the factory, Li Banfeng found the location of the dark dimension space. He turned the spoon in the bowl and opened the entrance to the dark dimension space.

This is the most closed type of dark dimension space. People outside cannot see inside, and people inside cannot see outside. The two are completely isolated from each other.

After entering the space, Li Banfeng used the light from the projector to see the entire picture of the space.

Spectrometer, resonator, interferometer...

For a moment, he suspected that he had come to the wrong place. He felt like he was in Yu Yaoming's laboratory again.

The layout of the equipment here is almost exactly the same as that in the laboratory.

Finally found the core hideout, this is Du Wenming’s own laboratory!

But where does this laboratory get its electricity from?
As far as Li Banfeng knows, the power consumption of several devices in this laboratory is astonishing.

"Atao, is there anything valuable here?"

"Yes, it seems to be very valuable!" Ah Tao was estimating the price, but couldn't give a specific number for a while.

"Are all the good things in these machines?" Li Banfeng thought the situation was exactly the same as in the previous laboratory.

Glove shook his index finger: "There's nothing in the machine. These machines are similar to those in the laboratory, but there's nothing good in them."

Key components may have been removed, or they may not have been installed.

It’s a good thing that it’s not installed, which proves that Du Wenming has not come back yet. If it is taken away, it would be a waste of time to come here.

After passing through various experimental equipment, Li Banfeng first saw a wall and then a door.

Is there a wall and a door?

Du Wenming has renovated this dark dimension space.

There was almost no dust on the cement wall, which proved that he had been here not long ago and was diligent in cleaning.

What's on the other side of the door?
It took the gloves ten minutes to open the door lock and push open the heavy iron door. Li Banfeng saw a deep corridor with iron doors of exactly the same style lined up on both sides of the corridor.

The gloves opened the first iron door. Behind the iron door were two rows of iron cabinets. Each iron cabinet was about the same size as the trash can at the elevator entrance. There was a screen on top of the cabinet, which displayed various parameters.

An outsider would think that this is advanced experimental equipment. Li Banfeng had seen this thing when he was in college. This is a DC battery pack, which is the source of power for the laboratory.

Judging from the parameters, all the battery packs were discharged, which was most likely because Du Wenming had exhausted the stored power before leaving.

Leaving the battery room, the gloves opened the next room, which was the distribution room.

Going to the next room, Li Banfeng entered the bedroom. There was a bed in the bedroom with bedding still on it.

This should be Du Wenming's residence.

The projector suddenly spoke: "My friend is here."

Li Banfeng followed the firelight and saw a ceiling lamp on the ceiling of the bedroom, and a camera next to it.

The projector and the camera looked at each other for a moment, and then said to Li Banfeng: "My friend said that a middle-aged man once lived here. Last night, this middle-aged man was taken away."

"Taken away by whom?"

"He said he was the owner of this place."

The owner of this place is Du Wenming, so who is the person living here?

"Can you let me see what that middle-aged man looks like?"

The projector and the camera communicated for a moment: "Director Seven, the camera has lost power and cannot display images."

In fact, without showing the image, Li Banfeng could make a rough guess that Yu Yaoming originally lived here and Du Wenming imprisoned him here.

After the battle in the laboratory, Du Wenming realized that the situation was not good and took Yu Yaoming away.

It would be normal to infer that Du Wenming would take away everything valuable, except Yu Yaoming.

Since they were all taken away, why did the gloves still say that there were valuables?
Li Banfeng returned to the corridor and checked each room one by one.

He saw the warehouse, toilets, machine room and bathroom.

There is also a spacious dance room with mirrors on the walls, a dance floor, and colorful lamps on the ceiling.

Being almost completely isolated from the outside world, it was hard for Li Banfeng to imagine how Du Wenming had completed such a huge project.

He definitely didn't do it by himself. There must be an engineer helping him, and a very high-level engineer at that, most likely a member of Xuehuapu.

It is also because of this craftsman that Du Wenming can be dressed up exactly like a puppet.

There is a cabinet in the dance room. It is not locked and contains a lot of dance teaching materials.

Considering the value alone, these teaching materials are certainly not precious, but for a martial artist, they may be equivalent to his martial arts secrets.

Li Banfeng actually paid attention to one of the teaching materials, which explained the string puppet dance.

There really is such a dance.

Li Banfeng collected these dance teaching materials, thinking that he might be able to find a way to deal with Du Wenming in them.

Next to the dance room is the information room, which is empty and has nothing left.

Li Banfeng no longer had any hope for this hideout. When he reached the end of the corridor, he saw the last iron door.

Gloves looked at the door lock and said, "Boss, this lock is hard to open. Please wait for me for a while."

It was an ordinary door lock with no apparent features. Gloves worked on it for half an hour but still couldn't open it.

He said there was something valuable behind the iron door. What was it? Why did Du Wenming leave it here? "Brother, don't open the door. I'll just go through the wall."

"Boss, don't be reckless. You don't know what's going on on the other side of the wall."

"Then I'll open a path first."

"Boss, this is someone else's territory, especially an unknown place. We'd better be cautious. What if you open a road and the whole house collapses? We will suffer a huge loss!"

Click~
After waiting for ten minutes, the door finally opened.

Li Banfeng opened the door carefully, using his best efforts to avoid danger and seek good fortune, carefully sensing the danger on the other side.

The space outside the door seems to be much larger than that inside the door.

There was indeed danger on the other side of the door, but it was within controllable range. When Li Banfeng opened the door completely, he saw the two treasures and understood why Du Wenming did not take them away.

These two treasures are too big.

Two spheres with a diameter of more than ten meters were suspended in the space outside the door, rotating slowly.

They rotate among themselves and also orbit each other, as if they were two planets floating in the universe.

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Li Banfeng couldn't tell what the two balls were made of. They looked like stones, but they still had some metallic luster.

It's not a reflection, but the two spheres themselves are flashing with faint light, and the halos are like layers of veins, slowly sliding across the spheres.

"Is this the baby you're talking about?"

"Yes, Boss!"

"Come, let's take him into the residence."

"It can't fit in. Our room is so small!"

As Gloves had just finished saying this, Li Banfeng suddenly heard a rapid whistle.

Woo woo, woo woo!
Is the old man awake?
I'm so anxious just after waking up.

Gloves reminded: "Boss, we don't need to take the good stuff. The old man is quick and has big hands. If you walk a little further, I think the old man can take them away himself."

Li Banfeng took two steps towards the two balls. The balls were like magnets, pulling Li Banfeng towards them.

Where does this power come from?
Even if these two balls are really magnets, Li Banfeng is not made of iron, so why could he be sucked over?

He used his own strength to resist the force of the ball and took two cautious steps towards the ball. When he was about three meters away from the ball, Li Banfeng stopped.

You can't get any closer. If you get any closer you may never come back.

If it were a land cultivator, he would have been sucked onto the ball by now.

Gloves saw something stuck to the ball. It was very valuable and should be made of gold.

It also flew towards the ball and was about to lose control of its body.

Li Banfeng grabbed the glove and dragged it back with all his strength.

"What are you going to do?"

"Boss, I got something good, take a look first..."

Before the glove could show the good stuff, the two balls suddenly became smaller and then disappeared.

The space became empty and dark, and Li Banfeng heard a long whistle.

Woo~
There was a hint of laughter mixed in with the sound of the whistle.

Hahahaha!

The man in the gloves shook his index finger and said to Li Banfeng, "Old man, we have succeeded. We can't go back empty-handed. This is what we just picked up. Boss, take a look. It's pure gold."

Li Banfeng took a piece of gold from his glove. Judging from its shape and size, it looked like a leaf.

Gold leaf?
No, it's not leaves, there's a pattern on it, it's a tree.

There are patterns on the trunk, which look like two eyes.

What tree has eyes?
birch!

This is a badge, probably the badge of the Birch Tree Hermitage.

Why does this badge appear on the ball?

Li Banfeng left the dark dimension, walked out of the factory, found a patch of grass nearby, hid the key, and entered the mobile home.

"Master, are you awake?"

"Yeah, I'm awake!" Suishenju answered happily.

Li Banfeng asked, "What treasure did you encounter just now that made you so happy?"

"Heavenly Heart Stone, two whole pieces!"

"Was that the Tianxin Stone just now?" This was completely different from the Tianxin Stone that Li Banfeng had imagined.

"Yes, those are two complete pieces of Tianxin Stone. Complete!"

"Don't those parts I brought back earlier also contain the Heart of Heaven Stone?"

"Those are just broken stones, far from good enough. Chu Shaoqiang was able to send Daogui Ridge to Sage Peak with this kind of complete Tianxin Stone."

Li Banfeng recalled the appearance of the two balls and said, "This thing is too big."

The old man sighed, "It's a good thing there are two pieces. If there was only one piece, it would be troublesome."

Gloves laughed and said, "Old man, you are too greedy. If you have one piece, isn't it a big profit?"

"It's not a matter of how much you earn. With two Heavenly Heart Stones, the suction force cancels each other out. You can still stand next to the Heavenly Heart Stone. If there is only one, you will definitely be sucked onto the stone, and it will be difficult to save you then."

"Sucked on the stone?" Li Banfeng was confused.

The record player understood a little bit: "The suction that the old man mentioned should be the gravity that other states call it."

"Can the gravitational force between two spheres be so strong?" According to the gravitational formula, gravity and mass are related to distance.

How high must the density of these two spheres be to generate such a strong gravitational force?

There was too much information, and Li Banfeng needed to sort out his thoughts. After thinking for more than half an hour, Li Banfeng figured out the whole process of the incident.

After Du Wenming kidnapped Yu Yaoming, he placed him in this hideout and rearranged the laboratory according to Yu Yaoming's requirements.

The key parts in the laboratory were missing because they were mixed with Tianxin Stone. As the material was not easy to obtain, Du Wenming chose to steal it from Yu Yaoming's laboratory.

wrong.

He has two complete pieces of Tianxin Stone. Why doesn't he use local materials and make parts directly?
It would probably take a long time to make the parts, but stealing the parts from the lab would involve great risks.

In fact, Du Wenming's action had failed. He failed to steal the parts from the laboratory and was injured instead. He was in a very unfavorable situation and his identity could be exposed at any time.

He did not use the Tianxin Stone in the dark dimension as the material for manufacturing parts. The only reasonable explanation was that these two complete Tianxin Stones were too expensive.

Moreover, these two pieces of Tianxin Stone have other uses. If they can move Daogui Ridge, they can definitely make this dark dimension space move.

The clues are connected.

Du Wenming wanted to use the Tianxin Stone to move this hideout away, but he failed, and the birch badge on his body was also absorbed by the Tianxin Stone.

Why didn't he succeed?

"The only one who can use the Heaven's Heart Stone to move a piece of land is a craftsman, right?"

The old man thought for a moment and said, “Other Taoist practitioners can also try, but unless their cultivation is ridiculously high, they may not succeed even after trying thousands of times.”

Du Wenming tried, but obviously failed.

So what does he do now?

He is from Xuehuapu and also a member of the Birch Hermitage. It is time for him to look for help.

A helper who can move the laboratory.

……

In an unfinished office building, Du Wenming was standing at the entrance of the 28th floor, looking at a man on the stairs.

The man was holding a caliper in his hand and a half-smoked cigarette in his mouth. He kept half a floor away from Du Wenming and asked, "What do you want from me?"

Du Wenming said: "There is something I need your help with. It's about my experimental base. I want to..."

Before he finished speaking, the man waved his hand and said, "I don't remember if you have any experimental base. If you have anything to say, let's talk about it later."

Du Wenming walked up two steps: "My current situation is very dangerous. I don't have time..."

The man motioned for him to stop immediately and not go any further: "I know you are in danger, so it's best not to come to me during this time."

Du Wenming stretched his toes on the stairs: "Is it appropriate to talk to me like this?"

The man rubbed the caliper in his hand: "I'm not from the Ferry Gang, nor am I from Xuehuapu. I think it's appropriate to talk to you however you want."

Du Wenming smiled and said, I just want to exchange our friendship for trust and help.

The man shook his head and said, "I don't trust you. I have heard that you are killing people everywhere. Three people have disappeared.

If I go to your laboratory, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back alive."

"I don't know where you heard the rumor. I didn't silence anyone, and I didn't kill anyone in the past two days." Du Wenming took two more steps up.

boom!
There were two protruding tiles on the stairs, trapping Du Wenming's right foot.

The man gave another warning: "Don't go up there. I told you I don't trust you.

I can promise that I won't tell on you, just get out of here."

Du Wenming frowned and asked, "What if I don't leave?"

The man put the two legs of the caliper together and said, "Do you really want to fight here?"

Du Wenming was silent for a moment and gave up the idea of ​​using force.

He was not afraid of the repairman, but this office building was located in the city, and if there was any noise, it would be difficult for Du Wenming to escape.

Du Wenming took Yu Yaoming away, and the man breathed a sigh of relief. He carefully checked every mechanism in the building, fearing that Du Wenming would come back to kill him.

When checking on the eighth floor, the man suddenly heard footsteps.

He turned his head suddenly, and the caliper turned rapidly in his hand.

The footsteps were approaching, and the person coming was not Du Wenming, but a middle-aged man with a thin build, a square face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, no beard on his chin, and a mustache on his upper lip.

The man was alarmed for nothing, wiped the sweat off his forehead, and asked, "Boss Lu, why are you here?"

Boss Lu was carrying a pile of books: "The books you ordered from my store have arrived. I sent them to you."

……

Walking down the street, Yu Yaoming's stomach kept growling: "At least ask your friends for some money. We don't even have money for food!"

Du Wenming sneered: "Didn't you see his attitude just now? You still ask him for money in this situation, don't you have any dignity?"

Yu Yaoming shook his head and said, "You don't have a single copper coin, you can't even afford a bowl of noodles, what dignity do you still talk about?"

"I have plenty of money, I just don't want to take the risk to get it. I'll take you there now, you can take as much as you can."

Du Wenming brought Yu Yaoming to the fish pond: "Can you swim?"

Yu Yaoming shook his head.

"Then wait on the shore, but don't run around."

Du Wenming went into the water himself, and after a while, he walked out of the fish pond covered in mud.

"Where's the money?"

Du Wenming caught two fish from the pond: "The money is gone, but we still have fish to eat."

……

After returning to his residence, Li Banfeng lay on the sofa, looking at the calendar quietly.

By tomorrow night, the colorant will have faded and Du Wenming can go back to work directly.

He had a lot of things to explain, but he was sure he could explain it. He lost two pieces of Tianxin Stone and he must be very sad. But after the sadness, he still had to continue to fight with me.

After fighting so many times, it wouldn't hurt to fight a few more times, but he was pushed to this point and he was still able to escape unscathed, which made Li Banfeng very dissatisfied.

At least he cannot be allowed to take his position back, and he cannot be allowed to use his official capacity to target me again.

There's still one day left, what else can I do?
The phone rang. It was Tang Changfa calling.

"Boss, those foreigners are here again. They are so secretive and don't seem to be here to do business. They seem to be here to cause trouble again."

Looking for trouble in the black market, is this another trap?
Li Banfeng looked at the golden badge and thought for a moment.

They have set so many traps, should I cooperate and get in one?
PS: These two complete pieces of Tianxin Stone will be of great use!
(End of this chapter)