Lord of Puro

Chapter 649 Locals

Li Banfeng took some money and practiced controlling the copper coins. This practice lasted for more than three hours.

During these three hours, Jiazhen's counting skills were always on. Li Banfeng's physical strength was drained, his face was pale and sweat was pouring down.

The record player felt distressed but did not stop Li Banfeng. Li Banfeng seldom polished his technique. Jiazhen Zishu was the pillar skill of home improvement and the technique Li Banfeng was best at. But even so, the record player still felt that this technique was a little lacking.

After these three hours, I wouldn't dare say that Li Banfeng has mastered his technique to the highest level, but at least in the opinion of the record player, this technique is worthy of the third level of Yunshang's cultivation.

Money has completely surrendered. Li Banfeng doesn't need to use any tricks. He can just speak to it directly and it will understand.

"stand up!"

Jinqian stood on the palm of Li Banfeng's hand.

"Dance!"

The money circled in Li Banfeng's palm for several times.

"Smile!"

Jinqian pulled the copper coin over and stacked the two coins together. The Jinqian served as the upper lip and the copper coin served as the lower lip. The two coins laughed for a long time.

Li Banfeng patted Jinqian'er: "Be sensible!"

The money rubbed on Li Banfeng's fingertips and went into Li Banfeng's pocket.

There was one copper coin left, which Li Banfeng gave to his wife.

The lady sealed it with steam and said to Li Banfeng, "My husband, these copper coins are good things. If you find them, don't throw them away. Give them to me for safekeeping."

Li Banfeng was stunned: "Is this considered a good thing?"

"As many good things as you can find, I will help you collect them."

"Okay, I'll go out and look around." Li Banfeng stood up and was about to leave.

The record player stopped Li Banfeng affectionately and said, "My dear husband, please take this man away first. No one at home is hungry."

I almost forgot one thing, Zhu Yuguai is still alive.

Just now, the glove took out two coins from his body. Zhu Yuguai was slightly injured and fainted from the pain.

Li Banfeng glanced at Zhu Yugui and said, "Madam, this guest has already entered the house, there is no reason to let him leave. How about you eat his soul and I take the body out?"

The wife gave a bitter smile and said, "I suffered and ate him, so they don't have to use their chopsticks? My husband, this doesn't make sense!"

"What do you think, my lady?"

The record player thought for a moment and said to Li Banfeng, "My husband, you leave Hanxue here, and I will take care of the rest."

Li Banfeng left and handed the bloody pendulum to the record player.

The pendulum was so frightened that it trembled all over. The record player poked the pendulum's face with the needle: "Girl, do you want to eat souls?"

The pendulum shrank to the corner of the main room: "How dare I compete with the lady for food."

"You don't dare? Then I'll lend you some courage! Just eat it without worry!"

Zhu Yugui still exuded a pungent smell, and the pendulum was covered with dew. He said in a trembling voice: "Madam, I can't eat souls."

snort~
A cloud of steam came over, the pendulum screamed, and its whole body was burned red.

The record player laughed and said, "Back in the old house on the deserted mountain, you controlled dozens or even hundreds of dead souls. Now you tell me that you don't eat souls. Do you believe that?"

Zhong Peng glanced at Zhu Yugui again: "Madam, I really can't eat this."

The record player softened his tone: "Girl, you're almost pregnant. How can you get fat if you're so picky?"

Hearing that the truth had been revealed, Zhong Bai quickly begged for mercy: "Madam, I know I was wrong, please forgive me this time, Madam..."

The record player gently stroked the pendulum's cheek and said softly, "Silly girl, if you want your body, why don't you just tell me? Can I stop you? Can you still hide it?

I let you eat this soul for your own good. Your soul is not complete now. You can’t control it even if you have a body. Hurry up and eat this soul!” Another ball of steam came, and the pendulum was almost burned.

After the gramophone said this, the pendulum felt ashamed and dared not argue any more. It sobbed and swallowed its soul.

The record player was quite satisfied: "Good girl, chew carefully, eat slowly, and savor the flavor. When you're done, Honglian can eat next."

Brush and pull!

Honglian closed the flower leaves in the second room, looking like an ornament, sitting on the ground motionless.

Seeing that the pendulum had eaten all the souls, the record player snorted coldly: "If Honglian doesn't want to eat it, you can share it and choose for yourself!"

Upon hearing this, Hong Ying glanced at the Ninth Girl.

The Ninth Girl stepped forward and held Hong Lian down, and Hong Ying pried open Hong Lian's petals.

……

After leaving Suishenju, Li Banfeng found Tan Jinxiao and said, "Old Tan, I know you are never afraid of doing anything. I want to help you take out the mark today. Do you dare?"

"Why should I be afraid?" Tan Jinxiao said without hesitation, "Seventh Master, if you can get this thing out, even if I die here, it will be a clean death. I can walk to the underworld with my back straight!"

This man is really a hero. Li Banfeng took out the music box and played a song for Tan Jinxiao.

With Tan Jinxiao's cultivation, the music box could not knock him down, but Li Banfeng told Tan Jinxiao: "Old Tan, you have to sleep. If you don't sleep, I can't get this mark out."

Tan Jinxiao followed Li Banfeng's advice, lay on the bed, listened to the tunes in the music box, and fell asleep.

Li Banfeng used the beggar's bowl to hit the dark dimension and asked the gloves to take out the copper coins.

Out of curiosity, Li Banfeng took the bowl and tested it for a while, but found that the dark dimension in Tan Jinxiao's body had disappeared.

The dark dimension will not disappear out of thin air, but why can't we sense it after taking the copper coins away?
After thinking for a long time, Li Banfeng made a fairly reasonable guess.

This dark dimension space was not originally on Lao Tan. After Lao Tan was marked, the dark dimension space ran to Lao Tan by itself and took the copper coins in.

This process is not easy to understand. Is this a working method or some other means?

Li Banfeng took the copper coin and turned it on his fingertips. This thing really needs to be given to his wife to study carefully.

Buildings, copper coins, dark-dimensional space... Mr. Kong Fang is not only good at fighting, but also uses extraordinary magic.

……

When Tan Jinxiao woke up, he looked at the copper coin in Li Banfeng's hand and asked in astonishment, "Is this the mark?"

Li Banfeng nodded slightly.

Tan Jinxiao took the copper coin and looked at it, his hands shaking a little.

He thought he would never be able to get rid of this mark in his lifetime, but he never expected that there would really be a day when someone would be able to take this thing out.

"Seventh Master, can we throw this away..." Tan Jinxiao didn't dare to hold it for too long. He was afraid that the copper coin would penetrate into his body again. He was really scared.

"Don't throw it away, I still have a use for it." Li Banfeng put the copper coins away.

"Seventh Master, many of my brothers also have marks on their bodies. Can you..." Tan Jinxiao knew that this would definitely not be an easy task, and he didn't know how to start. He said halfway and wanted to swallow it back.

Li Banfeng nodded and said, "I can help them take out the mark, but we have to find the right time. We can't let them know about this, otherwise the matter will definitely get to the ears of the boss."

Tan Jinxiao nodded repeatedly. He trusted his brother, but with such a big thing, if one was not careful, the news would leak out.

He felt uneasy in front of Li Banfeng and didn't know how to express his gratitude to Li Banfeng.

Take a kowtow?
The Seventh Master did not allow people to kneel or kowtow.

Could you please have a drink, Master Qi?

How can this be repaid with a meal?

Or I might as well...

Before Tan Jinxiao could come up with an idea, he saw Li Banfeng leaving with the copper coin: "Find out the whereabouts of the boss carefully, and tell me as soon as you have any news."

……

After waiting for three whole days, there was no movement from the boss and he did not come to the market.

Tan Jinxiao also felt that this was not normal: "It's strange, the boss has changed his temper, the whole city has been thrown away, and he still doesn't show up?
But I don't think he can stand it for too long. Human City is the most profitable place, and he definitely can't let go of this business. Let's wait for two more days."

Li Banfeng looked at the railroad tracks on the road and said, "No need to wait, let's go directly to Tushi."

The tracks have been empty all day, and no train has come to collect the goods today.

This means that the boss has taken action and has cut off the economic lifeline of Renshi.

If the factory cannot ship goods, it will have no source of income. If the factory goes bankrupt, the workers’ livelihoods will be in jeopardy.

As for Zhu Yuguai's treasury, there is indeed a lot of money in it, and it can support him for a while just by distributing money.

Why don't you wait any longer?
This really can't wait.

The treasury can support the financial resources but it cannot support the people's hearts. Many bosses have been standing at the factory gate with the workers, craning their necks and waiting for the train to appear.

Tan Jinxiao was a little embarrassed: "Seventh Master, I'm not a coward, I just want to remind you, can we go to the sea market first instead of the local market?"

"Why don't you go to Tushi?"

"The white seedlings of the local market are not easy to deal with. You must have heard that the cultivation of this sect is almost spiritual when it reaches the clouds. It can grow anything.
Moreover, the people living in Tushi don’t dare to challenge the Dongjia. Their livelihoods are in the hands of the Dongjia. They must first take over Haishi before they can fight for a way out for Tushi.”

Li Banfeng didn't understand what Tan Jinxiao meant, and Tan Jinxiao couldn't explain it clearly: "Seventh Master, let's go to Haishi together and you will understand."

The sea market is not very close to the human market. There is a section of road in between that is separated by the earth market. The road is full of ox carts and horse carts carrying soil, making it difficult to move forward.

If it were some other place, Li Banfeng would have taken a detour long ago, but the underground city is a special place. The roads leading from the earth city to the sea city are mostly long and narrow caves, and there is no way to go around.

Li Banfeng looked at these cart drivers and judging from their clothes, they should be farmers.

This was within Li Banfeng's expectations. The human market relies on manpower for a living, and most of the people living in the human market are workers. The local market relies on the land for a living, and most of the people living in the local market should be farmers.

But what are these farmers going to do with all that soil in Haishi?
"They went to change the soil," explained Tan Jinxiao. "The soil in the soil market is dug out from cracks in rocks. It's okay to plant seeds with light, but the fertility is not enough to plant seeds without light." Seeds with light refer to normal crops, or in the words of other states, plants that grow through photosynthesis.

Some of the lightless seeds do not carry out photosynthesis, while others carry out special types of photosynthesis, which are different from plants in the traditional sense.

The plants that grow in the new land are light-free species. The growth of this type of plants depends on the fertility of the soil. The definition of so-called fertility is different from that in other states. Few people can clearly explain the specific difference.

Tan Jinxiao pointed to the carriage road where soil was transported and said, "This soil has been cultivated for a year and has been squeezed dry. Isn't it spring now? Farmers must hurry up and replace the soil, otherwise nothing will grow in the fields next year."

Where can I exchange this soil?

Li Banfeng was about to ask for clarification when he suddenly heard Xiao Yeci say, "My benefactor, that donkey eats coal!"

The donkey that Xiao Yeci was talking about was not far from Li Banfeng. It had gray hair, long ears, and a big face. From the appearance, it was indeed a donkey.

The old man driving the donkey shoveled a shovel of coal from the sack on the cart and put it to the donkey's mouth.

The donkey chewed it and ate it. After eating, it made several “hmm-ah-hmm” sounds.

It was chilly outside in the spring, but there were many people in the cave and it was a bit stuffy.

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Every time the donkey brayed, it would exhale thick fog.

Not only this donkey, but other animals pulling carts have a common characteristic: they exhale a large amount of white mist every time they breathe.

This is obviously not the animal breathing, this is the steam engine spewing steam.

"Are these animals from Nevada? They look like animals, but they are actually machines."

Tan Jinxiao shook his head and said, "They can't be considered as coming from Inner Province. They are just like Lao Chen's wife, and it's hard to tell where they came from.
Some say they grew from the ground, some say they were born from the water, some say they were transformed from insects, and some say they have existed since the day people were born in Santoucha.

When people from Neizhou attacked them, they did not interact with them. When people from Prosperity came, they did not get close to them.
People from other states want to take them out for research, but once they leave Santoucha, they are gone after a short distance. Their bodies are shattered and their souls are nowhere to be found. "

Li Banfeng touched a cow beside him.

The cow looked at Li Banfeng, feeling a little angry, a little alert, and a little afraid. He let out a cry and hid beside his owner.

Looking at the cow's disgusted eyes, Li Banfeng laughed dryly: "They have quite special personalities."

Tan Jinxiao nodded and said, "It's true that they are different. They are only close to people from Santoucha. As long as people who have homes in Santoucha make eye contact with them, they are willing to live with them."

Li Banfeng asked, "Has anyone ever made eye contact with you?"

Tan Jinxiao lowered his head and whispered, "If there really is such a person, my children would be too old to help with cooking."

Li Banfeng lifted up his hat brim, dumbfounded: "What the hell did you just say? They can still have children?"

Tan Jinxiao nodded and said, "Yes! Some are born human, some are born similar to them, and some are born as their own lineage, not like either!"

Li Banfeng was speechless.

He looked at the cow again, not knowing what to call this kind of creature.

It would certainly be inappropriate to call them machines.

Call them robots?

It doesn't seem appropriate either.

"What do you usually call them?"

Tan Jinxiao said: "We usually call them locals because they never leave Santoucha."

native?
Where do the locals come from?
This name gave Li Banfeng some associations.

"Hasn't any local ever left Santoucha?"

Tan Jinxiao thought for a long time and said, "Yes, there is. I can't remember things that happened too far ago. Let's just talk about the present.
A few years ago, there was a young man who went into the mountains to collect herbs. He saved a lot of money and left Santoucha. It was said that a local man who was as close to him as a brother also followed him.
As for what the local man looked like, there are many opinions. Some say it was a cat, some say it was a bird, some say it was a horse, and some say it was a gun he often used. This is what the legend says, but I am not sure whether it is true or not. "

The two chatted as they followed the crowd forward.

After walking for a whole day, Li Banfeng smelled a fishy and damp air.

This is the unique fishy smell of rivers and lakes. Li Banfeng walked forward for a while and heard the sound of waves hitting the rocks!

The sound of the tide!

Li Banfeng followed the crowd and walked forward. The road became faster and faster, and the speed of the crowd became faster and faster.

Before long, the long and narrow tunnel came to an end and the crowd that had gathered together dispersed, because the front was very open, giving the farmers who had been running all the way plenty of space to move around.

Li Banfeng stood on the beach and looked into the distance.

He saw stone pillars extending from the ceiling to the water surface, and stalagmites extending from underwater to the ceiling. He saw vague and misty fog lingering in the darkness.

The views are indeed spectacular, but that's not the point.

The point is, Li Banfeng saw the sea.

In the extremely oppressive cave, he saw the boundless sea.

There is no way to explain this. The walls of the cave disappeared here, or rather, they were out of Li Banfeng's sight.

But Li Banfeng could still clearly see the mottled rocky ceiling and the turbulent sea beneath the ceiling.

call!
The waves surged onto the shore, and the deafening sound of the tide echoed repeatedly in the cave.

Li Banfeng scooped up some sea water and put it in his palm. The water was very cool and clear, and most importantly, it didn't have the salty taste of sea water from other states. He turned around and asked Tan Jinxiao: "Is it drinkable?"

"Yes!" Tan Jinxiao nodded, "It's different from other states. The water here is fresh and much cleaner than the water outside!"

Li Banfeng was just about to take a sip to taste the flavor when he suddenly heard a fight breaking out nearby.

"The soil you gave me is not enough. I just unloaded the truck and the pile of soil was lying there. How much did you just replace for me? Let's compare here to see which pile of soil is higher."

"What you said is useless. We look at the scale, not the pile. One pound for one pound. If not, you can take it away."

"Your scale is definitely wrong. The price of soil has gone up this year, and you still don't give enough weight. You're really cheating me!"

A farmer and a boat owner got into a fight.

Tan Jinxiao lowered his voice and said, "Seventh Master, this is called exchanging soil. You have to pay more for exchanging old soil for new soil.
It is not easy for farmers to earn two cents. Sixty percent of the family's grain is paid as rent, leaving 40%. Twenty percent is kept for themselves, ten percent is sold at the market, and the remaining ten percent is all used to buy new soil. "

Li Banfeng asked: "Where did this new soil come from?"

Tan Jinxiao looked into the distance and said, "I came from Yangtu Island. This island is quite far away. It takes three to five days to go back and forth by boat. Farmers in Tushi bring old soil to Haishi, pay money, and then replace it with new soil and take it back.
The boats of the sea market pull the old soil to the Yangtu Island, unload the soil, load new soil and come back. This is the annual soil replacement. Whether it is the soil market or the sea market, this is a big job. "

It is indeed a big job, especially for local farmers.

An old farmer had just loaded a cart of soil. Li Banfeng looked at the amount and asked, "How much land can this cover? Is it half an acre?"

"Half an acre?" Tan Jinxiao shook his head and said, "Seventh Master, you are joking. Ten cartloads of soil cannot even cover one acre of land!

Changing the soil is not something that can be done overnight. We have to start changing the soil after the autumn harvest. Except for a two-day break during the Chinese New Year, we don’t have to go back and forth for the entire winter. We work so hard that we still can’t finish changing the soil by the beginning of spring!"

Li Banfeng looked at the distance and saw many people driving livestock and pulling soil towards the shore. People were flowing in the narrow cave, just like...

It's like a train running in a cave.

"Why not use trains to transport soil?" Li Banfeng was thinking about this. "Isn't it much faster to use trains to transport old soil than using ox carts and horse carts?
And there's no need for so many farmers to go here, just hiring a group of loading and unloading workers will be enough!"

Tan Jinxiao sighed: "That's true, but the boss said that we can't build so many railways."

"Why can't we build it? Don't we have plenty of railways in the city?"

"Seventh Master, the railway in that city is for transporting goods! Transporting goods is for the business of the underground city. This is a very important matter!"

Li Qi felt that this statement was even more problematic: "The purpose of changing soil is to grow crops, and growing crops is to eat. Isn't eating a big deal?"

Tan Jinxiao was speechless, as it was not his decision.

Li Banfeng saw the clue: "Spring planting, autumn harvest, winter soil replacement, this is the whole year, people are not idle, right?"

Tan Jinxiao nodded and said, "I just don't want you to be idle. If you're idle, you'll think about things. Master Qi, I didn't let you go to the local market before for the same reason.
Soil is the life of farmers. When we go to the soil market to exchange soil, if the landlord blocks the road to the market, the soil cannot be exchanged and there will be no harvest for the year. How can farmers live?
So to take over the Earth Market, we must first take over the Sea Market."

"Do you think Hai Shi is so easy to capture?" A boatman next to them, wearing black trousers, a blue jacket and a bamboo hat, smiled at the two of them.

Tan Jinxiao glanced at the boatman and said, "Guan Huodong, you came at a great time."

Guan Huodong shook his head and said, "This is not a coincidence. You guys were making too much noise when you talked. I have been keeping an eye on you for a long time."

This person is the boss of Haishi, Guan Huodong. He is a peeping cultivator in the clouds. From the coast to the sea, his hooks are everywhere. Even if the cultivators at home have characteristics that are not easily noticed, it is difficult for them to escape his ears.

Li Banfeng looked Guanhuodong up and down and asked seriously, "What's the meaning of your name?"

Guan Huodong frowned and said, "What does this have to do with you?"

Tan Jinxiao explained: "He chose this name himself, which means to see through things like seeing through fire!"

Li Banfeng was stunned: "I haven't thought of this yet!"

Tan Jinxiao exclaimed: "Most people would not think that Guanhuodong has a literary name, and the people there must have been educated!"

The two chatted and laughed, as if there was nothing serious going on.

Guan Huodong laughed: "Old Tan, you are about to die and still play tricks on me. Let me remind you, when you come to Haishi in your next life, don't talk so loudly. It makes you look stupid, dumb, and has no memory!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Guan Huodong's eyes turned and stared at Li Qi, then clenched his right hand into a fist.

The words were directed at Tan Jinxiao, and the means were used against Li Qi. This time he used all his strength. Even if he couldn't kill Li Qi, he had to make Li Qi a disabled person.

Before Tan Jinxiao could react, Li Qi covered his chest and fell to the ground as if he had a heart attack.

What's going on...

Tan Jinxiao was stunned. Li Qi could help him remove the mark, but didn’t he remove the mark from his own body?
"Don't worry about him, it's your turn now." Guan Huodong looked at Tan Jinxiao with a smile. Just as he was about to clench his fist, he suddenly felt someone standing behind him.

Li Banfeng stood behind him and smiled slightly, "I think you are anxious. It's just your turn now, not his."

PS: Where is the end of the underground sea?
(End of this chapter)