Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 306 Farewell to the Old Taoist
"Master! I am late, I hope you are not suffering!"

Outside the warehouse, Xiao Ran's affectionate (gloating over others' misfortunes) shouts could be heard from afar.

"Om!!"

As the warehouse door opened, Xiao Ran walked in impatiently. He was about to shout "Master, you have suffered" a few more times, but when he looked closely, he

"Where is my master?"

There was no sign of the old Taoist priest in the huge warehouse. Xiao Ran saw this and while speaking, he jumped out of the warehouse with his other foot.

At the same time, he looked at the [Black Swan Brooch - Scholar] on his chest.

After making sure that [Black Swan Brooch] did not alert him, he gave up the idea of running away.

“There, there!!”

The ghost merchant pointed to the boxes on the shelf.

Inside the square crystal box, the old Taoist priest was lying with a bitter face. Taking advantage of the height of the shelf, he looked down at Xiao Ran. He saw all the changes on Xiao Ran's face and couldn't help revealing a hint of sarcasm at the corners of his lips.

"Oh, Master, you have already entered the box."

Xiao Ran covered his forehead with his hands, looking annoyed. He turned and looked at the ghost merchant beside him: "Boss, this is not a good thing. I gave you a deposit of one thousand ghost money, but you put my master in a box, making it seem like my master is already dead. It's unlucky. Even if I'm fostering a dog, you should at least give it a slightly bigger cage."

Upon hearing this, the Yinshan Taoist's face showed no expression, and his fingers and fists were almost clenched into a ball.

"Okay, okay, let's make arrangements. You and your disciple can talk first, and I'll make arrangements right away."

The ghost merchant smiled and shook his head and left.

As soon as the ghost merchant left, Xiao Ran picked up the box and held it in his palm: "Master, you have suffered a lot. I originally planned to use money to redeem you, but I accidentally lost the money. My fellow disciples and I scraped together money but couldn't get enough. Otherwise, what treasures do you have? Take them out first to deal with the emergency."

Even ghosts don't believe this nonsense.

You are a ghost messenger, and the thief stole something on your head?

This thief probably wants to be thrown into the sewer and become a permanent decoration, right?
When Yinshan Taoist heard this, he was so angry that he almost laughed, and he didn't even bother to respond to Xiao Ran.

But Xiao Ran looked determined to achieve his goal: "Master, Master, can you please speak louder? I can't hear you."

"Boom blah blah..."

As he spoke, he shook the box a few times, making the Yinshan Taoist in the box dizzy and dazed. Then he said, "Tell me, what do you want?"

One wrong step leads to another. The Taoist of Yinshan never thought that one day he would fall into the hands of this little ant, Xiao Ran.

At this point, he just decided that as long as he could save his life, he would be willing to pay a certain price.

"Master, I want to earn money to redeem you, and I need the help of my junior brothers and sisters. But they are not very convinced of me. I heard that you have something called the Soul Chasing Order. How about you lend it to me for two days?"

Hearing this, Yinshan Taoist raised his head and stared at Xiao Ran: "Huh, you are forcing Master to death."

"Master, what are you talking about? Compared to you, I am very inexperienced."

There was murderous intent in Xiao Ran's eyes. He had been badly tortured by the Yinshan Taoist along the way. The old Taoist almost turned him into a ghost pill.

The two looked at each other for a moment, and ultimately, force was stronger than people.

The old Taoist priest had no choice but to give in.

After rummaging in his sleeves for a while, he took out a small sign and handed it to Xiao Ran: "This is for you, but you are a fox, so be merciful. I can lose, but I will just lose this rotten, smelly skin, but you may not have the last laugh."

"Why do you care how long I laugh? I laugh for a while, and I laugh for a lifetime. If you don't accept it, we'll see what happens."

As he spoke, Xiao Ran opened the lid and the old Taoist threw the sign out.

Xiao Ran didn't take it. He just watched the sign fall to the ground. He called out Senbingwei and asked him to pick up the sign. After making sure there was no problem, he took the sign in his hand.

"You are... humph."

The old Taoist priest sneered at Xiao Ran's excessive caution.

"There's no way, Master. The first mistake I made after becoming an initiate was that I didn't look carefully at what was put into my pocket."

Xiao Ran would never forget the scene when he was pinned down and unable to move by an old lady's casual gold bar during the trial in the mystery city.

Every failure makes one wiser. Xiao Ran doesn't want to fall into the same trap a second time.

"Hehehe, you are very similar to an old friend I know. He is just as cautious as you. Even when we met, he never dared to reveal his true face. His whole life he was like a shadow on the wall. If you became his apprentice, he would definitely like you very much."

"The people you are talking about...could they be the other ones among your Eight Generals?"

As early as in Hongxiang Village, Mo Ju mentioned the existence of these people.

Yinshan Taoist is one of them, Mo Ju is also one of them, and then there must be the entire team behind them.

"Master, the dream pool last time was not your plan, was it?"

Xiao Ran suddenly remembered that Mo Ju once told him to stay away from Changchun Society and not to be affected. Soon after, Beast Master died at the hands of Li Jingqi in [Dream Pool].

Although he was also a participant in this story, as Li Jingqi said, he was invited by a friend to participate in this plan.

Therefore, Xiao Ran had reason to suspect that the leader of Dream Pool was the old Taoist priest and his companions. Facing Xiao Ran's question, Yinshan Taoist gradually smiled: "It's good that you can guess this. If you want to know the rest, you can either kill me or redeem me."

"forget it."

Xiao Ran immediately closed the box. Although he was also very curious about why these people targeted the Changchun Society, it would be a good thing for him if the Changchun Society collapsed.

Without the Changchun Society, this cancer will inevitably cause shock to most beginners, but as the saying goes, when a whale falls, all things come to life. There will also be Penglai Pavilion and Donglongfang by then. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know about them. It won’t have much impact anyway.

Seeing Xiao Ran was about to leave, the old Taoist priest finally couldn't help but shouted: "Wait."

"Ok?"

“As a master, I can’t just watch my disciple die here.

The ghost pill in your body has reached the right temperature. If I were you, I would leave the underworld as soon as possible within three days, otherwise when the ghost pill is ripe..."

The old Taoist priest didn't say anything else, but the smile on his face already showed the answer.

Xiao Ran was stunned and frowned, wondering how credible the old Taoist's words were.

"A mere ghost pill, can't even my identity as a ghost messenger suppress it?"

"If it was true, would this old Taoist priest be so kind to tell me?"

"But if it's fake, what's his purpose?"

Xiao Ran did not ask the old Taoist priest the reason. It was useless to ask. What he dared to say was something that he could not believe. The two of them had already torn their faces apart and there was no trust between them. The only reason they could hold back from fighting was because they were wary of each other.

"understood!"

Xiao Ran responded indifferently, turned around and walked out of the warehouse.

Only after Xiao Ran left did the Yinshan Taoist in the box smile grimly: "My fox, this time the master is really doing this for your own good. The underworld is so vast, what does a mere underworld messenger count for? After all, he is still just an ant."

The Taoist of Yinshan was smiling when he heard footsteps outside the door.

"Buzz!"

The door was pushed open, and the ghost merchant who had just left came back and said to the Yinshan Taoist with a smile: "Master, why are you doing this? It's not worth it to offend this master."

Facing the ghost merchants, the old Taoist priest just snorted coldly. Although he was mortgaged as a commodity, the ghost merchants had the right to deal with him.

But is the old Taoist priest really afraid of them?

But his current situation is not good, so he might as well hide here for a while, waiting for the red spider lily in his abdomen to wither. With this small restriction, he can leave whenever he wants.

Seeing that the old Taoist priest didn't say anything, the ghost merchant could only sigh: "I'm sorry, when your disciple leaves, let us take special care of you."

"Ok??"

The old Taoist frowned and stared at the ghost merchant coldly: "What are you going to do?"

"No, no, I'm just moving you to a new place. I guarantee it'll be warm in winter and cool in summer, and very comfortable!"

The ghost merchant felt a chill in his heart when he was stared at by the old Taoist priest. However, the underworld was not short of ruthless people. In his own cage, there were some creatures that were even more ferocious than this old Taoist priest.

As he spoke, he had someone carry in a box from outside, which was tightly locked with iron chains.

The box looked bigger than the old Taoist's crystal box, but when the old Taoist took a closer look, his face turned the color of liver and he couldn't help cursing, "This little bastard!!"

The iron chains on the box were opened layer by layer, and before the last few locks were opened, the box began to jump wildly.

“I’m hungry!!”

The mouth of the box cracked open, revealing the sharp fangs and smelly tongue inside.

This thing is a specialty of Yin-Yang Taoism.

It's called [Hungry Monster].

It is said that a scholar hid in a box to avoid robbers. When the robbers took the box away, the box accidentally rolled into the river. The box was locked and the scholar was drowned in the box.

As time went on, the wronged souls could not rest, and finally their spirits fell into the Yin-Yang world, and due to the resentment within them, they became like this.

Xiao Ran took special care of the ghost merchant, so naturally he would not let the old Taoist priest have an easy time.

This is a good place he carefully selected.

No matter how angry the old Taoist priest was, the ghost merchant still threw the box into the box.

It is said that the "hungry monster" only eats and does not poop, and the inside of the box is extremely smelly. Even if this old thing can survive, it is estimated that the stench will not be removed even after reincarnation.

　The upper eight generals and the lower eight generals!!
　　The top eight generals are: positive, lift, reverse, escape, wind, fire, elimination, and rumor.

　　The next eight generals are: Chong, Liu, Tian, ​​Feng, Zhong, Ma, Zhen and Kun.

　　The old Taoist priest is the rebel general among the top eight generals.

　　His task is to make the entrants further trapped in the game through methods such as provocation and stealing. He is the one who secretly adds fuel to the fire at critical moments.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)