Volume 2: Unprovoked Fortune and Misfortune Chapter 71: Confusing
Forbidden Sea City is a chaotic place, there is no such thing as a city lord, everything is controlled by the four major families, and the rules and order in the city are also formulated and maintained by the Dan, Wang, Zhu, and Huang families. Over the years, the residents of the city, cultivators, martial artists, etc., have all been in public service, and few people have touched the bottom line, but the four major families' own open and secret battles have intensified, and people with a discerning eye feel that the situation of the Forbidden Sea City family dominance is about to take shape.
What is surprising is that the Dan family, which was originally the strongest of the four, has had bad news in recent years. First, the eldest son, who was excellent in strategy, died inexplicably, and the Dan family lost its brains, and then the first ghost killing realm in Forbidden Sea City, Danjun, fell to the realm, and it was difficult to stay in the god annihilation realm. Some time ago, the head of the family, Danchen, was seriously injured and dying when he was attacked by someone, and Dan, who needed to cultivate for a shallow day, ventured into the forbidden sea to find a life-saving thing, and then was betrayed by a house slave and almost died. On the other hand, the Zhu family and the Huang family, which were hostile to them, were in trouble with the Dan family, but they were full of opportunities, and they successively cultivated a large number of disciples who broke the Dao Realm and adversed the Law Realm; Zhu Changhe even exerted the power of the Ghost Killing Realm with the cultivation of the God Annihilation Realm.
All this, in the case of the sudden surge in the dispute between the families of Forbidden Sea City, it seems that there is a pair of masterminds behind the scenes who are ruthlessly promoting, making the Dan family, which was in the limelight for a while, fall into the worst situation in one fell swoop.
At this time, Danchen heard the shopkeeper of Buzhuang say that there was a guy on the counter who died tragically at home, and his heart immediately became alert, and he hurriedly asked: "Tell me clearly, what are the details, and how long ago happened?"
Shopkeeper Li recalled: "It was about three days ago. At that time, the guy had not been to the counter for four days, and when I sent someone to look for him at his house, I found him dead in his own house, his blood had been sucked dry, and his expression was very frightened, as if he had seen something terrible before he died. Later, I heard from the shopkeeper Zhao of the restaurant and the shopkeeper of the medicine house that such a situation also appeared on their counters. ”
"Blood sucked dry?!"
Hearing this, Lei Yue's heart suddenly shrank, isn't this the characteristic of the Soul Devouring Sword? At that time, he handed over the Soul Devouring Sword to Tie Sheng and asked him to make a scabbard, and agreed to get it in three days, but then Zhu Changhe came to make a big fuss in the Dan Mansion, resulting in him not going to retrieve the Soul Devouring Sword until now. Could it be ...... Lei Yue didn't dare to continue thinking about it, the Soul Devouring Sword had the ability to snatch people's hearts, if Tie Sheng was really robbed of his mind by the Soul Devouring Sword, then there might be a catastrophe in Forbidden Sea City.
At the same time, hearing that the shopkeeper Li said that the same problem had occurred in the Dan family's restaurant and medicine shop, Danchen fell into deep thought on the side, and muttered to himself: "Three days ago...... Four days, isn't there seven days before and after? That is, the second day after Zhu Changhe came to Dan's house, but he was broken by Jun'er and injured his shoulder, so he shouldn't be so fast. Could it be the Huang family......"
Lei Yue saw that Danchen was still thinking, and suddenly said: "Old man Dan! I suddenly remembered something and took my leave first." After saying that, without waiting for Danchen's reaction, he quickly left Buzhuang and went to the cast-iron furnace to check the situation of the Soul Devouring Sword.
"Eh! Lei Yue's little ......"
Danchen just reacted and wanted to call Lei Yue to ask him where he was going, but he saw that he had already merged into the crowd, so he had to turn around and continue to ask Shopkeeper Li about the strange death of the guy. Dan Dark saw on the side that the direction Lei Yue was heading to was the cast iron furnace, as if he understood something, and there was a trace of worry in his eyes.
On the other side, Cang Ming saw that Shopkeeper Li couldn't tell what was going on, so he said to Danchen: "Master Dan, since there are accidents in the restaurant and the medicine shop, we might as well go to those two places and ask first, maybe there will be clues." ”
When Danchen heard this, he nodded and said, "That's what I said, let's go to the restaurant and have a look." With that, he led the way in front and led the people towards the restaurant again.
Shopkeeper Li said loudly in the back: "The owner walks slowly!"
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Dan's restaurant is located in the most prosperous area of Forbidden Sea City, named "Welcome Guest", and is one of the largest restaurants in Forbidden Sea City. The opulent decoration and the service of being at home are the most famous symbols of "Welcoming Guests": stepping into "Welcoming Guests", Washington does not want to return.
As soon as the front foot of the group stepped into the door, there was a little second with a white towel on his shoulder, who stepped forward and bent down and said flatteringly: "The four of you, please, what do you want to come?" Whether the shop is swimming in the water, flying in the sky, running on the ground, some are not, strange and strange, you can greet it, you have everything! And today's signature dish of the store is ......" He spoke as fast as a wild horse that was not tethered, and Danchen was stunned for a long time without inserting a word.
"Okay...... Okay......"
Danchen finally caught the gap in his ventilation, and hurriedly beckoned him to stop, saying, "Call your shopkeeper Zhao out, I have something to say to him." ”
"Find our shopkeeper...... of?"
The second child was stunned for a moment, and didn't know that the person in front of him was their owner, and after a closer look, he just felt that they had an extraordinary bearing, not like ordinary rich and noble people, so he cautiously asked: "May I ask who you are, and what is the matter with our shopkeeper?"
At this moment, the shopkeeper Zhao of the restaurant was leisurely sneaking down from the upstairs with his eight-character beard, and saw Danchen standing at the door with his head held high, thinking that the little guy had made some mistake that angered Danchen, and he was immediately frightened, and quickly ran to the side of the little guy, kicked him in the ass heavily, and shouted in a sharp voice: "Idiot! This is our host! Why don't you get out of work!"
Xiao Er was kicked inexplicably, and he felt very aggrieved in his heart, but when he heard that the person in front of him was the owner of the restaurant, he suddenly didn't even dare to come out, and ran away to other places with a cigarette rubbing his buttocks. And the shopkeeper Zhao was hunched over, rubbing his hands, typical of a philistine profiteer, and said with a sneer: "Dongjia! Dongjia, why are you here, and you don't say a word, I am so prepared, ready." Come on, come on, everybody, go upstairs, I'm here to prepare the best wine and food for the host. ”
Seeing that the hottest restaurant in Forbidden Sea City was in full swing, and the figures were constantly coming and going, Danchen, as the owner, was naturally very happy. But the shopkeeper Zhao, who brought the highest profit to the Dan family in front of him, was a mercenary look, Danchen felt helpless again, shook his head and said, "No need, I have something else to do today." ”
"It's all up to the owner's orders!" said the shopkeeper Zhao.
Danchen frowned and said, "I heard that there is a guy on the counter who died?"
When the shopkeeper Zhao heard this, he was shocked, changed his previous flattering appearance, looked at the people around him, and whispered to Danchen: "Dongjia, this is not the place to talk, you come with me." With that, Shopkeeper Zhao took the lead and walked towards the back of the hotel.
Danchen and the others looked at each other and followed.
In the end, Shopkeeper Zhao took Danchen and the others to a hidden place, where there was no one around, but it was extremely quiet, and it seemed that it should be a private resting place for Shopkeeper Zhao. After arriving at the small courtyard, Shopkeeper Zhao made a cup of good tea for Danchen and each of them, and then asked in a clear voice: "The owner should have come from Lao Li's side?"
"Hmm. ”
Danchen nodded and continued: "You tell me everything you know, I want to know if the people of the Zhu family and the Huang family are secretly making ghosts." ”
However, Shopkeeper Zhao thought for a moment and said, "Shouldn't it be, I heard that this is also the case between the two of them?"
"Oh?"
This time, even Cang Mingchao was surprised, and asked suspiciously, "Could it be that they deliberately set up a trick?"
Shopkeeper Zhao shook his head and said, "At the beginning, I also guessed so, so I sent a few clever guys to investigate, and the result was that this situation did occur in both of them. Moreover, the situation is exactly the same as ours, we don't know what sucked the blood out of our bodies and turned into a dried corpse. ”
Hearing this, Danchen felt that things were becoming more and more confusing, and said with a solemn expression: "You talk about it carefully first." ”
Shopkeeper Zhao recalled: "The man who died in the Huang family was called Zhang Er, and it is said that he was killed by a mysterious person with a strange sword at home at that time, and he was sucked dry of blood on the spot, and his death was extremely miserable. ”
"Weird sword?!"
Dan couldn't help but slap a spirit, remembering the scene when the bloodthirsty wolf died in the forbidden sea, and murmured: "Could it be ......?"
"What's wrong?"
Danchen noticed the strange appearance of Dan Dark around him, and couldn't help but ask out loud. However, Dan Dian shook his head and said, "It's okay. After saying that, her eyes were a little erratic, and she even began to worry about Lei Yue's condition.
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After Lei Yue and Danchen separated, they had the Soul Devouring Sword left in the cast-iron furnace in their hearts, and hurried all the way to the furnace. In the Gobi, the matter of Chu Jiang has already happened once, and this time it must not bring disaster to the furnace again!
"Bang, bang, bang......"
The familiar sound of striking iron still lingered in the ears, the scene of the cast iron furnace was still the same, and the sweat of the iron-striking men dripped on the red-hot iron sheet, making a "zizi" sound, and then they put the beaten iron sheet back into the blazing furnace and continued to beat the next iron piece. Seeing that everything was as usual in front of him, Lei Yue suddenly relieved her heart, and was a little glad that this murder was not caused by the Soul Devouring Sword.
"You're here?"
Tie Sheng put away the prototype of a freshly made sword, and when he saw Lei Yue standing at the door, he asked in a somewhat stiff tone, "You're here to get the sword, right?"
Lei Yue didn't notice Tie Sheng's strange appearance, and walked into the cast iron furnace with a smile and asked, "I wonder if the predecessors can beat the sword scabbard?"
When Tie Sheng heard this, he sighed a little for some reason, and said wistfully, "Your sword is too weird, isn't it?"
"Oh?"
As soon as the words fell, Lei Yue's heart immediately became nervous, and she asked suspiciously, "Is there something wrong?"
Tie Sheng shook his head and said, "It's not a big problem. I just don't know why, but when I insert my sword into the well-made scabbard, the scabbard will explode immediately, as if there is nothing in the world that can restrain it except the original scabbard. ”
When Lei Yue heard this, her expression darkened for a moment, and then she sighed lightly and said, "So that's the case, then don't bother the seniors in the future, please take the sword to me." ”
"Hmm. ”
Tie Sheng turned around and removed the Soul Eater Sword from the sword stand and handed it back to Lei Yue. I saw that after Lei Yue took the sword, he found a long cloth to wrap it, gave some scattered silver taels, and left.
However, Lei Yue had only gone far before Tie Sheng and all the iron men began to stiffen and mechanically move, and their seven orifices were bleeding. At the same time, a person walked out of the inner room of the cast-iron furnace - it was Zhu Changhe, followed by a mysterious person hiding in the black mist, looked at Lei Yue and said, "My lord, why do you want to return that sword to him?
"Idiot!"
The mysterious man scolded gloomily and said to him: "When you taste a little sweetness, you start to be arrogant! That sword can't even be controlled by me, and you still want to use it to enhance your cultivation! Beware that if you can't control the sword, you will be controlled by the sword!"
Zhu Changhe was shocked, suddenly sweating profusely, and said again and again: "Yes!
The mysterious man ignored Zhu Changhe, but said to himself: "Strange, why does that sword have the mark of the master? Could it be one of the master's backhands left by the master?"