Volume 1 The Age of Chaos Chapter 64 The Revenge of the Little Man
Before explaining the plan, Pan Darong briefly told his story.
He was originally from Linxue City, born in an ordinary family, his father worked in the Martial God Temple, but he was not a warrior, but a cook.
His mother was more ordinary, the daughter of a miner, and after getting married, because Pan Darong's father's income in the Martial God Temple was acceptable, he took care of the housework at home full-time.
In the fifth year of Pan Darong's birth, the chef of the Martial God Temple in Linxue City was replaced by a high-level distant relative, so he gave Pan's father a sum of money, which was regarded as a "layoff".
It's nothing, as a skilled person, you don't have to worry about running out of food anywhere. Pan's father took this severance pay and opened a small restaurant, and with his reputation as the chef of the Martial God Temple, he quickly made money in Linxue City, which was full of rich people.
With the passage of time, Pan's father's business has become more and more prosperous, and until Pan Darong was twelve years old, their family's situation has been improving, and they can barely wear the same clothes and ride the same carriage as those rich people who have made their fortunes from the mines.
Until that year.
In the autumn of that year, a large number of monsters suddenly appeared, and the Martial God Temple of Linxue City did not react, and was surrounded by monsters in the city for half a month, although the monster tide was finally repulsed, but the granaries in the farms outside the city were all spoiled by monsters.
In the barren southern continent, grain fields are a very valuable resource. As the richest city in the Southern Continent, Linxue City has the number of fields and granaries second only to Zhendong City, but this sudden disaster has caused the entire city to fall into a situation where there is no food to eat.
Pan Darong's restaurant is the same, their family's warehouse has long been left in the half-moon siege, let alone opening a store to welcome customers, and it is difficult to even feed their own family.
At this moment, Miao Fu, the president of the Hanging Pavilion Chamber of Commerce in Linxue City, proposed that he could transfer a batch of grain from the Western Continent, which was enough for Linxue City to survive the winter, but it was expensive and the transportation cost was high.
Can't eat, who cares about the price?
A group of merchants, including Pan's father, approached Miao Fu and expressed their willingness to take this batch of goods, including businessmen like Pan's father who catered and shopkeepers who specialized in grain distribution.
Miao Fu had no choice but to disperse the goods to these merchants, and Linxue City also recovered from the fear of famine and lived a life of rice and meat again.
However, just a few days later, problems began to arise.
There were a large number of people with food poisoning in the city, although the patients were not life-threatening, but they vomited and diarrhea, and had a high fever, and even some second-order martial artists were also hit, and only the transcendent could avoid this catastrophe.
As soon as this happened, who didn't know that there was a problem with that batch of goods? Immediately, Father Pan and that group of businessmen found Miao Fu together with the people of the Martial God Temple and asked for an explanation.
However, the strange thing is that Miao Fu calmly accepted the investigation, he also kept some of the original batch of goods, and he handed over the remaining grain in the warehouse to the Martial God Temple for inspection, but did not find any problems.
Just when everyone was confused, Miao Fu put forward a hypothesis paradoxically.
"Could it be that someone is shoddy, hoarding the goods bought from me in the warehouse, and selling the defective products at the bottom of the warehouse at a high price?"
Then, the Martial God Temple found out the problem in the warehouses of several merchants, including Pan's father.
No one knows whether it was the Martial God Temple colluding with Miao Fu, or Miao Fu secretly operating to hide from the world, and the citizens didn't care, as loyal Martial God believers, they only cared about the results that the Martial God Temple told everyone.
As a result, the restaurant was smashed by angry people, the rice shop and butcher shop were overturned, and the merchants were sentenced to a heavy sentence by the Martial God Temple, not only fined a large amount of money, but also forced to be sent to the front line to participate in the battle against the monsters.
And Father Pan is just a cook, he has no talent for cultivation at all, not even a first-order martial artist, and only half a month after being sent to the front line, bad news came.
The grief-stricken Pan's mother planned to leave Linxue City with Pan Darong, but Pan Darong, who was carried away by the rage at that time, secretly went to find Miao Fu on the night of the rainstorm before leaving, carrying a pig-killing knife.
No accident, he didn't even get in at someone's door.
Pan Darong had one hand broken and was thrown out into the street like garbage, and his mother was kicked in the stomach for not scolding Miao Fu's servant.
This kick cost her life.
Pan's mother was heartbroken by the death of Pan's father, and she didn't eat or sleep for several days, and because she was worried that Pan Darong rushed into the street in the rain, she was kicked by a martial artist who had achieved cultivation.
In less than three days, the soul returned to the sky.
After the story, Pan Darong didn't say too much, he only said that he had an adventure after leaving Linxue City, learned a strange skill, and traveled the world to make friends.
However, when he told these stories to Qi Wanli, he didn't have too much sadness, at most he just shook his head and sighed a few words, as if he was talking about other people's things.
"And what is your plan?" Qi Wanli asked.
His bottom line does not allow him to do things that violate his moral bottom line, and this story is just the words of Pan Darong's family, and he will not believe it all. If Pan Darong wanted to ask him to kill someone or something, he would definitely refuse.
Pan Darong thought for a while and said: "That's the case, this year's spring snow has fallen for a month, and the grain output has dropped a lot, and the price has also risen a lot. Miao Fu, after bringing down my father and those businessmen, he pocketed this market, and naturally he was also affected by this grain production. ”
"The farmers outside the city wanted to raise the price, and he was not very happy, so he found someone to go outside to fetch goods. According to my information, the batch he got will be very cheap, but the quality is probably not good, and if it is not good, someone will have an accident. But I don't think it's likely that he's going to smash his own sign, so I'm afraid he has other purposes. ”
"I came back for revenge this time, I didn't want to kill him so simply, not to mention that this kind of thing is a violation of the law of the Martial God Temple, I really want to do it, and then I will become a wanted criminal in the Martial God Temple. What I want is to use Miao Fu's actions this time to see if I can find any loopholes and take the opportunity to make him discredited. ”
Qi Wanli nodded, if it was this level of revenge, of course he could accept it, so he asked, "What kind of role do you want me to play in this?"
"The champions of the previous extraordinary and ruleless rings will be favored by major forces. Pan Darong said.
"The masters of the fifth and sixth orders are basically big names, and they are just competing for a good name. What really matters is the people of your realm, some of you are extraordinary, and the competition is fierce, once you win, you will be the object of competition and recruitment by those chambers of commerce and forces. ”
"If you can defeat the big people who won the championship this time and become the champion, then the big shots led by the Martial God Temple will entertain you and accept you first. Miao Fu is the sponsor who pays the most money in the ring, and he will be the first to invite you, and when the time comes, you will get a lot of opportunities to deal with him. ”
"I have only one request, that while you are dealing with him, see if there is a way to take me to his territory, and I will find what I need myself. ”
"That's it?" Qi Wanli asked with some suspicion: "Miao Fu is a big businessman, and he has to receive many business partners every day, if you want to get into his territory, you still need to go through this way?"
Pan Darong smiled when he heard him ask.
"That's what you don't understand. ”
"Maybe he's done too many bad things and has a weak heart, maybe he's hiding some secrets. In short, he will not let others into his study easily. However, if you, as the champion of the ring, come up with the idea of wanting to play for him, he will surely take you to his study and let his men try your strength one last time. ”
"This is the message from the mouths of many champions in the past. ”
Qi Wanli listened carefully, smiled and said, "It seems that you are really well prepared." ”
"Of course. Pan Darong smiled a little shyly and said, "After all, I have been preparing for more than ten years." ”
"What about her?" Qi Wanli pointed to Fan Jianxue's back and asked, "What role does she play?"
"Alas......"
Speaking of this, Pan Darong sighed and said with some sadness: "Originally, I wanted to find a powerful girl to play a mysterious eldest lady businessman. As a result, I didn't expect her identity to be so special, and after hearing that I could help her break the spell, she forcibly wanted to join the gang, and now I'm still worried. ”
"But you can't help her with the spell. Qi Wanli said bluntly.
At this time, Fan Jianxue heard the two talking about herself, Shi Shiran came over and said, "Having said that, he can still help me temporarily alleviate the negative effects of the spell." And, to restrain this monster that calls itself 'Zero', he also needs his help. ”
"This monster calls itself Zero?" Qi Wanli's expression became strange.
"yes, what's wrong?" Fan Jianxue frowned and asked, "Didn't you also say, what kind of experimental subject zero is he?"
"Ahem, nothing, nothing......"
If this monster had known what the number zero represented in his day, he would have cried and shouted to change his name.
"It's impossible for me to meet Miao Fu. Fan Jianxue said: "Li Chengkong, the little apprentice of the Hanging Pavilion Master, is also in Linxue City, she and I have known each other for many years, even if I am wearing a mask, she will definitely be able to recognize me." ”
Qi Wanli looked at Pan Darong's gloomy appearance and narrowed his eyes: "I think you may have fallen into a misunderstanding. So, I'll give you a suggestion. ”
"As you may see, I'm still a little capable of stratageming. He said softly, "If you're interested, I can modify your plan a little bit to make it more complete and powerful." Of course, you may have to pay extra for that......"