Chapter 38: Hunting in the Dark
The darkness of the night enveloped the entire dark street.
There is only a small amount of light streaming through the shops on the streets of Noda, which makes it even more eerie at night.
Walking on the dim street, Lin Shen looked at the shops on both sides and pursed his lips.
This is the third time he has come to the Black Street.
The first two times were to buy the condensate, but this time it was mainly to get back the deposit pledged to the snake.
In order not to be too abrupt, Lin Shen deliberately went to the snake again after five days after Zhou Zhihai's death.
He remembered the location of the alley very well, and soon came to the iron door, and reached out and knocked on it.
After some Q&A, the man guarding the door turned his body sideways and let Lin Shen in.
It was still the same dimly lit bar, and there were as few customers as ever, only seven or eight.
Behind the bar is still the same bartender who received him last time, meticulously wiping the clear glass.
Lin Shen went straight to the bar, knocked on the bar, and said in a hoarse voice:
"The information on mission Ding 2201 is incorrect!"
The bar stopped wiping, glanced at him, took out a document from under the bar, flipped through it for a while, and then said:
"The information is indeed wrong, but there is no need to continue the mission, the publisher has died, and according to the regulations, 30% of the mission deposit will be given to you as compensation."
Lin Shen frowned: "If the information is wrong, shouldn't half of the deposit be compensated?" ”
The bartender looked at him and didn't speak.
Damn profiteers!
Lin Shen scolded secretly and said, "Deposit and compensation!" ”
The bartender handed him a few good spirit coins with his hands and feet.
Lin Shen counted it and found that 30% of the deposit actually had a full 45,000 spirit coins.
"Is the deposit half of the job pay...... Damn profiteers! ”
After scolding the hidden snake again, Lin Shen put away the spirit coins and left the bar without looking back.
After walking out of the alley, Lin Shen did not leave the black street immediately, but rushed towards the shop that sold condensate liquid.
After breaking through to the eighth layer of pneumatics, the increase in repair progress per 100 ml of condensate has been sharply reduced to less than 1%, and the average repair progress can only be increased by 1% per 300 ml of condensate.
And Lin Shen now only had less than 12 liters of condensation liquid left in his hands, and after absorbing all of them, his cultivation progress would increase by up to 40%, which was far from enough to break through again.
There was still a big gap in cultivation resources, and he needed to purchase a large amount of condensation liquid.
......
Shadowy corners of the alley.
Hao Tu stood with his back against the wall, his arms folded, his fingers constantly tapping on his arms, his eyes full of impatience.
A few minutes later, a figure suddenly appeared not far away, and after looking around for a while, the figure seemed to notice Hao Tu's existence and slowly approached him.
After seeing the other party's face clearly through the moonlight, Hao Tu couldn't help but curse in a low voice.
"When did you come? What are you doing again? ”
"Eliminate your anger, I'm not looking for a target."
Dai Geng smiled all over his face, and then couldn't help but complain again.
"I don't know what the eldest brother thinks, he actually let us go to the black street to catch prey, the cultivators here are all shrewd, how can they be so easy to catch?"
At the mention of this, Hao Tu, who had originally dissipated most of his anger, suddenly came up again, and scolded in a low voice:
"You still have the face to say this?"
"If you hadn't killed a student of Huailiu Academy some time ago, causing us to be targeted by the Zhiwu Hall, we would have gone to such a remote place to find prey?"
Dai Geng shrunk his neck and said, "How did I know that kid was a student of Huailiu Academy......"
After a pause, he looked indignant.
"Speaking of which, another student died in Huailiu Academy a few days ago, and the goddamn Zhiwutang actually suspected that we did it, damn it, don't let me know which guy dares to frame us, otherwise Lao Tzu will definitely let him go around without eating!"
Hao Tu snorted coldly.
"Take care of your own business first, don't forget what the eldest brother said, if you can't hand over the prey tonight, you and I will make up the numbers!"
Dai Geng was thrilled by his words, and couldn't help but swallow.
Seeing this, Hao Tu was disdainful in his heart, and did not continue to scare him, but said coldly:
"You just said that you went to look for a target, did you find a suitable one?"
"Yes!"
Dai Geng nodded hurriedly, motioned for Hao Tu to follow, and turned around to lead the way.
After a short time, the two came to a shop more than 200 meters away.
"The target is in there now."
Dai Geng pointed to the shop, and through the crack in the open door, he could vaguely see a figure swaying inside.
Hao Tu looked at it carefully, and quickly remembered that this was a shop that sold pills, and he had visited it a few times before, and Dai Geng was a frequent customer here.
"When I came to buy the pill a few times ago, I chatted with the shopkeeper inside, and he told me that there was a guy who came to buy more than ten liters of condensate liquid twice before and after, and although that guy used the Yirong Pill, most of them were the same person, so he was very impressed!"
"You're talking about the target being the one who bought the condensate?"
"That's right!"
Dai Geng nodded heavily, a grim smile on his face.
"The only one who can use the condensation liquid is the Qi Dynamic Realm cultivator, if the two of us join forces, it will be easy to deal with that person!"
Hao Tu groaned slightly, and a dark light flashed in his eyes.
The condensing liquid is a by-product of the Condensing True Pill, and it is true that only Qi Realm cultivators will use it to assist in cultivation.
And because of the side effects of its lifespan reduction, only those cultivators who have been stranded in the ninth layer of pneumatic for a long time and have no hope of breaking through will take the risk of using it, and if they can break through to the long-breathing realm, their lifespan will be extended.
In other words, the target in Dai Geng's mouth was most likely a pneumatic ninth-level cultivator!
And he and Dai Geng are both pneumatic nine-layer cultivators, and if two to one, it is not difficult to kill that person.
In a flash of thought, Hao Tu quickly had a plan in his heart and decisively bowed his head.
"Just do as you say!"
"When the target leaves the dark street, we'll do it again!"
Black Street is a gray area of chaos, which is very suitable for killing people late at night, but because of this, Hao Tu doesn't want to do anything in Black Street.
Who knows if a yellow finch will jump out of the praying mantis after catching a cicada?
Don't work hard and be busy, but be profited by others.
Just in case, it's better to do it outside the black streets!
Dai Geng naturally knew this, and nodded heavily when he heard this.
Having decided on their goal, both of them relaxed a little.
Recently, the upper authorities have been urging them to get closer, and they urgently need a large number of cultivators' corpses, but they are hiding everywhere because of the pursuit of the Zhiwu Hall, and they have no time to look for prey.
In the end, I had no choice but to run to the black street.
And this target in front of them is the first prey they are looking for after coming to the Black Street!
As long as they take this prey and hand it over, they can slow down for a while.
Thinking of this, Hao Tu and Dai Gengju both secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
When they looked at the store again, the eyes of the two were already filled with cold killing intent.