Chapter 161: Undercover
"How many of these masks did your ancestor make?"
Fang Rui, who was dressed as a big fat man who was eight feet tall and had a waist circumference of eight feet, complained, monks generally have such a deformed figure, but it is not without a strange appearance, even after cultivation, they can't fine-tune it, they can only show their original appearance.
And Ji Qingfeng, who was dressed as a delicate and delicate young man, tilted his head and thought about it, and then said: "That ancestor will use several different masks every time he makes a private visit to Weifu, and he will run out almost every year, so in Neikuri, there are about hundreds of such masks, and I didn't look carefully, so I brought out more than a hundred casually." β
Zhao Wushuang, who was pretended to be a middle-aged man who was not short, but was as thin as a bamboo pole, couldn't help but roll his eyes, and he didn't know if Ji Qingfeng did it on purpose, after the three of them changed their faces this time, except for Ji Qingfeng herself, Fang Rui and Zhao Wushuang were a little unable to see it.
"Where are we going now?" asked Zhao Wushuang a little depressed.
"If you want to check the details of the Zuoqiu family, the best way is to enter the Zuoqiu family. Ji Qingfeng said with a smile.
"You mean, let's go to the Zuoqiu family together as a guest?" Fang Rui asked, "But won't the Zuoqiu family doubt our identity?"
"If you suspect it, let them check, but we went directly to another county, and then the TongguΓ² teleportation array returned to Penglai County again, there is an identity registration, our identity jade plate, but it is all real." Ji Qingfeng said with a smile.
"Recently, the Zuoqiu family has also been recruiting people, and many casual cultivators have joined their disciples to become doormen, because they have been constantly snatching the medicinal materials and ores obtained by those casual cultivators in recent months, so that many casual cultivators have not come to Penglai County, and their demand for those medicinal materials and ores seems to be very large, so they have opened a relatively rich Yulu to recruit doormen, and now many casual cultivators are willing to become doormen, at least they can find materials to exchange spiritual stones with peace of mind. β
Zhao Wushuang said, she has been around Penglai County recently, and she is relatively clear about these details.
"That's even more problematic...... Why do they want so many materials? Ordinary medium-sized families don't need so many materials at all, besides, the Zuoqiu family and the Yuqiu Sheqiu family have always been in the same spirit, and there are also the Qiao family, the two big families with rich resources, what is the gap, if you ask the Qiao family's red family to borrow, it won't be impossible to borrow, can you use such a means?" Ji Qingfeng shook his head and said.
"Something went wrong...... There will be demons. Fang Rui nodded: "It seems that we really have to go to Zuoqiu's house to check." β
Although it must be a protracted affair to go undercover, time is not of much significance to the monk, so why not spend more time? At least find out where this series of anomalies of the Zuoqiu family lies.
After putting on the mask, the strength shown by the three people is nothing more than about the second grade, and this kind of strength is also the strength that those rangers generally have, such rangers are also more popular when they are put into the family as guests, after all, they have a certain strength, and they are not too strong.
The station of the Zuoqiu family is thousands of miles west of Lingmu Mountain, in fact, the stations of the Zuoqiu family, the Yuqiu family and the Sheqiu family are not far from the station of the Qiao family, thousands of miles away, and the family station is five hundred miles away, almost monopolizing the middle range, which can be regarded as a method of expanding the family's power in a certain direction.
When Fang Rui and the other three came to the outside of Zuoqiu's house one after another, there was already a long queue at the place where they were soliciting guests.
These casual cultivators were powerless to fight against the Zuoqiu family, and they were not too willing to leave the resource-rich Penglai County, so when the Zuoqiu family began to recruit customers and agreed to buy all kinds of materials at half of the market price, many casual cultivators were willing to be exploited by the Zuoqiu family - because even so, they would be more lucrative than if they went to other places!
Under the strength of the official family, few scattered cultivators had the courage to fight, and the resistance of Fang Rui, Ji Qingfeng and Zhao Wushuang was really an outlier.
Lined up in the queue and listened to the chat of the monk next to him - yesterday, the two elders of the Zuoqiu family, the best of the outer disciples in their twenties who were close to the core, were seriously injured by three outsiders, and the news spread quickly, and the Zuoqiu family sent experts to inspect everywhere, but they could not find the traces of the three bold guys.
"It's a pity, those three guys ran away after beating people, and I still hope that they can fight a few battles with the Zuoqiu family, maybe we won't have to be exploited by the Zuoqiu family. One of the monks sighed.
"Who said it wasn't, but I don't think those three monks were too good, otherwise why would they run away overnight? A monk next to him said.
"How do you know that they ran away, I see, they are temporarily ambushed, and the Zuoqiu family is looking for trouble for them, and they may want to make the Zuoqiu family suffer a big loss at any time!"
"Hey, you say, if they make a big fuss, the people of the Zuoqiu family will definitely not be staring at us everywhere, right? β
"Forget it, let's stop talking about this, let the people of the Zuoqiu family hear it, most of them will come to find trouble, they just suffered such a big loss, maybe they will find our fault." β
Fang Rui listened as he slowly walked forward, and the voice from Ji Qingfeng's divine sense suddenly sounded in his ears: "It seems that all their elders have been sent out." β
"You mean to launch it today?" Fang Rui also replied with his divine sense.
"Aren't you good at hiding your figure? The Zuoqiu family has killed dozens of elders, and its strength is between the fourth and fifth grades, and now if this group of masters are sent out to search for our traces, the defense of the Zuoqiu family is the weakest now, at most, their family master Zuoqiu Hongtu is here, as long as he is concealed, it will be easier to search. β
"Because no one would have thought that at this time, the Zuoqiu family was tight on the outside and loose on the inside...... It's a good idea. β
"Then I'll leave this task to you. β
"Why just me?"
"Only you will hide your body, and you are bold and careful, you are the best candidate, the three of us can't start together, you really want to be discovered, at least the two of us remain. β
"But look at my fat appearance, I will be discovered if I move casually, okay?"
"It was my negligence, but I'll give you another disguise mask later, and I don't believe they'll be able to get to know all the new arrivals!"
While exchanging divine senses, Fang Rui had already walked to the registration place, and the disciple of the Zuoqiu family who was in charge of registration frowned and looked at Fang Rui, who was like a mountain, and then said, "This fellow Daoist, you are of this size...... Can you find the right materials?"
"Don't underestimate people! Although a certain family is a little bigger, it is very flexible! Besides, mining stones don't care about size. Fang Rui patted the fat on his chest and said in a rough voice.
"Yes. The disciple of the Zuoqiu family nodded, such a big man, maybe it is more troublesome to collect medicine, but if it is mining, it is really a good hand.
Taking the identity jade plate handed over by Fang Rui and registering his name, Fang Rui walked into the door of Zuoqiu's house.
The front is naturally a place where vassals and doormen live, and the deeper any family is, the more heavily defended it is, and the more important things are placed in the inner courtyard and the outer courtyard, and nothing can be seen.
However, just by this glance, Fang Rui felt that something was indeed wrong with the Zuoqiu family, generally speaking, a medium-sized family was nothing more than a few fifth-grade monks carrying the ding, hundreds of fourth-grade monks as elders, and the next third-grade disciples would not exceed a thousand, which was in line with the scale of a medium-sized family.
But a little thing made the two fifth-grade elders come out, and it was obvious that the elders who had only broken through to the fifth-grade for a long time, and now everywhere they looked, even the disciples guarding the door were all the peak cultivation of the third-grade rank, and this kind of strength was indeed a bit amazing.
Even if it is far from being able to compare with the eight major families, it exceeds the strength that the Zuoqiu family should have, and it seems that the strength of the entire Zuoqiu family has made a leap!
This made Fang Rui somewhat understand why the Zuoqiu family has been crazy hoarding materials recently, if the strength of the entire Zuoqiu family has a leap, then the demand for various materials will indeed be very large, after all, everyone has to refine their natal magic weapon again, and they have to absorb more aura to stabilize their realm, only when everyone's state is stable, the strength of this family will have a real leap.
"What is the reason for their overall leap in strength...... It's really curious......"
After listening to the teachings of the Zuoqiu disciples, Fang Rui and a group of monks began to leave the Zuoqiu family's station, and then searched for medicinal herbs and ores all over Penglai County, and the left placket of their clothes was marked with the mark of the Zuoqiu family, with such a mark, the disciples of the Zuoqiu family would not come to trouble them.
After a long time with Ji Qingfeng and Zhao Wushuang, they got together, and Ji Qingfeng handed Fang Rui a bag of things.
"There's a new mask in there...... There is also a transmission note, after crushing it, I can hear what you say, if there is any danger, notify me immediately, understand?" Ji Qingfeng looked at Fang Rui's eyes and said.
"I don't think there's any danger. Fang Rui took it with a smile.
"Just in case!" Ji Qingfeng said.
"So, if I really crush the transmission note, then you must do what I say, understand?" Fang Rui said.
"Why?"
"If I really want to crush the transmission note, it means that I have found something amazing, otherwise I will run away alone, and if that happens, you will have to go to the nearby garrison as soon as possible. Fang Rui still smiled.
Zhao Wushuang's expression tightened: "Looking for a garrison, do you mean that the Zuoqiu family may rebel?"
"Why did they rebel...... I'm worried about something else. Fang Rui smiled and shook his head: "Okay, let's work hard, if we don't take some things to pay, maybe we will be suspected." β
"Do you really want to be a coolie for the Zuoqiu family?" Zhao Wushuang was angry and funny: "I have also collected some low-level materials during this time, and I can do it today." β
After speaking, Zhao Wushuang shook out a large number of various materials from the first to the third grade from his storage bag, she had collected the materials in Penglai County for so long, and the harvest was also very expensive, and it was no problem to take it out to the three of them as an explanation for the day's work.
When it was almost dark, the three of them returned to the station of Zuoqiu's house separately, found the disciple in charge of collecting the materials and handed over the materials, and then found a random place in the front yard, sat cross-legged, and began to rest.
Although they were resting, the three of them were constantly using their divine senses to probe the surrounding situation, and in the entire Zuoqiu family station, it seemed that only the disciples of the three grades were still searching outside.