Chapter 59: Shi Lei of the Rock-Digging Gang

Completely ignoring Ren Li's current expression and gaze, Du En only wanted to continue inquiring about the details of the corpse.

And at this moment, Xu Ran, having finished envying him, only then belatedly noticed his change.

"Huh?! You're at the mid-stage of Qi Refining?!"

Is Master Ren really this kind-hearted?

Xu Ran's eyes were full of astonishment, and he couldn't help but feel jealous.

The other corpse transporters were stunned at first, then gathered their courage to look at Du En, who was sitting in the cart with Ren Li.

After confirming it, they were all astonished.

Good heavens, by latching onto a kind-hearted overseer, could these corpse buriers, who had always been at the bottom of the corpse-handling business, finally turn their lives around?

They didn't hide the fact that they were having such thoughts at all.

"..."

The living environment of the poor at the bottom might deteriorate rapidly because of this!

Therefore, many even thought about voluntarily handing over protection money to seek their protection and avoid being harassed or bullied by those thugs.

From the suffocation of the cold, deep water, Shi Lei grabbed a straw and stubbornly climbed upward.

"Congratulations, Du En, you've broken the record!"

Soon, they arrived at the wasteland.

Shi Lei's vision was mottled, barely able to see Du En, who had also crouched down and was looking at him.

I cannot die yet!

"Okay."

Although extremely weak, he successfully opened his eyes.

Hearing Ren Li's words, the corpse transporters fell silent again, then became even more dumbfounded.

Du En also knew these things, which was why he kept asking.

Ren Li was also a bit unsure; he had received news about Shi Lei being harmed, but he didn't know the specific number of people killed in the beast retaliation.

"Eh? He's not dead yet!"

Therefore, if he really dared to accept and do that, those thugs would not sit idly by!

Only after confirming that they had just been doing their own work and hadn't made things difficult for Du En's side did they dare to heave a sigh of relief, and then, with smiling faces, they offered endless congratulations.

The main thing was that although they were powerful and included all the laborers mining and digging for stones, with a scale far exceeding the Green Clothes Gang, Blood Eagle Gang, or Iron Hand Gang, this was a group that adhered to the original intention of a gang; they did not bully others, and they gathered together only for warmth.

I still cannot die!

There was a belief supporting him to walk until now!

So, now that he was grabbing this straw, he struggled to leap out of the water.

He already understood that he could no longer find the other person himself.

Du En's reply was only one word.

"Almost there."

Thinking of this, they became even more worried.

"This is Gang Leader Shi Lei."

The old legend had fallen, and a new legend seemed to be rising!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shed tears.

And now, Xu Ran was biting the bullet to say it, likely wanting to warn Du En not to be careless or arrogant, otherwise he might repeat the same mistakes.

Among them, many showed signs of being bitten by demonic beasts, which was unexpected.

Du En didn't waste his breath arguing, but Ren Li, on the other hand, still cared about his reputation.

Then, in the next instant, they all simultaneously searched their memories.

"A normal Forest Shadow Leopard shouldn't have such a high desire for revenge; perhaps it's a special case of an individual that left the pack?"

In his gaze, there was no pity, no lamentation, nothing else; it was just as calm as a breeze, as the soil, and like water.

Although, in fact, he had already repeated them.

There was a feeling that it was not unexpected.

Rows of corpses lay coldly under the sunlight.

If he had only used four years to break through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining back then, then under normal circumstances, he could break through to the late-stage of Qi Refining in about six to ten years, and in another ten years or so, he should be at the Great Perfection of Qi Refining; perhaps by now, he might even have been able to attempt Foundation Establishment.

However, Gang Leader Shi Lei was only at the late-stage of Qi Refining, and could not pull away from the leaders of other large gangs.

"Nice to meet you..."

Du En just nodded calmly, and then turned the topic back to the beginning: "Speaking of which, who exactly is the corpse today?"

Xu Ran stepped back silently and subconsciously hunched over, but meeting Du En's calm gaze, his expression became a bit awkward, and he gingerly stepped back half a step; seeing that Du En didn't mind, he breathed a slight sigh of relief, his attitude returning slightly to the casualness from before.

Youthful ambition, then bitter grinding, late success, and then death.

Du En stopped in front of this corpse, which, although full of wounds, still appeared sturdy and solid, a body whose spine had not been broken by the passage of sixty years.

Suddenly, Ren Li noticed this point.

From Shi Lei's throat, he struggled to squeeze out his words, "Help, help me, I will give you a reward, as long as, you can, help me, find, my, child, who went to Chiwu City, he, she was just born, I hadn't even seen her, when, when she was snatched away."

The two sides brushed past each other, the corpse transporters discussing heatedly, all kinds of emotions overflowing uncontrollably.

It wasn't that someone pulled him up, but that he climbed up himself?!

And it was one of their own in the corpse business, which was very prestigious to talk about!

"Is there a record of this?"

Du En hadn't heard of this before, and while corpse transporters like Xu Ran didn't need to run around like those collecting corpses, they often walked the streets and alleys, and there were many with long experience, and the overseer wasn't idle, so they knew much more than this side.

Ren Li, who had followed over, was also a bit confused.

Subconsciously feeling conflicted, he suddenly realized something, his eyes lighting up immediately; he walked over and crouched down, not sparing his mana, and pressed his palm onto Shi Lei's body, causing a glowing green radiance to begin emerging and pouring in.

Yet Xu Ran only smiled bitterly, subconsciously glancing at Ren Li.

Because the person who passed the message to him simply did not take these small-time characters to heart.

Once successful, he would be able to escape the quagmire of the shanty town outside the city!

Therefore, even Ren Li raised an eyebrow, appearing somewhat concerned.

The person who clearly looked like they had already gone cold—that stagnant heart actually began to beat once more!

Xu Ran nodded lightly, his expression turning grave: "There is indeed one; the previous one was Gang Leader Shi Lei of the Stone Digging Gang, who only took four years to break through to the middle stage of Qi Refining."

"Corpse Burier, Du En, nice to meet you."

Especially on top of the steward's disgust.

In the past, when he asked the steward above him, He Bo, for his wages, he was sabotaged by the other party; if not for his solid foundation and deep mastery of his cultivation technique, he feared he would have damaged his roots.

The Stone Digging Gang—this group in the shanty town could be called a household name.

With Ren Li speaking up like this, the contact and lingering on both sides were declared at an end.

Ning Caize, Wei Ming, and the others could not help but sigh with emotion.

Furthermore, with Shi Lei dead, the Stone Digging Gang's foundation and pillar were gone; in the time to follow, they would either transform and collude with others, or be swarmed and torn apart and swallowed by other bully gangs.

"Is that demonic beast's desire for revenge that high?"

However, looking at Du En's calm, stone-like sitting posture from behind, the gloom in his heart was swept away!

Therefore, in the end, the existence of the Stone Digging Gang did not change the situation in the shanty town at all.

"Hmm? Gang Leader Shi? I remember he was already over sixty; in the decades that followed, did he only break through to the late stage?"

So that's how it is; he had a similar experience to me.

"Ahem! As for that, it actually has nothing to do with me."

"Hmm? The hearts and livers of the others were all eaten, but here with Shi Lei, he was only bitten to death."

The fear of strength and cultivation level was already carved into the bones of these people at the bottom.

"……"

Du En suddenly understood.

If other overseers were present, he certainly wouldn't dare to speak, but now he managed to stammer out: "Well, because Gang Leader Shi violated the rules and had his foundation damaged, and stone digging is a truly grueling job, he didn't break through to the late stage of Qi Refining until he was in his fifties."

A bit better than Ning Caize and the others, but only a bit.

Because logically speaking, the higher the cultivation, the better the quality of the flesh and blood; there was no reason that Forest Shadow Leopard would pass up this good meat to eat inferior flesh instead.

Ren Li's small gesture of raising his eyebrows just now, the somewhat heavy unease of the corpse transporters, and the topic Xu Ran perhaps intentionally guided, all pointed vaguely toward the victim's identity.

The corpse buriers were silent, and the closer they got to the Corpse Burial Wasteland, the more so it became.

What kind of magical development is this?

His wife had worked while pregnant in the past, leaving behind a chronic illness, which caused her to pass away early; he himself had struggled for decades, only to fall under the beast's mouth in the end, leaving behind only this final breath.

Like a lonely, drifting wish finally finding the earth to carry it, Shi Lei's breath began to dissipate; after struggling to spit out a location at the very end, he closed his eyes forever.

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