Chapter 122

A moment later, Qi Qi Lianyong and the others were all sitting in the living room.

The two evil guests were placed in front of the door, fine snow drifting and covering their hair.

The two were wearing thick clothes anyway, so they wouldn't freeze to death for a while.

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu placed the cat on the table, washed his hands, found paper cups, threw in some tea leaves, and went to the hot water outlet of the water dispenser to make tea for everyone.

The few people Qi Qi Lianyong brought, two men and three women, the oldest seemed to be in their thirties, and the youngest were only in their early twenties.

Each of them was spirited, not only looking like they had good skills, but probably also having some experience and having had blood on their hands.

However, when they looked at the cat, their expressions softened unconsciously.

The short-haired girl in her early twenties even took out a bag of small cookies to feed the cat.

"Teacher Xiaobai, I told you not to run around outside the school, and this time you were actually caught so far away; do you know fear now?"

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu handed over the tea, and the short-haired girl took it and said hurriedly: "Thank you."

"So, you are the owners of this cat."

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu looked at Qi Qi Lianyong, "Master Qi, this cat actually knows how to fight."

Qi Qi Lianyong laughed: "Yes, otherwise why would we call him Teacher Xiaobai?"

"This cat, I heard, was left behind by a dean of our Golden Knife Martial Arts School before."

"That dean had no children and named the cat Bai Mei; in 1996, he cooperated with the crackdown on organized crime and sacrificed himself, leaving only this cat."

"The school has been raising this cat, and after 2000, everyone found that the cat became more and more human-like, actually understood the shrinking bone and tendon-dividing kung fu that the dean was most proud of before he died, could change its body shape, and could fight; it fought with great essence."

Qi Qi Lianyong blew on the tea leaves and took a sip.

"New students love to watch him fight; it's called teaching through entertainment, and many students call him teacher."

Golden Knife Martial Arts School?

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu remembered that he had also heard the name of this martial arts school.

In the last century, there were three organizations in the Jianghuai region's metaphysics association that were the most popular.

The Golden Knife Martial Arts School was one of them.

They had branches in many places, similar to technical secondary schools, selecting good seedlings and teaching them deeper martial arts, which could lead to diplomas similar to junior colleges.

After graduation, work was basically assigned, which was considered a semi-official organization.

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu said: "Master Qi, you have your own fist hall, when did you join the martial arts school?"

"Having my own fist hall is certainly not bad, but joining the martial arts school is broader for me."

Qi Qi Lianyong said with emotion, "My fist hall can only take in so many disciples, and I can't find a successor who is better than me."

"At least, within the same number of years, the progress should not be inferior to when I was young, but unfortunately, there isn't one."

"At that time, the martial arts school found me and talked to me several times; I thought, first, the treatment and status were good, and second, it was easier to find good apprentices when teaching students there."

"By now, I have been working there for several years."

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu's heart moved: "Golden Knife Martial Arts School, there must be many experts, right?"

"How do you count experts?"

Qi Qi Lianyong smiled, "Those who have opened their orifices are all experts among ordinary people; there are a lot of such people in the main school, but I can still be called an expert among them, which is all compared and self-entertaining."

"However, our principal should be an expert recognized nationwide."

"He doesn't just know martial arts, but also blending incense, dispensing medicine, tailoring clothes, designing gardens, making musical instruments; sometimes, he can even substitute for math and chemistry teachers."

Qi Qi Lianyong took out a small box from his pocket, pressed the button next to it with his thumb, and the lid of the small box opened.

Inside was a green insect.

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu couldn't name it, thinking it looked a bit like a mantis, but without those two famous front feet.

"This is a green smoke insect, which loves to smell the kind of fragrant smoke; usually, it lies on a hollow incense burner."

Qi Qi Lianyong explained, "Teacher Xiaobai always likes to wander around the principal's office, and only after getting stained with the spices prepared by the principal can he use the extraordinary sense of smell of this insect to track his whereabouts."

"Otherwise, like this gang of thieves, they seem to have done a job while passing by, and they are all new faces; we might not have found clues."

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu looked at the insect, and there was no aura of magical arts.

It seems to be gifted, plus the breeder uses high-level pharmacological knowledge to tame it.

This is not strange, but medical development has reached today, and some research laboratories have the ability to edit biological genes.

That is not a magical art, but in the eyes of those who don't know the inside story, the effect is no different from a magical art.

"These two thieves are ruthless, one looks like a fist practitioner, and the other knows magical arts; their strength is not weak."

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu said, "I originally planned to cripple them, interrogate them, and hand them over to the security station."

"Since you are here, hand them over to you. I heard that the teachers of the Golden Knife Martial Arts School all have certificates, and they can connect with the provincial department when necessary; handing them over to you is even more secure."

Qi Qi Lianyong nodded.

At this time, the short-haired girl turned around.

"Teacher Xiaobai said that he escaped from a large truck on the highway; there were four people in the car, two driving and two guarding the goods, and these two were guarding the goods."

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu looked at the white-browed cat.

This cat didn't even meow just now, at most gestured some postures, nodded and shook its head; can this also be understood?

The white-browed cat noticed his gaze and meowed, its tail long and soft.

The short-haired girl looked at Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu in surprise: "Teacher Xiaobai is very close to Mr. Chu."

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu laughed.

After shrinking its bones and changing its body, its meow clearly had a bit of vigor, and now it's pretending to be young here.

"Guarding goods?"

Qi Qi Lianyong stood up and asked, "What kind of goods, living, dead, artifacts?"

The white-browed cat shook its head twice, then nodded once.

"It's artifacts, magical artifacts? Many?"

Qi Qi Lianyong's expression became solemn, "Could it be a gang supplying the ghost market for practitioners?"

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu's expression also changed slightly when he heard this.

Every industry originally has a saying about a ghost market, or it is also called a black market, which is a place where some illicit goods are traded secretly.

And the ghost market for practitioners belongs to the most bloody and cruel level.

I heard from my grandfather that there were many evil magical artifacts in the ghost market in the last century.

Tomb digging, robbery, theft, these ways of getting them were still considered restrained.

The ones with the thickest blood color were the newly refined evil magical artifacts.

Human trafficking using animal transformation evil arts, organ trading conducted by bewitching people...

The end of many things is in the ghost market of practitioners.

In the twenty or thirty years at the end of the last century, in order to rectify the ghost market, there were even many battles that could be called campaigns.

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu's grandfather, who had his sharp edge blunted in his heart back then, besides his increasing age, was also related to witnessing the battles in the ghost market several times.

The old man naturally hated those evil ways deeply.

But, as a doctor, he could only do logistics at most at that time.

The few fighting methods derived from medical arts, and the miscellaneous moves he learned in his life, were not qualified to participate in such thrilling battles.

Everyone knew that he was more valuable in logistics, so he stopped in unwillingness.

That became a glorious memory he couldn't forget, and it also made him never try to move forward again in his later years.

"Even if there is still a ghost market in the practitioner circle now, the scale should be far less than before."

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu had a look of recollection, and after a while, he came back to his senses and looked at those two people.

Qi Qi Lianyong had already strode over, turned the sturdy man with the scar on his nose, and faced the snow.

The sturdy man's arms were all held by Qi Qi Lianyong, pulled up behind his back, like an eagle spreading its wings.

The next moment, the sturdy man suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes full of bloodshot, and a "ge ge ge ge" sound like an eagle pecking at a rock came from his throat.

Veins quickly crawled from his neck to his face, his head raised high, his face flushed, clearly in extreme pain.

Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu saw that Qi Qi Lianyong's pair of hands were actually constantly shaking, with small-scale changes in direction and twisting.

The force spread throughout the sturdy man's body, causing many muscles to jump and twist.

"This set of tendon-dividing and bone-misplacing hands in my Eagle Claw Fanzimen, I just learned in the last few years; although I only have four levels of heat, it's enough for you to taste all the sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty, and let the pain, itch, numbness, drilling, and explosion happen all at once."

Qi Qi Lianyong said, "Even a tough guy who can endure pain can't endure this set of kung fu."

The sturdy man's face no longer had the ruthless look of throwing three copper coins and green fire as soon as he moved against Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu.

Tears as big as beans rolled out of his eyes, snot and saliva flowed out, his head and face trembled together, but he couldn't speak.

Qi Qi Lianyong waited for another three seconds before letting go of his right hand.

The sturdy man gasped for air desperately.

Before he could catch his breath, Qi Qi Lianyong grabbed his right hand again.

"Speak, where are you sending the cat you stole from our house? Why did you attack the head of the house as soon as you saw him? How many accomplices do you have?"

"Tell the truth, and I will stop, otherwise..."

The sturdy man gasped: "Don't, don't, I'll say it all."

This person easily used ruthless magical artifacts on others, but couldn't endure ruthless strength himself.

Like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube, he told everything.

It turned out that they really had a truckload of goods, mostly obtained from tomb robbing in the interior, and were going to transport them to the seaside to smuggle them out and supply the ghost market.

They went once a year, and this year, halfway through, they accidentally discovered the white-browed cat that was extremely human-like, knowing that this kind of goods could be sold for a high price if supplied alive to the ghost market.

Therefore, they secretly attacked the cat and left after finishing.

Originally, this gang had a beautiful plan: the truck would go directly on the highway and wait for smuggling at the seaside.

Who knew that due to the cold disaster, they were blocked on the highway several times in the past two days.

This last time, they had been blocked for half a day, stuck in the middle of the traffic, unable to move forward or backward.

That section of the highway was two or three meters higher than the ground on both sides, and the guardrail was strong.

Even if they wanted to find a way to leave the highway, they couldn't.

The two responsible for guarding the carriage felt too stuffy and came down to get some air.

The white-browed cat seized this opportunity and escaped from the cage.

They knew this cat was human-like; it didn't matter if the cat escaped, but if the matter of the carriage was leaked, there would be big trouble.

Therefore, as soon as Chu Seeing Chu Tianshu said the cat was from his relative's house, the sturdy man couldn't wait to silence him.

As for their gang, there were five core members, and four of them were responsible for guarding the goods.

The boss followed a mysterious style; besides tomb digging, he didn't act with them at other times, but he knew exactly how much goods they sold and how much money they should have each time.

"A big case!"

Qi Qi Lianyong said, "Tomb robbing and smuggling, selling treasures abroad, and there are probably human lives on their hands."

"Very good, taking you guys down, I can already see another batch of banners and bonuses beckoning!"

(End of chapter)