Chapter 993: I and Thieves Are Irreconcilable Enemies

I and Thieves Are Irreconcilable Enemies

Empty?!!

Looking at the completely empty box before him, Sun Bumian's eyeballs were about to pop out.

Not believing it, he opened the second box. The dim light shone inside, and besides thick dust, there was nothing else... A whole box of Gold Bricks, not even a shadow was seen!

Sun Bumian's mind went blank. He mechanically continued to open all the other boxes. Without exception, all of them were empty.

"How could it be like this..."

"My savings of several lifetimes..."

As if losing all his strength, Sun Bumian staggered and fell against the wall. His hollow eyes looked at the nine boxes, his face ashen.

To an Ordinary Person, let alone a lifetime of savings, even just having three years of wages scammed away would cause depression and a breakdown... Yet what Sun Bumian lost was his hard-earned money slowly made by performing street arts over several lifetimes.

A few hundred years of feasting, poof! Gone!

Sun Bumian couldn't figure out how malicious a person had to be to do such a crazed thing.

"Who is it... who is it?!"

Sun Bumian's eyes were bloodshot. Recalling how perfectly sealed these boxes looked just now, he suddenly realized something and abruptly looked up...

To be able to steal all the gold inside without opening the boxes, this method was almost certainly that of a Fire-Stealer. Moreover, this was precisely the Fire-Stealers' turf... The culprit who stole his several lifetimes of savings was already vividly portrayed.

"I and thieves are irreconcilable enemies!!!"

Sun Bumian flew into a rage!

Having his liver stolen previously already made Sun Bumian extremely displeased. Coupled with all his savings being stolen this time, his hostility towards the Fire-Stealers had climbed to its peak. He wished he could rush into The Church right now and slap the Silver King twice across the face.

Cursing and swearing, Sun Bumian stepped with Cloud Steps and returned to the surface from the pit.

Red-eyed and just about to leave, he looked back at the deep pit. Holding back his anger, he seriously wrote a Warning Sign with a wooden board and stuck it in the most conspicuous place in front of the pit.

"Giant pit ahead, watch your step."

No matter what, this pit was still quite deep. If an Ordinary Person fell in, they probably wouldn't meet a good end.

After hesitating for a moment, Sun Bumian cursed again and added a sentence at the bottom of the sign:

"Except Fire-Stealers."

...

"Hel... hel... hello."

Outside the glass door of the restaurant, a white-haired figure wrapped in bandages spent a long time doing mental construction before speaking in a voice as quiet as a mosquito.

Behind the glass door, the Restaurant Boss was clanging away repairing the ceiling, completely not hearing his voice.

Jiang Xiaohua: ...

Gathering his courage, Jiang Xiaohua raised his voice a bit more:

"Hello..."

Clang clang clang.

The boss didn't even glance this way.

Two attempts at bravery only resulted in awkward ignorance. Jiang Xiaohua felt like he was about to shatter... He instinctively wanted to turn around and run, then find a deserted place to bury himself. But thinking about how he had held Jian Changsheng back and let down the other three 6s, he still gritted his teeth and nailed his feet to the spot.

Jiang Xiaohua had spent a whole day searching all the sewers in the east, but didn't find any trace of the Rat Party. It seemed that after they sent out those children, they immediately relocated to a new stronghold, and the original place was completely abandoned.

Entrusted with high hopes, he failed to play even the slightest role. The guilt in his heart was the motivation supporting him to return to the restaurant covered in dirt.

If it were normal times, he would have already started slacking off underground by now.

Jiang Xiaohua gave up on using his voice to attract the boss's attention. Instead, he stood stiffly outside the glass door, his eyes staring straight at him, attempting to use some "oppressive feeling of a stalker" to catch the boss's attention.

The boss, who was repairing the ceiling, only felt a baffling chill down his spine. After turning his head to look, he was almost scared off his stool by the wide-eyed white ghost at the door.

"...It's you?" The boss walked to the door unhappily. "Why are you here again? We don't accept dine-and-dashers here, hurry up and leave..."

"Uhm..." Jiang Xiaohua tentatively peeked inside. "Spades... oh no, where is Little Jian?"

"You mean that jinx who was left behind to wash dishes?"

Speaking of this, the boss grew angry. "He ran away when manhole covers were falling from the sky!"

Deep bewilderment appeared on Jiang Xiaohua's face.

Regardless, Jiang Xiaohua knew Jian Changsheng wasn't here. After nodding silently, he left the restaurant all alone.

Jiang Xiaohua also didn't know where he should go to find Jian Changsheng. He just walked aimlessly on the street alone, with thoughts constantly popping out of his mind. He even felt that both Spades and Diamonds felt he was holding them back too much, so they left him behind and left directly...

Jiang Xiaohua felt a bit uncomfortable in his heart.

With no plan and no route, Jiang Xiaohua just shuttled between the streets and alleys like this. When he got tired of walking, he sat down on a Stone Stool at the edge of the road, blankly watching the pedestrians occasionally walking by on the street.

Now... could he find a place to bury himself?

Just as Jiang Xiaohua was conflicted, two or three pedestrians holding an extremely simple newspaper walked past him.

"Hey, did you guys hear? That Six of Hearts of the Dusk Society has already announced joining the Fire-Stealers."

"Ah? When did this happen??"

"It's from the newspaper distributed just this noon. Every district and factory got them. Did your area not receive any?"

"I haven't read it yet... Is this Six of Hearts you're talking about the madman who wiped out the Aurora Domain and almost destroyed Red Dust?"

"Yes, yes, yes, it's him. He seems to have completely broken ties with the Dusk Society, and even killed a Dusk Society member with his own hands..."

Jiang Xiaohua's body jolted!

Hearts... killed a Dusk Society member?

Jiang Xiaohua knew about Chen Ling being forced to join the Fire-Stealers. He absolutely didn't believe Chen Ling would willingly become the Silver King's lackey, much less believe he would kill a Dusk Society member... So was this fake news? Why did they spread it on a large scale within the Wuji Domain at this time?

The more Jiang Xiaohua pondered, the more he felt something was wrong.

At the same time, his ears pricked up, continuing to listen to those people's chat:

"So this madman is also in the Wuji Domain right now? That's too terrifying! I don't even dare to imagine what extreme things he would do."

"But don't you feel... whatchamacallit?"

"What?"

One person looked around, confirmed that no one should be able to hear, and spoke in a low voice: "If this madman could do some extreme things like in the Aurora and Red Dust Domains, and jinx the Silver Government to death... maybe it's a good thing?"