Chapter 363: Great Fortune (Begging for Monthly Tickets)

The middle-aged man lost his eyes and wailed loudly.

Li Banfeng said to the middle-aged man, "How do we retract this barrier?"

The middle-aged man was truly gutsy—upon hearing this, he shouted at the top of his lungs, "Retract the barrier! Can't you hear me?"

The three subordinates all looked at the one subordinate holding the device.

That subordinate did not move.

He did have experience—as long as the barrier wasn't shut off, Li Banfeng couldn't escape.

As long as Li Banfeng couldn't escape, this middle-aged man would have a chance to survive.

The subordinate holding the device said to Li Banfeng, "Don't even think about leaving. Release our Hall Master right now, or a hundred lives of yours couldn't pay for it."

Li Banfeng looked at the middle-aged man and said, "He came from the Garrison Office, and he can actually be your Hall Master?"

"That's none of your business. I'll tell you straight—I will not retract the barrier. Nothing you say will make a difference. If you don't release our Hall Master…"

The subordinate holding the device suddenly paused for a moment; he felt something wasn't quite right.

Where did the device in his pocket go?

The other three subordinates looked at the one holding the device, not understanding why he had stopped talking.

Li Banfeng looked at the one holding the device, who had been silent for a long time. The scene was a little awkward, so he spoke for him:

"I didn't tell you to retract the barrier. I asked you how to retract the barrier. Just tell me how this thing works."

Li Banfeng gripped the middle-aged man's hair with one hand and held the device in the other.

All the subordinates were stunned—when did this thing get into his hands?

Could it have been when he was just knocked down?

The so-called device was simply a plastic box with a lever on top.

Plastic was very rare and very expensive in Like Puluozhou. This thing was also finely crafted—at a glance, it came from another state.

But the barrier certainly wasn't created by this plastic box; this plastic box should just be a remote control.

The glove whispered in Li Banfeng's ear, "Boss, we've got the lever in our grip—give it a pull and try it out."

Li Banfeng said, "What if we try it wrong? Won't we all be done for here?"

The glove wagged its index finger: "Boss, if we really try it wrong, these people will definitely warn us. They definitely don't want to die. If you don't believe it, let's just try."

Li Banfeng felt the glove made sense. He had the glove grip the device's lever and pulled it back.

The one operating the device was shocked—he hadn't expected Li Banfeng to operate it so accurately; this one pull stopped the barrier.

Everyone watched Li Banfeng closely, afraid he would run.

A beam of light flared from Li Banfeng's chest and shone into one subordinate's eyes.

It was the projector.

The projector had been hidden in Li Banfeng's inner pocket, quietly filming the scene. Just as the sun was about to set, the angle was just right. The projector slightly adjusted the lens position and focused on this subordinate's eyes.

The projector struck at the perfect moment—Li Banfeng's luck was truly excellent!

The one whose eyes had been blinded hadn't yet realized what was happening when Li Banfeng's figure suddenly vanished from his sight.

A high-level Traveler suddenly vanishing from one's own line of sight—the consequences were extremely serious.

This subordinate panicked inwardly. Before he could react, his body had already exploded into a spray of blood.

At the same time, Li Banfeng, carrying this "Hall Master," had already charged out of the barrier's range of control.

The remaining three subordinates gave chase with all their might—they had to pursue at full strength, otherwise at a Traveler's speed, this "Hall Master" would be gone in the blink of an eye.

Li Banfeng pushed the lever and reset the barrier.

The light flared. One subordinate ran too fast; the barrier appeared right before his eyes. He couldn't brake in time and crashed straight into the light.

This really wasn't his fault.

To save the Hall Master's life, he had to give chase at full speed.

They often used this barrier to ambush others, but they had never been ambushed by the barrier themselves. In their tactics, there was no contingency plan for being ambushed by the barrier.

On the light, this subordinate was like someone falling into lava—his body sent up sparks and turned to ash in an instant.

Two subordinates remained, trapped inside the barrier, watching helplessly as Li Banfeng escaped, powerless to do anything.

One subordinate looked at the peep-show cart.

The peep-show operator had long been scared out of his wits, cowering behind the cart and wetting himself.

That subordinate said, "If we grab these kids, maybe we can force that man to come out?"

The other subordinate said, "Would he even care about these few kids? They're all children from poor families, no relation to him at all."

"He seemed to care quite a bit just now."

"Worth a try. Otherwise how long would we be stuck here? If this matter isn't resolved, how are we supposed to live our lives from now on?"

The two of them headed for the cartload of children.

The light suddenly vanished.

The two were startled—this move left them baffled once again.

Their attention was all focused on the light, when suddenly a massive object flew at them from ahead.

Li Banfeng had thrown their Hall Master back.

One subordinate, extremely loyal, rushed forward recklessly to catch the Hall Master.

The other subordinate was relatively calm; he focused his attention on watching Li Banfeng.

The one who went to catch the Hall Master did catch him, but because his gaze was too fixed, he also failed to see Li Banfeng's figure clearly.

Wasn't he afraid of the Passing-By-View technique?

This subordinate wasn't too worried, because Li Banfeng had already used the Passing-By-View technique once before.

Based on experience, even a high-level Traveler could hardly use the Passing-By-View technique consecutively—the technique consumed too much.

But he hadn't expected that Li Banfeng's footwork was different from an ordinary person's; his Tianhe Zhi Ji didn't consume that much, and by the time this man caught up with the Hall Master, Li Banfeng's gaze happened to be focused on the two of them.

This loyal bodyguard exploded along with the Hall Master.

The last remaining subordinate predicted Li Banfeng's position and suddenly rushed behind Li Banfeng.

He knew the Hall Master was already dead, and he also knew that Li Banfeng's cultivation was very likely above his own.

Using Tianhe Zhi Ji twice in a row, killing two of his companions in a row — to say he wasn't afraid would be a lie.

But the Hall Master was dead, and he had to give the Garrison Bureau an explanation, otherwise there would be no place for him in Like Puluozhou ever again.

Moreover, even if he chose to flee now, he might not have any hope of escaping successfully.

The opponent was a Travel Cultivator; leaving his back to a Travel Cultivator was the most unwise choice.

Taking advantage of a good opportunity and going all in was his only path to survival.

The timing was indeed well-judged, and this subordinate's speed was not slow either — he seized the position behind Li Banfeng.

His two arms transformed into a pair of blade-shovels; this subordinate was a Mole Cricket.

The pair of blade-shovels shoveled at Li Banfeng's back together. Li Banfeng stood in place, motionless, and took this strike head-on.

The shovels sparked off Li Banfeng's body, but couldn't even break the skin, couldn't even tear Li Banfeng's clothes.

How could that be?

How could a Travel Cultivator take a beating this well?

This pair of iron shovels, he didn't know how many years they'd been trained — as long as the position was right, this Mole Cricket could dig out his opponent's innards directly.

Could his clothes be a magic treasure?

But Travel Cultivators generally didn't wear heavy armor, because heavy armor would affect a Travel Cultivator's speed.

No matter what, this Mole Cricket couldn't imagine that this would be the Zhai Xin Ren Hou technique, because a House Cultivator could not dual-cultivate with a Travel Cultivator.

If one slash couldn't break through, slash again.

The Mole Cricket raised his arms to slash once more, but Li Banfeng had already dodged away long ago — how could he be given another chance to slash?

The Mole Cricket tried to pursue, and this was overestimating his own ability.

Before he could get close to Li Banfeng, a long blade had already poked at the top of his head.

"Every blade takes an enemy's head!" Tang Dao shouted loudly, but the blade tip failed to pierce this man's skull — this Mole Cricket's armor was quite hard.

"Useless thing." The Sickle flew over and sliced open the Mole Cricket's neck.

The wound was shallow this time, but it was poisoned.

Li Banfeng was startled. He wasn't paying attention to the wound — what he was paying attention to was, who had just spoken?

It seemed to be a woman.

The key point was, how did the Sickle fly over on its own?

"Little brother, make your move!" The Wine Gourd took the opportunity to drench the subordinate's body in a mist of wine.

Li Banfeng struck a match and flicked it onto the Mole Cricket's body.

This was Yao Lao's medicinal wine. The Mole Cricket held on for a moment amid the deadly poison and raging flames, before Tang Dao pierced through his skull.

All four subordinates had been dealt with.

Li Banfeng's strikes were indeed decisive, but given these four men's cultivation and experience, to be able to finish them off in such a short time, Li Banfeng's luck was indeed good too.

Looking at the bloodstains all over the ground, the man who operated the peep show, hiding behind the cart, had a mental breakdown.

He stopped hiding, stood up, and while shouting, fled for his life.

"Murder! Our Hall Master has been killed! Is anyone going to do anything?

I'm from the Jiang Xiang Gang! I was following the Hall Master's orders to kidnap children out here — I only kidnapped five children, and he wants to kill me!

I was raised by my own father and mother too — am I not a person? What right does he have to kill me? Is anyone going to do anything?"

His mind had completely snapped.

Li Banfeng stepped forward, grabbed the peep-show operator, and casually sent him into Leaving Leaving Suishenju.

"Wife, let's eat later — I still need to ask him a few things."

"Oh, husband, don't worry — this sort of filthy fare, this little wife truly looks down upon it."

He collected the Hall Master's and the four subordinates' corpses into Leaving Leaving Suishenju as well. Li Banfeng took the mechanism and lit up the boundary line around the area again.

Li Banfeng fetched a tree branch and tossed it at the halo of light.

The tree branch flew through the halo and turned into fine dust.

This was very similar to what Li Banfeng had seen around the border line.

He picked a spot that looked suitable and used the Duan Jing Kailu technique.

The earth beneath his feet split open into a trench — this was a path Li Banfeng had opened with his technique.

But this newly opened path was likewise intercepted by the halo of light.

Li Banfeng intensified his technique, the trench widened, and the halo spanning the trench extended along with it, continuing to block the trench. Following this newly opened path, Li Banfeng still couldn't escape.

After maintaining it for a moment, Li Banfeng withdrew his technique, and the newly opened trench disappeared along with it.

It seemed this boundary line could not be resolved with the Duan Jing Kailu technique.

Where did the boundary line actually come from?

Was it because something was buried underground?

Li Banfeng asked the Gloves: "Can you smell the aura of a treasure?"

The Gloves wagged a finger: "Boss, I also suspect there's something good down there, but I really can't smell anything."

Since even the Gloves couldn't find it, there was no need for Li Banfeng to keep trying.

Besides, he couldn't afford to waste too much time here — who knew whether that Hall Master had other reinforcements.

He withdrew the boundary line, sent the remote control back into Leaving Leaving Suishenju as well, made some simple repairs to the peep-show cart, and pulling the few children along, delivered them back to Liutang Village.

When they were near the village, Li Banfeng had the pendulum draw some makeup on him.

It was already dark, and the families who had lost their children were frantic. They called up relatives and friends, lit torches, and searched everywhere.

In the night, they saw someone shaking a rattle-drum as he entered the village, and several people rushed over at once.

"That's the peep-show man!"

"The children were all watching his peep-show, and in the blink of an eye they were gone."

"He must have…"

Li Banfeng left his vehicle at the village entrance and turned to walk away.

"He's not that peep-show man! That peep-show man doesn't have that build."

"What kind of person is this!"

"He brought the children back!"

"His face is all painted up — is he a person or a ghost?"

"Could it be some kind of yaoguai?"

"Don't talk damn nonsense — the man helped us get our kids back, he's our benefactor!"

Though they were a little frightened, the children had been found, and everyone was overjoyed.

An old man called out: "Benefactor, could you leave us your name? We'll never forget your kindness!"

Li Banfeng turned back and said: "My surname is En, my given name is Gong."

With that, he pulled the brim of his hat low and vanished into the night.

(End of chapter)