Chapter 576: Mr. Master Kongfang (Seeking monthly tickets)

"I'm going to catch the fox. We'll talk again when we have time." Luo Luo Yanjun crawled all the way, walking toward the water pool.

Li Li Banfeng said: "Are you catching the fox yourself?"

Luo Luo Yanjun laughed: "How can the fox be so easy to find? If I go to catch him myself and can't catch him, I'll still get a body full of stench. This matter definitely has to be done by a hunting dog. A dog's nose is the sharpest."

Li Li Banfeng still wanted to ask which dog she was going to bring, but Luo Luo Yanjun didn't want to say any more.

Standing from her position, saying one more word would be a threat to her own life.

Luo Luo Yanjun jumped into the water pool.

Feng Daiku was a smart person; he understood every word.

Luo Luo Yanjun said she wanted to dig soil on the mountain. The mountain she referred to was Like Puluozhou. The tiger referred to the Peddler. The tiger's subordinates referred to the people of Xuehuapu.

Quite a few of Xuehuapu's people had been killed recently, and the Peddler had no movement. From this angle, the Peddler might really be in a situation.

What can be determined now is that Neizhou is still watching. Without certain news of the Peddler, they won't easily make a move.

But Neizhou is estimated to soon obtain certain news.

The old fox they mentioned should be the Second Master of Xuehuapu, Mr. Master Kongfang.

What kind of strength this person has, Li Li Banfeng doesn't know, but Li Li Banfeng can determine one point: if Mr. Master Kongfang is killed by Neizhou and the Peddler still doesn't respond, Neizhou will definitely send troops.

Where is Mr. Master Kongfang? Where can one find him?

It's quite ridiculous to say, Xuehuapu and Li Li Banfeng are enemies, yet now Li Li Banfeng has to find a way to protect the Second Master of Xuehuapu.

However, thinking about it carefully, does this person really need his protection?

Mr. Master Kongfang's strength should be above Du Du Wenming's. Neizhou wanting to kill such a figure is probably not that easy.

Find his news first. Even if he really dies, Li Li Banfeng must have a precaution.

Li Li Banfeng instructed Feng Daiku: "Tell Ma Ma Junyang the news, tell him not to panic,

the He family, Lu family, and Chu family must all be stabilized. Without receiving news from me, no one can act rashly—"

Before the words fell, the projector reminded: "The simple phone is ringing."

Li Li Banfeng picked up Luo Zhengnan's phone and learned that Liao Liao Zihui was looking for him everywhere.

How did he know I was in Like Puluozhou?

Liao Liao Zihui didn't know Li Li Banfeng was in Like Puluozhou. He tried to find Li Li Banfeng through Shen Shen Jingye but couldn't, so he turned to find him through Ma Wu. Ma Wu contacted Luo Zhengnan, and that was how he found Li Li Banfeng.

Guanfang Hall, Liao Liao Zihui was waiting for news in his office, anxious. Turning around suddenly, he saw Li Qi sitting on the sofa, brewing tea.

Seeing Li Qi so calm, Liao Liao Zihui felt slightly more at ease: "Director Li, do you have any news about the Peddler recently?"

Li Qi shook his head: "No."

Liao Liao Zihui's heart hung up again: "Don't play tricks with me on this matter. I heard the Peddler and the person from the sky fought, and now Neizhou is going to start a war. If the Peddler is gone, Like Puluozhou won't be able to pass this hurdle."

Li Qi looked at Liao Liao Zihui and said: "If Neizhou really attacks, what do you plan to do?"

Liao Liao Zihui said: "What else can I do? I listen to those above. If they tell me to fight, I fight.

If they tell me to retreat, I can only retreat."

"Don't play tricks with me either," Li Li Banfeng said expressionlessly, "What exactly is the meaning from above?"

This matter couldn't be hidden. Li Li Banfeng had stayed in the outside world for so long and had a certain understanding of the outside world's style of doing things.

Liao Liao Zihui pondered for a moment and said: "The probability of retreating is higher."

This was within Li Li Banfeng's expectations. If Neizhou attacked, the probability of the outside world fighting side-by-side with Like Puluozhou was slim.

Liao Liao Zihui added another sentence: "We certainly don't hope for war. We hope both sides can remain calm and try to solve the problem through peace talks." Clearly, Liao Liao Zihui and his superiors still placed their hope on the Balancers.

Li Li Banfeng put down his teacup and first asked Liao Liao Zihui one thing: "Where did you receive the news about the life-and-death battle between the Peddler and the person from the sky?"

"In Pillow City, someone saw that fierce battle with their own eyes."

"What is that person's background?"

"A cultivator on the first layer of the clouds, named Ye Haolong. That day he was supposed to be sleeping, but for some reason, he suddenly woke up and happened to see this fierce battle."

"What does 'he was supposed to be sleeping that day' mean?"

"You don't know the custom of Pillow City? Throughout the four seasons, they only work for one season, and they sleep for the remaining three seasons. At this time of year, there shouldn't be anyone awake in Pillow City."

Li Li Banfeng had heard Ma Wu mention the place called Pillow City, but he had never really been there.

"Give me Ye Haolong's address, I'll go find him and ask what the situation was that day." Liao Liao Zihui handed Ye Haolong's address to Li Li Banfeng: "I heard Ye Haolong is asleep again.

Now, wanting to wake him up isn't that easy."

"Something this big happened, and he can still sleep?"

"Old brother, he is a person from Pillow City. Even if the sky falls and the earth cracks, as long as there is a pillow, he can sleep."

"I'll go burn his pillow." Li Li Banfeng took the address and asked about the second thing: "Do you have any news about Xuehuapu?"

Liao Liao Zihui said: "That depends on whose news it is."

Li Li Banfeng said: "The higher the level, the better."

Liao Liao Zihui thought for a while, his mouth slightly vague: "Du Du Wenming, does he count as a high-level member of Xuehuapu?"

Li Li Banfeng nodded: "Yes. Do you have news about him?"

Liao Liao Zihui said: "I can go investigate. Du Du Wenming is currently wanted, and Guanfang Hall has also been searching for his whereabouts."

"If there's a clue, tell me immediately." Li Li Banfeng was about to walk out of the office when he was called back by Liao Liao Zihui.

"Old brother," Liao Liao Zihui coughed for a short while, "that, you came at the right time today.

My subordinates, just before you came, happened to find some clues."

Li Li Banfeng turned back: "Oh, what a coincidence."

"Yes!"

"Shen Shen Jingye begged you to investigate this matter for a month, and every time you said you couldn't find anything. It just happened that today there's a clue."

"Yes! Otherwise, why say it's a coincidence?"

Liao Liao Zihui had been investigating Du Du Wenming all along; he had long mastered Du Du Wenming's whereabouts.

But the reason he didn't make it public was because Liao Liao Zihui knew Du Du Wenming's strength.

In Like Puluozhou, there weren't so many advanced weapons and equipment, nor such a rich combat system. Wanting to capture a Cloud Cultivator, Liao Liao Zihui had to pay a considerable price. If he couldn't capture him, the responsibility that originally belonged to the Dark Star Bureau would all be pinned on Guanfang Hall.

"Old brother Li Qi, the clue I have hasn't been verified yet. Now, because the situation is urgent, I'm telling you temporarily. You'd better not leak it. Yesterday night, someone saw Du Du Wenming near Zhengjing Village."

Zhengjing Village?

Li Li Banfeng had no time to talk nonsense with Liao Liao Zihui and hurriedly ran to Zhengjing Village.

Shui Shui Yongquan was demoted to a Wound Demon, and this territory became ownerless. What did Du Du Wenming want to do here?

Find a piece of territory to stabilize his cultivation?

Is he that impulsive? And he didn't even ask whose family Zhengjing Village belonged to?

Through him, perhaps he could find out news about the Peddler. At the very least, he could find out news about Mr. Master Kongfang.

Arriving at Zhengjing Village, Li Li Banfeng followed the information provided by Liao Liao Zihui and quickly found the clue.

Du Du Wenming had been active in the barren mountains over seventy miles away from Zhengjing Village, and from yesterday until now, he hadn't changed places much.

What did he want to do in this vicinity?

Li Li Banfeng hid on a banyan tree, silently observing Du Du Wenming under the tree with the help of the banyan tree's lush aerial roots.

Du Du Wenming stood on his toes, jumping back and forth in the clearing in the forest, his dance posture and figure extremely graceful.

It turned out he didn't just know the marionette dance; his ballet was also quite good.

But what was he doing dancing here? Did this count as cultivation?

Li Li Banfeng wasn't unfamiliar with this forest. In the past, according to a certain speed, passing through this forest—not too fast, not too slow—could lead to Fool's City.

But after the former eldest son of Fool's City, Gu Gu Rusong, was killed, Sun Sun Tiecheng changed the entrance to Fool's City, and this forest could no longer reach Fool's City.

Did Du Du Wenming come here to find Fool's City?

His cultivation was indeed not low, but actively looking for Fool's City was probably not very wise, right?

Relying on the characteristic that residential cultivation is not easily detected, Li Li Banfeng waited on the tree for several minutes, but Du Du Wenming never noticed.

Feeling the time was about right, Li Li Banfeng should make a move.

A mountain wind blew, blowing the leaves until they rustled.

The cold wind was a bit chilly. Li Li Banfeng's body suddenly trembled uncontrollably, driving the branches and leaves on the banyan tree to shake as well.

This mountain wind was indeed not small, otherwise Li Li Banfeng would have been exposed.

Why did he suddenly tremble?

There was danger.

Someone else was hiding nearby, and Li Li Banfeng hadn't been able to discover them.

He squatted on the tree branch, quietly watching Du Du Wenming.

After squatting for a while, he sensed the spirituality of the banyan tree.

Are you thirsty?

It hadn't rained for a long time, and this banyan tree was a bit thirsty.

Li Li Banfeng took out his teapot, let the teapot control the water temperature well, and poured some tea on the banyan tree's roots. The banyan tree was very grateful, and every leaf tried its best to adjust its angle to block the shadow for the position where Li Qi was.

After waiting for another two-plus minutes, Du Du Wenming, who was dancing, slipped and fell to the ground on his back.

There was no water on the ground, only a few raised tree roots.

Du Du Wenming obviously wasn't tripped by the tree roots. A Dance Cultivator on the clouds couldn't make such a low-level mistake.

He stepped on something, it seemed to be roller skates.

How could there be roller skates in the new land?

No, it wasn't roller skates, it was an abacus.

The abacus flew up from the ground, its frame shattered, and it flew rapidly to stab at Du Du Wenming's forehead.

Du Du Wenming was lying on the ground, with no time to get up. His body swayed left and right, barely dodging the abacus frame.

The frame was stuck in the ground, and the rods stabbed at Du Du Wenming again.

Du Du Wenming was still swaying on the ground, but this time dodging wasn't easy. Many rods pierced through Du Du Wenming's clothes, and a part of the rods moved in a tricky way, piercing through Du Du Wenming's skin and flesh.

The rods were barely dodged, and next it was the turn of the abacus beads.

Five on the bottom, two on the top, seven beads on one rod.

The abacus had twenty-two rods in total, over a hundred beads, hitting from different directions, almost sealing off all angles for dodging.

What was even more fatal was that Du Du Wenming couldn't dodge now. He was pinned to the ground by the rods.

In a moment of desperation, Du Du Wenming shook off a pair of his shoes. These dance shoes were magic treasures, helping Du Du Wenming catch half of the beads.

Du Du Wenming struggled to break free from the rods on the ground, and relying on his body's control, dodged three-tenths of the beads.

There were still two-tenths of the beads he couldn't dodge, so Du Du Wenming simply carried them hard.

The beads hit into his body, splashing layers of blood flowers. Du Du Wenming's body trembled, and it could be seen that the Dance Cultivator's physique wasn't too good.

More than thirty blood holes were hit on his body, and this wasn't the end. These abacus beads were scurrying inside Du Du Wenming's body, severely damaging his bones and internal organs.

Du Du Wenming struggled to stand up, stood on one foot, and spun desperately like a top, spinning hundreds of times from left to right, and hundreds of times from right to left.

Relying on this spinning, Du Du Wenming became a centrifuge, forcibly shaking the abacus beads out of his body.

After shaking off the beads, Du Du Wenming wanted to escape, when he suddenly saw a man appear in front of him.

The man was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt with a front-opening and frog buttons, black trousers, rubbing a pair of walnuts in his hands, and had a cigarette in his mouth.

Du Du Wenming recognized this person: "Zhang Zhang Gunli, aren't you already—"

"You want to say I'm dead?" Zhang Zhang Gunli smiled, "The debt you owe me hasn't been paid off yet,

so you're hoping I'm dead? There's no such good thing in the world."

Li Li Banfeng looked carefully on the tree. It turned out this was the real Zhang Zhang Gunli.

He still remembered Ah Se's painting, which recorded the scene of the fake Zhang Zhang Gunli during the explosion in Fool's City.

It turned out he was the hunting dog Luo Luo Yanjun mentioned.

Du Du Wenming said: "The debt can be paid, but today is not the time."

Zhang Zhang Gunli laughed: "Is that up to you? I think today is exactly the time!"

"That depends on how much ability you have. It's said that the abacus and walnuts are your unique skills for settling down.

I've already experienced the abacus. You took advantage of the first move, but that's all there is to it." Du Du Wenming turned his knees outward, lifted his shoulders, and revealed the marionette dance he was most proficient in.

"My son, you've mixed up your words. The unique skill is the abacus, and the one for settling down is the walnuts. You must distinguish them clearly." Zhang Zhang Gunli flicked his hand, and four abacuses floated beside him, of different styles and sizes.

Du Du Wenming was shocked. Did Zhang Zhang Gunli not use his full strength just now?

Li Li Banfeng also found it hard to understand. Even if Zhang Zhang Gunli had full confidence in beating Du Du Wenming, facing an opponent on the clouds, he shouldn't be so careless. Since he had the first move, he should have taken him down in one go.

What was he waiting for?

Did he want to use Du Du Wenming to lure others out?

Zhang Zhang Gunli rubbed the two walnuts and smiled at Du Du Wenming: "My son, I can't bear to kill you. I'm in a good mood today, let's play properly."

Two walnuts collided, and four abacuses flew toward Du Du Wenming together.

The wooden abacus rushed to Du Du Wenming's waist first. Du Du Wenming twisted his joints to dodge the abacus. The abacus brushed past Du Du Wenming's clothes and suddenly caught fire. No matter how Du Du Wenming dodged, he couldn't dodge the flames, and his clothes were burned.

He had no time to extinguish the fire, not even time to take off his clothes. The iron abacus rushed at his face. Du Du Wenming struggled to tilt his head back. The iron abacus missed the first move, and the second move hit his face from top to bottom.

Du Du Wenming continued to tilt his head back, sticking the back of his head to his own back, dodging the iron abacus.

The biggest one, over a meter long, the stone abacus, smashed down from top to bottom. Du Du Wenming had nowhere to dodge, so he used his hands to support the abacus.

The glass abacus arrived in front, suddenly shattered, and the fine glass shards stabbed Du Du Wenming until he was covered in blood.

What was even more fatal was that some glass foam was inhaled by Du Du Wenming. Du Du Wenming began to cough violently, and the phlegm he coughed up was bloody.

The wooden abacus rushed back, continuing to set fire to Du Du Wenming's body, and the beads of the iron abacus turned into sharp blades, opening a large area of wounds on Du Du Wenming's body.

The stone abacus in his hand seemed to weigh ten thousand catties, and Du Du Wenming was about to be crushed.

He raised his head and looked at Zhang Zhang Gunli: "Senior, your unique skill is still not that great!"

Zhang Zhang Gunli laughed: "Don't just be tough-mouthed, show me some real ability."

Du Du Wenming slid back and forth, holding the stone abacus, and struggled to deal with the wooden abacus and the iron abacus.

Zhang Zhang Gunli moved his fingers, and the stone abacus suddenly increased its force, bending Du Du Wenming's elbows.

Du Du Wenming's feet trembled, deliberately shifting his center of gravity. The stone abacus fell from his left shoulder, smashing the wooden abacus and knocking the iron abacus away.

He threw the stone abacus, turned around to extinguish the fire on his body, rushed to Zhang Zhang Gunli, and wanted to dance with Zhang Zhang Gunli.

Zhang Zhang Gunli laughed, and four hundred abacuses soared into the air, surrounding Du Du Wenming.

"My son, your father's abacuses are endless!"

Four hundred abacuses surrounded and killed Du Du Wenming. Li Li Banfeng could no longer see Du Du Wenming's figure, only seeing flesh and blood flying out from the gaps of the abacuses.

After more than a minute, Du Du Wenming was still struggling among the abacuses, still not yielding. Zhang Zhang Gunli praised: "Junior, I think highly of you, but debts must be repaid, this is the rule. Do you want to leave a whole corpse, or do you want to turn into meat paste?"

This sentence didn't seem special, but after Du Du Wenming heard it, he was filled with despair, seemingly convinced that he was going to die at Zhang Zhang Gunli's hands.

Because he owed Zhang Zhang Gunli money, he was hit by Zhang Zhang Gunli's technique, "Intimidation."

Li Li Banfeng didn't know much about the Loan Cultivation technique. He only saw Du Du Wenming, who was originally resisting desperately, gradually lose his fighting spirit.

Using the technique just once to force Du Du Wenming to this situation, the real Zhang Zhang Gunli was so fierce, which indeed exceeded Li Li Banfeng's expectations. Du Du Wenming seemed to have only a dead end.

If Du Du Wenming was killed and the Peddler still didn't respond, could Neizhou judge that the Peddler was dead?

Li Li Banfeng was hesitating whether to make a move when he heard laughter from afar.

"Old Zhang, you are also a master of a sect, bullying a junior like this, isn't it appropriate?"

Zhang Zhang Gunli didn't withdraw the abacuses, nor did he intend to let Du Du Wenming go. He just asked one sentence:

"Who is it? Come out and speak!"

A flash of golden light passed, and crisp sounds followed one after another. All the abacuses fell to the ground, the frames, rods, and beads scattered all over the floor.

Li Li Banfeng watched from afar. Among the scattered parts of the abacuses, there were quite a few copper coins mixed in.

Using a handful of copper coins to smash Zhang Zhang Gunli's four hundred abacuses, the person's methods were quite extraordinary.

Zhang Zhang Gunli looked around, but the other party hadn't appeared yet.

He touched the two walnuts in his palm, and a strong light flashed from his palm. The strong light shone on Du Du Wenming, and Du Du Wenming, covered in wounds, began to smoke, about to lose his life.

A man appeared in the night, bringing Du Du Wenming to the side.

Zhang Zhang Gunli looked at this person carefully. The other party was wearing a white shirt with front-opening and frog buttons, embroidered with golden copper coins, wearing a bamboo hat on his head, with tassels hanging under the hat, and copper coins hanging at the ends of the tassels. The copper coins swayed back and forth, and Zhang Zhang Gunli couldn't see the person's face clearly.

The man pulled out a folding fan from his wide sleeves, and a copper coin was also hanging at the end of the folding fan.

Zhang Zhang Gunli laughed: "You are Mr. Master Kongfang?"

He could have killed Du Du Wenming long ago. The reason he dragged it out for so long was to wait for this person to appear. "I don't dare to be called Mr. You can call me Brother Master Kongfang. The copper coins on the ground belong to you, we are square and clear."

Hearing "square and clear," Zhang Zhang Gunli hurriedly checked Du Du Wenming's IOU.

Loan Cultivation had a technique called "Square and Clear." If the technique took effect, the IOU left by Du Du Wenming would be burned.

But for the "Square and Clear" technique to take effect, there were conditions: either the money and goods were basically equal in value, or Zhang Zhang Gunli voluntarily acknowledged the account, or the cultivation gap between the two sides was huge, and the Loan Cultivator could forcibly clear the account.

Seeing that the IOU wasn't burned, Zhang Zhang Gunli felt a bit more at ease, at least proving that the cultivation gap between the two sides wasn't that huge.

Mr. Master Kongfang shook his folding fan and said: "Brother Zhang, don't worry, Xuehuapu does things according to the rules.

If you don't acknowledge the account, I definitely won't force you."

Zhang Zhang Gunli collected the IOU and smiled: "Why should I acknowledge it? How much are these few copper coins worth?"

"These few copper coins have some years on them. Brother Zhang, I definitely don't intend to let you suffer a loss."

"What years they have, you say it, let's calculate it carefully." Zhang Zhang Gunli waved his hand, and the scattered abacuses floated in mid-air.

The frames were reassembled, the rods were restored one by one, and the beads were threaded onto the rods one by one. After a while, more than four hundred abacuses were fully restored.

Mr. Master Kongfang sighed: "Brother Zhang, if you are so calculating, you will hurt the harmony!"

Zhang Zhang Gunli sneered: "What harmony do I have to talk about with you? Do I know who you are?"

Four hundred abacuses flew toward Mr. Master Kongfang. Mr. Master Kongfang took out a stone abacus from among them, grabbed it in his hand, blocked left and right, and smashed all the rushing abacuses to pieces.

The shattered abacuses were restored at any time, continuing to surround and kill Mr. Master Kongfang.

This fighting style really opened Li Li Banfeng's eyes. No wonder Brother Sun said that if you didn't see Zhang Zhang Gunli using an abacus, then that Zhang Zhang Gunli wasn't real.

The abacus was Zhang Zhang Gunli's unique skill. Four hundred abacuses could all fight, and they could be restored at any time.

As long as one was trapped by the abacuses, it seemed no one had a chance of winning.

Mr. Master Kongfang wasn't panicked at all. He dismantled the stone abacus, sprinkled the abacus beads out, and the abacus beads, the size of peach pits, passed through the heavy abacuses and hit Zhang Zhang Gunli.

Zhang Zhang Gunli never expected that his own stone abacus could hit him. The speed was extremely fast, the angle was tricky, and Zhang Zhang Gunli couldn't defend in time. He was hit by a bead on his chest, and his body was pierced through.

For his level, this injury didn't count for much, but after being hit, Zhang Zhang Gunli lost his momentum. 【576

"Yes! In the future, Wife can do research here."

"I'm just afraid the Old Master won't agree."

"Our family's Old Master is someone who knows how to be flexible. We'll discuss it with him when the time comes."

The only problem now was the power supply. Li Li Banfeng prepared to go to Du Du Wenming's laboratory to move the battery packs over.

"Wife, you don't need to follow, just stay here and research the equipment."

The phonograph used her horn to suck onto Li Li Banfeng: "Husband, do you trust Little Slave that much?"

"How can I not trust my own wife?" Li Li Banfeng gently hugged the big horn, "Life should be lived aiming for happiness. The world is so big, in the future, we husband and wife must travel around properly!"

PS: In Chapter 75, Shopkeeper Feng introduced the origin of the phonograph to Li Li Banfeng. ===== CHAPTER 574 =====

Mr. Master Kongfang smiled, "Old Zhang, what are you thinking? Trying to smash me with silver dollars? These silver dollars were minted by our Snowflake Pier; they definitely listen to us."

Zhang Guli used quite a bit of strength to pull the silver dollar out of his face.

Mr. Master Kongfang shook his folding fan, "Old Zhang, I've given you enough face. My junior brother has been beaten by you like this. If this debt still isn't cleared, we'll have to decide life and death today!"

Zhang Guli hesitated. In the past, when encountering such a ruthless person, this matter would have passed. He wasn't short of money, and having climbed and crawled in the underworld for so many years, he had many uncollectible debts, and he never gambled with his life.

But today's situation was a bit special. He wasn't here to collect a debt; he was here on a mission. The Inner Continent told him to kill Mr. Master Kongfang if possible, and if he really couldn't kill him, he had to wait for reinforcements from the Inner Continent.

Two walnuts spun back and forth in his palm; Zhang Guli seemed to be about to use a magic treasure.

Mr. Master Kongfang looked at the walnuts and said, "You don't have many magic treasures left. You gave all the good things to the fake Zhang Guli. Once that fake died, the things all went to Gui Gui Jianchou and Mu Yuejuan."

Feng Feng Chongli had told Mr. Master Kongfang all these things, but until today, they hadn't expected Zhang Guli to actually be a fake.

Zhang Guli rubbed the two walnuts forcefully, "Although I don't know you, you should know me. Since you've heard of my reputation, Zhang Guli, you should know that I never do business at a loss.

I've given away quite a few good things, but I've also earned back quite a few good things. Do you dare to gamble with me once!"

"If you have good things, take them out and let me see them," Mr. Master Kongfang picked up a wooden abacus and gently clicked the beads, "I'll calculate for you to see if your life is worth more, or if these good things are worth more."

Zhang Guli rubbed the walnuts, delaying the move.

Mr. Master Kongfang looked up and said, "Are you stalling for time? Do you want to wait for reinforcements from the Inner Continent? Or could it be—that the reinforcements from the Inner Continent have already arrived?"

While speaking, Mr. Master Kongfang looked at the banyan tree behind him.

Although Li Li Banfeng had the talent of being overlooked, Mr. Master Kongfang's level was too high. If he hadn't been suspicious, he could have hidden, but if he were intentionally probing, it would be difficult for Li Li Banfeng to escape his perception.

"Who is the person in the tree? Is he your helper?" Mr. Master Kongfang stared tightly at the banyan tree.

Zhang Guli didn't think the reinforcements from the Inner Continent would arrive so quickly. If reinforcements had really arrived, they would at least have given him a signal.

He had made countless enemies in his life; he suspected it was very likely an enemy who had arrived.

Mr. Master Kongfang walked toward the banyan tree step by step. He couldn't see the true face of the person in the tree,

and he still had to guard against Zhang Guli behind him.

Li Li Banfeng, crouching in the banyan tree, took out his weapon from his waist.

Du Du Wenming, covered in blood, stood up from the ground. Although he was seriously injured, he was also prepared for battle.

The jungle was silent.

Mr. Master Kongfang was getting closer and closer to the banyan tree.

Dang, dang, dang!

The sound of a rattle-drum rang out.

Du Du Wenming said happily, "The Big Boss is here!"

Zhang Guli paused for a second, took out Du Du Wenming's IOU from his bosom, and burned it on the spot:

"The money is considered paid by you."

After speaking, Zhang Guli ran away.

The Peddler had arrived.

Run as fast as you can; run a step too slow, and you'll definitely lose your life.

Du Du Wenming stumbled toward the banyan tree, "Big Boss, Big—"

Mr. Master Kongfang grabbed Du Du Wenming from behind, leaped, and flew out of the forest.

Du Du Wenming was puzzled, "Senior brother, the Big Boss is here, why are we leaving?"

Mr. Master Kongfang said, "Have you forgotten the rules of our Pier? We don't talk about Pier matters outside the Pier. Let's not meet the Big Boss."

The drum sounded, the Peddler had arrived; this was karma.

Li Li Banfeng sat in the tree, holding the rattle-drum, and wiped the sweat from his face.

PS: The rattle-drum was bought at the night market; I originally intended to give it to the Leaving Suishenju.