Chapter 72

After nine o'clock, Yu Nan brought everyone to Yu Family Village.

Old Zhu hurriedly went out to welcome them. After everyone entered Yu Family Village, Old Zhu spoke about Li Qi's situation.

"Brother Brother Qiye is here?" Yu Nan was overjoyed upon hearing this. "Where is he?"

"He said he wanted to go for a stroll in the woods; he's been gone for seven or eight hours."

Yu Nan's face was filled with worry; she did not understand why Li Li Banfeng dared to wander alone in the New Land.

Wang Wang Xuejiao said: "Shopkeeper, if you're worried, let's go into the woods and look for him."

Yu Nan shook her head and said: "The New Land is too dangerous. If we just rush in like this, let alone finding him, it's questionable whether we could come back alive. Li Qi is a Traveling Cultivator; he knows the way back. Let's wait a while longer."

They waited for another two hours. Everyone had been traveling for two days and could not endure the fatigue, so they all fell asleep.

Yu Nan could not sleep and was pacing back and forth outside the wooden house when she suddenly saw a middle-aged man in a tuxedo come before her, take off his top hat, and bow to her.

"May I ask, are you Shopkeeper Yu of the Yu Family Cloth Store?"

Yu Nan was startled; she did not know this person.

The man smiled: "I am the private detective, Da Boyins."

He was clearly a local, so why did he have a foreign name?

"Detective?" Yu Nan looked him up and down. "What business do you have coming to my Yu Family Village?"

"I'm here to find someone named Li Li Banfeng."

"I don't know this person; go ask somewhere else." Yu Nan issued an order to leave.

Da Boyins had no intention of leaving: "I've already asked everywhere else. There aren't many villages on this New Land, only yours had a visitor yesterday."

Yu Nan wore a smile, but her heart rate suddenly accelerated.

From the words of this private detective, Yu Nan gathered two key pieces of information.

The first piece: The Li Li Banfeng he was looking for was very likely Li Qi.

The second piece: He could determine that Yu Family Village had a visitor yesterday, which proved he possessed some kind of special technique.

Having come here, he had already concluded that Li Li Banfeng was here.

Yu Nan did not intend to waste more words with him: "Detective Da Boyins, I really don't know this person named Li Li Banfeng here. It's so late, if you have no other business, we won't keep you here any longer."

Da Boyins smiled: "Since Shopkeeper Yu mentioned it, I do have a little other business.

I am a timid person and don't dare to walk at night. If Shopkeeper Yu doesn't mind, could I borrow a place to stay at Baofang for the night?"

Yu Nan withdrew her smile and said: "I do mind. Yu Family Village never hosts outsiders."

Da Boyins's smile remained unchanged: "It's fine if you don't host me, could you please offer me a cup of tea?"

Yu Nan pinched her pipe and said: "There's no water in the well today, so there's no way to brew tea."

Da Boyins still refused to leave: "I'll ask Shopkeeper Yu for a cigarette to smoke, that's fine, right?"

Whoosh~

Yu Nan exhaled a puff of smoke: "Detective, is this puff of smoke enough for you to smoke?"

The smoke swirled around Da Boyins several times.

This was a warning from a Smoke Cultivator.

Da Boyins put on his top hat, shrugged his eyebrows, and said: "Shopkeeper Yu, are you intending to use force?"

"Yes!" The lady's cigarette stuck in the pipe became much brighter, and the flying ash fell onto Da Boyins.

Da Boyins brushed off the ash on his body, his expression somewhat helpless: "Shopkeeper Yu, doing this is not very wise."

The ash was just brushed off like that.

This private detective's cultivation was clearly above Yu Nan's.

Yu Nan took out a dagger and aimed it at her own palm: "This is Yu Family Village, and I am the master of this place!"

She took the dagger not to fight the private detective, but to make herself bleed.

She was the master of this land; this was not just a simple warning.

Her blood could awaken some living creatures on this land, and these creatures could take Da Boyins's life.

Da Boyins had been reclaiming land on the New Land for many years and naturally understood the mystery of it. Under these circumstances, it was clearly impossible to continue pestering her.

He stretched out both hands, pressing his palms down slightly: "Shopkeeper Yu, do not be angry, I shall take my leave."

Having said this, Da Boyins retreated from the area where Yu Family Village was located.

But he did not go far. He walked around the two rows of wooden houses in Yu Family Village dozens of times, leaving one spider web after another on the surrounding trees.

Yu Nan knew these spider webs were intended to deal with Li Li Banfeng.

But knowing was useless. Da Boyins's range of activity was not within Yu Family Village; once outside Yu Family Village, Yu Nan was simply no match for him.

Yu Nan looked nervously into the depths of the jungle; she did not know when Li Li Banfeng would be able to return.

Previously, she had been desperate to see Li Li Banfeng immediately.

Now, she hoped Li Li Banfeng would absolutely not appear.

Da Boyins sat under a tree, took out a harmonica, and said to Yu Nan: "There is a special fate between Li Li Banfeng and me. I believe this fate has not been interrupted, and I believe he will definitely return tonight."

Yu Nan sneered and said with sarcasm: "You don't have the seed of a foreign devil, so why must you hold onto the tone of a foreign devil when you speak?"

Da Boyins smiled: "Shopkeeper Yu, a gentleman does not discuss lineage, and demeanor does not distinguish national borders. Do not try to use your sharp language to provoke me; it is useless against me.

Also, I must remind you: Li Li Banfeng will definitely appear tonight. If he is your sweetheart, you can wait here for him; perhaps this will be the last time you see him."

Having said this, Da Boyins took the harmonica and began to play.

The sound of the music had a unique melodiousness, carrying a leisurely air, but now Yu Nan heard only full-blown murderous intent.

After playing two pieces, Da Boyins put away the harmonica, stood up, gazed at the night color in the distance, and straightened his top hat and tuxedo.

He felt the trembling of the spider silk; he knew someone was approaching.

Yu Nan immediately exhaled a puff of smoke; she wanted to find Li Li Banfeng's location and send a warning with the smoke.

This would depend on the cultivation of both sides.

Da Boyins was clearly very confident in his own cultivation: "Shopkeeper Yu, do not make futile attempts. By the time your smoke drifts to Li Li Banfeng's face, his head will likely already be in my hands."

Yu Nan looked at the iron bell in front of the village gate; she wanted to ring the iron bell to summon her subordinates.

Da Boyins saw through her thoughts and shook his head at her: "Do not do meaningless, stupid things. As long as you leave your village, you and your subordinates are as insignificant as ants.

Isn't it better to be alive? You haven't actually known him for long. Just watching quietly like this, seeing him off on his final journey, isn't that better?"

Yu Nan was full of anger, but what Da Boyins said was indeed the truth.

After another moment, Li Li Banfeng's figure appeared in the night. Yu Nan shouted: "Brother Brother Qiye, don't come over!"

Da Boyins shook his head and smiled: "It's too late, it's already too late."

As long as Li Li Banfeng appeared in Da Boyins's line of sight, only two possibilities remained.

The first possibility: Li Li Banfeng rushes toward Yu Family Village and then gets caught in the spider web, waiting to be killed by Da Boyins.

The second possibility: Li Li Banfeng heeds Yu Nan's advice, does not approach Yu Family Village, and is then killed directly by Da Boyins.

The current Li Li Banfeng seemed not to have heard Yu Nan's warning and rushed straight toward Yu Family Village.

Da Boyins stepped forward to greet him: "From the moment we parted, I sensed that we would meet again. I didn't expect this moment to come so quickly, my friend."

Li Li Banfeng responded loudly: "Yes, we are friends!"

Da Boyins sighed: "I have always felt that the fate between you and me is very deep, absolutely not ending here. I sincerely hope that in another world, you will still remember me, my friend."

Li Li Banfeng responded loudly: "Did you hear that? He is my friend!"

Da Boyins was stunned. Who was he talking to?

To Yu Nan?

Da Boyins looked at Yu Nan, and Yu Nan was also confused; she did not understand Li Li Banfeng's meaning.

In his astonishment, Da Boyins sensed another presence around Li Li Banfeng.

The position of this presence was very unfixed; sometimes it was in the trees, sometimes on the ground, and sometimes it wandered in mid-air.

The other party had great strength; some of the spider webs Da Boyins had set up were broken.

What was this thing?

In his surprise, a huge figure coiled down from the tree, blocking Li Li Banfeng, who was rushing toward Yu Family Village.

Yu Nan and Da Boyins's line of sight was also blocked.

They could not see Li Li Banfeng's figure; they only saw a massive, emerald-green worm.

Da Boyins blinked and whispered: "Madam Madame Suoe... this is trouble."

Li Li Banfeng ran back and forth, circling with this worm for an entire night, and finally ran back to Yu Family Village.

He shouted loudly: "You heard it all, that person is my friend!"

The human face on the worm turned its head and looked at Da Boyins: "You are friends?"

Da Boyins licked his lips: "I, well, no..."

Madam Madame Suoe turned her face and looked at Li Li Banfeng: "He said you aren't..."

Li Li Banfeng had already taken out the blood-containing pendulum, tapped the screw under the pendulum, and a cluster of blood sprayed onto Madam Madame Suoe's eyes.

This was the blood of a Joy Cultivator, from Geng Geng Zhiwei, which had been stored in the pendulum.

Madam Madame Suoe let out a roar and used her long tentacles to wipe her eyes vigorously.

Taking this opportunity, Li Li Banfeng entered the Leaving Suishenju and, using all his strength, threw the key two hundred meters away, onto the roof of a wooden house in Yu Family Village.

Old Zhu had said that this was Yu Nan's territory; as long as Yu Nan dripped her blood in Yu Family Village, anyone who dared to trespass would be smashed to pieces.

If people couldn't break in, this worm certainly couldn't break in either!

When Madam Madame Suoe opened her eyes, she discovered that Li Li Banfeng had already vanished.

She turned her face again and looked at Da Boyins: "Where did he go?"

Da Boyins could not answer; his line of sight was blocked by Madam Madame Suoe, and he hadn't even seen Li Li Banfeng's figure.

Madam Madame Suoe looked at Da Boyins tenderly: "He killed my children, you come be my child, okay?"

Da Boyins retreated two steps, his expression nervous: "I, with him, don't count as friends, we don't even know each other..."

He had been a land reclaimer on the New Land several times; he knew what level this Madam Madame Suoe was, and he knew this kind of creature was not to be trifled with.

"If you don't want to be my child, you can also have a child with me." Madam Madame Suoe's cheeks had a slight blush, and her fat body undulated with layer after layer of ripples.

Driven by the blood of the Joy Cultivator, she had fallen in love with Da Boyins.

"Between us, it might not be very suitable." Da Boyins stepped on his own spider silk and quickened his pace of retreat.

PS: Dear readers, the blood of the Joy Cultivator is ready, and Yumian Shala is ready too.

(End of chapter)