Chapter 853: Duan Duan Tielu

"I came here to get a few Void Origin Silkworms," He He Jiaqing explained to Li Li Banfeng. "I have quite a few Curse Cultivators under my command. High-level curse techniques rely on Void Origin Silkworms to be performed. You should know about this matter."

"Don't listen to his sophistry!" Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun took out a medicine bottle. "Getting Void Origin Silkworms isn't a difficult task. Does it take so many days to stay in this place? This person doesn't look honest at all and definitely won't tell the truth. Let's just kill him!

Seventh Brother, if you can't bring yourself to do it, I'll help you. After taking this bottle of medicine, I can guarantee he won't feel any pain at all!"

He He Jiaqing frowned and looked at Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun: "Senior, I don't seem to have offended you, right?"

"Who are you calling Senior?" Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun looked He He Jiaqing up and down. "You think you're really a teenager just because you dressed up as one?

Under this skin, you're probably a ninety-year-old man!"

He He Jiaqing shook his head: "These words can't be said casually. Li Qi and I are old acquaintances. We know each other well; it's not our first day meeting!"

"So what if you're old acquaintances?" Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun sneered. "Borrowing the friendship of old acquaintances to collude with the Year-Famine people to plot against our Seventh Brother, a cheap person like you shouldn't be left even more! Hurry up and take the medicine, I guarantee you won't feel any pain!"

He He Jiaqing was stunned for a long time: "Senior, make it clear, what grudge do you have against me? We are strangers, and you want to put me to death. It's clearly you who are unreasonable. Why do you still want to help him?"

Li Li Banfeng was about to ask for clarification, but Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun took the words first: "Why should I tell you such a secret matter? Is it worth it to leak the news for a bird person like you?"

He He Jiaqing nodded: "That makes sense. Since it's not convenient to talk here, let's change to another place, shall we?"

He pointed to the room.

Li Li Banfeng nodded slightly.

Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun was reluctant, but followed the two into the room.

He He Jiaqing took out a magic treasure and shielded the territory around the room.

Li Li Banfeng asked He He Jiaqing: "Do you know Duan Duan Tielu's whereabouts?"

Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun was prepared on the side. If He He Jiaqing said he knew, it would prove he was Duan Duan Tielu's accomplice, and this person must be killed.

If He He Jiaqing said he didn't know, it would prove he was useless, and this person would definitely have to be killed.

He He Jiaqing pondered for a moment: "I saw a suspicious person in the Curse-Insect Ruins. At first, I thought he was also here to get Void Origin Silkworms,

so I didn't take this matter to heart.

But later I discovered that things weren't that simple. This person hadn't been to the places where Void Origin Silkworms appeared, and his movements were very secret, especially his residence, which I haven't been able to discover to this day. If Duan Duan Tielu is in the Curse-Insect Ruins, then this person is highly suspicious."

Li Li Banfeng looked at Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun, but Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun didn't speak.

He He Jiaqing's answer was too clever; Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun couldn't find any faults.

Li Li Banfeng asked Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun: "Have you seen the person he mentioned?"

Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun shook his head: "I haven't seen him. He must be lying!"

He He Jiaqing smiled: "Whether I'm lying or not, we'll know once we go out and see. It's still early, perhaps we can still run into him,

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Li Li Banfeng instructed Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun: "You go back to the village, let the Curse Cultivators and Insect Cultivators do their own things, just like usual, don't arouse suspicion. I'll go see the identity of that person with He He Jiaqing."

Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun looked surprised: "You are going with him?"

"Yeah!" Li Li Banfeng didn't feel there was anything inappropriate.

He was a top-tier Residential Cultivator, and He He Jiaqing was a top-tier Thief Cultivator. Both of them had means to avoid people's eyes and ears, definitely more suitable than Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun.

Looking at Li Li Banfeng's back, Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun bit his lip: "He's afraid I'll have an accident—"

Li Li Banfeng walked to the wall, leaned against the wall, and listened to the movement inside with Insightful Spiritual Sound.

The room was very quiet, there shouldn't be anyone.

He walked to a door, prepared to push the door and go in to see. Just as his right hand touched the edge of the door, a burst of danger suddenly attacked from the room.

Li Li Banfeng's hand stayed on the door without moving.

The room was quiet, still without a sound.

Li Li Banfeng didn't move, Li Banfeng Zi drilled out from under his feet, holding the Tang Dao, and arrived at the window.

More than ten seconds later, the door creaked, and someone seemed to want to rush out from the door.

Li Li Banfeng kicked the door to pieces, and at the same time, a figure jumped out of the window.

Sound in the east, attack in the west!

The person in the room deliberately made a sound at the door, luring Li Li Banfeng to kick the door, and then he wanted to escape from the window.

His move was hidden enough, but the scent of rouge on his body was smelled by Li Li Banfeng using Hundred Flavors Exquisite.

Li Banfeng Zi, who was hiding by the window, was well prepared and slashed at that person with one blade.

This sneak attack succeeded, and the Tang Dao also hit the vital point, but after Li Banfeng Zi saw the figure of that person clearly, he immediately chose to pursue.

That person was He He Jiaqing!

He had the skill of stealing beams and changing pillars.

Sure enough, where the blade passed, a pottery jar was cut into two pieces, and He He Jiaqing had already circled to the other side of the house.

It seemed he had successfully escaped, but after running two steps, a figure suddenly flashed before his eyes.

He He Jiaqing was startled, knowing that something bad was about to happen. *Ka*, a wound cracked open on his chest.

Walking Horse Watching Flowers!

Li Li Banfeng's Walking Horse Watching Flowers had two stages. If the second stage exploded, He He Jiaqing would be dead or seriously injured.

But He He Jiaqing was very smart. He stood still.

Li Li Banfeng's voice came to his ear: "I seem to have told you that if you see me again, you might lose your life."

He He Jiaqing said in a trembling voice: "This can't be blamed on me, you came to find me."

Li Li Banfeng said: "Then who do you say this matter should be blamed on?"

He He Jiaqing lowered his head: "Blame no one, can only say, this is fate."

Li Li Banfeng turned his face to look at Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun: "He said this is fate, what do you think?"

"Fate my ass!" Yang Xiao Qian Xiangjun snorted. "He's still being stubborn when he's about to die. This cheap person shouldn't be left!"

There was danger, but not much. It gave Li Li Banfeng the feeling that a master was hidden underneath, estimated to be at the level of Zhang Zhang Gunli.

With Duan Duan Tielu's strength, the danger shouldn't have come so gently.

The accumulated snow slowly melted in his palm. Beads of water swam around his palm for a moment, not evaporating, but showing some attachment.

Residential Cultivator technique, Family Treasures Counted Themselves.

These water beads were now Li Li Banfeng's family.

The water beads seeped downward along the accumulated snow, and a more intense sense of danger gradually struck.

A chill spread from his palm to his scalp. Ayi didn't exaggerate. When Li Li Banfeng ambushed Shan Chengjun, the danger at that time was indeed equivalent to the current moment.

But Li Li Banfeng was no longer what he used to be. After several fierce battles, what kind of danger was Li Li Banfeng afraid to face?

Li Li Banfeng pointed to the snow and looked at He He Haiqin: "You go down and scout the path."

Li Banfeng Yi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this.

He He Haiqin shook his head, indicating he didn't dare.

Li Li Banfeng stretched out his palm and waved it horizontally.

He He Haiqin shivered. After hesitating for a moment, he lay on the ground and kept blowing air at the accumulated snow.

This is the Thief Cultivator technique, Blowing Dust to Find Seams. There was no dust here, only snow, but the technique was equally useful.

The fine snowflakes were blown into the depths of the accumulated snow, wandering along the mountain body. After ten minutes, He He Haiqin stood up and pointed to the mountain.

This is the essence of Blowing Dust to Find Seams. He He Haiqin judged the location of the cracks under the accumulated snow by blowing the snow.

This crack might just be a crack in the rock, but it could also be the crack of Duan Duan Tielu's door. The specific situation still needed further exploration.

The two walked a distance up the mountain. He He Haiqin pulled out a folding fan from his sleeve, poked a hole in the accumulated snow, judged the direction roughly, and pressed the folding fan into the snow.

The folding fan disappeared for ten minutes, and He He Haiqin had a response here.

He wrote the word "Door" on the snow. He found Duan Duan Tielu's main door.

He didn't open the door rashly, nor did he make any sound. He looked at Li Li Banfeng, waiting for Li Li Banfeng's instructions.

Once the door is opened, it might startle the snake.

Li Li Banfeng nodded slightly, signaling He He Haiqin to enter the door to scout.

He He Haiqin looked reluctant.

He controlled the fan, opened a crack in the door, and confirmed that there were no other mechanisms inside. He He Haiqin raised his hand upward, signaling Li Li Banfeng to fly up.

Li Li Banfeng flew up using the technique of Riding the Wind and Driving the Clouds. He He Haiqin cleaned up the footprints of the two, twisted his body into a long strip along the hole left by the fan on the snow, and drilled under the snow.

After waiting for a moment, the fan drilled out of the snow from the original hole, unfolded the fan surface, and shook it twice in front of Li Li Banfeng. On the fan surface was written: "Safe and sound."

He He Haiqin's efficiency in scouting was quite high.

Li Li Banfeng didn't take the door; he used Unimpeded Passage to pass directly through the wall from the snow.

The moment he entered the house, Li Li Banfeng felt that the situation was wrong.

In front of him was a long corridor, at least one hundred meters long.

There were rooms on both sides of the corridor, and several stairs and ladders leading upstairs and downstairs.

With such a large place, no matter how fast He He Haiqin was or how many techniques he had, it was impossible to scout it in such a short time. How did he dare to write "Safe and sound" on the fan so easily?

Did he not scout at all and just ran away?

Even if He He Haiqin dared to run, he wouldn't dare to use this fan to deceive Li Li Banfeng. If he really dared to do so, as long as Li Li Banfeng came out alive, he would definitely be dead.

If this kid didn't run, where could he go?

Was he caught by Duan Duan Tielu?

Being able to catch He He Haiqin in such a short time, Duan Duan Tielu's strength was too strong.

However, He He Haiqin took the main door, and Duan Duan Tielu must have precautions. Li Li Banfeng wore the wall, and Duan Duan Tielu might not have noticed yet.

Li Li Banfeng pushed open the rooms on both sides of the corridor one by one.

The first room was very crowded. The room was not small, visually estimated to be more than one hundred square meters, with a large number of pipes and valves arranged inside. The room was very stuffy and hot.

The second room only had a water pump. The water pump was very large, and the noise was also very loud, making Li Li Banfeng's ears ring.

But as long as the door was closed, all the noise disappeared, and the stuffy heat brought by the steam also disappeared. The corridor was cold, cool, and very quiet.

Li Li Banfeng was about to push open the third door when he shivered, and a sense of danger suddenly struck.

He put his right hand on the doorknob and at the same time released Li Banfeng Yi and Li Banfeng Zi to keep guard in front of the door.

The moment he pushed the door open, Li Li Banfeng was stunned.

Inside the room was a huge yellow oil tank with a label on it, written "Lubricating Oil."

Li Li Banfeng had built many factories in the Soda Kiln and had seen too many similar oil tanks. From the outside, this lubricating oil tank had no other problems except for a little oil leakage.

Closing the door, Li Li Banfeng was still pondering where the danger came from. After thinking for a moment, a chill slowly surged into his heart.

Perceiving danger in a place that is not dangerous, what does this prove?

Are the places where danger cannot be perceived still safe now?

Li Li Banfeng realized that his "Seeking Good Fortune and Avoiding Calamity" had a big problem here. Duan Duan Tielu used some kind of magic treasure to destroy Li Li Banfeng's technique.

What kind of magic treasure can destroy "Seeking Good Fortune and Avoiding Calamity"?

Li Li Banfeng didn't dare to explore rashly anymore. He released the twelve shadows of the Earthly Branch system and looked at each room along the corridor one by one.

The various equipment arranged in each room on this floor had nothing special.

Li Li Banfeng followed a staircase and walked upstairs. There were more rooms upstairs, some with a large number of meters, and some with operation panels.

There was no figure in these two floors. Li Li Banfeng let Li Banfeng Zi take six shadows to continue upstairs, and he himself took six shadows downstairs.

The layout downstairs was more concise. Each room was about the same size, with beds, wardrobes, and tables in the rooms.

Is this an employee dormitory?

There were four beds in one room, and more than thirty rooms on one floor. Duan Duan Tielu seemed to have many subordinates, but where did these people go?

Walking to the center of the corridor, Li Li Banfeng saw a large hall. There were blurry patterns and text on the wall of the hall, which seemed to be a list.

It seems Duan Duan Tielu also has the habit of performance evaluation.

Opposite the list wall was the main door. Li Li Banfeng walked toward the main door, wanting to see if this main door led to the outside. As soon as his hand touched the edge of the door,

he suddenly heard someone say: "You haven't left yet?"

"Whether I leave or not, what does it have to do with you?" Li Li Banfeng was stunned. Why did this sentence blurt out?

He followed the source of the sound and looked at the wall on the left side of the hall.

On the originally gray-white wall, there was an extra glass window. An old man was inside, showing a smile at Li Li Banfeng.

It's no wonder this sentence blurted out, because this sentence had been in Li Li Banfeng's heart for a long time.

Back at the dormitory of Yuezhou University, ever since he sent away He He Haiqin, the old man who watched the door would ask Li Li Banfeng from time to time: "You haven't left yet?"

Li Li Banfeng was very annoyed by this sentence at the time, and the voice and tone of that old man were exactly the same as the old man in front of him.

Do they look the same?

What did the old man who watched the door look like?

He couldn't remember the appearance of the old man who watched the door, and the appearance of the old man in front of him couldn't be seen very clearly either.

Li Li Banfeng stared at the old man's face for a moment. The old man's facial features could be seen very clearly, but when the whole face was put together, it was a bit blurry.

This is the talent of a Residential Cultivator!

He is carrying a magic treasure of a Residential Cultivator.

The old man leaned against the glass window and said to Li Li Banfeng: "You've looked at every room, why haven't you left yet?"

Li Li Banfeng turned around and looked at the glass window: "I came from so far away, you don't even have a cup of tea, and you want to send me away?"

The old man opened the glass door and handed over a teacup: "We aren't meeting for the first time, is it worth being so polite? Drink the tea and leave quickly."

Li Li Banfeng took the teacup, took a sip of tea, and asked: "Are you Duan Duan Tielu?"

This was not a guess. Li Li Banfeng had heard Duan Duan Tielu's voice through Ayu, and it was exactly the same as the old man in front of him.

Duan Duan Tielu smiled: "It sounds like you didn't know me before."

Li Li Banfeng shook his head: "I really didn't know you before. Were you a dormitory manager at Yuezhou University Dormitory 6?"

Duan Duan Tielu nodded: "I worked for a few days. I felt that the job was quite interesting. I sat in a small room, didn't have to do anything else, just managed to make things difficult for people, had food and housing, and someone paid me a salary. I couldn't find such a good job in Puluo Continent."

Li Li Banfeng expressed agreement: "In Puluo Continent, such people usually don't live to the next morning. When did you start being a dormitory manager?"

Duan Duan Tielu said: "It was the day He He Haiqin put the Profound Heaven Did Honglian into the school supermarket."

Li Li Banfeng said: "Does this matter have anything to do with you?"

At the mention of this, Duan Duan Tielu sighed: "It originally had nothing to do with me, but I made that storage cabinet, so I have to be responsible for after-sales. If there is any situation, and this matter is blamed on me, I will suffer a big loss."

Li Li Banfeng roughly calculated the account: "You don't suffer a loss. Don't you want the Did Honglian? Just take it away!"

"What do I want that thing for?" Duan Duan Tielu looked contemptuous, "If I want it, I'll make one myself. Isn't it just a medicine furnace for alchemy? What's so great about it?

And I don't know if the one He He Haiqin put in is the Did Honglian. If it's not the Did Honglian, it's hard to say what that thing is. As long as that thing is in the cabinet, I don't feel at ease.

Young Master He, don't you think so?"

As the voice fell, a figure appeared on the wall that was hanging the list.

He He Haiqin had half of his body outside and half of his body in the wall, embedded in the wall like a relief.

Duan Duan Tielu looked at He He Haiqin and said: "You say you are such an ignorant child. You are a wealthy young master and a genius of the generation. The Hand and Foot Alliance holds you in the palm of their hands every day. If you want to hide a Did Honglian, where can't you hide it? You have to hide it in that storage cabinet? Do you have to drag me into the water?"

He He Haiqin said: "Senior, I didn't want to drag you into the water. I thought that if I put it in the storage cabinet, this thing would return to the Dark Star Bureau.

The storage cabinet and the Dark Star Bureau are connected. If this thing went back, wouldn't everyone be happy?"

"Everyone happy? Pfft, pfft, pfft! How did you say this?" Duan Duan Tielu looked at He He Haiqin and said, "Your Hand and Foot Alliance spent so much effort to get the Profound Heaven Did Honglian out, and it ended up in the cabinet I made. If this thing is sent back, won't this matter still be blamed on me in the end?

From the day you put the Did Honglian in the cabinet, I cut off the road between the cabinet and the Dark Star Bureau. That thing can't go back to the Dark Star Bureau,

and can only wait for Li Li Banfeng to take it out."

After speaking, Duan Duan Tielu looked at Li Li Banfeng: "I say you are really worrying. I urge you to take the thing away every day, but you just don't leave."

Li Li Banfeng frowned: "How did you urge me? You just kept telling me to leave! You didn't say anything about the storage cabinet and the Did Honglian."

Duan Duan Tielu was angry: "If I told you about the Did Honglian, wouldn't it mean I knew about this? If I knew about this, wouldn't it still be blamed on me in the end?"

Li Li Banfeng sighed: "You are really more cautious than Che Che Wushang."

Duan Duan Tielu was stunned, his eyes somewhat unkind: "You compare me with Che Che Wushang. This is a bit insulting.

Regardless, the past is the past. Li Qi, you are now the head of Puluo Continent. I don't want to offend you, but I'm not afraid of you either. You take He He Haiqin and leave immediately. Let's pretend we haven't met.

If you insist on finding trouble with me, I will accompany you to the end. Duan has been able to live until today by relying on real skills."

Li Li Banfeng said: "I'm not here to find trouble; I'm here to talk business."

Duan Duan Tielu shook his head slightly: "I checked the calendar today; it's not suitable for talking business. Pick a good day and come find me again."

"That's fine, then another day." Li Li Banfeng drank the last sip of tea and handed the cup to Duan Duan Tielu.

Duan Duan Tielu took the teacup and said: "How is this tea?"

Li Li Banfeng praised: "The taste is not bad."

"I won't see you off!" Duan Duan Tielu pointed to the main door.

Li Li Banfeng looked back at He He Haiqin: "What about him?"

"You decide!" Duan Duan Tielu smiled, "You can dig him out, or I can let him out."

"Then I'll trouble you to let him out."

Duan Duan Tielu put the teacup on the table and waved at He He Haiqin.

He He Haiqin fell out of the wall and fell heavily to the ground. He immediately got up and walked behind Li Li Banfeng.

Li Li Banfeng didn't say anything more and pushed open the main door directly.

Outside the door was a snowfield. Li Li Banfeng walked out of the door and left the hall.

He He Haiqin was about to follow, but suddenly felt that the situation was wrong. This snowfield outside the door looked familiar, as if it were the place where they entered the door.

But what about the hole he poked with the fan?

He He Haiqin cleaned up the traces of the two along the way, but the hole left by the fan drilling into the snow was not cleaned up. This was the retreat He He Haiqin left for himself.

But that hole was gone.

Bang!

The main door closed, and He He Haiqin didn't go out.

Duan Duan Tielu closed the glass window, looked at He He Haiqin, and said: "He's gone, why haven't you left yet? What are you waiting for here?"

He He Haiqin turned to look at Duan Duan Tielu.

Duan Duan Tielu smiled: "Hurry up and leave. He saved your life; you should live and die with him. Now he is dead for sure, why don't you follow him?"

He He Haiqin said: "We came to talk business with you. The business didn't work out, but we didn't say anything. Why do you insist on harming us?"

"Talk business? Are you dreaming?" Duan Duan Tielu played with the teacup in his hand, "You found your way to my door, and you still expect to go out alive?

Li Qi, how should I put it? I said let him go, and he really dared to go. With his temperament, he still wants to be the head of Puluo Continent. Isn't he tired of living?"

He He Haiqin turned to escape, but suddenly felt his legs were like lead, unable to move a step.

"What are you thinking?" Duan Duan Tielu looked at He He Haiqin, "I just said, it's impossible for you to go out alive. Do you think I'm telling a joke?

Your master is a thief, and you are also a thief. A thief must have the way of a thief. Just earn a living by being sneaky. What kind of layout do you want to play? What kind of strategy do you want to talk about? Do you deserve it?

I also tell you, from the day you put the Profound Heaven Did Honglian in the storage cabinet, your life was deposited with me. I don't know when I will take your life. You can't keep it even if you want to!"

Slap!

Duan Duan Tielu put the teacup on the table!

A ball of flames ignited rapidly on He He Haiqin, instantly wrapping his whole body.

Watching He He Haiqin struggle in the flames, Duan Duan Tielu touched the teacup and smiled: "He Jiaqing, if it hurts, just cry out."

Li Li Banfeng carried the teapot from the side and helped Duan Duan Tielu fill the tea: "Stove, if it's hot, just say so."

Duan Duan Tielu turned to look at Li Li Banfeng, looking shocked: "How did you come back?"

Li Li Banfeng smiled: "I said I was going out, and you really thought I went out? Stove, with your little bit of heart, how did you live to such an old age?"