Chapter 167

The process of leaving the Zhouqiao Grass Market was very smooth. The black market under the control of the market manager was as calm as ever. In Luo Qi's words, even a night market for skewers had more people fighting than here.

Luo Qi was happy holding a pocket of crystals. He helped Mahjong get two high-performance calculation crystals—two pieces, and also brought a bunch of gift crystals he bargained for. He could keep those gifts for himself, so he finally was a person with crystals, and he had a pocketful. Although they weren't worth much, they were numerous!

However, when Du Zhengyi dragged him out of the door and teleported, appeared on an unfamiliar street, and immediately hailed a taxi, Luo Qi finally realized that trouble must have occurred. They were silent in the taxi. Du Zhengyi closed his eyes to rest. He held the cat and was in a daze, his hand reaching into his pocket, fumbling with the egg-shaped gift crystals. The smooth crystals slid over his hands, leaving a cool touch.

Luo Qi was still in a daze when the taxi stopped. Du Zhengyi rubbed his head. His hair became short again. He had removed the disguise produced by mental induction before getting into the taxi.

It started to rain when he left the Zhouqiao Grass Market. When he got off the car, the rain was already heavy. Outside the Grass Market was still daytime. Luo Qi put on his hood and looked up at the gray sky. He was like someone who had crawled out of a rabbit hole. Perhaps the entire Mage World was the rabbit hole of this world.

"Let's go," Du Zhengyi said. For some reason, he added, "Button up, it's colder here than in the south."

Luo Qi looked up at Du Zhengyi. He didn't even pull up his collar. The rain wet his hair and dripped down his clearly contoured brow bone. People with deep eye sockets were always a bit unlucky at such times, and their eyes were particularly easy to get water in. His eyelashes were covered with water droplets, and his black eyes looked deeper. He looked at Luo Qi, then wiped the water off his face, "What's wrong?"

Luo Qi shook his head and buttoned up. Du Zhengyi walked forward, and Luo Qi followed. The heavy rain washed the streets. His ears were full of the sound of rain. He followed Du Zhengyi closely in silence, quickening his pace.

They walked in the rain for a while. Luo Qi suddenly saw the back of the hotel building. It turned out they had walked into the back alley of the hotel. An aunt carrying a plastic bag passed by them quickly and turned out of the alley.

Du Zhengyi looked back at the alley entrance and suddenly reached out to hold Luo Qi's forearm.

Luo Qi was dragged into subspace. When he felt the normal gravity sensation restored again, he found that he was already in the hotel room.

He truly admired Du Zhengyi's superb ability to calculate beacons, accurately finding their room among so many rooms in a building. With a slight deviation, they might have turned themselves into a vice squad.

Luo Qi relaxed for a while, overcoming the slight dizziness, "If there were an aunt cleaning the room right now, she would definitely be scared to have a heart attack."

Du Zhengyi didn't say anything, threw a towel on his head, and he grabbed the towel and wiped his head messily. The two spent some time drying themselves and changed into dry clothes. Luo Qi handed a bottle of water to Du Zhengyi, then asked, "Did you find that woman?"

"I will send a message to Wan Pei. Looking at him, he should know the combination of Dai Wei and them, and might know their situation," Du Zhengyi replied.

That meant he didn't find the woman, Luo Qi added silently in his heart. He said what he knew, "The fat man in the Wanshi shop said she is a broker, often haunting the black market, mainly acting as a middleman for those big shots who are inconvenient to show their faces."

"Do you know her name?" Du Zhengyi asked.

"The fat man said it's Yao Yu, but you know, it's not necessarily her real name," Luo Qi said.

Du Zhengyi nodded, admitting that what Luo Qi said made sense, "Wan Pei might know her background. This news should be notified to Wen Lin as soon as possible, so she can also send people to check the black market broker Yao Yu."

Luo Qi made an "OK" gesture and went to the cabinet to take out his mobile phone, "A large-scale high-energy crystal transaction suddenly appeared in the black market. I think Qionglin should have already attracted attention."

"Relying on their conventional reaction, that would be too slow. What I'm worried about is that the whereabouts of the high-energy crystals have something to do with Ganzhou," Du Zhengyi said. He was standing by the window, lifting the white gauze curtain and looking out. Outside was a gray sky, the rain showed no signs of weakening, there were no pedestrians on the roadside, and traffic jams had already begun on the viaduct outside.

Luo Qi was shocked and immediately buried his head to send a WeChat message, notifying Wen Lin of the latest situation.

"So many high-energy crystals flowed into one person's hands, what are they going to do?" Du Zhengyi muttered, as if talking to himself.

Luo Qi frowned with annoyance, "If it's still aimed at Ganzhou, that's really too high-profile. Knowing that we already know the location is in Ganzhou, and still doing this, isn't this courting death? It's as if someone is afraid that the Lotus Burners won't be taken seriously by Qionglin. However, brother, since you didn't find that woman, why did we leave the black market in such a hurry? What happened?"

Du Zhengyi turned his head to look at him, "Who said I didn't find that woman?"

"Then..." Luo Qi said in confusion, "Then how..."

"When I found that woman, there was another person beside her. I was no match for that person, so I just retreated," Du Zhengyi said.

"One?" Luo Qi said with a strange expression, "One? You are no match for someone in a one-on-one fight?"

"It was that person," Du Zhengyi said quietly.

"Which person?" Luo Qi said in astonishment, but suddenly stopped, his eyes becoming full of fear.

Du Zhengyi saw from his expression that he had already understood, "I don't think I would necessarily be able to defeat him after three years."

"No, wait." Luo Qi stood up from the shoe-changing stool beside the wardrobe, took a few steps across the hotel room, and walked to Du Zhengyi's side, "So what if you can't defeat him? This isn't the Olympics. The point is that he hasn't shown his face in this world for three years, why did he suddenly appear at this time?"

Du Zhengyi watched Luo Qi's anxious face. Those lively eyes were now deep because of thinking. He realized the sharpness of Luo Qi's thinking. Although he was anxious and afraid, he grasped the key point all at once. Perhaps because of a lack of self-confidence, Luo Qi had always worn a mask of a fool, but hidden under his stupid shell was a sensitive and thoughtful soul.

Luo Qi's eyes widened even more because of fear, "Mage Guan has been dead for so long, the Xizhou matter didn't break out, and Ganzhou didn't either. Now that we have started to deal with them, they have started to break out one by one. In the dark, it's as if we are the ones who opened Pandora's box. I feel more and more that we are just chess pieces..."

Du Zhengyi didn't answer. He still stood there calmly.

"Brother, do you remember Mr. Shui's words? The person you saw, did he have a lame leg?" Luo Qi suddenly asked.

"I couldn't see him," Du Zhengyi said quietly, "He is clearly a rare Mind Mage."

He saw Luo Qi open his mouth in surprise and slowly spit out a sentence, "Compared to Pei Shu?"

"I think, on par," Du Zhengyi said.

Luo Qi shuddered.