Chapter 211: The Filthy World of Adults

"Hey, hey, hey! Wake up!"

Ren Yidao immediately put on a serious expression, drew his whip, and began emergency resuscitation.

Snap! Snap! Snap!

The Long Whip lashed out, striking Hong Guoyi's body with force.

"Don't you die on me here, alright?"

"Go die somewhere else, don't ruin my feng shui!"

Don't die, okay?

After lashing him a few more times, Hong Guoyi's complexion improved rapidly.

If not for the fact that his body would twitch from time to time, he looked no different from an ordinary person... except for the dagger still stuck in his stomach.

Nodding at Hong Guoyi, Ren Yidao sighed with emotion:

"I truly have a miraculous touch that brings the dead back to life."

"Hmm, I'll ask him for a silk banner once he wakes up."

Ren Yidao did not intend to report to the authorities to have Hong Guoyi arrested.

Given his status and his relationship with the Six Fan Sect, such a trivial matter was naturally not worth mentioning.

But the problem is, having good connections isn't all benefits; there are also troublesome aspects.

Wherever there are people, there is a jianghu.

Is the Six Fan Sect dominated by a single faction?

There are all sorts of cliques, and the entanglements behind the scenes are numerous.

Ren Yidao refused the position of Prime Minister precisely because he didn't want to get involved in the twists and turns of the imperial court.

If he doesn't even care for that, would he really care about the small Six Fan Sect?

But even though Ren Yidao made it clear he didn't want to participate, there were still people who wanted to pull him into their camp.

One does not strike a smiling face.

When people go out of their way to offer you benefits, it is generally not easy to refuse.

Sending gifts is one thing, but some even come over to offer people.

This family's granddaughter, that family's daughter, and some other family's widow...

Too many!

Huhu cannot handle it.

Out of sight, out of mind; it's better not to get involved in all this.

Moreover, Ren Yidao was also somewhat curious about this guy.

What kind of experience could have led him to come to his side to seek death?

By the looks of it, he doesn't seem like the type to be suicidal.

Was he under some kind of oppression?

"... I'll ask him when he wakes up."

After dealing with Hong Guoyi simply and covering him with a piece of white cloth, Ren Yidao pulled himself together.

This guy could only be considered a small interlude; he must not forget his real business.

How could one let playthings ruin their ambition!

I am still here challenging the giant creature, waiting for a massive haul.

Ren Yidao calmed his heart, preparing to hide back in the shadows to continue waiting, when he suddenly blinked.

"Hmm?"

Something seems wrong...

His eyes widened abruptly, and Ren Yidao looked at his bait in fury.

Wait!?

"What the hell!"

"Where is my little fox!?"

Left in place was not Huji at all, but a ball of red yarn bundled up by someone.

By the time Ren Yidao came to his senses, he discovered that Huji had been swapped out without him noticing!?

Damn it!

The fish took the bait, but it didn't get hooked!

"Jing! Yue! Qin!"

And after Ren Yidao let out an irrepressible roar, a black shadow in the distance accelerated rapidly upon hearing it.

Her red hair danced in the wind, complementing the red Fox Tail sleeping soundly in her arms.

The thief who had succeeded wore a smile that was extremely sunny, even bordering on perverted.

She smiled cunningly, leaving only a barely audible sound drifting with the wind.

"Hehe, ehehehe..."

"What kind of behavior is this!!?"

Chu Yiping's roar echoed through the mountain forest.

"Ah!!?"

"Are you all trying to anger me to death? Do you not know that we are here on a mission, not here for sightseeing!?"

Chu Yiping was furious.

Very furious!

The shock from last night was too great; it was comparable to the longest night of his life.

It was even longer than that day when he was ten years old, the first time he snuck off to a brothel with his cousin and was teased by others.

Stunned by Jiang Mingzhi's abnormal encounter, Chu Yiping had regained a fair amount of his reason, and he had thought he could calmly handle the matters that followed.

But after he brought Jiang Mingzhi—who had finished writing his self-reflection one thousand times and had vacant eyes—back to the camp.

He realized he was wrong.

Wrong, and thoroughly so.

Looking at the card table placed openly in the center of the camp and the wine pots scattered all over the ground, Chu Yiping felt that something in his brain must have broken.

Pop.

"You all..."

This group of fellows, upon discovering that things had already been exposed, simply gave up on themselves and chose not to hide it anymore.

Since they had already been discovered and nothing could change that, they might as well just play to their heart's content!

Thus, a final carnival began.

The customs of the Eastern Wasteland had always been like this.

Perhaps in the ancient era, the precarious life on the wilderness had caused the people of the Eastern Wasteland to develop a free-spirited personality that flowed through their blood.

Wild and unrestrained.

Unlike agricultural peoples who wanted to plant something in the ground whenever they had nothing to do, the people of the Eastern Wasteland were purely nomadic in style.

Since they had eaten this meal and didn't know when the next one would be, it was better not to think about it and just enjoy the moment.

Eat when it's time to eat, drink when it's time to drink, and don't take things to heart!

This group of Princes had figured it out.

But there were several people who hadn't.

Besides the hot-headed Chu Yiping, Pang Lixing, who had been isolated by the others, was also feeling very uncomfortable.

If he had known it would end up like this, he certainly wouldn't have opened his mouth to say that one sentence attacking everyone.

His goal was to strike at the prestige of the Chu Family as much as possible and win others over to the Pang Family's camp.

Chu Hairen could not escape the blame for this incident and had no possibility of a comeback, which was why he couldn't help but jump out to play the devil's advocate.

But Pang Lixing still lost because of his youth and having too little social interaction with the others.

The flattery from others along the way had given him a false perception.

Compared to that Chu Hairen, who didn't look very bright, everyone favored me, Pang Lixing, more!

The situation he thought was a sure thing had actually undergone such a reversal under the active leadership of Chu Hairen in just a few words!!?

They were drinking, eating meat, and dancing over there, while he could only shrink inside his tent and watch secretly.

How could not a single person come to invite him along!

As long as someone gave him a way out, Pang Lixing would have stepped down on the spot.

But unfortunately, his previous words had affected too many people, and no one was willing to stand up and pull him up at this time.

The only one who came over to invite him was that smiling Chu Hairen.

This fat man clearly had no good intentions!

Pang Lixing naturally ignored him, pretending he was in meditation and resting.

And now, he had finally waited for someone to uphold justice!

But just as Pang Lixing prepared to walk out of his tent with his head held high to enjoy the sight of them being lectured...

Chu Hairen leaned in to Chu Yiping's side and said something, causing his expression to change again and again.

"Hm?"

After that, the situation changed.

Chu Yiping was dragged by a group of Princes to the side of the bonfire, and they started drinking together...

Looking at those Princes taking turns offering toasts in a circle, and Chu Yiping, whose expression was still tight but gradually looking better.

Pang Lixing's worldview collapsed.

"How, how could it be like this!!?"