Chapter 98: Walking Alone to the High Tower

Yang Xuan turned his head and asked in confusion:

"But if the Green-Faced Ghost really strikes today, it proves that he is an unreasonable lunatic. Would such a person care about these things?"

Knowing it's a trap and still wanting to jump into it—if he's not a lunatic, what is he?

But Zhang Mingze shook his head:

"No, during my time in prison, I have been reviewing the Green-Faced Ghost's actions, and finally reached a conclusion: the Green-Faced Ghost might really be a lunatic, but he is also a very calm, very cautious lunatic."

Calm, cautious, and then adding a 'lunatic'—this made Yang Xuan feel very confused.

"The Green-Faced Ghost's 'madness' is reflected in his choices, not weighing the pros and cons in the secular sense; all choices follow his own heart. Such people are often pure and prone to extremes. But the Green-Faced Ghost is very calm and cautious in his actions."

Zhang Mingze explained patiently:

"I have seen the Duchayuan's investigation results on him, and the conclusion is that this is an experienced, meticulous person who understands the imperial court's investigation methods very well. This shows that he made very sufficient preparations before acting, and did not decide to act blindly and impulsively.

Later, the timing of his second strike was chosen very well; it was when the joint operation of the three academies had just ended. At this time, the fake Green-Faced Ghost had been captured, people's hearts were relaxed, and the security forces at various points were also relaxed. And he killed seven people at once because he knew that after this 'window period,' it would be very difficult for him to kill again, so he killed enough at once!

Also, the crimes committed by those seven Sifa Academy officials were all written down in detail. Have you ever thought about where he learned these? Either he has an insider in the Duchayuan or the Sifa Academy, and the level is not low, or he spent a long time investigating carefully in advance.

Regardless of which result, it shows that this is a person who plans before acting and has his own logical thinking, not just a bloodthirsty killer who only acts to vent his emotions."

Yang Xuan thought thoughtfully: "Listening to this, it seems to be the case."

Zhang Mingze smiled: "Do you know how the Green-Faced Ghost escaped the search techniques of the Law Enforcement Academy the first time?"

Yang Xuan shook his head.

"He used the cockscomb blood of a live chicken."

"So it was this; then he is indeed an insider."

"Then do you know how he escaped after killing those seven Sifa Academy officials the second time?"

"It must still be the cockscomb blood of a live chicken, right?"

"Hehe, yes, it was still the cockscomb blood of a live chicken."

Zhang Mingze smiled.

"This... is there anything wrong with this?"

Yang Xuan asked somewhat unconfidently.

In terms of martial arts, he could beat ten private secretaries with one hand now.

But in terms of brains...

Zhang Mingze didn't sell out, directly saying:

"After the Green-Faced Ghost's first strike, all the points in the city selling live chickens were watched. But if he still dared to buy a second time, he would definitely be discovered."

"Ah?"

Yang Xuan realized, "Your meaning is, this Green-Faced Ghost bought enough live chickens before the first strike and found a place to raise them secretly?"

Zhang Mingze nodded:

"Yes, he calculated before the first strike that he might have a second, a third time, so he prepared everything in advance. Such a person, taking one step and calculating ten steps—do you still think he is not cautious enough?"

"This..."

"Let me tell you another thing."

Zhang Mingze was very talkative today and continued:

"Those seven Sifa Academy officials all had martial artist guards they hired. After the Green-Faced Ghost killed these guards, he didn't destroy the wounds on them, but deliberately kept the wounds."

"Isn't this just to prove that he is the real Green-Faced Ghost?"

"That is indeed the case, but the wounds on Zong Guang's body were deliberately destroyed, and the wounds on the martial artist guard beside Feng Zhenshan were also deliberately destroyed. This shows that this Green-Faced Ghost must have retained even more powerful trump cards, which are more powerful means than the vicious innate Qi that seriously injured me!"

Zhang Mingze said this, killing intent flowing in his eyes.

He had already known the fact that his martial arts were completely lost.

Although he had always appeared light and breezy in front of others and didn't care about it.

But how could he really not care?

If he wasn't hateful to the Green-Faced Ghost and held a must-kill heart, how would Zhang Mingze risk some danger, deliberately leaving flaws, just to lure the Green-Faced Ghost to kill himself?

Yang Xuan listened to Zhang Mingze's analysis and gradually saw the calmness and meticulousness hidden under the Green-Faced Ghost's seemingly crazy mask.

To even think about keeping trump cards when assassinating such an important person as the Tiger Blade Gang's Private Secretary, just to deal with other people of the Tiger Blade Gang better in the future.

How cautious must this person be?

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the other party miscalculated the special nature of Zhang Mingze's implant and Doctor Huang's superb medical skills, the first assassination would have already succeeded.

Yang Xuan suddenly felt a chill on his back.

Such a calm, cautious, and meticulous person, who happens to be a 'lunatic'—this really makes people feel terrible!

"Will he come today? If he really comes, has he already calculated everything and made full preparations?"

Yang Xuan looked out the window, rarely feeling somewhat nervous.

Xinnan Street.

There is a clock tower here. Every morning at 8 o'clock, noon at 12 o'clock, and 6 o'clock in the afternoon, someone will ring the big bell at the top of the tower.

The position of the bell ringer is arranged by the government.

It's just that today's bell ringer has been replaced by someone from the Tiger Blade Gang, and there are also people from the Tiger Blade Gang guarding under the clock tower.

This clock tower is the tallest building in the entire Xingcheng. Looking down from the top of the tower, you can see almost half of Xingcheng, and almost all the paths arranged by Zhang Mingze are within the overlooking range of this clock tower, so he arranged for people to guard here in advance, using binoculars to observe the overall situation and transmit information at any time.

However, the manpower arranged in this place is not much, and there is not even a martial artist, because this place is too far from Zhang Mingze's motorcade. If the Green-Faced Ghost really intends to strike at Zhang Mingze today, he certainly won't run here.

A few Tiger Blade Gang thugs are sitting at the stairs on the first floor of the clock tower playing Pai Gow.

"Hahahaha, double sky, I won again! Pay up, pay up!"

A thug flipped over the cards in his hand and laughed loudly.

"Fuck!"

"What kind of luck is this?"

"Did you motherfucker cheat?"

The others cursed and took out a few coins.

"Looks like it's quite fun."

At this moment, a voice came.

A few thugs playing cards were startled and turned their heads to look.

Only to see a figure appear at the entrance of the clock tower. The other party was wearing a black martial robe and wearing a green ghost mask.

"Gr-Green-Faced Ghost?!"

A few thugs were horrified.

"Seems like there's movement below?"

Xu Si, who was guarding the top floor of the clock tower, said to his companion.

"Movement my ass, they are playing Pai Gow."

The companion cursed, "Damn, it's just us two who are unlucky, having to guard up here."

"Don't worry, if we handle today's matter well, the Private Secretary will definitely have a reward."

Xu Si said.

There are many people in the Tiger Blade Gang who can fight, but not many who are literate and have flexible brains. Xu Si is one of them.

So Zhang Mingze arranged for Xu Si to watch on this clock tower, ready to transmit signals at any time, and his companion was responsible for cooperating with him.

"Really, how much can he reward?"

The companion became energetic as soon as he heard there was a reward.

"That depends on whether the Green-Faced Ghost will come today."

Xu Si stared at the motorcade driving slowly in the distance and said.

"Is there a reward if he comes?"

"Of course."

Xu Si answered, but only after answering did he realize something was wrong, because this voice was not his companion's, and it came from behind him.

He reacted very quickly, immediately turned around, and picked up the pistol placed beside him, preparing to shoot.

Because they had to guard on this clock tower to watch the view, both he and his companion were equipped with a gun.

But just as his gun was raised, his left hand holding the gun was pinched by someone, completely unable to move.

*Bang! *

On the other side, his companion had already been knocked down and fainted on the spot.

Xu Si's face turned pale, looking at the person in front of him with fearful eyes.

The other party was wearing a green ghost mask, his eyes cold.

The visitor was naturally Li Fei.

He casually snatched the revolver from Xu Si's hand, then stepped forward, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Xu Si, and looked at the motorcade in the distance.

Xu Si's legs began to tremble, and he said cautiously:

"Gh-Ghost Master, what can I do for you?"

He was very smart, knowing that the Green-Faced Ghost didn't kill him immediately, he must have something for him to do.

"Ghost Master?"

Li Fei was amused by this title.

"What method do you plan to use to transmit information in a while?"

He asked Xu Si.

"Use flag language."

Xu Si pointed to the two small flags placed on the ground and said.

"Many high points in the city have arranged manpower, and they communicate with each other using flag language."

"Quite professional."

Li Fei sighed.

"I can help you hit the flag language, just ask you to spare my life!"

Xu Si turned around and begged for mercy.

"I spare you, can the Tiger Blade Gang spare you?"

Li Fei looked at him.

Despair appeared on Xu Si's face, and he gritted his teeth:

"Better than dying now!"

"Alright, you help me hit the flag language in a while, and I will spare your life."

Li Fei said.

"Yes! Thank you, Ghost Master!"

Xu Si bowed and saluted hurriedly, while suspicion also rose in his heart:

The Green-Faced Ghost is only one person. Even if he uses himself to hit the flag language here to mobilize the Tiger Blade Gang's manpower in the distance, he can't rush over to kill people.

Could it be that he can fly?

However, Xu Si naturally didn't dare to ask these doubts. He just wanted to live now.

But Li Fei didn't let Xu Si hit the flag language immediately, but stood quietly on the high building and looked into the distance.

A moment later, Li Fei took a pill from his bosom.

"Turn around."

Li Fei said.

Xu Si was startled, immediately reacted, and turned his back to Li Fei quickly.

Li Fei lifted his mask, pulled up the hood below, exposed his mouth, and then took the pill.

This pill was not for cultivation, but a poison he had successfully formulated recently—Nether Spring!

The 'Nether Spring' poison was obtained from the boss of the 'Wolf Pack,' and it also came with a book of poison-refining insights.

After getting it, Li Fei studied it night after night, took out the spirit of his postgraduate entrance examination back then, and finally successfully formulated a new type of 'Nether Spring' that satisfied him!

The 'Wolf Pack' boss's Nether Spring poison was liquid and could only be soaked on weapons to hurt enemies. Li Fei was not very satisfied with this method. He wanted to create the legendary colorless and odorless gaseous poison that could poison invisibly.

But this kind of poison was too difficult to make. Li Fei used up all the 'Nether Spring' poison in his hands and failed to experiment successfully.

The reason why he didn't use poison when he killed Zhang Mingze was because there was no poison available in his hands at that time.

Later, he slowly collected raw materials and re-refined the 'Nether Spring' poison according to the book of poison-refining insights written by the 'Wolf Pack' boss.

This time he changed his thinking, no longer pursuing colorless and odorless gaseous poison, and finally successfully refined two types of poison.

One of them was the poison pill he just took. This was a chronic poison. The effect of the initial onset would not be too fierce, but as time passed, the toxicity would become heavier and heavier, making people more and more uncomfortable.

Li Fei could use this poison to threaten others, and at the same time, he could use it to accelerate the upgrade of the Blood Soul Bead!

The principle of the Blood Soul Bead upgrade had been thoroughly studied by Li Fei. Its core lay in the sentence 'absorb harmful energy from the outside.'

So the method of self-mutilation by hitting himself could not allow the Blood Soul Bead to absorb energy. This energy must be external and harmful to himself.

Food, medicine, and external force strikes, arrows, bullets, innate Qi, etc., all these could become the source of the Blood Soul Bead's energy.

Li Fei found that most of the energy in the elixirs taken for martial arts cultivation was beneficial, used to improve the body and strengthen the implant. The Blood Soul Bead could only absorb the part of the energy that would cause damage to the body.

So he simply went the other way. Since the elixirs for martial arts cultivation had more beneficial energy, he simply took poison directly, which naturally contained more harmful energy.

The Nether Spring poison he carefully improved and refined could provide him with more than 50% more harmful energy than the original liquid Nether Spring poison!

After the refining was successful, Li Fei would take a few pills every day to accelerate the upgrade of the Blood Soul Bead.

On the clock tower, after Li Fei took a Nether Spring poison pill, he checked the Blood Soul Bead in his body:

【Level: Level 8 99%

Blood Souls: 85 + 96%

Blood Soul Skills: Blood Rage, Blood Sha】

He had been taking poison every day for the past few days, allowing the Blood Soul Bead to absorb a lot of energy, and now it was only 1% away from the next upgrade!

According to the 'poison-taking record' before, after the medicinal effect of one Nether Spring poison pill was fully exerted, it could bring Li Fei about 5% energy.

So after taking a new poison pill, Li Fei only needed to wait quietly for the upgrade.

And what he was waiting for was not just the Blood Soul Bead upgrade.

At a certain moment, a signal flare suddenly rose near the motorcade in the distance.

The fireworks exploded in the air, and half of the city could see it.

Li Fei picked up the binoculars placed on the side to look, then handed them to Xu Si:

"You take a look."

Xu Si was startled, took the binoculars and looked at the place where the signal flare rose, and then widened his eyes.

He saw a person wearing a black martial robe and also wearing a green ghost mask fighting with the Tiger Blade Gang!

"This..."

Xu Si put down the binoculars and looked at Li Fei on the side suspiciously.

If that person in the distance is the Green-Faced Ghost, then who are you?

"What are you stunned for? The Green-Faced Ghost has appeared, hurry up and hit the signal."

Li Fei said.

"Ah? Good, good!"

Xu Si hurriedly picked up the two flags on the ground, then probed half of his body out of the railing and began to hit the flag language.

After hitting the flag language, Xu Si turned around and saw Li Fei holding two cards in his hand.

This was something he had picked up from downstairs just now.

"Ask, what is this set of cards?"

Li Fei showed the cards in his hand to Xu Si.

Xu Si was startled and said subconsciously:

"Ding Three matches Two Four, Supreme Treasure, kills everything!"

Seeking monthly tickets.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 99 =====