Chapter 624: Pillar of Fortune (6/10, for

Tap, tap, tap.

Hearing footsteps sound outside the door, Lao Huli's expression shifted slightly. He hurriedly pulled his clothes back on, but the blood spilling from his body ran down his thigh, his trouser leg, and dripped onto the floor.

"Regimental Commander! Niuzi! Da Niuzi is gone! How are we going to cultivate in the future! I haven't even absorbed any Yang energy or Yang lifespan yet, and he just ran off!"

The one who burst in was none other than a Short-Tail tribe delinquent girl, loudly shouting the Short-Tail tribe's secrets, making Lao Huli's face look terrible.

Among all the clansmen of the merchant caravan, she was the most undisciplined and free-spirited.

"Hua Zhu, the position of Guest, I will naturally find someone to fill it. Blind Master has an agreement with us and won't leak the tribe's secrets. But if you keep shouting like this, I think the other humans will sooner or later discover our secrets and kill us for it!"

"I'm just anxious, why are you yelling so loud! If you've got the guts, go find the property management!"

"... I don't understand what you're saying. In any case, behave yourself, and I will arrange everything properly."

"Hurry up, hurry up, I'm dying of thirst!!"

……

Phoenix Organization, Chunuan City branch.

A pure white three-dimensional room.

An Dong'er sat on a chair, calmly eating dry, hard bread. Her entire being was vacant-eyed, like a wandering refugee in a daze, or a walking corpse that had lost its will.

Beside her, a middle-aged man whose face was covered in festering, rotting flesh was rhythmically pounding the table—punch, punch, and another punch.

The white long table, made of some unknown material, was hammered with ring after ring of fist marks, cracks bursting out, caving inward.

"Cack, cack, cack! Cack, cack, cack! Cack, cack, cack!"

A long-haired woman, as if her feet had suction cups attached, let out an eerie, creepy laugh and walked across the ceiling in a reverse-jointed manner, tap tap tap. With every step, small drops of water fell, like the rain of Night Rain.

Thud!

Thud!

Thud!

An Dong'er lifted her eyelids slightly.

At the doorway, a man wearing general's armor was using his head to ram the door, again and again, over and over.

And beside her, a strikingly handsome youth with white hair was smiling at her, slowly opening his mouth wide. Like a python gauging the size of its prey, his mouth stretched to the size of An Dong'er's head, and saliva came gushing down, drenching An Dong'er's face.

Creak.

Just then, the door opened.

It was someone delivering food.

Without any warning, the armored man ramming the door slammed headfirst into that person.

With a bang, the head exploded, blood staining the floor. The others who had come to deliver food screamed, scrambling to shut the door and fleeing wildly backward.

But all of this only made An Dong'er glance toward the doorway before continuing to gnaw on her dry, hard bread.

……

Behind a massive glass door, Ox Seat observed all of this.

In the pure white room, only An Dong'er sat quietly on a chair, eating bread.

Yet on the pure white long table before her, fist marks caving inward appeared one after another without any warning, cracking marks spreading across the table.

Above her head, 【Night Rain】 would also fall without any pattern, randomly landing in every corner of the room.

The room's only entrance and exit let out a strange thumping sound, the great door trembling.

As the research personnel delivering food opened the great door…

Thud!

The research personnel standing at the very front had their head burst open directly. Amid a spray of blood, the headless corpse collapsed.

The others were scared out of their wits and hurriedly sealed off the room.

Seeing this scene, Ox Seat's heart sank.

"Yincha..."

"Still missing a little... still missing something..."

"But the chance is right before my eyes... she is the only chance!"

"Lord Feng Wang keeps pressing harder and harder over there, growing suspicious..."

"The days I can still keep her can be counted on one hand."

Suddenly, Ox Seat saw An Dong'er raise her head. Through the massive glass door, she seemed to meet his gaze directly.

His face changed. Even someone as powerful as Ox Seat now felt his heart pounding wildly, an eerie, spine-chilling horror welling up within him.

Boom!!

Suddenly, with an explosive sound, a subordinate who had run over at some unknown time had a massive bloody hole burst open in his chest. Through the hollow chest cavity, one could even see the wall behind him directly.

That subordinate looked bewildered, not even understanding what had happened, before toppling over.

The paper in the subordinate's hand flew out and was caught by Ox Seat.

"The Supreme Guest of the Great Yang Merchant Caravan has come to visit. The plan has encountered a change. Bing Keqing is dead, Yang Tuanzhang is dead. Yang Hongxia was not captured and is about to inherit the Great Yang Merchant Caravan. The Fox Merchant Caravan was probed. The former Guest Mang Niuzi left with our caravan's secrets. Requesting erasure. Reporting as such."

"Old City Merchant Caravan urgent report: The Supreme Guest of the Great Yang Merchant Caravan has come to visit. Bing Keqing is dead. Yang Tuanzhang has died and taken over."

"Kongshan Merchant Caravan urgent report: The Supreme Guest of the Great Yang Merchant Caravan has come to visit. Recruitment was refused. He seems willing to stand up for the Great Yang Merchant Caravan. Requesting an assassination order."

All trivial little matters.

But indeed, there's no time to linger here any longer.

Taking one last deep look at An Dong'er, who was meeting his gaze, Ox Seat quickly left.

"Material... is still too scarce!"

And An Dong'er, sitting quietly in the sealed space—the very air around her seemed to tremble and shake. From the corners of the space, the faint sound of a baby's crying could be heard, welcoming a new helper to the great clan.

……

Fang Yue had returned.

He returned to the Dayang Merchant Caravan.

He found that the so-called information brokers were a little different from what he had imagined.

For common information, the brokers knew it like the back of their hand, and charged an exorbitant price.

But the moment one wanted to dig deeper—some inside information, to probe the bottom line—the brokers would clam up.

"Money."

That's right—money!

When asked about all intelligence on the Phoenix Organization, the information broker actually quoted ten thousand gold stones!

If I damn well had ten thousand gold stones, I'd pile them up and bury the Phoenix Organization alive—why would I come here asking you for intel?

"This is called a hush fee. If you can't afford that price, then the Phoenix Organization's information isn't available to the public."

Fang Yue was utterly convinced.

In all the world, probably only the Emperor of Qing Guo could afford to pay that much.

When he asked how many people had bought this dossier, the price of one hundred gold stones immediately turned him away.

Even for a question like this, it costs one hundred gold stones? Don't you treat gold stones as money?

Fang Yue was so angry he went cold and trembled. When will the Rain-class Aberrations ever stand up? A hundred of your heads together only equal one intel fee from someone else—look at the state you've all fallen into!

Suggestion: immediately raid the information brokers in Chunuan City, wipe them all out!

Fang Yue thought viciously, yet with no money on hand there was truly nothing he could do.

After thinking it over, Fang Yue changed his angle and asked: "I want to know the whereabouts of the Ox Seat of the Phoenix Organization."

"Stop asking. Most information related to the Phoenix Organization comes with a hush fee. If you can't pay the price, there's no point in asking."

Fang Yue's face darkened. What a terrible attitude for service!!

"I'm still a customer, aren't I? You 【Xudou】 information organization, don't push it too far."

(End of chapter)