Chapter 79

The little girl got the windmill she wanted and blew at it with a pout. The donkey cart carrying vegetables swayed with her and finally stopped at the side door of a mansion.

"Oh, it's you, Butler Pang, who's here in person today! Let me do it, please don't get your clothes dirty."

"That's all right... Well, today's vegetables are also very fresh. Come on, carry these in."

"Why are we here again?" On the other side, Bei Qiao, who had separated from the little girl's family at the fork in the road, had no destination in the inner city. After walking around the street casually, he found a place to stop, intending to wait for a while before leaving the city, but found that he had accidentally walked to the vicinity of the Duke's Mansion again.

Huihui stopped walking and stood under a tree, shaking his ears. "Is this the wonderful place Honghong mentioned? What's so good about it? Aren't all the houses made of bricks and the doors made of wood?"

Bei Qiao looked around, planning to change seats to avoid running into the old man selling maps. Just then, a tightly wrapped woman emerged from the alley behind the donkey cart and walked straight towards it. "Are you leaving the city? Can you give me a ride?"

"Aren't you hot wrapping yourself up like this in the middle of the day?" Bei Qiao leaned forward, but still couldn't see the other person's true face: With his head wrapped like this with a hood, how did this person manage to walk out of the alley without bumping into the wall?

"Are you trying to tell me I look suspicious and don't look like a good person?" The man looked around and tugged at his hood, revealing his beautiful face. "I'm at my wit's end. What happened before has left me with a psychological scar on showing my face."

"Miss, tell me where you are going." Bei Qiao supported his chin and looked at the other party calmly: To be honest, I sometimes have some psychological trauma, so I learned martial arts.

"You don't have to go too far. I have a place to stay in the outer city... Ah, could you lend me your carriage for a while? I'm a little tired." The woman pulled a piece of silver from her sleeve and threw it over: "This is my advance for travel expenses."

Bei Qiao caught the silver with his backhand and jumped onto Hui Hui's back: "Please, I can stay here for a cup of tea."

"It won't take that long." The woman lifted the car curtain and climbed in, then opened the forum and frantically scrolled through the private chat box.

This woman was none other than the wealthy player who had originally posted the mission to rescue the small dark room. After spending so many days in the Duke's Mansion, she was finally released, even through a side door.

Ban Yan: Brother! You're coming back today, right? I'm out! Come pick me up!

Ban Yan: Can you believe it? The reason they let me go was because they made enough money!

Ban Yan: They're making money. I'm in a dark room, and they're selling maps! They're maps of their own yards!

Ban Yan: The day before yesterday, I even saw the old Duke personally leading people in, personally!

Bantuo: Okay, stop spamming. Where are you? Are you safe?

Ban Yan: I'm still in the inner city. I just found a donkey cart and am about to leave. The lady in the cart is nice. She looks like me, so she probably doesn't have any bad intentions.

Banto: Donkey cart? Where are the people I sent?

Ban Yan: He is locked up in the woodshed of the Duke's Mansion. Where did you hire this idiot from? He is squatting and guarding the door of the Duke's Mansion!

Ban Tuo: ...I've just arrived at the entrance to the Treasure Pavilion in the north of the outer city. Please come directly over. Keep me informed of your location along the way. I'll send someone to secretly escort you along the way.

Ban Yan:Okay!

"Sorry to bother you with going to the Treasure Pavilion in the north." Ban Yan lifted the curtain of the carriage and glanced at Bei Qiao: First remember what the coachman looks like, so that if something happens to you, you will know how to write a wanted poster.

"Okay, please sit down." Bei Qiao returned to the front room of the car, took out a magnet from under the car and shook it at the curtain, then sat down and started driving.

Ban Yan didn't notice Bei Qiao's actions. After feeling the donkey cart moving, she breathed a sigh of relief, took off her hood, leaned against the window and looked out through the curtains: I finally got out... By the way, the previously released Chamber of Commerce mission must be cancelled, otherwise other players will have to be suckered in to buy maps again.

Today was a sad day for many players in the capital, as they suddenly learned that the Black Room rescue mission had been canceled, and the 500,000 yuan reward had been lost. However, the wealthy woman was kind-hearted and specially sent everyone a large red envelope. Any player who had completed this mission could receive a cash red envelope to comfort their wounded hearts.

Ban Yan: Any problem that can be solved with money is not a problem.

After sending out the big red envelope, Ban Yan closed the forum and continued to look outside. She had been locked up in the Duke's Mansion for more than ten days. Now everything she saw seemed new and fresh. After all, anywhere was much better than the small dark room.

Old Duke: What small dark room? Isn't it just an ordinary room?

"Finally, we've sent her away. I always felt uncomfortable when she didn't leave." In the Duke's Mansion, after Chen Xiaofei learned that Ban Yan had left, he took a last look at the courtyard where he had lived for many years and said, "It's time to move."

"Master, do you want to tell Yuan'er?"

"Tell me, we just hope he's well, we don't abandon him." What if the child ran back home halfway and found that no one was at home and the owner had changed? With his incompetent mental quality, who knows what kind of behavior he would collapse into.

"Why do I feel like someone's talking about me?" Ban Yan, who was being escorted to the entrance of Baibao Pavilion by Beiqiao, couldn't help but sneeze as she got out of the carriage, nearly stumbling and falling. Beiqiao stepped forward to offer her a hand, but her brother Ban Tuo, who had been waiting at the entrance for a long time, was quicker, helping her out of the carriage before Beiqiao could, while also giving him a sidelong glance.

"Brother, what are you doing? I'm a girl." Ban Yan was speechless.

Ban Tuo rolled his eyes at Ban Yan, turned around and looked Bei Qiao up and down, his expression gradually becoming embarrassed: She's actually a woman!

Another sister-con, I'm used to it... Bei Qiao nodded calmly to Ban Tuo, jumped into the front room of the car, pulled the reins, and drove away: Interesting, it seems that he is another guy with a happy family and a promising future.

"Brother! You're finally back!" Ban Yan took Ban Tuo's arm and walked into the Treasure Pavilion with him. They slowly walked up the stairs, not noticing the bodyguards who had secretly escorted her all the way quietly leaving the crowd: "I'm almost going crazy being locked up in this little dark room!"

"Who told you not to ask others for help? It will take me nearly ten days to rush back from the south." Ban Tuo handed a token to the person guarding the stairs on the second floor, took Ban Yan into the auction hall, and found an empty private room to go in.

"No way, that would be too embarrassing!" Ban Yan shook her head vigorously and took the initiative to change the subject: "Brother, what are you doing in Baibao Pavilion? No one in our family has a birthday recently."

"We're not here to buy anything today." Ban Tuo pushed the fruit plate on the table to Ban Yan: "We're here to serve as a backup purse for others."

"Okay, I'll log off and rest first... So you really don't know anything, brother?"

"Go offline and get some sleep! You have nothing to do today." It was impossible for Ban Tuo to say he knew nothing, but he certainly didn't know much about this matter. He had withdrawn nearly half of his liquid funds from the bank to help his cousin Lou Feng bid for a soul-calming incense burner. As for who actually wanted the incense burner, he had no idea.

The Queen had a strong control over the capital. The auction of the Soul-Calming Artifact at the Treasure Pavilion was recorded by the secret guards within half an hour and presented to the Queen.

"Those old guys are usually so slow and procrastinating, but now they're really moving fast." The Queen put down the secret letter and said, "If only they could be this efficient when dealing with natural disasters."

Today, anyone with connections in the capital was collecting soul-soothing instruments. Last night, word spread from the Imperial City that everyone in the inner city was to inspect their warehouses for instruments, especially those retrieved from the ruins, to see if any traces of Nascent Soul energy remained.

An official who finally managed to take a picture of a soul-soothing artifact said: "The artifact could actually contain a Nascent Soul trying to take over another body. Who wouldn't be terrified to hear this? Who in a well-connected family wouldn't have a magic weapon or two in their warehouse? I need to buy a soul-soothing artifact to calm my nerves."

The first person to discover the Nascent Soul's possession of another's body was none other than the current Empress. As the ruler of the dynasty, her storehouse contained numerous magical instruments, some captured during her own campaigns, others gifted to her. The instrument containing the Nascent Soul was a gift from a foreigner who had recently arrived. It resembled a phoenix spreading its wings, ready to take flight, and was a truly exquisite sight.

Last night, the Nascent Soul that failed to pass the tribulation and hid in the magic weapon to nourish itself recovered some vitality. While someone entered the warehouse to pick up items, he slipped out of the warehouse with walls full of absolute spirit stones and tried to take over the Queen's body and replace her.

The imperial city was very large, and Yuanying was afraid of being discovered, so he didn't dare to fly too high. He followed different eunuchs and palace maids for a long time, and finally reached the vicinity of the empress's bedroom in the dead of night.

Attached to a palace maid, it successfully entered the bedroom. To take over everything from the empress, it refrained from killing them, only knocking out the maids and eunuchs. Then, it flew straight towards the imperial bed, ready to plunge directly into the empress's sea of ​​consciousness and shatter her soul: "A mere late Nascent Soul... but this body looks very good, I am very satisfied." Now, this body is mine!

"Late Nascent Soul stage? That's what you cultivators call it." The empress lying on the imperial bed opened her eyes, grabbed the imperial sword on the wall, and jumped off the bed: "I am the Human Emperor!"

The Nascent Soul screamed and flew into the air: "Haha, struggle, rage, what can you do to me? Once I crush your soul, I will be the supreme ruler of this dynasty... No, this is impossible! How could you possibly hurt me! I'm an immortal who's almost ascended to heaven!"

"Immortal? So what if you are a god? This is the land of Zhongzhou, the territory of the human race!"