Chapter 95

"Yes, his name is Cen Xi."

"Cen Xi, that name sounds familiar." Zhou Yaqi frowned. "It seems to be someone from the Cen family who's very good at maliciously embezzling other people's property. He looks like a decent person..." Qingtian City isn't particularly far from Luodan City. The scapegoat issue had occurred before, but it really blew up today. And today, a member of the Cen family, who was not of low status, almost lost his life...

Zhou Yaqi: Family members, does anyone know anything about the Cen family now?

Player Ding: Group leader, do you also suspect that the young master's real purpose is not to fake his death, but to divert attention and take the opportunity to eliminate his competitors?

Zhou Yaqi: There is such speculation.

Player A: We thought so too, but... the Cen family's gate is really too difficult to enter.

Indigenous families in other worlds generally seldom recruit people from outside. Their trusted associates are usually selected from among their own children, or they are chosen by chance, or they are bought from human traffickers.

As newly arrived adults, players rely on their families for social support and must log off to maintain their daily lives. If they were to work for an indigenous family, their movements would be restricted and the pay would be low. If they must work for an indigenous family, they would avoid families with poor family values ​​like the Cen family, which, after all, offer only hardship and no reward, resulting in a lot of trouble and little pay.

Therefore, when the scapegoat incident broke out, there was not a single player in the entire game who could enter the Cen family's gate. The only few players who had business dealings with the Cen family were busy protecting their property from being taken away by the Cen family's lackeys who took advantage of the situation, and had no time to go out and inquire about the news.

Ning Pan: I did come in, but I was of no use.

Player A: What's going on? Where should we go? The Cen family?

Ning Pan: Yes.

Player B: Oh my god, you're really trying too hard! Didn't you say the scapegoat thing was over? Why are you still offering yourself up to it?

Ning Pan: It’s not that I’m trying hard, it’s just that I’m unlucky.

Ning Pan: I just dressed a little nicer than usual, and accidentally got left alone, and then I was sent to prison for the second time. The person who kidnapped me was different from last time, and the place where I was held was also different. Damn it!

Player C: What?! Even at this hour, these people are still so arrogant!

Player A: Hey, it's been a few minutes? Why are you still here?

Player C: Why are you rushing me? I’m leaving now.

Player B: Deputy group leader, you didn’t do this on purpose, did you?

Ning Pan: Oh, is it that obvious? Okay, I admit, I was being a bit suicidal. I just didn't expect my luck to be so good and succeed so quickly.

Player D: Wait, the traitor hasn't been found yet, is it okay for you to say this?

Player I: Yes, retreat quickly! If the traitor discovers your identity, you will be in great danger!

Ning Pan: It’s okay. Although I can’t do anything now, they don’t have time to bother me.

Players A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and S: Is this true? What happened?

Ning Pan: I don’t know, but something happened. There was a lot of noise outside. I didn’t know if someone came to kill them or if they were fighting among themselves.

At this time, night fell. Bei Qiao, who had just logged off to feed his cat, sat in the room of the inn, watching the messages in the task group scroll by.

Upon learning that Ning Pan had been captured again and taken to the Cen Mansion, the players didn't advise her to take advantage of the chaos and rob. Instead, they urged her to leave quickly to avoid wasting her life. A few players who were just looking for fun also rushed over directly after hearing the news, hoping to see if they could get some benefits.

They sneaked in and moved forward cautiously. They unexpectedly ran into a group of Cen family members fighting for their lives in the courtyard of an unknown young master. Their eyes met, feeling extremely awkward.

"Run!" The Leziren players fled in all directions immediately: if they didn't run away, these guys who were fighting each other until they were bleeding would cooperate and attack the outside world!

Relying on the light skills they had practiced for many years, the Leziren players successfully escaped. After leaving the Cen Mansion, they immediately spread what they had seen.

Upon learning of the internal strife within the Cen family, several players whose shops were nearly smashed by the Cen family members today immediately spread the news. Not long after, several groups of black-clad men from different factions climbed over the wall and entered the Cen Mansion, beginning to rob it.

When the men in black sneaked in, Ning Pan was still in the woodshed, grinding the rope on her wrists. She had already learned about the internal strife in the Cen Mansion from the group chat, but she couldn't care less about it now. After freeing her hands, she still needed to find a way to deal with the thugs guarding her at the door.

"Once is new, twice is familiar. It's not the first time anyway. Phew, I finally broke it... What's going on?" Seeing a group of people in black suddenly rushing out from behind the rockery outside the door, Ning Pan reacted very quickly and picked up the firewood under him and buried himself, even covering his eyes completely, for fear that he would be discovered by people outside: If he guessed correctly, this group of people should be the ones that the fellow villagers said had received the news and were ready to take advantage of the fire to rob.

"Who is it?" The Cen family's thugs were no pushovers. Seeing the men in black, they rushed over with machetes, not even considering their explanations. However, the men were even more formidable. Within three moves, all of them were knocked to the ground.

"Tsk tsk, a bunch of losers... You guys, go in and see what's in the woodshed. Since it's guarded, there must be something good in there. Everyone else, take the one who's still alive on the ground and follow me!"

"yes!"

It’s bad... Ning Pan closed his eyes and dared not move: Mazu, please bless me and don’t let these people find me!

The Cen family's woodshed had three rooms: one was where Ning Pan was imprisoned, one was empty, and the third was where a woman in white, who had arrived half a day earlier than Ning Pan, was imprisoned. The man in black saw the woman with her hands tied inside through the crack in the door, kicked the door open, and dragged her out.

"Who are you? Let me go!" The woman in white cursed and struggled. Begging for mercy? Shouting for help? Impossible. The women who were willing to be taken into the Cen family's house had all walked into the house. Someone like her, who had been kidnapped, would have the guts to beat the criminals' heads off if she had just a stick.

"Are you the only one in the room?"

"What else? Can't you count?" The woman in white didn't look back at the woodshed.

"Boss, should we..." The man in black who entered the house to search dragged the woman in white to the others, loosened his grip and threw her to the ground, rubbing his hands and grinning at her: "You're quite good-looking, little girl."

"I want your head! It's already this late, and you still can't control your belt!" Another man in black kicked him to the ground: "If you don't find anything valuable, get out of here. Our mission is to rob, understand! With money, there's no woman we can't get. Let's go!"

"Boss, the boss said we should search the woodshed..."

"Search, search, search, what are you searching for? What good things can there be in the woodshed? Do you want the shovel to go back and shovel the dirt, or take the straw back to make a nest? Hurry up and see if there is anyone still breathing among those Cen family rubbish on the ground. You came out here, do you want to go back empty-handed?"

“Yes, yes…”

After searching the ground for a while and finding no living fish, the leading man in black suddenly turned grim. Even his mask couldn't hide his ferocious expression of anger: "Damn it! You didn't even leave a single one for me! You're not afraid of dying of stuffiness by eating all by yourself!"

Hearing the clash of swords and sabers nearby, the leader of the men in black, fearing they wouldn't even get their soup base if they delayed any longer, decisively led the others away. The lecherous man in black lingered, trailing behind, and attempted to hoist the woman in white onto his shoulders and lead her away. However, the woman, with foresight, grasped the nearby rockery. After a brief struggle, the man in black, realizing he was no match for the woman, flew into a rage and drew his sword to stab her, only to be knocked to the ground by Ning Pan, who had rushed out of the house, with an iron hammer.

"Who!" The man in black struggled to get up and tried to grab the sword.

"Really tough..." Ning Pan pouted, raised the iron shovel and hit the man in black a few more times, stopping only when he stopped. The woman in white used the sword to cut the ropes that bound her and tied them to the man in black's hands and feet. She stuffed a handkerchief into his mouth and finally sat down on the ground with relief, gasping for breath. "I was so scared! I thought he was dead..."

"What are you going to do?" Ning Pan was also a little tired, but she didn't dare rest now. The men in black all knew where the lecherous man in black had gone. If they realized he hadn't caught up with them, they might come back to take a look. If they didn't leave then, they would be in danger.

"We definitely have to go, but before that... hmph!" The woman in white kicked the man in black lying on the ground, turned around and ran into the woodshed to retrieve her package, from which she pulled out a set of women's clothing: "Please give me a hand, I'm so tired that I don't have much strength left."

"You're... I understand!" Ning Pan instantly became excited: "You take a rest. I'll put his clothes on and you just comb his hair."

"All right."

The two worked together to quickly dress the man in black in women's clothing and give him a stylish hairstyle with long bangs that covered most of his face. To prevent others from seeing the man in black's true face, the two used local materials, red brick powder instead of rouge to apply heavy makeup to the man in black, and used a ribbon to cover his Adam's apple.

After dressing him up, the two men rolled the man in black into the house, threw him on the straw and made him lie facing the inside, and then covered the man's big feet with straw. It was already dark now, and if you didn't look carefully, you could hardly see any flaws.

"It's a pity we didn't have enough time or materials, otherwise I would have squeezed out a thin waist and exaggerated the bust." The woman in white clapped her hands regretfully. "Let's go. It's nice to meet you. My name is Lan Qiu. What's your name?"

"My name is Ning Pan."

"Okay, Miss Ning, we'll meet again someday, goodbye!" The woman in white bowed, performed lightness skills and left: I have to go back and ask my master if there is any lightness skills that can be performed even with my hands and feet tied.