Chapter 105 A Good Job
Chapter 105 A Good Job!
In the end, Duan Wuheng and Bai Cen rode on Wei Meng's back together. Wei Meng didn't struggle and resigned himself to his fate.
Under Duan Wuheng's command, the two men and the pig slowly made their way through the traps in Xiqili.
Several times, Wei Meng almost stepped on the wrong thing and stepped directly on the mechanism. In the end, Duan Wuheng had no choice but to jump down and simply lead Wei Meng away, which was better.
After Duan Wuheng jumped off, Wei Meng gave it a cold shoulder for a while, but eventually shook Bai Cen off its back. Bai Cen finally understood: Wei Meng just didn't like being ridden, but with two people on its back, it just wasn't easy to shake them off.
Bai Cen sat sideways on Wei Meng's back; otherwise, he would have to lie face down as before.
"Little brat, what's going on with this Bewitching Town?" Bai Cen thought that since he had nothing better to do, it was rare to find a sane living person in this Bewitching Town besides the weirdos.
Duan Wuheng was displeased: "I'm not called a little brat!"
"Oh, what's your name, little brat?" Bai Cen suddenly realized that his tone and attitude were becoming more and more like Wang Sumo's.
Duan Wuheng was indeed so angry that he jumped up and down.
"Floating on the Grass! Call me Floating on the Grass!!!" Duan Wuheng emphasized.
Floating on the grass?
Bai Cen was certainly familiar with this name, but Cao Shang Piao was a renowned senior figure in the martial arts world. How could he be only sixteen or seventeen years old?
But Bai Cen suddenly remembered the scene when someone first appeared, their beard covered in grime, and they were trying to cover it up everywhere, only to have it fall off...
"Oh, you're pretending to float on grass?" Bai Cen understood.
Duan Wuheng retorted angrily, "I am the Grasshopper!"
“The one floating on the grass is an old man,” Bai Cen emphasized.
Duan Wuheng grinned: "That's me!"
However, uh, Bai Cen suddenly seems to have figured it out: that guy really has been wearing a fake beard to pretend to be an old man!
"Hey, you really are a grass-skipper?" Bai Cen was actually starting to believe it a little.
"Otherwise what?" Duan Wuheng said irritably.
"Huh!" Bai Cen asked curiously, "Isn't Cao Shang Piao always a senior figure? Is he a senior figure you know, or are you pretending?"
Duan Wuheng glanced back at him: "I've always been the one floating on the grass! But nobody believed a kid's story, they thought kids were lying! So I put on a mustache, and they actually believed me! They even called me 'senior'!!"
Bai Cen: Σ(⊙▽⊙"a
Duan Wuheng glanced at him sideways: "Don't you believe it either?"
Bai Cen corrected: "I believe it now!"
Duan Wuheng glanced at him again, then remained silent.
Bai Cen flirted with him, saying, "Wow, you're quite something, little brat~"
"Damn it! Go! Float!!!" Duan Wuheng was furious.
Bai Cen's ears were ringing, and his soul trembled for several seconds. Don't try to out-compete with kids about vital energy; theirs is far too abundant. Bai Cen returned to the main point: "Hey, let's get to the point. What are you doing here?"
Bai Cen wanted to know the ins and outs of this Bewitching Town.
This place is shrouded in mystery; I don't know what's behind it, but it's definitely caused by human interference, not something innate.
Duan Wuheng was initially a little angry, but a child is a child, and children admire strength. He had just seen Bai Cen deal with dozens of strange people with just a few moves, knocking them to the ground and preventing them from getting up. He had been going back and forth in the Bewitching Town for so long, and he knew what that meant.
This means that the person on the pig's back is very likely the only one who can lead him out of the pig's back!
That's why he came out when he saw the other person riding a pig into the trap; he didn't want his only hope of getting out to be shattered.
He had explored the town of Bewitching Souls to some extent.
He knew everything except for the things he was certain he wouldn't be able to get out.
Duan Wuheng said directly, "I only entered this Bewitching Town last year. I've been doing the Grasshopper quest all the time, my beard is all over my face, and my face is so uncomfortable, I'm breaking out in pimples everywhere. I wanted to join another sect to see what it was like. Who knew these sects had such high entry requirements! I went to several, and they all said I was too old to learn. But Fengyang Sect was still recruiting, so I went there."
"Fengyang Sect?" Bai Cen suddenly remembered the flying knife that had fallen from the carriage earlier. "Are you from Fengyang Sect?"
"I promised my mother I'd find a place to stay and work steadily, instead of running around aimlessly without any real skills. Then I went to Fengyangmen, and they said they were short-staffed, really short-staffed! I hadn't even decided whether I wanted to go there yet! But I was squeezed in, and in the blink of an eye, before I even had any training, I was sent here. Because during the test, they saw that I ran fast!"
"I didn't go there specifically to show them; I just went along with it. But they said they wanted it to be as fast as mine. So I stayed overnight, and my mother stayed with me all night, talking to me to put my mind at ease. The next day, a carriage brought me to the Enchanted Town. It took me a long time to figure out what was going on here!"
"I used to think that Fengyang Sect was at least a well-known martial arts sect, but who knew they would do such dirty work behind the scenes?"
"After I arrived, I realized I had been tricked. They are scum! Because I can run fast, every time they released those strange people, they would make me lead them over there to feed those vicious dogs. I said I wouldn't do it, and they said they would use me to feed the dogs. These people are like madmen. They hoarded disaster relief food, weapons and explosives, and then said that one day Fengyang Sect would become one of the top sects in the martial arts world!"
Bai Cen exclaimed in surprise, "Huh?"
At this point, Duan Wuheng gritted his teeth and said, "I saw them send those weirdos to feed the dogs. I saw the terrible scene. I couldn't sleep for days and nights. Later, I left Fengyang Gate, but I found that I couldn't get out because Bewitching Town is a place where you are trapped. Every sect here only cares about its own affairs. Unless you can open up all the channels, or you are strong enough to break out!"
“The people from Fengyang Sect would still look for me every now and then. Later, when they found out that I couldn’t get out, they stopped caring about me. They thought I would either starve to death or one day die in the traps, strange people, or other weird things in the Bewitching Town.”
"I spent a year wandering around the town of Bewilderment, and then I realized that it wasn't like I had nothing to do. I rescued a few of those strange people you saw..."
Bai Cen asked in surprise, "How many did you save? Are they still alive?"
Duan Wuheng bit his lip and said dejectedly, "Not many survived..."
Bai Cen looked at him.
Duan Wuheng said in a low voice, "The people from Fengyang Sect take them to feed the dogs. I take the ones I can. Bewitching Town is not small, and there are always corners they can't reach. I take them there. But these red-faced monsters are basically irrational. They don't even know I'm saving them. Sometimes, by the time I come back with food, they've already broken free of their ropes and gone out..."
As Bai Cen watched Duan Wuheng's retreating figure, the image of this little brat who liked to act like an adult gradually became richer in her mind.
“I found that although they had lost their minds, some of them still retained goodwill and a little bit of sobriety. A few people gradually regained their senses. They learned the whole story and said that they had already died once. They went to scout the way and asked me to follow behind. If we could get out, we would go out together. If we couldn’t get out, they would at least let me know the way so that we could go again when we had the chance.”
“We went through the underground palace and also on the surface. At first, there were only a few people, but later there was no one at all. They left the path for me, so I wasn't afraid of these strange people; I just felt sorry for them. Before, I would have thought they were sane, but then it suddenly dawned on me that being sane might be even more painful for them…”
"We've explored parts of the underground palace and the map on the surface. Actually, with a few more explorations, we might have a complete map of the remaining parts, but I don't want to stay awake any longer, and then..."
"So, I started wandering around here by myself, going to places I could each day, a little bit each time. If I found any weirdos, I'd take them to the 'shelter.' I don't know how long they'd live, but I'm not going to stay with them anymore. I don't want to see my good friends go to their deaths again. If I don't know them, I won't feel so bad. And then, I found you today."
Bai Cen: "..."
Uh, Bai Cen clenched his fist: "Don't be so pessimistic. Look at me, I'm perfectly fine, aren't I?"
Duan Wuheng glanced back at him but didn't say anything.
"By the way, how come there are so many strange people? Did you release a little bit every day?" Bai Cen realized the key point.
Duan Wuheng said in a deep voice, "Yes, but when I was still at Fengyang Gate, I heard them say that if someone who shouldn't have entered the Bewitching Town but could still leave, and the secret of the Bewitching Town might be about to be lost, they would release all the strange people. One reason is to let these strange people confuse the people who entered, or to get rid of them; the other is to eliminate these strange people all at once, so that no one else can find any clues."
Bai Cen was slightly surprised. So it was because their intrusion made the person behind it feel uneasy, so they wanted to erase the traces of Bewitching Town?
“How can we erase such a big town?” Bai Cen asked him.
Duan Wuheng turned around: "Didn't I just say there's explosives here, over there in Dong Erli?"
Bai Cen's expression suddenly changed, Dongli...
The explosives, the Eight Treasures Restaurant, the owner and the old man, and Uncle Weng went over there.
Bai Cen took a deep breath: "Grasshopper, do you want to get out?"
Duan Wuheng looked at him: "Of course I want to! I still want to go out and see my mother! But there are explosives, snakes, and poisonous things ahead..."
Bai Cen leaned closer: "But I'm here!"
Bai Cen pulled out the bag from before, which still contained some dried spinach powder. "Let's go, let's do something big!"
Duan Wuheng: ? ? ?
Bai Cen sat up straight: "You lead the way, I'll fight. We'll catch up with Bazhenlou and get out together!"
Duan Wuheng: "..."
No one had ever said these words before.
So, is he really a hero who can defeat a bunch of monsters all by himself?
Duan Wuheng looked at him.
Bai Cen took out the water pouch that Wang Sumo had given him earlier. The pouch was still more than half full of water. He poured in the remaining dried spinach powder, shook it, and just thinking about it made him feel disgusted. He would have to drink it sip by sip.
“I run very fast,” Duan Wuheng reminded him.
Bai Cen shook the water pouch in his hand and smiled, "I'm not slow either~"
Duan Wuheng frowned: "What about the pigs?"
Bai Cen patted Weiwu's back: "I think it can keep up! Right, Weiwu? Once you leave the Bewitching Town, you'll be a pet pig. You need to make a name for yourself."
However, this was the first time Duan Wuheng had ever seen someone keep a pig as a pet.
"Hey, have you heard of Bazhenlou?" Bai Cen asked.
“I’ve heard of it…” Duan Wuheng said in surprise.
Bai Cen patted his shoulder: "When you get out, I'll find you a good, stable job so your mother won't have to worry anymore."
"You mean, Bazhenlou?" Duan Wuheng looked at him.
Bai Cen unscrewed the water pouch and said leisurely, "Yes, our boss said that the building is short of a delivery person. With your speed, the food won't get cold when you run errands. The only question is whether you'll spill the soup?"
Duan Wuheng was both amused and annoyed: "Graceful posture, absolutely no spilled soup!"
Bai Cen tilted his head back and took a sip, his whole body almost turning green, but suddenly a surge of power slowly swept over his entire body.
Bai Cen climbed off the pig's back and patted Weiwu's head: "Catch up with Weiwu, see you at Bazhenlou."
Duan Wuheng looked at him strangely: "..."
Bai Cen put the water pouch back: "Ready to lead the way?"
Duan Wuheng asked in surprise, "Hmm."
Bai Cen stretched his limbs, braced his back, and rubbed his wrists: "Three, two, one!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Cen dashed out with a "whoosh," as fast as lightning, startling Duan Wuheng. Before running away, Bai Cen slapped Wei Wu on the butt, and Wei Wu also dashed out with a "whoosh."
Duan Wuheng used his lightness skill and it took him quite a while to catch up: "How come you suddenly have internal energy again?"
"It's a long story, let's talk about it when we get out!" Bai Cen said succinctly.
"Can we really get out?" Duan Wuheng was actually unsure.
"Yes!" Bai Cen affirmed.
Duan Wuheng was surprised.
Bai Cen laughed and said, "The boss still owes me a meal of hairy crabs!"
[Author's Note]
See you this afternoon or evening!
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