Li Banfeng crossed Jiangyue Mountain in Waigou and walked more than 100 miles of mountain roads. At three o'clock in the morning, he arrived at a canyon.
According to Yu Nan's description, across this canyon is the land of rebirth.
This canyon is not easy to walk through. The widest part is only two or three meters, and the narrowest part can only be passed sideways.
Li Banfeng turned sideways and walked more than a mile in a long and narrow gap. According to his perception, this mile was more effective than walking ten miles in Liugou Town.
Just after walking out of the gap, Li Banfeng did not notice that there was a cliff more than ten meters high under his feet and fell down directly.
Fortunately, Lu Xiu had good steps and cushioned his steps along the slope before landing, so Li Banfeng was not injured.
It doesn't matter if the clothes are torn, because they are the clothes of Geng family guards.
But the shoes were worn out, and Li Banfeng felt a little distressed.
After brushing off the dust on his body, Li Banfeng looked back at the cliff. Suddenly, he saw a spider crawling out from the crevice, hanging by the spider silk, and slowly falling down.
What's new about a spider?
This spider is really special. It is very big. Not counting the legs, the diameter of its body alone is more than one meter.
What’s even more special is that the spider was wearing a black top hat on its head. When it walked to Li Banfeng, it took off the hat and saluted Li Banfeng very gentlemanly.
Not only can the spider salute, it can also speak: "Lady, why do you walk alone in this dangerous place?"
Miss?
Li Banfeng stared at the spider for a long time and asked, "Did you recognize the wrong person?"
Upon hearing Li Banfeng's voice, Spider was stunned for a while. This "woman" with heavy makeup on her face and beautiful appearance was actually a man: "So you are a gentleman. I am sorry for my impoliteness. Are you going to open up new land? We are on the same way."
Reclamation?
Farming?
"Are you Geng Xiu?" Li Banfeng asked.
"A cultivator?" Spider laughed. "You are such a jokester. You should know from my appearance that I am a cultivator."
The way this spider speaks is different from the locals, and also different from the modern society that Li Banfeng is familiar with.
This person speaks with an accent similar to that of dubbed films.
Of course, the tone of voice is not the point.
Point is, he's a talking spider.
At Geng's Pharmacy, Li Banfeng met Song Baiming. As a physical cultivator, he looked somewhat similar to a crab.
Before this, Li Banfeng had also seen a physical cultivator on Kuwu Mountain. That person had his own armor.
Now I see a spider again. The forms of this spiritual practice are quite diverse.
The road ahead was quite wide, and Spider took a few quick steps and walked side by side with Li Banfeng: "My friend, you have steady steps, so you must be a travel cultivator. Travel cultivators' powder is very expensive, so you must be a rich man."
"It's so-so." Li Banfeng said casually.
"My life is miserable. I have no money to save up for foundation, and no money to buy medicine powder. I can only try my luck in Santoucha."
This spider was very talkative. He mentioned the three-headed fork and Li Banfeng was really interested.
"You are building roots in Santoucha? Have you grown three heads?"
Spider smiled: "Are you deliberately making fun of us body cultivators?"
Li Banfeng shook his head: "I have never been out of Yaowanggou in my life, so I don't know much about Santoucha."
As the spider walked, he said, "Even if you haven't been to Santoucha, you should have heard of the origin of body cultivation. All body cultivators in the world come from Santoucha. If poor people want to gain cultivation, this is the only way."
"Why is it a poor family?" Li Banfeng didn't care about showing his timidity and asked without understanding.
Spider smiled and said, "Friend, are you pretending to be confused? Poor people can't afford the panacea, and have no money to obtain Daoyuan, so they can only go to Santoucha to try their luck.
Santoucha is a place with a natural affinity for Taoism, but not everyone can benefit from it. Of the ten people who went there, nine turned into three-headed monsters. Such people can only be monsters in this life.
Only one person with a good physique can achieve the right result, so our practice is called physical cultivation."
"To achieve the right result, does that mean becoming a spider?"
"I always feel like you're making fun of me," the spider's eight eyes rolled up at the same time. "What you can cultivate into depends on your luck and talent.
Some have cultivated to become birds, some have cultivated to become beasts, and quite a few have cultivated to become scorpions and spiders. Do you look down on me for my appearance?"
Li Banfeng shook his head and said, "That's not the case. This road is so difficult to walk on, and you walk more smoothly than me, a travel repairman. This is a real skill."
"Thank you for your compliment," Spider raised his hat and bowed again. "I told you so much because I want to tell you that I am an honest man. If you also go to open up wasteland for the Lu family, we can be partners."
Be partners?
This reminded Li Banfeng of the painful experience of getting married.
"I'm really not going there to open up new land." Li Banfeng politely declined Spider's invitation.
"If you're not going to open up new land, then you can't blame me..."
"Why do you blame me?"
Li Banfeng smiled and looked at the spider.
The spider's eight eyes looked at Li Banfeng's two eyes.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and the spider suddenly spit out a mouthful of spider silk.
Li Banfeng still had a smile on his face, because the spider silk was not spitted towards him, and he did not sense any malice from the spider.
The spider silk was hung on the rock wall in front of the canyon. The spider retracted the silk and continued to crawl along the rock wall:
"If you're not a pioneer, I won't take you with me, hahahaha!"
The road ahead was very narrow and muddy. Li Banfeng trudged through the mud with difficulty, watching the spider proudly moving freely on the rock wall.
A few minutes later, the spider disappeared from Li Banfeng's sight.
After another two hours, Li Banfeng finally reached the end of the canyon.
No wonder Yu Nan wanted to come here to seek refuge. As a first-level travel cultivator, Li Banfeng had such a hard time making the journey. If it were anyone else, they would be exhausted just by making this journey.
The end of the canyon was not the normal exit that Li Banfeng had imagined, but another cliff.
To be precise, this canyon is a crack in the cliff, and now Li Banfeng has to walk out of the crack.
Standing on the edge of the cliff, he had two choices: one was to jump down directly, and the other was to use his hands and feet to climb down the cliff.
The cliffs below are hundreds of meters high, and it seems that neither of these two options is scientific.
Li Banfeng finally made the most scientific choice.
He opened the door of his personal residence and threw the key off the cliff before entering.
After sitting in the house and waiting for a while, Li Banfeng left Suishenju and picked up the key under a tree.
There were trees in front of him and all around him. The dense trunks and branches occupied more than 90% of Li Banfeng's vision.
Li Banfeng took a step forward, and the dead branches and leaves on the ground covered his ankles.
Taking another step forward, he stumbled over a tree root hidden under the fallen leaves and stepped into the mud.
The foot stepped deep enough that the mud directly submerged the thighs.
Li Banfeng was quick and grabbed a vine to pull his thigh out. Just as he stood firm, he felt danger approaching.
It's not approaching, it's already here.
Li Banfeng felt a tingling sensation on his calves. He rolled up his trouser legs and saw dense leeches sucking on his legs, as if he were wearing a pair of woolen trousers.
Li Banfeng pulled off a leech. This was not an ordinary leech. It was very strong and bit very tightly, directly tearing off a piece of flesh from Li Banfeng's leg.
If this pair of "wool pants" were torn off, Li Banfeng's legs would probably be covered with skin.
He returned to his residence, took off his pants, got a can of salt and sprinkled it on the leeches.
Unexpectedly, these leeches were very strong. Even after I sprinkled salt on them, they still held on to me.
Li Banfeng was planning to cut off the leech's body with a knife when he suddenly saw a cloud of steam coming out of the record player.
Under the high temperature burning, the leeches could not bear the severe pain and let go one after another.
The record player used steam to blow on Li Banfeng's legs several times to disinfect the wounds on his legs.
It hurts a little.
But it feels great after the pain.
The record player also played a song to comfort Li Banfeng:
"How will you live without me..."
I remember the lyrics of the original song were "If not for you".
Madam, are you comforting me or bragging?
Geng Zhiwei's soul had been eaten up long ago, and his body had also been eaten by the copper lotus. The petals and leaves were tightly closed, and it was still refining the elixir.
There were a lot of debris scattered on the ground. Li Banfeng simply cleaned it up. While Tong Lianhua had no time to eat, he quickly collected the weapons of Geng Zhiwei and the two martial artists.
Their weapons were all good. One martial artist's weapon was an iron spike more than one foot long, with two three-inch-long small spikes at the base of the iron spike.
Li Banfeng called it "Iron Thorn", but was mercilessly mocked by the record player.
"Why are you laughing at me? Do you know what this thing is called?"
The record player didn't answer.
The other weapon was also very special, looking like a fork made up of two crescents, one large and one small.
Li Banfeng called it a fork, and was laughed at by the record player again.
Geng Zhiwei had a pistol with bullets in the magazine.
Li Banfeng put away his weapons, threw away the useless items out of his house, and continued to travel through the forest according to the map drawn by Yu Nan.
After walking for more than an hour, Li Banfeng opened his pocket watch and took a look.
It’s almost nine o’clock, why is it still dark?
…
Yaowanggou, Jiangyueshan new land, Lu family mansion.
A ray of sunlight shone into the main hall. Zhuo Yuling, the second concubine of Lu Dongliang, the head of the Lu family, picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and waited quietly for the guests to arrive.
After waiting for about an hour, a man of middle build walked into the main courtyard led by the butler.
The man was wearing a black tuxedo, a black top hat, and a pair of black round-frame sunglasses. He had plump cheeks, regular features, and exuded a gentlemanly air.
He took off his hat and bowed to Zhuo Yuling: "Private detective, Daboyans is at your service."
Daboyans?
The person standing opposite was obviously a local with yellow skin and black hair, but he gave himself a foreign name.
Moreover, he and Zhuo Yuling are old acquaintances.
Zhuo Yuling did not return the greeting. She did not even stand up from her chair. She looked at the man who saluted and only sneered with a hint of contempt: "I haven't seen you for a few years. How come you have become a fake foreign devil?"
The voice was soft, but the words were harsh.
Daboynes politely responded: "Madam, a gentleman is not of blood, and manners are not of nationality."
Zhuo Yuling pointed to the chair next to her and said, "Sit down."
Daboyans put on his top hat and was a little dissatisfied with Zhuo Yuling's arrogance, but he still sat on the chair.
Zhuo Yuling lit a lady's cigarette, took a puff, and slowly said: "I asked you to come here to do three things. The first thing is to open up wasteland, the second thing is to find someone, and the third thing is to kill someone.
There is no need to talk about the land reclamation, you know the market situation,
I told you about finding someone in my letter. She is my daughter. This is the most important thing.
Regarding the murder, the man's name is Li Banfeng. Here are his photos and information. It would be best if we could catch him alive."
Daboyens looked at Li Banfeng's photo, was silent for a moment, and said, "What a pity."
"What a pity?" Zhuo Wenling was stunned.
Daboyans smiled and said, "Nothing, I just feel it's a pity for this young man."
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