Chapter 447: Striving to Achieve the KPI (Twenty-Seven) [Seeking Monthly Tickets]
Even heroes can't resist the charms of a beautiful woman?
Lin Feng was speechless for a long time.
Staring wide-eyed at Xu Quan as if he were meeting this guy for the first time: "Wen Shi, the beauty you're talking about is..."
Xu Quan patted his chest.
"Is that even a question? It's both far away and right before our eyes!"
Xu Quan isn't considered a top-tier beauty?
Because Xu Quan's movements were too bold, and Lin Feng was so close, both could clearly see the suffocating fluctuations.
She subconsciously leaned back slightly.
"This...this isn't a good idea, is it?"
I had a feeling that the boy wasn't into this kind of thing.
Xu Quan was unconvinced and snorted, "How is it bad? Is it that the prince is not good-looking, or that his figure is not good?"
He was so eager to strike a pose that perfectly showcased his physique that Lin Feng was so frightened that he took two steps back.
"Not really, I'm just worried about alerting them."
Xu Quan clicked his tongue for a moment, then curled his lip in disinterest: "You're right. If we ruin the master's plans, who knows what kind of trouble we'll get into. But can you keep an eye on him all by yourself? What if this person really has a problem..."
Lin Feng said, "If there are any signs of things getting out of control, I will naturally act first and report later before going to apologize to my lord."
Xu Quan stroked his chin and said, "It's a pity my cousin isn't here, otherwise he could have been of help."
This was the first time Lin Feng had heard Xu Quan mention his cousin, Xu Jie, on his own initiative. Xu Jie had previously done business with their lord, and Lin Feng, as Chu Yao's deputy, had dealt with Xu Jie a few times. The latter didn't have the stench of money about him, unlike ordinary merchants.
She asked curiously, "Does Mr. Xu have a solution?"
Neither Mr. Gu Chi nor Mr. Jiang Sheng could tell.
Xu Quan nodded: "That's right—he travels all over the country all year round, how could he not have some skills? He doesn't just do business in Tianhai. Besides what's open, he also does some smuggling business behind the scenes, mainly on the Shiwu and Beimo lines. The salt and iron business has always been extremely profitable, how could he miss it? It's just that things have been a bit turbulent these past two years, so he's done less of it."
Xu Jie was also someone who frequently dealt with Shi Wu.
To put it bluntly, how much money can you make from legitimate business on the surface? It's the shady dealings behind the scenes that make the real money, costing far more than ten thousand taels of silver per trip. Otherwise, with the Xu family's wealth, how could they afford to spend so much money supporting Wu Xian's army?
His cousin is a true know-it-all.
Lin Feng, however, was not so reckless.
Understanding the ten types of blacks does not mean you have a solution.
However, the next second Xu Quan seemed to remember something, he clenched his right fist and slammed it into his left palm, then suddenly shouted.
"I suddenly remembered something. If this guy is really the target, we really can't kill him. Didn't we say before that this person is isolated from the energy of heaven and earth, making his mind-reading and spiritual speech ineffective, and even Mr. Gu's scholarly way has no effect on him?"
Lin Feng nodded: "Indeed, what did you remember?"
Then why is it said that they cannot be killed?
Xu Quan tried hard to recall: "I remember my cousin mentioning something similar to me before... In addition to the special physique that Mr. Jiang mentioned, there is another kind of situation—an extremely rare alien secret technique! The person you see is a dead person."
Lin Feng got goosebumps from what he said.
"Dead...dead person?"
Xu Quan nodded emphatically and said, "That's right. My cousin has seen this kind of secret technique before. He almost lost everything when he was trading in Shiwu before, and that's what he learned from this. According to him, only a small number of the major tribes in Shiwu have this technique, and they won't use it unless their lives are in danger. It's because the dead are not human, so their appearance will have different features than ordinary people to distinguish them."
How can one read the mind of a dead person?
Lin Feng frowned: "But his breathing is normal, his body temperature is no different from that of a living person, and there is no obstruction in his movements."
Xu Quan: "Otherwise, how could it be called a secret technique?"
Looking back now, the slave boy's purple hair was so natural; it couldn't possibly be achieved by dyeing.
"Then why do you say we can't kill them?"
Xu Quan scratched his head and sighed, "If it really is such a secret technique, then killing it would be like letting a tiger return to the mountain. After the technique is applied to a person on the verge of death, their body will enter a state of suspended animation, and even the most severe injuries will heal slowly. Meanwhile, their consciousness will awaken within the body of the person being treated, and they will be able to move freely. If they are killed at this time, their consciousness will return to their original body, and it will not be easy to capture their true self again."
"So cunning?"
Xu Quan said, "It's not that there's no way to break this. If we kill the person shortly after the spell is cast, and my main body suffers a backlash before its injuries have healed, I basically have no chance of survival. But according to the salt merchant, this guy has been active outside for at least two months..."
Even a broken bone can only be healed in a hundred days.
If you kill someone at this point, they'll at most spit out some blood.
He dusted himself off, turned around, and led his men to attack.
Lin Feng: "..."
After a long pause, she said, "It's not necessarily that possibility..."
Xu Quan said with a mournful face, "I hope it's not true either."
Oh, his hair dyeing secret recipe!
He even dreamt that his striking hair color made him stand out in a huge crowd, where Gong Xi Chou spotted him immediately.
Now, my dream is shattered.
Lin Feng: "I will go and inform the lord and the others about this."
Xu Quan suppressed his sadness and comforted her: "Don't be too disappointed. After all, she is someone your teacher has his eye on. If it were that easy to catch and kill her, it would be your teacher who would be disgraced."
Doesn't it feel better to think about it this way?
Lin Feng's lips twitched slightly.
Thank you, but I wasn't comforted at all.
With Xu Quan's lead, confirming the slave boy's identity actually made a breakthrough. Jiang Sheng and Shen Tang were hearing about this for the first time, and Shen Tang, resting her chin on her hand, sighed, "It's true what they say, there are all sorts of birds in a big forest... It's not like we haven't made any progress..."
Although the slave boy was able to escape, on the other hand, as long as he is still alive, the original owner will never wake up.
They were effectively imprisoned.
It's not easy to kill someone, but it's not hard to make someone wish they were dead. These cunning and scheming scholars have plenty of ways to do things, so Shen Tang isn't worried about that.
In fact, apart from the fact that the army's information had been exposed, she was not worried about anything else, including Chu Yao's dream—if one is unprepared, it is indeed passive to have someone tamper with one's water and food, but if one is on guard, it does not pose a threat.
The real threat to her—
It was this prince who went back to fetch reinforcements to surround and kill her.
Shen Tang flipped through the ledgers with a headache, silently calculating how many more heads were needed to reach the target. The tribes previously wiped out should have already had their effect, stirring up a bloodbath in the Ten Crows Royal Court. But the fire wasn't big enough yet; she needed to add more fuel.
Shen Tang frowned in deep thought, feeling the pain of a corporate slave.
I slept without any dreams.
After the army had rested, they launched a surprise attack on their target the following night.
This operation was not kept secret from the enslaved boy.
They even provided him with crude weapons.
He stood there dumbfounded, holding the weapon: "What is this?"
Lin Feng said, "A knife."
What are you doing?
"kill."
The slave boy wanted to ask who to kill, but he quickly realized that the question was unnecessary. This operation involved not only Shen Tang's people, but also the refugees from the valley. However, these refugees did not produce food; they were food transporters.
With food at their disposal, they treated their fellow countrymen with even greater cruelty and ruthlessness than Shen Tang and his ilk.
(End of this chapter)
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