"Brother Lin, this is a business secret. Please sit where you are and don't move." After Wei Zhuangzhe reminded Lin Tongxi, he followed the old man inside.
…
After a while, the two came out, as if they had reached an agreement.
"Boy, I'll take you to Chengtian Academy. Get ready and go out." After the old man said that, he opened the door and walked out of the room.
Lin Tongxi looked at Wei Zhuangzhe with a puzzled look on his face: "Brother Wei, what is this...?"
Wei Zhuangzhe, who was standing by, took out a copper coin and started playing with it, while explaining the old man's background.
"Oh, you don't know yet, this old man's strength is far superior to you and me. Only the head of Chengtian Academy can rival him."
"In the past, he was an elder of Haiyou Academy. His last name was Zeng, so we can just call him Zenglao.
"No one should have bothered him until the incident in Yibei Village happened."
"The entire village went insane... At first, they would occasionally regain their sanity, just like the three lunatics from the Pang family."
"Haiyou Academy found this strange and sent people to resolve the matter, including this old man's only son."
"You can guess the result without me telling you, right?"
Judging from the old man's reaction... Lin Tongxi had indeed guessed: "Dead?"
Wei Zhuangzhe nodded, confirming Lin Tongxi's answer.
"As for the rest of the story... you can ask him yourself. Anyway, having Chengtian Academy investigate those three lunatics would benefit him, so I asked him to escort you there. This is an opportunity, so seize it." Wei Zhuangzhe explained the old man's willingness to help him, but also said he had other important matters to attend to, so he followed him. "I'll just drop you off here. Anyway, the goal is to escort you safely, so it doesn't matter who comes, right? Besides, this old man is even stronger than me."
Lin Tongxi thought about it and felt that this was indeed the truth.
"Okay, let's go. Don't delay any longer. It's time for me to go back to Ruihe Town." Wei Zhuangzhe urged Lin Tongxi.
Just as the three of them were leaving the village together, ten uninvited guests came and killed them.
Lin Tongxi took a look and saw the battle power showing [? ? ].
Damn... How much do these gentry want him dead? They even invited such a master?
"Old man, I'll help you too. Leave some of them alive." Wei Zhuangzhe put away the copper coins, put on a serious fighting look, and took out his sword.
"Just ten of them, do you think I can't handle them?" Mr. Zeng picked up an iron rod and hit each kid with it.
It was originally a battle at the Wuzong level, but Master Zeng ended the battle in just a few minutes.
Because he didn't control his strength, Mr. Zeng accidentally killed eight people. As for the other two... one was frightened and fainted, and the other fell to the ground and kept shaking.
"Don't kill me... I'll tell you everything..." An assassin was so scared that he peed his pants. He thought that he, a seventh-rank martial arts master, had fallen into such a state.
I thought he was here to hunt down a ninth-rank warrior, but who knew he would encounter two monsters!
Under Wei Zhuangzhe's interrogation, the other party revealed Mao Dehui's identity.
"Oh... interesting! If we take them back for interrogation, we might get some unexpected gains." Wei Zhuangzhe showed a strange smile. At this moment, in his eyes, these two people were no longer ordinary human beings, but more like a pile of silver.
"It's up to you. Let's go." Old Zeng wiped the blood off the stick, then got on the horse with Lin Tongxi.
"I won't see you off, you two." After Wei Zhuangzhe witnessed the two men leave, he tied up the two surviving assassins, and then began to loot the bodies of the remaining eight assassins.
If you can plunder, plunder; if you don't plunder, it's a waste - this is his principle.
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At night, Wei Zhuangzhe met with a man in black.
"Did you find out?"
"Well... I used some tricks, but it's all out. Those below the seventh-rank Martial Sect are all Mao Dehui's subordinates, and the rest are unknown forces." Wei Zhuangzhe reported the results to the contact person.
"This guy Mao Dehui must have colluded with other forces to hunt down Ding Yunyi... otherwise there wouldn't be so many powerful people showing up."
"I think so too." Wei Zhuangzhe nodded.
"In this way... the matter of Ding Yunyi's assassination has come to a conclusion, and Lord Peng can finally report to his superiors.
After saying this, the man in black paused for a moment, then continued, "Give one of the tongues to Wen Juye. Let him be the first to take action and attract Mao Dehui's attention for Lord Peng. He will definitely not sit idly by when Ding Yunyi and Wen Juye's own subordinates are assassinated."
"I understand. I'll go find Gan Xingfan right away." After Wei Zhuangzhe said this, he quickly set out to pack his luggage.
The man in black looked at the sky and saw only tiny dots of stars, like chess pieces.
The starry sky is like a chessboard, and people are the stars and the chess pieces.
Originally, Ding Yunyi's chess piece would be eaten, but unexpectedly, other chess pieces appeared and saved Ding Yunyi from danger.
The chess pieces referred to here are naturally Lin Tongxi, Chen Yunxuan and others.
"Wen Juye, ah Wen Juye... let me and Lord Peng see... what kind of turmoil these chess pieces you've placed such high hopes on will stir up in the future."
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