Chapter 283 - Information

Chapter 283 - Information

He is from the Surveillance Bureau? Hong Da honored his promise?

Li Huowang stared at the man warily. The man was wearing a female doll head. The doll head had a red dot on the forehead that shone brightly within the dark stable.

Since the man was someone from the Surveillance Bureau, Li Huowang dared not act rashly. He had deduced that the most likely development at this point would be them wanting to test him and see if he was worthy of joining the Surveillance Bureau or not. However, before that Li Huowang needed to ensure that the man in front of him was not a member of the Sitting Oblivion Dao.

Just as Li Huowang was thinking about what to do, the man with the doll head spoke up; it was almost as if he knew what Li Huowang was thinking. “Don’t worry, the Three Officials of the Sitting Oblivion Dao have been injured. It’s likely that they will stop their activities for a while.”

Li Huowang pondered for a moment and then spoke slowly, “About Hong Da... I helped him quite a bit last time and I think I could have even handled it on my own. There’s no need for him to get all of the rewards, so...”

Hearing that, the man with the doll head swayed a little before slowly approaching Li Huowang. “To join the Surveillance Bureau is both easy and difficult at the same time. Sometimes, you need to think a bit about others and that will make your path much easier. Do you understand?”

“Hm?” Li Huowang was taken aback. Originally, he did not understand what the man meant, but he realized it soon enough.

He wanted some bribe.

This was good news for Li Huowang. At the very least, people with desires were people who were alive.

After having gone through so much, Li Huowang didn’t have high expectations.

After a moment of thought, Li Huowang took out a chest embedded with gemstones and handed it to the man. Within the chest were a number of gold pieces.

“Gold?” The man extended his wrinkled hands and checked it out before throwing the gold and chest onto the ground.

Seeing that the man wasn’t moved, Li Huowang took out the gourd from his waist. Then, he took out five lifespan pills that were covered in yellow talismans from within it.

Seeing those pills, the man’s voice became discernibly more friendly, “Hmm... Not bad, looks like you know how to do it.” Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

Once he gave the five lifespan pills to the man, Li Huowang received a metal plate that was half the size of his palm. The metal plate had the words “Surveillance Bureau” etched onto its back while the front side had the words “Tenth Pawn, Er Jiu” carved on it. The words were all encircled by depictions of constellations and the whole thing looked quite pretty.

Is this it? Did they prepare it beforehand? Isn’t this too convenient?

After receiving the metal plate, Li Huowang looked at the man with the doll's head. “What does Tenth Pawn mean?”

Li Huowang had already known about most of it, but there was one word that attracted his attention.

“Siming? So the Surveillance Bureau calls those beings from within the Baiyu Capital “Siming”? Why do people call them by so many different names?” muttered Li Huowang as he committed the name to memory. Then, he continued reading.

The entire Sitting Oblivion Dao’s hierarchy was based on mahjong tiles. Tiao, Bings, and Wan[1] were the lowest ranking ones.

After that were the Four Joys: Dong Feng, Xi Feng, Nan Feng, and Bei Feng[2].

Beyond the Four Joys were the Three Officials: Hong Zhong, Bai Ban, and Fa Cai[3].

Finally, above the Three Officials was the legendary Shai Zi[4] who controlled the entirety of the Sitting Oblivion Dao.

As for why they were a legend, that was because no one had ever seen Shai Zi before.

Not only were the members of the Sitting Oblivion Dao bizarre and used bizarre techniques, but even the method of joining them was crazy. Rather than joining normally like the other sects, you needed to trick your way into the Sitting Oblivion Dao.

They didn’t only trick the Simings and the others, but even themselves.

Thus, if someone wanted to join the Sitting Oblivion Dao, then they had to trick those who were already within it.

All the members of the Sitting Oblivion Dao were both liars and victims of lies at the same time.

“I knew it. They are just a bunch of crazy bastards,” cursed Li Huowang.

Li Huowang wanted to read more, but that was the end. He felt sad that the information had stopped at that point.

At that moment, a rooster called out, causing Li Huowang to raise his head.

It was already morning—he had spent the entire night standing in the stable.

1. Correspond with the Bamboos, Circles, and Characters mahjong tiles ?

2. East Wind, West Wind, South Wind, and North Wind respectively ?

3. Correspond with the Red, White, and Green of the Three Dragons in Mahjong respectively ?

4. Dice, as in gambling dice ?