Chapter 115: Tossing Danger

Chapter 115: Tossing Danger

As soon as Leng Miao saw Jin Cheng, he asked straightforwardly: Is Scarlet out of jail?

Jin Cheng didnt answer immediately, but looked at K and made a please gesture. K shrugged, stood up and leisurely walked out of the private room. Before leaving, he closed the door like a true gentleman.

You talk slowly, if you need anything, let me know. The bar recently launched a new wine, which only costs 88 points after discount.

A cunning businessman, as always.

Leng Miao and Rong Yi took their seats, and the conversation went straight to the point. Just before the start, Jin Cheng asked Leng Miao to put up a Silence Barrier. After all, theyd better be safe than sorry.

In the private room right next door, discovering that their voices were suddenly lost, K pursed his lips. Boring.

He casually tapped the air twice, and a silverish-white door whose size only allowed one person to pass appeared out of thin air. A complicated labyrinth pattern was carved on the door.

K opened it and walked in, and the door automatically disappeared behind him. Entering his eyes was a silverish-white circular space, where bookcases were embedded in the walls and a staircase was spiralling around the bookcases, pointing upwards, but its top wasnt visible. In the center of this space was a huge black chessboard.

Silverish-white lines lay across the black chessboard, with many chess pieces very delicately scattered atop the surface. If one looked carefully, each chess piece had a persons name written on it. The silverish-white lines werent just simply grid lines, rather, they made up a map of the relationship between the characters.

A tatami cushion was placed on the north and south sides of the chessboard. Next to the cushion was a cup of tea that hadnt completely cooled down, facing away.

K walked around the chessboard with a golf putter more than one meter long in his hand. Looking at all the chess pieces with interest, he stretched out the putter and placed it next to the chess piece with Chong Yanzhang written on it. As he knocked it hard, the piece broke into pieces and disappeared.

Immediately, his gaze moved to the chess piece right above that had Scarlet written on it, and with a light thrust of the putter, he pushed her to the middle of the chessboard.

As soon as Scarlet moved, the entire silverish-white map started changing, and the network that used to represent Heavens Will completely disintegrated. Jiang He, who was originally connected to Heavens Will with a feeble ray of light, was now completely independent.

K smiled, hooked Jiang He with the putter and pulled him to another chess piece. As the two chess pieces were attracted to each other, a new line was briskly born.

That chess piece was called Zheng Yingying.

Zheng Yingying had several lines connected to Xiao Tong, Tang Cuo, Chi Yan and Meng Yufei. With a contemplating expression, K swept his eyes over Zheng Yingying, Jiang He and Scarlet.

Will there be another line here, Zheng Yingying? What an interesting little girl. As for you, Jiang He, Jiang He, you go round and round, what kind of master will you choose for yourself in the end? He leaned on the putter and mumbled to himself.

Very quickly, his gaze turned to a chess piece that was drifting away, Yu Yiyi.

Tossing danger to someone elses hand? To talk about who K couldnt understand the most, Yu Yiyi was one of them. The mans luck was so good that it was Heaven-defying, yet he didnt seem to have any special background. Everything so far could only be explained by metaphysics.

Yu Yiyi got the clues to the phylactery, but he feared that he would get into trouble, so he simply passed it to Jin Cheng. Jin Cheng sold the news to K. Ks professional ethics didnt allow him to disclose the source of information, so later, everyone would only know that the information came from K.

This danger got passed on and on, and ended up at K himself?

Unless K didnt leak this information to outsiders, but would that be possible?

No one was stupid. Everyone had their own agenda, but would K have something to be afraid of? He was but a civil-servant player. Suddenly, the corner of his mouth arched into a smile, then he walked to the other side of the chessboard, pushed the chess piece with Lin Yandong into Zone G to collide against Xiao Tong.

You two, what are you plotting?

At Zone G.

Youve screwed up my business today. Warden Xiao Tong sat in a chair with his legs crossed, holding a cup of coffee in his hand. Even when he was in the deepest corridor of the prison, he still emanated his gentlemanly aura as usual.

Looking at him from across the bars was Lin Yandong, who was sitting cross-legged on a straw mat. He was dressed in linen house clothes, half of his body stained with blood, but the prayer beads in his hands werent stained with the mundanity of life in the slightest.

I was also killed. Lin Yandong put up a bitter smile.Follow current novels at novelhall.com)

Mr. Lin, your words are deceptive. Scarlet has been locked up with me for more than a year, and her current level certainly isnt enough to kill you directly. Xiao Tong retorted.

Am I not welcome here?

Speak, what do you come to find me for? Ive emptied the entire prison for you, so Ill specially stay here to entertain you.

You should know that after the dungeon four years ago, Yong Ye City has placed a lot of restrictions on me. It isnt easy for me to come here to meet you.

Oh.

I want you to send me into a dungeon. Only inside Zone G that I face no restrictions.

Leng Miaos black face slowly turned cold.

That was exactly how Jin Cheng was. When people refused to do things his way, he would blatantly throw intimidation at them, with such a gangster-like manner. But what he said truly made people think twice. If Jin Cheng became the next Scarlet, plus Tang Cuo, it would definitely be a hundred times more terrifying than Scarlet herself.

At this point, Rong Yi pressed on Leng Miaos arm and looked at Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo, saying with a calm but firm tone: You wont.

Jin Cheng: Those who do big things wont care about the small detailsThe idiom used here is , also metaphorically interpreted as a great man shouldnt be bound by the trivial matters of life.. I wont become Scarlet, why? Because Im smarter than her. If I want to kill, I have a hundred ways to make you die, such that everyone will clap and cheer for me.

This completely had Rong Yi lost for words. He couldnt help looking at Tang Cuo, the righteous man among the two, but all he saw was a black cats face with absolutely zero righteousness on it.

Tang Cuo nodded coldly at him: What he said is right.

Leng Miao let out a cold snort, put his hands in the robe, got up and left.

Rong Yi hurriedly called after him: Where are you going?

Leng Miao didnt look back: Zone A.

It seemed that he agreed.

Jin Cheng watched him leave, and when the door was closed again, he explained to Rong Yi: It was actually a joke just now. I, Jin Cheng, am kind and nice.

Rong Yi:

Soon, Rong Yi also took his leave, for if he continued to stay with Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo, he might easily die early. When he left the Ruby Bar, he still thought to himself: Easy? Rong Yi? Rong Yi easily dies early?Theres a bit of humourous wordplay here. Since Rong Yis name is homophonous to (meaning easy), the sentence Rong Yi easily dies early reads as Rong Yi rongyi ying nian zao shi, with the word rong yi said twice in a row.

Living is really difficult.

After everyone left, Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo also got up and left. As K was nowhere to be seen when the two of them headed out, they got a tad suspicious, wondering where he went off to.

On the way back, Jin Cheng still wrapped the cage in the [Quantum Stealth Invisibility Cloak] and hugged it tightly in his chest. Not spending any energy at all, Tang Cuo nestled on the cushion comfortably, then he asked about Yu Yiyi again.

Yu Yiyi couldve directly sold the information to K, yet he added you in the middle. Did he want to do you a favour?

Pretty much.

They were in a hurry and Jin Cheng didnt have the time to analyse Yu Yiyis story from the beginning. Now that Jin Cheng carefully looked at it again, what had him most puzzled was Yan Ye.

Was it the fortune teller who took the initiative to give the information to Yu Yiyi, or did Yu Yiyi ask her?

We inferred Scarlets whereabouts from the number of the black iron cage and Lin Yandongs disappearance, but not the clues about her phylactery. When the fortune teller Yan Ye told Yu Yiyi about these clues, it was more than ten days ago. At that time, news about Scarlet only began to slowly surface, so it sounds as if the fortune teller knew that Scarlet was coming out soon. Yu Yiyi and Yan Ye, either of them must be related to Scarlet.

Tang Cuo basically agreed with Jin Chengs inference. This whole messy affair, there must be someone behind it.

At this moment, Yu Yiyi was hiding with his teammate in a dark alley outside Black Hats Miscellaneous Store in Zone E with a lollipop in his mouth, looking out with scrutinising eyes.

Theyre coming out. He moved back a little, watching Wen Xiaoming and Chi Yan coming out from the stores main door. The two still exuded so much joy on their faces, talking and laughing with each other.

Yu Er, will we follow them? Asked the teammate.

Hell no, those are Jin Chengs men, do you want to die? Yu Yiyi smashed the lollipop between his teeth.

Then shall we head back to Zone A?

Thats even worse. I looked at the Almanac Calendar [huang li], an oriental calendar that is produced based on the Lunar Calendar to indicate the good and bad of the day. today, it said life-threatening bad luck. I dont want to go to jail.

Then what shall we do?

Well try our luck in the Infinite Market of Dreams to scour for some life-saving items.

When the teammate heard that Yu Yiyi wanted to try some luck, he immediately nodded. They had nothing to lose, and their luck was definitely not bad. After Wen Xiaoming and Chi Yan left, they swaggered out from the dark alley, and as they walked, the teammate said with exhilaration:

This Infinite Market of Dreams seems to be really awesome. I can exchange for everything. 10086 mustve gotten something really good, else, how can he be all smiles like that?

Awesome is indeed awesome, but this is also a matter of luck. How can it just simply be awesome?

Yu Yiyi looked up at the crooked black wizard hat patterns on the signboard and squinted: This place is a Pandoras box.