mtlumby2d Chapter 374 Unscrupulous Agents
Chapter 374 Unscrupulous Agents
Chapter 374 Unscrupulous Real Estate Agent
Li Ling hurriedly stepped forward:
"No, he was talking perfectly fine just a second ago, how did he faint?"
Li Ling looked at the wound on Zhong Liyu's abdomen, and it was truly a gruesome sight.
"It's okay that she fainted; there's no danger to her life."
In the desolate wilderness, Bai Zhizhou and Long Aotian sat cross-legged on the ground.
Li Ling's gaze kept glancing at Zhong Liyu.
Jiang He squatted on the ground and sent a new message to Yue Cheng.
As dawn broke, Zhong Liyu slowly awoke, and the four of them then headed towards the Yue family. Zhong Liyu stayed behind to continue resting.
The five people returned to their original appearances. The two ghost cultivators had seen their faces after using the Rejuvenation Pill and roughly guessed their identities. However, judging from the current situation, the ghost cultivator had been abandoned after cooperating with Yue Cheng and would not have any contact with Yue Cheng for the time being.
Jiang He went to the Yue family to take advantage of the time difference: first, he would receive the mission, and then he would go back and pretend to subdue Yao Xi.
Li Ling listened to the whole thing and had a pretty good understanding of Jiang He's plan, but she still didn't quite understand the feud between Yue Cheng and Yao Xi:
"Was it Yue Cheng who betrayed Yao Xi, or were those ghost cultivators also betrayed Yao Xi?"
"Initially, the Yue family was in power under Yao Xi, also known as the Yao family. Yao Xi originally planned to have a child through surrogacy, but she unexpectedly fell into Yue Cheng's trap. Yue Cheng and Yao Xi's former subordinates, who are now ghost cultivators living in the slums, betrayed and killed Yao Xi, causing her to become a ghost and be trapped in the ancestral home."
Jiang He meticulously pieced together information from various sources, distinguishing between true and false details, and filtering out the genuine and useful information to grasp the general outline of the matter.
"In that case, Yue Cheng is a real villain. He killed Yao Xi and even banished the ghost cultivator he had previously cooperated with to the lowest level. Isn't that just crossing the river and burning the bridge?"
Li Ling was once again deeply impressed by the evil in human nature.
"This guy really deserves to die."
"Yao Xi is not a good person either. When a ghost cultivator borrows a child, both the ghost cultivator and the spiritual cultivator will suffer some damage to their bodies. Yao Xi intended to leave the father and keep the child, but Yue Cheng struck first."
Upon hearing this, Li Ling felt as if her brain had suddenly shrunk:
"That's what Yao Xi was planning."
"Whichever side has the bigger stake, we'll choose that side. 100 billion Star Coins is still too little."
After Jiang He finished speaking, Long Aotian silently agreed in his heart. 100 billion star coins was not enough for five people to share.
Li Ling had no concept of star coins. Her main purpose in coming here was to gain experience. In her opinion, even if she only got 100 billion out of 10 billion star coins, it would be enough for her to spend in the Demon Realm for a long time. However, Li Ling did not say this.
Jiang He and the other three arrived at the Yue family's door. It took Yue Cheng three hours to get dressed and come out of the inner room.
The newly built Yue family home was very large. Yue Cheng looked at the five people who had arrived, casually sent Yao Xi a message file, his tone perfunctory:
"The deadline is 14 days. You are one day late. There are 13 days left. If you can help clear the ghosts from the Yue family's ancestral home, this 100 billion will be yours."
Perhaps because he had seen so many cultivators in the past few months, Yue Cheng didn't take Jiang He and the others seriously at all. Yao Xi hadn't appeared in his dreams these past few days, and he slept soundly, not caring whether the mission was successful or not.
The fact that the task was issued means that he cares about his youngest son, and in the business circles of large families, face is the most important thing.
If you do a good job of maintaining appearances, business will naturally follow.
As Yue Cheng was thinking this, Jiang He and the other three people were kicked out of the Yue family again just three minutes after meeting Yue Cheng.
Looking at the few messages on his personal terminal, Li Ling was truly speechless:
"Just as they said, Yue Cheng never intended to rely on us to deal with Yao Xi. This information is even less than what Bai Zhizhou collected."
"It's nothing, let's go find someone."
Half an hour later, Jiang He appeared in front of a dilapidated thatched hut.
"The profound origin of heaven and earth, the root of all energies..."
……
Golden light swiftly appeared, covering and protecting my body, my true self!
"Oh dear, failed again? Could it be that this yellow talisman is impure?"
With his hair a mess, Song Jinzhao grumbled as he looked at the yellow talisman that had burned to ashes.
Only when Long Aotian's sword slashed through the skin of his neck did he realize that his dilapidated house had several uninvited guests:
"Hero, spare their lives! You look unfamiliar; is there some misunderstanding?"
"There is no misunderstanding. You set up a formation at the Yue family's ancestral home ten days ago."
Bai Zhizhou was deeply impressed by the layout around the house where Yao Xi was imprisoned. It was a Locking Array that could only be set up by a senior array cultivator or a Dao cultivator. Like ordinary arrays, it required destroying the array eye or having the array set up by the person who set it up to break the array.
With the aim of finding the person in question, the group obtained the backtracking stones from the surrounding shops and various surveillance videos over the past few days, and finally identified the person who set up the formation as Song Jinzhao.
Song Jinzhao almost peed his pants upon hearing this:
"I don't know anything, don't force me. If you do, I'll smash my head against this sword."
Jiang He saw the fear in Song Jinzhao's heart:
"You tell me."
Long Aotian pressed the sword in a little further.
Song Jinzhao's legs trembled violently. He was actually afraid of dying. Otherwise, he would have killed himself when he arrived here. How could he have survived until now?
Startled by Long Aotian's words, Song Jinzhao blurted out whatever came to mind:
"I'll tell you, I really don't earn much from this job. Old Tong finds me to do this formation every month, and I only earn 1 star coins each time. It's gone after buying a few talismans and cinnabar. And the prices here are so high..."
Song Jinzhao's face was long, and after speaking, he muttered a couple more words:
"Old Tong, I'm so sorry. You introduced me to a job and told me not to tell anyone, and I still betrayed you. I'm really a bastard."
After Song Jinzhao finished speaking, both Long Aotian and Jiang He looked at him with complicated expressions.
Li Ling was even more surprised:
"A thousand star coins? What kind of unscrupulous intermediary is this? They swallowed such a huge sum of money. Yue Cheng is even willing to spend 1000 billion star coins on a mission to save face. If I remember correctly, an S-level magic array like the one at the academy can earn 100 billion star coins for setting up the array once. Yue Cheng's expenses are no less than that."
"One thousand star coins? That's like giving money to a beggar."
Li Ling looked at Song Jinzhao with pity in her eyes.
Jiang He looked complicated.
If what Song Jinzhao said is true, then he has already been sold out and is still paying the seller for the money.
Judging from the current situation, the Taoist priests that Yue Cheng found were probably outsourced layer by layer to Song Jinchao, or the intermediary named Lao Tong was a Taoist priest who embezzled most of the star coins.
Looking at Song Jinzhao's dilapidated thatched hut and his tattered clothes, Jiang He suddenly realized that things had become simple.