Chapter 193 The Ruthless Assassin "The Fat and Thin Monk"
Chapter 193 The Ruthless Assassin "The Fat and Thin Monk"
"Has Partridge Whistle and his clan found the Muchen Pearl and broken the curse?"
"Aren't you asking a question you already know the answer to? The Muchen Pearl is still in the tomb of King Xian, but the curse is no longer a major problem."
Blind Chen was taken aback by Ji Haobo's words and quickly asked, "What do you mean?"
He never expected that there really was a Muchen Pearl in the tomb of the King of Xian. He was even more surprised that people had been searching for the pearl for thousands of years, and now he was saying that it was not so important. How could this not surprise him?
"Their curse comes from the Serpent God, and so does the Muchen Pearl. I suppressed it with my methods; although I didn't eliminate it, it's no longer a threat."
"That's not all! Brother Bo, you also caught the source of that thing and gave him a good beating. Such an outrageous thing, that Snake God is probably cursing him out in another dimension!"
"Ha ha ha ha…"
Old Hu and Big Gold Tooth were amused by Fatty Wang's words, but Blind Chen found them utterly unbelievable.
The next morning, after making arrangements for Blind Chen, he told him to get ready so they could return to Kyoto together in a few days.
After finishing breakfast, the group headed out of Gulan County, having already learned the location of the Fishbone Temple from Blind Chen.
Not long after leaving the city, they saw a group of people blocking the road with homemade pistols by a deserted mountain path.
The leader was a bald man, and Li Chunlai stood behind him in fear.
When these guys saw Ji Haobo and his group appear, they immediately surrounded them.
Before they could even start grumbling, Old Hu and Fatty Wang pulled out the Truth and started "chirping" to teach them how to be ghosts.
The group had no interest in arguing with these scoundrels who wreaked havoc on the village and committed murder for money; they all deserved to die.
Li Chunlai was fine when she arrived, but when she met Ma Dadan and his gang, she was so scared that she wet herself on the spot.
Not to mention him, even Big Gold Tooth standing to the side was terrified, as if he had to re-evaluate these two guys who were joking around with him.
"Holy crap, are these really the Lao Hu and Fatty I know?"
Big Gold Tooth's eyes widened, and he stammered out a surprised exclamation.
"You didn't even ask what was going on, and just started 'chirping' like that, acting like professional assassins, so ruthless!"
"chi"
"Old Jin, you idiot, didn't you see that the other guy has a homemade pistol and bombs in his hand?"
"Fatty, if we don't strike first, they'll just slaughter you like a pig!"
Reality isn't a movie; it doesn't have so many convoluted plots. If they were ordinary people, their fate would be even more tragic.
Old Hu isn't like the character in the story, always polite and refined to everyone; at least, someone like Ma Dadan doesn't deserve that title.
Come to think of it, he was someone who had experienced war and was willing to kill prisoners of war when his comrades died; ruthlessness was something he had in abundance.
"Alright! It's just cleaning up a few pieces of trash, don't make a fuss."
Ji Haobo waved his hand, took out a few hundred yuan, and said calmly to Li Chunlai:
"Go back and take the things to the XX Hotel, then give them to Blind Chen. Consider this money a reward. Behave yourself from now on, or I'll arrange a sewing machine job for you."
After seeing off the profusely grateful Li Chunlai and cleaning up the bodies of Ma Dadan and the others, the group continued towards the Fishbone Temple.
"Damn, this place is a complete wasteland. Dust flies everywhere when the wind blows, and there are ditches and gullies all over the place."
As the group walked on the desolate loess hills where no one else was around, they sighed inwardly, realizing that the place was indeed backward due to its environment.
Elsewhere, the mountains and forests are lush and green, but here, the land is scarred by soil erosion, with ravines, sparse vegetation, and little vitality.
"Don't let the desolate and barren appearance of this place fool you. Legend has it that in ancient times, the Yan and Huang tribes thrived on this land during their heyday, making it one of the oldest birthplaces of the Xia Dynasty."
Ji Haobo looked around and frowned deeply. Seeing this, Lao Hu and the others asked him in confusion.
"Brother Bo, since things are as you described, could it be that something unexpected happened later?"
"I'm not entirely sure, but I can sense the life force slowly dissipating; you can think of it as the dragon vein's energy dissipating."
The three men, Lao Hu and his companions, were greatly surprised upon hearing this. The dissipation of the dragon vein's energy was no small matter, and the fact that such a large area of the land was in trouble suggested that something terrible had happened.
"Could this... be related to the inner Earth?"
Based on the information they had, they couldn't think of anything else besides this.
"Maybe! Let's not overthink it. The Fishbone Temple is just ahead. Let's go check out the tomb first. King Wen of Zhou being buried here is probably no ordinary person."
Especially since Li Chunfeng later went in as well, and his disciples and followers were robbing their ancestor's tomb, this whole thing seems very strange.
When Lao Hu and the other two heard what he said, they realized that such a treasonous act would have been something almost no one would have dared to do in ancient times.
The so-called Fishbone Temple is built halfway up a loess hill. Although the hill is not very high, there is a huge and deep ravine below it.
"Damn it, there's no way to get down here!"
Big Gold Tooth looked around at the loess gullies eroded by the rain, the height of which, tens or even hundreds of meters, made his heart pound. Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
"Old Ji, can you take me flying for a bit?"
"Okay! You'll regret it."
Ji Haobo looked at him with a half-smile, and Da Jinya suddenly felt a tightness in his anus, a bad premonition, and quickly prepared to say forget it.
But it was clearly too late. He only felt his body lighten, and he was thrown into the air.
"Ah...ah! Help, help me...Old Ji..."
Old Hu and Fatty Wang exchanged a glance, barely suppressing their laughter for fear of getting into trouble, and quickly looked for a place to go downstairs.
Ji Haobo flashed into the air and appeared next to Big Gold Tooth, grabbed him and threw him out again.
"Ah... Old Ji... I'm breaking up with you, help... Ah!"
Big Gold Tooth's raspy voice echoed heart-wrenchingly through the ravines and valleys.
Outside the fishbone temple, piled with stones, Big Gold Tooth lay slumped on the ground, his face pale, staring blankly at the sky and muttering to himself.
"Old Ji, I'm not your true love anymore, and that makes me very sad."
"Hehehe! This is truly a sad story."
Wang Pangzi chuckled strangely beside him. Inside the temple, Ji Haobo and Lao Hu, who were checking for any tomb raiding holes, heard the two outside whispering and cursed, their faces darkening.
"Old Jin, if you keep babbling on, I'll love you again, double the amount, and see if you can handle it."
Although his joke was a bit too much, it was just a heads-up for Big Gold Tooth.
There are plenty of strange and wonderful things in the tomb. If we don't toughen him up, he might end up turning into a screaming chicken all the way through.
The threat of loving him again worked very well, and Big Gold Tooth immediately shut up.
Old Hu chuckled to himself, and inadvertently lifted the wooden board under the altar, revealing a hole about half a person's height.
"Whoa! Master Bo, we've found the tunnel!"
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