Chapter 9: Consequences of threats
"Finally a breakthrough."
Xu Qing stood up and punched out, and there was actually a crisp sound that reverberated within the air, and even the wind that was kicked up caused the door of the house to shake a little.
This scene caused Xu Qing's eyes to widen, he could feel that the person he was at this moment was far too powerful compared to yesterday.
If he were to face that Giant Horned Python right now, Xu Qing believed that with a single punch, he would be able to directly burst its abdominal scales.
Not only that, his senses were also sharper than ever, not only could he see more clearly, his hearing was also extremely sensitive, and the sound of knocking on the door outside the courtyard also drifted into Xu Qing's ears at this moment.
Xu Qing was stunned, walked to the front door of the house, with the help of the moonlight outside, through the gap he saw the figure of the little girl standing there, outside the bamboo door of the courtyard.
The other party seemed to be injured, her body trembling a little.
Xu Qing's brows furrowed, and he originally didn't intend to pay any attention to it, but the little girl was still insisting, gently knocking on the door.
So after a long while Xu Qing pushed open the door of the house and walked out.
After seeing Xu Qing's figure, the little girl obviously tensed up, forcing herself not to back away, looking at Xu Qing through the bamboo door.
"Something wrong?" Xu Qing opened his mouth.
"I ...... I also obtained the right to live in the camp, and also ...... also found a job in the camp." The little girl stuttered a little as she transmitted her words.
"Got it." Xu Qing nodded, about to turn around and go back.
"Wait ...... thank you, I came here to thank you." The little girl hurriedly said.
"No need to thank you, it's me who wants to eat it, it has nothing to do with you." Xu Qing said, turning around and walking towards the house.
Looking at Xu Qing's back, the little girl pursed her lips and suddenly spoke aloud.
"No matter what, I thank you, this favor ...... will be repaid by me in the future." After saying that, her figure stumbled and disappeared far away into the dark night.
Xu Qing turned his head to look at it, not putting it on his mind, and after returning to the house, he took a deep breath, felt the changes in himself, and his heart was more certain about the idea of living a little better.
Only the vague tingling from his left arm made him guess that the heterogeneous substance in his body should be so concentrated that even the snake's bile didn't dissolve it much.
It was late at night at the moment, and there were no ferocious beasts hissing outside, so Xu Qing walked over to the bedside, looked at the clean bedding, and then looked at his dirt-covered clothes.
After thinking about it, he rolled up the clean bedding and put it aside before lying down on the bedpan with his clothes closed.
In his hand, he instinctively drew out the ebony black iron stick, grasping it in his hand, brewing sleep.
This iron stick was his most trusted companion.
Ever since he turned it up in a trash heap years ago, he had always carried it with him as his own weapon because he perceived its sharpness and hardness.
"Tomorrow, I'll look for a place in the camp that sells White Dan."
Xu Qing muttered mentally, touching his leather pouch, which contained some of his savings over the years, as well as a few valuable gems that he had found within the city.
He didn't dare to take more of the gems, the reasoning behind harboring a treasure was something he had seen when he was small.
In the midst of these thoughts, sleep slowly came, Xu Qing's eyes gradually closed.
Just be held in his hand iron sign, still grasping very hard, did not relax the slightest.
A calm night, with the sunshine, passed by.
Early the next morning, Xu Qing who woke up early left the hut.
Before leaving, he looked towards the Lei Team's room, the other party didn't seem to be inside, perhaps out, so Xu Qing withdrew his gaze and walked within the campground.
Perhaps because yesterday he live snake gall is full of shock, walking in the camp Xu Qing, obviously feel the surrounding scavengers look at themselves, the difference in the eyes.
No longer because of his teenage figure looks good to bully, and thus go to brew human nature evil.
Instead, there was more recognition, more vigilance, while those teenagers hidden in the corners who were the same age as him, their godless gazes appeared envious when they saw him.
Dignity, is earned.
Xu Qing said silently in his heart.
While searching for stores within the camp, Xu Qing was also familiarizing himself with the environment.
He found that there were quite a few wild dogs in the camp, hissing and snatching food from each other, and although most of them were withered, there were some that were sturdier than some of the people.
After paying attention to these wild dogs, Xu Qing continued to observe the camp.
Until he had mapped out the entire camp in his mind, he followed the map in his mind and found a store in the inner ring area.
The store wasn't small, and it was bustling with people coming and going, and it seemed to sell everything inside.
Xu Qing observed outside for a while, and noticed inside the store, the little girl from yesterday, dressed as a fellow. The other party is obviously here to do odd jobs, busy, forehead is sweat.
It wasn't until Xu Qing walked into the store that she noticed the place and was just about to speak, but then she was called out by a scavenger to inquire about the items.
Xu Qing didn't immediately focus on the items within the store, but first looked around at the people who had come to buy items just like him.
There were seven people in total, some were scanning and checking the items, some were bowing their heads in contemplation, some were bargaining, and two of them, a fat one and a skinny one, appeared to be in a group.
Fat people round, thin people horse face, obviously tough posture, the body has a weak spiritual energy fluctuations, at the moment one of them, is scolding the little girl, seems to be a little dissatisfied with its answer.
In the little girl's anxious apology, Xu Qing looked at the items within the store.
It was more or less the same as what he had judged, this place was a grocery store, with a full array of pills, weapons, clothes, food, and so on.
So he withdrew his gaze and walked over to the counter, looking at the shopkeeper who was smoking a pipe within it with an indifferent look, and calmly opened his mouth.
"White Dan how to sell."
"White Dan is limited, only five are sold per day, there are two left for today's share, ten spirit coins a piece."
The shopkeeper's eyelids lifted and swept a glance at Xu Qing, perhaps recognizing him as yesterday's beast-fighting teenager, his attitude improved a bit.
But upon hearing this price, even though he was prepared in his heart, Xu Qing still frowned slightly.
His savings over the years were only twenty-three spirit coins, but the stinging pain of the alienation point on his arm made him not hesitate, carefully taking out twenty spirit coins from his leather pouch and handing them over to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper put the spirit coins away with a wave of his right hand, rummaged through the cabinet and threw a cloth bag to Xu Qing.
Xu Qing took it and opened it, seeing that there were two white pills in the cloth bag, his brows furrowed once again.
On the surface of these two pills, some parts of them were already green, obviously the texture had changed, not very fresh, and there was no medicinal fragrance emanating from them, they looked very inferior.
"The white elixirs in the camp are all like this, we don't have any here that are of good quality, even if this thing is rotten, it still has a role to play, don't worry about eating it."
Seeing Xu Qing's doubts, the shopkeeper said with a leathery smile.
Xu Qing was cautious and didn't eat it immediately, he planned to go back and ask Team Lei about it, so he put it away and was about to leave.
But right at this moment, his eyes flashed with a brilliant aura, and his body violently swayed to the side.
Almost at the same time as he avoided it, a hand landed where he had been and grabbed the air.
Xu Qing looked coldly and saw that the horse-faced scavenger in the store who had previously chastised the little girl had now withdrawn his hand, looking at himself with a somewhat surprised expression.
At the same time, the rounded body of his companion stood at the doorway, blocking the way, staring at Xu Qing, grinning, revealing yellowed teeth.
"It's Fat Mountain and Ma Si from the Blood Shadow Squad!"
"This kid was brought back by Team Thunder, Thunder and Blood Shadow have always been at odds, so I won't get involved in your affairs, but don't waste too much time, I still have to do business."
The other people in the store, who were also attracted by the duo's actions, looked away and whispered out words.
And the last words were spoken by the indifferent shopkeeper.
At this moment the pedestrians outside the store, also noticed this place and stopped to look with interest.
The little girl there was filled with anxiety, not knowing how she could help.
"Don't worry, it won't take long." The horse face smiled and looked towards Xu Qing, a grim flash in his eyes.
"Kid, I've killed quite a few Giant Horned Pythons, I won't make things difficult for you, I need white dan, give me your two white dan, and I'll let you leave safely, otherwise, I'll cut your neck and take the white dan on your corpse."
These words made Xu Qing's gaze even colder as he looked at the other's neck, then at the fat man blocking the door, noting the considerable crowd outside, his heart weighed up.
Either of these two, even if their spiritual energy fluctuations were not weak, they still had the appearance of being at the second level, and he was certain that alone, he could be directly killed within ten breaths.
Even if the two together, he can also kill it, but the time will be a little longer.
But here is the downtown, once the fight starts, the other party is a member of the squad, there will be reinforcements.
He didn't want to put all of his hopes on the Thunder Squad being able to arrive in time, and that wasn't his character either, he didn't like to put his hopes in others, it was best to take control of it himself.
So Xu Qing expressionless once again swept the horse-faced scavenger's neck, his right hand took out the white dan cloth bag, there was no procrastination, directly threw it over, the other party grabbed it and looked at it, smiled smugly.
His companion, Fat Mountain, also laughed and gave way, Xu Qing did not look back, stepped out.
Surrounding the crowd whether inside or outside the store, the reaction on the matter feel normal, under the law of the weak and the strong, the weak is to recognize the time, this is the way to survive.
The little girl also sighed with relief, just now she also pinched the sweat, now see the crisis is resolved, also continue to busy.
As for the fat mountain and horse four, is strutting out of the store, laughing with each other as far away.
Just ...... no one noticed, in the fat mountain and horse four behind, there is a seemingly far away disappeared figure, is with enough patience, in the case of not exposing themselves, such as shadows like shaking follow.
Eyes like a wolf staring at its prey, watching the two of them.
This figure was none other than Xu Qing.
Time passed, and it was getting late.
Fat Mountain and Ma Si went to multiple locations within this camp, wandering around for the entire day, and neither of them noticed the figure behind them that was always following.
Until the moon was high in the sky, the two finally separated.
Where Fat Mountain went, there was a campfire, while Ma Si was heading towards the shady area on the outskirts of the camp with a cluster of tents with feathers with a lecherous intent.
And just at the moment when he almost reached, in the shady place inside the camp to walk out, suddenly there was a sound of wind coming from behind him.
Horse four alert immediately turned back, but nothing behind him, he froze under the color change, just want to take action, but it was too late.
In an instant, a small hand from his side outstretched, dead press his mouth, at the same time a sharp dagger in his neck, did not seem to pause and hesitation, cut hard.
With an oohing sound, blood suddenly erupted, Ma Si's eyes widened as he tried to struggle.
But the small hand that covered his mouth was extremely strong, dragging his body backwards, no matter how much he struggled it wouldn't help.
His feet could only struggle and stomp helplessly, unable to stop being dragged into the gloom.
In the end, he was dragged to the corner like a chicken.
But until this moment, the small hand that pressed his mouth also still did not let go, but waited for a long time, to make sure that he lost resistance, suffocated and bled too much and was already unable to struggle, only then let go, put his shivering and weak body down on the ground.
It was also at this time that Ma Si despaired with the help of the dim moonlight, saw clearly in front of his eyes, that cold expression of the teenage silhouette.
"Whoops..."
Ma Si eyes with the unbelievable, how could he not imagine, during the day obediently handed over the white Dan teenager, actually started so decisive, so ruthless.
He seemed to want to open his mouth to tell the teenager, he said during the day to cut his neck is just a threat, not to kill ......
But the blood in his throat made it impossible for him to open his mouth, and he could only look at the teenager in a weak whimper of despair as he lowered his body and expressionlessly rummaged through his pockets.
Until it was all rummaged through, Xu Qing found his White Dan, with five more, in addition to some of the other party's miscellaneous Spirit Coins.
After putting it away, in Ma Si's panic to the extreme, Xu Qing carefully took out the linen cloth wrapped around the snake's head, cautiously opened it, and used the snake's teeth on this Ma Si's body, skillfully poking it.
Ma four body instantly convulsed again, from the wound position began to slowly melt, this living corroded feeling and pain, let his whole person collapsed.
Until after Xu Qing raised his hand and covered his eyes, Ma Si's world, from then on, had no light.
His entire body melted, becoming blood and water that permeated the soil.
Xu Qing learned from the negligence he had once committed, and rummaged through a prepared pocket from his body, collecting Ma Si's clothes and sundries before turning to leave.
And after he left, in the place where Ma Si died, two figures came out from within the gloom.
It was the extraordinary old man in purple robes and his servant that no one could see in the arena yesterday.
The old man looked down at the ground where Ma Si had melted away, and then looked up at Xu Qing's distant figure, his eyes revealing a touch of appreciation.
"It's a seedling, capable of both stoicism and decisiveness in killing, the rarest thing is that while striking out viciously, he can still handle it cleanly, not bad."
The servant at the side looked a little surprised.
He had followed the old man for many years, and rarely heard the other party's mouth say that someone was good, and this youngster had already been noticed by him twice, so he also raised his head to look in the direction where Xu Qing had disappeared.
"Interesting little fellow." The old man smiled, and casually asked again.
"At Master Park's place, how long until he arrives?"
"Seventh Master, according to Master Park's itinerary, it should be within these last one or two days to reach here." The servant withdrew his gaze and spoke respectfully.
"Finally came, this time the old man can persuade him, purple earth that shitty place is all rules, what is there to stay, not as good as come to my seven blood pupil to get away."
The old man laughed, seemingly very happy, and looked towards where Xu Qing was far away.
"Let's go, let's go see what this little wolf cub is going to do next."
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Very happy, very happy, these days see many old friends have returned, thank you for your support, thank you for your trust in me!
Not to be melodramatic, let me just say this: this book, I found the original heart.
Thank you all, beyond the light, will not let you down.
Don't keep all kinds of tickets, give them to me.
