Chapter 69: Sneak out of the city
Chapter 69: Sneak out of the city
"Fellow Daoist Shu Fu, this medicinal food is called [Hundred Bitter Pills], and I made it using various tears of sorrow, the bitter glands in hundreds of strange creatures, and various sweets."
"Each pill tastes extremely bitter when you take it, but the aftertaste is a different sweetness without any repetition."
"If an ordinary person eats one, he will have the urge to hang himself before he can even taste the sweetness."
"For you, it's just right, enough to make you happy."
"As for the side effects, there are still some addictive issues, so fellow Taoists should try to control the amount of consumption."
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"Mi Dao... Sister Wu, this medicinal food is called [Beauty Minced Meat]. I used various medicinal herbs and food ingredients for beauty and nourishment, and complicatedly boiled them until they became glass meat jelly. Then I removed the meat of a strange creature called a beauty mermaid and kept the skin, and then filled it with the skin and mixed it together before making it."
"The effect is simple. It nourishes the skin and replenishes Yin. It may be equivalent to several days of practice by my sister."
“It is also very convenient to carry and has a shelf life of half a year.”
"As for the side effects, there aren't any."
……
When Li Yu finished the last sentence, Mi Wuniang, who was about to listen to the side effects and costs, couldn't help but chuckle, and then cast an ambiguous look at Li Yu as if flirting.
But her actions still did not go beyond the mark, nor did she give Li Yu any benefits, such as letting him see the beautiful scenery of her chest.
He just picked up the chopsticks and ate a mouthful of fish sashimi very elegantly, while asking Li Yu:
"Why do other people's medicinal diets have side effects, but mine doesn't?"
"Or maybe you wanted to live with my sister, but you were too shy to agree right away?"
"Or, do you want something else?"
Li Yu did not reply immediately, but glanced at the other five people.
The entire Ninth Pioneer Team!
Because of the medicinal meals he tailored for them, everyone was in a very good mood.
So, he showed a casual look, smiled and waved his hand and said:
"Accident, purely accidental."
"Li Yu is already extremely satisfied to be able to work in the City Lord's Mansion, so how could he dare to make any excessive demands?"
"But I have a little question to ask."
“Although I have not yet reached the perfect state at Sequence Eight, I can’t help but make some plans for Sequence Seven.”
"Unfortunately, the main spiritual ingredient in the secret medicine formula I need cannot be found in Wanfu City. Everyone here is heartbroken... cough cough."
"In short, I have to go to Qian, Li, and Jing to look for it, and I have to pick it myself while it's hot. I can't even offer a reward for smuggling it. It's really too troublesome."
"But I don't have enough merit to leave the city now, and I haven't saved enough money to redeem myself... Of course, I don't dare to trouble you all with these."
"I just want to ask a few questions. Do you know any other ways to get out of the city?"
"By the way, the prerequisite is safety. If there is danger, I would rather not go."
On the surface, Li Yu's acting skills seem to be acceptable.
But including the War Leader, the six Sequence Sevens who have been hanging around for many years have extremely sharp eyesight.
Just one glance and you can tell that Li Yu is "incompetent".
After looking at each other, they all smiled.
Then, the two-headed old man Luo Sheng smiled and replied:
"Boy!"
"The main spiritual materials you mentioned, could it be the hearts, livers, spleens, lungs and kidneys of the practitioners of the Orthodox Sect?"
"I want an upright person, and I want you to pick him while he's still hot... Tsk tsk, the path to godhood you're practicing, even if it's not from a forbidden god sect, probably has some connection to it."
"what!"
"How...how could this be possible?"
At this moment, Li Yu looked completely ashamed after being exposed.
The six people watching were all laughing in their hearts.
The reactions of the six people also made Li Yu happy.
This is exactly what he wants!
Li Yu never thought that the six members of the Ninth Pioneer Team, including the leader, were good people. It was impossible for good people to make a name for themselves in Wanfu City.
So he deliberately let the cat out of the bag and explained in detail his medicinal cuisine skills that were obviously related to [Cooking Skills], and also engaged in seemingly excessive prying behavior.
The six people thought that this boy was an evil cultivator with amazing medicinal food skills, who was related to the Forbidden God Sect, but not very smart.
In this way, the six people will feel at ease and defenseless, and will give some additional benefits in order to control this good private chef.
Just as Li Yu expected, Luo Sheng changed the subject and said:
"If you don't want to talk, we won't force you. There's a lot of time to come."
"But there is indeed a way that you want."
"It's not complicated, just smuggling."
"There are already many cultivators in the city. Some of them are like you, who have to go to the Three Kingdoms to get the materials for the next sequence. Or they are like the Sequence Eight [Oiran] of the Evil God Path, whose promotion ceremony requires the cooperation of ordinary people. After all, the number of ordinary people in the city is far less than that of the Three Kingdoms."
"There are many reasons to leave the city, but most of them do not meet the proper conditions, so the only option left is to sneak out."
"This is actually something that has been tacitly approved by the City Lord's Mansion and the four major districts. Anyway, these evil cultivators who sneaked out to do business will soon return. The route is extremely safe, and there will be a trip every few days."
"Of course, if a practitioner has no means or connections, he or she would not know this at all."
"We happen to know an agent who does this, but to join, you need to pass a background check first to prove that you are not a spy of the Three Kingdoms, or a coward who simply wants to evade taxes and leave, so as to avoid any trouble that will affect the entire smuggling chain." "Background check...?"
"Here, take it."
Just when Li Yu was thinking about whether the word "back tune" was what he understood.
Luo Sheng reached into his arms and threw a [Bronze Communicator] at him.
Li Yu took it and looked puzzled.
The six people looked at each other and laughed together. Finally, the leader spoke:
"Boy, do you think that we in the City Lord's Mansion can't even do an investigation when recruiting people? You were already approved last night."
"I didn't expect that, tsk tsk, you would be so ruthless."
"On the night of the Battle Royale, he brought a mechanical maid and killed so many refugees. His methods were good."
Hearing this, Li Yu showed a half-serious look of shock.
It turns out that none of them are fun!
When you meet for the first time, be friendly and give benefits.
In secret, he was thoroughly investigated.
Fortunately, Li Yu was originally very "clean". He was neither a spy of the Three Kingdoms nor someone who needed to evade taxes and leave.
Seeing his reaction, the six people laughed even more happily.
Fortunately, at this moment, the sound of a steam airship was heard over the camp. The six people then stood up together, each carrying a portion of medicinal food prepared by Li Yu in advance, and headed for the airship.
Before leaving, he just told Li Yu:
"We will be back in two days. You just need to report to work every day and eat the herbal food in the camp."
"If you leave the camp at twilight hour, you can call the mechanical puppet to report damage. I have set the permissions in advance. As long as you don't empty the entire camp and take some supplies home, no one will hold you accountable."
"Okay Captain!"
Li Yu put the communicator into his arms and responded with a bright smile.
The six members of the pioneering team were still immersed in the joy of obtaining the new rare medicinal food, and no one noticed Li Yu's sincere intention in waving goodbye.
It was as if he was not saying a brief farewell, but was thinking of never seeing each other again.
……
At the hour of You, the huge camp outside the City Lord's Mansion was bustling with activity again.
The difference is that this time it’s after get off work.
Amid the sounds of flashing neon signs, honking horns, flying mechanical dolls, and so on, practitioners in various attire, either empty-handed or carrying some toys, left the camp and returned home after reporting.
Among them, there is one employee who stands out a little.
It was a sloppy young man wearing a work badge and a pass. He was also off work and was also smuggling something. He carried a large package on his back as if it was a matter of course as he got off the steam elevator.
Needless to say, it was Li Yu.
He didn't empty the entire camp, but he wasn't too polite either.
He picked and chose and packed up all the medicinal materials, strange objects, and rare foods that he would need.
After he reported and left, the robot was still counting the bills and issued some routine reminders: "The material consumption rate of the Ninth Pioneer Team's camp is a bit high. Please adjust it in time, otherwise there is a chance that your reward will be deducted..."
Li Yu left the camp, stopped a monster bus and headed towards Tianjifang.
Soon, Li Yu pushed open the door of his house, and Hongdou came up to him as usual, holding the electric eel lamp.
However, this time, Li Yu did not have time to take another look at this heartwarming scene, and went to the alchemy room in a rather impatient and urgent manner.
"Hongdou, let's go and make the elixir."
"Good host!"
Although she didn't know what happened, the mechanical maid cooperated with Li Yu unconditionally.
……
It was still that day, at midnight.
The door of the butcher shop opened again, and Li Yu, who had been disguised countless times, walked out holding a mechanical fox in his arms.
He randomly stopped a night monster bus at the entrance of the old street, let it go along the route, got off at a random stop, and then stopped a bus on another route... He repeated this many times. Half an incense stick later, Li Yu's figure suddenly appeared in an abandoned house in the southern area of Wanfu City near the city gate.
In front of him, there was a steam airship painted completely black.
There were already quite a few people on the airship, chatting animatedly.
It was as if they were not trying to sneak out of the city tonight, but were just going out to buy some things and see the sights.
Li Yu saw this!
The slight worry in my heart about "fishing enforcement" suddenly disappeared.
It seems that what Zhan Kui and others said was right. For some practitioners who have connections and relationships, sneaking out of the city is nothing.
There are only people like Sun Sanniang and Jiao Qing at the bottom of society!
Only then would they be so honest, work so hard, and be so stupid as to save up money to redeem themselves.
ps: Thanks to the two book friends Xiao Mihu You Mihu and Tianxia Wudi Lala Lala for the reward of 10,000 yuan.
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(End of this chapter)