Eternal Life Starts as a Hunter-Chapter 246 - 115: Turmoil in Beijiang Prefecture, Fat Sheep Enter Ghost Street, Coercion and Forced Trade
"Young hero, hurry up."
The girl’s voice had a hint of tears.
Fang Jianlong touched the letter in his pocket, gritted his teeth, and rushed towards the girl, then followed her "tap-tap-tap" to a corner of the tavern.
"Who are you?"
"This tavern... it belongs to my family."
"Oh, it’s the young lady, my apologies."
"Don’t talk, let’s hide quickly, these people have gone mad."
Fang Jianlong was running quickly, and glanced out the window.
His pupils constricted because... many people had disappeared again.
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...
"Where is this?"
"How did I end up here?"
A group of people suddenly vanished from their original place and appeared on an ancient stone-paved street.
At the street entrance, vendors were hawking their wares.
"Passing by, don’t miss out, take a look, rouge and powders, fair trade for all..."
"New goods on sale, pendants and hairpins, starting as low as two cents."
"Animal sugar figures, all kinds of tasty sugar figures, buy a string and try..."
The newcomers to the ancient street looked around.
His head hurt a little, and whenever he thought about the past it hurt. It seemed they did something bad but had temporarily forgotten it.
"Let’s check out this street first." someone suggested.
Another woman, who looked like a singing girl, was vigilantly observing the surroundings. She remembered... yesterday she went out with a young master to Hubei County, but how did she suddenly appear here?
This group of people walked through the place.
But hidden in the shadows of the alleyways were many skeletons.
To the ordinary people who strayed into the street, they were like fat sheep, free providers of ghost coins and tools.
Soon, many of these people acted on the principle of asking for directions and bought things from the vendors.
Some headed deeper into the street but were stopped by some skeletons, who didn’t want these fat sheep to get lost in the depths of Ghost Street.
A short while later, many people had bought things.
And just then, three cloaked figures walked in.
The one leading was small in stature but walked swaggeringly, with eyes revealing a calmness completely contrary to his arrogant posture.
A sinister voice emerged: "I wonder what kind of local specialties this little Ghost Street has to sell..."
After murmuring, he stood at the exit and shouted: "All of you who strayed here, go to the stalls and buy things. Once you’ve bought them, bring everything to me, and I’ll open the door for you to leave."
After he shouted, several skeletons immediately looked at that person.
One of them sneered, flipped his hand, took out a Little Sugarman, and started licking it.
Besides this, others quickly took out sugar figures, licking quickly while staring at those three.
Sugar figures were precious, but the number of these fat sheep was too many. If they could consume them, losing a few sugar figures was nothing.
Unfortunately, their licking action quickly stopped.
An invisible ripple formed in the air.
The ripple instantly reached them.
It was a nearly transparent thread, winding around a sugar figure.
Woosh!
The sugar figure flew away, falling into the hand of that small man.
Woosh woosh woosh!
The small man swiftly gathered up one sugar figure after another into his hand.
The skeletons’ expressions changed dramatically, with others about to make a move when suddenly a person in a red robe approached from not far away.
The person in the red robe was the Mansion Master of the Zhong Mansion.
"Who might you be?" the Mansion Master of the Zhong Mansion asked.
"Here with the Mansion Master of Beijiang Prefecture," the small man sinisterly replied, "you seem like the leader here, you should have heard of us, right?"
After saying that, he opened his hand and said: "These are all our dealings, the benefits naturally are ours as well. If you want a piece of the action, then go find the Mansion Master of Beijiang Prefecture and join us."
The person in the red robe gazed ominously at the three of them.
The small man said: "Sometimes, the things in small places can’t compare to those in big places."
The person in the red robe’s expression changed several times, looked again at the sugar figures in the opponent’s hand and said, "I’ll have to visit Beijiang Prefecture someday."
After saying that, he waved his sleeve, stating: "Let them have it."
When the skeletons followed him back to the Zhong Mansion, the person in the red robe asked: "Who is in Beijiang Prefecture?"
Immediately, several people stepped forward.
The person in the red robe ordered: "Go find out."
On the ancient street...
The three stood.
The people who strayed here initially wanted to cause commotion, but seeing this scene, obediently went to buy things from the vendors and quickly left.
But after they left, one by one they died instantaneously and tragically.
The small man watched as the tools and ghost coins in his hand grew, satisfied, with a smile on his face.
Seeing fewer and fewer people, the small man prepared to leave too.
At this moment, a gray-clad vendor suddenly stood up and walked straight toward him.
The small man was momentarily stunned.
The gray-clad vendor smiled warmly, enthusiastically saying: "Sir, the cobweb on you is something I’ve been looking for, could you sell it to me?"
Small man: ...
He had a bitter expression and handed over the thread.
But the gray-clad vendor didn’t take it, instead warmly smiled and said, "Sir, it’s the thread in your pocket."
The small man’s face changed dramatically.
But he knew, once on Ghost Street, there’s a chance of being asked by an Evil Ghost to buy something, at which point refusing is impossible.
Almost crying, he took out a silver thread from his pocket and handed it to the gray-clad vendor.
The gray-clad vendor handed over ten pieces of ghostly white paper money to the man.
The man took it, turned around, and left, his heart bleeding.
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That night.
Li Yuan returned to the Black Market Ghost Realm with Xiaozhao.
Lady Yan in White Clothes took out a silver thread from her bosom and handed it to him, saying: "Today some strange skeletons came by. One had something rare, which I thought you might need, so I bought it for ten cents. It’s all I could get from the vendors."
"Ten cents?"
A treasure indeed...
Li Yuan took the silver thread, and it wrapped around his fingertip with a "woosh woosh," then a new message floated up in the "Equipment Bar": [Equipment 5: Thousand-Mile in a Line].
