Universe Infinite Canteen.

Chapter 450: A Mediocre Person
Yuan Mei was still eagerly hoping that her powerful pursuit that ignored defense would be effective and inflict heavy damage on the opponent.

I didn't expect that the moment I turned around, someone would take away a layer of drunkenness from me.

It is actually useless for Malu to get one layer of drunkenness, because in order to launch a pursuit attack, at least three layers of drunkenness must be stacked. However, if Yuan Mei has one layer less, it will be a big problem.

His powerful pursuit was launched immediately, and that was not all. After his drunkenness dropped to the eighth level, he automatically turned into a drunken state.

When Yuan Mei was in the state of greedy drinking, the damage would increase by two levels if she was attacked. And he was no longer able to defend himself.

What's even more terrible is that Malu still has two cards in his hand, and he has ten points of true energy left. In addition, his icy skin is still in good condition, which is enough for him to launch a powerful attack.

Yuan Mei originally thought that this was just a welfare game where seniors taught juniors, but she didn't expect that in the first round, the juniors, whom she had not taken seriously before, would increase the intensity of the game. Her spirit became tense, and the elegant and calm nature of a drinker was gone.

He stared at Malu's palm. Would there be an attack card among the remaining two cards?
The answer is yes.

Moreover, his luck was very bad this time, as Malu touched the second move of the Xiantian Pure Yang Palm - Aggression like Fire.

The power of this move is as high as 82 points. It originally requires 13 points of true energy to activate. However, in the ice skin state, the true energy required to activate it is reduced from 13 points to 10 points.

Malu just happened to have 10 points of true energy left in his hand.

So the millipedes launched an aggressive attack.

And then...and then the battle was over.

The power of the invasion itself is 82 points, but when it comes to Yuan Mei's greedy state, the damage becomes 97 points. Add to that the 1.5 times bonus of the chef's knife, and the final damage reaches 146 points!
Yuan Mei had a total of 134 health points. She had been hit by the Soul-Breaking Spear and the Shadowless Ghost Hand before, and lost another 29 points of health. Naturally, she could not withstand this attack and was knocked flying backwards, smashing a coffin.

Fortunately, this was just a sparring mode and Yuan Mei was not injured. However, the emotional trauma this battle brought to him would probably take him the rest of his life to heal.

Yuan Mei sat down on the broken coffin board in a daze.

Lost! He actually lost, and lost to a junior. And losing would be fine, but he was wiped out in one round.

His partner, the burly man wearing a bamboo hat, had an unprecedentedly serious look on his face.

As for Manager Wan, he was feeling sorry for the damaged coffin.

Gu Qingyi was also stunned. Unlike others, she had seen Malu in action. Just two weeks ago, it took the two of them working together to defeat the seriously injured Yan Wuji.

And now Malu can defeat the Drunken Judge Yuan Mei, who is famous in the martial arts world, by himself. His martial arts progress is too fast. The key is why he uses different martial arts every time.

Considering that Malu always collects a lot of secret medicines before leaving, could it be that he really treats the secret medicines as meals?

It took a long time for Yuan Mei to come back to his senses. He stood up from the ground and bowed.

"I was wrong. Your martial arts skills are already the best among the younger generation in Jianghu. I laughed at you before and said you were a nobody. I made a three-move agreement with you. I was really blind and brought shame upon myself."

Yuan Mei said self-deprecatingly, and then he looked at Gu Qingyi, "Miss San, now that you have such a master to help you, according to the agreement, Wen Shenfei and I will not force you to go home. But I didn't lie before. Yuchang County is indeed very dangerous now. The Beggars' Sect and the Tianlong Sect have been grudges for many years. The Lotus Bowl is just a trigger. There will be a battle between the two sides."

Gu Qingyi nodded, "Thank you for your reminder, Detective Yuan. I will be cautious in the city."

Perhaps because they felt ashamed, after giving the instructions, Yuan Mei and the big man in the straw hat hurriedly left the coffin shop.

Then Gu Qingyi and Malu were about to go to Wohugang to look for someone, but they were stopped by the old shopkeeper, who stretched out a hand. "Shopkeeper Wan, is there anything else?" Gu Qingyi asked in confusion.

"Of course. You fought in my shop and broke my coffin. Are you planning to just walk away like this?"

"Oh." Gu Qingyi didn't think much about it, reached into his purse and took out five taels of silver.

Shopkeeper Wan shook his head and said, "Not enough."

"How much is left?"

"We still need 1,195 taels."

"Ah, you want to sell this coffin for 1,200 taels of silver?" Even if Gu Qingyi had no common sense, he knew that the price was wrong, and blurted out, "Is this a black shop?"

"How can you talk like that, little kid? This is the most expensive coffin in my shop, made of red sandalwood. And this red sandalwood is not ordinary. It was planted behind the abbot's room in Hui'en Temple. I listened to the abbot chanting sutras every day and became infected with Buddha nature.

"Before, a wealthy businessman in the city offered 1,500 taels, but I refused to sell it. In the end, it was broken into pieces in your fight. Charging you 1,200 is already a small amount," said Shopkeeper Wan.

Gu Qingyi was stunned by his fright, but Ma Lu, who was standing beside him, had already seen through the clues and said directly, "Manager Wan, just tell us what you want us to do."

When Manager Wan's thoughts were exposed, his face turned red, but his expression soon returned to normal and he spoke.

"You are good at martial arts, can you do me a favor? I won't pursue the matter of you breaking my coffin."

"What's the deal?"

"Help me save someone."

After Manager Wan finished speaking, he saw Ma Lu looking him up and down with a surprised look, so he asked, "Why are you looking at me?"

"Before, those Beggars' Sect disciples showed respect when they mentioned you. You also spoke very clearly when you commented on the seven corpses. Even though you knew that we were the Iron Clothes Sect's divine detectives and had Chu Qianyuan's token, you still didn't give us any pretense. I thought you were a hidden master of the Beggars' Sect. Why didn't you go and save them yourself?"

"Go away, where do so many masters come from in this world?" Shopkeeper Wan stroked his beard and said, "I am just a senior in the Beggars' Sect. I am the cousin of the predecessor, no, now it should be the predecessor of the Beggars' Sect."

Hearing him say this, Gu Qingyi couldn't help but be solemn, "So you are Jiu Gong's younger brother, then your martial arts..."

"I don't have any talent for martial arts, so I simply gave up martial arts and turned to literature, studying hard..."

"And then he passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi?"

"No, I found that I had no talent for literature, and I was not good at martial arts or studying, so I started to learn business. As a result, I lost money in every business I did, and soon lost all my family property. In the end, it was only with the help of my cousin that I was able to become the shopkeeper of this coffin shop."

"Ah, this..." Gu Qingyi didn't know what to say for a moment, and a look of sympathy appeared on his face.

Manager Wan waved his hand and said, "My experience is nothing. There are only a few people in this world who are gifted at a young age like you. There are many people like us who are mediocre. This does not prevent us from living a good life.

"I'm getting off topic. If Deng Youtai were still alive, I would have gone straight to him for this matter, but he's already dead. Among the remaining people, only the guy named Chu took me seriously, but he's a stubborn person, so I don't want to bother him."

(End of this chapter)