Longevity starts with inheriting a friend's legacy

Chapter 96 Su Cheng's Killing Intention

"Brothers, please ask around." Fang Xu handed over the wine jar in his hand respectfully and said with a smile, "The valley behind this stone gate is foggy. What's inside?"

Upon hearing this, the warriors looked at the wine jar that Fang Xu handed over, were slightly stunned, then looked at each other, took the wine jar and said:

"Boy, you only have the strength of the fifth level of martial artist, you don't want to enter this ruins, do you?"

Fang Xu quickly smiled and waved his hand: "Of course I don't dare."

"I just want to get some information from the big brothers so I can brag to my friends when I get back."

Hearing this, several warriors laughed and showed an expression of "I understand all this" on their faces.

For low-level warriors like them, who have never seen the world, being able to brag in front of friends while drinking and chatting, and to receive praise from friends, is a very face-saving thing.

"Boy, this Tilanshan Ruins is well-known throughout the martial arts circle. If you want to find out the information inside, this jar of wine will not do."

Fang Xu felt helpless when he heard this.

These guys are actually raising the price.

Okay, for the sake of “making friends”, I’ll bear with it!

Taking out five taels of silver from his pocket, Fang Xu pretended to be embarrassed and said, "This is all the money I have, brothers, please don't think it's too little."

"Just say five taels of silver!"

The leading warrior looked at the silver in Fang Xu's hand and said with some disdain: "You are really just pretending to be rich. If you don't have money, don't even think about bragging in front of your friends."

"Never mind, five taels of silver is five taels."

Taking the silver from Fang Xu, he slowly said, "Do you see that archway?"

"After you go in, you will find that everything in front of you is completely different from what you see now."

“I heard from some martial arts seniors that this is called…what is it called?” The man turned to look at his companion beside him.

"It's a world of its own!" someone reminded.

"Yes, yes! This is called a world of its own!"

"The entire ruins are divided into two parts, above ground and underground. The above ground part was supposed to be a small village isolated from the world, but it has been abandoned and occupied by some strange monsters."

"underground……"

"Brother Wang, five taels of silver is enough."

"Why did you tell him so much?"

The warrior was about to talk about what happened underground when someone next to him immediately interrupted him.

"Ah? Right!"

"That's all you can get for five taels of silver. Go away, boy."

Fang Xu was so angry when he saw this that he laughed!
Five taels of silver, you only said five sentences in total, it seems like each sentence is worth one tael of silver!

"Brother, more?"

"Just tell me the general situation underground!"

Fang Xu pretended to be anxious.

The warrior shook his head like a rattle and said, "It's just five taels of silver, and you still want to know what's underground?"

Fang Xu had no choice but to raise the other opened wine jar in his hand and said, "Thank you, brothers. I toast to you."

Seeing that he didn't bother them, several people were secretly delighted. They earned five taels of silver for nothing with just a few words, which was quite a good deal.

He immediately broke the mud seal, clinked glasses with Fang Xu, and started drinking happily.

Watching five names gradually appear in the five vacant spots on the friend list, Fang Xu showed a faint smile on his face. He bowed to a few people and returned to Huang Qingzhou.

"Brother Huang, I heard some news that the ruins have two floors, one above ground and one underground..."

"The ground is an ordinary village with strange monsters. The underground is the real ruins, which contains mechanisms, fierce beasts, and various unknown dangers and treasures."

"Currently, all parties have only explored the second stage of the ruins. It is speculated that the ruins have a total of seven stages." "Starting from the second stage, anyone who enters the ruins will have their cultivation suppressed by an unknown force, and those who enter can only move forward with their physical strength."

Before Fang Xu could finish his words, Huang Qingzhou started talking a lot.

"Brother, how do you know so much?" Fang Xu was stunned.

Huang Qingzhou raised a book in his hand:
"It was sold by the royal family for ten taels of gold."

"Maps, guides, everything."

Looking at the book in his hand, Fang Xu took it speechlessly and took a look at it.

[The printing is supervised by the imperial family of Dayu. Any reproduction will be punished! 】

puff!
This sentence really made Fang Xu a little overwhelmed.

Suppressing the smile in his heart, he slowly flipped through the book in his hand and found that the things recorded in it were very detailed, including the location of every mechanism in the ruins, dangerous places, places with higher mortality rates, etc.

"How about it?"

Seeing Fang Xu finish reading the book, Huang Qingzhou smiled and said, "Why bother asking for help when you can just spend some money to solve the problem?"

Obviously, he saw Fang Xu's "inquiring for information" just now.

"Brother, you don't understand." Fang Xu smiled and said, "I was just making friends."

Huang Qingzhou shook his head helplessly, and did not dwell on it any more. He said directly: "This is more interesting than I thought."

"Let's go back first. When the people sent by Elder Jiang arrive, we can consider going in."

Fang Xu nodded slightly. He had made friends and he didn't have much else to do, so it was time to go back.

It was already the end of the afternoon when the two men came down from the mountain. When they passed by the door of Old Man Xu's house outside the town, Fang Xu took a glance and saw that Old Man Xu's two children had died tragically, and their bodies were casually thrown outside the gate of the yard.

Fang Xu walked over with a grim expression.

The brother and sister in front of him were covered with scars, the blood in their lower bodies had dried up, and their eyes were wide open and bloodshot. It was obvious that they had suffered inhuman torture and endured endless pain before their death!
"brute!"

He cursed inwardly with gritted teeth, then immediately found a shovel from Old Man Xu's house, dug a big hole outside the yard, and buried the bodies of Old Man Xu's family of four in it.

Fang Xu stood quietly in front of the new grave. Huang Qingzhou looked at him and sighed, "You will see a lot of this kind of thing in the future."

"Fang Xu, put away your compassion... This is the way the world is."

"He is a few years older than my parents. He used to be a member of a hunting team. He got married at the age of 40 and had a pair of children at the age of 45. He can be considered a late-born child."

"It was Lu Liren and his men who killed them."

As he narrated all this with a calm face, Fang Xu couldn't help but recall the miserable plight of the Xu brothers and sisters. He wished that Lu Liren would die tragically immediately!
However, in the friend list, Lu Liren’s health is as high as 72%!
There is no way he will die in a short period of time.

"Let's go." After standing in front of the grave for a long time, Fang Xu spoke slowly.

This was the second time he heard that the world was like this. The first time it was Yun Wan who advised him in this way. When she said this, there was a hint of helplessness on her face.

Huang Qingzhou says the same thing now.

As a disciple of the Ascension Society, he has a respected status, but he is also helpless about the way of the world.

Fang Xu was not arrogant enough to set a flag to change the world.

He always believed in a saying: if you are poor, you can take care of yourself; if you are rich, you can help the world. Now he is weak and walks on the edge of life and death all day long. He has to seek help from everywhere and survive in the cracks. How can he negotiate and change the world?

Back at Zhiyuan Hall, Lu Qingluo was practicing shooting in the courtyard, while Wang was helping Chu Mu prepare dinner.

Huang Qingzhou simply said that there was no need to call him for dinner in the evening, and then went straight back to his room to practice.

……

In the inn on the street, Su Cheng looked at the secret letter in his hand with a grim face.

"How dare you, Huang Qingzhou, write a letter to Master. Are you reporting me?"

"Then don't blame me for not remembering the friendship between fellow apprentices and brothers!"

After burning the secret letter in his hand, Su Cheng's eyes flashed with murderous intent!
(End of this chapter)