Volume 15
Chapter 1418: “Good Samaritan (3)”
“Most benevolent benefactor! You’re really a good person! If not for you here, these children will have to suffer more! Let this old one thank you most benevolent benefactor on everyone’s behalf! This bunch of elderly folks and too young ones here really do not have much we can repay your kindness with but please accept a deep bow from this old woman at least!” Upon saying that, the old woman was going to kneel and bow but was held back by the man holding her by both her arms.
“Your words are making me feel highly ashamed. With the lands in crisis and my arms too weak to kill the enemy to save the country, I can only remain here to help those who need help. So, elderly one, you do not need to be so courteous. If there is any other need in future, just come look for me anytime at the Fortune Spring Hall. My name is Luo Xi, the owner of Fortune Spring Hall.” Luo Xi said with a smile.
The old woman was visibly moved as she looked at the good looking and gentle Luo Xi, truly believing that he was the kindest person under the Heavens.
The other women with sick children had upon hearing Luo Xi’s words felt even more surprised. Having been on the run, they have not met such a upright and kindly person for a long time.
“Our benevolent benefactor is actually the owner of the Fortune Spring Hall? The Fortune Spring Hall is the biggest medical shop in the Clear Breeze City and I have heard about them. It was said that the Fortune Spring Hall frequently provides help to the refugees. Just recently, a family’s child fell very ill who came here as refugees having escaped from another city. They did not have a single copper on them but when they pleaded with the Fortune Spring Hall, the Fortune Spring Hall saved the child without taking any money from them. They even accepted the entire family to help out at the shop and the family is doing very well now.” Someone who knew what happened immediately announced the good deed that Luo Xi had done.
The group of people who had just come into the city were immediately highly envious upon hearing that. Seeing the way Luo Xi was dressed, they could see that he was from quite a prosperous background. Coupled with such a good heart in him, the group quickly developed a kind of trust towards Luo Xi subconsciously.
Afterall, as refugees, they had no money, and no power. Hence, there was no need for Luo Xi to put on a show for them as they had nothing they could give him.
Luo Xi remained within the refugee camp for a while more before he left with his attendants. When they left, the refugees were seeing him off the entire way, their words of gratitude incessantly filling up Luo Xi’s ears.
However, not long after Luo Xi walked out from the refugee camp, the gentle smile upon his face quickly disappeared in an instant, his straight brows immediately creasing together as he stared at his own two hands to say in disgust: “That was just so filthy!”
“Young Master, here.” An attendant immediately delivered a clean handkerchief to him.
Luo Xi snatched it from the attendant’s hand and wiped at his hands furiously for a while. “It was so dirty it was nauseating. Why is the stink in that place so bad? Damn it. That old hag who lived too long had nothing better to do but had to decide to want to kneel, forcing me to have to feign concern to hold her up. That was just….. absolutely disgusting.”
Luo Xi’s face twisted up with utter and unabashed contempt, a completely different person from the one before gentle one in the refugee camp earlier.
“Young Master, quell your rage. Why would you need to get yourself riled up with an old hag like that? Your subordinate will get someone to put an end to her tomorrow.” The attendant standing right beside him said.
Luo Xi said with his face still creased in a frown: “No need.”
“Let that old hag remain alive a little longer. Wait till the new ones that come in know how good I am first and it still won’t be too late to get rid of her at that time. She is still of some use now.”
“Right, right.”
“Alright, let’s hurry on back. We don’t want to keep the Master waiting too long.” Luo Xi said as he tossed the handkerchief onto the ground as he strode off quickly.
His bunch of lackeys then quickly followed behind eagerly.
Unfortunately, the evil hearted Luo Xi had not noticed in the slightest that every single word and action of his had been seen by someone else.
Jun Wu Xie stood hidden within the shadows as she watched Luo Xi’s highly contrasting character before and after and the corners of her mouth curled up into a chilling smile.
“Hypocrite.” The little black cat lay upon Jun Wu Xie’s shoulder said. “This man is really evil hearted. She was just offering her gratitude and he wants to take her life instead. How vicious is that! Mistress, there’s definitely something wrong with this one, he must be a scoundrel from the Twelve Palaces for sure!”
Volume 15
Chapter 1419: “Good Samaritan (4)”
Jun Wu Xie stared at Luo Xi’s retreating back deep in thought.
After breaking through to the Purple Spirit, her senses had become highly sensitive to detecting the spirit powers on others. As long as the other party’s spirit powers were not higher than hers by too much, she was able to ascertain their spirit power level.
Jun Wu Xie had sensed that the spirit power on Luo Xi was pathetically low, at only the red spirit level. The powers of the other attendants around him were similarly not high as well with the highest among them having just broken through to the orange spirit.
Such spirit powers, were small fry that was a dime a dozen even in the Lower Realm and Jun Wu Xie did not think that the Twelve Palaces would really send such a piece of trash into the Lower Realm.
But…..
Why would Luo Xi want to put on an act in front of the frail refugees made up of elderly and young children?
That was a highly suspicious point.
The people in the refugee camp were mostly people who were very weak. They were either too old or still too young. Even if there were some young girls in there, they were mostly sallow faced and stick thin, who didn’t look like they could be of much worth in being made use of.
But Luo Xi had instead purposely pretended to be a good Samaritan to show kindness and benevolence in the refugee camp, which was one thing that Jun Wu Xie did not fully understand immediately.
Jun Wu Xie lowered her head to look at the bun and the elixir in her hands. These two items were the things that Luo Xi had gotten his men to distribute to the refugees and Jun Wu Xie had gotten one of each item.
The two items looked very normal on the surface. The bun had already gone cold and becoming rather hard. Jun Wu Xie peeled the bun open and put it before her nose to sniff at it slightly, and her brows immediately creased up into a furrow.
“Somebody added White Bamboo into this.”
“White Bamboo?” The little black cat only felt that the words sounded familiar but could not recall anything about it on the spur of the moment.
“White Bamboo, warming properties and promotes blood circulation. If a person takes it for long periods, it would cause a surge in the blood and make one highly alert but easily excitable. In the twenty fourth century, this had already become a substitute for stimulants.” Jun Wu Xie said, her mouth curling up in a sneer. White Bamboo was a herb that she knew so well that she could not become more familiar with. From White Bamboo, one could extract something that could make a person incomparably excited for a short period of time and when induced into the body, it was extremely difficult to detect. It was a substitute stimulant in the twenty fourth century and was often used by people who people with evil intentions in competitive sports.
And such herbs were very frequently seen in the organization where almost every single member had a portion. It was prepared in case of emergencies. If they encountered a crisis and their bodies were not feeling in good shape, they only needed to drink the extracts of White Bamboo and they would instantly be restored to their peak.
But after Jun Wu Xi
e was reborn, she had not seen the White Bamboo once. She had thought it did not exist in this alternative world and unexpectedly, she actually discovered traces of the White Bamboo here at this place.
White Bamboo could be used as a stimulant in face of a crisis and taking its extracts for long periods might even strengthen the body. But with such strengthening effects, it brought great harm to a person’s brain and its nervous system and only people in the organization who had signed a death indemnity agreement could use it.
Jun Wu Xie had once seen a person in her past life who continuously ingested the White Bamboo extracts for an entire month. After that one month, his body’s resilience had become distinctly stronger than the average person and he had turned immensely strong. But the side effects had been equally clear to see as his intelligence was also constantly deteriorating. He had been a adult male over thirty years of age but in that one month, his intelligence had been reduced to become like that of a thirteen or fourteen year old.
When White Bamboo was used as a substitute stimulant, at the same time that it gets the body highly excited, the brain would also be put in a high state of stimulation. The longer such a situation was maintained, the worse the damage caused to the brain would be.
Volume 15
Chapter 1420: “No Lack of Money (1)”
Jun Wu Xie suddenly thought of those Poison Men and saw from the circumstances that the Poison Men were in, it was highly similar to that of people who have overdosed on White Bamboo, only that it’s effects were more severe.
“Looks like the people from the Twelve Palaces have added quite a large quantity of White Bamboo into the poisonous liquid they use to create Poison Men.” Jun Wu Xie said as her palm blazed with a furious purple fire that disintegrated the bun into ashes.
Within that elixir pill, Jun Wu Xie also detected traces of White Bamboo and its dosage in there was even higher than the amount that was in the bun!
These elixirs were to be fed to the children who had fallen ill and the nervous system in the brain of young children were still highly delicate as they were still in the developing stages and if their brains were overly stimulated in this period, it could cause irreparable damage to them.
Fed with an elixir like this, the harm that the children were going to suffer would be for life, and it would be damage that was irreversible.
Even for a person as cold and indifferent as Jun Wu Xie, seeing such a venomous and insidious method being used caused a fiery rage to rise within her chest.
What kind of a good Samaritan!? He was just a evil demon that seeked to rob the lives from people!
Shrouding himself with the cover of a kindly Samaritan, he was pushing people over into the deep abyss where even at the final remaining moments of their sanity that was robbed from them, their last thoughts might very well still be thanking this “good Samaritan”!
Compared to a hypocrite like Luo Xi, Jun Wu Xie would rather admire those who were blatantly evil! At least for those, they were a little more upfront with their evil deeds.
“Mistress, seeing that they are feeding these refugees White Bamboo, could they be using them to create Poison Men?” The little black cat’s heart suddenly jumped with the realization. It could not be blamed for being so startled as the facts before them gave it no choice but to come up with such a conclusion.
White Bamboo could be used to turn a person’s body stronger but it would cause the brain great damage. And if White Bamboo was used to lay the foundation at this point before they were taken to be turned into Poison Men, wouldn’t the process be highly sped up?
“That must be the case.” Jun Wu Xie snorted with derision and crushed the elixir to dust.
She was now almost certain that the source of Poison Men were from the Clear Breeze City and at least a part of the Poison Men were created from these refugees. But there was just one point. The Fan Country was just a small country and even if they turned all of its citizens into Poison Men, they would still be unable to create the large numbers of Poison Men throughout the lands.
How she unraveled this mystery would surely determine whether she could find the key to the real secret behind the Poison Men!
“Mistress, so what do we do now? Should we go stop those refugees from eating those things?” The little black cat asked.
But Jun Wu Xie shook her head.
Only she knew about Luo Xi’s hypocritical act and in the hearts of those refugees, Luo Xi was their greatest benefactor saving them from pain and suffering while she was just a complete stranger to all of them. If she was to try to unmask Luo Xi’s real face before the refugees, they would never believe a word of what she was saying and she would only end up alerting the enemy instead.
Such a thankless job that brought no benefits was naturally not what Jun Wu Xie would choose to do.
Jun Wu Xie rubbed her chin in thought. Since Luo Xi liked to play the “good guy” so much, then she might as well deal him an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, letting him have a taste of his own medicine!
“Come, we’re going into the city to have a look.” Jun Wu Xie suddenly said as her eyebrow lifted, walking straight towards the most prosperous streets of the Clear Breeze City.
With the world in such chaos, but the Clear Breeze City was for some special reason spared all the suffering and turmoil, where everything within the city was as per normal. And due to a bunch of rich and prosperous merchants who came to the city, the economy within the city had quickly soared bullishly by folds.
At present, the most expensive thing in the Clear Breeze City was not anything else but land within the Clear Breeze City!
Due to the large influx of refugees into the Clear Breeze City, the prices of houses there had skyrocketed. Places that had originally been not worth any money had now been pushed to exorbitant prices from the speculation of the residents where houses that could be bought for ten over taels in the past were now suddenly solidly met with refusal to sell even with thousand tael offers!
Volume 15
Chapter 1421: “No Lack of Money (2)”
And it was only these rich refugees with loads of money who would throw such astronomical sums just to buy a piece of land and that peace.
And it was that sore need that a shop popped up right beside the magistrate’s office in the Clear Breeze City specifically for the purpose of buying and selling all kinds of real estate. Many of the refugees who were rich in their purses would turn up at this place not long after they came into the city, seeking for a suitable manor for themselves.
When Jun Wu Xie walked into the shop, there were already several lavishly dressed refugees standing inside, their demeanor exemplifying the very epitome of “Your Lord has loads of money, so come make a slaughtering off me.”.
Even after having undergone a period of days living as homeless drifters, these people were still rosy cheeked and looking perfectly fine. Two pretty young ladies were serving one who had gold and silver decorating his rotund and pudgy body, a prosperous merchant dressed in a fully brocaded robe as he listened to the two petite voices making incessant introductions.
Upon the two hands of that man, all ten of his fingers were wearing big rings of glittery gold and he looked every inch a fat sheep about to be put to slaughter.
“Old Master Liu, what we have here are some of the best manors in this area and not only does it sit upon a vast piece of land, the constructions in the courtyards are also highly ideal. Look, there’s even a lily pond where you would be able to relax and sip on wine by its side when the weather gets warm in summer. You will surely find it ideal for your needs.” The pretty assistant in the shop said, already having acquired the skill to speak the right words to suit the occasion. Upon seeing this highly gaudily dressed Old Master Liu with his coarse and uncouth mannerisms who had just come to the Clear Breeze City today coming straight to this place, it had made the two little ladies at his side stumbling over themselves to gush and fawn upon him seeking to deal a big deal today.
/> “The place is not too bad, but it’s still a little too small. Do you have anything bigger in this place?” Old Master Liu said with an exceptional flourish, his face putting on a contemptuous look to show he had no lack of money, causing the two pretty ladies to gush coyly.
He was originally a grain merchant in the Fan Country and when the Poison Men had just started to spread chaos and turmoil, he had taken the opportunity to raise the prices of his grains and made a big killing. But alas, the place he had been residing in had also finally been taken down by the Poison Men and in order for him to save his own life, he had dragged uprooted his entire family and they had all come to the Clear Breeze City. He had then spent quite a bit of silver before he had been able to get everyone within his family inside the Clear Breeze City.
Having gotten used to living a life of kleptocracy through abuse of the people for so many years, Old Master Liu wasn’t about to make himself suffer. Afterall, all the money in his hands were ill gotten gains and he did not feel the slightest heartache splurging it.
When the pretty assistant heard Old Master Liu’s words, their laughter grew more shrill as they turned and went to look for the painting album of bigger manors.
When Jun Wu Xie stepped into the shop, not a single assistant went forward, all of them ignoring her. Even those who were standing around idle did not bother to ask her a single word.
Jun Wu Xie had just come over here from the refugee camp and she was dressed in coarse and crude clothes. With the added fact that she had infiltrated and in order to blend herself in with the others refugees, she had smeared charcoal upon her clothes and her face covered in dirt. Looking one glance at her, she would not look in the least like she would have much money. Moreover, she was very young with a petite and thin body, and she did not have a single attendant accompanying her.
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