Chapter 189 Rich, Too Painful
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Wulong Town, West Street.
Every shop that used to belong to Yinlan Villa was turned upside down from the rooftop to the cellar.
"No. I measured it with a ruler one foot at a time. The structure inside and outside is the same, and there are no dark walls."
"I don't have one here either. Although there is a cellar, it is a closed cellar and there are no secret passages inside."
There is no shop in Wulong Town that dares to stop the investigation of Tangjiabao, so the whole process goes on very quickly.
But the other two managers of Yinlan Villa did not hide in any store, even the shops run by Yinlan Villa themselves in the past.
Another group of people from Tangjiabao were searching in the outskirts of Wulong Town and in various villages, but they did not miss each yard, but they did not even find any clues.
As for Tang Boyuan and the others, they followed Zheng Qian and others who were familiar with the mountain roads and drilled into the mountains of all sizes near Wulong Town and directly searched for the so-called secret cave of the Lan family.
One day, two days, three days...
As time passed, the hearts of the people in Tangjiabao sank little by little.
Not only was the location of the Lan family's secret cave not found, the other two were responsible for blood sacrifices like Manager Li, and the same as Manager Li, were not exposed at all.
Disappointment, exhaustion, panic...
Various complex emotions are gradually growing and spreading in Tangjiabao.
Tang Zheng watched the children of Tangjiabao go in and out day by day, go out with hope, and return with disappointment. The more you look, the more something is wrong: "No. Xiaotang, this won't work."
"What's wrong..." Xiao Tang looked at Tang Zheng with red eyes.
"You continue to look for it like this. Before Yinlan Villa can be called, you have already collapsed! You must reduce the manpower, rotate the rest, and maintain normal star power cultivation and martial arts practice!"
"But..." Tang Xiaotang's eyes became even redder, "We have already searched like this, but we can't find the secret hole of the Lan family. If the personnel are reduced..."
"Now there are three roads in total, Wulong Town is inspected, the suburbs are inspected, and the road to find the Lan Family Secret Cave. Then, only three people are needed every day."
"Ah?" Tang Xiaotang rubbed his eyes, "How can three people be enough?"
"There are so many young talents in Tangjiabao, but Yinlan Villa does not. Think about how they did it?" Tang Zheng looked at Tang Xiaotang.
"Uh...hire hunting team." Tang Xiaotang didn't expect it at all because of the danger of being slaughtered by the fort.
Tang Zheng nodded and stretched out three fingers: "Yes, hire a hunting group! Starting today, our Tangjiabao only sends three people to lead the team as the captain every day. The remaining people... directly use the money to hire Zhao Shanhe and others to investigate with reputable hunting groups like him."
Tang Xiaotang nodded immediately without any objection.
"It's better to invite a strong man above five stars directly, and you can get one hundred or eighty ones. Money is not a problem..." Tang Zheng suddenly raised his hand and said.
"..." Tang Xiaotang looked at him with a look of giving up treatment. "Did you ask me to invite the sect leader of Zhaixing Sect and Qintian Sect?"
"Is that OK?" Tang Zheng asked.
"What do you think!" Tang Xiaotang was very tired, but she almost got amused by Tang Zheng.
Because Tang Zheng’s thoughts were so funny.
All the five-star powerhouses can start sects. How could they even come out for money and work hard?
"Wait a minute." Seeing that she was about to go out again, Tang Zheng waved her to come back. "Let Zheng Qian and the others apply for a hunting group nameplate... No, apply for a Corps nameplate directly. It will be hung under the nameplate of Tangjiabao, and I will pay them a salary."
"Well, I originally wanted to pay my salary, but Brother Zheng said that they owe us Tangjiabao, so don't pay it..." Tang Xiaotang said.
"You can do it for one day or two days, but you can do it for ten or eight years?" Tang Zheng waved his hand, "Tangjiabao can provide martial arts training grounds, food and accommodation, but equipment, martial arts, and accessories to assist in cultivation must be solved by yourself."
Whether it is a hunting regiment or a corps, they are not a regular military organization. Each family will only pay to recruit some hunting regiments and corps to enter the combat sequence when the battle is tense. If the recruitment is received, the hunting regiment will have a service period of fifteen days, while the corps will be twenty days.
The rewards received by the hunting regiment were twice as high as those of the regular troops stationed in the same theater, and the corps were three times as high.
Each aristocratic family does not have to raise soldiers all year round, but only spends two to three months of military pay to make up for combat effectiveness. Therefore, most aristocratic families near the border adopt open and encouraged policies for such private soldiers.
Tang Zheng took a bag of Zijin Tongbao and gave it to Tang Xiaotang. He also solved the problem that Zijin Tongbao was not purified enough and could not be put into the purple gold belt.
Tang Zheng only left dozens of purple gold Tongbao in his small wallet. Seeing Tang Xiaotang go out, he couldn't help but sigh: "I have to think of some ways to develop more ways to spend money..."
Even the money he made casually now hasn't used up for several months, let alone the money in the purple gold belt!
What about the promised "before a person dies, spend all his money"?
Not only are they not getting closer to the target, but they tend to get further and further away from the target?
"It's so painful to be rich." Tang Zheng returned to the yard and fell to the bed in a suffocation.
Of course, Tang Zheng himself knew that this was a false proposition.
If he is already nine stars now, of course he will do whatever he wants and die. In the final analysis, his current strength is limited by his full talent for death and prevent him from playing happily in the decayed and evil sea of money.
"I'm going to reach Jiuxing!" Tang Zheng's whole face was facing downwards and buried in the pillow.
...
The summer in Wulong Town has arrived completely.
Every evening, waves of showers will drop, as if washing the dust and hustle and bustle of the day.
However, even if Tangjiabao sent people, the only way to pass at each side gate of Yinlan Villa, was uninterrupted for twelve hours. Nothing was gained.
There is no one in Yinlan Villa at all!
As for the other two managers mentioned by Manager Li, no one saw them coming and going.
Obviously. They don’t need to go back to Yinlan Villa. They just need to prepare the sacrifices and send them to the secret cave of the Lan family where their ancestors were in seclusion.
Tangjiabao tried all the ways, and forged letters from Manager Li, asking hunters to go to various mountains to shout "There is a fire" and so on, etc., were useless.
Even Azhi and Xiao Lingdang took the initiative to ask for bait, asking Zheng Qian to pretend to be a human trafficker and try to seduce the other two managers of Yinlan Villa, which was also ineffective.
In the previous life, Tang Zheng, who was able to solve a high-difficulty task, could come up with at least dozens of strategies, felt that he had encountered an opponent for the first time.
There are no less than ten methods he proposed, including active, passive, oppressive, and weak. Some methods are so fake that they scared Tangjiabao's own people in cold sweat, but there is no reaction from Yinlan Villa!
Tang Zixie even wanted to take the risk of sneaking into Yinlan Villa, but Tang Zheng directly shot this idea.
The important managers of Yinlan Villa are not back. The ancestors of the Lan family are not in the villa, so what are they doing when they go in?
The results are not very effective, but it only increases the danger!
"Dad had any new things from Manager Li?" Tang walked around the hall and asked a few managers.
"I asked yesterday. I asked this morning, nothing new." A manager sighed, "That manager Li even said that when he was ten years old, he even peeked at Lan Shaoqing's maid taking a bath. He said four times, but there was really nothing new to say."
It's late at night.
The night wind in Tangjiabao is not as fresh and cool as it is, but rather dull as wet and heat.
In the hall of Tangjiabao, there are only Tang Zheng and a few managers, as well as Meng Fenghua and other coaches.
Tang Xiaotang and the others were all driven to "retain their energy" by Tang Zheng, because no one knew when the ancestor of the Lan family would come out of seclusion and when the Tang family would suddenly come to Tang family fort.
When it was midnight, Tang Boyuan rushed back from outside. As soon as he entered the door, he placed the blood sacrifice array map on the table in front of Tang Zheng and the others.
"I asked, this is not the formation map of the Moon Killing Blood Sacrifice, but... the formation map of the Moon Killing Blood Sacrifice! If it is the former, there are three broken array points, but the latter," Tang Boyuan said with a gaze, and then he said in a deep voice, "No, this secret technique is nothing to be broken at all!"
"Nothing can be broken?" Several managers' faces turned pale, "How could there be such a secret method in Yinlan Villa?"
"No, the Moon-Devouring Blood Sacrifice is a more extreme formation. Strictly speaking, it is not complete in the Moon-Devouring Blood Sacrifice." Tang Boyuan continued, "The secret method of the Moon-Devouring Blood Sacrifice has a breaking array point, but it can completely increase the main priest by one star level! Although the Moon-Devouring Blood Sacrifice does not break the array point, the price paid is the 'closed-loop formation'..."
"What is a closed-loop formation?" Several managers looked at each other. The formation was too profound, so they knew that a martial arts training field was a formation, and they didn't understand anything else at all.
"Master Mo Feng said that the closed-loop formation is a self-circulating formation, because Xingbo is not the main star, and it does not possess real star power. After he introduced Xingbo into the Life Palace, the formation was closed. Xingbo's power caused some improvement, which would inevitably cause some weakness at the same time!"
Those managers didn't understand it very well: "Then... did Xingbo weaken the vitality of those children and enhance his star power?"
Tang Boyuan shook his head: "Master Mo Feng said that the child's blood may be used to carve arrays, and it can only be regarded as...the material for setting up the array, and it cannot make a substantial improvement to the old man in the Lan family."
Use blood from a thousand children's bodies as materials...
Although this is a fact, it still seems too cruel to say it.
The hall was silent for several breaths.
"If it's really a matter of no way..." a manager raised his head and said, "I can only send Tang Zheng and the others... juniors first, hurry up and send them away."
The other managers didn't say anything, but it seemed that they almost agreed with this statement.
Yinlan Villa did not hesitate to block itself completely, but he just didn't want Tangjiabao to prepare in advance. The ancestor of the Lan family was very clear about his intentions. He wanted to catch all Tangjiabao in one place, and no one left.
To be honest, Tangjiabao responded in advance and played a hide-and-seek game with Yinlan Villa. As long as you successfully hide in the backlash of the Lan family ancestors, they will be a victory.
Although the target of evacuating all Tangjiabao is too big and it is impossible to hide tightly, if you just let the younger generation go and leave Tang Boyuan and others to restrain and delay in Tangjiabao, it will still give Tang Zheng and Tang Xiaotang a way out.
Tang Boyuan was thinking, and suddenly, Zheng Qian and Master Zhen ran in: "Hurry up... Go to the woodshed to see...Manager Li...Manager Li..."
"What's wrong?" Tang Zheng stood up.
Zheng Qian, a two-star peak warrior, was so angry that he was so angry that he was pale. His face was pale and he couldn't say a word.
Generally speaking, Zheng Qian's first reaction to something happens is to "analyze" first. According to Tang Zheng's understanding of him, even if Manager Li in the woodshed dies, he will not skip the process of counting his fingers and run over in panic.
"Let's go and have a look." Tang Boyuan didn't ask Zheng Qian any more. He waved his sleeves and stood up to head towards the woodshed where Manager Li was imprisoned...
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