Chapter 388: A Favor
During the city-wide curfew, those who dared to go out in night clothes were basically capable people.
Su Xia stared at Zhuang Ren quietly. He was sure that he had never seen this man in the Zero Point Tavern before, and had never even heard of his name.
This person gave Su Xia a very strange feeling.
He was clearly lying on the wall, very close to Su Xia, but it seemed as if he did not exist at all. His presence was very small, and he was in harmony with the surrounding environment, as if he had merged into one.
"Everyone who sees it gets a share. Give me half and I'll take it and leave right away!" Zhuang Ren lowered his voice and asked Su Xia for the lump fish.
"There are only nine in total. How can I give you half?" Su Xia asked him.
"Four fish each. For the last one, you take the meat and I'll take the venom gland!"
"No room for negotiation!"
Su Xia directly refused: "One, this is my bottom line!"
He has never refined the [Dream Enchantment] potion. What if he doesn't feel good about it and keeps failing?
Venom glands are very important materials. One more piece means one more hope. How can we possibly give away half of them?
"Four!" Zhuang Ren took a step back. "This is also my bottom line! You take five, I take four. After all, you acted first, so I am in the wrong, so I will give you one fish!"
"Just one, do you want one?"
Su Xia insisted on her bottom line and refused to retreat.
He originally wanted to give none of them, and gave this one just to avoid trouble.
If this man really wanted to rob, Su Xia would not be afraid. Although his psychic power was not as strong as this man's, the outcome would be uncertain if a fight really broke out.
Zhuang Ren was annoyed and whispered, "Three, I only want three, take them and leave!"
Su Xia insisted: "One!"
"Don't force me!" Zhuang Ren was furious. "I've always been reasonable and haven't taken action in a long time!"
"If you dare to do anything, I will scream immediately!"
"call out?"
Zhuang Ren was so angry that he stared at Su Xia: "You came here to steal something, and you shouted? Don't you care about your dignity? What are you shouting about? Do you want to shout that someone is stealing fish?"
Su Xia remained calm and said, "I will call the masked man here and lie on the wall."
"you……"
Zhuang Ren's tone paused, and he was a little annoyed. Obviously, he didn't expect Su Xia to be such a tough guy.
"I'm not a masked weirdo!" he said angrily.
"It doesn't matter. Just believe the mechanical tribe." Su Xia shrugged. "A group of robots will fly over the sky every few minutes. Do you think you can escape their encirclement by then?"
"Okay, you're so cruel!"
Zhuang Ren gritted his teeth and said, "Two! Give me two! I'll take the fish and leave!"
Su Xia said with a straight face: "One!"
"Why the hell are you so stubborn?"
"I'm of great use."
"Nonsense, if it's useless, who the hell would come to steal a few fish!" Zhuang Ren said viciously.
Given his status and position, stealing things was already considered a shameful thing, let alone stealing a few small fish.
"Give me two venom glands!" He took another step back. "I don't want the whole fish anymore. Give me the venom glands and keep the meat for yourself!"
"No, I can give you the meat of two fish, and I will use the venom glands myself."
"you……"
Zhuang Ren stared at Su Xia, but before he could say anything, a voice suddenly came from the room inside.
With a loud bang, the door of the room was pushed open.
Then, there was a cry of surprise: "The fish is gone! Someone stole the fish!"
Standing in Su Xia's position, he could see that several people in security uniforms had come into the room.
One of them squatted on the ground, checking whether the unconscious security guards were alive or dead.
The other person immediately ran to the window, looking anxiously, and stretched his head to look around: "Damn it, it's only been two minutes, how come the fish and the fish tank are gone? Is this a team crime?"
The night wind blew gently, making the man's hair messy.
He kept his eyes open and looked around for a long time, but he didn't notice Zhuang Ren lying on the left wall outside the window.
Su Xia noticed that this person's eyes swept over Zhuang Ren's position several times. Even if he was extremely nearsighted, he would not have missed it - but he didn't notice it!
How does this work?
Zhuang Ren's body's presence was almost reduced to zero.
Even if it was Su Xia, if he didn't look carefully, it would be easy to ignore this guy lying on the wall.
The room was in chaos. More and more people came. Some were reporting the case, some were rescuing people, and some were contacting the insurance company. It was noisy, but everyone was anxious.
"Damn it, the surveillance camera in the room was broken and nothing was captured!" said a middle-aged man who looked like a supervisor.
"The surveillance cameras outside didn't capture it either!"
"Such a large pressurized fish tank, with pressurized equipment, can't just disappear, right?"
"Could it be the undead who committed the crime?"
"There have been several cases of undead stealing things before." Someone mentioned: "They can tear the alien space apart with their bare hands and throw the stolen things into the alien space. Even if they are caught, there will be no physical evidence!"
"Hey... there's a box of stuff here..."
Soon, they noticed the wooden box left by Su Xia.
But their faces all changed, and the first thing they thought of was not pearls, but something else.
"Retreat quickly!"
"Damn it, stealing things is fine, but actually leaving a bomb behind!"
“It’s really crazy!”
"Luckily, no one of us touched the box just now..."
“…”
These people hurriedly left the room, dragged the unconscious people out, and shouted to warn people around them to leave. At the same time, they began to evacuate the wealthy businessmen who came to buy fish on the first floor.
They actually mistook this box of jewels for a bomb box!
Su Xia couldn't help but admire the security guards' reactions. If it were someone with no bottom line tonight, he might have really left a bomb here.
At this time, Zhuang Ren, who was lying outside, spoke up: "What's in that box?"
"If I say it's a bomb, do you believe it?" Su Xia asked him back.
"If it's really a bomb, I will kill you immediately, even if it means I'm exposed. Don't think I'm really afraid of the Mechanoids!"
Zhuang Ren obviously also has a bottom line: he can steal things, but he cannot kill people.
Su Xia was a little speechless and asked him, "Have you ever seen a bomb box made of rosewood? Am I just bored?"
“Is that rosewood?”
“I have no idea.”
"Stop talking nonsense, just sell me the two fishes!" Zhuang Ren realized that if a box was made of rosewood, there must be good things inside.
In other words, Su Xia did not come here to steal things directly, but to force a sale, which was different from his plan.
Therefore, he also proposed to buy: "One fish is one million, two fish are two million, give me a card number, and I will transfer the money to you immediately!"
Su Xia: "Just one!"
"you……"
Zhuang Ren gritted his teeth and asked Su Xia in a low voice, "What do you want so many fish for? To make hallucinogens?"
"I want to save people." Su Xia said.
"I'm going to save two people too!"
"This fish is full of poison. How are you going to save people?"
"I want to make medicine!"
"oh?"
Su Xia's heart moved and she looked at Zhuang Ren carefully.
This guy is from the Zero Point Tavern, and he said he wanted to save two people, and he needed the fresh venom glands of this fish...
Besides Su Xia's [Dream Enchantment] potion, are there any other potions that can use this thing?
Su Xia's body floated away into the distance, and at the same time she said, "It's not convenient to chat here. Come with me, and we'll talk while we walk."
"You... you're still walking and talking..."
Zhuang Ren was so angry that his nose was about to be crooked. He immediately moved and caught up with the invisible Su Xia floating in the air through the slight flow of air.
Su Xia flew very fast, and Zhuang Ren was not slow either.
He was wearing a nightgown, like a silent ghost. He seemed to move around at night frequently, jumping between tall buildings without even leaving a shadow and without leaving any trace.
A few minutes later, Su Xia stopped above a hotel and slowly descended to the roof.
At the same time, Zhuang Ren jumped lightly from the roof of another building and jumped here. His body was so light that it seemed as if he had no weight at all, and there was no sound at all.
He breathed evenly and slowly, staring at Su Xia and said, "Two Fish, stop talking nonsense to me! Otherwise, I will really do it!"
Su Xia smiled faintly: "You want to save people?"
"Nonsense, didn't I tell you?"
"Need fresh venom glands?"
“That’s right!”
"If I give you the fish now, how can you guarantee its freshness?"
"Freeze it!" Zhuang Ren pointed to his head, "Are you brainless? Can't you think of such a simple method?"
"No, freezing will denature the proteins."
Su Xia revealed her body, no longer invisible, and pointed at her brain, saying to Zhuang Ren, "This kind of venom gland cannot be used as medicine after being frozen, so it must be kept absolutely 'fresh'."
"Is there such a saying?" Zhuang Ren frowned. He didn't expect this.
"You see, this is because you don't read enough books."
“…”
Zhuang Ren was silent for a long while and said nothing.
Su Xia continued, "If you want to make a potion, you must extract the venom gland from a living fish, make sure it is fresh enough, and make it within twelve hours, otherwise it will be useless."
"Then give me the fish tank and I'll take the fish and the tank with me!" Zhuang Ren said.
"So your original plan was to steal the fish directly and then freeze them quickly?" Su Xia asked him.
"Nonsense! How can I take such a big fish tank away?"
The fish tank was too big, and there was a huge pressurizing device, so it was difficult just to lift it.
As a thief, the less you carry, the better.
Su Xia stood opposite Zhuang Ren and looked at him carefully. Suddenly, he felt that this man was similar to a legendary figure he had heard of before.
Whether it's temperament or ability, they are basically a match.
"Why are you silent?" Zhuang Ren asked, "One word, will you give it to me?"
"Don't worry."
Su Xia smiled, looking relaxed, and asked him, "Do you know Yi Yi?"
Hearing this question, Zhuang Ren immediately became alert: "Who are you?"
“The people we want to save may be the same people.”
"Um?"
Zhuang Ren frowned, his eyes downcast, and moved slowly, looking at Su Xia carefully.
Soon, he realized something, his eyes widened, and he pointed at Su Xia and said, "Fuck, are you the masked weirdo?"
Su Xia shrugged: "What do you think?"
"You...you actually used this identity to threaten me just now?" Zhuang Ren was so angry that he wanted to laugh. "If the mechanical tribe is really attracted here, you will be the one who is most afraid, right?"
He was so angry that he slapped his head hard. He should have thought of it earlier!
It can fly, become invisible, and is a level 5 creature. It just happens to be in the southern city...
Who else can meet these conditions besides the masked man?
In the entire south, there seemed to be no other advanced creatures that met this requirement, and yet he had been thinking about it for so long.
Su Xia looked calm and said, "It doesn't matter if the mechanical tribe comes. I have dealt with them many times, and one more time won't be a big deal."
"It doesn't matter if you die, but don't lose the fish." Zhuang Ren said viciously.
"Speak politely, I am your apprentice's benefactor."
Su Xia pointed out Zhuang Ren's identity and said, "Your apprentice asked me for something. I came all the way to the seaside to find it. I survived a lot of dangers and was chased by the mechanical tribe. I finally came to Conch City. Speaking of which... you two owe me a favor."
"Bah! That bastard Yi Yi didn't ask you to come!"
"Okay, I'll go back and cook the fish, and we'll say goodbye."
Su Xia shrugged and pretended to leave.
Zhuang Ren was furious and shouted, "Wait a minute!"
"What's wrong?"
"I owe you a favor," he said helplessly.
"No, it's you and me, the master, who both owe me a favor." Su Xia folded his arms, calm and composed, not in a hurry at all.
This Zhuang Ren was naturally Yi Yi's legendary master who was elusive.
After he told her the purpose of saving people, Su Xia almost guessed it.
This is a true legend.
This legendary story is circulating in various midnight bars all over the world.
He is one of the first generation members who rebuilt the Zero Point Tavern after the advent of psychic power. His status is terrifyingly high, and he has had several identities, such as "Night Walker", "Dusk Killer", "Silent Nighthawk", etc.
Each of these code names corresponds to a legend, and when they were at the peak of their fame, they were no less famous than the current "Masked Stranger".
At the time, many people did not know that these identities belonged to him alone, and thought they were several different masters, which were only revealed later.
When his identity was exposed, it caused an uproar inside the tavern and other organizations.
No one expected that one person could have several legendary identities.
After that, Zhuang Ren gradually faded out of everyone's sight and no longer took care of the internal affairs of the tavern. He just held a nominal position, accepted a few apprentices, and then disappeared completely.
"Don't you even bother to care about your apprentice's life or death?" Su Xia asked him, "Why did you suddenly want to help him?"
"Who said I don't care?"
“I heard that your female apprentice was killed by Wang Teng. Later, Yi Yi came to you for help, and you just said that life and death are determined by fate.”
"That matter..."
Zhuang Ren was silent for a moment before he said, "My original intention was just to teach those two bastards Nana Yiyi and Xue Lie a lesson, hoping that they could avenge themselves and use revenge as motivation. But after that, they became even more emaciated and unwilling to make progress. Over the years, they have not made any progress at all..."
"I see." Su Xia nodded.
"This action is just to save my good disciple." Zhuang Ren said, "There is a bastard pharmacist named Su Xia in Coral City who can make a life-saving potion, but he needs fresh venom glands."
"Damn pharmacist..."
"Selling out the teacher is just being a jerk, isn't it?"
"Yeah, that makes sense."
Su Xia did not refute and nodded in agreement.
