Chapter 445 Dispute
Since the establishment of the Zero Point Tavern, there has probably never been a wanted criminal as bold as Su Xia.
As the number one on the wanted list, he didn't take the huge bounty on him seriously at all. He returned to the Zero Point Tavern under a changed identity and even got a lot of good things from the Zero Point Tavern, such as the sixth-grade medicinal wine Starry Sky Flowing.
He is the only one in the world who has such courage.
Even Wang Teng, who is ranked second on the wanted list, would not commit suicide one after another like this.
Wang Teng seems arrogant, but he is actually very cautious . He almost never enters the main urban area of any city.
Most of the time, he was in the vast wilderness, his whereabouts unknown, occasionally appearing in a mercenary town, occasionally entering the base of a mercenary organization. As a level five creature, he enjoyed the pleasure of occupying the mountain and being the king in the wilderness.
In comparison, Su Xia's actions are much bolder.
"The atmosphere in the tavern is better than when Fan Lu was here. At least ordinary members can come and go freely." Su Xia walked into the tavern and was instantly surrounded by the bustle and noise.
The first floor of the pub still looks familiar.
Early in the morning, many people sit here and drink morning wine, which seems to be a local custom.
Su Xia doesn't like this custom very much. He thinks drinking in the morning is bad for the stomach, especially since many people drink it on an empty stomach without even a little food to fill their stomach.
In the tavern, people talked about a variety of topics. Some discussed the undiscovered treasures in the wilderness, while others talked about gossip about officials in the city.
As a city's information hub, the tavern is always able to obtain all major and minor events happening in the city at the first time. Some of the relevant information about these events requires payment, while others are provided to each member for free.
And those free news became the topic of conversation for most members while drinking.
"Have you heard about it? There was a resettlement housing project in the east of the city. Someone pushed someone else's old house in the middle of the night, killing dozens of people. The case will go to court today. The poor people in the slums in the east of the city have gathered together and are making a scene at the court. It's really lively now!"
"Oh, I knew this before you did!"
"There must be a commissioned mission over there. Do you want to go take a look together?"
“That makes sense!”
"Those guys in the slums may be poor, but they can always pool some money together. If the court's judgment is unfair, let's be good people and help them get rid of the project leader!"
“…”
The old members in the tavern are very sharp and good at discovering valuable points from various information and making use of them.
Missions don't just fall from the sky.
Sometimes, the tavern members need to find, trigger, and lure the city residents to assign tasks to them.
"The latest news is that several gangs in the southern slums have started fighting again. Gunshots were heard early this morning, and more than a dozen people have died so far!"
"Oh? Are they the people who live in the sewers?"
“It’s them!”
"Let's go and have a look!"
"Where there is death there is hatred, and where there is hatred there is new killing. There is a high chance that we can receive commissioned missions there!"
“…”
Sometimes members would enter the tavern, and sometimes they would leave and go to different areas of the city.
Most of these members who are still looking for opportunities to take missions in broad daylight do not have regular jobs, or in other words, their regular jobs are killers and they do not need another identity to cover it up.
Killing a person can earn at least several thousand or tens of thousands of dollars. Isn't this much better than moving bricks?
Su Xia sat in the corner, looking calm, and listened quietly for a while.
"It's still the same old thing, nothing new."
He shook his head slightly, stood up, walked to the bar, and tapped the counter lightly.
Boom boom!
The waiter came over immediately, smiling and asked, "What do you need, sir?"
"Is Yi Yi here?" Su Xia asked straight to the point.
"Well... Mr. Manager is very busy with work and may not be able to see customers now." The waiter hesitated for a moment. He saw that Su Xia was a stranger and there was a hint of tentativeness in his tone.
"Inconvenient to meet guests? Then I am here!" Su Xia said in an unquestionable tone, "Take me to see him."
After saying that, he flicked his finger and a pitch-black card popped out.
This card was given to him personally by Yi Yi when he came to the pharmacy last time.
Seeing the card, the waiter's expression suddenly became much more respectful. He bowed slightly and said to Su Xia, "Please follow me, sir. The store manager is on the basement floor. The ground floor is only a public area."
"Um."
The two walked one after the other through the noisy first floor, entered a narrow corridor covered with red carpet, and walked to the end of the corridor.
The elevator leading to the underground is at the end of the corridor.
Taking the elevator to the basement floor, Su Xia saw the familiar underground hall. He turned his eyes and immediately saw Yi Yi behind the bar.
This middle-aged man was still the same as before, with a frown on his face and a hint of depression between his brows, but the smell of alcohol on his body had lessened a lot.
"Mr. Manager, this person wants to see you." The waiter walked over and said respectfully.
"Who?"
Yi Yi raised his head and his eyes fell on Su Xia. His whole body trembled and his eyes suddenly lit up.
He stood up in a hurry, dropped everything he was doing, and said to Su Xia, "Master Su, why did you come here in person?"
"I'm here to see the patient." Su Xia said with a smile.
"plz follow me!"
Yi Yi made a prompt decision and asked the waiter to leave. He would personally lead the way for Su Xia.
He had also heard about Su Xia receiving a death threat letter, but he naturally did not expect that at such a tense moment, Su Xia would actually go out in person and come to his run-down tavern.
Moreover, the relationship between the tavern and the mechanical clan is not very good now.
Theoretically speaking, Su Xia belongs to the mechanical race and is a high-ranking figure in the human submission camp. He should not come to the tavern alone as it would be easy for outsiders to gossip about him.
"Master Su, please come this way." Yi Yi was very polite and stretched out his hand to guide Su Xia.
"Okay." Su Xia nodded happily and walked beside him.
"Amo and the others have been relatively stable lately. They are not noisy or noisy, but they are very sleepy. They sleep for more than 20 hours a day. We have tried many methods, but nothing works. Sigh..."
Yi Yi talked about the current situation of Yi Mo and Shen Yu, with a hint of sadness and helplessness in his words, and he couldn't help but sigh at the end.
During this period, they invited many famous doctors and pharmacists in Coral City and tried all kinds of methods.
In the end, they even tried the power of gods and ghosts and asked people to exorcise the evil spirits for Yi Mo and the others.
You know, many members of the North Wind Story Club are staunch atheists, but they actually started to try those things, which is really touching.
"Well , mental trauma is not so easy to heal, unless we can find a higher-level creature who is stronger than Fan Lu and has the ability to heal the mind." Su Xia nodded slightly and said so.
"Mental healing?" Yi Yi was puzzled. He had lived for so many years and had only heard of this ability but had never seen it.
"Yes, there may not be any in other places, but there must be some in the headquarters of your Zero O'Clock Tavern." Su Xia was very sure that there were a large number of talented people hiding in the headquarters of the tavern, who could even take out level 5 creatures at will.
"Forget about the headquarters..."
Yi Yi shook his head. Yi Mo and Shen Yu became like this because of Fan Lu who came from the headquarters.
Until now, there has been no response from the headquarters.
Even if he contacted his master Zhuang Ren, it would be of no avail. His master seemed too lazy to take care of these matters.
Su Xia also noticed that Zhuang Ren didn't seem to be here.
"Master Su, you came here today, but you have..."
Yi Yi hesitated for a moment, knowing that he shouldn't ask, but he couldn't help it, after all, it was related to his apprentice Yi Mo.
Su Xia smiled slightly: "I am sure of it."
"Really?" Yi Yi was overjoyed.
"Mr. Yi, do you still remember the medicine I told you about?" Su Xia asked him.
"Master Su, the materials for that kind of medicine must go to the south..."
Yi Yi was stunned for a moment. He remembered Su Xia saying that to refine that kind of potion, one needed a precious material that could only be found on the southern coast, which was the gland of a certain kind of marine fish.
Before this, only the Masked Stranger had gone south to search for the gland for them.
But now, the masked man’s life or death is unknown, and his whereabouts remain a mystery. Rumors outside say that he has been seriously injured and is hiding somewhere to recuperate, and it is impossible for him to return to the south.
He may even have died in the sea.
"The material has been found. Mr. Yi, do you understand?" Su Xia took a look and said with a smile.
"So..."
Yi Yi was shocked. He was certainly not stupid. He immediately understood what Su Xia said.
The potion has been refined, which naturally means that the masked man has returned the materials!
All the rumors from outside are self-defeating!
No one could have imagined that the strange man wearing a metal mask could actually break out of the encirclement of the mechanical clan, fight his way thousands of miles away, and successfully return to the south!
If this news gets out, it will definitely cause a huge uproar!
"Master Su, that person now..."
"You can't say it. Just let Mr. Yi know it in his heart." Su Xia smiled mysteriously and shook his head slightly.
"I see!"
Yi Yi knew that his strength was too low after all. If he knew too much, it would easily be disadvantageous to the masked man.
The two of them talked as they walked, and soon reached the deepest part of the underground first floor, where there was a hidden elevator entrance.
There are at least thirty such elevator entrances on the underground floor. Some can only reach the next floor, while others can lead to the deepest floor.
"bite--!"
The elevator door opened.
Yi Yi invited Su Xia in, and then the two of them walked into the elevator one after the other.
Soon, the elevator stopped on the second floor below ground, and what appeared in front of Su Xia was a long corridor covered with dark red carpet. The corridor was dimly lit, and some valuable paintings from different eras were hung on both sides.
"Master Su, some of Ah Mo's friends have been emotionally unstable recently. You need to be prepared."
Yi Yi suddenly spoke, with a frown on his face, and talked about another matter.
"Some of them treat you particularly badly."
"Oh? Why?" Su Xia asked with a smile.
"Master Su has a bad reputation now, you should know that." Yi Yi chose his words carefully and spoke slowly.
"I know." Su Xia nodded.
"Almost every one of Ah Mo's friends has been treated by Master Su, so they are dissatisfied with you and always look at Master Su with hostility."
Recently, every time there was a report about Su Xia on TV, the members of the Beifeng Story Club would grit their teeth and wish they could rush into the TV and drag Su Xia out and cut her into pieces.
They often discussed that when the situation was not so tense, they would find an opportunity to kill Su Xia and make Su Xia disappear silently in the darkness of the city.
Even if he cannot be killed, he should be imprisoned to make him understand the price of selling out his teacher for fame and fortune.
Of course, there is another reason besides this.
"They all think that it was you, Master Su, who tricked that person to the south." Yi Yi explained the cause and effect. "During that time, the situation in the south was already quite tense. The news of that person's appearance spread, and you let that person go to the danger alone under the pretext of collecting materials, causing him to fall into the encirclement of the mechanical tribe..."
"Well, it seems that I am not a good person."
Su Xia looked relaxed and said with a smile.
The notoriety surrounding this identity is increasing.
But if there are too many lice, it won’t itch. Su Xia doesn’t care about that at all. It doesn’t matter if there are more.
"Master Su, if Ah Mo's friends speak in a bad tone later, please bear with me. I will protect your safety throughout the whole process."
Yi Yi was very worried. He was afraid that the reckless guys in Beifeng Story Club would not be able to distinguish the important from the unimportant and cause Su Xia to leave in anger.
"Don't worry, I've experienced this kind of thing a lot." Su Xia could imagine the scene and shrugged indifferently.
As they were talking, the two turned left and right in the dark underground corridor and came to the door of a single room.
This is where the members of the North Wind Story Club have been living during this period.
Yi Yi stood at the door, subconsciously blocking half of Su Xia's body, and then knocked on the door.
“Boom boom boom…”
Yi Yi said in a deep voice: "Open the door, I have something to do today!"
Not long after, there was a slight creaking sound from inside the door, and the door opened a crack.
"Boss Yi, what's the matter? What do those people from the headquarters want to do again?" The gap gradually widened, and Yuan Hua appeared behind the door.
As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly turned and he saw Su Xia behind Yi Yi.
"Is it you?"
Yuan Hua's eyes immediately stood up, anger rising in his eyes, and he shouted: "You! You damn pharmacist, how dare you come here?"
After saying this, energy surged throughout his body, and a sense of oppression emanated from him.
His roar immediately attracted the attention of the rest of the people in the room.
Everyone looked towards the door, and after seeing Su Xia's face, their emotions became unstable and they all glared at Su Xia.
"Damn it! It's him! That bastard who betrayed Master Dad!"
"If Master Daddy were still alive, he would definitely have a way to cure A-Mo and the others!"
"We haven't even looked for him yet, but he came to us on his own initiative!"
Invisible murderous intentions intertwined like a big net, instantly covering Su Xia's whole body.
After all, everyone in the North Wind Storytelling Society is a psychic being, and they have all experienced life-and-death battles, and each of them carries a unique murderous aura.
Surrounded by their murderous intent, ordinary people might not be able to bear the pressure and collapse on the spot out of fear.
Yi Yi also realized this, his face changed slightly, and he immediately took a step forward and stomped hard on the ground!
"Bang!"
He immediately released his own psychic energy fluctuations to counteract the scattered power of the rest of the people in the room.
"What are you doing?!" Yi Yi shouted coldly, his voice like thunder, exploding at the door of the room.
"Boss Yi, why did you bring this man here?" Yuan Hua asked, stiffening his neck.
"I'll bring Master Su to rescue Ah Mo and Shen Yu!"
"Just him?"
"Is it up to you?"
