Ch 296: High-End Consumption
The pig-shaped strong bone was just a lucky merchant bone, not that lord’s lower strong bone, so it’s likely no skeletons will come to help him for a while.
On the third floor of Shengyin Pavilion, Lie Feng suddenly sensed something and raised his tiger head to stare in a certain direction, but Yun Ming was still drinking tea and enjoying the music as usual.
In the end, Lie Feng shook his large tiger head and changed his posture to continue lying down.
Having dodged the bone whip’s attack, the pig-shaped strong bone was powerless to dodge another attack.
Two bone thorns pierced into the pig-shaped strong bone’s body but didn’t hit any vital points, and the bone whip lashed over from an extremely tricky angle.
One of the pig-shaped strong bone’s legs was tightly restrained, unable to move at all.
At this time, the pig-shaped strong bone had broken free from the bone thorns stuck in its body and was about to untie the bone whip on its leg bone, but was interrupted by a burst of dense bone needles.
With a slight hesitation, the spider strong bone’s bone thorns pierced into the pig-shaped strong bone’s spine bone.
The sudden, intense pain caused the pig-shaped strong bone to let out a furious howl, and a very small shadow flashed in its vision.
The bee-shaped strong bone nailed the stinging bone needle into the pig-shaped strong bone’s skull. Although it only went in a little, it made the pig-shaped strong bone truly feel death.
The bone whip wrapped around the bone leg quietly loosened, the snake-shaped strong bone tightened around the pig-shaped strong bone’s neck bone, and the three strong bones exerted force at the same time. The pig-shaped strong bone instantly shattered into pieces, and the essence soul was divided up by the three strong bones.
After solving the pig-shaped strong bone, the three strong bones disappeared from the spot without any hesitation.
The battle started very suddenly and ended even faster. In total, it didn’t even take ten breaths. Only after the three strong bones left did the battle bones hiding in various corners dare to come out, fiercely fighting over the bone material on the ground.
The strong bones nearby were fortunate enough to witness the entire battle process. To be able to solve a strong bone and the dozen or so battle bones under his command in such a short time, those three strong bones were definitely not cooperating for the first time.
The snake-shaped strong bone, bee-shaped strong bone, and spider strong bone had known each other since they were battle bones, and often worked together to earn soul water.
Later, after being promoted to strong bones, the three strong bones discovered that their bone techniques had become more complementary, so they simply accepted all kinds of bounty and employment missions together, and for a time, life was still considered comfortable.
When Jin Shan came to their door, the three of them initially disagreed, but after being jointly taught a lesson by Delaf, Ameng, and Erix, they decided to join.
After all, there aren’t many who can be hired with soul orbs!
Before ambushing the pig-shaped strong bone, the three strong bones practiced the information provided by Jin Shan countless times, and even scouted the location for a long time in advance. Only then could they complete the mission in such a short time.
Seeing that the strong bone material on the ground was about to be snatched up by several battle bones, the strong bones hiding in the dark still didn’t show any intention of taking action, as if they weren’t interested in the several hundred jin of strong bone material at all.
“Goo! Goo! Goo!”
Several strange sounds rang out, and the battle bones who were fighting over the bone material stopped fighting at the same time, and began to roll on the ground while hugging their skulls.
More than a dozen flying skeletons appeared in the sky above the alley.
The strong bones in the dark took a look, and they were all pigeon-shaped skeletons. A strong bone and a dozen or so battle bones made cooing sounds together.
The sound seemed to contain terrifying lethality. The battle bones that were still fighting to the death just now were all dead.
Moreover, they all died from shattered skulls. They all shattered their skulls themselves!
The military bones of Royal Bone City had arrived. The identity of the pigeon-shaped skeletons was obvious. The strong bones spying around chose to leave this place of trouble.
The pigeon-shaped strong bone landed on the ground and crushed a cat’s head into powder.
He was in a bad mood, just because these rogue bones had messed up the scene, making it impossible to see how the pig-shaped strong bone actually died.
In fact, this kind of thing happened eighty to a hundred times a day in the inner city. The reason why the pigeon-shaped strong bone attached so much importance to it was because the pig-shaped strong bone was in charge of Shengyin Pavilion, and the real controller behind Shengyin Pavilion was a General Bone Lord in the Water Bank. It definitely couldn’t be characterized as a vendetta like other cases.
There had to be a reasonable explanation, and this was also an explanation to the upper cavalry bone.
Although the scene of the crime was destroyed, the pigeon-shaped strong bone had already sent the military bones under his command to seal off the surrounding area on the way here.
He even borrowed some military bones from other strong bones.
“Report, Lord, there are strange strong bones approaching.”
“No need to stop them, let them come over.”
The pigeon-shaped strong bone knew that this was probably sent by that General Bone Lord.
Soon, a rabbit-shaped strong bone appeared at the scene of the crime with several lower battle bones. The two sides didn’t have much communication.
The rabbit-shaped strong bone only had the lower battle bones collect the pig-shaped strong bone’s bones and left without saying a word, without any intention of talking to the pigeon-shaped strong bone.
The pigeon-shaped strong bone didn’t stop him, and allowed the rabbit-shaped strong bone to take away the “key evidence” in this case.
There was nothing useful left at the scene. The pigeon-shaped strong bone planned to “visit and investigate” the surrounding residents. He believed that many skeletons saw how the pig-shaped strong bone died.
“Spread out all the military bones under your command for me. During this period, strictly investigate anyone entering or leaving this area.”
“Yes, Lord.”
“What if they are those court-attending skeletons?”
A lower battle bone asked. After all, the court-attending military bones usually cooperated with them, but that didn’t mean they were really afraid of them.
“Handle it the same way as before.”
The pigeon-shaped strong bone said. What he was most worried about was that the murderer was a court-attending military bone. Although the probability of this situation was not high, if it really came to that, he would have a headache.
Suddenly losing the soul link with the upper strong bone most likely meant death in the inner city.
The battle bones staying behind at Shengyin Pavilion were all at a loss, not knowing what to do next.
Some clever battle bones had already begun to plan to take one or two valuable things from Shengyin Pavilion to exchange for some soul water, preferably soul orbs.
However, before these little plans could be realized, a group of battle bones poured into Shengyin Pavilion and controlled the humans and skeletons except for the customers and musicians.
The rabbit-shaped strong bone bluntly announced that he would take over Shengyin Pavilion from now on. The expressions on the skeletons’ faces varied, some were shocked, some were frightened, and some were unwilling.
The human group seemed much calmer. Anyway, they were already used to being managed by skeletons, and it was the same no matter who they changed to.
“Those who are willing to become my lower battle bones can stay, those who are unwilling can leave now.”
The rabbit-shaped strong bone threw down these words and walked towards the stairs.
After a brief and intense thought, the battle bones made different decisions: most of the battle bones chose to leave, and only a few battle bones chose to become the rabbit-shaped strong bone’s lower battle bones and establish a soul link.
“Kill them all for me, do it neatly and don’t disturb the customers.”
Before the battle bones could step out of Shengyin Pavilion’s door, the rabbit-shaped strong bone issued a new order to his lower battle bones through soul speech.
The battle bones who could attack from a distance aimed their bone techniques at the throat bones of those “unlucky ones,” preventing them from making a sound, and then pounced on them to carry out the order.
After the lower battle bones cleaned up the broken bones on the ground, the rabbit-shaped strong bone let the humans and lower battle bones go about their business.
The abnormal sounds coming from downstairs certainly couldn’t be hidden from Yun Ming, but he still listened to the music without any intention of joining in the fun.
Seeing that Yun Ming had no intention of stopping, the musician naturally didn’t dare to stop without permission.
After a song ended, Yun Ming got up to leave. Lie Feng followed immediately, and Mikaia moved slightly after a moment.
The attendant waiting outside saw Yun Ming come out and immediately stepped forward, “Your total consumption is 4 soul orbs.”
“I listened for three hours, it should be 6 soul orbs.”
Although 2 gray soul orbs weren’t much to Yun Ming now, he would still not take advantage of a bargain if he could, because the other party was likely plotting something.
“The store was being renovated just now, disturbing your enjoyment of the music. The last hour is on us.”
The attendant explained.
Yun Ming didn’t say anything, took out 4 soul orbs from the soul storage bone and handed them to the attendant before leaving Shengyin Pavilion.
Not long after walking, Yun Ming encountered a checkpoint set up by Royal Bone City. It seemed that they were searching for some skeletons. Yun Ming thought it should be related to what happened today.
For a cavalry bone, such checkpoints were useless. After returning to his residence, Yun Ming began his daily “study” again.
In the second tier area, there was a rather luxurious courtyard. The battle bone guards at the door indicated that the skeleton living here was at least a strong bone.
On the second floor of a detached bone building, the room was filled with misty steam. Two strong bones were talking in a ten-foot square soul water bath.
“Brother Jin Shan, isn’t your price a bit too expensive? 20 red soul orbs! And you don’t allow payment with soul water.”
The pig-shaped strong bone, Lunba, shifted his bloated body and said with a worried look.
Jin Shan, who only showed his head, immediately said, “Brother, this is the price we agreed on before. Brother wouldn’t be thinking of going back on his word after things are done, would he!”
“Besides, this deal is not easy to do. Not to mention that you want to kill the strong bone in charge of Shengyin Pavilion, just the early scouting and aftermath work require a lot of bribes. And I guarantee that I will never reveal Brother. Anything that happens, I, Jin Shan, will take the blame for you, Brother. 10 soul orbs are worth it!”
Lunba shook his pig head and said, “Brother, I’m not that kind of merchant bone. Besides, I have to dare to go back on my word! It’s just that my business has been having some problems recently, and the soul orbs in my hand are really tight.”
“That’s easy to say! If Brother encounters difficulties, I, as a brother, will definitely not sit idly by. Tell me what difficulties you have, Brother, and I will definitely handle it clearly for you.” Jin Shan changed the subject, “The price will be halved for you, Brother, and given together with this time’s payment.”
Lunba shook his head repeatedly, “There’s no need for Brother to take action. Some small things, I can handle them myself.”
Jin Shan came to Lunba’s side and put his arm around the pig-shaped strong bone, saying, “Don’t be polite. Even if I can’t handle it, don’t I still have my boss!”
“Don’t alarm him for my little matter!”
Lunba stood up all of a sudden, splashing soul water everywhere.
Originally, Lunba only wanted to hire someone to kill the pig-shaped strong bone of Shengyin Pavilion. The two pig-shaped strong bones were both merchant bones, but their relationship was very ordinary.
After the pig-shaped strong bone climbed up the relationship with the General Bone of the Water Bank, he even suppressed Lunba greatly.
Unable to bear it any longer, Lunba approached Jin Shan, preparing to hire someone to kill the bone.
He was originally thinking of delaying the payment, but he didn’t expect Jin Shan to not fall for it at all. His words were full of threats.
“I suddenly remembered that I just received a batch of soul orbs a few days ago, but they are gray. Give me some time, Brother, and I will exchange them for red soul orbs and send them over as soon as possible.”
Balun suddenly had an expression of realization and guaranteed to Jin Shan.
Jin Shan repeatedly said not to worry, and said that if Balun encountered any difficulties, it would be okay to pay a few days later.
“If you’re really tight on money, I have some soul orbs in my hand that have definitely lower interest than the Water Bank.”
Jin Shan said finally.
