Chapter 155
Chapter 155: Into The Pothole (Part 2) “You’re taking too much if we split 5-5. You can’t even enter the remains without me,” Li Yixiao was very much against the notion of a 5-5 split.
Lu Shu spoke candidly, “Truth to be told, I already earned enough from this remain alone. What’s the point of risking my life in other remains? There were already so many dead people this time, who knew what would happen next time? What if there were spies who could kill me easily?”
As he said this, Lu Shu thought that he could be closing his doors to the potential money he could earn in other remains and his heart ached at the thought… but when it came to negotiations, he couldn’t reveal his weakness!
Li Yixiao deliberated for a long time before agreeing that Lu Shu was really risking his life and it was fair of him to take half the spoils. And more importantly, Li Yixiao couldn’t find anyone else to work with. Fatty Li then said, “Alright, 5-5, so be it. But you can’t slack off! I’d stop working with you if you did, and you can’t hide any equipment as well!”
“Don’t worry,” Lu Shu was jubilant inside, “I’m not that sort of unscrupulous and greedy person!”
Li Yixiao eyed Lu Shu skeptically. You’re telling me that while clad in gold chains and watches?! He thought and replied, “Since we are already business partners, shouldn’t you give me a gold chain?”
“Nope.”
“From Li Yixiao’s distress, +188!”
The two of them had already worked out a common interest, their business just depended on when the next ancient remains would open. In fact, Lu Shu’s willingness to work with Li Yixiao was due to one more reason – he was a heavenly king.
Although Li Yixiao wasn’t too reliable, his character was still quite decent. If he could become friends with a heavenly king, wouldn’t many things become more convenient in future?
As Zhong Yutang was in the progress of organizing his team, Jiang Shuyi came over with the intention of passing Lu Shu his spear. Lu Shu didn’t reject him as Jiang Shuyi had no use for it. That spear would be the most useful for his use.
No one knew what exactly it was down there. With Lu Shu’s character, the more options he had, the better.
However, at this point, Lu Shu’s greatest option wasn’t his spear-tossing but the corpsedog concealed within his celestial map for a long time!
If there were ghosts below… Lu Shu’s emotions were like a burning flame.
Zhong Yutang walked over, “Heavenly king Li, there are 9 missing members of the heavenly network from Yuzhou. Taking the one you killed into account, there should be 8 people below. This is my negligence, I will report to heavenly king Nie after this.”
“Don’t bother reporting to him. Everything I say is final here in Yuzhou,” Li Yixiao flailed his huge arm, “Why are you looking for so much trouble, we all know that spies are hard to guard against since they’ve started more than ten years ago. No one knew about the magical development then as well, they were just lucky.”
Zhong Yutang frowned, “But…”
“No buts,” Li Yixiao replied indifferently, “Don’t even know if we lured all of them out this time. Daoyuan students have to keep a lookout within your groups. More inspection and interrogations would take place when we get back. We have to comb through once more.”
Li Yixiao’s expression suddenly turned extremely somber, “If we catch these rats, we’ll kill them one after another.”
Zhong Yutang was relieved as well. If the higher management knew that 9 spies emerged from this operation in the remain, his inspection and management abilities would be questioned. This sort of thing would be hard to report as well. Just from this alone, it seemed that it was a good thing Li Yixiao was in charge of Yuzhou. At least he was rather lenient.
Zhong Yutang thought and asked, “Everything is settled now. Heavenly king Li, could you inform me of your further plans?”
“Plans? What plans?” Li Yixiao was dumbfounded.
Zhong Yutang: Erm.
…
Lu Shu stood at the end of his team. He was placed in Luo Cheng’s team of heavenly network members and Xi Fei was beside him.
As a class D within the remains, Xi Fei’s presence wasn’t small. He would definitely be credited in the roll of honor when they got back. He was quite familiar with Lu Shu, as they had a teacher-student relationship after all.
But he looked at Lu Shu’s get-up. It definitely didn’t fit Lu Shu’s character as it was extremely eye-catching.
Lu Shu suddenly thought. This pothole was more than a hundred meters deep. Even if he could jump into it without much problems as a class E strength type, what about the others?
It was as if everyone wasn’t anxious and never thought about the problem of getting down there.
At this moment, a class D expert beside Zhong Yutang nodded his head and walked to the edge of the pothole, sticking his hands on the floor.
The next moment, a stone platform started forming close to the entrance of the pothole. This class D expert was actually a metahuman!
This was very powerful! He actually created a winding staircase out of nothing!
Li Yixiao nodded and looked at everyone, “Move out! Everyone follow me, Li Yixiao, and do your best. Credit and resources wouldn’t be left out. I’m a generous person and will do as I promise. What is the known pun about my name Li Yixiao?”
Li Yixiao almost forgot what it was and looked over towards Lu Shu, “What is the known pun about my name Li Yixiao?”
Lu Shu shouted annoyingly, “Generous-Li!”
“Yes, hahaha. Generous-Li. Ancestors mentioned that Li Yixiao is generous!”
At this moment, all the members of the heavenly network including Zhong Yutang shot a suspicious look at Lu Shu…
“From Zhong Yutang’s distress, +99.”
“From Xi Fei’s…”
“From Liu Xuanyu’s…”
Lu Shu couldn’t believe it, this Li Yixiao didn’t even remember how to sing his own praises? Why ask me in front of so many people?
The distress points gained from these few days were already more than 40 thousand… If this went on, the 160 fruits needed to light up the sixth star weren’t too far away…
Everyone started walking down the stone staircase. Zhong Yutang’s worried expression couldn’t be hidden as he stood at the top of the pothole. He was worried that the 9 spies came prepared. If Li Yixiao was unreliable down there, the team he nurtured so painstakingly might run into trouble…
But he couldn’t go down. He understood Li Yixiao’s intentions for him to look after those daoyuan students. If a class C spy suddenly revealed himself to be within this group of students, they would be finished.
No. Looking at Li Yixiao’s demeanor, he couldn’t have thought of that. It was just because he didn’t want Zhong Yutang to go down…
Lu Shu walked along the winding staircase. Only thirty meters down, he heard crying sounds from down below, as if hungry ghosts were thinking of taking a few souls for lunch.
The corpsedog started to get excited.