NOVGO.NET Chapter 661: 288: Making a Mountain out of a Molehill
Chapter 661: Chapter 288: Making a Mountain out of a Molehill
Su Mo often questioned himself and knew he was no gentleman.
And he dared not claim he was a good person.
Talk of sublime righteousness and valiant spirit was just an impression others forcefully attached to him.
He lacked Su Tianyang’s chivalrous aura, even less capable of Xu Lu’s selfless sacrifice.
Therefore, when Ding Wugong and his ilk targeted Yang Xiaoyun, Su Mo’s sole intention was to make them wish they were dead!
Thus, he never even considered playing fair with Ding Wugong.
His original plan was simple: to use the Suffering People Scripture to make this man’s remaining life a prolonged agony.
But now there was an even more convenient method.
The potion of separation… indeed, a fine thing.
And considering the doubts about Ding Wugong’s true identity, it served as perfect bait for fishing.
Therefore, both emotionally and rationally, it was impossible for Su Mo to finish him off ‘quickly’ and ‘painless’.
Even if he couldn’t use people to their fullest potential as Night Lord did with Wan Cangxin, he still needed to wring the last bit of value out of this man.
Severing his limbs, destroying his meridians, crippling his martial arts.
Having completed these three tasks, Su Mo called out:
“Xiao Xiao.”
“Master, I wasn’t asleep!”
Zhen Xiaoxiao jolted up in a corner, suddenly standing, her little eyes red with fatigue.
“…”
Su Mo felt his surging fierce emotions losing their momentum, and simply said:
“Leave this man to you, don’t let him die, he’s useful.”
Zhen Xiaoxiao immediately nodded, grabbed Ding Wugong with one hand and the One-legged Copper Man with the other. After pondering for a moment, she found it quite troublesome.
Her eyes swept through the hall, suddenly brightening.
She quickly moved to the side of the hall, found a bundle of ropes someone had discarded there, and it was just the thing to use.
She put the One-legged Copper Man down, placed Ding Wugong on top of it.
Then bound the two together with the rope.
When she picked the One-legged Copper Man up again, she had effectively created a One-legged Copper Man X2.
Su Mo and Yang Xiaoyun watched, dumbfounded, as Zhen Xiaoxiao swung the One-legged Copper Man with a whistling sound, Ding Wugong bound to it crying in the wind, leaving them in a state of crying and laughing.
Without further ado, the few of them began to scour the bodies littering the courtyard.
However, this task was not an easy one.
There were few intact bodies, most were horribly mangled.
Making the search quite troublesome.
After a cursory search, not much of value was found apart from some silver notes and elixirs.
Sorted and packed away, the silver notes were given to Yang Xiaoyun to carry.
“Although each deal made with Hero Ji isn’t worth much, the accumulated wealth is significant.”
Yang Xiaoyun remarked with a sense of emotion looking at the silver notes: “These people are really rich.”
The lineage of the Master of Wangxuan Mountain was relatively poor and didn’t carry much money.
But the followers of Ding Wugong from Wusheng Hall were either rich or noble.
Collectively, they carried several thousand taels, enough to match the earnings Liu Mo would obtain from a trip to the Five Directions Gathering.
“They were able to follow Ding Wugong, naturally all closely related to Wusheng Hall.
“In this territory, tightly embracing the pillar of Wusheng Hall, they would certainly live well…”
Su Mo said: “Let’s go, neutralize the poison outside, bring back the villagers, and tomorrow we will deal with the bodies here. This night will then be over.”
Moreover, Su Mo remembered he still had another matter to resolve.
But who knew how the Ghost Lady, who liked pretending to be a god, was currently considering her options?
…
…
“Lord Su, the task you entrusted is truly troubling.”
Outside Tihu Village, upon a hillside, this vantage point overlooked the entire Tihu Village.
The Ghost Lady excelled at playing tricks; her big red sedan chair and Ghost Burning Lamp, under the cloak of night, were sincerely creepy.
Su Mo simply took her out of the village for a talk, to prevent her from frightening the villagers with her appearance.
Yet he didn’t expect her first sentence to catch him off guard.
Su Mo sat on a large rock, glanced at the big red sedan chair, and smiled slightly:
“Hidden Killing Building deals in assassination, and now that business is at your doorstep, you refuse to do it?”
“It’s not that we refuse, more so that we can’t.”
The Ghost Lady’s response took Su Mo by surprise.
“Who exactly is this Store Manager? Is it because his martial arts are too powerful that your Hidden Killing Building can’t kill him?”
“It’s said he doesn’t know any martial arts.”
“Oh?”
Su Mo laughed: “Then why can’t Hidden Killing Building kill him?”
“There are two reasons.”
The Ghost Lady let out a long sigh:
“The first reason is that no one can find him.
“I know why Lord Su knows the Store Manager’s name, the Hidden Killing Building indeed accepted the assignment, to protect him.
“However… that may not be the real Store Manager.
“The Store Manager has countless alter egos, only one is real.
“This one, hidden so deeply, is almost impossible to find throughout Donghuang.”
Su Mo was stunned for a while, then laughed:
“This is even more interesting, what about the second reason?”
“The second reason is… this person is too wealthy!
“Wealth grants divine passage, this God of Wealth is truly not someone the Hidden Killing Building wishes to offend.
“I ask you, Lord Su, to be magnanimous, please do not make it difficult for me anymore.”
Su Mo fell silent.
The Ghost Lady inside the big red sedan chair also stayed quiet.
But the mountain wind that had always been blowing, at some point, had suddenly become still.