123: Chapter 123 Paying Respects to Cyber Bodhisattva, You're the Only Brother in the Entire Cult
Yun Zhuo smiled slightly, "It seems I was right. Dongji Company is from Jianmu City, and Inoue Maru is also from Jianmu City. I estimate that there are definitely more people like Inoue Maru outside the city."
Deng Xin chimed in, "Are you saying that the attempt to silence Inoue Maru last night was staged by them?"
"Exactly. By exploiting Tian Ji's grief over losing his brother, those who went to silence him last night just need to hide within the Wild Wolf and Raging Fire Adventure Groups. Since none of the three major Adventure Groups are pushovers, wouldn't they start fighting each other?"
"If I haven't guessed wrong, Dongji Company must have had a bountiful harvest in the Abandoned Well and is planning to leave."
"But with you guarding the outside, it's hard for them to leave, so they have no choice but to make you kill each other first."
"Come to think of it, my conflict with Tian Mang yesterday was all calculated by that scoundrel Inoue Maru."
After listening, the six of them thought about it and felt that Yun Zhuo's analysis was spot on.
Suddenly, Huang Chao slammed the table, making the wine bottles jingle.
"That bastard Inoue."
Huang Chao was so angry he stood up and wanted to leave, but was stopped by Yun Zhuo, who said, "Wait a moment, Brother Huang. Settling scores is one thing, but we still need to earn the money that should be earned."
"What do you mean?"
"Pay first, deliver later. If Tian Wei doesn't want to lose face, Inoue Maru shouldn't live past noon."
Huang Chao nodded, "That makes sense."
Immediately after, Deng Xin and the others also stood up.
"Brother Xiao Zhuo, we'll treat you to a drink after this is done."
"Brother Deng, you're too polite. Come to think of it, I'm doing this for myself too. I can't really hide in this village forever, can I?"
After saying this, Yun Zhuo tossed the opened pack of yellow bird tower to him.
The group looked at each other and chuckled.
Watching the backs of the six disappear at the village entrance, Yun Zhuo stretched and walked to the small shop.
"Sister Jingjing, do you have any milk? Get me a bottle."
A carton of yogurt was handed to Yun Zhuo, "You kid, you're really something. With just a few words, you got rid of your own bounty."
"Just good luck. If that Tian Mang had been a bit more generous and added a zero to the end of my bounty, it wouldn't have been so easy."
As he spoke, Yun Zhuo inserted the straw and took a sip, "By the way, how much is it?"
"No need, Sister is treating you."
"That's so embarrassing."
"Then pay up, ten bucks."
"Sister, you are so gentle and generous, treating me to milk. I can't let you become a fickle person."
Jiang Jingjing giggled, "You kid, how can you be such a smooth talker?"
"I'm not just good at talking, I'm also good at licking. Do you want to see?"
"Huh? You kid, don't push your luck."
"Sister, I thought you were pure and chaste, I didn't expect you to be a dirty-minded girl."
"You, if you can't give me a reasonable explanation today, I won't let you leave this door."
Yun Zhuo picked up the yogurt and smiled, "I meant, I can lick this yogurt carton clean, do you believe me?"
"Lick the yogurt?"
"Otherwise, what did you think I was going to lick?"
"You, get out, get out, don't disturb me doing business here."
Yun Zhuo looked around the small shop, "With this shop of yours, calling you the landlady here is less accurate than calling you the security guard of this village."
"Yours is the only shop in the whole village, who opens it at the village entrance?"
"Then where should it be opened?"
"Of course in the middle of the village, that way it's convenient for whoever comes to buy things."
"Then it wouldn't be convenient for people outside who want to buy things."
"Are there usually that many people outside?"
Jiang Jingjing smiled slightly without speaking.
Yun Zhuo thanked her for the yogurt and sauntered away from the small shop.
Jiang Jingjing is the village security guard, which is something Yun Zhuo just discovered.
But no matter how he looked at it, she was just an ordinary person of the mortal rank, Medium Grade.
If there was anything different, it was that she had nine inlay slots. Once they were all activated, her talent could reach the Imperial Rank.
For his next stop, Yun Zhuo planned to find the village chief Di Zhenzhen, but when passing by the Guanyin Temple, he changed his mind.
Entering the Guanyin Temple again, standing before the altar, looking at the cyber version of the Guanyin statue in front of him, he used Breaking Delusion and Seeing Truth on the statue.
At this glance, Yun Zhuo's eyes lit up.
This cyber guanyin was actually the control hub for a defense System.
Yun Zhuo searched around the statue for a long time but couldn't find the control System. How was this thing activated anyway?
Just as he was about to follow the optical fibers on the statue and pry open the metal plate of the pedestal, footsteps were heard outside.
He quickly jumped down from the pedestal, picked up three sticks of incense, and pretended to offer incense to the statue.
"Why are you here, kid?"
Di Zhenzhen's voice came from behind.
"Sister Zhenzhen, why are you here? Are you holding a service today?"
"I'm asking you."
"I came to offer incense to Guanyin Bodhisattva."
Di Zhenzhen walked to Yun Zhuo's side, also picked up three sticks of incense, lit them on the eternal lamp nearby, held them in her hands, and bowed.
A nun wearing a nun's habit, holding incense and bowing to Guanyin—this didn't seem out of place at all, because the person bowing was beautiful, and beauty is justice.
After she inserted the incense into the censer, she said, "This is not a Bodhisattva, this is the Goddess who protects us. Also, we don't hold services, we only hold dharma assemblies."
"Twice a week, there happens to be one tonight. Do you want to attend?"
"At night? Isn't that inconvenient?"
"What's inconvenient about it?"
"You are all women, and I'm the only man."
"Don't be so coy. You and I are both believers of the Goddess, so we are brothers and sisters in one big family, no distinction between us."
Fine, if I keep refusing, it will just make me look coy.
Seeing that Yun Zhuo agreed, Di Zhenzhen smiled slightly, took out a Guanyin pendant, and handed it to him, "This is for you."
Yun Zhuo took it and used Breaking Delusion and Seeing Truth to look at it; it was just an ordinary jade Guanyin.
"Do I need to wear it around my neck like you guys?"
"Not usually, but remember to wear it when you come to attend the dharma assembly tonight."
The two walked out while chatting.
"Does this count as me officially joining the sect? Don't I need some kind of baptism or similar ceremony?"
"There are no such tedious formalities. Tonight's dharma assembly is mainly to introduce you to everyone."
"Are there many people in our church?"
"Just over a thousand or so."
"How many brothers are there?"
"You are the only younger brother."
"You don't forbid romantic relationships within the sect, right?"
Di Zhenzhen glanced at him, "We forbid marriage with outsiders, but you are a believer, and the doctrine doesn't say anything about it. If you have the ability to win someone over, we can't exactly break up a loving couple, can we?"
Yun Zhuo sized up Di Zhenzhen.
Such big buttocks, a strong waist and abdomen, long legs—what a great figure.
"What are you looking at?" Di Zhenzhen noticed Yun Zhuo looking at her and turned back to glare at him.
"Sister Zhenzhen, I want to pursue you."
"Huh?" Di Zhenzhen was stunned. When she realized what he said, her eyes unnaturally turned elsewhere, "Is this how you usually pursue girls, you kid?"
"No."
"Then what about just now?"
"I was just testing if what you said just now counts. You didn't hit me, so it seems what you said should count."
"You." Di Zhenzhen turned back and glared at him again, "Jingjing was just telling me that you have a silver tongue. I see it's not just a silver tongue, but also quite... quite cheap."
Sister Zhenzhen was unhappy.
"Hey, Sister Zhenzhen, if you really can't think of a good word, you don't have to say anything."
"Good words? With that mouth of yours, can there be any good words to describe it?"
"Yes, there are—eloquent, articulate, silver-tongued, smooth-talking, all of them work."
"I can't argue with you."
"By the way, Sister Zhenzhen, with the sun so strong outside, aren't you hot wearing headscarves like that?"
"I'm used to it."
"Do you usually wear makeup? If someone came to the village to sell cosmetics, they wouldn't have trouble selling them, right?"
"We don't wear makeup. Stop trying to scheme against us."
"You're lying, if you weren't wearing makeup, how could you be so pretty?"