Chapter 254: Dad’s Past
Can it be saved?
Seeing these two words, Yi Yi felt relieved.
"It's good to be able to save him..."
Yi Yi clenched his fists. He didn't care about anything else. He just wanted his apprentice to return to his former lively and happy self.
Yi Mo's current dementia made him heartbroken. He only hated himself for not being strong enough and knowledgeable enough as a master, and was really useless.
He did not doubt Su Xia's words.
In the outside world, many people believe that the masked man is lawless, does things without taboos, follows his heart, kills whoever he wants, and attacks whichever force he wants, without ever considering the consequences.
But Yi Yi knew that Su Xia had his own principles in doing things, at least he would not deceive his friends on such a critical issue.
As for Fanlu——
Does Su Xia really have a way to deal with him?
Yi Yi thought about the big commotion Su Xia caused in Yuling City last time. Judging from the photos taken at the scene afterwards, even a level 5 creature could not cause such great damage.
Even normal level five creatures cannot escape the massive pursuit of the mechanical race.
Looking at the second line of words, Yi Yi could almost imagine Su Xia's indifferent tone. He couldn't help but wonder in his heart, could it be that Su Xia's strength has improved by leaps and bounds to a level that he could hardly imagine?
I hope so.
If he was strong enough, Yi Yi would have wanted to do it himself and kill that bastard Fan Lu.
"Everyone, please be quiet. I have thought of a solution. Just be patient for a few more days." Yi Yi spoke to everyone in the room. According to Su Xia's instructions, he would first stabilize them and keep them inside the tavern.
Yi Yi knew that letting these people leave might cause unnecessary trouble to Su Xia outside.
Hearing this, everyone was stunned, silent for a moment, and looked at Yi Yi.
Now the time, place and people are not on their side, what can Yi Yi do?
"Boss Yi, what can you do?" Zhu Lu asked, "We have known each other for many years, please don't lie to us."
"Yes, don't help that damn guy. I know that you, Boss Yi, are not that kind of person." Yuan Hua also said.
They were afraid that Yi Yi would be forced to compromise due to pressure from the tavern headquarters.
After all, Yi Yi still holds the title of "branch owner", which is an honor and status, but also a responsibility and constraint .
As long as he is in this huge organization, he has no freedom and is restricted in every way. Sometimes he has to make concessions, unless he is willing to tear up the contract and turn against the headquarters.
"In my opinion, we should just go and terminate the contract with the tavern unilaterally today. I don't believe the tavern dares to stop us." A member who was not weak in strength said, "The contract of the tavern is maintained by its reputation over the years. If they dare to take action, everyone's contract will become a piece of waste paper. What will other members think? Who will dare to join the tavern in the future?"
"That's right, let's go, I've had enough of this crappy place!"
"No, listen to me."
Yi Yi took a deep breath, his eyes were deep, and his tone was solemn: "If we leave now, what will happen to Ah Mo and Shen Yu?"
"But what can we do if we stay here? Boss Yi, will those people help us?"
"Wait a little longer." Yi Yi said in a deep voice: "I have been running the tavern for many years, and I still have some connections. You don't have to find my teacher. In the next few days, I will bypass Fanlu and ask the core members of the internal team to put pressure on you, and I will give you a result."
At the same time, he also mentioned a possibility.
If the people from the North Wind Storytelling Club really wanted to leave, the tavern would definitely agree in front of the rest of the tavern members.
At least, they will agree on the surface, but it is hard to say how they will handle it behind the scenes.
"Where else can you go after leaving the tavern?" Yi Yi asked them, "Are you really going to join Commander Bei Feng? That commander is far away in the wilderness. In recent incidents, it has been said that all the resistance organizations have moved and may have entered the mountainous area in the southwest."
The mountainous area in the southwest, with its towering mountains, overlapping peaks and ancient trees, had been sparsely populated long before the war.
Even professional explorers can easily get lost if they go in, wandering around and around unable to get out. In the end, they die in the endless forests before they can be rescued, and even their bodies cannot be found.
There are at least fifty mysterious disappearances every year, if not a hundred.
After the advent of psychic power, many wild beasts evolved, becoming stronger and more terrifying. The roars of wild beasts could often be heard from the periphery, and there might even be insect nests hidden inside. Normal people who went in would basically end up with no remains left. It has almost become a desolate place.
"Brother Chang knows the old address of the Oasis Camp. We can go there first." Yuan Hua said, "The commander must have left a liaison officer."
"What if Fan Lu intercepts you in Middle-earth?" Yi Yi asked.
"He really dares to do this?"
"What do you think?"
Yi Yi asked back, everyone knew what Fan Lu had done during this period.
As long as he could find out the whereabouts of the masked man, is there anything Fan Lu wouldn't dare to do?
"I can still barely guarantee your safety here." Yi Yi looked at everyone, "Once we leave here, Fan Lu will have no restrictions. The headquarters will tacitly allow him to do anything."
"We all have strong hiding abilities, he may not be able to find us." Yuan Hua still wanted to leave, so he said this.
"We all came from the tavern, and we were all assassins in our early years. In terms of concealment and tracking ability, how bad can Fan Lu be?"
Yi Yi stated a very cruel reality, and the others had to admit it.
If the contract is terminated unilaterally, they will be in danger from the moment they walk out of the pub.
Once they are caught by Fan Lu and his men, what awaits them will not only be the skill of "soul-stealing", but also something even more painful and terrifying, which will make them live a life worse than death.
At this time, Chang Yu spoke again, asking on behalf of the others: "Boss Yi, how long do we have to wait?"
On Yi Yi's wrist, a number "Seven" appeared, and Yi Yi replied, "Seven days, at most seven days, I will definitely give you an answer."
"good."
"During this period, if you have any ideas, you can bring them up, but don't leave the pub."
"Yes, it hasn't reached the final stage yet." Chang Yu endured the severe pain in his body and said, "Boss Yi, please ask a pharmacist to come. The master may have a way to save Ah Mo and Xiao Yu."
"Dad?"
"Yes, it's the master."
This is the best solution Chang Yu can think of at the moment.
That master was at least a fifth-level pharmacist with superb skills, unmatched in the southwest region. He was not averse to those who were close to the resistance organization and often provided them with high-level potions.
As long as the injured person is still alive, even if only half of his body is left, the master can save him.
"Okay, I'll go ask the master right away." Yi Yi agreed solemnly. It was still early, less than 10 o'clock in the evening, and the pharmacy should not be closed yet.
There are also records of this master in the underground file library of the Zero Point Tavern.
Dad is really too low-key in his daily life. He almost never has any conflicts with anyone, and his understanding and knowledge of potions are rarely passed on to others, so the description of him in the information is limited.
[Not weak in strength, with extremely powerful potion skills, and invincible to level 4 creatures]
This sentence was written at the beginning of the tavern's information, and it left a certain impression on Yi Yi.
The records also record the only time Dad took action.
It was on the way to purchase materials. Dad set out from Coral City to the big city in the north, White Shark City, to find a supplier of insect materials.
Many medicines require insect organs, blood, shells and other tissue materials, and they are used up very quickly, especially when Hong Bafu and Lan Bafu were just getting started and began their devilish training.
At that time, the underground warehouse of the pharmacy was not so rich, and many materials were insufficient, so my father had to go around purchasing them himself.
While passing through a hilly area, Dad was attacked by a very powerful mercenary organization.
The leader of that mercenary organization was a fourth-level creature with great strength. He accepted the amnesty from the mechanical race and served as a human city lord for a period of time. However, since he was not used to the position and felt uncomfortable, he returned to a life of robbery.
He got himself a plundering license and began to commit legal robbery in the wilderness.
It is well known that pharmacists are rich.
After seeing his father's car, the fourth-level mercenary leader decided to make a big move.
However……
When he was lurking behind a hill with more than a hundred of his men, a white mist suddenly floated between the hills, and it was vague and hazy, surrounding them in all directions.
Not long after, a breeze blew, the white mist dissipated, and all that was left in the area was a pile of stinking blood and smoking bones.
It was a poisonous fog!
More than a hundred wandering mercenaries died.
From beginning to end, my dad was sitting in the passenger seat of the car and had no idea how he was moving.
This horrifying scene happened to be seen by a tavern killer who had just finished his mission. He was so frightened that his scalp went numb and he hid far away. After returning, he immediately reported the incident to the tavern.
The document says:
[High-level pharmacists can kill people without being seen. Unless under special circumstances, do not make enemies with them.]
The Coral City tavern branch is not far from Dad's pharmacy.
Sometimes, when Yiyi went out for a stroll in the morning, he would run into his father who was buying breakfast, but he could not detect any sense of danger in the old man.
A short and thin old man, wearing a pair of small round glasses, with gray hair and an old yellow vest, who looked like he could be blown down by a gust of wind.
Seeing this image, Yi Yi felt that he could knock the man down with just one finger, and he really couldn't connect him with the ruthless person recorded in the information.
"That time, I just happened to be seen." Yi Yi thought, "How many times have I secretly done it without being seen?"
In the early years, when the pharmacy was first established, there was nothing, and my dad had to go around looking for material suppliers himself, often traveling between cities and across the vast wilderness.
Under normal circumstances, businessmen would hire bodyguards to protect their safety when traveling between cities.
Most of the killers in the Zero Point Tavern have multiple jobs. Many of them also work as bodyguards, protecting people during the day and killing people at night.
But Dad is different from other businessmen. He rarely needs bodyguards. An ordinary driver is enough.
There would always be some ignorant wandering mercenaries who would try to rob him, but in the end they would be defeated.
Yi Yi analyzed that the number of people who died at his father's hands over the years was conservatively estimated to be in the four digits.
With one hand he can save people with a life-saving potion, and with the other hand he can kill people with a poison. He is powerful and cool, and can go anywhere in the world.
Even Su Xia and the two Bafu, who were his disciples, were unaware of this event.
The information states:
[Maybe he has become a sixth-rank pharmacist, standing at the top of the medicine refining world on this planet]
As for the pub, people were sent to contact Dad, but in the end nothing came of it as Dad didn't want to work in the pub.
Even though the tavern was willing to give a large amount of money, land, psychic resources and extremely high status, and even offered to let Dad know some "top secret information" about this planet, even information related to entering the starry sky, Dad remained unmoved, and his mentality was natural and calm.
At that time, the Zero Point Tavern hinted to Dad that there was a brilliant "medicine civilization" in the starry sky that could allow Dad to go further on this path. They thought Dad would definitely be tempted, but they miscalculated.
“This is the master’s mentality.”
Yi Yi sighed, thinking of all the things recorded in the documents, and planned to leave the room and go to the pharmacy to find his father and ask him to help save people.
But at this moment, another line of tiny words appeared on his wrist.
[I need the tavern's intelligence network]
Seeing this line of words, Yi Yi's expression froze. What was the use of the mask?
As a neutral organization, the intelligence network of the Zero Point Tavern is quite powerful. It not only knows top-secret information about the human race, but also knows a lot about the mechanical race. The database contains many priceless documents.
In this era, mastering intelligence and information is equivalent to mastering money and resources.
Su Xia did not forget the reason for looking for Yi Yi this time, and replied:
[The Mechanical Race sent troops to attack the Human Race’s joint camp. I suspect that more than one city sent troops, and other surrounding cities may also participate.]
[I need you to help me pass the message and notify the joint camp]
What?
The mechanical race sent troops to attack the human race?
Yi Yi frowned, almost wrinkling into a "川" shape. Hadn't the human resistance organizations all moved recently? Especially the joint camp...
Recent information indicates that the joint camp was relocated under the leadership of an old professor in Longcheng and the location is absolutely safe.
That's an old professor from Dragon City.
It is a synonym for being highly respected, knowledgeable, well-read and having broad vision.
Such a big guy must be very careful when choosing a location.
The location of the camp would have been difficult to find for the Zero Point Tavern if it hadn't been for an insider telling them.
In order to facilitate the exchange of supplies and intelligence, and out of trust in the Zero Point Tavern as a neutral organization, the United Camp agreed that the core members of the Zero Point Tavern could travel between them.
Yi Yi leaned against the door and asked in a low voice: "Mask, are you sure?"
Su Xia replied:
【Sure】
[Based on the principle of equal exchange, I will give 50,000 as a reward for information delivery]
"Okay, I'll find someone to contact them right away."
Time was running out and there was no room for doubt, so Yi Yi immediately took action.
The Mechanical Clan is sending out troops, this is a big deal.
If we act at this time, the main force will arrive, which will be around tomorrow night. After some further reorganization, we can launch the attack at midnight tomorrow.
The last time, the Scimitar organization was wiped out in the middle of the night.
The Old North Wind organization was attacked in the middle of the night as well.
The mechanical race is well aware of the human race's work and rest habits and does not give the human race any time to react. Every attack they make is a thundering strike, moving like a gust of wind and a raging fire, unstoppable and able to crush everything.
The joint camp has no chance of winning. Once the war starts, the mechanical clan will definitely win.
The only thing we can do now is to trade time for space and retreat immediately.
Yi Yi accessed the intelligence network as a shop owner and sent a message to the Zero Point Tavern branch closest to the joint camp: "The mechanical race is taking action, warning the human joint camp..."
