Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 206: There are still some questions to ask
Li Xiaoren has always been dedicated in giving him guidance.
Apart from his bad attitude towards Tang Zheng, he did everything an instructor should do.
However, until the last moment he closed his eyes, he still had full distrust towards Tang Zheng.
That feeling is so weird!
Li Xiaoren can give his life for him, but cannot give his trust to him. What kind of fucked up logic is this?
Tang Zheng couldn't understand.
With his experience of almost being in the game for ten years, and the fact that most of the people he interacted with were NPCs with low emotional intelligence, he really couldn't understand this kind of problem, which seemed too complicated for a normal person.
In Leng Xiangyuan's main tomb chamber, after the fire went out, the cold light of the night pearl made people feel a little chilly.
There is a faint scent of decadence in the air.
Tang Zheng was no stranger to this kind of fragrance - the flower fields in Yinlan Villa had this clean and sweet smell after the burning of the flowers.
However, both times such a taste exists with the disappearance of life.
The first time was the little book boy beside Tian Meng. Tang Zheng still remembered his name, Xiao Ji. This time, it was the instructor, Li Xiaoren, who had been looking down on him since the first day of his school enrollment.
Although the poisonous flowers introduced from outside the border have saved Tang Zheng's life several times, they are not really auspicious things to him.
"You did a good job, go back." Leng Buchen's voice sounded beside Tang Zheng.
What Leng Buchen said was not a polite remark.
If Tang Zheng had not discovered the clues immediately and insisted on tracking them down, there might be many more people who died in the entire Feishi City than just Li Xiaoren!
The resurrection of the demon king-level master, and his appearance in the rear of the current front line - Jade Stone City, may quickly tear a big hole in the front line and become a vanguard for a large wave of demons to march straight in.
Whether Tang Zheng did it intentionally or unintentionally, he suppressed the crisis that would have shaken the entire border in this cemetery that never sees the sun.
"Tang Zheng, maybe you can't accept it now, but this is Feishi City, this is the border. Our most important task now is to cooperate with the military, assist Leng Zhan, and deal with the great turmoil in Feishi City caused by the rebellion of Lu Tianji and his son..." Ouyang Luoluo patted Tang Zheng on the shoulder, "We don't have much time to be sad."
Logically, there was no sadness between him and Li Xiaoren, but Li Xiaoren's sudden death gave him a shock he had never experienced in all his long years in Xingyao Continent.
Tang Xiaotang walked over and hugged Tang Zheng: "I believe you have tried your best."
Tang Zheng hummed, patted Tang Xiaotang's head, and forced a smile on his face: "Don't worry, I'm not that prone to depression."
"Master..." Tang Xiaotang looked at him but couldn't smile at all.
"What's wrong? Looking at me like that?"
"Master, I've never told you that you deserve a beating when you laugh."
"Really? I keep thinking that when I smile... "
Tang Xiaotang shook her head and interrupted Tang Zheng: "But, the way you smile now doesn't look like you deserve a beating at all, it's so ugly."
In other words, his smile looks annoying, but it's relatively good looking?
A bitter smile appeared on Tang Zheng's face again. He squatted down silently and picked up Li Xiaoren's black axe.
"You can keep that." Leng Buchen said.
"No need." Tang Zheng shook his head and put the black axe back. "If possible, I would like to keep another thing..."
"What?" Ouyang Luoluo asked.
"Instructor Li's body." Tang Zheng said without any doubt.
The main tomb chamber was silent once again, so silent that Tang Zheng realized that something was wrong.
Ever since Leng Buchen and the others came in, he always felt like something was missing.
"It turned out to be the background music." Tang Zheng stroked his forehead. If it was in a game, there should be tear-jerking background music playing at this moment, right?
The lack of this kind of background music made Tang Zheng feel like something was stuck in his chest and he couldn't express it.
Of course, Leng Buchen and the others didn't know what Tang was thinking: "You mean to preserve Instructor Li's body for a long time? To keep it from decaying or rotting?"
Tang Zheng nodded.
"Only an ice coffin made of Yao Chi ice crystals can do this...but..." Ouyang Luoluo hesitated to speak.
"But what?" Tang Zheng asked.
"But... Yaoshan Tribe's Yaochi Ice Crystal can only be collected every year..."
"There's no need to say more about the problem of the low production efficiency of the Yaoshan Department. Just tell us directly whether we can buy it." Tang Zheng said again.
"Yes." Leng Buchen glanced at Tang Zheng, "Yaochi Ice Crystal is worth a thousand gold coins per inch. It is usually used by top families as coffins for nine-star masters."
"An inch costs a thousand gold. Is shipping free?" Tang Zheng had no idea how many meters an inch was, so he simply didn't ask.
Leng Buchen actually understood what Tang Zheng said, and nodded without even stopping for a second: "If you need it, the Yaoshan tribe will be responsible for the delivery! However, it takes them three years to make a set of ice coffins. Can you wait?"
Tang Zheng said nothing.
He didn't know how long the corpse of a four-star warrior could remain intact, but it certainly couldn't last three years.
Leng Buchen didn't look at him again, but said to the others, "Take Instructor Li's body, collect the bodies of everyone present, and go directly to the City Lord's Mansion. The cemetery does not need to be cleaned for the time being. I will clean it up myself when everything is over."
The battle in Leng Xiangyuan's main tomb chamber is over.
However, Tang Zheng knew that this was just a fuse!
Outside this cemetery, a bigger war is about to begin...
"Head Steward!" an academy assistant suddenly shouted.
"What's the matter?" Leng Buchen stopped.
"Lu Wantang is still alive." The academy assistant said, standing next to Lu Wantang.
Leng Buchen's calm gaze, which had been suppressed since he entered here, suddenly ignited with fire.
He was silent for three seconds, then he said, "Save him!"
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Even Tang Zheng had to admire that Lu Wantang was really lucky. He was in the depths of the cemetery, and after such a fierce battle, he was still able to keep his breath. It was really not easy.
On the way back in the carriage, everyone was silent.
Li Xiaoren died, but Lu Wantang is still alive. This result is indeed hard to accept.
In fact, Leng Buchen and his companions had only learned fragments of what happened from three people who had gone deep into different locations of the cemetery in three batches - Meng Fenghua, Xu Qingyan and Tang Xiaotang. He was not completely clear about what exactly happened in the cemetery.
However, what exactly happened now is not important for the time being. What is important is the follow-up handling!
If not handled properly, Jade City might be in chaos !
"Master, you just asked for Instructor Li's body. What are you going to do with it?" Tang Xiaotang was sitting in the carriage, looking out the window, but talking to Tang Zheng.
"I have a question for him." Tang Zheng's answer was somewhat irrelevant.
How can I answer questions from an instructor who has already died in the line of duty?
However, Tang Xiaotang nodded: "Do you want to ask him why he asked you to swear so many times?"
Tang Zheng hummed.
Li Xiaoren had been targeting him in various ways since he entered the academy, and he still had a bad face until his death.
When the person was alive, he didn't care much, but now that he was dead...
"An ice coffin is only produced once every three years... Most people will reserve it in advance, and reserve it long in advance. However, a nine-star expert... Heh, it shouldn't be that easy for them to die, so many ice coffins should still be vacant." Tang Zheng chuckled, "I don't believe that I can't buy one."
