Chapter 33

This week, I'm still asking for recommendations. Yes, I'm asking for recommendations while suffering from a cold...

Tang Boyuan was truly angry this time.

The joke about the Hidden Blue Villa's flower fields being burned was just the beginning.

But their Tang Family Fortress had it even worse. They weren't just targeted in their business; someone had directly intruded into the heart of their territory and committed violence!

"Who is it? Have you identified them?" When Tang Boyuan rushed to Meng Fenghua's courtyard, he was so angry that it took him three times to understand what was happening.

After hearing it, he was even more furious.

What if the Meng sisters hadn't been living in the secluded corner of Tang Family Fortress?

Wouldn't the assassin have escaped?

If one of the two major forces in Wulong Town, the Tang Family Fortress, could be infiltrated so easily, not only would they lose the shops they had just acquired on West Street, but even the East Street might start to stir.

What kind of place is Wulong Town?

Once people think your strength is compromised, it could lead to a family being wiped out overnight!

All the Tang Family Fortress members who frequently went out, except for Tang Xiaotang who was still recuperating and repairing her star meridians, rushed over to carefully identify the assassin...

"Wulong Town isn't that big. If any family had a martial artist who reached the peak of the First Star at seventeen or eighteen, we would definitely know them."

"Right, we haven't even heard of them, let alone encountered them on the street."

"Uh, could it be the Hidden Blue Villa?"

"Forget it, I can name every martial artist above the mid-First Star level in the Hidden Blue Villa..."

No one had ever seen this assassin.

Tang Boyuan asked around but got no results, so he waved his sleeve and said, "Zixie, increase the number of guards and strengthen the defenses at the side gates and around the teacher's courtyard."

Tang Zixie nodded in agreement.

"But if it's not the Hidden Blue Villa, who could it be?" a Tang Family Fortress member asked, puzzled.

After the Hidden Blue Villa incident, the Tang Family Fortress was almost the dominant force in Wulong Town!

No other power had a reason to provoke the Tang Family Fortress at this time.

"I think this assassination was very targeted. Could it be... an old enemy of the teacher?" Tang Zixie said.

"An old enemy...?" Tang Zheng calculated that he had only been on the Starlight Continent for about a month. How old could an old enemy be?

It seemed that the only destruction he had caused on the Starlight Continent was burning the Hidden Blue Villa's flower fields.

But the Tang Family Fortress members had already said they didn't recognize the assassin, and the assassin wasn't from the Hidden Blue Villa or even Wulong Town.

"Hmm! Does the teacher remember any old enemies?"

"Although I tried hard to think, I don't seem to have any," Tang Zheng smiled and held up two fingers, "Actually, there are two possibilities. The first one is that she was a thief, here to steal."

"..." All the Tang Family Fortress members shook their heads. A peak First Star martial artist, instead of striving to open the second life palace, came to steal? That was a ridiculous idea.

"Then it must be the second possibility..." Tang Zheng said.

"Hmm! What is it?" A row of expectant eyes.

"That girl passed by the Tang Family Fortress, saw that I was quite handsome, and wanted to capture me to be her bandit husband..."

"Ha ha!" A unified look of disdain.

The pungent smell of blood still lingered in the air. Tang Zheng just wanted to ease the tension, but before he knew it, he was collectively despised by a group of young brats. Suddenly, Tang Boyuan, as if inspired by him, pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket!

Tang Zheng recognized that piece of paper very clearly.

It was the letter Tian Meng had asked him to bring to the Tang Family Fortress before he left!

"Bandit... bandit..." Tang Boyuan looked enlightened, "That's it! It must be the bandits who attacked Teacher Tian and Teacher Tang, coming to seek revenge!"

Due to time constraints, Tian Meng hadn't detailed the situation in Fengmen Village in the letter. He only mentioned that he encountered bandits and was saved by Tang Zheng. He was severely injured and needed to go to the Heavenly Doctor Valley quickly, so he temporarily entrusted the Tang Family Fortress to Tang Zheng...

Tang Zhongxing, standing nearby, clearly agreed with his brother's thoughts and snorted, "How dare they! A bunch of bandits dare to provoke the Tang Family Fortress!"

"Teacher, do you remember where the bandits' hideout is?" Tang Boyuan turned to Tang Zheng.

Tang Zheng was completely baffled by their imagination.

Those bandits only existed in the letter. Where could they be?

"I think there's no real hideout..." Tang Zixie shook his head, "In Wulong Town, these scoundrels, whether they're collecting herbs, hunting, or chopping wood, if they find a fat sheep, they can turn into bandits..."

In a place like Wulong Town, how could there be professional bandits? They would starve to death.

Anyone, given the right conditions, could instantly become a bandit, a one-click transformation!

"Find them!" Tang Boyuan clearly wasn't going to let this go.

Whether they were real bandits or temporary ones, he would catch them!

Tang Zheng sighed and didn't say much more.

Investigate, then. It's just a bunch of non-existent bandits, so they probably won't find anything.

"Since the teacher is injured and shocked, take a few days off. Don't worry about the lessons for now," Tang Boyuan waved his hand, giving Tang Zheng a few days off.

"Um, I'm not really shocked," Tang Zheng said, feeling something was off, "Ah, I mean, I was shocked."

"That's good. Teacher, rest and recover. We'll handle the rest!" Tang Boyuan patted Tang Zheng's shoulder and led the Tang Family Fortress members away.

...

The battle between Tang Zheng and the night attacker was a fight between two assassins.

So, compared to the battle in the small alley on West Street in Wulong Town, although this opponent was a peak First Star, Tang Zheng was almost unharmed, with only a scabbed wound on his palm, and he didn't even need to use the petals from the Paper Intoxication.

The assassin's body had been cleaned up.

At Tang Zheng's specific request, the assassin's boots were left for him.

For this, he received another round of mocking glances from the young brats.

"Big brother, how long are you going to stare at those boots?" Little Lingdang's voice came from beside him.

"How long have I been staring?" Tang Zheng asked.

"Half an hour..."

"Then let's make it another half hour."

No matter how he looked at them, they were just ordinary black light boots. Although they carried a hint of a young woman's scent, in the air filled with the pungent smell of blood, any scent could be ignored.

The fabric and laces were very ordinary. The only thing that made Tang Zheng feel different was the stitching...

Of course, the thread itself was very ordinary, but the direction of the stitching always gave Tang Zheng a strange feeling. He thought about it for a long time before he understood what that feeling was.

Such ordinary boots used such complex stitching...

If the Tang Zheng from his previous life saw so much thread on a pair of boots, he would only have one comment: "Rich, are you trying to say the material is too cheap?"

Tang Zheng reached out, trying to inject star energy into the boots...

But when the star energy hit the boots, it was as if it was repelled by something, unable to touch the intricate stitching.

It was as if something was separating the boots from everything else, blocking the star energy, even sound and dust.

This was why, when the boots stepped on Tang Zheng's roof, they made only a faint sound like apricot blossom rain...

That was because the assassin's footwork wasn't very good. If it were Tang Zheng, even if he danced the "Little Apple" on the roof in these boots, he probably wouldn't make a sound.

Tang Zheng squatted in front of the boots for a long time. Suddenly, a bright light appeared.

He turned around and saw Meng Fenghua activate her star constellation, just to light the way for him...

With a whoosh, Little Lingdang's star constellation also rose.

"Green and low-carbon, energy-saving and environmentally friendly!" Tang Zheng smiled and also activated his star constellation.

So, the three of them were hovering with their star constellations, staring at the boots.

Under the bright light, Tang Zheng's eyes also brightened...

It turned out that the stitching inside the boots had different colors at the intersections!

"Hmm, this circuit... the long thread goes through three short threads, three in and three out, hmm, this is a node..." Tang Zheng muttered to himself, almost like defusing a bomb, carefully pulling out each thread!

Where the threads were pulled out, Tang Zheng's star energy could pass through without obstruction.

In a few breaths, the boots were dismantled into a pile of rags...

"The Starlight Continent... truly has no shortage of wonders!" Tang Zheng took a deep breath.

If someone else saw the complex stitching inside the boots, they would think it was some kind of array. But with Tang Zheng's keen eyes and his full-level life skills, he could find the first thread and trace the stitching from the beginning, analyzing the star energy distribution principle of the entire boot, and even finding a few places where the thread was wasted.

This pair of boots, obtained by chance, was like opening a new window to this unfamiliar world for him...

"Finished looking?" Meng Fenghua looked at the pile of rags on the ground and asked Tang Zheng, who was standing up.

"Um, yes, finished." Tang Zheng nodded, feeling refreshed.

"Tomorrow, are you going to start practicing the 'Blood Shadow Escape Technique'?" Meng Fenghua didn't look at the useless pile of rags, "Just to remind you, although the technique is precious, it can be very harmful to the body..."

Actually, without Meng Fenghua saying it, Tang Zheng had already seen the female assassin use her own blood to release the Blood Shadow Escape Technique. So, even if he wanted to practice it, he would have to be careful, not to lose too much blood before mastering the technique.

Tang Zheng shook his head, "Tomorrow, I'm going to Wulong Town to buy a good dagger and look for some basic martial techniques."

"Then, your roof has been torn off again. Where are you going to sleep tonight?" Meng Fenghua frowned and asked.

"Tragedy... why 'again'..."

"Huh?" Little Lingdang interjected, "Big brother can sleep with me. I'm still small, and there's plenty of space on the bed for you. And I'm already mid-First Star, so... uh... why are you glaring at me, sister?"

"Cough, just a child's talk, just a child's talk..." Tang Zheng saw Meng Fenghua's anger rising and quickly waved his hands.

"Uh," Little Lingdang, not knowing what she had said wrong, added, "Well... actually, sister isn't fat..."

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