After chuckling a few times, Barcode turned and ran.
Wen Wen's eyes narrowed, and he shot several water playing cards at him. To his surprise, Barcode dodged all of them.
The water playing cards shot by Wen Wen were equivalent to the normal attacks of a Disaster-level monster. Barcode was just a Superhuman who had mastered a realm, yet he managed to dodge all of them.
His strength and speed were not outstanding, but he seemed to be able to predict Wen Wen's attacks and thus successfully evade them.
Wen Wen snorted coldly, pulled a weapon from his cloak, and said to Barcode in a chilling voice, "If you run again, don't blame me for being impolite."
"Hmph, not running would be foolish… Alright, stop! Good sir, please hold your hand, I won't run anymore. Don't shoot."
Barcode glanced back and was so frightened that he stopped dead in his tracks.
Wen Wen, that scoundrel, was single-handedly holding a golden Gatling gun!
He could analyze the playing cards shot by Wen Wen and dodge them in advance, but how could he predict something as simple and brutal as a Gatling gun?
Barcode walked sheepishly to Wen Wen's side and said, "The Sword Qi Crystal is not on me. If you kill me, you won't get anything. I can take you to find it, but you have to sign a contract with me. After you get it, you have to let me go."
Wen Wen took a deep breath and said, "Okay…"
Next, Barcode led Wen Wen on a tour of the post office in Baoya City and the branches of several express delivery companies in the city. They rushed around for about an hour.
Wen Wen, who had been following closely behind, finally couldn't help but ask, "Are you not deliberately wasting my time?"
"Don't rush, we're almost there."
Barcode said proudly, "I'm a person who fears death. If I were captured and tortured, I would definitely spill everything."
"But I'd rather die than let Absurdity obtain the Sword Qi Crystal, so I thought of a rather foolish plan."
"I specifically found a local thug and had him mail the package containing the Sword Qi Crystal to a random person in Baoya City at a random time."
"Then I had him record some specific information about the package and engrave it next to the barcode on my head. After that, I killed him."
"I never looked at the information myself from beginning to end. The way to decipher the information is also known only to me."
"If I were caught by Absurdity, that barcode would disappear. Even if I changed my mind and wanted to exchange the Sword Qi Crystal for my life, I wouldn't be able to."
Wen Wen looked at Barcode strangely. This guy looked like a cold-blooded killer, but his style of doing things was quite different from his appearance.
"You are indeed ruthless. Then why did you tell me?"
"Because you are not with Absurdity. Between handing over the crystal and my life, I choose to hand over the crystal to you."
After searching for another half an hour, Barcode finally got the address of the recipient. It was a fresh graduate who had just entered the workforce, named Li Haiyang…
…
Redbeard walked out of his forge and, after seeing a missed call, dialed it back.
He prohibited anyone from disturbing him while he was forging, so he left his phone outside.
During the process, the temperature of the entire workshop would rise to the point comparable to an oven. Both the phone and ordinary people would be destroyed by the extreme heat.
The corpses hanging in the room had long since been dried into jerky by the continuous high temperatures…
The caller was Jumo, who recounted the entire process of the old inn being attacked to Redbeard.
Redbeard was not particularly upset about the old inn being attacked. He didn't care how severely Jumo and the others were injured, as long as the old inn remained, he would have a continuous supply of evil souls.
However, two points in the information reported by Jumo caught his attention.
These two pieces of intelligence were all provided by the old cleaning lady on the third floor.
The first point was that the guest in room 315 was suspected to be a high-level demon, with at least the strength of a mid-order Disaster.
The second point was that another guest on the third floor possessed the Sword Qi Crystal left behind by the Xun family's ancestor, and Absurdity had attacked the old inn because of that crystal.
Redbeard's eyes lit up. If he could get his hands on this demon and the Sword Qi Crystal, his successful forging of the demonic sword would be within reach.
"Bring them to me."
"My… My lord, they have already left the old inn." Jumo said cautiously.
Redbeard's face darkened. The duck that had already entered his pocket had flown away again, which made him extremely angry.
"Where did they go?"
"I… I don't know." Jumo wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said.
"Trash! You people better do your best to collect information on those two. I will personally apprehend them. If you can't find them, you'll regret it!"
Redbeard hung up the phone furiously and then looked at a figure hanging upside down in the workshop.
"Since there's news of a mid-order demon, there's no need to waste this Disaster-level Fire Demon here. Let's wait a little longer."
The figure Redbeard was looking at was a Disaster-level demon he had captured yesterday.
It was the subordinate of the former Faceless Demon, the little Fire Demon Matilda!
…
Li Haiyang had been sleeping poorly lately. As soon as he fell asleep, he would dream of himself becoming that strong man swinging a hammer.
So today, he went to the hospital to get sleeping pills from the doctor. He threw a wad of tissue into the trash can by the bed and then started to sleep in a fatigued state.
"I can definitely sleep well tonight. Dreaming about that man all the time, I'm starting to suspect I'm gay."
The sleeping pills had a good effect. He just felt his face hurting more and more as he slept, and he kept hearing phantom sounds of "pa pa."
"Uh… why does my face hurt, and it's getting worse."
Li Haiyang's eyes snapped open, and he saw a bald man in a suit sitting on him, slapping him from side to side!
"You… What are you doing? Help! Robbery! Is there no law?"
Barcode stopped slapping and said to Li Haiyang in a chilling voice, "Four days ago, at 8 PM, where is the package you received?"
"What package? I didn't receive any." Li Haiyang said instinctively.
"That package contained twenty thousand yuan and a ceramic pillow. Do you remember now?"
Li Haiyang's eyes darted around evasively, and he said guiltily, "No, no, I haven't seen any package."
He had actually received the package, but there was no information on it. The money inside had already been squandered by Li Haiyang. Because he didn't want to repay it, he claimed he hadn't received it.
Barcode sneered, "Then there's nothing more to say."
He took out a silenced pistol and fired a shot at Li Haiyang's foot.
The shot missed, but Li Haiyang's reddened and swollen face turned even redder, and his warm bed also became warmer and wetter.
"The next shot won't be aimed at the blanket."