This was something Li Chonglou hadn't expected. In his imagination, at least the Wu family and the General Bureau could enter freely.
Mei Niang explained, "That was the case before, but not anymore. As a supervisory body of the underworld, both the General Bureau and the Wu family must go through our approval to enter."
This exceeded Li Chonglou's imagination, and he couldn't help but exclaim, "Our Red Coast has so much power?"
"Cough, cough, it's true that's what we say, but we never dare to do anything substantial. We basically don't manage affairs. We're a third party, you understand."
So that's how it was. With this explanation, Li Chonglou could understand.
In other words, if one only considered overt power, the Red Coast, as a third-party organization, indeed held immense authority and served as a balancing point between the Wu family and the General Bureau.
However, in reality, the Wu family and the General Bureau still called the shots in the underworld, and the Red Coast merely played a visible role.
Subsequently, Li Chonglou also took the opportunity to learn more about the Red Coast from Mei Niang until they returned to the outside of the ship.
"Alright, I'll escort you this far. Consider what I said earlier as a gift from me. But don't forget me when you have good things in the future."
Mei Niang winked, and Li Chonglou chuckled but said nothing, only nodding.
"That's that then. See you around."
Mei Niang clearly had to return to the underworld to continue earning her blood crystals, and Li Chonglou had also learned from her that even people from the Red Coast only had two opportunities for free entry per month.
One of these was this collective action, which usually lasted about a week. After this time, the camp personnel would be responsible for accounting for people and sending them out of the underworld uniformly.
The reason for this was to prevent anyone from becoming a spy for a black character during this period. Whether overtly or covertly, the camp personnel would conduct discreet investigations upon their exit.
Therefore, excluding the three days of the Black Spirit stage, Mei Niang and the others still had three days to farm blood crystals. If Li Chonglou hadn't farmed a round during the beast tide, he would have joined them.
As for why Old Tie also stayed, he wasn't sure. In fact, until now, Li Chonglou had thought Old Tie had just come to find him incidentally, and that he had his own objectives.
"But the harvest this time is decent enough."
Li Chonglou sighed softly and muttered.
This mission journey, besides experiencing a new world, had actually yielded him quite a lot.
Excluding the two attribute orbs he regretfully lost and his damaged strength, he had at least two treasures he hadn't had time to examine, a suitable black long sword, and his strength had broken through to the seventh level.
Well, if it weren't for Old Lin and the others' severe losses, he would even have blood crystals now!
"Let's head back to the General Bureau to check on the mission first."
Li Chonglou looked up at the sky. It wasn't far from dawn. The time he had agreed with Dong Zi for their bet was at the latest early yesterday morning, but Wei En had submitted his report before dawn.
He was now worried about a time difference and whether his system would react that quickly.
Therefore, Li Chonglou had to go back first to see what the situation was.
Having made up his mind, Li Chonglou put on his exclusive mask again and unfolded his movement technique, heading directly towards the lone warrior agency.
With the remnant soul present, he didn't need to conserve his soul power. To save time, Li Chonglou didn't even bother with the bridge and instead sped across the river water from below.
The two young lovers by the river couldn't help but wonder if they were seeing things.
"Honey, did you just see something like a big black figure fly past?"
"Stop it, you're trying to scare me. Oh, I'm so scared, okay?"
The words that the young man had been about to utter were suddenly swallowed back. The two immediately embraced each other tightly, completely unaware that the "big black figure" the man had just seen had quietly flashed past them.
"Young people these days are really open-minded."
As the two embraced, Li Chonglou clearly saw that the man's hand hadn't stopped moving, and the girl looked like she was enjoying herself. Such a scene was a bit too open for an old-fashioned person like him.
The rest of the journey was much simpler. Only the bridge crossing in North Port was strict. In other areas, Li Chonglou specifically chose less populated routes. Although he only had three levels of strength left, it still took him less than an hour to return to the lone warrior agency.
To his surprise, when he appeared in the mission hall, the few lone warriors present immediately exclaimed.
"Look, isn't that our number one person? I heard he completed six missions in three days!"
"Wasn't it said to be a week?"
"Even a week would be monstrous. Are any of the current missions easy?"
"The most impressive thing is that Dong Zi previously suspected him of being a fraud and personally assigned missions, but he lost them all!"
Perhaps because everyone was busy with their missions, there were only about four or five people in the lone warrior hall at the moment, but they were all whispering about Li Chonglou. Hearing their words, Li Chonglou felt a sense of relief.
"It seems I made it for the mission. I just don't know about the money..."
As he was thinking, a familiar voice suddenly sounded from behind him: "You're finally back. I can now give a reply regarding what the boss asked me to do."
Li Chonglou turned around and saw the subordinate who had directed him to missions earlier, someone from Dong Zi's faction.
The latter walked straight over and handed him a black bank card.
"The money my boss lost to you is all in here. If you have any objections, speak up. The boss also recorded the evidence."
Li Chonglou's eyes immediately lit up. He quickly took the bank card and smiled, saying, "Don't worry, the bounty for a few missions is public. I believe your boss wouldn't do anything so brainless."
"You!"
The subordinate was clearly a bit displeased, but he was still a good sport and didn't say much in the end. He only snorted and turned to leave.
The onlookers nearby whispered, "Dong Zi really met his match this time. He was the most prominent before."
"Indeed, if it weren't for this bet, I would have thought Dong Zi was the best. Who knew there was also a number one boss!"
Seeing that a few people were about to approach as they were talking, Li Chonglou, sensing the awkwardness, could only leave first. He went to a nearby bank to check the balance.
As expected, it was similar to what he had predicted, only tens of millions, but denominated in "dao".
"Let's go back first."
Besides the bounty, there was still the company matter. Li Chonglou had also considered returning to the company first, but he feared that company affairs might turn out to be beyond his expectations and difficult to resolve. It was better to secure the money first.