Witch Wind

Chapter 9: Waves Rising (Part )

Li Kuisheng threw down his small wine glass, grabbed two large bowls, and poured a bowl of wine for himself and the man.

The man grabbed the wine bowl and gulped down six ounces of the liquor.

Li Kuisheng also picked up the bowl and drank it in big gulps, then filled two large bowls with wine.

The man ate two pieces of good meat without saying a word, picked up the bowl, and drank it all. Li Kuisheng took a deep breath, drank the liquor in his bowl in three gulps, and filled the two bowls again. Seeing this, Li Kuisheng's face was flushed, as if he was covered with chicken blood, and his eyes were a little red.

The man still picked up the bowl and drank it all in one gulp, his pale face not even turning red. Li Kuisheng was about to pick up his own bowl, but Xing Tianli had already snatched the bowl from his hand and drank it all in one gulp.

The strong liquor entered his stomach, but before the alcohol took effect, the blood and qi in Xing Tianli's body rolled up, and the liquor turned into strands of hot currents, which were swallowed up by the big cauldron in his heart. The liquor was thin, and the big cauldron shook, but it didn't even extract a strand of "Primordial Qi".

The man looked at Xing Tianli, who grabbed the wine jar and filled it for the man and himself. The man didn't say anything and continued to eat and drink. Xing Tianli poured him a full bowl of wine, and he drank it all in one gulp. Xing Tianli was not to be outdone, and he also drank one bowl at a time. In a moment, he had already had seven bowls of strong liquor.

Including the two bowls he drank with Li Kuisheng, the man had already drunk a total of nine bowls, more than five kilograms of liquor.

His pale face finally turned slightly red. He held down the wine bowl, put down his chopsticks, took a deep look at Xing Tianli, whose face did not change at all, and said slowly, "Interesting. Li Kuisheng!"

The man suddenly raised his voice and shouted Li Kuisheng's name.

Li Kuisheng subconsciously shuddered. He looked at the man deeply, slowly stood up, stood at attention in front of the man, raised his right hand, and saluted him: "Here!"

The man said coldly: "Yes, do you remember who I am?"

Li Kuisheng said in a deep voice: "Coach Bai, how come I don't remember you teaching me in the New Army Officer School?"

Instructor Bai sneered, "Oh, so you still remember. Then, I won't pursue those rubbish you killed before. They do things in a messy way. It was originally a simple matter, but they made it a mess. I really look down on them. However, they are who they are. Now I am here in person to give you a chance to work with me. Are you willing or not?"

Li Kuisheng put his hands on the table, his eyes wide open, staring at Instructor Bai: "Work with you? Join the White Lotus? Seducing foreigners? Selling the people of my Great Jade Dynasty?"

Li Kuisheng slammed his hands on the table and said sternly, "Coach Bai, ten years is only ten years. How did you become like this?"

Instructor Bai chuckled, raised his right hand, and slapped the eight-immortal table in front of him.

This eight-immortal table was made of top-quality old jujube wood, with a two-inch-thick table top and four extremely thick legs. Li Kuisheng clapped his hands on the table, making a loud bang, and Instructor Bai slapped it lightly, breaking the four legs into pieces, shattering the entire tabletop, and breaking the dishes and other items on it into countless pieces.

Countless pieces of debris fell to the ground, and more than twenty men from the Inspection Office rushed into the main room with guns raised.

Li Kuisheng waved his hand suddenly and shouted: "Get out!"

The men from the Inspection Office looked at the messy debris on the ground in horror and slowly retreated step by step.

Instructor Bai sat steadily on the chair, looking at the ugly-looking Li Kuisheng, and said in a rather feminine tone: "How did I become like this? Funny! Who do you think you are, Li Kuisheng? Do you think you are qualified to understand what kind of person I, Bai Fei, am?"

Li Kuisheng opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

The sound of the white fly became more and more feminine, just like when you are sleeping outdoors on a summer night and a slippery snake suddenly and gently scratches your arm. That's the feeling.

He said softly, "I don't have time to waste time talking to you. From now on, follow me. It's not just you, it's all of you! In short, you will get benefits. We can give you everything you want!"

Li Kuisheng's tone became extremely strange: "We?"

Bai Fei smiled: "That's right, not only you, but all of you. Let me put it bluntly, we want all the survivors of the Black Borneo Expedition!"

Bai Fei looked at Xing Tianli and said softly, "Especially you, Li Kuisheng. Among that group of people, you have the highest military rank, the most merits, and the best at leading troops in battle."

"Although I don't understand why you, who have the highest military rank, the most merits, and the best leadership, are now just a mere ninth-rank inspector... because of your blind nephew?"

Bai Fei stretched out his hand and grabbed Xing Tianli's shoulder: "In that case, your nephew, just stay with me. Don't worry, I will feed you well and make sure you are fat and white..."

Xing Tianli let Bai Fei's palm fall on his shoulder. Before Bai Fei could exert force with his fingers, he heard a terrible explosion. The purple-green bamboo pole tore through the air, roaring with terrible thunder, stirring up a white gas explosion visible to the naked eye, and smashed into Bai Fei fiercely.

Bai Fei's reaction speed was astonishingly fast. As soon as Xing Tianli moved the thin bamboo in his hand, his left arm was already across his chest.

With a loud bang, the Tongtian Magic Bamboo hit Bai Fei's left arm.

The wind was blowing violently, and Li Kuisheng staggered backwards repeatedly. The clothes on Bai Fei's upper body were blown off, revealing that on his strong left arm, he was wearing a rusty bronze arm guard.

Sparks flew everywhere, and the chair under Bai Fei's seat broke into pieces. He groaned and took two steps back, his back hitting the wall heavily. With a dull thud, the whole hall shook twice, and the beams above his head made a harsh creaking sound.

'puff'!
The white fly opened its mouth and spat out a small mouthful of blood.

Xing Tianli was shocked.

He had witnessed the power of the Tongtian Magic Bamboo in the bamboo forest. With just a light blow, a large pit one foot square and more than three feet deep was blasted out on the ground. When the bamboo touched Bai Fei's arm, it was like falling on a piece of extremely slippery leather, and the force was reduced by 70% to 80%, and it failed to hit him.

Xing Tianli's pupils condensed slightly, and he quickly glanced at the bronze arm guards on Bai Fei's arms.

The white fly let out a long, low whistle, then took a deep breath.

There was a strange aura around him, and two thin arms were visible to the naked eye, with muscles expanding like balloons. He shouted loudly, and in a flash he appeared in front of Xing Tianli, punching him in the face with a thunderous bang, and it landed with a bang.

Li Kuisheng let out a long and sharp roar, pulled out the revolver from his waist, and fired six consecutive shots at Bai Fei.

In the flash of the gun muzzle, Xing Tianli's Tongtian Miaozhu shook and shouted sternly: "Sword Two!"

A flash of cold light flashed on the purple bamboo pole, and the thin bamboo pole seemed to split into two at that moment. Bai Fei punched one of the bamboo shadows, making a loud noise like a grenade explosion, while the other bamboo shadow passed along his arm and hit his chest with a "bang".

Bai Fei's punch was extremely heavy, but with a flicker of the green shadow of Tongtian Miaozhu, ninety-nine percent of the force disappeared into thin air, and Xing Tianli didn't feel much force at all.

In the Lingtai Zifu, Xing Tianli’s soul howled towards the sky.

Large golden flowers and purple air rose into the sky, and countless Taoist texts swirled and danced in the golden flowers and purple air, condensing into a profound Taoist scripture that swirled around the soul - the first part of the scripture, with a few large and dark characters that clanged loudly, was "Tongtian Sword Classic·Wulian Sword Classic"!
'Puff, puff, puff.'

Li Kuisheng's six bullets hit Bai Fei, and Bai Fei's skin was sunken. The six bullets only penetrated his skin, and the bullet head sank slightly into the skin, splashing a few insignificant points of blood, and then the bullet head bounced back to the ground with a "clang".

Xing Tianli hit Bai Fei's chest with one blow, and the uncomfortable, extremely resilient and slippery feeling emerged again. Of the 100% force, only less than 30% landed on the actual target.

Bai Fei's chest sunken, he spat out a mouthful of blood, and took two steps back.

With the naked eye, one could see that his muscles were wriggling like flowing water. With every step he took on the ground, the thick tiles shattered and large pieces of dirt splashed. Most of the force that Xing Tianli had inflicted on him was transferred to the ground by him using an inexplicable method of unloading the force.

Two large pits, two feet square and five or six feet deep, were blasted out on the floor of the main hall. Bai Fei spit out blood and his face turned a little pale, but he seemed to be fine.

A hissing sound came out of his throat, and Bai Fei's two eyeballs suddenly turned into a strange dark green, and there were bits of golden light in his pupils. What was even more terrifying was that his pupils actually turned into the shuttle shape unique to cold-blooded reptiles in a very short moment. "Daxia, Wumin, Tianshoutang, Xiangliu clan, Xiangliu Bai Fei!" Bai Fei took a breath, formed a very strange seal with his hands, and said to Xing Tianli solemnly: "Excuse me, which brother is this?"

Xing Tianli said nothing, but raised the thin bamboo in his hand diagonally.

'choke'!
The thin bamboo trembled slightly, making a high-pitched sword sound. The sound continued, and it was clearly a thin bamboo, but it was filled with the dark sword intent. The lights in the whole hall suddenly dimmed, and were almost extinguished by the sword intent.

His facial expression remained unchanged, but Xing Tianli's heart was filled with excitement.

'Daxia, Wumin, Tianshoutang, Xiangliu clan'!
If Xing Tianli remembered correctly - and he couldn't have remembered correctly, his father in this life once told him when he was young that his family belonged to 'Daxia, Wumin, Pingyuantang, Xingtian clan'!
Bai Fei tilted his head and looked at Xing Tianli seriously. Gradually, a strange smile appeared on his face. "You don't even know your family name? It seems that you are a wild person? Tsk tsk, Li Kuisheng, where did you find such a treasure?"

Li Kuisheng raised his pistol and shouted, "Kill him!"

More than 20 men from the patrol inspection department had rushed in, almost filling up the entire hall. They all raised their long and short guns and started to attack Bai Fei.

Bai Fei laughed strangely and rushed backwards, forcibly breaking a big hole in the brick wall of the main hall. He rushed out of the main hall in the smoke and dust, and disappeared into the darkness in one leap: "Li Kuisheng, think about it carefully! Next time you come, I won't be the only one who comes."

Xing Tianli almost immediately followed Bai Fei and rushed out of the hole in the wall that he had broken. However, just as he rushed out, a cold light flashed in front of him, and dozens of cold lights suddenly appeared in front of him.

The thin bamboo swayed, and a wisp of cold light rolled up. Dozens of light green cow-hair needles made a few "ding-ding" sounds and were broken into pieces by the thin bamboo. The bits of debris fell to the ground, making a "chi-chi" sound and emitting very fine white smoke.

Xing Tianli was so scared that cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

poison.

Terribly poisonous.

A horrible poison that can corrode even bricks and stones!
"Xiang Liu?" Xing Tianli was muttering to himself. In his heart, the big cauldron suddenly flashed, and wisps of bronze divine light poured out from the mouth of the cauldron, condensing into a horrible monster with a strange shape and a hideous face - nine sinister and cruel human heads, under the neck was a long snake neck, connected to an extremely large giant snake body, and nine big mouths were spewing out poisonous mist and venom.

This is exactly the ancient ferocious beast, Xiangliu!

Li Kuisheng came out holding a gun, cursing in horror: "When this guy was in the military academy, none of us brothers could survive his punches and kicks... Well, there was one! Moreover, we even beat him up in public! But, I didn't expect that even a pistol could only barely break his skin!"

The look in Li Kuisheng's eyes when he looked at Xing Tianli was a little subtle.

The thin bamboo tapped the ground lightly, making a crisp sound. Xing Tianli said softly, "Oh? Is there anyone who can deal with him? Who?"

Just as Li Kuisheng was about to speak, Xing Tianli said very naturally, "Could it be my father? Haha!"

Li Kuisheng's face suddenly froze, and after a while he agreed with Xing Tianli and laughed dryly a few times.

After laughing for a while, Li Kuisheng said solemnly: "Xiao Yu'er, how about I resign from this position and take you to Pinghai City to treat your eyes?"

Xing Tianli asked curiously, "Uncle, are you afraid of this Bai... No, is it the Xiangliu Baifei?"

Li Kuisheng was silent for a while, then said softly, "We are not afraid of him alone. Xiao Yu'er, can't you handle him? With the cooperation of these brothers, even if he is an iron man, we can melt him."

"But, back then, when I was in the military academy, there were 20 to 30 instructors with the surname Bai!"

"What hall name did he give today? What, Tianshou Hall?"

"They are not without roots. They have a history. Add to that the White Lotus Sect and the foreigners. I am really scared. I am afraid that I can't cover it up anymore!"

Xing Tianli felt a breath of depression in his heart. He tightly grasped the Tongtian Magic Bamboo with both hands and gritted his teeth.

After a long silence, he said in a cold voice: "It's always hard to accept. We have lived here for ten years. As soon as they came, they killed and burned people without restraint, blew up the inspection office without restraint, and regarded this place as their territory and did whatever they wanted... Why should we give in?"

Shaking his head, Xing Tianli said softly: "Why should we give in? This shouldn't be the case! This absolutely shouldn't be the case! Even if we have to leave, we shouldn't be forced to leave. We must really want to leave!"

Li Kuisheng opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he couldn't speak.

Xing Tianli said in a deep voice: "I will not stay in Xiaolongqiu Town forever. The world is so vast. Since I came to this world, there must be a reason. I must do something here. I won't be trapped in a small town for my whole life."

"But if I want to leave Xiaolongqiu Town, it must be my own will!"

early morning.

Xing Tianli stood on the dock and saw that the size of the warehouse on the shore had more than doubled. Under the tarpaulin, there were small mountains of high-quality coal. With the sound of the motor, another tugboat with black smoke slowly approached the shore.

One tugboat, two tugboats...

In just one hour, six tugboats towed nearly a hundred cargo ships to the dock.

On each cargo ship, under the simple sheds, there were numb-looking men and women, dressed in simple clothes, starving to the point of skin and bones, many of them tightly grasping a very simple small cloth package in their hands, which might be their only remaining property.

The porters shouted as they loaded baskets of coal onto the tugboat.

County Magistrate Ma was busy, dancing and making arrangements. Almost all the residents of Xiaolongqiu Town were busy, and smoke was floating on the roofs of every household. Baskets of coarse grain steamed buns were constantly transported to the dock. When the men and women took the steamed buns, their eyes lit up and they looked at County Magistrate Ma and Michelle as if they saw the Buddha of Ten Thousand Families, and they were extremely grateful.

Xing Tianli was in a depressed mood, and his blood was boiling.

He wanted to do something, but he couldn't think of what he could do.
Beat County Magistrate Ma to death?
Very simple!
Kill Michelle?
Easy!
and then?
If we kill County Magistrate Ma, there will be new ones.

Kill Michelle, and there will be newcomers as well.

The tugboat was filled with coal, and the guards on board had enough to eat and drink. Black smoke rose up, and with the sound of "thump thump", the tugboat slowly left with the long fleet. Nearly a hundred cargo ships, tens of thousands of men and women, were like duckweed in the wind, slowly drifting away on the misty lake.

This went on for one day, two days, three days!
In three days, more than fifty tugboats passed through the Xiaolongqiu Town dock for supplies.

At the dock, the office that Michelle is in charge of has already broken ground, and at the same time, the county government's new police station and barracks in Xiaolongqiu Town have also started construction.

Twenty constables and two hundred militiamen have already settled in Xiaolongqiu Town, and under the order of County Magistrate Ma, have taken over all affairs at the Xiaolongqiu Town wharf.

It was early in the morning again. Xing Tianli was lighting the Tongtian Miaozhu and had just walked out of his alley when he ran into a group of men and women wearing black divine robes and holding silver bells, walking in a neat line in front of him.

Seeing Xing Tianli, an old man in a black robe stopped in his tracks, took out a scroll of portraits and handed it to him: "Poor child, believe in the Virgin Mary. The merciful Virgin Mary will bless you and protect you from disasters and illnesses!"

Xing Tianli took the portrait in confusion and watched the team of more than a hundred people slowly walk over accompanied by the sound of crisp silver bells.

The news spread like wildfire in Xiaolongqiu Town - the wandering missionaries of the Holy Mother Church of the Supreme God of the Hundred Countries in the Far West will stay in Xiaolongqiu Town for a few days to baptize and bless the townspeople, and provide free medical treatment and medicine to the townspeople.

(End of this chapter)