Chapter 47: A Preliminary Exploration
The moment he stepped into Chang'an, Chen Rufeng's heart tossed strangely.
Chang'an City Street is as lively as before, and people are shoulder to shoulder and noisy.
It has changed, maybe it's just the hearts of the people. When he left Chang'an, what did he say in the prime minister's mansion, what kind of determination he made, and what kind of person he did...
Chen Rufeng looked at the sky and sighed. Originally, he planned to go to the prime minister's house today to make it clear to Li Yinru, but he turned around and dispelled this idea.
Escape is not a long-term way, but at least you can give yourself a suspended process.
The purpose of today's trip is to find the secret of the Earth Film Club. After layers of discussion, they are finally willing to make a decision to spend a lot of money to recruit the killers of the Earth Film Club to assassinate the elite masters who shocked Haimen.
There is no other way. The world is originally a struggle between the jungle and the jungle. Either you die or I die. Only those who are ruthless can survive to the end.
For the safety of the Tianfeng Gang, and in order to prevent their hard-built efforts from collapsing overnight, they can only do this injustice.
How to subdivide between righteousness and injustice in this world? If betrayal of ourselves is righteousness, is this so-called "righteousness" really worth pursuing?
Hu Jiu did not wipe a handful of sweat on his forehead. Although it was just autumn, the heat of summer has not completely receded.
"How can we find the film club?" Chen Rufeng and Hu Jiu haven't walked for a while. With a very strange feeling in his heart, it was always a little awkward to find an organization that had assassinated him to assassinate others.
Hu Jiuwei looked around. The city was prosperous and full of people coming and going. The Earth Shadow Club has always acted mysteriously. Because it is responsible for the assassination, it is even less likely to come out to set up a stall openly. It is also a very troublesome thing to find out where they are.
"Let's go to some places where it's easy to find out." Hu Jiu didn't propose. Chen Rufeng thought for a moment and suddenly a place flashed into his mind.
The two came to the door of the Xianlai Inn, where there was still an endless stream of guests, especially those who carried fierce weapons such as axes and spears in the world.
As soon as he stepped into the inn, an elegant and beautiful voice came: "Oh! Isn't this Master Chen!" Xie Lanting, the owner of the Xianlai Inn, came and saluted him with a smile on her face full of enthusiasm.
"Uh...Hello, Boss Xie!" Chen Rufeng punched her. Why didn't she see her for a while? Instead, she felt that she was a few years younger.
Chen Rufeng glanced at the guests in the inn. Most of the seats were rough people, big fish and meat, and did not pay attention to manners. But this is exactly what he wants.
Xie Lanting waved his hand and ordered Xiao Er to bring wine and vegetables. He enthusiastically pulled the two to sit down and was ready to greet them.
"Well, you came here untimely. Wencheng just went out." Xie Lanting filled two cups of tea for the two, behaved generously and decently, with a slight smile on his face, which looked particularly touching.
"Boss Xie is polite. In fact, the purpose of our coming this time is..." Chen Rufeng was touching a cup of tea with his lips, but he found that Hu Jiuwei, who was sitting next to him, became straight and looked at every move of Xie Lanting.
It was not until Xie Landing sat down that Hu Jiuwei withdrew his eyes in a panic and took a sip of teacup.
Chen Rufeng laughed secretly. Brother Hu's heart was ready to move, but naturally he would not break it face to face.
"We want to ask for a message." Chen Rufeng lowered his voice, with a little mystery, and looked around humbly to avoid hearing from the wall.
Xie Lanting first said "ah" doubtfully, and then clapped his hands, as if he remembered something, and stood up quickly. After a while, she came to the two with a thick-browed strong man and introduced to them, "This is He Dali, a 'cloud ranger' who has been living in my inn. His footprints are all over the world. If you want to ask for any news, it's better to find him."
Chen Rufeng took a look at this "Cloud Ranger". He was carrying a thick sword, with a bold face and strong arms. It seemed that he was also a good hand to use the sword.
"This must be Chen Rufeng, the leader of Tianfeng Gang, right? Long-awaited name! Today, I saw that it was indeed a hero out of the teenager!" He Dali held his fist, and Chen Rufeng seemed to hear the sound of two stones colliding together. He Dali is really as powerful as his name!
"Brother He is flattered!" Chen Rufeng replied and looked around again. Most of the people in the inn were talking about themselves, like the noise of drums. Unless they were within five feet of their body, they could not hear their words clearly.
After ensuring that no outsiders could hear what they said, Chen Rufeng dared to come to He Dali's ear and lowered it so low that only they could hear clearly and said, "I want to know how to find the film club."
He Dali was shocked and his eyes were surprised.
Chen Rufeng looked at his surprise and nod affirmatively to show that he was not wrong.
Naturally, He Dali will not be unclear about what the shadow club is doing, and those who want to find the shadow club also know in their hearts what those people are going to do.
Since Chen Rufeng asked, he had to answer, but when he said the next sentence, the respect between his eyebrows decreased a lot, which added a little contempt.
Knowing how to find the film club, the two walked out of the Xianlai Inn with He Dali's speculing eyes behind their backs in a cold sweat. Hu Jiuwei looked back reluctantly. Xie Lanting said goodbye and wanted to be busy greeting guests and doing something.
According to He Dali's words, Chen Rufeng and Hu Jiuwei walked all the way through the streets and finally stopped in a narrow alley full of debris.
In this narrow alley, there was only a beggar kneeling on the ground, looking at the broken bowl on the ground in front of him, constantly shaking his head up and down, and muttering, "Give alms to one..."
Normal people can see something wrong at a glance. How can ordinary beggars pick to beg in this sparsely populated place?
Chen Rufeng and Hu Jiu did not look at each other. Chen Rufeng walked forward, picked up a small stone on the ground, squatted down in front of the unkempt and worn-dressed beggar, looked at his broken bowl, tightened his eyes, and rhythmically lightened the small stone on his broken bowl. Three times.
Dong! Dong! Dong!
The beggar stopped muttering to himself, slowly raised his head, and looked at Chen Rufeng strangely.
Chen Rufeng nodded.
The beggar stood up without humming, but the short heel exuded a refined momentum, pulling away a pile of debris leaning against the wall with one hand, revealing a dusty door.
Chen Rufeng and Hu Jiuwei followed the beggar to the door that had just appeared. They watched the beggar push open the door and walk in. Inside was a room that had been abandoned for a long time, with debris piled up. A mouse ran past and shrank into the straw.
The beggar walked to the lid of a water tank, bent down to remove it, and then stepped aside.
A black hole appeared in front of the two, and a ladder extended to the depths of the hole and went straight to the ground.
The beggar stood aside expressionlessly and wink at the two. The two agreed and walked nervously to the mouth of the cave, hesitated for a moment, and finally climbed down the ladder one by one.
In it, there is no two people who are as dim as they imagined, and the torch shines enough light, brightening a long corridor. And as far as they can see, there is already a wooden door closed.
Within little foot effort, the two came to the wooden door and secretly guessed what was hidden behind the door.
Chen Rufeng was alert, raised his mind, and slowly opened the wooden door.
Presented in front of the two, first of all, a huge sword stone statue, lifted out of the earth, and the hilt of the sword almost hit the top of the ceiling, which was so sumpy. I don't know how much money it costs to build this giant sword stone sculpture. But the most puzzling thing is how this huge sword was made and how it moved to the ground?
It's like a time-honored pawnshop, surrounded by a huge sword table, in which people with veils and hats are constantly handing over silver, and then sorting out the paper and putting them in a box behind them.
And those guests who visited here all looked sneaky and gloomy, with malicious light in their eyes, bowing their heads. Among them, when he looked at Chen Rufeng, he shrank more like those who had just finished thieves.
"I didn't expect that there was such a place secretly built under Chang'an City!" Chen Rufeng couldn't help sighing. This must be only a small part of the Earth Film Club, which is responsible for foreign transactions. I don't know that the real place to cultivate killers and deal with the things of the Earth Film Club falls deep in that underground.
Suddenly, Chen Rufeng became interested in the behind-the-scenes envoy of the Earth Film Club. How capable is this person to carry out these despicable assassinations unconsciously in the underground of the capital.
People are constantly going in and out of the surrounding wooden doors. It seems that there are many channels to enter here, but the passage that Chen Rufeng and others have just passed is the least human.
Walking to the cabinet table, Chen Rufeng and Hu Jiuwei were chilled by the strange atmosphere here, especially those wearing veiled hats, staring at them coldly like faceless ghosts.
"Objective?" Without waiting for Chen Rufeng to speak, the man took the initiative to speak.
Hu Jiuwei quickly took out a list from his sleeve, put it on the table tremblingly, and pushed it over the table.
The man picked up the list, the eyes behind the veil swept quickly, and then it was silent.
"These people are relatively difficult people to deal with. They need to use at least ten Tianzi 2 killers and two Tianzi 1 killers."
Hearing the No. 1 killer of Tianzi, a fierce figure appeared in Chen Rufeng's mind. Thinking of his ruthless knife and the faint shining knife, he suddenly shivered.
"I don't know if these are enough?" Hu Jiu did not carefully take out a few gold ingots from his arms, and the golden light immediately provoked several people around him to look sideways.
"Enough, it's done." The man grabbed Jin Yuanbao with one hand, pulled out a piece of white paper, waved pen and ink to write on it, and finally threw it into the box behind him.
"As always, we will keep it a secret for our guests. Don't worry. But it should be stated that if something fails, we will not set any compensation. The man's language is cold.
Chen Rufeng and Hu Jiuwei nodded and left quickly along the original road uneasily. They didn't want to stay longer for a moment.
"Ten Tianzi No. 2 killers, two Tianzi No. 1 killers, should be guaranteed, right?" Chen Rufeng thought to himself.