Chapter 685: Section 472: Lan Zao: Joining the Saber Gang Once Again
The Black Market was in utter chaos.
Unlike the last time, this disturbance didn’t subside; instead, it grew stronger and stronger.
Large and small pieces of debris kept falling from above.
There were already numerous casualties.
Some vendors were crushed to death, and the goods they were selling turned into items anyone could easily snatch.
Many people took action because of this.
At first, it was just sporadic acts of robbery, but like sparks falling into a pan of oil, it rapidly ignited people’s greed.
More and more people started to plunder!
A terrible man-made disaster began.
The enforcers in charge of maintaining order shouted themselves hoarse and kept making moves, still attempting to preserve the order of the Black Market, but to little avail.
The leader of the force controlling this part of the Black Market, a Silver Level fighter, had no choice but to make an appearance. He was decisive, swiftly executing two Black Iron Level robbers.
This instantly restored order to the area around him in the Black Market, but it was still difficult to turn the tide overall.
“Get out of my way!” Xiong Ju charged ahead with overwhelming momentum.
“Move aside if you don’t want to die,” the Spring Boxer followed right beside him.
Two Silver Level fighters teamed up, charging forward, unstoppable wherever they went.
“Boss, look over there!” an enforcer reminded their leader.
But this Silver Level fighter just glanced briefly from afar before immediately shifting his focus. He then directed the enforcer squad to move and suppress another chaotic Domain nearby.
On Flower Skirt Island, aside from Golden Level masters like Cai Jing, the leaders of various powers were at the Silver Level.
Faced with Xiong Ju and Spring Boxer joining forces, the Silver Level fighter in charge of the Black Market wisely chose to turn a blind eye.
The shop dealing in Mithril was relatively large within the Black Market. When they saw Xiong Ju, Spring Boxer, and others charging towards them, their faces turned pale.
But they didn’t just give up and surrender; the shop manager loudly ordered the staff to each take a batch of goods and flee in different directions.
“Leave the goods behind!” the Spring Boxer urged frantically.
“Don’t run, or you’ll die,” Xiong Ju glared fiercely with eyes bulging, his roar thunderous.
The shop’s response greatly disrupted their robbery. Under these circumstances, it was hard for them to discern who had taken the Mithril.
Xiong Ju and Spring Boxer could only split up and intercept the fleeing shop employees.
Once an employee was intercepted, they smartly gave up the goods, throwing them far in another direction to attract the Saber Gang members to pick them up, thereby gaining a chance to escape.
The Saber Gang robbed many shop employees and intercepted a lot of items but still failed to find the Mithril.
Xiong Ju, like a starving Brown Bear, directly crashed into the shop.
The Spring Boxer climbed up high to look around. Whenever he spotted someone who had slipped through, he loudly ordered his gang to intercept them.
Lan Zao took in this entire scene, hesitating whether he should join the Saber Gang’s endeavor.
To be honest, Lan Zao had never committed robbery in his past.
Although he came from poverty and served for a long time as a sailor for a trade convoy, he never had the experience of plundering others.
“I need to finish the task the squad leader assigned to me, which means I have to approach the Saber Gang and join them.”
“Now seems like a good opportunity, but if I move with them, won’t that arouse their suspicion?”
Lan Zao had never committed robbery, but to complete the task assigned by the squad leader swiftly, he could break through his own limitations.
The problem was Lan Zao had no experience in being undercover. This made him hesitate in making a decision at such a critical moment.
He didn’t know how to choose, lacked confidence in acting, and worried about messing up.
While he was hesitating, someone quietly approached him, hiding in a dark corner, and whispered to Lan Zao through an alchemy device, “Hen Fa, what are you standing around for? Aren’t you going to join them and rob together?!”
Lan Zao quickly turned his head and saw that the person reminding him was the vendor who sold Bullet Core alchemy devices before.
Of course, he knew the vendor’s identity—he was one of Shuang Tu’s people.
When the vendor saw him turn around, he became anxious, “Idiot, don’t turn your head to look at me!”
Lan Zao immediately turned his head back, gritted his teeth in secret, and was just about to rush towards the shop.
The vendor whispered again, “Don’t go there directly. You’re on the periphery right now. Several employees from that shop have run in our direction. Intercept them and rob the goods they carry. You might find the items the Saber Gang is looking for!”
Prompted by the message, Lan Zao sprang into action.
The employees he intercepted were already panicked. Seeing Lan Zao suddenly appear, they trembled violently, as if they had suffered an electric shock.
Lan Zao actually didn’t want to bloody his hands with robbery, so he pretended to be from the Saber Gang and yelled, “Leave the goods for the Saber Gang!”
The employees were intimidated by his fake fierceness, truly believing Lan Zao was from the Saber Gang. They had no will to resist and threw down the goods, fleeing headlong.
They were just ordinary employees, earning meager wages; there really was no need to risk their lives for the shop manager’s goods.
Thus, Lan Zao easily snatched the items from three employees’ hands.
Luckily for him, among these items was precisely the Mithril the Saber Gang was desperately seeking!
Xiong Ju wrecked the shop but didn’t find anything. However, Spring Boxer saw that Lan Zao had intercepted the Mithril and immediately rushed over.
“Hen Fa, the Mithril you have is exactly what we want,” Spring Boxer shouted.
“Here, take it!” Lan Zao didn’t hesitate and directly tossed the bunch of Mithril to Spring Boxer.
Spring Boxer quickly expressed his thanks, his face etched with embarrassment.
Not long ago, he had just outlined his gang management philosophy to Lan Zao. Yet, in the blink of an eye, he had led men on a robbery, as though everything he had just said was hot air.
At this moment, Xiong Ju also arrived, catching the sight of Lan Zao throwing the Mithril to Spring Boxer and couldn’t help but laugh heartily, “Hen Fa, well done. It’s been worth our while to bring you out from Snowbird Port.”
Xiong Ju certainly knew Lan Zao too.
Lan Zao shrugged, “We’re all friends here. Such an opportunity to make a fortune is too rare. We can continue to cooperate!”
His remarks were an exceptional performance by Lan Zao.
He had perfectly explained his actions with a single sentence.
If Shuang Tu heard his words, he would surely be comforted. This was the result of his secret cultivation of Lan Zao.
“Hen Fa, you…” Spring Boxer started to speak but stopped. He really wanted to persuade Lan Zao but knew that after his own recent display, he had no place to advise.
Xiong Ju shook his head, “We have urgent matters to attend to, we must hurry back.”
Lan Zao froze.
His experience in undercover work was far too limited.
For a moment, he didn’t know what to say.
Lan Zao really wanted to just join these members of the Dao Saber Gang.
But in the end, he sighed, “That’s really a pity. I’ve got things to take care of.”
Naturally, Lan Zao was parting ways to rob other places. That was the most natural behavior for him.
But Spring Boxer stopped him, “Don’t act alone anymore. Our actions have already caught the eye of the Black Market manager. It’s only because we’re strong that he has hesitations, and he hasn’t made a move yet.”
“You could be seen as one of us. If you get separated next, they might very well take action against you.”
Spring Boxer didn’t want to see Lan Zao continue on a path of robbery. He had appreciated Lan Zao before, and to some extent, he didn’t want to see Lan Zao fall into degeneracy because of this.
However, his words also made sense.
The Silver Level Black Market manager had already suppressed two places but hadn’t removed his attention from the Dao Saber Gang members.
Lan Zao froze again.
He couldn’t help but look at Spring Boxer, pleasantly surprised.
He never expected Spring Boxer to say such things at this critical moment. These words gave Lan Zao a very suitable reason to keep close to the Saber Gang.
“Spring Boxer, this guy is really a good person!” With this thought, Lan Zao nodded, “Alright, I’ll go with you.”
Spring Boxer wasn’t very confident when he was persuading Lan Zao, but hearing his agreement, he was immediately relieved.
Spring Boxer felt he hadn’t misjudged the person and was also glad he managed to prevent someone’s fall.
He walked up to Lan Zao, excitedly patted the latter’s shoulder, “Stay close to me!”
Lan Zao joined the Dao Saber Gang members, turning to leave the Black Market.
Amidst the falling debris and shaking floor tiles, the group quickly arrived at the exit.
They saw the stairs leading to the surface had already collapsed in half. And among the rubble, lay the body of a Transcendent.
This person looked familiar to Lan Zao, and indeed it was the previous fish stall vendor.
Lan Zao had once tried to buy his Black Elastic Fishing Net but was refused.
A light shone in Lan Zao’s eyes as he quickly jogged over, bending down to take a bunch of black nets from the vendor’s waist.
“Didn’t expect such an unexpected gain!” Lan Zao laughed heartily, genuinely pleased.
Spring Boxer glanced at him but didn’t say much.
“Boss, those people from the Dao Saber Gang have all run out,” a subordinate reported.
There was no need for the report; the Black Market manager had always focused his attention on Spring Boxer and his group.
The Black Market manager’s face darkened as he looked towards the exit, “Saber Gang… Don’t think you can just steal and get away with it. This matter is far from over!”
He had not acted against the Saber Gang members just now simply because his own power was insufficient.
This didn’t mean he would give up on dealing with the Saber Gang.
Such actions by the Saber Gang had severely violated the order of Flower Skirt Island, as well as his interests!
The Black Market manager might be short on power, but he could rally other forces, banding together against the Saber Gang.
The Saber Gang had set up temporary bases throughout Hua Qun Island, already alarming nearly all Silver Level powers.
Now, with the Saber Gang’s looting in the chaos of the Black Market, such actions were extremely vile and had seriously provoked the other forces of Flower Skirt Island.
With the Black Market manager holding the moral high ground, even if other Silver Level forces hadn’t suffered losses, they would be very wary and anxious, fearing they could be the next victims.
Therefore, the Black Market manager had already resolved to join forces with others after the fact to trouble the Saber Gang. He hoped to eliminate all of those damned people, to quell the anger in his heart!