"Stay back, brother, stay back... Let's talk this through properly! Isn't it just fifty thousand taels? I'll give it to you..."
Seeming to understand the other party's intention, Pei Er retreated while speaking quickly, and as if worried that he couldn't persuade the other party, he added another sentence.
"Brother, do you think that bounty is so easy to get? That Liu Tianci has been tracking me for a long time and hasn't caught me. If you easily capture me and take the bounty just like that, wouldn't that be slapping Liu Tianci in the face?"
"With Liu Tianci's arrogant temperament, even if you take the bounty, you will definitely not have a good life. It's better for me to give you fifty thousand taels and you let me go. That would be more cost-effective..."
Seeing Lin Sheng getting closer and closer, Pei Er kept talking.
After hearing what he said, Lin Sheng stopped.
What the other party said did make some sense. The situation in Wanhua City was already chaotic enough, and he didn't want to get involved with the Imperial Court.
Especially geniuses with strong backgrounds like Liu Tianci and Ouyang Lengshui, he wanted even less to have any contact with them.
All he wanted was money, not endless trouble, so he was quite moved by Pei Er's suggestion and immediately spoke to the other party.
"Since that's the case, then hand it over."
"I don't have that much money on me. You can come with me to get it." Seeing the other party agree to his suggestion, Pei Er felt relieved and a smile appeared on his face, but the light in his eyes flickered slightly.
"Then hurry up."
Lin Sheng didn't doubt Pei Er's words, after all, fifty thousand taels was not a small sum, and it was indeed unlikely to be carried around.
"Then let's go."
Pei Er let out a dry laugh, turned around, and galloped in one direction.
Lin Sheng also leaped up and followed, the two of them were only a few meters apart, one in front and one behind.
This distance was within the range covered by his Earth Affinity. Even if the other party wanted to play tricks, he couldn't escape.
Soon, the time it takes for an incense stick to burn passed, and the two had already run hundreds of miles.
And at this moment, Pei Er suddenly paused, stopped, and a solemn expression appeared on his face.
"What's wrong!?"
Lin Sheng stopped, narrowed his eyes, and asked.
"There seems to be something ahead."
Pei Er said in a deep voice, his appearance not looking fake.
Lin Sheng followed his gaze, but unfortunately, at this time, he had not integrated with any perception-type mutated beasts, and his perception ability was only within the scope of an ordinary Blood Transportation Early Stage Martial Artist.
So he didn't feel anything abnormal, but at this time, focusing his vision, he did see two figures rapidly approaching not far away.
The speed of these two figures was extremely fast, clearly indicating that their strength was not weak.
And at this moment, a bang suddenly sounded from beside him, and in the next moment, countless dust flew up from the ground.
Lin Sheng lifted his foot and stomped heavily on the ground, the violent power of Earth Affinity completely unleashed, directly overturning the surrounding ground.
However, the expected scream did not sound.
Lin Sheng waved his large hand, fanning away the dust in front of him, and only then did he see that Pei Er's thin and small figure had agilely leaped into the air, his toes tapping on the treetops, spanning several zhang.
He had already widened the distance between them. As he flew away, he turned his head and showed Lin Sheng a mocking smile.
"Kid, don't tell me you thought I could only drill into the ground? I'll leave those two guys to you."
After saying this, he spoke loudly.
"Brother, I'll leave those two Imperial Court lackeys to you first. After you're done, we'll meet at the old place..."
As his voice fell, Pei Er's figure had disappeared into the dense and lush leaves.
Lin Sheng frowned, looked at the two figures in the other direction who were getting closer and closer, and understood.
Without hesitation, he tapped his toes and leaped up, chasing after the direction Pei Er had left.
But just as he made a move, two strong winds rapidly approached him, arriving in the blink of an eye.
He struck out with a backhand palm, sending the two black throwing darts flying away. However, this was just the beginning. In the next moment, more than a dozen throwing darts shot out, aiming at various parts of his body.
Lin Sheng frowned tightly, his hands striking out to shatter all these throwing darts, but his movements were inevitably paused.
Under the continuous interference of the throwing darts, the two figures finally blocked his path.
"Drilling Rat's accomplice?"
The two figures' gazes fell on Lin Sheng, scanning his red figure up and down, a look of surprise appearing on their faces.
"I don't know that Drilling Rat Pei Er. It's better for the two of you not to misunderstand. That thief just left. If you chase after him, you can still stop him."
Lin Sheng's gaze also swept over these two men dressed in black with big noses and ears, pausing slightly on the waist tokens hanging from their waists.
As expected, they were Prefecture Yamen constables.
"Whether it's a misunderstanding or not is not up to you to say. Just surrender, and we won't let Pei Er go either."
Regarding Lin Sheng's words, the two constables only spoke lightly, their tone quite firm, not giving him much chance to argue.
"It seems there's no room for negotiation."
Seeing the reaction of the two, Lin Sheng sighed inwardly, never expecting that what he least wanted to encounter would come looking for him.
Prefecture Yamen constables had always been overbearing and arbitrary, and one of their tenets was to kill the wrong person rather than let the right one go.
Obviously, in the current situation, no matter what he said, he couldn't escape responsibility.
Naturally, he couldn't just surrender and follow them back. Since they couldn't talk it out, then he could only...
"You can only blame yourselves for having bad luck... Ape Demon Transformation!"
Lin Sheng looked at the two, and at that moment, his figure had turned into a red phantom, rushing towards them.
"Seeking death!"
Seeing this scene, the two constables snorted coldly.
Red light surged on their bodies, their Aura rose, and they met Lin Sheng head-on.
"Crimson Demon Claws."
Red light flared on the hands of the two constables, and a layer of fine red scales appeared on their arms, turning into ferocious beast claws in the blink of an eye.
The two ferocious beast claws met the large hands like palm-leaf fans, colliding with a bang. However, what followed was the sound of bones shattering and two muffled groans one after another.
The two constables flew backward, breaking more than a dozen large trees consecutively before falling to the ground. Before they could get up, the red large hand, like a sky-covering demon claw, rapidly enlarged in their vision until it filled their entire eyes.
"Go well..."
As the red large hand tightened, with two cracking sounds, the two men's heads shattered.
Two experts at the Late Stage of Blood Transportation died on the spot just like that.
Grabbing the headless bodies of the two, the poison of the Three Corpse Soul Severing Palm instantly swept through their remains, melting the two corpses into a pool of black, the blood sinking into the ground at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This time, the poison completely corroded the clothes of the two, leaving only two waist tokens on the spot.
Picking up the waist tokens, he exerted force with both hands, directly crushing them.
He glanced at the messy ground, activated Earth Affinity, and turned the surrounding area within a dozen meters into ruins.
After doing all this, his gaze finally looked in the direction Pei Er had left.
"I hope you can run fast enough!"
After whispering, he slightly bent his legs, and in the next moment, the ground cracked open, and the red figure instantly disappeared from the spot like a cannonball.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
"Where did this pervert come from? His strength is actually so strong? It's just a pity his brain isn't very good. Does he really think I'll obediently give him money? Hmph, ridiculous..."
Galloping towards Zhou Shan County, Pei Er's footsteps didn't stop at all, running at full speed in the mountain forest.
After realizing that he was no match for Lin Sheng, he had removed the method he used to conceal his Aura.
He had been entangled with the two constables for many days and already knew their abilities. He knew that once he removed the Aura concealment method, with the tracking abilities of those two, they would definitely be able to determine his location very quickly.
To be safe, he deliberately delayed time with Lin Sheng, and he was really worried that those two constables wouldn't be effective. As a result, they didn't disappoint him; the two constables arrived even earlier than he expected.
"The strength of those two constables is not weak. I might not even be able to take one down in a one-on-one fight. With the two of them working together, even if that kid is strong, he's bound to be entangled for a while."
"However, I can't stay in Zhoushan County anymore. Alas, I need to go back, pack my things, and run. As for Young Master, I still need to send another letter."
While thinking, yellow light flickered on his body, and he directly sank into the ground.
No matter what kind of tracking method was used, as long as he hid underground, it would be ineffective.
Now that the distance had been widened, for safety's sake, it was better to travel underground.
Time slowly passed. Not long after, three to four li outside Zhou Shan County, in a lush green bamboo forest, the ground bulged, and Pei Er's head emerged from it.
He first cautiously looked around, and only after confirming that there was nothing unusual did he drill out from underground.
"Finally here. I need to quickly return to the County Town, pack my things, and run."
As he hurried towards the County Town, he pondered where it would be suitable to escape this time.
However, he hadn't gone far when his body shook, his footsteps paused, stopping in place, and an expression of disbelief appeared on his face as he looked at a figure that seemed to have appeared out of thin air not far from him.
He was very familiar with that figure because he had just seen it not long ago.
"You... How are you here?"
Pei Er was greatly shocked and stammered out a sentence.
Before his voice could fall, he had already turned around and ran back. At the same time, he took out a circular black object from his 懷, and smashed it hard on the ground, immediately causing a large amount of dust to explode.
However, this time it didn't produce the miraculous effect it did the first time he used it.
Because just as his body leaped up and he looked back at that figure, he only met a pair of indifferent vertical pupils without any emotion.
The vertical pupils were yellowish-brown. With just that one glance, he felt a dense fear surge in his heart like a tide.
This feeling of fear was something he had never experienced before, even making him unable to feel his own body. All his consciousness was enveloped by endless fear.
Thump!
His body fell from mid-air, hitting the ground heavily.
At this moment, Pei Er's eyes were wide, his pupils shrunk to less than half their usual size, his mouth slightly open, saliva flowing out, and his whole body trembling uncontrollably, looking utterly miserable.
Lin Sheng came closer, the bone spurs on his body retracted, and the vertical pupil between his eyebrows contracted. Looking at Pei Er in this state, he was not in a hurry but squatted beside him, carefully observing his reaction.
What he had just used was the Heart Monkey Talent, the deterrent effect of the vertical pupil between his eyebrows.
He had only tested the deterrent effect on mutated beasts before. This was the first time he had used it on a person, and from the results, the effect was quite good.
Pei Er was at least an expert at the Late Stage of Blood Transportation, but after being deterred, he completely lost the ability to resist and was at his mercy.
After dealing with the two constables, he thought for a moment and went directly to stake out the area outside Zhou Shan County.
Although he had left some tracking powder on Pei Er, for an expert like him who was skilled in concealment and hiding, his little trick might not be able to fool him.
So it was better to switch to integrating with the Caiyu Worm and Big Yellow to stack high perception and wait outside Zhou Shan County like waiting for a rabbit. He was betting that Pei Er would have to return to Zhoushan County before leaving.
It seemed he had bet correctly.
After waiting quietly for a while longer, with a 'wah' sound, Pei Er suddenly sat up from the ground in shock and started vomiting.
"Twenty breaths."
Lin Sheng silently noted the time. It took a full twenty breaths for Pei Er to fall down from being hit and then wake up.
He wondered how effective the deterrent would be against experts in the Bone Transformation Realm?
He thought to himself, his hands not stopping, he grabbed Pei Er's head and lifted him from the ground.
At this moment, his height was about two and a half meters. The thin and short Pei Er was like a little chick in his hands.
"Uh... let... let me go, bro... brother... let's talk this through properly, it's a misunderstanding, everything before was a misunderstanding..."
Although Pei Er still felt dizzy, he knew his situation very well and hurriedly begged for mercy.
He really didn't expect that the other party would return to Zhou Shan County before him, and the method used just now made him feel a chilling fear even now.
"I hate being tricked, so..."
Facing Pei Er's plea for mercy, Lin Sheng's expression was calm. He lifted his head to be level with his own gaze.
A chilling killing intent had already risen in his heart towards this Drilling Rat. If it weren't for this guy, he would never have gotten involved with the Prefecture Yamen.
Given the overbearing methods of the Imperial Court, it was not hard to imagine that if the matter of him killing the constables was leaked, even the Seven Forms Sect would definitely not be able to withstand the wrath from the Prefecture Yamen.
He hated trouble, but what he hated even more were the people who created trouble for him.
So, thinking of this, the hand holding the other party's head began to tighten, intending to directly finish him off.
He had already made up his mind. At worst, after this wave of trouble completely passed, he would disguise himself and claim the bounty for this Drilling Rat, or simply deal with it through Dark Star's channels. In any case, he would still receive a considerable sum of money.
Feeling the other party's naked killing intent, Pei Er immediately panicked and kept begging for mercy.
But Lin Sheng ignored him. Just as Pei Er felt his consciousness beginning to blur.
Whoosh!
A cold wind suddenly blew, mixed with a fierce gust of wind.
The strong wind went straight for Lin Sheng's arm, and its speed was so fast that it surprised him. In the next moment, bone spurs surged out from the muscles of his arm, colliding with the strong wind and producing an explosion. Lin Sheng noticed that the strong wind was actually just a leaf.
"Stay your hand..."