Free Web NovelIt was silent in the Black Building.
Everyone's gaze in the darkness converged, but no one spoke.
Xiao Li even suspected that the reason this place was called the Black Building was because they didn't like to light lamps, making it so dark that people couldn't even see clearly.
It was unclear if this was due to poverty or if it created a more atmospheric mood.
To prevent any assassins from having poor eyesight, Xiao Li thoughtfully took out a night-shining pearl.
“Is it really Li Mo?”
“He came to the Black Building? How dare he?”
“This is a bit disrespectful to our profession. What's the difference between this and us jumping into the Yamen?” freeweɓnøvel.com
The assassins in the Black Building had varied expressions, looking at each other.
Even the old man with the birthmark at the front desk scratched the back of his head in confusion.
After so many years in the business, it was the first time he had seen a target with such a high bounty deliver himself right into their trap.
The night-shining pearl illuminated Li Mo's Face, and only then did whispers begin to rise.
“He seems quite rich. Why don't we just take him out here? We'll get the bounty and we can also take his wealth.”
“No fighting is allowed within the Black Building.”
“Why do you think they made such a rule?”
“Why do you think we're called Rain Listening Pavilion and not Black Wind Stronghold?”
“But he has to leave the building, right? He can't just shrink inside the building forever.”
“We're just saying, is there a possibility that he brought a powerful destructive exotic treasure and came here to self-detonate?”
........
Someone said this, startling the manager at the counter and making him break out in a cold sweat.
Li Mo appearing here meant he was either hopelessly foolish or had the confidence to come here.
The nineteenth on the Qianlong Ranking clearly couldn't be the former.
“Li Shaoxia has great courage. May I ask what brings you here?”
The manager gave a look to the person next to him, then proactively asked.
“No guidance is needed.”
Li Mo walked to the counter, sat down on a chair, and smiled:
“A guest has arrived, yet no tea is served. This is quite impolite.”
Xu Yi: “.....”
He suddenly felt that his past experiences of licking blood from a knife's edge and being on the brink of death were all insignificant.
The green-faced manager paused, then narrowed his eyes and said:
“When did you become a guest?”
“Rain Listening Pavilion acts without taboos, right?”
Li Mo did not shy away from the sharpness in the other party's eyes.
The green-faced manager nodded: “Aside from the rules within the building, that is correct.”
“So that means, people with bounties can also place orders?”
Li Mo had already finished reading the bounty list behind the counter.
Among them, there were indeed examples of mutual bounties.
For example, Zhang San placed a bounty on Li Si, and Li Si placed a bounty back.
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The green-faced manager thought for a moment and did not deny it.
After all, for Rain Listening Pavilion, who they killed was not important; how much money the other party could offer was very important.
However, placing a bounty on someone else would not remove one's own bounty.
At most, it would be for revenge.
“Then when I come to do business with you, I am naturally a guest. I want to place a bounty on everyone who wants to kill me.”
“Who do you want to place a bounty on? The Saintess?”
The green-faced manager seemed to have heard something amusing.
Laughter and sneers also erupted from within the Black Building.
Place a bounty on the Saintess?
Even if the manager dared to post it, would anyone dare to take it?
“What's the point of placing a bounty on a Guan Shen Realm? This is a big business for me.”
Xiao Li's performance-oriented personality took over, and his aura was quite strong:
“I want to place a bounty on everyone who wants to kill me.”
“In short, whoever takes the bounty to kill me, I will place a bounty on them.”
The green-faced manager opposite him opened his mouth, his eyes filled with confusion.
Huh?
It was the first time he had heard of such an outrageous bounty.
When this sentence was spoken, the brains of all the assassins in the Black Building experienced a momentary one-second shutdown.
“Can this work?”
“Hiss... my head feels a bit itchy.”
The assassins gathered together to discuss, and after carefully verifying the rules of Rain Listening Pavilion, they concluded:
This actually worked.
But something still felt off.
Are you coming here to hire bodyguards from us?
However, while it was possible, there had never been such a precedent.
Because there wasn't enough money.
The green-faced manager also noticed this. He chuckled and brought an abacus, clattering it loudly:
“A bounty on an Inner Breath Realm ranges from a thousand taels of silver to ten thousand taels of gold.”
“A bounty on an ordinary Guan Shen Realm, the average price in the building is five thousand to fifty thousand taels of gold, of course, excluding Prodigies like Li Shaoxia on the Qianlong Ranking.”
“A bounty on an Inner Scenery is much more expensive, starting at a hundred thousand taels of gold, plus rare treasures, for an assassin to even be willing to take the order.”
“As for Outer Scenery... Hehe, Li Shaoxia is probably...”
More than one person had taken Li Mo's bounty.
“Alright, stop calculating. I'll give you a number.”
Li Mo held up five fingers:
“Five times the market price.”
“You can afford...”
Bang—
A deposit slip from Hengtong Merchant House was slapped onto the table.
The green-faced manager frowned and read aloud:
“Party A, Li Shaoxia, has deposited a mountain of gold in my merchant house... What kind of unit of measurement is this... plus thirty boxes of rare treasures... a hundred xuan crystals...”
“Your esteemed building can periodically come to my establishment and withdraw the deposited assets according to the voucher...”
“—Personally signed by Sun Gui.”
Plop—
The green-faced manager's knees buckled.
He dispatched a swift-footed person to Hengtong Merchant House.
When that person returned, he whispered something in his ear.
He pulled at the corners of his mouth, forming an ugly smile:
“Li Shaoxia, would you like Dragon Well tea or Da Hong Pao?”
Rain Listening Pavilion's first commercial cooperation in history began.
Xiao Li's bounty was hung in the highest position, becoming the number one big brother of Rain Listening Pavilion's Yunzhou Branch.
......
The news spread like wildfire, and assassins from nearby rushed to the Black Building.
However, for a time, no one dared to step forward and take the order.
After all, taking the order would be considered challenging the Saintess.
Although who took which bounty was a secret, no one dared to be the first to stick their neck out.
But their envy was real.
“Saintess my ass! We call her Saintess out of Face, but how much silver is her Face worth?”
A cold female voice caught the attention of all the assassins.
“Saintess this, Saintess that, but if we really have trouble, can the Saintess help?”
“That's true, we're not a Sect.”
“That makes sense...”
The assassins were somewhat swayed.
She walked to the counter and slapped a Hall Courtyard Swallow onto the table:
“We've all joined Rain Listening Pavilion, and we're still looking at people's expressions? Then what was the point of joining Rain Listening Pavilion!”
“I'll take this order first!”
With that, Shang Wu, a pure passerby, no longer concealed her aura, which instantly poured forth.
Inner Scenery Realm!
“That makes sense!”
“This old man is in!”
Qian Bufan, a pure passerby, also stepped forward.
He was also an Inner Scenery!
“Those who hesitate cannot achieve great things.”
A female assassin with a rather cold demeanor also walked to Li Mo's side.
It seemed she intended to protect him closely from now on.
Although her Realm couldn't be discerned, the meaning was clear from her cold, unapproachable gaze.
Whoever comes, dies.
She was definitely a ruthless person.
“Hehe, what courage.”
Li Mo slapped the table and rose, saying: “I, Li Mo, most admire those with commendable courage. Please do not refuse this small gift.”
He directly took out a few xuan crystals and placed them in the female assassin's hand.
Thus, more pure passersby joined.
There was a short dwarf assassin, a very gloomy assassin who clearly had a belly full of bad intentions, and an Inner Scenery poison master with various bottles and jars on him, emitting the scent of pills, clearly skilled in using poison.
It is well known.
People have herd mentality, and assassins are no exception.
Seeing so many people take the order, even if the Saintess wanted to settle accounts later, she wouldn't be able to find out who did it.
As a result, the counter was instantly packed.
The scene was very lively, somewhat reminiscent of old ladies rushing to grab eggs at a supermarket.
