Chapter 299: Stirring Up Trouble
Under the starry night sky, the dragonman youngster returned to the port.
At the same time, in a courtyard.
Teng Dong Lang was drinking ice crystal wine and enjoying sashimi alone,
“Your tastes haven’t changed over the many years.” A voice suddenly came from behind him.
Teng Dong Lang paused, then stood up and looked behind him with pleasant surprise.
He saw a slender silhouette standing under the shadows of the grapevine frames.
The silhouette wore a white robe with all kinds of exquisite and gaudy flowers threaded into it.
His face was wearing a silver fox mask.
In its eye slits, there were pink pupils.
In the dim light of night, they were especially striking.
“Hua Tang, why are you here?” Teng Dong Lang’s face blossomed with a smile.
“Naturally there is an important matter I have to do here. Do you remember the clues you gave me?” The silver white fox mask left the shadows and slowly walked to Teng Dong Lang.
“What clues? I have given you a lot of clues over the last few years.”
“Chicken Cluck Cave.” Hua Tang said the place’s name.
Teng Dong Lang immediately raised his brow, “So you found the Saint Thief’s relic? Don’t tell me it was a fake.”
Hua Tang shook his head, his tone serious, “This time it is unlikely, I am quite certain.”
Teng Dong Laugh involuntarily laughed, “You said that several times before.”
“We aren’t talking about me, but you. It seems you’ve run into a bit of trouble.” Hua Tang stepped in front of Teng Dong Lang.
Teng Dong Lang waved his hand, “It isn’t really a problem. Just some small time mercenary corps, at most their backer is somewhat complex.”
“We rarely see each other. Don’t let that matter spoil things. Come, lets drink together.”
Hua Tang laughed, and took a seat with Teng Dong Lang.
When he woke up, the dragonman youngster felt refreshed.
He had completely recovered.
The Flame Dragon King bloodline once again revealed its legend level quality.
At breakfast, a subordinate handed over a purchased intelligence report.
This information report was about Hua Tang.
It had a lot in it but was pretty cheap.
Hua Tang’s warrant for arrest was posted everywhere in the Ice Sculpture Kingdom, and stories about him circulated far and wide, thus information on him, relatively speaking, was not that valuable.
The dragonman youngster ate while thumbing through it.
Each case spoke of the beautiful skill of this gold level thief.
Even under impossibly tight security, he always miraculously stole all sorts of treasures.
Many times, Hua Tang would distribute the things he stole to the poor in a city.
Hua Tang had a bombastic style.
For example, his attire.
His clothes were iconic.
He wore a spacious white gown adorned with several flowers.
He wore a fox mask with a silver texture.
Whenever he moved through the night, his white gown was like a floating cloud with flowers swirling in it. The mask glittered with silvery light, as if its owner didn’t fear being conspicuous in the night.
Every time he committed a crime, he would leave behind a vibrant freshly plucked flower at the crime scene.
In addition, many other times, before he robbed someone, he would send a warning letter to the treasure owner.
The dragonman youngster analyzed it in his thoughts, “It seems he wasn’t satisfied with ordinary thievery and would raise the difficult of his own accord. He constantly challenges himself and the world, and from this challenge, he feels joy.”
“Is he really just a gold level cultivator?’
“Despite weaving through the Ice Sculpture Kingdom for many years, he has remained uncaught.”
“Looking at these theft cases is like looking at a compilation of stories.”
The dragonman youngster’s gaze gradually congealed.
“Currently, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ preventative measures is mainly composed of patrolling mercenaries, along with Zong Ge and the others standing guard. Secretly, there are alchemy puppets scattered all over the place to keep watch. Then on the distant seafloor, there is also the Deep Sea Monster Fish.”
“But these defenses cannot stop Hua Tang.”
Places with far more defensive measures that were tighter and stronger than the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps; have been robbed by Hua Tang.”
But they still couldn’t stop Hua Tang, to him, they existed in name only.
The dragonman youngster had no choice but to predict, “If Teng Dong Lang asks Hua Tang to act, how likely will it be for him to attack my mercenary corps?”
It couldn’t be predicted.
Because he didn’t know the relationship between Teng Dong Lang and Hua Tang.
He couldn’t help but feel how tight time was.
“I have to get stronger as soon as possible! I must carry out my heroic duel with Teng Dong Lang as soon as possible, if I put it off, I fear there will be many long nights.”
Despite the dragonman youngster holding the initiative in the heroic duel, it was difficult to change that it was the weak fighting against the strong.
The more dragonman youngster knew, the more he could perceive the risks.
After hurriedly eating breakfast, he made his way to the training cabin to spar with Zong Ge.
Scarcely half an hour into training, noise came from outside the ship.
The Bayonet Gang ringleader Ban Lan Gen, bringing along Bing Kuai and a group of underlings, had openly come to the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ ships, loudly shouting a challenge.
Ever since the dragonman youngster had publicly challenged Teng Dong Lang, the two had been at the heart of the struggle and had their every movement being closely watched.
Ban Lan Gen and his people stormed in and raised a ruckus, afraid that someone wouldn’t hear.
Therefore, when he was publicizing his challenge, there was already a ring of people enjoying the show.
Ban Lan Gen didn’t challenge the dragonman youngster, to prevent gossip. Because the masses knew the dragonman youngster had been injured by penetration power and was in the process of training.
So, Ban Lan Gen challenged Zong Ge – the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ auxiliary commander.
The dragonman youngster and Zong Ge were startled and had to suspend their training.
Zong Ge naturally could not accept this challenge.
He had to teach the dragonman youngster, and with him there, the dragonman youngster’s military power would be improved more.
Zong Ge was too busy to get out.
But direct refusal was inappropriate.
That would cause the public to believe that Zong Ge was a coward who wouldn’t dare meet a challenge.
It would trouble the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ newly established prestige.
“This is easy to manage; we can rebuff Ban Lan Gen’s challenge the same way Teng Dong Long did mine.” The dragonman youngster proposed after some thought.
Zong Ge agreed with this method and quickly appeared on the side of the ship.
He looked down at Ban Lan Gen and stated, “You are just one of six ringleaders of the Bayonet Gang, while am the number two person in the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.”
“Treeman who was defeated in a single punch, you must first prove your strength.”
When Ban Lan Gen’s old wound was ripped open, he immediately became ashamed and angry.
Men Shi and Chi Lai had received the dragonman youngster’s order and came out in a timely fashion, saying one after the other, “If you want to challenge our auxiliary commander, you have to get past me first.”
“Let me measure your strength first!”
Ban Lan Gen was forced to acknowledge this arrangement.
Men Shi went first and left with Ban Lan Gen to the nearest dueling arena.
The crowd of onlookers followed behind them, loudly departing the docks.
The dragonman youngster and Zong Ge returned to the cabin to continue their training.
A half an hour later, someone else paid a visit.
It was a dock worker.
He deliberately made things difficult, urging them to hand over their anchorage fee.
According to what he said, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps had to pay double the fee due to incomplete reporting, polluting the docks, among other reasons.
Zi Di came out to hand over the entire sum in order to resolve this matter.
But the dock worker didn’t let the matter drop, “kindly” reminding them before leaving: the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps needs to go to the dock administration, submit a comprehensive report, resolve your ships’ environmental pollution, and the other listed problems. Otherwise, you will face fines, and if you have repeated offenses, you will face incremental fines that will become quite expensive.
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps had 60,000 gold coins, so naturally they wouldn’t care about such a small sum.
But this kind of method really made people sick.
It was very clear that the Bayonet Gang was already beginning to exert themselves, these acts exposing the foundation of this local bully.
In the morning, Zi Di had to deal with four more officials making things difficult so the dragonman youngster could keep his mind on training.
But at noon, Zi Di stopped blocking them.
Because the Bayonet Gang asked patrol fleet troops to come over.
The snow elf investigation team had a tough attitude, claiming that someone reported the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps had concealed heavy weapons and didn’t report them, so they needed to reinspect the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ ships thoroughly again.
The snow elf investigation team came from the government.
Zi Di thought about it and found that it wouldn’t be good to obstruct them. If they did, it was bound to lead to charges of resisting investigation, which would confirm their pretexts that the mercenary corps was hiding something.
Zi Di was forced to allow the investigation team to carry out their survey.
And this time, the snow elf team was far nastier than normal.
They did not do a survey, but a search.
Wherever they went, there was nothing not turned over and in disarray.
The mercenaries were indignant and many of them raised their fists, wanting to teach these arrogant snow elves a lesson.
But Zi Di strictly ordered them to stop.
If a conflict happened between then and the snow elf investigation squad, they would undoubtedly fall into the Bayonet Gang’s plot. The latter was eager for the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps to get caught up in this conflict and were positive to have prepared many follow up tricks and traps they were waiting for the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps to fall into.
Seeing the mercenaries’ persistent forbearance, the snow elf investigators became more aggressive.
The inspectors reached the water pigmen, causing the team leader to pinch his nose, saying with disgust, “That strange odor, it turned out to be a group of pigs.”
“What are you looking at! Calling you pigs is speaking highly of you.”
“A group of bumpkins…”
“Are you still staring? Hehehe.”
“Come, stand over there, I suspect you are carrying and hiding hazardous materials on you, I need to do a body search!”
The investigation team leader dragged out a female water pigman from the group.
The investigation team leader circled around the female water pig a few times, extended an examination rod, then started to poke the water pigman’s body, followed by lifting the hem of her clothes.
The female water pigman indignantly growled.
The surrounding water pigmen also were enraged and began to close in.
The investigation team leader burst into laughter and glared at the water pigmen around him, sharply reprimanding, “You dirty and contemptible beastmen are still thinking of resisting investigation?”
“Come and fight then!”
“You looking to fight, to beat up an Ice Sculpture Kingdom snow elf investigator and violently resist the law?’
“Hm?!”
The investigation team leader chided, causing the water pigmen to hesitate.
The female pigman’s eyes were bloodshot and also glistening with teardrops.
She shuddered, clenched her fists, and steeled herself.
The investigation team leader’s mouth twitched up, slowly raised the hem of her clothes to expose her private partes when suddenly, a figure charged at from him from behind.
The investigation team leader felt a strong wind from behind, and one of his companions shouting, “Captain be careful.”
He quickly turned around to see a fist fill his perspective.
Ding!
The staunch fist ruthlessly knocked the investigation captain to the ground.
He had been hit with so much force that the investigation captain’s head smashed into the floor.
He coughed out blood and also some teeth.
The beaten investigation team leader wasn’t anger, instead he laughed like one whose scheme had prevailed, “Hehehe, I knew you stupid beastmen couldn’t stand being provoked.”
“Idiots, you group of idiots! You actually dared to beat up an investigator!”
“Get over here, seized them!!”