Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey!

Chapter 256: Chapter 126 Wu Zhong: What? The hero you mentioned is called Chen 94?

White Tiger Hall!

Today’s White Tiger Hall was different from usual, filled with an extraordinary solemnity; the place was packed inside and out.

Nearly four hundred people stood in the square of White Tiger Hall, which meant, aside from those left behind to watch homes in the streets and various villages and towns, almost all the leaders had arrived.

This even included, from Chen Jie’s hometown, Xiantao Town’s Fishery Manager, Wu Zhong!

Wu Zhong had also received the news yesterday afternoon, and had come as soon as the city gates opened this morning, not knowing exactly what had happened.

Like Wu Zhong, equally bewildered were two other village and town fishery managers; at this moment, the three of them gathered together, whispering.

”Old Wu!”

At that time, one of the fishery managers saw Wu Zhong and greeted him with a hearty laugh.

Wu Zhong looked over and also laughed, ”Haha... Old Liu, you’re here too, it’s been half a year since we last met, right?”

”A sound half year indeed, hey hey, how have you been recently?”

”How could I be anything but the usual?”

”You, always concealing your skills every day.”

”That’s not true, I, Wu Zhong, always speak precisely what I mean, never speaking nonsense.”

While they were talking, another fishery manager approached them and said, ”Hahaha, Old Liu, is Old Wu pretending to be helpless again? That’s his problem.”

”Isn’t it? Even in front of us brothers, he won’t tell the truth, haha...”

Old Liu complained.

Hearing this, Wu Zhong responded, ”Hey, hey, you guys aren’t plotting against me behind my back again, are you...”

”Okay, okay, I’ll stop teasing you, Old Wu. Hey, do you guys know why we’re summoned today? The Hall Master hurried us so urgently, and look, practically all the leaders of White Tiger Hall are here, what’s this about?”

”What is it, who knows? By the way, have you heard? Yesterday our White Tiger Hall had a gambling duel with the Beggar Sect, it was a close call, we almost lost.”

”Really? That happened?”

Wu Zhong asked curiously, since the situation was urgent, nobody had informed Xiantao Town, and besides, these rural institutions might not be of much help in an emergency as long as they regularly submitted their taxes; hence, no one had specifically notified them.

Many times, the grass-roots only learned about major incidents after the upper management changed.

”That’s right, I came overnight yesterday, almost all of Mianshui County was talking about this event, we in the countryside didn’t know, yesterday’s gambling duel even concerned the very survival of our White Tiger Hall!”

Old Li, the manager from Yanglin Town, said excitedly; he had rushed into the city last night, thus he had heard about the big news of White Tiger Hall all night.

Beside him, Old Liu from Shadong Town, like Wu Zhong, had entered the city this morning and was therefore unaware of this widely discussed incident.

He then said, ”What exactly happened, Old Li? Tell us more.”

Hearing this, Old Li responded, ”Didn’t know, huh? Let me tell you, it was extremely perilous yesterday. Our White Tiger Hall gambled against the Beggar Sect, staking our three streets, Yongchang, Peace, and Big Vegetable Market, while the Beggar Sect staked Nan Lake Salt Field. It was a best-of-three rounds duel.”

”But before that, the Beggar Sect ambushed our White Tiger Hall; the Hall Master was seriously injured, three of the Four Great Vajra were hurt and one died, putting our entire White Tiger Hall in the gravest danger.”

”Of course, as the saying goes, troubled times produce heroes, and turmoil brings forth capable ministers. At this dire moment, our Fifth Master stood up, brilliantly strategized during the gambling duel, and defeated [Iron Beggar Zhou Peng], outwitted [Mountain Climbing Vine Liu Feng], and further challenged and won against [Golden Saber Feng San] in a duel, making a name for himself and securing a century-old foundation for our White Tiger Hall!”

Jianghu Greetings: [Soul-chasing Spear]

Old Li indeed had a way with words, narrating the story as if he were telling a storybook tale.

Hearing this, both Wu Zhong and Old Liu were dumbstruck, exclaiming in awe.

However, Wu Zhong suddenly came to his senses, his face filled with shock as he asked the storyteller Old Li, ”Hey, Old Li, what’s this Fifth Master’s name?”

”Fifth Master?”

Wu Zhong, containing his excitement, asked.

He was also afraid of being mistaken; after all, he had heard of Golden Saber Feng San who was reputed to be an Iron Bone Realm expert, and he remembered that the person in question was merely at the Refining Body Realm. It had only been a month; could he have advanced to the Iron Bone Realm?

Wu Zhong was skeptical.

Hearing this, Old Li replied, ”You don’t know? His surname is Chen.”

”Surname Chen? What’s his full name?”

Wu Zhong continued to inquire, and Old Li replied, ”His name is Chen Jiusi. Hey, Fifth Brother, he seems to be from your Xiantao Town too!”

Chen Jiusi!!

Wu Zhong’s eyes widened instantly, it really was that kid Jiusi.

He found it hard to believe, after all, the Chen Jiusi Old Li spoke of seemed like a completely different person from the Chen Jiusi he knew.

One was a somewhat determined, somewhat clever youth from the countryside.

The other was a heroic figure who could salvage a huge building from collapsing and prop up a mountain about to fall; he couldn’t reconcile these two as the same person at the moment.

It felt like a dream; was this Chen Jiusi really the Chen Jiusi he knew?

Wu Zhong tried to calm himself down and then looked at Old Li and said, ”Old Li, are you sure you got it right? Really Chen Jiusi?”

Old Li replied, ”How could I get it wrong? Oh right, Old Wu, do you know him?”

”Well, sort of know him.”

Wu Zhong chuckled, his heart pounding with excitement, then Old Li said, ”You know him, eh? What’s your relationship like, can you speak to him? With his status, he might someday own this White Tiger Hall, if you can speak to him, you should help a brother out.”

Wu Zhong replied, ”Well, it’s just a casual acquaintance, can’t really talk to him.”