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

Chapter 367: Chapter 144 What? You’ve mastered Energy Transformation at 94?_4

”The higher-ups said Chen Jiusi was blinded by his own greed and didn’t want to wait for the Old Hall Master to step down, so he took action himself, didn’t they?”

”Hehe... We’ve both had dealings with Chen Jiusi before. Is he that kind of fool?”

”This?”

...

A few people gathered together to discuss, and as time passed, they slowly began to sense that there was something fishy about the situation. But since the higher-ups didn’t allow any investigation, they didn’t dare to mess around.

At that moment, they suddenly saw Zhou Chu slowly coming out of the Council Hall. The group immediately surrounded him.

”Hey, Sixth Master, I want to ask you something. Are you still in contact with Fifth Master?”

”Fifth Master? What Fifth Master, that’s the traitor Chen Jiusi!”

”Come on, Sixth Master, there’s no one else here. That’s enough. Who doesn’t know about your relationship with Fifth Master?”

”If you mention ’Fifth Master’ again, I’ll lose it with you. A traitor, and he still deserves to be called Fifth Master? I hate him so much I could eat his flesh and drink his blood. If I see him again, I’d want to split open his heart to see if it’s black inside. He even laid hands on his foster father, the beast!”

Zhou Chu said, bowing to the crowd: ”My friends, from now on, please don’t bring him up in front of me. It makes me sick!”

With that, Zhou Chu turned and walked away.

The Managers behind him looked at each other in confusion. Was it true, had Zhou Chu really cut ties with Chen Jiusi?

Someone nearby said, ”It’s probably true. What good does it do to be associated with someone under a Jianghu Kill Order from the Gang Leader?”

”Hey, that’s not right. How could Zhou Chu be where he is today without Chen Jiusi’s help?”

”Help is help, but now it’s about picking sides. Who would gamble their own life and property as a joke?”

”Then Zhou Chu is really ungrateful.”

”Hehe... In this world, who isn’t ungrateful?”

...

”Sixth Master!”

Zhou Chu walked out of the gates of White Tiger Hall. Eight men were waiting at the entrance, and as soon as they saw Zhou Chu, they immediately approached him: ”Sixth Master, how did it go?”

Zhou Chu shook his head: ”White Tiger Hall is no place for us anymore. Tomorrow, you all will follow me to Shunfeng Escort Agency. For the time being, we’ll act as runners. We have no foothold left in White Tiger Hall.”

The eight men asked, ”What about Fifth Master?”

Zhou Chu said, ”Hmm, let’s put Fifth Master’s matter aside for now. All you need to know is that Fifth Master hasn’t given up on us. One day, he will return, and then we’ll reclaim what we’ve lost. For now, we lay low.”

”It will be hard, but we must preserve ourselves so that we’re useful when Fifth Master returns. Even if living is difficult, we will curl up and hide in a corner, biding our time!”

”We are the embers. When Fifth Master returns, he will need us to regather White Tiger Hall!”

”Yes.”

With those words, the group slowly departed.

Not long after Zhou Chu left, the conversation held by the Managers at the gate reached Feng Xuan’s ears. With a sullen face, he said, ”Let them live a few more days. Tomorrow’s ceremony must go without a hitch. Once it’s over, we’ll settle accounts one by one. Those who are with me will prosper, those against me will perish.”

”Yes.”

Fa Cai replied, pausing slightly before asking, ”What about Zhou Chu?”

Feng Xuan said, ”He’s just a weathercock. That old coot Sun Bu’er still carries some weight. As long as he relinquishes his power obediently, let him roll back to the escort agency and be an Escort Master.”

”Yes.”

Fa Cai nodded.

Feng Xuan then turned over and pinned the woman beneath him, saying to Fa Cai outside the curtains, ”Close the door.”

”Yes~”

...

Following Feng Xuan’s orders, by the afternoon, the representatives from Eagle Hall had arrived to take over the territory.

Nan Lake.

Tang Ziyue personally led a hundred men to take over, along with a hundred Fishing Guild Disciples, armed with weapons, who had rushed to Nan Lake. They saw around a dozen White Tiger Hall Disciples already prepared, led by a young man with a beaming smile. He was the Manager appointed by Zhou Chu to oversee Nan Lake.

Upon seeing Tang Ziyue, he immediately smiled widely: ”Mr. Tang, we’ve been waiting for you. Please come inside.”

Tang Ziyue squinted his eyes at the Manager: ”You know me?”

”Yes, I caught a glimpse of you from a distance before. Please sit down. Our Sixth Master instructed us that as soon as you arrived, we were to hand over all of Nan Lake’s salt fields to you. Here are the roster and the accounts...”

Tang Ziyue flipped through them: ”Your Sixth Master has gone to a lot of trouble.”

The Manager replied, ”Hehe, naturally. By the way, Mr. Tang, I’ll take my leave if there’s nothing else.”

”Mmm, go ahead.”

Tang Ziyue nodded, and the Manager left with two junior staff members. Watching the Manager bow and scrape like a dog, a Fishing Guild leader who came with Tang Ziyue sneered: ”A bunch of cowards, they can’t even hold onto their own turf, bowing and scraping. Just like dogs.”

”Yes, White Tiger Hall was so arrogant back in the day, never polite to our main hall. Now they’re like a homeless dog, disgraceful.”

”Indeed, spineless creatures, just roll away, roll away!”

And I don’t know who started it, but the crowd began shouting together, ”Roll away, roll away, hahaha... roll!”

Hearing the taunts, the two junior staff couldn’t stand it. When had White Tiger Hall ever suffered this kind of humiliation? Just as they wanted to retort, the Manager firmly held them back.

Without saying a word, he pulled them away.

”Manager!”

”Let’s go, don’t look back.”

”They... they’re going too far!”

The Manager said, ”If the Hall Master doesn’t care, what use is it for us to care? Wait for Fifth Master. When the time comes, we’ll take back what we’ve lost!”

...

And the same thing happened on Yongchang Street, at the iron mine!

The people of White Tiger Hall were thoroughly humiliated by the main hall’s people. White Tiger Hall used to see themselves on equal footing with the main hall, speaking without the same formality as other halls. The main hall’s people were quite displeased with them, and now they took the opportunity to give them a good thrashing.