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

Chapter 1286: Chapter 300: Who Could Possibly Endure This?!

”Chen, Chen Jiusi is back?”

The Old Prefect was shocked, they were just discussing Chen Jiusi, how could he have returned today? And wasn’t it said that he had just escaped from Longxing Prefecture?

His return should have taken seven or eight days, or even longer, shouldn’t it?

Everyone overlooked a detail, which is that Chen Jie was on the move. During the transmission of the message, Chen Jie was also rushing quickly, especially since he was mistaken for a carrier of the Wu Mu’s Legacy on the way, prompting him to dash madly.

What would normally take two days to complete, he managed in a single day and night by gritting his teeth and pushing through.

Therefore, by the time the information reached Huangzhou Prefecture and Xianning Prefecture, Chen Jie might already have arrived.

Transmitting messages in ancient times was unlike today’s simple methods; it was not merely a phone call or a WeChat message that delivered the news.

Ancient message transmission required manpower, making delays very normal.

But even so, the Old Prefect was startled because he and Wu Daojun were just discussing Chen Jiusi, and suddenly he’s right before them.

Furthermore, he had incapacitated the Old Prefect’s most trusted advisor, looking at the advisor’s broken hand bones.

The Old Prefect, filled with compassion, placed a hand on the advisor’s broken hand and said: ”Does it hurt?”

The advisor, feeling wronged, responded: ”To ease the master’s worries, no matter how painful, I am willing.”

Hearing this, the Old Prefect was moved, and he harshly squeezed the advisor’s wound.

”Ah! Master, master!”

The advisor screamed, jumping up and down in pain, but the Old Prefect refused to let go of his wound.

With a fake smile, he said: ”You ease my worries, don’t you? You ease my worries, but you go messing around? And you made them apologize to your damn brother-in-law.”

”Ah! Master, I was only trying to save your face...”

”Save my face? Save my face? Now look, they want me to explain personally, what explanation? That I deliberately targeted his Fishing Guild, that I want to seize Huangzhou Prefecture’s foundation?”

”Oh, master, these are words from Chen Jiusi that I was told to deliver, it has nothing to do with me, nothing to do with me!”

”Nothing to do with you, you bastard! If it weren’t for your nonsense, would Chen Jiusi have been provoked?”

”Hero Wu said to apologize repeatedly, couldn’t you just kneel and kowtow?”

”You dared to play tricks with me, now I’m humiliated beyond repair, you tell me if you deserve death, deserve death.”

”I deserve death, deserve death, master, spare me, master, spare me!”

The advisor, in pain, pleaded. The fractured wound, gripped again by the master, hurt overwhelmingly, he wailed as his voice became hoarse and tears streamed down, eventually succumbing to the agony, kneeling with a plop.

”Master, spare me!”

”Old master.”

The advisor’s plop onto his knees prompted Wu Daojun to intercede with the Old Prefect: ”Lord Magistrate, punishing him more won’t help, you should consider how to deal with Chen Jiusi now.”

After hearing these words, the Old Prefect’s face turned sullen; indeed, Chen Jiusi was the real formidable adversary.

Thinking this, the Old Prefect looked at Wu Daojun and said: ”Hero Wu, if you lead me in fleeing, what’s our chance of escape?”

”Flee?”

Wu Daojun contemplated briefly: ”Forty percent.”

The Old Prefect responded: ”Forty percent, why so low?”

Wu Daojun explained: ”No help for it, if they intend to kill us, even forty percent is generous.”

The Old Prefect pondered this: ”In that case, it has to be done this way.”

With this in mind, the Old Prefect declared: ”Someone, come here.”

Upon his shout, his retinue gathered around. Then the Old Prefect stripped off his clothes, exposing his shoulders, and asked for a bundle of thorny branches, preparing for a traditional act of penance.

Seeing this, Wu Daojun asked: ”Old master, does it have to go this far?”

The Old Prefect replied: ”No choice, given the dire situation, this is necessary, it’s not disgraceful if it can save a life.”

”By the way, Brother Wu, don’t act brash there, humble yourself now, once we have the chance, we might reclaim all this in the future!”

Seeing the Old Prefect’s smile, Wu Daojun had to admit that this old brother had his insights into human relationships and affairs.

Thinking this, he asked the Old Prefect: ”Shall we go now?”

The Old Prefect stated: ”Naturally.”

After saying this, Wu Daojun and the Old Prefect left, but before exiting, the Old Prefect gave a signal to his confidant.

”Advisor.”

The Old Prefect made a throat-cutting gesture, implying the advisor was no longer useful and should be eliminated.

The confidant understood and turned away to leave.

At this moment in Yuelai Restaurant in Xianning Prefecture, Chen Jie sat on the second floor, drinking by himself, while sitting on small stools nearby were three people.

These individuals were the leaders of Xianning Prefecture’s three major guilds.

Two were from the Wolf Smoke Realm, and one from the Rainbow Realm.

This Rainbow Realm person was Shi Gengming, the Soul-Rending Spear, leader of the local largest gang, the Earth Dragon Gang.

The two from the Wolf Smoke Realm each had their guilds, one from the Salt Guild and the other from the Firewood Guild.

They managed two vital concerns of the city’s populace, one overseeing salt consumption, the other controlling firewood, meaning these two essentially controlled half of the local livelihood.