Chapter 248: The Old Demon Comes to the Door (Bonus for Ally Huang Wei Cleon)

Perhaps because these monsters had never been hunted before, the drop rate was unexpectedly excellent.

By this time, Ruan Ning and the others had all exhausted their time limits, leaving them with no choice but to stand behind and watch helplessly as Fang Qi looted top-tier equipment!

The black-clad older woman beside her was named Xi Yue, while the pair of eighteen- or nineteen-year-old twin sisters were Su Zhi, the elder, and Su Yao, the younger, all of them locals of this city.

“How can this shop owner play for so long by himself?!”

“And the monsters here are so rich!”

“Did you see the blade in the owner's hand? Its attack power is also a bit higher than the ones in the shop!”

At that moment, Fang Qi was clad in a light, pale-blue armor, wielding a Ba-Huang blade. Compared to the newbies dressed in cloth shirts and holding small wooden swords, he appeared incomparably domineering, instantly drawing a wave of gasps from behind.

“The owner’s attack power is so high! With a single slash, several bones of that skeleton snapped!”

“How did we search for so long without finding anything! All the good stuff has been monopolized by him alone!”

“No! There’s also that little girl!”

“Want it?” Fang Qi said triumphantly. “Join this guild, and every kind of benefit will be yours for the taking!”

“Hmph! Trying to trick this lady into entering your wretched guild again.” Ruan Ning’s face was filled with disdain as she scoffed, “You had better look out for yourself first! Don't expect this lady to collect your corpse when the Black Demon folk come knocking on your door!”

“You, shop owner, are quite a character yourself, killing the Black Demon's people yet deliberately letting one go.” Xi Yue had clearly heard of Fang Qi’s glorious deeds. She knit her willow-leaf brows, surveying the surroundings, as though considering whether she should bolt with a computer first if the owner got hacked to pieces.

“Hey! Can’t you let people play a bit longer in this shop of yours!” Of the two sisters, Su Zhi and Su Yao, the younger was rather timid, while the elder was quite a chatterbox. “Your shop is so big, there aren't that many people playing in a day anyway. Since it’s sitting idle, you might as well let us play a bit longer!”

“Exactly!” Ruan Ning looked resentfully at Fang Qi’s screen and said, “What kind of owner are you, making the customers watch from behind while you enjoy yourself so thoroughly!”

“Adding time... that will happen.” Fang Qi said, “This shop will introduce a membership plan in the near future. Anyone who is a member of this shop can have two hours more screen time than ordinary players.”

When the time came, trial members could upgrade to noble members, who would still have two hours more than ordinary members—this was a matter Fang Qi had verified with the system.

“In the near future... why can't it be today?” Ruan Ning said disdainfully, “I just robbed a few passersby, and I haven't played enough yet!”

“Even if I gave you another two hours, it wouldn’t be enough!” Fang Qi said crossly, “Even if I gave you another ten hours, it wouldn’t be enough. What’s the point of saying all this...?”

The robbed passersby: Damn you! Where is he!

They were still searching everywhere for him at this moment.

“How about letting us play for a few more hours, and I’ll put in a good word for you regarding that matter with the Black Demon?” Xi Yue was quite confident about this. Her father was a manager at the Panjiao Mansion, and her mother owned several sizable shops in the city, making their influence quite substantial.

Although the various factions within the city were intricate and complex, she could speak with many of them.

She deduced that this shop owner must have some skills and hidden cards, but since he was a newcomer after all, the most appropriate course of action should still be to avoid trouble.

Therefore, she waited confidently for Fang Qi’s reply.

“Uh... this...” Fang Qi felt very depressed. “I already told them that our Heaven-Defying Online Gaming Guild welcomes any challenges. Retracting those words now wouldn't look very good.”

“What’s wrong with that? Can a small life be less important than face?”

“Then how about I, the owner, also take a group of people to rob that leader of the whatever-it-is Black Demon, and then give those words right back to them.” Fang Qi spoke in such a manner.

“You—!”

“Forget it, forget it! Sister Xi Yue, don't bother with him!” Ruan Ning glared at Fang Qi, who was busy hacking monsters and completely lacked the leisure to look back, and said, “When they come knocking on his door and he learns to fear, he’ll know to look for help.”

“When the time comes, he must grant unlimited play time, otherwise we won't help!”

By this time, it was already around eight or nine o'clock, and the sky outside was inherently very dark.

Yet at this moment, the entire street seemed suddenly enveloped in an eerie, sinister red light!

A dark red blood-light almost blanketed the entire street, and the first to bear the brunt of it was naturally Fang Qi’s small shop!

“Jie jie jie jie...!”

A burst of incomparably grim, cold laughter echoed as a bloody mist drifted outside the door, turning the front of Fang Qi’s shop into what seemed like a forest of ghosts and demons!

Ruan Ning’s face instantly turned pale: “What’s going on?! How did this old demon come in person?!”

Outside Fang Qi’s shop door, a group of people suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Leading them was an old man dressed in a red robe, whose complexion was abnormally ruddy.

Unlike back at the Red Forest Medicine Shop, he was wearing a cinnabar-red outer robe today, appearing exceptionally bizarre!

To his left and right followed a bald, middle-aged cultivator with a sinister gaze, whose head was embedded with several terrifying scars, while on the other side was a heavily made-up, voluptuous woman.

A thick, malevolent aura of blood drifted in from the doorway. The intensely pungent smell of blood made everyone inside the shop frown.

As for Ruan Ning and the others, their entire faces sank: “How did you provoke this old monster! This is a mountain of trouble!”

“Sister Ruan...” Zou Mo asked, “Is this old ghost very powerful?”

“Now people respectfully call him the Poison Pill King, but decades ago, everyone here called him the Poison Demon!” Ruan Ning said in a low voice, “Those rumors you hear outside aren't necessarily all fabricated, take this old demon for example!”

“It is said that before this old demon entered Half-City, he once committed the act of poisoning all the young and old of more than ten small and medium-sized families using venomous things. After coming to Half-City, he became even more outrageous, refining pills with the essence and blood of cultivators, and even kidnapping cultivators from outside Half-City to refine blood pills from living people. The entire clan of the faction that previously occupied the 36th District was thoroughly refined and slaughtered into pills by this old demon!”

“Rumor has it that everyone in this old demon’s original sect was also sacrificed and refined into blood pills by him! It can be said that there is nothing this demon is incapable of doing!”

Zou Mo shuddered, a sudden chill striking his heart: “The... the owner won't be in trouble, will he?”

“Where is the owner of this shop?! Won't he come out to meet our big boss?” Liu San walked into the shop with a cold smirk on his face.

“Damn it! Who is it?” Fang Qi stood up from his seat with some impatience.

At this moment, Tao Kun also found it hard to remain seated. He quit the game and said with a skin-deep smile, “So it is Boss Qin!”

“Tao Kun, surely you aren't planning to meddle in this matter?” The bald, middle-aged man said, “Daring to kill our people right in my Red Forest Medicine Shop in front of the big boss—even if the Heavenly Emperor himself came, he couldn't stop this matter!”

His narrow eyes were fiercely menacing: “I advise Brother Tao that it’s best not to meddle! Lest it ruin everyone's harmony!”

“...” Not just Tao Kun, but the faces of everyone else twitched. What on earth are you doing, shop owner?! Killing someone right in their own shop, right in front of this old demon?!

And it was his subordinate that you killed!?

There is absolutely no way to mediate this! If this matter isn't resolved, there's no way to survive in this city at all!