1174 Unexpected Gains (1/2)
Afterward, the red-haired youth shot a serious look at Tang Xiu and said, ”Got no Master, but a Boss—jobs and money-related.”
Tang Xiu's interest was piqued and he asked again, ”You know something else too, don't you?”
”I overheard something from the Black Wolf Hall's Master, Masa Osaka, when he got drunk. It was a name,” said the red-haired youth.
”Care to share it?” asked Tang Xiu seriously.
”Joyous Palace,” answered the youth. He then pulled out a black handkerchief and wiped the dagger. After putting it back into his waist, he said, ”I've always wanted to make myself stronger. I don't want to have muzzles pointed at my head, nor do I wanna see my relatives killed before my eyes.”
”You got a feud?” asked Tang Xiu.
”My enemies are dead already,” he replied in a cold voice.
”Great. That's not bad.” Tang Xiu applauded. ”You're not born with innate traits to kill, but rather had it awakened due to the stimuli. How about becoming my underling? That is if you want it.”
The red-haired youth slightly trembled. He shot a deep look at Tang Xiu and asked, ”Can you make me stronger?”
”I can make you 100 times stronger than the current you in the next few years,” said Tang Xiu.
”Master.”
In a very simple fashion, the youth directly knelt in front of Tang Xiu.
”You trust me just like that?” asked Tang Xiu with raised brows.
”I don't, but I want to bet on you.” The youth shook his head.
Giving him a thumbs up, Tang Xiu praised him. ”You're really out of the ordinary. But I like you, so you're now my subordinate starting today. Gong Wan'er, escort him back.”
”Please take me in, too.”
The wretched-looking woman crawled up from the ground seven-plus meters away staggeringly towards Tang Xiu. With a trembling body, she knelt and said, ”I know not what it means to be stronger, but I only know that you've saved me. You just bought my life with your money and my life is yours for the rest of my life if you take me in.”
Tang Xiu was stunned and stared at her. Then, he squatted down to grab her wrist and checked her pulse. He found that she was only an ordinary woman without any signs of having any cultivation system whatsoever. Even her internal organs were seriously injured due to the severe beatings just now.
”Do you want to follow me, too?”
”You bought me, I'll work for you. I'd have ended up with a tragic fate if you didn't save me. I also know that you can make me very strong, so I no longer need to worry about relying on any men anymore.”
Tang Xiu was silent for a short while and then suddenly asked, ”Do you dare to kill?”
The woman hesitated. But shortly after, she firmly nodded and said, ”I'll kill anyone you order me to.”
Tang Xiu turned to Gong Wan'er and asked her with a smile, ”What do you think? Should I accept them?”
”I wouldn't if it was me. They are just too appalling,” said Gong Wan'er.
Tang Xiu let out a mystifying and meaningful smile. He looked at the two-kneeling people in front of him and nodded. ”I accept you since it's your choice. I now bestow you a cultivation technique so as to make you stronger. Each of you will also receive a sum of money and some pills to assist your cultivation, but I'm giving you both half a month to sense the flow of qi or energy circulation in your body. I'll entrust you some missions and responsibility should you succeed in this trial, but if you fail to sense it, you both will only become one of the countless people who just work for me, but find yourself nearly impossible to get my recognition.”
”May I ask what's the meaning of sensing the energy circulation?” asked the youth.
”It's described in the cultivation manual I taught you. Keep trying to sense the flow of energy in your body. When you can sense and circulate the energy in your system as well as being able to control it for a short time, that means you've succeeded, or failed otherwise,” said Tang Xiu lightly.
Tang Xiu took out his cell phone and dialed Tang Guang's number to call him over. After the man came, he left a few orders to him and then left with Gong Wan'er.
Before leaving, however, he learned the real name of the red-haired youth and the woman. The former was Omedetou Ando and the latter was Meina Nomura.
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Taiga Port.
The sun had set course to the west horizon, but the port was still bustling and busy with all kinds of ships setting sail or mooring along with lots of people shuttling back and forth.
HONK, HONK…
The sound of a ship's horn sounded from the distant sea as a luxury liner slowly sailed towards the port. Those standing in the harbor were unable to see that five speedboats were cruising at a constant speed as the liner as they approached it. However, some figures on two speedboats flickered and bolted extremely fast onto the luxury liner.