Chapter Eighty: The City of Eight Sides

  "Just a small sip will do..." Xiaobudian cried out.

  "Not even half a word, who made you not count last time?" Su Tang smiled and said, after finishing, he raised his wine cup and drank seven or eight mouthfuls, and deliberately smacked his lips to let the flavor of the wine spread out.

  Xiao Buzhen was really anxious, and his eyeballs were rolling around in a flurry.

  Su Tang had no experience in educating children, so he could only grope his way through. First, he hoped that Xiaobu would have a strong self-control ability, which was crucial. So when Xiaobu wanted something, Su Tang would negotiate with him, such as drinking wine. Xiaobu wanted to drink two mouthfuls, but in fact, he poured a few drops on the leaves, and the amount was almost enough. However, Su Tang refused, and instead, he generously placed the wine pouch there, allowing Xiaobu to drink freely. If Xiaobu couldn't control his desires and drank too much, then sorry, not only would he be punished, but also intentionally made things difficult for Xiaobu next time, so that he could remember the lesson.

  "Mom, there's a bug under the cushion!" Xiaobu exclaimed suddenly.

  "Is it?" Su Tang replied casually, then flipped the stopper over and tightened his grip on the wine pouch, pinching its mouth shut.

  Xiao Buzhen shot out like lightning, rushing straight towards the wine pouch. Unfortunately, Su Tang had anticipated this move and grabbed at the opening of the pouch with all his might for half a day, but it still couldn't get in.

  Su Tang grasped Xiao Buzhi's wing and pulled him out: "Can't you have some dignity, think of some creative methods? How many times have you used this trick of creating a diversion?!"

  This is Su Tang's second educational policy, he hopes that Xiao Bu Dong will become smarter and smarter, so he encourages Xiao Bu Dong to use his brain to change the disadvantage, as long as he can deceive Su Tang, not only will the punishment be cancelled, but there will also be extra rewards.

  At this moment, Su Tang still didn't realize that his educational approach would cultivate Xiao Bu Dong into what kind of freak... As the saying goes, a cornered dog can jump over a wall. After all, Xiao Bu Dong was a high-level life at the top, and from an early age, he had been forced to engage in battles of wits with Su Tang. Once his mindset solidified, it would be exciting to watch!

  Su Tang stuffed the wine pouch into his bag, ate a few more pieces of chicken, feeling about 70 or 80% full, slowly stood up straight and muttered: "Actually being a bandit is quite comfortable..."

  Eat their food, drink their wine, and still follow them to kill them. Bullying others is also a pleasure.

  In the blink of an eye, three days passed, and Su Tang had been pursuing relentlessly, of course, leaving time for those warriors to rest. His goal was not to kill all those blind guys, but to find the city.

  When their lives are threatened, they will definitely retreat to a safe place, which is human nature.

  However, for these warriors, the encounters of the past few days were an unbearable torment. They couldn't eat or sleep well, and as soon as they regained some strength, they had to flee for their lives again. In just a few short days, they had become noticeably thinner, with bloodshot eyes. More than once, they thought about giving up on escaping and turning back to fight their opponents to the death, even if it meant certain doom. But whenever the heart-stopping whistling sound rang out again, and another comrade fell into a pool of blood, their courage would vanish completely, and they would start fleeing forward once more.

  The forest gradually became sparse, and the mud turned from wet to dry, proving that they had approached the edge of Yunshui Ze. The warriors suddenly saw smoke rising in front of them while running, their spirits immediately became excited, and they rushed towards the place where the smoke rose like a swarm of bees.

  Seven warriors are setting up a temporary camp in a sheltered spot, with three men and four women, all of whom are young. The fact that they are camping here also means that their abilities are quite ordinary, those who have enough confidence in themselves will definitely continue to venture deeper, high risk naturally means high returns.

  "Save me... save me..." A big man with a loud voice stumbled and ran over.

  The warriors who were camping were startled and immediately went on high alert, waiting until they could see the big man clearly. One of the warriors exclaimed in surprise: "Tian Dage, how...?"

  The big fellow secretly cursed, he also recognized the other party, thinking that he could see strong reinforcements, but unexpectedly encountered these useless fledglings. He stopped shouting and ignored the other party, stumbling and running past.

  Whoosh... whoosh... Two powerful auras arrived, landing on the two warriors behind, instantly torn to shreds by the powerful gusts of wind, their blood bursting forth like fireworks.

  The remaining samurai immediately quickened their pace, one after another charging through the camp and continuing forward.

  Those rookie birds were also frightened, some shouted to escape quickly, while others went to collect their belongings. Just in the chaos, a figure had already jumped out of the mountain forest and walked towards the campsite with big strides, it was Su Tang.

  Several greenhorns immediately formed a battle array, preparing to meet the enemy. Su Tang, however, ignored them and first walked towards the two corpses, casually flipping through them and pulling out some gold coins which he put in his own pocket, only then walking towards the camp.

  Obviously stronger than me, several rookies didn't dare to launch an attack rashly, but only pointed their weapons at Su Tang from a distance.

  Su Tang walked up to a bundle, opened it with a few movements, and started rummaging through it. A female archer hiding behind couldn't help but speak up, summoning her courage: "That's mine..."

  Su Tang turned his head and smiled, the female archer immediately withdrew her head. Su Tang knew he had found the wrong one, just thinking of searching for other packages, suddenly saw a small round mirror, he picked up the small mirror, took a look, somewhat stunned. He, Su Tang, although can't say how handsome or elegant, but also quite spirited, how did he become like this? A face full of big beard... No wonder that Bao Lan actually called him senior.

  "Mom, I want..." Xiaobudian cried out in his mind.

  "Oh." Su Tang responded with a sound, turned his hand and put the small round mirror in his pocket, then went to rummage through other packages.

  Several greenhorns looked at each other in dismay, unable to utter a word. This behavior was too barbaric! But the situation was stronger than man, and they didn't dare speak out of turn.

  Su Tang found a set of armor from a bundle, tried it on briefly, and felt that it was about the right size. He tore off the animal hide from his body, took down the few flying swords and bundles from his back, and placed them on the ground. The light emitted by the flying swords made those few birds take a deep breath in unison.

  Su Tang took off all the tattered clothes on his body, and his movements made several apprentices feel uneasy. The female warriors shrank their bodies behind their companions, in the wilderness, what did he want to do by taking off his clothes?!

  However, the expressions of several male warriors were somewhat complex. Su Tang's physique was perfect, his muscles were not robust, but solid and tenacious, with a very streamlined beauty, bear shoulders and tiger back, yet he had a wasp waist, giving people a sense of agility.

  Su Tang put on that clean outfit and frowned, saying: "It's a bit tight..."

  The owner of the clothes couldn't help but curl up his lips and thought to himself, "Do you think everyone has a body as good as yours?"

  Su Tang took out a set of clothes and wrapped them around the flying sword, covering its radiance. He then slung the sword over his back, feeling that he was about to leave Yunshui Ze, so he naturally made some necessary preparations.

  Then Su Tang took out a handful of gold coins, all of which he had just robbed, and threw them on the ground: "I'll buy these two sets of clothes and that mirror."

  A few greenhorns let out a sigh of relief. Since there was a transaction, there were naturally rules to follow, and they wouldn't recklessly harm their lives. The lead warrior hastily signaled his companions to put down their weapons and smiled: "Senior, the clothes and mirror aren't worth much money... this is a bit too much."

  "Good news for you both." Su Tang said.

  "What news?"

  "What's in this direction?" Su Tang asked, pointing towards the direction where the warriors had escaped.

  "It is the Octagon Castle." The leading samurai replied with a bow.

  "How many more miles?"

  "It's almost 80 or 90 miles."

  "Thanks." Su Tang nodded and walked forward with big strides.

  Su Tang felt very pleased, as he was about to return to normal society. As he walked past them, seeing the tense expressions of those rookies, a playful thought arose in his mind, and he suddenly shouted: "Ha!"

  Several young birds immediately became a mess, some shouting loudly, some grabbing weapons, and some turning to run. Su Tang burst out laughing and took two arrow steps into the forest, flashing once before disappearing from sight.

  The leading warrior showed a wry smile, while a female warrior said indignantly: "What kind of senior is that?! Intentionally trying to scare people!!"

  "Frightening you is much better than killing you." A male warrior said, his gaze falling on the corpse not far away.

  "Tadaiko and his group must have done something to provoke that senior." The leading samurai said in a low voice.

  "Serves them right, they haven't bullied enough people yet?" another female warrior said.

  "No matter what, we should be grateful to that senior. Even if we didn't complete the commission this time, our money is almost enough." The leading warrior said, and then he carefully picked up the gold coins that had fallen to the ground one by one.

  Su Tang's goal was still desperately fleeing, and when they were more than 50 miles away from the Eight-Faced City, there were only three people left. If they could hold on for a while longer, running back to the Eight-Faced City should have provided them with protection, but they simply couldn't run anymore. Moreover, Su Tang hadn't shot another cold arrow in a long time, and it seemed that the distance had already been opened up. The big man found an abandoned grass shed by the side of the road, and none of them had the energy to look for food. They just casually dug out a few wild mountain potatoes from the grass, roughly lit a fire, and fell asleep.

  As night fell, the big man was suddenly awakened by a loud noise, and he sat up abruptly to see Su Tang sitting beside the fire pit, eating the wild mountain yams that they had thrown into the fire pit and were now roasted. He looked for his two companions, but they both lay in pools of blood.

  A thumb-sized little man with a pair of white-based golden-striped wings was tentatively tasting the flavor of wild mountain yam, Su Tang asked with a smile: "Is it delicious?"

  "It's not delicious!" The little fellow shook his head vigorously.

  "When we get back to the city, there will be plenty of delicious food," said Su Tang.

  "Mom, I want some wine..." The little one exclaimed in a cheerful tone.

  "Alright." Su Tang agreed this time.

  That big man suddenly felt a chill, which was the coldness from the depths of his soul. The other party clearly knew he was already awake, yet still acted as if nothing had happened, seemingly treating him not as a person but an ant that could be crushed at any time.

  "Senior, must it be so... utterly annihilated?" The big man said in a hoarse voice, he knew there was no possibility, but still held on to the last hope and tried.

  "You can't kill a snake without getting hurt in return." Su Tang smiled and then drew out his great sword.

  That big Han let out a loud roar, picked up the heavy sword under his body, and focused all his attention on Su Tang, but forgot to guard against that little guy. Just at this time, two black things flashed over from the side, slapping directly onto his eyes, making his world pitch black. It turned out to be the peeled skin of mountain yam.

  The sweet potato skin was still scalding hot, the big man was in agony, waving his heavy sword wildly with one hand and wiping his eyes with the other, but suddenly felt a coolness emanating from his chest, his body no longer under his control, and he collapsed softly.