Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 488 The mystery begins

"A Guan is really a diligent person."

This is the most praise Tanaka received in his life.

As an ordinary person, it is actually very good to have an outstanding advantage that makes people other than your relatives say so about you.

Because in most cases, when people talk about you or comment on you behind your back, they say negative things.

Even though they may sometimes mention a few of your strengths, those words often serve as a prelude to another negative evaluation.

For example, you have often heard since childhood that this child is very smart, but just doesn’t like to study.

When you grow up, this sentence may be updated to become - So-and-so is a good person, but his work attitude is not very positive.

Words like this are essentially criticism; the first half of the sentence is just a way for others to save face when criticizing you.

If someone doesn't want to give this respect, it's completely fine not to say the first half of the sentence.

But if an outsider only mentions the first half of the sentence without the second half when talking about you behind your back, it truly means that you have achieved undeniable excellence in some aspect.

Tian Guan's diligence reached this level.

It can also be said that this is his way of survival.

Among the many disciples of the Baquan Sect, Tian Guan was one of the ones with the worst talent in martial arts, and he was not young when he became a disciple.

But he was lucky, as he joined when Huo Ming had just founded the Ba Quan Sect and was in need of manpower the most.

At that time, Huo Ming did not choose apprentices, nor was he qualified to do so. Basically, if you wanted to be my disciple, I would accept you as my apprentice. If you had money, that would be the best, but if you didn't have money, you could just offer your help.

It is obvious that Tian Guan belongs to the category of "working hard" - he has no money, and you have to provide him with food and accommodation, but when it comes to working hard, such as doing dirty and tiring work, running errands, passing messages, and all kinds of trivial tasks... he is not vague at all.

Tian Guan has been following Huo Ming since then, and what is he doing now?

He is the leader of the guys who are responsible for serving food backstage at the "Zhengxiong Cup". Basically, he is doing a job like "canteen supervisor in the players' rest area".

You read that right. A veteran who has been with the leader since the team was first founded is still serving dishes.

But Tian Guan had no complaints.

Because beneath his "diligence" lies a kind of great wisdom.

He knew his own worth better than anyone else: he knew that given his conditions, he was extremely lucky to be able to stay in the Baquan Sect until now; he also knew that it was quite reasonable for Huo Ming to arrange for him to do this.

Whenever someone is replaced, either they are not qualified enough and Huo Ming does not trust them, or they have enough qualifications but are not good at the job and are not happy about it.

That is to say, Tian Guan, who could happily lead a group of disciples who joined the company much later and were much younger than himself, doing the work of waiters, and he was trustworthy and dedicated.

It’s a pity that Huo Ming had good ideas, but they did not become reality.

Because of Tanaka, I didn't go to the competition venue at all today.

At this moment, he was staying in a dry well on the outskirts of Cangzhou, emitting the stench of corpses.

And because the well mouth was blocked by a large stone slab and not many people usually came here, no one would probably find him in a short time.

Of course, the food supply backstage for today's competition was not affected by Tanaka's death.

Because no one knew he was dead.

In that huge Baquan Sect, no one noticed that when Tanaka went into the city to run errands two days ago and came back, he had been replaced.

Dear readers, please don’t think this is incredible. In fact, you will understand it if you think about it a little... Take our modern society for example. In a large-scale enterprise, how many people are willing to make close friends with an old senior who has been working there for decades and is still doing odd jobs?

In addition, Tian Guan himself is very self-aware and never takes the initiative to make friends with others or show off his seniority to embarrass others. Therefore, although he has a good reputation, he does not have many close friends.

In the past two days, the only person in the entire Baquan Sect who could possibly see through the "fake Tian Guan" was probably Huo Ming.

However, with the competition about to start these days, Master Huo is really too busy... he can no longer pay attention to all these aspects.

Therefore, today's "fake Tian Guan", or - Shadowless Poison Lord, relied on the art of disguise to swagger into the backstage and became the leader of the cafeteria waiters.

In this disguise and in this position, Du Zun was almost "invisible" to the diners present.

Not only can he observe and plot against others at will, he can also poison them very conveniently, so conveniently that he doesn't even need any advanced techniques.

"Here we go~ a bowl of pork belly and a portion of fish slices in pickled mustard greens..."

The waiter who served the dishes to Sun Huang and the Shao father and son was Du Zun himself.

Originally, his target was Dugu Sheng who was sitting at another table, and he had already poisoned the food when he served it to Dugu Sheng and his table... If nothing unexpected happened, Dugu Sheng would suddenly die of the poison later today; and only Dugu Sheng would die, the other three people eating at the same table with him would be fine.

However, even Du Zun himself did not expect that...something happened just now that gave him new ideas.

To use our current words, he "had inspiration".

So where did his inspiration come from?
It undoubtedly came from the various games between Shao Shanhu and Shuang Xie in the previous two chapters of the book.

From Shao Shanhu's initial sneaky attempt to give the laxative, to Sun Yixie's substitution, to Shao Shanhu giving up on giving the drug after realizing the substitution, and then Sun Yixie, who hadn't figured it out yet, and who teamed up with Huang Donglai to give the drug back to the Shao family, and so on and so forth.

Du Zun saw all the actions of these guys, and he guessed what each of them was thinking (Shao Shanhu's embarrassing performance in the ring had spread widely in the city, so Du Zun naturally knew about it).

Then Du Zun thought: This is quite interesting, isn’t it time to play with “him”?

So he started to "play".

Some people may not understand this. Hasn't Poison Lord already accomplished 90% of the task? All he needs to do next is run away before Dugu Sheng's poison takes effect? ​​By then, he can use a disguise to change his face, and who will be able to find him? What is he doing now?
Well, let us say this - going with the wind and waves is human nature.

Killing Dugu Sheng is work; killing Huang Donglai and the others at the same time is life.

Please pay attention, it doesn't matter for other people. Like Tian Guan, they are not a big deal in the eyes of Du Zun whether they live or die. But Huang Donglai needs special attention.

The reason is very simple... Who makes him the young master of the Huang family?

The Poison Master believes that his poison skills are unparalleled in the world and that none of his "peers" can match him. However, there is no impression in the martial arts world that "The Shadowless Poison Master's poison skills are one level higher than Huang Men's."

What’s even more infuriating is that Huangmen has three unique skills, and using poison is only one of them.

With this calculation, wouldn't the Poison Lord, who is only good at using poison, be outdone?
As the saying goes, people will die if they compare with others, but goods will be thrown away if they compare with others.

If I really win, I'll just die.

But there has been no comparison. It's just a group of laymen who made a confused calculation based on the principle of "three is greater than one". Du Zun has no idea who wins.

When you are in the world, isn't it all about fighting for your dignity?
It would have been fine if I didn't have the chance before, but today, with such a great opportunity in front of me, I have to give it my all.

In this way, Shao Shanhu's words "Why don't we share a table with Brother Dugu and the others and eat together" became the beginning of this poisoning mystery.