Comprehensive Martial Arts: Relying on Pili Martial Arts to Achieve Dimensionality Reduction Attack

Chapter 154 Autumn Wind, Autumn Leaves, Begonia

The areas that the Suzaku Dynasty called the 'Three Southeast Provinces' were Taiyue County in the east, Mingjian County in the southeast corner, and Anning County in the south.

In the past decade, the Jinqian Gang, which has become increasingly influential in the underworld, has been located roughly in this area, and its headquarters is located in Mingjian County.

Half a month ago, Shangguan Haitang and others led a team to Mingjian County in order to find out whether the Jinqian Gang was colluding with the Tianxiahui and whether the two major forces had the intention of invading the Suzaku Dynasty.

Afterwards, the Tianxia Society was destroyed overnight, and the mission should have ended there.

However, at this moment, Shangguan Haitang inadvertently discovered that the Jinqian Gang actually had some secret connections with many sects in the world.

Tianxiahui is just one of them!

After learning the news, Shangguan Haitang immediately gave up the plan to return to Hulong Villa and chose to stay and infiltrate the Jinqian Gang to gather further intelligence.

Of course, the intelligence that has been collected is also important.

So she divided her men into two teams. One team would return to Hulong Villa with the spoils and explain the situation. The other team would stay with her and act accordingly.

There were four spies left behind, two of whom worked as workers in a nearby town to serve as external support, and the other two followed her and infiltrated the Money Gang to act as insiders to cooperate with the operation.

Hence, the three of them, as "three ordinary brothers in the underworld", followed the "remnant party of the Tianxiahui" group, using the excuse of "admiring the Money Gang", followed the underworld craze, and became a glorious "junior member of the Money Gang".

In order to avoid having the same surname as the gang leader, which would attract too much attention or lead to unrealistic associations such as 'the gang leader's relative's child going down to the grassroots to gain experience', Shangguan Haitang also changed her surname.

Her name now is: Begonia.

The other two spies who followed her in also gave themselves aliases: Qiu Feng and Qiu Ye.

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At the hour of Xu, money helps the logistics department.

After a day of hard labor, the three spies finally returned to their staff dormitory exhausted.

The Money Gang has many disciples. Those who have just joined the gang, if they don't have some money, can be allocated staff dormitories, which are large dormitories that accommodate more than ten or twenty people.

But Haitang and her two younger brothers spent some money and used their connections to get the three of them to live in a room all to themselves.

There are many people who do the same thing as them, so they don't seem too unique.

Originally, Haitang took into consideration the gender differences and planned to live in a room by herself and let her two younger brothers live in the big dormitory, or to get another house for them to live in.

But they claimed to be "three brothers" to the outside world. It would be really strange if they took the house and lived separately.

After thinking it over, Haitang could only helplessly endure it a little.

"Brother Zhuang, how long are we going to continue living like this?"

Haitang was quite successful in disguising herself as a man and has not been discovered by the Money Gang until now. Even her own people, such as Qiufeng and Qiuye, do not know that this young owner of the manor is a woman.

Qiu Feng looked at Hai Tang with a bitter face, "Look... In the past two days, we two brothers have developed several blisters on our hands and feet from working so hard."

"Life is so unpredictable..."

Qiu Ye, who was lying on the bed exhausted, also sighed and complained.

"You know, my two brothers have practiced splitting palm and sweeping kick for more than ten years, but we have only been here for a few days and we have become like this..."

Haitang blinked her eyes after hearing this, feeling a little unbelievable: "You've been doing split palms and sweeping kicks for more than ten years, and you've already got blisters after just a few days of hard labor?"

The two brothers' eyes widened instantly. They suddenly sat up from the bed with strength they didn't know where they got from. "Didn't you tell us to pretend we didn't know much about martial arts?"

Oh yeah, it seems to be true...

Haitang paused, sighed, and said apologetically, "Then you should prioritize your own health. Otherwise, what if something happens and you need to take action?"

The brothers Qiufeng and Qiuye looked at each other, then looked at Haitang and said, "Brother, there is something you may not realize, but we think we need to remind you."

"Huh? What's the matter?"

"In fact, considering the amount of work we do these days, it is normal to have blisters on our hands and feet!"

Following Qiufeng's words, Qiuye also expressed his observations over the past few days.

"I've noticed these days that there are several martial arts masters who have jumped over from the Tianxiahui. Their strength is only slightly lower than the two of us, but after working at full strength for three days, they still got blisters on their hands and feet."

Haitang was shocked when she heard this and understood what they meant: "You mean..."

Qiu Feng nodded: "It is abnormal for you to finish the work safely and even have hands as white as a girl. It is the easiest to expose us!" "Including us, the lower-level gang members of the Money Gang, because we don't get enough sleep at night, so we are basically sleepy when we work during the day. Only you are full of energy, which is also completely abnormal!"

Haitang was speechless, her face flushed with shame.

"You are right. I have not considered these things enough..."

Although she is the "Xuan Zi No. 1" spy of Hulong Villa, in recent years, she has spent most of her time behind the scenes planning, managing and coordinating talented people, and rarely goes to the front line to carry out tasks.

This also resulted in her business skills becoming rusty and her thinking remaining in the past, which made her seriously out of touch with the current world and grassroots spies.

The brothers Qiufeng and Qiuye were not trained by the Huolong Villa, but were guests of the No. 1 Villa in the World.

But he is not the capable person with the nickname "No. 1 X in the World". He is just an ordinary little character in the village like the blind old Wu who plays the erhu.

In layman's terms, people like Li Xunhuan are equivalent to high-paid white-collar workers in a company; while Old Wu and the two brothers are ordinary employees who earn 5 yuan a month.

Therefore, they would not be overly respectful to Shangguan Haitang, the owner of the manor.

This is also one of the reasons why Shangguan Haitang chose them to follow her.

If the people who followed her were too respectful to her, it would be easy for people to see the "superior-subordinate relationship" between the three of them, which would be detrimental to the undercover operation.

"In that case, starting tomorrow, I won't use my inner strength to do any work!"

After Haitang made the decision, she asked, "Do you have anything else to add?"

"I don't have anything to add, but I do have a question..."

Qiu Feng and Qiu Ye scratched their heads and asked, "What do you think the gang will ask us to move these days?"

In the Jinqian Gang, or in any other sect in the martial arts world, it is definitely not an easy task to climb up as a disciple and get access to the gang's core secrets, the sect's unique martial arts, etc.

After joining the Money Gang, there are two options.

One is to be sent down to each branch and start slowly as a "junior gang disciple";

The second option is to stay at the headquarters, but because the headquarters is not short of people, the people who stay can only be "substitute disciples", which is one level lower than "junior gang disciples", also known as "miscellaneous disciples".

As the name suggests, what these substitute disciples have to do every day is to do some heavy and boring chores, such as transporting goods, cleaning, chopping wood, boiling water, washing clothes, and cleaning toilets.

Not only that, they get very little pay for doing this work.

Therefore, most people would choose the former and go to the branch honestly to be an ordinary disciple.

Only people like Haitang, who have come here for a certain purpose from the very beginning, will choose the latter.

The task assigned to the three of them these days was to go to the dock and move goods.

Haitang analyzed, "Those things were transported from the north by water. I noticed that among the people who made the transfer, there were people from the Giant Whale Gang."

"Giant Whale Gang?"

"Isn't that a gang that has always been loyal to the court? How come they have such close ties with the Money Gang?"

"It is precisely because we don't know that we need to investigate further!"

At this point, Qiu Feng suddenly remembered something: "Oh, by the way, I heard from Lao Zhang today that the gang is going to host a banquet for some big names in the underworld in a few days."

"Is there such a thing? Then the goods we transported these days should be related to this banquet..."

Haitang was as clear as a mirror, and immediately made a bold inference based on Qiufeng's information: "Then have you found out who Shangguan Jinhong wants to invite?"

"I don't know yet, but I heard that all actions were planned by the mysterious 'military advisor' in the gang..."

Based on the investigations over the past few days, they learned that Shangguan Jinhong had a capable assistant named Jing Wuming, an incompetent son named Shangguan Fei, and a mysterious military advisor who was hard to find.

The rapid development of the Money Gang in recent years is closely related to the planning of that military advisor.

However, up to now, no one knows the true identity of this military advisor except Shangguan Jinhong himself and his deputy Jing Wuming who has been with him for many years.

Haitang seriously suspected that the information collected by Huolong Villa about the "Golden Money Gang's attempt to dominate the martial arts world" was made by this military advisor.

"It seems that we need further investigation!"

(End of this chapter)