Sword Roaring in the Sky

Chapter 159: The Complex Guanxin Sect (fourth update, please give me a monthly ticket)
Sun Yanwan and the other three all took action.

However, this incident also made them realize their own shortcomings. Lu Shuangfeng and Sun Yanwan had not officially started their business and did not have their own network of relationships. Wu Zhi was in the dark after leaving Chongyang City and no longer knew anyone.

Whether it is Shaochan Temple or Songyang Sect, their presence in Luojing is very weak. The royal family of Dalang would not allow any sect to have influence in Luojing. Shaochan Temple is better, at least it has several temples. Because of the ban of the ancestor, Songyang Sect cannot even send an ordinary disciple to Luojing.

Sun Yanwan went to find Li Wangyou, originally thinking that this gentleman might shirk his responsibility, or agree casually but then find a few excuses and not do anything. Unexpectedly, he had just opened his mouth, and the next day Wu Zhi received a letter of appointment, becoming a parade tiger of the Beijing Inspection Office, and he didn't have to go to work.

Because Wu Zhi only received the transfer order from the capital and had not yet received the transfer documents from Chongyang City, according to normal procedures, she could temporarily reduce her salary by half, but she did not need to report to the Inspection Office until the documents from Chongyang City were sent back.

Fortunately, Lu Shuangfeng and Ding Feng were both very helpful. They quickly found out that the Guanxin Sect had twelve bases in Luojing, with a total of nearly three hundred people, 70% of whom were truly blind.

This number shocked all four of them. This was just the number in Luojing, not including the counties under Luojing.

Even Sun Yanwan complained: "Where do all these blind people come from?"

He even wondered if the remnants of the army had reappeared.

Lu Shuangfeng rubbed his fingers and said, "With so many blind men who have practiced the Blind Man's Sword, if they were given a little training in military tactics, it would be difficult for them to kill a Grand Master, but killing three or five Grand Masters would definitely not be a difficult task."

"My senior sister and the little princess of Beiyan, although only in the Xiantian realm, their true combat power is definitely not inferior to that of ordinary Grandmasters. However, facing so many blind men, they can only flee in panic."

Wu Zhi said decisively, "They can't just gather together. They are now scattered in twelve places. We can raid one place first and investigate the situation."

Sun Yanwan was a little nervous when he heard that there were so many people in Guanxin Sect. He suddenly asked, "Old Ding, how do so many blind people make a living?"

Ding Feng smiled bitterly and said, "Beg for money!"

"The Northern and Southern Beggars' Sects didn't dare extend their influence into Luojing, leaving a power vacuum. So they took control of the beggars there. Luojing currently has a population of over a million, and there are probably 20,000 to 30,000 beggars begging for food. While they can't possibly control all of them, they can at least control 3,000 to 4,000."

"Exploiting beggars is a big business."

Sun Yanwan was a well-educated person and knew that beggars in real life were definitely not the heroic groups fighting against the Jin and Yuan dynasties described in martial arts novels.

Although this world is different from Earth, in this ancient world, he simply cannot believe that the emperor can perfectly solve the problem of bankruptcy among the poor. The lives of these beggars must be extremely miserable, and some may even be miserable beyond imagination.

He sighed and said, "According to what Lao Wu said, let's raid a Guanxin Sect stronghold first."

"I suggest choosing a smaller group. Although the possibility is small, at least we can try to control the situation."

Sun Yanwan hadn't expected that investigating a single escort agency case would lead to more and more unrelated incidents. But he knew someone was manipulating the blind man of the Guanxin Sect to kill people indiscriminately, and that the killing happened right under his nose. It was hard for him to just close his eyes and let it go.

What's more, these real and fake blind men had assassinated him before?
Sun Yanwan didn't want to find out the mastermind at that time, but that doesn't mean he doesn't want to now or in the future!

After making a brief plan, the four of them headed straight for Huangyun Temple in Luojing. Guanxin Sect itself was a branch of Xuanhuang Dao, but no one had ever said that Taoists had to be proper Taoists and not assassins.

Everyone in the Guanxin Sect is blind. Although there are a large number of fake blind people, they certainly cannot survive by relying solely on incense or running a Taoist temple.

In fact, there are too many people in the Guanxin Sect, and they cannot survive by just being killers. No matter what world it is, there are very few big clients who hire killers.

In novels and movies, assassins are very professional, but in reality, even with a population as large as the earth, the market for killers is very small. The number of politicians and wealthy people who die from assassinations every year is very likely to be zero. Even if there are cases that are not known to the public, the number will definitely not exceed double digits. Such a sluggish market cannot produce industry giants, but only amateurs who make up the numbers temporarily.

The assassination cases reported in the news were either committed by part-time gangsters or mercenaries, and they were not considered full-time killers.

Even in martial arts novels where assassins are very popular, if all the publications are put together, there may not be enough to cover one assassination case in each book. Many martial arts novels do not have this industry.

The Guanxin Sect has to face strong competition from the Qinglong Tower, which is everywhere, and there may not be many killer orders in a year.

The main business of Guanxin Sect is actually collecting protection fees from beggars.

This led to the situation that when Sun Yanwan saw Huangyun Temple, what came to his mind was not a Taoist temple, but the slums in reality, which were almost nonexistent in one Eastern country but were everywhere in another Eastern country.

What hits you is a wonderful smell that is a mixture of countless sources of stimulation.

There were at least one or two hundred beggars inside and outside the Huangyun Temple, some catching lice, some basking in the sun, or simply lying motionless in the corner, with no sign of whether they were dead or alive, and no sign of their chests rising or falling.

With so many beggars, Sun Yanwan's original plan to use his martial arts skills to sneak in was unnecessary. These beggars gathered together like one or two hundred human cameras. Even if a mosquito flew by, it would be caught by the beggars and thrown into their mouths to taste it.

Sun Yanwan couldn't help but ask, "Can't we perform rituals here?"

Lu Shuangfeng came from a prominent family and had never seen anything like this before. She shook her head and said, "Using the excuse of performing a ritual to sneak in is really stupid. No one will believe it."

Wu Zhi patted his clothes and strode over. He didn't care that the ground was dirty. He sat down next to an old beggar and started chatting casually. After a while, he convinced the old beggar and followed him into Huangyun Temple with a smile.

Ding Feng couldn't help but say, "This Mr. Wu is really capable."

Lu Shuangfeng and Sun Yanwan shook their heads together. Wu Zhi was not capable, but he came from a humble background. He was really a constable and had really come into contact with people at the bottom of society.

The two of them became disciples of a major sect, and the people they came into contact with were all martial arts masters, but they did not have the life experience that Wu Zhi had.

Sun Yanwan hesitated for a moment, patted Lu Shuangfeng on the shoulder, and said, "I'll try it out first. If it doesn't work, I'll try another method. If it works, you can come with me."

He walked over with a swagger, took out a handful of copper coins and threw them around. The beggars immediately became active and rushed to grab the copper coins.

(End of this chapter)