I'm badly injured, but I'm number one

Li Wenfu was startled and his movements suddenly quickened.

These maggots are long and slippery, and touching them makes you feel sick.

Yan Ping also felt disgusted when he saw this, so he simply didn't even look at him and asked.

"Where did you transfer those people to?"

Li Wenfu's hand trembled, and the maggot he had caught with great difficulty almost fell from his hand. Before he could think of what to say, that sinister voice suddenly sounded again.

"Think before you speak. If I find out you've told a lie, I'll cut off one of your hands."

Li Wenfu didn't dare to think any more and hurriedly stuffed the maggots in his hand into the bottle.

"In a village on the northern outskirts of the city."

"Every once in a while, someone comes to pick it up."

Wen Ye tapped his arm, "Who will pick you up, and who will contact you?"

Li Wenfu's voice trembled a little.

"No, I don't know."

"I'm just a small manager."

“That’s not my business.”

Yan Ping raised his eyebrows, "What does the City Lord's Mansion have to do with you?"

Li Wenfu's pupils constricted, and he paused in grabbing the maggots with a blank look on his face.

"City Lord's Mansion?"

Yan Ping sighed.

Wen Ye drew out his sword and walked towards Li Wenfu.

Li Wenfu, who was trying to pretend, turned pale in an instant. The dealings between the City Lord's Mansion and the Yun Chamber of Commerce had always been conducted in secret.

He didn't know how they knew, he just knew that he was probably finished.

Li Wenfu knelt down with a bang, his face covered with snot and tears.

"I was wrong, give me another chance!"

"Searching for mortals was the order from the City Lord's Mansion."

Wen Ye stopped and looked at Yan Ping.

Yan Ping raised his eyebrows, "What are you looking at me for? Make your own decision."

He is really used to being the younger brother, so he has to take care of things like this.

Wen Ye twitched his lips and put the sword back into the scabbard.

Li Wenfu, who was kneeling on the ground, breathed a sigh of relief. He dared not lie anymore and told the whole story of what Yunshang had done.

In the past, the Yun Chamber of Commerce was just an ordinary chamber of commerce. Ever since the new city lord came to power a few decades ago, he began to secretly recruit and traffic beautiful people.

As long as the person looks good and won't cause too much disturbance, they will take action against him or her, whether he or she is a monk or a mortal.

At most, we can collect more than a thousand people a year. After these people are put in one place, they will be taken care of by a housekeeper.

Li Wenfu didn't know where these people were sent.

But there was one person he knew.

"Cheng Huiyuan's mother was abducted, but it is said that she died after giving birth."

"The city lord pities him for not having a mother, so he dotes on him so much."

As long as Cheng Huiyuan was in Qingyuan City, even if he caused a huge disaster, the City Lord's Mansion would solve it for him and dote on him endlessly.

Li Wenfu knelt on the ground anxiously.

"I know I've said it all."

"Can you two let me go? I promise I won't say a word when I return. I can even be your insider!"

Yan Ping smiled slightly, "You haven't told me yet, how are you going to deal with us."

Li Wenfu's scalp suddenly went numb, and he immediately began to kowtow, "It is because we have been blind and did not recognize the great man. Please forgive us, senior!"

The sound rang out again, and blood splattered on the ground.

Yan Ping supported his head with one hand and waited until he finished knocking before speaking lazily.

"Just say it if I ask you to. Why are you in such a hurry?"

Li Wenfu shuddered, crawled on the ground, and bloodshot eyes appeared.

"The butler said that he would send you an invitation to the auction room and then take action against you."

But this was the previous plan. If they knew that Yan Ping's strength was so high, they would not even have time to hide, so how could they take the initiative to provoke him again?

Yan Ping raised his eyebrows, so these people decided to take action at the auction.

But they were also quite arrogant. They couldn't do anything to him yesterday, but today they found him here and tried to track him using his clothes.

Perhaps this invitation was intended to be used as a Hongmen Banquet, Yan Ping seemed to have realized something.

Maybe the mayor of Qingyuan City will show up at that time, along with a group of experts who are related to this matter.

As long as he goes to the auction and gets rid of these people.

This additional event outside of the original work should be able to resolve most of the issues.

The protagonist in the original novel did not encounter such a thing, and the city lords in it were also mediocre, including Cheng Huiyuan.

Yan Ping thought about it and stretched out his hand lazily.

"Bring me the invitation and you can go back."

"Do you know what to say about today's incident?"

Li Wenfu's face was full of astonishment. He didn't expect to be able to leave so soon, and then he showed ecstasy.

"I happened to meet you two today, so I handed over the invitation and went back."

Watching Li Wenfu's figure disappear, Wen Ye was a little confused.

"Just let him go like that?"

Yan Ping touched his chin and spoke as he thought.

"Qingyuan City is one of the five major cities in the Tianyang Sect's territory. The city lord is directly appointed by the people of the Tianyang Sect and is not subject to the control of the mortal dynasty."

"So the mayor of Qingyuan City must be extremely powerful or have a connection with someone in the Tianyang Sect to be able to take this position."

The Lord of Qingyuan City did nothing good, so the people who protect him are definitely not good people.

Wen Ye thought about it and nodded, "Indeed, Senior, do you want to uproot it?"

Yan Ping: “…”

Not really, he was just overthinking.

However, it is better not to leave this kind of uncertainty around the protagonist.

Yan Ping nodded.

"When the auction starts, I'll go and see if any of the Tianyang Sect disciples who are here this time have any connection with the City Lord's Mansion."

Wen Ye saw that Yan Ping didn't seem to remember yet, so he pointed at the clothes on the table.

“He didn’t finish picking up the maggots.”

......

The secret room of the city lord's mansion.

The butler held the portrait in red and kept comparing it with the red figure holding a sword in his mind.

His brows furrowed deeply.

He has been struggling with this for a whole day. The timing of the appearance of these two people was too coincidental, and they happened to have completely different temperaments.

If the two were the same person, let alone kidnapping someone, the City Lord's Mansion would have to keep a low profile until the City Lord came out.

"housekeeper."

Li Wenfu's voice came from the front.

The butler looked up and frowned even deeper.

"Why do you have a wound on your head?"

Li Wenfu's eyes flickered, "I accidentally bumped into someone while fighting."

"The invitations you requested have been sent to those two people."

The housekeeper's eyes suddenly lit up, and he stopped asking about the wound on his forehead, "Do you know what level of cultivation they are at?"

Li Wenfu's face twitched slightly, feeling a little unnatural. "One is in the Qi Refining Stage, and the other should be in the Foundation Establishment Stage. Their realms are average."

"If nothing unexpected happens, they should all go to the side rooms by then."

The butler did not pay attention to his strangeness. With what Li Wenfu said, as long as he was sure that it was not the same person, he would present the person in the portrait.

You can wake up the city lord to solve another problem.

"Okay, you can go down now. I'll take care of the rest."

After Li Wenfu left, the butler collected the scrolls on the table and was about to leave when he suddenly saw a figure that should not have appeared at this time.

The pupils in his eyes suddenly shrank.