I Just Won’t Play by the Book - Chapter 66

“Come and take a look.”

Jiang Beiran waved at Wu Qingce. He squatted down and used his index finger to wipe the lips of the female disciple.

“Smell it. What’s that smell?”

Wu Qingce came forward to smell it. After thinking for a while, he answered, “It seems to be… The purple sunflower?”

“Give me a definite answer.”

“It’s the purple sunflower!”

“Stick your head out.”

“Ah…”

“What? Hurry up.”

“Brother Jiang, be gentle…” Wu Qingce lowered his head as he said, “Ah!”

After Wu Qingce let out a scream, Jiang Beiran said, “This is the smell of hibiscus. It’s a rouge made with the juice of blue flower. I’ve visited Mingcui Town before and there isn’t a market. I don’t think they will sell the high-grade rouge made by hibiscus. Let me ask you another question. Where do you think they bought this kind of high-grade rouge?”.

“Anhuo City!” Wu Qingce, who was still rubbing his forehead, immediately replied. “Yes, you finally got it right.” He rubbed his fingers twice, Jiang Beiran continued, “Even though we’re not sure they bought it from the Anhuo City, you can still go there to try your luck and see if you can find any clues. Come, recite the mnemonic formula I taught you. What is the purpose of the investigation?” “Oh, oh.” Wu Qingce immediately shook his head and answered, “If there are benefits, then we’ll go for it. If there are no benefits, then we’ll take precautions.”

Jiang Beiran nodded. He then took off the two money bags at the waist of the black-shirted man and poured out the copper coins inside. “Take a look, which places are they from?” “Yes.” Wu Qingce squatted down and carefully examined the copper coins. He replied, “There’s one from Anhu, one from Shangtang, and one from Ning Yi. Ah, there is one from the Rivernorth District. Judging from the design of the coin, it should be from the North Mountain Fu.”

“So, do you understand the route they took from Anjiang Island to here?” “I do. They probably came in from Wusong Gate.”

“Well, that’s a good answer.” Jiang Beiran nodded with satisfaction. “Keep these copper coins properly and tell me why we should do that.”

“Don’t use your hometown’s money to buy things when you’re outside.”

“Good, let’s pack up.”

After saying that, Jiang Beiran checked the storage ring of the man in black again and took out a scroll. He opened it and saw that it was a portrait.

“Sigh… it’s really ugly.” Jiang Beiran never understood the aesthetics of the mainstream painters here. They didn’t pay attention to the likeness of the appearance of the object at all, including the criminal’s portrait on the wanted posters. He even doubted that anyone could catch a fugitive based on the portrait on the wanted poster.

Just like the one he was holding now, the man in the painting had protruding cheekbones, a hooked nose, and thin lips. He looked like a monster.

However, Jiang Beiran, who was used to the drawing style here, saw something from the painting “It looks a little familiar…?”

Wu Qingce, who had put away the copper coins, also came over to take a look. “Brother Jiang, do you think they are looking for the people in this painting?”

“That’s too unprofessional.”

The few people from the Palace of Killing were obviously not good people. The ones they targeted were most likely the targets of their assassination. However, as a professional assassin team, they should have burn the portrait of the target after looking at it.

Jiang Beiran threw the portrait to Wu Qingce. Just as he was about to speak, three options popped up.

[ Option 1: Let Wu Qingce investigate the person in the painting. Reward for completion: Jade Finger (black grade middle tier)]

[ Option 2: Investigate the person in the painting yourself. Reward for completion: Seven Bird Legs (yellow grade middle tier)]

[ Option 3: Treat it as if nothing had happened. Reward for completion: Random special attribute points + 1]

“Eh? It’s actually special attribute points? The system is really generous this time.”

Jiang Beiran chose the third option happily. He then stood up and said, “Alright, I’ll teach you today. I see that your thoughts have already flown to those two mystic beasts.”

[ Chosen quest completed. Reward: Breathing +

“It’s actually breathing. It’s really been a long time.” looking at the special attribute point reward, Jiang Beiran was slightly delighted. This breathing point was very helpful to the recovery of stamina. Even if Jiang Beiran’s stamina was exhausted while he was practicing, he could recover at an extremely fast speed.

Hearing Jiang Beiran’s words, Wu Qingce hurriedly shook his head. “I didn’t!”

Jiang Beiran, who was in a good mood, couldn’t help but tease him. “Alright, then you continue to examine the corpses here. I’ll go and take care of those two mystic beasts.”

“Hey! Brother Jiang! I…”

“What?” Jiang Beiran turned around and asked.

“I admit that I want to fight with the level two mystic beasts as soon as possible…” “So, can’t you be more honest?”

“That’s because Brother Jiang is too…” Wu Qingce said halfway, but looking at Jiang Beiran’s fierce eyes, he still smiled and said, “Nothing… nothing, Hehe.”

“Keep up.”

Jiang Beiran brought Wu Qingce to stand in front of Thunder Patterned Leopard and Demon Beast, and said, “You two, any one of you can fight with him. If you win, you can leave.”

The Thunder Patterned Leopard and Demon Beast had an inexplicable look on their faces when they heard that.

“No way… you’re already at level two. Can’t you even understand human language?” Jiang Beiran sighed with disappointment.

Hearing Jiang Beiran’s sigh, the two mystic beasts were so scared that they repeatedly bowed and begged for mercy. They let out low growls of “Wu… WU… WU…”.

“Sigh, troublesome.” as Jiang Beiran said that, he walked forward and dragged Thunder Patterned Leopard out.

“Awoo! Awoo…% #@#” This scared the Thunder Patterned Leopard so much that it cried out in panic. It looked pitifully at Demon Beast as if it was asking for help, but the Demon Beast silently turned its head and pretended not to see it.

The Thunder Patterned Leopard that had fallen into despair let out another miserable howl.

“Stop whining!” Jiang Beiran said as he glared at the Thunder Patterned Leopard. The Thunder Patterned Leopard was terrified by his powerful mind power that it only cried in a muffled voice.

Jiang Beiran dragged Thunder Patterned Leopard to Wu Qingce. He first pointed at Thunder Patterned Leopard, then pointed at Wu Qingce, and then punched his two fists.

“Do you understand?” Jiang Beiran looked at Thunder Pattered Leopard and asked.

Thunder Patterned Leopard, who still didn’t quite get the idea, realized that it would not be killed for the time being, so it quickly nodded.

Therefore, Jiang Beiran then used his body language to speak to Thunder Patterned Leopard. After about ten minutes, it finally understood.

“Brother Jiang… Thunder Patterned Leopard is not in a good state. Can it use its full strength to fight with me?”

Looking at Thunder Patterned Leopard’s trembling appearance, Wu Qingce suddenly felt like he was being a great villain.

“You have so many demands.” After saying that, Jiang Beiran turned around and used his body language to express to Thunder Patterned Leopard like he was saying, “If you can’t beat him, I will kill you directly.”

Thunder Patterned Leopard nodded repeatedly after looking at Jiang Beiran, and its eyes looked at Wu Qingce with a fierce light.

“Yes, that’s the aura. Kill him!” Jiang Beiran nodded to Thunder Patterned Leopard. Seeing Thunder Patterned Leopard’s killing intent getting more and more intense, Wu Qingce hurriedly pulled Jiang Beiran and said, “Okay, okay, Brother Jiang… This is enough. Don’t provoke it anymore.”