Chapter 992: I Am Incompatible with Thieves

Empty?!!

Sun Bumian stared at the empty box before him, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.

Refusing to believe it, he opened the second box. Dim light shone inside, and apart from thick dust, there was nothing else... A whole box of gold bricks, not even a shadow to be seen!

Sun Bumian’s mind went blank. Mechanically, he continued to open all the other boxes; without exception, they were all completely empty.

"How could this happen..."

"My savings from several lifetimes..."

Sun Bumian seemed to lose all his strength, stumbling against the wall. His hollow eyes stared at the nine boxes, his face ashen.

For an ordinary person, let alone a lifetime of savings, even having three years of wages swindled away would be enough to cause a mental breakdown... But what Sun Bumian had lost was the hard-earned money he had scraped together over several lifetimes of performing.

Although Sun Bumian didn't have much desire for worldly possessions, it was impossible for him not to react to having a thousand years of savings emptied out... If he were to spend those nine big boxes of gold bricks, he could live in luxury for another few hundred years!

Hundreds of years of good living, *pop!* Gone!

Sun Bumian couldn't fathom what kind of malicious person would do something so insane.

"Who... who is it?!"

Sun Bumian’s eyes turned bloodshot. Recalling how perfectly sealed these boxes had been, he suddenly realized something and jerked his head up toward the surface...

To be able to steal all the gold inside without opening the boxes, such a method could almost certainly be attributed to the Fire-Tamperers. And since this was their territory... the culprit who stole his life savings was practically screaming to be identified.

"I am incompatible with thieves!!!"

Sun Bumian was furious!

Having his liver stolen earlier had already made Sun Bumian extremely unhappy. Coupled with the theft of all his savings this time, his hostility toward the Fire-Tamperers had climbed to its peak. He wished he could rush to the cathedral right now and slap the Silver King twice across the face.

Cursing and swearing, Sun Bumian stepped on the clouds and returned to the surface from the pit.

With red eyes, he was about to leave, but he looked back at the deep pit. Still seething with anger, he took a wooden sign and wrote a warning on it, sticking it in the most conspicuous place in front of the pit.

"Giant pit ahead, watch your step."

Regardless, the pit was quite deep; if an ordinary person fell in, they probably wouldn't have a good outcome.

After hesitating for a moment, Sun Bumian cursed again and added a line below the sign:

"Fire-Tamperers excluded."

……

"H-h-hello."

Outside the glass door of the restaurant, a white-haired figure wrapped in bandages had spent half a day building up his courage before speaking in a voice as thin as a mosquito’s.

Behind the glass door, the restaurant owner was busy repairing the ceiling with a clatter, not hearing him at all.

Jiang Xiaohua: ...

Jiang Xiaohua gathered his courage and raised his voice a little higher:

"Hello..."

*Clang, clang, clang.*

The owner didn't even glance in his direction.

Two attempts at bravery had only earned him awkward neglect. Jiang Xiaohua felt like he was about to shatter... His instinct was to turn and run, then find a place where no one was around to bury himself, but thinking about how he had dragged Jian Changsheng down and let the other three 6s down, he gritted his teeth and kept his feet planted in place.

Jiang Xiaohua had spent the entire day searching the sewers on the east side, but he couldn't find a trace of the Rat Party. It seemed that after they sent those children away, they had immediately moved to a new stronghold, and the original place had been completely abandoned.

Having been entrusted with high hopes, he hadn't been able to contribute anything. The guilt in his heart was the only thing driving him to return to the restaurant, looking disheveled and defeated.

Under normal circumstances, he would have already started rotting away underground by now.

Jiang Xiaohua gave up on trying to get the owner's attention with his voice. Instead, he stood stiffly outside the glass door, staring straight at him, attempting to use some "staring-induced pressure" to get the owner to notice him.

The owner, who was repairing the ceiling, felt a strange chill down his back. After looking back, he nearly fell off his stool, startled by the white-haired ghost staring at him from the doorway.

"...It's you?" The owner walked to the door, displeased. "Why are you here again? We don't accept dine-and-dashers here, go away, go away..."

"Um..." Jiang Xiaohua tentatively looked inside. "Black... oh no, where is Little Jian?"

"You mean that jinx who was left behind to wash dishes?"

Speaking of this, the owner was so angry he couldn't help himself. "He ran off while it was raining manhole covers!"

A look of deep confusion appeared on Jiang Xiaohua’s face.

Regardless, Jiang Xiaohua knew Jian Changsheng wasn't here. He nodded silently and left the restaurant all alone.

Jiang Xiaohua didn't know where he should go to find Jian Changsheng, so he just walked aimlessly through the streets, thoughts constantly flooding his mind. He even felt that Spade and Diamond both thought he was too much of a burden, so they had abandoned him and left directly...

Jiang Xiaohua felt a bit sad.

Without a plan or a route, Jiang Xiaohua wandered through the streets and alleys. When he got tired, he sat on a stone bollard at the edge of the road, staring blankly at the occasional passerby.

Now... could he just find a place to bury himself?

Just as Jiang Xiaohua was struggling with his thoughts, two or three pedestrians walked past him, holding a very simple newspaper.

"Hey, have you heard? That Heart 6 from the Twilight Society has announced he’s joined the Fire-Tamperers."

"Huh? When did that happen??"

"The newspaper was just distributed at noon today. Every district and factory got one. Didn't you get one?"

"I haven't read it yet... Is this Heart 6 you're talking about the madman who wiped out the Aurora Domain and almost destroyed the Red Dust?"

"Yes, yes, that’s him. It seems he’s completely broken ties with the Twilight Society and even killed a Twilight Society member with his own hands..."

Jiang Xiaohua’s body shook!

Heart... killed a Twilight Society member?

Jiang Xiaohua knew that Chen Ling had been forced to join the Fire-Tamperers. He absolutely did not believe that Chen Ling would willingly become a lackey for the Silver King, let alone kill a Twilight Society member... So, was this fake news? Why was it being spread on such a large scale within the Wuji Domain at this time?

The more Jiang Xiaohua pondered, the more he felt something was wrong.

At the same time, he pricked up his ears to continue listening to the group's conversation:

"So this madman is in the Wuji Domain now? That’s too terrifying! I don't even dare to imagine what extreme things he might do."

"But don't you think... that it’s kind of...?"

"What?"

One person looked around, and after confirming no one was listening, whispered: "If this madman could do some extreme things like he did in the Aurora and Red Dust domains and drive the Silver Government to death... maybe that would be a good thing?"