"Go to hell!" the shop owner roared, took out a handful of white powder from his arms, and threw it towards Xia Qingchen.
The powder emits a pungent smell, and it is obviously a poisonous mist. Once it touches people, it can hurt their eyes at least, or kill them at worst.
Xia Qingchen raised his right hand expressionlessly, waved his sleeves, and a hurricane rose up with his arm, rolling back all the white powder that came towards him.
The shop owner was covered in dust. He couldn't help but cover his face and let out a miserable scream.
All the powder on his face, neck and back of hands that came into contact with his skin was rotten.
After lying on the ground for several weeks, the shop owner gradually lost his voice and could only twitch instinctively.
"Master, he is an assassin?" Linglong suddenly realized it and quickly threw away the tea she was holding to her lips, shocked.
Her reaction was quite slow.
Xia Qingchen said nothing, standing in the tea pavilion and slowly looking around.
Sharp eyes scan every corner.
The murderer behind the scenes was probably watching nearby to confirm whether he was dead.
Suddenly, Xia Qingchen's pupils shrank slightly, and he found an afterimage passing through the dark alley.
"Wait here!" He simply said and walked away.
After taking a few breaths, he rushed into the alley and saw a figure climbing over the wall from a distance.
He jumped onto the wall, looked down, and stopped.
On the other side of the wall is an underground cave with four entrances.
It is unknown where the murderer went. To find him, we can only rely on luck.
"Who could you be?" Xia Qingchen groped his chin and murmured.
Only his father and aunt knew about the news that he had set out to come to this dock. The rest of the people had no idea that he had left Liuli Capital, let alone that he had come to this dock.
It is impossible for his father and aunt to betray him. The only possibility is that he is being targeted by an organization with an extremely large intelligence network.
Therefore, the other party can track its movements at any time and arrive at the tea pavilion first to ambush.
Looking across the three realms, there is only one Dark Moon with this intelligence organization!
That dark organization famous for assassinations!
Their personnel are spread all over the world, and they are the only force that can do this.
Even Tingxue Tower is currently unable to do this.
"Who wants to kill me?" Xia Qingchen wondered, could it be that he killed Dead Moon at the moment, causing Dark Moon to assassinate him again?
Little did he know.
Deep in the cave at the far right entrance, a masked woman in mysterious clothes was leaning against the stone wall, gasping for air.
She is slender and frail, with skin as white as ivory. She is panting and her cheeks are slightly flushed.
She pulled off her mask, revealing a gentle and delicate face, like a girl next door, lovable.
It's just that those eyes are colder than ordinary people.
If Xia Qingchen were present, he would definitely recognize her as his cousin, Zhao Churan.
In other words, she is the Saint of the Dark Moon, Wangqing!
After staring at the exit, Zhao Churan silently walked deeper into the cave without looking back.
In the tea pavilion.
Linglong waited boredly, and suddenly saw Xia Qingchen coming back, and immediately asked curiously: "Master, who wants to poison you, I will poison him!"
She picked up a chopstick, dipped it into the poisonous tea on the ground, and said viciously.
Xia Qingchen stared at the corpse on the ground and shook his head thoughtfully: "No need, the other party may not want to poison me."
If the opponent is really from Dark Moon and wants to assassinate him, why not use a gold-medal assassin like Dead Moon who is good at using poison, but hire a black-hearted shopkeeper full of flaws?
Rather than saying that the other party was killing him, it was better to say that he was deliberately letting him know that someone was going to assassinate him.
Let him be more careful on the way to avoid being poisoned by others.
"I don't necessarily want to poison you to death?" Linglong tilted her little head, unable to figure it out. She looked at the shop owner who had rotted into corpse water and asked: "Is it possible that such a strong poison is meant for gargling your mouth?"
Xia Qingchen said calmly: "Just because it's so violent, it doesn't necessarily mean he wants to poison me to death."
He looked at the cup of tea in front of him and said: "The more violent the poison, the easier it is to react with foreign objects."
"Really?" Linglong leaned her head and took a look into the teacup. There was a looming layer of transparent impurities at the bottom of the teacup.
Like grains of crystal!
These are all objects produced after the reaction between highly toxic substances and tea.
However, you may not be able to spot it unless you look carefully.
"Moreover, in the middle of winter, a store owner with no skills is lying on the table and falling asleep without a blanket. Aren't you afraid of freezing?" Xia Qingchen said lightly.
As soon as he entered the tea pavilion, he had doubts.
In the cold winter, there is no reason to lie down and sleep in the cold wind in the open air. I am afraid that the other person is not really asleep, but pretending to be sleeping and waiting for someone else.
"Oh! That's it!" Linglong had a look of surprise on her face, and her eyes cast admiration: "The master is the smartest person I have ever seen in the world!"
Xia Qingchen smiled softly and waited silently in the tea pavilion for a while.
Several members of Tingxue Tower sent two space nirvana devices: "Sir, there are a large number of potions to replenish physical strength, energy and star power, as well as various materials for alchemy and weapon refining."
"Yes." Xia Qingchen checked it and made sure it was what he wanted, then put his hands behind his back and came to the dock.
Many ships were anchored and no longer went out to sea. Only some small boats were silently waiting for guests.
One of the slightly old boats was leaning on the edge, and a boatman in a coir raincoat and bamboo hat was sitting on the bow fishing with his back to them.
"Going to sea?" Xia Qingchen ignored the other boats and went straight to this old boat.
The boatman remained motionless, only staring at the fish float in the water: "Where are you going?"
"Linlang Island."
The boatman raised a finger: "Ten billion cool coins."
"Can."
The boatman just turned his head, revealing an old face, and smiled warmly: "Sir, Miss, please get on the boat."
Xia Qingchen and Linglong jumped on the boat, and the boatman immediately paddled away from the shore.
Linglong looked at the large merchant ships nearby and then at the small boat she was riding in. She couldn't help but hold her cheeks with her little hands and looked at Xia Qingchen complainingly.
"Master, although you think I'm stupid, no matter how stupid I am, I still know that our small boat can't reach Linlang Island." Linglong said: "Why don't the merchant ships take it? We have to take this small broken boat."
Xia Qingchen smiled slightly: "Because, the owner of this ship is the only person who was not moved when I killed the black-hearted shop owner."
The tea pavilion is right next to the pier. The movement just now was not too small, and the boatmen on the pier could hear and notice it.
But among all the people, only the captain of this old boat did not move at all.
It would be fine if he were deaf, but obviously he is not.
When Linglong heard this, she immediately slapped the table and pointed at the back of the rowing boatman with dignity: "! You are such a killer. How dare you take action even if I am here?"
"Haha..." The boatman smiled oldly, put down the oar in his hand, turned around and stared at the two of them: "I was still discovered by you, but so what?"