Men's Superstitions

Qin Cheng and the others watched silently. The boy at this moment was completely different from the one they had first met.

At first glance, the other person was as calm as a stone, but now they are more like a knife.

Zhang Tongdan was a well-known Wilderness People in the area, and many caravans had to pay him tolls.

But today he died at the hands of an unknown boy.

"This doesn't seem like a city person at all; it's more like someone from the wilderness," Qin Yiyi many years, she considered herself Wilderness People and preferred the wilderness. She smiled, patted the dust off her clothes, and then asked across the campfire, "Are you injured?"

"No," Qing Chen shook his head, took the pistol from Zhang Tongdan's hand, and then looked at Li Shutong: "Teacher, I'll keep this."

"Yes," Li Shutong nodded, "We'll need it later. He should still have some magazines on him, don't forget."

Ever since Qing Chen experienced life and death up close, his teacher no longer minded Qing Chen using firearms.

After all, the Cavaliers are a very pragmatic organization, and so is Heng Society. Being able to achieve greater benefits with minimal cost is a choice that a smart person should make.

If Li Shutong insisted on not letting Qing Chen use firearms, he felt that it would make him look like he had some mental issues.

Qin Cheng thought for a moment and said, "The box I gave to Zhang Tongdan should be nearby. I'll go look for it."

With that, the old man led his son into the woods.

Qin Tong quietly led the old man to a corpse and squatted down beside it. "Dad, look at this corpse, it's very strange."

Qin Cheng silently examined the situation. "Strange, what kind of technique could have beaten someone like this? And with such a heavy blow, why didn't we hear a thing?"

He stood up and stroked the tree trunk with his rough, mottled mechanical hands. "Even such sturdy bark has been shattered by the vibration."

Now, the father and son only have one question in their minds: How did they manage to do that?

"Let's not worry about that for now," Qin Cheng sighed. "I feel like we've underestimated them. That middle-aged man is definitely a B-Class. The last time I saw a B-Class person in action was half a year ago. He wiped out an entire camp by himself. It was terrifying."

"Dad," Qin Tong's eyes sparkled, "I'm starting to think that the boy might be this middle-aged man's apprentice. Yi Yi likes that kid so much, and that middle-aged man seems to like Yi Yi quite a bit too..."

Previously, Qing Chen and Li Shutong had been speaking in hushed tones, so although they were certain that Qing Chen was not a servant, they had not yet figured out the specific relationship between the two.

Just as Qin Tong was speaking...

With a snap.

Qin Cheng slapped Qin Tong on the back of the head with his mechanical hand, making his son's head spin.

The old man scolded in a low voice, "The Qin Family relies on the heavens and the earth for their livelihood. What did we come out of the city for? Wasn't it to avoid being bullied? Even if Yiyi never gets married, she can still live a good life. My Qin Family doesn't need to sell our daughters for wealth."

"You really like that kid, don't you?" Qin Tong said, feeling wronged. "Besides, you didn't say that when I got married. You said that marrying Wenwen would make things much easier for us in the wilderness."

Wenwen is the eldest daughter of a tribe in the wilderness. After Qin Tong got married, their business did indeed improve.

Moreover, caravans had to pay four bottles of antibiotics as tolls, but the Qin Family only had to pay one.

However, Wenwen did not have a legal household registration in the city, so when the family moved to the city, Qin Tong's wife could only wait in the wilderness outside.

Qin Cheng waited for Qin Tong to finish speaking, saying, "You're the eldest son in the family. If you don't sacrifice, who will? Besides, what's wrong with Wenwen? When you were injured last year, she stayed in the car taking care of you for three months!"

"I didn't say she was bad. Wenwen and I are very much in love. Dad, don't try to sow discord between us," Qin Tong said, glaring at him.

Old man Qin Cheng lowered his voice and said, "Whether Yiyi likes that kid or not is Yiyi's own business. We won't interfere, understand?"

"I understand, I understand," Qin Tong sighed. "I was just saying that."

"Alright, hurry up and find the box first."

At the camp.

Qin Yiyi took her own towel, poured some hot water, and helped Qing Chen wipe the bloodstains off his clothes.

The jacket is made of waterproof fabric, so it can be easily wiped clean with a towel.

When Qin Yiyi tried to wipe Qing Chen's face, Qing Chen quickly took the towel and dodged away...

At this moment, Li Shutong took a black box out of Zhang Tongdan's chest pocket.

When it was opened, the six Thors were still lying quietly inside.

From the very beginning, the teacher knew that the other party would bring Thor back into his hands.

Qing Chen looked at Li Shutong and whispered, "Teacher, you deliberately threw Thor to them just to tempt them with money?"

Li Shutong nodded with a smile, but his expression held a hint of coldness. "If a teacher wants to teach students, they need teaching materials. Since we travel light, we can't bring the materials with us; they have to be delivered to our door. This lesson is about knowing what's in someone's heart and not flaunting your wealth."

He used more than a dozen lives to teach this lesson.

But this contemporary leader of the Knights doesn't seem to care.

Just like the Qing family heads of each generation, even though they knew the cruelty of the struggle between shadows, they never changed their ways.

Everyone has learned to face the world with a fierce attitude.

"But what if he takes Thor and leaves?" Qing Chen asked.

"Let them leave, it's just a box of Thor's God, I'm not heartbroken," Li Shutong said with a smile.

This statement mainly highlights four words: rich and willful.

"Then the teacher's plan failed, didn't it?" Qing Chen pressed.

"Oh, that's why I didn't tell you about this plan in the first place. If it fails, I'll just pretend I never had this plan," Li Shutong said confidently.

At this moment, Qin Cheng and Qin Tong returned to the camp carrying four boxes, while the rest of the Qin Family ran into the woods and tried their best to search the corpse for anything usable.

Shoes that fit, clothes that men can wear, guns, and ammunition.

There are also some strange things in the wilderness.

It's not that the Qin Family is so poor that they need to wear clothes meant for the dead.

Instead, they could trade it for furs and medicine when they encountered people in the wilderness later.

The so-called medicinal herbs are things like wild ginseng, cordyceps, deer antler, and deer penis. Even though the technology in the Inner World has completely surpassed that of the Outer World, men's superstition about health products has not been broken.

Li Shutong thought for a moment and said to Qin Cheng, "This time you've fallen out with the Wilderness People you were cooperating with, which will likely have some negative consequences in the future. Here's what we'll do: after you return to City No. 18, go to No. 13 Chunlei Street in District 9 and find a man named Su Xingzhi. He will help you handle everything and arrange new trading partners for you."

"Thank you," Qin Cheng said solemnly.

Qing Chen asked in a low voice, "Teacher, you're being so kind to them, it's not just out of apology, is it? I feel like you actually know them."

Li Shutong nodded. "Qin Cheng was the brother of an old friend, and that old friend died because of me."