The Shameless Yu Xiaogang and His Disciple

"What?"

Du Bei looked as though he had not heard clearly. He dug at his ear and stared at the three of them in utter disbelief.

"A pig robbed you?"

"Are you kidding me? You three are Soul Masters above level 21, and you're telling me the three of you got robbed by a pig? Are you messing with me?"

Faced with Du Bei's soul-searching questions,

the three of them merely lowered their heads, not daring to say anything.

After all, this time, they really had been at fault. Their boss had trusted them so much that he had even handed them a precious torso soul bone to auction off.

Such trust had been betrayed.

Even the three of them were deeply ashamed. If they had not truly been unable to find that pig, A Fen and the others would not have dared come looking for their boss...

"Boss, we know we were wrong..."

Lafen apologized in a muffled voice. A Fen and Zhou beside him did the same, but their lowered heads sank lower and lower, practically burrowing into their chests.

One could well imagine how guilty they felt right now.

"How am I even supposed to talk to you guys? I handed you the soul bone, and you lost it the very next moment. That was the Mafia's operating capital after I left!!"

"You three, you three... sigh..."

Du Bei did not even know what to say about these three idiots. He had thought they merely shared the same names as three characters from some anime.

Who would have thought they did things the same way too?!

It was simply unbearable to watch.

Seeing Du Bei looking so troubled, A Fen seemed to think of something and hurried forward to make amends.

"Boss, Boss!"

"There was a reason we got beaten by that pig! That pig's farts were unbelievably, unbelievably foul. They stank so badly that we couldn't even open our eyes!"

"That's right, Boss!" Lafen hurriedly echoed him. He even took off his clothes and held them out before Du Bei.

"If you don't believe us, smell it! The stink is still on us! It's practically no different from a latrine!"

As the clothes drew near, Du Bei caught a powerful wave of stench head-on. His body instantly leaned back, and he hurriedly waved his hands.

"Take it away, take it away!"

Lafen grinned foolishly and withdrew his hand.

As for Zhou, who had not spoken all this time, seeing that the two before him had finished, he knew it was time for his turn.

He hurriedly pulled an item from his clothes.

But before he could approach,

Du Bei, having sensed the stench, immediately raised a hand to stop him and pointed at the ground some distance away.

"Don't come near me. Just stand there."

Apparently realizing that the smell on him was a little too strong, Zhou hurriedly stopped walking as well.

Zhou tossed an item over from afar.

"Boss, when we were attacked, there were a lot of people around us."

"Maybe that was why we weren't badly hurt. We even found this on us afterward."

Du Bei caught the item thrown through the air.

He opened the white cloth and took a look...

"Huh? Where did you guys get an embroidery needle?"

Having finished putting away her things, Xiao Wu quietly came to Du Bei's side. She poked her head out, her eyes filled with curiosity.

She even wanted to pinch the needle with her fingers.

But Du Bei was quick-eyed and fast-handed. He immediately put the needle away, then raised a hand and chopped the rabbit girl on the head!

"Ow!"

Xiao Wu instantly retreated while clutching her head with both hands.

"What was that for?"

He ignored the rabbit girl's angry voice behind him.

"Alright, this isn't your fault. So what if the extra money is gone? Your benefits will go back to their original level."

"Notting City will still need you from now on."

The moment Du Bei saw that silver needle, his mind instantly connected it to that pig from before, as well as that unbearably foul stench.

Two figures immediately surfaced in his mind.

Yu Xiaogang and Tang San!

If it had been those shameless bastards, then this was no longer strange. After all, in Notting City, only those two were still so shameless and treacherous.

They were the only ones capable of doing something so disgraceful.

As for how those two had learned that he possessed a soul bone? Only the ghosts knew.

When he had first gotten the soul bone, he had thought its grade was too low and had not wanted it. At the time, he had been arranging matters for after his departure at the Mafia's base.

He had not paid the soul bone any mind and casually handed it to them, telling them to use it to bolster the Mafia's cash flow.

He had not bothered with it after that.

Who could have imagined that while he was inside the secret chamber, the soul bone would actually be stolen?

There was nowhere to even vent this grievance.

After giving the three of them a few simple instructions, Du Bei sent them away without pursuing their mistake any further.

It was only a hundred-year soul bone, anyway.

Even if it was a relatively rare torso bone, it was only a tiny bit of money...

After sensing that his lackeys had gone far enough away,

"Ahhh!!!"

"Damn it! I should have personally delivered it to the auction house! My money!!!"

Xiao Wu, who had originally wanted to play, instantly froze when she saw Du Bei acting as though the sky had fallen!

It was not as if losses like this had never happened before. It was just that every time afterward...

"Xiao Wu, why are you backing away?"

"Well... I think we might not have enough carrots, so I wanted to go buy some more. After all, maybe, um, carrots are more expensive over in the provincial city..."

Before Xiao Wu could keep making excuses,

Du Bei, who had been grieving over his loss, took a single stride forward and scooped up the little rabbit. Then, as though hugging a pillow, he wildly buried his face in her.

"Uncle, what are you doing?"

"No! It tickles, hahahaha, it tickles so much, hahaha..."

Held in his arms, Xiao Wu laughed wildly as she kept pounding Du Bei's back with her hands, kicking her rabbit legs in panic even as she laughed.

"Uncle, don't..."

"You said hahahaha... this kind of behavior would get you electrocuted hahahaha, you need to calm down..."

The room instantly descended into chaos.

Outside the door,

Tang San, who had nearly reached the entrance, heard the commotion inside and silently withdrew the hand he had been about to use to knock.

He lowered his head and looked at the item in his arms.

A wooden box had been carefully wrapped. Through the half-open lid, one could see a crystalline torso bone inside.

"Damn it!"

He clenched his teeth, veins throbbing on his forehead.

Yu Xiaogang, who had come with Tang San, hurriedly pulled him away when he saw this.

Yu Xiaogang spoke earnestly.

"Xiao San, at a time like this..."

"You should absorb this soul bone yourself. We worked so hard to snatch it. There's really no need to give it to Xiao Wu, and it might even bring trouble upon her..."

Yu Xiaogang was suffering too!

He had painstakingly snatched a torso soul bone for his good disciple, yet after this unfilial disciple got it, his first thought was not to absorb it himself, but to give it away!

It had made Yu Xiaogang furious!

Fortunately, the current situation suited his wishes perfectly.

After pulling Tang San into the bedroom, Yu Xiaogang earnestly advised him, "Xiao San, this is a torso soul bone, second only to an external soul bone. Though it may have been produced by a rabbit soul beast..."

"According to your teacher's theory, it suits you extremely well! It could even improve your physical constitution..."

Accompanied by Yu Xiaogang's endless chatter,

Tang San was ultimately persuaded and began absorbing this precious seven-hundred-year torso soul bone right there.

"Good disciple! Now that's more like it!"

Just as Yu Xiaogang was secretly pleased,

Tang San was thinking something entirely different.

If I absorb this rabbit-type torso bone, will Xiao Wu, who is also rabbit-kind, become a little closer to me?

Before she said she had fallen in love...