Fourth Spirit Stone Financial Crisis

Fourth Spirit Stone Financial Crisis Chapter 20

2022-04-02

Chapter 20 Stalkers

By Earth standards, the security situation in Seacliff City is not good. Although the Seacliff Sect cultivator actively maintains the basic order of the city, they do so only for the sake of merit and do not really intend to serve the people wholeheartedly.

For cultivators whose time is precious, cultivating merit often takes up precious secluded cultivation time.

Therefore, cultivators often have cost-effectiveness considerations in the execution of merit-cultivation—that is, how to pay the lowest time cost and obtain the best merit-cultivation effect.

For example, Spirit Stone Reserve Bank is in charge of the financial lifeline of Nine Provinces. As long as a certain monetary policy resolution is passed, it will affect the livelihood and well-being of hundreds of millions of people. This is obviously the most efficient way for cultivators to accumulate merit. Similar to Even the Nascent Soul Realm Great Cultivator will actively strive for such a key position as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Spirit Stone Reserve Bank.

And the merits such as cleaning the snow on the road are very meager, but it is better than the convenient and quick public service, then only Qi Refinement Realm cultivator is willing to do it, even if the Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator will not be there. Waste of time and energy on this kind of work.

As for catching petty thieves and street fights, the merits are meager and very troublesome to do. There is no cultivator willing to do it. They just hire a few mortal clerks to take care of them. Almost there.

The actual effect of such frivolous law enforcement efforts against crime can be imagined.

Therefore, although Seacliff City has the Seacliff Sect cultivator personally in charge, it will not cause any major troubles, but small-scale mortal crimes are emerging one after another. is the best example.

Mortals commit crimes, let alone cultivators. Even if a mortal is killed in public by a cultivator, the Seacliff City main mansion will not come forward to deal with it.

Anyway, when the cultivator kills, the deduction is the Heavenly Dao merit of the murderer himself, and it has nothing to do with the main mansion of Seacliff City.

As long as the murderer doesn't go too far, causing widespread panic in the mortal society, for the sake of everyone being a cultivator, the main mansion of Seacliff City will turn a blind eye .

Although he is also a mortal with a cultivator as his backstage, Chen Ping is not his nanny, impossible is always behind him to protect him, and he just offended the Zhu Family Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Being beaten with a sap by lawbreakers, he has nowhere to reason!

Because of this clear awareness, Yang Lu has always paid great attention to his personal safety.

Although he's not an expert in anti-stalking, Seacliff City apparently doesn't have any expertise in tracking either.

Under the circumstance that there was not too much traffic after the heavy snow on the streets of Seacliff City, there were always strange pedestrians not far or near behind him, which made him suspicious.

A normal stalker will never wear a black suit and big sunglasses as in the movie, for fear that others will not know that he is a criminal. As long as you are not the kind of hopelessly stupid stalker, you all know that you should dress as ordinary as possible, try not to look directly at each other, and try to cover your eyes in a way that is more low-key than sunglasses.

After feeling that someone was following him, Yang Lu's spirit immediately tightened. Considering that he was leading Murong on the road, it was obviously inappropriate to suddenly look back at the passing pedestrians.

Since the other party chooses to follow rather than act directly, it means that the situation has not escalated to that level. If the other party takes extreme measures on the spot because of his own behavior of beating the grass to scare the snake, it will Self-defeating.

Looking at the sides of the road at random, Yang Lu set his sights on a steamed bun shop that just opened for business.

He decided to do some secret testing first!

"Murong, let me buy you a steamed bun to eat."

Murong didn't understand Yang Lu's true intentions and said blankly, "Mister Yang, I ate a lot last night. , I'm not hungry at all!"

Yang Lu just smiled and patted her head: "You're still growing, you can't eat breakfast!"

Not waiting for Murong Answering, he walked to the steamed buns each minding their own business, and naturally turned his body to his side: "Boss, how do you sell steamed buns?"

At the same time as he asked the question, he quickly used his peripheral vision. He noticed that the two passers-by not far behind him also stopped. Seeing this strange reaction, Yang Lu has already seriously suspected that the two of them are people who are specifically stalking themselves!

It's just that these two stalkers are obviously not very professional, and they will follow them in unison, instead of alternately stalking for cover. This professional level is even better than that of an amateur anti-stalker.

Yang Lu deliberately spent a long time at Baozipu in order to confirm.

He first took out a huge bill of 10Origin Spirit Stone Coin, deliberately made the self-employed Baozi Shop Boss unable to find change, and deliberately used a very high voice to complain that the Boss even trifling 10Origin Can't find Spirit Stone Coin.

Then he pretended to take out his pocket for a long time, but couldn't take out any change, and finally had no choice but to let Murong pay for himself first.

Murong witnessed Yang Lu's checkout process at Seacliff Pavilion yesterday and knew that he had change. Although she couldn't understand why Mister Yang suddenly saw her hard-earned money selling newspapers, she still handed the few stamps in her pocket to the Baozi Shop Boss.

Seeing that Yang Lu is very rich, but still has to pay the bill with the girl next to him, the Baozi Shop Boss sees that his expressions are all wrong. He opened his mouth to say something, but in order not to cause trouble for himself, he finally gave up the idea of meddling.

Murong wanted to defend Mister Yang a few words, but she didn't know where to start, her face flushed red.

Yang Lu didn't notice the silent communication between Murong and Baozipu Boss. He found himself dawdling for a long time, and the two passers-by behind him did not move, and he was already sure that he was being followed.

However, the other party has no intention of doing anything, and it should be because he didn't touch to clear his own details.

The guests of Seacliff Pavilion are either rich or expensive. Since these two people have been following since they left Seacliff Pavilion, it is normal to have scruples about their identity.

This makes the trip to the Qingning Chamber of Commerce even more important. Only by getting the endorsement of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, an important commercial force in Seacliff City, can these little people be completely deterred.

Seeing that Murong was holding the buns exchanged with his hard-earned money, he seemed a little reluctant to talk. Yang Lu took out a few pieces of change and stuffed them into her pocket, then said softly, "Let's go to Qingning Chamber quickly. Of Commerce, try to take the most crowded road, you often sell newspapers in the city, you must know where the most people are!”

Although she didn’t know what Yang Lu wanted to do, the newspaper seller was still confident. Nodding: "If you want to ask where there are more people, no one in the entire Seacliff City knows better than me!"

After walking with Murong through the crowded crowd for about ten minutes, the girl selling newspapers stopped voluntarily. "Mister Yang, this is the headquarters of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce!"

Looking in the direction of Murong's finger, a grand classical mansion appeared in front of Yang Lu.

There is an open space in front of the house, and there are two strange monster beast statues. The newly lacquered lintel reads "Qingning Chamber of Commerce". It was already three shots in the sun, but the Qingning Chamber of Commerce seemed quite deserted, with only occasional people coming in and out of the gate.

Yang Lu deliberately lingered at the door of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce for a while. After confirming that the two stalkers were following, he swaggered towards the front door of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce.

(end of this chapter)