Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo'

Chapter 849 - 505: Ferry Gang (Part 3)

Xu Qiulan exclaimed: "You’re Li Qi?"

Li Banfeng frowned and said: "Answer my question first."

Xu Qiulan lowered her head and said: "I don’t know where to start."

Li Banfeng chose a starting point for her: "Start from the day you died."

Xu Qiulan sighed and said: "After I married Rao Qijun, he was always bothered by something because before I married him, I had a fling with Ma Wu."

This wasn’t anything new; among the three Singing Empresses, Ma Wu had been with both Xiao Xiufei and Xu Qiulan, only Jiang Mengting was left untouched by him.

Xu Qiulan continued: "He brought it up from time to time. I told him honestly, I had been with Ma Wu before, but he didn’t believe me and insisted that I had slept with Li Qi as well,

half a month ago, I got fed up with his questioning, so I lied and said I had been with Li Qi."

Li Banfeng frowned and said: "You lied to him, but damaged my reputation?"

Xu Qiulan lowered her head and said: "I didn’t expect him to actually lose his temper and call me trash. We got into a fight,

I have cultivation level, I wasn’t afraid of him, but he unexpectedly called Support, a Third Layer Martial Cultivator, whom I couldn’t defeat, and was beaten to death."

"Continue."

"After I died, since I carried a cultivation level, the memories of my soul remained. I intended to go to Yellow Springs Road to reincarnate, but felt unwilling, so I lingered around the house wanting to find a chance for revenge,

after staying near the house for two or three days, suddenly a group of people came and used techniques to capture me."

"I couldn’t see their faces, they all wore masks and big hats. They asked if I knew Li Qi, I said I didn’t, so they beat me,

I was scared of being beaten, so I said I knew. They asked what Li Qi looked like, Seventh Master, I heard of your reputation, but I’ve never seen you, not even your photo,

so I randomly made up, I said Li Qi is broad and muscular, full of strength, can last for three to five hours at a time,

they caught my lie, beat me again, but later realized that beating me was useless, as I really didn’t know, so they put me into a magic artifact and sent me to this place."

Li Banfeng’s brow furrowed tightly, indeed someone was investigating him.

He then asked Shan Zhumei: "How did you die?"

Shan Zhumei said: "Ever since Jiang Xiang Gang was in trouble, and Flying General Camp lost contact, I worried there was some connection and planned to leave Greenwater City, to hide at Ink Shop for a while,

but I missed Miss You, wanted to see her once, two weeks ago, I went to Xiaoyao Lodge to find her, unexpectedly met Xie Mengjiao, a singer from Hundred Joy Gate, on the way."

Xie Mengjiao was also part of Flying General Camp, responsible for information transmission, considered Shan Zhumei’s superior.

Shan Zhumei continued: "I was looking for her at that time, wanted to know what really happened with Flying General Camp, Xie Mengjiao said the street wasn’t a place to talk, invited me to her house to speak in detail,

so I went to her house, she didn’t talk much about business, only about such things, I, I naturally prefer women, she was so seductive, I didn’t guard against it, ended up dying on her bed."

Li Banfeng raised his eyebrows and said: "So you’re not reconciled and want revenge on Xie Mengjiao?"

Shan Zhumei shook her head and said: "I don’t want revenge, I just want to see Miss You once, truly want to see her once,

I lingered near Xiaoyao Lodge, but was captured by people, the situation manifested like what Xu Qiulan saw, faces couldn’t be seen,

they asked if I knew Li Qi, I said I did, but we aren’t close, they didn’t believe, and also beat me severely, beating me was useless, I only knew so much, later they stopped beating and brought me here."

Li Banfeng gradually discerned some clues.

Next, he looked at Playful Matron.

Playful Matron said: "After being killed by Meng Yuchun, I also wanted revenge on Meng Yunchun, but Meng Yuchun’s cultivation level was too high, I couldn’t match her, so I had to find someone to inquire about your news,

later I heard someone call you Seventh Master, then learned you have a village in New Land, called Zhengjing Village,

I wandered in New Land for some time and finally found Zhengjing Village, stayed near for a long time, couldn’t wait for you, instead, waited for a Nightmare Cultivator ten plus days ago."

"Ten plus days ago?"

"New Land distinguishes neither day nor night, I don’t remember the exact number of days, probably fifteen or sixteen."

Li Banfeng asked: "What layer is that Nightmare Cultivator?"

"I don’t know, could be Fourth or Fifth Layer. I fought with him for a while, initially thought I had a chance to escape, unexpectedly fell into his trap and was directly captured by him,

he took me away from Zhengjing Village and asked about my relationship with Li Qi, I said we were enemies and recounted past events."

Li Banfeng was startled and instructed Clock Pendulum to take the others out of the room, handing them over to Music Box’s care.

Music Box played a tune, making them all fall asleep.

Li Banfeng asked Playful Matron: "What did you narrate?"

Playful Matron’s situation was different from Xu Qiulan and Shan Zhumei, as he knew quite a lot.

"I recounted how you and Meng Yuchun teamed up to defeat the Mountain-Uprooting Master, and later betrayed me, killing me."

"You only mentioned us defeating the Mountain-Uprooting Master?" Li Banfeng killed the Mountain-Uprooting Master, this Playful Matron knew.

Playful Matron nodded and said: "I only said you both won, didn’t dare to recount other events inaccurately, otherwise they wouldn’t have spared me."

This Wandering Monster in New Land indeed was clever, if he disclosed more details, they wouldn’t have set him on a shelf and might still be torturing him now.

Events transpired during this half month, there’s a group investigating me in Puluo State, but their origins remain unknown.