Chapter 133 Taking Advantage of the Situation

Fang Yue rushed into the Gongxun Hall. Old Pan, who was inside packing things up, was immediately stunned, his expression flustered and nervous.

"Ye Baiyi? What are you doing here? How is the battle going outside?"

Old Pan wasn't the type of Baiyi to charge into battle; his position leaned more toward functionality, so he wasn't on the front lines and naturally didn't know the situation outside.

But Old Pan was aware that the night rain was getting heavier.

At this rate, it was likely to transition from a [Heavy Rain] to a [Torrential Rain].

[Torrential Rain] ah, that was [Torrential Rain]! Without the protection of formations, no one in Qingsi County could survive in the [Torrential Rain].

The only thing they could do was take a gamble, ride the Qingsi horses, and flee from the underground stronghold, away from Qingsi County.

Old Pan's thinking was so clear. With this standard as the premise, Old Pan was packing things up when Fang Yue bumped into him.

"The battle is critical! I urgently need a large number of pills to return to the battlefield!"

After a pause, Fang Yue asked suspiciously, "Old Pan, are you... packing your bags?"

"No, nothing like that!"

Fang Yue's eyes narrowed. "The Qingsi have laws: deserting one's post is a capital crime. Old Pan wouldn't be so foolish, would he?"

"..."

Old Pan fell silent, stared at Fang Yue for a while, and said, "I've heard that Qingsi County is finished. Not to mention the strange occurrences outside, with the night rain falling like this, none of us will survive. It's better to find a way to escape as soon as possible. Faced with such a desperate situation, the upper-level Qingsi have no reason to punish me."

"That's not necessarily true. Without an order from the Qingyi, you're fleeing on your own. That's desertion. You know what the charge is."

"What do you want? I can take you with me."

"I'm not leaving. I want to use merit points to exchange for pills. Quickly help me open the underground treasury."

"But aren't you..."

Before Old Pan could finish speaking, Fang Yue stared at him with a dangerous look.

"The Qingsi have ordered that in times of emergency, the Baiyi can take the name of the Qingyi and temporarily dispatch certain resources. Do you think You Sisi would disagree with me using those pills to fight the enemy?"

"...What do you want? I'll help you get it."

"I said, open, the underground treasury, immediately!"

"Are you trying to?!"

"I'm only taking pills and then going to fight the strange occurrences. Don't think everyone is like you!" Fang Yue's face darkened, and he emphasized his tone.

Old Pan fell silent. While opening the underground treasury, he said, "Ye Baiyi, it's not that I don't have ambition, it's just that facing such a dilemma, as an ordinary person, I have to find a way to survive. As the guard, I'm not taking anything from the underground treasury, I'm just preparing to take my family and flee this place. Are you being too harsh in blaming me like this?"

Creak, creak.

Accompanied by the sound, the underground treasury opened.

Fang Yue didn't speak, taking Old Pan into the underground treasury with him. With a backhand chop, he struck him on the neck, knocking him unconscious.

Supporting Old Pan to lie down on the side, Fang Yue sighed.

"I know it's not easy for you, but no matter where you are, facing strange occurrences, only by uniting as one can you have a chance to defeat them. If everyone had the same deserter mentality as you, then no matter how solid the city, it wouldn't be able to withstand the attacks of the strange occurrences."

After taking care of Old Pan, Fang Yue went straight to the medicine area.

Taking things from the underground treasury privately is a capital crime.

Even with the great name of saving Qingsi County, the crime is not light. Even if the merits and demerits offset each other, he might still be chased and dealt with by the Qingsi.

It depends on the situation at the time and the value of the items taken from the underground treasury.

After all, taking things from the underground treasury privately, even if it is later converted into merit points to offset the offense, is not the usual price, but several or even ten times the price.

With the merit points offsetting the merits and demerits, in most cases, one has to atone for the crime, or even be beheaded in the street.

The rules are there to prevent people from crossing the line. Being able to adopt a model of offsetting merits and demerits with merit points based on special circumstances is already the result of many years of iteration of the Qing Country's laws.

If possible, Fang Yue would also like to just take some pills and be done with it. After all, the laws are so strict, and it seems like a loss no matter how you look at it.

But compared to the safety of Qingsi County, Lord Han, Tian Erjun, Captain Wu, the team members of Guyue Village, and the lives of You Sisi and others, Fang Yue is willing to take this risk!

Going straight to the pill area, Fang Yue quickly found the Haijiao Dan! Bottled Haijiao Dan!

There were a full hundred bottles in stock, which shows that the daily consumption is extremely low, and hardly anyone is willing to use this thing at all.

If possible, Fang Yue wouldn't want to use it either, but sometimes, when he needs to risk his life, he has to use some extreme measures!

1 bottle of 100 Haijiao Dan, 100 bottles is 10,000 Haijiao Dan.

If the quality isn't enough, make up for it with quantity!

Perhaps it's because the Qingsi level in Qingsi County is relatively low, but the most advanced potential-enhancing pill here is the Haijiao Dan.

[Are you going to take so many potential-enhancing pills at once?!]

"Yes!"

Fang Yue calmly said, "In order to have the power to deal with that guy, these Haijiao Dan are necessary. You've also seen her strength, far above the La Guan Gui (Coffin-Pulling Ghoul)."

[But, but this is too much! With the accumulation of pill toxins, just burning lifespan will lead to being burned to death alive!]

"Of course I know that."

A look of madness flashed in Fang Yue's eyes: "The Breath of the Night isn't omnipotent. If I swallow ten thousand pills at once, the pill toxins will inevitably erupt, and my lifespan will burn like crazy. With my thirty years of lifespan, it may not be enough to burn. But think... if I can kill Bai Xiaoya before my lifespan runs out! Then the lifespan I gain can replenish myself and offset the lifespan consumption of the pill toxins!"

[Madman! This is too crazy! The parchment disagrees! Disagrees! You'll die!]

"Did you foresee it?"

[...]

Obviously, the parchment couldn't foresee what would happen next.

[In short, I just disagree!!]

The parchment seemed a little angry. While Fang Yue found it funny, he was also a little touched.

In the end, the parchment was just throwing a tantrum because it cared about him.

[That's not it!! You, you you you, shut up!! Idiot!!]

"Cough! Let's put this topic aside for now. This move of mine is just in case. If you can digest the Jinshi (Metal Stone) and cooperate with Lord Han to kill Bai Xiaoya, then not only will I not have to use these Haijiao Dan, but I can also return them to their original owner and not have to worry about the Qingsi's punishment. The premise is that when you use your ability, don't turn me into a complete strange object, then I'd rather use potential medicine to risk my life."

Fang Yue was really afraid of the parchment's rain-level power.

As powerful as it was, turning into a strange object was too scary. He really didn't want to use it until he reached the rain level.

But the crisis was right in front of him, and he had to risk his life!

[Don't worry! The great and noble parchment lord will try to control his power and won't let you die so easily!]

If you were really that reliable, I wouldn't have been reduced to this...

Shaking his head slightly, Fang Yue began to pack up the Haijiao Dan and then walked out.

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