Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 1241 598: Gourd Village

Li Banfeng sighed and said, "Who hasn't been impulsive in their youth?"

Ayun shook her head and said, "You can't leave now, you haven't met the village chief yet!"

Li Banfeng looked up and asked, "After meeting the village chief, can I leave?"

Ah Yi shook her head and said, "No, you can't."

"Then why should I meet him?"

"You'll meet the village chief, stay in the village for a month, and then you can leave."

Truth be told, if Li Banfeng really wanted to leave, Ah Yi and Ayun definitely couldn't stop him, and there's no definite answer whether anyone in the village could either.

He knew these two women were exaggerating; there couldn't be such a bizarre village chief, let alone a bizarre village chief's spouse.

But he still wanted to see what kind of existence this village chief was.

Ayun and Ah Yi picked up the Contract Book and led Li Banfeng toward the center of the village. Halfway there, Li Banfeng saw a man pulling a cart loaded with soil toward the river.

The cart was large, and the soil on it seemed to weigh several tons. The man pulled steadily, indicating his cultivation level was extraordinary.

Li Banfeng asked, "What are you doing with so much soil?"

Ah Yi said, "The village chief's spouse is digging a hole underground, so the excess soil needs to be cleared."

So it turns out this is the village chief's spouse's assistant.

Being able to make someone with such a high cultivation level do this type of work shows that the village chief is quite unusual.

Could he really be living in a building twenty-six layers high?

In the center of the village, there indeed was a strange structure, like an umbrella, standing tall in the courtyard.

Li Banfeng looked up and estimated that it was indeed about twenty-six layers high.

Ayun wiped her sweat and said, "The building is too high, I won't go up."

Ah Yi led Li Banfeng up the building, the lower twenty-five layers were all stairs, from top to bottom, made like a chimney.

At the twenty-sixth layer, they finally saw a door, Ah Yi said to Li Banfeng, "I won't go in, you take the Contract Book and go in yourself."

Li Banfeng took the Contract Book and glanced at it:

Non-resident so-and-so, voluntarily coming to Gourd Village, staying in the gourd belly for half a month, deciding his own direction afterward.

Just these two lines, do they really need preparation in advance?

Li Banfeng looked contemptuous, pushed the door, and entered the village chief's house.

Behind the door was a living room, furnished with a sofa set, a coffee table, and a man sitting on the sofa, reading the newspaper.

This person is the village chief?

He doesn't look very old.

Li Banfeng held the Contract Book and asked, "Am I supposed to come here just to sign this?"

"Yes." The man nodded.

"Can't we negotiate? Half a month is too long, can't it be shortened a bit?" Li Banfeng placed the Contract Book in front of the man.

The man shook his head and said, "That's definitely not possible, this time cannot be changed."

Li Banfeng laughed, "Then I won't sign it."

The man looked up at Li Banfeng, "If you don't sign the Contract Book, you shouldn't think about leaving here."

Li Banfeng seriously asked, "With such scary words, can you really stop me?"

The man nodded and said, "Yes, I was kept inside because I didn't want to sign the Contract Book."

Li Banfeng was stunned, "Aren't you the village chief?"

The man shook his head, "I'm not the village chief."

"Then who are you?"

"My name is Zhang Peiwen, you might not know me, I just arrived a few days ago." The man's eyes showed a hint of fear.

Zhang Peiwen, why does this name sound so familiar?

The recently missing Zhang Peiwen?

The Zhang Peiwen everyone has been searching for these days?

Li Banfeng carefully examined the man, comparing photos and surveillance footage, he found Zhang Peiwen had gained some weight.

Li Banfeng asked, "Why did you come here?"

Zhang Peiwen rubbed his eyes, teary-eyed said, "Didn't I say earlier, you can't leave without signing the Contract Book, I've been staying here for several days."

"So you're staying here, where is the village chief?"

Zhang Peiwen thought for a moment, asked, "Didn't you see the village chief when you entered the village?"

"No! Shouldn't... have seen him." Li Banfeng pushed open the window and looked downstairs.

Ah Yi craned her neck, also watching Li Banfeng.

Impossible...

Li Banfeng questioned tentatively, "Are you the village chief?"

Ah Yi laughed loudly, "I am the village chief, you didn't expect that! Hahaha!"

Li Banfeng pondered for a moment, looked at Ayun, and asked, "Are you the village chief's spouse?"

Ayun shook her head, "I'm not the village chief's spouse, you saw the man pulling the soil earlier, he is the village chief's spouse."

Li Banfeng was puzzled, "He's male, why is he the spouse?"

Ah Yi angrily said, "What do you think? Can I marry a woman?"

Li Banfeng thought for a moment and asked again, "Then earlier you said, 'opened your eyes', what does that mean?"

Ah Yi snorted, "None of your business! We just like it this way! Did you sign the Contract Book?"

"Not signing!" Li Banfeng closed the window, walked towards the door immediately, "This place is insane, I've never visited a psychiatric hospital, but there's no way the mental health department in any hospital is more insane than this!"

Zhang Peiwen advised, "You can't get down from there, the stairs are gone."

"How can the stairs be gone..." Li Banfeng opened the door and saw that the stairs really disappeared.

From the First Layer to the Twenty-fifth Layer, only empty space remained, the stairs were nowhere to be seen.

Li Banfeng closed the door and heard Ah Yi laughing downstairs, "No stairs, can you fly down? Hahahaha!"

Zhang Peiwen advised from behind, "You definitely can't fly, just forget about it."

Can't fly?

Is flying such a big deal?

With such limited knowledge, she's still the village chief?

Li Banfeng opened the window, looked at Ah Yi, determined to teach her a lesson today.

Li Banfeng stood on the windowsill, ready to fly down.

Ah Yi had the villagers ready an array of Gatling guns, instructing, "As soon as he comes down, shoot him mercilessly!"

Li Banfeng hesitated for a moment, then retreated into the living room.

Zhang Peiwen hid behind the sofa and said, "She really will shoot, a few people tried to jump down and were shot like sieves."

Li Banfeng smiled indifferently, shook his head, "I'm not afraid of bullets, I have many ways to dodge them, but I don't want to involve others."

Zhang Peiwen looked around, "Who don't you want to involve? Is there someone else here?"

"I don't want to involve you, I want to take you with me," Li Banfeng reopened the door, "I'll take you flying down the stairwell."

Zhang Peiwen shook his head, with a face full of fear, "Even if we fly down, it won't work, they won't let me go."

"I have a way, don't worry, just follow me." Li Banfeng looked at Zhang Peiwen, his face showing a calm and reassuring smile.

Zhang Peiwen nodded vigorously, "I trust you!"

The two stood at the doorway, Li Banfeng prepared to jump down, Zhang Peiwen reminded, "There might be explosives in the stairwell."

Planting explosives in his own house?

Li Banfeng hadn't thought of that.

"Where are the explosives usually placed?"

Zhang Peiwen thought, "From ground level, between twenty to thirty meters."

Li Banfeng flew downward for a distance, inspecting the walls carefully, as he wasn't sure how many explosives they buried, he aimed to avoid the buried spots.

From thirty meters, down to twenty meters, Li Banfeng looked up at Zhang Peiwen, "I didn't see any explosives."

"Look more closely." Zhang Peiwen lit an explosive package, tossed it into the stairwell, and closed the door.

Boom!

The stairwell exploded.

Zhang Peiwen opened the window and excitedly shouted, "Village chief, I blew him up!"

PS: How did this kid learn to be bad?

Such a good book, everyone give more monthly tickets.