Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 1460: Harmonious Resonance (Part 4)

“Of course not, I’ve specifically looked into this matter. Only those who hold the boss’s token can control the signal. The leaders of the Human Market, Earth Market, and Sea City all have tokens.”

Li Banfeng stood up and said, “Why didn’t you say this earlier? I’ll go and capture Zhu Yugu, find the token on him, and then we can counter their moves!”

“There’s no way to find it,” Tan Jinxiao waved his hand, “The token and signal are left behind using a special method. What exactly it is and where it’s hidden, even Zhu Yugu himself doesn’t know. The Human Market has changed several leaders, the previous leader was opened up by me, searched for a month, and still didn’t find the token. Seventh Master, this road won’t work!”

“Maybe I can find it, perhaps you didn’t search carefully enough.”

…

Li Banfeng went to the street and captured Zhu Yugu.

For the past two days, Zhu Yugu had been posting notices about rent exemptions on the street. The matter had already spread in the Human Market, making him useless.

Li Banfeng brought him back to the Portable Residence, and the phonograph was immediately annoyed: “Husband, why did you bring this filthy thing back? Who can stand this smell?”

“Wife, don’t be anxious, I need to find something on him. Once I find it, I’ll throw him out.”

Hong Ying didn’t even bother taking her rouge, directly used Unimpeded, and ran to the ten rooms.

Everyone in the house fled, Meng De climbed down from the month plate, trying to get to the third room, but the phonograph grabbed and pulled him back: “You stay and give Husband a hand.”

The phonograph was very clear, if Meng De didn’t stay, she would have to assist Li Banfeng herself, which she really didn’t want to do with Zhu Yugu.

“Lady!” Meng De was so choked his eyes teared up, “I can’t help, I… I’m not good at finding things.”

The phonograph asked, “Then who do you think is good at finding things?”

Meng De thought for a moment and said, “That depends on what the master wants to find.”

The phonograph turned its horn towards Li Banfeng.

Li Banfeng said, “That boss left a signal on him, and also left a token. The signal is copper coins, just like the ones I made earlier. As for the token, I guess it should be with the copper coins.”

The phonograph asked, “Who in the house is best at finding money?”

The gloves in the third room shivered.

“Ho ho ho!” The Portable Residence laughed; a gust of wind blew, the third-room door opened, and the gloves were blown to Li Banfeng’s side.

The gloves stood on the thumb and pinky, with the remaining three fingers trembling, unable to distinguish primary from secondary in the moment.

Li Banfeng asked, “Why is your stance so strange?”

The gloves replied, “I’ve been at the Three-Head Fork for too long, I seem to have turned into Three-Headed People.”

The phonograph couldn’t help laughing.

The gloves rationally said, “Boss, I’m not lying, I’ve really turned into a Three-Headed Person, my techniques are all gone, I can’t find the copper coins…”

Li Banfeng glared at the gloves: “Look at that face, just tell me where the copper coins are, I’ll handle the task.”

The gloves’ mood calmed a bit, it walked several circles around Zhu Yugu, trying to keep a distance, and after two hours, it finally spoke.

“Boss, there are copper coins inside this person, similar to those signals before, but not just one.”

Li Banfeng was shocked: “How many are there?”

The gloves shook its index finger: “I’m not sure, I don’t know where the copper coins are, but I can see the value, the thing hidden on him is worth far more than a single copper coin.”

The gloves didn’t know where the signal was hidden, seemingly this thing was truly unfindable.

The phonograph speculated, “Husband, there might be an unnamable place inside his body.”

“An unnamable place in his body?” Li Banfeng was quite surprised, “Could it be a Dark Dimension Space?”

Li Banfeng took out the begging bowl sent by Green Flower and tested it on Zhu Yugu’s body for over half an hour, finally seeing the yellow spoon inside the bowl turn slightly.

The spoon handle pointed towards Zhu Yugu’s heart.

This time Li Banfeng learned something new, the yellow spoon was used to point directions, the spoon moved, proving near Zhu Yugu’s heart, there indeed was a Dark Dimension Space.

Li Banfeng gently turned the blue spoon, opening the Dark Dimension Space.

The gloves immediately sensed the location of the copper coins, no longer caring about the filth, it inserted its index and middle finger into Zhu Yugu’s body, interlaced the fingers, and clamped out the coins from the Dark Dimension Space.

“Two coins, just two…no, that’s not right!” exclaimed Gloves, “I misjudged, one of them isn’t a copper coin!”

Through a layer of dark dimension space, Gloves indeed misjudged; there were two coins, one was a copper coin, the other was a gold coin.

Li Banfeng held the gold coin and the copper coin, looking at them for a long time.

The gold coin was a token, the copper coin a mark.

The Home Cultivator’s perception in his own home far surpassed that of other cultivators of the same level.

There was a connection between these two coins, but what exactly it was, remained undetermined.

Li Banfeng’s eyes grew vacant as he fell into deep thought.

The phonograph comforted him from the side: “Husband, don’t worry, let Little Servant study it for a few days.”

Li Banfeng shook his head: “This isn’t so easy to study, it’s the Boss’s mark and token used to control the Underground City. The methods here must be extremely complex, certainly not something to be resolved overnight. If time drags on, and the Boss comes knocking, it will be troublesome.”

Li Banfeng had already removed the mark, he should be able to escape disaster, but Tan Jinxiao and others with the mark might not be so lucky.

For a moment, the phonograph couldn’t think of another solution. It watched as Li Banfeng placed the two coins in his palm and gently caressed them.

Gloves exclaimed in surprise: “Master, you love money even more than I do?”

Li Banfeng stared intently at the copper coin: “This is a family treasure; how could I not love it.”

The phonograph paused for a moment, then understood Li Banfeng’s intention: “Husband, are you going to use a technique? This gold coin just arrived at the house, it might not yet count as a family treasure.”

“I’m the family head; if I say it counts, then it counts.”

The words were arrogant, but the phonograph found them agreeable.

The gold coin was constantly jumping on Li Banfeng’s fingertips; it was indeed extraordinary, fiercely resisting Li Banfeng’s technique!

Li Banfeng gritted his teeth: “This is my house, I am the family head; once inside my home, you must heed my words!”

He first used Family Treasures Self-Counting and then Unimpeded, the consumption brought by the technique made Li Banfeng sweat profusely, but the gold coin still danced on his fingertips, refusing to be subdued by him.

Steam swirled everywhere, the phonograph whispered in Li Banfeng’s ear: “Husband, do you have any strength left? Only with harmony in sound can we show our marital bond!”

“Good wife!” Li Banfeng’s veins bulged as he used the deep mansion courtyard technique again.

The phonograph’s power merged with Li Banfeng’s, and with each fluctuation, there was a slight tremor in the portable residence.

Buzz!

The portable residence emitted a low hum, the trembling intensified.

The powers of the Home Cultivator, House Spirit, and house combined, creating a resonance.

The resonance gradually intensified, with the power from each room within the portable residence flowing toward Li Banfeng.

Red Lotus opened the door and peeked out through the crack.

She saw Li Banfeng enveloped in power and the coins constantly moving on his fingertips.

Red Lotus murmured: “Of a hundred paths in the world, they all narrow as you walk, only home cultivation grows wider; this saying isn’t false.”

Hong Ying retorted: “Traveling Cultivation widens too.”

Red Lotus chuckled disdainfully, seemingly dismissive of Traveling Cultivation.

Hong Ying had no interest in arguing with Red Lotus; she could sense that Li Qi and Xiaowan were enduring massive consumption.

She wanted to help; she was also Li Banfeng’s House Spirit.

Miss Jiu entered the second room and pulled Hong Ying aside: “They’re using skill, not brute force, don’t mess things up.”

“What do you mean by messing things up, I can use skill too.”

“Just a little more!” Red Lotus whispered, “This gold coin actually held out until now.”

Miss Jiu looked at the gold coin and suddenly remarked, “The family head holds you, and the whole family surrounds you, you surely belong to this family.”

As soon as the words fell, the last bit of strength that remained in the gold coin slowly returned to Li Banfeng’s hand, obediently sticking to his palm.

Li Banfeng touched the gold coin, and the copper coin moved in response.