Seeing that Shen Lu was a little dazed, Daedalus continued: "Teacher Shen, please believe your friends. Some of them may be caught, but there must be someone who can escape from each other's grasp! These so-called Ten Eagle Killers are just some rice buckets. I can't even resist my sudden attack, can they guarantee to catch everyone? I don't believe it! As long as one of the fish that slips through the net is caught back, with the ability of the Ancient Saint Academy, it can easily inquire about this place and send people to increase the number of personnel. Whether it is strong or weak, it is not certain now!"

Daedalus's words were not only said to Shen Lu, but also to Xie Jinchai.

When the third child heard Daedalus insulting the Ten Eagles, he angrily kicked him again, and then scolded: "I see that you white-skinned ghost don't know how to write dead characters! Okay, I'll let you see if our Ten Eagles are rice buckets!"

With that, a fireball appeared in his hand, and it was about to blast towards Daedalus's face.

Shen Lu's eyebrows trembled, and the whole person was already in front of Daedalus in an instant, and with a slight stretch of his finger, he flew the fireball into the sky.

This speed is very exaggerated, as if it appeared out of thin air.

The third child was taken aback, and subconsciously took a few steps back and took a defensive stance. The speed just now had completely scared him, and he was very self-aware that he was no match for the person in front of him at all.

Shen Lu didn't attack further, but said in a cold voice: "I think you are just taking money to do things, and it will not do me any good to kill you here to vent your anger, so I will spare your life." Otherwise, I would have just shoved your own fireball out of your eyes and into your head. ”

"You ......" the third child was originally a very short-tempered and hard-mouthed person. According to his usual habits, he had already scolded and shot angrily at this time. But now, he clearly understands that he is not qualified to scold the other party.

The most important thing is that it can't be beaten.

Moreover, after what he saw and heard just now, the third child knew that the relationship between his gold lord and the Shen Lu in front of him was a little complicated, and it was not at all a reason to put Shen Lu to death, otherwise why waste so much time?

The third child himself is indeed just a killer who collects money to do things, and it is indeed very stupid to be strong at this time. So he took a few steps back with great interest, and did not dare to talk back.

After such a fuss, Shen Lu also figured out some things by himself.

He turned around and said to Xie Jinchai: "You can also see that this matter cannot be solved according to your or my methods. Since we are from the Wanfa Continent, we should do things according to the most conventional rules of the Wanfa Continent, how about it?"

"Heh, you mean to make a bet with a fair one-on-one battle? But now that I have the advantage, why should I play this game with you? I never wanted to be a great and honest person. I only want to achieve the goal, and I never care whether the means are insidious and vicious. I'm in control now, so why risk playing with you?"

Xie Jinchai's repeated questions made Shen Lu a little unable to deal with it.

At this time, it was Daedalus who said, "As I said earlier, there is a good chance that the people from the Ancient Saint Academy will arrive immediately. And even if you really catch Shen Lu, you have made such a big mess in the Ancient Saint Academy, do you really think that you can escape from the Jade Emperor City? Don't think that this is now the wild outskirts outside the Jade Emperor City, you can sit back and relax. You Nanshan people also look down on their Zhongzhou people's defense methods too much. ”

Xie Jinchai wanted to say something, but suddenly one of the four maids under her Meilan, Zhuju, hurried back from outside the door, and hurriedly reported: "Oh no, Miss, the more than ten carriages we prepared before have been intercepted." Although the coachmen did not know our identities, they could no longer resist the forced confessions, and described our numbers and the appearance of some of us, and now we should not be able to pass through the pass of the Jade Emperor City. ”

The servant girl came at the right time, and almost completely confirmed Daedalus's reasoning. In fact, according to the time, it is indeed about this time.

What kind of place is the Ancient Saint Academy, it is an academy directly under the imperial court, and its reputation spreads throughout Zhongzhou. Now that there is a sudden occurrence of this kind of repeated kidnapping of students in the Ancient Saint Academy, of course the imperial court will not let them go easily.

And, most crucially, it is. This time the kidnapped people were involved, as well as the Shen family and the Qu family, members of the two major families of the Jade Emperor City. Their power should also be gradually playing a role. Although it is impossible to find the location of this Tingyue Village quickly, as long as all the entry and exit routes of the Jade Emperor City are blocked, then it will definitely evolve into a situation of a turtle in an urn in the end.

And that's just the best possibility. If it was as Daedalus had guessed. If one of the Ten Eagle Killers is captured alive, then this Tingyue Village will no longer be a secret, and the increase in the imperial court and the Shen Qu family will soon come.

Shen Lu finally sensed the only glimmer of life left in this matter in an extremely desperate situation, so he stood up and said to Xie Jinchai: "I have two proposals now, I don't know if you are willing to listen to them?"

After all, Xie Jinchai is just a pampered eldest lady. Although his heart is full of hatred, although he has awakened the bloodline of the green dragon, although he is a genius. But after all, it was the first time she had come to a region other than Nanshan. After all, she had been growing up under the care of the Xie family, and she would not understand the power structure in other places, so she just thought about kidnapping people to threaten to deal with Shen Lu, but she didn't expect that it would anger the court and the two major families in Jade Emperor City.

Now the escape route has been blocked. Breaking through the levels with your men was an option, but it seemed a bit risky.

Just as Xie Jinchai was struggling, Shen Lu seemed to see through her thoughts, and said, "You don't want to break through the guards of the Jade Emperor City with brute force, right? Back then, the Jade Emperor City, which didn't even pay attention to the hundreds of thousands of troops of the enemy country, was tenacious and defended, if you thought that you could break through with simple mana, it was a real fool's dream. You've also been in the Ancient Saint Academy for a few days, so you should have seen those mana shielding devices, right? Those are just devices for the academy's use, and their defense is extremely low. But just those devices, can you break them?"

Xie Jinchai paused for a moment, thinking about the shielding mana device he had seen before, that kind of protective film was indeed very strong, although his mana was strong, he couldn't break such a strong defense.

Shen Lu continued: "As far as I know, the device used by the Jade Emperor City to defend the city is dozens of times more powerful than the shielding device in the Ancient Saint Academy!

Xie Jinchai didn't have any concept of the affairs of the Ancient Saint Empire. Hearing this, he couldn't help but look at the third child with a blank face.

Only these Ten Eagle people are the natives of the Ancient Saint Empire, and the other subordinates have all come from Nanshan with him, so Xie Jinchai can only ask his opinion now.

The third child was also a little frightened at this time, he said with a wry smile: "I said Sister Jin, you have the courage to move the Ancient Saint Academy, but you didn't prepare an escape route in advance? I thought you were a member of the Nanshan Great Family, you must have a way...... As a result of you. Hey, that kid is telling the truth, now that we are trapped, we can only rely on these hostages to negotiate terms with the court...... Sister Jin, the matter has come to this point, but it is not the result that my ten brothers want to see. As for the money, we don't want it, and when my brothers come back, we'll leave at once. We don't want the final payment, we just want to get rid of this matter as soon as possible. ”

The third child's words were almost equivalent to helping Shen Lu. I don't know if he did it intentionally or unintentionally.

Several subordinates who were more close also came to Xie Jinchai's side and got together to discuss. Their voices were all exchanged after their voices were restrained by mana, so Shen Lu and the others couldn't hear them.

Shen Lu was very flustered at this time, not knowing whether the other party planned to find a compromise or planned to resist to the end. But in either case, it's actually much better than it is now.

Finally, after discussing for a while, Xie Jinchai said to Shen Lu: "Okay, if you have any proposals, I want to hear what you think first." ”

Shen Lu was overjoyed, knowing that Xie Jinchai was finally shaken.

In fact, negotiation is just that. Not only do you have to come up with enough chips, but you also have to break the confidence of the other party, so that you can get the best possible result.

So Shen Lu said: "This first way is to break the net when the fish dies. Anyway, according to your request, my friends and I will also suffer heavy casualties, so I might as well make a big fuss here. It may not be able to beat you, but at least it can create chaos and delay time. The resounding sound caused by our big battle will definitely spread, and the army of the imperial court will definitely encircle and suppress it as quickly as possible, and it will be a big deal for everyone to finish together. ”

Xie Jinchai frowned slightly, although he was very unconvinced, he still did not rush to refute, but continued, "What about the second way?"

"That's what I proposed before. One-on-one, betting! Hostage as a bargaining chip. If I lose, I will leave it to you, and if you lose, you will hand over the hostage to me. In this case, even if you are surrounded and suppressed outside, your guilt will not be too heavy, after all, this is a life and death agreement we have made with each other. ”

Xie Jinchai paused for a moment, but he had to admit in his heart that Shen Lu's method was indeed the only way out.

After discussing with his subordinates, Xie Jinchai found himself in a very awkward position.

First of all, because of Xie Jinchai's identity, she will definitely not be treated as an ordinary prisoner. No matter how strong the Ancient Saint Empire is, no matter how high the sky is in Nanshan, no matter how far the emperor is, Xie Jinchai's family pressure can still stretch to the side of the Ancient Saint Empire. If it weren't for the severity that she had to be punished severely, she wouldn't have been held accountable for any serious crime.

But the premise of all this is not to touch the bottom line of the Ancient Saint Empire.