Chapter 20 Negotiations
Compared to Qi Lu's reaction, those monsters didn't have any suspicions about Xiao Li. Hong Yi closed the door and said with a solemn expression: "Mr. Qi, we did have a lot of misunderstandings before, but what my brother said today was definitely not out of selfishness. ”
"Don't tell me you're doing this to save the world." Qi Lu smiled coldly.
"In everything, the result is the most important, why should Mr. Qi stick to the minds of others." Hong Yi sneered: "That demon said that he wanted to resurrect the gods and turn the world into a pure land of bliss, but I don't believe it at all. There must be a conspiracy hidden in this, and I must do everything in my power to stop him. ”
"Ha, you little demon, when did you become a bodhisattva?" Before Qi Lu could speak, Lao Wu said coldly beside him: "I think you are in a hurry, right, because once the gods are resurrected, the first person to be punished is you monsters who have lost their conscience!" ”
"Maybe." Hong Yi also replied coldly: "If it is really as you said, it will also come at the cost of a river of blood!" Of course I don't care about the life and death of human beings, but can you two bear to see this outcome? If you don't think about yourself, you should also think about the companion Miss Ding, who knows all day long, do you think she can really survive this catastrophe? ”
Lao Wu frowned and stopped talking, Hong Yi's words hit the weakness of his heart.
Hong Yi stared at Qi Lu's eyes and said, "I just want to remind you that in the face of common interests, there are no enemies. ”
"It's a clever tongue." Qi Lu responded a little helplessly: "Say, what do you want me to do?" ”
"Collect all the parts of the key, and then take us to the Houyi Tomb to find the Celestial Bow."
"And then?"
"The Celestial Bow has the power to destroy the world, with it"
"Humph!" Qi Pao's complexion sank, "Do you want to replace that guy and become the creator of a new world?" ”
"Mr. Qi misunderstood, with our current strength, we can't deal with that demon." Hong Yi unconsciously hooked a faint smile, "The three major artifacts of ancient times, now only the Heavenly Shooting God Bow exists, if we get it, we will have the strength to compete with the demons, and when the time comes, the six evils and the two will join forces, and the victory will definitely belong to us." ”
"But why should I trust you?" Qi Lu said: "Who can guarantee that after finishing that guy, you won't use the Shooting Heavenly God Bow against us in turn?" ”
Lao Wu also said: "Yes, you guys, what bad things can't be done?" ”
"I can only assure you that so far, the master's order is for us to assist you, not to do evil in secret." Hong Yi shrugged his shoulders and said, "Who knows what will happen in the future, shouldn't I be wary that after the matter is over, you will come to clean us up?" ”
Hong Yi's words were reasonable and modest, Qi Lu was suddenly dumbfounded, and he couldn't find a reason to refute him for a while. He thought for a moment and said, "This matter is very important, you give me a few days to think about it." ”
"Your eyebrows are all burned, if you don't make a decision early, you will become a sinner for the ages." Hu Lei said coldly on the side.
"Shut up!" Lao Wu fought back without words, "When will it be your turn to teach us a lesson......
Qi Lu stretched out his hand to stop Lao Wu's next scolding, he hesitated for a moment and said, "There are a lot of weirdness in this village, I want to investigate it clearly before considering the matter of shooting the Heavenly God Bow." ”
"Still you can't tell which is more important?" Hong Yi was stunned, he didn't expect Qi Lu to answer like this, but he immediately laughed again, "I agree with Sir's point of view, this village does have a lot of secrets, and according to my observation, it is likely to be a stronghold of that demon in the human world." ”
"What proof do you have for this?" Qi Lu was taken aback.
"Mr. Qi is also a person who likes to hunt for curiosities, if I publish the answer now, wouldn't it be very boring for you?"
"In that case, can you tell me a question about you?" Qi Lu didn't wait for what he imagined, he was a little disappointed, and had to ask him.
"It depends on what happens."
"Yesterday, you were treated rudely by the hotel attendant, but you didn't mind. I know that a few of them are temperamental, how can they bear it? ”
"Do you think I want to do that?" Hong Yi smiled bitterly and said, "In normal times, I would have dismantled those bastards a long time ago, but since I entered this ghost village, I have to swallow my anger." ”
"Why?"
"There is an enchantment laid by a certain god in this village, and as soon as we step into this village, the power in our bodies will be suppressed."
"You're really good at laughing." Qi Lu raised his sword eyebrows disapprenosingly, "If this enchantment really exists, why didn't Lao Wu and I feel it?" ”
"Of course you don't feel it." Hong Yi said angrily: "This kind of enchantment only suppresses the power of the demon clan, and it has no effect on you at all. ”
"Ah, and that kind of thing?" Qi Lu looked at Hong Yi in surprise, judging from the indifferent expression on his face, it didn't look like he was lying.
"So I hope Mr. Qi can agree as soon as possible, and we can leave this ghost place."
"Looking for the Celestial Bow, I must think it through before I can answer you." Qi Lu stood up and beckoned Lao Wu to leave together.
Hu Lei took a sip of tea and said coldly: "I hope Your Excellency will not delay too long. Otherwise, the brothers would be bored, so they would have to go back and chat with that Miss Ding. ”
"You!" Qi Lu immediately felt a strong sense of threat from his words, and he grabbed Hu Lei's collar and said, "If you dare to touch a single hair of Ding Xiaolan, I will kill you!" ”
The room was suddenly full of gunpowder, and several monsters hurriedly came up to persuade them, but Hu Lei replied with an unchanged expression: "It's just a joke, why should Your Excellency be so angry." ”
Qi Lu put down Hu Lei stupidly, and left angrily with Lao Wu.
Back in the room, when Qi Lu was about to draw the curtains and prepare to sleep, he saw that the lights outside were brilliant, shining seductively like night pearls scattered on the ground. The villagers, who barely saw anyone during the day, sat in front of their homes, some talking in whispers, others staring straight into the sky, as if countless treasures were falling from the night sky at any moment.
"It turns out that the people in the village like to spend the night." Qi Lu muttered, closed the curtains and turned off the lights to sleep.
At this moment, on the same floor of Qi Lu, there was also a tourist staying in the hotel who was observing those energetic villagers through the curtains, he was the Mr. Ning who had caught the gold ingots that Qi Lu had seen during the day.
His expression was heavy, and it was a long time before he pulled the curtains tight with a long sigh on his back.
"Devils, they're all devils, I can't stay here anymore!"
He bent down, took a cloth bag from his travel bag, and emptied the contents in his hands. It was three gold ingots, and he looked at the ingots in a daze, "Two, three, five!" He was reading the numbers carved into the gold ingots like children's graffiti.
In the dim light, his eyes revealed a fear that was difficult to describe in words. But this expression didn't last long, and he stood up and carefully put the ingots back into his arms.
"No matter what, I'm going to get out of this hellish place today!" The voice was like the wailing of a dying man.
He opened the door and looked nervously at the hallway, and only after noticing that no one was passing by did he let out a long breath and locked the door again.
Distraught, he tore the sheet into long strips and tied it together and tied it around the legs of his chair. When he had done this, he took another breath, pressed his chair against the wall of the ledge, and lowered the strip with him.
He took one last look at the villagers sitting outside the house, and when he saw that their attention was not on the inn at all, he breathed a sigh of relief, and crawled out of the room clumsily following the improvised rope.
As soon as his feet landed, the middle-aged man surnamed Ning ran straight towards the deep pool where the treasure was buried, deliberately taking the trail along the way to avoid bumping into anyone.
At night, the water of the pool shimmered like ghostly fire, and there was no one around, and the villagers who rented the boat had already gone home, leaving only the small boat docked on the shore, dormant like a monster.
The middle-aged man watched the movement around him vigilantly, and when he was sure that he was the only one here, he walked south around the waterhole, and did not stop until he approached a dead tree.
There was a bluestone the size of a basin in the open space behind the tree, and the middle-aged man struggled to remove the stone, then squatted down and picked up the soil under the stone with his hands.
The soil was very soft, as if someone had dug it up and then buried it in it, and the middle-aged man didn't have much trouble digging out a dilapidated wooden box from the soil. He opened the wooden box, and there were four gold ingots in the box.
He didn't care about cleaning the dirt on his hands, and quickly pinched the three gold ingots in his arms and the ingots in the box, and stared at the numbers at the bottom.
"One, twenty-seven!" The middle-aged man chuckled as he counted the numbers on the gold ingot, and the moonlight reflected his pale face, full of greed.
"These bastards, saying that they can only catch one treasure a day, and if they have more, they will hand it in. How do you know that uncle, I have already caught all the ingots" The middle-aged man chattered, mixed with smug laughter from time to time.
Suddenly, he stopped talking, and a look of fear appeared on his face again, as if he had thought of something terrible.
"If you don't leave, you're really going to be a ghost!" He hurriedly put all the ingots back in the box, and then put it into the cloth bag that had been prepared long ago.
The middle-aged man didn't hesitate any longer, he spread his legs and ran straight out of the village!
It was at this time that suddenly a fog shrouded the land. The middle-aged man who was running heard a strange laugh behind him. The laughter came from the mist, accompanied by a deep voice: "Surely no greedy man shall die!" ”
The voice is very weird, it doesn't look like the sound that comes out of a human mouth.
The middle-aged man looked back in shock, but he couldn't see anyone. The fog was even thicker, almost to the point where you couldn't see your fingers.
There was only a moment of silence, and then a strange laugh sounded again in the fog, as if it were pouring out of the ground, and from the water of the pool where the treasure was buried.