Chapter 15: Drawing the Snake Out of the Hole (3)
Later, more and more people came to put out the fire, and seeing that the fire was gradually stabilized, the three returned to the room.
Nangong Li changed into a clean single clothes, sat down on the couch tiredly, and raised his eyes to look at Jin Ruocheng, who was staring at him.
Nangong Li smiled bitterly: "Where do you want to start?" ”
"Let's start with your fire breaker."
"Fire Fold?" Nangong Li was stunned when he heard this.
I always feel that this person's way of speaking and attitude on weekdays are a little familiar, but now that I think about it, it is actually a little similar to Bai Luohan.
Coupled with what happened in the past few days, Nangong Li felt that Jin Ruocheng really wanted to help him, and he also cared about himself. So, he gradually let down his guard.
Then, Nangong Li took out a spirit talisman from the bloody shirt, handed it to Jin Ruocheng, and said, "This is a ghost flame talisman that can summon hellfire." ”
Jin Ruocheng looked at the spirit rune carefully and said, "But no matter what kind of talisman this is, it needs to use spiritual power as a medium, but you ......"
Although Jin Ruocheng didn't say everything, Nangong Li already understood what he meant, so he explained: "Although I don't have spiritual power, there seems to be something inexplicable in my blood, if I use this as a medium, it is slightly more powerful than ordinary spiritual mediums." ”
Hearing this, Jin Ruocheng was suddenly dumbfounded, thinking that the man in black before was burned to ashes in an instant, can this be called 'a little more powerful'?
"Then how do you know that your blood is different from ordinary people?" He thought for a moment and asked.
"Huangling Liao's family," after a moment of silence, Nangong Li continued: "After I was kicked out by my brother that day, I was arrested by the man surnamed Liao. He actually told me that he wanted to drink my blood, and I was powerless to resist at that time, so I had to give it to him. ”
"What?" Jin Ruocheng took the case.
Qin Fangsu was also taken aback, because he really didn't know about it. After Nangong Li was kicked out that day, he then followed. But he was stopped by his master on the way, so he didn't know what was going on.
"But I secretly ate Shi Shan in advance, and the one surnamed Liao went mad after drinking it, and killed his whole family, and he himself died violently because of poisoning and forcibly lucking his spirit."
Hearing what Nangong said, Jin Ruocheng was dumbfounded. Nangong Li's trick is too insidious.
After a long pause, he continued, "So, those people are coming for you tonight?" ”
Nangong Li sighed: "A few days ago, the descendants of the spirit refining family were turned out, and their whereabouts are still unknown. However, some people pointed out that the daughter who let their family escaped came to me, so I guess this matter should have nothing to do with me. ”
"Could it be that those people want to use your blood to refine spirits?" Jin Ruocheng's face turned pale suddenly.
"Probably..."Nangong Li wasn't quite sure, because he still had a lot of things he hadn't figured out yet.
For example, why did his father die? And why did those people poison his brother? And who wrote the note?
But what he couldn't figure out the most was that even if someone wanted to arrest him to refine his spirit, it wouldn't make his brother and Sect Master Qin have to kill him.
Because they should have known that they had unknown spiritual power in their blood, so they would let Qin Fangsu protect themselves closely. But with such a little blood, what can be refined?
Since those people can refine all the spirits of the Wu family so easily, then they can find a few more families. No matter how powerful the spiritual power in his blood is, he can't compare to so many people combined.
And the meaning in Nangong Leng's words last time was that they wanted to kill themselves at the beginning, but they stayed until now.
But if you could tolerate it at the beginning, why do you have to kill it now?
Thinking of this, Nangong Lijue's heart ached faintly.
Those who loved themselves so much at the beginning, now... But he had to kill himself.
Qin Fangsu saw that Nangong Li had been clutching his chest, and his face was a little pale, so he said, "Let's talk about it here today, it's not too early." ”
Jin Ruocheng raised his eyes and looked out the window, and saw that the sky was already a little white.
I didn't expect this trouble to be a night. Fortunately, I can still squint for a while, and in the future, let's wait until I wake up.
So Jin Ruocheng stood up and was just about to go back to the room to rest, when he heard Nangong Li call softly: "Fang Su." ”
He saw that Nangong Li seemed to have something to say to Qin Fangsu alone, so he immediately turned around and exited the room.
Qin Fangsu heard him call himself, so he asked, "What's wrong?" ”
After hesitating for a moment, Nangong Li asked, "At the beginning, when Uncle Qin ordered you to kill me, didn't you say what the reason was?" ”
In the past few days, he has been deliberately avoiding this matter, and he is even reluctant to touch it. On the one hand, it was because he thought that this matter was very important, and Qin Fangsu was just an executor, so Sect Master Qin might not tell him the reason behind this. On the other hand, it was because he didn't dare to ask, he was afraid that the truth behind it would be difficult for him to accept, and what should he do at that time.
But now that the people behind the scenes have set their sights on him, if he doesn't figure it out, I'm afraid that there will be no chance in the future.
I saw Qin Fangsu frowning and saying, "I asked, but he only said four words." ”
"Which four words?"
After hesitating for a moment, Qin Fang replied, "Infernal Purgatory." ”
Hearing this, Nangong was speechless for a long time. After a long while, he came back to his senses and asked, "What does this mean?" ”
"I don't know."
Nangong Li has only heard of the 'Infernal Hell', which is the lowest of the eight hells, and those who are broken into are burned by the fierce fire every day, and they will never be able to be reborn, but what is this Infernal Purgatory?
Since they couldn't get any clear answers, the two of them didn't bother anymore, and after they fell asleep, they woke up again, and they were already three poles old, but they didn't sleep for a few hours.
Yesterday's fire had been extinguished, and the innkeeper was so busy repairing the West Wing that he didn't even have time to prepare breakfast.
The three of them tossed and turned all night last night, and they were really not in the mood to go out to eat. So the few of them rummaged through the food bags they bought yesterday and paddled their stomachs casually.
Jin Ruocheng saw that Nangong Li was still sleepy-eyed, so he said, "Why don't you sleep more?" Anyway, the clues are broken, and I can't find anything for a while. ”
"There's still some business to take care of when I get back." Nangong replied lazily.
Qin Fangsu poured a cup of tea, handed it to Nangong Li, and said, "Refresh." ”
Nangong Li took the tea, took a sip slightly, felt that the taste was slightly sweet, and drank it all.
"Let's go." The quilt was placed on the table, and Nangong Li said to the two of them.
"Huh? In such a hurry? Jin Ruocheng said depressedly.
But Nangong Li just smiled meaningfully at him, and then turned around and walked out the door. Seeing this, Jin Ruocheng had no choice but to follow. On the horse, the whip was raised, and the three of them galloped on horseback, and when they returned to Nangong Mansion, it was already dusk on the second day.
"Childe is back." Seeing Nangong stepping into the door of the mansion, the family hurriedly stepped forward to say hello.
"Well, what about Bai Luohan?" Simply responded, Nangong Li asked.
"He should be in the council chamber now, do you want me to pass him over?" The servant asked.
"No, you don't." After finishing speaking, Nangong Li walked towards the council hall without stopping.
At this time, in the conference hall, Bai Luohan was discussing with everyone the plan of action for the next few days. After seeing Nangong Li and his entourage enter the door, everyone stopped what they were doing and saluted him one after another.
But Nangong Li didn't return the salute, only to see him walk straight to the main seat, and after sitting down, he raised his eyes to look at Bai Luohan.
Bai Luohan seemed to understand something, and he immediately summoned the Soul Locking Spell and trapped Xu Rong, the head of the Shadow Division, in the spell.
Xu Rong didn't expect that Bai Luohan would attack him for no reason, only to see his face change suddenly, but he just wanted to summon the spirit to forcibly break the spell, but he was stabbed in the chest by Bai Luohan, and immediately blood flowed, and he was forced to kneel on the ground due to his physical exhaustion.
"Childe! What are you doing here? That knife didn't hit the point, and after Xu Rong fell to the ground, he immediately shouted at Nangong Li. He knew who Bai Luohan was, if it weren't for Nangong Li's instructions, how could Bai Luohan dare to touch him.
"Do what?" Nangong Li smiled indifferently, "Can't Xu Zhangshi see it, I'm trying to kill you?" ”
Hearing this, everyone in the Nangong family was stunned.
Jin Ruocheng was also stunned, remembering that he said that he had something to come back to deal with, just to rush back and kill people?
"Why did you kill me? I am loyal to the Nangong family, and the sect master has not spoken, how dare you be presumptuous here! Xu Rong shouted angrily.
Nangong Li stood up, walked in front of Xu Rong, and deliberately said angrily: "I'm just presumptuous, what can you do with me?" ”
"You!"
Seeing that he was not lightly angered by himself, Nangong Li then sat back again, and drank the tea that Qin Fangsu had made for him leisurely.
"Nangong Li! If the sect master knew that you were such nonsense, he wouldn't be able to spare you! Xu Rong said angrily.
"Oh? Is it? Nangong Li slowly put the teacup on the table and said with a smile, "Then what will happen to the eldest brother if he knows that you poisoned him?" ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone was in an uproar.
"You don't want to talk nonsense, when have I ever been poisoned!"
As soon as Nangong Li wanted to answer, he heard someone say: "But on the day of the incident, we immediately checked the sect master's diet and all the items we came into contact with that day, but we didn't find that anyone had tampered with it. "The person who spoke was none other than Chu Xun, the head of the Assassination Division.
"Are you sure you've checked them all?" Nangong Li looked at him and asked.
"Of course, all the people in the house have been checked!"
"But there's one thing you definitely didn't check."
"What's that?"
"Secret letter from the Shadow Division."
As he spoke, a different color flashed in Xu Rong's eyes.
The secret letter of the Shadow Division is a top secret document in the Nangong family, and it has always been handed over to the sect master by the head of the Shadow Division, and the secret letter has been sealed, so it cannot be accessed by others at all.
"This Dan corpse poison is colorless and tasteless, and it dissolves when it comes to water, I guess Xu Zhangshi should dissolve it in ink, and write it into a secret letter, and then send a poisonous secret letter every day, and over time, the eldest brother will naturally be poisoned."
Hearing this, the crowd was shocked.
"Go and get me all the secret letters from the Shadow Division!" After Chu Xun reacted, he shouted at a shadow guard.
"No need to go." Nangong Li called the man, "It's been so long, and those poisonous secret letters have long been secretly destroyed by him." ”
"Hahahaha!" Xu Rong laughed and said, "I've been talking about this for a long time, it turns out that you have no evidence to prove that this poison was given by me!" ”
Nangong Li sighed and said, "That's right, Xu is cautious in everything, I really don't have any evidence." ”
"Then you're slandering me out of thin air!"
"Don't worry, I haven't finished yet." After Nangong Li finished speaking, he looked at Bai Luohan.
I saw Bai Luohan take out a note from his waist and hand it to Nangong Li.
Nangong Li took the note and threw it in front of Xu Rong. "Do you want Xu Zhangshi to come and recognize it, and see if it's your handwriting on it."
Seeing this, Xu Rong's face changed suddenly, and he wanted to destroy the note when he stretched out his hand, but because he was still bound by the Lock Spirit Spell and had difficulty moving, the note was snatched away by Chu Xun.
After Chu Xun read the note, his face turned pale.
"After I left that day, Bai Luohan should have told you that I was going to Yunling to find the spirit picker this time." Nangong Li paused and continued, "You are afraid that I will find out something when I go here, so I revised the book to inform the other party to kill the spirit picker in advance, and then kill me by the way." But according to Xu Zhang's style of doing things, for the sake of safety, you also sent people from the Shadow Division to Yunling, so although this letter was intercepted by Bai Luohan, you still killed the person. If you didn't give me this poison, why did you stop me from going to the spirit picker and get rid of me? ”
Hearing this, Jin Ruocheng suddenly realized that before they went to Yunling that day, Nangong Li had chatted with Bai Luohan alone in the room for a long time, and it turned out that he had already made a perfect plan.
Qin Fangsu had also been waiting at the door with him that day, so he didn't know the specific content of this plan, but with his understanding of Nangong Li, he knew that Nangong Li would not let that person succeed easily, so there was that seemingly incomprehensible conversation.
Although there is no direct evidence to identify Xu Rong as the poisoner, this note has made him unrelated to this matter, and the poisoning method that Nangong Li speculated about is at this moment, so at this moment, the truth is already clear.
There was silence in the house, and after everyone read the note one by one, they all knew it in their hearts, and they were waiting to see what their son-in-law planned to deal with.
I saw Xu Rong lowering his head and smiled indifferently: "Son, you are willing to bow to the wind, if you want to kill or chop, whatever you want." ”
Since he came back from fighting Nangong Li, Xu Rong didn't want to kill him, but because Nangong Li not only stabilized the chaotic situation of the Nangong family at that time in a short period of time, but also acted like an old man and did not leak, plus there was a Qin Fang by his side, so he had no chance to start at all, so he originally planned to give up.
But after a period of contact, he found that Nangong Lishi was too smart, so smart that he was afraid. So after hearing that Nangong Li was going to Yunling to track down the clues of the poison, even if this matter was not directly related to him, if he followed the vine, he would be found out sooner or later, so he could only make a desperate bet.
But he never expected that Nangong Li had been eyeing him for a long time, and he had Bai Luohan keep an eye on him all the time, which led to him being in Nangong Li's hands today.
The betrayer of the Nangong family has always had only one way to die, since his own skills are inferior, he can't blame others, he still has this responsibility.
But Nangong Li replied lightly: "Xu Zhangshi, I don't have to kill you, if you are willing to answer me honestly a few questions, I can consider letting you go." ”
Hearing this, Xu Rong was a little surprised, so he immediately reacted: "Childe, please speak." ”
Nangong Li looked at him and asked seriously, "Who instructed you to poison?" What is the purpose? ”
Xu Rong thought for a while and replied, "Childe has heard of Xiaoyuan Valley?" ”
When the words came out, everyone present was shocked.
The Howling Abyss Valley is a gathering place for those who have committed heinous crimes and are wanted by the spirit world and have no way out. As a result, various countries have led armies to encircle and suppress it many times, but all of them have ended in failure. First, since those people can commit heinous crimes, they must not be ordinary people, so they are not easy to deal with. Second, the terrain of the Howling Abyss Valley is complex, and the mountains and valleys have become their natural barriers, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack. Therefore, after suffering several losses, the forces of various countries do not dare to act rashly.
Fortunately, after those people were surrounded and suppressed, they did not retaliate against the spirit world, and they usually never picked quarrels and provoked trouble, so they gradually faded out of people's sight.
Hearing this, Nangong Li was also stunned, although he had thought that the forces behind this would not be underestimated, but he didn't expect it to be so big.
Xu Rong saw that he didn't speak, so he continued: "A few months ago, their people found me and promised me the position of the head of the Nangong family, and let me design to poison the sect master, but they also assured me that this poison would never harm people's lives, but it was just a temporary coma, so I agreed to them. But as for the reason behind this, I really don't know. ”
After Xu Rong finished speaking, everyone present was at a loss, so they all set their eyes on Nangong Li.
I saw Nangong Li holding his head with one hand, his eyes staring slightly, as if he was thinking about something.
"Childe?" Seeing that he didn't react for a long time, Bai Luohan called softly.
"Huh?" Nangong relieved himself and raised his eyes to look at him, his eyes a little dazed. Then he saw that the people in the house were staring at him.
"Let him go." Nangong Li said to Bai Luohan.
"Huh? That's it? ”
"Yes." After finishing speaking, Nangong left the council hall without looking back.
Bai Luohan reluctantly untied the spell on Xu Rong's body, and said fiercely: "Get out!" ”
When Xu Rong heard this, he staggered to his feet, and then staggered into the night...