Chapter 35: A Difficult Compromise
The endless sea of consciousness, except for the echo that echoed for a long time, did not hear Mei'er make the slightest sound, the sharp blade was on the shoulder, I closed my eyes helplessly, if this is my calamity, then I also admit it, but unfortunately I haven't completed the task assigned by the master, so I died, I'm so sorry for the master......
After a long while, I opened my eyes impatiently and said urgently: "If you want to kill, kill, grindβ"
Glancing left and right, the woman had withdrawn her hunting knife at some point, and at this moment, she had returned to the fire and sat down, but the eyes of all of them were like thousands of sharp blades, piercing my body over and over again!
"We won't kill you, but we won't let you go either!"
Far away, the woman said coldly.
"Whew~~~"
I exhaled a deep sigh of relief, and then grinned: "Thank you for your mercy, if you really do it, but you really killed the wrong good person, you should think about it, if I poisoned it before, why don't I just leave, but run back to deliver the antidote, once the antidote cannot be delivered, your three partners will also die, if I send the poison again, wouldn't it be too much?" β
As for the woman, she also frowned, as if she had thought of something, seeing their expressions, I continued: "Actually, if you don't hunt us down, then ...... That Xuanjiucao may not poison you in the water to frame you, besides, Xuanjiucao has lived in the mountains for a long time, and it doesn't seem to have any hatred with you, right? β
In the end, this is not to excuse Xuan Jiucao, for Xuan Jiucao, I admit that I believe in the wrong villain, and I don't know if I was played by a madman...... I just want to find out the relationship between Xuan Jiucao and this group of people, and also, the true identity of these two groups of people!
One of the tall and thin men, Huo Di, stood up and shouted angrily, "I repeat, we don't know that Jiucao!" Also, we haven't hunted down anyone here, on the contrary, we've suffered many accidents along the way, can't we even protect our lives with the most basic protection?! β
My heart instantly solidified into a pimple, and my mouth was still incredulous: "Then I obviously saw you walking into the door of Xuanjiucao's room, how do you explain this?!" β
The tall and thin man clenched his fist and slammed his skull into the skull, then shouted hysterically, "We have been trapped in this dry rice bowl for thirteen days!" There is no food and no water source, and it is difficult to find a family, shouldn't we ask for a little food?! β
"Uh......" I was speechless for a moment, my mouth was open enough to fit an egg, and then I murmured, "So you walked into Xuanjiucao's door to beg for food?" I thought it was ...... So what about it...... That's right! Who the hell are you? β
The tall and thin man glared at me for a long time, did not answer my question, turned around, and ignored me again.
The only woman still spoke: "We are the staff of the Baishan City Geological Expedition Team, and this trip into the mountains is to find more available resources, but it turns out that we ...... How ridiculous our initial idea must have been......"
"Huh?" As soon as I was excited, there was a hot pain from the rope tied around me, and I relaxed slightly, and I hurriedly asked, "You are from the geological expedition?" You came into the mountains to discover resources?! β
After receiving the unanimous affirmation from everyone, I was stunned......
At this moment, I have all figured it out, it turns out that this toss is actually a big oolong for myself, what mountains and wild hairy roads, what respect for Huang Lao Taoism, it turns out that Xuanjiu Cao was lying from the beginning, but it was the herbs he was busy developing at night, but they were poisons to kill people!
Black...... Nine grasses? Nine...... Grass...... Eighty-one ...... Tomb?! Tomb?!
Tomb Sect?! I opened my eyes suddenly, it turned out that the so-called Xuanjiu Cao was still the Yin Master of the Xuan Tomb Sect who was still in the shadows!
At the beginning, I only knew how to fight with it, it was only the Yin Master of the Xuan Tomb Sect, but I had never seen the specific person's appearance and appearance, the Xuan Jiucao I saw before was standing face to face, and I didn't know that he was actually the Yin Master of the Xuan Tomb Sect, could it be that Xuan Jiucao was really Liu Qingshui?
Looking back, it's a bit incredible, more than ten years ago, Liu Qingshui stayed in Yaoshan Village as a liuhan, served as a soldier and escaped, so experienced...... Isn't his experience all a lie? Right! Those experiences must be made up, how could a top Yin Master of the Xuan Tomb Sect have such an experience, but...... More than ten years ago, Liu Qingshui was at least in his thirties, but what about more than ten years later?
Now Xuan Jiucao's appearance is in his early thirties at most, and Liu Qingshui, who should be about forty, seems to be a little out of line, what could be wrong?
Thinking about it, if Liu Qingshui either used the method of rejuvenating his face, or pretended to borrow someone else's appearance, in short, the Xuanjiu grass I saw should not be Liu Qingshui's real face!
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I couldn't help it, I scolded, how could this Liu Qingshui seem to have been pried into the ancestral grave by me? Chasing me all the way, now not only using me to kill living beings, but also killing three innocent people because of my ignorance, I now finally understand why Xuan Jiucao didn't let me enter the mountain village, but lived in a hidden deep mountain, to be precise, he should also be a fresh face in this area!
"If you still want to get out of the dry rice bowl alive, please let me go now, or ......"
I stared at everyone present, now I have to fight for freedom, I am afraid that only if I do my best to protect the rest of the expedition members as safe as possible, as for whether I can get out of the dry rice basin, I have no bottom in my heart.
The tall and thin man sneered: "Otherwise what? Or we're going to have to die here? So, we can only continue to believe in you? Believe you, murderer?! β
"Now you have a deep misunderstanding of me, and perhaps this is what he wants to see, alas! Now, you must believe me, I am an authentic Maoshan disciple, and I will do my best to make you no longer framed by him, and I know the water in the mountains, which can be drunk and which cannot be drunk, if there is no me, it is a problem for you to drink water, presumably in the thirteen days that I was trapped before, there have been incidents of water poisoning, right? β
Regardless of whether it is useful or useless, all the favorable factors are brought out in one go, and Xuanjiucao ...... It's Liu Qingshui! He just wants to destroy my cultivation foundation, and although I don't know why he wants to deal with me for the time being, if I don't save these people, I'm afraid they will be implicated by my existence just like the villagers of Yaoshan Village......
After listening to my words, everyone was silent for a while, and it seemed that I had said that they must have been plagued by hunger and thirst for the past ten days, and even if they were not attacked to death by huge beasts, they would not be able to move an inch because of what they ate.
The woman seemed to have a bit of a leadership temperament, and stepped forward and asked, "You said you are a disciple of Maoshan Mountain?" And it can also help us find water sources to drink, what have we already eaten? And, can it help us escape the so-called mystery people? Is that so? β
I nodded heavily and smiled back, "Not bad! I will do what I say and never break my word! β
The woman smiled strangely and said, "Well, I'll let you go with us, but I can't trust you yet, unless you have the slightest reason to believe, then I will let you go and apologize to you solemnly!" β
With that, the woman turned around and said to the tall and thin man, "Untie the rope from his body, tie his hands, let him walk in front and lead the way, and the others will follow, and before dawn, we must find a source of drinking water, otherwise it will be difficult for us to get out of this dry rice bowl." β
At last the rope was untied, but as soon as I stood still, I was tightly bound to my wrists, and then the end of the rope was led by the woman, and although I was depressed, it was the best thing to be able to get to this point.
The three members of the dead team, the expedition team made a simple farewell ceremony, and dug three graves on the spot, buried the three team members in it, everyone did not shed tears, let alone speak, everyone understands that in the current form, it is likely that the next moment will die, it is themselves, and whether they can enter the ground for peace is still unknown, at this moment, the only thing everyone can do is to insist on living and find a way out of the mountain.
After walking for a while, I finally knew that the woman's name was Li Rui, who was the captain of the expedition, and the tall and thin man who tied me up was named Duan Xiaocheng, everyone called him Xiaoduan, and the rest were a code name, and the specific names were not very clear, at least I don't know, but their code names are very special, some are called ants, a short and fat man with few words, some are called mosquitoes, a thin man with sharp beaked monkey cheeks, and some are called grasshoppers......
Xiao Duan seemed to be particularly interested in the two swords I was carrying on my back, and from time to time he stepped forward to reach out and want to touch them, but before he could stretch out his hand, I suddenly turned my head and glared at him: "My things, you'd better not move!" β