Chapter 51: The Villain's Agreement
Cao Li looked at the pair of young men and women in front of him, leaning on each other ordinarily, looking forward to tasting a sunset and moonrise. The quiet and beautiful picture actually made him feel a little compassionate, he should have acted immediately, but he hid in the dark and observed for a long time.
Until the two finished their love words, he didn't do anything.
It's just that fate is often as intricately intertwined as a net, like flat sand to undercurrents, and bright skies to the wind. Cao Li is the unpredictable and already destined undercurrent in Xiao An's calm world. Seeing that he felt out the ghost bones, he collected his killing intent and approached the two.
There was no night wind, but there was a hint of coolness on the back of Xiao An's neck, and another white-bladed cold light flashed in front of his eyes and fell silently on his neck.
Cao Li lowered his voice, and his hoarse voice warned: "Don't move!
Xiao An was trembling and did not dare to move. And Qiu Ju on the side also endured the horror, shaking her lips tightly, not daring to sob.
"Take me to the dungeon. Cao Li said, and swiped the ghost bone tightly, the blood was cold, dripping gently, and fell on the ghost bone that had been hungry and thirsty for a long time, instantly igniting the ghost bone into blood.
Xiao An looked sideways at Qiu Ju beside her, seeing her silent tears falling one by one, her helpless eyes looked at herself silently.
Xiao An, who had no way to retreat, regained her composure and said in a calm tone, "I can take you there, but you let her go first." ”
"If I push a little harder, you two will be killed instantly. Cao Li playfully asked, "What qualifications do you have to negotiate with me?"
Xiao An said calmly: "The location of the dungeon, not many people in the Ling Mansion know about it, I think except for me, other people who know should be in the lobby." ”
Playing with death, you can't mess with yourself, not to mention that there are people behind you who need to protect with their lives.
"Oh? So, is this my luck or your misfortune?" Cao Li retracted the ghost bones, admired the young man in front of him a little, and said, "Then I let her go, can you guarantee that she won't go looking for rescuers?"
Xiao An saw Cao Li take back the dagger, but he still didn't dare to relax, straightened his waist and said, "I'm still in your hand, Qiu Ju doesn't dare." Xiao An said and turned to Qiu Ju again, pulled up Qiu Ju, who was sitting paralyzed, and said sharply: "Qiu Ju, look at me, you go back now, put on the quilt and sleep, don't think about anything, don't care about anything, you know?"
Qiu Ju's eyes were full of tears, and as she nodded heavily, she shook down, still asking in horror, "What about you?"
"What about me?" Xiao An smiled bitterly, and said resolutely: "Don't worry, when you wake up, I will be by your side." This is my promise to you......"
Qiu Ju left, and Cao Li took Xiao An hostage and walked towards the dungeon.
"Why is there another wave of guards running towards the lobby in a hurry?" The two people hiding in the shadows, watching the guards of the Ling Mansion from a distance, running in a panic, looking extremely restless in the quiet corridor, and this was the fourth time they had seen this scene. After Cao Li finished speaking, he looked at Xiao An with a strange expression.
Xiao An understood what Cao Wei was thinking, and said: "It's definitely not Qiu Ju who reported the news, I'm such a handyman, it is absolutely impossible to alarm most of the Ling Mansion, looking at their direction, there should be something wrong in the lobby......"
The night is undoubtedly the best cover, and with Xiao An leading the way, the two easily avoided the patrolling guards and walked towards the rockery.
Jiang Wangchen stood in front of the rockery again, except for the back door that was consistent with the previous plan, there was no other information that was correct, what dungeons where demon beasts were kept, what prison doors that were heavily guarded, there were just empty and elegant rockeries. Jiang Wangchen was observing, but faintly heard a footstep, although extremely subtle, but in the quiet garden, but real. Jiang Wangchen was a thief, and quickly hid behind a flower garden at the back door.
In the dark, two floating shadows slowly appeared, but the night was thick, and their faces could not be seen clearly, the two walked to the rockery, and turned lightly to the pavilion on the rockery, and the mountain of the rockery began to split into a gap, and the gap moved slowly with the mountain, opening bigger and bigger, and then the rockery was divided into two halves, giving way to a dark passage from the middle.
Jiang Wangchen, who saw this scene not far away, was secretly annoyed: "Now it seems that this rockery really looks abrupt here, and the mechanism is so simple, why didn't I find it, it must be that I only doubted the authenticity of the map and ignored these details." ”
At this time, a warning came from the dark passage: "Who is coming?"
"Back to Brother Chu, it's in Xia Xiao'an, today is the young master's 100-day banquet, Steward Xie asked for extra meat for the guest of honor, so he specially instructed me to take the Star Flame Dog in prison away, and I hope that Brother Chu will make it convenient. ”
"It turned out to be Xiao An, please come down. When the jailer in the prison heard Xiao An's voice, he immediately relaxed his vigilance and complained again: "When can the city lord reward us jailers an extra time, this ghost place is not human." ”
The dungeon was much warmer, and the whole dungeon was lit red by burning torches. Cao Li followed Xiao An and slowly walked into the dark passage on the stairs. And the rockery is slowly closing, and the broken stream is active again, and there are also mechanisms in the dungeon that control the rockery.
Jiang Wangchen watched from afar, not rushing in, planning to enter the dungeon after the two of them left.
Chu Mang looked at Xiao Jiang, then at Cao Li behind him, and asked, "Who is this person?" Why didn't you mention it just now!"
Cao Li looked at the dungeon, the closed dungeon had perfect sound insulation, so he was not afraid to wait to attract rescuers, and then looked at the five jailers in front of him, although they had some martial arts skills, but they all had vain steps, and their attainments were obviously shallow.
Cao Li smiled slyly and snorted coldly, "You also deserve to ask my name." ”
He was still smiling, but the ghost bones were the first to catch people, they had already been unsheathed, the knife light slashed, like peach blossoms falling, the fragrance was gone, the brightest and most bewitching flower, fell on Chu Mang's chest, and soon a blood red was fainted, the ghost bones devoured blood, and suddenly the red light soared, and the killing intent was presumptuous, Cao Li did not hesitate, and immediately took one move to finish the 'ghost step three waves', this first step is just to double the way, suddenly speed up, and the big stride is just falling, and the trend is one move after another. The ghost whirlwind stabbed back', unhurriedly sent the ghost bone into the chest of the oncoming first jailer, and gently pulled it out, and then the second step still carried the autumn wind sweeping the leaves and falling leaves, stepping forward, the second jailer was not frightened, and waved a long-handled saber to cut down all over the world, sealing all the way, Cao Li was shocked at first, and then shook his head with regret, seeing him spin his wrist, skillfully throwing out the ghost bone in his hand, the jailer's knife stiffened in the air, and looked at the chest in disbelief as a piece of rose-like delicate red, this second step landed in danger, this third step has been like a meteor catching the moon to increase the speed to the extreme, so fast that the last jailer didn't even have room to react, in his eyes, he only felt that time was frozen, but the dagger that Cao Li retracted his palm was not imprisoned by time, and slowly approached him, until his chest was cold, and he clearly understood that it was not that time was frozen, nor that he was too slow, but that the opponent was too fast, as fast as a white horse, and time was unreachable.
When he first walked into the dark passage, Xiao An was still thinking about taking the opportunity to escape when Cao Li was fighting with the jailers, but looking at the current battle situation, he was secretly glad that everything happened fast enough that he couldn't even escape, otherwise he would be just a nameless ghost under the strangely shaped dagger now.
Cao Li suddenly asked, "Do you know where the Blood Wolf Beast is imprisoned?"
Before Xiao An could answer, he heard an arrogant laugh, and then said unruly: "What, is someone looking for me?"
Cao Li followed the sound and came to the deepest room of the dungeon, and then the light of the torch, and saw a huge lone wolf imprisoned inside, seeing that its hair was dark red all over, indescribably demonic, a pair of cold eyes were empty, and under its feet, it was tied to a huge shackle, and what was even more strange was that when he opened his wolf teeth, he made a human sound, and it looked like it was just a relatively tall lone wolf.
"You're the one who came to me?"
Cao Li didn't answer, but asked, "Are you a blood wolf?"
The blood wolf grinned, revealing a whole row of canine teeth, and said, "The whole dungeon is locked up with a wolf like me, what do you say?"
Cao Li went straight to the topic and said: "It's Mamba who asked me to save you." ”
The blood wolf said: "Oh, you mean that ugly big black snake, even if he still has a little conscience, remember me as a life-saver." ”
Cao Li smiled suddenly and said jokingly: "He wants me to save you, but I haven't agreed yet...... I just want to know now if you're worth the risk. ”
When the blood wolf was asked like this, he was also quite interested, and said, "Then how do you want to know?"
"Then how about a gentleman's agreement between the two of us?"
The blood wolf recalled the words "gentleman's agreement", and mocked: "I'm afraid that people like you and me can't be called gentlemen, why don't we have a villain agreement?
"It's a bit interesting...... Cao Li didn't answer directly, he just pulled out the ghost bones, and made a simple 'three thousand ghost shaving', the blood wolf only felt that this move seemed ordinary, obviously watching the dagger stab towards the door lock of the cell, but he felt that it was stabbing at himself, and he had nowhere to hide, the monstrous killing intent, even the torches in the distance were instantly extinguished. The moment the dagger touched the lock, not only the lock was destroyed, but the entire cell was destroyed. Cao Li leisurely retrieved the ghost bones and asked, "Can this villain agreement be valid?"
The blood wolf couldn't help but admire, and laughed wildly: "Whatever you want, whatever you want......"
Cao Li removed the shackles under the blood wolf's feet, and the freed blood wolf ran wildly in the dungeon.
After Xiao An rotated the mechanism in the dungeon, the rockery separated again, and the blood wolf no longer just wandered between the dungeons, quickly escaped from the dark passage, and suddenly turned around, and said to Cao Li: "Don't worry, I will do it for you what you explain, and I haven't enjoyed the pleasure of fighting for a long time." ”
After the blood wolf finished speaking, he stopped staying, and when he saw him transform into a human form, he jumped again, and jumped to the top of the city wall, and when the full moon was in the sky, he heard only a howl, which echoed in the moonlight for a long time.
Xiao An stood in place, just waiting for Cao Li to dispose of himself, he saw the moonlight, as Qiu Ju said, it was beautiful, but it was a pity that he couldn't enjoy it with her anymore, thinking that what he was waiting for would be the dagger that was still bleeding, but he didn't expect it to be a heavy piece of silver.
Cao Li shouted: "Leave the Ling Mansion with the silver, and ...... tonight"
Xiao An held the silver in his hand but didn't react, looked at the silver suspiciously, turned to Cao Li again, saw the killing intent fluctuating in Cao Li's eyes, and didn't dare to leave: "You won't kill me?"
"While I can still control it, disappear quickly......" Cao Li warned in a cold voice: "I don't want to kill the defenseless." ”
Cao Li's eyes gradually faded, but the ghost bones in his hands were still bewitching and scarlet, flickering brightly and dimly. Xiao An still couldn't believe that Cao Li could let him go, so he didn't think much about it at the moment, and ran away with the silver. But instead of running away directly from the back door, he ran towards the Ling Mansion Miscellaneous Courtyard, leaving only a distant explanation: "I want to take Qiu Ju away, I promised him ......"
Seeing Xiao An disappear, the ghost bones also returned to calm, and returned to the scabbard that escaped back into the darkness, and Cao Li had already stepped away, leaving only one sentence: "It's not bad to be an ordinary hero......
The rockery is still delicate and elegant, and the trickling water at night is like a brisk nursery rhyme, light and wonderful. And under this leisure and elegance, a boiling killing is slowly cooling.