Chapter 515: Battle of wits and courage
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Quiet, death-like silence shrouded in heaven and earth, Lu Yifan and Zheng Xiaowu stood silently looking at each other, no more than three steps away from each other. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Zheng Xiaowu's eyes had a slightly frivolous and confident smile, but Lu Yifan's eyebrows were full of shock and anxiety.
At this moment, Lan Chen, Jiang Yi and Yin Xi couldn't help but touch their hands on their respective hilts, ready to strike preemptively, while Li Cripple and Liu Banxian and others waved their hands at the surrounding Five Horse Gang quietly, and for a while, hundreds of mountain bandits with knives and sticks surrounded them step by step, and when Lu Yifan suddenly woke up and looked back, the gate of the Five Horse Gang had been completely blocked by hundreds of mountain bandits.
Neither side spoke, just looked at each other silently, but a solemn and anxious battle intent in the air was permeated unconsciously.
This time it was not only Lu Yifan who miscalculated, but also Yulou. In fact, they wanted to make good use of Zheng Xiaowu's rule-oriented temperament, Lu Yifan took action to save his life from Liu Sandao's knife, and thought that Zheng Xiaowu would be grateful to Dade, at least he would never take revenge, and then Lu Yifan used Zheng Xiaowu's huge power in the Two Realms Forest to send himself and the carriage and horse out unharmed, so that everything would be fine. Therefore, until the time he left Bo Blade Ridge, Lu Yifan's heart was still full of confidence, so much so that he was relieved in the face of the worries of Han Linger and others. It's just that he never thought that Zheng Xiaowu's person was far from being as simple as he expected, Zheng Xiaowu's three-point performance in Bo Jian Ling not only deceived Kang Mazi, the Jiang brothers and 20,000 bandits, but even deceived Lu Yifan and Yulou. The depth of its city and the rapid change of its mind are truly staggering.
In fact, having said that, if Zheng Xiaowu was really so easy to figure out, then how could he dominate the Two Realms Forest for so many years?
This time, it was indeed Lu Yifan who miscalculated and underestimated Zheng Xiaowu.
"Fifth Master, I don't understand what you mean...... Lu Yifan's reaction was slightly embarrassed, only to see him smirk at Zheng Xiaowu with a hesitant face, "What do you mean that people and goods are here......"
"Now that your Excellency is here, why do you continue to pretend to be crazy and stupid?" Zheng Xiaowu chuckled and shook his head.
"What did you say?" Yin Xi shouted angrily, "Have you forgotten that it was our son who saved your life just now?"
"You saved me just to use my power in the Two Realms Forest to keep you safe, since you can use me, why can't I use you?" Zheng Xiaowu didn't pay attention to Yin Xi, still looked at Lu Yifan calmly, and said word by word, "What's more, do you think Zheng really needs you to save him in order to survive?"
"Hiss!" As soon as Zheng Xiaowu's words came out, Lu Yifan couldn't help but be secretly surprised, listening to the meaning of Zheng Xiaowu's words, could it be that he deliberately lost to Liu Sandao just now?
"Fifth Master, why do you think our son is Lu Yifan?" Yulou asked faintly as he stared at Zheng Xiaowu with a frown.
"Just the kind of emotion that subconsciously came out of the eyes of the current Soul Sect Master when he looked at him!" Zheng Xiaowu replied nonchalantly, "If the current Soul Sect Sect Master is not as good as Long Yang, then she must be a woman disguised as a man! At the very least, I'm sure she already knows you." Zheng Xiaowu's words hit Lu Yifan's heart like a heavy hammer, making him speechless in surprise, but Zheng Xiaowu was indifferent, still chuckling to himself, "Besides, with your words, Liu Sandao of the Soul Sect is willing to let me go, if you are really just an outsider who meets them in Pingshui, how can you give you such a big face as an outsider with Liu Sandao's domineering temperament? You are not surprised, all of this is never something that a businessman can have. Don't you know that some temperaments can be pretended, but some temperaments are slowly accumulated over time, and the difference revealed between this gesture is not something that you can converge when you say convergence. Saying that, Zheng Xiaowu suddenly shook his head and smiled bitterly, and then muttered to himself with emotion, "A young man in his twenties can beat a bald eagle half to death, who would believe you if you are an ordinary person? And everything about you is very similar to the legendary Lu Yifan I have heard, the same young age, the same momentum, the same genius, and the same cultivation." Coupled with the fact that people from the Soul Sect appeared not long after you appeared, and what happened today, it shouldn't be too difficult for me to deduce your true identity, right?"
As soon as Zheng Xiaowu's words came out, Lu Yifan was convinced. He did underestimate Zheng Xiaowu, he originally thought that Zheng Xiaowu was just a rude person who was poor but not very smart, but he never expected that Zheng Xiaowu was actually rough and fine, and he was really scheming. At least it is many times stronger than Zhu Wushou, the governor of the Southern Xinjiang Frontier Guard.
"Did you plan to bring me here in the first place?" Lu Yifan did not directly admit his identity, but his rhetorical question was actually equivalent to acquiescence.
"No!" Zheng Xiaowu shook his head and said, "I didn't know that you were the real Lu Yifan at first. I always thought that the person who played the Soul Sect Sect Master now was the real Lu Yifan, so I recruited Kang Mazi and others to help, because I knew that it would be difficult for the Five Horse Gang alone to compete with the two thousand disciples of the Soul Sect, and even if I won the battle, it would inevitably be a big loss of vitality, and it would be Kang Mazi who would benefit at that time, so I called them in advance just to intercept the Soul Sect people together. Until Wei Bao was killed by Liu Sandao, I was still convinced that the Soul Sect Sect Master at that time was Lu Yifan. It wasn't until my subordinates told me that you killed Lei Laohu that I began to really pay attention to you! I thought you were an outsider, but as the situation developed, I found that you had more and more suspicious things, and finally you were even willing to stand up to help Liu Sandao fight, and I had already determined four or five points in my heart. Then you actually seriously injured the Second Transformation Soul Emperor Bald Eagle with the power of thunder, how can a young man with such means be a general, I determined six or seven points at that time. Although Liu Sandao is strong, it is not easy for him to put me, the Fifth Transformation Soul Emperor, to death so easily, I pretended to be invincible just to test your intentions, and you really took action to save my life, and I had already confirmed the * score at that time. It wasn't until I revealed your identity just now that your reaction and your current attitude were confirmed in my heart. Hehe...... Later, I found out that you want to use my gracious character to help you get out of here smoothly, so I improvised, so I can solve the greed of Kang Mazi's people, and secondly, I can smoothly bring you out of the heavy protection of many masters of the Soul Sect, why don't I kill two birds with one stone?"
"You're much smarter than I thought!" Lu Yifan said with a wry smile, "I thought you were a conformist, but I didn't expect you to be the most insidious and treacherous person......
"I do things according to the rules!" Zheng Xiaowuyi refuted Lu Yifan's evaluation, "It's just that I talk about rules doesn't mean that I'm a kind-hearted person, besides, if I have a good heart, how can I go to the forests of the Two Realms to be a bandit?" I have killed countless people myself in the past few decades, and the blood on my hands is more than the water I wash my hands, you mistake my rules for kindness, and mistake the fifth master for a good person, these are indeed your mistakes! If you don't follow the rules, you will be evil, and if you obey the rules, you will be even more evil! You must be ruthless when you break the rules, and you must be even more ruthless when you set up rules! If you rob money, you don't shy away from killing people, and if you are a bandit, you have to destroy your conscience, what I have set is the rules of bandits, and what I abide by is the dogma of evil, and the first thing to do is not to save people, but to kill people, otherwise I can't suppress this group of tigers and wolves in the forest of the two worlds!"
"Listening to your words, I have benefited a lot!" Lu Yifan replied with a solemn face, "Then what do you want to do now?"
"If you really wanted to kill us, you wouldn't have said so much to us!" Yulou suddenly stepped forward and said loudly, at this moment, I saw him staring at Zheng Xiaowu with a frown, and then said word by word, "You are just trying to make money as a mountain bandit, this business still has no end to it, of course you will not be willing to fight with us." Besides, if you really want to kill us, you can continue to pretend to be good people, and then do a little trick in the dinner in the evening, and you can easily take our lives, so why should you tell us everything and force us to sacrifice our lives?"
"Clever!" Zheng Xiaowu glanced at the Jade Tower with appreciation, and then he turned his head and waved lightly at the more and more gathered Five Horse Gangs around him, and the hundreds of mountain bandits scattered in a sparse manner. Seeing this scene, Lu Yifan and the others were stunned, and for a while they couldn't figure out what Zheng Xiaowu was going to do.
"Since you've already guessed that I'm not going to kill you now, why don't you kill you now?" Zheng Xiaowu looked at Yulou with interest and asked with a smile, "If you guess it, instead of killing you, I will have good wine and good food to serve you tonight!"
"Because Wei Bao is dead!" Yulou said, his expression was calm and confident, "If I guessed correctly, this so-called big business has only Wei Bao talked to you from beginning to end, and now that Wei Bao is dead, this business is naturally anticlimactic, even if you kill us today, you don't know who to go to to exchange for money." And it will offend the Soul Sect because of this, and the Soul Sect will definitely gather the strength of the whole sect to seek revenge on your Five Horse Gang, and you have been busy for a long time and your Five Horse Gang has not gained a cent, so your gains outweigh your losses!"
"I can't say that, at least I can get the treasures of these big cars behind you, right?" Zheng Xiaowu pretended to be calm and asked back, "How can I say that I haven't got anything?"
"I'm afraid that even the Fifth Master yourself won't believe it!" Yulou sneered and said, "If this treasure is really sent to the Five Domains Spirit Banquet, then Wei Bao can get this news and tell you, and others can also know the news, at least the people behind Wei Bao know that this treasure finally fell into your hands, dare to ask Fifth Master Do you have enough ability to compete with the forces behind Wei Bao?" Besides, even if the people behind Wei Bao don't trouble you, the rumors of the theft of the fire treasures that can't be covered by paper will still spread, and when the time comes, let's put aside the Five Domains Alliance and the World Sect, just talk about the various mountains of the two realms of forests, if they join forces to find you to share the spoils, can you bear it, Fifth Master? When the time comes, the treasures will be divided equally, but the crime of snatching the treasures of the Five Domains Spirit Banquet is borne by your Fifth Master alone, hehe...... It's not that I underestimate the Five Horse Gang, but I'm afraid that the Fifth Master can't afford to carry it if he wants to! This batch of treasures is now a hot potato, and the Fifth Master looks greedy, and he is afraid of burning in his hand, and he is afraid of choking when he puts it in his mouth, it is really ...... ......"Before he finished speaking, Yulou already showed a look of pity on his face, looking at his appearance, as if he was worried about Zheng Xiaowu.
Hearing Yulou's sneering and sneering with emotion and reason, Zheng Xiaowu's face became a little ugly, only to see him staring at Yulou coldly with a calm face, and said slowly: "Aren't you afraid of annoying me when you talk like this?"
"Could it be that the situation will be worse than it is now?" Yulou turned his head and glanced at the surrounding groups of Five Horse Gangs, waved his hand and smiled nonchalantly, "My son-in-law also said just now, even if he dies, the Five Horse Gang will be greatly injured, since we are not even afraid of death, are we still afraid of annoying the Fifth Master?" Saying that, Yulou also glanced at Lu Yifan with a smile, at this moment Lu Yifan admired Yulou's calmness in his heart, you must know that Lu Yifan can not be surprised because his own cultivation is there, he is considered a master of art and bold, but Yulou does not even have the slightest cultivation, even if it is said that he is powerless, it is not an exaggeration. He was able to behave so calmly and calmly under the angry gaze of so many bandits, and this courage alone was not something that ordinary people could do.
"No matter how many people you have killed, no matter how sinister your heart is, I don't really care about these!" Lu Yifan stood up at the right time to alleviate the embarrassment between Zheng Xiaowu and Yulou, only to see him bow his hand slightly to Zheng Xiaowu and said, "But it is an indisputable fact that you do things according to rules, and I happen to be a person who likes to talk about rules, so it is better for us to put away each other's prejudices for the time being, and see if there is any solution to this matter!" And I think you will make everything clear and not kill us, you must have a plan for the future in your heart, and please don't sell Guan Zi again, and you are willing to listen to it!"
"That's good!" Zheng Xiaowu replied in a deep voice, "The Five Horse Gang has never made a loss-making business, and this time it is the same. Saying that, Zheng Xiaowu also stretched out his hand and pointed to the Jade Tower, and then said with a sneer, "Just now you said that this transaction Wei Bao will be dead as soon as he dies, this is true." But don't forget that the people in the world who want to continue to make this deal with me are not the only ones who want to do this business with me, Wei Bao and his family. Your reputation is so great that you can't even imagine it, although Wei Bao is dead, your value is still undiminished!"
As soon as Zheng Xiaowu's words came out, Lu Yifan and Yulou couldn't help but glance at each other, and there was a look of surprise in their eyes.
"What do you mean by that?" Lu Yifan's face sank again.
"Haha...... I don't want the hot potato of the Five Domains Spirit Banquet, and I don't want to sacrifice my life to fight with you, but there are indeed people who have offered me a lot of money that is more generous than Wei Bao to ask me for help, and the business I brought you here today is basically completed, and the rest of the matter has nothing to do with my Five Horse Gang! I said so much to you just now, as a thank you for helping me out of the siege in Thin Blade Ridge just now. Zheng does things according to the rules, and telling you the truth is also considered benevolent and righteous, and I will not say that I hurt you in the future. As for whether you live or die next, whether you go or stay, it depends on your own creation!" Zheng Xiaowu said as he took a few steps forward, and then walked to a quaint two-story bamboo building, and waved his big hand towards it.
"The people who want to see you have arrived! Everyone, please go upstairs!"
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