Chapter XVII: Countermeasures
Luck is just a fluke after all, when Lan Yin brought the body of the blackbird back to the town, Feng Wenlun, who was the best at healing immortals among the four, just shook his head, saying that there was no way.
Seeing him say this, Bai Ling, who was on the side, immediately drew his sword.
"What are you doing with your sword drawn?" Feng Wenlun asked as he squinted at her.
"Kill him. She pressed her sword against the body of Wu Yelei, who was still unconscious. "If there are still a few wisps of Wu Yelei's soul that can float to the underworld, and see that his body is still occupied by the enemy, he must be mad. I said that he would help him avenge his words!"
As she spoke, she raised her sword and made a gesture to stab down, but she still hesitated when the sword was about to touch Wu Yelei's body, after all, from the outside, it was only a boy who had no power to fight back under her sharp blade.
Even though this boy didn't have much weight in her heart, and he had used a secret weapon to sneak up on her in a very unfriendly way, she still couldn't do it now.
"But it's useful for us to keep him. Just when Bai Ling was stunned, Lan Yin took two steps forward and snatched Bai Ling's sword - it was said to be grabbed, but in fact, Bai Ling did not resist and let her take it.
"Before I could say it, on the way back I met another blackbird demon, and he threatened to slaughter the city if he didn't see his third brother in two days. I didn't fight him directly, so it's hard to judge his demonic powersβhe should be pretty strong just from the moment he sneaked up on me. Lan Yin said with the sword of the white bell in his hand.
"Who is his third brother?"
"This is the guy. Lan Yin pointed to the corpse of the black bird on the ground, shook his head again, and turned to point to Wu Yelei's body, "To be precise, this black bird's body and the soul in Wu Yelei's body are put together as the third brother he said." As for whether he is the eldest brother or the second brother of the blackbird demon, I don't know. β
Bai Ling let out a cold snort from the tip of his nose, "Even if he really said that, we can't really return the person to his will." It's just a bird demon, Lan'er, you are really a phoenix, the head of a hundred birds! If you really want to make a move, we can't beat them. β
"Of course we can take risks, but the townspeople can. Xu Huaizhang sighed, "Wu Yelei's death can be said to be caused by our carelessness, is it possible to start a war here again and bring a few more residents to be buried together?"
Bai Ling was very dissatisfied with Su Huaizhang's statement, and immediately folded his arms and choked him.
"Wu Yelei's death was an accident, if you really want to investigate it, it was also caused by the demon, or that his heart was already dead when the demon killed all his family members in the past, do you really think that he has lived alone for so many years? Although we have carelessness, but at the last moment he hit a tree to die was his own decision, after his death, we can still help him fulfill his last wish, and it is just a matter of not taking credit, why did it become our fault?"
Feng Wenlun smelled the smell of gunpowder between these two people, and hurriedly waved his hand to come out to play a round, "Okay, okay, I found that the four of us are really incompatible, when is it, stop fighting." β
Xu Huaizhang glanced at Feng Wenlun, smiled helplessly, nodded and said, "Well, don't fight about this, let's see what to do right now." β
Bai Ling pursed his lips, and did not continue to argue with Xu Huaizhang, but turned his gaze to Lan Yin, "Lan Er, you have been silent for a long time, but what do you think?"
"I'm not in favor of just returning people back like that. β
Listening to Lan Yin's words, Bai Ling smiled at the other two a little proudly, "Look, Lan Er said the same thing." β
Lan Yin continued, "However, I don't approve of clashing with demons in the town either. β
Bai Ling turned his eyes to Lan Yin and frowned, "Of course, I don't want this if I can, but this is too idealistic - how can we keep them from attacking?"
"Instead of sitting back and waiting, it's better to strike first. Lan Yin handed Bai Ling's sword back to her, "Didn't you say that the city would be slaughtered in two days, and we would kill those two black bird demons within two days." β
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Xu Huaizhang and Feng Wenlun looked at each other without saying a word.
Bai Ling nodded happily, "Good idea! We will use this body containing the soul of their third brother as bait to lure them out, and then find an opportunity to slaughter them!"
"This is too ......" Feng Wenlun organized his language, and didn't come up with any suitable description, "It's too risky." β
"But there's nothing more appropriate right now. Lan Yin turned his head to look at Feng Wenlun, "Do you really think that if we return the people, they will be able to keep their agreement and not come to harass the residents here?" or do you think that they can abandon evil and follow good after killing countless people?" she shook her head, "It's too unrealistic. It's better to give them a crisp, and it's a hundred. β
Lan Yin finished speaking, and the other three didn't refute it again, but she couldn't help but ask herself why she did this.
After thinking about it, she seemed to have come up with an answer.
She allowed herself to kill, but only if those who died at her hands should do so. Although she also had the idea of killing Wu Yelei when she was first thrown into the secret weapon, after knowing his background, she never had such a thought.
So that in the end, she couldn't save him, and she was unwilling.
She didn't want to see a weak person like Wu Yelei breathing in front of her eyes but there was no way to save them, so she didn't want to use the town as a battlefield to fight demons.
She seemed to understand her emotions when she witnessed Wu Yelei's death, which seemed to be what Master often said - compassion.
In the past, when she was in the divine realm, several prodigies and goddesses who knew her liked to tease her and said that her heart was like a heart made of ice cubes, but now it seems that even if it is really a heart made of ice cubes, when it starts beating in the chest of a living being, it is difficult to be emotionless.
"Then settle it like this, right?" Lan Yin looked around at the three of them again, and both Xu Huaizhang and Feng Wenlun nodded. When her eyes fell on Bai Ling, she saw Bai Ling's eager look, and she wanted to laugh for a while.
Then, Lan Yin heard Bai Ling's unexpected question, "Lan Er, can you let me be with you this time?"
Lan Yin nodded, "Yes." Otherwise, ask these two of you, which one would like to do this with me?"
As soon as she said this, the four people who were originally in a tense atmosphere finally smiled, and this preemptive countermeasure by Lan Yin and Bai Ling was officially finalized.
It was already dawn, and the few people who had been tossing and turning for hours without rest felt a little tired.
Lan Yin and Bai Ling set off to return to their own chambers to rest for a while, after all, they had to recharge their energy before they could fight the enemy. Xu Huaizhang and Feng Wenlun took turns to take a nap, leaving a waking person to watch the demon who occupied Wu Yelei's body every time.
The town that had slept all night had now woken up, and every household had opened their doors after burning incense and praying as usual, and they obviously didn't know how much of what had happened that night, let alone that Wu Yelei had died like his family.