Chapter 18: The Covenant

This world is not exactly equivalent to the words 'man dies greatly', but the custom of respecting the dead and respecting the deceased is probably a sentiment that all intelligent beings have, so Prunella vulgaris's words are extremely vicious.

"Prunella, you must retract what you just said. Today, they came prepared, and naturally they had already found out the name of Prunella vulgaris, so Bai Ziren, who was frozen in place with a red face, immediately jumped out as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw, and warned in a cold voice: "Then apologize for it." ”

Xia Kucao glanced at this blood-dead bloodist who seemed to him to be extremely brainless, and couldn't help but think that if you really killed me last night, I would not have respected the remains of my pariah, and now it is replaced by a blue-blooded nobleman who is shouting about so-called respect, isn't it ridiculous?

What's more, Bai Alum's actions did not get a trace of respect in his heart, in his opinion, a cold-blooded nobleman like Bai Alum should have died a long time ago, and he died a very good and wonderful death.

So Prunella shook her head very neatly and rejected the proposal.

Bai Ziren looked at him coldly, "I never thought that the academy would teach a cold-blooded and vulgar person like you, I don't know if several deans of the academy would agree with your remarks." ”

"If the academy agrees with my remarks, you can consult a few of the deans of the academy directly - if you have that qualifications, but the academy at least agrees with what I did last night. Prunella finally looked back and talked to Bai Ziren.

He looked at the other party with a mocking expression, and said calmly: "Maybe all of you think that alum has the identity of alum, and should enjoy respect that is consistent with his identity, and this point is not allowed to be ignored by others. ”

He quietly looked at Bai Ziren and Bai Li on the other side, and the expression on his face gradually became very subtle, "But I'm just a jobless vagrant wandering the streets, so I shouldn't have too much self-esteem and self-respect?"

"But if I'm not mistaken, there were no bodies. Prunella looked directly at Bai Li's face and said this very plainly.

There was silence in the room.

It wasn't until much later that Prunella continued: "And in my opinion, life is the most worthy of respect...... Something to be feared, so since alum killed that pickpocket brother, he owes the other party a life, so I killed him, if you can't get around this hurdle, it's useless to talk too much. ”

The conversation has reached an impasse at this point, since the summer grass in the field miraculously obtained a background equal to or even higher than the other party to serve as a backstage, the two parties can only abandon the background of both sides in the form of reasoning to put the success or failure of the game at the negotiation table, but now the summer grass firmly grasps the truth of killing people and refuses to let go, thinking of the god son of the Marquis of Alberta's mansion...... Even if you are not angry in your heart, you can only accept it?

For a moment, the silence began to spread—

The word suffocating is often used in literary works to describe the tense confrontation atmosphere, and the more often it is used, it naturally makes people feel a little old-fashioned, but when everyone in the room saw the prunella grass in front of them and the silent Bai Li and Bai Ziren, they suddenly vaguely realized the origin of this description.

Although the two forces standing in the meeting room were relatively thin, although the number of one of them was a little thin, the only figure standing there was extremely strong oppression of the large number of people, although he was only silent after that and did not speak loudly, but the gradually heating invisible collision and friction seemed to have exhausted the oxygen in the environment, and began to make people feel a little difficult to breathe.

So everyone began to expect Bai Li's response.

And he lived up to his expectations: "Even if my third brother is a meritorious person, even if that thief commits a big crime, he deserves to die?"

Xia Kucao frowned, a little unsure of what the other party meant.

Bai Ziren noticed Bai Li's opening, and since Bai Li opened his mouth, he thought that he knew what to do, so his voice became extremely stern, but his expression became relaxed.

"That pariah...... Rush into the Holy Maiden and try to steal the Holy Maiden's Ring that Her Highness is carrying. Baron Alum followed the trail of Her Highness to the Shimmer Tavern, where he witnessed the untouchable's blasphemy, and in a fit of rage, drew his sword and slashed him. ”

"And you, who killed Baron Alum, teamed up with Gu Shanlong to conceal the news, and even tried to snatch the Holy Maiden, I want to ask, do you know...... This...... What does that mean?"

Prunella was silent.

He savored the meaning of the other party's words, and corresponded the content of the other party's words with the real situation last night, and then found with some emotion that it seemed to make sense if he really understood the other party's words, and couldn't help but think that the nobles of the Code Country were indeed more shameless than he imagined.

But then he remembered Du Zhong and Bai Quartz again, so he decided not to raise the attack surface so widely, but just put the shameless evaluation on the heads of Bai Ziren and Bai Li.

Now he realized that something was wrong, he made a mistake, and took the initiative to jump into the big hole they dug for himself, but he had no fear, only disgust.

So Xia Kucao smiled slightly, then raised his head, looked at Bai Li and Bai Ziren opposite, and said with some self-deprecation: "In order to crush me to death, a little person, in order to return Bai Alum's 'innocence', you are really painstaking, should I be moved and then bow down and finally die quickly?"

"It's just that it's not possible after all. ”

Xia Kucao narrowed his eyes, knowing that the arrival of these people must have made enough preparations, thinking that the so-called human and material evidence was complete, he must no longer be able to stand on the side of reason, so he was ready to go crazy-

Since reasoning can't be explained, then in addition to madness, you can only be mad.

Madness is anger, but anger does not have to be fist-although that is the most common form of madness, but Xia Kucao knows very well that Bai Ziren alone is not an opponent in terms of fists and feet, not to mention that there is still Bai Li and Bai Li, who don't know the depth, and the rest of the people who have not said a word so far, but they don't really come to see the excitement.

So his frenzy is not ready to reason with the other party anymore, skip the process of arguing about right and wrong, and arrogantly push everything down and start over, and directly step towards the conclusion.

Therefore, after he contemptuously said that it was impossible to be captured, he showed the aura of a little person or a little rascal, and said very directly: "What do you want, draw out the Tao." ”

......

In Bai Ziren's thoughts, once his side threw out the killer weapon and successfully trapped Xia Wither in injustice, the opponent would panic for a while, at a loss, and then anxiously and angrily argue with reason, and finally lose his square inch in their pretended witness evidence, and the ugly negative stubborn resistance.

So when Prunella skips these steps directly and enters the last link, everyone except Bai Li is a little unresponsive.

So only Bai Li quietly spoke.

"Good. He said, "I don't think you and I would like to waste our time arguing over these boring axioms of justice, so I propose to end this affair with a bloody oath of vengeance that only nobles can use among themselves." You ......"

"Justice and justice are never boring things!"

Xia Kucao interrupted the other party's words with a brutal wave of his hand, and said in an extremely serious tone: "It's just that I think you have no cure, so I don't bother to argue with you anymore." Please be clear about that. ”

Then he continued with some sarcasm: "The means between the nobles ...... Shouldn't I be honored?"

Bai Li was not Bai Ziren, so he didn't pay attention to Xia Kucao at all, and just continued the words that had been interrupted earlier, and said: "Blood oath and revenge have nothing to do with justice and justice, just because you killed my brother, all the blood relatives of my Marquis of Bai Clan Alberta can choose one person to come out and have an open duel with you, the duel does not care about life and death, and I am careful to judge right and wrong by the consequences, but no matter what the result is, this matter will end here." ”

Xia Kucao had already understood the other party's thoughts—the academy's protection of herself guaranteed absolute violent defeat, and the verbal argument was divisive, so if you really wanted to pose a threat to yourself, the traditional and ancient duel was very applicable—but if you were more shameless, you would refuse to pay attention to the opponent's duel...... Is it okay to think about it?

Bai Li seemed to know Xia Kucao's thoughts, and said very directly: "You can choose not to accept it, I really have nothing to do with you, but if this is the case, even in the face of the anger of the academy, I will not allow you to step out of the academy in this life." ”

"And the accomplice Gu Shan Long will die. ”

After a long silence, Prunella looked up.

"If I win, you will release Uncle Long. ”

"Good. Bai Li nodded, "Until then, I will guarantee his safety, but you put forward additional conditions, then the time and place of the duel must be arranged by me, and I request that the duel be arranged on the day when the academy officially opens in a month, and the location will be placed in the auditorium." ”

“...... My opponent?"

"Naturally, it's me. ”

“......”