Volume IX, Chapter 16: Escape

"So," after listening to Ning Caichen's words, Li Mujiang's dagger moved slightly away from Xiao Qian's throat: "She's not our enemy now?" Ning Caichen nodded hurriedly: "It's exactly ......" Li Mujiang turned his head and faced Xiao Qian, who was full of vigilance, Li Mujiang asked: "Xiao Qian, do you think I should believe Ning Gongzi?" Xiaoqian raised her head: "Believe it or not is your business." Li Mujiang shook his head slowly: "Then I'll tell you, I don't believe it." Unless you're willing to tell me something useful. Xiao Qian turned her head and ignored her.

Li Mujiang felt a little interesting: "Oh? What do you mean? Xiao Qian closed her eyes: "Mencius said, mighty and unyielding, I should be a person with backbone." If you interrogate me as an enemy, I won't say anything, you might as well torture me to see if I have any backbone. Li Mujiang turned his head and smiled at Ning Caichen, and Ning Caichen understood what she meant-sure enough, only nerds can teach nerds.

"Get up," Li Mujiang helped Xiao Qian up: "Miss Xiao Qian, how offended, my name is Li Mujiang, I hope to be your friend." ”

"Miss Li, the Sprinkle family is Nie Xiaoqian." Xiao Qian said something nondescript, and gave a non-standard blessing gift.

"Hahahaha......" Li Mujiang laughed heartily, and she said to Ning Caichen: "What kind of mess do you teach others?" ”

"I ......" Ning Caichen was a little embarrassed. Xiao Qian was a little confused: "Did I say something wrong?" Li Mujiang shook his head: "No, no, it was Ning Gongzi who taught you wrong, and I will teach you slowly when I go out in the future." Then she asked, "Xiaoqian, can you tell me how to go through the exit?" Xiao Qian pointed to one of the forks in the road: "After this road passes, turn left at the end, and then ...... Finally, I will come to my grandmother's practice room, and there is a tunnel on the third brick in the west of the room, and I will go out along the tunnel to the top of the mountain. Li Mujiang thought a little in his heart, and then nodded: "What's going on with Grandma and her subordinates?" Xiao Qian thought for a while, and then said: "Grandma's real name is Shen Xia, and the people in the rivers and lakes call the old demon of Montenegro, she has accepted many disciples, but now there are only seven alive, no, only six, they are me, Lin Wen, ......" Li Mujiang asked: "What are they doing in this mountain?" Xiao Qian pointed around with her hand: "Shen Xia is proficient in the art of Kanyu, she has found a big gold mine here, so she cooperates with the Three Puritans ......"

"Three Puritans!" Li Mujiang was shocked.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Qian asked.

"Nothing, you say it first." Li Mujiang waved his hand. Xiao Qian continued: "Shen Xia is responsible for Kanyu and exploration, and the Sanqing Sect is responsible for providing manpower, and hundreds of people are transported from the south every year, and Shen Xia uses various means to enslave these people to mine for her. In order to hide people's eyes, she asked her subordinates to disguise themselves as evil ghosts and scare people in the village overhead, and eventually scared most of the ...... away"

"What about the rest of the minority?" Ning Caichen on the side was a little curious. Xiao Qian and Li Mujiang remained silent at the same time - of course they knew what would happen to those who were left with Grandma's cruel methods...... Ning Caichen immediately understood, and he paused and said, "This ...... This demon is truly unpunished! Li Mujiang asked, "Xiaoqian, how much do you know about the Three Qing Sects?" Xiao Qian shook her head: "I haven't met anyone from the Three Puritans, but I've only occasionally heard Shen Xia mention that she called that person 'sir'." "Sir, a strange name.

Li Mujiang made a note of this person. Then she said to Xiao Qian: "Xiao Qian, please take us out." Xiao Qian nodded, and then led the two to a fork in the road.

Everywhere he went, Li Mujiang's face was as usual, but he was secretly calculating whether the route was correct or not. After twisting and turning, several people stopped in front of their grandmother's practice room, and before they could get close, a bloody breath floated over.

Xiaoqian walked in, Ning Caichen just wanted to follow, but was pulled by Li Mujiang, and Ning Caichen turned his head puzzled.

Li Mujiang's eyes were serious, and he said in a low voice: "Let her go first." Then there was a call from inside the room

With a "grid", Xiao Qian had already turned over the floor tiles, and she was overjoyed: "This is it!" Ning Caichen just wanted to speak, but Li Mujiang grabbed him and said in a low voice: "Don't move, don't make a sound, be careful of deception." Then Li Mujiang walked into the room, and Xiaoqian pointed to the ground: "It's here, just walk out from here...... Yes! Li Mujiang suddenly made a move and pointed at the key points around her body.

Then ignoring her suspicious eyes, Li Mujiang called Ning Caichen over and handed the dagger to Ning Caichen: "Ning Gongzi, I'll go down to explore the way, if I can't come back with a stick of incense, you will stab her to death." Without waiting for Ning Caichen to answer, Li Mujiang jumped into the pit.

Ning Caichen took the dagger, and he said to Xiao Qian in ignorance: "What's wrong with Li Nuxia?" Xiao Qian's lips trembled, and she couldn't say a word - it turned out that Li Mujiang had never believed her from beginning to end.

Moments later,

"Brush" A figure returned from the hole, it was Li Mujiang, she walked in front of Xiao Qian with a complicated face, and looked at the other party seriously.

"How is it, did you fall into an ambush and almost die?" Xiao Qian said sarcastically. Li Mujiang stretched out his hand to untie Xiaoqian's acupoint: "This road is no problem, how offending is it...... To be honest, I don't understand why you did this, you were a disciple of Shen Xia a few hours ago, and now you are helping us so much...... This will make everyone suspicious. Ning Caichen on the side finally understood what was happening, and he hurriedly said: "Li Nuxia, didn't I say it all, I have already persuaded her to change her ways, what are you ......?"

"I am living the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. Really? Li Mujiang took Ning Caichen's words, and then she shook her head solemnly: "Ning Gongzi, you are too easy to trust others, she is not related to us, how can she change her evil and return to the right so quickly?" ”

"Hahahaha!" Xiao Qian laughed when she heard this, it sounded very desolate, and then she spoke, her voice became colder and colder: "Li Mujiang, I know that in your heart, I have always been a demon girl who has harmed countless people, right?" Li Mujiang didn't give an inch: "If it turns out that I guessed wrong, I, Li Mujiang, will personally make amends to you, and I will beat and scold you, and I will never complain!" ”

"You remember what you say." After Xiao Qian finished speaking, she said to Ning Caichen: "What about you, do you feel like her?" ”

"No!" Ning Caichen nodded firmly: "Miss Xiaoqian, I believe in you." Xiao Qian smiled lightly, nodded and said, "You come here." As soon as Ning Caichen walked to her side, she suddenly shot out and hit Ning Caichen's chest, and Ning Caichen fell softly.

"What for!" Li Mujiang immediately drew his dagger: "Don't act rashly." Xiao Qian hugged Ning Caichen and said coldly: "Li Mujiang, it's good that you suspect me, don't look down on me, but you are at least Ning Caichen's friend, right?" "What are you asking for?

Li Mujiang was stunned for a moment, and then nodded. So Xiao Qian continued: "Take him away, the farther away the better, so that he will never come back." Li Mujiang was shocked: "You won't go with us?" Xiao Qian lightly put Ning Caichen on the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "I never said that I wanted to go out, from beginning to end, I just wanted to send him out......" Li Mujiang heard the fear in her tone, and she said strangely: "What are you afraid of?" Xiao Qian pointed to the corner, and Li Mujiang was shocked when he saw it.

Luo Wenmei, who was still showing off his might a few hours ago, only had a fragmented head left at this moment.

Her skinless head was left in the corner like garbage, and only half of her face remained, with countless bite marks on it, and I don't know what it was gnawed on.

"This is what makes Shen Xia angry...... Xiao Qian lowered her head and said: "I'm afraid of Shen Xia, this is something that has been engraved in my bones since I was a child, you say that I am cowardly or incompetent, but I am not afraid of it...... Li Mujiang said: "It's just ...... Because of this? Xiao Qian shook her head, and then said in frustration: "Of course not, in fact, what I'm more afraid of is the outside world, the big world outside, will those people be like you?" No matter what I do, they'll just think of me as a witch...... If that's the case, I'd better stay here. Li Mujiang listened to her tone of gloomy, it really didn't look like a fake, and he couldn't help but start to reflect in his heart: "Could it be that Ning Gongzi is not wrong, she has really ......" Before he could think about it, there were bursts of women's shouts in the passage behind him: "Xiaoqian...... Xiao Qian...... Where have you been? Grandma is looking for you......" Xiao Qian pointed in that direction: "Now they will chase after them immediately, and it will be too late if they don't leave." Li Mujiang groaned slightly-he had said that he would save those slaves, but for a while, those slaves would not have to worry about their lives, and now that the situation was urgent, he had to retreat first and think about it in the long run.

So she mentioned Ning Caichen and got into the tunnel.

"After you go out, if you can remember, help me tell him, thank him for believing me." Xiao Qian's voice came from overhead.

Li Mujiang paused, then nodded.

There was a soft "click", and the floor tiles closed and returned to their original state. ………… A short section down from the pothole leads to a steep and wet road.

Li Mujiang climbed for a long time, and finally saw the light at the end. It was a warm, bright sun, very different from the flickering candlelight of the fire in the cave.

Li Mujiang was greatly encouraged and accelerated to climb up. Climbing out of the cave and putting Ning Caichen down, Li Mujiang found that he had reached a certain place on the top of the mountain, and when he looked up, the houses in the deserted village under his feet had become small dots.

The wind on the top of the mountain was very strong, but this did not affect Li Mujiang's mood at all, and after staying in the dark underground for one night, he suddenly saw the sun, which was enough to blow away all the unhappiness in his heart.

She opened her arms and felt the beauty of life and nature. At this time, a familiar wolf howl came from halfway up the mountain, and at the same time, there was a shout: "Big sister's head...... Big sister head ...... Where are you? Li Mujiang's expression moved, stretched out his hand and whistled loudly, and in a few moments, the white wolf Abu had already dragged Gou Fugui to the top of the mountain.