"Please wait until I'm done reading this letter, okay?" I opened the envelope and pulled out two snow-white letterheads folded in half.

Bai Xiaoxie thought for a while, and smiled with a smile on his face: "Yes, yes, everything is under Mr. Chen's orders, but Sister Li and Miss Tang Mei are looking forward to it, please understand Mr. Chen." ”

The headlights of the taxi kept on, I walked slowly to the front of the car, opened the first letterhead by the snow-white light, and a line of handwriting in small block letters flying quickly immediately came into view - "Eagle, come quickly, I have a big secret to tell, involving the disappearance of the desert, I will never deceive and conceal it, because I am always in the process of death that cannot be saved, I am looking forward to it, earnest!" The signature below is the word "Tang Mei" in the dance of Long Fei and Phoenix.

The handwriting on the second letterhead is much more graceful and free-handed: "Mr. Chen Ying, who has admired the name for a long time, is like thunder, and longs to see it in Cairo." My father has a difficult matter, and he wants to ask Mr. for advice, so he has a little snake gall wine, please come with Xiao Xie, and don't retreat in anticipation. It should be Bai Li's handwriting, and the signature is embellished with a small snake coiled around a bamboo branch.

Tang Mei understands my thoughts, so she uses the theme of "Missing Desert Incident".

"Is she going to die? Or is she suffering from the strange poison of the Thai people, and she is terminally ill and cannot be treated?" Although Bai Xiaoxie's tone when he recounted the battle between the two sides was understated, I understood that both factions were good at poisoning, and the scene must have been noisy and chaotic, with countless innocent deaths and injuries. Since Aunt Tang has been hit hard, who knows that Tang Mei will not have the same result?

"Mr. Chen?" Bai Xiaoxie couldn't help but remind.

I saw a faint disdain and a sense of arrogance in control from his gaze, this is an era when young people are in power, after the disciple of the Snake King defeated the Tang Sect in Shuzhong, he does have the capital to look down on Cairo City.

"I'll go, but I'll have to ask your brother to send this girl to the Moonlight Hotel, a friend of mine has been poisoned by the Tang Sect and needs to be treated. "Since Mai Ye and the Dragon Elephant Girl have agreed to make a move, I don't think they will regret it, and Xiwei will definitely be fine. I can only go back to the hotel now, I can only be a simple bystander, it will not play any role, it is better to go to see Bai Li and see what she has planned.

The Dragon Elephant Girl suddenly frowned and laughed: "Eagle, it turns out that the patient you are most concerned about is not that patient?"

In this case, her joke was not funny, but I still smiled and replied, "There are priorities, and they must be solved one by one, so please heal my friend well." ”

A young man jumped out of the Mercedes Benz, carefully moved the taxi driver's body to the side of the road, and restarted the car.

The dragon elephant girl got into the car and waved to me with a smile: "Eagle, I hope to see you alive again-"

As the car drove straight into the city, the red taillights gradually dissolved into a blurry halo of light in the night.

"Mr. Chen, please?" Bai Xiaoxie urged again, and continued to lick his thirsty lips.

"What about you, will you go along?" I asked knowingly, for he would definitely stay where he was and do something disgusting.

Sure enough, he immediately shook his head: "No, I still have to stop for a while, but I will catch up with him on a motorcycle soon, and I believe that I will not delay the welcome banquet specially set up by Sister Li's for Mr. Chen." ”

I got into the Mercedes, and three short guns reached out from the side seat at once, pressing against my heart and ribs.

Someone whispered coldly in my ear: "Offended." Then he tied my eyes with a slightly sweet black handkerchief.

I remained silent, relaxing as much as I could, and then maximizing my sense of hearing.

The car started, turned right smoothly, turned to the fork in the road, and the person who spoke just now quickly dialed a number and respectfully reported: "Sister Li, Mr. Chen got in the car, we are rushing back." ”

The volume of the receiver on the car phone was very high, and I heard a gentle and sweet girl's voice coming out: "Oh? That's great, please listen to Mr. Chen." ”

The man approached me, put the earpiece to my ear, and coldly reminded: "Sister Li, if you want to listen to the phone, you can speak." ”

I knew that it was Shira's daughter on the other end of the phone, and that her voice had made a good impression on me during the previous call, but I didn't want to talk to her in such a situation where I was threatened with a pistol, so I remained silent.

"Mr. Chen, I'm Bai Li, welcome to your arrival, and now Miss Tang is with me, and I look forward to your appearance. Bai Li's wording was quite polite.

From what I have learned, she studied in the British Isles, has the title of Ph.D. from several top liberal arts schools, and is proficient in the classical culture of Asian countries. How well a person is cultivated, more than seventy percent can be seen from the voice and speech alone.

She couldn't hear my answer, so she raised her voice suddenly, and her tone suddenly became cold: "Na Wei, what did you do to Mr. Chen? He is an old friend of the 'Snake King' and our most honored guest, didn't Xiao Xie tell you?"

The people next to me replied respectfully: "The subordinate just followed the custom and blinded Chen-"

Bai Li interrupted him suddenly: "Nonsense, quickly untie the handkerchief for Mr. Chen, he is a distinguished guest, not an enemy, he has been following Xiao Xie for several years, is this how you do things?"

"Yes, yes, the subordinates will unravel, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. The man, who was called Navi, turned around and tried to untie my handkerchief.

I flashed back, avoided his hand, and replied in the direction of the earpiece: "Miss Bai, don't be verbose, I have no intention of knowing the secrets of the Thai underworld, this trip is just to see Miss Tang, I hope her condition is not too bad." ”

In my opinion, Tang Mei must have suffered a dark loss after the defeat of the Tang Gate, and it is impossible for him to fall into Bai Li's control unharmed, but I really expected it wrong, because then Tang Mei's voice came from the earpiece: "Mr. Chen, thank you for your concern, everything is fine with me, and I haven't had another conflict with my friends from Thailand, but-you better hurry up, my life can only be counted in seconds." Listen, I'm not kidding, definitely not kidding......"

Tang Mei's voice was a little hoarse, but what was more important was helplessness and decadence, as if a terminally ill person was struggling to comfort the visitor.

"How long do you have to get to your destination?" I asked Nawei in a deep voice, my mood soured by Tang Mei's words. A strong and resolute girl like her will never openly show her embarrassment in front of outsiders until she has to do so.

"Seven minutes. Navi replied respectfully.

I nodded and let out a sigh of relief: "Tell the driver, go all out." ”

"Yes, Mr. Chen, do you want me to help you take off the handkerchief? I just offended you unintentionally, I really damn it, I really damn it......" He hurriedly pleaded guilty, I shook my head silently, and slowly tore off the blindfolded handkerchief, but I was not in the mood to look to either side. If Bai Lishu is not malicious, it doesn't matter if I remember the path or not, besides, at this time, my heart is full of the strange words that Tang Mei said, and I have no time to be distracted to think about other things.

After turning several streets in a row, the Mercedes entered a narrow private street, flanked by low leafy shrubs, and a white Victorian-style street lamp post was erected every few tens of meters, casting soft lights.

At the end of the private road, someone opened the black electric door early, and the Mercedes drove straight in, stopping in front of a small, brightly lit two-story building. As soon as the car stopped, Bai Xiaoxie's Kawasaki motorcycle also roared and sped over, and when it reached the front of the small building, it stopped with a creak and a sharp brake.

Nawei got out of the car, opened the door for me graciously, and stood respectfully to the side.

"Mr. Chen, we arrived at the same time. Bai Xiaoxie jumped off the motorcycle, looked energetic and full of ambition, strode over, and stood opposite Nawei, forming a two-person sandwich welcome mode. On the inside of the collar of his white suit, a few drops of red blood were obviously splashed, and the red and white contrast was particularly eye-catching.

"Your clothes are dirty—" I whispered as I passed in front of him, my stomach churning as if I were about to vomit all the overnight's meal.

Many people on the rivers and lakes have confirmed that Bai Xiaoxie's biggest hobby is sucking human brains, just like the "Money Wire Snake" that the "Snake King" likes to raise the most. Before he killed the taxi driver, he asked something related to Li Tian, and his original intention was to attract the driver to raise his head so that he could shoot him through the brain. The Elephant Lady killed the two men in the trunk and ruined his meal plan, which is why he kicked the corpse away.

I wouldn't trust a person who smokes his own kind in any way, no matter how polite he may be.

Bai Xiaoxie looked down at the collar, and a cruel sneer flashed across the corners of his mouth: "It's okay, do your best for the 'Snake King', you are not afraid of death, and you can still spare a set of clothes?" His lips regained their rosy luster, and he no longer had to lick them anxiously.

The automatic door of the small building parted silently, and a girl in a black leather trench coat walked out quickly, her eyes matched mine, and she immediately bent down deeply to salute: "Mr. Chen is here, Bai Li is deeply honored, and he feels that he is full of brilliance." ”

Her waist is extremely thin, her legs are slender, and her voice is more euphemistic than what she heard on the phone, if it weren't for the holsters under her armpits when the windbreaker was flicked, no one would associate her with the daughter of the "Snake King", just think that she is a beautiful female white-collar worker in the bustling city or a shopping mall elite who is in charge alone.

I don't like the pretense of politeness of people in the rivers and lakes, and I don't want to encounter any welcome conferences, I just want to see Tang Mei as soon as I enter the door and solve all the mysteries as soon as possible.

"Miss Bai, the accident that Ling Zun encountered makes me very sad, but I think there must be some misunderstanding in this, so your faction and the Tang Sect in Shuzhong should try their best to communicate, take harmony as the precious, and don't kill again—now, can you take me to see Miss Tang, maybe I can do something about the reconciliation between the two families?" I led the topic to Tang Mei, and naturally avoided the greetings and red tape of the first meeting.

Bai Li raised his head and smiled slightly: "Mr. Chen, Miss Tang is waiting for you on the second floor." I very much agree with what you said, 'peace is precious', but this afternoon's battle has ended, and if Miss Tang can commit suicide tonight to apologize, this account will be thoroughly understood." However, it is said that Tang Ao, Tang Sancai and others are deploying manpower on a large scale in an attempt to counterattack and counterattack, which makes it difficult for me not to give them face. ”

She had a pair of thin black eyebrows, and her eyes seemed to contain a constant flow of essence, and every time she brushed my face, she would pause for a moment, as if to read through my thoughts.

Bai Li abandoned all etiquette, took me upstairs directly, and threw Bai Xiaoxie and the others in the living room on the first floor. Of course, I also hope that the farther away from Bai Xiaoxie is better, so as not to haunt him with resentment.

On the second floor, there is a rather spacious living room, where Tang Mei is sitting in an old rattan rocking chair in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, holding a Parisian women's fashion magazine of the season, reading it with relish, which is very different from the hurried tone on the letterhead.

"Mr. Chen, are you okay?" she heard the footsteps of me and Bai Li, and looked up to greet her easily, but did not get up.

Beside her was a wrought-iron trellis stacked all the way to the roof, layered with green vines, their branches intricately intertwined. Green plants, rattan chairs, idle books, and floor-to-ceiling windows, all these pictures have long been far away from the smoke of the rivers and lakes, which makes me have the illusion of a moment, as if I have mistakenly entered the boudoir of a Jiangnan woman.

"I'm okay, Miss Tang is so leisurely-" I know that the other party will never be as calm and calm as it seems on the surface, after all, the Tang Gate in Shuzhong was defeated by the Thais, and that is a great shame suffered by all people surnamed "Tang" in the world.

"I'm waiting for you, fortunately the host is hospitable and the service is quite attentive, here, I should say 'bother' to Miss Bai anyway." She squinted at Bai Li, and a meaningful smile floated on the corner of her lips.

Bai Li pointed to a silver quartz clock opposite the floor-to-ceiling window, and the smile on his face was gloomy and cold: "Miss Tang, when the clock points to two o'clock in the morning, it is time for you to say goodbye to Mr. Chen, and don't forget the mutual commitment between us." I have already followed your instructions and invited Mr. Chen here, and the next step is for you to disembowel your heart and apologize to your father's deceased. ”

It's nine o'clock in the evening, and there are still five hours left before Bai Li said it. I suspect that with Tang Mei's personality, she is completely delaying time in the old suspicious formation, waiting for the Tang Sect's disciples to gather and counterattack.

"I understand, Miss Bai, next I want to tell Mr. Chen something very shocking, do you want to sit down and listen to it together?" Tang Mei closed the magazine and casually threw it into the basket of books and newspapers at her feet.

Bai Li kept picking it up: "Of course, the Tang Sect in Shuzhong is the most mysterious sect in the Chinese rivers and lakes, if we can get inspiration from Miss Tang's words by chance, it will not be in vain for us to get to know each other." She ignored Tang Mei's sarcasm and provocation, and just calmly acted according to her own ideas, this kind of handsome demeanor of "landslide forward and not change color" is at least ten times smarter than Tang Mei.

I didn't figure out what Tang Mei's purpose was, this was Bai Li's territory, and there were many guards outside, so it was not easy to escape with bare hands.

Bai Li clapped his hands gently, and a girl with big eyes with light steps walked in quickly, with a bottle of French wine and three colorful crystal wine glasses in the tray in her hand.

I sat down in a European-style wooden chair near the window, and my mind kept thinking about the question: "What is Tang Mei going to say? Is she really trying to reveal the secret, or is she just pretending to be shocking in order to disrupt Bai Li's thoughts?"

"Miss, what kind of snake gall are you going to take to entertain guests this time?" the big-eyed girl stopped beside Bai Li, her expression extremely humble.

"There are three kinds of gold rings, silver rings, and chasing the wind, Mr. Chen and Miss Tang are rare guests, and they should be served by the gold and silver two rings. Bai Li walked to the wooden chair next to me, and nodded politely to me before taking his seat.

Tang Mei swayed her body leisurely, and the rattan chairs swayed together, making a charming "crunch" sound.

"Miss Tang, there are eleven layers of encirclement outside, in addition to the light weapons you can think of, Xiao Xie has also laid four layers of American-style mine nets, plus a bazooka team and a sniper team with plenty of ammunition, the villa's current strength is enough to defend against the attack of a regular infantry company. So, I want you to see the situation clearly and not make unnecessary sacrifices-"

Bai Li talked eloquently, with a determined look of "strategizing and winning a thousand miles".

The Thai underworld led by her rushed thousands of miles to attack, and they came prepared, and they were bound to take revenge on Tang Mei's life. At present, their goal has been achieved, and all they lack is the effort to cut the knife.

Tang Mei smiled: "You are wrong, you are really wrong." ”

Bai Li shook his head gently: "I don't understand what you said, look out the window, our people have been waiting for a long time." Miss Tang, if you can fulfill your promise, I can guarantee that you will not touch a single hair of the rest of the Tang family. Otherwise, even Aunt Tang, Tang Ao, and Tang Sancai would have to pay for their father's life and die in Cairo together. ”

She didn't threaten her, and when we looked out condescendingly, we easily spotted sniper points inside and outside the courtyard walls. Compared with the two factions, the Tang Sect is good at fighting alone, sneak attacks and killing, while the subordinates of the "Snake King" are more proficient in group operations, with a semi-military layout, and the difference between strength and weakness is very obvious.

"Miss Tang, she's right, don't let others die. "I just said the truth I should have said, although Aunt Tang had plotted against me in the hotel, but I didn't hold a grudge.

Tang Mei let out a long sigh: "I killed Bai Shuyi, but that was what he begged me to do, and this involves an extremely complicated secret——"

"Impossible! impossible!" Bai Li's face suddenly flushed, and he rudely interrupted Tang Mei, not caring about maintaining his elegant demeanor.

"As soon as White Wound suffers from a strange disease, if I don't kill him, within the next seven days, his body will be alienated and become another creature. This is a true thing, if you don't believe it, Miss Bai can check the information he collected related to the 'Prometheus Fire', and she will naturally find the answer. Once Bai Li's reserved state was broken, Tang Mei immediately took the initiative in the conversation.

I listened silently to their back and forth conversations, not convinced by Tang Mei's words.

Bai Lichang took a long breath, his fists across his chest, and fell down inch by inch, finally restraining his anger and regaining his composure. "Miss Tang, what kind of disease does he have? could it be some hopeless terminal illness?" she leaned back and glanced at Tang Mei.

"Terminal illness? No, terminal illness is not terrible, Mr. Bai Hurt One broke into the rivers and lakes at the age of seven, entered the Five Poisons Sect at the age of nine, created the famous 'Bamboo Eating Sect' on the Thai underworld at the age of fifteen, and won the name of Thailand's 'Snake King' at the age of twenty-five, which has been retained to this day. He was not afraid of death, he was not afraid of any terminal illness, but he was only afraid of this kind of mutation......"

Tang Mei's words were interrupted by the sudden appearance of the big-eyed girl, who came up with a silver platter, and inside were three blue snake galls that were still steaming.

Bai Li's gaze was inadvertently opposite to me, and he immediately moved away and looked at the girl with big eyes.

The girl put the snake gall into the crystal glass, gently uncorked the wine, poured half a glass of red wine into each glass, and first picked up a glass and brought it to me: "Mr. Chen, the snake gall wine, please use it." ”

I silently took the glass, blood oozing from the floating snake gall.

Tang Mei took the glass of snake gall wine, while Bai Li took the last remaining glass, and the hall was filled with the aroma of sweet wine.

"Wine for distinguished guests, two please. Bai Li raised his glass high.

Tang Mei sighed in a low voice: "Grape wine glow-in-the-dark cup, pipa wants to drink it immediately." Drunk and lying on the battlefield, how many people have returned to fight in ancient times?" she swayed the red wine, her eyes blurred, as if immersed in an ancient memory.

Bai Li suddenly changed color: "Miss Tang, if you have anything to say, don't go around in a tricky way, you don't have much time left." ”

I remember that those four lines of poetry were Bai Xianyi's favorite, and like the famous French wine in front of me, I often heard him recite these sentences when I dined with him back then.

"Six years ago, at the feast of the undead warriors at Fort Everest, Ling Zun wore an unmarked bronze mask, but I recognized him by just four lines of poetry. Miss Bai, Ling Zun and I are friends who have lived and died together, how could you kill people for no reason? Although you can lead the group of people left by Ling Zun in a bold way, you still lack the tempering of the rivers and lakes, and you are too self-righteous when analyzing problems. ”

Tang Mei stared at the wine in the glass and ended her narrative with a wordless sneer.

My right hand shuddered violently, and I almost poured out the wine, only to hide my surprise by frowning and sighing.

"Hmm, Miss Tang is really a big shot, did she receive that invitation to the feast that everyone on the rivers and lakes yearns for at such a young age?" Bai Li couldn't suppress his consternation, and his attitude immediately became much more modest.

Tang Mei nodded slowly: "What's that?, the Tang Sect in Shu is one of the sixteen most indispensable factions on the rivers and lakes, and we can receive the letter to the banquet, and the lord of Everest Fort should feel honored." When it comes to the warriors who regard death as home, every one of the people in the Tang Sect can become a senseless warrior who goes to death generously and is righteous and awe-inspiring, and every one of them is more qualified to attend the feast than those who sell their fame and reputation. ”

Bai Li held the cup in both hands, patiently listened to Tang Mei's narration, and no longer interrupted her at will.

The "Feast of the Immortal Warriors" is held by an alien who lives at the top of the northern part of Mount Everest, and is held every ten years, specially inviting famous people from the rivers and lakes to participate. Everyone gathers at the "Fort Everest" where the Inhumans are located to compete for the great title of "Immortal Warrior", and the final winner can get the secret of immortality provided by the Inhuman.

From the first emperor Yingzheng in the pre-Qin period of the Warring States period to the Manchu emperor who was obsessed with chanting and worshipping Buddha in modern times, from the ambitious head of the Axis powers, Hitler, to the Thai president, who poured the country's financial resources into building nearly 1,000 Buddhist temples in order to move the heavens, all of them have the same goal.

Only by immortality can its dominance be maintained firmly and unchangeably, so no matter how much wealth and high authority there is, it will collapse in front of the "secret of immortality".