Chapter 95: Starting Point

Xu Ruhu even thought that Xie Lei was pressing him again and again, wanting him to hand over the cultivation technique for the final four layers!

Seeing it was ineffective, he had set up this trap, letting his own trusted confidants disguise themselves as thugs to come and blind his eyes!

Once he was blind, it would be easier to deceive him!

It was not impossible that that little thief Xie Lei would then stage a scene of intercepting and rescuing him!

Actually, it is no wonder Xu Ruhu made such a guess!

In his view, unless Xie Lei personally told that person, otherwise, no one could have found this place in such a short time!

Xu Ruhu laughed loudly on the ground: "How many years have I, this old man, been mixing in the Jianghu? Am I that easy to bully? The more you do this, the less I, your father, will give you the final four layers of the technique! If you have the guts, kill me! You bloodthirsty insects!"

Xu Ruhu's two eyes had already begun to leak black, pus-like blood; that Poison Needle had been quenched with poison by Duan Rong!

"Good!" Duan Rong suddenly spoke: "Since you want to die, then I will send you on your way!"

Duan Rong drew his Ox-Tail Saber with a *shing* sound, then his figure flashed, and by the time he stood still, the saber was already resting on Xu Ruhu's neck.

Xu Ruhu, with pus flowing from his eyes, sneered: "Come on! Cut off this old man's head! I, damn it, have long been tired of living!"

Xu Ruhu's manner was very arrogant, because he believed that the person before him was merely Xie Lei's lackey and would absolutely not dare to kill him!

Besides, could that Xie Lei withstand the temptation of the final four layers of the Womb Treasury Sutra?

The Womb Treasury Sutra! The supreme treasure of the Taiyi Sect; Xu Ruhu did not believe anyone could remain unmoved.

Had he not used the first four layers to incite Xie Lei to hijack him out of the prison?

The face beneath Duan Rong's mask was cold and hard as stone; without a hint of hesitation, he suddenly thrust his saber through Xu Ruhu's heart!

Xu Ruhu felt the pain, the madness on his face faded, and he immediately realized his heart had been pierced. He clutched his chest and rolled on the ground. He knew he was dying; humanity's most primal fear of death engulfed him, and he pleaded shrilly: "Save me! Save me! I still have the final four layers of the Womb Treasury Sutra in my hands. Doesn't Xie Lei want them? I'll tell you where they are! Save me... I'll tell you where they are right now..."

Duan Rong, at this moment, had already retreated to the corner of the wall; he did not intend to tell Xu Ruhu that he was not sent by Xie Lei at all!

He had never thought he could obtain the final four layers of the Womb Treasury Sutra from Xu Ruhu.

Xu Ruhu was already a cripple; the only reason he could stay alive was because he held the final four layers of the Womb Treasury Sutra in his hands.

Duan Rong believed that Xu Ruhu himself must also deeply understand this point!

The final four layers of the Womb Treasury Sutra in his hands were equivalent to his life; once he handed them over, he would die!

How could he be willing to hand them over?

Xie Lei might still be thinking of wearing him down slowly, or considering some method to trick him into handing them over!

But, Duan Rong, at this moment, simply did not have that time!

Moreover, Xu Ruhu's death was already a fixed matter in the operation plan!

Taking Xu Ruhu's death as the starting point was where this operation plan truly began!

Duan Rong, at this very moment, had finally arrived at the starting point of this operation plan!

From the time he was deducing the plan in that cramped dormitory at the Yuanshun Escort Agency, he had determined one thing: that Xie Lei was far more dangerous than Xu Ruhu!

Although Xu Ruhu was a cunning thug, he had been locked up for nearly two months; after such a long time of torture, he was already half-dead, with at most one breath left.

But Xie Lei was different.

Duan Rong had repeatedly deduced, yet he could never fathom how Xie Lei, after clearly leaving, had appeared in the Dungeon again to hijack Xu Ruhu?

This perhaps indicated that Xie Lei possessed some unreasonable, unfathomable means!

Xie Lei had gone to the Ya Men before dawn today; as soon as Shen Yanliu arrived at the Ya Men in the morning, he gave the order to Xie Daohan that the city gates must be opened for passage today!

The four city gates had been closed for two days; if they continued to be closed like this, the case would not be solved, and other issues would ferment!

Xie Daohan had no choice; an official one rank higher could crush you. Besides, he had already searched the whole city but had gained nothing, not even a single useful clue!

Closing the city gates further would indeed cause conflicts; he could only increase manpower and strictly inspect those coming and going!

Xie Daohan pondered repeatedly and always felt that this matter was done by some hidden experts among the major factions!

How could ordinary factions have this capability?

Therefore, among the Constables, he selected a few skilled ones and had them lead teams to monitor the movements of the major factions!

As Xie Daohan's own nephew, and with a martial arts level at the Inner Breath Realm Second Layer, such a task naturally could not exclude him.

The target he was assigned to monitor was precisely the Yuanshun Escort Agency!

At this time, it was already the late hour of the night, and most of the shops on West Street had already closed.

On the roof of a tile house not far across the street from the back door of the Yuanshun Escort Agency, Xie Lei, wearing night-traveling clothes with two Constables, was lying there keeping watch...

"I don't know which god-forsaken bastard hijacked the prison! It has harmed us brothers terribly! If I catch that guy, I'll definitely castrate him!" One of the short, thin Constables yawned and complained.

"Isn't that so? In the middle of the night, drinking wind here, how is this a life for a human?" Another Constable also complained.

Xie Lei lay there, his eyes fixed on the Back Courtyard of the Yuanshun Escort Agency; he suddenly turned his head and said angrily: "Enough, say less!"

The two Constables were slightly stunned. Xie Lei usually had a very good temper; he had never cared about what they complained about, and often joined them in cursing, so although Xie Lei was Xie Daohan's own nephew, everyone did not feel distant from him.

But what was wrong today?

A bit abnormal; maybe he was in a bad mood! The two little Constables thought.

Xie Lei suddenly stood up and said: "You two keep watch here; I'll go patrol the vicinity and take a look."

"Brother Lei, you just go ahead; leave this place to us!"

Xie Lei nodded, jumped off the roof, and his figure disappeared into the night!

He had no intention of patrolling at all; he was preparing to go home!

After all, there was a new development in the city today, which was that the city gates had already been opened!

Although there were strict inspections for entering and exiting, at least one could leave the city!

Taking advantage of this, he prepared a new set of rhetoric, thinking of going to try and pry more information out of Xu Ruhu.

Xie Lei took advantage of the night and returned to his own remote and dilapidated courtyard.

As usual, he stood in the middle of the courtyard and looked around, finding nothing unusual, only then did he open the door to the main room!

In the pitch-black night, he looked at the ground at the doorway of the main room, only to see that the patch of Fluorescent Powder at the entrance was still emitting faint, uniform light, with no traces of having been stepped on.

Xie Lei leaped, crossed this area, and checked the Inner Room and windows on the east and west sides once more, finding everything as usual, and finally breathed a slight sigh of relief.

This was his daily routine; he had always believed that caution is the parent of safety!

After Xie Lei finished checking these, he walked to the courtyard, stood at the entrance of the main hall, and looked up at the dry well beside the courtyard wall!

His brows could not help but knit together; that old thing Xu Ruhu was truly difficult to deal with, and trying to pry anything out of his mouth was just like snatching meat from the jaws of a wild dog.

However, he could wait!

He had plenty of patience!

He was determined to obtain the final four levels of the Womb Treasury Sutra!

(End of this chapter)