Chapter 682

"Staying is for your own good!" He He Lingchuan's thoughts flashed, "How did Xi Yunhe arrange your itinerary?" "I'll ride the Snail Toad and leave the city with them!" Dong Rui was puzzled, "Could there be other arrangements?"

"Are you sure they will let you go?" He He Lingchuan said coldly, "Isn't killing to silence the most secure way?"

Dong Rui was startled.

"You ride the Snail Toad out of Lingxu City, and they will kill you and dump your body on the way back." He He Lingchuan chuckled, "They don't even need to transport the body out of the city; you went out yourself, perfect."

"You..." Dong Rui wanted to say you were alarmist, but his heart was in a mess.

"Do you think Xi Yunhe is not that kind of person? Is Grand Coordinator Frost Leaf not that kind of person?" He He Lingchuan continued to whisper like a devil, "Let me tell you, since Grand Coordinator Qingyang accused you, it means she saw that you and Grand Coordinator Frost Leaf are in the same group. In front of the Heavenly Gods, this is an extremely severe accusation, so to protect himself, Grand Coordinator Frost Leaf must not stumble over you!"

Otherwise, how could Grand Coordinator Qingyang think of someone like Dong Rui? At such a critical moment, she would absolutely not say useless words or do useless things. Grand Coordinator Qingyang's desperate counterattack must be very targeted.

A chill went through Dong Rui's heart.

This is not the first time he has cooperated with Grand Coordinator Frost Leaf.

He has more or less figured out what kind of person this Grand Coordinator is and what kind of character Xi Yunhe, his subordinate, has.

His sense of smell for danger has always been very keen, but this time he was scared by Grand Coordinator Qingyang's accusation and was a bit confused; now that He He Lingchuan pointed it out, he reacted immediately.

"What should I do now?" Dong Rui said urgently, "Can you help me escape?"

"If you escape now, you will have to face the pursuit of two great Grand Coordinators, plus the Heavenly Palace guards—relying only on two legs." He He Lingchuan analyzed calmly for him, "Don't forget your rotten face, who wouldn't have a deep impression of it?"

The key to escaping from a city lies in blending into the marketplace so that no one can find your tracks.

Just based on this face of Dong Rui, tsk tsk, impossible!

"Then what do you say I should do!" Dong Rui was almost gnashing his teeth, "Don't you usually have all kinds of tricks? Help me think of one, hurry!"

He calls that having all kinds of tricks; He He Lingchuan thought for a moment: "Who does the Snail Toad listen to, yours or Xi Yunhe's?"

"Of course it's..." Before Dong Rui finished speaking, a guard walked in, full of suspicion: "Is everything okay? There seems to be movement here?"

This fellow was newly transferred, unlike the original guards who were used to being scolded by Dong Rui and wanted to take a detour when they saw him. Dong Rui smiled coldly: "I farted, burped, do you want to visit?"

This guard choked and said angrily: "Speak properly!"

Dong Rui said grimly: "Do you know who I am?" People who dared to speak to him like this in the past had long been fed to demon puppets. Well, except for the He surname.

This guard was about to speak, but his companion rushed over from outside, pulled him and said: "Don't look for trouble at this time!" Then he said to Dong Rui, "Sorry, he's new."

The two retreated, Dong Rui closed the door, took some materials from his bag and spread them on the table, casually set up a barrier, and then continued to say to the eyeball spider: "Come, continue."

He He Lingchuan was helpless and repeated: "Who does the Snail Toad listen to?"

"Oh oh, of course it listens to me!" Dong Rui's voice was very proud, "I am their creator!"

"If you and Xi Yunhe give orders at the same time, will it listen to yours?"

"Yes."

"Without hesitation?" He He Lingchuan confirmed again, "This concerns your life, don't be arrogant."

"It is without hesitation!" Dong Rui chirped, "I have my own methods."

"That's easy to handle." Since Dong Rui is full of confidence, He He Lingchuan can only trust his ability to control demon puppets, "When Xi Yunhe arrives on the Snail Toad, you ride it and run, or shake off Xi Yunhe and his subordinates on the way. No matter which method you choose, you cannot let them stick closely behind you!"

"Hmm, that's not hard to do." Dong Rui's eyes rolled, "And then?"

"Later, I will arrange some smoke screens for you so that Xi Yunhe and Lingxu City won't be able to figure out where you went, and they won't have time to care about you." He He Lingchuan said urgently, "But after you seize the Snail Toad, you must come to me. I have an excellent place for you... and the Snail Toad."

Dong Rui muttered: "Why don't I just leave?"

"Because the taste of being wanted by Lingxu City is not good, you have experienced it before, right?" He He Lingchuan said in a low voice, "Let's discuss carefully how to get rid of this wanted notice."

Dong Rui was stunned: "You have a way?"

"As long as Lingxu City thinks you are unimportant, it will be fine." He He Lingchuan said, "After last night, Lingxu City has a lot of trouble of its own; if it doesn't look up to you, it will be too lazy to care about you."

"How to do it?"

"I'm still thinking." He He Lingchuan said angrily, "You don't think that such a huge trouble can be solved by me just by thinking about it? But if you run away now, Lingxu City will chase you to the ends of the earth. Divine blood is a major heart disease for the Heavenly Gods, much more serious than the reason you were wanted last time; they will not stop until they achieve their goal."

Dong Rui has also had enough of the days of hiding his head and showing his tail.

He He Lingchuan added: "Not to mention anything else, if there is no specialized organization to provide this Snail Toad with a large amount of summer-withered herbs, then this characteristic of it is very easy to trace."

Xi Yunhe can ride this Snail Toad to travel freely and commit crimes at will because he has the strong material and human support of Grand Coordinator Frost Leaf behind him.

Dong Rui alone cannot handle it.

Based on He He Lingchuan's understanding of Dong Rui's fussy personality, these reasons might not be enough to move him, so he racked his brains while speaking.

To his surprise, Dong Rui nodded without much hesitation: "Okay, I'll stay."

Huh? Surprisingly straightforward, why? Next, the two exchanged their eyeball spiders under the guards' noses. He He Lingchuan left this little thing nearby, slipped out of the carriage and horse inn quietly, and asked for a bowl of noodle soup in a noodle shop thirty feet away.

It was cold, and sitting in a sheltered shop slurping a bowl of hot braised pork trotter noodles, and then watching the pedestrians on the road shrinking from the cold, that sense of happiness suddenly rose.

This was a shop he found randomly; he didn't expect the soup base to be so fragrant and rich, and the pork trotters were also braised just right, the skin and meat were soft and rotten, but the tendons were still chewy.

The rice noodles here were as thin as hair; it was actually the kind He He Lingchuan had in Baishajue, and it also came with a plate of salted crispy peanuts.

Of course, in Lingxu City, such a bowl of good soup and noodles costs at least three times more than in Baishajue.

A bowl of noodles definitely couldn't satisfy him. After slurping the noodles, there was still a lot of soup left in the bowl, so he learned from other regular customers and added a few golden silk cakes to eat with the beef soup.

The cakes were so crispy they fell apart, and soaking them in the soup gave them another flavor.

Not bad, this shop is really not bad; I wonder if Dong Rui has tasted it.

He was eating happily here, and movement came from the eyeball spider's side: the dwarf shrubbery it was perched on was facing the open space in the backyard of the carriage and horse inn. At this moment, in He He Lingchuan's field of vision, the empty muddy ground suddenly sank slightly, and then a huge figure floated up!

Snail tentacles, tadpole body, toad limbs...

Of course, there was also that iconic giant shell like a small house.

The Snail Toad has arrived.

Long time no see, He He Lingchuan actually felt two parts of intimacy toward it.

After the Snail Toad stretched out, a person jumped out from under the snail shell; it was Xi Yunhe!

He jumped over the wall easily and asked the guard who came up to meet him: "Any situation?"

"Everything is normal." Dong Rui was still there, so the guard didn't mention the little unpleasantness just now. Besides, it's not strange for this kind of weirdo to talk to himself; he looks like a loser with no friends.

Xi Yunhe pushed the door and entered, seeing the table full of things, and Dong Rui was still busy:

"Is Mr. Dong still tinkering with these?"

"Idle is idle." Dong Rui glanced at him and began to pack up the things on the table, "Where is Grand Coordinator Frost Leaf?"

"Grand Coordinator has gone out on business, I am fully responsible here." He reminded Dong Rui, "It's time to go, the Snail Toad is outside."

Grand Coordinator Frost Leaf went out? He He Lingchuan felt a move in his heart when he heard these words.

The two great Grand Coordinators have been fighting for over a hundred years, and now is the critical moment to take down Grand Coordinator Qingyang; how could Grand Coordinator Frost Leaf be willing to be absent? Dong Rui glanced at Xi Yunhe and suddenly reached out to him: "What about the reward? The Snail Toad has been cured, and my work in Lingxu City is finished."

Grand Coordinator Frost Leaf said that this fellow's reward cannot be defaulted on, otherwise he will trip you up in other aspects. Xi Yunhe smiled, took out a box from his bosom and handed it over: "Mr. Dong is a straightforward person, I will have to ask for your help again next time."

"We'll see." Dong Rui opened it to check the goods, and even reached in to knead it to confirm it was correct, before using his usual perfunctory and annoying tone, "I have to avoid the limelight for a while, don't look for me during this period."

Xi Yunhe smiled without any hard feelings: "That goes without saying."

This kind of smile was too much like He He Lingchuan's; it was like a shark showing its teeth, and Dong Rui shivered subconsciously.

Previously he hadn't noticed anything, but after being pointed out by the He kid, no matter how he looked at Xi Yunhe, he looked malicious, as if he were preparing to dump his body.

By the way, no matter how rude he was before, Xi Yunhe always smiled. He originally thought this guy had a good temper, but now thinking about it, that's not the case.

For a dying person, anyone would be too lazy to care, right? "Go!" Dong Rui strode outward.

Xi Yunhe naturally followed closely. According to the original plan, the four of them were to escort Dong Rui to ensure he rode the Snail Toad out of Lingxu City.

However, he only followed to the wall when Dong Rui suddenly turned his head and said: "Oh, I almost forgot, help me bring the box at the head of the bed. Be careful, the bottles inside will easily explode if they collide!"

Xi Yunhe nodded backward, and a guard immediately rushed into the room.

Dong Rui jumped over the wall and saw his beloved puppet.

"Oh, after a few days, the tentacles have finally grown back!" The He surname last time used gunpowder to blow it up, and the Snail Toad's eyes even fell off one; it was not easy to grow them all back.

He was truly possessed by a ghost to agree to continue cooperating with that plague god! Seeing him, the Snail Toad also seemed very happy, its tentacles shook, and it tamely lowered its giant head toward him.

(End of chapter)