Chapter 44: Borrowing It for Use

Li Banfeng was bound hand and foot with iron chains and locked into the seedling room.

The so-called seedling room is a hostage room. This mother and three sons made a living by drugging and harming people.

Just today, before Li Banfeng was harmed, a pair of mother and daughter also fell into their hands.

This mother's name was Xiao Yeci, twenty-two or twenty-three years old, wearing a large-lapel long shirt. Her face was full of mud and scars, but it couldn't hide the beauty of her features, especially between her brows, which carried a unique intellectual and dignified air of a scholar.

Her daughter's name was Lu Chunying, looking like twelve or thirteen years old, dressed similarly to her mother, but without that scholar's temperament.

Seeing Li Banfeng thrown into the seedling room, the daughter was very curious and stepped forward to touch Li Banfeng.

Mother Xiao Yeci hurriedly pulled her daughter back and kept whispering in her daughter's ear: "Nannan, don't move around, listen to Mom, don't move anything."

The seedling room wasn't large, only seven or eight square meters. There was a pile of firewood in the middle of the room. Li Banfeng was thrown to the left of the firewood pile, and Xiao Yeci hugged her daughter and hid to the right of the firewood pile, trying to keep as much distance from Li Banfeng as possible.

Nearly an hour passed, the night grew deep, the daughter fell asleep in Xiao Yeci's arms, and Xiao Yeci's eyelids also grew heavier, dozing off from time to time.

Li Banfeng had saved up some strength. Taking advantage of the fact that both mother and daughter were asleep, Li Banfeng bit the key with his teeth and slowly made a turning motion.

Ge ge~ Ge ge~

A sense of stagnation came from the key handle, which proved that it had already sensed the Leaving Suishenju.

But the angle Li Banfeng's neck could move was limited, and the action of turning three times wasn't that easy to complete.

His arms couldn't move because they were locked by iron chains, so Li Banfeng could only control the key with his teeth and tongue, turning it slowly.

His teeth knocked against the key handle, making a slight sound.

Lu Chunying opened her eyes and secretly looked at Li Banfeng.

Li Banfeng swallowed the key back into his mouth and glared fiercely at Lu Chunying.

Lu Chunying was startled and hurriedly withdrew her gaze.

This girl is really meddlesome. What the hell is she looking at!

With her looking over like this, Li Banfeng's previous efforts were all in vain.

The poison on his body was still taking effect, and Li Banfeng's physical strength was almost exhausted. He had just about to spit out the key when the little girl turned her face to peek again.

Still looking!

Li Banfeng's eyes were even more ferocious, as if he would eat someone at any moment.

Lu Chunying hurriedly turned her face away, waited for a moment, and really couldn't help it, so she looked again.

That man was gone!

He was just here; how could he suddenly disappear?

"Mom, that person, he..."

"Don't move around, don't talk nonsense," Xiao Yeci hadn't woken up yet and was still muttering, "Nannan, listen to Mom, we definitely won't have any trouble."

Li Banfeng returned to the Leaving Suishenju. Before entering the door, he spat the key into the firewood pile outside the door.

Lying in the Leaving Suishenju for a while, Li Banfeng began to vomit violently, vomiting out the food he had eaten in the evening, along with bile.

After vomiting, Li Banfeng's whole body convulsed, and a large amount of sweat poured out.

The sweat carried a fishy and bitter smell. Smelling this aura, Li Banfeng had the urge to vomit again.

This sweat, like the vomit, was the toxin discharged by the body.

He was detoxifying rapidly. This is the characteristic of residential cultivation, but this time it was different from the situation of being poisoned on the Bitter Fog Mountain. It wasn't just detoxifying through vomiting, but also through sweating.

Why were the methods of detoxification different?

Was it because the toxicity was different, or had the means of detoxification improved?

Li Banfeng wanted to wipe the sweat off his face, but his hands and feet were bound by iron chains, and he couldn't move.

There were sweat beads flowing into his eyes, and the corners of Li Banfeng's eyes felt a burst of intense burning pain.

No, he must hurry and break free from the chains, and he must wipe the sweat off his body to avoid being poisoned again.

But how could he break free from the iron chains?

Li Banfeng had recovered part of his physical strength, but relying on brute force to break free from iron chains thicker than hemp ropes was truly a fantasy.

Are there tools in the Leaving Suishenju?

Yes, there are pliers and wrenches, used to repair the phonograph.

The tools were in the bottom cabinet of the phonograph. Li Banfeng crawled to the phonograph, but his arms and wrists couldn't move, but his palms could move. He struggled to take out the tool box and cut with the pliers for a long time, but the iron chains didn't change at all.

The tools for repairing the phonograph were too delicate and not suitable for doing such rough work.

The sweat came out more and more, and Li Banfeng's eyes couldn't open. Between the burning pain, they began to swell.

Wouldn't he become blind?

When refining the elixir, Chu Yunlong's clothes turned into shredded cloth all over the floor, and Li Banfeng hadn't cleaned them up. He wanted to use the shredded cloth to wipe his eyes now, but he searched on the ground for a long time and didn't find a single piece.

He crawled to the bedside and wiped his eyes with the bed sheet, but after wiping, it didn't work, and instead, a lot of sweat was wiped onto his eyelids, and the burning pain became more intense.

Water, must find water!

Hurry and wash his eyes clean!

Li Banfeng had a water bucket, usually placed by the bedside. Whenever there was a chance, Li Banfeng would fill the water bucket.

The water in the bucket was very clean, usually used for drinking, and if it wasn't finished that day, it would be used for washing the next day.

Where is the water bucket?

Li Banfeng found the water bucket by the bedside and plunged his head into it. Until his forehead touched the bottom of the bucket, Li Banfeng didn't perceive the existence of water.

The water bucket is empty?

Impossible, when I left, the water bucket was still full!

Evaporated?

How could it be so fast!

Li Banfeng felt anxious in his heart. The more anxious he was, the more sweat he had.

Is there any other way?

Is there any?

Yes!

As long as he breaks free from the iron chains, there will be a way.

Li Banfeng thought of one thing.

Like an earthworm, relying on his memory, he crawled on the ground, slowly crawling to the corner of the room.

He twisted his body and touched the glasses case in the corner of the room.

Fortunately, this thing was still there.

Li Banfeng exerted all his strength to open the glasses case and took out a rusty elixir from inside.

A burst of stinging pain came from his palm, but Li Banfeng had no time to care and placed the rusty elixir on the iron chain.

The iron chain rusted rapidly.

After waiting for more than ten seconds, Li Banfeng exerted force abruptly, and the iron chain on his hand was broken.

Li Banfeng used the rusty elixir to smear back and forth. Before long, all the iron chains on his body were broken free by Li Banfeng.

After breaking free from the iron chains, his palms immediately cracked, and blood mixed with rust flowed out. Li Banfeng was detoxifying.

His eyes were still in intense burning pain. Li Banfeng put away the rusty elixir, had no time to care about his bleeding hands, and left the Leaving Suishenju rapidly.

As soon as he went out, the phonograph Chi! Chi! Chi! sprayed steam.

The record rotated, and the singing voice started.

The phonograph sang "The Wandering Songstress," but the lyrics had been changed.

"At the ends of the earth, at the corners of the sea,

A body of sweat, young man, don't be afraid,

It entered your eyes, it will only hurt for a few moments,

Young man, your eyes will definitely not go blind~"

Li Banfeng returned to the seedling room again.

His footsteps were very light, making no sound. Enduring the intense pain, he opened his eyes and first retrieved the key from the firewood pile.

Looking around, Li Banfeng looked at the structure of the seedling room.

There was a door with a lock on it.

There was a window, very small, with iron bars, and outside the window was the back courtyard.

A sound of water came from outside the window. Li Banfeng heard it!

There is water!

Li Banfeng was overjoyed, opened the Leaving Suishenju again, and before entering the door, threw the key outside the window.

When Li Banfeng came out of the Leaving Suishenju again, he had already arrived outside the seedling room.

This is the back courtyard. In the back courtyard, there is a well, and the old woman's second son is drawing water and sharpening a knife by the well.

The knife was almost sharpened, and the second son wanted to draw another bucket of water, preparing to rinse it.

Just as he mentioned a bucket of water to the well, it was snatched away by Li Banfeng.

"Borrowing the water for use, thank you." Li Banfeng said thank you very politely, even bowed, and conveniently hugged the second son's knees, flipping him into the well.

Li Banfeng plunged his head into the water bucket. The cool comfort immediately relieved the intense pain in his eyes.

Actually, Li Banfeng was overly nervous; the lethality of sweat to the eyes wasn't as great as he had imagined.

After washing, the pain receded by more than half, and Li Banfeng poured the whole bucket of water on himself, washing all the sweat off his body clean.

Just as Li Banfeng was washing his face, the second son climbed out of the well, gripping the well rim, watching Li Banfeng's back silently.

The second son was a martial cultivator, a person who wanted to be strong. He had been doing business with his mother and brother for more than ten years and had never let a seedling (hostage) play him.

Why was there no defense just now?

Didn't even hear a single footstep?

He didn't intend to call his mother, nor did he call his brother. Taking advantage of Li Banfeng's lack of defense, he wanted to kill this seedling with his own hands.

Li Banfeng put down the water bucket. The second son exerted force with both arms, preparing to leap out of the well.

Li Banfeng saw the knife on the ground, the knife that was almost sharpened by the second son.

He picked up the knife from the whetstone, turned back, and said to the second son: "Borrowing the knife for use."

After saying this, Li Banfeng cut the second son's throat and pushed him back into the well.

The second son, who fell into the well water, looked up at the sky at the well mouth, not understanding what had happened.

He didn't expect a traveler cultivator to make a move so quickly!

He didn't expect Li Banfeng to have no warning before making a move.

He didn't expect Li Banfeng to be seemingly focused on washing his face, but actually keeping an eye on the well mouth all along.

He wanted to call his mother, and wanted to call his brother.

But his mouth was full of blood, his nose was full of water, and he couldn't call out anything.

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