Chapter 194

"Oh."

Li Zhuiyuan responded simply. It seemed he felt it was a bit too perfunctory, so he added another sentence:

"I wish you success."

He hadn't explicitly promised Zhao Yi that he would re-accept and protect him. Of course, there was a layer of tacit understanding between the two of them; after all, they still had to go "attend the banquet" together.

Therefore, if Zhao Yi could dodge the pursuit and return here, he would open the formation to let Zhao Yi in.

But an attack at the doorstep was also a part of the pursuit. If one couldn't step both feet into the floor tile seam in front of him, the escape hadn't been considered over yet.

Zhao Yi could definitely understand this point.

Furthermore, things hadn't reached such a heavy stage.

Li Zhuiyuan knew that killing Zhao Yi to snatch the jade wasn't the girl's true intention.

If she really wanted to do that, she should have continued to lurk quietly and give a thunderous blow when Zhao Yi returned. There was no need to specifically run in front of him to make a scene, adding unnecessary variables.

There were two small stools at the entrance of the front room. Li Zhuiyuan picked up one of them and threw it outside.

A-Yuan, who was under the girl, reached out and caught the stool.

Li Zhuiyuan walked into the room, took two bottles of soda from the counter, opened the caps with an opener, and walked out holding them.

The girl also slid down from A-Yuan at this time. They stood outside the floor tile seam, with a dirt road under their feet, but when the girl landed, she couldn't splash up any dust. Most importantly, his ears didn't hear any sound.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't think she had practiced martial arts. The Yu family couldn't be so short-sighted. It was highly probable that there was some kind of special nature about her.

This special nature was very difficult for him to replicate, or rather, he couldn't accept its price, so it didn't have reference value.

Li Zhuiyuan threw one of the soda bottles in his hand over. It was still A-Yuan who caught it, smelled it in front of his nose, and then handed it to the young lady who was already sitting on the stool.

Yu Miaomiao took the soda and blew straight into it, "glug, glug."

"Hiccup!"

She let out a series of loud hiccups, then turned the bottle upside down to indicate she had finished it.

Then, seeing Li Zhuiyuan sitting opposite her, she took out a straw, put it in, took a sip, and placed the soda bottle on her lap.

Yu Miaomiao opened her mouth, revealing two overly long canine teeth.

"Hey, do you really not care about him anymore?"

"Why should I care about him?"

"At least he accompanied you in a play."

"He got his performance fee."

"Boring. I thought you two had a good relationship."

"It's okay."

"Actually, I can not kill him."

"I thank you on his behalf."

"But I need you two to agree to a request of mine."

"He is him, I am me."

"I think he is willing to be represented by you, at least in this matter."

"Fine, I agree to your request on his behalf."

Yu Miaomiao closed her mouth and pursed her lips. Li Zhuiyuan could hear the grinding of teeth in her mouth.

"The third jade fragment is also with you, right?"

Li Zhuiyuan picked up the soda, bit the straw, and took a small sip.

"You are indeed powerful, being able to suppress the corpse Qi inside for so long."

Li Zhuiyuan continued with a small sip.

"In other words, for a period of time before, you had two jade fragments in your hands, and both were suppressed by you.

Do you know that because you did this, there wasn't a single jade fragment on the market for those few days, forcing me to throw out the one in my hand in advance to attract them to start competing and killing?"

Li Zhuiyuan continued to sip in small mouthfuls.

"Do you know that if enough people don't die, the banquet can't be opened?"

Li Zhuiyuan spat out the straw, held the soda bottle high, and looked at how much was left.

She was gilding her own face.

If she could have the same ability as him to continue sealing the jade fragments, then at least she should have had a sealing endurance contest with him.

The reason she threw out the jade fragment in her hand was because she knew she couldn't seal it anymore.

If three jade fragments with erupting corpse Qi appeared on the market at the same time, she should have had the confidence to hold onto one and show enough strength to let others only dare to compete for the other two.

But when there was only one on the market, she didn't dare to let herself become the target of public criticism either.

All of this was because Li Zhuiyuan, in order to buy time for his companions to recover from their injuries, didn't hesitate to endure the nausea and forcibly patch up the second jade fragment for a period of time.

Actually, except for the mutual destruction with Xu Yijin in the rivers and lakes.

After arriving in Lijiang, for most of the time, Li Zhuiyuan had lived a very quiet life in this guesthouse.

But the rhythm of the storms of blood and gore outside was basically caused by him.

"Hey!"

Yu Miaomiao was very angry.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't respond, just focused on drinking soda.

She finally knew what Li Zhuiyuan meant by treating her to soda; only she was silly enough to drink it like wine.

Li Zhuiyuan was waiting, waiting for her to state her true purpose, although he had already guessed it.

"After the banquet starts, I want you two to listen to me."

Li Zhuiyuan continued to drink soda.

The girl's confidence was very sufficient. What she meant was that she could let Zhao Yi go and snatch another jade fragment.

That jade fragment, she could throw it out, and she could snatch it back.

She was looking at the next stage, which was the response after entering the banquet.

Appearing today was to integrate the team for entering the banquet in advance; she wanted to be the boss.

Li Zhuiyuan had guessed her intention, but he didn't expect that she would use such a simple and crude method.

According to her train of thought, she would first raise a threatening stick, and after he was startled, she would follow her lead and step by step recognize her true request.

Was she training a dog?

Unfortunately, he didn't follow her train of thought, making her look like the one who was furious instead.

"Hey, I'm asking you a question, are you agreeing or not!"

"Glug, glug, glug..."

The soda finally hit the bottom.

Li Zhuiyuan: "I don't agree."

He was pursuing an alliance after entering the banquet to deal with the situation at that time. Zhao Yi was a qualified collaborator in his eyes, but the girl in front of him was not.

Li Zhuiyuan wasn't even willing to pretend to agree, such as agreeing first and then planning slowly, calculating slowly.

Because the possibility of a conflict erupting when cooperating with her was far higher than not cooperating and being wary of each other from the start.

She was very smart, yet very impatient.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't know why these two conflicting inner personalities would appear in one person at the same time.

It seemed that inside her body, there was another thing living.

Either be smart and calm like Zhao Yi, or just be a reckless person to the end. These two types of people could join hands and cooperate. What he feared most was this kind of person who was both smart and would suddenly flip the table on you.

Yu Miaomiao pointed at herself and said: "I'm not refined, but my parents paid a not-so-small price to raise me, so I'm very expensive. Cooperate with me, listen to my command, at least I won't calculate the peanuts and dates on you two, right?"

Li Zhuiyuan rubbed his brow and replied: "So, you mean we two have to unite to calculate you, because you are very expensive and have many fruits and melons on you."

Yu Miaomiao clenched her fists: "When I said my surname was Yu, your attention immediately shifted toward A-Yuan. Even if it was only for an instant, I sensed it. You know my family's situation, right?"

Li Zhuiyuan sighed: "Here, comparing family background will appear a bit childish."

Yu Miaomiao pointed at the ground under her feet: "You come out, I want to beat you up!"

Li Zhuiyuan pointed at the empty bottle in his hand: "Do you want to drink more? Come in and take it yourself."

Yu Miaomiao raised her eyes and looked at the guesthouse's signboard, her gaze burning.

Behind her, A-Yuan reached out and pressed his young lady's shoulder, fearing she would be impulsive.

They had checked this formation before. Breaking the formation was not easy. Even if he could forcibly tear open a section of the formation mouth, there were also people inside.

Yu Miaomiao said coldly: "Since you refuse to cooperate, then I can only treat you as my enemy."

Li Zhuiyuan nodded: "As you wish."

Yu Miaomiao turned and left, A-Yuan following behind her.

Li Zhuiyuan only then noticed that when looking from the front, A-Yuan was just thin and tall, but when looking from the back, he discovered that the other party was actually severely hunched. If the other party could fully straighten his body, he feared that he would have to turn sideways and tilt his head when entering the high-rising dirt house entrance of Fatty Jin Ge's home.

Looking down again, the dirt road outside the floor tile seam had an overall depression of several centimeters, forming a clear drop.

She had really been prepared to charge the formation just now.

Returning to the courtyard inside, Li Zhuiyuan recounted what happened at the front room entrance to his companions.

Regarding the name "Long Wang Yu," everyone didn't feel much shock, nor did they feel much pressure.

After all, they were also a Long Wang household, and there were two of them.

Tan Wenbin didn't understand at all: "Hiss... I really can't figure out what she is trying to do!"

Li Zhuiyuan: "She should have mastered part of the clues in advance and has a certain information gap with us."

Tan Wenbin: "But doesn't she know that a forced melon isn't sweet? This kind of alliance forced together will inevitably fall apart. What's the meaning?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Maybe it's just for that first sip to quench thirst."

The youth suspected that in the clues she mastered, it required her to decide one thing as the commander of the three parties when she first entered the banquet.

As for whether the alliance would have internal strife and collapse later, she might not care at all. As long as the alliance was formed, at least at the beginning, everyone would give her face. Even if it was just acting, they would follow her first decision.

What she was seeking should be this.

But if this was really the case, she could have directly laid it out, stated what each needed, lobbied, and traded. There was no need to put on an imposing posture of using power to suppress others right from the start.

This kind of person is really hard to calmly deduce her behavioral motivation.

Li Zhuiyuan rubbed his brow again.

Sigh,

He missed Zhao Yi.

Just like this, another three days passed.

The travel map in the courtyard was drawn by Tan Wenbin to be very complex and intertwined.

The atmosphere in the guesthouse was gradually turning for the better.

Because although everyone's injuries hadn't fully recovered, blood color, which hadn't been seen for a long time after the serious injuries, had already appeared on their faces.

Even if they hadn't recuperated to their peak state, they possessed the ability to "drain the pond to catch all the fish" sustainably.

No matter when or where, strength is the true foundation.

Tan Wenbin calculated the latest corpse Qi coordinate point, and after marking it, he cast his gaze on the map.

If Zhao Yi was still alive, then Zhao Yi was probably about to die.

Because the jade fragment representing him had a high frequency of activity recently, but the room for maneuver was being increasingly compressed.

Tan Wenbin: "He's about to enter a desperate situation."

Li Zhuiyuan: "He definitely still has a backup plan."

In a hidden spot on the hillside, Zhao Yi and the other three were taking a short rest.

Everyone was seriously injured, with Sun Yan and Xu Ming being the worst.

Both had fallen into a coma, and Xu Ming had even lost an arm.

The jade fragment was still continuing to rise with corpse Qi. It wouldn't be long before a new round of attacks would appear.

In fact, an important reason they could support their escape until now was that those people competing, when attacking, often prepared in advance how to guard against being snatched by another group after snatching it down.

Zhao Yi had several times calculated and utilized the anxiety and fear of these people, thereby finding gaps and drilling out of the encirclement time and time again.

The Mountain Woman's gaze deliberately lingered on Sun Yan and Xu Ming. During the previous escape, she had hinted to Zhao Yi to abandon these two heavy burdens.

But Zhao Yi remained unmoved.

She didn't believe he didn't understand. She liked this man precisely because his brain was smart, and at critical moments, he was always clearer than others.

Zhao Yi sat there, clutching his chest, occasionally making painful nasal sounds.

This period of life-and-death escape made this temporary heart made by a spider begin to be unable to bear the burden.

The Mountain Woman's gaze condensed slightly, and she asked: "Why not tell them that the group in the guesthouse still has a jade fragment, and they are all seriously injured, making them easier to snatch!"

Zhao Yi raised his head and looked at the Mountain Woman with the gaze of looking at a fool.

That kid surnamed Li really wasn't afraid of him acting as a loudspeaker to inform.

You say he's playing an empty city strategy and others will believe it?

Without a bright pillar of corpse Qi standing there, even if there was suspicion in their hearts, no one would "pretend to be smart." They were all masters who wouldn't release the hawk until they saw the rabbit. Who would risk their lives for an uncertain possibility?

Empty city strategy and luring the enemy into the trap might be synonyms.

The Mountain Woman asked uncomprehendingly: "Can't it work?"

Zhao Yi shook his head: "It can't."

The Mountain Woman: "But if it continues like this, we will really die, we will die!"

Zhao Yi lowered his head again, one hand clutching his chest, the other covering his forehead. He not only had chest pain now, but his head hurt even more.

The Mountain Woman was angry at his lack of ambition: "It's time to make a decision. We can't all die here!"

Zhao Yi didn't raise his head this time, but took a deep breath and said seriously:

"Calculating others is calculating others. If I even calculate my own people and can abandon them so easily, what kind of river am I traveling, what kind of Long Wang am I!

Don't say such things again, otherwise, I will turn against you!"

In the sky, a bird with a broken wing was still circling with great difficulty, emitting a low cry like weeping blood. The enemy was approaching.

The Mountain Woman gritted her teeth, pretending to be decadent, supporting the ground with both hands, and making a sound like crying and laughing, as if her heart had been broken:

"Why do you say that to me? Am I not doing it for your own good?"

Two centipedes crawled into the ground along her palms, and then, silently, they appeared on Sun Yan and Xu Ming.

The Mountain Woman kept staring at Zhao Yi with watery eyes. Seeing that Zhao Yi hadn't raised his head to look here, she thought:

You don't want to be the villain, I'll help you be it; their injuries are so serious, I'll help them find relief!

Just as the two poisonous centipedes opened their mouths to bite, Sun Yan, who was in a coma, suddenly opened her eyes. A purple sable suddenly drilled out from Sun Yan's clothes, its sharp claws cutting the centipede, and then the purple sable jumped onto Xu Ming at high speed, picking up that centipede.

Xu Ming, with his broken arm, let out a low shout. His body spun in the air, his joints making explosive sounds, and he collided toward the Mountain Woman. While knocking her down heavily, one hand grabbed a silver needle and stabbed it into the back of her neck.

This needle was enough to make her whole body spasm, making her unable to mobilize the Gu insects in her body for a short time.

Zhao Yi, at this time, finally raised his head, looked at the Mountain Woman expressionlessly, and said in a deep voice:

"I said, I will turn against you."

After the initial shock, the Mountain Woman immediately screamed: "Zhao Yi, I did it all for you!"

Sun Yan stood up, the purple sable sitting on her shoulder, eating a centipede with relish.

Above, the bird flew low, and the purple sable threw a centipede upward, which was caught by the bird. It even knew not to eat alone.

"Zhao Yi, I did all this for you, and you actually calculated me! I liked you so much, and you actually calculated me!"

"You did this not because you liked me, but because you didn't want to die here with me."

Zhao Yi squatted down in front of the Mountain Woman, carefully examining her face, and continued:

"I am different from that kid surnamed Li. I can't see any emotion in that guy's eyes, which is why I'm afraid of him.

Even if all his subordinates were lying there seriously injured, I would feel that the next moment he could sacrifice all his subordinates to stand up and make a final, desperate struggle.

I am different from him. If you really liked me to death, I wouldn't let you die before me."

"You're talking nonsense, you're talking nonsense, Zhao Yi, you are shameless, you heartless man!"

Immediately, the Mountain Woman let out a cold laugh: "How long can you trap me? Or do you want to kill me? Don't forget, you can continue to live all because of the life-Gu I applied to you. Zhao Yi, your life is mine, and you still dare to treat me like this, hehehe..."

The Mountain Woman's laughter stopped abruptly.

Because she saw Zhao Yi reach toward his chest and forcibly pull that big spider off.

That area was immediately bloody, but one could vaguely see inside that there was a severely damaged heart, beating slowly and very weakly.

"How... how is it possible? Isn't your heart... isn't it already..."

"Old Tian didn't have to spend the rest of his life lying in bed. He risked everything just to help me protect this last bit of heart.

He said, how could the life of the young master of the Zhao family be controlled by others.

Do you think I don't know? In that ancient tomb of the Corpse Gu Sect, the person who helped that evil spirit secretly attack me was actually you.

You saw that the evil spirit wasn't working, so you came out and said you were willing to save me."

In the Mountain Woman's gaze, viciousness was revealed. She grinned: "Then why did you still take me with you to travel along the river!"

Zhao Yi: "Old Tian couldn't do it anymore. The team lacked people. Most importantly, the team lacked a role that could be sacrificed at any time. You, you are very suitable."

The Mountain Woman's gaze fell on the jade fragment that was emitting corpse Qi: "What's the meaning? Unless you learn from that person and hand it over, otherwise you will all die. But if you hand this over, how long can this broken heart of yours keep beating?"

Zhao Yi picked up the jade fragment and placed it on the big spider.

The big spider's legs wrapped around the jade fragment and began to crazily absorb the corpse Qi on the jade fragment. Its color instantly turned black.

Seeing this, the Mountain Woman's eyes widened: "How is it possible? How can you know Gu techniques, how is it possible..."

"Having been sacrificed and raised by my heart blood for so long, is it strange that it listens to me?

Hehe, do you know why that guy surnamed Li is willing to play with me? Because even if I can't compare to him, I'm not too bad."

Zhao Yi stuffed the big spider into the Mountain Woman's mouth, and then used his own heart blood as a talisman, pointing it at her brow, forcibly urging all the Gu insects in her body to erupt, and they began to crazily suck the corpse Qi on the jade fragment.

Because the sucking was too fierce and too fast, the originally pitch-black jade fragment actually presented its original emerald color again.

And the Mountain Woman's body began to mutate, gradually becoming inhuman, like a fierce ghost.

Very quickly, she began to struggle violently, letting out roars, and the Gu insects in her body were also drilling around.

Zhao Yi kicked the Mountain Woman off the cliff. A large amount of corpse Qi rose from her body, while the jade fragment in Zhao Yi's hand no longer had corpse Qi rising, although it was still turning black at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But, this period of time was enough.

He had deliberately compressed his range of movement these days, attracting all the pursuers densely. Now their attention was attracted by the Mountain Woman, and he just happened to take advantage of this gap to jump out of the encirclement.

Zhao Yi glanced at Xu Ming and Sun Yan and waved his hand:

"Go, go and defect to my Brother Xiaoyuan!"

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Adding a chapter tomorrow to make up for the word count of this chapter.

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