Chapter 615: Everyone here will die!

Liu Li gritted his back teeth: "I don't understand—when did I slip up, that you still suspect me?"

"Or am I not acting well enough?"

Li Qingluo: "Of course it's excellent."

"But it's precisely because it's too perfect that it raises suspicion."

After she spoke, Que'er and Zheng Mama beside her both showed expressions of "now I understand."

As it turns out, the young lady never truly trusted this person.

Tonight, with one mishap after another, the two of them hadn't even reacted yet.

They were just following the young lady's lead, acting according to her attitude.

Only just now, when the young lady questioned Liu Li, did they realize deep down that they had fallen into Liu Li's trap.

They didn't even know when Xuan Cang and the four other kills left, or when they went to run errands for the young lady.

But perhaps it's precisely because they didn't notice that Liu Li also didn't notice.

This at least gave Que'er and Zheng Mama some comfort in their hearts.

But seeing that the young lady had things figured out, they naturally weren't afraid anymore.

Such things weren't happening for the first time.

For things they couldn't see clearly, the young lady could always see them at a glance.

Haven't we gotten through numerous dangers this way?

The two exchanged a glance, and inwardly they both let out a sigh of relief.

Their admiration and pride for their young lady welled up again.

Liu Li: "I don't understand—where exactly did I go wrong?"

"Tell me!"

"Was it that my attitude upon entering the cave was too eager?"

"Or did you already notice something when we were in the stone cavern?"

"Could it be those two corpses?"

"But these aren't enough for you to suspect me!"

Others didn't understand what Liu Li meant by the two corpses, but Li Qingluo did.

Those were the two subordinates of Batu'er that Li Qingluo killed herself.

Originally, when she was looking for herself after the killing, those two corpses were still on the ground when they left the cave, but when Li Qingluo returned, the two corpses on the ground had been completely cleaned up.

Who cleaned them up?

Liu Li anxiously throwing over a hundred corpses into the pond looked like a slave desperately feeding corpses to a giant beast demon.

The expression on his face as he threw the corpses was too devout for Li Qingluo to ignore.

So those two corpses must also have been thrown in by him when he secretly turned back and rushed to do so.

Moreover, Li Qingluo had already suspected Liu Li long before that.

"Batu'er said before he died, 'You will not die a good death.'"

"Why would he say you will not die a good death?"

"Or rather, 'you should die'?"

"Batu'er might truly not be a good person, but are you saying everything you said is true?"

"Take your wife, for example."

"You said she is mute."

"But when I gestured to her, she couldn't understand at all."

"A mute who doesn't understand sign language—aside from her faking muteness, what else could she be?"

"Perhaps these aren't enough to make me suspicious, but when you left home and said goodbye to your wife and children, although you tried hard to look worried and reluctant, they weren't as genuine as your act."

"Even their eyes held a hidden urgency."

"What were they anxious about?"

"Were they anxious for us to leave so they could deploy the next step, running out of time?"

"Or were they anxious that we were moving too slow, that if dawn came, this act couldn't continue?"

As Li Qingluo spoke, Liu Li's face grew paler and paler.

He didn't want to admit it, but he couldn't avoid facing his own ashen pallor.

"So, at that time you already had your people stay behind?"

"But I clearly saw them setting out with us!"

"I counted the camels and the people, and there was no mistake!"

"I don't understand—when did your people seize my family?"

"And when did they completely see through me?"

Li Qingluo: "We certainly went together."

"But you were too eager to move those hundred-plus corpses, so after reaching the stone cavern you forgot to count my people, right?"

"At that time I had already sent Senior Brother and the four other kills back to check on your family's situation."

"Not surprisingly, just as we sat down here, your troops arrived."

"My aunt said those were fireflies from heaven."

"But you have plenty of experience, creating the illusion of at least five hundred troops."

"Although I don't understand how you did it, it really did almost fool us."

"Later, after hiding on the rear mountain slope, you deliberately led us to discover this secret place behind."

It's strange; we clearly made such a huge noise, hammering a hole in the wall, but those people who were clearly just over a ridge seemed to have heard nothing at all.

After entering this cave, although we could hear the footsteps of those pursuing us after walking several hundred meters out, we heard no sound of camels at all.

If there truly were five hundred troops, the first to become restless should have been the camels outside the cave, or even the noisy sounds.

You have been leading the way, eagerly wanting to rush us to your destination.

Only now did I become completely convinced that you have a problem.

Indeed, following you I came to this place, and upon seeing this pitch‑black so‑called deity statue I finally understood what you are up to.

You intend to lure us us in here, then kill us to feed your insatiable pond, or is it this deity statue?

Liu Li stopped speaking.

Just his face was already as black as a pot bottom; obviously Li Qingluo had guessed it almost exactly.

Li Qingluo saw that he wouldn't shed tears even seeing a coffin, so she turned her gaze to Xuan Cang.

"Senior Brother, you've worked hard."

Xuan Cang nodded and then stepped forward.

"Junior Sister, rest assured, his tricks have been completely destroyed by us."

"As Junior Sister guessed, those five hundred troops are fake."

"Everything is a scheme cooked up by his family; they burned something and scattered it into the sky, where it creates illusions in the air—if we hadn't been close enough to see clearly, we all would have almost fallen for their deceit."

"Moreover, his wife is not only not mute, she is also a master of vocal imitation."

"Her son, her parents, too, are all skilled at vocal imitation."

"This family of four, just imitating five hundred people is already enough; I think they could easily perform a chorus of thousands of troops."

After Xuan Cang saw through these tricks, he naturally captured the whole family cleanly.

He too is a wanderer of the martial world, and he has plenty of ways to deal with such people.

Zheng Mama, hearing this, flushed with anger and spat, "Too hateful!"

"Liu Li, do you feel worthy of the Old Lady?"

"The Old Lady gave you a chance back then, sending you to the Western Regions to seek survival, yet you remain an ungrateful beast!"

Liu Li: "Man, not acting for himself, invites heavenly wrath and earthly annihilation!"

"What wrong have I done?"

"The Old Lady gave me the chance to start anew, but without Shatuo Fo in this Western Region, I would have died countless times already!"

"Shatuo Fo is the deity I ought to serve all my life."

"You mortals will all die someday; why not die in a way that has value?"

Li Qingluo: "Scum!"

"Then why don't you die first?"

"You cling to life and fear death; what right do you have to deprive others of their lives?!"

"Do you even know how many people you have killed?"

"If you want to serve, then come forth!"

"First drag his wife and children before that damned Buddha statue and kill them!"

"His deity will surely be greatly comforted by his filial devotion!"

Upon her saying this, Liu Li's face finally showed a hint of fright.

"I have lost."

"There's nothing more to say."

"But my wife and children are innocent! My son is only nine; how can you be so ruthless?"

"Could you, with your magnanimity, direct any killing or cutting toward me instead, and perhaps spare them?"

Liu Li's face was streaked with tears and snot, looking truly frightened.

Li Qingluo stared at him and smiled.

She only answered with two words: "Cannot."

Liu Li's shocked face quickly cracked completely.

"You vicious, poisonous woman!!"

He no longer pretended, wanting to rise and unleash a torrent of curses.

Sha Er and Sha San immediately stepped forward and firmly pressed him down.

Sha Si raised a hand and delivered a slap.

"Keep your mouth clean!"

"Otherwise I'll pull out your teeth one by one!"

Liu Li's mouth corner quickly began to bleed.

But he suddenly burst out laughing 'haha'.

He seems truly unafraid.

His resentful, toxic gaze fixed firmly on Li Qingluo.

"I'm not afraid of you!"

"You, you all, everyone here will die!!"

"Even if my wife and children are killed by you, with you all buried alongside me, I still won't be afraid."

"Haha, hahaha......"

As Liu Li's laughter spread, echoing sounds continuously arose within this vast hollow cavern.

It rebounded from the cliff walls into the air, then from the air back into everyone's ears.

This laugh became extraordinarily sharp and piercing.

Soon everyone could not bear it and covered their ears.

Li Qingluo pointed at Liu Li: "Stuff his mouth!"

Que'er stepped forward and kicked him hard: "You lunatic!"

Then she tore off a piece of muddy rag, rolled it into a ball, and stuffed it into Liu Li's mouth.

The laughter indeed soon stopped.

That sharp, piercing figure also disappeared.

Zhui Yu looked around and said: "Miss, be careful; Liu Li's appearance seems to be still waiting for something. It is precisely what he is waiting for that lets him act without fear."

"This place certainly still holds unknown dangers."

Li Qingluo gave a heavy nod: "Everyone, be on guard."

She pinched her fingers, originally intending to use witchcraft to probe.

She thought of the little thing in her belly, but still gave up.

Liu Li's face continually bore a gloomy smile.

But his family all had faces filled with terror.

Li Qingluo walked over and looked at Liu Li's wife.

"What are you afraid of?"

"What secret does this cave actually hold?"

"Who exactly are you working for?"

Liu Li had been sitting limp on the ground, but as soon as he saw Li Qingluo approach his family, he struggled vigorously to rise.

However, Sha Er and Sha San held him down, so no matter how he writhed, he could not turn over.

Liu Li's wife is named Xilin, a young and beautiful woman from the Western Regions.

She looked helplessly at Liu Li.

Liu Li shook his head at her.

Just as she was determined to say nothing, Li Qingluo said: "If you still believe him, why have we seen no reaction so far?"

"And you all, your lips have already turned purple."

"Do you still not understand?"

"Our group will not be easily poisoned."

"And you will become living offerings for him to sacrifice to that dark, ghostly thing."