msmithbooks Chapter 82 The Wrong Posture of Instigating Rebellion
Chapter 82 The Wrong Posture of Instigating Rebellion
At this moment, the stone platform slowly sank, and the four of them entered a hexagonal stone house.The room was empty, except for a stone table in the middle, on which was written "drink" in large characters.There are two bowls of wine in the middle of the table, which are the best Luzhou Daqu.
Wei Yang recognized the smell in the air.There is a vague fragrance, not wine.The system immediately reminded him that it was some kind of ecstasy incense.Of course he knew this, and he also knew that the antidote was in the wine.But the problem is, two of the four of them don't drink alcohol!
Before Wei Yang could figure out why, Gong Jiu had already picked up one of the bowls and took a big gulp. "Good wine, Huo Xiu's money is finally worth it!" He didn't go to get another bowl, but handed the bowl in his hand to Sherlock, "One bowl for two, just right!"
Wei Yang's face turned green.What Gong Jiu meant was that he had a drink with Sherlock, and he, Wei Yang, had a drink with Ximen Chuuxue?When they are all dead!There must be a limit to self-assertion, okay?
"I don't drink." Ximen Chuuxue coldly rejected the proposal.What was colder than his voice was the needles in his hand—he didn't know when he took out a few long acupuncture needles and pricked them himself.He has already done all this in such a short time, which shows that the reaction is extremely fast and the medical skills are extremely high.
As for Sherlock, the reason he didn't speak up immediately was because he was sniffing a bottle.The bottle contained his homemade medicine, refreshing and detoxifying, and it came in handy now. "I don't drink either." He took a long sip before saying so.
As soon as the words came out, both of them gave each other a sideways glance.What Sherlock looked at was the needle on Ximen Chuixue's body, and what Ximen Chuuxue looked at was the smelling bottle in Sherlock's hand.It must be mentioned that the expressions on their faces are... hard to describe.
Very good, Chinese medicine and western medicine competed on the spot, and there was no winner, Wei Yang thought silently.
Gong Jiu looked at Sherlock, then at Ximen Chuuxue, with a look of lost interest. "You don't even drink?" He said regretfully, and turned to Wei Yang, "You learn swords, so you don't drink?"
"No, I'll drink it." Wei Yang said decisively. "How can you miss a good wine!" Just kidding, Ximen Chuuxue seemed to want to give him a few needles too, and Sherlock would definitely explode - that would be better than drinking, wouldn't it?
He drank another bowl of wine in one go, Gong Jiu was very surprised. "You drink well?"
"Pretty good," Sherlock interrupted abruptly.Of course he knew why Wei Yang chose to drink - to avoid choosing between his and Ximen Chuuxue's methods - so he was a little annoyed.
But the one who was most shocked was Ximen Chuuxue. "Really?" Those who learn swordsmanship must learn well, their hands must be steady, their hearts must be calm, their reactions must be quick, and their minds must be focused.Alcohol is undoubtedly the enemy of these requirements, so he does not drink alcohol.But Wei Yang not only drank, but also drank a lot, so how could he learn the world-famous swordsmanship?
"If you live in a place like mine, if you don't drink, you'll be like a snowman." Wei Yang replied.The snow-capped mountains are frozen all year round, and his internal strength is still of the ice and snow department, but he is not a real snowman!Immediately afterwards, he raised his hand, and the bowl drew a half arc in the air.The remaining liquor in it instantly condensed into hoarfrost-like ice crystals, and the sound was particularly crisp when it hit the stone wall. "And if you don't drink it, wouldn't it be a waste if you smash it?"
The other three people took a closer look and noticed that there was a word on the bottom of the broken bowl, "fall", and they all understood immediately.
The stone wall moved, revealing the dark steps behind it, and the direction was still downward.The small building doesn't look that big from the outside, and this place has obviously entered the mountainside.There is no light in the dark passage, but after descending dozens of steps, a jewel of jewels suddenly appeared in front of it.
This is a very open stone chamber with a radius of tens of feet.There are swords and weapons and mountains of gold and silver jewels everywhere, and those lights are their reflections under the torches.
"Huo Xiu is indeed as rich as an enemy." Gong Jiu took a step forward, his eyes sparkling.Of course he is not someone who has never seen money, in fact he is the richest among the four; but he wants to seize the throne, and he will spend the most, so naturally he seems the most interested.But he immediately realized that the other three people hadn't moved, and retreated without a trace. "But why does he keep four old men here? I don't think they know any martial arts."
Indeed, they didn't meet anyone after entering the door, but four people suddenly appeared here.It doesn't look like a trap, because the four old men are all wearing rolling dragon robes and sitting on golden dragon chairs.Apart from the illusion of having four emperors, they don't look threatening.
"Four fake giant Jinpeng kings." Sherlock said without blinking.It is true that King Jinpeng is dead, and Yan Tieshan also said that someone tried to claim property, so he can definitely draw this conclusion.
The four old men were originally doing their own things, but when they heard this, they suddenly became excited.
"I'm real! Really!"
"Nonsense, I am the real one!"
"Give me a word of conscience, they are all fake!"
Wei Yang was so quarreled that his brain hurt, and he rewarded each of them with an exclusive cold hand.The four of them froze in place in different postures, and the world was finally clean. "I only know one thing. Huo Xiu is not here, and it seems that the exit mechanism will be opened from the outside."
He was right.On the secret passage they came down from, the stone door had already been closed silently, and it would definitely not work to go back.And there is a square crack on the stone wall opposite them, which looks like a Taoist gate.
Gong Jiu walked over, knocked on the stone wall twice, and then smiled. "It's only about three inches thick." He didn't even touch the whip, and turned his palm directly: "Of course it's enough to lock up these wastes, but for us, why is it so difficult?"
The eyes of the four old men cracked when they heard this.But before the words were finished, Gong Jiu struck down with a palm, and a lot of dust was shaken off the roof of the stone room.He took a casual step back with a relaxed expression on his face.The next moment, the stone wall cracked radially in front of him, and then collapsed to the ground with a bang.
The dust settled, revealing another corridor behind.It's just that half of the rest of the stone room is broken, and it definitely needs to be repaired.
"Waste of effort." Sherlock commented calmly.
"Fortunately, we were not buried together." Wei Yang's face was dark.He knew it would turn into a house demolition—no, now it's a demolition of a mountain!
Ximen Chuuxue continued to remain silent.He is almost certain now that Gong Jiu's internal strength is the highest among them.Coupled with the extremely fast self-healing ability of the body, it feels almost invulnerable.But people look very unreliable...
The other is the one who always wears black.The attitude is very rude, it seems that only Wei Yang can understand, and will stop the man in black before he can say something.Martial arts are unknown, and it is estimated that they are not far behind.His vision is sharp, and his medical skills should be very good.Last but not least, the other party seemed to have an inexplicable hostility towards him?
As for Wei Yang, it was surprising at first that he could drink, but it was not incomprehensible.But with the two-handed whip and the wine, beyond all his expectations, he became more and more interested.
Therefore, compared to Huo Xiu, Ximen Chuuxue wanted to know the answers to these questions - where did Gong Jiu come from?Wei Yang and the man in black seem to be very familiar, did they know each other before?
After all the calculations, it was really worthwhile for him to go out this time!
At this moment, Gong Jiu has already rushed into the passage in a few steps. "The process doesn't matter, what matters is the result, doesn't it?"
At the end of the passage is a door.Huo Xiu was sitting inside, wearing a whitishly washed blue dress, warming wine on a small red clay stove with a broken tin pot.There was a lot of movement before, causing half of the mountain to shake, and it was impossible for him not to notice it.But he still sat there, as if he was just waiting for the wine to warm up.To the four uninvited guests, his only reaction was: "My wine is not enough for so many people."
Logically speaking, given the news that they cracked the organ, Huo Xiu couldn't change the organ's settings, so it would be no problem for him to run away.Now that he was sitting on the ground leisurely, either Huo Xiu was ready to die, or there were agencies waiting for them.But judging from Huo Xiu's behavior style, the former one is impossible at all.
The four of them knew this truth, but none of them said it out loud, they just paid attention to up, down, left, and right.
"You are Huoxiu?" Sherlock asked knowingly.He had already seen that the entire room was a trap, and the only exit was at Huo Xiu's feet.But he wasn't worried about them being trapped inside, because the mechanism could be manipulated from the outside, and neither Lu Xiaofeng nor Hua Manlou was a vegetarian.
"I originally only planned to entertain one person, but four of you came." Huo Xiu sighed and acquiesced to the question.
"Because you originally only wanted Lu Xiaofeng to take care of this matter." Sherlock said. "You were shocked when you saw Gong Jiu and me for the first time, it was because it was an accident, not because you had never seen us."
"I really don't know anyone in the world who is as nosy as Lu Xiaofeng." Huo Xiu admitted.
"You're too anxious." Sherlock curled his lips slightly, "When Shangguan Feiyan approached Lu Xiaofeng for the second time, you said that there were beauties accompanying her, so you deliberately provoked Lu Xiaofeng?"
"Just based on this, you doubted me from the beginning?"
"Don't you think there are too many coincidences? Lu Xiaofeng came to drink with you and practiced lightness kung fu all the way. He is so good at lightness kung fu, it's fine if he was discovered by Liu Yuhen, but Shangguan Feiyan's sedan chair also arrived in time? Once it was a coincidence, Twice? I don't believe you when you say that you didn't tip off the news. Lu Xiaofeng didn't doubt it, it's just because Liu Yuhen and the others just smashed your house worth tens of thousands of gold. As a friend, of course he doesn't think there is anything wrong with you. "
Huo Xiu was silent.Lu Xiaofeng has always been kind to his friends, of course he knows that, that's why he came up with this bitter trick.
"There is also Shangguan Danfeng's body, I don't know whether it was handled too well or too hastily." Sherlock shook his head while talking.The corpses he had seen were countless, and the murderer usually used various methods to destroy the evidence that the corpses might carry; what about Shangguan Danfeng?The corpse was as good as if it had been in the ice storage, or even better than the ice storage.At least, he hadn't come across a murder where the victim had been dead for a year and the body was still alive!
"You know that King Jinpeng is fake from her six toes? She has six toes, but it doesn't mean that King Jinpeng has six toes?" Huo Xiu asked again.
"It was just a guess at first." Sherlock admitted directly, "But Yan Tieshan affirmed it."
In fact, he knew that six-toed is a dominant inheritance of X chromosome.Since Shangguan Danfeng has six toes, at least one of her parents also has six toes.It is difficult for ordinary people to judge, but the royal family is clear - if the royal gene is normal, the prince will not marry a wife with six-toed anomaly, or the possibility is very small; It can only be the royal family's own genes, that is, King Jinpeng himself.
"It's really not as good as man's calculation." Huo Xiu sighed again. "Then you know, why am I still here?"
Sherlock glanced at him quickly. "There are four of us, you have seen three of them before. I think you already know about our martial arts. As for the fourth one, I think you can recognize it too."
"Ximen Chuuxue." Huo Xiu smiled wryly.
"Either you know you can't escape, or you want to die with your treasure." Sherlock said calmly.
"That's right, both left and right are dead." Huo Xiu nodded, "This house is an institution, but you didn't mention it, is it because there are people outside to take care of you?"
Sherlock couldn't help but give him a blank look.Not all the people on their side entered the small building, isn't the answer obvious?
"So what exactly do you want to say?" Wei Yang couldn't help asking.Why did he feel that Huo Xiu went around without saying anything meaningful?Is it delaying time?
"I have planned carefully for so long, and now I have failed to succeed, so I can only admit that I am unlucky." Huoxiu said. "You guys are still young and so smart, you will definitely be better than me in the future."
Wei Yang felt that this remark was not quite right.What does it mean to suck up to them instead?
"I'm not interested in your money." Before he could finish speaking, Sherlock refused directly.Judging by his expression, he wrote "this method is really boring". "If you want to talk about exchanging money for your life, I advise you to save money."
Huo Xiu's expression was as if he had been hit by an oncoming hammer suddenly, and the calm and calm just now disappeared in an instant.
Wei Yang suddenly realized.Huo Xiu, an old fox, knew that he couldn't beat them, so he could only endure the pain of his heart and make this terrible plan—use his treasure to instigate rebellion from within.As long as someone is tempted, he can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.It's even possible that if they both lose, the money will still belong to Huo Xiu, not a cent less.
But this trick doesn't work for Sherlock at all, Sherlock only likes thrills and puzzles.As for him, if Huo Xiu promised to give him a few favorability points, he might be tempted, but unfortunately, this will never happen.Ximen Chuuxue is not the kind of person who can be bought with money, besides, Wanmei Villa itself has a lot of property.The only one left is Gong Jiu——
"What do you all see me do? Is it just my face that says 'I'm poor and I'm short of money'?!" Received the gazes of the other three people, Gong Jiu was furious.Second Olympic!Didn't he just walk a step faster, as for that?