mtl008 Chapter 142: Continuous Calculation
Chapter 142: Continuous Calculation
After the fake Li was fished out by them, he was tied tightly to the mast and was finally woken up by Chi Meng who splashed him with cold water.
"cough cough..."
Fake Li slowly opened his eyes, looked weakly at the people around him, forced a smile, and said:
"It seems that I am not destined to die."
"Why are you here? Where is Brother Li?"
After hearing what Zhang Zifan said, the fake Li did not react at all. His thoughts drifted to a few minutes ago, and then he smiled at himself.
Just like in the original work, the fake Li and Li Xingyun cooperated to successfully trick Yuan Tiangang into a trap and leave him on an isolated island.
In order to survive, the fake Li swam with his bare hands to catch up with Li Xingyun. After he was exhausted, he hung on a piece of driftwood until he was rescued by Zhang Zifan and others.
Fake Li didn't expect that after doing so much, he still didn't get the recognition of the Bad Leader.
However, when he thought of the Record of Tears of Blood, he knew that he still had a chance. As long as he successfully exchanged blood with Li Xingyun, he could survive.
At this time, Lu Linxuan looked at the fake Li's smile, and thought that it was this person who killed the senior brother and framed the second senior brother. He became more and more annoyed, and the emotions that he had suppressed with great difficulty were aroused again, and he said angrily:
"Why are you laughing?"
Fake Li recovered and said weakly, "Take me to shore, and I'll tell you where he is."
Chi Meng grabbed his neck and said, "Tell me now."
"If I tell you, I will no longer be of any use to you and you will kill me."
Lu Linxuan drew his sword and pointed it at him, threatening: "If you don't tell us, we will kill you now."
“You can try it. If you do that, you will never know the whereabouts of the immortality drug, and Anton-kun will naturally never be resurrected.
Unless you are willing to ask the bad commander for help."
Several people were stunned. If it was true as the fake Li said, that he knew the trace of the elixir of immortality, and it was related to the resurrection of the eldest brother, then they really had to think carefully about it.
Lu Linxuan said in disbelief: "As long as we open the Longquan treasure and get the immortality medicine inside, we can still revive Senior Brother."
The fake Li's calm and composed deception:
“The Dragon Spring Treasure Box is no longer in Qi State, and the Elixir of Immortality is not actually in the Dragon Spring Treasure.
That’s all I have to say. It doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not. You can give it a try.”
Seeing how confident he was, several people fell silent. However, Chi Meng threw a poisonous insect at him and sneered:
"Okay, I won't kill you, but I'm going to make your life worse than death."
As Chi Meng chanted the spell, the poisonous insects frantically devoured the flesh and blood of Fake Li. Even Fake Li, who had experienced thousands of cuts and knives since childhood, could not help but cry out.
He just kept shouting, "Take me ashore!"
Seeing that the fake Li was about to be tortured to death but was unwilling to speak, Zhang Zifan quickly stopped Chi Meng:
"Miss Chi Meng, please stop. If he dies, not only will we not be able to obtain the immortality elixir that can revive our senior brother, but Brother Li's grievances will also be completely erased."
Chi Meng looked at the fake Li angrily and very reluctantly released him from the poison. "Okay, I'll take you back with me, but..."
"You have to wear it this way!"
As he spoke, Chi Meng tied a rope around the fake Li's feet and threw him off the boat, letting him feel the suffocation of being completely submerged in the sea water and the feeling of being close to death.
Lu Linxuan looked at the tortured fake Li and asked Zhang Zifan, "Do you really want to take him back?"
“The Blood-Crying Record is not on him, and he looks seriously injured. If we hadn’t saved him, he would have died here today.
So I guess Brother Li should be safe for the time being.
The most important thing is that he is the only one who knows about the immortality elixir, so we have to pry the information out of him."
Thinking of this, Zhang Zifan turned to Hou Qing and said, "Hou Qing, let's return."
"Too."
Although Lu Linxuan was full of anger, she had to calm down every time she thought about her senior brother.
After a long time, the group finally returned to the dock. As soon as they got off the boat, they found that the fake Li had broken free from the rope and quietly slipped away.
At this time, Li Xingyun and Ji Ruxue also received a tip from You Chuan at the seaside market, and hurried to the pier, where they happened to meet Zhang Zifan and others who were looking for the fake Li.
The two teams finally reunited.
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Inside a private room in the inn
The atmosphere among the crowd was very depressing. Li Xingyun learned the whole story from Zhang Zifan.
As expected, I was right. My senior brother’s death was indeed related to Yuan Tiangang.
After hearing this, Li Xingyun developed a tremendous hatred for Yuan Tiangang. He clenched his fists and pressed them hard on the table, squeezing out a few words from between his teeth:
"Yuan Tiangang! And that impostor! You actually did so many bad things under my name!"
Ji Ruxue at the side also didn't look very good, although she had basically forgotten about the matter of that senior brother.
But from their conversation just now, we can learn that the eldest brother was a very good person to Li Xingyun, but such a person was actually plotted to death by someone using Li Xingyun's name.
Seeing that Li Xingyun was getting more and more excited, Zhang Zifan quickly said:
“But we still have a chance. The most urgent task now is to protect the Blood-Crying Record and the Dragon Spring Sword. As long as Hou Qing’s corpse and these two items are in our hands, the counterfeiters will definitely find another opportunity to snatch them.
As long as we catch him and make him tell us the whereabouts of the immortality drug, we can rescue our senior brother."
Li Xingyun calmed down after hearing this, looked at Hou Qing, and asked, "By the way, Hou Qing Corpse Ancestor, I haven't asked you yet, how did you know that Xue'er was poisoned?"
But this time, Zhang Zifan and the others were speechless, as they all knew that Li Xingyun was not to blame.
In order to take his feelings into consideration, the few people did not tell him that Hou Qing was sent by the empress, just to prevent Li Xingyun from thinking too much.
But Hou Qing was different. Although Li Xingyun was his uncle, Hou Qing was not familiar with him. Naturally, he would not care about anything and said whatever he wanted to say.
"It was Master's Wife who asked me to come."
"Master's wife?"
Li Xingyun was confused, because in his impression, he had never had any interaction with Hou Qing's master and his mistress. How could Hou Qing's mistress help him?
Zhang Zifan and the others were also confused. Didn't Chi Meng say that Hou Qing was sent by the empress? How did she become his master's wife?
Chi Meng explained: "When in Raojiang, Hou Guoguo once worshipped An Guoguo as his master, so the Empress sister is naturally Hou Guoguo's master's wife."
Several people suddenly realized, but what followed was a mixture of emotions such as being moved and depressed.
Li Xingyun was also moved. He didn't expect that the empress, whom he had previously thought was difficult to get along with, would actually trust him so much at this critical moment.
But when Li Xingyun thought that his senior brother died because of him, he felt even more upset.
This was also An Dongjun's plan. He included this step in the letter to Li Zhaozhao, asking her to wait until Hou Qing returned to Fengxiang before letting him set out again to rescue Ji Ruxue.
His plan was to let Li Xingyun know that even though his senior brother was no longer around, he had paved the way for Li Xingyun before he "died".
Only in this way could Li Xingyun go looking for the Longquan treasure, but the reason for looking for the treasure was not to become emperor, but to find the elixir of immortality in it to resurrect himself.
In this case, his goal is still not to become emperor, and Yuan Tiangang still loses. In this case, Yuan Tiangang loses both in terms of the contract and in fact.
Although Yuan Tiangang might discover his little trick at that time, how would he know if he didn't try?
But what Anton didn't know was that a lot of things went wrong in the process.
Fortunately, Yuan Tiangang has compromised now, so his worries have naturally become unnecessary.
But the current situation is still moving in a direction that is favorable to him, which is always good.
After discussing for a while, they finally reached a consensus and decided on a final plan.
First, everyone decided to give Ji Ruxue a blood transfusion to remove the poison.
Then, go back to Fengxiang to see Senior Brother and explain the matter of Li Xingyun to the Empress. Although the Empress believes them, they cannot just remain silent.
Finally, let’s deal with the matter between Yuan Tiangang and the counterfeit.