The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#753 - Stirring up a hornet's nest

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The scholar's body stiffened, but he forced himself to say, "Accomplices? What accomplices? I didn't cheat... I lost more than I won."

Lu Jing ignored him, his eyes quickly scanning the gambling house.

As a result, his expression changed slightly.

On the other side, Xie Lili had been holding back for a long time, and seeing that she finally had a chance to perform, she immediately raised her hand and answered抢答, "I know, I know! I know who his accomplice is. That guy was the one who sent him the message just now."

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However, she was not greeted with praise. Lu Jing said in a deep voice, "We'll talk about this later. Come over here first."

"Oh."

Although Xie Lili had a mysterious obsession with solving puzzles and cracking cases, she also had one good point, which was that she never messed around when she should listen.

For example, now, she heard that Lu Jing's tone was a little wrong, so she didn't say any nonsense and stood obediently beside Lu Jing.

At this time, Lu Jing had already pulled the scholar in front of him, and then placed the flying sword hidden in his sleeve against his neck.

His actions caused a commotion in the gambling house.

However, the commotion came quickly and went quickly.

Because the gamblers who showed horrified expressions on their faces quickly fell to the ground. And the bouncers in charge of guarding the gate had no intention of reprimanding Lu Jing for releasing the man, nor did they assist Lu Jing in catching the scholar's accomplice.

Instead, they took down the lanterns hanging under the eaves and closed the gate of the gambling house, putting on a look of closing early.

At this time, there were still about a hundred people left in the gambling house.

Among them were bookmakers, gamblers, and even two female prostitutes accompanying the players, and without exception, they all stopped what they were doing and turned to look at Lu Jing and Xie Lili.

Even with Xie Lili's boldness, she was frightened at this time, and shivered, "This... so many? No way."

Lu Jing sighed, "Didn't you say before that your friend's eyes and ears in the capital are everywhere? She asked us to come here to find someone. Does she know nothing about the situation here? Or is she originally from Mr. Ji's side... deliberately tricking us into coming here."

"Wu Yang is not that kind of person." Although her face was ugly, Xie Lili still defended her friend at the first time, "With my understanding of her, she would never do anything to betray a friend."

But Lu Jing immediately thought of something and suddenly realized, "No wonder you can always make money betting on big or small, it turns out you have a pair of X-ray eyes."

The scholar spat on the ground, putting on a look of seeing death as going home, and said with a stiff neck, "I'm unlucky to fall into your hands. You can kill or cut me as you please, but you will soon come down to accompany me!"

"Enough, Qingmu, didn't Mr. Ji teach you that no matter what, keeping your own life is the most important thing?"

The one who spoke was the old man who claimed to be the boss of the Golden Hook Gambling House.

After hearing his reprimand, the scholar named Qingmu became honest and closed his mouth.

"It seems that you are their leader." Lu Jing turned his gaze to the old man again.

The latter shook his head and said, "Our strange objects don't have the strict hierarchy of your human world. Everyone is equal, and no one is anyone's leader."

"But you are all working for Mr. Ji."

"That's because Mr. Ji is doing the right thing. As the saying goes, those who gain the Tao will receive more help, and naturally there will be more people willing to help him." The old man said solemnly.

"Is putting the entire capital's millions of people in danger in order to save one person what you call gaining more help?"

"How did you know about our plan?" The old man's eyes flickered, and after a moment he said again, "We are not saving one person, but all living beings in the world. Looking at it this way, isn't the mere million people in the capital nothing?

"Besides, whether those people live or die is not up to us, but up to the Sitianjian. As long as the Sitianjian is willing to let go of Mr. Ji, then so many people in the capital will naturally be fine.

"You people from the Sitianjian have always talked about protecting the human world, could it be just for show?" The old man sneered.

"You won't be a match for the Sitianjian," Lu Jing said simply, "Now that we've already come to your door, do you still think your plan will work? In fact, from the moment you entered the capital, the Sitianjian had already set its sights on you.

"However, now is a special period. Vice Director Guo is busy dealing with the thing in the secret realm and has no time to pay attention to you, so he sent us to warn you first to see if we can persuade you to go back," Lu Jing said.

"If I were you, I should seize this rare opportunity and take your companions away while it's not too late. As Mr. Ji said, no matter what happens, keeping your own life is the most important thing."

The old man seemed to be persuaded by Lu Jing and fell into hesitation, not speaking for a long time.

However, after a moment, he spoke again, "Help me bring a message to Guo Shouhuai, release Mr. Ji within three days, otherwise not a single living person will be left in the capital."

"Why are you doing this?" Lu Jing sighed, but still nodded, "Okay, we will help you bring the message."

After saying that, he planned to let go of the scholar in his hand and call Xie Lili to leave.

But he heard the old man say again, "It's you, not you two. Bringing the message doesn't need two people. Leave that little girl behind."

When Xie Lili heard this, her small face turned white in an instant, and she looked at Lu Jing pitifully.

She was really afraid that Lu Jing would just leave her here, leave her to that group of strange objects.

But with her intelligence, she knew very well that there was no other way but to do so.

After all, there were too many people on the other side. With more than a hundred strange objects gathered together, even if Lu Jing was strong, he couldn't fight against so many people. At this time, leaving her here as a hostage and then going out to find a way might be the only possible choice.

And Lu Jing seemed to think so too. He retracted the small sword in his hand that was resting on the scholar's neck, but before the scholar's face could show joy, he directly smashed the back of the scholar's head with the hilt of the sword, knocking the scholar unconscious.

Then Lu Jing picked up Xie Lili and, instead of retreating, advanced, rushing towards the old man not far away!

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