Chapter Sixteen: Cooperation
It wasn't someone else who kicked me away, it was actually You Shui's belly. How could he be so skilled? Damn! It turns out that he had been pretending all along on this road! No wonder he had the map of Er Long Shan, I didn't realize it at first!
I propped myself up with my hands and slowly got up, spitting out the remaining blood in my mouth onto the ground. I glared furiously at the oil drum, flipped the dagger over in my hand and charged towards it.
"Hey, brother, we're all adults, don't be so impulsive. Take a look and see if the dead person is Hei Zi or not." My knife was only a few millimeters away from piercing the throat of You Shui Tou, who didn't even blink as he stared back at me.
It only took two or three seconds for me to furrow my brow, hesitate for a moment. I wasn't afraid of them playing any tricks on me. Outside, I was absolutely no match for the three of them, but in the mountains, I had enough confidence to take them all down. Thinking of this, I slowly put down the dagger and turned back to look.
Boom, my brain was frozen for a moment, stuck there for a long time unable to say a word. Hei Zi's dead body had transformed into a luxurious corpse, with a baby face and long ears, on which a green snake with a long tongue was hissing at me, spitting venom. The skin on its face slowly twisted and deformed, like a deflated balloon, the body slowly rotting until it became a pitch-black skeleton. A strange fragrance wafted through the air!
Oil barrel called me with a shocked expression, walked over and patted my shoulder, saying: "Brother, you know now, this is not Hei Zi brother at all, this thing doesn't belong here, so everything was just a misunderstanding."
Why is it like this? The person who died in the man-eating vine, could he really be Hei Zi! He's been dead for two days, and all along he was following Lao Liu into Er Long Mountain. Why did he want to betray me? Sell me out!!! I let out a loud roar in the mountain, my furious voice echoing throughout the entire mountain.
It can't end like this, what kind of people are you. I took swift and silent steps, before the oil barrel could react, a dagger was already pressed against his neck. My voice was devoid of emotion, coldly saying: "What is your purpose for coming here, how did you discover that Hei Zi is fake".
Oil and water belly face still with a smile, can't see any fear said: "Brother, actually I didn't intentionally want to deceive you for so long, it's just that if we didn't do this, I think we wouldn't be able to arrive here safely!"
"Hmph", I sneered twice: "So I'm just a tool for you guys, great, great"!
The oil lamp in front of me kept sighing, this guy didn't understand and wanted to play some 'flower' tricks. I gripped the dagger in my hand tightly, preparing for a sudden attack from Da Fu Da Gui. "Brother, don't be so tense, we're not doing anything 'bright'. I'm Mo Jin School Lieutenant, put simply, I'm a grave robber, a tomb raider who eats dead people's food. Of course, we didn't come to Er Long Shan to find some demon king treasure, but to enter the Demon King's tomb and take something very important, a key that leads to another world."
You Shui Du's words were extremely mysterious, and the smile on his face was gone. His expression was very solemn. Another world? I've heard it more than once, Da Gui also told me about a place with no end or beginning, only eternity. What the hell! Do you think we're watching science fiction movies? I listened to You Shui Du's words and felt confused.
Oil and water belly patted the belly skin, raised his hand to point at the fake black son who had turned into a pile of black bones on the ground, saying: "Brother, if you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do about it. But don't you want to know how the real Black Son really died?"
Can't help but say that Oil Water Belly is very good at making conditions, this series of events has already made my brain a bit dizzy. This fat fox is still 'very' 'smart'. Why did Hei Zi want Liu Lao Tou and his party to enter Er Long Shan, what is the truth about Fake Hei Zi, I must figure out what's going on!
"Oh? Your question is really tempting!" I said.
After finishing speaking, the fatty's hand lightly tapped the knife on his neck and said: "Brother, we can't do business like this, playing with fire too much will get us burned"!
I knew what You Shui Duo meant, here in the mountains I still had confidence to knock them down, after hesitating for two or three seconds, I slowly loosened my grip on the dagger at You Shui Duo's neck and said faintly, "Now you can speak."
He cleared his throat and turned to me, saying: "Because Da Fu Da Gui is a life radar, it can clearly sense whether there are living people within 100 meters. At first, I wasn't sure either, and many things didn't make sense. It wasn't until Lu brother told me about the luxury corpse that I understood. They were all arranged by that person to be around you, for what purpose I'm not certain, but one thing is for sure, he wants to monitor you."
Who is spying on me? Old Zhou also told me that Liu Lao Tou was sent by someone to spy on me, just like what Oil Water Belly said about Hei Zi coming to spy on me. Who is that person and why do they want to send someone to spy on me? Are they after my money? Ma Yun has more money than I do! Or are they after something else? That's even more impossible. I took out a cigarette from my pocket, handed one to Oil Water Belly, and lit it up for him. I also lit one for myself, taking two or three puffs, and asked: "Who is he?"
He took two puffs of smoke, and his face turned very ferocious at this time. The horizontal meat on his face trembled slightly up and down. Anyone with eyes could see that he had a deep grudge against the person. He said to me: "I don't know who he is"!
After listening, my right hand holding the cigarette uncontrollably pinched it into two sections and stared at him fiercely saying "You're messing with me"!
"That person has a vast network, and his influence runs very deep. His tentacles reach far and wide, and my business of smuggling 'dead' goods in Guangdong's underground market collided with his. I didn't expect him to be able to freeze my entire operation overnight. I tried to use my connections in Guangdong to investigate that person, but he was extremely cunning and had covered his tracks well. Whether it was the names on the accounts or the appearances of the people involved, everything seemed to point to different individuals. Even the people who worked with him underground were impossible for me to track down. It's terrifying to think about just how formidable that person is!"
The words and actions of Oil Barrel were all within my sight, not like a lie. I tilted my head back, closed my eyes, and thought to myself, this line of work, "touching gold", I had never been in contact with it before, didn't understand the rules, and the risks were extremely high. On TV and newspapers, you can often see tomb raiders dying in ancient graves, countless cases. Moreover, the mechanisms inside ancient tombs, such as oil, quicksand, etc., not to mention other things, ordinary people wouldn't have the guts to crawl into an ancient tomb on a night when they could easily bump into walls while walking. But with great risk comes great reward, although nine out of ten tombs are empty, this industry can still make you rich overnight. Oil Barrel's demeanor seemed very powerful and wealthy, even he couldn't figure out who that person was, let alone me. I opened my eyes, staring blankly at everything around me, suddenly feeling extremely small and powerless...
At this time, Oil Barrel patted me on the shoulder and said, "Brother Lu, don't worry, when we get to that place, that person will definitely come out."
Hei Zi's death and betrayal had already been nailed to the board in my heart, and You Shui's words made me feel a bit down, so he said: "Because that person might be among the batch of people in front of us, he also wants to get that thing, so he will definitely appear"!
"What thing?" I asked. The oily water belly, accustomed to 'touching' the skin, said to me: "This is not convenient for me to say more, knowing too much is not good for brothers, Lu brother, I can take you in, but don't know if you are willing or not."
Finding Old Liu might just give us the answer, but what can I do if I don't agree now? The oil lamp holder stretched out his right hand, and I understood his intention. After hesitating for a moment, I also extended my right hand.
Oil Barrel burst out laughing, I'm going to do this grave-digging business for the first time, I never even thought about it before, but these things that have been happening in the past few days make me feel suffocated, like someone is designing a trap for me to jump into. It's not that I didn't notice anything, it's just that the saying "a hidden arrow is hard to defend against" isn't empty talk. Oil Barrel instructed Da Gui to take out some biscuits and found a relatively flat rock to invite me to sit down. After sitting down, I silently ate the compressed biscuit he handed me. Oil Barrel was a fat man, and fat people are naturally defenseless against food, with no resistance or endurance. Two or three minutes later, after finishing the compressed biscuit, he took out a bottle of water and drank a few mouthfuls, saying to me: "Lu brother, since we're already cooperating, I'll tell you about the origins of this You Wang tomb. To be honest, this is also my first time going down into a big fight like this."
