Chapter 3: The First Encounter with the Twin Heroes

  Seeing me die wouldn't make her say it, and this Li Mingxue isn't in a hurry either. Now I'm the 'meat' on the chopping board, at her mercy to carve up as she pleases - there are no less than a hundred ways in her mind to get me to open my mouth.

  Then Li Mingxue said, "Little boy, we have no grudges or grievances, I don't need to kill more people. Besides, if I wanted you to speak, could you bear it? My methods are not inferior to the Qing dynasty's ten great tortures. I just don't want to see blood everywhere." After finishing speaking, she slowly scratched my body with her fingernails.

  Li Mingxue's fingernails were a bit long, and when her icy nails scratched my skin, I shuddered. A sense of fear emerged from the bottom of my heart, and the scenes of the top ten coolest tortures in the movie "Feng Qingyang" kept appearing in my mind, making me tremble with fear. If I had suffered those tortures, that would have been worse than death.

  I wanted to beg for mercy, but thinking of the dead Gang Cheng and the uncertain fate of Xue Jie, I felt heartbroken again. At the same time, I also hated them to death. If they hadn't fought over this "jade" symbol, Gang Cheng wouldn't have died, and Xue Jie's life or death would be known. You bastards, why did you do this? If you had asked me to buy it from you, I might have just given it to you directly. Is a broken "jade" really that important?

  The more I hate them in my heart, how can I still tell this person, so except for a hum, I don't want to say anything. Damn it, what's the Qing dynasty's ten great cruel punishments, I don't care, when people die, birds fly towards the sky, isn't that just death?

  "Heh heh heh" Seeing me fearless, fake Li Mingxue laughed strangely and said "You really have skills, not even afraid of death. Since that's the case, I'll grant your wish then."

  She whispered and then privately took a piece of bed sheet, then rubbed it slowly and slowly put it around my neck, slowly increasing the force.

  To be honest, her slow and sluggish appearance makes people even more unbearable. The feeling of slowly savoring death is not something that ordinary people can bear, at least I couldn't. So I struggled desperately, but it seemed like I was being held down by something, no matter how hard I struggled, there was no effect at all. The 'bed' sheet on my body was getting tighter and tighter, and soon I turned bright red and couldn't speak.

  "Hehe, isn't it painful? If you're in pain, just say so. Tell me what Kang Cheng said to you today, and I'll relieve your pain," Li Mingxue whispered softly in my ear. I nodded hastily after hearing her words. After all, I'm not some kind of brave warrior, and the thought of death still scares me half to death.

  "Kang Cheng, Kang Cheng said that this 'jade' symbol is the source of all troubles, and asked me to throw it away." Unfortunately, I had no choice but to tell her what Kang Cheng said to me, but she was very dissatisfied, thinking that I was fooling her, and immediately grabbed my neck.

  "Ask you for the last time, what did Cannes say to you? I don't have that much patience," Li Mingxue said fiercely to me.

  "Ugh, ugh!" I was pinched so hard that I couldn't speak, "Pfft" I spat saliva onto fake Li Mingxue's face. I'd rather die than not 'get' you with a face full of spit.

  "Looking for death", fake Li Mingxue was furious, with a flick of his hand I was thrown out, hitting the wall and almost losing my breath, lying on the ground coughing nonstop.

  "Respect the wine but not drink, drink penalty wine." Fake Li Mingxue lost patience, and somehow pulled out a dagger, slowly walking towards me. At this time, my hands and feet were tied up, I couldn't even escape, and could only stare at fake Li Mingxue as she approached me. It's over, I said to myself.

  "Cough, 'chicken' grandpa, you said it's a good idea for us to come here at midnight and listen to the wall root? Look, this is even more awesome than SM in Island Country, not only are there ropes, but also knives!" Just as I was preparing to wait for death, a sudden male voice came over, making me overjoyed. I looked up to see that the tightly locked door had already been wide open, and two men were leaning against the door with smiling faces looking at me.

  "Shoo, you fatso, you just came to the hotel to eavesdrop, I'm a guest here, understand? This is all unexpected!" One of the tall and thin ones scolded another fat one. After scolding him, he turned to fake Li Mingxue and said "Sister, it's okay to have fun, but it's too noisy and affects others' rest, isn't that not good?"

  "Save me, two brothers save me, she's going to kill me!" Seeing the two men appear, I couldn't let go of the opportunity, so I shouted loudly for help, but they seemed unmoved, just smiling and staring at fake Li Mingxue.

  "Shut up!" Fake Li Mingxue kicked me hard, making me cry out in pain. Then she said to the two men, "You two, please make it convenient for San Shendao to do things." It's clear that Fake Li Mingxue is quite wary of these two men.

  "Tsk tsk, San Shendao, what's 'Chicken' gonna do? The other side is so powerful, I'm really scared!" That fatty replied with a shrug.

  "It's okay, fatty, bring out the courage you had when you sneaked into the women's bathhouse back then. The three gods will turn into three ghosts." 'Chicken' grandpa patted fatty's shoulder and replied.

  "Damn it, 'chicken' grandpa, you just entered the women's bathhouse, your whole family is in, where did the courage to peek at your cousin changing clothes go? And what about your skills crawling through the water pipes of the girls' dormitory at midnight?" Fatso shouted back.

  "I'm going to wipe you out, you dead fatso! We agreed not to mention these things, and now you're exposing me again. Son of a bitch, believe it or not, I'll reveal all your past embarrassing stories!" Hearing the fatso's curses, 'Chicken' Grandpa was like a cat with its fur standing on end, yelling loudly.

  "Haha, come on then, who's afraid of whom? You've done plenty of embarrassing things too!" Fatso replied with a loud laugh.

  The two of them were about to start fighting, but fake Li Mingxue was not pleased. She was about to kill someone, and yet these two were still arguing at a time like this - weren't they either stupid or extremely arrogant? Of course, ordinary people wouldn't bet on them being stupid, let alone fake Li Mingxue. So, with a swift movement of her body, the dagger in her hand shot towards the fat man at an extremely fast speed.

  "Bang", but what made me fall apart was that Li Mingxue flew over in a second, hitting the wall and almost dying from pain.

  "Who are you, daring to obstruct our Three Gods' Way?" Fake Li Mingxue realized he wasn't a match for the two men, so he loudly shouted at them, hoping to intimidate them with the name of the Three Gods' Way.

  But unexpectedly, the two of them burst out laughing in disdain. The fat man even said directly, "The remnants of the Three Gods dare to be so arrogant. It seems that we didn't beat you hard enough back then. So, have Zhang Yuanjun's injuries healed? Has his cultivation recovered? Or has he already died and is now being controlled by that old witch, Shangguan?"

  "Presumptuous, you dare to directly address us by our great names. Who are you? Report your name and origin. Today, we three gods of the Taoist sect will definitely make you pay for this." Li Mingxue shouted loudly, while being greatly shocked in her heart. These two people were able to speak out the origins of the Three Gods of the Taoist Sect with such disdain, could they be disciples of some great Taoist school?

  "Cut it out, you still want to know our origin?" 'Chicken' grandpa sneered even more disdainfully.

  "Hey, 'Chicken' brother, this is your fault. With such a beautiful girl asking about our background, you should tell her. Girl, listen to me, my name is Tu Bao, nicknamed Fat Brother, don't look at my fat appearance, but I'm a high-rich-handsome with house and car. This guy's name is Lin Ling, a sissy name, and he's ugly as hell, no car, no house... Ah, 'Chicken' brother, why are you hitting me? The enemy is in front of us!

  Accidentally, the two started fighting again, making a loud noise, but what's strange is that despite the commotion, nobody came out to take a look, not even the service staff at the front desk."

  Li Mingxue's face turned ugly, these two people can still fight here, it shows that they didn't take her seriously at all. She really doesn't know where these two masters from Jiangbei City came from, she had never heard of them before. Touching the jade symbol in her pocket, she felt that the most urgent thing to do was to leave this place. This kind of troublesome role should be handled by the strong masters of the sect, not her. Now that she has made a great contribution, what she should do is absolutely not to fight with others here.

  "So, I'll just say that you two fellow Taoists refuse to speak of your past experiences. That's fine, I don't want this person's life anyway. I have other important matters to attend to, farewell." After saying that, he opened the window and was about to jump out.

  This stunned my eyes again, damn it, this is the third floor, jumping here is to play suicide? But the two fat and thin men didn't let her leave so easily, before I noticed they had already rushed behind fake Li Mingxue, one person with one foot pulled her back, slamming her onto the corridor.

  "Hey, there's something good, it's a 'jade' symbol, worth thousands of dollars!" Fatso said with a smile, holding the 'jade' symbol in his hand, which was exactly the one Kang Cheng gave me.

  "You, you" fake Li Mingxue suddenly reached into her pocket and became furious. Just a moment ago, the "jade" symbol had been stolen from her. That was something she could use to gain merit. Enraged, she pulled out two yellow paper symbols from her pocket and blew on them. Two strange creatures, each about 2 meters tall, appeared in the room, shocking me so much that my eyes couldn't move. This night's strange events were just too many.

  "'Trivial skills' said the chubby boy disdainfully, and somehow pulled out a half-meter-long peach wood sword from somewhere. After reciting a few incantations, it quickly grew larger and flew out, directly hitting two monsters. The moment they were hit, the two monsters emitted green smoke and withered away, turning back into two yellow paper talismans."

  "See you later" Li Mingxue saw two monsters that even Lard and Skinny couldn't withstand, she knew her skills were far inferior to theirs. She wasn't stupid enough to fight them head-on, so she took out a small pellet and smashed it on the ground, releasing a burst of white smoke, then escaped like a ninja in a movie.

  "Ah, being in good shape means running fast!" Li Mingxue fled quickly, and the fatty shook his head and sighed.

  "Alright, stop pretending to be tough. The Three Gods Sect has brought a lot of people this time. They can easily find out about us if they investigate. If there are too many of them, we won't be able to hold our ground. Let's leave quickly." Ji Ye muttered discontentedly, walked up to me and wiped his hand on the bed sheet, which then fell off.

  "I knew it, if not for running into a rookie today, we'd still have to be busy. Let's go home, I don't believe they'll dare to come to our house." Fatso stuffed the 'jade' symbol into my pocket and then he and 'Chicken' Grandpa each took one of my arms and walked with me, presumably because they also knew I was injured.

  Half an hour later, we arrived at a warehouse in the suburbs. The warehouse had been renovated and was fully equipped with refrigerators, TVs, exercise equipment, and everything else one might need. It looked like a pretty decent place. After arriving, the two of them found a bottle of medicinal liquor to apply to my wound. Li Mingxue pretended to be gentle but still pressed down on me several times, causing many parts of my body to swell up.

  "I asked the two heroes, are you not the legendary fat and thin duo of Jiangbei University?" After wiping away my injuries, I said to the two of them. Just because they didn't even glance at me before handing over the 'jade' token, I could tell that the two of them were not bad people.

  "Two hundred yuan, thank you." The old man said calmly.

  "What?" I was taken aback for a moment.

  "Saving you is free, but this 'medicine' wine is very expensive, two hundred isn't cheap, your injury will be healed by tomorrow," said the 'chicken' old man, pointing at the 'medicine' wine bottle.

  "Good grief," I was speechless, and the two men's heroic images suddenly shrunk a few sizes in my mind. Of course, later on, I would be ashamed for having such thoughts, because these two were not heroes at all, but more accurately, they were mentally ill.

  However, I still took out 200 yuan and gave it to "chicken" grandpa. After taking the money, both of them smiled with joy, and after each getting 100 yuan, they immediately hid it away. Then, the fat man replied, "What's going on? Does Jiangbei University still have our legend now? You guys are too disappointing, can't even get anything done?"

  "I'm speechless", I thought to myself. It's easy to get into trouble, but hard to get out of it. Unlike those two geniuses, we ordinary people can't even handle a small matter without making a big deal out of it.

  I've seen these two before, and I've heard even more stories about them. The fat guy and "Chicken" Ye are quite famous in the student circle in Jiangbei. Apparently, they caused a lot of trouble as soon as they entered university, first by chasing after local rich beauties and getting into conflicts with local rich kids. In the end, they even got involved in a fight with gangsters, but these two were no ordinary people - dozens of gangsters couldn't handle them, and they actually managed to intimidate the gangsters.

  Of course, these are minor matters. Later on, they gathered a group of enthusiasts of the mysterious and formed a local student association for the study of the mysterious. In broad daylight, they set up stalls at various universities to tell fortunes, almost getting expelled by the college on the grounds of promoting feudal superstition. It's not clear how it was resolved later, but the subsequent mysterious associations were not so exaggerated, nor did they disband. Of course, this is not what made them famous.

  It is said that they are the descendants of Taoism, with the ability to catch ghosts, calculate fate and read feng shui. After solving a supernatural problem for a wealthy businessman, they became famous in Jiangbei, and many rich people came to find them. However, they were not willing to meet anyone, and there was a rumor that a local tyrant wanted to deal with them but ultimately gave up. Their most famous event was said to be the elimination of an old ghost from the local medical college, after which the two slowly faded out of people's sight. But in the student circle, their great names were still widely spread.

  "Alright, let's not drag up old matters. Let's talk about the current situation. You little kid, do you know that you've stirred up big trouble?" The serious tone of 'Chicken' Lin Ling made my eyelids twitch, and I knew this was going to be a serious conversation. Instantly, I straightened my back.