Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Today, I received the news very quickly...
The current leader quickly received the news: "All the guards of the villa halfway up the mountain are asking for leave? Because they think they have been poisoned? And they were talking about the Sword Holder before they were poisoned?"
The current emperor sneered, threw the things in his hand onto the table, and cursed: "They really don't know how to live or die! Even I have to avoid his edge, but they are so good that they start to talk bad about him right outside the villa halfway up the mountain? They deserve it!"
The guard who delivered the message asked cautiously, "What about their leave?"
The current emperor sneered, "They have committed a crime, and they still want to ask for leave from me? Dream on! It just so happens that the doctors in the Imperial Hospital are all busy now, so you can take a group of doctors to see them.
If the cure works, then cure it. If not, let them be careful with their words and actions from now on, and change their bad habit of gossiping. Otherwise, I cannot guarantee that they will be so lucky as to just have a sore tongue in the future!"
"Yes!" The guard was surprised and thanked him quickly.
Afterwards, he brought the imperial doctors to the vicinity of the villa halfway up the mountain.
After the diagnosis, the imperial doctors all shook their heads and gave the same answer: "You are not poisoned and you are not sick. I can only prescribe painkillers, but they may not be useful because this situation is different from the known ones. I am afraid that the painkillers will not have much effect after drinking. You have to bear with it. It may get better on its own after a while, or it may get worse."
The guards whose tongues hurt looked very unhappy and were speechless, but their eyes were the same, questioning the imperial doctors for not making a serious diagnosis and just following orders to give them a perfunctory answer.
The imperial doctors could see what was going on, so they said to them, "If you don't believe me, you can go find another doctor. That's all I have to say. If you need medicine, we'll leave the prescription and you can get it yourself. If you don't need it, we'll leave now."
The guards sent the imperial physician away respectfully, but they secretly asked a folk doctor to see him, but the results were the same.
They deliberately thought that it was the emperor who ordered all the doctors to say the same thing to them, but they also knew in their hearts that the emperor could control the palace and the whole world, but could not control the words of every doctor.
After all, these doctors were not in the palace and had never seen the current emperor. How was it possible that they received the news before they left and said exactly the same thing at the same time?
I’m afraid what these doctors say is true!
The guards felt hopeless at the thought that they might have a sore tongue for the rest of their lives, and they resolved never to speak ill of others behind their backs again.
The other guards also felt frightened when they saw these guards with sore tongues, and secretly vowed that they would never say bad things behind their backs like them.
In fact, from their own point of view, they don’t think that what they said was bad at all, nor do they think there is anything wrong with doing such a thing. They are just unhappy about being caught and punished.
But even if it is to avoid being punished later, they have to change.
They were all in a state of misery, while the system was in high spirits in the villa halfway up the mountain, jumping up and down to the sword bearer and saying, "They have been punished. They know they were wrong, and they will definitely change! That's great. I won't have to listen to their complaints anymore! Next time something like this happens, let me punish them, okay?"
"Okay," the sword wielder smiled, "next time if something like this happens, I'll let you go."
The system was setting off colorful fireworks overhead, while it was jumping up and down on the table like a ball of white glutinous rice balls, happily saying, "Yeah Yeah Yeah!"
The Swordsman drank his tea but suddenly sighed: "When Li Baili wakes up, what should I tell him? I was accidentally discovered and said some weird things. Now I can appear in the villa halfway up the mountain at will, but I have to torture him? This is too weird."
The system seemed to be gloating over someone else's misfortune. It jumped into an empty teacup, looked up at the swordsman, and said with a grin, "If he could just wake up a little and look in his own mind, wouldn't he know everything? Why would you tell me?"
"That's not much better." The Sword Bearer turned the teacup in his hand, hesitated, and shook his head.
The system laughed and said, "There will always be a way out when you wake up!"
"Let's do this for now." The swordsman nodded, drank the water in the cup, and put the cup back on the table.
At the same time, the boy, who had slept and eaten repeatedly and was now full of energy, stood in the small fishing village with his eyes open and saw the human-faced fish that the fishermen had fished out of the sea.
These human-faced fish were still entangled in the dark green net lines. They were struggling desperately inside, but they couldn't get out. Because there was not much water around them, their breath was very weak.
According to the fishermen nearby, these fish have been caught a long time ago and the water around them has always been so shallow, but they are still not dead. They were very surprised and originally wanted to add more water, but they were afraid of accidentally killing the fish, so they did this.
"What do you think we should do with this?" the fishermen asked hesitantly.
"What do you want to do?" The young man standing nearby suddenly asked curiously.
"If these fish can stay here forever," the fishermen looked at each other and laughed, "then we will make a fortune! People from the surrounding area want to come and see us. When they come to see us, they will definitely need food, shelter and things to buy. We can sell things to them, and we can live even if we don't fish anymore! Wouldn't our lives be better?"
As they spoke, the fishermen could not help but approach the boy and said, "Please think about it! Just leave these things here, it won't be a big deal. We will definitely take good care of them and not take them out for any mess!"
"Where did those things come from?" the boy asked them.
"It's in the sea!" The fishermen pointed to the endless sea.
The boy frowned and asked, "Where is the exact location? I want to go take a look. Is it okay now? Can you guys come with me?"
The fishermen looked at each other, all a little hesitant, and finally one person came out to explain: "It's not that we don't want to take you, but it's too late now and accidents are likely to happen. We always check the weather in advance before going out. We haven't prepared anything here. It's not a good idea to go directly."
He smiled awkwardly and made no secret of his desire not to go.
The young man nodded with his eyes downcast: "Then you pick someone who knows the way and the location, and prepare a boat for me and him to board. I will also take an attendant with me, and we will set off immediately. We need to go and come back immediately before the weather changes, so as to avoid any accidents on the way."
The fishermen stamped their feet and frowned, unable to help saying, "How can this be done? This is not safe!"
The young man looked up at them and said with a half-smile, "You guys wouldn't go fishing thousands of miles away, would you? How could it be unsafe? Don't ships on the sea allow overnight stays?"
The fishermen were speechless, thinking that if he died, he died, and it had nothing to do with them, so they just let him go. They picked a person and a boat and let him go.
The boy arrived at the place where the fish with a human face was caught. He tied a rope around himself and put the other end of the rope on the boat. He said to the people around him, "I will go down and take a look. I will be back soon. If I can't get up, you can help me and pull me up with the rope."
The servant thought to himself, "You really trust me," but nodded, took the rope and said, "Okay."
The boy checked the rope on his body and found it was indeed very tight. He took a deep breath and immediately jumped into the water. At first he found nothing, so he went up to breathe and suddenly he felt like there was something under his feet.
He looked down and saw a human-faced fish swimming around. This fish looked very strange. It was blue all over and had a small triangular tail. However, its face was very big and white, which looked even paler in the water. However, its facial features were neat and tidy.
The facial features of this fish are not just a few lines and circles, but are very similar to those of a human face, otherwise it would not be directly called a human-faced fish.
The boy grabbed the fish and wanted to go ashore, but the fish suddenly bit him. Its teeth were similar to those of a shark. The boy couldn't break free and struggled for a while. The people above thought he was going to go ashore, so they pulled him up.
Just as he was about to get on the boat, a large group of human-faced fish suddenly emerged from somewhere and bit him. Without swallowing or chewing, they just dragged him under the water, as if they were taking him somewhere. However, they did not consider at all that he could not breathe underwater and might drown.
The rope was stretched straight and tight, and it seemed that if he missed this opportunity, he would not be able to get up.
He was about to go up immediately and didn't prepare a very long rope.
After all, going underwater is always dangerous, and the deeper the water, the more dangerous it is. He just wanted to explore, not lose his life here, so there was no need to prepare too long a rope.
But now it seems that if he misses this opportunity, he doesn’t know when the next one will be. It is better to follow these fish to the bottom of the water and take a look. If there are any clues, then he will be lucky.
If not, it’s not too late to think about going up.
The most important thing is that he is now bitten all over his body. He has no strength at all and cannot swim. Even if he wants to go up, he can't fight against these fish with his own strength and a rope.
Not to mention that this group of fish are strong. Even if these fish just bite him and hang their weight on him, the other two people on the boat will not be able to pull him up even if they pull the rope with all their strength.
There were so many fish that they were hanging on him and he couldn't get up at all.
There was only one way left for him. If he didn't take it, he would die.
He didn't plan to die now, so of course he would just walk away and see.
He untied the rope on his own initiative, and was dragged under the water by the group of fish biting him. His face turned blue and his lips turned purple. Just before he thought he was about to suffocate, a bright white light suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and he fell to the ground.
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