Chapter 9 Chapter 9 “We have everything here…
"Everything here is available. Just use them carefully and you will be able to survive. If there is anything you want that is not here, please tell me." The Swordsman said to them.
The boy and the injured man nodded.
Li Baili stood up and walked out, followed by the swordsman.
After leaving the underground, Li Baili and the Sword Bearer came to a room on the ground. This room belonged to a villa halfway up the mountain, but Li Baili couldn't come here normally, so there was a thin layer of dust on the ground.
He started coughing as soon as he came up.
The sword bearer followed behind him, secretly laughing at him and patting his back, whispering, "Why don't you clean up on a regular basis? Even when you're in the house you usually live in, you cough because of the dust?"
Li Baili coughed for a long time and said slowly: "Because I don't want to clean."
He glanced at the swordsman with a half-smile, tears still welling up in his eyes from coughing, but his gaze was full of anticipation, as if he was watching a good show. He teased, "Why don't you come and clean up for me? It's a good thing you're here. You're rarely seen on weekdays."
The Swordsman could not help but protest after hearing his unfair evaluation: "What do you mean you are rarely seen on weekdays? If you didn't want to go out for a walk, how could I go out? You didn't even have to go out, you didn't even have to walk a single step, and you went shopping, and you're still not satisfied, and you blame me for not being by your side? That's a bit too much."
Li Baili just looked at him and asked, "So are you going to clean or not?"
"Of course I clean, but not for you, but for myself." The Sword Bearer snorted at him, picked up the broom next to him and started cleaning.
Dust was everywhere.
Li Baili started coughing again.
The swordsman could not help but push the man out: "Don't stay here and get in my way. You're delaying my cleaning."
Li Baili leaned against the wall next to him and looked at him sideways. She said with a smile, "I see, the cleaning master."
The swordsman almost couldn't hold it back. He looked at him and said with a half-smile, "If you call me like that again, I will go to your room to clean up tonight. I see you coughing and sleeping at the same time. How can you sleep?"
"I know, I know." Li Baili said with a smile.
It took some time, but I finally cleaned the room roughly.
The executor put the cleaning tools against the wall, stood up and said to Li Baili, "It's not a good idea to keep those two people there forever. It's too boring to ask them to stay there all day long."
Li Baili lowered her eyes and nodded: "Indeed."
The sword bearer said, "Why don't you try to talk to the emperor and ask him to allow you to keep a servant in the courtyard. If the emperor is really magnanimous, he won't care. If he is a vicious person, he won't let you live until today."
"That being said," Li Baili hesitated, "I'm not familiar with him."
"He has been monitoring you for so long, even if it's a raw steak, it should be cooked by now." The swordsman said with a smile.
"Then I'll try it later." Li Baili nodded.
He was about to leave but stopped and asked, "Why not take this opportunity to take you along?"
The sword bearer shook his head without hesitation: "Forget it, giving you a servant is to serve you, it won't cause any trouble, but if I give you a friend who comes and goes without a trace, his suspicion will definitely come back."
"That's true. I shouldn't have expected anything from him." Li Baili sighed and walked out slowly.
At this time, the boy looked around and found a place to sit down. With a curious look on his face, he asked his companion sitting next to him: "Do you know those two people just now? Why didn't you introduce them to me?"
He suddenly remembered: "You only told me one person."
At this point, he suddenly became suspicious: Could it be that his companions felt that he had abandoned them and ran away alone when he encountered the bear, which was a betrayal and should never have been done, so now they no longer trust him and are hiding everything from him?
Thinking of this, the boy looked at his companion and saw that they looked more and more alike, and he couldn't help but squint his eyes.
His companion slapped him on the head and cursed, "Can I blame you if I let you run? Can you stop imagining nonsense? Just say what you want to say, okay?"
The boy patted his hair, raised his head and looked at his companion and said, "Then why didn't you tell me what happened? You stopped me when I wanted to ask."
The injured person said: "Some things are better left unknown."
"But I want to know." The boy said with a frown.
"What do you want to know?" The injured man stared at him.
"I want to know who that person was just now." The boy said without hesitation.
"I don't know either." The injured man shook his head.
"You don't know their names or their identities? You don't look like you know nothing." The young man sneered vaguely.
The injured man asked again: "Do you really have to know?"
The boy nodded.
"Okay, but you can't tell anyone else." The injured man sighed, feeling helpless.
"I swear I won't tell anyone. After all, it won't do me any good. I just want to satisfy my curiosity, you know." The boy smiled at him and became excited.
"I don't know who the swordsman is," the injured man lowered his voice, as if he was afraid that someone would eavesdrop, "but the person next to him is most likely the man in the rumors."
Even though his voice was so low that it was almost inaudible, he did not directly reveal Li Baili's true identity.
The boy was stunned for a moment, then realized what he was talking about. He gasped and a look of mixed fear and excitement appeared on his face.
He walked back and forth with his eyes wide open, muttering in a hoarse voice: "It is rumored that there is someone living in a villa halfway up the mountain, it is rumored that there is someone living in a villa halfway up the mountain."
Rumor has it that the person living in the villa halfway up the mountain is the former emperor.
People all believe that this person has died a long time ago, because although the current emperor is kind and merciful, he is not without means, and he cannot be considered weak and heartless. It is normal to kill a king who has lost his country to prevent future troubles, and it is even more normal to kill a political opponent to cut the roots.
It would be strange to let people stay alive.
Isn't the emperor today afraid that someone might use the name of the former emperor who is still alive to rise up in rebellion, reignite the war, and make his rule less stable?
"No wonder," the young man suddenly stopped, raised his head and looked at the injured person, and said, "No wonder the people in our village were so nervous, and no wonder the county magistrate was so serious when he brought people here to arrest people.
They were not arrested because we entered the mountain, but because they were involved with this person in the mountain and were suspected of wanting to restore the old dynasty. The current thundering means must be used to find out the truth before they were arrested.
As long as they insist that they have no intention of restoring the old dynasty, they should be able to save their lives and come back alive after suffering physical pain.
However, if they really come back alive, they will probably seek revenge on us. If we really meet them one day, we will be in trouble. "
The injured man had a complicated expression and looked at him and said, "So what do you want?"
"Isn't it normal to cut the roots and prevent future troubles? They can tie us up and throw us into the cellar for their own safety, so can't we ask them to die for our own safety?" The young man was surprised.
"That's true, but they didn't kill us after all. Isn't it a bit too much for us to put them to death?" The wounded man frowned and asked hesitantly.
"We didn't want to kill them when we were leaving, but they insisted on keeping us here. Now is a good opportunity. It will be hard to get it again if we miss it. Who will be responsible if we die then?" the young man asked gritting his teeth.
The injured man hesitated and said, "So you are determined to do this."
"That's right, you don't have to participate." The young man sneered, "But if I fail and the truth comes out, they will know that I played a role and they will definitely count it as yours. You can't escape."
The injured person tried to change the subject: "What do you think the current owner of this villa is doing?"
He changed the subject very abruptly.
The young man paused for a moment, knowing that he didn't want to mention the previous incident, and planned to give him some time to think before asking, then smiled and said, "Who knows why? Serving the king is like serving a tiger, and the king's power is unpredictable. If we knew, we would have gone."
The injured man's eyes widened. "I didn't expect you to suddenly become so bold. You can even say something like this. Aren't you afraid that someone will eavesdrop?"
"We are already here," the young man shook his head. "Now we are at the mercy of others. What if we eavesdrop? Even if they rush over to kill us, what can we do?"
"We can escape!" said the wounded man with his eyes wide open.
"It's easier said than done. We don't even know how we got here, so how can we get out? How can you guarantee that there are no guards on this mountain except wolves, tigers and leopards?
Once we are caught by those people, it is a capital crime to enter the forbidden area. If we are not caught by those people, there will still be people searching for us when we go out. If we are caught at that time, it will be considered treason. Although there is no nine clans to be killed, we will still be killed.
Don't think we can survive if we leave here." The young man shook his head and sighed.
“Although it is difficult, it does not mean we cannot survive. We have been through many dangerous situations before, but we survived, didn’t we?” The injured man frowned and suddenly wanted to argue with him.
“You survived all the dangers?” The young man laughed, “If the Sword Bearer hadn’t saved you, you would have been reduced to ashes, and so would I.
Do you think we really play a big role in this? Humph, if we leave these two people and become enemies with them, then we will be enemies of the whole world. We will surely die.”
The boy sighed and shook his head again.
The injured man gnashed his teeth, anxious and angry, and sneered: "I don't believe in being at the mercy of others day after day until I die. Sooner or later, I will prove to you that I have the ability to live a glorious life."
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