Negotiation
"The patriarch was furious and personally led his men to subdue the sea monster. They brought back the corpses of eight strange-looking monsters." Zhao Jingyan paused and frowned, "I always feel that it wasn't a sea monster."
Zhao Jingyan has been a lively person since he was a child. After the sea monster's body was dragged back, it was hung in the backyard. The young ones who had not grown up were not allowed to see it. Zhao Jingyan took advantage of the fact that there were few people around, crawled in through the dog hole, and secretly watched for a while.
"I saw black threads coming out of the corpse." Zhao Jingyan recalled, his fingers unconsciously clenching. "But soon my third cousin, who was guarding the body, discovered me and kicked me out."
After Zhao Jingyan was kicked out of the yard, he wanted to find his great-grandfather to tell him about this matter, but as soon as he left the yard, he was pulled away by his fifth cousin.
"The next day, before daybreak, a fire broke out in the backyard. No water could put out the fire. At the same time, many black, twisted shadows appeared in the flames."
"It's all because of me. If I had told my great-grandfather about this, they wouldn't have died." Zhao Jingyan suddenly lost control of his emotions and started crying.
Zhao Ziyu clenched her fists as she listened. She had always believed that the Zhao family was wiped out by their enemies.
Li Ping'an held Zhao Jingyan in his arms, touched her head, and whispered a few words of comfort to her.
The fact that Zhao Jingyan was able to escape with Zhao Ziyu under the protection of the crowd showed that she was not a weak person. After venting her emotions for a while, she wiped away her tears and looked at Jiu Qi, "I have said everything I need to say. What about you?"
Since Jiuqi was able to find this memory stone, it means he must know something.
Jiu Qi did not answer directly, but took off the mask on his face, revealing his true face, and then looked at Zhao Jingyan and the others.
"It's you?" Zhao Jingyan and her sister had complicated expressions.
Li Pingan, who was watching the scene from the side, obviously knew the person.
"When I brought Ziyu ashore from the seaside fishing village, he threw us into Yacheng without saying a word." Zhao Jingyan still remembered that she was scared and screamed, thinking that she had met human traffickers as soon as she got ashore. As a result, the man threw her and her sisters into Yacheng and left.
"When I received the news and rushed over, it was too late." Jiu Qi was trying hard to travel between several immortal cultivation worlds at that time, just to find something. Unexpectedly, when he came back, he found that the Zhao family who suppressed the East China Sea barrier had been wiped out, and only two little girls were left.
"What on earth was that thing?" Zhao Jingyan had been forcing himself to forget about it, but now that he thought about it, it was definitely not a sea monster.
"The product of demons and monsters," Jiu Qi took out a small, inconspicuous stone and placed it on the table. "A thousand years ago, the human race took advantage of the fact that both demons and monsters were suffering and set up a barrier to seal them all underground and under the sea."
"Who knew that within the barrier, the demons and monsters devoured each other and merged with each other, leaving some gaps in the barrier, and the demons and monsters took advantage of the gaps to escape."
In Li Pingan's view, this stone is like a projection. With a few clicks, the recorded scene is projected out. There are many scenes. Jiu Qi randomly clicks on one.
The background is a small mountain village with not many villagers. They work from sunrise to sunset. With the creek and the low hills full of peach and apricot blossoms, it is a beautiful paradise.
However, slowly, a black gas appeared above the low mountain. First, the insects, birds, animals, flowers, plants and trees on the mountain died. Then, the people at the foot of the mountain were gradually entangled by the black gas, lost consciousness, and crashed to death on the top of the mountain one after another. As the last villager died on the top of the mountain, the black gas condensed into shape, turned into a human being, and walked down the mountain.
"This happened ten days ago." Jiu Qi said lightly.
"Why didn't anyone stop it?" Li Pingan felt a little sorry when he saw the toddlers crashing into their heads and dying on the top of the mountain.
Jiu Qi snorted coldly, opened the space bag and poured it onto the table. Soon, the stone table was full. "One stone can record 81 scenes. Count them yourself."
"No, what's your attitude?" Li Ping'an still remembered that this man had captured Annie and the others, so why was he speaking so arrogantly?
"If you hadn't taken the azalea away, you wouldn't have to come here and suffer my anger." Jiu Qi raised his hand again and put all the stones on the table back.
"Aren't you speaking against your conscience? Before you took away Dujuan, you didn't behave like a good person." Li Ping'an still remembered it, so he couldn't think of rebelling against Tiangang.
For some reason, the two of them suddenly started arguing. Zhao Jingyan and his sister were both pulled out of their previous sadness. Zhao Jingyan even choked up and persuaded them to stop arguing.
Jiu Qi actually knew that he was the one who wronged Li Ping'an on the ship, but it was Li Ping'an's bad luck that the soul he extracted was greed, and this soul was still staring at Li Ping'an. However, if he went, Li Ping'an had such a special physique that he would definitely find a way to bring him back.
"No, you're talking so much, what exactly do you want us to do?" Li Ping'an got angry when he saw Jiu Qi stopped talking again and acted like a mute.
Jiu Qi glanced at Li Pingan, who was almost standing up in excitement, and said, "Save the world! This world is about to end. We need you to save the suffering and save all living beings."
Li Ping'an frowned and pointed at herself, "Me? Save the world?" He must be joking. She was penniless now, with only a dagger left on her body. Did she have to use this dagger to save the world?
As if sensing Li Ping'an's inner thoughts, Jiu Qi took out two beads, one black and one red, from his arms. Li Ping'an's eyes lit up when he saw them. Aren't these her "Exploding Octopus" and "Cuckoo"?
"Can I do it now?" Jiu Qi held two beads in his palm and stretched them in front of Li Ping'an.
The two beads sensed Li Ping'an's breath and struggled to jump out and return to Li Ping'an's body, but they were suppressed by Jiu Qi and could not jump out.
Li Pingan felt distressed and reached out to take it, but Jiu Qi clasped his hands together and asked again, "Can I take it now?"
"Yes, yes, yes," he nodded rapidly.
Feeling the "Exploding Octopus" and "Cuckoo" in his body, Li Pingan felt his confidence return. Looking at Jiu Qi in front of him, he said, "I don't know what you are thinking, but it is obviously a very dangerous idea."
Li Pingan pointed at himself, then at Zhao Jingyan and Zhao Ziyu, "As you can see, the three of us are not up to par in terms of martial arts or strategy. Letting the three of us go would be like delivering food to those monsters."
When Zhao Jingyan heard this, he slammed the table and stood up. Zhao Ziyu couldn't stop him. "I can do it. Even if I die, I will perish together with those monsters."
Li Pingan quickly stood up and pulled Zhao Jingyan aside, and waved for Zhao Ziyu to come over as well, "Please allow us to have a small meeting first."
Li Pingan held Zhao Jingyan's face and said, "I know you are very sad and angry, but you have to suppress it, understand?"
"Now he is asking us to do something,"
"I didn't ask you to do anything." Li Pingan looked back and saw Jiu Qi, who had gotten a set of tea sets from somewhere, sipping tea.
"Do you have any sense of public morality? You eavesdropped on other people's private meetings."
"He is the one calling us to do things now, so we have to be dignified, do you understand?" Li Ping'an looked at Zhao Jingyan, but Zhao Jingyan didn't know.
Seeing Zhao Jingyan shaking his head, Li Pingan sighed and turned to Zhao Ziyu, "Then do you know?"
Zhao Ziyu also shook his head.
Li Pingan sighed again, "It's really God's blessing that you can live to this age in peace and safety."
"Then follow my example, be polite, and let's get some benefits," Li Ping'an rubbed his hands and laughed twice.
"You want money?" Zhao Jingyan asked hesitantly.
"Why do you need money? That place is so dangerous. What's the use of money? I need things to save my life, such as protective shields, weapons, life-saving pills, etc."
"Of course, money is also required."
"Forget it, just listen to me later." Li Ping'an didn't expect these two people to be of any help, so he was thankful that they didn't hold him back.
Seeing Li Ping'an coming back with Zhao Jingyan and her sister, Jiu Qi put down the teacup in his hand, looked up at her, and waited for her to speak.
Li Ping'an coughed and thought to herself, "Oh no!" She was not very familiar with the weapons here and should have asked Zhao Jingyan and her sister.
"We can go, but we have to negotiate the terms first. After all, there are only three of us, and we might die without even knowing how."
"Stop," Jiu Qi interrupted Li Ping'an, "Who said only the three of you went in?"
"Ah?" Li Ping'an looked at the situation, isn't it?
"Besides you, there are also elders and disciples from various sects, the mayors or deputy mayors of each city, and the major families will also send people, as well as some knights from the martial arts world."
Jiuqi thought about it and didn't say anything, so just let the three of them go. Judging from what they had seen along the way, the three of them combined could not beat a Pegasus.
Li Pingan felt a little embarrassed. He scratched his chin to ease the embarrassment and regain his confidence. "Don't worry about how many people go. If a fight breaks out and the scene becomes chaotic, who will have time to take care of us?"
"So, we need..." Before Li Pingan finished speaking, Jiu Qi threw out three storage bags, "one for each of us, and see if it's enough."
Li Pingan picked one up at random, opened it and took a look, "Wow~" the three people's voices overlapped together.
After Li Pingan said "Wow", she realized that she didn't recognize the things in the storage bag at all. So she turned her back and signaled Zhao Jingyan with her eyes, "How is it?"
Unfortunately, Zhao Jingyan was not a smart person. He thought Li Ping'an had an eye cramp. When he was about to ask, Zhao Ziyu covered his mouth.
After covering his sister's mouth, Zhao Ziyu breathed a sigh of relief and nodded at Li Pingan.
After receiving the news, Li Pingan turned to Jiu Qi and said, "It looks okay."
"Then let's start training this afternoon." Jiuqi stood up, said a few words and left.
"What kind of training? Can you please let Annie and the others out first?"
Jiu Qi didn't want to pay attention to her, but Li Pingan not only asked, but also chased after her to ask. He couldn't stand it anymore, so he turned around and said helplessly: "They are also training."
"What kind of training?"
"Please let us meet."
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