Liu Meng walked beside Lin Feng and asked curiously, "Brother Lin, why do you and your family seem relatively cool? Look at me, my nose is red from the cold, and my lips are shivering."
Lin Feng smiled and said, "Maybe it's because I'm wearing too many clothes! My family is all elderly and weak, so we also put on a few extra layers when we entered the cave."
"Oh! Ahem!" Liu Meng nodded.
After half a quarter of an hour, everyone arrived at the foot of the mountain. In order not to be discovered, the torches were extinguished as they exited the cave.
The moon is very round and bright tonight, and with the reflection of the moonlight and the snowflakes on the ground, you can see the road conditions clearly.
"Brother Liu, is it still far?" Lin Feng asked Liu Meng.
Liu Meng said, "It's not far. We'll be there in a few minutes. There's a cave there with our supplies. We don't plan to travel tonight. It's too dark. Let's set off early tomorrow morning."
Lin Feng nodded and smiled, "You must have been preparing for a long time, right?"
Liu Meng chuckled, "That's right. This is the result of the efforts of several generations, and it was only completed by our generation. We have made arrangements from here all the way to the border pass of King Qi's fiefdom, so you won't have to suffer much along the way."
Lin Feng admired their perseverance and their ability to seize opportunities. This time, they took advantage of the war to act at the right time and did not have to worry about being interrogated by the officials in Huangsha City who were responsible for guarding the criminals and their descendants.
After stumbling up the mountain road for a while, the group finally stopped in front of a stone wall.
Master Liu stepped forward and compared it with a blueprint, then turned a disguised stone-breaking mechanism. After a rumbling sound, a door opened in the middle of the stone wall.
"What a great disguise." Lin Feng exclaimed in admiration.
There is no visible cave from the outside. The entrance to the cave is not too big, just enough for an adult to enter.
People filed in one after another, and soon the stone cave was packed. The cave was not large and looked very simple, but it had everything needed, such as a stove and a kang, and firewood was also prepared. After it was lit, it became warm in a short while.
Everyone had smiles on their faces and looked relaxed. Lin Feng did not see any sadness from losing their best friend on their faces, as if the previous accident had never happened.
This was their instinctive reaction, without any disguise. Lin Feng, who was aware of the situation, became even more alert at this time.
He protected his family behind him. He was not afraid. If they dared to harm his family, he would have no choice but to put them all in the space tower.
Only he can enter the space tower. Anyone else who enters will explode and die. This is also his trump card.
"Please don't think what I think! I have never killed anyone in my life!" Lin Feng prayed in his heart.
"Little brother, there is a question I have always wanted to ask you. Your family seems to be not afraid of the cold. Why is that?" Grandpa Liu asked with a smile.
Everyone in the cave looked at Lin Feng and his family.
"Here it comes! It's time to start!" Lin Feng sighed in his heart.
"Maybe people in our family wear more clothes!" Lin Feng said with a smile.
Mr. Li from the pharmacy shook his head: "Little brother, you are not telling the truth!"
Lin Feng looked at him, and then asked, "What do you mean?"
Mr. Li from the pharmacy did not answer Lin Feng's question, but asked Liu Meng: "Have you given them all the food I asked you to eat?"
Liu Meng nodded quickly: "Three meals a day, every meal is delivered on time."
Mr. Li from the pharmacy showed a puzzled expression and asked Lin Feng: "Have you eaten all the food?"
Lin Feng nodded, somewhat confused about what he said.
"Shouldn't it be?" Uncle Li still had a puzzled expression.
Lin Feng couldn't help but ask, "What exactly do you want to say?"
Uncle Li said to Lin Feng, "I had someone put drugs in your family's food."
"What?" Lin Feng screamed in surprise, but then he thought that his family didn't seem to eat the food they sent, because they were used to eating the food in the space tower, which was really hard to swallow. His family's appetite had become picky, and after becoming defensive, they would not eat the wine anymore.
"Why? Why did you drug my family?" Lin Feng asked angrily.
Mr. Li from the drug store smiled coldly, and his expression was completely different from before.
"This medicine is a cold medicine. It grows next to ice spring water. If taken daily for a few days, the cold will cause the qi to be deficient, making the person appear sickly and unable to even walk. But your family is fine and has no symptoms. This confuses me!"
What Lin Feng saw before his eyes was no longer the amiable Mr. Li, but a sinister and vicious old man.
In response to the angry glares from Lin Feng's family, Mr. Li from the pharmacy continued, "Little brother, it's not too late now. Do you have any treasures on you? Regarding the tiger scorpion, I think you should understand what I mean, right?"
Lin Feng nodded, staring at him intently: "I know it very well, don't you just want something on me that can attract tiger scorpions?"
"And the specific location of the water source." Liu Meng did not forget to remind.
Lin Feng looked around at the people in the cave. There was greed in everyone's eyes. They were indeed the descendants of sinners. Over the years, the blood of sinners had been completely integrated into their bones and blood.
"I want to ask, those people who died in the secret passage, the ones you called your close friends, their deaths were not so simple, right?" Lin Feng asked. He actually felt relieved now, as the fox's tail had been exposed, and the next step was to be ruthless. Lin Feng was not afraid of this at all.
"Little brother, you are smart. Those people are useless now." Master Liu's sinister voice sounded.
"Humph! Those people are just our stepping stones. Once the road is open, they will be useless." Liu Meng also said proudly,
"Their money belongs to us, and the properties they invested in to buy the fiefdom of King Qi are also ours. Hahaha! The descendants of my Liu family are finally going to turn things around." Old Master Liu also laughed loudly.
Lin Feng looked coldly at Mr. Li, the owner of the medicine shop: "The Liu family is so cruel, aren't you afraid that they will kill you too?"
Uncle Li then burst into laughter and said, "You know nothing. Before I changed my last name, my last name was Liu too. We are brothers."
Lin Feng was astonished. The things that happened here could be written into a storybook. One thing leads to another. These people are all talented!
Master Liu said, "Boy, since everything has been made clear, we won't waste any more words. In order for your family to survive until now, we only have two requests."
He continued, "First, hand over the Tiger Scorpion Secret Treasure. Second, hand over the location of the water source. If you hand it over, your family can live. Otherwise, this cave will become your family's grave."
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