Chapter 68 The Sad Manor Manager
Xie Liang was woken up by Xu He.
He rubbed his sleepy eyes and asked Xu He who was holding him, "When did I fall asleep?"
Xu He looked a little anxious: "Xiao Liang, did you drink that wine?"
Xie Liang remembered that the man in the suit had indeed forced him to drink some rose wine, and nodded. "I was forced to swallow some by the man in the suit. What's wrong? Did I grow those white roots too?"
Xie Liang hurriedly stood up, lifted up his clothes and checked his body.
After the inspection, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, it hasn't grown."
Seeing Xu He looking at him with a slightly red face, he couldn't help but blush.
Xie Liang squatted back down beside Xu He: "It's almost dawn, I wonder how Long Qingye and the others are doing."
Xu He's expression turned worried: "Xiaoliang, you really did grow those white roots just now."
"No way."
Xu He nodded: "When I woke you up, they retracted into your body."
"The man in the suit must know something. If we can get something out of him, we can figure out this mission." Xie Liang took out his pocket watch and checked the time. "The morning bell is about to ring."
Xie Liang stood up and pulled Xu He to the side of the flower bed next to the main gate, and stretched his head to look at the two closed doors.
After a while, a clear and deafening bell rang from the roof of the main building.
Two huge skeletons slowly appeared on the large flower beds on both sides of the main gate. Under the sunlight, they gradually turned into the appearance of the two gatekeepers.
They walked to the two doors, one on the left and one on the right, and pulled the door handles in different directions.
In an instant, the two heavy doors were pulled open by them. Then, they stood on the left and right sides of the door, standing quietly on both sides of the door like stone statues guarding the door.
In the manor, people were walking towards the main gate one after another, carrying tool buckets.
Suddenly someone patted Xie Liang on the shoulder. When he turned around, he saw that it was Hong Guo and Long Qingye.
Hong Guo yawned, dark bruises etched under his eyes. "Where were you two last night? We've been looking for you all night."
Xie Liang thought about it carefully and only remembered that he pulled Xu He to a nearby flower bed last night. He didn't remember anything else.
"It's right here. I don't know when I fell asleep, and when I woke up it was almost dawn." Xie Liang said.
Hong Guo glanced at him and complained, "You're such a sleeper! Last night, we were chased endlessly by that man in a suit. Those four gardeners weren't much to begin with, but that damn man in the suit poured some ghost wine into their wounds, and they became even more aggressive, chasing us endlessly."
Xie Liang looked at Hong Guo, then looked behind Long Qingye: "Where are Liu Hao and Zhang Minghui?"
Hong Guo yawned and said, "Liu Hao and Zhang Minghui were injured. Brother Ye asked them to find a place to rest."
Seeing Xie Liang's worried look, Hong Guo added, "Don't worry, it's just a minor injury."
Hong Guo covered her mouth and yawned again. "What did the man in the suit and those gardeners transform into? A flower demon or a tree demon? They have so many vines and roots on them."
Xie Liang shook his head and said, "I don't know, maybe it's a flower demon? There are roses everywhere here."
Hong Guo seemed to agree with his statement and nodded slightly:
"Strangely enough, as soon as daybreak came, their movements became sluggish, gradually returning to their daytime selves. Then, they all walked away in different directions with bewildered expressions, as if they had no idea why they were there."
Long Qingye leaned towards Xie Liang with a troubled look on his face: "What's next? We're going to kidnap someone and interrogate them?"
Xie Liang was puzzled. Was it a coincidence? How come this guy always knew what I was thinking?
Xie Liang said softly, "Find someone of higher rank. The minions won't be able to get anything out of you."
"Let's pick him!"
Long Qingye stretched out his hand lazily and pointed at the man in a suit who had been standing outside the main entrance for some time.
Hong Guo asked in confusion, "That guy doesn't look very old, but he's the boss of this manor."
Xie Liang said: "So we have to find a way to capture him and interrogate him."
After some discussion, Xie Liang decided that he would lead the man in the suit to a deserted place outside, and then Xu He and the other three would follow him and take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack.
After making the decision, Xie Liang knocked out a gardener who was carrying a tool bucket, and walked towards the man in the suit with the bucket.
Xie Liang lowered his head and walked up to the man in the suit, saying timidly, "Butler...that piece of...that piece of flower field to the west is all gone."
The man in the suit grabbed Xie Liang's neck and asked, "What?"
Seeing this, Xu He drew out the black sword and was about to rush out. Xie Liang quickly winked at him, signaling him not to be impulsive.
Xie Liang endured the suffocating feeling in his throat and said intermittently: "The flower fields were destroyed by those... outsiders."
After the man in the suit heard clearly, he threw him to the ground and said coldly: "Lead the way."
Xie Liang hurriedly took the man in the suit and walked towards the open plain outside.
Xu He and others followed closely behind.
Xie Liang led the man in the suit through the sea of roses and came to the secluded edge of the flower field.
Apart from the sound of the wind, there is almost no other sound here.
The man in the suit must have noticed something was wrong and stopped.
He looked unhappy and stared at Xie Liang with a frown: "Lie?"
Xie Liang simply stopped pretending and threw the tool bucket he was carrying to the ground: "I want to ask you a few questions."
The man in the suit's eyes suddenly turned cold, and he slowly pulled up the white gloves on his hands.
He suddenly smiled, then quickly stretched out his right hand towards Xie Liang's neck.
Xie Liang quickly squatted down to avoid it and shouted, "Three of you! It's time to take action!"
Xu He was the first to jump out with a black sword and stab the man in the suit repeatedly, but the man in the suit was extremely fast and was able to dodge in time every time.
Long Qingye walked out slowly: "Mr. Xu, can you do this?"
Xu He glanced at Long Qingye, continued to speed up his hands, and swung the sword towards the man in the suit.
After a while, the man in the suit had his suit torn in several places by the tip of his sword.
Almost every one of his sword strikes landed close to the face and body of the man in the suit.
The two men were moving too fast, and Xie Liang felt he couldn't help much, so he hid aside.
Xie Liang suddenly saw a few stones on the ground. After thinking for a while, he picked them up and threw them at the man in the suit.
The man in the suit was not careful for a moment and was hit in the corner of his eye by a flying stone. He glared at Xie Liang fiercely.
"Hit!" Xie Liang picked up another stone and continued to throw it at him.
Unfortunately, Xu He and the man in the suit exchanged positions during the fight, and a stone flying in the air hit Xu He hard between his eyebrows.
Xu He was stunned for a moment, and the man in the suit took the opportunity to punch him hard on the chin. He staggered back a few steps.
"Brother He! Are you okay?" Xie Liang shouted guiltily and anxiously.
Seeing this, Hongguo swung the folding steel knife, and the long blade immediately stretched out, shining coldly in the sunlight.
Under the pincer attack from Hong Guo and Xu He, the man in the suit began to become restricted in his movements.
Gradually, the man in the suit began to lose the upper hand. He glanced back and forth between Xu He and Hong Guo, and suddenly walked behind Hong Guo, put one hand around her neck, and hit her head hard with the other.
Hongguo instantly spat out a mouthful of blood, instantly dyeing the green grass red.
"You're looking for death!" The man in the suit angrily grabbed her neck and lifted her up.
Hongguo's face turned red and she kept struggling.
Seeing this, Xu He drew his sword from the side and stabbed towards the neck of the man in the suit.
Seeing this, the man in the suit threw the red fruit to the ground like a rag and dodged the sword by moving sideways.
At this moment, Long Qingye took advantage of his inattention and quickly flashed behind him. He quickly wrapped the steel wire he pulled out from his sleeve around his neck and pulled it tight.
Xie Liang quickly helped Hong Guo up from the ground: "How are you?"
Hong Guo said weakly, "Don't worry about me, go help Brother Ye..."
The suit man's neck was strangled so hard that a light green liquid was oozing out. He was pinching Long Qingye's neck tightly with both hands.
Seeing this, Xu He quickly drew his sword and chopped off one of the suit man's hands.
Xie Liang quickly took out a rope, and several people tied up the man in the suit tightly.
Long Qingye walked towards Hong Guo: "How are you?"
"It's okay, cough...it's just a minor injury. I'll be fine after I get out." Hongguo said as he coughed up another mouthful of blood.
The man in the suit was still struggling, and the rope was tied so tightly that it looked like it would break at any moment.
Hongguo walked towards the man in the suit with a folding steel knife in his hand and an angry look on his face.
After approaching, she raised the knife and stabbed it hard at the thigh of the man in the suit. "Bitch!" Hong Guo was still furious and stabbed the man in the suit twice more in the abdomen.
The man in the suit looked at her gloomily, without saying a word, as if he didn't feel any pain at all.
Xie Liang walked up to the man in the suit and said, "Hey! Is this manor yours?"
The man in the suit didn't even look at Xie Liang and remained silent.
Xie Liang didn't care whether he answered or not, and continued to ask: "You are also a human, right?"
"Do you have a family? Are you planning to stay here forever?" Xie Liang paused, then continued, "Why did you make those flower wines? Just to manipulate us into doing what you want?"
The man in the suit still had a gloomy look on his face and said nothing.
"Why say so much to him! He won't answer anyway, so just kill him!" Hong Guo said as he raised the steel knife and pointed it at the neck of the man in the suit.
Xie Liang reached out and moved her knife away, looking at the man in the suit, and said, "You can't die, right? That's why you don't care about our threats at all.
"But every night, you turn into a monster. Is this how you want to live?"
The man in the suit glanced at Xie Liang at this time, and his eyes were no longer gloomy and indifferent, but with a kind of sadness.
Seeing that there was hope, Xie Liang quickly continued, "Since you're not afraid of death, why do you continue to live in such a ridiculous way?"
"Ask." The man in the suit suddenly spoke.
"Ah?" Xie Liang was stunned for a moment. He still had a lot of things to say, and this is it?
Long Qingye squatted down beside the man in the suit and asked, "Besides using it to control the workers and selling some of it, what else is the wine used for?"
"To irrigate the rose roots underground." The man in the suit said expressionlessly.
"Rose root? Where is it?" Hongguo asked.
The man in the suit glanced at Hong Guo and said, "In the basement of the main building."
"Okay, I've finished asking questions." Long Qingye said as he stood up.
"So fast?" Hongguo asked in surprise.
Xie Liang thought for a moment, then looked at the man in the suit and said, "Are those two guards at the main gate easy to deal with? We want to go into that basement you mentioned and take a look. Can you take us there?"
The man in the suit didn't say anything, but looked at his breast pocket.
Xie Liang reached in and fished around, pulling out a small glass bottle filled with red liquid: "Is this the divine wine?"
The man in the suit lay on the grass with an expressionless face. "Take it and go. They won't stop you."
His expression turned indifferent again, as if he had given up on something. "You'd better hurry up. By nightfall, it will be too late for you."
"At night? What will happen at night?" Xie Liang asked.
The man in the suit didn't answer and buried his head in the mud on the grass with an indifferent look on his face.
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