It's a human, not a fox
The long sword tore through the firelight and the night, and the sound of breaking through the air was sharp and long. It passed over the people who were screaming and dodging, and chopped straight towards Lao Wu!
"Jiang Yi, you are crazy!!!"
Lao Wu screamed and fell backward in fear, grabbing the long knife that appeared out of thin air and blocking it in front of him.
Jiang Yi suddenly stood up, holding the long sword and exerting force again. With a sharp glance, the long sword in his hand suddenly turned and chopped down fiercely.
"Jiang Yi!!"
The people who were caught off guard and fell down suddenly came to their senses, shouted, drew their swords and blocked the attack together.
Lao Wu cursed, "I told you there's something wrong with him!"
"Y-It's a fox!!"
Everyone screamed.
"Shut up!" Jiang Yi's face was gloomy and he shouted, "Look at it for yourselves!"
Everyone was about to turn back, but Lao Wu suddenly stopped them, "Don't be fooled by it!"
Everyone woke up instantly and didn't dare to look away. They gritted their teeth, blocked Jiang Yi with swords and continued to fight.
Jiang Jingyuan's eyes darkened, and he called out "Xu Qinglin." He raised his hand and pointed at the person Jiang Yi had attacked earlier. To avoid errors, he pointed at two more people on the left and right, and finally pointed at Lao Wu, "Catch them here safely."
Grayish-white mist suddenly rushed out and approached the people she pointed at at lightning speed. The moment it touched them, it softened into a large cloud and enveloped them.
"Employer, what are you doing?!!"
Lao Wu and the other three screamed.
Finally, everyone couldn't help but quickly look back, and saw that most of their figures were shrouded in mist. Four familiar faces showed panic. They were stunned for a moment and slowly looked at the girl not far away.
In the firelight, the girl in simple white clothes sat on a chair with an indifferent expression. She didn't even look at them, but just stared quietly at Lao Wu and the other three.
Xiao Xu twisted and struggled frantically in the gray mist, shouting in panic: "Employer, you..." His expression suddenly changed, his eyes terrified, "Employer or employer..."
"It's a fox in disguise!" Lao Wu's face darkened as he cursed, "These beasts."
Everyone immediately exclaimed: "Where is the employer?! Where is the employer?!"
Suddenly, the maids who had been silent for a long time behind the chairs changed their expressions, and their surprised eyes fell on the back of the girl in front of them.
Suddenly, a maidservant reached out and pinched the two people on her left and right. She frowned and whispered, "What are you panicking about? Who else can use this cloud mist besides you, my Lord?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the maids felt relieved immediately and the same gentle smile appeared on their faces again.
Although she spoke in a low voice, everyone present had extraordinary hearing and heard it clearly, and they immediately felt relieved.
Then, their expressions became slightly serious again, and the hands holding the swords became hesitant.
Their employer didn't seem like someone who would act without a purpose. He suddenly attacked Lao Wu and the others, so it must really be...
"The one behind you is the fox!"
In front, Jiang Yi frowned and said in a deep voice.
Everyone turned around at once, pointing their swords at the four people in the mist.
Xiao Xu and the two people beside him shook their heads wildly.
Lao Wu's expression twisted as he said, "You just believe whatever he says. You are..." He caught a glimpse of the girl not far away from the corner of his eye. He paused and said unhappily, "Anyway, I'm a human being!"
Everyone stared at them closely and asked Jiang Yi behind them, "Boss Jiang, how do we confirm this?"
Jiang Yi pondered in silence.
The gray-white mist was thin and soft, trapping him on the body and making him unable to move his hands and feet. Lao Wu stared at him with a sneer, while Xiao Xu and the two people beside him twisted their bodies like maggots unwillingly.
"It's unfair!" Xiao Xu's eyes were filled with tears. Just as he was about to beg for something else, he saw a black shadow flash in his peripheral vision. He turned his head suddenly and looked at it, his eyes suddenly filled with fear.
A pale, bloodless hand slowly stretched out from the thin mist, raised an index finger softly and poked his neck.
The long black nails pierced into the flesh, and a terrifying, cold breath of death instantly rushed up his spine. Xiao Xu didn't dare to move, and only opened his eyes wide with fear and screamed: "I, I am a good person——!"
The hand continued to move, cutting deeply into the flesh, then stopped under his desperate gaze, and retracted with a swish, sending up a string of bright red blood beads.
Xiao Xu took two deep breaths, and blood rolled down his neck. His ears cleared, and he heard the low shouts and curses of Lao Wu and the two people around him.
The four people in the mist had the same bloodstains on their necks, and their faces had different ugly expressions.
"None of them turned into foxes..." Jiang Jingyuan pondered, "Are they fearless and good at pretending, or are they really all human?"
Jiang Jingyuan turned to look at Jiang Yi and everyone from Longyin Pavilion.
"How about we give it a try?" One person licked his cracked lips and cautiously suggested, "By the end of the fight, the fox won't be able to pretend anymore, right?"
Before Jiang Yi could even open his mouth, Lao Wu screamed, "You bastard, are you going to force me to confess?!"
The person who made the suggestion fell silent immediately.
Lao Wu glared at Jiang Yi, "Boss Jiang, I've always been harsh in my words. If you're angry and want to take revenge, fine! But you don't have to kill me, right?!"
Xiao Xu's eyes also filled with tears, "I really am a good person, a very good person!"
The two people beside him nodded heavily with sorrowful expressions.
Everyone's faces were filled with confusion and hesitation. After a moment of silence, Jiang Yi frowned and looked up at them and asked, "How do you prove yourselves?"
"How can we prove ourselves?" Xiao Xu's eyes widened, his face filled with panic. "How can we prove ourselves?"
Lao Wu said "Pooh" in an angry voice, "You're just proving your own shit!"
"I still want to ask you how to prove we are foxes!" Lao Wu said, "You won't believe it until our bodies are lying there, right?"
Jiang Yi said nothing.
Everyone spoke up to comfort him, "That's not what I meant, don't worry, it's just that you know the situation, so just express it casually.
"If it was really the fox that harmed you, we would definitely avenge you. If it were you, you would definitely avenge us, right? How can this be considered doubting you? We don't doubt you at all!"
The faces of the four people in the mist kept changing, and the fifth one's face turned red and purple.
Lao Wu gritted his teeth, "What do you want to say? What do you want to hear? Tell me!"
Everyone laughed awkwardly and said, "How can we ask such random questions? Just give us a simple answer."
Just explain it briefly!
Lao Wu's expression was wildly distorted. The more he said "just talk about it simply", "just talk about it casually", "just relax and express yourself freely", the less it had to do with "simple". There were so many things to do!
Let them say it themselves, one is dissatisfied, two are dissatisfied, three, five, ten... endless dissatisfaction.
"I, I'll tell you, I'll tell you..." Xiao Xu said beside him, her voice trembling as if she couldn't bear it anymore, "I'll tell you..."
Everyone immediately smiled with relief, looked at him with a smile, and nodded at him, "You have to speak properly."
Lao Wu sneered and glanced at Xiao Xu. After all, Xiao Xu was young and could not be easily frightened. He was frightened into agreeing without even any negotiation.
The employer tied them up but didn't deal with them directly, which meant that he wanted to be reasonable.
If the employer and his people weren't here, they would have fought it out with real swords and guns to see who would survive. With the employer and his people here, could Jiang Yi directly judge them? He could only reason with them and present evidence.
Jiang Yi wants them to prove themselves. Okay, but it can’t be that they are the only ones who prove themselves and suffer the loss, while Jiang Yi and the others don’t have to pay anything, right?
Xiaoxu's lips moved, he was at a loss, his mind was in a mess, and he couldn't figure out how to prove himself.
Everyone stared at him seriously. "Xiao Xu, don't try to hide anything. God is watching you. Only by telling the truth can you prove your innocence."
Xiao Xu's body trembled, and her panicked eyes unconsciously turned back and forth between them, "I, I..."
"I know!" His eyes suddenly locked onto a person, and he shouted happily, "Ruan, Ruan Chuan, Senior Brother! Middle of last year, Senior Sister Wenwen lost her fawn. Senior Brother Ruan Chuan offered to help find it, but he couldn't find it. Actually, Senior Brother Ruan Chuan had touched the fawn, but the fawn refused to let him. So, in a rage, he tried to catch it, but accidentally dropped it to death, and then quickly sent it down the mountain to sell. I saw it while passing by!"
Lao Wu was stunned for a moment, then curled his lips.
In the crowd, Ruan Chuan's face flushed instantly. Under everyone's teasing gaze, he suddenly took a step forward and shouted sternly:
"How come you've been in Longyin Pavilion for so many years and still have no sense of propriety?! What kind of urgent situation is this? Why are you talking nonsense instead of proving your innocence?!"
He said, "Tell me about yourself!"
"Yeah." Lao Wu said slowly and calmly, "What Xiao Xu said is right? It's true and there are witnesses. It's ironclad in his innocence."
As he spoke, a look of sneer gradually appeared on his face.
That's right, with Xiaoxu's courage, how could she dare to do anything reckless? If you are upright, you have nothing to fear. But you can only tell other people's secrets.
Ruan Chuan's facial features suddenly twisted, and he turned around suddenly, "Boss Jiang!"
Jiang Yi just said "hmm" casually.
Lao Wu immediately gloated over the misfortune, looking back and forth at the people in front of him with a mocking look, and pretended to be embarrassed: "Oh, my memory is so bad, I can't remember anything to say..."
Many people's faces turned dark.
Xiaoxu is young and timid, and all he knows are embarrassing things that are actually unimportant. But Laowu is different!
God knows what he can say, adding fuel to the fire and stirring up trouble.
If he really said that, their entire team would be finished... Everyone curled their lips and were about to speak with a cold face.
Jiang Yi suddenly said, "I remember it was you, Lao Wu, who said that foxes might have human memories."
Everyone paused, then perked up and said, "Right, right, right, these things can't completely prove that you are human!"
Lao Wu sneered again, as if he understood it and had already understood it. These things are a death warrant and a life-saving talisman, a life-saving talisman and a death warrant.
"So what do you want?" Someone from the side and back couldn't help but speak.
Everyone looked at him coldly and asked in unison: "How are you going to prove your innocence?"
"Storage bag!" Lao Wu said, "Storage bag, magical tool, we can use it. Is this okay?"
The three people around him echoed: "That's right!"
The four looked at the girl in white not far away, "Employer, please give us some space to move around."
Jiang Jingyuan hesitated for a moment, then murmured, "Hmm." The gray mist instantly loosened their grip, leaving only enough space for them to move their arms and legs.
The four people opened their storage bags swiftly, took out their magic weapons and resonated with them, then looked up and stared at everyone with anger on their faces.
Everyone was stunned, and for a moment they found it hard to believe.
They really are people... Then why did Jiang Yi want to kill them before?
"Boss Jiang." Lao Wu said coldly, "It's your turn to prove your innocence."
Lao Wu shouted, "It's not whoever strikes first is right! Prove it yourself!"
Everyone froze for a moment before slowly turning around and looking at Jiang Yi. After a pause, someone screamed in astonishment, "Boss Jiang! Where's your storage bag?"
Jiang Yi was silent for a moment, then said, "It's lost."
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