1779 Self-harm, not wanting to be an enemy of the Ninth Emperor

Just as Feng Qingchen guessed, Feng Qingchen's purpose in going in was to be a hostage. Whether she was willing or not, Nanling Jinfan wanted her to exchange herself for the lives of the villagers.

Nanling Jinfan took action at this time, not only because Feng Qingchen was tired and hungry at this point, but also because they had just concluded the matter.

There was no other way. Repeated failures had destroyed Nanling Jinfan's prestige, and the group of weirdos were becoming less and less trusting of Nanling Jinfan. However, the weirdos all agreed with Nanling Jinfan's suggestion that they should be careful of Feng Qingchen.

Before entering the village, Nanling Jinfan specially asked a village woman to get a set of village girl's clothes for Feng Qingchen to change into, to ensure that Feng Qingchen would not bring in any lethal weapons.

Fortunately, Feng Qingchen was not the Ninth Prince with mysophobia, and he readily changed into clothes that were clean but obviously worn before. At the same time, he combed his long hair again and tied it up casually.

Feng Qingchen had no objection to this outfit. As a hostage, Feng Qingchen was very cooperative, so cooperative that Nanling Jinfan wondered if Feng Qingchen was mentally ill.

"Aren't you afraid of death?" Nanling Jinfan remembered that Feng Qingchen had always been very careful about his life.

"I'm scared." Feng Qingchen answered sincerely.

"If you are afraid of death, why did you come in? You don't think I won't kill you." Nanling Jinfan looked at Feng Qingchen with scrutiny.

"I have no doubt about your determination to kill me, but unfortunately you have no say here." Feng Qingchen looked at Nanling Jinfan mockingly, his eyes falling on the ghost-like man in white behind him.

Nanling Jinfan's face turned pale and blue, and the man in white laughed sinisterly twice: "Hehehe... Miss Feng is indeed a smart person."

"I don't want to die, so I have to be smart." Feng Qingchen answered honestly: "Your goal is to get out, and my goal is to save the people in this village. We have the same goal."

"Really? I thought Miss Feng's goal was to take our lives." The man in white floated out from behind Nanling Jinfan. Only then did Feng Qingchen see clearly how perverted this man's aesthetic taste was. Even his shoes were white. And how much this man loved to pretend to be a ghost.

Feng Qingchen pretended to be surprised and looked at the man in white, and said in surprise: "Did you misunderstand something? He is the only person I want to kill." In order to prevent everyone from getting confused, Feng Qingchen pointed to Nanling Jinfan and said: "His Highness Jinfan and I have a deep grudge. We have disliked each other for a long time and have been thinking about taking each other's lives."

"It seems that we did misunderstand something, but it's good that the misunderstanding is resolved now." The man in white continued speaking according to Feng Qingchen's words, but Feng Qingchen vaguely felt that there was something strange, and the next second Feng Qingchen understood that the logic of a madman was something that normal people could not think about.

The man in white suddenly took out a dagger and threw it on the table: "Miss Feng, I heard from His Highness Jin Fan that you are very good at using dirty tricks. For our safety, I want to inconvenience Miss Feng."

"You want me to hurt myself?" Feng Qingchen looked at the dagger on the table and immediately understood what the other party meant.

For the first time, she hated herself for thinking too fast.

"It's okay for Miss Feng to understand it this way. Miss Feng has met my companions and should know that we are different from ordinary people. I hope Miss Feng can be like us, so that it won't be too abrupt for us to walk together." The voice of the man in white came through a layer of cloth, making people feel creepy. Feng Qingchen wanted to laugh for a moment. These people were born with disabilities, and now they wanted her to join. What kind of logic is this?

"I refuse."

"Miss Feng, you have no choice." The man in white urged unceremoniously. The atmosphere in the room became heavier and very depressing. For people who have no martial arts skills, this has a greater impact and can even be considered a form of oppression.

Feng Qingchen seemed unaffected. Facing the pressure from the man in white, she still ignored it and said, "I don't accept it." She didn't want to torture herself. This cut could not heal.

"Miss Feng refuses, so I'll have to let the people in this village do it for me. Tell me, should I dig out one of their eyes or cut off their nose?" The man in white asked Feng Qingchen for his opinion very seriously, and Feng Qingchen answered very seriously: "I think you'd better run for your lives first. If I'm not wrong, the Ninth Prince should be here by now."

Feng Qingchen is definitely not fooling anyone this time. According to the plan agreed upon between her and the Ninth Prince, the Ninth Prince will come to pick her up at about this time.

"Impossible. Night City is not that easy to break through." Nanling Jinfan had just refuted it when he saw a short man running in and whispering something in the ear of the man in white.

Feng Qingchen couldn't see the expression on the man in white's face. She only saw him suddenly look at her after listening to her. "Miss Feng is indeed very good at predicting things. The Ninth Prince is still ten miles away from here. What do you think we should do?"

"I want to advise you to surrender, but you will not agree. So just run away. As for digging out your eyes or cutting off your nose, I advise you not to do it. You should understand that Yecheng is now Dongling's territory. The Ninth Prince is extremely protective of his people. If you hurt his people in Dongling's territory, he will never let you go. I think you don't want to be enemies with the Ninth Prince." Otherwise, based on Nanling Jinfan's style, he would never treat her so courteously.

The man in white was not annoyed when his thoughts were guessed. He just nodded and said, "Miss Feng, we have no intention of being enemies with Uncle Nine. We just came to the Kyushu Continent for the first time and don't understand many things, so we offended Uncle Nine."

In fact, they did want to kill the Ninth Prince, who was famous throughout the Kyushu Continent, and share his passion, but it was obvious that they were no match for him. In that case, they might as well change their strategy. Anyway, there was no conflict of interest between them and the Ninth Prince, and there was no need for the two sides to become mortal enemies.

Nanling Jinfan's face changed drastically, thinking to himself that something was wrong. Before he could speak, Feng Qingchen looked at him with a smile, "We have no grudge against your lord, but we have some grievances with Prince Jinfan. If your lord can hand Prince Jinfan over to the Ninth Uncle, I think the Ninth Uncle will be satisfied."

This proposal made the men in white very excited. If they could get the Ninth Prince to live in peace with them in exchange for a Nanling Jinfan, then they didn't mind sacrificing Nanling Jinfan. They would not be short of spokespersons anyway, and it would not be difficult to find someone better than Nanling Jinfan.

Nanling Jinfan's face turned pale and blue. It was not a pleasant feeling to be thrown out as a sacrifice, especially since he was so proud and arrogant. How could he not be angry when being looked down upon in front of others? But he knew very well that he could not fall out with this group of people now.

Nanling Jinfan took a deep breath and reminded the man in white: "Don't forget that Gray Old Man hasn't come back yet. Calculating the time, Gray Old Man is very likely to have been killed by the Ninth Prince's men. Even if he is not dead, I'm afraid he won't be able to escape given the current situation."

I have to say that Nanling Jinfan is still very capable. As soon as Gray Old Man appeared, the man in white fell silent on the spot. Feng Qingchen frowned slightly, and as soon as he saw that the atmosphere in the room was not right, he knew that the situation was hopeless and there was no point in talking any further.

Besides, Lan Jiuqing died at the hands of Gray Old Man, so she couldn't really let these people go. Instead of trying so hard to figure it out here, she should be more direct and use her fists to do it.

The group of martial arts people outside don't really listen to her orders, but they will definitely cooperate with the Ninth Prince's actions.

No matter where they are, even if they are both strong, a woman's status will be lower than that of a man, not to mention that she is not as strong as the Ninth Prince...

A word to readers: I finished writing it last night, but then I thought about it and wasn’t very satisfied with it, so I got up early in the morning to rewrite it and speed up the pace.