ATPnovel #770 - Get together
#770 - Get together
“You need to tell me what exactly you want to do so I know how to help you,” Chao Yuan said, panting.
“Is there a way to get everyone out of the blood mist without harming Hong Luo?” Lu Jing asked.
“Not harm Hong Luo?” Chao Yuan was taken aback. “When did the people of the Sitianjian become so concerned about the life and death of a strange object?”
“That’s none of your business. Just answer the question.”
“No,” Chao Yuan shook his head.
Seeing Lu Jing preparing to attack again, Chao Yuan quickly changed his tune, “Wait, let me think again…”
He stole glances at Lu Jing’s expression while cautiously saying, “Although I also work for Mr. Ji, I don’t really understand strange objects… After all, I’m a cultivator, and I can barely master the spells on the stone carvings. I don’t have the mind to learn anything else. But I know who understands strange objects.
“The Artisan,” Chao Yuan announced a name, “The Artisan has learned about seventy or eighty percent of Mr. Ji’s skills in refining strange objects, and he has also added a lot of his own understanding. Mr. Ji once praised his talent in person, and even said that the Artisan would definitely surpass him in the future.
“Hong Luo was created by the Artisan. He definitely knows how to get everyone out of here without harming Hong Luo. Moreover, the Artisan, like me, is one of the three leaders.
“Hong Luo has always been with him. Since you people from the Sitianjian have already surrounded this place, then the Artisan must also be in this blood mist.”
After Chao Yuan finished speaking, Lu Jing’s expression softened slightly.
Before entering the blood mist, Lu Jing knew that this guy was definitely hiding something. Unsurprisingly, it was related to the Artisan.
Although Chao Yuan couldn’t provide a way to protect Hong Luo, he did provide a useful clue. So Lu Jing didn’t soak him in water again, but knocked him unconscious again and carried him in his hand.
Then he said to Kui, “You heard what he said just now, right? Let’s go to the main hall and find the Artisan.”
However, Kui remained motionless. “The Artisan is dead.”
“How could that be? I saw him when I came in.”
“The Artisan is dead,” Kui repeated. “The one with the hammer isn’t him, the one lying on the ground is. I agreed with you before that I would attract the attention of the Sitianjian, and you would persuade the strange objects in the city to leave. But when I was halfway there, I met the Artisan and the others.
“The Artisan and the others mistakenly thought that the people from the Sitianjian behind me were here to arrest them, so they decided to strike first. The two sides fought, but the Artisan underestimated the power of the Sitianjian. He was killed in one encounter.
“Afterwards, Wu Yi took over and commanded the remaining people. Because they acted in haste, their manpower was incomplete, and they were quickly outnumbered and surrounded. In the end, they had no choice but to release Hong Luo.”
“There must be another way,” Lu Jing said.
“There isn’t. You should go,” Kui shook her head, her expression pained. She used a lot of strength to squeeze out the last half of the sentence, “Go… go do what you have to do, but don’t take me with you. I will never be with you.”
Lu Jing heard this and finally didn’t try to persuade her anymore.
He glanced at Kui, who was hugging her knees, and silently retreated from the kitchen.
He ignored the strange expressions of the three people in the main hall and walked straight towards the gate.
The time of one incense stick for his appointment with the One-Eyed Taoist was almost up.
Just as he was about to walk out of the gate, he heard the old beggar named Wu Yi call out to him again.
“Friend, please wait.”
Lu Jing stopped, but didn’t turn around.
Then he heard Wu Yi say, “What is your relationship with the girl inside?”
“Are you misunderstanding something? Although I said that I wouldn’t kill you as long as you answered honestly, it doesn’t mean that we are friends,” Lu Jing turned around and said indifferently, looking at the three people.
The girl with the soft whip was a little angry when she heard this. She originally wanted to say a few harsh words like before, but for some reason, when she saw Lu Jing’s expressionless face, she suddenly felt a chill in her heart.
“It’s no longer important. You should worry more about yourselves. Once I kill the blood corpse, this blood mist will disappear, and you will have nowhere to escape,” Lu Jing said. “If I were you, I would surrender obediently at that time, so that you might be able to save your lives.”
“We will not surrender,” the strong man with the axe said, puffing out his chest. “Before coming to the capital, we had already prepared ourselves. We will either succeed or die. There is no other way.”
“Is that so? Then I wish you good luck,” Lu Jing said, and was about to continue walking out.
The girl with the soft whip said again, “We… just made a decision. Anyway, we are about to die, so we might as well exchange our lives for a life.”
“Exchange lives for a life?”
Lu Jing stopped again, “Whose life are you exchanging?”
“Hong Luo’s. We don’t know what relationship Hong Luo has with the girl inside, but we can see that Hong Luo must be very important to her,” the girl with the soft whip said, biting her lip.
Wu Yi sighed at this time, “Although Hong Luo volunteered to be refined into a strange object for this rescue, she is only a teenager after all. Her life has just begun, and it would be a pity to die here like this.”
“Do you have a way to save her?” Lu Jing asked in surprise.
“The three of us can’t do it, but the hunchback can,” Wu Yi pointed to a person on the ground. He was one of the six who were seriously injured.
“The hunchback’s ability is to restore a person to their previous state.”
“But the conditions for activation are very harsh,” the strong man with the axe added, “One of the indispensable conditions is vitality.”
“A life for a life?”
“There is no such good deal in this world,” Wu Yi shook his head, “…It takes several lives to exchange for one life, but with so many of us, we should be able to gather enough, which can be regarded as repaying the kindness of the girl in the kitchen.”
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