Ni Ji followed a sentry into the exclusive elevator.
The sentry leading him had delicate features, almost more feminine than a woman, but a sturdy build, and strength hidden in his movements. Ni Ji knew at a glance that he was a powerful warrior.
Ni Ji estimated that his spirit body might be a cold-blooded animal like a snake, python or lizard. When he looked at people, even if his eyes were smiling, there was always a cold feeling in his eyes.
He introduced himself to Ni Ji, saying that his name was Le Ruo and that he was the first bodyguard of the Minister of Military Affairs Jiang Yimei.
The exclusive elevator for two people began to move upwards.
"You are very lucky. If you are noticed by the adults, you will be very successful." In the elevator, Le Ruo looked at Ni Ji with curved eyebrows and unscrupulous eyes, "Perform well, maybe you can surpass your teacher soon."
He looked at Ni Ji with a presumptuous look, as if he was looking at a skinned fish on a chopping board.
Ni Ji was very familiar with this look and knew the meaning behind it.
Since attending these endless banquets, he often sees this kind of people and this kind of eyes.
They just hold a little power, but they feel they can trample on the dignity and even lives of others, trample on them at will, and humiliate them at will.
Le Ruo took Ni Ji to the top floor of the tallest building in the center of the villa.
This is a bedroom with a big soft bed and various chairs of different heights. The walls are decorated with mirrors and sweet incense is burning in the incense burner.
The roof is completely transparent, and there are large floor-to-ceiling windows, providing an excellent view. You can see the scenic garden scenery below and the starry sky above your head.
Le Ruo only let Ni Ji sit on the sofa he designated.
"You have to adapt to the rules here and learn to obey." Le Ruo said, "Speak nicer later and don't disobey her words, even if it's just a little bit."
Ni Ji nodded and said, "Okay."
The voice was very gentle, sounding like a tamed lamb.
Le Ruo thinks Ni Ji is pretty good. He likes such practical guys, which makes things easier for everyone. He may suffer a little, but he will also get rewards. He doesn't have to work hard and can enjoy himself.
Sometimes adults would take a liking to some not-so-sensible guys, causing them to go through a lot of trouble and even making the situation look ugly, and cleaning up the aftermath was also a hassle.
Of course, the ministers only care about their own pleasure. Aren't the dirty work done by their subordinates
"That lady doesn't like others prying into her private life. Don't tell anyone about your coming here, including your teacher." Le Ruo said, "When I brought you up, I deliberately took the exclusive passage because I didn't want other people to see you."
"Okay, don't let anyone know." Ni Ji answered obediently, and his voice even sounded a little happy.
Le Ruo left satisfied.
It was already very late at night, and the banquet was in its second half. Most people had lost interest in drinking and were looking for fun. The lights in the trees, flowers, and rooms of all sizes were dimmed, and in the shadowy corners, all kinds of obscene scenes were playing out.
Ni Ji sat on the designated sofa, looking at the garden and the sky dotted with stars above his head.
He suddenly remembered another starry sky, and the scene of himself and another person running hand in hand under that starry sky as bright as a canvas.
Like that, facing the wind, running on the road, swimming in the sea.
He shook his head, forcing himself to erase those images from his mind.
In such a filthy place, I really shouldn't think about her, I shouldn't think about such a pure person.
Even just thinking about it feels like blasphemy.
Le Ruo brought some equipment and first searched Ni Ji's whole body carefully, and then used a metal detector to carefully check his front and back.
"We have to be cautious," he said. "You know, we have to be on the lookout for assassins. Who knows if we'll run into some crazy people who deliberately approach us and try to kill themselves."
As he said this, he took out an injection, held Ni Ji's shoulder and gave him an injection in the neck.
Ni Ji sat there, looked at him, and did not make any resistance.
He knew what these people wanted to do was extremely dirty and vile. On the one hand, they hunted and abused others at will. On the other hand, they cherished their lives very much and were very careful in every step, fearing assassination and revenge.
Le Ruo was very satisfied with Ni Ji's obedience.
"It's okay, just some little things to liven things up." Le Ruo said cheerfully, "It just makes you softer and makes you lose the ability to resist excessively. You'll get used to it soon. You'll find that this kind of thing is much better than fighting hard on the battlefield, and you'll get everything you want soon."
He thought about it and took out the second injection from the tray.
Ni Ji suddenly reached out and pressed his wrist.
"I have to do this for the safety of the adults." Le Ruo said.
"There was a sentry, a girl. I gave her an injection, but I didn't expect she still had strength left. She suddenly jumped up at the critical moment and almost killed Lord Jiang." He gestured at the throat. "It was all cut off here. Fortunately, she was rescued in time and the most advanced treatment cabin was used to save her."
"Thanks to my presence at the scene, I was able to subdue the female assassin in time." He smiled at Ni Ji, "Do you want to know what happened to her in the end?"
Ni Ji didn't say anything, just held his hand and looked at him coldly.
"That's more like a sentry. A sentry who has been at the sentry post for several years should have such eyes." Le Ruo kept smiling. "I always feel that you act too docile, which makes me feel a little uncomfortable. But it doesn't matter. Just two injections. No matter how powerful you are, it will be useless."
"If you don't agree," his expression turned cold, "the Lord will not come out to see you. You will have no good results."
Ni Ji looked at him for a long time, let go of his hand, sat up straight, and stopped talking.
Le Ruo smiled again, and pressed the sharp syringe against Ni Ji's neck. "It's okay, don't be afraid. At most you will have to lie in the treatment cabin for a while. I promise you won't die."
The cold liquid was pushed into Ni Ji's blood vessels. He leaned close to Ni Ji's ear and said, "Soon you won't be able to move at all and will be at the mercy of others. But it's okay, I'll be with you the whole time."
When the sound of the door opening was heard, Ni Ji could no longer sit still. His straight back slid down and he collapsed completely on the sofa.
His eyes were open, and he could only look at the sky above his head. His vision was clear, and he could still speak, but his limbs were weak and he seemed unable to move at all.
The person who came in was holding a wine glass, with bright red nails on his fingers. He stood in front of him and looked at him for a moment.
"He looks good, but what is his spiritual form?" The man's voice was arrogant and his expression was cold.
It was as if the person lying in front of her was not a living person, but just a toy at her disposal.
"I don't know." Le Ruo stood aside and answered with a smile, "He can't release his spiritual body now. I can let him release it later and let you see it."
Ni Ji heard the voice asking him, "How old are you? What's your name? Is this voluntary? I don't like to force others."
Ni Ji, who was lying there, asked a question that was completely unrelated to the question, "Do you remember Contaminated Area 32?"
His voice was flat, without any obvious emotion, and he didn't sound like someone who was drugged.
"Contaminated area? I have no impression." The voice on the other end was a little impatient, perhaps because they thought he was tactless by bringing up the contaminated area at this time.
Ni Ji continued, "It was you who signed the dispatch order, asking all soldiers from the entire northern outpost to go there and get a piece of living insect jade."
The person opposite him sat down on a chair in front of him and raised his feet, revealing a pair of exquisite high-heeled shoes made of crocodile skin.
"Oh, I remember now. In Contaminated Area 32, a piece of live insect jade was found there." The voice became even colder. "Live insect jade is rare, but it's nothing to me. It's just that those sentinels in the north couldn't even bring out a piece of insect jade. They are simply a bunch of rubbish. It's a disgrace to me as the Minister of Military Affairs. It's really an unpleasant incident."
"Why do you ask that?"
Ni Ji hummed softly, "I just want to confirm."
The high-ranking official of the empire sitting opposite him gestured to Le Ruo with his red-nailed hand.
"He's okay, but he can't talk, which is disappointing."
Le Ruo, who had been standing respectfully to one side, stood up and walked towards Ni Ji. He had a somewhat embarrassed expression and was holding a gag.
"You seem quite smart, how come you suddenly can't speak?"
He bent down and approached Ni Ji with a frivolous look on his face. Looking into Ni Ji's indifferent eyes, the hairs on his back suddenly stood up.
This is the high-level sentinel's intuition about danger.
Le Ruo leaned back quickly.
At that moment, the sentry's dynamic vision allowed him to clearly see the scar on Ni Ji's wrist split open. He actually used his fingers to pull out a thin silver needle buried in the muscle from his arm.
The long silver needle was made of unknown material and was stained with his blood. He held it in his palm and stabbed it into Le Ruo's throat.
Can escape.
Le Ruo made a judgment at that moment.
As long as he avoids the vital parts and dodges the fatal blow, no matter how serious the injury is, he can save his life in the treatment cabin afterwards.
Although he couldn't understand why Ni Ji still had the ability to attack, all he wanted to do now was to avoid the most vital parts.
Even if he had to endure the injection, he could at least hold Ni Ji's wrist for a while.
At that time, Jiang Yimei would react and press the call for help button on her personal terminal.
This damn assassin will be captured by them.
The next moment, his pupils contracted.
He saw the long needle in Ni Ji's hand. The silver needle stained with blood emitted a strange red light. The thin long needle suddenly expanded in the air and turned into a blood-red long knife.
The bright red color, like the fire of revenge burning in hell, stung his eyes.
Le Ruo felt a hot current on her neck.
The world began to turn upside down, his vision became very high, and he saw a headless body standing in front of him.
Strange, who is that and why is he wearing my clothes
It was not until his vision lowered and the head rolled onto the carpet that he heard the sharp scream of the Minister of War, whom he had been serving.
His headless body fell to the ground almost at the same time as Jiang Yimei.
Normally, the high-ranking and arrogant imperial official's scream before death was no different from that of an ordinary person.
Sharp, terrified, unwilling to accept his fate of death. Like most ordinary people, he died in an ugly and embarrassing way, without any extra elegance or nobility.
The blood from both of them covered the carpet.
Le Ruo stared at the blood-red world in front of him, and suddenly thought of that day. That day was just like now, the carpet was covered with blood. He pinched the neck of the female sentry who assassinated the minister and pressed the girl's face on the carpet.
The girl had a pair of beautiful eyes. Even when she was tortured to death by him, the spark in her eyes did not completely go out.
You will be punished.
At that time, he felt that he didn't take this sentence to heart.
He tortured the assassin and laughed at the fact that there were such fools in the world.
He had heard such words too many times, but he had never seen anyone suffer real retribution.
It turns out she was right.
retribution.
The head on the carpet closed its eyes.
Ni Ji stood in the messy house. He wanted to erase all traces of himself here, fingerprints, footprints, even with a knife.
The scene became a bloody mess.
Jiang Yimei was of noble status, and this incident would definitely cause a huge sensation. He needed to be more cautious and meticulous when cleaning up the mess.
On the way to being called up, no one saw him. The only person who knew about it, Le Ruo, had already turned into a corpse.
He completely wiped out the surveillance cameras in the elevators and on the roads, and also needed to get rid of fingerprints and some biological traces.
It wasn't too difficult. He barely touched anything after he entered the room.
Ni Ji stood up and felt dizzy.
He knew the medicine was taking effect.
Before doing this, he conducted a thorough and detailed investigation and knew all the methods and bad habits of these people.
So, when Le Ruo came to the pool and called him, he quietly injected himself with the diluent hidden in his pocket.
Therefore, the drug takes effect much later than those people expected.
But the smiling guy was too cruel and injected himself with double the amount.
Ni Ji pinched his brows and found blood on his hands. He stood up and looked at the mirror on the wall. There were mirror-like things everywhere in this room.
The person in the mirror was murderous, with large patches of glaring blood on his face and body. When he stood up, he looked like a demon crawling out of hell.
"That person is back. I don't know if he received what I sent."
This thought inexplicably flashed through my mind at this time.
He shook his dizzy head to get rid of the thought.
Why do I still think of that person when I am so dirty
But once the thought came up, I could never get rid of it, and it kept coming up like waves.
"Does she like the knife I gave her? Will she carry it with her?"
"That person has been back for so many days, what has he been busy with?"
"Where is she now? What is she doing?"
In those mirrors reflecting the blood, even the man's slightly smiling face appeared.
Are you crazy
I must be crazy.
When my hands are covered in blood and I look like a devil, why do I dare to think about the person who is like the moon
The dizziness in my head gradually worsened, and my heartbeat and blood vessel pulsations became faster.
A mess of thoughts and smiles popped up one after another.
Ni Ji tore off his blood-stained white shirt, wiped his hands and face, then cut the bloody shirt into pieces and flushed it down the sewer.
With his upper body naked, he opened the closet that took up an entire wall in the room and found rows of brand new men's clothes neatly arranged inside.
Ni Ji picked out the most common style of white shirt, put it on, and pinned his original cufflinks, collar clip and those inexplicable decorations on it.
I smoothed my hair and saw myself in the mirror. I had turned back to the way I was when I first arrived, frivolous and dissolute.
His steps were already starting to unsteady, Ni Ji put on gloves, took one last look at the bloody scene, pushed the door open and left.
The lights in the corridor were dim. Ni Ji walked very quickly. He saw double and the ground began to twist.
He knew what dirty stuff Le Ruo had injected him with.
I have to walk faster, find an empty room, lock myself in, and get through this period of time.
Occasionally, a few people in fancy clothes whose faces could not be seen clearly would walk past him with smiles on their faces.
He heard the obscene sounds coming from every corner.
A few people came out of nowhere and grabbed him.
"Hehe, look, there's a drunk guy here." Those people pushed him away with a smile.
When they say "drunk", they don't mean drinking.
At this moment, Ni Ji's eyes were red, his body temperature was high, and his steps were unsteady. Everyone knew what had happened.
This kind of thing is common on such a night. In this luxurious courtyard, almost every room is filled with plenty of "spices" and "candies" for people to enjoy.
Ni Ji wanted to wave his hands to push them away, but his arms were too weak to move.
The arm that once could fight several battles among a group of monsters is now too soft to push away an ordinary dude.
His resistance was ignored by everyone, and he was soon cornered by these guys who were out looking for fun.
"You look good, but you can't find a partner? Why don't you play with us?"
"It's just a little too high. Pull it down a bit."
"Wow, this face is amazing."
Those people were talking and laughing. Ni Ji couldn't see their faces clearly. Disgusting faces overlapped in front of him, with their mouths opening and closing and shaking constantly.
Ni Ji waved his hand to push away an arm that was trying to touch him.
It only attracted a burst of laughter from the people around.
"He's not willing yet."
"You can't even stand on your legs, yet you're still pretending."
"I like roses with thorns like this."
A small dagger slipped out from his sleeve, and Ni Ji held it tightly between his fingers.
Now, this knife was his only support. He had no strength left, his fingers were trembling, his legs and waist were weakening.
But he could still kill someone. At least one person.
He tried to open his eyes wide and look at the people who were approaching him.
Just one cut, one cut on some guy's neck and it would all be over.
He knew these guys. They looked intimidating and arrogant, but if one of them died, they would scatter like flies.
But that would mean I would perish together with this garbage, with no chance of escape.
Ni Ji's eyes were red, and he reached out for the bloodthirsty blade with trembling, weak fingers.
At this time, he saw a familiar face.
That is the moonlight that penetrates into the seabed. It is the person he misses secretly from time to time but never dares to touch easily.
It must be an illusion, he thought.
These drugs have driven him crazy.
Everything around him was distorted and chaotic, except for the face of the man who suddenly appeared in the distance, which was unusually clear.
I saw that face looking at me in a daze, and the last bit of ruthlessness in my heart could no longer be mustered.
It's that person.
She came towards this side.
If there is anyone in this world to whom Ni Ji can trust everything, it is only the person in front of him, a guide.
A powerful and reassuring guide.
Ni Ji looked at the guide who was walking towards him through the crowd, and he felt suddenly relieved.
The surging anger in his heart dissipated, and a surge of grievances that he was absolutely unwilling to admit emerged.
His tense body relaxed completely, and his sweaty back slid down the wall.
An arm reached out and supported his body in time, preventing him from falling down.
"Go away, this is my man." He heard a familiar voice ringing in his ears.
(End of this chapter)