"If you don't want to cooperate, we can force you to cooperate. If forcing you to cooperate doesn't work, we can still capture you. Of course, if you are determined to die with us, why not give it a try?"
Ye Jin stepped forward and said, "How about we see whose hands are faster?"
I reached out and stopped Ye Jin. Sun Xiaomei had found my weakness, just like she knew I would never give up Monk Shi and pressed me again and again. Now she was using Ye Jin and Xiao Baitang to force me to submit.
I roughly calculated that even if the opponents are all experts, the chances of the three of us breaking through by force are more than 50%. What I am afraid of is not the Xuan Jing Division, but the so-called rules of the game.
If the Man-Eating Well really finds us, it will be too late for me to figure out anything. Besides, I can't activate the Ghost Eye Money when someone is disturbing me.
I looked at Lin Jingyuan calmly: "I admit defeat!"
Lin Jingyuan smiled and said, "Since Mr. Wu feels that we can cooperate, please proceed with the calculation!"
Ye Jin said coldly: "Did you guys already plan this out so that you could just leave Lu Xiaoying?"
What Ye Jin said seemed to be right. If Lu Xiaoying was here, I wouldn't be so passive. At least, with two fortune tellers, the other party couldn't easily interrupt our calculations.
Sun Xiaomei asked: "Is there any point in talking about this now?"
Ye Jin was about to retort, but I stopped him with a wave of my hand. I looked at Lin Jingyuan and said, "I will start calculating right away, but if you can't guarantee that this place is absolutely quiet, I can't guarantee whether the result of my calculation is right or wrong."
Sun Xiaomei smiled and said, "There is absolutely no problem with this. However, I have to remind you that the Man-Eating Well has already killed three people from Duan Yunfei's side. Once the fourth person dies, you will have no time to deduce anything."
After I looked at Sun Xiaomei deeply, I turned around and was about to go up to the bell tower. But Xie Jingwen walked over from a distance and said, "Wu Zhao is just like that. I thought you would stick to it until the end! 'I admit defeat'! Haha... These three words are enough to make me laugh for a year."
"Perhaps, this will be enough to make you cry for the rest of your life." I threw down a sentence and turned to climb up the bell tower. "Ye Jin, Xiao Baitang, the two of you help me protect the law."
I waited until the two of them were guarding my left and right sides before I took off the ghost eye money and threw it into the air.
After three ghost coins passed before my eyes one after another, what I saw every time was an octagonal well.
Could it be that life lies in that well
I reached out and took the three ghost coins in my hand and started shaking them again.
Fortune telling requires a one-time decision. If you tell the same thing a second time, there should be at least a day's interval. Otherwise, more than 90% of the results will be inaccurate.
However, what I saw made me unable to figure out the reason. I could only take the risk and try again. Even if I could only get a little clue, it would be much better than the current situation.
Before I could even spend the ghost money in my hand, I heard Jie Jingwen say, "Master's Wife, look, this is the second time Wu Zhao has taken the ghost money."
Sun Xiaomei didn't say anything, but Lin Jingyuan said, "What can we do about it?"
Xie Jingwen said anxiously, "That means Wu Zhao can't figure out anything! Didn't you promise me that you would let me kill Wu Zhao as long as he is of no use?"
"Shut up!" Sun Xiaomei shouted, "Look at yourself now. How can you still look like a gangster? What did your brother teach you? You were made to be willful and good for nothing. Where is your trace of him? I really don't know why your brother accepted you as his apprentice!"
Although I couldn't see Xie Jingwen's expression, I knew that Sun Xiaomei's scolding in public would make Xie Jingwen hate me even more. He didn't dare to cause trouble for Sun Xiaomei, so he could only transfer his hatred to me. If I couldn't figure out anything in the second hexagram, let alone whether I could escape the Man-Eating Well, Xie Jingwen alone would be enough to make me anxious.
After I managed to calm myself, I threw the three ghost coins into the air again. When the first ghost coin passed by my eyes, I clearly saw a roof. Unlike the common houses in the Western Regions, the roof was covered with tiles in a herringbone pattern.
When I was about to take a closer look, I suddenly felt a sense of crisis coming from behind me. Before I could put away the ghost money, I heard a deafening bell ringing behind me.
When I was sitting cross-legged on the ground, my back was almost touching the bronze bell. The ringing of the bell so close to me instantly made my head go blank. The ghost eye money that I threw into the air suddenly lost control and all fell to the ground.
I instinctively reached out and grabbed the three ghost coins, and at the moment I caught them, I was also lifted up by Ye Jin behind me. Before I could figure out what was going on, I felt like I was flying out of the bell tower like a cloud.
The Man-Eating Well is coming
My first reaction was that the Man-Eating Well must have appeared behind me, otherwise, Ye Jin wouldn't have thrown me out of the building. But the two of them...
At this time, I was in mid-air and couldn't find any place to gain leverage. Even if I wanted to turn over and fall back to the bell tower, I couldn't do it. I could only let myself flip over due to the resistance of the air.
When I turned my face to the ground, I saw an octagonal well that had broken through the soil under the bell tower and grown out of the ground. If I had stayed the same way, I would have hit the wellhead without any deviation.
"Brother Wu Zhao!" Xiao Baitang, who caught up from behind, jumped down with me. She kicked me far away in the air, and she herself fell straight into the octagonal well.
When I landed on the ground after turning twice in the air, I saw that Little White Sugar had plunged vertically into the well. Her little face, still exposed outside the well edge, tried to give me a smile, and then she disappeared into the well.
"Little Sugar!" I didn't have time to get up, so I grabbed the ground with both hands and rushed forward a few meters using all four limbs, rushing to the edge of the well. But just as my hands touched the edge of the well, the octagonal well had already sunk to the ground.
"Pick it up for me!" I exerted force with all ten fingers at the same time, and my fingertips pierced into the well wall several inches like a knife. I held on to the sinking man-eating well tightly and pulled it out with great force.
At that time, there was only one thought in my mind, which was: no matter what, the Man-Eating Well must not be allowed to sink into the ground. Once the Octagonal Well sank into the ground, Xiao Baitang would really be doomed.
At that time, I had forgotten what it meant to be powerless, what it meant to be impossible, and what it meant to be overestimating one's own abilities and trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm...
It was not until the sinking man-eating well pressed down on my fingers like a guillotine that I suddenly woke up in excruciating pain—I was pulling out a well.
It was just this brief pause that caused the Man-Eating Well to suddenly sink half a foot, and my body was immediately pulled down by the Man-Eating Well.
"Ah—" I roared to the sky, and my hands burst with energy. I grabbed the edge of the well and pulled myself up with all my strength. My feet sank several inches into the ground in an instant. The moment the fine yellow sand poured into my shoes, blood oozed out of my ten fingers on both hands at the same time.
Ye Jin screamed, "Zhao Zi, let go quickly, your fingers are going to break!"
"Open it for me—"
I also knew that in the next moment, either all ten of my fingers would break and the Man-Eating Well would sink into the ground with my fingers; or I could make the Man-Eating Well stop for a moment longer, and in just this moment, Xiao Baitang might be able to use his sword to escape from the well.
Ye Jin rushed towards me: "Zhaozi, let go! I'll go down to save them, you..."
"Don't go down!" I couldn't help shouting when I saw Ye Jin was about to jump into the well. But the breath I had been holding in my chest also burst out with this roar. My arms disappeared at the same time, and the Man-Eating Well had already sank to the ground, dragging my hands with it. If the ground and the edge of the well were to cross even a little, my ten fingers would immediately break into two pieces.
Just when I was about to exert my strength, I heard Xiao Baitang's voice coming from the well: "Brother Wu Zhao, I finally saved you once, I'm so happy..."
The next moment, the whistling sword energy burst out from the bottom of the well, suddenly shattering the edges of the well on both sides.
Ye Jin, who had already rushed to the well mouth, and I were both blown away two meters by the gravel brought up by the sword energy. My hands, which were already bleeding profusely, were freed from the edge of the well. When I turned over and stood up, the Man-Eating Well had suddenly sunk into the ground.
"Little Sugar!" Ye Jin and I rushed to the place where the Man-Eating Well disappeared, and dug into the ground like crazy. The yellow sand on the ground was thrown into the air by the two of us, and within just half a minute, we dug a one-foot deep sand pit on the ground, but there was no trace of the Man-Eating Well underneath...
Ye Jin seemed to have been drained of all his strength. He sat down on the ground and immediately raised his hand to slap himself twice: "Fuck, it should be me who fell down! Xiao Baitang also saved me! I..."
Ye Jin threw me down from the building. He should be the closest to me, but it was Xiao Baitang who rushed down. She should have rushed to my position after knocking Ye Jin away.
I looked at Ye Jinjian blankly, and suddenly an idea flashed in my mind: "Get up, follow me to the roof."
Ye Jin stood up suddenly and asked: "Do you have a way to save people?"
"Hurry up!" When I turned and ran to the opposite house, Xie Jingwen suddenly stepped in front of me and said, "Stop! Where are you going?"
"Get lost!" I raised my hand and slapped Jie Jingwen, and a master guard rushed out from beside him and took my blow. After we both stepped back three steps, two more masters from the Xuanjing Division surrounded us at the same time.
Xie Jingwen hid behind the two masters, hugged his shoulders and smiled smugly, "Make your point clear before you leave. We are now cooperating, and your every move may affect the safety of our allies. You'd better tell us what you want to do. We will let you go only if we think what you are doing is reasonable. Otherwise, none of us will agree to let you take the risk."
Xie Jingwenming knew that I was going to rescue someone, but he blocked my way.
The murderous intent in my eyes also burst out. (To be continued)