After Jing Yaming reached the Xuan level, the waves it emitted became much more condensed and its effect also became much stronger.
Ye Li found another wild rabbit to test the Xuan-level Crow's Cry, and surprisingly, he knocked the rabbit unconscious at once, making the power much greater.
It was not until the sun set and the sky began to darken that Ye Li recovered his almost depleted spiritual power and returned to Yeyu City.
As soon as he walked into Letian Inn, he found Li Xifeng and the Chen brothers sitting at the square table at the door with sad and angry looks on their faces.
"Hey, Mr. Li, Mr. Chen, why are you both sitting here?"
Ye Li walked over with curiosity and asked.
Hearing Ye Li's voice, Li Xifeng looked up at him and replied with a sad face: "Brother Lin was beaten seriously and Hongdou was kidnapped. We don't even know who the murderer is now, let alone where to find Hongdou.
But since they are kidnapping people, they will surely put forward conditions, so we left Xiaohua in the room to take care of Brother Lin, and the rest of us came here to wait for news. "
Hearing Li Xifeng's words, Ye Li was extremely shocked and said, "Someone kidnapped Hongdou and seriously injured Uncle Lin. How...how did this happen and when did it happen?"
Hearing Ye Li's question, Li Xifeng replied: "It happened not long ago.
After we finished our work, we returned to the inn.
Hongdou suddenly said she wanted to eat candied haws, so she pestered Brother Lin to take her to buy some.
As a result, just as they reached the door of the inn, several people rushed out, knocked Hongdou unconscious and carried him away.
Before Brother Lin could even make a move, he was dragged to the ground by several martial arts masters, pinned down and beaten until he was severely injured.
We rushed out upon hearing the news, but we were a step too late. Brother Lin had already been beaten unconscious, and we didn’t even see who the murderer was.”
As they were talking, a little beggar suddenly walked in from outside. The waiter was about to stop him when he heard the little beggar shouting into the hall: "Who is Mr. Li Xifeng? I have a letter for you."
The little beggar shouted while looking into the hall, waving a letter in his right hand above his head.
"Quick, bring it here, I am Li Xifeng."
Suddenly hearing the other party's words, Li Xifeng hurriedly responded.
When the waiter heard a customer responding, he naturally stopped trying to stop the little beggar and let him walk to the table where Li Xifeng was sitting.
"Uncle Li, this is your letter. Someone asked me to deliver it to you."
The little beggar shook the letter in his hand and handed it to Li Xifeng.
Li Xifeng took the letter, opened the envelope hurriedly and started reading. Chen Wu, who didn't say much, took out some reward money and handed it to the little beggar, then sent him away.
After a while, Li Xifeng finished reading the letter and his face became extremely ugly.
"Xifeng, what does the letter say? Is it news about Hongdou?"
Chen San asked, with some anxiety in his eyes.
Li Xifeng nodded with a sullen face and said, "It's Hongdou's news. He was captured by the people of Mangxiong Village. It was done by that bastard Xie Qi.
He said that if they wanted to kill Hongdou, they had to collect three thousand high-quality spirit stones and send them to the designated location in three days, and also bring Brother Ye to apologize to him.
If we don’t send the goods and people up after the third day, they will cut the red beans into pieces and send them back to us!”
Hearing his words, Chen San's eyes widened on his slightly fat face, and he slammed the table fiercely, saying, "What, this bastard, we shouldn't have let him go before, we should have killed him directly!"
Chen Wu said: "Third brother, if we kill him, it will be equivalent to completely offending Mangxiong Village.
The leader of Mangxiong Village, Xiong Sanba, is a strong man in the late stage of the Spiritual Sea Stage. How can we fight him?"
Chen San said: "Of course, we should spend more spirit stones to hire people to fight him. That would be better than the current situation. At least Hongdou will not be captured."
Chen Wu said: "How many Spiritual Sea Stage Spirit Talisman Masters can we hire with that little money
Even if we can hire enough people, we can only attack his Mangxiong Village. We can't always hire people to protect us at all times.
If we were to attack, we cannot guarantee that we can kill Xiong Sanba and the others. If we let them escape, we would be in greater danger. After all, it is impossible to guard against thieves for a thousand days.
So what Brother Xifeng did at that time was right, and he also hoped that everyone could resolve the issue peacefully so that there would be no worries.
It's just that none of us expected that Xie Qi, that bastard, was such a villain. He acted so convincingly in front of us that he attacked us as soon as he turned his back!"
Chen San also knew that what Chen Wu said was right, he just couldn't bear it.
"So what should we do now? They want us to prepare 3,000 high-grade spirit stones in three days. That's easy. We can definitely do it if we gather together. But... they also want us to bring Brother Ye with us. How is that possible?"
Not to mention that Brother Ye is a friend, even if he is not a friend but just an ordinary person, there is absolutely no reason for us to harm others."
Li Xifeng and Chen Wu were both silent when they heard his words, with ugly expressions on their faces. Of course, they knew the problem Chen Wu was talking about, and they were also worried about it.
Ye Li was a little surprised to hear that the content of the letter actually involved him. He didn't expect that Xie Qi really hated him.
Li Xifeng glanced at Ye Li next to him, stood up and clasped his fists and said, "Brother Ye, I'm really sorry that because of our matter, Mangxiong Village has also been thinking about you.
You'd better leave Katayama County as soon as possible, I'm afraid they will harm you."
Hearing Li Xifeng's words, Ye Li was stunned and said, "Leave here, how can I leave when I just arrived
Besides, Hongdou's issue has not been resolved yet. Since I'm already involved, there's absolutely no reason for me to leave now."
Hearing Ye Li's words, Li Xifeng showed a touching expression on his face, but immediately refused with a serious face: "No, Brother Ye, although he asked us to take you with him in the letter, we can't discuss this matter at all, and we can't put you in danger.
We will try to negotiate with them. All they want is money. We just need to pay them more money and we should be able to redeem Hongdou."
This time, Li Xifeng's tone was very firm, and he had no intention of involving Ye Li in this matter again.
Ye Li looked at Li Xifeng's expression that showed no room for negotiation, and could only nod and said, "Okay, Uncle Li, I will not leave Yeyu City in the near future.
You can discuss it with them first. If the spirit stones can solve the problem, that's fine. If they can't solve it and you still need my help, just let me know."
Ye Li was speaking sincerely. The other party was not willing to bring harm to him, which was a righteous act. If he just walked away without paying any attention, it would be too unrighteous.