As the saying goes, treasures can attract people's hearts. Even though these two people deliberately spread the news in such an insincere way, after circling the forest for most of the time, they successfully attracted five talisman masters.
Now, behind the two of them were six people including Ye Li. Among the remaining five, two were from the Cao family in Dahuang City, one was from the Luo family, and the other two were from the Zhang family in Beihuang City.
Seeing that there was no one from the Ye family, Ye Li was still a little disappointed.
After the other five people looked at each other, the two people from the Cao family took the initiative to approach Ye Li.
"Brother Ye, I am Cao Wenhou from the Cao family, and this is my younger brother Cao Wende. I wonder if you are willing to form a temporary offensive and defensive alliance with us?"
Both members of the Cao family had very similar square faces. The older one of them spoke to Ye Li in a low voice.
Among the three families in Dahuang City, the Luo family has always been stronger than the Ye family and the Cao family. In order not to fall behind, the Ye and Cao families have always maintained a relatively close relationship to a certain extent.
Therefore, after seeing Ye Li, the two members of the Cao family immediately approached him and asked to form an alliance.
After the Ye family competition, although Ye Wujiu invited the younger generations of the Cao family and the Luo family to attend the banquet, because Ye Li was not specifically introduced, most people did not know what Ye Li looked like.
Ye Li glanced at the two men. Both of them had simple and honest looks. After hesitating for a moment, Ye Li nodded and said in a low voice: "I am Ye Li, and I am willing to form a temporary alliance with the two of you."
Hearing Ye Li's name, the two were stunned for a moment, then looked at Ye Li carefully for a while before saying, "I didn't expect it to be Brother Ye Li, the champion of this year's Ye family competition. It is our luck to be able to form an alliance with you."
Hearing the other party's polite words, Ye Li also hurriedly said a few humble and polite words.
A group of people followed Ma Mengji and Tian Yi into a mountainous area and stopped behind a hill.
Ye Li saw at a glance a huge cave on the hillside in front of him, and not far from the cave, four talisman masters wearing gray and white robes of the Zhong family were lying in ambush there.
The four talisman masters of the Zhong family showed a look of surprise when they saw the sudden arrival of the group of people, but after seeing Ma Mengji and Tian Yi, they immediately understood.
"Damn it, Ma Mengji, Tian Yi, what on earth do you mean?"
After seeing the visitors from other families, the four members of the Zhong family immediately stood up and left their ambush. Among them, a mature-looking man with handsome features rushed over with an angry face and questioned Ma Mengji and Tian Yi.
Ma Mengji's triangular eyes were now jokingly looking at the Zhong family members who were questioning him, and he said, "Zhong Yue, don't you understand what I mean
The Crystal-Eyed Ape's nest was originally discovered by the three of us together. After you found your family members, you planned to keep it for yourself. How could we possibly fulfill your wish
Now that we have spread the news, there are so many people coming here, you have the ability to drive us all away!"
Looking at Ma Mengji's smug face, Zhong Yue was so angry that his lungs were about to explode, but as Ma Mengji said, it was impossible for him to drive everyone away now.
"Ma Mengji, I should have killed both of you earlier, but it's not too late now..."
While Zhong Yue was speaking, he looked at Ye Li and the others and said, "Everyone, the four of us are willing to share the treasures in the cave with you, but these two people have a grudge against us first, so please let us kill them first, and then go into the cave to hunt the monsters and take the treasures.
This will also be good for you, at least there will be two less people to share the things with later."
As soon as he finished speaking, four members of the Zhong family immediately surrounded Ma Mengji and Tian Yi.
Ma Mengji panicked when he saw it, but Tian Yi remained calm and shouted to Ye Li and the others, "Brothers, don't believe Zhong Yue's lies.
We have worked with him many times. This guy is full of schemes and evil intentions.
He wants to take us down not out of personal vendetta, but to weaken your power.
Think about it, the eight of us are from different families. To put it bluntly, we all have our own ulterior motives and different goals, so it is difficult for us to unite together. Therefore, the most powerful force here is the four people from the Zhong family.
After they kill the two of us, you will be left with six people who cannot unite. When you enter the cave, they will try to sneak attack you. As long as they kill two or three more people, they will have the upper hand, and the situation may not be as good as it is now. "
Hearing Tian Yi reveal his conspiracy, Zhong Yue immediately became angry and started drawing talismans with his fingers. The four tribesmen around him also attacked Ma Mengji and Tian Yi at the same time.
Ma Mengji and Tian Yi were prepared and activated the defensive spell immediately.
At the moment when the four Zhong family members took action, the other people standing outside also took action at the same time. Everyone, including Ye Li, understood that what Tian Yi said was reasonable, and they naturally would not allow Zhong Yue to destroy the balance of power between them. The six people took action at the same time and instantly broke the encirclement of Zhong Yue and the other four, and rescued Ma Mengji and Tian Yi.
The dark-looking young man from the Luo family smiled coldly and said, "If you have any grudges between you, you can solve them privately after the matter is done, but we can't let you touch them now.
Also, it’s not a question of whether you are willing to share the treasure with us, the current situation here means that we all have to go in together.”
His words represented the opinions of everyone, and the expressions on the faces of the four people from the Zhong family became somewhat ugly.
Gritting his teeth, Zhong Yue waved to the other three, signaling them to give up the fight, and said: "Okay, let's put this matter aside for now, but there are twelve of us here. After we find the treasure, should we choose to divide it by headcount, or rob it based on ability?"
As soon as he said this, everyone fell silent. After all, if they chose to divide the treasure equally, since there were so many of them, each person would definitely get less. And if they chose to fight for it themselves, the four people of the Zhong family would definitely have an absolute advantage.
However, Ye Li saw through Zhong Yue's thoughts and said, "It won't be too late to discuss this matter after we find the treasure.
If we choose to divide the treasure equally now, everyone will definitely think there are too many of us. When we go in, it is inevitable that some people will have different ideas and want to reduce the number of people.
If we choose to rob it by our own ability, then except for the four of you from the Zhong family, everyone else will be more or less wary of each other, and the eight of us will definitely be completely divided.
Anyway, no matter what choice you make, it will be beneficial to the four of you in the Zhong family, so there is no need for us to discuss how to divide it before we see the treasure."
Ye Li's words made the seven people, who had their own thoughts, suddenly brighten up their eyes. They looked at Zhong Yue with a lot more vigilance. This guy was really as Tian Yi said, full of insidiousness.