Chapter 59 Chapter Fifty-Nine: Scorched Finance (4)

  The little thief hesitated for a moment, thinking to himself: "If I don't continue to fabricate, he'll probably suspect me, but if we remain deadlocked like this, I'll inevitably reveal my flaws and make a mistake. What should I do?"

  Huo Xiao hesitated for a moment, still unable to make up his mind. Qian Zhanggui was not in a hurry either, and continued to gaze at him intently.

  Huǒ Xiǎo Xié looked at Qián Zhāngguì and suddenly smiled, saying: "Alright! I believe you this time! Take the knife, unscrew the handle yourself, and pull out the paper strip inside to take a look! If you dare to have any evil intentions, your life will be forfeit immediately." Huǒ Xiǎo Xié said as he stood up.

  Qian Zhanggui was taken aback and asked nervously, "What's going on with the Mu brothers?"

  Huo Xiao cursed: "I don't want your life, shut up!" As he spoke, he rolled the knife to Quan Zhanggui's feet.

  Qian Zhanggui quickly bent down to pick up the knife, feeling even more solid in his heart. He pinched the handle of the knife in his hand and concentrated on twisting it, but couldn't twist it open at once, and slightly furrowed his brow.

  "Use some strength! Are you really old and weak? Do you want me to go up and help you?"

  "Don't mention it, don't mention it"

  I'll continue, I'll continue."

  Qian Zhanggui used all his might, but still couldn't twist open the knife handle. The dim light made it hard to see clearly, and he was unwilling to give up, so he brought the knife closer to his eyes for a careful examination.

  Huoxiao Ye suddenly let out a snort, Qian Zhanggui raised his head and muttered: "What?" As soon as the words left his mouth, he felt a strong gust of wind hitting him from behind, before he could even turn his head, he was struck heavily on the back of his head, he didn't even have time to make a sound, and fell to the ground with a thud, unconscious.

  "Huo Xiao Yao shouted: 'Shui Yao Er, you're too slow! I almost died of anxiety!'"

  Shuiyao'er walked out of the darkness, dropped the stone in her hand, kicked Qian Zhanggui's legs, which were paralyzed on the ground, clapped her hands and laughed: "Monkey, you're really something! You can actually hold him back for so long! Not bad not bad!"

  Huǒ Xiǎo Yè said discontentedly: "Why don't you just come up and kill him with one knife? Why bother picking up stones to hit him?"

  Shuiyao'er said: "Leave him, he has many uses! Haven't we not yet stolen out Sheng Da Ge and the others?"

  Huoxiao Zou walked up to Shuǐyāoér's side, and the two of them crouched down, unfastening Qián Guìzhang's waistband and binding it tightly.

  Huǒ Xiǎo Yé said: "I thought something had happened to you? How can you come out from behind?"

  Shuiyao'er laughed and said, "His broken array can only trap me for a moment! Thanks to you, he was deceived into coming out and stabilizing, otherwise I would have had a hard time dealing with him in the pit. As long as he reveals his true form, it's my turn to be in the dark, and he's not even my opponent!"

  "What's going on? How did you come out from behind him?"

  Shuiyao'er said: "If it were an ordinary person, they would probably have lost their life." Shuiyao'er then told in detail about her experiences after she left.

  The water demon had walked for several turns after entering the tunnel and could already vaguely see the end of the tunnel. The water demon was puzzled, as this road had been calm and peaceful, without seeing anything strange, could it be that this was a safe path? The water demon continued to move forward, just about to approach the end of the tunnel, when suddenly felt a shock underfoot, the ground sank, the water demon cried out "not good", hastily retreated, but found that every step fell into the sinkhole. Just then, with a loud rumble, a two-meter-long cover opened up, revealing a deep pit as wide and narrow as the tunnel itself, the water demon let out a startled cry, plummeting straight down.

  If it were an ordinary person, they would probably fall to the bottom. However, Shui Yao'er remained calm and collected when faced with this situation. At the beginning of her descent, she had already retracted her body and used her feet to push against the wall of the cave, slowing down her falling speed.

  The Water Goblin crouched down, the knife in her hand let out a "chi" sound as it stabbed into the ground. The oil lamp that was originally held in her hand fell into the pit. The Water Goblin grasped the hilt of the knife with both hands, her body stuck to the wall of the hole, and slid down another foot before stopping. The Water Goblin took a long breath, and then heard a rumbling sound, several large round stones rolled out from the groove on the side wall of the cave and fell into the pit, making a dull thud. If it were a person who had fallen to the bottom of the hole, they would surely have lost their life!

  The water demon originally thought of climbing up quickly and rushing back to meet with Huo Xiao Xie, but thinking that Qian Zhanggui was still in the mud somewhere, it wasn't a good idea to go back like this! The water demon took advantage of its small size and climbed into the hole where the big stone had rolled out. As expected, after crawling for a short distance along the hole, it reached a mechanism room with several holes leading in all directions. On top, Huo Xiao Xie was talking nonsense to lure Qian Zhanggui, while the water demon below could hear everything clearly, and couldn't help but admire Huo Xiao Xie's ability to remain calm in danger. The water demon crawled up through one of the holes and came out just behind Qian Zhanggui. It turned out that Qian Zhanggui's sudden disappearance was not a clever trick, but simply covering the hole with a mud-covered board on the wall below, which was difficult to discover in the dimly lit tunnel if you didn't know where it was.

  The water demon was hiding in the dark, and Qian Zhanggui thought he still needed more than a decade of practice to discover it. The water demon had approached Qian Zhanggui's back before he realized anything. However, Huo Xiaoxie saw the water demon and was overjoyed, throwing the knife to Qian Zhanggui. As Qian Zhanggui concentrated on opening the knife handle, the water demon picked up a stone and knocked him unconscious.

  Shuǐyāoér said, Huǒ Xiǎoxié praised: "If it were me, I would have been beaten to death by stones!"

  The Water Nymph smiled and said: "I still admire you! If you don't deceive this old mixed hair and stabilize it, I'm afraid there will be more trouble!"

  The little devil says reading is everything

  He smiled awkwardly and said, "Just scaring you, cough, let's hurry back to dig the hole!" Actually, Huo Xiao Xie felt as sweet as drinking a big jar of honey when he heard Shui Yao Er praise him for the first time.

  The Water Nymph nodded and said, "Wait a moment, I'll shut down the mechanisms here."

  The water demon returned to the underground room, turned off the machine and closed it. Then, from the machine room, he took out an oil lamp that was slightly larger than a "bean sprout lamp". He came back, tested the ground, and found that it was indeed locked in place. The three living roads and one life road mentioned by Qian Zhanggui were just a trap to lure people into taking risks. In fact, all four roads were deep pits and traps. In the Tu family's maze technique, there is a trick called "shock fly technique". It is used when you are extremely depressed and cannot find a way out. A road that seems to lead to survival is deliberately revealed, making you overjoyed and thinking that this road can be escaped. However, once you rush in, you will truly be unable to escape and die trapped in the underground palace.

  The "Three Deaths and One Life" method used by Qian Zhanggui is actually just a trick, which is despised by the Tujia people.

  Shuiyao'er finished checking and was dragged back by Huo Xiaoxie, holding the Douya lantern, to the excavation site.

  Huǒ Xiǎo Yé threw the unconscious Qián Zhāngguī to one side, raised his hoe and continued digging. Just after a few digs, Shuǐ Yāoér suddenly cried out: "It's bad!"

  "What's wrong?" Huo Xiao asked hastily.

  Shuiyao'er pointed at Qian Zhanggui and said: "If he's tied up here all the time, those two big fools of his partners will probably come down to look for him!"

  Huǒ Xiǎo Yī patted his forehead and said with hatred: "It's really like that! What to do, can't let this old mixed hair out again!"

  The Water Fairy suddenly smiled and said: "I have a way!"

  “。”

  "I'll disguise myself as him, go up and spin a wild tale, deceive them, and that's it!"

  "Have you become like him?"

  "Monkey, today I'll let you open your eyes and see the true ease of the Water family's technique." Shui You'er spoke calmly and quietly, with a gentle and elegant demeanor.

  It's said that no coincidence, no story. Huo Xiaoyao and Shui You'er didn't know that Qian Zhanggui was actually driven underground by Zheng Dachuan. On the surface, if Zheng Dachuan were to see Qian Zhanggui again, he might not hesitate to kill him.

  The water demon carefully examined Qian Zhanggui's face under the lamplight, gently stroking his nose, cheeks, and chin with her fingers to measure their height and length. She then flipped up Qian Zhanggui's eyelids for a closer look. Only after this examination did she retrieve an iron box about the size of a palm from the bottom of her backpack behind her. With a clang, she opened it, and the box split into three layers, each with small slots of varying sizes containing different colored dyes and tiny objects - some granular, some thread-like, some viscous, and so on.

  Huǒ Xiǎo Yé stood by and watched in a daze, not daring to speak.

  The water demon wrapped her hair with a black cloth, revealing her entire face and said: "Fortunately, it was this Qian Zhanggu who was caught. He is similar in build to me. If those two partners came, no matter how they disguised themselves, they wouldn't look like him."