Chae Yi said, "We'll do as you say!"
The others nodded.
Shirō Makino said, "The Duan family gave us a month. According to Duan Feixing, three to five days of enlightenment is enough. If we don't, staying there for a year won't have any effect. So, let's wait. I want to know who's targeting us. Is it the Duan family, or someone else? "
Shan Gu said, "Is there a need to think about it? It must be the Duan family! They were the ones who sent the invitation. Who else could it be if not them? Even if there's someone else behind the scenes, the Duan family must know! "
Ji Chae Yi looked at Shan Gu and asked, "What's the Duan family's motive for doing this? Xiao Bai is a disciple of the hidden Bai family, and Zijin is a disciple of the hidden Lin family. Both the Bai family and the Lin family are not inferior to the Tianhu Duan family. What grudge do they have with us? Besides, didn't the assassin say that one of their missions was to kill the heir of the Tianhu Duan family, Duan Yong … from this point, the Duan family should be a victim as well. "
"That does seem to be the case, but it doesn't make sense! The Duan family sent us an invitation, but someone wants to kill us and impersonate us to get rid of Duan Yong? " Lin Zijin frowned and suddenly said, "I understand. Do you think it's someone else from the Duan family? Someone who wants to fight for the heir's position? Then they'll blame it on us? "
Chae Yi said, "If we're all dead, and Duan Yong is also dead, then they can easily blame it on us!"
Everyone felt that the possibility was high!
The Duan family didn't just control this one planet. Most of the resource-rich planets in the Tianhu galaxy belonged to the Duan family.
The heir of the Duan family was highly respected, like a crown prince. It wasn't strange that someone wanted to kill him.
Then, the group gradually left the area.
Several days later, the group arrived at a place about two hundred kilometers away from the Sky Lake. There, they found another red flower tree.
However, this red flower tree was surrounded by a group of people. A large number of its roots protruded from the ground. Upon closer inspection, there was very little soil on its roots. It seemed that it had escaped far away but was stopped by someone.
From afar, he could see the group of people surrounding the red tree. It was the champion team from the Holy Empire.
However, no one dared to believe that they were the real deal.
After all, the champion team of the Blue Sea Empire was fake.
"We just want the flowers on your tree. Flowers bloom and wilt, that's the law of nature. We don't want to hurt you, so why bother?" Swordsman Pang Yunfei, who was at the Advanced Grandmaster Realm, held a sword in his hand and emitted a sharp aura. He was threatening the red flower tree.
"That's right. You can't run away even if you want to, and you don't dare to enter the restricted area. Why bother? Every ten years you will bloom a flower, which is not worth much to you, but is good to us. If you give us the flower, we will definitely not hurt a single branch of yours! "Gan Xiaoping also tried to persuade him.
"If you don't agree, we will chop you into firewood and use you to make fire." Liu Xihua said coldly.
The red flower tree seemed to be silent for a while. Suddenly, it violently trembled, shaking off a large number of flowers on the tree.
Ouyang Xingqi and the others were immediately excited.
Sure enough, this tree was intelligent!
He actually understood what they were saying.
"Look, isn't this good?" Bao Rui smiled as he walked towards the red flower tree.
Whoosh!
At least one-tenth of the red flower tree's countless roots instantly danced crazily. It was like a demon opening its bloody mouth and directly swallowing Bao Rui!
"Bao Rui, be careful! Quickly retreat! "The group of people shouted.
Bao Rui's Qi field was fully released. He directly counterattacked, wanting to cut off these roots.
The other seven people also angrily attacked the red flower tree. A large number of red flowers were shaken off the tree.
However, their attacks were all blocked by the countless roots.
This red flower tree that ran away when it saw them actually had a terrifying strength that they could not imagine!
"Save me!"
Bao Rui, who was wrapped up by the red flower roots, let out a shrill scream. "It's piercing my body, it's drilling into my body!"
This time, the other seven people crazily attacked the red flower tree.
The Talisman Artist desperately threw offensive talismans at the tree.
However, the red flower tree's other branches and roots instantly formed a strong defense, preventing these attacks from hurting its core.
At this time, Bao Rui, who could no longer be seen, let out a crazed scream. However, the scream was getting weaker and weaker.
Boom!
The red flower tree instantly soared into the sky!
It actually jumped high into the sky —
A pile of broken bones fell down along the densely packed roots.
The bones were very fresh, but the flesh on it was as if it had been licked by a dog, it was extremely clean!
"Ah!"
Ouyang Xingqi and the others went crazy on the spot.
They angrily attacked the tree.
However, arrows … could not pierce through.
Talismans … could not pierce through.
Sword Qi … could at most sweep away some branches and roots.
The moment all their attacks became useless against the tree, the group of young people completely collapsed.
How was this a treasure tree that produced top-grade medicinal herbs?
It was clearly a man-eating tree demon!
Fortunately, although the Red Flower Tree had "eaten" Bao Rui, it did not continue to attack them. After it landed on the ground, it quickly used its countless roots to support itself on the ground. It struggled desperately and ran far away, escaping without a trace.
Ouyang Xingqi and the others knelt in front of the pile of bones and cried loudly.
Accident!
Shocking!
Unbelievable!
Unacceptable!
Their childhood friend had left them forever.
Originally, they thought that they would delay the mission as long as they could. If they could not delay it, they would think of a way to stop it.
They did not go after Shirō Makino's group. They wanted to get some resources first, but this accident happened.
Bao Rui's death made the group of young people feel the thick smell of death for the first time!
This was something they did not even dare to think about in the past.
The group of young people was extremely sad.
They knelt there and cried bitterly.
Pang Yunfei roared to the sky, "We must kill that red flower tree demon and avenge Bao Rui!"
"Yes, avenge Bao Rui!" Gan Xiaoping cried, "Our brother can't die in vain!"
The others also gritted their teeth and wanted to find the tree demon for revenge.
Ouyang Xingqi only sobbed. After a while, she reached out to wipe her face and said faintly, "Keep Bao Rui's bones, let's leave this place!"
"Leave this place? Where? "Pang Yunfei asked.
Ouyang Xingqi said, "To the Sky Lake!"
"We're not going to find the tree demon for revenge?" Pang Yunfei looked at Ouyang Xingqi.
"How? With just the few of us? "Ouyang Xingqi asked.
"Damn Duan family!" Pang Yunfei gritted his teeth and said, "They clearly want to cheat us!"
"Hehe …" Ouyang Xingqi sneered with a face full of grief and indignation, then said, "The Duan family only said that the red flower is a good thing, a top-grade material for medicinal herbs, but they never said that the red flower tree is so terrifying, a real tree demon …"
"Yes! That's why the Duan family is the most despicable! They clearly knew … "Pang Yunfei said angrily.
Ouyang Xingqi nodded, "They are despicable, but they have already said that the Sky Lake Holy Land is not a fairyland. There are countless hidden dangers inside. Even if we find them, what can we do? "
"Then we don't do anything? Is Steamed Bun going to die in vain? " Xiao Qinghe's face was full of grief and indignation, not because of Ouyang Xingqi, but because he was inexplicably sad and did not know how to vent.
"That's right, is Steamed Bun going to die in vain?"
"Steamed Bun is our brother!"
"Yes, we can't just watch him die in vain!"
"What do you mean by dying in vain? He died under the attack of the tree demon, and the tree demon … We provoked it ourselves. It was our own carelessness, we can't blame others … "Ouyang Xingqi's face was bitter, and her tears could not stop flowing," Even if we come looking for them, we will only be humiliating ourselves. "
Pang Yunfei said, "I don't care, our brother can't die in vain!"
"So what if he can't die in vain?" Ouyang Xingqi suddenly broke down and roared at Pang Yunfei, "Are you going to kill everyone from the Duan family? Or are you going to ask them why they didn't give us a manual from the Tianhu Holy Land? I'll say it again, did they say that there was danger in other places? Did they say that if we were afraid of danger, we could directly follow the map and enter the Tianhu? "
Pang Yunfei was stunned by the scolding, squatting on the ground in a daze, covering his face and sobbing.
The others were also silent, crying silently.
Ouyang Xingqi said in a hoarse voice, "Do you think I don't hate the Duan family for hiding information?"
"Do you think I don't hate our damned background?"
"I want to get even with the Duan family just like you!"
"I also want to break free from the shackles of this identity!"
"But what can we do? Do you really think that no one is watching us when we come here? "
"Behind us is the Shangguan family!"
"To be precise, it's Shangguan Qingping and Shangguan Wenping's father, Shangguan Shenghui!"
"Shangguan Shenghui's wife is the daughter of the Tianhu Duan family who married out!"
"Through the Tianhu Holy Land, his wife sent an invitation to the Rune Dragon Battle Team from the Zulong Empire. In order to make things look real, she even invited us and the Canghai Empire's league champion team."
"This is the first time they gave us a mission to kill Shirō Makino … Have you thought about the consequences of killing Shirō Makino?"
Pang Yunfei raised his head, looking at Ouyang Xingqi with red and swollen eyes. The others were also confused.
"Killing him will cause friction between the two empires! Even if it's not intense friction, it's not something we can bear! "
"When that time comes, we will be endlessly hunted. Everything we have now, all our years of hard work, will be for naught!"
"We're not a group of killers! Don't you understand? "
"It's not because this is the Tianhu Holy Land, that we'll be safe if we kill them here, not to mention that we might not even be able to kill them!"
"When the time comes, both sides will suffer. What good will that do to us?"
Ouyang Xingqi looked at the remaining six Calabash Brothers and said in a deep voice, "This mission itself is filled with a strange smell. I have a feeling that if we really follow the instructions to kill Shirō Makino … Regardless of whether we can kill him or not, we will definitely be drawn into a vortex that we can't escape from!"
"Since young, although we were trained by the Shangguan Family, in the eyes of others, our identities are incomparably clean. We are also the children of a big family, a group of outstanding young geniuses!"
"So I don't want to be a killer. I don't want my own fate to be linked with a dirty killer!"
Ouyang Xingqi's bright face was full of tears. She gritted her teeth and said, "Even if I can't completely control my own fate, I don't want to be a killer to kill people who have no grudges against me!"
"Our family gave up on us and used us as a bargaining chip to curry favor with the Shangguan Family, but we have no reason to give up on ourselves!"
"I am grateful that the Shangguan Family has trained us. If they want us to work for them, I am willing. But if they want us to be killers to kill people who have no grudges against us, I don't want it! "
Pang Yunfei looked at Ouyang Xingqi in a daze, as if it was the first time he met this little princess in their hearts. He muttered, "I don't want it either."
"We don't want it either!"
A group of young people who had just grown from teenagers to adults, under the stimulation of the death of their companion, under the guidance of Ouyang Xingqi, roared out their hearts.
If you, Shangguan Shenghui and his wife, want to kill someone, just find a killer and it's over. Why do you want us to do this kind of dirty work?
Sorry, fuck you, we won't do it!
She looked at the crowd, "Have you thought it through now? The Duan Family and the Shangguan Family must have some kind of connection! "
"We are just a bunch of flags! Now, they want to use us, the chess pieces. "
"If we can't think of a way to save ourselves, even if the mission is successful, we are destined to be abandoned!"
"At this time, you still want to question the Duan Family. Isn't that like sending sheep into a tiger's mouth?"
"Are we a match for the Duan Family? That is something that even the three empires cannot do! What are we? The few of us are not even enough to fill the gaps between their teeth! "
In the distance, Shirō Makino held the Supreme Scepter in his hand and closed his eyes in concentration. He condensed his mental power into a line and extended it to the vicinity of Ouyang Xingqi's group.
After listening to their conversation, his face couldn't help but change slightly.
He really didn't expect that this trip to the Sky Lake Sacred Land would actually become so treacherous.
Ouyang Xingqi's deafening words finally woke up the others.
"Then what should we do next?" Pang Yunfei's voice also became hoarse.
Young people, hot-blooded, at the most brilliant age, what they were most afraid of was being a kite, but the string was held in the hands of others — if they didn't have freedom, they would rather die!
But in reality, although they seemed to be limitless, they were actually kites held in the hands of others.
"Keep Bao Rui's remains, keep the red flowers that Bao Rui exchanged his life for! Go to the Sky Lake! Improve yourself well! Just pretend that none of this happened! "
Ouyang Xingqi said while gritting her teeth.
"Then … our mission?" Pang Yunfei looked at Ouyang Xingqi.
"F * ck the mission!" Ouyang Xingqi cursed in a very unladylike manner.
Then she said in a low voice, "If we meet at the Sky Lake, find trouble and fight with them. The excuse is also very simple. Didn't Shan Gu want to pursue me? You guys don't like him, so you took the initiative to find trouble! "
"And then?" Pang Yunfei looked at her.
"Then find a chance to tell that group of people the truth! Think of a way to join forces! "Ouyang Xingqi said.
Pang Yunfei looked hesitant, "If we join forces with them … can we fight against the Duan family?"
Ouyang Xingqi looked at him, "Are you stupid? Join forces with them and think of a way to escape the Holy Empire! "
The remaining six Calabash Brothers were all stunned and looked at Ouyang Xingqi in shock.
Escape?
Treason?
They had never even dreamed of this kind of thing!
Especially since this group of people were the champions of the Holy Empire's High School League. If they escaped, once the news spread, it would definitely cause a storm.
Pang Yunfei looked at Ouyang Xingqi in shock and stammered, "Sister, are you trying to commit treason? If we escape, what about the family? "
"Family? Hehe, in the eyes of others, we are the children of the Eight Great Families, but in the eyes of the family, what are we? Have you been muddled by the sweet words of those old farts in the family? Do they really care about us and allow the Shangguan family to use us as assassins? "Ouyang Xingqi said mockingly.
Pang Yunfei was speechless.
Ouyang Xingqi said, "Also, what treason? I love the Holy Empire! We were only forced to escape! "
"If the Shangguan family is unwilling to let us go and send people to kill us, we will expose all the secrets we have! We will let everyone know that we had no choice but to leave our homes and leave the Holy Empire! "
"If it really comes to that … hehe, the families behind us may suffer a little, but the Shangguan family will not easily touch them!"
Ouyang Xingqi sighed, "Although they don't love us, they are after all … our family. I can only do this much for them. I have already done my best."
This girl can do it!
When Shirō Makino heard this, he could not help but have such a thought.
Whether or not he agreed with her way of doing things was not a question, but this kind of decisive character was definitely not something an ordinary person could have.
Among the girls he knew, perhaps only Lin Zijin and Yu Xiuxiu could compare to her.
Shirō Makino, who had experienced the Three-Immortal Island incident, agreed with some of Ouyang Xingqi's methods.
It was true that people should be grateful, but if a person was taken away from his parents since he was young, and then was raised to be a tool for all kinds of benefits … This kind of kindness was not worth remembering.
When people were unprepared, the words that came out were the truest!
Ouyang Xingqi and the group had experienced the death of their companions. The words that came out of grief and indignation could basically represent their true feelings.
They refused to be assassins and refused to kill people for no reason. Even if their target was the so-called "enemy country", they still stuck to the moral bottom line deep in their hearts.
Shirō Makino retracted his mental power and glanced at Shan Gu. This guy had a good life. He fell for a woman at first sight. Not bad!
At this time, Ouyang Xingqi and the remaining six Bottle Gourd Brothers had already collected the remains of their companions. They stood up and headed in the direction of Tianhu.
When their figures completely disappeared, Shan Gu could not help but ask, "Brother Bai, Brother Bai, what did they say? Why does my little sister look so excited? "
Which one of your sisters?
The six Bottle Gourd Brothers?
Shirō Makino glanced at Shan Gu.
Chae Yi also rolled her eyes and said, "Don't rejoice for nothing at the end."
"Hehehe." Shan Gu laughed foolishly and did not argue. He looked at Shirō Makino with a longing expression.
Shirō Makino then repeated what he had just heard to the others.
They all listened with a look of shock on their faces.
Shan Gu no longer cared about his sister. He looked at Shirō Makino and said, "The Shangguan family? Isn't that the family behind Shangguan Qingping who fought with Brother Bai in the Black Domain? After the fight, Shangguan Qingping revealed his identity, and everyone thought he was stupid. But now, it seems that all of this … seems to have been premeditated! "
Ji Chae Yi frowned and said, "Then what is it? If it's something, why would it reveal itself? "
Lin Zijin said, "To show that he has a clear conscience? I don't think that's necessary. "
Si Yin said, "Could it be that he wants the talisman inheritance from Brother Bai?"
"That's possible, but is there a need to make such a big fuss?" Shan Gu rolled his eyes and said, "To deal with us, even the Duan family's heir is involved?"
"This may be a serial plot," Shirō Makino said.
Everyone looked at him.
"The Shangguan family first took a fancy to my inheritance and tested me in the Black Domain. Didn't I say that I was Shirō Makino? Others certainly wouldn't believe me, but in this world … there are still a lot of people who have ulterior motives. I guess they roughly determined my identity through some special details. Even if they can't determine it, the inheritance I have is enough to tempt many big families. "
"When they began to set up the plot, the Shangguan family's wife … that is, the Duan family's daughter, should have reached some agreement with someone from the Duan family. They wanted to take this opportunity to kill Duan Yong. "
"In this way, they could get the inheritance from me, kill Duan Yong, and perfectly put the blame on jealousy and the killing of the three empire champions …"
"Combined with what Ouyang Xingqi said just now, if I'm not wrong, they should also be sacrificed as pawns!"
"And those killers we just killed … who pretended to be the champion team of the Vast Sea Empire, they are also just a bunch of pawns to be thrown away after using them!"
"Do they really think that they can get out if everything goes smoothly? I'm afraid that once they enter the fake forbidden zone, they will never be able to get out! "
"Think about what that killer said again."
At this point, Shirō Makino revealed a particularly handsome and charming smile. "It's really a big game of chess. There are so many things to plot. They must be very tired! Why don't we help them flip the chessboard! "
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