"Mom!"
When Wu Sun saw the real master, he couldn't help shouting.
It wasn't that he wasn't calm, the other two young men were not much better than him, both were pale and trembling.
"It seems that all my puppets have died in your hands."
The scholar approached step by step, his expression and movements were very relaxed, as if he was taking a walk.
Li Rui didn't ask him how he knew or how he found this place.
A top-level master with super strength can do anything he wants.
"Who are you?" he asked.
"My surname is Zuo."
The scholar said with a smile, "My things are in your hands, give them back to me, and then you can leave."
The remaining three people looked at each other and couldn't make up their minds.
Li Rui stretched out his hand towards He Chengli, who understood the situation and took out a stack of palm-sized soul boxes from his arms and placed them in his hand.
Several people can't think straight now because the sense of oppression on the scholar is too strong.
"Yes, those are the things. Give them to me and I will spare your life."
Everyone looked at Li Rui, but they didn't have any hope.
Everyone knows that this scholar who makes puppets out of human skin is not a kind person. He wants to kill people no matter what. It is basically impossible to let people go.
According to their current thinking, they can only think of the most tragic way, which is to run away in all directions. Maybe not all of them will die, but the hope is still slim.
Even, the inner despair is still telling a reality: if you do as the other party says, you may die a little more happily.
However, Li Rui didn't think so. He glanced at the soul box in his hand, and then put his palm on the seal of the box.
"Mr. Zuo, you don't want me to open this box, do you?"
The other three people all suspected that they had heard wrongly. Someone actually dared to threaten a world NPC. They felt huge worries in their hearts, but they also had some hope.
"puff."
The scholar didn't hold back and laughed, "Don't you think that if I open the box, I won't be able to take back those souls?"
Zizzi.
Several golden arcs danced on Li Rui's body: "What if this is the case?"
Divine thunder is swift and can defeat ghosts and spirits.
The scholar's smile suddenly disappeared and he said in a cold voice: "Shen Xiao Ben Lei Heart Sutra... Who are you?"
In fact, his smile did not disappear, it just moved to Li Rui's face: "Me? I'm your father. You're kidding, I'm an alien."
He continued talking to himself: "We people are different from the locals, right? You seem to care about the soul in the box. I want to talk to you about a deal."
"you say."
The scholar quickly regained his composure. A person like him would not be irritated by "I am your father". Instead, he seriously thought about the current situation.
He knew that the problem was with him. He looked down on these people too much. He asked for the soul box as soon as he arrived. He exposed his thoughts and had to pay the price.
Of course, this price must be recovered after obtaining the soul box.
"You let the three of them go, and I will follow you to the depths of the forest. You should have raised some little pet there. I guessed it right? Be more bold. That thing requires souls, especially the souls of people from outside the world. Yes ?"
Li Rui shook the thing in his hand and said, "There are at least a dozen souls of people from outside the world in here. As long as you let three go, you can get a dozen back. It's a good deal."
"If you have to try to see if you can beat the Thunder Heart Sutra in the Sky, it's not impossible, but the result may be that you gain four new souls but lose a dozen."
Wu and Sun were speechless. They were surprised that Li Rui actually noticed what the scholar was concerned about. They didn't expect that the few words revealed by the puppet and Huo Yun's gossip were connected by him.
The key is, judging from the scholar's reaction, he guessed it right.
But they didn't know that Li Rui could guess it because he got the information in advance from Yaofeng Temple and Guxuan Town.
In Guxuan Town, a strange scholar gave the Elders Association the task of catching people alive.
In the Yaofeng Temple, Sun Qian failed in his bid for the Fengdu throne and his soul was injured, so he used human sacrifices to recuperate.
He could only make a bold guess that this scholar was at least related to that scholar, and it was even possible that they were the same person. After all, evil ways were not tolerated by righteous sects such as Shenxiao Palace, and few people practiced them.
So, now that he is collecting the souls of living people, it is very likely that he is going to perform some kind of evil magic. Combined with the huge and dangerous aura deep in the Silent Forest, he speculates like a gamble that it may be similar to what Sun Qian did.
The scholar pondered for a while and said two words in a calm tone.
"get out."
He's broken.
Li Rui winked at the other three people: "Let's go quickly."
He Chengli gritted his teeth, Huo Yun was also uncertain, Wu Sun grabbed their arms and ran in the other direction without looking back.
Staying would be a drag, and he would have to think of other ways, such as going to the border of the secret realm to look for world NPCs who might come after hearing the news.
Of course Li Rui is not a saint, but he is the only one here who can hold back the scholar named Zuo. Either he dies alone or everyone dies.
"They have left. Now, give me the things." The scholar said.
Li Rui said: "Go where you want to go, and every once in a while, I will give you a soul box."
As he spoke, he threw one of the boxes in his hand over.
This is a kind of game. He cannot completely refuse, let alone return the soul box when he is safe. Otherwise, the other party may directly overturn the table.
He had to give hope little by little, but he couldn't throw away all his cards.
Doing this is dancing on the edge of a knife, but there is no choice. After encountering such an evil world NPC, logically the group should have been wiped out long ago.
The scholar's face fell briefly, and then he returned to his previous calmness. He knew that the young man was stalling for time, but he didn't know what he was stalling for.
After all, as an authority, even if you understand what an outsider is, you still can't understand something called game mechanics.
He forcibly closed the mission point, and the secret system would inevitably mobilize NPCs from other worlds to repair it.
"Then, let's leave now?" He smiled again and headed towards the depths of the Silent Forest.
.....
After a short period of time, the two of them were walking in the same direction, chatting and laughing. If it weren't for the several meters between them, one would have thought they were friends for many years.
"So Brother Zuo, how do you know about the people outside the sky?"
The scholar named Zuo Qiutian smiled and said: "There are very few people in this world who have seen through the truth. Even the masters of heaven and the underworld in Shenxiao Palace and Fengdu can't break through the confusion. It's not surprising. How can the way of heaven be achieved casually?" See through.”
He secretly boasted about himself, but did not answer the question directly.
"Tiandao, what is that?"
Li Rui thought to himself that since he couldn't run away now, he might as well take the opportunity to ask for more inside information, "Is it related to the outside world?"
Zuo Qiutian didn't answer and stretched out his hand.
Li Rui threw another soul box over.
"Do you really believe in the upper world? Maybe it's related, maybe it's not."
"....rnm, refund the money."
This answer is too confusing.
The scholar chuckled: "I can't back out, so let's change the question."
"How much do you know about the Five Thunder Techniques?" Li Rui was not polite to him.
"You seem to be really interested in the upper world."
Zuo Qiutian had obviously heard of the legend of ascending to the Lei Department, "I can tell you that the foundation of She Lei is in Liang Ting, but it has been lost for many years, and it should be related to the Wu family."
Wu is the surname of the Liangting royal family.
[Long-term mission update. ]
[Details 2: The clues of She Lei are related to the royal family of the ancient Liangting Kingdom. ]
The mission prompts have been changed, which shows that he is telling the truth. Although this person has evil methods, he is also very honest.
While talking, the two of them had already passed through Xiaoyue Lake and approached the depths of the Silent Forest. At this time, Li Rui still had two soul boxes in his hand.
Snap.
Zuo Qiutian clapped his hands twice.
"Okay, now that your chips are gone, don't think that I don't know that those two boxes are empty."
Li Rui's expression remained unchanged: "So, you could have killed me just now, why didn't you do it?"
"Because I changed my mind and I have a proposal."
Zuo Qiutian said, "Join us and you won't have to die."
"...Are you interested in me? It's inexplicable, why?" Li Rui felt like laughing because it was too nonsense.
Zuo Qiutian replied like an honest person: "You act differently than ordinary people, and you have Shenxiao Palace's methods, which will help us in our major affairs. The most important thing is that I can see that you are a god. If there is With you, many things will become much simpler.”
"What's the big deal?" Li Rui asked.
"I can't tell you now."
"Who are you?"
“Just join and you’ll find out.”
"If I join, will I have to bewitched or something to ensure my loyalty?"
"That's natural."
Li Rui smiled helplessly: "No one would accept this kind of proposal."
"You are wrong. There was once someone who accepted someone from the outside world like you."
Zuo Qoutian raised his eyebrows, as if he had won.
