The man was fair-skinned and looked calm, and Shu Jue looked at him as if he looked familiar.
Perhaps because her gaze was too obvious, Li Heng smiled at her: "You are the leader of the casual mercenary group, right? I heard that you are a master of Yuanying Dzogchen? I have known you for a long time."
After saying that, he stretched out his hand towards Shu Jue.
The latter looked at his outstretched hand with some doubts in his eyes.
His smile stiffened for a moment, but soon returned to normal: "This is a unique etiquette, which means hello. I heard that you just came in not long ago, don't you no longer use this way of greeting outside? "
Shu Jue did not miss the temptation in his eyes.
She shook her head: "No need."
Li Heng still had a decent smile on his face, but Shu Jue could clearly see a hint of disappointment flashing through his eyes.
Lian Yan followed closely and said, "Everyone in the city outside is dead, so of course there is no one to say hello."
Shu Jue: "..."
Li Heng: "..." The smile on his face froze visibly, and the fake smile he put on was uglier than crying: "So that's it, then how did you get in?"
"We accidentally entered the city, and accidentally walked around the city lord's mansion, and were sent in by the city lord's wife Wan Yanqing." Lian Yan answered simply without thinking.
This was also the result of their discussion on the road.
Questions that can be answered directly will be answered by Lian Yan, and questions that need to be concealed will be answered by Shu Jue and others - for fear that Lian Yan will spill the beans.
"Mrs. City Lord... Wan Yanqing..." Shujue heard Li Heng mutter to himself, but she couldn't understand the emotion in his eyes. It seemed to be unwillingness, anger, and a bit nostalgic.
"Aren't you from the city?" When he spoke again, Li Heng had already suppressed all the unnecessary emotions and put on the smiling mask again. Shu Jue was a little irritated. She didn't like dealing with such people. Rather than considering the meaning of the other person's words, she preferred to face people like black bears——
Whoever has a strong fist after the spear is born is the father. Unlike this Li Heng, Shu Jue always felt that he had many calculations.
"No, we accidentally broke into the city to kill the demons." Lian Yan omitted the identity of their disciples, and Li Heng didn't think much about it. He was more concerned about the words "kill the demons" that Lian Yan said. A few words.
"Do you hate the demons? I heard that after you entered the mountains, you directly wiped out two demon villages." Li Heng asked this with a smile. There was a faded red tassel hanging on his waist. , he subconsciously stroked the red spike gently.
Shu Jue stared at the red spike, her eyes darkened a bit.
"Isn't it normal to hate the demons?" Lian Yan asked back: "President Li, don't you hate the demons? Everyone who is not my race will kill them. Everyone in the town outside is a demon. Among those killed, only the wife of the city lord survived, and only the demons could do such a cruel thing."
When the demons were mentioned, Lian Yan's expression became a little excited. As he spoke, Li Heng frowned and took a step back: "So that's it. Those demons are indeed hateful. But those demons in the mountains are not You have never harmed the people in this town, so you are a bit..."
He raised his eyes slightly, and carefully observed the changes in the expressions of Shu Jue and the others with his light-colored eyes.
Then he saw that there was no movement from the other people. Lian Yan's face turned red with anger, and he stretched his neck like an angry rooster: "President Li, do you really not know or do you pretend not to know? It's under your nose. under--"
A hand pulled him back in time, and at the same time, he forced everything he wanted to say back into his mouth.
Lian Huo didn't have any superfluous expression. If he did, it was only serious: "President Li, please take a look at this." He handed over a piece of paper with dense writing on it.
Li Heng took it with some confusion, but found that it was full of people's names, even whether they were casual cultivators or mercenaries, and which mercenary group they belonged to, all were clearly marked.
The hand holding the paper was a little tight. He looked at Lian Huo and pretended to be confused: "What kind of list is this?"
"The demons have always had deals with the humans. Does President Li know what they are trading for?" Lian Huo snorted, anger appearing in his eyes: "They use humans as trading items and provide living people as food for the demons! This is the list of everyone involved in the transaction!”
Hearing this, Li Heng's smile mask finally broke and turned into shock: "This... this isn't true, is it?"
Acting pretty well? Shu Jue raised an eyebrow: "This is coming from the hands of the head of a demon village. Naturally, it cannot be false. What's more, people are missing every month, and there are no bones left. I believe that President Li will be the best." Is it clear?"
There is no position like city lord in the town. The largest force is the mercenary guild, and as the president, Li Heng is undoubtedly a city lord-like existence in this town.
How could he not know this?
Li Heng twitched his lips in a far-fetched manner: "This...you should also know that monsters appear in towns at night, and monsters in mountains appear regardless of day or night. There are casualties and Disappearances are normal."
What he said was true. If Shujue hadn't seen the reality of cannibalism in the village, he might have been fooled.
She shook her head, walked to Li Heng, and took the list from his hand: "President Li, the reason why I tell you this is naturally because I saw the demons eating people, and there were even a few survivors. I saved him."
"The village chief of the demon village told me that every three months, ten people will be sent there to provide them with food. The people sent there even include pregnant women and children. President Li, you really don't know anything. Love?"
She leaned closer and stared straight at Li Heng with her dark almond-shaped eyes. It was like there were knives in those eyes, so sharp that he swallowed up all the arguments he wanted to say.
Li Heng was silent.
"So President Li Heng, what do you want to do by calling us here today? Do you want to test us, or..." Shu Jue put the list away, took a step back and stood next to Lian Huo: "You are afraid that we will tell the truth. Do you want to silence yourself?"
She just looked at Li Heng, as if everything was under her control.
Li Heng was shocked. He suppressed the murderous intention and anger rising in his heart, and looked at Shu Jue with a gentle smile: "How could it be? According to what you said, you are the heroes who killed the demons. And I Why would I attack you? I just asked you to come here because there haven’t been any newcomers here for a long time, and I heard that you are very strong, so I was curious to see you."
"So that's it." Shu Jue's face showed an expression of "It's true": "Now that President Li has seen us, we will leave first. As for the people on this list, we will interrogate them one by one - —Don’t worry, lynching will not be used. Once they confess, we will bring them to you for disposal.”
After watching several people leave, Li Heng's expression turned completely cold. Are some outsiders trying to dominate his territory? Ah!
