Originally, City Lord Zhou wanted to find an opportunity to investigate the plague in Qingyang City, but seeing the repeated urging from City Lord Qinghe, he simply took advantage of the situation to get angry.
If they really left Qingyang City, it would be really difficult to investigate this matter.
Of course, they can still investigate when they get to other cities. It's just that these guys are so worried about them staying in the city, they will probably follow them all the way and not let them stay in the city.
So now I simply use this matter to get angry and put the matter of detecting the plague in the open.
At this time, even if they wanted to stop it, it was already too late.
Although it was the Qinghe Alliance's own business to block the pass, the plague was fake after all.
If they find out that this is all fake, it will at least give the Cheng family a new excuse.
"City Lord Zhou, calm down! City Lord Zhou, calm down! Qinghe is definitely not driving you out of the city on purpose. He is really worried that everyone will be infected with the plague and cause unnecessary misunderstandings with the Cheng family!" I have to say that what City Lord Zhou said is true. The Lord of Qinghe City was frightened.
If he were really asked to investigate this in the city, wouldn't everything be revealed!
"City Lord Qinghe, since we have already talked about this, I will give you a face and not delve into the matter of the plague!" Seeing the other party acting like this, City Lord Zhou said.
"Thank you City Lord Zhou, thank you City Lord Zhou!" City Lord Qinghe and others in the alliance suddenly felt happy.
"Qinghe City Lord, don't rush to say thank you, Zhou hasn't finished speaking yet!" But when Qinghe City Lord and the others were rejoicing, Zhou City Lord spoke again.
"City Lord Zhou, I don't know what else you have to say?" City Lord Qinghe's heart suddenly tightened, City Lord Zhou's words this time really scare people to death!
And judging from what the other party meant, it seemed like something bad would happen next. Would this not worry him?
"My point is very simple. I don't want to delve into the matter of the plague any further, but your Qinghe Alliance can no longer block the gateway to my Cheng family.
As long as the Lord of Qinghe City can agree to this, then we will leave the Qinghe Alliance now and we will no longer have any embarrassment for you, the Qinghe Alliance. How about that? "City Lord Zhou said directly.
"This..." As soon as these words came out, the people of the Qinghe Alliance were in trouble again.
City Lord Zhou clearly meant what he said!
This basically means that if the Qinghe Alliance no longer blocks the pass, then the Cheng family will no longer embarrass the Qinghe Alliance.
But if the Qinghe Alliance continues to block the pass, the Cheng family will continue to cause trouble for the Qinghe Alliance.
The Lord of Qinghe City and the other deputy City Lords looked at each other. Everyone saw helplessness and anger in each other's eyes.
Moreover, now they have a new understanding of City Lord Zhou and the Cheng family.
I have to say that the city lord this week is really too cunning.
Although they had worked very hard to cover up the lie about the plague, City Lord Zhou simply skipped over their lie.
With just these words, he no longer wanted to delve into the plague, as long as their Qinghe Alliance lifted the blockade.
With such a simple sentence, all their previous efforts and excuses became meaningless.
"What do you think, Lord Qinghe?" Lord Zhou asked again when he saw the hesitation and embarrassment on Lord Qinghe's face.
"City Lord Zhou, we are blocking the gate for the safety of more people. It is too dangerous to open the gate now that the plague has not been eliminated!" Qinghe City Lord said with a bitter face.
"Lord Qinghe, stop pretending, there is no such thing as plague or not.
Now that City Lord Zhou has made it very clear, our Cheng family will no longer delve into the matter of plague, as long as you restore the pass.
If you continue to pretend to be deaf and mute and use the plague as an excuse, then we will have no choice but to investigate the authenticity of the plague ourselves and expose your lies ourselves.
Once we announce this to the cultivation world, your Qinghe Alliance will be even more discredited.
So I advise you to weigh the stakes carefully. Those who understand the current affairs are heroes. It would be really sad if you shot yourself in the foot. "City Lord Bai could no longer hold back. Seeing that City Lord Qinghe was so ignorant of current affairs, he had already spoken before City Lord Zhou could speak.
Compared to City Lord Zhou's words, City Lord Bai's words were much more straightforward.
The city lords of the Qinghe Alliance were naturally extremely embarrassed when they heard this.
Indeed, everyone knew whether the plague was true or false, but the Cheng family had no evidence.
But now that everyone is in Qingyang City, if the Cheng family wants to get evidence, it couldn't be easier.
Therefore, City Lord Bai's words simply hit their mark, and they did not even dare to refute these straightforward words.
Especially the Lord of City Bai calls himself the Cheng family, and he doesn’t say that these gates lead to the Baicheng Alliance, but to the Cheng family. This is clearly using the power of the Cheng family to suppress him!
“City Lord Qinghe, it’s good that everyone knows some things in their hearts, but if you put them on the table and say them, it will really hurt the harmony.
Our Cheng family has never thought about making enemies everywhere, but our Cheng family has never been afraid of making enemies everywhere. "City Lord Zhou also expressed his stance again.
"City Lord Zhou, since you said so, I will tell you the truth.
Yes, plague does not exist. The reason why we have to block the border is just to save ourselves.
In the past two years, the cooperation between the Baicheng Alliance and your Cheng family has become increasingly closer.
Especially this year, the Baicheng Alliance has released more tasks, which has caused heavy losses to our Qinghe Alliance, and a large number of people have gone to the Baicheng Alliance.
City Lord Zhou, I think if this matter happened to you or the Cheng family, you wouldn't remain indifferent, right? "Now that things have developed to this point, any excuses are meaningless, and the Lord of Qinghe City has to show his cards.
"Yes, we have actually known about the troubles faced by Lord Qinghe City for a long time, and I can understand your behavior.
Therefore, what you are doing is not wrong! " City Lord Zhou said.
“If that’s the case, then why does City Lord Zhou force us to open the gateway?
What's more, these gates are within the territory of our Qinghe Alliance, and we have enough power to choose to block or open the gates.
If City Lord Zhou really wants us to lift the blockade, unless you compensate us.
Otherwise, who can we turn to to explain such a huge loss? " Qinghe City Lord said.
In fact, this has always been what he wanted to say the most.
They, the Qinghe Alliance, were originally the victims in this matter, and it was their own right to block the passes in their own city.
But because he was afraid of the Cheng family, he held it in so much that he didn't dare to say it.
Now that everyone has shown their cards, he has no reason to hold it back any longer.
"City Lord Qinghe, you control such a powerful force in the Qinghe Alliance, why are you still so naive?" City Lord Zhou smiled immediately when he heard that the other party wanted compensation from the Cheng family.
"What do City Lord Zhou mean?" City Lord Qinghe frowned.
"City Lord Qinghe thinks there is absolute fairness in this world?" City Lord Zhou asked.
"This is naturally impossible!" City Lord Zhou thought for a while and said.
"Yes, the law of survival in this world is the law of the jungle.
The rise of the Baicheng Alliance has caused losses to your Qinghe Alliance, and you chose to block the pass.
There is nothing wrong with this matter in itself. The fault lies in the fact that your Qinghe Alliance is not strong enough.
If it were just a pure White City Alliance, there really would be nothing we could do against you.
But now the Baicheng Alliance is already within the sphere of influence of my Cheng family.
In other words, by suppressing the Baicheng Alliance, you are suppressing our Cheng family.
Even though you have united with other alliances, do you think that this can make the Cheng family give in? This is simply impossible.
In fact, I came here specifically for this matter. It is absolutely impossible for you to ask the Cheng family to compensate you.
The reason is simple. You don't have the strength to negotiate terms with the Cheng family. "City Lord Zhou said with confidence.
Although these words made the people in the Qinghe Alliance sound angry, this is the reality.
Reality is always much crueler than ideal.
At the beginning, so many big forces in the world of cultivation were not qualified to negotiate terms in front of the Cheng family, let alone several city alliances.
If the Cheng family really compensated the Qinghe Alliance, wouldn't it also have to compensate other alliances?
As long as the Cheng family wants to continue to expand its power in the world of cultivation, it will inevitably affect more forces.
If this is the case, wouldn’t the compensation that will be paid out in the future be too numerous to count?
Therefore, the Cheng family will never give any compensation to the Qinghe Alliance.
Unless the Qinghe Alliance has the strength to force the Cheng family to compensate, does the Qinghe Alliance have the strength?
It's obviously impossible.
"City Lord Zhou, are you going too far? You clearly want to use your power to overwhelm others!" Deputy City Lord Ji said angrily.
"You can say that, so the world is inherently unfair. Whoever has strong strength has the right to speak.
Didn't you also consider that the White City Alliance could not help so many of your alliances, so you united to suppress them, hoping that they would compromise with you and gain benefits?
So you don’t have to be so angry. We are all in the same boat. You want to use force to bully the weak, but we use force to bully the weak. " City Lord Zhou said.
"If this is the case, the worst we can do is keep blocking the pass, which will be of no benefit to anyone!" Deputy City Lord Huang said.
“Threats are useless to the Cheng family, let alone threats from your Qinghe Alliance.
Qinghe City Lord, you should also know this very well. If you really plan to block the border all the time, what you get in exchange will definitely not be compensation from the Cheng family, but the flames of war brought by the Cheng family.
Do you think if the Qinghe Alliance really goes to war with the Cheng family, what chance does the Qinghe Alliance have of winning? "City Lord Zhou smiled.
"There is almost no chance of winning!" Qinghe City Lord's face was very ugly.
"Not almost, but absolutely no chance of winning!" City Lord Zhou reminded.
