Seeing more and more innocent people being hurt, Nanzhi urgently and awkwardly raised his hand that was tied by an iron chain.
"Hand me over and I'll be your hostage."
Nanzhi didn't want to see blood. Such a scene made her feel sad and powerless, "Aren't you very confident? Since you are sure to be the lord here, why don't you dare to hand me over?"
In the final analysis, Xiwan is just a group of homeless people who are repeatedly being 'invaded' and seeking shelter from a more capable leader. Listening to the cry of the children in her ears, Nanzhi couldn't bear it.
"Put away your motherly heart." Leng Lie said with cold eyes, "Do you know who these people are?"
"Do you know how many passing ships they robbed and how many families they destroyed?"
Pitiful?
Leng Lie looked at Nanzhi's eyes in disbelief, subconsciously reached out to touch her face, and finally rubbed her thumb on Nanzhi Xiu's long and trembling eyelashes.
"They will kill you, threaten me with you, or even kill you."
Leng Lie lowered his voice, and Nanzhi was so frightened that he dared not speak out just a few words.
He tightened the chain where Nanzhi was injured, and was extremely lucky that he had tied up the woman as soon as he got off the boat. Otherwise, if Nanzhi had really softened his heart and rushed in, he would probably regret it.
"Don't worry, what Uncle Fu used was not a lethal weapon. What he used was a tranquilizer. It can't kill them."
Leng Lie saw through Nanzhi's thoughts and said, "Follow me."
Ignoring the noise and cries around him, he led Nanzhi towards the castle at the front. The castle was almost ten stories high, like Gothic style but mixed with some other styles, weird and flamboyant.
Leng Lie came to the castle, turned a stone by the door, entered the password, and the door of the huge castle slowly opened. Different from the dilapidated appearance outside, the inside can be described as magnificent.
On the wall in front of you is a mural that is almost as high as the castle. The statues of gods on it are vividly depicted, giving people a strong sense of oppression.
Uncle Fu had already pulled away and followed him in with others.
"William Smith, should you come out and see me?" Leng Lie stood in the middle of the hall, his voice echoing through the entire castle, appearing ethereal and cold.
As soon as he finished speaking, a man in his forties or fifties slowly emerged from the end of the darkest corridor, holding a scepter studded with gems.
His laugh was high-pitched, like a rat crawling out of the gutter.
"Did William tell you the password?"
"That's not important. What's important is that he is dead and you no longer have a puppet to continue to control Xiwan."
"If you let them know that John, the richest man they have always supported, is the person you arranged to come here, I believe that even if you use all your strength, the people of West Bay will resist."
After speaking coldly, Smith laughed arrogantly.
He was the original leader of Xiwan, but he was greedy for money and lust, and seduced all the men in Xiwan to go to sea to become robbers. He had three wives and four concubines in the territory, and occupied the wives. It also promotes a culture of fighting and encourages them to invade and expand territory.
Smith has long since defected to other countries and cannot even be considered a West Bay people at all. In his eyes, Xiwan is just a fighting arena, a place to satisfy selfish desires.
As time went by, more and more people were dissatisfied with him, so Smith asked John to replace him. In fact, he never left the castle.
"You are very smart, but being too smart is not a good thing."
As soon as Smith finished speaking, the castle suddenly lit up like daylight.
Only then did Nanzhi see clearly that the suspended canopy was covered with human bones for decoration, emitting a strangely cold aura.
Traps have been set around them long ago. As long as Leng Lie dares to act rashly, ten silver bullets fired from secret channels will be accurately shot at them.
"You can try it with a shooting rate of 30 rounds per second." Smith was very proud of his hidden weapon.
This is his lair, and he has already set up a seamless defense and escape route. Since he dares to come out, he is fully confident that Leng Lie can't do anything to him.
"I'm here to negotiate a deal with you."
As soon as Leng Lie finished speaking, Uncle Fu threw a box in the middle of the hall. When it fell to the ground, a bloody human hand almost screamed out in fright.
Leng Lie subconsciously hugged her tighter.
"Are you familiar? Six fingers, your mother's."
Smith's eyes suddenly tightened, staring at the mass in disbelief, and then cursed secretly, it looked like he was trying to fight Leng Lie.
Smith did evil things in Xiwan, but he was known as a filial son. A few years ago, he quietly hid his mother in Country M to take care of her in old age, enjoying all the glory and wealth.
"Since I can catch her, I can also find my daughter who is hiding in the Victoria Orphanage."
"What did you do!" Smith bared his teeth angrily and roared at the top of his lungs. His hand on the scepter tightened again and again.
"As long as you get down from this position, I will tell you where they are." He smiled coldly like Satan.
From the moment he entered this door, he had already made sufficient preparations.
"John is dead. If I expose your conspiracy, the people of Xiwan will no longer be loyal to you. But now you give me this position, and I am willing to give you 10% of the annual inbound and outbound profits of Xiwan." exchange."
There is an ancient legend in West Bay that only the person who holds the 'priceless treasure' is the 'savior', and that treasure is the crutch in Smith's hand.
After he lost his heart due to his evil deeds, he passed 'it' to John. In fact, this treasure that symbolized absolute status had always been in his hands and had never left the castle.
"You're dreaming, so what if John dies? The thing is in my hands, there's nothing I can do about those lunatics!"
"Who is going crazy?" Nanzhi, who had been silent, finally couldn't calm down.
She stared angrily at the thing in Smith's hand and said angrily, "You instigated them to kill, wound, and rob, while you hide here and enjoy the glory and wealth, and treat the entire people of Xiwan as fools!"
"Are you worthy of sitting in this position?"
Nanzhi couldn't stand the cold style, but now she was even more disgusted by the old Huang Mao in front of her.
"and who are you?"
Smith was interrupted and was very angry. His eyes slowly dropped to Nanzhi's wrist, and he smiled with his eyebrows crooked and lewd, "Are you the woman he stole?"
"What a shame for such a pretty face."
"If you still don't tell me where you have hidden my mother and daughter, I will guarantee that you will have no way in or out!"
What was originally a cold and unilateral threat was now taken by Smith. He laughed so darkly and madly that his voice was so sharp that it made Nanzhi's head spin.
She didn't know where the confidence came from, but she pushed Leng Lie in a moment of enthusiasm, "Come on, I support you."
Compared to this stinky rat, she was more willing to believe that Leng Lie's purpose was just that person, not to disrupt Xiwan. He is rich and powerful, so he may not be a good lord.
At least both Smith and that lecherous John are disgusting!
Leng Lie was suddenly startled. He turned around and saw Nanzhi's firm and fiery eyes, and smiled.
"You can come in."
As soon as Leng Lie finished speaking, the door of the castle slowly opened.
The Xiwan people who had been fighting just now were standing there angrily. Some of them were holding weapons, some were holding stones in their hands, and their eyes were so angry that they were bleeding.
"them--"
Seeing Nanzhi's doubts, he sneered coldly and rubbed the back of her head close to him, "Don't you know that those who want to win the world must first win the hearts and minds of the people?"
The weapons used by Uncle Fu and the others were not sedatives at all, but drugs that could paralyze people instantly, but the effect was only ten minutes.
Uncle Fu had already mastered the irrefutable evidence that Smith and John were working together to deceive the people of Xiwan. Leng Lie's pretense of creating chaos was just a show of trying to confuse Smith's attention.
"You have all heard that the real perpetrator behind this is him!" The cold tone was sonorous and powerful.
Although he is such a thin person, his words at this moment are extremely powerful and can soothe people's hearts.
"Whether you want to continue to be loyal to a dead thing or follow me and live a stable life, you can choose now."
All this was arranged by Leng Lie.
First, comfort the people living in Xiwan, and then use their emotions to move them to reason, and lead them to uncover the secrets behind the castle.
Originally, Smith was still valuable to Leng Lie, but he didn't want to be so decisive. But this man refused to change his mind, and in the end he was so blinded by power that he even ignored his mother...
Such a person is too stupid and there is not much point in staying around.
"The scepter is the treasure of Xiwan because it is believed by people. But if this thing falls into the hands of evil people, it will destroy your home, break up your family, and make you become bandits from generation to generation. Then it, What’s the point?”
All Leng Lie did was to tell them: People can be stupid, but they cannot be ignorant.
At this moment, he stood in Xiwan and was their only savior.
"Kill Smith and get him down!"
"Take the scepter back!"
"kill him!"
The shouts grew louder and louder, and almost all the refugees from Xiwan Harbor gathered outside the door. They held up their knives angrily and were about to rush in. Leng Lie smiled silently, opened the box with his own hands and presented the weapon.
