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Chapter 58 57 Don’t answer the wrong question

"This is a hand knot. It can be used to hang people or hams."

In the dark dungeon, Li Guanqi was teaching Ji Ye how to use the rope step by step.

Julio, the butler, the guard, and everyone else, were all hung upside down with Ji Ye on the iron frame they had just bought from the mall for hanging hams.

While Julio and the others were still awake due to drug addiction, Ji Ye asked curiously, "What are you going to ask them later, Kanqi?"

"As for the reason why Schmidt appeared here, it has something to do with the [Platinum Lead Disease]." Li Guanqi stared at Julio's head and thought: "The best thing I can do is ask about the [Platinum Lead Disease] outbreak.

time, and methods to treat [platinum lead disease].”

"Then do you think they will know how to treat [Platinum Lead Disease]?" Jiye stuffed a rag into the guard's mouth, then wrapped a rope around it several times, "To be honest, I don't think the chance is high.

"

"Let's ask, what if there is an unexpected gain?" Li Guanqi spread his hands indifferently, "Anyway, they don't look like people who can break big news, so I just want to squeeze out their value and ask what I know.

Just the things you don’t know.”

Although Julio is not a noble in the true sense, as a "nouveau riche" who made his fortune by refining [Platinum Lead], he must know some inside information that they do not know.

"That's true." Ji Ye nodded and agreed: "At least judging from the fact that this manor was not built with [platinum lead], the things these nobles know are indeed higher than those of ordinary people."

Li Guanqi: "..."

Li Guanqi: "...manor?"

Li Guanqi was stunned, and there was a moment of astonishment on his face, "Old Ji...how do you know that this manor is not built with [platinum lead]?"

"Huh? Because the decoration style of this manor is different from that of Freifans?"

Ji Ye still repeated her previous behavior - stuffing a rag into a guard's mouth, then wrapping a rope around it several times before tying it up -

"If you really want to say it, is it probably the difference between a stone brick house and a cement house? It's just that one has white paint and the other doesn't."

As he spoke, Ji Ye pointed to the wall beside the dungeon and said, "Look, the stone bricks in this dungeon are not painted white, but are made of black and purple stone bricks."

Li Guanqi: "..."

"Probably because unlike the manor above where guests are often entertained, the dungeon is a relatively private place where outsiders are not easily allowed in, so it doesn't matter even if you don't pretend."

Ji Ye glanced at—or was hostile to—everyone here except Li Guanqi, and said calmly: "It seems they are not complete fools."

"...Old Ji?" Li Guanqi immediately noticed something was wrong with Ji Ye's emotions, and felt that it was necessary to hinder him, so he cautiously reminded: "Are you angry?"

"Yeah." Ji Ye nodded: "I am indeed angry."

"That's right! - Because these are a bunch of scum!" Li Guanqi responded quickly and agreed: "They all deserve to die!"

Ji Ye: "..."

Ji Ye sighed softly and noticed that Li Guanqi's eyes never shifted from her face, so she turned her head away and became silent.

Li Guanqi: "..."

When Li Guanqi saw this, he also became silent.

After all, as a guy who was good at scolding but not good at comforting others, she really couldn't think of a better response than silence.

She means, what should she do now?

But just like her, she was also angry.

When Ji Ye left, Li Guanqi was squatting in a dark corner on the steps holding her cage, looking at Julio's head.

When Ji Ye passed her by in silence, Li Guanqi spoke and asked hesitantly: "Old Ji, it's okay for you to go up alone...right?"

Ji Ye: "..."

"Don't worry, watch the chess game... give me some time." Ji Ye said, "I will talk to you if you have any questions."

Li Guanqi wrinkled his facial features, his face full of confusion: "Well..."

"It's you, Guanqi." Ji Ye turned around and lowered his eyes to look at Li Guanqi's head, "I know you plan to kill them."

Li Guanqi wanted to hold back, raised his head suddenly and wanted to say something, but he couldn't control the strange expression of fright and surprise on his face, "I..."

"I don't mean to disagree." Ji Ye interrupted Li Guanqi, shook his head, and said calmly: "I just want to emphasize that I tied the rope and I hung the person."

Li Guanqi: "..."

The strange expression on Li Guanqi's face froze.

When Li Guanqi was stunned, Ji Ye said, "So I think we are accomplices now."

"...Ah, yes." Li Guanqi lowered his head again and said dryly:

"...We are accomplices now."

"Well, that's right. Then I'll leave the next thing to you, watch the chess game." Ji Ye said softly, "I'll go up there and get some fresh air."

Li Guanqi: "..."

After finishing the ball... I was comforted.

Instead, he was comforted by the younger one.

Li Guanqi didn't respond, but looked at Julio's head again with that stiff and weird expression. It wasn't until he heard the sound of the wooden boards in the dungeon above being opened and closed that the expression on his face gradually changed.

It became a bitter smile.

Facts have proved that Ji Ye only looks easy to fool, but in fact he is not really easy to fool.

Although she is one year younger than her, she has been changed by the darkness of this world and has become no longer naive.

In this bullshit world, we are always afraid of not having good things happen, we are afraid of not having good people.

Some people deserve to die or not, and some people die anyway when they shouldn't.

Li Guanqi looked at Julio's head and sighed, and began to sharpen his knife in order to facilitate the murder.

Sigh... I really deserve to die.

*

Julio opened his eyes and found that the world had turned into an upside-down mirror image. It took him a long time to realize that he was being hung upside down in the dungeon in the cellar of his manor.

There were many people hanging upside down around him, but because they were basically facing away from him, their specific identities could not be seen. However, judging from their clothing, they seemed to be the housekeeper and the steward of his manor.

servant.

"Butler? Hey!" Julio shouted loudly, trying to attract the attention of the people around him so that he could answer his doubts at this time, "What happened? Why are we hanging upside down here? Butler?! Are you there?

Do you listen? Hey!"

"..."

"…………"

Silence, no sound.

As if he was still in a deep sleep and had not yet woken up, no one, whether it was the housekeeper or the servants around him, made the slightest, even physical response to Julio's call.

There are several torches lit for lighting in the dungeon, but because there are not many of them and there are too many people hanging upside down, they are blocked, so the lighting conditions are very bad, with less light and more darkness.

The numerous figures look like a cult scene in some horror movie.

"I...where am I? What happened? Is there anyone? Put me down quickly!"

Julio yelled in panic. He struggled violently to get out of the predicament he was facing at this time, but except for making the shelf shake slightly, he did not achieve any effective results.

Oh my god, what happened? How could I be hung upside down here? I seemed to be taking the two foreign visitors with the butler on the way to the dungeon, but why...

Julio was recalling what happened before he fell into coma when he suddenly heard footsteps in the silent dungeon, and the sound became closer from far away, as if they were walking towards his direction.

"...Is there anyone?" Julio asked uneasily. Even though the footsteps made him feel uneasy, he still held an innocent and stupid emotion and said with luck: "If there is someone, just say

Come quickly and put me down from the top of this damn shelf!"

He complained, unable to stop once he started.

"Really, you dare to hang me in a place like this. If I knew who did it, I would definitely not be able to spare that guy."

The more Julio spoke, the angrier and more irritated he became. It seemed that he had already figured out how to punish the person who had caused him such a terrible crime.

Until the person who heard the footsteps finally stood in front of him, holding a kitchen knife dripping with blood, his expression was dark and unclear, but he was silent and calm, as if he was looking at him with a look of death.

, he turned pale and stopped his irritability and anger, allowing fear to appear on his face.

"I have a question to ask you." Li Guanqi wiped the blood on the kitchen knife, "If you answer it correctly, I will not touch you first, but if you answer it wrong, I will start chopping off your little female fingers."

"You, you..." Julio's face was full of horror, his mouth was wide but speechless.

In fact, the moment he saw Li Guanqi, he wanted to defend himself or something, but looking at Li Guanqi's corpse, it was difficult for him to say even a complete sentence in such fear.

Different from how he was before, when Ji Ye was here, you could only say that Li Guanqi was a bit sinister.

But now, her appearance can be called a ruthless one.

"Don't say unnecessary words."

Li Guanqi seemed to be an emotionless person, stating her request calmly and indifferently, "If you answer correctly, you will live a few more seconds. If you answer incorrectly, you will pay the price...the first question."

Julio opened his mouth and looked at Li Guanqi in panic. Even from her perspective, he was not able to judge the happiness and anger on Li Guanqi's face very well at this moment, but he still stretched his neck to see Li Guanqi's expression.

"What is the purpose of leading us to the dungeon?" Li Guanqi asked, even though the question was in a declarative tone.

Julio: “…”

When Julio heard this, the fear on his face gradually faded away, revealing a strange expression. His lips moved slightly, but there was no response.

"I repeat, what is your purpose of leading us to the dungeon?" Li Guanqi raised the kitchen knife and slowly began to knock the little finger of Julio's right hand. Screams began to sound in the dungeon along with her movements.

But Li Guanqi seemed not to hear it and continued her movements. The tip of the knife carefully avoided the bones on his fingers and only peeled the flesh aside.

"Answer the question. If the answer is correct, I will stop."

"I, I said!" Julio screamed and gasped, "It's for, to sell to the merchants responsible for selling slaves!"

"Reason?" Li Guanqi asked. She stopped cutting the meat and lowered her head to look at Julio's expression.

"For... to make money." Julio didn't forget to pretend to be confused at this moment, "People like you from foreign countries, especially those who have not joined the World Government, have always been able to sell very high prices.

The price...ah! It hurts! My hand! Stop, stop! I, I answer the question! You don’t mean what you say!”

"You answered the question, but you answered it incorrectly." Li Guanqi withdrew his gaze and continued his actions, "Although this answer sounds very reliable, but considering a prerequisite, we are taking this flight tonight.

Chief Ute's carriage came here to attend this banquet... I don't believe you don't know about this kind of thing."

Julio gritted his teeth: "I, I don't know what you are talking about!"

"Give me some face." Li Guanqi sighed: "After all, although Chief Ute came to the position through the back door, the power he holds has not been compromised at all... Even if you are a rich upstart, you are just for money.

Well, I tentatively think you are doing it for money...but even so, offending someone of such a high status is not worth the loss."

At this time, Li Guanqi had completely peeled off a bone from Julio's little finger, and then threw it into the bucket at his feet with a "ding" sound.

"So it's definitely wrong to do it for money. Tell me, do you have any other answers?" Li Guanqi knelt down and grabbed Julio's throat to stop his screams.

"Think carefully before you answer. Although you still have nineteen chances to try and make mistakes, I will find it troublesome." Li Guanqi let go of his hand and measured Julio's expression inch by inch. "I'll ask again, why?"

?”

"It's Ute! Ute hinted me to do this! He also told me that the country you come from is not a member country certified by the World Government!"

Julio's face twitched. Not only did he not pretend to be confused this time, he even couldn't wait to answer the hidden question, "Because he came to the position through the back door, he has never been favored by the people above him, and because of the three Tianlong people

The month is coming soon, so this time the flower stand project he built on his own at the border was praised by the people above, so..."

Li Guanqi nodded, "Continue."

"So he wants to take all the credit! But as the person who first proposed this idea, you have hindered him! So on the day you came to attend the banquet, he contacted me and hinted that I should contact the slave traders.

I will sell you to other places during the banquet!"

"In this case, he can take all the credit alone! As long as the flower trellis project on this border can be appreciated by the Draco people, he may not only be able to talk to King Freifans, but even

Be equal to the king!"

Li Guanqi: "..."

"Congratulations, you answered correctly." Li Guanqi still showed no expression, "Then the next question is about [Platinum Lead Disease]..."

Julio: “!!!”

Julio's heart thumped and he didn't really want to answer.

But Li Guanqi ignored his expression and continued: "Your experts predict when it will officially break out in this country."

Julio: “…”

Julio was silent, panting violently because of pain and dizziness, and kept silent.

Li Guanqi stood up.

"I--"

Poof! Her knife struck into Julio's hand.

"Ask you——"

The sound of her muscles being ripped apart was even louder than her speaking voice.

"[Platinum Lead Disease] is expected to——"

Ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding! That was the sound of a bunch of bones being picked off and then thrown into the iron bucket.

"When will it officially start to break out in this country?"

"Half a year! It's half a year!"

Because of the severe and continuous pain, Julio's nose and tears flowed down his face. Under Li Guanqi's calm indifference, he felt that his right hand had lost the support of bones and was softly resting on his wrist.

above.

"Experts say [Platinum Lead Disease] will break out in half a year... Please... let me go... let me go... I don't want to die yet."

Julio begged. He faced Li Guanqi and wanted to beg for mercy, but looking at Li Guanqi's always calm eyes, he didn't know how to deal with such a seemingly emotionless person who seemed determined to kill him.

Go and beg for your life at the hands of others.

So he could only cry, expressing his instinct uglyly and bluntly.

"I don't want to die. Please, I can tell you anything. I won't lie anymore... Please, please, please let me go!"

I looked at my outline...it was sand sculpture style, right.

I’ve looked at my article... I’m sorry for the darkness.

(End of chapter)