a very dark dark guard

Chapter 73

I probably know why Ye Fengniang wanted to find out the murderer, and when Zhai Xing Lao Yue Lou received the task, she had to complete it.They made their names in the arena, relying on the word 'integrity'.

The accidental death or death of the mission target has nothing to do with them, but if someone gets there first and kills the target before they do it, they can't forget it.

When it comes to credibility issues, they cannot allow the murderer to hide, they must make it known to the world, proving that it is not because of their poor skills in picking stars and moons.

Someone accidentally hit the target early, and they didn't have a chance to complete the task.

The murderer was asked to confess in public, and someone picked them up to testify.

Ye Fengniang glanced at everyone, she should be observing everyone's reaction.

This also proves that she doesn't know who Qiao Guiqiao is.

I've never heard of this name, but Manager Zhang reacted a little differently when he heard this name.

He looked nervously at the other people in the lobby, as if he was also looking for Qiao Guiqiao.

"You know this guy?" I asked.

"I don't know, I've heard of it. He is a 'du' businessman. He is very famous on the black market in the northern border. There is no poison that he can't get." Mr. Zhang replied.

"Oh, so powerful, he mainly sells/poisons, and kills people part-time?" I continued to ask.

"I've never heard of it. I only know that he sells all kinds of poisons, including all kinds of strange things. He has made a lot of money from this business."

"So he has enough fire scorpion poison."

"If he's the murderer, yes, he's got a lot in stock."

The question is why would a rich black market businessman spend 'a lot of money' to poison another businessman?
Conflict in business?

The proprietress' face was pale, Xiao Er was in a daze, the cook didn't know anything, and was still cooking in the back kitchen.

Ye Fengniang saw that no one would admit it, so she said harsh words, it doesn't matter if they don't admit it, at worst, they will kill everyone present, anyway, the murderer is among them.

It's not that Zhai Xing Lao Yue Lou has never done the massacre of hundreds of people in order to kill one person.

They are not well-known and decent, they don't care about fame, and they don't have a conscience.

Her ruthless words may not have much effect on the murderer, but they are like a bolt from the blue to others.

It takes time for the murderer to pretend to be scared and angry.

Even with a face paralyzed like Yuan Chen's, his first reaction when he heard this was a change in expression.

Manager Zhang looked at Yue Nanxiang nervously, with obvious protection in his eyes.

When innocent people hear that they have been implicated and are going to lose their heads with the murderer, they will definitely react.

I was puzzled, Manager Zhang was worried, other residents were fearful, angry, and tried to persuade Ye Fengniang to put down the butcher knife.

Ye Fengniang ignored everyone and went straight to one person.

The man was dressed according to the standard of a furrier, with a thick beard covering most of his face.

It looks rough, but the skin is particularly delicate/fair.

Sitting at the same table with him were two hunters, who were protesting to Ye Fengniang, calling her inhumane, and arresting a murderer should not harm the innocent.

"If you don't want to die, stay away." Ye Fengniang said, and the residents quickly got up and retreated.

The bearded furrier didn't move, he was still sitting there drinking tea slowly.

Frightened by Ye Fengniang's aura, the two hunters at the same table also got up and stepped aside.

They looked puzzled at the furrier who was still sitting still.

She waved at him and told him to run away quickly, but the other people around had already seen that the person Ye Fengniang was looking for was the fur dealer.

Everyone gathered in one place tacitly, and stood farthest from the furrier.

"Hehe, your suggestion is good, kill you all, and no one will know what happened here." The furrier suddenly smiled, his expression changed from the fear and panic just now, he stretched out his hand, holding a whistle-like thing between his fingertips s things.

Ye Fengniang gestured to the men in black who surrounded the lobby, and the men in black passed over the residents and surrounded the furrier at close range.

No, he should be called Qiao Guiqiao now.

He is a big poison/dealer who sells poison on the black market in the north. Such a person is likely to carry a few poisons for self-defense.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the residents hurriedly fled back to their rooms and locked the doors to stay away from danger.

Only our table didn't run to the room. I asked Manager Zhang to take Yun Zhou and Yue Nanxiang to the back kitchen.

Just now, the men in black searched from room to room. Not only were they looking for clues, but they also stayed in a certain place in each room for a while.

Although the layout of the inn rooms is not exactly the same, the difference is not much worse.

The place where they linger is not an area to store luggage, nor is it a place to rest on a bed, table, etc.

I don't know what they did, but my gut tells me it might not be safe to go back to the room.

They alone didn't spend extra time in the kitchen.

It may be that the cook has been in the kitchen, and it is not convenient for them to stay.

Manager Zhang asked me why I didn't leave?
I told him to take the people to go first, and I will watch the excitement here.

He doesn't believe that I want to watch the excitement, but time waits for no one, the two groups over there will fight at any time, so he can only take Yun Zhou and Yue Nanxiang to hide for a while.

Yun Zhou didn't want to leave, so I told him to go to the kitchen and watch the cook to prevent him from poisoning.

He was ignorant and perhaps understood a little, and followed Manager Zhang.

After they left, I closed the corridor door from the back kitchen to the lobby.

Guard this door in person, no matter which side people are, don't even try to pass through.

The proprietress and Xiao Er ran upstairs together and hid in the room of the deceased.

Only Ye Fengniang, the man in black, Qiao Guiqiao, and me watching were left in the lobby.

Ye Fengniang's attention was on Qiao Guiqiao.

Instead of killing him, she asked him 'where is the thing'.

Qiao Guiqiao wanted to blow the whistle, but Ye Fengniang stretched out her hand to block it, and the two of them used only one hand, pushing back and forth to block it, and they did two simple moves.

Ye Fengniang withdrew her hand suddenly, and looked down at her wrist, which was the place where their arms touched Qiao Guiqiao just now.

Qiao Guiqiao was somewhat complacent, but Ye Fengniang didn't let him be complacent for long. The two officially fought, and Ye Fengniang's tricks were vicious, either catching his eyes or locking his throat.

Qiao Guiqiao was still sitting at the beginning, and when the two hit each other, he jumped up, and the two of them finished the fight under the table and then jumped onto the table to fight.

The proprietress must be very distressed here. These two people fought and didn't break each other. First, they smashed the tables, chairs and teapots in the lobby.

Ye Fengniang didn't want to fight alone with him, so she called the man in black to join him.

Qiao Guiqiao's martial arts are average, so he can insist on three moves against Ye Fengniang.

After three moves, he lost the wind, and another man in black joined the battle, and he was about to be maimed.

At this time, he blew the whistle that was caught on his fingertips, but the whistle did not make a sound.

But before he was restrained, Ye Fengniang and the others suddenly heard a clicking sound from around them.

Picking out a single sound is very small, but it is the sound of many things gathered together, and it is the sound of many small sounds joined together.

Ye Fengniang had no choice but to guard. She looked up and saw many red scorpions on the beams, pillars, and handrails of the stairs.

They climbed down the walls, stairs, and pillars, and a smug smile appeared on Qiao Guiqiao's face again.

The man in black put the moon fishing knife on his neck and told him to remove the scorpion.

Ye Fengniang told him to hand over the things quickly.

Qiao Guiqiao laughed loudly and refused to remove the scorpion. He replied to Ye Fengniang again, saying that he didn't know what she was talking about.

"Don't pretend, Liu Hai stole the mirror, not many people know about it, Tiangong can find out who hired you. Your old customer can't save you, as long as you hand over the mirror, the servant is the master. You die."

"Hahaha, it's a joke, you are the ones who will die soon, you have just been poisoned by my five hearts, and you won't live for half a stick of incense, look at your palms, is it hair—"

"Send what? Look at this slave's hand, isn't it beautiful?"

Ye Fengniang opened her hand, her palm was clean, nothing unusual.

Qiao Guiqiao was very surprised. He had just fought with Ye Fengniang, and he saw that she was stabbed by his poisonous stinger, and the wound was a little black.

By now, the poison in her body should have spread to the palm of her hand, but nothing happened to her.

He immediately put away his surprised expression, and said with a sneer, "You can escape the poisonous sting, but you cannot escape the poisonous scorpion."

There are too many red scorpions, they should be hidden in the area between the roof and the ceiling.

Called out by the whistle, Ye Fengniang and the man in black were surrounded instead.

"Fire Scorpion!" shouted someone from the men in black.

The tail of the red scorpion is raised, and the thorns can be seen at the end. I have seen illustrations of the fire scorpion, and the red scorpion in front of me is different from the fire scorpion.

Fire scorpions cannot live without the 'warmth' of underground magma, and they cannot survive in other environments.

Therefore, the scorpion catchers can only go down to the depths of the ground to catch them, which is their territory, and humans must pay a huge price to catch one or two.

This is not Fire Scorpio. Fire Scorpion loves heat and fears cold, so it won't come to the ground, let alone act in rainy days.

Although the man in black was nervous because of the poisonous scorpion, no one flinched.

Some of them climbed on top of my head and came down along the door panel. They stabbed people in the lobby. The man in black and Ye Fengniang avoided the stingers, and Ye Fengniang kicked Qiao Guiqiao's leg at the same time.

Qiao Guiqiao's physical strength was exhausted at the moment, and he couldn't dodge the kick. He was kicked firmly, and fell back on the chair with an ahhh.

Ye Fengniang grabbed him and stood in front of her, blocking a dozen poisonous stings for her.

Then the red scorpion stopped attacking her, avoided her and continued to attack other targets.

The man in black saw that Red Scorpion would automatically avoid Qiao Guiqiao and not attack him.

But he can only block one person, not all of them.

In addition to the poisonous stinger on the tail, the red scorpion is also filled with red venom.

If the body of the red scorpion is cut, the venom will leak out, and when the venom drips to the ground, it will release poisonous gas.

I don't know if I'm the first person in this lobby to discover that the red scorpion is not a living thing.

Therefore, I didn't kill them violently, but just released air filaments into their bodies, destroying the mechanism parts that allow them to move.

These red scorpions are not living things at all, but wooden scorpions painted with red paint.

Mechanism made of wood There is a skin bag for storing venom in the scorpion's stomach, and a small space for the stinger in the tail. There is an ejection mechanism inside to eject the stinger.

The man in black used the table to surround the group of scorpions, and pressed against the table to block the attack of the poisonous stinger.

Seeing that the stinger no longer had the advantage, Qiao Guiqiao blew the whistle again, and then the red scorpion began to automatically release the venom contained in the leather pouch.

The venom stored in the red scorpion's body is the fire scorpion venom.

The tail of the mechanism scorpion can be converted into an infusion tube.

I had previously suspected that the thing that killed the deceased was not a human being, at least the thing that injected venom into his body was not a living thing.

Because if there are living creatures walking in the inn, I can sense their position.

At the time when the deceased died, no one else was in their guest room.

Ye Fengniang just stood at the door for a while.

She might have found out that the target was dead, and she couldn't have said it at the time, and she would have been the prime suspect.

Everyone in the inn will stare at her and even control her.

She didn't kill everyone in the inn from the beginning, and then picked a person to bear the responsibility of killing the target person in advance, probably because she wanted to know the whereabouts of that thing.

She wanted to catch the murderer alive and find the thing.

The man in black searched all the guest rooms, but he didn't find that thing.

The thing was stolen by the deceased, but disappeared after his death.

There was no such thing in Qiao Guiqiao's room, so Ye Fengniang had to ask him personally.

But Qiao Guiqiao didn't cooperate, Ye Fengniang was not willing to kill him at such a critical moment.

She knew that Qiao Guiqiao was definitely not afraid of the poison of the fire scorpion, and those who used the poison would carry the antidote with them.

Breaking his legs was to prevent him from escaping, and the poisonous thorns in his body would not kill him for a while.

After a while, the poisonous gas billowed in the lobby, and the men in black couldn't hold on and fell to the ground one after another.

Ye Fengniang grabbed Qiao Guiqiao to go out. She was previously immune to the five-heart poison, but now she inhaled the fire scorpion poison, and her body couldn't take it anymore.

Seeing that the poisonous gas rises, the residents upstairs will also be in danger, so I let out my 'Qi' palm and slapped open the closed door of the inn.

The wind and rain filled the hall with moist air, dissipating the poisonous gas in the room.

The remaining red scorpions all blew themselves up, and none of them could move at this moment.

Qiao Guiqiao glared at me angrily, but Ye Fengniang couldn't hold on, she lightly released the hand that was holding him, and fell to the ground recklessly.

He took out a porcelain bottle from his arms, as if he wanted to take the antidote.

I let out my 'gas' and knocked down the porcelain bottle in his hand.

Give him a smug smile.

"You, who are you?"

"What do you say?"

"I don't have the precious mirror, so it's useless if you kill me."

"That's weird. The dead man stole the precious mirror. You killed him and didn't take the precious mirror that is more important than his life. It's strange."

I talked to him using the information I had gathered from listening to them just now.

I bet they're talking about the thing I know.

"The mirror is not on him. It must have been on the way out. He gave it to someone else, or hid it elsewhere, and didn't bring it here."

"How precious the mirror is, you don't know it, everyone wants it, the clue is broken with you, but you can't get anything out, hey, in the future, the situation like today, I'm afraid it will be endless."

"I'll find it along the way."

His words were so weak that I walked over to pick up the porcelain bottle on the ground and put it in my arms.

"Give me back the antidote!"

"You just let the red scorpion pierce me, and my heart was severely traumatized. This is the mental damage fee."

Qiao Guiqiao didn't know what I was talking about, but he probably heard that I wanted to make amends.

"I can give you whatever poison or antidote you want, free of charge. I can give you all the rarest poison in the world."

(End of this chapter)