Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

Chapter 613 Intense Match

"What do you mean? Are you kidding me?"

Jiang Zhaoxue shook her head and said, "I'm telling the truth, I'm not joking."

Instantly, a sense of foreboding washed over me.

"But Liu is dead! Now it's all over! We've all achieved our goals! We're partners! You promised to let us leave safely! You can't go back on your word! You can't break your promise!" I said excitedly.

The atmosphere inside the restaurant seemed to freeze in time.

Jiang Zhaoxue just stared at me, but I couldn't see the look in her eyes hidden behind her sunglasses.

After a full minute, she spoke: "I told you the secret of the Lacquer Cloth Sutra so that you would have no regrets. In every respect, you are different from those treasure hunters before. You know too much. The family is not ruled by me alone. The best way to keep the secret is to keep it where it is. Therefore, you must all stay in Thousand Island Lake."

“That’s right, I did promise your master, and I won’t go back on my word. But you have to understand, that’s the promise I made now, not the promise I made three months ago. Do you understand, Xiang Yunfeng?”

I couldn't control my emotions, and my breathing became rapid.

At this moment, the bodyguard pushed open the glass door to signal Jiang Zhaoxue that she could leave. She stood at the door and said to me, "Three months ago, didn't you have some stomach problems for a few days?"

I clenched my fists instantly.

"You have taken a medicine that Bu Guoliu prepared. The medicine in Dongshan Hot Spring Pool was also prepared by him. As for the formula, only Bu Guoliu himself knew it. Now he is dead, and no one knows the antidote. Even if you could find the antidote, it would be of no use because there is no time left."

I immediately remembered the boss who had been coughing violently on the phone earlier.

"Your mother is a **!"

"You filthy bastard!"

"Hehe, Xiang Yunfeng, go ahead and curse me, I won't get angry, if that makes you feel better."

"You bastard! You have no conscience! You're ungrateful! You're a heartless traitor! Yesterday you were saying I was your benefactor! And this is how you treat your benefactor!"

On the surface, I launched into a tirade of insults at her, using every nasty thing I could think of, but in reality, I was secretly taking stock of my surroundings.

The distance between us is about ten meters. There is no one else in this restaurant. I only have a knife on me. If I can get close to her within four seconds, I might still have a chance.

Thinking about all this, I reached behind my waist and tightened my thighs at the same time.

Suddenly, I felt a gaze upon me.

The gaze did not come from Jiang Zhaoxue, but from the tall bodyguard beside her.

The man had a cold expression and was glancing at me sideways.

I didn't sense anything about this tall man before, but now I can feel the "aura" emanating from him.

This guy is a master, at least on par with Brother Yu.

I have a feeling that if I move, he will move too, and he will definitely be faster than me. I will be the one who dies first.

Jiang Zhaoxue seemed to sense the unusual atmosphere. She said, "Faced with an inevitable outcome, a wise person would make good use of time and make final arrangements, instead of wasting time like you. You were the one who administered the drug, but you were the one who killed Liu. Speaking of discarding someone after they've served their purpose, you are more like that than I am. I just used some underhanded methods."

“Let’s go, miss.” The tall man, holding a wooden box, stared intently at me.

Jiang Zhaoxue's hand was already on the doorknob. Without turning her head, she said, "This is a dead end. One hundred million. If you have the ability to break this deadlock, come and get it from me anytime."

Watching the two of them get into a Mercedes-Benz W140 parked by the roadside and drive away, I was so angry that I kicked the table over.

My previous worries have come true.

The boss is absolutely right. When you're out in the world, you should avoid women. You can't trust a woman's promises. What Jiang Zhaoxue is trying to tell me is that three months ago, she did what she wants to do now! Because we hadn't established a partnership yet, she didn't break her promise! That's utterly shameless!

Time was of the essence, and I dared not delay for even a second longer, so I immediately rushed to the dock.

Back on the ship, I saw the foreman lying there.

Ba Tou was pale and coughing incessantly, while Xiao Xuan was taking care of him.

"Xiaoxuan, where are the others?"

"I don't know, Douya went to buy medicine and hasn't come back yet," Xiaoxuan said.

"You can go out for a bit."

"Yunfeng, your head is sick."

"I know, you can go out first."

After Xiaoxuan left, I immediately knelt down in front of the head priest.

"Head... I'm sorry, I'm the one who got you into trouble! I'm the one who got everyone into trouble, I deserve to die!"

He coughed a few times and asked in confusion, "Yunfeng, why are you crying like this? Get up, I just caught a cold from being caught in the rain last night, I'm not dead yet."

"No! I won't get up! You're not just suffering from a cold! You're poisoned! We've all been poisoned by the slow-acting poison No. 6! This is all a trap set by that woman Jiang Zhaoxue! It's a deadly trap! From the very beginning, she never intended for us to leave Qiandao Lake alive! Because we know too many secrets of the Jiang family!"

"Boss, do you remember when we all had diarrhea a few months ago? Even if I could find Dr. Song and Doctor Fan now, it would be too late! Liu is dead! There's no antidote! It's too late!"

After hearing what I said, he turned his head and his face became serious. The next second, he took out a cigarette from his shirt pocket, bent down and lit it.

"cough."

"This cold is really unpleasant; even cigarettes don't taste like anything."

"Boss! Are you even listening to me?!"

"I am listening."

"Alright, Yunfeng, don't overthink it. I just caught a cold from being caught in the rain, it's not poisoning."

He stubbed out the cigarette he had just lit and calmly said to me, "Yunfeng, we are considering things from our own safety perspective, while that girl is considering things from the perspective of her family's safety. So, in this matter, there is only winner and loser, not right and wrong. Her plan was very clever, but she was a bit too hasty. She still needs more experience."

"However, no matter how skilled Liu is in feng shui, he is still a human being, a member of the martial arts world. He has lived in seclusion in Qiandao Lake for half his life, disconnected from the outside world. Little did he know that we martial arts people have our own circles. The reason we had stomach problems back then was because the medicine contained the ingredient 'Cold Rot Powder'."

"Hey, what is Hanfu San?"

"It's the slow-acting medicine you just mentioned, with some other ingredients added, but it doesn't matter, because the old sea dog's family has a ancestral detoxification powder. Do you remember it, Yunfeng?"

My mouth gradually opened wider.

I remember now...

The boss used his connections to invite Old Sea Dog to Qiandao Lake. Old Sea Dog told me it was to deliver something to us, but I still don't know what the boss asked Old Sea Dog to deliver.

I only just found out what happened.

That night we were going into the cave, and the head of the group was secretly cooking a pot of soup in the kitchen! He said it was ginger soup! He made sure everyone drank it!

I remember that soup vividly! Unlike regular ginger soup, it was dark reddish-brown when cooked! It was a bit thick. At the time, Bean Sprout said it didn't taste like ginger but rather like medicine, while Little Xuan said it tasted like earth!

The Old Sea Dog family has been famous in the martial arts world for a long time. Just like the Rejuvenation Pill passed down by Doctor Fan's family, they must have some ancestral secrets and life-saving methods!

I stood up without saying a word, feeling utterly impressed with the leader.

Whether it's feng shui or fortune telling, in the end, it all loses to wisdom.

Jiang Zhaoxue was so confident, but because it seemed like there wasn't enough time, she pretended to be kind and told me that she was giving me 100 million yuan on a whim, because she thought it was an unsolvable dead end! There was no way I would survive to get the money.

I thought of some more details and immediately asked in a low voice, "Boss, this kind of old seal's ancestral universal antidote must be very valuable. What did you give him in exchange? Or what did you promise him in private?"

He frowned.

"I'm tired, Yunfeng. You go out and find Xiaoxuan first. I need to rest."

As I left the barn, I couldn't calm down because I thought of a possibility.

How did Old Sea Dog find out that Shit Impermanence was hiding in the small clinic in such a short time? Did someone secretly tell him?

Shi Wuchang is different from Xie Qirong in personality. He usually doesn't hurt people, let alone kill them, but that night he killed Old Sea Dog.

With Old Sea Dog dead, whatever the leader promised him in private is no longer valid.

Since there's no way to verify it now that the dead are dead, I dare not speculate, but perhaps such a possibility exists.

Without exception, everyone is caught in the middle of it all...