Daomu Biji Volume 8 Chapter 29
I never expected to meet such a scene. Since the beginning of this mystery, there had never been such a thing as my companions not trusting me.
Along the way, I had always doubted this and that and now it was finally my turn to be doubted?
No, this is absolutely not possible. If my companions no longer trust me, then all I can rely on in this mystery will be gone. I immediately said to Fatty, “Ask questions and don't be fooled by him. If you have any doubts, ask me a question. “
Fatty looked at me and at the other Wu Xie. “Let him answer first and determine who's telling the truth,” I said hastily.
Fatty's hand holding the gun slowly loosened and he walked up to me and said, “No, I believe my first feeling. Let's continue.” He went up to the guy and said, “Let's have a tacit understanding. I'll ask you a question and if you can't answer, be good and tell the truth. How about it?”
The man looked at me and Fatty and suddenly shook his head: “No, you're right. There's no need to waste time.”
Fatty grinned at me and the man suddenly said to me, “You tell this Fatty to go away and I'll tell you what this is all about.”
Fatty fumed and scolded: “Boy, I thought if you could dress like this you must be a tough character. You sure changed real quick.”
The guy laughed: “I'm not intolerable. I don't think it's worth it because I'm on Master Three's side; however, I can only tell Master Three. If you're here, I won't talk. If you don't believe me, you can try to extract a confession. If you kill me, you'll regret it when you learn the truth.”
I glanced at Fatty and saw he still wanted to scold him. I thought it was a waste of time, so I made a gesture and asked him to accept it so we could know what the truth was quicker. Fatty walked bitterly towards the woods.
I turned to ‘Wu Xie': “Don't fool me, it's meaningless for you to delay.”
He looked at Fatty walking away and said, “Little Master Three, I'm not that simple, and things aren't as simple as you think.”
I paused for a moment, then looked at the “me” who was looking back at me with a smile, and felt the atmosphere was different.
I didn't answer, wondering what was going on here. Did he find anything wrong with my disguise, or did he really know my true ident.i.ty? I was only silent for a moment, however, when he added: “You don't have to think about it. Long-term thinking has already exposed the problem. Besides, I really know what's going on.”
I didn't show any expression, just threw away the stone in my hand and found a place to sit down.
The man watched Fatty leave slowly and crouched down in the bush on one side before he said, “Little Master Three, I'm with Master Hua.”
"Xiao Hua?"
He nodded: “Little Master Three, do you remember another man wearing a Master Three mask who went to dig out w.a.n.g Ba Qiu's nest behind his back? That person was me.”
“Oh.” I remembered. Indeed, in the Changsha incident, it wasn't me at all that played the decisive role, but a man I had never met, Xiao Hua's buddy. Xiao Hua had said that he didn't put any money on me during the whole gamble.
“I took part in Master's Hua's whole scheme.” He said, “You may not be very impressed with me and in fact, this is not the first time we have met. To a large extent, we're old friends.” When the other party said these words, the tone was surprisingly calm. “I worked in Master Three's store before, and I was the one that went to your shop to take inventory. You usually don't look straight at people's faces, so you didn't have much of an impression of me. Your buddy w.a.n.g Meng is a very good friend of mine. “
I felt a little sentimental in my heart and thought it was a little inappropriate. He went on to say, “And I was placed here to observe you well.”
“I don't understand.” I shook my head. “I absolutely trust Xiao Hua, you don't have to sow discord between us. If you talk nonsense again, I'll kill you.”
“I know it's hard for you to believe, but Master Hua planned it this way. It wasn't for his own purpose. Little Master Three, many things were handed down from the previous generation." The guy smiled, and it was actually very similar to my own.
It was really a very strange thing to have a battle of wits with someone who looked so similar to me. When I looked at his expression, my mind always froze and I realized that although 'Wu Xie' looked very similar to me, he was definitely not as easy to deal with as me.
However, there wasn't any more discord in my heart because of his words. After so many experiences, I couldn't easily believe anything, and even if Xiao Hua said these things himself in front of me, I wouldn't believe it. In this huge mystery, I could only believe what I saw, which was already basic common sense.
I looked at him coldly and wondered what he would say next, knowing that the calmer I was, the easier it would be to find flaws in his words. Only when I found his flaws could I get more information.
“I'm also not willing to follow Master Hua's arrangement, but I just have to perform. I put on your mask, got here before you, and joined Boss Qiu's team.”
“What's the purpose? I want to know.”
“Little Master Three, Boss Qiu knows a lot of things you don't. Your Uncle Three had been running this business all his life and you know his purpose very well. It's the same for Master Hua. But since I joined Qiu Dekao's team, you mustn't appear again. If Master Hua had been more ruthless, he could have killed you, but in the end, he still believed in justice, so he gave you a layer of skin and let you come. “
Everything the man said seemed logical, but I found that he was vague on many details.
I was also a person who liked to deceive people, and knew that there were two possibilities for such a dialogue: one was that this person liked to point out subtleties and wanted others to think that he was very shrewd; another possibility was that this person didn't know the details of the matter at all and deliberately used this way of speaking in order to avoid intense scrutiny.
Under the current circ.u.mstances, no one should still be in the mood to keep lying, it's not like we're picking up girls.
He was talking nonsense, so I made a judgment in my heart.
After he finished speaking, I looked at him quietly and said, “What I asked is, what's the purpose?”
He looked at me and didn't panic in the face of my question, nor did he show any timidity, but obviously he found it a little difficult to answer. After a long silence, he said, “I really have a whole new level of respect for you.”
“If you don't answer, I'll have Fatty come back. I told you, there's no point in delaying. I don't want to talk about this with you, I just want to know the answer to my question. You were talking nonsense before." I said, “Last chance.”
He bowed his head and smiled, saying, “Well then, I'll tell you the truth.” He looked at his left pocket. “My phone is in my pocket. You can take it out and see the text inside, and will know what's going on after reading it. It's useless for me to say anything now, you can see it with your own eyes. “
I looked at his pants pocket and thought it was reasonable. I went to him and reached for it, but as soon as I touched it, I found it was empty.
I looked at him and saw him smile at me. In an instant, his hand that had been tied behind his back was free of the rope and he grabbed my neck and hooked my feet at the same time. I lost my balance and fell on him, and he turned over and pressed me to the ground.
My throat was blocked by his stranglehold and I couldn't say a word. He looked at me coldly, and seeing my face like that drove me crazy: what the h.e.l.l was going on here? Am I going to be strangled by myself?
“You're right, I'm really talking nonsense. Although you've improved a lot, you're still too trusting of people." He said this and picked up the stone I had just thrown away, hitting me hard on the forehead.
I didn't even feel the pain, just felt dizzy. Then I felt another blow.
“There's only one thing I'm not talking nonsense about. I'm really on your Uncle Three's side.” He continued, “Unfortunately, you're not as important as you think. On the way to the underworld, guess who I am! “
The third blow hit me again and I lost consciousness.
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