allonlinenovel Chapter 178 I'm in Charge at Home
Chapter 178 I'm in Charge at Home
The dagger, empowered by the blood pool, claimed Guo Xinwen's life, but a smile crept across the woman's lips. It seemed to transcend space, a cold laugh directed at the controller of Dead Soul Island.
I wanted to die, not you who took my life!
Jiang Lin paused and slowly released his grip on Ji Xingyi's hand.
Jiang Lin glanced at the three people still in the blood pool, then looked up at Ji Xingyi: "Don't you think I'm cold-blooded?"
Ji Xingyi looked surprised: "You did this to protect me. Put yourself in my shoes, I wouldn't want you to take any risks either."
Jiang Lin's rapid heartbeat gradually calmed down.
Ji Xingyi grasped Jiang Lin's hand: "Her life is now her own; she's free."
Jiang Lin gently squeezed his hand back: "Your life is mine."
Ji Xingyi chuckled: "It's yours."
After Guo Xinwen died, the blood pool dissolved her body, leaving only her human skin floating in the pool. Su Yuning, Jing Kang, and Chi Xuan were still struggling in the blood pool.
As evening approached, servants brought in dinner. Jiang Lin had intended to take this opportunity to gather information about what was happening outside, but instead, he was met with Chen Jiangqiao's sour face.
"What? You're unhappy to see me?" Although Chen Jiangqiao's tone was sarcastic, the smile on his face didn't disappear after seeing that the two were safe and sound.
Jiang Lin smiled and said, "Of course I'm happy."
"How did you sneak in?" Ji Xing's face lit up with joy when he saw Chen Jiangqiao: "Is Wang Zhe alright?"
Chen Jiangqiao sat down in a chair and wolfed down the food he had brought Jiang Lin: "The two of us set fire to the place all day long, and the entire Qingxi area, except for this part, is basically burned down!"
The villagers and patrol team dared to fight the fire, and after putting it out, they were thirsty and needed water. Chen Jiangqiao disguised himself, smeared some soot on his face, and then sneaked in to poison the water. When they ran out of poison, Wang Zhe went to find laxatives and croton powder, which immediately caused a large number of people to collapse. So now the outside is in chaos, with everyone except the guards of the underground palace out fighting the fire and rescuing people.
That's why Jiang Lin's lunch consisted of just a few steamed buns. It wasn't that Jin Lushan was stingy; it was that there wasn't enough manpower available.
Even Jiang Lin was surprised to hear these words: "You weren't discovered?"
"Damn it, you guys keep calling me ordinary, but being ordinary has its advantages, okay?!" Chen Jiangqiao rarely showed off his average looks, and then took off his little black hat with a pained expression, saying, "Look at my hairstyle! I suffered a huge loss to save you two!"
Chen Jiangqiao, wanting to enter the dungeon with Ji Xing, specially spent over a thousand yuan on a haircut. To disguise himself and avoid being discovered, he gritted his teeth and even had Wang Zhe shave his head. After changing his clothes and styling his hair with some ash, he stood in the crowd and perfectly blended into the copy-paste NPCs.
"Thanks." Ji Xingyi smiled slightly.
Chen Jiangqiao was stunned. He seemed to remember this being the first time Ji Xingyi had smiled at him like that. Jiang Lin instantly became unhappy, stepping between their lines of sight, picking up a steamed bun from the bowl and stuffing it into Chen Jiangqiao's mouth, her smile exceptionally gentle: "Eat slowly, or you'll choke!"
Whether Jiang Lin's words carried some kind of magical power or not, Chen Jiangqiao choked on his next bite.
Jiang Lin raised the horns of a little devil on his head and, under the guise of helping, slapped Chen Jiangqiao hard across the back.
Chen Jiangqiao almost fell face-first to the ground from the slap, but luckily he grabbed the corner of the table. He glanced at Jiang Lin with lingering fear: Damn it, his heart is smaller than a sesame seed!
Chen Jiangqiao: "Ji Xingyi, can't you keep your hands on him?!"
Jiang Lin smiled defiantly: "Sorry, I'm the boss at home."
Ji Xingyi could only return Chen Jiangqiao's gaze with an apologetic look.
Chen Jiangqiao didn't want to deal with the two scumbags anymore, so he turned around and cautiously walked towards the blood pool: "How are the others?"
Chen Jiangqiao spotted Chi Xuan, but after circling around, he still couldn't find Guo Xinwen: "Where's Guo Xinwen?"
Before Ji Xingyi could answer, Chen Jiangqiao noticed a corner of human skin surfacing, its breath catching in its throat. Although Chen Jiangqiao had anticipated this situation, seeing it in person still left him feeling somewhat desolate.
Ji Xingyi briefly explained what he and Jiang Lin had discovered.
“Zhou Jue is dead too. We fell into a trap. That Jin Lushan was a double.” Chen Jiangqiao also told the two of them about their ordeal: “Can the three of them be saved?”
Ji Xingyi shook his head: "The BOSS is in the blood pool."
Chen Jiangqiao was so startled by these words that he took several steps back: "Damn it, why didn't you say so earlier!"
“He’s not interested in you, otherwise you would have died long ago!” Jiang Lin shrugged.
Chen Jiangqiao: "..." What he said makes sense, but why does it sound a bit harsh?
Ji Xingyi: "How many guards are there up there?"
Chen Jiangqiao: "Twelve men, all with bows and arrows and weapons. Oh right, your knife is in their hands too."
Ji Xingyi: "Where is Jin Lushan?"
Chen Jiangqiao: "There's such a big situation outside, he won't be back anytime soon. Wang Zhe is keeping an eye on him."
Ji Xingyi and Jiang Lin exchanged a glance, then Ji Xingyi handed the dagger to the young man: "Shall we make a move?"
Jiang Lin's eyes darkened. Actually, the best time would have been after Su Yuning's death and the creation of the Beauty Fan. Ji Xingyi's actions clearly indicated he had other intentions. But since the man had already yielded so much, Jiang Lin couldn't keep pressing him. So he nodded and agreed, "Chen Jiangqiao, go and trick a few people down here first."
“Okay!” Chen Jiangqiao’s eyes lit up and he immediately took action.
This guy got so into acting that as soon as he got back to the ground, he immediately put on a panicked expression and started crying and shouting at the guards at the gate, saying that Jiang Lin had choked to death on a steamed bun.
The lie was truly outrageous, but fearing that something might really happen to Jiang Lin, the guards quickly brought two people down to check on him.
Ji Xingyi and Jiang Lin stood on either side of the entrance to the underground palace. As soon as the entrance opened and the guards approached, the two of them attacked together, instantly taking down the two men. The captain of the guard team behind them saw this and immediately drew his sword. Chen Jiangqiao quickly intervened and stabbed the man in the heart from behind.
Ji Xingyi removed the arrow from the guard's back, walked out of the underground palace, and before the guard at the door could discover the situation, he aimed at the figure outside the door, drew his bow, and shot the arrow, breaking through the door and hitting the target.
The guards outside screamed in agony, and the remaining eight rushed in. Ji Xingyi quickly drew his bow and shot two more. Then he hid behind a pillar to avoid the arrows coming from the opposite side.
Chen Jiangqiao grabbed a guard's corpse as a human shield to pass through the arrows, rolled over, picked up the Miao sword from the dead guard's waist, and threw it to Ji Xingyi.
After Ji Xingyi got the knife, Jiang Lin, who was hiding on the other side, kicked the low table away. The moment the low table blocked the arrow, Ji Xingyi swiftly made his move. The extremely long blade ended the lives of the two men before the second volley of arrows could be nocked.
"Watch out!" Chen Jiangqiao shouted as he saw someone attacking Ji Xingyi from the side.
With a soft "thud," Jiang Lin's dagger pierced the attacker's chest.