"Ah—"
"You demon, you've ruined my people!" Dajagachi became furious upon hearing the words of the man in the black hooded cloak.
"Ha! Dajagachi, you can't blame me. If you have to blame anyone, blame your own excessive ambition. And you had ambition but were unwilling to use your children to catch wolves. How could you expect to have it both ways?" the man in the black hooded cloak mocked.
"Demon! I'll fight you!" Dajagachi roared.
He casually grabbed a spear and thrust it towards the man in the black hooded cloak. The latter reacted quickly, easily dodging Dajagachi's spear, and then intended to escape the basement immediately.
Seeing this, Leng Ruoli and Jun Mohan instantly emerged from her system space. Leng Ruoli quickly drew a pistol and fired at the man in the black hooded cloak.
The man in the black hooded cloak was stunned for a moment when he saw Leng Ruoli and Jun Mohan appear out of thin air. Leng Ruoli seized this opportunity and shot the man in the chest. The hit man in the black hooded cloak, in turn, instantly gathered his internal energy, transforming it into a leopard's head that spewed a torrent of fire towards Leng Ruoli and Jun Mohan. Jun Mohan reacted swiftly, wrapping an arm around Leng Ruoli's slender waist and soaring into the air, instantly evading the inferno.
However, the torrent of fire struck Dajagachi, who was standing behind the couple, in the chest. He spat out a mouthful of blood on the spot, and at that moment, the man in the black hooded cloak vanished from the basement.
After the man in the black hooded cloak left, the eighteen cavalrymen who had been poisoned by the wolf venom became even more agitated. Fortunately, their internal energy was not strong. They could only lift their ferocious faces, struggle incessantly, roar and howl, attempting to break free from the chains binding them. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Just then, Dajagachi's weak voice was heard from a corner.
"Please, please, save, save me."
Upon hearing this, Leng Ruoli glanced down at Dajagachi and asked Jun Mohan, "Should we save this Dajagachi?"
Jun Mohan also looked at Dajagachi, pondered for a few seconds, and slowly replied, "Lier, let's save his life. He's still useful."
Hearing this, Leng Ruoli nodded.
Immediately, she took out a silver needle from her sleeve, quickly stabilized Dajagachi's pulse, and then gave him a life-saving pill.
After a long while, Dajagachi's complexion finally returned to normal.
"Tonight, I, Dajagachi, am indebted to the young master and young lady for saving my life. Otherwise, I, Dajagachi, would have perished," Dajagachi said with a sad expression.
"Dajagachi, don't say that for now. Tell us, who exactly is that man in the black hooded cloak?" Leng Ruoli urgently pressed.
"He, he is the Dark Night Phantom Lord," Dajagachi said, weeping.
"Dark Night Phantom Lord? The leader of the Dark Night Pavilion, so it's him!" Jun Mohan's sword-like eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he muttered.
"Yes, he is the leader of the Dark Night Pavilion, the administrator of that famous assassin organization in the martial world," Dajagachi added.
"Then how did you get involved with him?" Leng Ruoli asked, very curious.
"Two years ago, due to the internal strife in the imperial family of Beichen Kingdom, I conceived the idea of 'When the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman benefits.' I wanted to train an invincible cavalry to attack the capital of Beichen Kingdom, overthrow the Murong clan, and establish myself as king," Dajagachi sighed.
"Later, I heard from others that there was a potion in the Dark Night Pavilion that could instantly enhance physical strength. So, I, Dajagachi, sought out the Dark Night Pavilion and successfully obtained the said potion," Dajagachi said, pausing for a minute.
"I never expected that after my cavalry drank the potion given to me by the Dark Night Pavilion, they would lose their sanity on the night of the full moon, transforming into monstrous creatures. They possessed immense strength, enjoyed bloodshed, and liked to tear living people apart with their bare hands. If I didn't restrain them with heavy iron chains, I dare not imagine how many people they would have killed in a single night."
"Initially, my cavalry was not so difficult to control, but later, with each episode, their frenzy symptoms became more severe. After repeated occurrences, my cavalry was almost wiped out."
"However, I concealed the deaths of those fallen cavalrymen by claiming they were missing. Then, they were all disposed of in this Black Water Pool. But now, some herders in the tribe seem to have noticed the disappearance of many cavalrymen and are already suspecting that I, Dajagachi, have killed them." Dajagachi paused as he recounted the entire sequence of events to Leng Ruoli and Jun Mohan.
After hearing this, Leng Ruoli and Jun Mohan were so enraged that they wanted to beat Dajagachi to death on the spot, regretting having saved this fool.
"Dajagachi, you truly deserve to die!" Leng Ruoli said with an ashen expression.
At this moment, the cavalrymen afflicted with wolf venom all coughed up a mouthful of blood, their breaths gradually becoming weaker.
"Lier, these remaining eighteen men are also close to death. Do you have a way to save them?" Jun Mohan asked, frowning.
"I'll try. They've been injected with too much wolf venom. Saving them probably won't be easy," Leng Ruoli replied.
Then, she took out a scalpel from her sleeve pocket and cut their fingers. Afterward, she used silver needles to open their meridians, forcing the wolf venom they had ingested out through their blood circulation.
After Leng Ruoli finished this, she heard Jun Mohan say, "Lier, more than fifty cavalrymen here seem not to be dead."
"Really? Let me see!"
Upon hearing this, Leng Ruoli quickly walked over to the cavalrymen who had lost their breath and carefully checked their pulses, discovering that they still had faint pulses beating within them.
"Ahan, they indeed haven't completely stopped breathing," Leng Ruoli said with some shock.
Dajagachi, lying on the ground and feeling heartbroken, heard their conversation and a flicker of hope ignited within him. He immediately got up from the ground and came before Leng Ruoli and Jun Mohan, pleading, "Young lady, please, please help save them. I am willing to trade my own life for theirs."
"Heh! Dajagachi, do you think your life is so valuable? You've caused the deaths of so many of your own people; you deserve to die! Get lost and don't hinder me from saving them," Leng Ruoli said with a cold tone.
Upon hearing this, Dajagachi no longer dared to speak.
Subsequently, Leng Ruoli worked swiftly, instructing Jun Mohan to help cut the fingers of the cavalrymen who still had pulses, and then she proceeded to open their meridians one by one, draining their toxic blood. After that, she administered a vitality-replenishing pill to each of them, capable of sustaining their lives.
After completing all this, Leng Ruoli continuously monitored their physical conditions.