Chapter 165 Double-Edged Sword

Qiao, the old man, pointed to the spirit talisman that had begun to burn and said, "Xia Chuan, he told me that if I gave him this spirit talisman and the mission succeeded, I should send him a message."

"If the mission fails, the soul lamp I left in Banxianzhuang will go out. Then I won't have any chance to send a message."

"This talisman can paralyze Xia Chuan. I hope it will be of some help to you."

After Qiao finished speaking, he picked up the salted beans on the table and smelled them, then raised his wine glass and sniffed it hard. A look of intoxication appeared on his face, "When I was alive, I liked to drink with salted beans and eat two more pieces of dried tofu."

"I haven't eaten such things for a hundred or two hundred years."

"This time, it's all thanks to you! I can still enjoy myself before I die."

As Qiao spoke, a hole suddenly burst open in his chest, and dazzling phosphorus fire spurted out from his body.

Qiao didn't care, he picked up the wine glass and sniffed it a few times. With a satisfied smile, he turned into phosphorus fire and dissipated on the ground.

I gave Lin Zhao a look, telling her to comfort Xia Mengying.

After all, this little scumbag is good at comforting people, isn't she?

I asked Butcher Wang, "Senior Sister, what do you think?"

Butcher Wang said, "I think we can trust what this old man Qiao said."

"A person won't be able to let go so calmly unless they have completely let go of everything."

"I think it's time for us to go back and meet up with Lao Liu."

I retorted, "What if Old Man Qiao is a suicide agent?"

Butcher Wang was stunned, "What do you mean?"

I said, "The person who set up this scheme is smarter than I thought. But he has one flaw, he always wants to make the scheme as big as possible."

"If he just wanted to capture Xia Xia, instead of trying to catch us all in one fell swoop, maybe I wouldn't have seen the strangeness in it."

I raised my hand and pointed to the place where Old Man Qiao had been sitting, "You said that Old Man Qiao let go of the past and put down everything before he died, but I don't think so."

"If you put me in Old Man Qiao's place, I would definitely try my best to delay the time and try to let Liangjie Tang unexpectedly attack Banxianzhuang. That way, I would at least have a few hopes of escaping."

"Why didn't Old Man Qiao choose a way out, and insisted on taking a dead end?"

"Even if he had lost all hope for life! He said that he wanted to help us at the end, why didn't he ask for our opinions first before lighting the message talisman?"

"I still say the same thing, if he had asked for our opinions first, I would have told him to hold back Xia Chuan and constantly send the other party false information to confuse the opponent."

"What is the purpose of his acting on his own?"

Butcher Wang was slightly stunned, "What you said makes sense!"

"But, you also said that you can't see his purpose!"

I pondered, "I think his first purpose is to first confirm Xia Xia's reputation as a heretical Confucian."

"As the Ghost Spirit Overseer of Banxianzhuang, the message sent back by Old Man Qiao before his death is still somewhat credible."

"If someone uses it slightly, Xia Xia will become a traitorous Confucian even if she isn't. This is the most important point."

I picked up the drawing and said, "And this drawing, Old Man Qiao's explanation is reasonable. But now I can't guarantee that this is a way out."

I handed the drawing to Ye Yang, "Leng Gou, you are an expert in mechanisms, take a look. I have another drawing here, compare them."

Ye Yang took the two drawings in his hands and looked at them carefully for a while, "The places that Old Man Qiao modified are very reasonable, without any flaws."

I nodded, "That's why I suspect it even more!"

"Old Man Qiao is the Ghost Spirit Overseer of Banxianzhuang, there is no need to doubt this. Before we came here, Ye Yang had already studied the feng shui of Banxianzhuang from the data."

"There is no power to push the mechanism near Banxianzhuang, and there is no underground river. The power of the large mechanisms in Banxianzhuang should come from the Ghost Spirits."

"According to Old Man Qiao, all the Ghost Spirits in Banxianzhuang have been arranged into the secret passages of the mechanism. Then, they should each have their own range of activity. How did Old Man Qiao step out of his area and remember the whole map of the tunnel?"

"If Old Man Qiao did it on purpose, then he never let go of his experience."

"Isn't this a contradiction?"

"Also, don't you think that Old Man Qiao's actions before his death were a bit deliberate?"

"What does he want to express to us? Is he also a Jianghu person, or is he a free and easy person?"

"No matter which meaning it is, as long as his performance is in place, it may arouse our emotions and make us feel like completing his wish for him. Once this thought comes out, we will believe his words even more."

I pointed to the map and said, "If we go in from here, we may not encounter any danger. We will definitely fight with Banxianzhuang. If we kill the people of Banxianzhuang, Xia Xia's crime of betraying Confucianism will never be washed away."

"Even if we can fight our way out of Banxianzhuang, we will become the target of the Confucian sect's pursuit."

"This is killing two birds with one stone!"

Wang Xiaohuan whispered, "Didn't he say he had no worries? How could he become a suicide agent?"

I responded, "There are many factors that can make a person become a suicide agent. Forced, voluntary, repaying a favor, revenge are all possible. If we are given certain conditions, we can also force people to become suicide agents. This is not strange."

Butcher Wang suddenly asked, "What if the other party deliberately revealed flaws for you to see?"