Chapter 57: Mount Xumi (IV)
When the assassin's dagger fell at his feet, Lu Ren's first reaction was that he didn't want to get involved in this mess, so he kicked the dagger away. Unexpectedly, this kick caused many incidents. Because Lu Ren was in a panic, he was desperate and didn't even find the right direction before kicking.
This directly led to him successfully kicking the dagger back into the assassin's hand.
How can I describe the level of tacit understanding? Even if they had rehearsed in advance, it would be difficult to have such perfect coordination.
Lu Ren: “…”
This is not the worst. The worst thing is that Lu Ren clearly saw that Indra, who was sitting opposite him, took the time out of his busy schedule to look up at him after he did this. Although there was nothing in those eyes, Lu Ren knew that that look could also be translated as "wash your neck and wait for me."
As expected, the assassin had no chance of winning. Not to mention whether he could defeat Emperor Shi Tian, Emperor Shi Tian brought so many men with him, and a punch from each of them would be enough to make him suffer. So this battle was undoubtedly declared over in an instant.
However, in addition to the assassin, Lu Ren was also caught on the field.
Lu Ren felt aggrieved, but he didn't dare to say anything because he was now set as a mute.
Lu Ren's hands were bound behind his back by magic, and he was forced to kneel on the ground. He was in a very passive situation. While thinking, his left hand unconsciously rubbed a bracelet on his right wrist. That was something that Maitreya left for him before he took him away.
Lu Ren still remembered what Maitreya said to him at that time: "I have something important to do. You can only rely on yourself during this period." Then Maitreya took out the bracelet, "It has been a taboo since ancient times for visitors from other worlds. What's more, you still smell like a vajra. If someone finds out, you will be convicted immediately. This bracelet can temporarily cover up your aura. Don't take it off if you don't want to die."
Who would complain about having too many life-saving things? Lu Ren thanked him and tried to take the bracelet from Maitreya. He pulled one end of the bracelet, but it didn't move because Maitreya didn't let go of the other end of the bracelet.
Lu Ren looked at Maitreya in confusion: "What is this...?"
Miroku raised his chin and asked Lu Ren, "Do you think there is a free lunch in the world?"
Lu Ren shook his head blankly.
Miroku snorted coldly, seeming to be quite satisfied with Lu Ren's reasonable performance: "Of course I can't give you this bracelet for free, I just rent it to you, and the rent has to be paid with your half-month salary, understand?"
How could Lu Ren say he didn't understand? He didn't even dare to bargain, so he could only answer, "I understand."
Damn exploiters.
After finishing his reminiscence, Lu Ren hesitated in his heart whether he should just stop pretending and directly explain that he had nothing to do with the matter and that what just happened was just an accident.
After all, with this bracelet, even if his female identity was exposed, the fact that he came from the human world could be successfully covered up. The only problem was that it was not so easy to explain why a man with unknown origins suddenly appeared in the world of voice-hearers.
Unlike women of lower social status, no one cared whether they lived or died. A young labor force in its prime suddenly appeared out of nowhere, which was a very strange thing anywhere, and this was exactly why Mi Le insisted that Lu Ren pretend to be a woman.
Before Lu Ren could figure out anything, the assassin beside him spoke first. However, he did not confess or admit his guilt, but recited a spell that Lu Ren had never heard of.
The soldier standing next to him seemed to know the meaning of the spell. Lu Ren heard the soldier curse and quickly stepped forward to stop the assassin.
But it was too late.
Almost at the moment the assassin finished chanting the spell, he suddenly turned into a ball of fire and burned to ashes in front of Lu Ren.
The line between radical idealism and terrorism is sometimes too blurred.
Lu Ren looked at the scene in front of him in shock. He grew up in a peaceful country and had rarely seen a dead person. How could he have seen such a scene? He was almost stunned by the shock.
But apart from him, everyone else present acted as if they were used to it.
Emperor Shitian looked at the flames that were still burning in front of him, made an unhappy "tsk" sound, and whispered: "The fire of karma burns the body... Another rebel."
Faced with such a scene, Emperor Shitian did not show the slightest sign of wavering, and even had the leisure to admonish his subordinates, "Why didn't you remove his jaw immediately?"
The soldier who was responsible for subduing the assassin quickly knelt on one knee and admitted his mistake: "It was my mistake."
Emperor Shitian didn't want to waste too much time on this matter: "When you go back, accept the punishment yourself."
They talked about it so lightly that it was hard to imagine that a real person had died in front of them. It was more like one person didn't hold a pumpkin firmly, and the pumpkin fell to the ground and broke, and the other person told him to be more careful next time.
If an assassin who suddenly self-destructed in front of Lu Ren only made Lu Ren feel shocked and scared; then the indifference to life shown in Indra's words made Lu Ren feel cold and terrified.
Lu Ren understood that if he revealed his identity as a male of unknown origin at this moment, there was a high possibility that he would be killed on the spot.
After the soldier accepted the reprimand from Indra, he stood up and walked towards Lu Ren: he wanted to cut off Lu Ren's jaw before he also burned himself.
Lu Ren looked in horror at the hand of the soldier in front of him as it got closer and closer to him.
Fortunately, the proprietress showed up in time.
The proprietress rushed up with tears and snot: "Sir! Please let this poor woman go."
Then, the proprietress told Lu Ren's tragic life story in a very moving voice. To Lu Ren's surprise, the proprietress's version was even more exaggerated than Maitreya's version. He said that his throat and face were damaged by fire, and he had been a little crazy since then, and that he had been abused since childhood, and later he begged all the way to her because he didn't want to be sold by his biological parents .
This made Lu Ren sigh that the more beautiful a woman is, the less likely she is to lie.
However, Lu Ren didn't know that the proprietress was not actually lying. She just mixed up the stories of too many women, even including her own.
In fact, Emperor Shitian had no mercy at all. He only felt that the boss lady's crying and begging for mercy was annoying. He held his forehead in annoyance, trying to find a way to make this woman shut up.
He looked around the field with indifferent eyes, and then saw Lu Ren's eyes turned red with fear.
Indra thought: "These are not a pair of eyes that can kill people." Although he was not a compassionate person, he was not bloodthirsty either.
So he waved his hand to stop his men's actions: "Check if she has any contraband on her. If not, let her go."
He had no interest in making things difficult for a female slave.
The soldier responded and made a seal with his hands. Then Lu Ren saw a huge water ball formed in the air. The water ball slowly approached Lu Ren until it completely enveloped him.
The strange thing is that even though Lu Ren was swallowed by the water, he could still breathe freely and smoothly.
Then Lu Ren heard a voice next to his ear: "We will now begin the contraband test. Please make sure that you are not carrying any lethal weapons; that you are not using any improper means to conceal your true identity; and that you are not parasitizing any regulated organisms."
Lu Ren thought, "Could this voice be referring to the Chaos Fragments in my hair and the bracelet on my hand?"
The soldiers who didn't know the real situation were thinking that if nothing unexpected happened, the woman would definitely be able to escape successfully.
After all, the Water Ball Technique is an official testing method that has been passed down for a long time, and the definition of contraband has long been outdated. The lethal weapons and controlled creatures defined by this spell are almost all at the level of extinction, which is rare even in the Bodhisattva world, and has long been extinct in the Arhat and Pratyekabuddha worlds.
But to his surprise, the water ball sounded an alarm: "Warning! Warning! Relevant contraband detected! Relevant contraband detected!"
What was even more outrageous was that the water ball was so overwhelmed that it exploded right after the result was announced. The soldier was stunned: "What a dangerous thing this must have been."
Chaos Fragment: Hidden merit and fame.
Now even the proprietress who had just tried hard to speak up for Lu Ren didn't dare to say a word. She silently retreated away from the crowd.
Then the scene became: Lu Ren stood wet in the middle of the field, while the soldiers formed a circle around him, all pointing their drawn weapons at Lu Ren to prevent him from making any dangerous moves.
When you tell life that this is the lowest point and every step forward is upward, life replies that you know nothing about the lowest point.
It must be said that this result surprised the well-informed Emperor Shitian. He threatened Lu Ren in a low voice, "What are you hiding on you?"
Lu Ren didn't want to be stabbed into a sieve, so he honestly stretched out his right hand and showed everyone the bracelet that Maitreya rented to him.
So, the soldier carefully took off the bracelet. One of the soldier's hands was always on his weapon, and he was on guard to prevent Lu Ren from suddenly attacking. But unexpectedly, Lu Ren cooperated throughout the whole process, which made the soldier unconsciously breathe a sigh of relief.
But the soldier almost couldn't catch his breath because the moment the bracelet was taken off, a smell of vajra came from the woman in front of him who was surrounded by people.
The soldier suddenly felt that he could not think for himself, and the question that he had just been wondering, "Why are the wrists of this female slave so thick?" flew away into the sky.
Because the vajra is the instrument that Indra lost some time ago. If you want to smell like the vajra, you must be someone who has recently come into contact with the vajra.
All the soldiers present smelled this smell, and they all showed shocked expressions, and then looked at Indra who was sitting safely outside the crowd.
Indra did not expect to find clues to his long-lost vajra in an unknown tavern in the world of voice-hearers. But even so, he remained calm and composed, without showing any emotion, but narrowed his eyes and looked at the thin figure in the field with an inquiring expression.
