Chapter 9 Speculation
This person claimed to be surnamed Xu, but Su Mo didn't know his real name. After stabilizing his body, he immediately turned over and sat up.
Originally, he had a very graceful appearance, but now it was completely unrecognizable.
He was rolling on the ground and naturally was not gentle. Not only was his nose and face bruised and swollen, but blood was also flowing from the corners of his mouth. He opened his mouth to speak, but before he could say anything, a large mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth.
When he looked up again, Su Mo was already in front of him.
"This is impossible……"
He spoke with difficulty: "You, you... unless your inner strength has reached perfection, it is impossible for you to ignore this bone-eroding fragrance!"
"Bone-eroding incense?"
Su Mo nodded: "Let's not talk about what this bone-eroding incense is like, or what my internal strength is like. How can you be so sure that I have been poisoned by this incense?"
"???"
The man who fell to the ground suddenly had his eyes wide open, and could hardly believe his ears.
Su Mo smiled and said, "It is said that the poisons used by medical experts are unpredictable. One or two completely non-toxic things placed around can form a poison that is absolutely poisonous. Since you said I am cautious, how can I just be careful of what is in the cup? A guqin and a burner of incense may look elegant, but you have evil intentions, so I naturally have to be on guard against you hiding a knife under the guqin, an arrow in your sleeve, and poison in the incense!
“To be honest, before I set foot in this Falling Flower Pavilion and saw that incense burner, I didn’t breathe a single breath.
"I have barely achieved some level of inner strength, and I can hold my breath for a while."
The color drained from the face of the man in front of him. He thought of Su Mo being careful, but he didn't expect that he was not just careful about that cup of tea.
He is careful in every aspect!
With his high martial arts skills and being so cautious, it is not unfair that he lost today.
He smiled bitterly: "You...how do you know that I have evil intentions?"
"Do you think I'll tell you?"
Su Mo smiled and said, "Okay, let's stop talking nonsense. I just want to ask you one question. Besides you, does anyone else know about the Xuanji Buckle and the Great Xuanwu Treasury?"
The man looked stunned, his thoughts were clearly confused, and he did not grasp the message revealed in Su Mo's words. He just smiled miserably:
"If you want to kill me, just kill me. Why bother talking?"
"Whatever."
As soon as Su Mo finished speaking, he slapped his palm directly to the top of his head.
With a snapping sound, the man's eyes dimmed in an instant, without any trace of light in them, and his body fell to the ground.
At this point, Su Mo was naturally ruthless.
On the one hand, he did not think that he had any personal charm that could make his opponents bow down to him and work for him wholeheartedly.
On the other hand, during , this man's meridians had been severed. Even if he was not given a quick death now, he could only linger on for a short while, but would eventually die.
Last but not least…
The chaos here has gotten to this point, but the people hiding outside are not making any move at all?
With a flick of his sleeves, Su Mo turned and left.
After turning around briefly, it stopped.
A man was leaning against the peach tree in front of him, with a knife stuck in his heart. The blade was nailed to the tree trunk and even penetrated the trunk, so that blood dripped from the tip of the knife onto the ground and mixed with the soil.
Su Mo also knew this person...
It was this young man who brought him from Wangxiang Tower to Luohua Pavilion.
A moment ago, this person was still alive and kicking, but now he was lying dead on the spot.
It's not just him. After taking a walk in the peach blossom forest just now, it can't be said that there are corpses everywhere, because these people were all properly arranged, either lying or lying down. The only thing is that they were all killed.
"That person and I were fighting inside Luohua Pavilion, while someone was killing people outside...
"Looking at the method used, it seems that the death was exactly the same as the one in the teahouse."
Su Mo turned around and walked back to the Falling Flower Pavilion, thinking as he walked: "Today's meeting is certainly because the other party wants to capture me, obtain the brocade box, and obtain my martial arts. However, I am also using this opportunity to get secrets from the other party. Although the man didn't say much, especially at the beginning, most of his words were lies.
"But after the truth was revealed, he told a few truths.
"Chef Zhou should be the one who died in the teahouse. As for Hu Piaopiao...if nothing unexpected happens, she is the only woman among them. Unless a man also has such a name...
"What they are after is the secret buckle in this brocade box, so they are acting decisively and ruthlessly to achieve this goal, and will not allow any mistakes to be made.
“However, judging from the way they acted, they were fighting on their own, and it was clear that they had other intentions.
"But the most important thing has not been answered."
The last question Su Mo asked the man was because of the death of Chef Zhou.
Chef Zhou is dead, and Su Mo easily passed the test of Chef Zhou. Now he has come to the Luohua Pavilion. In addition to solving the biggest problem, the small troubles hidden around him have also been solved.
Obviously, there is another person who is spying on this matter.
"Those two people last night?"
Su Mo once again came to the corpse whose meridians were broken by him, stared at the corpse and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Not very likely, the two men, one used a stick, and the other used a sword. The man with the sword, his movements, sitting, and lying were like a sword out of its sheath, obviously a man of swords. It is not impossible for such a man to kill people with a knife, but the possibility is definitely not high.
“No one can underestimate a swordsman’s dedication to the sword.
“As for the one with the stick… he reeked of alcohol, and these bodies had just died a short while ago, so there was no smell of alcohol at all. He should have nothing to do with these two men.
"The person in the dark killed Chef Zhou one after another, and then killed people in this peach blossom forest to rescue them. Could he really be a descendant of Wang Xianglin?
"Or... is there another reason?
"By the way, who is this Wang Xianglin?"
Su Mo's thoughts reached this point, and he suddenly remembered something while staring at the corpse.
He immediately put on deerskin gloves, squatted down and searched the corpse. After a moment, his face showed joy.
“That’s the real big takeaway.”
He now had a stack of silver bills in his hand, totaling more than a hundred taels.
"You went out to kill someone and brought so many banknotes with you. You deserve to be killed and your body searched..."
Su Mo checked the banknote carefully before putting it in his bag.
As for the other things this person was carrying, they were not moved. The poisons and antidotes were not marked and distinguished by color. Su Mo didn't know what they were. If he took them rashly, he would suffer the consequences without knowing how to use them.
