flstandardbreds Chapter 123 Once we take this down, no one will stop us.
Chapter 123 Once we take this down, no one will stop us.
Just as Lin Fan finished dealing with the two bats, he felt a greedy emotion coming from behind him. The intense emotion, almost tangible, enveloped and swallowed Lin Fan like a tangible mist.
Lin Fan turned his head and saw an old man in a burial shroud sitting on the head of the black dragon, smiling greedily at him.
A murderous intent surged from behind. Lin Fan swung his black blade backward, plunging it into the mouth of the lunging hyena beast. He then sliced upward, splitting the beast's upper palate in two, creating an artificial cleft lip.
Lin Fan's attention was half on the old man on the black dragon's head, who gave him a very dangerous aura.
The old man did nothing but slowly sit down, and the black dragon beneath him stopped trying to break free of its chains and lay on the ground like an obedient puppy.
Lin Fan turned around and stabbed the hyena that was covering its mouth a few more times. Then he heard the old man's aged voice floating in the air, "Liu Feng, Ben'er, I didn't expect you to come to my door on your own initiative. You really saved me a lot of trouble."
Besides Lin Fan's portrait, Li Hao also kept a piece of clothing stained with blood from when he was a constable. Li Youtian brought this piece of clothing to Heilong so that he could remember the scent on it.
Even the descendants of the Li family were unaware of the many secrets between the mysterious black dragon and their ancestor. The black dragon could indeed distinguish different people by their scent and could transmit information to Li Youtian through the connection between the two.
But Li Youtian, a dignified ancestor, wasn't just a gatekeeper for a breeding farm; how could he possibly allow the black dragon to report every scent it detected? The black dragon would only transmit information through the connection between the two if it detected Liu Feng's scent.
In fact, when Li Youtian had Black Dragon memorize Liu Feng's scent, he never expected Liu Feng to run into him. His original plan was for Black Dragon to track Liu Feng by smell after the caravan discovered him and he escaped.
Therefore, from the moment the caravan decided to stop in Xintai County, Lin Fan had already fallen into the Li family's trap. Unaware that he was being watched, no matter what he did, he couldn't escape detection. Even abandoning Sun Ruolan and returning to the caravan would be discovered by the Li family.
Although it was different from the plan, Li Youtian was very happy to finally find Liu Feng. He smiled and said, "If these are all the tricks you have up your sleeve, then you're not leaving here."
He didn't lift a finger, but instead sat leisurely on the black dragon's head, watching the two fight against the wetland people who were gradually surrounding them, with an attitude of playing cat and mouse.
The beasts that came later gradually became stronger, and what was even more dangerous was that they all came with various weapons, making them even more difficult to deal with than before.
Niu Dadan grabbed several spears with both hands and swung them aside. Several rodents climbed up his feet and onto his body and began to gnaw at him.
Lin Fan jumped onto his body, used his sickle to stop the incredibly fast-crawling long-toothed rats, then stabbed them haphazardly with his black knife and threw them all away.
Niu Dadan was covered in bloody holes, his expression extremely solemn. "Brother Lin, these are all reserve blood men. They are not very strong. We need to break through and leave quickly, otherwise it will be difficult to leave once the Li family arrives."
After speaking, Niu Dadan glanced warily at the black dragon behind him and the old man atop its head. The ancestor and his spirit beast were the pillars of the Li family. However, Niu Dadan only knew they were very strong, but he had never seen them fight. Sometimes he even wondered if it was because the ancestor was too old to fight casually anymore.
Furthermore, everything related to cultivation within the Li family is kept secret and cannot be openly exposed to the public. The imperial court would not allow such a powerful civilian force to operate openly. Therefore, like the Feng and Ma families, the Li family appears to be merely wealthy merchants and landlords.
Lin Fan nodded, "Okay, you go ahead, I'll help you deal with the bugs that are crawling up."
Cough cough, the bat that Lin Fan had stabbed in the stomach several times staggered to its feet, flapped its wings and barely managed to fly into the air. It no longer had the strength to fight, but it still had the strength to escape.
The youngest child had always wanted to escape but lacked the courage. Now, facing a life-or-death situation, excessive blood loss had made him somewhat delirious. He shouted, "Run! Run! Do you want to be used as tools by those adults forever? What good will it do us if we risk our lives to stop them? Run now!"
The little bat couldn't even explain why he should run now, not earlier or later; he only knew that he would die if he didn't run.
Upon hearing his words, the other wetland people did indeed waver slightly, and the encirclement surrounding Lin Fan and his group loosened a small gap.
The little bat desperately flew towards the outside of the wall, completely unaware that a slender dog's mouth slowly opened and stretched out behind it.
With a soft smack, like the sound of crushing a tomato, the giant mouth gently closed, leaving only two bat wings flapping on either side of its mouth.
With a slight tug of its maw, the two wings fluttered down like leaves. The black dragon's Adam's apple bobbed slightly, and the little bat, completely unaware of what had happened, ended its life.
Li Youtian spoke softly from atop the black dragon's head, "Let me tell you the benefits of listening to me: you can live!"
Lin Fan was so shocked he couldn't close his mouth. Standing on Niu Dadan's shoulder, he patted his head and shouted, "Old Niu, run! I just saw that black dragon unlock his own lock!"
After Lin Fan finished speaking, he slid off Niu Dadan and swung his sickle, causing one of the weasels on Niu Dadan's body to fall off. Seeing that Niu Dadan had trampled out its bile, Lin Fan busied himself with driving away the pests chasing after him.
These wetland people came here for various reasons. Some were tricked into working by the Li family, while others, like the three children, were caught after wandering into the area.
Not everyone who comes here is willing to use human blood to feed the beasts. Those who are unwilling will be the first to be used as blood people, and their companions will do the work.
Just as Li Youtian said, he only ever gave them two choices: obey and live, or disobey and die.
The remaining people here were used to having to obey the adults, until a sentence from the little bat made them waver a little.
Li Youtian didn't care about their thoughts. After manipulating the black dragon to kill several wetland people who were hesitant and wanted to escape, the black dragon flicked its tail and its slender body covered a long distance in a few steps. Finally, it lightly jumped and blocked Lin Fan and the others.
boom!
The body, weighing tens of thousands of pounds, landed on the ground, causing the ground to shake and everyone to sway. The plaster on the already shoddy house began to crumble.
Lin Fan clicked his tongue. "Is that chain just for show? It can unlock itself. Was it tied up because of a hobby?"
Niu Dadan looked at Li Youtian on the black dragon's head and said, "It's because the Li family patriarch has come."
"Is the Li family really that powerful? It seems they're involved everywhere."
Niu Dadan said in a low voice, "I don't know. I know that the ancestor is the sky of the Li family. As long as the ancestor is here, the Li family will not collapse."
Lin Fan gripped the two knives in his hands tightly. "In other words, the bad news is that we've messed with the strongest one. The good news is that as long as we take this one down, no one will stop us."