The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#733 - Master, are you seeing things?

After hearing Zhihai's words, Lu Jing didn't rush to express his opinion, seemingly considering Zhihai's proposal.

Seeing this, Zhihai braced himself and continued, "Keeping the connection between this shadow puppet and its master will allow us to confront the real culprit when we find them, preventing a situation where we can't verify anything."

"That makes sense," Lu Jing finally nodded, "We need to cast a long line to catch a big fish."

Zhihai breathed a slight sigh of relief, it seemed he had at least passed this immediate hurdle, and more importantly, he had gotten his hands on the knife.

Thinking of this, Zhihai's gaze drifted towards the iron box to the side.

"Time is of the essence, this humble monk will take this demon blade and this shadow puppet back to the Sitianjian, lest the demon people take advantage again."

"Master, don't be in such a hurry to leave, the demon who set the fire at Taiping Qianzhuang hasn't been found yet."

Zhihai shook his head, "Of course, the demon people must be caught, but the most important thing right now is to send the demon blade back first, everything else is secondary."

Lu Jing nodded, "Since that's the case, Master, you only need to take the demon blade back, we can take care of this shadow puppet for you. It's too much for you to protect the knife and watch over the shadow puppet at the same time, it's easy to be overwhelmed."

Zhihai was stunned upon hearing this.

Of course, he wouldn't really take this shadow puppet back for people to see, because that would be no different from self-destruction.

In fact, he was very clear that from the moment he appeared here, his identity had already been exposed.

So he never even thought about going back to the Sitianjian. His previous remarks were just to stabilize Lu Jing and Xia Huai, and to escape calmly.

However, Zhihai was also very clear in his heart that no matter how rare the shadow puppet was, it was not as important as the black knife.

So even though his heart was aching to the point of bleeding, he still had to squeeze out a smile on the surface, "Very well, Benefactor Qi is indeed very thoughtful, then this humble monk will leave this shadow puppet behind."

After saying that, Zhihai no longer looked towards Xia Huai, he was afraid that if he looked at it any longer, he would regret it, and strode towards the iron box.

In any case, he had at least obtained the black knife, which could be considered fulfilling his mission.

However, Zhihai was not completely overwhelmed by victory. He came to the iron box and first cast an inner vision technique.

Soon, he saw a zither box in the iron box.

Zhihai continued to calm his breath and concentrate, and peered into the zither box again, and his expression changed immediately, exclaiming, "This… there is no knife inside, only a paper frog!"

"Is that so? Master, are you sure you didn't see it wrong?"

"There's no mistake, I'm very proficient in this inner vision technique, there are few in the Sitianjian who are above me." Zhihai's face was very unsightly, and he turned to Lu Jing and said.

"Benefactor Qi, did you take the wrong box?"

"No way." Lu Jing shook his head, "This paper frog was put in by me, how could I take the wrong one."

Zhihai's heart sank upon hearing this.

"You… you are Inspector Lu?!"

"Didn't you know this from the beginning? Why are you still asking now, are you addicted to acting?" Lu Jing said leisurely.

Zhihai was silent, and after a moment he raised his head again, "When did you start suspecting me?"

"About when we first met." Lu Jing said, "Before leaving, Shaojian Guo sent a confidant to warn me not to trust anyone on the way to deliver the knife, including colleagues from the Sitianjian, so… if he really wanted to take the knife from our hands, there was only one way."

"What way?"

"That is for him to come himself."

Zhihai's face sank, "Since you knew I had bad intentions, why did you talk so much nonsense with me before, helping me find the knife, and trying every possible way to trick me into leaving the shadow puppet, what, do you think it's fun to play with people?"

"Playing with people is indeed very interesting, but the reason why I accompanied you in this play is not to play with you, at least not just to play with you." Lu Jing spread his hands.

"Before taking action, I have to know if you have any accomplices, and if you have accomplices, how many people… Don't say it, after talking nonsense with you for so long, I have really obtained a lot of useful things."

"What things?"

"First of all, I know that you didn't set this fire, and the person who drove the rats is not your man either, otherwise you wouldn't have known until now that the knife has been stolen."

"What? The knife is gone?!" This time Zhihai's surprise was not feigned.

And he quickly thought of something else, and couldn't help laughing loudly, "Good! Good! Very good!!! Now I can rest assured."

Speaking of this, his voice finally cooled down, and he looked at Lu Jingdao.

"Next, I only need to kill the two of you to completely regain my freedom, and I don't need to deal with the group of right and wrong inspectors in the Sitianjian, and I can do things for Mr. Ji upright."

Lu Jing sighed, "Master, you are the first one to talk about betrayal so freshly and refined."

"How long have you been an inspector, what do you know." Zhihai said coldly, "When I was young, I was as enthusiastic as you, but as I stayed inside for a long time, I began to doubt my initial choice.

"Until one day, I realized that that place had completely decayed, always following those rigid rules, unable to keep up with the changes in this world, and now the human world is facing an unprecedented catastrophe, Guo Shouhuai can't lead us through this catastrophe."

"Can Mr. Ji do it?" Lu Jing asked back.

"I don't know, but at least Mr. Ji has a higher chance of winning," Zhihai said, "If there is anyone in this world who can turn the tide, then that person must be Mr. Ji."

His expression gradually became hideous, without the previous solemnity and compassion, "Mr. Ji has said more than once that he hates you very much. Before, I wanted to use you to find the knife first, and then use this strange fire to kill you, but I didn't expect you to have a way to escape.

"Since that's the case, then I'll do it myself this time."

Zhihai said word by word, and after he finished speaking, he pinched a handprint, but before he had time to cast the spell, a cold light shot towards his face!

Zhihai had to swallow the words he had just uttered halfway back, and retreated quickly, while waving his sleeves to meet the small sword in the air.