When Jin Wu stood on the roadside, he carefully considered what he had to do in his mind.
He felt it was too risky, but he also felt that without this risk, his life would stop here.
General Lin Ye gave him a hope, and also gave a hope to his thousands of frontier soldiers.
The reason why he became more and more courageous was precisely because he saw Lin Ye's courage.
Today, he sent Lin Ye out of the customs. Yesterday, he saw Lin Ye's unnatural methods.
In his very simple study room, Lin Ye was sitting on a chair. The two people standing in front of him were Xiang Jiuzhou, the general of the imperial army, and Baili Honglian, the commander of the imperial guard.
"Between you brothers, someone always has to make a choice."
Lin Ye said in a calm tone: "I want to fight the Loufan people. Whichever of you two can help me will survive."
Baili Honglian shook his head: "I won't believe you. It's not like I've never heard of the name Butcher Lin Ye."
Lin Ye said: "I actually quite like the name Butcher."
His fingers were lightly drawing something on the table. He didn't know if he was practicing calligraphy or drawing symbols.
"Baili Honglian, you don't believe me and you don't give in because you think there is no need to be afraid of me."
Lin Ye raised his head and looked at Baili Honglian: "You are not married and have children, so you are fearless and know that I will not use any means to threaten you."
Speaking of this, he asked Baili Honglian: "Have you ever thought about it for your junior brother?"
Xiang Jiuzhou's face was already ugly. After hearing Lin Ye's words, his face suddenly turned the color of pig liver.
From white to purple, it just takes a blink of an eye.
"General Xiang's family is in Xiantang City. When you accompanied the monarch to the border, you didn't bring your family with you, but you were careful and let your family take shelter in the Sword Gate."
Lin Ye gestured toward the outside, Pang Panghai waved, and the two soldiers each carried a box through the door, put the box down, and turned around and went out.
Lin Ye said: "You also know that I slaughtered Jianmen, but I am a utilitarian and scheming person. In short, I am not a good person, not even hypocritical."
He pulled out a box. Inside the box was a human head, wrapped in white ash, and other antiseptic methods were obviously used, so the head could still be seen.
The moment Xiang Jiuzhou saw this human head, his eyes suddenly opened wide, as if they were about to explode, and they were all bloodshot.
Lin Ye opened the second box, and there was also a human head inside.
The corners of Xiang Jiuzhou's mouth twitched up, and there was only hatred in his eyes.
"I'm used to doing things only for the results."
Lin Ye inserted the drawers of the two boxes back and looked at Xiang Jiuzhou: "If you nod, I won't kill the rest of your family."
Baili Honglian immediately said: "Junior brother, don't believe him. Your family may have been killed by him. He just brought two heads here."
When Lin Ye heard this, he looked at Pang Panghai at the door: "Let Xiang Jiuzhou take a look."
Pang Panghai immediately responded and waved, and a group of soldiers came forward, pressing down on more than a dozen people.
When Xiang Jiuzhou saw those people, the despair and hatred in his eyes were instantly replaced by excitement and surprise.
Yes, I just saw the heads of two family members, and I was filled with grief and anger, but at this time I was still pleasantly surprised.
Because his family members are indeed still alive, but at this time, everyone has a long knife pressed on their neck.
Lin Ye said in a calm tone: "General Xiang, I hope you won't keep me waiting for too long."
Just as Xiang Jiuzhou was about to speak, Baili Honglian immediately shouted: "Don't fall into his trap, he just wants to use you!"
Xiang Jiuzhou Mechanical turned to look at Baili Honglian: "But, senior brother, my family are all over there."
Baili Honglian opened her mouth, not knowing what else to say.
Lin Ye said: "I'll give you time to think. After all, this is really embarrassing."
He picked up a stick of incense and flicked it, breaking the incense. Only about one third of the incense remained.
He lit the small piece of incense and poked it next to it: "Before this incense burns out, please give me an answer. I will no longer kill anyone."
"Lin Ye, you are too cruel!"
Xiang Jiuzhou suddenly roared, and when he roared, the veins on his forehead stretched.
Lin Ye ignored him, but turned his head and blew a breath on the small half of the lit incense. The incense burned significantly faster.
Lin Ye said: "I want to know everything about Baili Honglian since she entered Jianmen. General Xiang, your family members have also told you something. After all, they are not that determined."
He looked into Xiang Jiuzhou's eyes and said, "If what you said corresponds to what your family members said, then you will watch your family members being released by me one by one."
Xiang Jiuzhou gritted his teeth, but blood soon appeared between his teeth because he was too hard.
He suddenly raised his head and looked at Lin Ye: "If you commit evil and murder like this, you will definitely get retribution in the future."
Lin Ye did not blow the incense again this time, but reached out to take the incense and turned it into a ball of powder.
He let go of his hand and the powder fell down.
Outside the door, Pang Panghai waved his hand.
The two long knives were raised at the same time, and then dropped at the same time, followed by two human heads falling to the ground, blood spurting from the neck cavity, and it looked like the hair was about to explode.
"ah!"
He screamed at Jiuzhou and wanted to pounce on Lin Ye, but they had already been restrained by Lin Ye and could not even take a step.
"Sir Baili, I should be familiar with your junior brother."
Lin Ye looked at Baili Honglian this time and still spoke in that calm tone.
"You don't have a wife and children, and you don't have any family in Xiantang City. After your parents passed away a few years ago, you really became alone."
Lin Ye looked outside the door again.
Two soldiers pushed a young woman forward, who looked to be in her twenties.
The rope tied to his body was very tight. Perhaps because of this, the blood circulation was not smooth, so his face looked frighteningly white.
"You just said I was a butcher."
Lin Ye said: "But I will never kill blindly, nor will I kill anyone. You also said that I am sinister and vicious, which is true, because I will always save the useful ones until they are needed."
"Her name is Song Huixi, a palace maid in Huanyifang in the Immortal Tang City Palace. Who would have thought that there would be a woman like Master Baili in such a place where she does vulgar work."
Baili Honglian rushed forward violently, but all the meridians and acupuncture points in his body were restrained. This rush only made him unsteady and fell to the ground hard.
Because my body was stiff, I couldn't adjust when I fell. This time I broke my chin and bled a lot.
"She seems to be pregnant."
Lin Ye said: "If you are willing to explain Xiang Jiuzhou's matter to me in detail, I will give Song Huixi a way to survive."
Baili Honglian was lying on the ground, and he had to work extra hard to raise his head to see Lin Ye's calm and expressionless face.
"You are... you are a ghost, you are not a human at all."
If Baili Honglian's eyes could kill people, Lin Ye would be riddled with holes right now.
He looked at Lin Ye, but Lin Ye was unmoved. He would not be afraid of the murderous intent in his eyes, nor would he be merciful because of the begging behind the murderous intent.
"When I was a child, I listened to my mother-in-law telling me stories about rivers and lakes. After she finished telling her story, she asked me one thing... She asked me, why do heroes always suffer and bad guys always get the upper hand?"
When Lin Ye said this, he pointed outside the door.
Pang Panghai responded immediately, turned around and cut off the head of a family member of Xiang Jiuzhou with a knife.
"I was only a few years old at that time, less than ten years old, but I already understood a lot of truths."
Lin Ye looked at the two people.
"I told my mother-in-law that there are too many rules that heroes must abide by and the moral principles they must uphold are too heavy."
Lin Ye said: "From that time on, I understood that if I kill someone else's family, including men, women, old and children, it won't make me feel guilty. I will be one of those bad guys in Jianghu stories who can crush heroes."
Lin Ye raised his finger and pointed again. Pang Panghai swung his knife again, and another person fell into a pool of blood.
"I said that!"
Xiang Jiuzhou finally couldn't hold on any longer.
Lin Ye turned back and looked out the door: "Pang Panghai, kill Song Huixi."
Pang Panghai immediately raised his sword, and at the moment when the sword was raised, Baili Honglian also collapsed.
"I said, I'll tell you whatever you want to know!"
Lin Ye nodded: "Okay, let's talk separately. I'll listen to each one and then the next one, including who you have secret contacts with in Dayu and what agreement you have with the Loufan people."
Lin Ye said: "Take Xiang Jiuzhou out first, and I will have a chat with Baili Honglian."
While Lin Ye was doing these things, General Jin Wu of the border army stood aside and watched. He was sweating profusely and the clothes on his back were sticking to his body.
He also felt that his hands and feet were cold and his blood had lost its temperature.
At this moment, he saw the ruthlessness in Lin Ye's bones, the ruthlessness without any moral restraint.
He wanted to go out, but Lin Ye didn't let him go out and asked him to listen together.
First, Baili Honglian said who had contact with Dayu, what contact they had, what benefits they had received, and what instructions they had received.
Before betraying Dongbo, how to contact the Loufan people, who was the contact person, and what agreement had been made before.
Lin Ye asked Baili Honglian not to omit any of these things and to say them clearly.
He also asked Baili Honglian to tell Xiang Jiuzhou in detail, including which year he entered the Jianmen Gate and which year he entered the Forbidden Army. All these must be clear.
After Baili Honglian finished speaking, Lin Ye asked Xiang Jiuzhou to come in again.
Verify what the two people said and judge from them what is wrong and what is wrong.
After listening to everything, it was already late at night. Lin Ye sat on a chair, raised his hand and rubbed his temples.
"How about this."
Lin Ye looked at Baili Honglian and Xiang Jiuzhou, who were both in the room at this time.
"You two, I have to take one of you out of the border to meet the Loufan people who have contacted you."
Lin Ye said: "It's rock, paper, scissors. The loser will come out with me, and the winner will wait for me to come back at the wind outlet."
When Lin Ye said this, he looked at Pang Panghai: "Assign manpower to send their two families back to Xiantang and find a place to lock them up. Only your people know where to lock them up."
Pang Panghai immediately responded, assigned manpower, and took the families of the two men away to the border overnight.
In the end, Baili Honglian lost and he wanted to go to Loufan with Lin Ye.
Baili Honglian actually couldn't figure out why Lin Ye, as a person, would take such a big risk?
If he were Lin Ye, he would never make such a choice. He could just instruct his subordinates to do it.
"Take Master Baili to bed."
Lin Ye threw a jade bottle to his men: "Feed him a pill."
Baili Honglian immediately asked: "What is that!"
Lin Ye answered directly: "Poison."
Lin Ye pointed to another vial on the table: "Here is the antidote. Take one pill in three days and you won't die."
At this point, Lin Ye stood up and put away the vial.
"Tomorrow, let's go see the scenery of Loufan and the scenery beyond the Great Wall."
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[This chapter was coded in a hurry. I had something urgent to do and I left early in the morning, so I didn’t have time to revise it. I’m sorry.]