Volume 1 Chapter 1 The Power of Incense Can Fill a Room 35 Life and Death Decision

  "Lin Island Master is indeed meticulous! Even our Angry Thunder General's intricate linked plan was broken through! I really admire!" I laughed loudly and stretched out my hand to pull off the beard on my face, revealing my originally handsome and unparalleled face. The sword was thrown aside, and the men's clothes were pulled down, revealing a green uniform underneath.

  Long Yunya smiled faintly at me, covering his mouth and saying, "It seems that the two of us not listening to Master Lin's words is not going to happen! Alright! Master Lin, has anyone lived in this room before? If there are men's clothes, I'll just make do with them!" He laughed and started rummaging through the trunks. Fortunately, he found a set of white men's clothes, wiped off his lipstick, and quickly changed into them behind his back. His hair was scattered behind him, but the lipstick on his lips had not been completely wiped clean. The vermilion sand on his forehead, due to being rubbed, actually divided his forehead into two halves, paired with his originally beautiful face, it made him look enchanting and charming, heroic and refreshing!

  "He shouted loudly, 'You want to use it? I don't have time to deal with two defeated generals! My scouts had already received the news that General Long Wu was once locked in a coffin as a child and almost starved to death. So every time General Long Wu is locked in a dark and small place, he becomes frantic! Is my intelligence incorrect, General Long Wu?' He said this and burst out laughing."

  I was taken aback, recalling his behavior in the hidden compartment. I had seen this illness before when I was in Phoenix Valley, but I never expected that the Master Thief would have such a disease! What a calamity! I cursed inwardly.

  His face turned slightly pale, but he burst out laughing and said, "So what? The premise is that there can't be anyone by my side! If there's someone, it's useless! Haha, looks like your little trick didn't give you very useful information!"

  Lin Jinghong sneered coldly, "Oh? Is that so? Then I'll let you taste this flavor!" As soon as he finished speaking, the surroundings suddenly darkened! I furrowed my brow.

  "Block out all the sunlight and you won't be able to see a thing. Within half an hour, you'll have trouble breathing and then pass out! As for the one left behind, it's easy to deal with! Haha! Enjoy yourself!" He said that and then walked away swiftly!

  In the darkness, his breathing began to quicken. In just a moment, he was on the verge of being unable to breathe! I gritted my teeth in hatred. Feeling around, I found him beside me, but as soon as my foot touched something, he had already fallen to the ground.

  "Big brother! How are you?" I asked in a low voice.

  "It's so dark! So small! I can't... breathe!" He tore at the clothes on his chest. Sweat dripped down from his forehead. Reaching out a hand to wipe it, but was caught by him, "Junior sister! No more! I'm suffocating! Before, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was very effective, junior sister! Save me!"

  I furrowed my brow. I took out a night pearl from my bosom and held it between my lips, and in an instant, the night pearl illuminated the entire room. And then I saw him, with his face full of excitement!

  Good kid! I slapped him on the face, and he dodged to one side. Laughing, "His news wasn't wrong! But this house is too big! Just black, and there are two more people, I'm not afraid! Junior sister! You're so clever! If it weren't for that annoying pearl, I would have stolen a kiss already!" He said with a flirtatious glance at me.

  I snorted. "I knew you were up to no good! What's your solution for the lock?" I felt a sense of relief and sat down on the chair, illuminated by the glow of the night pearls. They didn't allow any external light to shine in, so they couldn't see the light inside either! Lin Jinghong would never have thought that the rare night pearls, which only appeared once in a hundred years, were abundant on my body! I could just take one out and solve the current crisis!

  It wasn't until now that I noticed a faint smell of sulfur in the room. As expected, it's not just the lock, but this entire room is essentially a giant bomb! To say nothing of opening the door, even if we just walk a bit heavier, this place will explode into smithereens!

  Lin Jinghong! He actually invited such an expert to help him! Actually understands this lost secret! I also learned some of this knowledge by sneaking a peek at Indigo's books when I was young, but I didn't expect that in this world, there would really be someone who could make such a bomb! And it's used on me!

  "This is great! We can't go up to heaven, nor down to earth. I'm telling you, junior sister, you knew their tricks beforehand, why didn't you escape earlier? Why did we have to be locked in here by them!" He complained.

  "I curled my lips, 'Things are getting more and more interesting! Brother Shifu! I came here to seek life, not to seek death! If we escape all at once, there are hundreds of mechanisms on the island, sixty guards, and three thousand residents. Among them, those with kung fu skills number nearly one thousand five hundred. Moreover, on the surrounding tens of small islands, they are all garrisoned troops, is there a chance to break out? Having arrived here, we have at least won some time! If I had followed you in escaping earlier, the two of us would already be dead on Red Flame Island! I still have things undone, I cannot die!' I said loudly. 'If the door doesn't work, then the roof, if the roof doesn't work, then the ground! I must live to return!'"

  The corners of his mouth slightly smiled, and he put his fingers to his lips making a zipping motion, lightly smiling and saying, "Do you believe me, Big Brother? I will definitely be able to take you out!"

  I don't know what's going on, but from this moment on, this unreliable man has somehow made me feel an unprecedented sense of trust! We can escape! We definitely can! I tell myself. Having gone through dozens of life-and-death situations, how could I possibly die on this small island? Be defeated by that unknown Lin Jinghong?

  "What do you plan to do?" I said coldly.

  He smiled faintly, "Junior sister, you're really not lovely! It's easy for senior brother to have a chance to be alone with you, but you should at least let us spend more time together! You know, although we were engaged when we were young, feelings need to be cultivated. Such opportunities aren't available every day!"

  His words disappeared in the instant when the sword was pointing at his nose. "Alright! Junior sister, I'll move!" He sighed heavily.

  He slowly took off the golden hairpin from his head. I recognized that hairpin, it was originally pinned on his crown, although he had changed clothes, it was still pinned on his head.

  He smiled at me with a raised lip. Slowly walked to the door and said loudly, "Is anyone there? Is anyone there? I'm hungry!"

  Outside the door was a silence. It seemed that Lin Jinghong had great confidence in this mechanism. I thought we wouldn't get out alive, and yet no one was assigned to guard us!

  He didn't make a sound, slightly pushing the door open, and extending two fingers to pinch the hundred-refined golden steel lock. The golden hairpin in his hand was inserted into the eye of the golden steel lock. This action is quite difficult. I frowned slightly. Seeing the sweat on his forehead dripping down drop by drop, I couldn't help but take a few steps forward.

  "Don't come over!" he said in a low voice. "This lock isn't very powerful. If it's not controlled properly, it'll explode and kill one person. It's better to die alone than to die together!" His lips curled up into a smile as he talked about his own death, seemingly more casual than discussing the weather!

  "You're sweating!" I said. Feeling his tension, he stood still in the same place. Although it was cool on the island, my back also broke out in a sweat.

  "The weather is hot, and it's natural to sweat. Junior sister, if we can get off the island alive, you'll marry me, okay?" He smiled carelessly. The handsome men's clothing, with the remaining red makeup on his face, made him even more charming!

  "I snorted coldly, 'Of course we can get out of here alive! As for marrying you, I won't marry anyone!' I said resolutely."

  He bit his lip, and I could clearly feel his tension. "Ah! At this critical moment, you still say no? Fortunately, you didn't say you wanted to marry Nu Hua, otherwise I would not let you two be together even if I became a ghost! Shifu's sister! Shifu's sister! What should we do? I feel like I'm liking you more and more! From the first time you were carried out by Ye Furen, from the time you were whipped 100 times by Nu Hua but didn't make a sound... Do you know? Shifu's sister! All of our brothers, including the Crown Prince who plotted against you, want to take you as their official wife! The royal family of the Shen Long tribe needs women who can protect themselves and their families, not weak and delicate women. That's why there was that commotion in Qian Hong Lou!"

  His words were like a farewell. I was secretly shocked in my heart. I knew that his grasp of the situation was not great. I even dared not to walk heavily, fearing that if I wasn't careful, this house would catch fire and we two would fly up into the sky like fireworks!

  With one blow from his hand, this house of mine is also unable to escape this fate!

  "Listen to me, Shimei!" He said with a hint of a smile on his lips. His body remained still. "I've already triggered the mechanism of the Hundred Refining Golden Lock! If I move again, we'll both die here! We only have one-fifth of a chance! This one-fifth chance is that I smash this lock down at top speed, open the door, and escape with it in my arms. As long as the door opens, the room won't explode! You can live to go back! We must coordinate well!"

  "What did you say! Aren't you a master thief? How could you be so careless!" I took off my boots and walked slowly to his side with bare feet, and indeed saw that the hairpin had broken in the keyhole. The lock was open, but he could only hold it with two fingers and couldn't move!

  "This opportunity, is it left to you?" I asked in a fit of rage. "The price of this opportunity is that you die on the spot! Long Yunya! I don't want your fake kindness! At this time, what are you trying to be a hero for!" A certain part of my heart was touched. This man! Why is he doing so much for me?!

  Is it just to keep the promise he made to me when we were young? He didn't have to come! He didn't have to die! But for a broken and incomplete me, he had to sacrifice his own life! Laughing all the way to the grave!

  Even if there's only a one in five chance, he wants to leave it for me! Since being betrayed by Zi Yun and Lin Xiao Hai, I no longer believe in human nature, hating everyone in this world, especially the royal family of the Shen Long tribe. Yet, at this moment, he is using his life to protect me!

  It feels so warm! "Brother, you won't die! I won't let you die!" I said solemnly. Holding his cheek, "Brother, promise me, you must live on!"

  In his phoenix-like eyes, a fleeting emotion flashed by. He moved with emotion and said, "Hanjun, how can I bear to let you die alone!"

  My nose suddenly felt a sour smell. Ah! I see! It wasn't until now that I realized, I had never had even half a bit of love for Lin Xiao Hai. If it was truly love, then why would I have the thought of helping them be together when I found out about Zi Yun's feelings for him? If they hadn't betrayed me together, how could I have done something like that?!

  I'm just going to quit. Quit with a flourish! It wasn't until now that I realized, such a handsome and elegant man, was actually so masculine!

  I saw his two fingers trembling due to the long time of being pinched by the lock, and I knew things were not good. I shouted loudly, "Brother! Don't be afraid! Ye Hanmei wants to live, but she won't let Brother die alone! Even on the road to the underworld, I will follow Brother together! Today, Brother's kindness, Ye Hanmei has no way to repay, only to follow you in life and death!" After speaking, he stretched out his fingers through the door gap and gently supported the lock.

  His whole body shook violently. Excitedly, he said, "Hanjun! Do you mean what I think you mean? Have you already made up your mind? Is it true? If I, Long Yunyao, can get a love like this in my lifetime, I will die without regret!"

  My heart feels warm, he treats me like this, but I'm a broken person, how can someone like me, with a body like mine, be with such a good man?

  "Big brother! Do you know? Back then, I clearly knew that I was a member of the Ye family from Feng Huang Valley, but I never went back. What was the reason?" I said calmly, with cold sweat on my forehead.

  "I thought you couldn't find your way! Circumstances forced me!" He said in a low voice. His breath on my head was surprisingly warm.

  "It's not that I don't know the way, it's just that I've been led astray by a dead old man! Ha! Now I can no longer call him a dead old man! It's Master! He said that if I follow Hanshuo back to Feng Huang Valley, it will bring about a full-scale pursuit from all countries until death! Thinking about it, it must be because of that prophecy! Brother, do you know? If this time I don't make it out alive, I won't be able to save my sister's childbirth calamity. If she can't pass that test, the lives of my sisters and I will not be spared! So, no matter what, I would have kept my life intact! If today I die here, please Brother, on the day of Mei Jian four years later, go to the imperial palace of Huang Guo and save my sister for me! Hanmei, thank you from the bottom of my heart!" I choked back a sob. It turns out that death isn't so scary after all!

  What's terrifying is that you still have thousands of unfulfilled wishes! The surroundings are quiet to the point of being terrifying, I can hear his clear breathing and heartbeat.

  "Are you afraid?" Long Yunjia said in a low voice.

  I smiled faintly, "How can a person not be afraid of death! The 50,000-strong army that was previously drowned by my plan. The ten brothers who just came with us, and Zhang Shisan who I killed, which one of them doesn't have thousands of unfulfilled wishes? What's the point of being afraid of death? What's the point of having thousands of unfinished things?! When death comes, no one can stop it! Big Brother! Slowly release the lock, retreat backwards! Let me take care of this place! I won't let you, someone unrelated to this matter, die here for my sake!" I said loudly.

  "But what can we do? If I loosen my grip even slightly, the lock will explode! Neither of us can let go at this moment!" he said helplessly.