Chapter 27 The sinister senior brother with evil intentions

Chapter 27 The sinister senior brother with evil intentions

Chapter 27 The sinister senior brother with evil intentions

Hearing Rui say this, He Lingyun was also stunned. When she walked towards the gate of Jinling Sect, she had anticipated various scenes, but she did not expect that the situation of being held hostage and coerced, which she had been worried about these days, did not occur.

Senior Brother Wen's tone and expression were very natural. It seemed that he had almost forgotten about He Lingyun and didn't take her seriously at all.

For a moment, He Lingyun began to doubt himself, suspecting that all his previous guesses were just fantasy and the truth was not what he thought at all.

But she quickly came to her senses from her confusion. She believed in her intuition. No matter as a woman or as a spirit bird, her intuition was always accurate and she would never make mistakes when judging people!

"Wait a minute, Senior Brother Wen!"

He Lingyun hurriedly stopped him: "Stop pretending. Your pretense may fool others, but not me. I came to you to return the 40,000 spirit stones. I don't want to receive gifts without merit. I feel uneasy about taking the spirit stones. Please take them back, Brother Wen!"

When Wen Rui heard "40,000 spirit stones", his expression changed slightly, but he quickly concealed it. However, this detail was captured by He Lingyun, who had good eyesight.

"What do you mean by 40,000 spirit stones?" Wen Rui said with a confused expression, "I have no idea what you are talking about. Jarvis, check the files. Did Junior Sister He and I sign a loan agreement? Does she owe me spirit stones?"

The male voice interrupted at the right time and said, "No relevant agreement has been found. There is no debt dispute between the master and Crane Fairy."

Wen Rui spread out his hands, shrugged and said, "Junior Sister He, did you remember it wrong? When I do business, I only recognize contracts and not people. Everyone in the entire Lishan Immortal Sect, from the Lishan Old Mother to the newly-initiated apprentices, knows this. Everyone who comes to me for work has signed an agreement with me. You don't have an agreement, so you have no basis for your words. You should go back and think about it carefully!"

"Eh?"

He Lingyun was completely dumbfounded. He never expected Wen Rui to say that.

Her return of the spirit stone was actually a cover. It would be great if she could get rid of this hot potato, but it didn't matter if she was rejected, because she had hidden the photo-retaining beads and the sound-retaining magnet on her body. She used this as an excuse to secretly record videos and audio. Fortunately, she could reveal Wen Rui's true colors during the conversation and catch him with something. Even if she confronted the Holy Mother of Mount Li in the future, she would be able to produce evidence.

However, Wen Rui directly denied it, so He Lingyun could only bite the bullet and continue: "I was in a hurry that day, so I didn't have time to sign, but you did give me 40,000 spirit stones..."

The photo-recording beads and the sound-recording magnet do not have an editing function. Once a recording is made, the entire process will be recorded, and the entire process will be played back. He Lingyun was afraid of saying something wrong and being used by Wen Rui, so he did not dare to reveal too much information and replied carefully.

"Junior Sister He, you must have drunk too much at Tian Shang Ren Jian. My store doesn't sell fake alcohol. Why are you talking nonsense?"

Wen Rui said with a fake smile, "I love signing agreements. Everyone in the Lishan Immortal Sect knows that I love signing agreements. No matter how busy I am, I will never forget to sign an agreement. Even the old lady of Lishan, she has signed no less than a hundred sect construction contracts with me in the past five hundred years, which has annoyed her. How could I lend you money and forget to sign an agreement? Your words are not credible. I advise you to go back and sober up, get some fresh air, and calm down."

He Lingyun opened her mouth, but was speechless. Her mind raced before she realized that Senior Brother Wen did it on purpose!
When Wen Rui gave her the spirit stones, he deliberately refused to sign the agreement and took advantage of her distracted state of mind to leave. As a result, there was no evidence to prove that she was forced to accept the bribes!
This guy usually disguises himself very well, leaving everyone with the stereotype that "agreements must be signed before doing anything", but when he does something shady, he deliberately ignores it and leaves no evidence. When something goes wrong, the victim comes out to confront him, because if he can't produce the agreement, others will believe him more!
He Lingyun gritted her teeth in hatred, but she refused to give up. She took out the four bags of spirit stones from her bag and threw them at the gate of Jinling Sect, saying, "No matter if we signed any agreement or not, I'll return the spirit stones to you. We are even now!"

Wen Rui sneered and didn't bother to pay attention to her. He said, "Jarvis, our Jinling Sect's Heaven on Earth is a business place. We are open to welcome customers. There are all kinds of birds in the forest. It is inevitable that some customers get drunk and throw things around. We should follow the lost and found procedures."

Jarvis replied in a double act: "Master, I will pack the lost items of Crane Fairy in a bag and ask other guests from Caiyun Peak to take them back to her."

He Lingyun had already turned around and walked away for a distance, intending to fly back to Caiyun Peak on his sword, but when he heard the master and servant talking and answering each other behind him, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and turn back. He picked up the bag of spirit stones on the ground, and embarrassedly put it back into the bag the same way he had taken it out.

The girl was so angry that her eyes turned slightly red. She raised her head and looked at the screen and said, "Wen, at worst I will turn myself in and take all the punishment. No matter if others believe me or not, I will reveal your true face to the Virgin Mary and the sisters!"

Wen Rui on the screen narrowed his eyes, looked down at her for a moment, and then said helplessly: "Why do you have to do this? I clearly got the benefit, but you treat me as a bad person. What's the reason?"

He Lingyun said with a resolute expression: "Good people don't have as many complicated schemes as you. It would be fine if I was deceived by you like my junior sisters, but now that I have seen through the clues, I will definitely not let it go!"

Hearing this, Wen Rui sneered and said, "Back then, most of us Jiejiao immortals were innocent and kind-hearted. We valued the friendship between our master and sect the most, were eager to help others, and were willing to sacrifice our own lives. But in the end, we were blamed and classified as bad guys. We were plotted against by the scheming twelve golden immortals of the Chanjiao and our bodies and souls were destroyed. The evil karma they created eliminated the killing calamity of the Heavenly Dao, and we were cursed for eternity."

He Lingyun had read this history of the Conferred God in the library. When he heard Rui use this as an example, he knew that facts speak louder than words and could not be refuted. "Junior sister, as a person who has experienced this, I will teach you a lesson."

Wen Rui said in a serious tone: "If you want to be a good person, you must be smarter than the bad guys, more shameless than the bad guys, and more ruthless than the bad guys, only then can you defeat the bad guys."

He Lingyun felt that her three perspectives were shocked. This was contrary to the teachings of the masters of the Lishan Immortal Sect, but she couldn't tell where it was wrong.

Wen Rui continued, "You now have two choices. One is to take your spirit stones and leave, and use them at ease when you go back. I promise that I will never have anything to do with you again. You can sign an agreement as proof. The other is to come in and see me, and hand over the spirit stones to me in person. As the saying goes, 'people are afraid of meeting each other, and trees are afraid of being peeled off'. If you don't confront me face to face, how can you expose my true face?"

After Wen Rui finished speaking, the door of the Jinling Sect's cave slowly opened, revealing a dark entrance.

He Lingyun hesitated. She vaguely felt that her previous assumptions about Senior Brother Wen might not be accurate, but they were not necessarily inaccurate either. She couldn't help but think of what Senior Brother Wen had reminded her before: human nature is complex and cannot be distinguished by good or bad, good or evil.

From a rational perspective of seeking profit and avoiding danger, it would definitely be better to turn around and leave, but then the truth would never be revealed - even if she turned herself in and confessed, if Wen Rui, who was much more eloquent and scheming than her, tried to gossip in front of the Holy Mother of Mount Li, she would not be able to withstand it at all, and she might be framed with some heinous crime and die in humiliation.

But walking through that door is like a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth. How can Senior Brother Wen, who is more shrewd, shameless, and cruel than the bad guys, let himself walk out safely?
After a long struggle between heaven and man, He Lingyun's eyes became resolute, as if to encourage himself, and he said to himself: "The classics say: If you hear the truth in the morning, you can die in the evening. It is better to die with understanding than to live in confusion!"

After saying that, she resolutely stepped into the dark doorway that looked like a huge mouth of the abyss ready to devour anyone.

"Drip!"

As soon as I entered the door, I heard a harsh sound from the side, and Jarvis' voice rang out: "If you find a visitor carrying contraband, please leave the contraband in the storage room."

He Lingyun took out the hidden pearls and magnets and placed them in an automatically opened iron cabinet beside him. Only then did the iron door of the lift room in front open.

Under the guidance of Jarvis' voice, He Lingyun walked into the elevator room, and after descending for a period of time, he arrived at a floor underground in the Jinling Sect.

Passing through a long corridor with metal walls, He Lingyun came to a hall. This hall was filled with many strange large-scale metal mechanical devices. Various lights and screens were flashing, and countless information was scrolling on the screens. Everything in this scene was beyond her cognition.

Wen Rui was still wearing the moon-white coat. It seemed that the clothes had never been washed and were covered with stains of various colors. His hair was still disheveled, his chin was messy with stubble, he had a pair of dark circles under his eyes, saliva was flowing from the corners of his mouth, and the smell of alcohol on his body could be smelled from a long distance away.

Senior Brother Wen was drawing in the air. The complex patterns on the light screen projected in the air kept changing with his operations. It seemed that he was performing deductions and calculations, or drawing a complicated formation.

Only when Wen Rui noticed He Lingyun approaching did he put down the work he was doing and turned around to face her.

"That's right. That spiritual stone is hush money. After you get the money, you just need to be as quiet as a chicken. This way, I won't have to think about other ways to shut your mouth all day long, and I can save a lot of time and energy to do my job."

Wen Rui rubbed his forehead and said without hiding anything: "Why can't you just keep quiet and make a fortune? This won't do you any harm, right?"

"Because I'm not a chicken, I'm a crane!"

He Lingyun puffed out his chest and said, "You planned to kill the monks of the Western Church and made friends with the four demon kings. You must have evil intentions. Now you have built the Heaven and Earth Demon Cave to lure the junior sisters into it. If I take your spirit stones, I will conceal it for you and collude with you. I will watch the junior sisters being harmed by you. It is better to fight you with my life and expose your actions to the public. I will have no regrets even if I die!"

"I have some differences with the Holy Mother of Lishan on Jiejiao's doctrine and its future development policy. If we don't bring this difference to the table, the two sects of Lishan and Jinling can still seek common ground while reserving differences, unite to keep each other warm, and help each other. I am also confident that I can spend some time to slowly correct the Holy Mother of Lishan's appeasement thinking and capitulationist line errors..."

Wen Rui narrowed his eyes, paced and said slowly: "Some things are not as heavy as four ounces if not weighed, but if weighed, they would weigh more than a thousand pounds... Li Shan and Jin Ling would benefit from being together, but would suffer from being apart. At this critical time when the fragile balance is about to fall, you who likes to get to the bottom of things show up."

At this point, he sighed and looked at He Lingyun fiercely: "Junior Sister He, you are unwilling to accept the hush money, but you are also unwilling to die. This makes it very difficult for me."

(End of this chapter)