Chapter 47: Greed

Seeing that Li Si did not accept it, Xu Dayuan’s cheek twitched slightly. He thought to himself, Could this person already have seen something?

But that should not be the case. Earlier, it had first let Tu Feng and the other two make contact with Li Si. In fact, it had given Tu Feng and the other two an order at the time, telling them they had to kill Li Si. Unfortunately, these three were truly useless and had not made any move the entire time.

So he could only personally enter the stage. Moreover, with those three having contacted Li Si first, Li Si would very likely have a preconceived impression and would definitely not suspect his identity.

But judging by Li Si’s current appearance, he seemed to have already become suspicious. A savage look slowly appeared in Xu Dayuan’s eyes, but then quickly faded. It remembered that this person was preparing to go save people with it, so perhaps he had not discovered it.

Only, why did this person not want its gold? Could this person be one of those humans with high moral character?

Thinking of this, Xu Dayuan snorted coldly in his heart. Whether his moral character was high or not, it would still eat this person when the time came.

These thoughts passed through Xu Dayuan’s mind in an instant. Seeing Li Si agree, it immediately walked ahead, hurriedly leading the way for Li Si. Its steps were urgent, as if there really were two brothers waiting ahead for their lives to be saved.

At this moment, Li Si walked behind the tiger demon. In a hidden place, he took out the Eight Trigrams Mirror and shone it once. Heh, what a fine great beast. This could no longer be called a wild beast. It could already be called a giant beast.

As he walked, he looked at the tiger demon in the mirror and wanted to touch this tiger’s thigh.

Of course, he was not courting death. He simply wanted to obtain information about this tiger.

But he was also afraid that the tiger would immediately sense it, turn around, and directly fall out with him.

His eyes shifted slightly. Then he walked behind the tiger demon, his arm swinging. Suddenly, his arm brushed against the fur on the tiger demon’s thigh.

Immediately, the tiger demon leading the way paused. It turned back and looked at Li Si somewhat stiffly.

Seeing it like this, Li Si frowned and asked, “Why did you stop? Weren’t you going to save your brothers?”

The tiger demon looked deeply at him, then immediately smiled and said, “I’ll go right now!”

As it spoke, it quickened its pace and widened the distance between itself and Li Si.

At this moment, Li Si had already obtained this tiger demon’s information.

Tiger Demon, poisoned.

Demon creature level: low-level demon creature.

Abilities: Cannot be contracted.

Demon body strength: 75.

Poisoned: Ate something unclean and is weakened.

Ghost Servant: Can turn people it has eaten into ghost servants and command them.

Demon Body: An innate skill of demon creatures. Ordinary weapons have great difficulty injuring them.

Transform into Servant: It can transform into the appearance of a ghost servant and possess the ghost servant’s memories.

When Li Si saw the tiger demon’s poisoned state, he felt somewhat puzzled. But after pondering for a moment, he immediately understood. Yesterday’s bone soup must have been poisoned. Those herb gatherers had probably eaten some antidote medicine, so nothing happened to them.

But this tiger demon had not eaten the antidote medicine and had eaten the bone soup, so it was only reasonable that this tiger demon was poisoned.

At the same time, the words cannot be contracted made Li Si think slightly. Could it be that he could only contract ghost creatures?

There was no time to think. Before long, the two arrived near a cliff. Standing on the cliff wall, Li Si indeed saw some gold scattered on the ground. He could also see that below the cliff, there was a small platform. A great deal of gold was piled on the platform, and all kinds of venomous snakes slithered over it from time to time.

Li Si looked at this gold and calculated in his heart. The gold here looked to be around more than 150 kg (~330 lb). Converted according to purchasing power, the gold here was roughly equivalent to more than fifteen million yuan in his previous life.

At this moment, a groan came from beneath a tree by the cliff. Li Si looked over and saw two people leaning against that tree and groaning. These two people were precisely Miao Qing’an and Tu Feng.

When Li Si saw the two of them, his body did not move. He looked at the tiger demon with a beaming smile.

“Young Hero Li, you... save us.” The two poisoned people beside them seemed to have seen a saviour. When they saw Li Si, they reached toward Li Si for help.

Only, deep in their eyes, there was resentment and delight.

“Young Hero Li, hurry and save my two brothers.” A nervous look appeared on the tiger demon’s face as it urged Li Si to quickly save the two people beside the tree on the cliff.

“I can save them, but I want gold.” A greedy look appeared on Li Si’s face, and his eyes kept sweeping back and forth over the gold scattered on the cliff and the gold on the platform below the cliff.

“Fine. As long as you can save my two brothers, I’ll give you all this gold.” A trace of understanding appeared deep in the tiger demon’s eyes. Earlier, this person had acted as if gold could not move him at all. It turned out this person was even greedier and wanted even more!

“But I don’t want to take it myself. I need you to help me bring that gold up first.” Li Si licked his lips, looking like a petty man intoxicated by success.

“Then my two brothers?” The tiger demon looked somewhat hesitantly toward the two people beside the tree on the cliff.

Originally, it had been thinking that when Li Si reached the tree by the cliff, it would suddenly push him, directly causing Li Si to fall off the cliff and die.

That way, even if it would suffer the attack of this person’s strange power, it could still kill this person.

Li Si shook his head and said calmly, “It is fine. I will give them my realgar wine. It can suppress the poison for a while longer.” As he spoke, he threw the wine gourd to the tiger demon.

After catching it, the tiger demon opened its mouth and had no choice but to deliver the wine gourd to Tu Feng and the others.

“Wait.” Li Si suddenly said coldly, “Who told you to give it to them?”

The tiger demon was stunned. Wasn’t it you who told me to give it to them?

“First use the realgar wine to drive away the snakes below and bring the gold up,” Li Si said calmly.

“Then what about them?” The tiger demon looked at Li Si in astonishment and asked.

“After you finish driving away the snakes, give them the remaining wine to drink.”

The tiger demon immediately felt a chill rise up its back. There was not much wine in the gourd at all. Li Si clearly wanted these two people to die.

Seeing the tiger demon freeze, Li Si snorted coldly, slowly drew the Black Sword, and put on an appearance as if he wanted to kill.

“All right, Young Hero Li!” The tiger demon’s expression changed slightly, and it hurriedly agreed.

As it spoke, it walked to the edge of the cliff and sprinkled realgar wine toward the platform below. As soon as the realgar wine scattered down, the snakes below immediately fell into chaos. Before long, they had crawled away without a trace. Clearly, the realgar wine Luo Ye had prepared was extremely effective at driving away snakes and insects.

Very fortunately, not much wine had been spilled, and some remained. The tiger demon hurriedly and with concern gave the wine gourd to the two people under the tree.

The two people under the tree looked deeply at Li Si with resentful eyes, then began drinking the wine.

When Li Si saw them drinking, he sneered coldly in his heart. Then he threw one end of the rope to the tiger demon and said, “Go down. Bring the gold up for me.”