249 Whose Voice Was Tha (2/2)

Jianglu pondered for a moment. ”This possibility couldn’t be ruled out.”

”Now that we are aware of the problem, although we still lack a lot of critical evidence, we can follow this fundamental rule: we do everything contrary to what the enemy wants us to do. If the enemy wants us to continue to play to the end, we must try everything possible to make this game end early.”

Upon hearing this, Jianglu suddenly smiled. ”So you said you want to stop everybody from passing the trials?”

”Certainly, it’s impossible to stop everyone from passing the trial because the rules do not allow for any side to continue winning, but I think that, at that time, you guys shouldn’t have thought about this. Therefore, regardless of whether you believe it or not, there’s only one choice for me to take.”

Jianglu’s smile turned cold, and his calm exterior once again set off waves of pressure. ”When everything is decided, the only choice is to use force.”

Wang Lu chuckled. ”But fighting head-on, I’m not your Shengjing Sect’s opponent. Therefore, without any other choice, I had to take the eight gates as hostage. But you, Senior Brother Power King, would never negotiate with the terrorist, thus, in the ensuing fight, there’s nothing unusual if the hostage is killed.”

Jianglu coldly humphed. ”What a good calculation! As long as the gates are broken, if your guess is true, then you’d be the hero that saves everyone. But if your guess is incorrect, your Junior Sister Liu Li can also take this opportunity to win the eight virtues trial.”

”Yes, it’s indeed a good calculation.” Wang Lu bluntly admitted it. ”Until just now, I used that reason to legitimately destroy the gates… As a result, it did not hesitate to expose its flaw by making this five gates into one move. That’s when I immediately judged that its control ability is very limited, and can therefore boldly share this thing with you.”

Jianglu scoffed with a smile. ”At the same time, because everyone got sucked into the shame gate, which surprised you and broke your plan?”

Wang Lu didn’t mince his words. ”Therefore, I can only sigh at the fact that even a professional adventurer couldn’t foresee everything. All I can do is to do everything I can to strive for a more advantageous condition for myself. If I can’t win the game, flip the board and try again.”

Jianglu said, ”Your long winded and endless explanation can indeed provide a good supposition that it’s likely that there’s a malicious figure hiding behind this trial, but still, it lacks the evidence to support it.”

”There are some circumstantial pieces of evidence. The simple one is, when we fought with the ancient guardian and entangled in these eight trials, where did Big Sister Zhu Shiyao go?”

Jianglu was stunned, and then he asked in disbelief, ”You don’t mean…”

”No. If it’s her, it would not have been this troublesome. In here, at least, she and her sword could be invincible. My problem is we have never seen her and her trace all the way here. Which means that she probably didn’t go all the way. Therefore, from the previous first three levels, whose path do you think is better, Zhu Shiyao’s or ours?”

”…”

”If this is a branching path, what do you think is waiting for us, the ancient sword tomb treasure, or a trap?”

”…”

”Let’s return to the design intention of this eight virtues trial. If the master of the tomb truly designed this eight virtues, then we can understand that it wanted to choose a person with a personal character that is perfect for it. But since the trial would only cause infighting by exposing the ugliness of human nature, what does it want exactly?”

Jianglu gradually lost his patience towards Wang Lu’s endless questions. ”Perhaps it wants us to kill each other?”

”Good guess. Then, the next question is: what good is it for it if we kill each other?”

Jianglu similarly didn’t understand. ”What are the advantages?”

”I’m not it, how would I know what are the benefits for it? However, I know that, at least, killing each other is not good for us. Therefore, I said that I hope everyone to drop this level. There’s no need to let that person’s plot prevail.”

After he had done saying this sentence, Wang Lu didn’t say anything anymore. He even ignored the eye signal from Zhou Mumu, Hai Yunfan, Zhan Ziye and the others.

In the presence of all, only Jianglu’s attitude was the most important. As long as he acquiescence, this thing could be done.

”I understand.” After a long time, Jianglu finally nodded his head. ”Although your speculation on this matter still lacks any conclusive evidence, it’s very convincing. Therefore, in light of this, I will let all of our previous tiny frictions off. If in the future there’s evidence to prove everything, my Shengjing Sect would owe you one.”

The implication of this was that, of course, if the evidence proved that what he said today was all nonsense, the frictions between the two sects were not just tiny anymore.

However, the next moment, Jianglu changed the subject, ”However, you said you want all of us to give up this test, then what about you? Are you also going to give up the test and leave the sword tomb with the others?”