"Well, our Jinfu Escort Agency has always had 'hidden cargo' services that don't inquire about the contents being escorted," Yue Zhenqiao responded nervously to Lin Yu's somewhat accusatory tone. "The payment was very generous, so..."
"Who is it?"
Lin Yu asked immediately.
Yue Zhenqiao hesitated: "Since the client requested a 'hidden cargo' service, revealing their information to the heroine would probably violate the rules..."
"Idiot, this carriage is equipped with measures to isolate detection, but it left an opening for demons to sense the aura, allowing them to know that the contents of this carriage are incredibly tempting," Lin Yu said coldly. "Even if the person who commissioned you didn't intentionally want to use you as bait for demons, they were still trying to harm you to some extent. At a time like this, you're still thinking about the rules of the escort agency?"
As Lin Yu spoke, the deputy chief of the escort, who seemed to have a fiery temper, couldn't help but say, "Chief Yue, Old Yue, I think this heroine makes sense."
Yue Zhenqiao's expression was uncertain, but he finally spoke: "It's a short, stocky man, dressed like a wealthy merchant, with a mole on his left cheek, who claimed to be a wealthy household from Yanzhen."
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He brought these three large carriages himself with two coachmen when we departed.
After saying this, he added with some hesitation: "But, heroine, it's not that I don't believe you... it's just that we've already traveled three or four tenths of the way. If the contents were truly a fatal attraction to demons, why did it only become apparent at Fuyuan Mountain?"
He then looked at the deputy chief: "You also participated in planning the route we've taken. We've passed through three places with as many demons as Fuyuan Mountain. Why was there no problem at the first three places?"
The deputy chief was speechless: "This... this..."
Lin Yu also fell into thought due to Yue Zhenqiao's statement.
However, because Lin Yu knew that the mountain spirit leader would definitely not lie to him, he did not doubt his own reasoning, but was simply thinking about the 'cause' of this phenomenon.
"Did you feel the temptation of the contents from the beginning, or did you only sense it later?"
Lin Yu asked Sanyang again.
Sanyang then answered: "Wu ga!"
Then, Sanyang added a few more sounds.
Its answer was that it sensed it as soon as it entered its aura perception range, and then it could feel it getting closer and closer, and more and more obvious.
Moreover, that temptation was like the most delicious human flesh.
Lin Yu listened and then fell into deep thought.
"Then why is this?"
He looked at Yue Zhenqiao: "Chief Yue, my suggestion is... it's best to open the carriage and take a look."
Yue Zhenqiao's expression changed slightly: "How can that be? That's a great taboo against the rules!"
Before Lin Yu could persuade him further, Yue Zhenqiao said somewhat excitedly.
"Even if it means death, the rules of the escort agency cannot be broken!"
After Yue Zhenqiao brought up the 'rules,' the deputy chief, who had originally been on Lin Yu's side, stopped talking.
Obviously, he had been persuaded by Yue Zhenqiao.
"What a troublesome world."
Lin Yu frowned again.
It was extremely difficult to find living people in the wilderness of the Prison Mountain Realm, especially those who could communicate. He thought that Liuzhen was best off relying on these guides who were 'assigned' to the three of them from the start to lead the way.
Otherwise, Lin Yu could have directly knocked Yue Zhenqiao unconscious and tied him up, and forcibly opened the carriage himself.
At this moment, Li Nian's voice rang out.
"Oh... there's no need to break the rules and open the carriage to inspect the goods. That's so troublesome."
Lin Yu turned his head and found Li Nian leaning against the carriage wall with one hand, standing loosely, and said.
"What does this heroine mean?"
Yue Zhenqiao looked at Li Nian warily and said.
Lin Yu also asked directly, "Did you 'do something'?"
What he was asking was whether Li Nian had stolen something from inside.
Li Nian shook her head.
"It's good that you didn't do anything."
Lin Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
"Didn't succeed."
Li Nian's answer made Lin Yu's breath tighten again before he could finish exhaling.
"What does 'didn't succeed' mean?"
Lin Yu looked at Li Nian and asked.
Li Nian explained calmly: "There are living things inside, my basic ability is invalid."
Although using the [Limit-Breaking Jade] in conjunction with those gloves seemed to allow Li Nian to perform operations such as harvesting organs alive.
However, Li Nian still couldn't harvest parts alive through obstacles, or try to steal the entire 'living thing' as a whole.
"There are living things inside?"
Li Nian nodded: "Yes, in this way, it can also explain why the demons were fine in the first half, but now the mountain spirits have come—because the thing inside is alive."
"Living things are prone to 'state changes'—maybe they were asleep before and now they're awake, maybe they were awake before and now they're carsick and fell asleep," Li Nian said calmly, and Lin Yu nodded thoughtfully.
"That's reasonable... can you further confirm what's inside?"
Lin Yu asked, and Li Nian shook her head: "I'm just a 'thief,' not a 'detective.'"
Then, she lowered her voice: "How about we forcibly open it?"
Lin Yu shook his head: "There's no need to be so troublesome. You don't have convenient means, but I have a way, it's just a bit roundabout."
Lin Yu said in a low voice.
Then, he looked at Yue Zhenqiao again: "Chief Yue, we didn't open the carriage to inspect the goods, we just made some guesses based on our observations and accidents, so it shouldn't count as breaking the rules, right?"
Lin Yu said, and Yue Zhenqiao was asked.
"This... should be... doesn't count..."
He didn't seem to expect Lin Yu to ask this, and answered uncertainly.
"Of course it doesn't count," the deputy chief immediately reacted and stood on Lin Yu's side again. "If this counts as breaking the rules, if an accident happens on the way to deliver 'hidden cargo' in the future, and the carriage overturns and the box opens, do we have to immediately gouge out our own eyes?"
"If the rules are broken by accident, it doesn't count as breaking the rules!"
Lin Yu looked at the deputy chief and nodded in satisfaction.
"That makes sense."
He was waiting for the deputy chief to say this.
Then, with a thought, a small can quietly landed in Lin Yu's hand.
The mountain spirit leader Sanyang suddenly took two quick breaths, then the flesh on its body turned red and bulged, and roared repeatedly. It suddenly went crazy and threw Lin Yu off its body.
Lin Yu fell to the ground unexpectedly, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and said in a frightened tone.
"What, it actually broke free from my restraints?! This beast has good skills!"
The mountain spirit leader rushed towards the carriage and overturned the carriage in one fell swoop!
"Bang!"
The metal carriage slightly deformed under the impact of the mountain spirit's great force, and then two rough hands grabbed the edge of the sealed carriage door and began to tear it open with force!
"Crack!"
The sound of metal deformation sounded, and a gap was forcibly torn open in the carriage door.
"Not good!"
Yue Zhenqiao also roared and drew his sword to chop at the mountain spirit leader.
The mountain spirit leader, which was much larger than him, did not seem to have fully recovered from Lin Yu's heavy blow. Yue Zhenqiao slashed a deep, bone-deep wound on its thigh, then lost its balance again and was directly knocked away by Yue Zhenqiao!
