The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#590 - How to save trouble?

Although the old fisherman had obtained Lu Jing's guarantee, he still felt unsure.

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But he had no other choice now. Who told him that he couldn't win in a fight and couldn't run away? In the end, he could only agree to obediently go with Lu Jing to apologize to that pool.

Fortunately, before they set off, Lu Jing finally untied the rope on his hands and released him from the Zen staff.

The old fisherman still wanted to keep his weapon for self-defense, but Lu Jing refused.

After that, he dawdled for a while, and seeing that there was really no chance to escape, he had no choice but to reluctantly follow Lu Jing back to the pool.

As a result, as soon as he saw the scene in front of him, the old fisherman couldn't help but start cursing in his heart, and turned around to bid farewell three times in a row.

Unfortunately, Lu Jing had already taken the lead and kicked him in the butt, sending him to the edge of the pool.

Besides the alligator dragon and the toad-headed monster that Lu Jing had seen before, there was also a turtle with a body as strong as a calf, a strange fish with wings that could soar in the sky like a bird, and something with a pointy nose that looked like an anteater.

Plus a menacing Ah Hua, in short, there wasn't a single character that was easy to deal with. It was simply a cast of all villains.

The toad-headed monster returned to the pool, reached in and scooped out a white fish, held it up to the old fisherman, and circled him, seemingly wanting the white fish to identify the old fisherman.

The latter's expression immediately became tense. After a moment, the toad monster threw the white fish back into the pool and clapped its hands.

"How is it?" Lu Jing asked.

"It said it doesn't remember."

"… … … …"

"Fish have very poor memories, but it doesn't matter," the toad-headed monster added. "As long as they've been to the pool, Wen Xiang can remember the aura on them."

As the toad-headed monster spoke, the long-nosed monster that looked like an anteater also moved its feet and slowly came to the old fisherman, twitching its nose a few times.

Then, it nodded at the giant turtle. Without saying a word, the latter directly stretched out a leg and stomped towards the old fisherman on the ground.

Fortunately, the old fisherman had been vigilant and noticed the danger in time, rolling away on the spot to avoid the kick.

When he looked back, he found that a small pit had appeared where he had been pretending to be dead.

The old fisherman's hairs stood on end. If he hadn't dodged that kick, he would probably have been turned into a pile of mush by now.

The toad-headed monster ignored what was happening around it, just retched again and spat out the emerald green flying sword, then washed it in the pool before throwing it to Lu Jing.

"Here, the thing you wanted. Since you've done what I wanted you to do, then I naturally have to keep my promise."

Lu Jing took the flying sword, glanced at it, and put it into his sleeve. However, he didn't leave, pointed to the old fisherman who was being chased around by the flying fish, and asked the toad-headed monster, "What do you plan to do with him?"

"Of course, kill him. Otherwise, if he deceives other people to come, wouldn't I never have a peaceful day?" The toad-headed monster said as a matter of course.

After it finished speaking, it suddenly tilted its head and stuck out its tongue towards the old fisherman's direction.

Even though there were still several zhang between the two sides, the toad-headed monster's tongue actually shot out in front of the old fisherman in less than a breath.

Lu Jing even suspected that if he had just blinked, he wouldn't have known what had happened.

The old fisherman himself didn't react at all, and his legs were inexplicably entangled by something.

Then, he saw the toad-headed monster slurp, and was about to suck the old fisherman into its stomach like sucking jelly.

At this time, the old fisherman's soul had already flown to the highest heavens, and he only had time to shout in his heart, "My life is over!" The whole person flew up.

However, the next moment he heard a crisp bang and found himself falling to the ground again.

The toad-headed monster tilted its head and looked at Lu Jing to the side, "Why did you stop me?"

Lu Jing didn't answer immediately. He went to a tree not far away and picked up the mountain fire he had just thrown out.

In his urgency, he threw out the flying sword, intending to cut off the toad-headed monster's tongue, but he didn't expect that when the flying sword and the tongue collided, the two sides were evenly matched.

His flying sword shook off the toad-headed monster's tongue, but the latter's tongue also knocked away his flying sword.

Lu Jing picked up the flying sword and realized that tonight's situation might be a bit tricky.

But after a pause, he still opened his mouth and said, "On the way here, I asked him, and he has realized his mistake. At the same time, he is willing to swear that he will no longer deceive people to disturb you, so you don't really need to kill him."

"But I think… it's easier to kill him," the toad-headed monster thought for a while, and finally shook its head, "If I kill him, I don't have to worry about whether he will keep his oath."

"But killing him is also very troublesome," Lu Jing tried to think about the problem from the perspective of the pool.

"Not troublesome. If you hadn't stopped me just now, I would have swallowed him in one bite," the toad-headed monster said confidently.

"Unfortunately, I have to stop you."

"Why?" The toad-headed monster seemed a little puzzled.

"The senior from the Department of Celestial Observation also asked you a question when he met you, right?"

"Oh, you're talking about the question of whether I've killed anyone."

"Yes," Lu Jing said, "The reason why he was willing to bring you back and help you find a relatively quiet place was also because you hadn't killed anyone."

"Is that so?" The toad-headed monster hesitated when it heard this.

But before Lu Jing could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard it say again, "But he's already dead, and he's been dead for hundreds of years."

"But the Department of Celestial Observation still has a Vice Director now, including me, a disciple of the academy, we can't just watch you kill someone."

The toad-headed monster seemed greatly shocked when it heard this, "Is there anyone in this world who would deliberately cause trouble for themselves?"

Lu Jing smiled wryly, "Hello, there is."

The toad-headed monster didn't speak for a long time. Looking at its tightly furrowed brows, it seemed to be weighing whether it was more troublesome to kill the old fisherman or to let the old fisherman go.

Seeing its appearance, Lu Jing secretly cried out in his heart that things were bad.

Sure enough, after a short while, an impatient look appeared on the toad-headed monster's face. Then, it glared its eyes, "Annoying, annoying, annoying, it's still cleaner to kill them all, so I don't have to think about it anymore."