One Piece: Starting to read the file from the dragon-footed man

Chapter 58 Chapter 57

"This is a hand knot. It can be used to hang people, and it can also be used to hang hams."

In the dark dungeon, Li Guanqi was teaching Ji Ye how to use the rope.

Julio, the housekeeper, the guards, and others were all hung upside down with Ji Ye on the iron frame that they just bought from the mall and were used to hang ham.

Taking advantage of the fact that Julio and the others hadn't woken up due to drug addiction, Ji Ye asked curiously, "What are you going to ask them about watching chess later?"

"About the reason why Schmidt appeared here, maybe something related to [Platinum-Lead Disease]." Li Guanqi stared at Julio's head and thought: "The best way is to ask about the outbreak of [Platinum-Lead Disease] time, and how to treat [platinum-lead disease].”

"Then do you think they will know the cure for [platinum lead disease]?" Ji Ye stuffed a rag into the guard's mouth, then wrapped the rope around it a few times, "To be honest, I don't think the chances are high. "

"Ask and see, in case there are unexpected gains." Li Guanqi spread his hands indifferently, "Anyway, they don't look like people who can break the big news, so I just need to squeeze out their value and ask what I know. It’s okay to know what you don’t know.”

Although Julio is not a nobleman in the true sense, as an "upstart" who made his fortune by refining [platinum lead], he must be able to know some inside stories that they don't know.

"That's true." Ji Ye nodded, agreeing: "At least judging from the fact that this manor was not built by [Platinum Lead], the things these nobles know are indeed higher than ordinary people."

Li Guanqi: "..."

Li Guanqi: "...the manor?"

Li Guanqi was stunned, and there was a moment of astonishment on his face, "Old Ji... how do you know that this manor is not built with [platinum lead]?"

"Huh? Because the decoration style of this manor is different from that of Frevans?"

Ji Ye was still repeating her previous behavior—stuffing a rag into a guard’s mouth, then wrapping it with a rope several times before tying it up——

"If you really want to talk about it, it's probably the difference between a stone brick house and a cement house? It's just that one is painted with white paint and the other is not."

As he said that, Ji Ye pointed to the wall beside the dungeon and said, "Look, the stone bricks in this dungeon are not painted with white paint, but black and purple stone bricks are used."

Li Guanqi: "..."

"Probably because it is different from the manor above that is often used to entertain guests. The dungeon is a relatively private place, and outsiders will not be easily allowed in, so it doesn't matter even if you don't pretend to be."

Ji Ye glanced—or rather, was hostile to everyone here except Li Guanqi, and said calmly: "It seems that they are not completely fools."

"...Old Ji?" Li Guanqi immediately noticed that Ji Ye's emotions were wrong, and felt that it was necessary to hinder him, so he cautiously reminded: "Are you angry?"

"Yeah." Ji Ye nodded, "I'm indeed angry."

"It should be! ——Because this is a bunch of scum!" Li Guanqi responded quickly and agreed: "They all deserve to die!"

Ji Ye: "..."

Ji Ye sighed softly, noticing that Li Guanqi's gaze never deviated from her face, he turned his head away and became silent.

Li Guanqi: "..."

Seeing this, Li Guanqi also fell silent.

After all, as a guy who is good at swearing but not good at comforting others, she really can't think of a better response than silence.

She means, what should she do now?
She was just like her, she was also angry.

When Ji Ye left, Li Guanqi was crouching in a dark corner on the steps with her cage in his arms, looking at Julio's head.

When Ji Ye passed her by in silence, Li Guanqi opened his mouth and asked hesitantly, "Old Ji, you can go up by yourself... right?"

Ji Ye: "..."

"Don't worry, watching chess...give me some time." Ji Ye said, "I'll talk to you if I have any questions."

Li Guanqi wrinkled his facial features, his face full of confusion: "Um..."

"It's you, Guanqi." Ji Ye turned his head and lowered his eyes to look at Li Guanqi's head, "I know you intend to kill them."

Li Guanqi wanted to hold back, and suddenly raised his head to say something, but he couldn't control the surprised and surprised expression on his face, "I..."

"I don't mean to disagree." Ji Ye interrupted Li Guanqi, shook his head, and said calmly: "I just want to emphasize that I tied the rope and hung the person up."

Li Guanqi: "..."

The weird expression on Li Guanqi's face froze.

When Li Guanqi was stunned, Ji Ye said, "So I think we are accomplices now."

"...Ah, yes." Li Guanqi lowered his head again, and said dryly:
"...we're accomplices now."

"Well, that's right. Then I'll leave the next thing to you, watching chess." Ji Ye said softly, "I'll go up to get some air."

Li Guanqi: "..."

After finishing the ball... I was comforted.

Instead, he was comforted by the younger one.

Li Guanqi didn't respond, but with that stiff and weird expression, he looked at Julio's head again, until he heard the sound of the wooden boards being opened and closed in the dungeon above, the expression on his face gradually changed again. It became a wry smile.

Facts have proved that Ji Ye just looks good at fooling, but in fact he is not really good at fooling.

Although she is one year younger than her, she has been changed by the darkness of this world and is no longer innocent.

In the shit-like world, one is not afraid of bad things, but afraid of bad people.

Some people should not die, and some people should not die but die anyway.

Li Guanqi looked at Julio's head and sighed, in order to facilitate the attack later, he began to sharpen his knife.

Alas... really deserve to die.

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Julio opened his eyes and found that the world had turned into a mirror hanging upside down. It took him a long time to realize that he was being hung upside down in the dungeon in the cellar of his manor.

There are also many people who are also hung upside down, but because their faces are basically facing away from him, their identities cannot be seen, but judging from their clothes, it seems that they are the housekeeper of his manor and servant.

"Housekeeper? Hey!" Julio shouted loudly, trying to attract the attention of the people around him, so as to answer his doubts at this time, "What happened? Why are we hanging upside down here? Butler?! Are you here?" Listen? Hey!"

"..."

"........."

Silence, no sound.

As if falling into a deep sleep and not waking up, neither the housekeeper nor the servants around made the slightest response to Julio's shout, even physically.

There are a few torches lit in the dungeon for lighting, but because there are not many torches and there are too many people who are hung upside down, there is a reason for the occlusion relationship, so the lighting conditions are very bad. There are many figures like a cult scene in a horror movie.

"I... where am I? What happened? Is there anyone? Put me down!"

Julio yelled in panic, and he struggled violently to get out of the predicament he was facing, but except for a little shaking of the shelf, he did not achieve the slightest effective result.

God, what happened?How could I be hanged upside down here?Before... I seemed to be walking with the butler on the way to the dungeon with the two foreign visitors, but why...

Julio was recalling what happened before he fell into a coma, when he suddenly heard the sound of footsteps in the silent dungeon, and the sound changed from far to near, as if he was walking towards his direction.

"...Yes, is there anyone?" Julio asked uneasily. Even though the footsteps made him feel uneasy, he still had a naive and stupid mood, and he took a chance and said, "If someone Hurry over here and put me down from the top of this ghost shelf!"

He complained, unable to stop once he opened his mouth.

"Really, you dare to hang me in such a place. If you let me know who did it, I will definitely not spare that guy."

The more Julio spoke, the more angry he became, and the more he spoke, the more irritable he became. It seemed that he had already figured out how to punish the person who caused him to suffer such a great crime.

Until the person who heard the footsteps finally stood in front of him, holding a kitchen knife dripping with blood, his expression was gloomy, but he was silent and calm, as if looking at him with dead eyes Only then did he stop his irritability and anger with a pale face, so that fear surfaced on his face.

"I have a question to ask you." Li Guanqi wiped the blood on the kitchen knife, "If the answer is correct, I will not touch you first, but if the answer is wrong, I will start chopping from your little mother's finger first."

"You, you..." Julio's face was full of horror, his mouth widened but he couldn't speak.

In fact, the moment he saw Li Guanqi, he wanted to justify himself or something, but when he looked at Li Guanqi's eyes as if he was looking at a corpse, it was difficult for him to say even a complete sentence in such fear. words.

It's completely different from before.

When Ji Ye was around, you could only say that Li Guanqi was a bit sinister.

But now, her appearance is enough to be called a vicious one.

"Don't say unnecessary words."

Li Guanqi seemed to be an emotionless person, and stated her request calmly and indifferently, "If you get the answer right, you will live a few more seconds, if you get the wrong answer, you will pay the price... the first question."

Julio opened his mouth and looked at Li Guanqi in panic. Even though he couldn't judge the joy and anger on Li Guanqi's face very well from his current angle, he still stretched his neck, trying to observe Li Guanqi's expression, To gain more chances of survival for myself.

"What is your purpose for leading us to the dungeon?" Li Guanqi asked, even though the question was in a declarative tone.

Julio: "..."

When Julio heard this, the fear on his face gradually faded away, revealing a strange expression, his lips twitched, but there was still no response.

"I repeat again, what is your purpose of leading us to the dungeon." Li Guanqi raised the kitchen knife and began to cut off Julio's right little finger slowly.

At the same time, the screams began to resound in the dungeon following her movements.

But Li Guanqi didn't seem to hear her, and continued her movements, the tip of the knife carefully avoided the bone on his finger, and just peeled the skin aside.

"Answer the question, get it right, and I'll stop."

"I, I say!" Julio screamed and gasped, "for, to sell to the merchants in charge of the slave trade!"

"Reason?" Li Guanqi asked, she stopped cutting the flesh, and lowered her head to look at Julio's expression.

"For...for making money." Julio still pretended to be confused at the moment, "People like you who come from foreign countries, and especially those who have not yet joined the world government, have always been able to sell high The price of... Ah! It hurts! My hand! Stop, stop! I, I answer questions! Your words don’t count!"

"You answered the question, but you answered it incorrectly." Li Guanqi withdrew his gaze and continued with his actions, "Although this answer sounds very reliable, there is one prerequisite in consideration, that is, we will be taking this flight tonight. Chief Ute's carriage came to attend this banquet... I don't believe you don't know about this kind of thing."

Julio gritted his teeth: "I, I don't know what you're talking about!"

"Give me some face." Li Guanqi sighed: "After all, although Chief Ute took the position through the back door, the power he holds is not compromised at all... Even if you are a rich upstart, you are doing it for money. Well, let me think that you are doing it for money...but even so, it is not worth the loss to mess with someone with such a high status."

At this time, Li Guanqi had completely stripped off a bone from Julio's little finger, and then threw it into the bucket under his feet with a "ding bang".

"So it's definitely not right to do it for money, at least here I have other standard answers... tell me, do you have any other answers." Li Guanqi squatted down, stretched out his hand to grab Julio's throat to stop him scream.

"Answer after you have thought about it. Although you still have nineteen chances to try and make mistakes, I will find it troublesome." Li Guanqi let go of his hand and weighed Julio's expression inch by inch, "I'll ask again, why? ?”

"It's Ute! Ute hinted that I did this! He also told me that the country you come from is not a member country certified by the World Government!"

Julio twitched his cheeks. Not only did he not pretend to be confused this time, he could even say that he couldn't wait to start the hidden question, "Because he got the job through the back door, he has never been favored by the people above, and because the three Tianlong people It's coming in a month, so this time he independently built the flower stand project on the border, but he was praised by the people above, so..."

Li Guanqi nodded, "Continue."

"So he wants to take all the credit! But as the first person to propose this idea, you have blocked his eyes! So on the day you came to the banquet, he contacted me and hinted that I should contact the slave trader. Sell ​​you to another place with a banquet!"

"In this way, he can enjoy all the credit for himself! As long as the flower trellis project on this border can be appreciated by the Tianlong people, he may not only be able to talk to King Frevans, but even Equal to the king!"

Li Guanqi: "..."

"Congratulations, your answer is correct." Li Guanqi still had no expression on his face, "Then the next question is about [platinum lead disease]..."

Julio: "!!!"

Julio thumped in his heart, and didn't really want to answer.

But Li Guanqi ignored his expression and continued: "When do your experts predict that it will officially start to break out in this country."

Julio: "..."

Julio was silent, only panting violently because of the pain and dizziness, and kept silent.

Li Guanqi stood up.

"I--"

Puff!Her knife sank into Julio's palm.

"ask you--"

The sound of muscles being cut rang continuously in the dungeon, even surpassing Li Guanqi's voice.

“[Platinum lead disease] is expected to—”

Ding bang, bang bang, bang bang!It was the sound of a series of bones being violently picked off and thrown into an iron bucket.

"When will it start officially breaking out in this country."

"Half a year! It's half a year!"

Because of the severe and continuous pain, Julio's snot and tears flowed down from the back. Under Li Guanqi's calm indifference, he felt that his right hand had lost the support of the bone, and it was softly resting on his wrist. above.

"Experts say [platinum lead disease] will break out in half a year... Please... let me go... let me go...I don't want to die yet."

Julio begged. He faced Li Guanqi and wanted to beg for mercy, but looking at Li Guanqi's calm eyes, he didn't know how to deal with such a seemingly emotionless man who seemed determined to kill him. hand to beg for his life.

So he could only cry, expressing his instincts ugly and bluntly.

"I don't want to die, please, I can say anything, already, I won't lie anymore... Please, please, please let me go!"

　I looked at my outline...it's sand sculpture style, yes.

　　I have read my article... Oh, the darkness of Nima.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)