"Hehehe!"

Gan Ning smiled slightly, and said: "The general is high and powerful, and a rare object in the world is naturally inexhaustible, unlike people like me who are reckless, if you want to get anything, you have to exchange your life!" ”

"Xingba knows that the things used by Li are not from bloody battles?" Li Li could naturally hear the hatred of the rich in Gan Ning's words, and immediately asked in a deep voice.

"That's 、、、 right!" Gan Ning nodded hesitantly, and said in a low voice: "The general's background is the same as Gan's, and he is not a person from the noble clan who sits back and enjoys his success. Gan's words were incorrect, and he asked the general to forgive him. ”

Li Li smiled and chuckled, "What's the point of worrying about some trivial matters, Xingba doesn't have to care." ”

Gan Ning's expression changed slightly when he heard this, and a trace of hesitation and struggle flashed in his eyes, as if there was something bothering him, and it was difficult to choose for a while.

"Xingba seems to have something on his mind? If so, can you tell me a little bit more? Li Li noticed the different color on Gan Ning's face and asked softly.

After speaking, seeing that Gan Ning still didn't seem to have made up his mind, Li Li continued: "You said before that you couldn't believe me Li Li, but I still didn't believe it, I feel that this statement is just a prevarication, but in fact you must have other plans." But since you don't want to tell me directly, I don't want to ask more. But there is one thing I must say to you, that is, I, Li Li, am by no means a person who breaks his word and gets fat and goes back on his word, and I have always been a man who does what he says. Otherwise, it will be difficult for me to win the trust of the soldiers under my command, let alone their trust, and naturally no one will be willing to die for me. ”

Speaking of this, Li Li's words changed sharply, and he said in a deep voice: "Just now I observed that the Jinfan Hu under your command has dropped by more than half compared to before departure, and you and I both know where these people are going. It's just that I've always wondered, why did Xingba deliberately attract me here? It shouldn't be as simple as killing people and killing people. Otherwise, corpses can be destroyed everywhere along the way, so why bother to rush to such a desolate and dead place to do it. I wonder if Xingba can solve my doubts? ”

Listening to Li Li's words, the expression on Gan Ning's face changed again and again. Eventually, he sighed lightly and whispered, "You are the smartest person I have ever met, but you are also the most thoughtless person. If you already knew I had other plans, why did you come with me? As I said before, if Li Wenchang wants to leave, I can't stop you, and I'm afraid my brothers won't be able to stop you from escaping. Can you sue me, why don't you run away? ”

Li Li smiled and said, "I heard that the Jinfan thieves are on the river. often rob the rich and help the poor, so the people along the river are quite protective of you and your Jinfan thieves, and have repeatedly covered you to escape from the pursuit of the county and county soldiers. From this, Xingba should have heard a sentence: The big husband does something and does not do something, although the righteousness lies in tens of millions of people. As long as it's what I'm Li Li decides to do. Even with a sword and axe, I am not afraid! ”

"Well said!" Gan Ning happily responded: "Although I don't know if your statement is true or false. But I believe that it is not in vain that you can become the commander of the Xiliang Army. That's it. There are some things that don't have to be hidden, anyway, you just jump into the cold pool and understand everything. Have you ever heard of the reason for the Poison Dragon Pool? ”

"I heard Lu Zijing mention it two days ago, it is said that this pond has been circulated for hundreds of years, and there are often dragons infested. I don't know if it's true? Li Li continued.

Gan Ning nodded lightly but shook his head, and said in a low voice: "The rumors are true. But it is not true that there are often dragons. To be precise, it is not that there is a dragon here, but that there has always been a dragon entrenched here, at least for hundreds of years. Its nest is in a waterhole beneath our feet. The location is exactly the same, the entrance to the dragon's lair is just over twenty meters below the rock we are standing on. ”

"Oh? Is there really a dragon in the world? Li Li's eyes widened when he heard the sound and asked in a lost voice.

"There is no doubt about it!" Gan Ning nodded and said, "In the past three years, I have seen this dragon with my own eyes four times, and I have paid a heavy price for it. In three years, a total of more than 600 brothers died tragically under the dragon's claws, and became its food, which was extremely tragic. ”

Li Li's eyebrows furrowed when he heard this, his eyes were extremely cold and his eyes looked at Gan Ning, and he said in a deep voice: "What does Jiaolong look like?" Can you be sure it's a dragon and not a python? ”

Gan Ning didn't dare to look at Li Li, tilted his head to look at the blue and secluded cold pool, and said softly: "Have you ever heard that there is a strange poisonous snake in the world that is huge and extremely poisonous, called 'Yu'?" ”

"Huh? I've heard of it. Li Li groaned and said: "According to the historical records of the Western Zhou Dynasty, 'Yu' is a dragon, which can be turned into a dragon in five hundred years and a dragon in a thousand years. It's just that this matter is purely imaginary, and no one has ever been able to witness the truth of this matter. After all, human lifespan is limited, who knows if it will be able to turn into a dragon in 500 years, and become a dragon in another 500 years. Therefore, this matter is only an inference out of thin air, and it is not credible. ”

"Really?" Gan Ning shook his head with a wry smile and said, "I haven't seen the poison dragon five hundred years ago, but I have seen the dragon five hundred years later!"

It has four claws, a pair of front claws about six feet long are thick and fierce, and the sharp claws are about two feet long, and one claw is enough to break stone and gold; The back of the abdomen is a pair of back claws that are smaller, only three feet long, and the claws are not very sharp, far from being compared with the front claws, and can only be used to support the body, and the attack power is limited. The neck is thin and the head is big, the neck is as thin as an elk, the head is large and long, the blood basin is large enough to swallow a living person, the upper and lower two rows of fangs are about a foot long, and the teeth of Bai Sensen are daunting.

There is a protrusion about a foot high in the center of the head of the dragon's head, which seems to be a dragon's horn, extremely hard, and can disembowel people and kill them with one blow in the middle of the head. It has a row of bone spurs on its back, and its entire body is covered with thick skin, very much like dragon scales, but there are no separate scales, it is all one, the skin is rough and thick, and it is extremely tough, and the sword is difficult to hurt. The poisonous sac under the abdomen can spray colorless poisonous juice with a fragrant smell, which is extremely poisonous, but if there is a little wound on the body, it will definitely die after being stained with the poisonous juice. The faint fragrance around the cold pool is the smell of poisonous juice volatilized in the water, and anyone who stays in this fragrant smell for half an hour will inevitably bleed from his eyes and nose, and his whole body will be black and blue and die of convulsions.

In addition, it has a huge fishtail, about a few feet long and nearly a foot wide, much like the tail fin of a carp, the tail end is forked into four segments, and the parade is extremely fast in a gentle swing. The whole Jiaolong body is more than seven zhang long, and the body is huge, which makes people frightened and frightened, and they dare not approach at all. ”

Listening to Gan Ning's narration. The more Li Li listened, the more he felt that this dragon was incompatible with the image of the giant dragon in his impression, and the gap was not a little bit, as if they were two completely different giant beasts. In particular, this creature has a large head and a thin neck, four claws, and a fish tail, no scales around the body, no dragon horns on the head, and the raised bone spurs in the center of the skull are most likely caused by the unkempt front jaw.

Such an image made Li Li think of lizards or crocodiles. In short, it has nothing to do with the dragon, and it is not next to each other at all.

In addition, as a member of the navy in his previous life, Li Li knew something about the huge beasts that lived in the sea and rivers.

According to historical records, 虺. It was indeed a poison that actually existed thousands of years ago, and some people called it a type of poisonous snake. There are also people who put it in the category of lizards. Inhabiting bays or the banks of large rivers, it is amphibious, but most of the time it is in the water. And it was indeed called "Jiao" by the ancients, but another nickname seems to be more appropriate, that is, "bay crocodile".

The only thing that puzzled Li Li was that although the size of this poisonous bug was huge. However, the historical records of later generations recorded that the body length was only eight or nine feet, at best two or three meters, why did it have a huge body seven or eight feet long thousands of years ago? Even if the scale of the Han Dynasty is not as accurate as the length of later generations, the body of more than seven zhang is at least more than 16 meters. Huge size of almost twenty meters.

If the dragon that Gan Ning said was really a crocodile, then Li Li would not be surprised. Because there were crocodiles in the Yangtze River in later generations, although the size was not so big, but when the time goes back to 1,800 years ago, maybe there really was such a big crocodile.

"Did Xingba really see the crocodile 、、、 Jiaolong with his own eyes?" While racking his brains to recall the memories of the afterlife, Li Li asked. It's just that he almost casually said the word "crocodile", but fortunately, he was alert in time, and finally followed Gan Ning's train of thought to ask.

"Exactly." Gan Ning said with great certainty: "Do you want to say that this dragon is not a dragon, but a bay crocodile?" ”

"Ugh!" Li Li was stunned when he heard this, and nodded subconsciously.

Gan Ning grinned, as if he was unconcerned, but in Li Li's eyes, it seemed to be ridiculing himself for being lonely and unheard.

Then Gan Ning said in a low voice: "I have seen the bay crocodile before, it is relatively large, and it is somewhat similar to the Hantan Jiaolong, but it cannot be compared with this Jiaolong. The bay crocodile is no longer than two or three zhang, and the most important thing is that the bay crocodile has no dragon whiskers and no bone spurs, and it is impossible to be injured by a sword. But the dragon at our feet, with its black whiskers more than two feet long, has fought my brothers several times, and the swords and arrows have no effect on it, so it can only be allowed to run amok, and eventually eat hundreds of my brothers. ”

Seeing that Gan Ning's expression was different, Li Li no longer asked about Jiaolong, anyway, he would see it immediately, and he would know whether it was a dragon or a reptile at a glance.

Now the biggest question in Li Li's heart is what Gan Ning wants to do by tricking himself here, and what ulterior motives he has.

"Tell me, what is there in this cold pool that makes you so obsessed with it, and you still want to kill people?"

Gan Ning turned his head to look into Li Li's deep eyes, and said softly: "Treasure, priceless treasure!" As long as we get this treasure, I, the Thief of the Sails, will be able to recruit people again, expand my strength several times, and be enough for us to enjoy a life of fine clothes and food for more than ten years. ”

"Treasure?" Li Li was stunned when he heard this, and sneered: "You said that there are priceless treasures here, don't you fool me?" There is no shop in front of the village here, and there are no people in a radius of 100 miles, how can there be treasures? ”

Gan Ning shook his head slightly and said: "You only see that this place is so desolate now, but you don't know that this place was once a rather prosperous tributary ferry, and tens of thousands of people lived around. In addition, it is only three miles from the tributaries, and over the centuries how many ships have sunk here, and how many treasures have sunk to the bottom of the river, and finally washed up by the flood to the entrance of the canyon. These things finally landed in this cold pool, and were collected by the dragon to the bottom of the pool as glittering playthings. Maybe there weren't many valuable things here at first, but over the years, the wealth at the bottom of the pool was considerable, and they were all priceless treasures, which lasted for a long time, and their value can be imagined. ”

"Three miles of waterway?" Li Li asked in surprise: "Since it is a three-mile waterway, why do you sail for half an hour?" ”

Gan Ning sighed lightly: "The fog is thick, and you can't go as fast as you want, so it takes half an hour to travel such a little distance." If you were walking on the shore, you would have been far faster than a boat, and you would have reached the cold pool in a quarter of an hour! ”

"I see." After listening to Gan Ning's words, Li Li already understood thoroughly. This time, he was regarded as a wronged leader by water thieves like Gan Ning, and followed them to deal with Jiaolong, so that the Jinfan thieves could take the opportunity to pick up the treasure at the bottom of the pool. After the Jinfan thief's plan succeeded, he would either be buried in the dragon's belly, or besieged and shot by the Jinfan thief, in short, he would not escape death.

It's really a good calculation, making steady profits without losing money, inside and out, Jinfan thieves are profiting, and he and Zhou Yu and others have become lambs to be slaughtered!

"It's a great shame!"

In a flash of thought, Li Li's expression, which was still gloomy just now, instantly calmed down, his face was neither happy nor angry, calm and calm.

"That being the case, I cooperate with you, and I hope that you will truly live a good life in the future. Needless to say, let's get into the water, you and I will join forces to deal with Jiaolong. Only then will your men be able to sneak into the bottom of the pool to catch the treasure! ”

As he spoke, Li Li held the Jin Qi war knife in his hand, looked up at Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Xiao Qiao and others on the mountain to the east, and slowly walked to the edge of the rock.

"Wait!" Seeing that Li Li was about to enter the water, Gan Ning hurriedly spoke out to stop it, and said: "General Wei, I, Gan Ning, did tell some lies before, and I did want to use your superior water nature and martial arts to entangle Jiaolong, so as to buy time for us. However, I have one sentence that is true, that is, I have never been convinced in my life, but I only respect you General Wei.

However, no matter how much I am a villain, or suspicious by nature, I cannot risk the lives of my brothers. Therefore, after the deed is completed, I still can't let you go, but I can swear to the heavens, I can let go of the five servants you are traveling with, as long as they don't go to Xiliang within three months, I will never embarrass them! ”

"Three months?" Li Li asked in a deep voice: "Do you want to dismiss the Jinfan thieves, or flee with a group of subordinates, where can you flee to, Jiaozhou or Nanban?" ”

However, the voice fell, and he didn't wait for Gan Ning's reply, and continued: "Maybe you just want me to entangle Jiaolong for you, so you pretended to promise to let go of the five of my men." However, I can now tell you that I, Li Li, have never been taken advantage of, and those who want to use me to achieve their goals have so far reaped the consequences of their own evil and have been reduced to dry bones in the grave. After this is over, you only have two days to choose from, either surrender or die! ”

Speaking of this, Li Li turned his head to look at Gan Ning, and said with a solemn expression: "Today, the two of us will bet on who can kill Jiaolong, and the bet is the lives of you and me!" Okay, let's go. ”

Before the words fell, Li Li stepped out and leaned over and fell into the cold pool. Gan Ning wanted to explain a little, but when he saw Li Li jump so neatly, he no longer hesitated and jumped into the cold pool.

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