"So urgent?" Lin Xiao Tian frowned.
"My master said, if you are willing to help this time, you won't have to worry about Liu Yue's matters anymore. He will use all means to make Liu Yue disappear." The old man said very seriously.
Lin Xiao Tian thought for a moment and quickly waved his hand.
"I think Captain Luo misunderstood. We don't have any deep hatred with Physician Liu Yue."
The old man was stunned.
He didn't expect Lin Xiao Tian to say that.
This caught him off guard.
But at this point, he had no intention of backing down.
"I hope Physician Lin can give my master some face."
The old man's words contained a strong threat.
Just now, the old man had said he could make Liu Yue unable to survive in Black Rock City.
Wouldn't that mean the opposite could also happen to Lin Xiao Tian?
Lin Xiao Tian thought about it.
He couldn't take this risk!
Although he didn't know what the old man was secretly looking at him for, if he wanted to deal with Lin Xiao Tian, he wouldn't need to go to such lengths.
"Old sir, what are you saying? How could I not give Captain Luo face?" Lin Xiao Tian gestured with his hands.
The old man smiled slightly, "Thank you, Physician Lin."
Not long after.
A sedan chair appeared at the door.
In the immortal cultivation world, cultivators didn't need such things when traveling. However, some prominent families still maintained these customs, as it was quite ostentatious.
Lin Xiao Tian got into the sedan chair, the old man led the way, and four sedan bearers carried the chair with great coordination.
Lin Xiao Tian now missed his sports car. It was much more stable to ride in. It was a pity that before coming to this world, he hadn't figured out how to build a car.
The sedan chair bumped along.
Lin Xiao Tian suddenly felt something was wrong.
"The direction is wrong, this is..."
Lin Xiao Tian frowned.
If he remembered correctly, they should be heading towards the forest.
Captain Luo Hou's house was quite far from the forest!
Immediately after, Lin Xiao Tian sensed that the old man had also vanished.
Now, only the four sedan bearers remained.
They calmly carried Lin Xiao Tian towards the forest.
What were they planning to do?
Lin Xiao Tian couldn't understand.
But soon, he understood.
The sedan chair stopped.
When Lin Xiao Tian got down, he saw a familiar figure.
"Luo Hou!"
"Hahaha, Brother Xu, we meet again." Luo Hou looked at Lin Xiao Tian with a smile.
Lin Xiao Tian gestured with his hands, but Luo Hou didn't understand. The old man wanted to translate, but Luo Hou stopped him.
"Brother Xu, I know you must have many questions, such as why I brought you here, and what I brought you here to do. Don't worry, as long as you obediently follow me into the forest, I will tell you all the answers."
The forest at night was much more dangerous than during the day.
During the day, powerful demonic beasts, due to their agreement with the empire, would not easily appear at the border or trouble humans. However, at night, this agreement became invalid.
As long as humans dared to enter the forest at night, they were easily likely to encounter powerful demonic beasts.
This agreement, in a sense, was a hunting agreement.
During the day, humans hunted demonic beasts.
At night, demonic beasts hunted humans.
For the empire, those living around the forest were mostly fringe characters whose lives were of little consequence.
Of course, the empire would still send people to resist, as if all these people were wiped out, who would be the demonic beasts' food in the future?
Lin Xiao Tian shook his head.
Luo Hou smiled.
The next moment, an arrow shot past Lin Xiao Tian.
"If you go in, you might live. If you don't, you die now. You choose!"
This was a death trap.
Lin Xiao Tian had no choice but to obediently enter the mountain.
Once inside the forest, Lin Xiao Tian smelled a strong medicinal scent.
The area around the forest was sprinkled with medicinal powder, a type that demonic beasts detested.
Moreover, the quality of the powder was not low, clearly refined with great care. To cover such a large area would not be cheap.
Lin Xiao Tian remembered that medicinal powder was strictly controlled by the empire. Every person's possession of it was recorded.
Especially in a small place like Black Rock City, the empire's influence was significant, and imports and exports were strictly monitored. Luo Hou should not have so much medicinal powder.
Furthermore, if he had so much medicinal powder, why did Luo Hou have to buy it from Liu Yue in the first place?
Lin Xiao Tian pointed to the surroundings and then to the old man.
"He is asking where you got the medicinal powder from?"
Luo Hou smiled slightly.
"Of course, I didn't buy it. I can't afford so much. The empire also wouldn't let me have so much. It was a gift from a friend."
"A friend?"
Lin Xiao Tian was puzzled.
What kind of friend would be so generous?
Even if it was a gift from a friend, the empire would have registered it. As a physician, Lin Xiao Tian could check the empire's records. He clearly remembered that no one in Black Rock City had so much medicinal powder.
Seeing Lin Xiao Tian's confused expression, Luo Hou shrugged.
"Fine, since you're about to die, I'll let you die with some understanding. Let me ask you, in Black Rock City, who else could have so much medicinal powder that the empire's records wouldn't show it?"
Lin Xiao Tian pondered for a moment.
"The clinic!"
"Haha, it seems you've figured it out. Now you know who my friend is, right?"
Lin Xiao Tian couldn't understand.
"Liu Yue?"
"Didn't Luo Hou have a grudge against her? Why is he on her side now?"
"Are you wondering why Liu Yue would give me this?" Luo Hou looked at Lin Xiao Tian.
Lin Xiao Tian looked at him, their eyes meeting, his expression very calm.
This calm expression, however, made Luo Hou somewhat displeased.
He was about to die, why could he still be so composed?
"Heh heh, it seems you still don't understand the situation. Liu Yue, didn't you say you wanted to meet him yourself?"
Not long after, a figure walked from behind.
The person wore a bamboo hat, and beneath it was a face, it was Liu Yue.
Lin Xiao Tian took a brief look and saw through the pretense.
Liu Yue walked with a wobble, seemingly in pain. Her face was flushed, clearly indicating she had just had a confrontation with someone.
Without any explanation, Lin Xiao Tian understood.
Given their current relationship, Luo Hou had become Lin Xiao Tian's enemy. It seemed luring him into the forest was Liu Yue's idea.
The forest was a perfect place to commit murder, as formation arrays couldn't penetrate it.
As long as the person didn't die at Luo Hou's house, no one would hold him responsible.
As for Luo Hou being the one to call Lin Xiao Tian out initially, there was a way to explain that.
In the middle of the journey, the old man left, and they could simply say he had an urgent matter and left, not expecting Lin Xiao Tian to be abducted halfway.
As for who abducted him, the old man didn't know. Only those sedan bearers knew.
But the sedan bearers likely wouldn't survive the night.
Lin Xiao Tian smiled.
"You have quite some courage to be able to laugh in this situation." Liu Yue looked at Lin Xiao Tian with disdain.
She didn't know that at this moment, Lin Xiao Tian was looking at them as if they were already dead.