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Chapter 1010 Chess Pieces
When Song Jiang heard what Jiu Ye said, he immediately said with a serious expression, "Jiu Ye can't go in!"

"Why? Wouldn't it be good to have more helpers? Don't be ungrateful, kid! Do you know how many monsters there are to fight?" Jiu Ye said in confusion.

Song Jiang nodded and said, "Of course I know... But you still can't go in, because you are Gu Hao's only escape route, you have to stay here and get him out."

After hearing this, Master Jiu said with a headache, "Do you know that if I don't go in, he may not be able to come out?!"

But Song Jiang shook his head and said with great certainty, "He will definitely be able to get out... I left him a way out."

Not to mention Jiu Ye, even Gu Hao didn't know what the escape route Song Jiang was talking about, but seeing that he didn't look like he was bragging, he quickly asked, "What escape route did you leave for me?!"

Song Jiang smiled and said, "Of course there is a way out... Maybe just like what Jiu Ye said, you may not be able to keep your current body, but I believe that with your ability, it should not be a problem to find another suitable one."

Jiu Ye, who was standing by, asked curiously, "Shouldn't you leave the way out for yourself?"

Song Jiang shook his head and said, "I never have a way out..."

Gu Hao was silent for a moment after hearing what Song Jiang said. He knew why Song Jiang said that, so he looked at Jiu Ye and said, "Old Jiu... Listen to Song Jiang, you really can't go in. You have already paid off the debt of favor by helping us to this point. If you continue, I will owe you."

When Master Jiu heard this, he said nonchalantly, "So what? Can't you owe me a favor?"

Gu Hao smiled helplessly and said, "Of course I can...but the problem is that the creditor must be alive, otherwise how can I pay the debt?!"

Now that things have come to this, Jiu Ye did not force himself to go in with them. After all, he was Gu Hao's retreat, so he had to wait here to meet Gu Hao...

The gap leading to the hell was very narrow, even Song Jiang and Gu Hao could only enter sideways. And in Jiu Ye's words, you can only go in but not out, so the evil ghosts inside can't get out at all, but the monsters with physical bodies can. But the way to get out is a bit scary, that is to squeeze it out, scrape off all the skin, flesh and bones on the body, and squeeze it out of shape before you can get out... Song Jiang felt his scalp tingling when he heard it at the time. He really didn't know how scary the monster that could be squeezed out from here would be. As soon as the two entered, they smelled a pungent smell from the stone walls on both sides. It was a smell produced by the slow fermentation of dirty blood mixed with rotten meat. Although Song Jiang and Gu Hao had tried their best to suppress the nausea in their hearts and breathe through their mouths, the unpleasant smell still kept stimulating their olfactory nerves.

For the first time, Song Jiang thought that having a poor sense of smell was actually a blessing, so he wanted to divert attention by talking, and said to Gu Hao who was walking in front of him, "It's a good thing that you came with me instead of Meng Zhe, otherwise, with his mysophobia, he would have to split this gap..."

Gu Hao laughed dryly when he heard this and said, "If Meng Zhe knew about this, do you think he would agree to you coming to this damn place!?"

Song Jiang paused after hearing this, then pretended to be relaxed and said, "Do you still need to ask? Isn't this obvious? He... has a deep relationship with Qinglong and Xuanwu. For his brother Qinglong, he was willing to sacrifice his true divine body and be sealed in the divine stone with him for thousands of years. I am just a chess piece he laid out thousands of years ago."

Gu Hao wanted to persuade him as soon as he heard it, since you know everything, why do you still want to sacrifice yourself for the promise of others? The life of a chess piece is also a life? Unexpectedly, Song Jiang changed the subject and said, "In fact, I couldn't figure it out at first... Why am I just a chess piece? I can only be a tool?! But later, when I saw Meng Zhe's efforts to help me get rid of the fate of being a chess piece, I suddenly thought it through. Although Meng Zhe forgot that all these things were planned by him a thousand years ago, he wanted to help me now from the bottom of his heart. I know that he once weighed Qinglong and me on the same scale. On one side was his good brother a thousand years ago, and on the other side was me, his new friend who had experienced life and death with him a thousand years ago. He was in a dilemma and had been trying to find a way to have both. But some things... can't be both. In fact, I am a very cowardly person. I am afraid that instead of Meng Zhe choosing to give up on me helplessly when he knows all the truth in the end, it is better for me to make this choice for him? Don't you think so?!"

Gu Hao was stumped by Song Jiang's question. He didn't know whether to answer "yes" or "no" for a moment, so he thought about it and said, "What if he doesn't choose to give up on you in the end?"

Song Jiang chuckled and shook his head after hearing this, "There's no such possibility... Meng Zhe has his own moral principles. Even without Qinglong, his brother, what's more important, me or the peace of the people of the world? He had already made his choice at the beginning, didn't he? If he only cared about his own personal feelings, how could he join forces with Yang Jian to kill Qinglong? He killed Qinglong for the moral principles and responsibilities in his heart, and he was sealed in the magic stone with Qinglong's soul to complete the brotherhood between them." Song Jiang said here with self-mockery, "Compared with all these past events, what am I?!"

The gap leading to the hell was about four or five hundred meters long. During the gap, the two saw some monster skeletons stuck in the narrow area. Gu Hao had no choice but to fold a machete out of yellow paper and cut off those strange-shaped bones that could not be seen before they were born. This was considered to be a way to barely clear a little space for people to pass through...

Seeing this, Song Jiang couldn't help but sigh, "They would rather die here than turn back? These monsters are really stubborn."

Gu Hao sighed after hearing this and said, "That's because you don't know how terrible it is inside... In the eyes of these monsters, it's better to die here than to live and continue to suffer."

Song Jiang then discovered that after Gu Hao folded the paper machete, he had to bite his finger and gently scratch the paper machete a few times before the paper machete could become a truly sharp weapon. He couldn't help but say with some concern, "If we keep folding it like this...how much blood will be wasted?"

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Gu Hao smiled and said, "That's just the beginning! It's okay, I know what to do."