Nine-layer armor-breaking

Chapter 300 Gambling

He didn't want to see that painful scene again, didn't want to feel that helplessness again, and didn't want to experience that state again.

For no other reason than his hope that the tragedy of that day would never happen again.

The young people back then lacked ability, but the later leaders' words carried great weight.

Xiaolu and he did have a very good relationship, but he was still hesitant.

His decision not to resolutely choose the side road was also based on his own considerations.

He weighed the options in his mind repeatedly.

Choosing the smaller path would indeed be more reliable than others due to the close relationship between the two, making them a great help to him and assist him in various tasks.

However, choosing the side road also carries significant risks.

This risk doesn't stem from any other reason, but solely from his boss.

Like the backbone, Xiao Lu was also taken in by his boss.

Although Xiao Lu was somewhat resistant to some of the team's practices at the beginning, just like how he couldn't bring himself to make a move on those women.

He couldn't even bring himself to steal things from a woman, let alone anything else.

But like the core leader, he also had no right to resist, no right to say no. Unless, he was willing to leave the group, but he was unwilling to leave.

Both the core members and Xiaolu showed great tolerance towards their boss. It was precisely because their boss was a guiding light for them in their most desperate moments.

While it can't be said to be a guiding light or lead them onto the right path, it did manage to pull them out of the mire.

They went from a quagmire to a fire pit, a problem that the core leader only realized later.

But it must be said that the first time they went to "home" brought them feelings that they had never experienced in all these years.

The first time I had a home, the first time someone cared about me, that feeling is irreplaceable.

This is also what troubles the core leader; his hesitation stems from this very point.

Although Xiao Lu and he had a good relationship, he couldn't measure what he and his boss meant to Xiao Lu, or what their respective positions were.

From this perspective, he cannot gamble, nor dare he gamble.

Whether something is important, and how important it is, needs to be compared with something else.

He believed that he was much more important to Xiaolu than anyone else on the team.

But if the other party is his boss, he doesn't have confidence in facing his boss.

After all, he was the one who brought Xiaolu back to the team, the one who gave Xiaolu a home.

Although Xiaolu went against his own wishes and did many things that he was unwilling to do and found difficult to accept, it does not mean that Xiaolu did not cherish old friendships.

Xiao Lu is a loyal and righteous person. Unlike the main character, he doesn't have many of his own ideas.

He only knew that he would listen to whoever was good to him.

This is also why he was quicker than the core leader to accept doing those dirty and tiring jobs.

The backbone is someone who is kind to Xiaolu and someone you can talk to.

While they couldn't be said to be completely open with each other, their thoughts and opinions often reached a high degree of agreement.

In most cases, the two are still able to open up and have a conversation.

This is quite rare in the entire team.

Because the two of them didn't want to go along with the other people in the team.

Although what the two did was not exactly honorable, they were not entirely devoid of conscience either.

There were no vested interests involved between them, nor were they like the cronies in the team who called each other brothers; they simply showed more care and support.

Even so, the core leader still dared not compare his own status with that of his boss in Xiao Lu's heart.

If Xiao Lu wakes up and sees this scene, sees his boss die, how will he explain it to him?

In the current situation, if we want to use the side route and keep this a secret, we need to choose two people from the four who have been drugged, are lying on the ground, and have their mobility restricted, and kill the other two teammates who are injured in the arms and legs.

Even so, there is still another problem to face.

Although this temporarily solved the problem of how to explain it to Xiaolu, he still couldn't determine the exact function of the powder.

He wasn't sure if the powder had kept Xiaolu and the others conscious.

If Xiao Lu and the others know what happened on the field, or can vaguely hear some of it, then even if Xiao Lu doesn't attack him after he wakes up, he will still be a big problem.

Even if those four people cannot be certain of the specific situation, it will leave them with a seed of doubt.

But the core leadership was powerless to resist.

Leave Xiaolu in that forest, and when she wakes up, she might still have a chance to escape.

But he still needed to figure out how these three were going to deal with his teammates; he couldn't afford to take that risk lightly.

The key figure slowly moved among his teammates, his brain working at lightning speed.

He pretended to be selecting people, but he was actually thinking.

Just now, he actually had some ideas.

His heart sank as he gazed in the direction of the young master on horseback. He took a few steps toward the young master and asked, "Sir, what do you intend to do with the people left behind? Leave them alone, or..."

At this point, he didn't continue asking questions because he didn't want to offer any advice to the three people opposite him.

If this were to inspire the three of them again, the fate of their teammates would be absolutely tragic.

These are all things that the core leader is thinking about.

That's a rather pointless question.

What does it mean to take no action?
Is the decision to do nothing a performance of repaying evil with kindness, showcasing one's good character in dealing with others?
He was well aware that if a robbed person had the ability to resist, they would definitely not let the criminals get away with it.

Because from the very beginning when he started working for his boss, he had given these matters considerable thought.

Putting yourself in his shoes, if he were the one being robbed, he wouldn't have fared any better.

Faced with the question from the leader, the young master on horseback remained silent and made no movement.

The Jiang family guard sitting in the carriage was about to say something, but he only managed to utter half a word. Before he could even finish a complete sentence, he swallowed the rest of his words and shut his mouth tightly.

Seeing this situation, the guard on horseback could only answer the question posed by the leader. He could, of course, remain silent in the face of the question, but doing so would only make the leader a little flustered and would make it difficult to discern any other intentions.

In order to test the leader further and to see through the tricks of the other side, the Jiang family guard on horseback would certainly not miss this opportunity.

The Jiang family guards on horseback said calmly, "The rest is naturally up to us to handle."

A single, casual remark, though it didn't clarify the situation, sent a chill down the spine of the leader.

What does it mean that it's their responsibility to handle?

How should we handle this?

It would be more straightforward to just say to kill the rest!
If he had simply said to kill all the remaining people without exception, he wouldn't have needed to think about so many candidates, and he wouldn't have hesitated so much.

What are you hesitating about?

The voice roared behind the leader, and the words clearly reached his ears.

At first glance, it sounds very powerful, but upon closer listening, the sound is actually not very loud.

The reason those words were able to reach the ears of the leader was almost entirely due to his last breath, his voice carrying upwards and outwards.

The voice sounded weak and feeble, as if it was a desperate roar, as if the person was using all their strength to shout.

The person who spoke was the one whose thigh was pinned to the ground by the Jiang family guard sitting on the carriage, the one who had been sitting next to the leader, at the leader's feet.

"What's there to think about? Just choose!" Seeing that the leader didn't respond, the man shouted again from behind him.

These words greatly angered the leader.

Is something that concerns everyone's lives something to be chosen with words?

The leader withdrew his gaze from the young master and his two guards.

He turned to look at the person not far away; his teammate was still sitting steadily on the ground.

His teammate still couldn't separate the dagger from his thigh and the ground.

The leader glared fiercely at his teammate, who also looked extremely hostile.

I don't know if it's because of the unbearable pain or because I don't like the person in charge.

Before the two sides went to war, the two had an argument.

Actually, that matter wasn't over yet, but they couldn't prioritize resolving it because they both had more urgent matters to attend to.

This matter directly concerns his life.

Despite their arguments, they are still on the same side for the time being, and they should unite against external threats first.

Whether that teammate understood these principles or not, he naturally didn't want to swallow his anger at the look from the leader, so he returned the look with an even fiercer one, his expression full of disdain.

Seeing this, the leader spoke directly to the man, saying, "Just choose directly? Since you make it sound so easy, then tell me, how should we choose?"

The man seemed surprised that the leader would ask him such a question. He didn't know if the leader was actually discussing the selection of personnel with him, or if he was just trying to provoke him and shut him up.

This would have been absolutely impossible in the past.

The core leader has always been independent and doesn't care about other people's thoughts or opinions; he always pretends not to hear them.

This question left the man completely bewildered; he was utterly astonished and even felt it was somewhat unreal.

"me……"

The man opened his mouth twice, but neither time did he get the words out.

He muttered to himself, but his stubborn nature meant he would never give up, and he finally said what he had to say.

"Naturally, we should choose the clear-headed person."

What is a clear-headed person? This question is not only understood by the core leader, but also by Jiang Xian and the other two.

The conscious person is naturally the one who was pinned to the ground by the dagger, and the one who lost an arm but fainted. Others are naturally not included in the category of "conscious person".

His boss was dead, and the four lying on the ground were also immobilized. Whether they were conscious or not was hard to say, but they definitely couldn't do anything, so there was no difference between them and being unconscious.

After the man finished speaking, the leader paused for a moment, then burst into laughter, finding it utterly ridiculous.

It wasn't for any other reason, but simply because this person, who was usually so tough and arrogant, was now fighting for his own life, for the sake of his already broken body, to have a chance to survive.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to speak frankly and directly to his key advisor.

Even when he wanted to express his desire to live, he didn't ask his mentor for a single word; his attitude remained arrogant, and his tone remained forceful.

Seeing the leader burst into laughter, the man was naturally a little confused and, for some reason, felt a chill run down his spine.

He didn't understand what the leader was laughing about.
"What time is it? He's about to lose his life. He doesn't understand what's so funny about that pillar of support?"

"What...what are you laughing at?" he asked the leader.

Suddenly, the man's voice trembled, and his body began to shake involuntarily.

I don't know if his wounds became even more unbearable, or if he was frightened by his pillar of support.

"You want to live?" The leader took a few slow steps and quickly stood in front of the man.

He said this in a very unusual way.

The mainstay's tone was very gentle, like being caressed by warm sunshine, exceptionally comforting.

The way the leader acted left that person quite confused.

Even when he was in the team, he had never heard the "backbone" speak to him in that tone before.

Even when the core leader spoke to his boss, the tone he used now was something he hadn't heard in a long time.

This made him feel even more uncertain than if he had been scolded. Looking at the somewhat expectant gaze of his pillar of support, he slowly replied, "Who doesn't want to live? Isn't that... obvious?"

As he spoke, his voice grew softer and softer, and he became increasingly doubtful of himself. By the last few words, even the most trusted advisor closest to him could barely hear him.

"What are you saying here? Do you have to ask that in front of them?" Although he was somewhat doubting his life, he still added a sentence to the backbone and gave him a wink.

Upon hearing this, the leader laughed again, but this time, he didn't laugh out loud like before; he just pursed his lips slightly.

The man's meaning was clear: he didn't understand why the leader would ask such a question in front of Jiang Xian and the other two, the three people who could easily take their lives.

(End of this chapter)