The Lost Tomb : Sea Of Sands

Chapter 125: Negotiations

Li Cu had always hated people who were arrogant, and acted too familiar with him. He wanted to ask "Who do you think you are?" but his previous experience kept him from voicing it. He had realized that these people were different from his teachers and father. The kind of adults in today's society that could tolerate a kid talking back, and patiently repeat such things over and over again were generally good people who cared.

But once you tried to find a stranger to do the same thing, and compared the two... that was when you would understand the truth of society's interpersonal relationships.

Li Cu very cleverly told the truth and disclosed a lot of details, including how he detonated the C4 himself. No one asked who he was—whether he was Li Cu or Su Wan— which allowed him to elaborate on a lot of details, and make his words appear incomparably true.

"I don't know what happened to the glasses guy. I lost contact with him after the explosion." Li Cu finally said.

The bearded man touched his chin, silently calculated, and then said, "That's terrible." He stood up and put his arm around Yang Hao's shoulder. "Do you think he's telling the truth?"

"What's the advantage of lying to you?" Yang Hao asked.

"If it's true, your little brother's made a great contribution, and I'll send him a car when we get back to Beijing. If it's a lie, then I'll give him a grand residence halfway up the mountain." Yang Hao was stunned for a moment, and the bearded man said, "But it's not too big. It's in Mount Babao [1]."

Li Cu laughed despite himself, and then heard the man ask: "Can you walk on that leg? You went deeper than your Brother Yang, right?"

Li Cu didn't know how to answer the question. Should he tell this guy he didn't go as deep as Yang Hao, or simply tell him the truth? When their eyes met, Li Cu saw an aggressive look in the other's eyes, but he wasn't afraid.

In the past ten hours or so, he had faced several people whose eyes made him so frightened that the fierce look in front of him could hardly compare.

He raised his hand and asked the other party for a light. In the process of lighting the cigarette and taking the first puff, he thought out his answer.

The other party's purpose was very simple— they obviously needed someone to guide them through the buildings below. For those who hadn't entered the underground, the situation was strange and frightening, so it would be more or less convenient if a person who had entered before would take them.

Moreover, even if Li Cu had clearly marked the way, he may not be able to clearly guide them in such a complicated building system.

Therefore, whether the other party's last sentence was meaningful or not depended on whether Yang Hao could take them down there to achieve their goals. Li Cu obviously couldn't go underground with the state his body was in, so their first choice had to be Yang Hao.

But if Yang Hao failed, they would still drag Li Cu down there, even if only his eyes could move.

What was his purpose? Did he want to go down?

No, he absolutely didn't want to. But if Yang Hao had an accident, he'd probably be forced to go down anyways.

Truthfully, he felt that with Yang Hao's good IQ, there was a very high possibility that an accident would occur. Plus, Wu Xie told him to leave here with these black-clad men, and figure things out later. He didn't know why things had turned out this way.

Fate certainly developed in accordance with his way of thinking, but this wasn't what he wanted to see. He had to cut off the possibility of such a development in advance.