Just now they were laughing recklessly, but suddenly the laughter stopped abruptly.
"Don't move! One more move and you're dead!" Shen Li covered the mouth of the man named Wang Li with one hand and pressed a dagger against his neck with the other.
"But if you answer my questions honestly, I'll let you go!"
"I'm asking you, are you digging a tunnel?"
After Shen Li threw out the first question, neither of the two men said a word.
"Say it or not?" Shen Li moved the hand holding the dagger an inch forward, pressing the dagger tightly against Wang Li's neck, cutting through a layer of skin on his neck and making a little blood ooze out.
The cold dagger glinted in the dark night, and there was a faint smell of blood in the air.
"Um! Um!" Wang Li, who was subdued by Shen Li, felt the pain from his neck injury and immediately started nodding frantically.
"Um! Um!" Li San, who was also threatened by Han Yue, shook his head at Wang Li disapprovingly, but unfortunately the panicked Wang Li didn't even look at him.
"Don't move!" Han Yue kicked the back of Li San's knee. The force was so great that even as a man, he couldn't help but stumble forward in pain. Even though Han Yue grabbed him, a cut still appeared on his neck.
"What is the tunnel for?"
"Um! Um!" Wang Li's mouth was covered, and his words were completely inaudible.
"I'll let go of your mouth now, but if you dare to shout, I'll kill you and your companion right away!" After warning him, Shen Li slowly let go of his mouth.
As soon as he got the chance to speak, Wang Li took two deep breaths and then stammered, "We... we don't know what the tunnel is for either!"
"Hmm?" Hearing this, Shen Li moved the dagger closer to his neck.
"Don't! Don't! I really don't know! We're just the lowest - level people. We only heard that there's a big business coming to the stronghold recently, so we're digging the tunnel."
Hearing the "big business" from his mouth, Shen Li continued to ask, "Big business? What kind of business can a bandit stronghold have?"
"This... this... I'm not very clear! I don't know anything!"
"If you don't tell the truth, I'll cut off your ear first and then ask you properly." As Shen Li said, she twirled the dagger in her hand and aimed it at his ear.
"Spare my life, sir! I really don't know what the big business is. All I know is that a lot of things are transported out of the stronghold every month. We're selling those things! But as for what they are, we're not qualified to see them."
Shen Li pressed the dagger against his neck again. "I'll ask you again. Do you need to be checked when you enter and leave the room where you're digging the tunnel?"
Wang Li tried his best to shrink his neck back to get away from the dagger, but it was in vain. The dagger was firmly pressed against his neck. "Yes, we do. We're counted three times a day, morning, noon and night."
Shen Li didn't expect that the Pangu Stronghold was indeed well - defended. Then, as if thinking of something, she asked again, "Do you have any secret signal when you enter and leave the room?"
"Secret signal?" Wang Li repeated it and then said affirmatively, "Yes! Yes!"
"What is it? Say it!"
Wang Li swallowed hard and said, "It's... it's..."
He paused for a moment, as if recalling, while Shen Li behind him squinted her eyes imperceptibly.
Wang Li, who had always seemed greedy for life and cowardly, and had answered Shen Li's questions honestly, suddenly struggled with both hands and broke free from the dagger pressed against his neck by Shen Li.
"Whoosh!" Almost at the same time, a flash of light suddenly shot out from Shen Li's hand.
"Co..." He had just taken one step and uttered one word when the dagger thrown by Shen Li hit his head and killed him instantly.
Shen Li walked up to his body, pulled out the dagger, wiped the blood on his body a few times, then walked up to Li San, patted his face with the cold dagger and asked, "He didn't want to live, but I wonder if you do?"
"I'll only ask you once. I'll count to three. If you answer me within these three numbers, it's fine. If you don't, I'll end your life right away and let you go down and accompany him."
"Still the same question. What's the secret signal? Three!"
Li San nervously swallowed his saliva. Looking at Shen Li right in front of him, he only felt a chill running down his back.
"Two!"
Li San's palms were already full of cold sweat, and his mind kept replaying the moment when Wang Li fell just now.
"I... I'll say!"
Shen Li removed the dagger from his face and looked at him without any emotion in her eyes.
Although Li San couldn't see Shen Li's eyes, he only felt as if he was being stared at by a wolf in the dark night.
"The secret signal is 'The moon is bright and the stars are sparse'!"
After Li San said that, he swallowed his saliva and waited for Shen Li to decide his fate like a prisoner waiting for a death sentence.
"I won't kill you!" Shen Li glanced at his tightly closed eyes and said slowly.
Before this, Li San had already prepared himself mentally that even if he told the secret signal, he would still be killed. But since he was eager to live, he took the one - in - a - million chance and told it.
But now that he heard it with his own ears, he couldn't believe it and couldn't help widening his eyes.
"But you can't tell anyone about what happened tonight. Otherwise, I have plenty of ways to make your life a living hell!"
"Sorry!" Shen Li struck him on the back of his neck, and Li San rolled his eyes and fainted.
"Drag them into the grass so they won't be found for now!" Shen Li said to Han Yue, then she took the lead and dragged Li San towards the grass beside them.
Hearing this, Han Yue didn't move. "Miss, it's better to kill them all. If you don't kill him, it'll be a hidden danger in the future!"
Shen Li didn't say a word and continued to drag Li San towards the grass.
"He's heard our voices. He may recognize us in the future!" Seeing that Shen Li completely ignored her, Han Yue walked in front of her and said seriously.
"I promised him that as long as he told the secret signal, I'd spare his life."
"Miss! This isn't the time to be sentimental! If you can't do it, I'll do it for you!" As Han Yue said, she aimed the dagger in her hand at Li San's neck.
But Shen Li pushed Han Yue's arm away. "Don't worry, he won't say a word!"
"How can you be so sure?"
At this moment, Han Yue had forgotten Shen Li's status as a young lady. She hated Shen Li's indecisiveness because it would bring them unknown troubles.
"I believe in his eyes!"
Hearing this, Han Yue couldn't help frowning.
Shen Li's light - hearted words really couldn't dispel her doubts.
"Han Yue! I don't want to become a killing machine."