Chapter 0401 – Encounter in the Snow and Ice – Absolute Return

Hearing the voice outside the door, the faces of the three hostages, immediately became ugly.

The answer?

As long as they weren’t fools, they knew that the people who had come to save them would never knock on the door so politely. They would definitely break down the door and kill them.

And the woman, surprisingly, had a happy smile on her face.

‘Damn! It’s one of theirs!’

Yang Zhong wailed in his heart.

‘But who are they, really? Why is she so happy?’

The door opened and Liam pounced on the man standing in the doorway.

“Young master!”

Against all odds, she hugged Jian Wuji.

“I missed you so much!”

She had often embraced Jian Wuji before, but she had never been so excited and happy as she was today.

Yes, here comes the answer!

Even if he was the wrong answer, so what? He’s Sword Wuji, and he can always appear in front of me at the most crucial moment.

The three hostages, watching this scene, were both scared and envious.

‘What exactly is he? Why is this woman, so attached to him?”

They saw that it was a handsome young man.

Li An then realized that the Drunken Demon was standing behind Jian Wu Ji, looking at her.

“Ah! Drunken Devil-sama!”

She let go of Jian Wuji in a hurry and blushed in shame.

The woman who had just threatened to cut off her hands and head had revealed such a delicate side!

But now, with three hostages, it’s too late to care about that.

‘Drunken Devil?’

They looked at each other with doubt in their eyes. It was as if they were saying, ‘Did I hear it wrong?’ They only knew one drunken demon.

They hoped that they had misheard, so they looked at the Drunken Demon once again.

That handsome middle-aged man, although he didn’t release any aura, he had a sense of presence that, one couldn’t ignore. The way they looked at him, changed from doubt, to fear. They saw the disheveledness and emptiness in his eyes, and finally, their gazes, landed on the wine gourd on his waist.

They had finally determined that it was the signature weapon of the Drunken Devil.

‘We didn’t hear it wrong!’

They sucked in a breath of cold air.

”A demonic father, unexpectedly came? Why?’

In the jianghu, the Devil, was a frightening existence. The Drunken Devil just glanced at them, and they lowered their heads in fear, not daring to meet his gaze.

The Drunken Devil looked at Jian Wuji with eyes that seemed to say:

I only get bullied when I’m in front of you. Outside, I’m awesome.

Jian Wuji smiled at him, he knew that although Drunken Devil pretended to not care on the surface, he must be very uncomfortable in his heart. That was why he often smiled at Drunken Devil.

“Why did you kidnap them?”

Jian Wu Ji asked Li An.

“You really do know everything.”

Li An explained to Jian Wuji, why she had come here. She had originally gone to look for Ghost Spirit Zi’s younger brother, Xu Jin, the second captain of the Ghost Shadow Squad, but on the way, she had met a woman and ……

“…… I came here after I heard her talk about what happened to her. I had a really, really expensive cup of tea.”

I know, that’s Lee Ann, she’s always willing to help.

She didn’t go out of her way to save me because she was my escort, but because, well, that’s just the way she is.

“So, dealing with this kind of thing is so troublesome, huh? I used to see that you always handled such things with ease, and I thought that it was, well, simple.”

Li An looked at the three hostages and sighed helplessly. She had originally thought that once she captured them, she would be able to smoothly exchange the hostages, and then take those who were captured by them and leave this place.

“How was I to know that they were even willing to sacrifice their own sons? I almost wanted to kill them and walk away.”

She purposely said the last sentence, very loudly, so that they could hear it. She wanted them to know that they were, right now, still alive because of Jian Wu Ji.

Now, it was Sword Wuji’s turn to appear.

“What comes next, leave to me.”

“Please!”

With Sword Wuji around, what was there to worry about? Even if he messed things up, so what? To her, Jian Wuji, was all-powerful.

Jian Wuji walked up to them and whispered:

“You guys are really lucky, if I hadn’t come, you’d be dead. This woman, but she’s scary.”

Liam said from the back:

“I hear you.”

All three hostages, at this point, were thinking the same thing:

”This young man, what exactly is he? Is he one of the Drunken Demon’s men?”

They don’t think so. That woman called him “young master”, so it seems that his status is very noble.

However, they couldn’t feel that he had any martial artist’s aura on him. He looked like a, well-born son of a famous family. How could a male son, hang out with a Demon Zun, and do this kind of thing?

But right now, the most important thing they should do was to find a way to survive. Yang Zhong decided to utilize this variable to escape and live.

‘I’m going to use him and live!’

He asked respectfully:

“And you are, young warrior?”

He held back his anger and tried to look as courteous as possible.

“I’m here to save you.”

Although he couldn’t understand the meaning of the words, he knew that this person, was here to save them.

“I’ll promise you anything if you can get me out of here.”

“Promise anything?”

“That’s right, you want money, I’ll give you money, you want martial arts, I’ll give you our Northern Blood Sect’s martial arts secrets. You want fame, I’ll make you famous.”

He started making wild promises, he just wanted to live now, he couldn’t care about anything else.

Li An was in the back and couldn’t help but laugh. What did he think, who was he? He thought, his money, his martial arts, his reputation, was worth a lot? His reputation, compared to Sword Wuji, was simply worthless.

“I’ll take all three, is that okay?”

“Sure!”

Jian Wuji, however, revealed a skeptical look.

“Didn’t you say that your father, refused the hostage exchange? That he would give you money, give you martial arts secrets, and would make you famous?”

“This ……”

This was the most humiliating and angry moment in Yang Zhong’s life.

Jian Wuji said:

“How about this, you tell us where those people, are being held, we’ll go and rescue them, and then, we’ll let you go. Our purpose, anyway, is just to save the people.”

Liamton came to a realization.

”So, this is the correct answer!”

Convince them to tell us where those people are being held, and then, we’ll go rescue them ourselves.

‘Why didn’t I think of that?’

That should have been, the first plan that came to mind. But she didn’t think of it.

She only thought about, exchanging the hostage for the hostage, but ignored that the other party didn’t care about the hostage’s death.

If Jian Wuji hadn’t come, she would have regretted it.

”It’s still easier to follow the Young Sect Master.”

She looked at the Drunken Demon, who looked at her in return, with eyes that seemed to say, ‘I understand how you feel.’

He could, right now, easily watch the show, but if Jian Wuji, was still the same, unreliable Young Sect Master as before, then he would have to follow him around and clean up the mess.

“Let’s just survive first.”

Jian Wu Ji’s words were also comforting to Li An. She must have really wanted to save, that woman’s husband, as well as the others.

But the problem is, even if we release Yang Zhong, the Northern Blood Sect, won’t release anyone. If they really wanted to release him, they wouldn’t have refused the hostage exchange.

Liam said that the ones they captured were people with special physiques, and it seemed that they were conducting some kind of experiment.

They must be doing it in secret, some kind of unseemly favor.

Yang Zhong hesitated for a moment and said:

“They, have been moved.”

He has faltered.

“You know, where they were moved to, right?”

Yang Zhong knew, those people, where they might be imprisoned.

“Even if I told you, you couldn’t save them, it’s heavily guarded.”

Jian Wuji looked at Drunken Devil and said: