jdhmnovel Chapter 290 Silence
Chapter 290 Silence
Chapter 290 Silence
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Everyone was shocked, but then a look of joy appeared on their faces. They stopped pestering Zhang Wenlai and Yongning Hou and turned around to move closer to Qi Anyi, saying all kinds of flattering words to ask for help.
Qi Anyi looked at these people who came to him without hesitation, a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, but it disappeared in a flash and no one saw it. Then he asked these people to follow him, that is, to the left side of the city lord's mansion entrance. After all, it was more spacious there, and it would allow Zhang Wenlai and Yongning Hou to see more intuitively how he was defeating them.
Qi Anyi retracted his gaze and focused on the people. He stood behind the guards beside him calmly and chuckled. The tone of his laughter was ambiguous. Zhang Wenlai looked at the people who were originally blocking the city lord's mansion and followed Qi Anyi. He was a little unresponsive and stood there, staring blankly at half of the guards around Qi Anyi holding a large pile of medicinal materials and light brown liquid medicine. They didn't know what the ingredients of the liquid medicine were, nor did they know whether the liquid medicine was as useful as Qi Anyi said.
I could only watch helplessly as one civilian after another impatiently stole and robbed things and drank the medicine in my hand. At first, I couldn't see anything, let alone know how the medicine worked.
After the fifth person was about to drink the medicine, Zhang Wenlai reacted, and then quickly strode over, walked in front of Qi Anyi, looked at him coldly, and asked:
"How can you be sure that this medicine can cure everyone? Have you tried it on someone else? If so, please hand that person over to us."
As soon as Zhang Wenlai said this, the other people who were still scrambling for the medicine slowed down their movements. Obviously, since their own interests and lives were at stake, no one was willing to try or take the risk.
But they looked at the others who had drunk the medicine faster than them, and saw that these people had panic-stricken expressions on their faces, and they were obviously afraid or regretting why they were so impatient.
Everyone turned their eyes to Qi Anyi.
Qi Anyi, who was being stared at by everyone, remained expressionless, still maintaining that calm and gentle demeanor.
He turned his eyes and placed his hand on Yongning Hou who was standing behind Zhang Wenlai. The smile in his eyes was gentle yet somewhat hypocritical.
I only heard his voice with a smile:
"Since the city lord has questioned me like this, then please watch carefully from now on. As for the sick people who sacrificed themselves for everyone, they are now in their homes and not moving around. I don't know where they went, so I can't do anything about it now..." Having said this, Qi Anyi looked at the other people with expressions of surprise and fear on their faces, narrowed his eyes slightly, and then said:
"...But aren't there five or six people who drank the antidote right now? Then let's just stand here and wait for the results. Of course, those five or six people aren't sick, and there aren't any side effects or other things that would be bad for everyone after drinking the medicine. If you're still worried, then forget it if no one is willing to take my kindness. It just so happens that someone around me needs the medicine for themselves, just in case."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qi Anyi raised his foot and acted as if he was going to take the people around him away.
Seeing this, the people naturally subconsciously stopped the man. After all, if the hope they had finally obtained turned into despair because of Zhang Wenlai's words, wouldn't they lose a lot? So many people didn't have time to think about it, but just followed Qi Anyi and said all kinds of words to keep him.
Qi Anyi, who had his back to the people, raised the corners of his mouth slightly under the mask, showing undisguised satisfaction and pride, but the expression in his eyes was sincere and a bit embarrassed.
He deliberately made a few excuses and saw that these people were saying all kinds of words to please him like dogs. The corners of his mouth hidden under the mask became bigger and bigger.
He was very satisfied with the flattery and fawning of these foolish people.
So he did not refuse and continued to stay in the original position, ordering people to distribute the liquid medicine to the people one by one.
Zhang Wenlai, who was standing not far from Qi Anyi, looked at these people and the group of people Qi Anyi brought with him with a complicated expression, then turned around and looked in the direction of Yongning Hou.
Seeing that he looked depressed, it was obvious that he was in the same bad mood as himself.
He walked over and looked at Qi Anyi who was also looking at them indifferently not far away, and asked quickly:
"My Lord, what should we do next? If there is something wrong with that thing, then these people will die, right?"
Upon hearing this, Yongning Hou glanced at him without any emotion in his eyes, and then said indifferently:
"These people you mentioned just now wanted you to open the door of the City Lord's Mansion. You and I both know that if we do this, we will all get sick and then die. These people don't take you seriously at all. Each of them only cares about themselves. Think about it, are these people worthy of your concern?"
What this means is, is it worth it to still worry about these people who wanted to drag you down to die with them before?
Zhang Wenlai answered subconsciously in his heart: It’s not worth it.
It can be said that it is not worth it. Even if you want to be a savior, when you see the people you want to save are bent on dragging you into the fire pit and dying together, your originally passionate heart is also cooled by them.
However, thinking this in his heart, Zhang Wenlai couldn't help but reveal a bitter smile on his face. He pulled the corners of his mouth and answered the words that Yongning Hou had just said with fatigue and a hint of imperceptible complexity in his tone. He only heard him say:
"I am the mayor of Nanyu City, and they are the people of Nanyu City. If I don't take care of them, who will?"
Yongning Hou did not expect Zhang Wenlai to say these words. In his impression, Zhang Wenlai had a clear distinction between love and hate, a cheerful personality, and hated evil. By the way, he was the kind of person who would avenge himself on the spot.
Before he asked this question, he thought that Zhang Wenlai would say that it was indeed not worth it, so since these people looked down on the City Lord's Mansion, he just followed them.
However, after hearing these words, Marquis Yongning paused, then fell silent, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.
She just raised her eyes and stared at him silently for a long time.