6. The Bluff of Retreating to Advance
This dragon python was an old creature that had lived for hundreds of thousands of years. Even though it hadn’t had much contact with humans, ordinary scams wouldn’t work on it.
Moreover, regarding the matter of the Nine-Colored Deer, although its previous words were very comforting, it didn’t mean it had to believe such an incredible story.
However… it hadn’t expected that the girl standing in front of it was not some low-level trash.
“What does it matter to me whether you believe it or not?” Gong Yiling blinked, looking very innocent. “Only a liar would care about the credibility of their own lies. I’m just stating a fact. Why should I care if you believe it or not?”
These righteous words actually stunned the big snake head.
It could only be said that the high-level play was on a completely different level from the low-level play.
A high-level scammer was good at playing the reverse psychology. The meaning of their words was—think whatever you want, I don’t care.
However, only Gong Yiling herself knew whether she cared or not. After saying these words, an honest person who hadn’t played a few games of werewolf would really start to think about whether what she said was true.
Actually, you just had to grasp one point… the words of a werewolf, or a scammer, should be treated as farts. This way, you could basically ensure that a scammer would never be able to scam you.
Of course, the big snake head in front of her had never received a call from the anti-fraud center, and with Gong Yiling’s special professional passive skill of a scammer, it was inevitable that it would be deceived.
“Those words just now, were they really said by the old deer?”
It began to think. If this girl wanted to lie, she could indeed use some more reasonable reasons. Even bringing out the name of some Daoist sects from the Hundred Paths Mountain would be much better than bringing out the name of the Nine-Colored Deer.
First, this matter itself was unlikely. Second, it had no way to verify it. If it was really a lie, then it was basically writing the four words “I am a liar” on her face.
Was it necessary? Were liars that stupid?
“The truth, no matter how absurd, is the truth, not a story that can be changed at will.” Miss Gong still shrugged nonchalantly. “But I don’t care. Anyway, I can’t beat you. At worst, I’ll just have Senior Deer come over and explain it to you.”
“But Senior Deer is busy with some other things recently. I guess he won’t be able to come over in a short time, so you know, that’s why he asked me to come over for him.”
As she spoke, she also took the initiative to push away a little of the dirt that Yan Chuyue had piled up before, revealing a part of the key’s shape, and pointing at this thing, she said, “As for this thing, let’s just leave it here for now. Senior Deer only told me how to use it, but didn’t tell me how to interrupt its effect. I’m afraid I’ll break what the senior gave me.”
This series of statements, although not aggressive, was meant to retreat in order to advance.
In any case, because of some small matter, or rather, because she didn’t understand the senior’s arrangement, to disturb someone, this behavior was a clear sign of being brainless.
About this point, the big snake head was very clear.
This girl didn’t seem to care if this could be done or not. She was just thinking about whether this blame would be thrown on her in the end.
“Alright, I really have no way to make you believe who proposed this matter. And it was just a suggestion, with no intention of making things difficult for you. Senior Deer probably won’t blame you. I’ll go back and report first. Farewell, sir.”
Miss Gong, after finishing this last sentence, pulled Yan Chuyue and left without any reluctance.
The latter, since Miss Gong started to bluff, had not spoken a word, and had always had a strange expression, afraid that she would laugh out loud as soon as she opened her mouth.
At this point, even if the big snake head didn’t believe it before, now it had to change its tune. “Wait a minute.”
“Hmm?” Gong Yiling turned her head and said with some difficulty, “If you want to pull out that key, you pull it out yourself. I’m not pulling it out.”
“I… ahem, that’s not what I mean.” The big snake head’s tone softened a lot. “Well, what is your relationship with the old deer?”
“You’re asking this?” Gong Yiling then began to introduce her identity. “Senior Deer intends to rebuild the Great One Engineering Sect. He saw that I was destined and passed on his cultivation technique to me, asking me to do this for him.”
In a sense, this was the only sentence in her long-winded speech that sounded the most absurd, but was the most genuine truth.
This confirmed her previous sentence, that the truth, no matter how real it sounded, was an undeniable thing.
At this moment, even if this matter made the big snake head’s brain buzz, it could only twitch its lips and say, “Well, you know, the old deer is elusive. We haven’t seen each other many times. Suddenly saying it’s his arrangement, it’s not so easy for us to believe.”
“So?”
“Ahem.” The big snake head coughed lightly—after coughing, it found that its cough could almost blow these two little ones away, so it went back into the big pit it had dug.
A moment later, what came out was a very burly bald man, naked on the upper body, and wearing a leopard-print short skirt on the lower body, looking quite dashing.
“The sect you want to build is really… the Great One Engineering Sect?”
He certainly couldn’t have not heard of this sect. That once glorious old sect was the ever-bright lamp of the entire continent.
When it still existed, what Five Demonic Abysses, what Hundred Paths Mountain, all had to stand aside. And the Four Kingdoms were also barely maintaining peace under its leadership.
Such a sect, with frequent experts above the Immortal Mansion realm, and even many top-tier experts of the Venerable generation, one could imagine that the guardian beast of this sect was also an existence that was far beyond his reach in the Immortal Mansion realm.
Now there was such an opportunity. If this was true, then it was really a pie falling from the sky.
“Why don’t you go outside and ask around? There’s been a lot of news about the old sect lately. I’m the one who made it all up.” Gong Yiling said righteously, “If the old sect has nothing to do with me, why would I do these thankless things?”
This news was verifiable. Gong Yiling was not afraid that it would really find some way to ask. And it was not until now that this big snake finally stopped using a suspicious tone and said, “Hey, it’s too troublesome to ask around. It’s not necessary. Don’t you want to build a sect here? We support you.”
“As for this matter of the guardian beast,” the bald, exposed man touched his bald head with a hint of flattery. “Why don’t you, little girl, ah, no, little friend, you think about us again?”
This attitude was more than a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.
