"Hahaha!"

Gan Ning smiled slightly and said, "The general has a high position and a powerful position. Naturally, all the rare objects in the world are inexhaustible. Unlike us, we have to exchange for anything we want to get!"

"How could Xingba know that the things Li used were not coming to fight in blood?" Li Li could naturally hear the meaning of hatred for the rich in Gan Ning's words, and immediately asked in a deep voice.

"This, too!" Gan Ning nodded hesitantly and whispered: "The general is from the same origin as Gan, and he is not a gentry playboy who enjoys his achievements. Gan has made mistakes in his words, so please forgive me."

Li Li smiled and nodded, chuckled, "What's the point of having some trivial matters? Xingba doesn't have to care about it."

Gan Ning's expression changed slightly when he heard this, and a hint of hesitation and struggle flashed through his eyes. It seemed that something was bothering his heart and it was difficult to make a decision for a while.

"Xingba seems to have something to worry about? If you might as well, can you tell me to take a look at it?" Li Li noticed the strange color on Gan Ning's face and asked softly.

After saying that, seeing that Gan Ning still seemed to have not made up his mind, Li Li continued: "You said you could not believe me, Li Li, but I never believed it. I felt that this statement was just a shirk. In fact, you must have something else to do. However, since you are unwilling to tell me, I am not a person who breaks his word and turns his back on his word. He always has to do what he said. Otherwise, it will be difficult for me to win the trust of the soldiers under my command, let alone their trust. Naturally, no one is willing to work hard for me."

Speaking of this, Li Li changed his mind and said in a deep voice: "Just just now, I observed that your subordinate Jinfan escort was sharply reduced by half than before departure. You and I both knew where these people went. But I have always been puzzled. Why did Xingba deliberately lead me here? It should not be as simple as killing people to silence me, otherwise corpses and traces could be destroyed everywhere along the way. Why bother to rush to such a desolate and silent place to start? I wonder if Xingba can solve my doubts?"

Listening to Li Li's words in his ears, Gan Ning's expression changed again and again. Finally, he sighed lightly and whispered: "You are the smartest person I have seen. But you are also the most rash person. Since you have known that I have other plans, why should you come with me? I have said before that if you, Li Wenchang, want to leave, and I can't stop you, my brothers under me may not be able to stop you from escaping. Can you tell me why you don't run away?"

Li Li smiled and said, "I heard that Jinfan thieves roam the river and often robbed the rich to help the poor. Therefore, the people along the river are very caring for you and the Jinfan thieves under your command, and have repeatedly protected you from the pursuit of the county and county soldiers. Therefore, Xingba should have heard a saying: A real man does something and does not do it, and even if there is a million righteous people, I will go alone. As long as it is what I, Li Li, decides to do, even if I use a knife and an axe, I will not be afraid!"

"Well said!" Gan Ning responded happily: "Although I don't know whether your statement is true or false, I believe that it is not in vain that you can become the commander of the Xiliang Army. Now that things have come to this point, there is no need to hide some things. Anyway, you just need to jump into the cold pond and understand everything. Have you ever heard of the reason for the Poison Dragon Pond?"

"I heard Lu Zijing mention it two days ago. It is said that this pond has been circulating for hundreds of years, and dragons often appear. I wonder if it is correct?" Li Li continued.

Gan Ning nodded slightly but shook his head. He whispered: "The rumors are correct, but it is untrue that there are often dragons. To be precise, there are not dragons here, but a dragon has always been entrenched here for at least a hundred years. Its nest is in the pool at our feet, and its location is not bad at all. The entrance to the dragon cave is more than twenty meters below the rock where we stand."

"Oh? There are really dragons in the world?" Li Li opened his eyes wide and asked in a lost voice.

"There is no doubt about this matter!" Gan Ning nodded and said, "In the past three years, I have seen this dragon with my own eyes four times, and I have paid a heavy price for it. In three years, more than 600 brothers died tragically under the claws of the dragon, and then became its food, which was extremely tragic."

Li Li frowned when he heard this, his sword brows and looked at Gan Ning with extremely cold eyes, and said in a deep voice: "What does the dragon look like? Can you be sure it is a dragon rather than a giant python?"

Gan Ning didn't dare to look at Li Li. He looked at the Lan Youyou Hantan and said softly: "Have you ever heard of a strange and venomous snake in the world with a huge and extremely poisonous shape, called '结'?"

"Well? I heard something." Li Li pondered and said, "According to the historical records of the Western Zhou Dynasty, '后' is a dragon. It can be transformed into a dragon in five hundred years and turned into a dragon in thousands of years. But this matter is purely a matter of nothingness, and no one can witness the authenticity of this matter. After all, a person's lifespan is limited. Who can know whether 后 will definitely turn into a dragon in five hundred years, and turn into a giant dragon in another five hundred years. Therefore, this matter is just inferred out of thin air and follows the crowd, which is not worthy of trust."

"Is that true?" Gan Ning shook his head with a wry smile and said, "I have never seen the poisonous beast five hundred years ago, but I have seen the dragon five hundred years later with my own eyes!

It has four claws, a pair of front claws about six feet long, with a strong and ferocious claws about two feet long, and a foot below one can break stones and gold; the pair of back claws behind the abdomen are smaller, only three feet long, and the claws are not very sharp, far from being compared with the front claws, and can only be used to support the body, with limited attack power. The neck is thin and big, the neck is as thin as an elk, with a large and long head, and bloody and big mouth can swallow people alive. The two rows of fangs on the upper and lower ends are about a foot long, and the white teeth are daunting.

The dragon's head is about one foot high in the center of the skull, which looks like a dragon's horn, which is extremely hard. When it shakes its head and hits, it can open the belly and kill it with one blow. A row of bone spurs on its back, and its whole body is covered with thick skin, which looks like dragon scales, but there are no single scales. It is integrated, with thick skin and thick flesh, extremely tough, and it is difficult to hurt the sword. There is a poisonous sac under the abdomen, which can spray out colorless poison juice with a fragrant smell. It is extremely poisonous. Anyone who has a little wound on his body will definitely die after being touched with the poison juice. The light fragrance around the cold pond is the toxic juice smelling from the water. As long as anyone stays in this fragrant smell for half an hour, his eyes and nose will inevitably bleed, and his whole body will twitch and die.

In addition, it has a huge fish tail, about a few feet long and nearly a meter wide, very much like the tail fin of a carp. The tail end is forked into four sections, and it is very fast when it sways gently. The entire dragon body is more than seven feet long and its body is so huge that it makes people feel scared and afraid to see it. It is not daring to approach it at all."

Listening to Gan Ning's story in his ears, the more Li Li listened, the more he felt that this dragon was incompatible with the image of the dragon in his impression. The difference was not a little bit, but it was like two completely different giant beasts. Especially this object has a large head, a thin neck, four claws, and a fish tail, with no scales all over his body and no dragon horns on his head. The protruding bone spurs in the center of the skull are most likely caused by the bulging front jaw.

Such an image made Li Li think of lizards or crocodiles. In short, it has nothing to do with dragons and is not at all.

In addition, Li Li was a member of the navy in his previous life and had some understanding of the huge giant beasts active in the sea and the river.

According to historical records, it was indeed a poison that existed thousands of years ago. Some people called it a poisonous snake, while others classified it as a lizard, living in bays or rivers, amphibious, but it is mostly in the water. And it is indeed called "Jiao" by the ancients, but another nickname seems more appropriate, that is, "Gu Crocodile".

But what puzzled Li Li was that although this poisonous body was huge, the length of historical records in later generations was only eight or nine feet long, at best two or three meters. Why did it have a huge body seven or eight meters long a thousand years ago? Even if the Han Dynasty was not as accurate as the length of later generations, the body with a seven-meter-long body of at least sixteen meters or nearly twenty meters long.

If the dragon that Gan Ning mentioned was really a crocodile, then Li Li would not be surprised. Because there were crocodiles in the Yangtze River in later generations. Although they were not so big, but looking back a thousand eight hundred years ago, it might be possible that there were such a big crocodiles.

"Have Xingba really seen the crocodile with his own eyes, "Did he really see the dragon?" Li Li asked while racking his brains to recall the memories of later generations. But he almost said the word "crocodile". Fortunately, he was alert in time, and finally asked according to Gan Ning's ideas.

"That's right." Gan Ning said with great certainty: "Do you want to say that this dragon is not a dragon, but a bay crocodile?"

"Uh!" Li Li was stunned when he heard the sound and nodded subconsciously.

Gan Ning grinned, as if she was not interested, but Li Li seemed to laugh at her ignorantness.

Then Gan Ning whispered: "I have seen a bay crocodile before. It is relatively large and is somewhat similar to the cold pond dragon, but it cannot be compared with this dragon. The bay crocodile is only two or three feet long. The most important thing is that the bay crocodile has no dragon beards and no bone spurs, and it is even more impossible to be difficult to hurt a sword. But the dragon under our feet has black beards more than two feet long. It has fought with my brothers several times. The swords and arrows have no effect on it. They can only let it go wild and eventually eat hundreds of my brothers."

Seeing that Gan Ning looked strange, Li Li no longer asked about the dragon. Anyway, he would see it immediately. At that time, he would know whether it was a dragon or a reptile at a glance.

The biggest question in Li Li's mind now is what Gan Ning wanted to do to deceive herself here and what is the purpose of ulterior motives?

"Tell me, what exactly is there in this cold pond that makes you so obsessed with, and you still want to kill someone to silence you?"

Gan Ning turned his head and looked at Li Li's deep eyes and said softly: "Treasure, a priceless treasure! As long as I get this treasure, I, Jinfan Thief, can recruit people again, expand my strength several times, and it will be enough for us to enjoy more than ten years of luxury and food."

"Treasure?" Li Li was stunned when he heard this and said with a sneer: "You said there are priceless property here. Could it be that you are trying to deceive me? There is no village in front and no shop behind it. It is a radius of hundreds of miles. How can there be treasure?"

Gan Ning shook his head slightly and said, "You only see that this place is so desolate now, but you don't know that it was once a very prosperous tributary ferry, surrounded by tens of thousands of people. In addition, there is only three miles away from the tributary. How many ships have sunk here for hundreds of years? How many treasures have sunk into the bottom of the river and finally washed to the entrance of the canyon by floods. These things finally fell in this cold pond and were collected by dragons to the bottom of the pond as shining toys. Perhaps there were not many valuable things here at first, but over the years, the wealth at the bottom of the pond is quite considerable, and they are all priceless treasures that will last for a long time. The value can be imagined."

"Sanli Water Road?" Li Li asked in surprise: "Since it is a Sanli Water Road, why do you take a boat for half an hour?"

Gan Ning sighed softly: "The thick fog is everywhere, and it can't be fast, so this little journey takes half an hour. If you were walking on the shore at that time, it would be faster than the boating speed, and two quarters of an hour can reach the cold pond!"

"So that's it." After hearing Gan Ning's words, Li Li had already understood completely. This time, he was regarded as a sucker by Gan Ning and followed them to deal with the dragon so that the Jinfan thieves could take the opportunity to pick up the treasure at the bottom of the pond. After the Jinfan thief's plan succeeds, he will either be buried in the abdomen of the dragon or besieged and shot by the Jinfan thief. In short, he will be unable to escape death.

It’s really easy to calculate, and you can make sure you make money without losing money. You are all Jinfan thieves who make profits inside and outside, while he and Zhou Yu and others have become lambs at the slaughter of others!

"This is a great humiliation!"

As his mind turned sharply, Li Li's gloomy expression suddenly calmed down, his face was neither happy nor angry, and he was calm.

"Since that's the case, I will cooperate with you. I hope you will truly live a good life of luxury and wealth in the future. No need to say much, go into the water, you and I will work together to deal with the dragon. Only in this way can your subordinates sneak into the pond to catch the treasure!"

While speaking, Li Li held the golden sword and looked up at Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Xiao Qiao and others on the mountain to the east, and then slowly walked towards the rock.

"Let's go!" Seeing Li Li about to go into the water, Gan Ning hurriedly spoke to stop him and said, "General Wei, I, Gan Ning, have indeed told some lies before. I really want to use your extraordinary water and martial arts to entangle the dragon, so as to gain time for us. However, I have a saying that is true, that is, I, Gan Ning, never convinced others in my life, but only respected you, General Wei.

However, whether I judge a gentleman by the heart of a villain or by being suspicious, I cannot take risks with my brothers' lives. Therefore, after the matter is done, I still cannot let you go, but I can swore to Tian and let go of the five entourages you accompany you. As long as they don't go to Xiliang within three months, I will never make things difficult for them!"

"Three months?" Li Li asked in a deep voice: "You want to dismiss the Jinfan thief, or escape with a group of subordinates. Where can you escape, Jiaozhou or the southern barbarians?"

However, before he finished speaking, he continued, without waiting for Gan Ning to reply, saying, "Maybe you just want me to entangle the dragon for you, and just pretended to promise to let go of the five of my subordinates. However, I can tell you clearly that I, Li Li, will never be used by others. Those who want to use me to achieve my goals have so far suffered the consequences and become a dead bone in the tomb. After this matter, you have only two days to choose from, either please surrender or die!"

Speaking of this, Li Li turned his head to look at Gan Ning, and said with a solemn expression: "Today we are betting who can kill the dragon, the bet is the lives of you and me! Okay, let's go."

Before he finished speaking, Li Li took a step forward and leaned over and fell into the cold pool. Gan Ning wanted to explain a little, but seeing Li Li jumping so frankly, he stopped hesitating and jumped into the cold pool.

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