On the blue sea, three people were squeezed on a small surfboard, one sitting at the end of the board, one standing at the head of the board, and the owner of the board, Aquaman, squatting in the middle.
Aquaman looked at Lin Xi from behind and at Chen Chu from the front, feeling the obvious awkwardness and ambiguity in the atmosphere, with the gossipy soul burning in his muscular body.
"You just..."
"What happened just now? Just now..." Lin Yan shouted excitedly, "Just now Sadako suddenly made trouble, and I fell from the sky, just... just like that."
"Really?" Even a blind man could tell there must be a story behind the tone and look of someone trying to cover up his crime.
"Of course."
"I don't believe it unless you let Sadako speak out." If the wig could really speak, he would believe it against his conscience.
How could Lin Xi let Sadako out? The first thing she did when she came to her senses was to put Sadako's long hair into her inventory. This pervert, it's fine if she's just being perverted, but why did she use her body? Was she possessed by a ghost just now
"Where's Sadako? Let her come out." Neptune glanced at the silent person and poked Lin Xi with his elbow in a mean way.
"She..." Wait, why should I explain to Aquaman? It has nothing to do with him. If I have to explain, I should explain it to another victim.
Thinking of someone, Lin Yan glanced guiltily ahead. From the moment she boarded the surfboard, Chen Chu had been standing quietly in front of it. In order to give them both, and most importantly, to leave enough space for her, Chen Chu only had half of his foot standing on the surfboard, hanging lightly in front of it, like a flag fluttering in the sea breeze.
No, what Senior Chen Chu looked like at this moment was not the key point. The key point was that from the beginning, Senior Chen Chu had not spoken a word and had not looked at her again.
Are you angry
Lin Yan thought about it and felt that she still had to explain. She glanced at Aquaman who was waiting for the melon with great interest and passion, then turned her back and took out her cell phone from her pocket.
“…” Aquaman.
We are all family, so it doesn’t matter what phone you use. If you have the guts, just post it in the group.
Aquaman sighed with regret, but as a qualified spectator, he did not forcefully explore the secrets of the two when the parties were unwilling to disclose them. However, adultery, as long as it exists, will be exposed one day.
Lin Xi unlocked her phone and found that there were hundreds of unread messages on WeChat. There were so many messages that the phone automatically blocked the message reminder function.
Lin Yan recalled, but couldn't remember when her phone had restored signal. She opened WeChat, skipped the group chat with hundreds of unread messages, opened Chen Chu's WeChat, and began to explain.
Lin Yan: [Senior Chen Chu, I'm sorry, it was really an accident. I told you before, Sadako's long hair is a face control, she likes you...]
Wait, if Senior Chen Chu knew that a female ghost was targeting him, would he be in an even worse mood
Lin Xi thought about it, deleted the second half of the sentence, and rewrote: [Just now, it was Sadako's prank. I asked her for the energy stone, but she refused to give it to me. I said a few words to her, and she got angry and pulled my head, which led to the accident. I'm really sorry, please don't take it to heart.]
Lin Xi read it twice and felt that she had explained it clearly, so she sent the message.
"Ding!" A few dozen centimeters away, the cell phone notification sound rang simultaneously.
Lin Xi felt inexplicably guilty, so she lowered her head and pretended to be dead, not daring to look back. At this moment, a phone call suddenly came in. The sound of a ding-dong phone scared Lin Xi so much that her hands shook and the phone slipped from her fingertips.
Oh my god, there’s the sea below.
Lin Xi was about to scream when she saw that her cell phone did not fall into the water. To be exact, it did not sink into the water but floated on the surface of the sea.
Lin Yan blinked, and blinked again, to make sure she was not dreaming or seeing things.
"Are you going to pick it up or not? If not, I will."
Neptune
Lin Xi suddenly realized, yes, there was a water-related mutant sitting next to her, how could she watch her phone fall into the sea.
"Thank you." Lin Yan thanked him and reached out to pick up the phone.
Hai Wang was slightly surprised and was about to explain when Lin Xi had already answered the phone.
"Assistant Tan." The caller was Assistant Tan.
"It's out?" Assistant Tan's voice sounded relieved.
"Yes, my cell phone just got a signal." She and Chen Chu disappeared on the plane. Two living people disappeared on a plane. Such a big thing would definitely not be kept secret. The company would definitely step in to deal with it, and Assistant Tan would naturally know that she had entered the sub-space again.
"Where are Chen Chu and Hai Wang?" Assistant Tan asked.
"They're all here. Do you want to talk to them...?" Before Lin Yan finished her words, Assistant Tan had already hung up the phone, expressing his attitude with his actions.
So angry? Was it because they were called out in the middle of the retreat to deal with their affairs
Lin Xi silently said sorry to the grumpy Assistant Tan in her heart, and was about to report her safety to the group, but she saw a red dot in the chat box between her and Chen Chu in the group.
Senior Chen Chu replied to the message? !
Chu: [I understand.]
Chu: [Next time if Sadako doesn’t give you anything, I can try to help you.]
When Lin Yan saw the first message, she breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that she had explained the misunderstanding. When she saw the second message, she felt relieved and replied casually: [You can definitely get it. Sadako is obsessed with looks. She likes you very much. She always crawls to your side when she climbs on the TV.]
After replying the message, Lin Yan put the matter aside, opened the group chat, and began to browse the messages in the group. On the other side of the surfboard, Chen Chu saw Lin Yan's reply, his eyes flickered slightly, and he repeatedly looked at the last sentence.
Do you crawl towards me every time
Chen Chu put away his phone and looked at the coastline not far away. The breeze was gentle and didn't feel like a sea breeze at all.
Lin Xi roughly browsed through the chat history in the group. There were two time periods with relatively dense messages, one was three hours ago and the other was ten minutes ago.
Three hours ago, Qingkong received the news that the Soul Locking Tower was opened near Mudai River, and then joked with Wuwang whether Lin Xi had entered again. But at that time, Lin Xi was on the plane and had no signal on her phone, so they could not verify it. The two of them just talked and did not take it seriously. Until five minutes later, Haiwang still did not come online to participate in the group chat. Qingkong felt something was wrong, so he called Haiwang. The news he got was that Haiwang fell into the sea while surfing, and the rescue team was on the way.
Is this a joke? Aquaman, the name tells us that he cannot be drowned. How could he disappear into the sea? The only possibility is that he disappeared into the subspace.
Combined with the FLAG that Lin Yan and Hai Wang had set in the group not long ago, Qingkong reasonably inferred that there was a 99% chance that Lin Yan had already entered the sub-space. Then he used his connections to check the flight that Lin Yan was on, and it was confirmed that a man and a woman disappeared in the toilet of the plane about ten minutes ago. At that time, the flight attendant thought they were doing something in there... Well, these are not important, skip it.
The intensive chat ten minutes ago was because a large number of superpowers who were swallowed into the Soul Locking Tower suddenly came out. Not only did they come out safely, but they also brought explosive news. Someone posted on the official forum that the Soul Locking Tower's subspace was collapsing. Before he came out, the subspace suddenly became pitch black. The Soul Locking Tower collapsed in the darkness, the spirits disintegrated, the props scattered, and even the space gate was shaking.
Some people also said that it might be that the Soul Locking Tower swallowed a powerful supernatural being, who went up to the seventh floor and fought with the big boss on the seventh floor, which led to the collapse of the space. Because after dark, before the collapse, many people heard a spell, and that spell was read in standard Mandarin, and it was a sentence full of cultural atmosphere in classical Chinese: If the Master is not born, the world will be dark forever.
As the King of Filth who had been to Blizzard City with Lin Yan, he saw this familiar description, although he could not believe it, but he still reasonably deduced that this awesome psychic might be Lin Yan. After that, they kept @ing the three of them in the group, but there was no reply, and the discussion gradually turned to despair. They began to guess whether Lin Yan was cursed in there, until Assistant Tan called her and reported to the group.
Assistant Tan: [The call went through, and they are all alive.]
When Lin Yan saw this, she quickly replied in the group: [We are all out, nothing is wrong.]
Qingkong: [Is it cursed?]
Lin Yan was about to say no, but then she thought of something and said, "Yes, but it shouldn't be life-threatening."
The fact that the high priest can leave the sub-space is a secret. The moment she found out about it, she was cursed with secrecy and didn't know how to break it.
Oh, I forgot about this. I still didn't think it through. I should have made a wish to find all the props I needed. But no, all the props in it can be sold for money. I feel like I need them all. It's so easy to find the props, so how can I make a wish
Forget it, it’s already out, don’t worry about it.
King of Filth: [What type of curse?]
Lin Yan: [A curse that must be kept secret. It will be fine if you don’t tell anyone.]
King of Dirty: [Something like a spirit of words? I'll help you figure it out later.]
The King of Pollution is a curse master, and if the curse is not too serious, he can remove it.
Lin Xi compared the strength of the High Priest and the King of Filth, and felt that the probability that the King of Filth could solve the problem was almost zero.
Qingkong: [Where is Aquaman? Why hasn’t he been online for so long?]
Aquaman, the surfing master, almost never leaves his cell phone. He has been out for such a long time and hasn't joined the group to show off. This is totally not his style.
Lin Yan turned around and said, "Qingkong asked why you didn't go online."
Aquaman said unhappily, "My phone is still on the yacht."
He put his phone in the hands of the yacht lady while surfing, and when he was swallowed into the subspace, he was left with only a pair of swimming trunks. Didn't he want to surf the Internet? God knows how itchy he felt when he saw Lin Yan playing with her phone.
The more the Sea King thought about it, the angrier he became. He couldn't help but complain, "If I wasn't afraid that you two would fall into the sea, I would have gone ashore by myself a long time ago."
If Chen Chu was alone, the Sea King would not have to worry at all, but there was also a Lin Yan in the sky. He was not sure whether Chen Chu could find Lin Yan after coming out of the subspace. If he could not find her, Lin Yan would most likely fall into the sea after falling from the sky.
This was something he and Chen Chu had discussed beforehand. One would search in the sky, and the other would pick her up on the sea. With this double insurance, if Lin Xi still died, then... they had done their best.
Lin Xi smiled and looked forward. She found that she could already see the lights of the city in the distance: "We will be able to go ashore soon."
Aquaman said "oh" but was secretly complaining in his heart: If someone hadn't been slowing down, with my style, we would have returned to the shore long ago with just a big wave, instead of wandering around in the sea for so long.
As the spokesperson for the three people, Lin Yan conveyed in the group: [Aquaman doesn’t have his phone with him.]
King of Dirt: [After you get ashore, will you return to Jin City immediately, or stay in Mudai River?]
Lin Yan turned around and asked the two of them, "Should we go back to Jin City directly, or stay here for one night?"
Before Chen Chu could say anything, Neptune started yelling, "I don't care about you. I'm going to live here anyway."
He almost died in there, so he must eat well and rest for a few days.
Chen Chu glanced at the girl's face, which had not yet fully recovered, and said, "Stay one night and come back tomorrow."
"Okay." Lin Xi was about to type and say it in the group when she saw that the King of Wu had sent another message in the group.
Lin: [You flew here specially?]
King of Dirty: [I am in the imperial capital.]
Lin Xi was stunned. At first, she wondered why the King of Wu was suddenly in the imperial capital. Then she thought about it and understood that the King of Wu must have guessed that the three of them were swallowed into the Soul Locking Tower, so he rushed over to help.
Lin Yan felt warm in her heart: [Okay, I'll send you the location when we get to the hotel, thank you.]
Lin Yan turned around and said happily: "The King of Wu flew directly to the imperial capital for us."
Aquaman was puzzled: "Are you sure this is for us, and not for the Cursed Eye you bought?"
Lin Xi analyzed: "Of course not. If we can't get out, the Cursed Eye can't get out either. If we get out safely, the Cursed Eye will naturally be taken back by him. What's the point of him flying over here? So he must be here to help us, afraid that we will be cursed."
Aquaman nodded: "It seems to make sense, but when did this guy become so loyal?"
Before, he was unwilling to form a team to do missions.
As they were talking, the surfboard had already reached the shore, and Lin Yan finally stepped on land again, so happy that she wanted to jump up and down a few times. Who would have thought that in just half an hour, she had unlocked three walking modes: sea, land, and air.
"Let's go to the hotel where I'm staying." Aquaman carried the surfboard in one hand and asked the two to follow him.
The three of them walked a little further and saw a whole section of food stalls on the beach. The delicious smell of seafood kept wafting from the chef's pot, making them extremely tempted.
"Let's eat first." Aquaman was a man of action. He put down his surfboard and walked straight to the nearest food stall.
The three of them sat down, and the Sea King, as the host (who had arrived at Mudai River a day earlier than them), generously ordered a bunch of dishes: "The seafood here is not bad, you can try it."
Lin Yan was also greedy, but after looking at the time, she said with some worry: "It's already eight o'clock, why don't we check in first and then come to eat, I'm afraid there won't be a room soon."
Hai Wang smiled proudly and stretched out his hand to Lin Yan: "Give me the phone."
Lin handed over the phone.
Aquaman dialed his own cell phone on the spot, then pressed the speakerphone and placed the phone on the table. Soon a soft female voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hello, who is this?"
"Baby, it's me." Aquaman gave his cell phone to this young lady.
"Baby, is that you?!" The female voice immediately became surprised and charming, "You suddenly went to work during the day and left me alone on the yacht. How are you going to compensate me?"
Busy with work? I don't know how Assistant Tan dealt with it. Did he erase his memory like the men in black? Lin Yan wondered curiously.
"We'll talk about compensating you when we get back tonight. Now, please reserve three rooms for me. I have three friends coming over to visit, and they haven't booked a hotel yet." said the King of the Sea.
"I'll call the front desk and ask." A moment later, the call came from the other end, "There are only two rooms left. What should I do?"
Two rooms will do, then Wu Wang and Senior Chen Chu can stay in one. Just as Lin Yan was thinking this, she saw Hai Wang approaching the phone and speaking in a voice that made her scalp numb: "Then vacate my room, and I'll come to see you in the evening."
A woman's charming laughter came from the other end of the phone: "You are sensible."
What does "you're smart" mean? That's a lot of information. Did this sister deliberately say there were only two rooms to hint Aquaman to go over there? Is this the adult world? So exciting
In comparison, I was too weak, it was just a kiss... Thinking of the kiss, Lin Yan couldn't help but look at Chen Chu who was sitting opposite. Chen Chu noticed Lin Yan's gaze, raised his eyes and looked back, and curled his lips slightly.
Lin Yan was so frightened that she quickly looked away and picked up the ice cola on the table and drank it down.
Beauty can mislead people.
"Huh?" Hai Wang held up his phone and exclaimed, "Qingkong said that the forum was discussing the collapse and restoration of the Soul Locking Tower. The official even offered a reward of 500,000 points to know the whole story of the Soul Locking Tower incident."
Aquaman didn't intentionally peek at Lin Yan's message, but Qingkong's message happened to pop up when he hung up the phone.
Chen Chu's expression became serious after hearing this. He took out his mobile phone and was about to open the forum to take a look when a phone call came in.
Chen Chu looked at the number with a string of asterisks, signaled the two to keep quiet, and answered the call: "This is Chen Chu."
"This is the Special Powers Secretariat, I am investigator Luo Yuan." The person on the other side explained himself.
"Hello."
"Comrade Chen Chu, according to my investigation, you and your companion, a superpower named Lin Yan, disappeared from flight AF123 between 3:45 and 3:50 this afternoon. Excuse me, were you swallowed into the Soul Locking Tower subspace?"
"Yes." Chen Chu answered calmly.
"You've seen the events being discussed in the forum, right?" Luo Yuan asked.
"The Soul-Locking Tower collapsed?" Chen Chu said.
"Yes, I called you to ask you, as an S-class psychic, did you feel anything in the Soul Locking Tower, or... did this matter have anything to do with you?" According to the headquarters' investigation, among the psychics swallowed into the Soul Locking Tower, the outside world doesn't know, but the official insiders only have Chen Chu, who is S-class. Moreover, Chen Chu himself is cursed by the seventh floor.
According to the supernatural beings who came out, the moment the Soul Locking Tower collapsed, it posed no threat to outside supernatural beings, the spirits did not curse, and the props and energy stones could be taken away at will. If the authorities could control this power, they would also control the Soul Locking Tower.
“I’m not sure. I only stayed in there for a few minutes and then came out. I didn’t see the collapse of the Soul Locking Tower.” Chen Chu said calmly.
"You only stayed for a few minutes and then came out? Didn't you go to the seventh floor to remove your curse?"
"With my current strength, I am unable to defeat the spirit on the seventh floor, so I did not go to the seventh floor. I just went in to help my companion get the energy stone, and then left immediately." Chen Chu was not afraid of the other party to investigate, because when he helped Lin Xi get the energy stone, almost everyone outside saw it.
"Okay, I understand. If you remember anything afterwards, please feel free to call me. I won't bother you anymore. By the way..." the other party paused and said, "If the curse still cannot be solved in the end, you are welcome to come to the Privy Council."
After saying that, the person on the other end hung up the phone.
"Has the Privy Council noticed Lin Xi?" asked the King of the Sea.
"No, they suspected that I did it." Chen Chu said.
"That's right. You have the highest level of supernatural power, so I guess I'll have to keep an eye on you for a while." said the King of the Sea.
Chen Chu shrugged indifferently.
Lin Xi didn't quite understand and asked, "What does the Privy Council do?"
"The Privy Council is a department within the official organization that specializes in handling major incidents. The collapse of the Soul Locking Tower did cause quite a stir, so it's normal for the Privy Council to notice it," said the King of the Sea.
Lin Yan asked in confusion: "What will happen if they find out?"
Aquaman thought for a moment and explained, "It's not a big deal, it's just that your ability is too special, so they might protect you like a giant panda. How about it, do you want to experience the treatment of a giant panda?"
If it's really that good, how can you have such an expression? Senior Chen Chu still needs to lie to the Privy Council
Chen Chu added: "If you are protected by them, you will no longer have freedom. You will have to obey them in what you do, where you go, how your abilities work, and when you use them."
Moreover, if the Privy Council knew about Lin Xi's special abilities, they would definitely make full use of them and would not worry about the side effects of the abilities.
Lin Yan shook her head decisively: "Then let's not do it."
She envied the treatment of giant pandas, but she would rather not be kept in captivity like a panda.
Aquaman: "Don't panic, practice hard, and when you become S-level like Chen Chu, you will be able to straighten your back and talk to the Privy Council."
As they were talking, the seafood feast was served on the table. The three of them didn't discuss the matter anymore, but picked up their chopsticks and started to devour the meal.
During the meal, Haiwang borrowed Lin Yan’s mobile phone, took photos and posted them to @Wuwang who was taking the train to this place.
The King of Dirt gave him a middle finger in return.
(End of this chapter)