Xiao Li was unable to join the conversation between Sun Qilin and Tang Huaqing in the end. After he came, the two sides only had some polite words left.
for example:
Sun Qilin: "I don't know when the rain will stop."
Tang Huaqing: "What you worry about should be whether it will stop."
Sun Qilin: "Mr. Tang is joking. Stopping is inevitable. The only difference is the world after the rain."
"… "
Xiao Li looked left and right, and felt bored. After listening to them being polite to each other for a while, they planned to leave.
Fortunately, before he brought it up, Tang Huaqing had given up the purpose of coming to Sun Qilin this time, and offered to leave, and declined Sun Qilin's farewell.
Only Sun Qilin and Xiao Li were left in this pavilion. He turned around and looked at Xiao Li carefully, and said very politely, "Go, I'll take you back, Wang Huai and the others should all be back. "
Xiao Li: "No need to send it, I remember the way back."
Sun Qilin was choked for a second. The other party was the death-terminator of the topic. Before he could think about what to say, he heard Xiao Li ask again: "Tang Huaqing wants you to join the court?"
Sun Qilin: "..."
Even if you guessed it, don't ask so bluntly, okay
He hesitated for a moment, but said honestly: "Yes, I refused, I don't want to participate in the game between gods, as far as I know, the god of underworld is not good to his followers, and it is quite possible to turn his face after success. "
"But his goal is not me, and my grandfather, the current head of the Sun family, I am just a junior, they need the help of my grandfather to find something, and hope he can bring the Sun family to join them, the rest I I don't know."
Sun Qilin didn't seem to like the tribunal, so he explained everything to Xiao Li.
Seeming to catch a glimpse of Xiao Li's eyes, Sun Qilin shrugged nonchalantly: "Anyway, even if you don't ask, Wang Huai will come to ask me. Rather than being bothered by him for a long time, I might as well tell you now."
Xiao Li didn't look at him. He looked at the lotus leaves in the pond in front of him. There was too much rain on the green leaves. Then he suddenly asked, "What happened to your house?"
Sun Qilin restrained his smile: "I don't know very well, but I can only say that it scares me, and it is not inferior to any dungeon world."
Xiao Li could see clearly, the other party shuddered when he said these words.
When Xiao Li went back, everyone else had already returned. They chose the largest guest room, Wang Huai sat on the hammock, and the others stood or sat around the table.
He swept around, but didn't find Shen Mizhi.
Xiao Li walked to the hammock and motioned Wang Huai to move his seat to the side with his eyes. Old Wang innocently raised his head and glanced, but moved him to a corner.
"What did you do?"
Xiao Li tried to summarize: "To disturb Sun Qilin and Tang Huaqing's tryst."
Wang Huai: "..."
Wang Huai: "… What? They? Are you serious?"
Xiao Li: "The two of them get along alone, and they separate when they see me. There is some inexplicable embarrassment between the words."
As he spoke, he recounted what had just happened.
"...Fuck, I'll just say, your headline is too outrageous, and you deserve to be the spreader of the rumors of cheating and secret love for the goddess of beauty." After listening to Wang Huai, he was finally able to remove the shocked expression from his cheeks. But the dignified look still remained in his eyes, and he simply said, "The court is a guest of Sun Yaoming, the head of the Sun family, and it pays more attention to it than us."
Gong Mingming continued: "The simplest evidence is—"
She had been leaning against the window, holding a bottle of beer in her hand, but now she turned to open the window, and the wind mixed with raindrops rushed into the room immediately, but Gong Mingming didn't realize it, and continued to face the inner courtyard outside. Said: "They had a dinner party in the evening to welcome them, and we were left here."
Looking out from the window here, through the heavy rain curtains, you can vaguely see the lights of the tall buildings in the distance, and the figures of people walking back and forth.
Luo Shan said: "If the Sun family really fell to the court, it would be absolutely bad news for us, but we are still here, so at least the situation is not completely clear."
Gong Mingming's cell phone vibrated at this moment, she answered a call and went outside.
Xiao Li propped up her long legs, supported her toes on the ground, and swayed the hammock back and forth like a swing.
Wang Huai stood up from the hammock in time and said to him: "The totem you asked me to pay attention to some time ago, since the release of the final task, I have also noticed a few with similar patterns, which were solved by us, and some were too late to solve. It was taken away directly by the referee."
"The effect of this totem is mostly to promote the transformation of ghosts into Specter. At the peak of the transformation, it will draw energy from Specter. In one case, a samsara from the Inquisition was captured by surveillance cameras."
"They now believe in the gods of the underworld and the gods of death, with the purpose of bringing their brilliance into reality and welcoming their Lord on the day the well collapses—"
Wang Huai was in the middle of speaking when he was interrupted by Gong Mingming's hurried intrusion.
Gong Mingming held the mobile phone in his hand: "Did you hear anything?"
"Cry?"
The room suddenly became quiet, and everyone almost held their breath, but still could not distinguish the so-called cry from the sound of the rain.
Ye Zeqing and Luo Shan both shook their heads.
Gong Mingming pointed to his mobile phone and said, "I just answered a call, my friend was talking about what happened on their side, I asked the person who took over the reincarnation to help, but she suddenly said that I was crying. "
Xiao Li took out his mobile phone and casually broadcast a call to Ye Zeqing.
Ye Zeqing was connected.
Xiao Li put the phone on the speakerphone and put it on his lap.
Gong Mingming closed the windows and doors to isolate the sound of the rain from the outside world.
At first, everyone didn't hear anything, and after listening carefully for about a minute, Xiao Li barely discerned a trace of crying from the noise of the phone.
The voice was very different from the crying woman.
If it’s a cry that seems to be quiet and resentful, then this voice is like a baby’s scream, neither crying nor laughing, with a kind of innocent viciousness, even vaguely, it is more like crying than crying. laugh.
Xiao Li turned off the phone, but in reality the voice was buried by the heavy rain, so he couldn't hear anything clearly.
"Is it the baby's cry?" Wang Huai quickly speculated, "Babyling?"
Ye Zeqing denied this guess: "It definitely won't be Yingling. With the strength of the Sun family, it will not be so embarrassed by Yingling, but—"
He suddenly stopped talking, turned his head to look at the door of the room, and assumed a defensive posture, as if some ghost was approaching outside the door.
With his demonstration, the others also straightened up and waited for the arrival of something outside the door.
"—Knock, Knock, Knock."
A rhythmic knock sounded from the door.
At first the reincarnators didn't answer, they exchanged glances, and Roshan clenched the prop compass in her hand.
So the knock on the door rang three times again: "Knock, knock, knock."
Gong Mingming was closest to the door, she bent down and asked outside the door, "Who is it?"
"It's me, butler," the man at the door made a flat voice. "Guests, please come with me when the master entertains guests today."
Hearing this familiar voice, Gong Mingming remained vigilant, and she opened the door in a posture that she could jump open at any time.
Standing at the door is the housekeeper who opened the door for Xiao Li before.
This road belonging to the guest room is very dark, there is no lighting equipment such as incandescent lamps, and the open-air road is slippery, ordinary people will carry a flashlight or something, but the butler's hand is empty, neither flashlight nor Lantern, he said with a blank face: "Guest, please come with me."
Xiao Li glanced at the butler twice, he always felt that the other person was different from what he saw when he first came in, but he couldn't tell what was different.
His changes should be very small, so small that only his intuition could give a hint, but he couldn't find any specific changes for a while.
Gong Mingming fiddled with his long hair: "Why did Master Sun invite us all of a sudden? Isn't today the day when they had a drink with Mr. Tang?"
"Master's business is not something we are qualified to comment on," the housekeeper lowered his head and repeated the sentence for the third time, "Please come with me."
"Wait a moment." Gong Mingming turned around and exchanged glances with everyone in the room, then opened the door cleanly, "Please lead the way ahead."
The housekeeper walked at the forefront, but the reincarnators behind him had to use lighting tools. Except for the flashlights of Gong Mingming and others, the small light bulb jumped out very consciously and floated in the air half a meter in front of Xiao Li. Light the way forward.
The heavy rain made the corridor very slippery. Even with the lighting, Xiao Li almost fell several times, but Wang Huai, who was standing beside him, helped him a few times, so that he could avoid repeating the mistakes of his legs and do a split on the spot.
But the reincarnators with the lights all walked so hard, but the old butler in front moved forward very smoothly in the darkness.
Ye Zeqing couldn't help but asked, "Mr. Butler, it's so dark here, don't you need lights?"
The old butler said without looking back, "No need, I can see it."
Ye Zeqing looked at the dark front and repeated sarcastically, "Can you see?"
The old butler kept walking and nodded his head up and down.
His nodding posture is also very strange. From behind, normal people would lean forward when nodding, but he is a smooth straight face, without the slightest arc.
Ye Zeqing wanted to say something, but Xiao Li pressed his shoulder and closed his mouth.
He lowered his voice, turned his head to Xiao Li's side, and said softly, "Before he came in and knocked on the door, what I sensed was a faint ghost approaching, this is a phenomenon that has never happened to me before. "
"I think... he's ghosting."
Xiao Li listened silently, and when he passed a puddle, he pointed at the old housekeeper's leg: "Did you see it?"
Ye Zeqing's pupils tightened and nodded.
Just now they could see it clearly, at the edge of the light bulb, the old housekeeper's foot was bruised.
Maybe it shouldn't be said to be a sprained foot, because his entire instep was sprained, and if he was an ordinary person, his bones were broken, but he continued to walk as if nothing had happened, until he returned to the flat ground, and his feet returned to their original shape. Does not affect his walking.
That's why he's on the ground.
This time Xiao Li's eyes were focused on the other's feet, and he finally felt something was wrong—
The butler's feet became smaller.
To use a common analogy, his feet changed from a size 41 to a size 37, but the shoes were not changed, so it was difficult to be found.
It is precisely because the housekeeper's shoes are too big that he always slaps his feet when he walks.