"How are you?"
I raised my head and slowly shifted my gaze to Wen Jiubai's face.
"I just want to ask a question." I asked, "How many 'Wen Qingyu' have you met before me?"
Wen Jiubai looked at me and remained silent.
"I'm asking you something!" There was no one else in the huge space, and my voice was infinitely amplified by the echo.
"... I don't remember." Wen Jiubai lowered his eyes.
My heart gradually cooled down in his answer, and I was approaching despair little by little.
"And I'm just one of them that you don't remember, am I?"
I asked this question out of my mouth, but in fact, I didn't want to hear the answer at all.
At the same time, it was at this juncture that a piercing bell rang suddenly, which startled me.
Wen Jiubai immediately took out his phone from his pocket, and the breathing light on the upper left corner of the screen flickered.
"It's a text message from Zhuxuan."
"What did he say?" My focus immediately returned to everyone's safety.
"He said it was successful, and the talisman paper has been attached."
Very good! I clenched my fist secretly in my heart. As expected of Zhuxuan, I knew he would be able to escape unscathed!
Then Wen Jiubai's cell phone and mine rang one after another. I took out my phone, it was a text message from Su Xiaojun and Shi Yitong.
—OK.
-Finish.
"Bai said he found a place there too." Wen Jiubai raised his head, "Where's your side?"
"It's done!" I said excitedly, "Su Xiaoyun and Shi Yitong also put the talisman on!"
"It seems that this space is smaller than I imagined, that's great. We don't have much time." Wen Jiubai breathed a sigh of relief, and took out the last talisman paper from his arms, just when I thought he was about to start When casting a spell to break the barrier, he suddenly stretched out his hand to me.
"What?" I looked at the talisman in his hand inexplicably.
"As I said before, I don't have enough power to break the barrier." Wen Jiubai said calmly, "But you do. You have all the power I lost in the past. If it were you, you would definitely be able to do it .”
Facing Wen Jiubai like this, my mind was in chaos, and I didn't know whether to take his hand or push him away. And at this moment, a creepy roar interrupted me.
I don't know when, a lot of ghostly shadows suddenly appeared from nowhere in the dark surroundings, and accompanied by those frightening voices, a group of monsters slowly approached us from the shadows.
"Oh my god... this is, what's going on here?"
"I'm still wondering why the four of them didn't meet the monster." Wen Jiubai muttered to himself, "So they came after us. Gu Yu, light!"
It was only when Wen Jiubai yelled at me that I realized it, and immediately turned on the flashlight in my phone, and used that light beam to scan the eyes of the monsters, "Don't come here!"
However, the moment I turned on the flashlight, I froze in place.
Because these monsters... I've definitely seen them.
Those monsters were one story tall, covered with black bristles, and a rancid smell emanated from their bodies. A huge eye exudes a faint green light in the darkness, and the eyeballs are rolling in the eye sockets.
I remembered. Isn't this the monster I once encountered on my school trip? Even Wen Jiubai didn't know what it was.
When I was on Yanjin Mountain, I only met one, and it was a fantasy created by a dead little girl. But now...
I can't see how many monsters like this are around us. If they all rushed forward together, even Wen Jiubai and I would never be able to escape.
Just when I was desperately preparing to close my eyes to face death, a voice suddenly sounded.
"Stand back, bad boys." The voice clapped their hands, and a group of terrifying monsters stepped back obediently to make room.
And that voice... Even if it turns into ashes, I will never admit my mistake.
Xu Yingchen—Taoist Ling Xiao walked forward slowly from the darkness.
"Xu Yingchen! What do you want to do!" I shouted uncontrollably, and wanted to take a few steps forward, but Wen Jiubai grabbed my arm and pulled me back.
"Gu Yu!" He looked at me with warning eyes.
But at this time, how could I still follow his tricks. I struggled hard to shake off the opponent's hand, but he grabbed it even tighter instead.
"Wen Jiubai, let me go!"
"Oh—it seems that there is a conflict between the young couple, right?" At the same time, Xu Yingchen got closer and closer, and said in a strange way, "I told you a long time ago, princess. This fox is absolutely Not worthy of your trust."
Xu Yingchen's title completely irritated me, and for a moment it seemed that I was never Gu Yu, but a substitute for a princess from more than a thousand years ago.
"Do you dare to call me that again?"
"Don't dare." Xu Yingchen bowed his head to me in a respectful manner, and said with a smile in the corner of his eyes, "Mr. Gu Yu. Although you are the reincarnation of Princess Qingyu, you have your own life and are Not anyone's accessory. I'm not like that sly fox over there who can't tell who's who—"
"Enough!" I interrupted him, "I don't want or bother to listen to your sweet talk, what are you going to do! No, no matter what you are going to do, I will stop it!"
"What do you want to do? Oh, you all know, the old school villain's old way, destroying the world or something." Xu Yingchen still had a calm look, and said calmly, "But you said stop me, What are you going to do? By the way, the only way to stop me is to break the barrier I set up, and the only way to break the barrier is to use that talisman."
From the corner of my eye, I looked at Wen Jiubai, who was still standing motionless holding the paper talisman.
"But from what I've seen—why do I feel that you don't really want to take it?" Xu Yingchen moved closer to me, his nose almost approaching my face. I was so stiff, I should have kicked him away, or at least pushed him away, but for some reason, my body just wouldn't do what I wanted.
"This has nothing to do with you—" I squeezed out a few words between my teeth, before I was interrupted by Xu Yingchen.
"Oh, yes, it doesn't seem to have much to do with me." He scratched his head, "But who said that I am such a warm-hearted person? Maybe I am a bad person now, maybe. But even I, I can't just watch you make the same mistakes again and again, Your Highness."