"By the way, Captain, you left without paying the bill last time we had dinner. Do you want to owe it or pay it now?" Man Gu asked before leaving.
Lu Yang hurriedly stopped Man Gu: "Shut up, as people of the Demonic Path, it is natural for us to eat and dine for free. Could it be that the helmsman is the kind of good guy who pays for meals?"
Meng Jingzhou also echoed: "That's right, the captain said before that he was the one who treated us, not the one who paid the bill. How come you can't even tell the difference!"
Captain Chu: “…”
It must be admitted that when it comes to squeezing people out, he is not as good as these three.
He gritted his teeth and resisted the urge to kill him, and threw a gold ingot to Man Gu: "No need to look for it, the three of you, get out of here!"
Man Gu was confused. He was just asking for money normally, but why did the tone of Brother Lu and Brother Meng's speech seem off? It seemed like they were speaking for him, and also for the helmsman.
When the three of them left, it was already late at night. Lu Yang looked at the brilliant starry sky above his head and sighed.
"Who would have thought that the stars in the sky were all fake? It's unexpected, unexpected."
Meng Jingzhou scratched his head. "It's nothing unexpected. My grandfather told me since I was a child that he would give me whatever I wanted. He could even pick the stars in the sky. When I was about seven or eight years old, I pointed to a star and said, 'I want this one.'"
"My grandfather traveled to the universe, and when he came back he put a fingernail-sized spot of light on my hand and said that this was a star. It just so happened that there was one missing star in the sky."
"I gestured to grandpa and said that the stars should be very big, bigger than our yard, not so small. Grandpa smiled mysteriously and said that stars are just that small."
"What happened next?" Lu Yang asked with interest.
"And then? Then someone from the Ministry of Justice came over. He seemed to be a high-ranking official. He accused my grandfather of stealing natural resources and asked him to return the star. So my grandfather returned the light spot, and a star appeared in the empty spot at night."
"I felt something was wrong at the time, but I didn't figure out what was going on. As time went by, I forgot about it. Only after talking about it today did I realize that what I was holding in my hand was really a star."
"As expected of a member of the Meng family, his life experience since childhood has been different from ours." Lu Yang shook his head, wondering what he did when he was a child.
I remembered that when he was a kid, he was reminiscing about his experiences before time travel, reciting ancient poems and such, such as "The dangerous building is a hundred feet high, and I can pick the stars with my hands. I dare not speak loudly, for fear of startling the people in the sky."
When he was a child, he could only pick stars in poems, but Meng Jingzhou could really pick stars. That's the difference.
Recently, Lu Yang has also considered whether to write a book to make money, such as The Wandering Earth. However, if it is placed in the context of this world, it is probably not the planetary engines that push the earth, but the immortal cultivators who push the earth.
The three of them no longer thought about the stars and the continent. Such things were too far away for them. With their cultivation level, it would be difficult for them to even move big rocks, let alone move the stars.
"Go to bed early. Tomorrow we will go visit our fellow prisoners."
The three of them yawned. When they reached the foundation-building stage, they could use meditation instead of sleeping. The effect was the same, but the three of them preferred sleeping.
Meditation? Let’s talk about it in the Jindan stage.
…
Early in the morning, Lu Yang found Captain Wei and explained his purpose. Captain Wei readily approved a note and allowed Lu Yang to visit the prisoner.
As soon as he stepped into the prison, Lu Yang felt that his spiritual power seemed to be imprisoned. He couldn't mobilize it at all, and his body became sluggish.
"Is this the Forbidden Soul Formation that Captain Wei mentioned?" Lu Yang was surprised. He didn't expect the Forbidden Soul Formation to be as powerful as Captain Wei said.
When Captain Wei was writing the note to Lu Yang, he told him to be careful of the prison's soul-forbidden formation, which was a formation specifically designed to target immortal cultivators. Within the range of the soul-forbidden formation, the cultivators' cultivation would be restricted and they would be unable to use any magic. This was to prevent immortal cultivators from jailbreaking and escaping.
The level of the forbidden spirit formation in the prison is very high, and even Jindan-stage cultivators will be restricted when they come, without exception.
When Lu Yang arrived, it happened that the prison guards were changing shifts.
The jailer on the day shift was yawning, tears were streaming down his face, and he looked dazed, as if he had not yet woken up.
The night shift jailer was about to rest and was in a good mood. He joked, "Old Zhou, aren't you the most energetic on weekdays? Why are you so sleepy today? Did you do something shameful last night?"
Old Zhou opened his mouth wide and yawned loudly before saying, "I don't know what's wrong with me lately. I always can't wake up. It's hard to get up in the morning. It's not just me, my wife is the same. I washed my face when I got here, but I'm still sleepy."
The night guard laughed and said, "You must have done something last night and didn't sleep well. Look, I'm not sleepy."
Old Zhou curled his lips: "You are a cultivator, different from me."
The night guard waved his hands and said disapprovingly: "I am only at the first level of Qi training. It is hard to say whether I can reach the second level in this lifetime. How can I be called an immortal cultivator?"
According to the rules of the prison, the jailers on the day shift are mortals, while the jailers on the night shift are cultivators at the first level of Qi training. Cultivators at the first level of Qi training can ensure that they will not feel sleepy or lazy at night.
The monks were unwilling to be suppressed by the Forbidden Soul Array, just like ordinary people. However, it was obviously not enough to have only jailers at the Qi training level to guard the prison, so secret sentries and monks were arranged to be on duty outside the prison.
After the shift change, Lu Yang found Lao Zhou with the note.
Lao Zhou took a look at Lu Yang, searched him, and found that he had nothing with him except a lunch box, so he let him go.
…
Chi Xulong, a ruthless man who had made a name for himself among the demonic practitioners in the nearby counties, believed that after joining the Demon Sect, he would be able to achieve great things, conquer a piece of territory, and become a local tyrant.
Even being in prison now cannot change his ambition.
Since you are in prison, you might as well become a prison bully!
The first obstacle standing in his way was the inability to intimidate others.
He was locked in a cage that even a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator couldn't break, and he didn't even have a weapon at hand. The person locked up next to him was merciless with his words, either cursing or making sarcastic remarks, which made Chi Xulong so angry that his teeth itched.
At this time, his cellmate Shen Jinyi came up with a solution. He put a stone in his mouth and spit it out. The stone flew out like a bullet with amazing power. If it hit a person, the power could be imagined.
As a killer, Shen Jinyi is good at using various objects as hidden weapons.
"We are brothers in distress, so we must cooperate sincerely and work together!" Shen Jinyi said loyally, "If you learn this trick from me, you will be invincible in the prison. Let's dominate the prison together!"
Chi Xulong was greatly excited. He got up early and went to bed late, working hard to learn how to shoot hidden stones with his mouth.
Unfortunately, Chi Xulong was not talented and only had brute force, but he never learned it.
"You have to do it this way, hold the air in your mouth and blow it out quickly!" Shen Jinyi was demonstrating, trying hard to teach Chi Xulong.
"I know, it's just a puff." Chi Xulong was a little impatient.
"Wrong, wrong, your pout is too small, like this."
"so?"
Lu Yang stood outside the prison, looking at Chi Xulong and Shen Jinyi who were pouting at each other, wondering whether he should speak up to remind them that this kind of scene could easily lead to misunderstanding.
Let’s use the video camera first.
(End of this chapter)