The sky outside the window was still dark, and it looked as if the commotion just now had never happened.
"Why did you move just now?" Lin Gutou stood high up, gritting his teeth and looking down, "Just because I told you not to move, you all should just stay still?"
Okay... We clearly gave all the instructions before coming here, but when he just came out and pushed the window, everyone in front of me took a step back, they were all as cowardly as grandsons.
“Didn’t I tell you before that it’s best to bring newcomers here? You’re only bringing veterans here. Although newcomers may be unreliable, at least they know less.” said the woman in white next to him.
"What should we do? You have a good relationship with him, why don't you go in and talk to him?" Lin Gutou asked.
"What do you mean?" the woman said, "We came here to surround this place to appease people. If others knew that I went to see him secretly, what would be the point of us coming here today?"
As they were talking, the crowd in front of them became agitated again. Lin Gutou shouted to the front, "What are you doing? Can you show some energy? What happened this time?"
He pushed aside the people in front of him and looked towards the house with the lights on.
There were several broken windows in the house, and the broken parts were covered with newspapers. Lin Gutou knew that the windows were broken during the sneak attack by the Hundred Demons Army that sneaked into City C that day.
This method of using shredded newspaper to paste windows is quite old-fashioned. He remembered that when he first saw this house as a child, its windows were covered with a layer of window paper, and the glass and other things were only installed ten years ago.
Now that newspapers were pasted on the windows again, it actually felt a bit like what he remembered.
A figure vaguely appeared on the newspaper.
The silhouette of a man.
He sat behind the newspaper, one hand gently placed on his hair, combing out a strand of hair that had accidentally slipped out.
He gathered the strands of hair into his palm, and then he meticulously combed the other side.
“…” Lin Gutou and the woman in white looked at each other without saying a word to each other.
…
At this time, Yuan Yuanyuan was unaware of the commotion outside. She sat in the house with the ring on her head. She felt it didn't look good, so she took it off and prepared to tie it again.
Her father taught her how to make this tree wreath... When Yuan Yuanyuan was a child, her father took her out to have fun all day long. Her father was very skillful, the most skillful person Yuan Yuanyuan had ever seen, and could weave all kinds of things, but Yuan Yuanyuan could only weave such an ugly tree wreath.
She was making up tree rings and complaining about herself at the moment, and seemed to have a bit of masochistic symptoms... She had been waiting for such a long time for someone to come, and now that the person really came, she became scared.
Should I run or not? Yuan Yuanyuan thought to herself in a tangle. In fact, if she wanted to run, she could run at any time... She was just afraid that if she ran, she would miss something important.
… let’s wait and see.
Yuan Yuanyuan finally made this decision. The Tian Gang Di Sha Jue was a guarantee, and if she ran away, she could still fight back. If she slipped away now, she might not know anything. Although staying here had certain risks, she was really itching to do so.
She was still making tree rings, not because she was careless and didn't know anything about the outside world at that time, but simply because she wanted to cover up her feeling of having nothing to do. Just like a few strangers in an elevator, they might take out their phones to look at useless things to cover up the embarrassment of not knowing each other.
Will they come in soon? Yuan Yuanyuan wondered. Why don't they come in? What are they doing outside
…
"What is he... doing?" The woman in white outside the window swallowed.
"She's just fiddling with her hair." Lin Guotou said, "I think she might even take out rouge, powder, lipstick, or something like that... Tsk tsk, the old monster is really fucking particular."
"You're still laughing! Something big is going to happen, and you just keep laughing!" said the woman in white next to her.
"Why can't I laugh?" Lin Gutou said, "I will laugh even harder later. The head of the Li family will be here soon. It will be exciting then."
"Li Wangzhu? Why did that old man come here to cause trouble at this time?" The woman in white froze when she heard this.
Her expression at this moment was particularly interesting, as if she had eaten a dead child.
"How would I know? Before I came here, I saw the Patriarch of the Li family constantly pestering the City Lord, saying that he wanted to come over and take a look." Lin Gutou yawned. "The City Lord disagreed at first, but the Patriarch of the Li family was very tough and seemed to have said something. In the end, the City Lord couldn't persuade him any more, so he agreed."
"What did he say?" The woman in white frowned.
"Well... I didn't hear much, just one or two." Lin Gutou said, "But from what I heard, they said... that the eldest daughter of the Li family fell in love with that Yuan?"
"The eldest daughter of the Li family... has taken a fancy to Yuan?" the woman in white repeated with difficulty.
… As soon as she said this, she saw that Lin Gutou's expression in front of her became even weirder, as if he was trying to hold back a laugh.
"... Which eldest daughter of the Li family? Li Yumei?" the woman in white said, "I heard that her personality has always been a bit strange, but... this time it's really a bit too much."
"What's the point of celebrating? I think the little girl is pretty brave. I'm optimistic about her this time. Maybe she can really pull an old monster back." Lin Guotou said with a stern look on his face: "If the two of them really succeed... will it be considered a good story?"
While he was speaking, there was a sudden commotion among the crowd behind him. He and the woman in white turned their heads at the same time and saw a white-haired old man, accompanied by other people, walking towards them quietly.
"The city lord promised me to come." The old man showed Lin Gutou a jade disc in his hand.
Lin Gutou and the woman in white have kept their heads down since they saw the old man. Lin Gutou, who was at the front, heard the old man's words without even raising his eyes to look at him, "Go in, sir."
He and the woman in white kept their heads down until the white-haired old man walked through the crowd, entered the small two-story wooden building, and closed the door.
…
Yuan Yuanyuan took out the pipe and added some magic pearl powder into it.
She had never known how to light this thing before, but after observing it for a long time in the tavern, she finally figured out how to light it. In fact, this thing cannot be lit with ordinary fire, not even ordinary demon fire, it must be lit with corrosive magic.
In other words, even though this thing seems to be burning, it is actually corroding... After all, this thing is a collection of demonic power, and it is considered to be a very hard thing. Basically, any magic that can corrode demon beads will have the same effect when thrown on a monster.
Yuan Yuanyuan took a long time to light this thing. She carefully protected the flame, then gently put it aside and let it burn on its own.
It was difficult to turn this thing into powder, so this was the first time in such a long time that she lit it.
The demon bead powder burned very slowly, and just when a wisp of white smoke floated out of the smoke outlet, Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly felt that she "saw" a lot of things.
The feeling changed drastically in an instant. Yuan Yuanyuan was almost shaken by the feeling, her brain went blank, and she felt like she was on drugs.
WTF... This feeling...
Everything between heaven and earth seemed to be divided into a chessboard, and Yuan Yuanyuan seemed to hear clearly the sound of every chess piece falling.
Yuan Yuanyuan felt it for a while, and suddenly covered her face silently. If she had known this, why would she have gone to such great lengths to learn the chessboard tricks... She almost went crazy learning that thing, but in the end, it was not as useful as a handful of demon bead powder.
She didn't know if this demon bead powder had any other effects, but she felt that it was more than one level better than the kerosene lamp... In fact, it was also more than one level better than the one in the tavern. Maybe it was because she used more demon bead powder
Things that were not "seen" before were now all "seen". Yuan Yuanyuan saw the monsters hidden under the "dark sky". She had just guessed that there were hundreds of them, but when she looked again, she found that there were only dozens.
It was okay... not as scary as she thought.
These heartbeats were obviously mixed together, but Yuan Yuanyuan didn't know why she could distinguish them. Even she found this feeling incredible.
Just when Yuan Yuanyuan was trying this novel feeling for the first time, she suddenly noticed someone walking towards her.
Yuan Yuanyuan sat up straight in an instant, threw the broken tree ring next to her aside, and then looked at the door with extreme nervousness.
After waiting all night... it was already this late, someone finally came.
Who could this person who came over be
The moment the door was pushed open, many scenes flashed through Yuan Yuanyuan's mind. She thought that the person coming over might be the one who passed the message to her that day, or it might be an acquaintance she had met before, so when she saw the old man pushing the door open, her nerves suddenly tensed up.
"You look... the same as before." The old man who pushed the door open looked at Yuan Yuanyuan who was sitting there, "But I'm already old."
…
This person... who the hell is he
This was the first sentence that flashed through Yuan Yuanyuan’s mind.
The second thing that flashed through her mind was, "Holy crap! I caught a big fish!"
This... Well, hard work pays off. It wasn't in vain that she had been squatting here for so long without sleep.
This man must be powerful, so he could bring so many people to block her. It is estimated that she just stuck her head out and was exposed. There is no point in hiding anymore, so the old man decided to come out.
Then it seemed like she had... accidentally done a good thing.
Yuan Yuanyuan pondered for a while and came up with a guess that she thought was very reliable. Although it was a little different from the facts, these things were actually not that important right now.
She had prepared a bunch of random tricks to get people to talk, waiting for the first person to come in. They finally came in handy at this moment, so she kept looking at the old woman opposite, preparing to decide what she would say next based on her reaction.
The old man did not get to the point as Yuan Yuanyuan expected. Instead, he started his speech in the manner of an old friend reminiscing about the past, "Yuan, your personality has changed a lot over the years."
—Old friend, or rather… old acquaintance
It has to be said that his opening remarks were enough to make the imposter Yuan Yuanyuan's heart skip a beat. However, she knew in her heart that this did not mean that she was exposed now. It should be just a reminiscing between old friends. In fact, if she was exposed, the other party would not say such words.
She sat still in the chair, and after three seconds of silence, she said, "People always change. Aren't you the same now?"
The old man opposite smiled. He pulled out a chair and sat down. Then he looked at Yuan Yuanyuan and said, "It seems that I have changed more. At least I thought you would jump up from the chair when you saw me."
During this time, Yuan Yuanyuan frantically searched for traces of the person in front of her in her mind, but no matter what she did, she found nothing.
The old man in front of me gave people a very comfortable feeling, and he had the kind of immortal-like aura.
In short, the first impression Yuan Yuanyuan had of him when she saw him was that he was kind.
A bit too kind.
Yuan Yuanyuan pondered for a while, this old man... why is he so kind but so scary
"I think you will hate me." The old man said, "I'm sorry about what happened to Qiuying back then. I didn't prepare everything well enough."
"But there is one thing." The old man suddenly came closer, "Why did you come back again?"
At that moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew in the room.
The old man in front of him disappeared, and a man wearing the same clothes as the old man stood in the middle of the room.
His face looked very white and his lips looked very red.
His hair was held high up by a crown, and his black hair hung down like the finest tassels.
This scene has a sense of absurdity... It's like the time-lapse editing in a TV series, similar facial features, similar clothes... Similar people.
It seemed as if at this moment, time had gone back a hundred years.
Yuan Yuanyuan's hands on the chair suddenly clenched.
She looked at the person opposite her, and suddenly felt a surge of anger in her heart.
That kind of anger... was uncontrollable, and it was something most people couldn't understand. The reason why Yuan Yuanyuan was so angry was because she finally recognized the person in front of her.
It's him!
It’s actually him!
…
Because of the layer of paper between them, the emotion naturally didn't feel that deep. However, when the person in the paper came in front of him, the emotion was like an erupting volcano, totally uncontrollable.
For a moment, Yuan Yuanyuan's throat seemed to taste of blood.
It was... him.
It turned out to be this person.
Now, he is here.
Why are you so angry
This was the first time in her life that she got so angry... and it was because of a "stranger" she had never met before.
…are they considered strangers
Forget it.
The man pulled a bench next to him and sat there casually. His posture was particularly good-looking. It can only be said that time is really a magical thing. The old man was such a person back then.
"You are very smart. You have kept silent since you came back." The man said, "But the smartest thing you should have done is not to come back at all."
Yuan Yuanyuan felt that her mind was blank. If she didn't say anything, no one else would be able to tell. At this moment, even her ears were ringing.
There was a buzzing sound that lingered but wouldn't go away.
However... for some reason, her whole body suddenly relaxed.
It was as if all the strength in my body was suddenly drained away, and it was as if I was walking on clouds.
…
Yuan Yuanyuan picked up the pipe placed aside, and like the man in front of her, she suddenly sat lazily sideways on the chair and took a light puff.
The smoke lingered along the center of the room and rose into the sky.
Looking from the outside... the room seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, blurry and fuzzy, like a mirage.