Chapter 138 The Prophecy of Atlantis (3) “Friends, first…

Xuan Chi was startled, and Si Ling smiled: "Let's go have breakfast."

After she finished speaking, she walked towards the stairs and walked down them lightly. Xuan Chi paused for a moment before coming to his senses. He took a deep breath and quickly chased after her: "Si Ling!"

He followed her and asked as they walked, "What do you mean?"

Si Ling kept walking, pretending to be confused: "Just going to have breakfast."

"Not this one." Xuan Chi said again, "the previous one."

He stared at her closely, not daring to miss a single emotion from her, but apart from a faint smile, there was no extra emotion on her face: "That's what I meant."

"..." Xuan Chi's nervousness was written all over his face. He suspected Si Ling had seen what happened that night, and asked breathlessly, "Did you know something?"

Si Ling glanced at his nervous face and asked, "What do you mean?"

Xuan Chi choked and said with an evasive look, "I mean... do you know something that I don't?"

Si Ling paused for a moment, holding back his laughter: "For example?" Then he continued walking forward.

Hyun Chi uneasily moved around to her other side: "Nothing specific, it's just..." He stuttered, trying to cover up his mistake.

Before he could finish his words, Si Ling suddenly pressed down on his shoulders. Hsuan Chi felt the surrounding scene rapidly shift. Two seconds later, everything returned to calm. Hsuan Chi found himself pinned against the wall of the underground cavern. Not far behind Si Ling, the great bronze sword stood silently. She pressed him down, a ghostly smile on her face. "Like the protective spell you cast on me with your sword?"

Xuan Chi's pupils suddenly constricted. Si Ling squinted his eyes and looked at his uneasiness for a while, then let him go.

Hyun Chi's dazed expression was mixed with uneasiness. A deathly silence filled the air for a moment. Hyun Chi lowered his head and said, "I... wasn't trying to protect you."

Si Ling raised his eyebrows and lowered his head even more: "I just don't want to suffer the pain of being sealed anymore."

Si Ling remained silent. He whispered, "'The rebellious minister returned to the dark cage in his unwilling rage', I..."

"You can kill me." Si Ling raised her chin, and her long black hair gradually transformed into a bun tied at the back of her head. A pair of silver scissors were crossed in the bun. She raised her hand and pulled out one of them, and the silver scissors quickly transformed into a dagger in her hand.

She held the hilt of the sword out to him and said, "You have suffered for thirty thousand years. I understand you, and I will not resist."

"No..." Xuan Chi shook his head in shock, "I can't."

"Why not?" Si Ling said leisurely, "If the prophecy is accurate, I will seal you here again one day in the future without mercy. To put it simply, you have to choose between killing me and doing what you fear most. Why can't you do it?"

Xuan Chi was speechless. Si Ling approached with his sword in hand. "You were once full of vigor and ambition. I sealed you here for 30,000 years. Even your people are missing."

"You lost your memory and don't know what happened back then... Even now, you still don't know what mistake you made."

"I will bring you the same pain in the future. Aren't you afraid?"

As Si Ling spoke, she silently cast a spell, causing her voice to echo hollowly in the cave, sounding like a devil's bewitchment to the uneasy Xuan Chi's ears.

His back hit the stone wall again. Xuan Chi had nowhere to retreat. He suddenly raised his hand and pushed Si Ling away: "Stop talking!"

Si Ling stumbled back two steps, regained his footing, and lowered his sword-holding hand.

Xuan Chi fell to his knees in despair, feeling as if all the strength in his body had been drained. He gasped for breath. Actually, evil spirits didn't really need to breathe; most ghosts did it out of habit, but now he just had to use it to calm down.

Si Ling lowered her eyes and looked at him. This PTSD-like state made her feel uncomfortable and twitched slightly. She knew very well that she had irritated him.

When his breathing calmed down a bit, she finally said, "Don't you understand yet?"

Xuan Chi looked up blankly, his pale face still showing signs of uneasiness. Si Ling sighed, squatted down beside him, and gently stroked his back: "You would rather bear the pain yourself than attack me, so how could you be the traitor in the prophecy?"

Xuan Chi looked at her in confusion. Si Ling pursed her lips and said, "'A loyal old subordinate breaks the seal and returns to the human world'. I think this is you."

Xuan Chi's eyes showed deep confusion as he stared at Si Ling, trying to determine whether she was coaxing him.

Si Ling looked him in the eye calmly: "From the moment you woke up, you believed you were imprisoned here for a serious crime, but what if that Yuan Qianzi was lying to you?"

"No..." Xuan Chi subconsciously denied it, shaking his head and muttering to himself, "Yuan Qianzi is loyal to the Emperor of Heaven."

Si Ling smiled and pointed at himself: "But the Emperor of Heaven is here, how do you explain this?"

Just like before, Xuan Chi couldn't answer this question. He just felt better, as if a beam of light had penetrated the thick dark clouds that had accumulated for tens of thousands of years, making his heart brighter.

Although what she said was just a guess, he hoped it was true.

He heaved a sigh of relief, and Si Ling said, "If you're in the mood, tell me about the past."

Xuan Chi paused for a moment and smiled bitterly: "That happened tens of thousands of years ago, I don't remember everything clearly."

"It's okay, just tell me slowly." Si Ling shrugged nonchalantly, "Just tell me whatever comes to mind."

After she finished speaking, she stood up, holding onto the stone wall, and said to Xuan Chi, "Let's go, let's go eat first."

Xuan Chi nodded and stood up with her. Just as he was about to walk towards the stone gate not far away, he saw Si Ling walk directly through the wall next to him.

The next second, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed and transformed into a castle corridor, with the restaurant at the end just a few meters away.

Xuan Chi was stunned for a moment before realizing, "Is it a barrier?"

"How dare I really force you to go to the catacombs?" Si Ling looked at him with a complicated expression. "If I cast that kind of curse, I'm afraid you'll get killed by the divine weapon if we get too excited. Then who will help me deal with the Heavenly Palace?"

She asked seriously, "You don't intend to let me take back the throne of the Emperor of Heaven by myself, do you?"

Xuan Chi couldn't help but laugh and nodded: "I understand."

The two of them walked into the restaurant while talking and sat with Azhu and the others as usual.

Although they returned to the Ghost Academy yesterday, they did not go to the restaurant or classroom, so they hardly saw other students.

Seeing them appear here, everyone in the restaurant couldn't help but look over. Even the hobbits and the Irish goblins in the kitchen couldn't help but stick their heads out to look. The two looked at each other, and Si Ling said generously and easily, "Ask whatever you want to ask."

So the entire breakfast period became a large gossip scene. Si Ling was answering everyone's questions enthusiastically, while Hyun Chi didn't say much and sat opposite her, eating breakfast in silence.

Because he had previously given everyone a relatively aloof impression, and his identity as an ancient mythical beast cast an additional layer of filter over him, no one thought there was anything wrong with it.

But in fact he was trying to hold back his laughter, because he soon discovered that two out of the three questions Si Ling answered were nonsense.

This can not only satisfy everyone's curiosity, but also avoid leaking important events about the Heavenly Palace.

Hyun Chi didn't think there was anything wrong with this, but as someone who knew the truth, it was just too funny to see her making up lies so seriously.

When he was about to burst out of breath, Hyun Chi raised his coffee cup with a stern face to hide his expression. When his eyes swept over his reflection in the coffee, he vaguely thought of Xin Bi.

He had lied to her once, when he had just entered the Heavenly Palace. At that time, he was still very young and not very good at lying. After his lie was exposed, he lowered his eyes and darted around with guilt.

Inadvertently, his eyes swept across the pond on the side of the hall. There had always been fairy air lingering there, but at that moment a small piece of clear water happened to appear, which made him see how panicked he was.

The voice of the Emperor of Heaven came down at this time: "This matter ends here."

There seemed to be a smile in her tone. He was not sure, but he did not dare to look up.

She continued, "There are two kinds of lies I hate: those that are malicious, and those that seem well-intentioned but cause endless trouble, and that's stupid."

"Your lie is neither. It's just out of nervousness, fear, and self-preservation. Go back. No one else will know about this."

——She was right, he was really nervous at that time, so even though her words were so kind, he still panicked because of her choice of words: "Your Majesty..." He defended anxiously, "I am the only one in the Suhuang clan who entered the Heavenly Palace. If you let me go back..." He paused for a while, and the words to defend himself came to his lips several times, but he finally swallowed them back.

He tried his best to control his emotions and pleaded, "Can you give the Suhuang Clan another chance?"

"The selection of the Imperial Guards is one in a hundred thousand, not everyone can get in." Her tone was nonchalant, but still dignified.

Xuan Chi suddenly lost her temper. She continued, "So the resignation process is also very complicated. If you really don't want to do this anymore, go find Luo Ling. But she's been busy lately, so she might not agree."

This time he could discern a clear smile in her tone.

Luo Ling was standing nearby and immediately said seriously, "Yes, we'll be very busy for at least the next three hundred years. If you want to resign, wait at least three hundred years."

Luo Ling laughed out loud before she finished speaking.

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At the dining table, Hyun Chi took a sip of coffee and unconsciously smiled.

He put down his coffee cup. Ah Zhu was trying to persuade everyone to leave: "Friends, let Si Ling eat first. We can talk later."

The ghosts also knew that they had disturbed Si Ling for a long time. Although they were still reluctant to leave, they still tactfully dispersed.

"Thank you." Si Ling breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Ah Zhui. He looked up and caught the smile on Xuan Chi's face that had not completely disappeared. He asked him, "What are you laughing at?"

"Nothing." Xuan Chi smiled nonchalantly, "You're quite good at telling stories."

Si Ling, of course, knew how many bizarre lies he had just made up, and fearing that he would be exposed with his innocent look, kicked him hard under the table.

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The author has something to say: Hyun Chi: He was still very young at that time and was not good at lying.

Si Ling: ………………………………You speak as if I’m good at it now.