25

"Little brother, although I know you don't like Mr. Baiyi very much, this is a special period. We have a cooperative relationship with him, so harmony is still very important, you understand."

Ling Junyan's expression was a little complicated. It wasn't that he was unhappy, but he didn't expect Yun Qi to see it. However, it was easy for him to see it, but it was a bit monotonous for him to just run over and persuade him like that.

Didn’t he always love to come up with new tricks?

Now... is that all...

Ling Junyan looked at him for a while. Did he think he was stupid and didn't need to beat around the bush?

Thinking of this, Ling Junyan suddenly wanted to laugh.

As expected, the perceptive Yun Qi noticed it again, "Hiss, what are you laughing at?"

The other party has discovered it, and Ling Junyan does not hide it. Since he feels that he has become stupid, will he be more tolerant?

So he said boldly: "I just think it's cute that my brother came to tell me this."

"cute!?"

Yun Qi was almost out of breath. "I came here to advise you with good intentions, and you dare to insult me?"

As expected, whether he has amnesia or not, he is essentially the same person, and the words he says are equally irritating.

"No, big brother." Ling Junyan quickly stood up and grabbed Yun Qi who was about to rush out the door, "No, I was wrong."

Hearing Ling Junyan say "wrong" felt really different. Yun Qi felt that his anger had subsided by half, but he still had to pretend. After he was ready, he turned around and asked, "What did you just say?"

Ling Junyan said honestly: "I said I was wrong."

Yunqi immediately pursed his lips.

Cool! ! !

He raised his hand and rubbed his nose pretentiously, suppressing his smile. Finally! He heard Ling Junyan admit his mistake!

One word: awesome!

Although his smile faded, the sound he made was still extremely joyful. "Then, by the way, could you please tell me where you went wrong?"

In fact, the origin of this sentence is that Yunqi hasn't taken enough advantage.

But how could Ling Junyan not see it, and Yun Qi was too immersed in it to notice Ling Junyan's micro-expressions.

"My mistake was..."

Yunqi nodded and listened happily.

"My mistake was that I shouldn't have confided in Big Brother and made him angry."

Yun Qi:?

"Even if you think Big Brother is cute, you shouldn't say it directly."

Yun Qi: ? ?

"I know that Big Brother wants to save face..."

Yun Qi: ???

Yunqi couldn't laugh anymore.

What the other person is thinking: Cute and too concerned about appearances?!

At this moment, facing Yun Qi's fierce gaze, Ling Junyan looked at him with extremely innocent eyes.

Yun Qi pointed at him, gnashing his teeth until they were about to break, "You have guts."

After saying that, Yun Qi turned around. Ling Junyan smiled secretly for a moment, then his expression changed and became pitiful.

"Big brother."

Big brother, big brother, big brother, all he does all day is call me big brother, he has a mean heart, if you ignore him, he will be...

D? O? G?

No, no...

Yun Qi suddenly looked down and saw a pair of hands around him. Oh my god! What's going on?

"What are you doing?"

Ling Junyan rested his chin on Yun Qi's shoulder, "Brother, don't go."

Yun Qi didn't care about him at all and broke free directly, but Ling Junyan knew from the beginning that he couldn't restrain him.

Yun Qi turned around quickly, "What's wrong with you?"

"I…"

"You wouldn't have..." Yunqi was anxious, but didn't know what to say.

Ling Junyan pretended not to understand, "What?"

Yun Qi tried to convince himself, "Oh, I get it. You saw that I was angry and wanted to explain to me, but I wanted to leave, so you lost your composure for a moment and..." As he spoke, Yun Qi made a gesture of hugging.

Ling Junyan looked at him in silence for a moment, and finally nodded.

Yun Qi instantly breathed a sigh of relief. He patted his chest and said, "Is that so, brother? Next time, just pull me a little. Don't do this. It's not good."

"Are you still angry, brother?"

"No, no, no. After all, anger is harmful to the body. I, your eldest brother, am a person who takes good care of my body. I am not angry at all now."

"It's still useful..." Ling Junyan muttered to himself.

"Hmm?" Yun Qi didn't understand what he said.

"It's okay, it's okay, I understand, big brother."

Yun Qi smiled and patted his shoulder, thinking: After all, this is my younger brother, not Ling Junyan. Sometimes, we have to see them as two different people...

At this time, Yun Qi didn't notice that his heart was beating so violently and his face was red, but only Ling Junyan saw it, and he didn't even know it.

After that, everything was going on in an orderly manner until this day when something unexpected happened.

When Yunqi and his friends followed the clues and found a mine outside Wangshui County, rumors suddenly spread in Wangshui County. At the same time, someone exposed the house where Yunqi and his friends lived, saying that the monster was hiding inside.

When the county magistrate heard about this, he had no choice but to follow public opinion and surrounded the place with people from the yamen.

The county magistrate asked them to guard outside and then went into the house alone.

And Yunqi had been waiting for a long time.

"I hope you are well, County Magistrate." Yun Qi had not seen him for several days.

The county magistrate nodded and took the initiative to explain: "This county's move is really helpless."

Yun Qi did not respond to his words, but said: "Come in first."

So the county magistrate followed him into the guest hall.

Baiyi is the only one here.

Bai Yi saw him coming and hurried forward, saying as he walked, "County Magistrate, it's obvious that someone is behind this. Don't take it seriously."

The county magistrate was not overly surprised to see the two of them acting together. Instead, he looked calm, as if he had already known about it.

He said calmly, "This county knows. First, tell me what you have found out."

"We..." Bai Yi hesitated for a moment and glanced at Yun Qi. Yun Qi then spoke up, "The county magistrate should have found out what we found out, and he probably knows even more."

Baiyi's expression froze for a moment. He didn't know why Yunqi said that, so he looked at the county magistrate again, only to see that the other party had a calm expression and had no intention of refuting at all.

Bai Yi seemed to understand something in an instant, "County Magistrate...you know all these things?"

This is the real reason behind the monster invasion in Wangshui County.

The county magistrate looked at his staff and said, "Bai Yi, it's not that I didn't trust you before, it's just..."

"He just needs a cover to confuse those people so that he can achieve his real goal."

Yunqi finished his words for him.

Bai Yi stared at him in disbelief, "So you recruited the demon-slaying Taoist priests to conceal your activities."

The county magistrate remained silent.

Bai Yi instantly became excited, "Have you ever thought about harming them because of this?"

The county magistrate said, "Bai Yi, this is the only way we can rescue Wang Shui from this dire situation. You should understand our earnest intentions."

"Don't tell me that." Bai Yi raised her hand to interrupt him. "Then let me ask you, did the demon-slaying Taoist priest from a year ago really run away with the money?"

The county magistrate fell silent again.

Seeing this, Bai Yi shouted, "Speak!"

The county magistrate sighed, "The people of this county and Wangshui will remember him."

When Bai Yi heard this, he began to tremble all over. His eyes were red and he could only maintain basic sanity by speeding up his breathing.

"You... are not the county magistrate I know." Baiyi shook his head and stepped back, as if he was looking at a real devil.

Yunqi understood Baiyi's feelings at the moment. It would be hard for anyone to accept that the person he trusted so much had become like this. But he would have to know it sooner or later. The moment Yunqi and Ling Junyan discovered the county magistrate's secret, Baiyi would have to face it.

Yun Qi then lightly cast his gaze upon the county magistrate and asked, "So, county magistrate, what are you going to do today?"

The county magistrate glanced at him calmly and replied, "You and Baiyi are both deeply trusted by the people, so I won't do anything to you. This can be regarded as repaying your kindness to Wangshui County. However, you must hand over one person to reassure the people, so..."

Yun Qi suddenly had a bad feeling. He subconsciously wanted to ask where Ling Junyan was, but suddenly realized that he had asked him to go out to do something early in the morning, and he should not have come back yet.

At this moment, the police outside suddenly broke in and began searching in batches.

Yun Qi clenched his fists. "I'll call you County Magistrate once more, but if you continue to be so stubborn, not only will you fail to save the Wangshui River, you'll destroy it."

"It's not your place as an outsider to interfere in what this county does! You are not me, and you can't understand the despair of seeing your life's work destroyed." The county magistrate opened his arms and roared, and when he looked up, he could see the blue veins on his forehead.

Yun Qi remained unmoved. He sneered. Bai Yi, including the county magistrate, saw an expression on Yun Qi's face that they had never seen before. It was the expression of a killer.

At this time, Yun Qi said coldly: "I can't understand it, but I feel the despair of seeing my loved ones being treated as abandoned by others and being eliminated as soon as possible. So guess how far I will go?"

Yun Qi put his hand into his sleeve, and the county magistrate suddenly took a few steps back. Bai Yi, who was standing beside him, seemed to be frozen, looking at the scene at a loss.

Yun Qi touched the dagger hidden in his sleeve. The moment he gripped the hilt, he suddenly heard Ling Junyan's voice coming from the door.

“Big Brother!”

Yun Qi paused and immediately shifted his gaze.

Ling Junyan stood there at some point.

When did he come back?

Yun Qi didn't care about so many things. He just took out the dagger and planned to hold the county magistrate hostage, but something strange happened. He was suddenly pushed hard by an invisible force. He staggered and stood firm. When he looked down, the dagger was gone?

But neither the county magistrate nor Baiyi saw this scene, their eyes were all focused on Ling Junyan.

Yun Qi didn't know if he had seen it wrong. Not far away, Ling Junyan's eyes seemed to reveal a hint of relief.

"If you have anything, come to me." Ling Junyan said lightly.

The county magistrate was of course willing to do so, and he quickly ordered the officers to subdue Ling Junyan.

Before leaving, Ling Junyan looked at Yun Qi deeply, and then followed the group out of the house.

Bai Yi finally recovered, but saw Yun Qi still standing there blankly. He thought for a moment and said, "We...what should we do now?"

Yun Qi shook his head slowly. "Do you remember I said before that I don't believe in ghosts and gods?"

Baiyi frowned slightly, not understanding why.

Yun Qi then continued, "Now I wish there really was one."

He believed that he was not mistaken. Ling Junyan must know what he had just experienced, that mysterious power and the suddenly disappearing dagger.

What happened these days? How could he...

Yun Qi closed his eyes, and waves of familiar pain surged into his head, but not as intense as before. Yun Qi raised his hand to press against his temples.

Bai Yi noticed his distress and immediately reached out to support his arm, asking, "What's wrong with you?"

Although it didn't hurt that much, it was still very confusing. Yun Qi tried his best to wave his hands to indicate that he was fine.

But his swinging hand suddenly seemed to touch something in mid-air, and Yun Qi subconsciously wanted to grab it. He originally thought that it might be an illusion, which caused the unexpected touch, until he heard Bai Yi exclaim in surprise: "What is this!"

His vision suddenly became clear. Yun Qi straightened his right hand and stared at the thing in front of him for a long time.

Bai Yi was stunned watching from the side. He had witnessed something materialize out of thin air. For a moment, it seemed as if something was violently challenging his original ideas. He seemed to understand Yun Qi's words a little bit.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Bai Yi couldn't help but ask: "What on earth is this..."

Unexpectedly, Yun Qi was surprisingly calm. He stretched out his other hand and gently stroked the thing, then held it in his hand with a very correct posture.

After a moment, he said, "Truth."