Chapter 55 Flower Scroll (5)

It's so obviously false.

Gu Qiufeng was well aware of his luck, but it was not yet the point where his wishes would come true. It was impossible for him to be thinking about Xiaoyu in the last second and hear Xiaoyu's voice in the next second.

No one else in the courtyard reacted. Gu Qiufeng walked silently to the house where the sound came from.

Unlike the wing rooms in the mansion where guests were received and doctors lived, fruits and vegetables were planted in the southeast corner of the villa. Vines were entwined around a dilapidated thatched house with a heavy, rusty copper lock hanging on the door.

Perhaps because there were no windows, the entire thatched hut looked eerie from the outside, so no one else in the yard paid any attention to this inconspicuous thatched hut.

If Gu Qiufeng hadn't heard the familiar voice, he would never have come here so easily.

Now he is in a corner where no one pays attention.

Gu Qiufeng thought of a good way to test the waters.

He deliberately said: "Xiao Yu, I didn't expect you to be here. It's great to meet you."

"Yes. Senior, I'm locked up here." The voice in the room said, "Senior, can you help me open this door?"

"Of course you can. But Xiaoyu, what do you want to do by opening the door?" Gu Qiufeng said.

The voice in the room was silent for a while, and then said: "Senior, stop joking. You should be very anxious to find the fragments of the flower rolls now, don't throw a tantrum in a place like this."

Gu Qiufeng: "Wow, do you also know about the flower roll fragments?"

He sighed hypocritically, stretched out a hand towards the door, and said, "Okay, okay, I'll find a way to help you break the lock. But Xiaoyu, do you know the clue to the flower roll fragments? It's a bit troublesome to find such a big princess's mansion."

"I don't know either, but we can go to the lotus pond in the Princess's Mansion tonight. Senior, there seems to be something there."

Perhaps because he thought he would be able to come out soon, the voice gradually became a little too proud of himself, and he actually said what Gu Qiufeng said.

Gu Qiufeng's outstretched hand stopped in mid-air, and then he smiled and said, "Thank you, I'll go take a look tonight. If I find the fragments, I'll come back and let you go."

Voice in the room: “……?”

For the first time, it felt frustrated and angry at being fooled.

Gu Qiufeng turned a blank card in one hand and said thoughtfully: "What you did should be considered a mental attack. First, imitate the voices of familiar people to make them relax their vigilance, and then control their minds little by little through verbal induction, and manipulate them to open the door for you."

This was Gu Qiufeng's guess. The reason it was just a guess was that he was not induced or manipulated, so the words spoken by the voice in the room just now seemed to him to be as full of loopholes as a low-end scam call.

But he was not attacked mentally, what happened? Gu Qiufeng did not remember that he had this special physique. When he was in Phoenix Village, he was tortured half to death by the Phoenix God.

"If you don't say anything, then I guess I guessed it right." Gu Qiufeng said, "Brother, ghost brother, let's put it this way, I'm not the kind of person who is completely unreasonable. From your tone, the flower scroll fragment is indeed in the princess's house. You should know a lot about this fragment, right?"

There was no movement in the thatched hut.

Gu Qiufeng continued, "Tell me everything about the Huajuan fragment, and then I will verify it. When I find the Huajuan fragment, I will come back and let you out."

There was still no movement in the thatched hut.

Gu Qiufeng waited patiently for a while before he heard an old accusation: "Do you think what you said is credible?"

"Wow, quite courageous." Gu Qiufeng said, "Do you think I'm threatening you?"

The voice in the thatched house: "..."

Gu Qiufeng: "I am indeed threatening you, and you have no right to refuse. Are you thinking that after I leave, you can just trick the next human into letting you out?"

"No way. If you don't cooperate with me." Gu Qiufeng said, "I will release a ghost to kill you right now."

The voice in the thatched hut: “???”

Did it hear something wrong?

The humans outside said they wanted to release a ghost to kill it?

But for some reason, an innate fear of death slowly crept into its mind.

It looked like this human wasn't kidding.

After living here for many years, this is the first time it has seen someone who is completely unaffected by the temptation and disturbance of its voice.

And for some reason, the humans outside the house always make it feel scared and want to kneel down.

If you agree, you may still have a chance to survive. If you don’t agree, you may really die.

The cloudy yellow eyes turned around, and it dragged its voice and said: "I didn't lie, the fragments of the flower roll are in the lotus pond."

Gu Qiufeng asked, "What does this flower scroll fragment have to do with Princess Anyang's flower viewing banquet in three days?"

"The flower scroll is a token to summon the Flower God." It said slowly, "The Flower God will come at the flower viewing banquet. As for Princess Anyang, I don't know her relationship with these. I have been locked up here for too long. I don't know what is happening outside."

Gu Qiufeng: "I will go to the lotus pond tonight and let you out when I find the fragments."

A hint of surprise flashed through his mind.

Are ghosts so easy to talk to nowadays?

Gu Qiufeng silently put the blank card in his hand back.

He didn't know why he felt something strange.

There's something wrong with this copy.

This was Gu Qiufeng's instinctive feeling.

The threat of death did not make him uncomfortable, but this copy caused Gu Qiufeng to feel extremely uncomfortable, and he could not find the reason to explain this discomfort for the time being.

It seems that we need to speed up the progress of the task, otherwise there will be changes.

Gu Qiufeng immediately planned to meet up with Duan Chouyu, and they would explore the lotus pond tonight.

*

"You mean the goddess of flowers?"

Yu Chi'ang listened to the title, calmly tightened his teacup, and then said sincerely: "Sir, I am very interested in these folk tales, can you tell me more?"

He was good-looking and looked like a well-behaved child, so the old man stopped what he was doing and readily agreed.

Yu Chiang’s identity card in this copy is particularly special.

He got an identity card of "Painted Skin Ghost".

That's why Yu Chi'ang has not shown up yet to meet up with Gu Qiufeng and Duan Chouyu.

During the two days since Yu Chi'ang came to the copy, he also heard rumors about the so-called Painted Skin Ghost causing trouble, so he was not sure whether his ID card was good or bad.

Fatal Fall has never before pitted players against each other, but this instance is a whole new one.

It's hard to say.

Yu Chiang never had any illusions about the game's stance, so he planned not to show up for the time being and first investigate the meaning of his ID card and the main quest.

From another perspective, the identity of the Painted Skin Ghost can give him a completely new perspective to observe the Huajuan copy.

The Painted Skin Ghost is a monster covered in human skin, so Yu Chiang has not yet discovered the difference between himself and normal humans.

He was in an academy at that time. Yu Chi'ang was already in the academy when he woke up. He first searched for relevant books and got clues about the flower scroll. Then he came with the clues and pretended to be a scholar to ask the teacher related questions.

"The legend of the goddess of flowers," the teacher said nostalgically, "and also the story of the eldest princess when she was young."

Like Princess Anyang, Princess Qiuyun was born into a noble family and grew up being doted on.

The late emperor had held a flower-viewing banquet for the common people at the coming-of-age ceremony of Princess Qiuyun. Regardless of their background or age, all people could attend the flower-viewing banquet held by the royal family on that day.

The flower-viewing banquet was filled with clusters of flowers, and countless rare and exotic plants were competing for beauty. At this time, the eldest princess met the flower god who had descended because of the flower scroll.

The flower god asked Princess Qiuyun which flower was the most beautiful.

However, the eldest princess spoke without restraint and praised the other flowers for their beauty in front of the goddess of flowers.

The flower god was furious. He tore up the flower scroll, the token of love he had given to mortals, and left the flower-viewing banquet.

From that day on, all the flowers in Luoyang withered until a year ago.

"The Flower God has come." Yu Chi'ang said thoughtfully, "Is it because of the flower viewing banquet and the flower scrolls?"

"It is said that the flower god likes beautiful people or things." The teacher said, "Since then, the royal family was afraid of being blamed by the god, so they held a flower-viewing banquet to ask for forgiveness from the flower god, but they never even saw her. Perhaps only the beauty, the flower scroll, and the flower-viewing banquet together can make the flower god look at mortals again."

Yu Chi'ang thought of the recent Painted Skin Ghost murder case.

The Painted Skin Ghost also targeted pretty women in Luoyang City.

Nowadays, the Painted Skin Ghost has caused panic among the people, and countless beauties have died. Pretty women dare not go out in public anymore, for fear that they will be the next target of the Painted Skin Ghost. Beauty is a very subjective evaluation method, and no one dares to say what kind of beauty the flower god likes. But if the Painted Skin Ghost continues to cause trouble, women with a little bit of beauty will either die or dare not go out again, for fear of being targeted by the murderer, and naturally will not go to flower viewing banquets to show off.

By then, one of the conditions for the flower god to descend will inevitably be missing.

After Yu Chiang understood, he planned to go and see Princess Anyang.

Princess Anyang still wants to hold a flower-viewing banquet at this critical juncture, and her intention is very clear.

*

"Walk."

At night, after the doctors in the other courtyard had gone to bed, Gu Qiufeng and Duan Chouyu quietly left the yard.

Although the voice of the thatched house is suspicious, its words are not untrustworthy.

There must be something fishy about the Lotus Pond. Either there are flower roll fragments or there are evil ghosts. There are only these two possibilities. It would not be a waste for them to go there.

Gu Qiufeng covered his left eye.

Since tonight, he has been experiencing severe pain in his left eye.

Duan Chouyu noticed his abnormality and took the initiative to say, "If you feel uncomfortable, I can go by myself."

"It's okay." Gu Qiufeng said, "It's not a big deal, just take some painkillers later."

The two of them avoided the servants who were patrolling at night and came to the lotus pond.

It was not midsummer, and the lotus pond contained nothing but reflective water and withered lotus leaves.

"There is someone in the pavilion in the center of the pond." Duan Chouyu took a look and said, "There are no boats in the pond now. Let's find a way to get there."