Sect Leader: We're already in the waiting room, we won't be left behind.

Xing Tian: It will take three hours. Sect Master, you can take a nap.

Shang Lin wanted to say, "Where are the three hours left? We've already taken a taxi, and we've had to wash up and eat."

Sect Leader: Hmm, I was just about to go to sleep.

Xing Tian: Goodbye, Sect Master.

He was remarkably accommodating. However, just as Shang Lin put away his phone, the air around him vibrated again, and Hu Tangdi, who had been invisible, appeared. Because their seats were rather secluded, the two of them didn't communicate via phone but spoke directly.

Hu Tangdi said somewhat frustratedly, "Sect Master, I asked it very seriously, and that thing kept repeating the same sentence: 'You smell so good, I want to eat you.'"

Shang Lin, "..."

I almost flipped the table, but I calmed myself down and asked, "Can you smell any fragrance on me?"

Hu Tangdi took a sniff and then said, "May I get closer to the sect leader and take a sniff?"

Thinking about how close the ape was to him last night, Shang Lin agreed, "Okay."

Hu Tangdi's breath landed on Shang Lin's neck instantly, making the hair on that skin stand on end. He subconsciously wanted to pull away, but in the end he held back.

About a minute later, Hu Tangdi's breathing stopped, and he sat down next to Shang Lin again. "Sect Master, the smell of medicine on you is too strong, masking other smells. However, I didn't smell the aroma that the ape mentioned that made it want to eat. Could it be that we are different species, so the smells we perceive are different?"

In a general sense, both Hu Tangdi and the ape are demons, so their senses should be similar. However, if we break it down to their species, they are indeed different.

Seeing Shang Lin remain silent, Hu Tangdi suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said with great alarm, "Could it be the taste of blood? Or even the taste of the soul?!"

Shang Lin was also startled, because such a possibility really existed, especially regarding the soul. However, if that ape could have such profound perception, it was probably a god, or a false god.

Shang Lin hurriedly asked, "What did you do to that ape?"

Hu Tangdi was somewhat discouraged. "It's nothing serious. It just broke a few bones. It's a demon, so it won't take long to recover. However, the God Lord has locked it up to prevent it from going crazy and hurting Qiu Niang again."

Shang Lin suddenly smiled. "If you don't want it to recover, just dig out its demon core. If it can really smell blood, or even the scent of a soul, then it must have a demon core."

Shang Lin's nonchalant words startled Hu Tangdi. Was this still the sect leader she remembered, who was quite compassionate? Digging out demon cores? She subconsciously checked her own demon core.

In fact, Hu Tangdi didn't find the matter of digging for pills and seizing treasures scary. The main thing was who said it. After all, Shang Lin gave people a very gentle impression and had a childlike and harmless face that made people want to protect him.

Seeing that Hu Tangdi hadn't responded after he finished speaking, Shang Lin said, "Let's leave it at that for now and talk more when we get to our destination."

Hu Tangdi really wanted to say, "Are we still going to dig up that demon core?" But in the end, he held back and decided to do as the sect leader said and decide when they reached their destination.

So Hu Tangdi said, "Then I'll go back to the tower first."

"Um."

After Hu Tangdi disappeared, Shang Lin was finally able to close his eyes and rest. However, there wasn't much time left before the ticket check, and they had to queue up again. Fortunately, this train was still a sleeper train, so they could catch up on sleep as soon as they boarded.

However, on this train, Shang Lin didn't manage to buy two lower berths facing each other. Instead, he got one middle berth and one lower berth. Moreover, all the berths were full as soon as they boarded the train, which shows the huge gap in population and economy between big cities and small cities.

As soon as Shang Lin got on the train, he climbed up to the middle bunk to rest, completely unaffected by the people around him. "Old Man Chai" also lay silently on the lower bunk with his eyes closed, resting. The two of them were so quiet that it was as if they didn't exist.

Although the train was crowded, nothing particularly noteworthy happened, so when they transferred again the next day at noon, they were full of energy.

When they boarded the train again, Shang Lin was once again in the lower bunk facing "Old Man Chai." He said with a smile, "We'll arrive early tomorrow morning. Although this trip is a bit slower, it's still a different experience."

"Old Man Chai" is mostly silent. He only replies briefly when Shang Lin speaks to him. Shang Lin doesn't mind and it's become a habit.

However, before going to sleep that night, Shang Lin sent Huang Ying a message asking if Xing's mother had gone to the hospital to prepare for childbirth.

Huang Ying: I'm going tomorrow. When are you coming, Sect Leader? I have a feeling that something is wrong with Madam Xing.

Sect Leader: What's wrong?

Huang Ying: Logically speaking, the baby is about to be born, so why is the baby's heartbeat getting weaker and weaker?

Sect Leader: Was it the doctor's examination results, or your examination results?

Huang Ying: The hospital said everything was normal, which is why I felt something was wrong. I don't believe the hospital couldn't find something so obvious. I'm a little worried that Xing Tian's relatives might be up to something again. Also, I noticed that Xing's mother's belly is smaller than the pregnant women who are close to giving birth in the hospital. Is it possible that the baby is not at the correct gestational age?

When Hu Tangdi came back for the Chinese New Year, he said that Xing's mother was experiencing morning sickness in the early stages of her pregnancy. Was this "early stages" around 40 days into the pregnancy, or around two or three months? Generally, morning sickness occurs at this stage.

This year's Lunar New Year was in early February, and it's now early July. If Xing's mother started experiencing morning sickness when she was three months pregnant, she would only be eight months along now, an eight-month-old baby...

Wait a minute, wouldn't Xing's mother know when she got pregnant? Even if she couldn't remember the exact number of days, it couldn't be a whole month off, right? Could it be that because she's older, her morning sickness lasted longer? Or is it because of her age that her baby is smaller than that of other pregnant women?

Sect Leader: Weren't you watching over Mother Xing the whole time? Didn't you notice anything unusual?

Huang Ying: Apart from the baby's heartbeat getting weaker and weaker, I didn't notice anything unusual, but the hospital's test results kept saying that everything was fine and normal, which is why I became suspicious.

Is it because Xing's mother is old and the child is weak that this happened again? Why has the hospital been hiding the truth? Is it to give Xing Tian's parents endless hope, only to let them despair in the end?

This way, they can be completely crushed mentally, which will then affect their physical health. Once they are no longer able to keep up, their family's assets can be gradually divided up!

If it's true, what a vicious plan! This method achieves its goal without anyone noticing, and they can even pretend to be good people and gain some goodwill when the baby dies at birth. Truly, people's hearts are treacherous.