Chapter 105: Haircut and Heart-to-Heart Talk

The moment Fu Xuan burst into tears, Jiang Qian was so embarrassed that she didn't know what to do with her hands.

After the two hugged, she looked left and right, wishing she could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.

She shouldn't be here, she should be in the cave.

After Fu Xuan gradually calmed down, he let go of Ji Weihang embarrassedly and said, "Thank you, sister." His voice was still nasal.

Ji Weihang's voice was softer than usual. "I want to thank you, too."

The hard heart, hardened by the long time and the gray experiences along the way, melted a little after a hug of empathy.

In the deep, dark ravine between the two of them, a trickle of spring slowly appeared.

The shallow trust brought about by old friendship, common enemies, and common losses has been replaced by empathy and mutual comfort from shared pain. Behind the hug, their hearts are closer.

Seeing that their emotional exchange seemed to have ended, Jiang Yan coughed lightly and said, "Can we go into the city now?"

Ji Weihang hummed.

At this time, the city gates had already been closed.

But they are not the ones who go through the front door.

Open a hole in the city barrier, move in through the shadows, then fill in the barrier and reinforce it.

Ji Weihang brought them to a simple and ordinary inn. The waiter at the counter was reading a storybook. When he saw them come in in the middle of the night, he didn't ask any questions and checked them in quickly. He took them to the second floor and left without saying much the whole time.

They stayed in three large connecting suites.

As soon as she entered the room, Jiang Yan tactfully went through the door connecting the two rooms to the room at the side, leaving the two of them to talk in private.

As soon as Jiang Yan left and the door was closed, Ji Weihang walked to the door, pressed the hidden mechanism, and activated the soundproof barrier.

Unexpectedly, this seemingly ordinary inn has such additional services. Fu Xuan's doubts about Ji Weihang's choice of this small inn disappeared. "I was wondering why Sister would give up Feiyan Tower and choose this small inn."

Ji Weihang looked around and said, "This is a black market trading point. Ren Fengpan comes here often."

Fu Xuan said: "Xiaofeng died in the game, and I don't know how she is doing." Her words were tactful.

In the memories that Ji Weihang synchronized with her, there were thoughts and speculations about Ji Chengyuan's death in the game. Fu Xuan could easily combine the two situations and figure out what she meant.

"I guess it's the same as Ji Chengyuan." Ji Weihang asked directly in front of Fu Xuan's surprised eyes, "Xiaobai, what do you think?"

Xiaobai did not appear instantly as usual.

Ji Weihang then said to Fu Xuan: "It seems to be the same."

Fu Xuan was silent for a moment, and couldn't help but ask: "Don't you need to cover it up?"

Regarding the consequences of players failing and dying in the game, she thought her sister wanted to investigate the matter secretly to prevent the game from erasing any traces.

Ji Weihang sat down casually at the table and poured two cups of tea.

"Whether we are discussing this openly here or communicating secretly in our minds, it is all within their calculations. If that's the case, why should we hide it?"

"That makes sense." Two cups of tea were poured on the table. Fu Xuan sat opposite Ji Weihang and no longer concealed his thoughts.

"Sister, how many of the player guidelines they gave at the beginning do you think are true?"

Ji Weihang took out various materials from the Chaos Furnace and started to assemble them. As he assembled them, he said, "Article 5, and some warm reminders."

Article 5: Anyone who attempts to reveal the Prayer Game to someone other than a player will lose their game qualification and have their memory erased.

Warm reminder: The organizer reserves the final right of interpretation of the game, please act with caution.

Fu Xuan didn't care that she was talking while doing things, and nodded and said, "I guess failing the game and dying in the game are the same outcome. If we know someone who failed the game, we can make a comparison."

"We know each other." Ji Weihang said, "This is Liuying City. It is not only close to Ren Fengpan, but also close to a person who chose the Beast Camp."

"Liuying City..." Fu Xuan thought for a moment and suddenly realized, "Oh, that young man who was caught at the beginning... Mu Qiao."

"Yes. I have been following him through the faction rankings. He was also forced to join the Beast faction." Ji Weihang said, "When we first met Jiang Qian, he was a mortal hiding in a room with other cultivators of average strength. Later, he probably didn't go out and act, and he didn't die until the end of the game. So, he was one of the losers in the game."

Fu Xuan nodded, "Do you want to go find him to verify your guess?"

With a click, Ji Weihang assembled the things in his hand and said, "We'll take action after daybreak."

She shook the Bird World razor in her hand. There was also a comb and a pair of scissors on the table.

"Put those aside for now. How about I trim your hair first?"

"Among the knowledge that La Boer shared with me, there was knowledge about razors, and I roughly copied one."

"Great." Fu Xuan didn't know what to do for a moment, "How do I cut it?"

Ji Weihang asked her to take off her disguise, sit on a chair with her back to him, and tied a long cloth around her neck to cover her body. "That's it."

Fu Xuan sat up straight, "Oh."

The scissors made two squeaks beside his ears. Fu Xuan was a little nervous, and then he heard Ji Weihang say with a smile: "I forgot to ask you what hairstyle you want. Just a trim will do."

Hearing her voice with laughter, Fu Xuan somehow slowly relaxed. He thought about it, and the people he had met in the bird world appeared in his mind one by one. "Selma... No, shave them all off."

"Really?" Ji Weihang knew that Fu Xuan kept his hair so long because he was obsessed with commemorating his mother and grandmother. Unlike her own hair, which only reached her shoulders.

"Hmm!" Fu Xuan looked at the patterns on the wall and said, "Look, they shaved their hair after death, which meant that they were the same when they left and when they were reborn. I shave my hair now, doesn't it mean that I am reborn a second time? I think grandma will also be happy that I no longer have such obsessions about these things. The commemoration is not on the head, but in the heart."

"good."

Fu Xuan had thought it through clearly. Ji Weihang had no reason to object, so she replaced the scissors with a razor.

The blade of the razor is very sharp. After inputting spiritual power, a spiritual blade will be attached to the blade, making it easier to cut the hair that carries mysterious symbolic power.

With one cut, the black hair fell down. Before it hit the ground, it automatically floated up and lay in the box on the table.

The only sounds in the space were the friction of the blade passing through the hair, the rustling of clothes while moving, and the faint sound of breathing.

After a moment, Ji Weihang said, "Okay."

Fu Xuan touched his thorny hair and couldn't help laughing. "It looks like a thorny fruit."

She touched her head and stood up. Ji Weihang put the razor in her empty left hand and sat down. "Come, help me shave."

I don’t know when, Ji Weihang had taken off his disguise, revealing his white hair.

"Ah?" She hesitated, holding the sharp razor, looking at Ji Weihang who had already sat with his back to her, and was silent for two seconds before saying, "Sister, this is too scary."

Ji Weihang said: "Huh? Why is it scary?"

"...I'm scared that you suddenly get so close to me." Fu Xuan muttered while holding the razor.

Turning his back to her and letting her shave his head, this is more than just ordinary trust.

Ji Weihang couldn't help but laugh at this. "Okay, get started. Finish it quickly. You can still get some sleep before dawn."

"Oh." Fu Xuan really needed to sleep. She yawned and began to shave her hair without hesitation.

When she made her move, Ji Weihang did not remain silent like her, and talked about the past, "Do you remember the night we slept together when we met again?"

Fu Xuan let the falling white hair float into the second layer of the box, "Of course I remember."

Ji Weihang said: "Actually, I know you didn't sleep."

Fu Xuan shaved off his white hair and said, "I know you know I didn't sleep."

Ji Weihang's voice was tinged with laughter: "I also know that you know that I know you are not asleep."

Fu Xuan shaved his head in silence. Two seconds later, he burst out laughing: "I was so scared at that time that I almost rolled into the wall."

Ji Weihang looked at the patterns on the wall, smiled and said, "I was also shocked. You didn't move at all.

"At the time, I thought, since you have shown such trust, I can't be too stingy."

"Haha, I'm awesome, right?" Fu Xuan carefully shaved off the hair behind his ears and said smugly, "I'm very patient. It's nothing to scare me just like that."

"Besides, I know you won't kill me, sister."

"You are so confident, sister."

Fu Xuan smiled, "Okay, touch your head and see if it's perfect. It must be neat and tidy."

Ji Weihang touched his head and said, "Sister, are you hinting that I didn't shave you cleanly?"

Fu Xuan blinked and put down the razor. "Whatever you say is what it is, sister."

After shaving my hair, there was still some time before dawn.

Ji Weihang asked Fu Xuan to go to sleep. For a cultivator of Fu Xuan's level, more sleep would be good for both body and mind.

She sat at the table, put away the wooden box containing the two people's hair, took out the information about the movements of the demons fifty years ago that she got from Ji Chengyuan, and started to look through it.

——Although she believed that Ji Chengyuan was no longer the original Ji Chengyuan, there should be no problem with this information.

Otherwise, wouldn’t it violate the principles of “replacing” and “playing”?

In the fifth level, after Ji Chengyuan ate the ice and snow lotus, she suddenly had an idea. She grasped the thread and thought: Amuda might not be targeting her or Jiang Yan, but Ji Chengyuan.

Following this thread, she instantly figured out many things: why Amuda treated them so "gently" when they invaded, why the levels Amuda set were so strange and not really difficult...

Because Amuda was targeting "Ji Chengyuan".

As for why they targeted Ji Chengyuan, the emperor's son, Ji Weihang had a guess based on his own rejection of Ji Chengyuan after the game ended.

Maybe "Ji Chengyuan" is no longer "Ji Chengyuan".

The reason why she didn't ask Amuda directly was because Amuda's expression through the so-called "nine difficulties" was too obscure. It was obvious that she didn't want to or couldn't be "open and aboveboard", so she asked the question through hints.

The reason why she was so open in her discussion with Fu Xuan was that she wanted to confirm the correctness of her guess through Xiaobai's reaction.

She flipped over a page of information and saw a sentence: "King Misha followed the order of his master to kill the participants of the No Order Operation and exterminate the Mingxian Sect in Demon Abyss 1-09."

King Misha... stroking the words, Ji Weihang remembered the group of demons who were trafficking in human beings that he had killed on the way to the Demon Realm before. They were the subordinates of King Misha.

The Demon Realm does not have an endless supply of humans to sell, which means that King Misha must have mastered the "window" to bypass the Weird Realm and exchange population with the human world.

How did the demons bypass the numerous barriers and checkpoints and enter the Mingyan Sect back then?

Will this King Misha know?