Chapter 154 Priests and Businessmen

Compared to the busy crowd, Jiang Yan was much more relaxed at this moment.

She sat on the soft fabric sofa, holding a glass of ice juice in her hand. Yinghuan sat on her left, and Alian sat further to her left.

On her diagonally right side, on the sofa very close to her, sat Su Yunling, who was also holding a glass of ice juice. Their eyes met and then separated.

Diagonally to her left, a stuffed bear doll was sitting on a single sofa. The bulging cotton almost squeezed out all the space. It would be better to say that the doll had adapted to the sofa rather than accommodating it.

Jiang Qian silently looked away, it was so strange.

The feeling of being neither a demon nor a human was so strange. It was just like the strange feeling she had when she saw the plants that blocked out the sun in the greenhouse. She felt uncomfortable all over. Maybe it was the same feeling that mortals had when they saw something with a snake's head and a human body.

She stroked the wall of the glass, letting the water droplets wet her fingers, and listened to them talking.

She shouldn't have been here originally, after all, this was a conversation between representatives of two forces.

After she finished drawing the formation, although Liang Ji's health did not improve, the condition of the barrier was much better. When A Lian called Ying Huan to go together, he also called her to go along, as it was not good to leave her alone in such a secret place.

After hearing Lin Xia's intention, A-Lian asked, "Is that it? Because someone said they were coming to find you, you decided to cooperate with us and keep her?"

The voice of the bear puppet was soft and thick, like thick cotton vibrating. Lin Xia said slowly: "Yes. This is also good for you. Your barrier has weakened. Is there something wrong with Liuliu? If that person comes back, he will definitely be very angry. I can provide something to help Liuliu recover."

Allen said, "Your guys agree? It sounds like this has nothing to do with them. It's all about you, a bear."

Lin Xia said: "You don't have to worry about this."

Allen thought for a moment, stretched out his hand, and said, "It's a pleasure to work with you. I will send a group of people to help you."

The stuffed bear stretched out its hand. Allen held the clumsy fingers that couldn't close together and listened to the soft and thick voice saying, "No need to go. I'll wait here until she comes. I'll give you the props first."

Allen paused and nodded slightly: "Okay."

Lin Xia turned her head to look at Jiang Xuan who was holding the juice and observing it. Jiang Xuan looked back at her calmly, without feeling guilty about being caught peeking.

Lin Xia said, "You should be planning to arrange for me to go around the ranch, right? I want her to accompany us."

A-Lian glanced at Jiang Yan, and seeing that she didn't seem reluctant, he agreed. "Okay."

Jiang Yan was indeed not unwilling. She felt that compared to the unknown Lin Xia whom she had just met, the Wa Garden where she had failed to help wake up Liang Ji might be more dangerous for her. Who knew when they would bring up the old account of the bracelet she brought that caused Liu Liu to fall asleep.

A Lian asked the people around to come over and take them to a nearby "resettlement point", and then they went out.

Jiang Yan did not forget to get her weapon back.

As soon as I went out, I saw the familiar bright sunshine.

The weather here has always been like this, as if this place is left out of time and space and is not affected by any rules.

The guide to Wa Garden sent by A Lian was the same person Jiang Yan had seen before. He was a tall man whose face could not be seen clearly and he walked alone in front.

After they left the gate, they walked along the path to the right, bypassing the manor buildings. They could see a small wooden house at the end of the path with tables and chairs in the yard.

The wind blows across the soft grass and through the branches of the trees, bringing with it the sounds and smells of nature.

Jiang Qian secretly used her spiritual sense to observe Lin Xia. The bear puppet's expression did not change, and its mouth did not move when it spoke, but its body moved and made sounds.

It's really strange.

It’s not like she had never seen puppets and golems before, but they were all very lifelike and very close to real people, not like this... which was sloppy.

"You have been looking at me. Are you interested in me?" The bear puppet turned around and asked.

The puppet's feet stepped on the ground lightly and silently, like a ghost.

Jiang Yan said honestly: "I have never seen a special person like you."

This was both a compliment and a general description. The bear puppet didn't seem unhappy at all. He hummed and said, "I asked you to accompany us because you are also a player. I heard that you have seen her?"

"What do you mean?"

"The one whose name will cause thunder to strike when spoken." The bear puppet's description was very simple. "I heard that you saw her on the twelfth floor?"

Jiang Yan glanced at the silent Su Yunling and said, "You boy, you sold her out while completing a mission."

"Yes, I have seen it." Jiang Yan said.

After a hum, the bear puppet said nothing more until they reached the wooden house with a yard and the people from Wa Garden left, leaving them here. Then it spoke again: "When do you think she will come to see me?"

Jiang Yan said, "I don't know."

Lin Xia, the bear puppet: “Oh.”

It sat in the swing blankly, not saying a word.

Jiang Xuan said, "I want to ask, why doesn't she speak?" and pointed at Su Yunling.

Lin Xia did not answer, but Su Yunling blinked slowly, as if she had just come back to her senses from some state, and said, "I'm observing."

Jiang Yan said "oh" and didn't ask what he was observing. She said, "Let's chat?"

The two of them went to chat aside, and Lin Xia ignored their actions. It seemed that she only wanted to ask Jiang Yan that one question.

"Have you completed your mission? Why don't you leave?" Jiang Qian asked in a low voice.

"It's done." Su Yunling spoke softly, as if she was worried that Lin Xia would hear it. "I was originally planning to steal some of the props they had accumulated before leaving, but the black and white chessboard opened and I couldn't leave. Then Lin Xia received news that the barrier had weakened, and said that they were coming to talk to the forces here, and they must take me with them, so I had no choice but to follow."

Jiang Yan said "oh" and talked about what she really cared about, "Have you seen the person sitting next to me just now?"

"No."

"I think she is very strange. After she reached a cooperation with Fu Xuan, Fu Xuan left and never came back. I suspect she has other purposes."

"What could it be?"

"have no idea."

Jiang Yan thought for a moment and said, "Which camp did you choose?"

"Which one did you choose?"

The man and the demon looked at each other, neither willing to speak first.

If you are not sure whether the other party is in the same camp, speaking out first is equivalent to losing the first-mover advantage.

Jiang Yan analyzed the other party's attitude, but she didn't know Su Yunling and had no idea what choice the other party would make.

With the help of Lilith, Su Yunling determined Jiang Xuan's camp: "You should have discovered the unreality of this world. Based on my understanding of Fu Xuan, I guess you want to destroy this world and choose the White Camp. Then, we are teammates."

Jiang Yan didn't know how she came up with this, nor did she know if she was fishing. After a moment of silence, she chose to believe it: "Yes." She couldn't help but ask, "How did you know?"

Su Yunling said perfunctorily: "I guessed."

"..." Jiang Yan said, "I don't really want to know."

Changing the subject, his eyes fell on the stuffed bear: "Is it really just here to wait for that person? Its forces are not strong enough to keep her, but can we here? And who knows when that person will come."

Su Yunling said: "There is a priest merchant here, maybe he wants to keep her through this relationship."

I don't understand. Jiang Yan didn't bother to think about it. She already knew that the game wouldn't really grant her wishes, so why did she have to complete it? On the contrary, she now thought that failing the game would be fun.

She was not worried that the game would use something to replace her identity in Jijiang Continent and bring trouble to the demon world. After all, she was now with Ji Weihang, and Ji Weihang would control the situation.

She was very curious about where players who failed to pass the level would be sent. If she failed, would she be able to meet Ji Chengyuan and then laugh at him?

She glanced at Su Yunling, who seemed to know nothing about this, and said, half out of kindness and half wanting to see her lose control, "I'll tell you a secret."

Su Yunling hummed, "You say."

“The Player’s Guide is a lie,” she said.

The words she spoke were clear, without any blockage or obstruction.

Su Yunling's mind worked quickly, "Are you talking about the one about failing the game?"

She nodded. This young man's mind was really quick.

Su Yunling said, "I see. Thank you for letting me know."

Not getting the response she wanted, she looked at him strangely, "You're so calm."

Su Yunling did not answer, but looked in the direction of the Wa Garden's main building: "I heard their commotion, the priest merchant is back."

Before she could ask, Su Yunling had already answered her doubts: "I just installed a bug in their house."

Jiang Yan was very interested in the priest merchant. As far as she knew, this person was an important factor that would directly lead to the failure or success of the clearance. She conveyed the importance of the priest merchant to Su Yunling, then stood up and said to Lin Xia: "I want to go back and take a look, is that okay?"

Lin Xia hummed indifferently, and even added to Su Yunling: "You can go too."

There was no reason for Su Yunling to refuse, so they ran back furiously. On the way, there were people from Wa Garden who were gathered in groups of three or four and whispering to each other.

Apparently, word of the priest-merchant's return had spread.

No one stopped them. Jiang Yan followed her memory to Liang Ji's room on the second floor, just in time for the critical moment.

The man in black robe gently put Liang Ji's hand into the quilt, tucked the quilt in for the boy, then turned and walked out, ignoring Jiang Yan and Su Yunling at the door.

A-Lian, who was standing by, hurried out of the room and pushed them out. After closing the door, he followed the man in black robes and asked anxiously, "Aunt Liang, don't you have any solution?"

"Since she wants to lie in bed for the rest of her life, why should I save her?" A hoarse voice sounded, accompanied by the clattering sound of wooden gears.

Allen was choked by the answer, and then said: "Even if she went to pick up the bracelet herself, it doesn't mean..." Facing the deep darkness under the black-robed man's hat that seemed to be staring at her, she suddenly couldn't continue.

She knew very well that Liu Liu did it on purpose. Both the two players and Liu Liu herself had already stated this. Although she didn't know why Liu Liu did this, she knew it must have something to do with Aunt Liang.

Jiang Xuan and Su Yunling, who were observing the situation from behind, suddenly saw the man in black robe turn his head. Amid the clattering sounds, a hoarse voice rang out: "You two, follow me, do you want to die?"

Jiang Yan hesitated for a moment and said, "I heard that you can sell anything. I want to know the whereabouts of my companions. I wonder if you can find it out?"

Su Yunling had a blank expression on her face, but Lilith in her mind smiled and said, "She was very arrogant before when facing the people from the Werner Group and Ji Weihang. I didn't expect her to be so flexible."

Jiang Xuan had no idea that Su Yunling was plotting against her in her mind. She only felt the gaze under the black robe scanning her body, as if measuring her value.

After a moment, the priest merchant turned away and said in a hoarse voice: "You have no life to exchange."

Jiang Xuan remembered that Wu Li had taken both her and Fu Xuan’s lives.

"I want to buy a piece of information." Su Yunling suddenly said, "Take my two lives."

The priest merchant paused as he was leaving, and heard the young man behind him say, "I want to buy your weakness."

Allen's face changed drastically and he quickly dodged away.

The priest merchant turned around, but before he could see how she moved, a gust of wind whistled through the corridor. With a bang, the unprepared Jiang Yan was blown away and hit the wall at the end of the corridor.

Jiang Yan had a weak physical condition, which caused her to feel severe pain all over her body and her mind was filled with swear words.

Castration! One declared war in front of others, and the other attacked innocent people. What a sick person!

No wonder the people in Wa Garden are afraid of the priest merchant, his temper is really bad!

When she recovered, she found that she seemed to be the only monster that was knocked away.

Where is Su Yunling?

She looked up and saw a not-so-big hole in the ceiling. Su Yunling was hanging upside down from the hole, with her head exposed, unharmed.

She felt the pain in her body getting more intense, and dirty words kept coming out of her mind.

Su Yunling looked back at her and said calmly, "I am not physically fit enough to save you."

Lilith watched the show with great amusement in her mind: "Look at her expression. I will definitely cut you into pieces if I get the chance in the future."

The figure of the priest merchant flashed, and Su Yunling seemed to have noticed it in advance. He quickly descended to avoid the enemy who tried to strangle his throat.

Looking down at Su Yunling who had already landed, the priest merchant's attack became less urgent. He said in a hoarse voice, "Did Lin Xia send you here?"

At this time, there was a commotion outside. A-Lian took out the tablet he carried with him and looked at it. He said, "Someone from Lin Xia's side called."

Jiang Yan noticed that A-Lian's attitude was very calm, as if he had expected it.