Chapter 22: Separate Rooms and Sleeping on Broken Boat: Broken Defense? Who Broke Defense? Anyway...
A group of furry creatures surrounded Chen Wei and Duan Zhou. They finally found a backer who could uphold justice for them, and they immediately wanted to get up and grab Chen Wei.
Chen Wei half squatted down, looking helplessly at the kittens and puppies in front of him. Many of them had their fur ruffled, and one could guess that they were not living a happy life.
But who can be happy if their house is occupied?
"Is there any evidence to prove that the land belongs to you?" Duan Zhou asked.
"Yes." The furry group huddled together and took out a clean piece of paper. Chen Wei took it and took a look, and found that it was actually a land deed. Although the furry group lived a messy life and was dirty, this land deed looked unusually clean. It was obvious how much the furry group cherished this land deed.
However, the thing they cherished so much was seized by an unscrupulous monk.
Chen Wei carefully read the words on the deed, and after confirming that they were correct, he turned to look at Duan Zhou and said, "Do you think we can make it to the sect conference on time if we are delayed for a day or two?"
"You want to take care of this matter?" As soon as Duan Zhou saw Chen Wei's expression, he guessed what the other party was going to do, but it was also reasonable.
Chen Wei laughed awkwardly, folded up the land deed neatly, and returned it to the furry group. He said, "There are only two possible outcomes for this matter. One is that they are willing to return the land, but if I leave here, they may not be willing to abide by the agreement, and may even continue to covet the demon pill. The second is that they are unwilling to return it, then..."
Chen Wei did not continue speaking, but his meaning was already very clear. After hearing it, the furries all nodded and cried out in unison. The meaning was simply one and that was that they were willing to believe in any decision made by Chen Wei.
Chen Wei smiled, his eyes curved slightly, the corners of his lips raised, he raised his hand and gently touched the cats and dogs in front of him. Being surrounded by them, this scene made Duan Zhou couldn't help but look at it a few more times.
“If you are willing, I can write a letter to you. You can take the letter to Xuanwu Peak of the Myriad Beast Sect, and there will naturally be spirit beasts to pick you up.” Chen Wei said slowly: “I don’t know if you…”
"We do!" They purred at once, obviously pleased.
Chen Wei laughed, he also liked these furry creatures, looking at them made him feel good, so he immediately wrote a letter, and after finishing it, he pressed a handprint.
"I saw other spirit beasts use claw marks, why did you use hand prints?" Duan Zhou watched the whole process from the side, and only spoke up when he saw this: "Your hand print... Can Bai Xiao and the others recognize it?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Wei leaned close to Duan Zhou's ear and whispered, "Do you want to know what my true form is?"
Duan Zhou's ears immediately turned red, Chen Wei was too close to him, so close that he thought Shen Wei would do something, but the other party's tone was very cautious and unusually serious, so that Duan Zhou couldn't tell why he felt lost in his heart.
He opened his mouth, glanced at Chen Wei, and said very unwillingly: "I'm not that curious."
After Duan Zhou finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the City Lord's Mansion. Chen Wei quickly handed the letter to the group of furry creatures, and after instructing them, he prepared to chase in the direction of Duan Zhou.
"Brother Duan." Chen Wei didn't understand why Duan Zhou was unhappy again for no reason. He felt that human sword cultivators were really hard to appease, so he took the initiative to greet him and said with a helpless smile: "Wait for me."
The two of them entered the City Lord's Mansion one after the other. As soon as they entered, the servant at the door hurried to inform the City Lord. It happened that the City Lord was entertaining guests in the back garden. After seeing the servant coming, he found an excuse to leave temporarily.
"Sir." The servant looked around and lowered his voice and said, "I think the two newcomers seem to have had a falling out. They went to the backyard one after the other. The one in black clothes didn't pay any attention to the one in white clothes. I'm afraid they have a falling out."
"It collapsed? It doesn't matter if it collapsed." The city lord looked indifferent. He said, "One is a spirit beast, and the other is a human swordsman. They are not of my kind, so their hearts must be different. We are not on the same path, so how can we stay together for long?"
The servant kept complimenting him.
"Have you prepared the things I asked you to prepare?" A hint of coldness flashed across the city lord's eyes. The servant shuddered subconsciously. He didn't dare to look at the city lord's eyes at all. He could only nod his head and whispered, "Everything has been arranged. As long as you give the order, all the spirit beasts in this yard will not be able to escape the net you have laid."
Hearing this, the city lord snorted and laughed, and a trace of greed finally appeared on his usually indifferent face. He took a deep breath and said casually, "How can they be compared with human cultivators when they are just lowly spiritual beasts? They even dared to pretend to be human cultivators and come to my city lord's mansion to cheat for food and drink. Killing them is their fate."
The servant nodded repeatedly, not daring to say no. It was only when the city lord continued to go to the back garden that the servant suddenly remembered something more important and said hurriedly, "Sir, there is one more thing! The other five spirit beasts have not returned recently, only the two new cultivators have returned."
The city lord stopped and turned his head sharply to look at the servant with a very gloomy expression.
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The small courtyard was silent, and the other houses were uninhabited. Chen Wei took a look, then turned back to look at Duan Zhou who seemed still angry. The other party had not paid any attention to him until now, and Chen Wei was embarrassed to keep getting close to him.
He carefully recalled every word he had said along the way and felt that there was nothing wrong with it. If he had to say something, it was nothing more than that he did not tell Duan Zhou his true form.
But he himself didn't know what his original form was, so how could he tell Duan Zhou?
"What are you doing?" Duan Zhou was sulking with himself, secretly regretting that he was so easily led by Shen Wei. However, before he could reflect clearly, he found that Shen Wei was holding a quilt and preparing to go out. Duan Zhou could not sit still and immediately asked, "Master Shen, where are you going?"
"I'll sleep next door." Chen Wei hugged the quilt and pillow and said honestly, "We should have done this last night, but we lived together because we were worried about the spirit beast that broke in. Now that the problem has been solved, it's not good to let you sleep on the floor all the time, so I'll sleep next door."
Duan Zhou gritted his teeth and said, "You come when you say so, and leave when you say so?"
Chen Wei was a little confused by Duan Zhou's words, but with his ability to read people's expressions, he could basically tell that Duan Zhou was unhappy.
"I..." Chen Wei adhered to the principle of never offending his amulet. He hugged the quilt, raised his foot halfway but then temporarily retracted it, and walked quickly towards the location of Duan Zhou.
Then, under Duan Zhou's blank gaze, he left the quilt behind and said, "Then...then I'll just go to the next room like this."
Duan Zhou was so angry that he had a headache. He held the hilt of the sword in his hand, stroking it gently, but he stiffened his neck and refused to lower his head, struggling with himself. He believed that he was not attracted to this bastard beast, absolutely not.
It was not until Chen Wei walked out of the room and even politely closed the door that Duan Zhou finally became angry and gnashed his teeth and said, "Asshole."
Chen Wei was completely unaware of Duan Zhou's complex psychological activities, and had no idea how much hesitation and wandering this "human swordsman" he had picked up had experienced in his heart in just this short hour.
He lay on his back on the bed very comfortably. None of the spirit beasts around him came back, so he only had to deal with the city lord. However, when they came back, the servants and maids said that the city lord was not in the house, so Chen Wei had to give up.
Just as he closed his eyes and prepared to negotiate with the city lord tomorrow, he suddenly heard a slight voice in his ears. Chen Wei's face immediately turned grim, thinking that he couldn't be so unlucky. He had just moved into a separate room from Duan Zhou. Could he have met a bad guy?
However, soon, there was a knock on the door. Shen Wei held the sword and said nothing until a familiar voice came from outside, saying, "Sect Master Shen, it's me, Duan Zhou."
Chen Wei showed a trace of surprise on his face. He immediately got out of bed, not understanding why the other party came to his room in the middle of the night. After opening the door, he saw the other party, who was still hugging the quilt. He said calmly, "I am here to sleep on the floor. Since I said I would protect you, I will not let you put yourself in danger. Now this city lord is obviously more dangerous than the previous spirit beasts."
"Ah?" Shen Wei was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously said: "But we are next door..."
"What if the enemy attacks in the middle of the night?" Duan Zhou said righteously, "There are always times when I can't take care of you. It's better to be by your side so that the enemy won't take advantage of you."
What he said was well-reasoned, and every word made Shen Wei feel that he could not refute it, so he could only nod.
Duan Zhou finally showed a satisfied look and said, "Listen to me, I will keep you safe."
In the end, Duan Zhou contentedly made a bed on the floor again next to Shen Wei's bed and slept on the floor very contentedly. Seeing Shen Wei lying next to him, he felt much more at ease.
However, Duan Zhou, who was good at reflection and suspicion, kept his eyes open until midnight, and suddenly thought of this very important question -
Yesterday, Chen Wei was eager to sleep with him, but now Chen Wei took the initiative to sleep in a separate room.
Duan Zhou thought about it again and again. He sat up, turned his head and looked at the already sleeping Chen Wei, and whispered to himself: "I knew it wouldn't be that simple. You're playing hard to get. Sect Master Shen is indeed a scumbag. I've only seen this set of tricks used by veterans in love affairs in storybooks. I didn't expect you, Shen Wei, to be so skilled in using them. I underestimated you and almost fell into your trap."
"Brother Duan?" Shen Wei was half asleep when he felt Duan Zhou suddenly get up. He asked with half-opened eyes, "Aren't you going to sleep?"
"..." Duan Zhou lay flat on the ground and said thoughtfully, "Sleep."
Duan Zhou was only willing to admit that he was almost fooled by Chen Wei's simple tactic of playing hard to get, but he saw through Shen Wei's true purpose at a glance. However, he would never admit that his usually calm expression almost broke when Shen Wei said he wanted to sleep in separate rooms.
This dragon will never admit that its defense was broken so easily.
Outside the house, a group of people were slowly approaching this side. Countless of them were holding bows and arrows coated with dark green poison. It was obvious that they were specially prepared to target Shen Wei and Duan Zhou.
"It will be fine if the black-clothed swordsman does not stop us." The city lord said coldly, "If he dares to stop us, we will kill him too."
"Yes!" everyone responded immediately.
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