Lu Shi: “???”
Bai Ningning: “???”
The two people looked at each other with question marks in their heads.
Lu Shi stared at Bai Ningning's eyes in confusion: "Why aren't you gossiping at all? I've exaggerated it so much! It's going to kill me!"
Bai Ningning also found it unbelievable: "Eat before you die—can't you order first and then gossip? It will take a while to wait for the food to be served!"
Lu Shi was instantly convinced: "...Okay, what you said makes sense."
Lu Shi was not very particular about food. She took a quick look and thought it was enough for the two of them, so she rang the bell to call the waiter to get the menu.
After the waiter left, she continued her gossip: "Everyone in Qingwei Mountain is talking about this. How come you're not curious at all?"
Bai Ningning: "It has nothing to do with me. Isn't there a mechanism in the forbidden area? Didn't that person trigger it when he broke into the forbidden area?"
Lu Shi: "No, it didn't trigger at all. That person must have been well prepared and had studied all the mechanisms and routes thoroughly."
Bai Ningning wondered: "How was it discovered?"
"There is a camera at the entrance to the forbidden area..."
Lu Shi was about to speak when the waiter suddenly knocked on the door to deliver the dishes. She shut her mouth with an unhappy look on her face and motioned Bai Ningning to continue gossiping later.
Bai Ningning smiled.
She was indeed not panicked at all. She was wearing black trousers that were common to everyone in Qingwei Mountain, and she also put on a loose coat that she had never worn before. After leaving the forbidden area, she walked directly down the mountain, and the coat was disposed of on the spot.
The store sent her the wrong coat when she bought it. She was busy preparing for the college entrance exam and didn't open the package. By the time she realized the problem, the return and exchange period had already passed. She didn't like the coat and never wore it.
From the moment it was unpacked to the time it was placed at the bottom of the box, this coat had never been seen by anyone else.
Not to mention that there might be other people entering the forbidden area, even if she was really discovered, it would not be traced back to her.
She made every possible preparation that day. Not only did she wear shoe covers, she even carefully wore height-increasing insoles and even deliberately disguised her walking posture.
The footprints had no lines, and the estimated height and weight did not match hers.
Even if there were witnesses who saw her, they would not blame her.
The waiter checked the menu on their table and bowed slightly: "The dishes for our two distinguished guests are all here. Please enjoy your meal."
It wasn't until the waiter left that Lu Shi seemed to come back to life. He immediately locked the door, then continued to gossip to Bai Ningning with a lively expression: "Master never told me that he installed a surveillance camera at the entrance to the forbidden area a few days ago. Within two days of the installation, he filmed someone breaking into the forbidden area. Last night, the alarm in the forbidden area went off in the middle of the night, and the whole mountain knew about it."
Bai Ningning ate slowly and listened to Lu Shi's gossip.
Lu Shi looked at her expectantly: "You are always smart, what do you think?"
Bai Ningning: "I think Master directed and acted it himself."
Lu Shi: “Ah?”
Bai Ningning ate a few mouthfuls to fill her stomach before slowly saying, "He probably wants to trick someone into breaking into the forbidden area. Master can identify people with his spiritual power. If someone really breaks into the forbidden area, he will definitely find it the first time, unless that person is me, because my spiritual acuity is not open. I am also unique in Qingwei Mountain, and he can recognize it the first time."
Lu Shi: "What you said seems to make sense..."
Bai Ningning: "The surveillance and alarms are all disabled, so they're easier to deal with than him. He's aroused everyone's curiosity about the forbidden area and is waiting for everyone to enter. He's using a sting operation."
She finished speaking in one breath and continued to concentrate on eating.
Lu Shi guessed: "Could it be that he is looking for a traitor?"
Bai Ningning: "It's hard to say. Maybe they want to take this opportunity to let everyone know what's in the forbidden area and why they're not allowed in. Or maybe they want to make an example of someone and expel him so that everyone will stay away from the forbidden area."
Lu Shi prepared some cat food for Mimi and asked Ning Ning, "What if there really is a traitor, but one as smart as you?"
Bai Ningning: "Nothing happened."
Lu Shi: “?”
Bai Ningning: "If we don't catch any fish, we can't just overturn the pond, right? It's okay. We can't disrupt the ecological balance of Qingwei Mountain just for fishing."
After hearing her words, Lu Shi fell into deep thought, always feeling that there must be details that he had not caught.
Bai Ningning: "Stop thinking and eat. My brain is almost digested by my stomach, how can I still think?"
Lu Shi: "...Why do I feel like you are being sarcastic to me?"
"Eat more peas. They can protect your brain from being eaten by zombies."
Bai Ningning joked a few words, but she began to wonder in her mind whether the traitor Yuan Xiushuo discovered was Zhuo Yang or another traitor who had not been found.
Or maybe the black shadow in the soul-transforming formation betrayed her, but not completely. It only told Yuan Xiushuo that someone had entered the forbidden area, but did not give her away.
No one knew how long the black shadow had been locked up in the forbidden area. Even if he were a normal person, he would have gone crazy by now.
The most evil thing about the Soul-Transferring Array is that if the center of the array is trapped in it for too long, resentment will be generated, and this resentment can also be transformed into spiritual power.
It's like squeezing the marrow out of the bones. The spirit formation will not stop operating until the array eye is drained dry.
Lu Shi put down his chopsticks without eating much: "I'm full. When you finish eating, let's go to Lianhuafang together."
Bai Ningning: "Eat a little more, at least finish the peas."
Lu Shi was stunned for a moment, then stood up and strode towards Bai Ningning, pretending to pull her ears: "You are quite arrogant?"
Bai Ningning chuckled and after sending Sister Lu Shi back, she asked, "Any other gossip? Something I'm interested in."
Lu Shi: "What are you interested in?"
Bai Ningning: "I'm just an ordinary person, I love to listen to gossip, such as who is in love, who is having emotional entanglements, the more gossip and the more ridiculous it is, the more interested I am."
Lu Shi's first reaction was the new discovery in the case that Lu Yu had just told her. She asked, "Speaking of which, there's a piece of gossip about Cheng Jingwu. He has a peach blossom demon in his family..."
Bai Ningning was speechless for a while, then interrupted her: "It's better not to mention this disgusting scumbag while eating."
"You knew he was a scumbag so quickly?" Lu Shi was a little surprised, but he quickly realized that the new gossip might have been guessed by Bai Ningning and told to Lu Yu.
But how could Lu Yu casually tell others about the mission information? This Peach Blossom Demon was something Lu Yu had been tracking for a long time. Before he officially entered it yesterday, he had no idea about it.
Lu Shi's voice suddenly became much softer: "Lu Yu didn't want to use you as bait to catch the Peach Blossom Evil before, did he?"
Bai Ningning: "Congratulations, you guessed it right. The reward is a bowl of peas."
Lu Shi: “…”
For a moment, I didn’t know which one was more outrageous: the twin sister’s decision or Bai Ningning’s pea.
Lu Shi: "Last night, Master's wife dragged you into the ward. Was it also related to this matter?"
She suddenly understood. The two people in the ward last night were Lu Yu, who had been tracking down the Peach Blossom Evil for a long time, and Yuan Muyang, who had just accepted the Peach Blossom Evil mission. Both of them were closely related to the Peach Blossom Evil; she and Yu Yue, who were locked outside the door, were people who had nothing to do with the Peach Blossom Evil on the surface.
Lu Shi asked, "Do you think the strong ghost energy in Beiyang City is related to the Peach Blossom Evil?"
Bai Ningning: "It's related, but not very relevant."
Lu Shi: "Can you tell me in detail?"
Bai Ningning was unhappy and just wanted to concentrate on eating: "You will understand when you see the formation at Cheng Jingwu's house this afternoon. Why do you let me keep guessing?"
"It's fun."
Lu Shi chuckled and ate peas guiltily.
She found it very interesting to tease this clever and gullible junior sister. It seemed that she could follow the clues to find more key evidence with just a little information, and then deduce the whole picture.
No matter what you ask her, she will give you an answer after careful consideration.
As long as the clues provided were true, her predictions were sometimes more accurate than their own.
After dinner, on the way to Lotus Square, Bai Ningning took the initiative to say, "Geng Yiyi knew about the Ghost Gathering Formation, but she didn't care. She appeared next to Cheng Jingwu later than the formation in their villa, and Cheng Jingwu benefited from it. Geng Yiyi's status is definitely not a bonus, most likely Cheng Jingwu provided it himself."
Lu Shi chatted with her while driving: "How do you determine how long they were together?"
Bai Ningning: "Cheng Jingwu is a playboy who is afraid of trouble, but he never looks for multiple lovers. He only looks for one at a time... Of course, this scumbag has basically achieved a seamless relationship."
Lu Shi wondered, "What about the formation time? Isn't there anyone in this class who can judge the formation time? Otherwise, they wouldn't have me cleaning up after it."
Bai Ningning: "Judging from the time of Sister Juan's death, the formation of Qingwei Mountain most likely appeared around the time of her death."
Lu Shi: "Don't you think you can't see ghosts? Did Ma Juan write it down?"
Bai Ningning: "No, the information Cheng Jingwu sent to Qingwei Mountain at the beginning mentioned the time of the first haunting. He took the green paint at the beginning. It must be Sister Juan, right?"
Lu Shi: "...You are quite perceptive."
Although he couldn't see anything, he knew much more information than those who could see ghosts.
When the car was about to drive to No. 19 Lianhuafang, Lu Shi began to sigh: "Such a strong ghost aura... You really know how to choose a place. If I let you come here alone, I won't be able to return to Qingwei Mountain."
"Yeah?"
Bai Ningning looked around but saw nothing.
Lu Shi: "You must follow closely in a moment, something big might happen. Stay close so I can rescue you at any time."
"..." Bai Ningning picked up her black knife speechlessly, "I don't want to be bait today."
The moment she picked it up, she caught a glimpse of something extra in a villa not far away. Looking up, she saw that the villa was surrounded by black air - ghostly air.
At the same time, Lu Shi said, "It's too late. With such a strong ghost energy, I'm just a bait. Do you see that villa at the edge of the right front end? The ghost energy is overflowing. Either there are many ghosts in it, or it's a level 7 yellow and green ghost."
Bai Ningning immediately locked onto the ghostly villa, No. 19 Lianhuafang.
She put down the black knife, and the ghost energy disappeared; when she picked it up again, the ghost energy reappeared.
Lu Shi was amused by her: "What are you doing? Nervous?"
“It’s definitely stressful.”
Bai Ningning didn't show it on her face, but she knew in her heart that she could see ghosts.
It’s not because his spiritual awareness has been opened, but because of Qinghuai in the black knife.
[Pay attention to her expression, Ningning has already discovered that the person in the villa is Sister Juan’s daughter]
She was hesitant about whether to bring a knife with her because she wanted to protect herself but couldn't hurt Sister Juan's daughter.
[Once Ningning unsheathes this knife, no ghost in the house will survive]
Bai Ningning: “……?”
Why are you giving away spoilers under the guise of reading comprehension again!
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