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◎Destruction◎
Mu and Qing attended university in Ancheng and worked there for three years.
In this city are her university professors, her colleagues, her boss, and her two best friends.
Deng Qian should be practicing boxing right now, and Tang Ruxing should be grumbling and cursing as she goes to work.
There is another person who may also be in Ancheng.
Jiang Mu, has he left Ancheng?
She just wanted to be an ordinary person, to study and work in an ordinary way, and then live out her life. She just wanted to avoid making her parents cry, and she just wanted to live a good life. Why was it so difficult?
Should she not have left No. 13 Middle School?
Mu and Qing walked into the sea of insects. The golden sea of insects parted to both sides, and the sound of tens of thousands of insects flapping their wings overlapped, making her eardrums throb with pain. The insects surrounded her, burying her tiny body.
Hua Zha stood still, without moving, watching Mu and Qing walk into the sea of insects with a smile on his face.
They are currently in a relatively remote area, where few people usually come. If this swarm of insects were to fly into the city, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Mu Heqing clenched his fists, his left eye burning.
They want her to use their abilities, okay, then she will.
Whatever happened, it was all her own fault. She was greedy and wanted to return to real life. She wanted to see her parents again and make friends.
She turned around, her eyes turning cold, and commanded, "Since you want me to use you, why don't you come over here?"
The insect swarm changed once again, and their numbers increased.
Hua Zha scrutinized Mu Heqing's expression for a while before walking over, laughing as he went.
"Hehe, Qing, I'm here."
His laughter sounded even more ironic to Mu and Qing.
She doesn't want to be that kind of person; she isn't that kind of person.
Mu and Qing struggled for a moment, then looked straight at Hua Zha who was walking towards them.
Hua Zha walked behind Mu and Qing. The way to establish a link with Li Shi was through offering sacrifices, the way to establish a link with Si Fei was through appreciating paintings, and the way to establish a link with Bao Yan was through physical contact.
The way to link with fraud is through devouring.
He took off his gloves again, and a sphere unlike any other black sphere appeared in his palm. The sphere was snow-white and shimmered with an unusual light.
His magnificent eyes lowered, and he said softly, "Eat."
Mu Heqing lowered her head, but her eyes remained fixed on Huazha. She opened her lips and swallowed the white sphere, but her lips accidentally wet Huazha's palm.
Then, she straightened up, closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she heard a series of explosions coming from the sea of insects, one after another, until they merged into one.
The sunlight finally pierced through a little, and Mu and Qing's gentle, spring-like temperament was now no different from that of the dead of winter.
She couldn't clear out the swarm of insects by relying solely on her deception abilities, or rather, she couldn't clear out the swarm of insects by relying solely on her deception abilities.
Most importantly, Archiefa has not yet appeared.
We must be quick, absolutely quick, to prevent the swarm of insects from spreading to the city.
Since that's the case, this is the only way.
“Send them all to see me,” Mu Heqing said to Hua Zha.
…………
Jin Hai Restaurant is considered a signature restaurant in Ancheng, and it used to have a large customer flow. However, today it was unusual for it to be closed.
Mu and Qing had been here before with the boss, but it was hard to get a reservation. Today, they were treated like they had the whole place to themselves.
The restaurant owner bowed respectfully to them and carefully closed the door.
Inside the antique-style private room was a round mahogany table, around which sat several familiar faces: Li Shi, Bao Yan, Yu Hai, and Hua Zha, while Lin Guo stood by the door.
It was a conspiracy between these guys from beginning to end.
Now, they don't even act anymore.
Mu and Qing pushed open the antique-style window and looked into the distance. The sky was a vast expanse of blue, without a single cloud or obstruction.
But she knew that tens of thousands of golden insects would soon fly here, and she still didn't know what Archifa's purpose was.
Destroy the city?
Through the window, Mu and Qing saw pedestrians on the city streets, willow trees by the roadside, and gently rippling river water, with a warm spring breeze blowing on her face.
“Let’s start from the beginning,” Mu and Qing said, closing the window and turning back to them.
"Where to begin?" Nightmare asked.
It all started when she received that invitation.
That invitation marked the beginning of her renewed interaction with them after seven years.
“Tell me everything, starting with Rish’s wedding invitation.”
Hua Zha nodded, touched his chin with his pure white gloved hand, and laughed, "The prank should end now. Let's stop our punishment of He Qing here."
mischief?
"In your eyes, it's all just a prank?"
Mu and Qing couldn't believe it. Could it be that everything she had experienced these past few days was just a prank they thought she was playing?
Lin Guo, one of only two humans present, spoke up, saying, "Let me speak."
"You participated from the beginning as well?"
Mu and Qing looked at him with scrutinizing eyes for the first time. Lin Guo appeared as a follower pretending to be the principal. His relationship with Hua Zha was not like that of Bao Yan and Guo Ren.
She heard Lin Guo call out "boss".
Lin Guo said, "It has nothing to do with you. Besides, don't look at me like that. The way you look at me is the same way they look at me."
They were obviously referring to deceiving them.
Mu Heqing was stung by those words, and she lowered her eyes.
“At first, although I don’t know where their confidence came from, they thought that your disappearance for several years was not because you really didn’t want to see them, but just because something unexpected happened, and the one who didn’t believe it the most was him.” Lin Guo pointed to Li Shi.
“He was so confident that as long as his name appeared in your life, you would come looking for him. This was the first invitation without a name, which I delivered under an alias. The Lin Dingguo on the courier bag was me.”
“You ignored the first invitation, and then you got the second one with the bride’s name on it. And sure enough, you came, for a complete stranger.”
Mu Heqing didn't understand, and she asked, "Why does it have to be a wedding invitation?"
What is the significance of a wedding invitation?
"You should ask him about it."
Mu and Qing looked at Li Shi.
Li Shi said, "I heard from Li Yu that high school classmates who haven't seen each other for many years always meet again at weddings, and then their relationships continue."
Mu and Qing were disgusted by the words "renew their relationship".
What is the connection between them?
"This will let them know that they are not that important to you, so they need to make you feel that they are 'important'." Lin Guo raised both hands, making quotation marks.
"Attracting Huanren and Yinyin was just their 'prank'."
Mu and Qing really didn't know what to say.
"You also think it's boring, childish, and ridiculous, right? I think so too, but you know, these people, no, they're not human, they're just this boring and powerful. I advise you to make up with them as soon as possible. The less nonsense the better. When gods fight, we little devils suffer."
Lin Guo complained about the whole thing in front of Hua Zha, saying that he had been tormented by it, constantly being asked to do this or that, and had almost died several times.
But Mu and Qing have never been "good" to them, so how can they reconcile?
She didn't want to ask where the principal was. They would tell her if they wanted to; they must think the principal was an obstacle to their pranks and had locked him up somewhere.
"Why should I use your abilities?" Mu Heqing wondered.
Sifei told her that on her way to find Yinyin, Baoyan stopped her so that Mu and Qing would use Sifei's abilities.
Yu Hai said, "Wasn't it like this in high school too?"
Mu and Qing recalled what Bao Yan had said near her house last time.
These are the words spoken by the Nightmare as she sat between him and Feathered Skeleton.
He said that it feels just like when he was in No. 13 Middle School.
Could it be the past she desperately wanted to escape, the past they wanted to return to?
Mu and Qing suddenly couldn't remember their high school years. Was it a warm and bright past?
Why is it that all she reads is pain and darkness?
"What should we do with Archifa?" Mu and Qing suppressed their emotions; Archifa was the most important thing right now.
They still haven't found Archiefa.
Lin Guodao said, "I was on the same plane as him. After we got off the plane, he tried to kill me. I ran away for a long time before I finally escaped. I don't know where he is."
If it weren't for his ability to use deception, he would have died at Archifa's hands long ago.
The Nightmare leaned lazily against the chair, strange characters of varying sizes flowing across his skin.
He held up two fingers and said, "Two steps, find him, kill him."
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After leaving the restaurant, Yu Hai walked alone by the roadside, followed by several black crows. He was like a moving shadow, and few people paid attention to him.
He was instructed by Mu and Qing to go find Aqifa.
He roughly knew where Archie was.
As he reached the street corner, he was called back.
"Feathered Corpse! Wait! Feathered Corpse!"
A loud, boisterous man in a black mandarin jacket shouted.
Yu Hai saw the person approaching and turned to leave, but the man was fast and was already standing in front of him.
“Xiangyuan,” he uttered the man’s name.
"I thought I was seeing things, but it really is you!" Xiangyuan had a thin braid hanging from his short hair, which moved back and forth when he was excited.
Yu Hai replied perfunctorily, "Um, ah."
He already knew what the next line of the poem was about the origin of the hometown.
"By the way, have you seen He Qing? I've been looking for her for a long time."
How could Yu Hai possibly say he had seen her? He said, "No, I'm looking for her too."
"Really?" Xiangyuan laughed brightly. "You haven't already found her, and then you're telling me you haven't found her, have you?"
"Believe it or not."
Yu Hai didn't want to get entangled with Xiang Yuan; that guy was annoying.
"Okay, okay, I believe you. Over the years, I've traveled from the south to the north and asked many people, but not a single one of them has ever seen He Qing. She's just too unknown in the human world."
Xiangyuan pulled an old-fashioned red cell phone from the pocket of his black jacket; it looked like a basic feature phone.
He asked Yu Hai, "Do you have a cell phone? This thing is so hard to understand, I just figured it out. I can leave you your phone number, and you can use this to tell me when you find He Qing."
Yu Hai remained expressionless, but a hint of disdain flickered in his eyes.
“No,” he said.
Xiangyuan's eyes widened in surprise. "No way, no way, you don't even have this? No wonder you can't find He Qing! Let me tell you, I already have a clue about He Qing."
Yu Hai wasn't curious about the clues Xiang Yuan mentioned, so he ignored him. Xiang Yuan also found it boring and stopped asking Yu Hai about Mu and Qing.
Xiangyuan shoved his phone into his pocket, wailing as he walked. "Heqing! Where are you? I've been looking for you for so long!"
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