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◎Friends◎
"He Qing, you've arrived."
Behind Fa Jiu stood a richly dressed follower, who carried a tray with a cup of black tea. Fa Jiu placed the tea on the table in front of Mu and Qing.
Mu and Qing picked up the glass and took a sip.
"Why wasn't there any for me!" Xiangyuan, who came with Mu and Qing, shouted loudly.
Fa Jiuyi's smile faded slightly. He said, "Xiangyuan, what are you doing here?"
There was still tea on the tea cabinet inside, and Xiangyuan didn't stand on ceremony; he poured himself a cup. He said, "I met Heqing on the way. Heqing said you were looking for her, so I came along with her."
“No, what I mean is, I didn’t invite you.” Fa Jiuyi’s words were quite straightforward.
Xiangyuan seemed to be choked by Fa Jiuyi's words. He shrugged and said, "Okay."
He put the teacup on the table and headed towards the door, but after a few steps he turned back and pulled Mu and Qing, who were sitting down, to their feet as well.
"He Qing, the principal doesn't welcome me. Sigh, let's go."
Mu and Qing had no objections. Anyway, she had come, and Fa Jiuyi had seen her, so she could leave now.
As she and Xiangyuan reached the door, they encountered a woman. The woman exuded a faint fragrance, wore a satin cheongsam, and had her hair styled in a bun. Most remarkably, her face contained many colors that blended together harmoniously.
The moment the woman saw Xiangyuan, she unleashed a deadly attack. Her fair hands were crossed, and faint wisps of colored smoke emanated from her body.
"Colorful!" Xiangyuan exclaimed in surprise. He pulled Mu and Qing back hastily. Several building block-like objects floated in the air, absorbing the colorful smoke. They were then corroded by the colorful smoke and turned into dust, falling to the ground.
Mu Heqing sighed as she watched the two guys fight. That's how her friends are; they love to attack each other.
Cai has two forms: one is a little girl, whose ability at that time could only make people faint; the other is the mature woman she is now.
They look different, and their abilities are different too; the colorful smoke she emits is poisonous smoke.
As the colorful smoke and the village's smoke mingled, the entire room was filled with colorful smoke, and there were broken pieces of building blocks everywhere.
In the end, Mu and Qing still spoke up to stop them.
“Principal, it’s been so long since we’ve seen Xiangyuan. We can’t let him die after only meeting him once.”
Upon hearing this, Xiangyuan was immediately moved to tears and said to Mu Heqing, "Heqing, you are the best. Unlike them, all they know is how to beat me."
With a wisp of colored smoke swirling around her right hand, Cai said coldly, "We're hitting you, don't you know why?"
Xiangyuan said nonchalantly, "Maybe you're just jealous of how well Heqing and I get along."
"Hmph." Cai was too lazy to communicate with Xiangyuan anymore and went straight to his hands.
The two guys started fighting again.
“Principal Fa Jiuyi,” Mu Heqing requested.
She didn't want to see her classmates killing each other.
"Sigh." Fa Jiuyi seemed helpless about Mu Heqing's request. He sighed, his eyes flashing, and a silver net separated Caihe and Xiangyuan.
He gently advised, "Let's stop here."
Cai snorted softly, put away her colorful smoke, then put on a bright smile and walked to Mu and Qing's side.
"Hey, today's been really strange." Xiangyuan also stopped, flicked his braid, and felt that everyone he had met today was a bit odd.
Mu and Qing actually tried to persuade the principal to stop, and the principal actually took action.
He strode up to the principal and asked directly, "What did you do to He Qing?"
Fa Jiu's expression changed slightly, and Cai also suddenly turned around to look at Xiangyuan.
"What did you do to me?" Mu Heqing looked puzzled, glancing at Fa Jiuyi and then at Cai.
"It's nothing. I guess Xiangyuan hasn't seen you in a long time and isn't used to your attitude towards him." Fa Jiuyi said calmly, giving Xiangyuan a meaningful look.
Xiang Yuan felt a chill run down his spine. Fa Jiuyi was plotting to kill him. Back when they were still at No. 13 Middle School, the principal had never intended to kill any guy.
They won't actually die, but the principal's methods will make them wish they were dead.
This is why no one resisted when they were imprisoned in No. 13 Middle School.
The principal is the most terrifying; they're just making minor trouble.
Xiangyuan didn't know what had happened to Mu and Qing, but for now, she was getting along well with them, and he didn't need to disrupt that situation.
Mu Heqing felt the atmosphere suddenly become strange. She looked left and right until Xiangyuan, Caihe, and Principal Xiangyuan all gave her the same smile.
That's weird.
“You guys are so strange,” Mu Heqing said, pursing her lips. “You’re definitely hiding something from me.”
"No, not at all, Qing."
When Cai transforms into an adult, her speech also changes, becoming like that of a gentle older sister.
Mu and Qing didn't pursue the matter further. In any case, if anything happened, her friends would tell her.
They've always had a good relationship, and they wouldn't hurt her.
For Mu and Qing, today was just an ordinary Friday, no different from any other day.
As evening approached, she declined the principal's invitation to dinner and went home alone.
Silver spiderwebs were everywhere in the city, but there wasn't a single spider on them. The largest spider was the one she had just seen.
What to do this weekend?
Why don't you go check out Sifei's latest paintings? She told her in the chat that she had painted a lot of new paintings recently and was waiting for her to appreciate them.
Or should I go to a nearby city with Nightmare and Feathered Skeleton?
As Mu and Qing pondered this, they lay down on their small bed and fell asleep.
Her consciousness continued to sink until she entered the deepest darkness, where a strange plant emitted a faint red glow.
The plant's branches extend in all directions, each branch seemingly without end.
Mu and Qing were drawn to the plant and couldn't help but move closer to it.
Her hand touched the plant's branches, and suddenly, all the branches began to twist and twitch as if they had gone mad. In an instant, every leaf on the branches split open, and behind each split was an eye.
But Mu and Qing were not afraid. She felt that this was how it should be. This plant was something she knew, and it would not harm her.
She had a feeling that she had seen Him long ago, even before the last time the principal took her to see Him.
Mu and Qing remember everything; her memories remain. However, the past holds no meaning for her anymore, like encountering a little bird in the morning or seeing an old lady crossing the street at night.
She reached out and touched one of the leaves, or rather, its eyeball.
It's so itchy, my left eye is a little itchy.
Mu and Qing winked. In an instant, everything changed, just like the little bird she encountered in the morning was a bird she had raised for a long time, and the old lady she saw in the evening was her maternal grandmother.
how so?
She woke up when she wanted to explore the root of the problem further.
She sat blankly on the bed, not knowing what she had dreamed about, only feeling lingering fear.
She felt a slightly cold touch on her face, and when she touched it, she realized that she was crying, and only her left eye was crying.
Mu and Qing got out of bed barefoot, looked in the mirror, and saw that only one eye was crying. They found it strange and were about to take a picture and send it to Li Shi when the tears stopped flowing as if the valve had been turned off.
She didn't think about it anymore and lay back down.
The next morning, before she even opened her eyes, she sensed someone by her bedside.
"Nightmare, don't come into my room."
Mu and Qing casually picked up a plush toy from the bed and tossed it over. The toy flew through the air in a perfect arc before being caught steadily by a hand.
"Brother, if I didn't squat here, you would definitely have gone to find Sifei." Baoyan said with a grin, squeezing the fluffy duck doll.
Mu and Qing sat up in bed, their eyes still closed, still feeling drowsy.
"Heqing, hurry up and change your clothes, brother will take you to play." Baoyan squeezed Mu Heqing like a duck doll, and shook her, trying to wake her up.
Mu and Qing swayed along, their limbs as limp as noodles.
She was so sleepy and didn't want to get out of bed.
"I really don't understand why you still have to go to work," Bao Yan said with dissatisfaction. "You don't have much time to begin with, and you still have to sleep."
"You'll die if you don't sleep, and you won't have money if you don't work."
Mu and Qing were exasperated. Did she really think she was like them, someone who didn't need to sleep?
Bao Yan replied matter-of-factly, "If you don't have money, just ask Fa Jiu Yi. He won't refuse to give it to you."
Mu Heqing was too lazy to argue with Bao Yan about this issue. After struggling for a while, she changed her clothes.
"So, where are we going?"
“Follow me,” said the Nightmare.
Bao Yan led Mu and Qing to an old-fashioned street, where there were single-story houses and a diverse population of all sorts of people.
He and Mu Heqing walked to a street corner, pointed to the rooftop, and said, "Let's go up there."
Even if it's a single-story house, it's still four or five meters high. There's no ladder nearby, so Mu and Qing couldn't possibly climb up.
Mu Heqing asked, "How do I get up there?"
Bao Yan answered Mu Heqing's question with his actions. He grabbed Mu Heqing's waist with both hands, bent over, and jumped up in a somersault.
Mu Heqing hadn't expected to get onto the roof like this, but although she got up there, her waist was being pinched so hard it hurt terribly.
She looked at the Nightmare with resentment.
The Nightmare apologized: "It's my fault, don't be angry, I'll carry you up next time."
Mu Heqing shook his head and said, "No, I won't go on the roof next time."
She wouldn't let the Nightmare pinch her waist anymore; if he did, she'd pinch his butt instead, and they'd hurt each other.
Bao Yan patted Mu Heqing, gesturing for her to look down at the house.
Mu and Qing stuck their heads out, and a familiar figure walked into the messy street corner, followed by several black birds.
"Feathered Skeleton?" Mu and Qing were about to shout when Bao Yan covered their mouths.
His obvious schadenfreude and amused expression silenced Mu and Qing.
Mu and Qing continued reading.
A moment later, several burly men walked in from the street corner. Each of them was tall and strong, holding short knives, and surrounded Yu Hai menacingly.
Facing these burly men, Yu Hai appeared even thinner, his face as pale as if he had just crawled out of a graveyard.
"You think you can hide here and we won't find you! Our boss valued you so much back then, and you betrayed him in the blink of an eye!" The burly man at the head of the group said lines that you'd only hear in a movie.
Mu and Qing immediately became interested.
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