61 Mirage Mirror (I)
◎Through her tearful eyes, a red diamond on the hilt of the knife hanging in front of her neck jumped into her eyes.◎
"They are right ahead! My Lords, you must avenge me..."
Everyone was shocked. They hadn't expected the monsters to escape so quickly and chase them. Alan was anxious and urged them, "Hurry in! When we encounter monsters, they usually hide here. They don't dare come in."
Qu Lingfei took one look at the house and felt a sudden chill in his heart. He was about to draw his sword, "Miss Alan, please hide behind us. They're just a few monsters, aren't they? I only need a casual strike of my sword..."
Before he could finish his words, a strong light passed by his side and smashed a huge hole in the ground.
"...Miss Alan has a point." Qu Lingfei sheathed his half-drawn sword and used the hilt to push the door open. He said sternly, "There's no time to lose. Let's go in and get out of the spotlight."
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Qiuyan stared at him speechlessly, thinking how nice it would be if she didn't have to be from the same school as this man.
The big demon held the hair on the long-tailed demon's neck with one hand and was still able to walk very fast. In just a few words, the sand under his feet had splashed in front of everyone.
After escorting the three girls in, Qu Lingfei had just drawn his sword when he was ruthlessly pushed by someone. He staggered back a few steps and fell into the house.
"Your sword is useless against them." Xie Changyan didn't even glance at him, his words concise yet piercing. As soon as he finished speaking, a flash of green light appeared, and in the blink of an eye, the monsters were forced back a long way.
Qu Lingfei shouted, "Brother Xie, don't hesitate to fight. Come in quickly!"
Xie Changyan took a step back, turned around quickly and slipped into the house. The door behind him slammed shut, barely blocking the big demon's outstretched hand outside.
The sound of knocking on the door immediately rang out, one after another. Even with such great force, the door remained motionless.
After a while, the noise outside the door gradually died down; the monsters seemed to have left. Qu Lingfei sighed deeply and was about to open the door to leave when he heard a startled cry from behind him. He quickly retracted his hand, and the door, which had been slightly ajar, suddenly slammed shut, nearly trapping his finger as he reached in.
"They won't leave so easily," Alan said, standing behind them, his head tilted slightly. "If you go out now, even if you defeat them head-on, both of you will suffer. I used to come to this place often. It's perfectly safe. Why don't you trust me?"
Before he could finish his words, the deafening knock on the door rang out again. Qu Lingfei's eyebrows jumped and he took a few steps back from the door.
"Miss Alan came to save us despite the danger. If we still insist on going out to die, wouldn't we be wasting her kindness?" Qiu Yan advised kindly. After all, they had just come out of the ancient city, and being hunted for two consecutive days had severely damaged their vitality. They had no energy to fight the group of monsters outside the door.
"Wait a minute," Nangong Xiu suddenly said, looking at Alan with a sullen face, "Are you sure there's nothing wrong with this house?"
Alan blinked his lifeless eyes, suddenly retreated behind Li Jintang, and buried his head behind her sleeves.
"Sister Alan, don't be afraid. Fellow Daoist Nangong means no harm," Li Jintang turned around and gently comforted her, then turned his gaze to Nangong Xiu, "Is there anything wrong?"
Suddenly, everyone's gaze turned to him. Nangong Xiu groaned, pointed out the window, and said, "It was still broad daylight when I came in just now, and it's already dark outside in less than half an hour. Doesn't anyone think there's something wrong with this room?"
After these words were spoken, they realized that the sky outside the window had darkened without them noticing, which was really surprising.
The knocking on the door seemed to have subsided. Qu Lingfei suppressed his surprise and asked, "Alan, where exactly is this place?"
"I don't know either. We discovered it by accident. There was nothing like this the last time we came here..." Alan's voice became smaller and smaller. While speaking, he lowered his head and hid behind Li Jintang.
"Don't ask. She can't answer." Xie Changyan had already walked into the room and looked around, but he didn't notice anything unusual. A thick layer of dust had accumulated on the table, and a half-burned candle had fallen on it. He flicked his fingertips and relit it, the dim candlelight reflected on his face. "I don't see any danger at the moment, let's wait and see when daybreak comes."
After hearing what he said, the expressions of several people softened slightly. Qu Lingfei sighed and said, "In that case, let's all rest here for the night - oh no, maybe in half an hour, it will be dawn again."
This made sense. Several people walked in together and found a staircase in the corner. They went up along it and found several livable rooms on the second floor. After making sure there was no danger inside, they returned to their rooms. No one extinguished the candle in the room that night.
A dark figure stretched out on the wall, his footsteps as light as a shadow. He followed silently behind everyone without anyone noticing.
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The young man stood by the window, quietly looking at the sky that had completely darkened.
This place...is not safe.
But he wanted to know who brought them here and what their purpose was.
After a long time, Xie Changyan shifted his gaze slightly, glanced towards the door, and curled the corners of his lips slightly - as expected, he followed after all.
He took out the black jade from his sleeve and threw it on the table. A trace of spiritual power gathered at his fingertips, and a dangerous light was reflected in his eyes, as if something was struggling inside.
In the end, it was reason and his unchanging ambition that triumphed over the insignificant emotion that sprouted from his heart without permission.
"Book of Fate, you know so much, but do you know where this place is? And when will the day break?"
After Li Jintang asked, there was no answer for a long time. She turned her head in confusion, but saw that her shoulders and the ground were empty. Where was the shadow of the fortune book?
"Atang, can you sleep in this bright light?" Qiuyan raised her hand considerately and said, "Or I'll put out the candle."
Li Jintang looked around the room and quickly waved his hand, "No need, Sister Qiuyan, you go to sleep first. I...I'm going out for a while."
It was really terrible. She was so tired these past two days that she didn't even notice that the fortune book had disappeared from her.
Qiuyan immediately said, "I always feel like there's something strange about this house. Where are you going? I'll go with you."
"Don't bother, sister, go to sleep. I just..." She hesitated for a moment, then realized there were no windows in the room. She hurriedly said, "I'll go out and see if it's daybreak."
After saying that, he opened the door and walked out.
Just as the door was closed, a bright light suddenly flashed in the dark corridor. Li Jintang held his breath and asked cautiously, "Mingshu, is that you?"
"I'm so tired, why is the kid walking so fast?" As soon as the voice came out, she immediately felt relieved. When she was about to take it back to the room, she suddenly heard a strange sound.
Li Jintang looked in the direction of the sound and then froze in place - the sound came from Cong Xie'an's room. He was the one who fought off those monsters before entering the house. Could it be that he was injured again?
Even if this house was unsafe, there were only a few of them in it at the moment, so nothing would happen. She took a deep breath and moved slowly along the wall.
A slightly rapid breathing sound came from the room, indicating that the person inside had suffered a serious injury. Li Jintang was anxious, worried that something might happen to him. Without thinking too much, he called out softly, "Xie An, are you in there?"
No one answered.
She felt her heart beating extremely fast. After hesitating for a moment, she finally chose the latter between going back to seek help from others and pushing the door open to rush in.
The door creaked open, and Li Jintang was just wondering why the man hadn't locked the door before sleeping when she suddenly stepped on something sticky. Looking down, she saw a pool of slowly flowing blood. She looked up in surprise, and a completely unfamiliar face suddenly appeared before her eyes.
The man wore a ghost mask and a green robe, and there was murderous intent in his eyes that appeared through the two holes.
Her mind went blank in an instant, and only two thoughts popped up in her mind - where did Xie An go, who was the man in the room, and did he do anything to Xie An?
But she didn't hesitate for too long. She turned around and tried to escape, but a hand suddenly reached out from behind her, tightly covering her lips and blocking out the scream that was about to come out.
"If you don't want to die, don't make a sound." A cold voice came.
She had never heard such a voice before. She must not know the person in front of her. Then why did he come to kidnap her and what was his purpose?
Would he want to kill her?
The book of destiny fell from her shoulders, and she jumped up and down, trying to shake his hand off, and yelled, "Let go of my child!"
But before it could jump high enough, the man in green suddenly stretched out his hand and threw it out of the window pane with ease.
Li Jintang's pupils suddenly shrank, but only sobbing sounds came out of her throat. She tried hard to pry the hand covering her lips away, but the hand tightened its grip instead. She could hardly breathe, and her five fingers dug weakly into the palm of her hand.
The man roughly dragged her to the window. Li Jintang glanced back with difficulty, her heart sank. Weren't they on the second floor? How could it be so high up?! If he threw her down now, she would be so badly shattered that even her body would be unrecognizable.
Despair hung over her heart like a dense cloud, but the man simply leaned his back against the wall, seemingly having no intention of throwing her down.
At least not yet.
Li Jintang opened her eyes, hope rekindled in her heart—she couldn't just wait to die. She swept her gaze across the table, calming herself and waiting for a moment. The man behind her seemed to relax his guard, and she took the opportunity to free one hand and swiped it randomly across the table.
With a soft "ding-dong" sound, the vase placed on top fell down and was about to fall to the ground.
As long as the vase is broken, the huge noise it creates will definitely attract Brother Qu and Xie An and others, and then she will be in danger.
But the man in green stretched out the handle of his knife and caught the vase that was about to fall. After steadying it, he easily grabbed her hands with his backhand.
The vase didn't fall to the ground, but it seemed to hit her heart, instantly shattering the little hope that had just been ignited with great difficulty.
Am I going to die here today in such an unclear manner?
She couldn't even see the murderer's face clearly.
But this is in a storybook. She is a person from another world. What kind of enemies could she have? Would it be necessary to go to so much trouble to kill her?
Suddenly thinking of his parents and elder sister, Li Jintang blinked and tried hard to hold back the tears that were welling up in his eyes.
Her tear-soaked eyelashes brushed against the back of the hand. Perhaps it was an illusion before her death, but the other party seemed to be stunned for a moment, and the strength of the hand also eased.
But it was only for a moment.
"Don't be sad yet," the cold voice sounded in my ears again, "someone will come to rescue you soon."
Who else could save her? Having inexplicably traveled through a book, and now facing an unclear death here, Li Jintang felt a wave of grief. A tear as big as a bean slid down her cheek, rolling onto the man's clothes and disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Through tearful eyes, a red diamond on the hilt of the knife hanging in front of her neck jumped into her eyes.
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