Chapter 62 Lantern Human Skin Lamp
"I know him, can we be together?"
Bai Yuheng stared at him with her bright, watery eyes. He saw that she was pure and harmless, and that she had a sweet tongue, calling him "brother" repeatedly. His heart softened a little. He also thought that this cage was specially built to suppress the magic power of immortals, so putting people in it together didn't seem to be a big problem. He only thought for a moment before agreeing.
"good."
Bai Yuheng smiled sweetly: "Thank you, big brother~"
The guard felt weak all over, and his hands moved much faster.
The specially made door opened, and Cui Mingcan was forced out. He was still angry, angrily saying, "How can you be so shameless?! Do you think you can just change the cage whenever you want?!"
Seeing that he was not behaving himself, the guard scolded him, "Stop talking nonsense! Get out of here!"
"I'm not going!" Cui Mingcan snapped, loudly refusing.
"Hey! You don't have the right to refuse!?" The guard slapped him on the backside with his spear and urged, "Come on, come on, don't keep people waiting!"
"..." Cui Mingcan cursed him for being spineless. A honey trap could make him so shameless, believing whatever others said. If he was so capable, why didn't he just release them?!
No matter how much they scolded him, he was still brought over by his cowardly ways.
The specially designed cage door opens and closes.
Bai Yuheng looked at him with a beaming smile.
Cui Mingcan was furious. He couldn't understand what was so funny about being arrested! Couldn't they see he was still angry?!
Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, Bai Yuheng leaned over and said, "What are you doing here? Were you arrested too?"
"..." Cui Mingcan curled his lips, "I'd like to ask you, what are you guys doing here? Where are the other two? How come you're the only one who got arrested?"
Bai Yuheng sighed, "It's a long story."
"...Then please get to the point."
Bai Yuheng didn't answer that question, but asked, "How could you tell that these two bodies aren't real people?"
Cui Mingcan scoffed, "You underestimate me too much. It's obvious you didn't attend the class! In our first magic class, the headmaster taught us the Transformation Technique!"
"..." Bai Yuheng smiled awkwardly and changed the subject, "Put this on first, and I will communicate with you telepathically."
Cui Mingcan took the cicada-shaped object with a puzzled look and placed it behind his ear as she instructed.
Can you hear my voice?
"Can."
Bai Yuheng paused, the voice in her ears came quickly and suddenly, she was both amused and exasperated. Bai Yuheng replied, "Master, I wasn't talking about you, I found Xiao Can."
Pei Yuan: "..."
The person on the other end suddenly fell silent.
"Master?"
Bai Yuheng tried calling out, and Cen Ying responded, "Really? Cui Mingcan was arrested too?"
Cui Mingcan heard Cen Ying's words as soon as he finished reciting the mantra, and he was so angry that he gritted his teeth: "Why are you gloating like that!?"
"Oh my! It really is!" Cen Ying heard the voice she hadn't heard in a long time and felt a pang of nostalgia. She asked him, "What are you doing on Penglai Island?!"
We thought you had gone back to Jiangzhou!
"Hmph! Do you think I wanted this?" Cui Mingcan rubbed his forehead, still unable to understand why Yao Fugui had taken him away, and felt even more resentful.
"Who told you to run off without a word? We've been looking for you everywhere!"
"Who told you to stand by and watch me die!" Cui Mingcan roared in fury. "Do you know how long I waited for you at the Ghost Lord's place?! Do you know what kind of injuries I suffered?! You didn't even see a trace of me! And you still have the nerve to complain about me running around! You have no conscience!"
His series of questions choked him up with emotion by the end.
Cui Mingcan shamelessly wiped away a tear.
"You all know I'm afraid of ghosts, yet you let me stay among them for so long. You all have no conscience!" Cui Mingcan pouted, glaring at Bai Yuheng sitting opposite him. "Especially you! Bai Yuheng!"
His gritted teeth made Bai Yuheng shudder. The latter innocently stammered, "I... what did I do to you..."
"snort!"
Cui Mingcan snorted and turned his head away.
Bai Yuheng was confused, but still thinking about important matters, she exchanged information with them and then sat down next to Cui Mingcan, using a cicada to transmit her voice: "I need your help tonight."
Cui Mingcan didn't move, but his eyelids twitched.
"If you don't say anything, I'll take that as a yes."
"Are you a robber?!"
Bai Yuheng chuckled: "Being a bandit for once isn't so bad, it's awesome!"
"..." Cui Mingcan couldn't understand her. He rolled his eyes and shifted his position, but didn't say he wouldn't help.
Bai Yuheng looked at the person locked up opposite her, expressionless and seemingly on the verge of death, and asked, "How many days have you been here?"
Cui Mingcan thought for a moment, then shook his head: "I don't remember. That bastard took me away while I was drunk! I woke up here!"
It was his carelessness. Cui Mingcan was filled with regret. How could he have so easily trusted someone he hadn't seen for so many years? He had no idea how the person had been doing all these years. People change. Even the tree in his hometown is different every year, let alone the feelings he had for him back then.
Seeing his distress, Bai Yuheng didn't know how to comfort him, so she patted his shoulder and asked, "Were they already here when you came in? Did you hear anything?"
“Some of them were already here when I arrived. They’ve been taking some away and bringing others in one after another… Speaking of anything strange,” Cui Mingcan frowned, pondered for a long time, and then said, “The person who gave me the wine said that there is a secret hidden in the Sea God Temple. What it is is unknown. Also, every time they try to bring someone in, they give them some water, but what kind of water it is is unknown. That water makes them drowsy and unable to speak or move.”
Cen Ying listened from the other end and guessed, "Could it be bone-softening powder?"
"I don't know, they didn't feed it to me."
Li Tiankuo asked in confusion, "Why?"
"...Who knows?"
Cen Ying laughed and said, "They probably thought you weren't capable of running away, which is why they didn't feed you?"
Cui Mingcan gritted his teeth: "Cen Ying!"
Cen Ying stuck out her tongue on the other end: "Just kidding, just kidding."
"Hmph, who said I'm incompetent? I escaped from this ghost town entirely on my own merits!!!"
Cen Ying exclaimed in surprise: "Wow, that's amazing!"
Cui Mingcan snorted: "That's not it!"
"If I had waited for you to come and save me, I would have become one of that Ghost Lord's many concubines long ago!"
Cen Ying bickered with him: "I thought you'd at least become the second-in-command, but it turns out she kidnapped you just to make you the subordinate?!"
"..." Cui Mingcan held his breath, the words stuck in his throat, and gave a cold snort, unwilling to answer Cen Ying's question.
Bai Yuheng spoke up in time, interrupting their conversation, afraid that they would start arguing: "Is there anything else suspicious?"
"Yes," Cui Mingcan said casually, hands behind his head. "But why should I tell you?"
"No way, Cui Mingcan, aren't we good friends? Why are you keeping this from us? We're in this together now!" Cen Ying shouted through the cicada, accusing Cui Mingcan of not wanting to be human.
"What good friends? I waited for you for three whole days in Anping County! You didn't even come, and immediately ran out of the city! And now you have the nerve to call yourselves friends! No way!"
The three of them fell silent for a moment, knowing that he was still angry. They all tried to explain to him. Bai Yuheng finally saw that his expression had improved a lot, so she decided to give him some benefits to coax him. This was how she usually coaxed Pei Yuan, and it was very effective.
"What!?" Cui Mingcan immediately stood up upon hearing the sound and exclaimed. The guards immediately looked over warily, eyeing them suspiciously, fearing that they might pull some trick.
"You're going to give me the rare copy of 'The Biro Magic Array'?" Cui Mingcan lowered his voice, leaned closer to her, his eyes sparkling with anticipation.
"Yes, of course. As long as you can forgive us."
Cui Mingcan seemed to have been hit, his head spinning, unusually excited. He paced back and forth in the cage until Bai Yuheng was dizzy from watching him, then he stopped, leaned closer, and whispered, "Really? You really want to give it to me? You're not kidding me? I'm not in the mood for jokes right now, you better not lie to me, or else... hmph!"
Bai Yuheng chuckled: "Of course it's true. I'll present it to you with both hands as soon as we get back to the Tianyan Sect!"
Cui Mingcan: "Okay! It's a deal!"
Bai Yuheng and he made a high five to swear an oath: "It's a promise."
Cui Mingcan's cheeks flushed with joy, and he excitedly asked, "The 'Bi Luo Magic Array' was lost hundreds of years ago! How do you have it?"
Bai Yuheng feigned mystery: "I have a brilliant plan. Don't worry, the copy I gave you is definitely a genuine, unique one!"
Cui Mingcan chuckled, coughed twice, and then revealed what he knew: "Every day at midnight, morning, and late afternoon, they would blindfold us and take us to a large hot spring pool to soak for a quarter of an hour or so. Afterward, our skin would be smooth and supple, and we would feel much more relaxed. However, we would feel sleepy, and our spiritual energy would stagnate, making it impossible to use our abilities..."
Bai Yuheng frowned. She didn't know what it was either. She wasn't good at pharmacology, so she had to ask Cen Ying.
Cen Ying thought for a moment and said, "If it's a medicinal bath for moisturizing the skin, the medicine in it will indeed make people sleepy, thus making the skin smooth and delicate, but it can't be effective immediately. It must be a strong medicine, which may have some harm... But why would they let you soak in a medicinal bath? Just to make you sleepy? Or to make your skin better?"
Cui Mingcan suddenly remembered what he had overheard at the Sea God Temple that day and said, "That's possible."
"What's possible?"
"That day, I went to the Sea God Temple and overheard the priest talking to someone about how to capture us. He mentioned that we cultivators need to abstain from grains to make our skin smooth and fragrant, which is what the higher-ups like..."
"Wait!" Cen Ying suddenly called out. The three asked what was wrong, and all they could hear was Cen Ying's rapid breathing. She seemed to be running as she answered them, "The lanterns we bought at the night market that day!"
"Lanterns?" Cui Mingcan asked, puzzled. "What lanterns?"
Upon hearing Cen Ying's words, Bai Yuheng naturally thought of that expensive and exquisite lamp. Before Bai Yuheng could answer him, Cen Ying screamed, her voice trembling: "That...that lantern's skin is human skin!"
"Human skin lamp!?"
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