Chapter 28 Chapter 28 She'll Take the Hook
"What are you looking at?" Zhou Li noticed Lu Rong's eyes and asked in confusion.
Lu Rong subconsciously turned his eyes away: "I didn't see anything."
I'm looking at your positive side.
[That should be the most sensitive part of every man, hehe.]
[If I only touched him for three seconds, would that make me seem a bit perverted?]
[Hehe, it's okay to be perverted, no one will know anyway.]
Zhou Li listened to the series of "hehe" sounds in his head and glanced at her sideways. He felt that her face was getting yellower and yellower.
How on earth did she manage to be so cowardly?
Zhou Li glanced at her, walked straight forward, brushed the flowers off her shoulders, and stepped over to crush them with his feet.
Then he continued alone, as if he had just met her by chance.
Lu Rong looked around and hurriedly caught up with him: "Hey, why are you walking so fast?"
Zhou Li said without turning his head: "Aren't you looking for Senior Brother Minhui?"
Lu Rong thought his words sounded strange, and hurriedly explained, "I just came in with Senior Brother Minhui, and now I don't know how we got separated. Did you see him when you came here just now?"
Of course Zhou Li saw Senior Brother Minhui when he came, otherwise he would not have been able to use the formation to separate them.
Of course, Zhou Li wouldn't reveal his thoughts, and simply replied indifferently, "I didn't notice."
Lu Rong thought that Zhou Li's personality was indeed such that he wouldn't pay attention to others, so she followed him closely and said, "I'll use the jade token to contact him."
She lowered her head, took the jade token, and sent a message to Senior Brother Minhui, but found that the message could not be sent. "Why can't the message be sent?"
"I set up a ban to prevent the spread of the vine monster." Zhou Lihu said. He just trapped Minhui in another formation and had no chance of communicating with her.
Lu Rong thought about what he had just said: "What did you discover just now? Why did you come here suddenly?"
And he really didn't apply any medicine to his mouth. He just came out with obvious bite marks.
Zhou Li didn't know what to say for a moment, and he didn't know why he came.
He rarely travels without a purpose.
"Hmm?" Lu Rong looked at him, seeming very curious.
"I've noticed something strange." Zhou Li's words were always so simple, "Be careful..."
Before he could finish his words, Lu Rong almost tripped over a vine branch. She subconsciously lunged forward, and a familiar arm wrapped around her waist and pulled her into his arms.
Lu Rong's chest hit his broad chest, hitting the place that was rubbed yesterday again, and she gasped in pain.
Zhou Li lowered his eyes to look at her expression: "Where did you hit?"
"Nowhere." Lu Rong pushed him away and walked straight forward.
Zhou Li's head started buzzing again.
[It hit my chest. It hurts. It's all because he tied it so tightly yesterday. It rubbed my skin.]
He really has brute force!
Zhou Li looked at her thin back and thought of the messy scenes last night. It was indeed a bit tight. Her skin was so delicate that it must have been broken.
He followed her, listening to her mumbling and cursing herself in her heart, and his somewhat irritable mood inexplicably eased.
Walking quickly towards her, shoulder to shoulder, Lu Rong asked Zhou Li, "Are we trapped?"
"Keep moving forward." Zhou Li was not in a hurry. Seeing that he did not look nervous at all, Lu Rong also relaxed.
He looked around and asked quietly, "Zhou Li, why does the ancient vine forest seem to have changed so much?"
She still remembered that the ancient vine forest was not this scary before.
"There are many monsters in the Eighteenth Level, so there are naturally variables." Zhou Li said this, but he vaguely felt in his heart that it might have something to do with the demonic fire burning in his body.
Ever since the demonic fire in his body was rekindled, the strange people around him have also appeared, including the man in black in Luocheng, Lu Fang, and even the current vine demon.
When he came to the ancient vine forest when he was young, the evil spirit here was not strong, and the ground was even covered with beautiful flowers.
But now there is no grass on the ground, and only the veins of the vines can be seen on the bare ground.
The spiritual energy of this place has been sucked dry.
Lu Rong didn't think much of what he said. The two of them walked forward aimlessly. Lu Rong wondered what this guy was doing here. She had an inexplicable feeling that she was taking a walk with him after dinner.
Plus it was dark all around, so it could be called a tryst.
There seemed something a little wrong with their leisurely rendezvous in such a dangerous place.
As she was thinking, she unknowingly widened the distance between them, and someone pulled her collar from behind. She was pulled back and looked up at him in confusion.
"Be careful." Zhou Li whispered.
When Lu Rong heard him say be careful, she nodded obediently like a kitten hearing danger: "Oh, okay."
"Is there a bad demon watching us?" Lu Rong subconsciously lowered her voice, her hands tightly pulling at his sleeves.
Zhou Li saw her standing close to him and thought that there was no monster more terrifying than him in the entire Eighteenth Floor.
He was the demon who wanted to eat her the most.
Perhaps it was because of Zhou Li's reminder that the sudden gust of wind in Tenglin made Lu Rong become frightened.
She was so frightened that she wanted to cling to Zhou Li, and said in a trembling voice, "Let's go."
Seeing that she was timid, Zhou Li took her forward. Lu Rong was keeping an eye on all directions and listening carefully.
I thought to myself, why do I have the illusion that it is more dangerous to be with Zhou Li?
She realized belatedly that this guy was also a very scary monster.
Zhou Li couldn't help laughing when he heard her mutter these two sentences.
How could she be so slow?
Lu Rong was moving forward closely following Zhou Li, and the jade token on his waist lit up.
She hurriedly took it and took a look, and saw the message sent by Qiu Ling at a glance.
Ah Ling: Rongrong, where are you? Are you safe?
【A-Ling: Reply as soon as possible. 】
Lu Rong didn't expect that he would receive a message from Qiu Ling and quickly replied that he was safe.
Puzzled, he asked Zhou Li, "Why can I send a message to Qiu Ling, but not to Senior Brother Minhui?"
Zhou Li: “…I don’t know.”
Lu Rong thought Zhou Li was really strange and didn't understand anything today.
But she didn't care about him, Qiu Ling directly sent her a "video".
"Rongrong? Who are you with?" Qiu Ling asked worriedly.
"I'm with Zhou Li." Lu Rong said to Qiu Ling, "I'm fine, how about you?"
"Sword Master?" Qiu Ling was a little surprised. "Didn't Sword Master say he wouldn't come? Could it be that he came specifically to protect you?"
After hearing what Qiu Ling said, Lu Rong subconsciously looked at Zhou Li who was protecting him.
She was a little unsure, thinking, could he really be here just to protect her?
But Zhou Li's personality wouldn't allow him to do such a thing.
"Don't talk nonsense." Lu Rong retorted hastily, "It was just an accidental encounter, and Senior Brother Minhui and I got separated."
"Brother Minhui?" Qiu Ling didn't react for a moment. After thinking for a while, he finally realized, "Is that the Brother Minhui you always hugged when you were little and said you wanted to marry him?"
Lu Rong blushed: "I didn't say anything!"
"You said that." Zhou Li suddenly blurted out.
Lu Rong looked at him in surprise: "When did I say that?"
"When you were seven years old, your father spanked your palm. He came to comfort you and you hugged him and told him that." Zhou Li said in a serious tone.
Lu Rong was dumbfounded. How could he remember it so clearly? Is he sick?
"That's what we said when we were little." Lu Rong didn't care and continued to talk to Qiu Ling, "Anyway, it's Senior Brother Minhui. Have you seen him?"
"No, I'm with Senior Brother Lin. I was worried that you would be in danger alone, but now that Sword Master is here, you should be fine." Qiu Ling cut off contact after she finished speaking. It can be seen that she trusts Zhou Li more than her.
She took the jade token, glanced at Zhou Li's profile, and thought to herself, this man is the most dangerous.
No, she is dangerous too.
After all, she still had a mission to complete, but she wondered if Zhou Li would kill her if she really touched him.
That shouldn't be the case. After all, wasn't he very powerful when he hit his own midfielder before?
It is not possible for the governor to set fires while the people are not allowed to light lamps.
Her thoughts were in a mess, and Zhou Li's mind was also in a mess. He saw Lu Rong hugging him tightly from behind in his mind, but her hand was sliding down from her waist in a dirty way.
Zhou Li: “?” Where does she want to touch?
He lowered his eyes to look at her. Lu Rong noticed his gaze, and the image in her mind froze and instantly turned into a panicked scream.
[Ahhhhh, why is he looking at me? I feel like he's caught me.]
[No, I haven't touched him yet? If you keep looking at me, I'll destroy him!]
Zhou Li: ...What a weird word?
He turned back instantly as if nothing had happened and said, "Don't the things you said when you were little count?"
"Ah?" Lu Rong didn't react. After a moment of silence, he realized that he was still thinking about the innocent words he said to Senior Brother Minhui when they were little.
"What you said when you were a kid definitely doesn't count. What does a little brat know?" Lu Rong said unconcernedly, "You must have said who you wanted to marry when you were a kid, too."
"No." Zhou Li has all his memories, and he won't talk about who he will marry. He takes big steps, and Lu Rong follows him closely.
"No, no, walk slower." Lu Rong lifted her skirt and trotted over, "Zhou Li, wait for me."
Zhou Li had no choice but to slow down.
Why does she love to act like a spoiled child so much?
The two walked for a while, and Lu Rong was tired. She was about to ask if she could fly on the sword, when Zhou Li suddenly grabbed her wrist and flew backwards.
A vine suddenly shot out, like an octopus with bared fangs and claws, and rushed towards the two of them.
Zhou Li didn't even move his eyelids. He raised his hand and used powerful force to directly shatter the vines that tried to entangle him.
The vine branches fell to the ground in pieces and instantly turned into the appearance of several disciples of Xuanyang Sect.
Lu Rong's face turned pale: "Are they all dead?"
"Yeah." Zhou Li was very calm, even without any ripples, as if the dead person was not a human being.
"Aren't my dad and the others supervising it?" Lu Rong was puzzled.
"It's useless. These vines kill people in the beginning, then take on the person's appearance and blend into the crowd. The vines absorb everything they have, so your father and the others can't tell the difference."
Lu Rong only now understood what Zhou Li meant when he said to be careful with his fellow travelers: "Can these dead people come back to life?"
"Find the main vine and kill it, then these dead people will be resurrected."
After Zhou Li finished speaking, Lu Rong heard Qiu Ling's voice.
"Rongrong!" Qiu Ling and the other two flew over at full speed on their swords. Lu Rong hadn't expected to see them here. He raised his hand excitedly, "A Ling! Senior Brother Lin!"
Another person approached, and she saw clearly that it was Senior Brother Minhui.
The three of them landed quickly. Qiu Ling looked at Lu Rong, who was standing next to Zhou Li, and laughed, "Just now, the three of us were almost attacked. Luckily, you came and saved us from death."
"What do you mean?" Lu Rong was puzzled.
"The vines here will attack more dangerous people." Senior Brother Minhui explained, his eyes subconsciously looking at the face of the young man standing next to Lu Rong.
Zhou Li underestimated the ability of Senior Brother Minhui, and he came out very quickly.
Lu Rong also looked at Zhou Li, thinking that Zhou Li was indeed the most powerful and dangerous one here.
"Sword..." Qiu Ling and Senior Brother Lin were about to call for help when they looked up and saw the wound on Zhou Li's lip. Qiu Ling was speechless. Senior Brother Lin asked with concern, "Sword Master, how did your mouth get hurt?"
"Bitten..." When Lu Rong heard this, his eyes widened a little. He quickly reached out to cover Zhou Li's lips and glared at him warningly.
[Don’t say it, don’t say it! ]
[The club is dead! 】
Zhou Li looked at her nervous expression with a playful smile in his eyes.
She hurriedly said to Senior Brother Lin, "He bit himself."
Senior Brother Lin: “?”
Zhou Li did not deny her words, but just pulled Lu Rong's hand down, but he could still smell the lingering fragrance from her palm in his nostrils.
He glanced at the three people opposite him, his gaze fell on Minhui, then he retracted his gaze and disappeared without a word.
Lu Rong didn't react at all, just watched him disappear out of thin air, once again confirming that he was really a bit neurotic and elusive recently.
Suddenly appearing and suddenly disappearing.
Senior Brother Minhui seemed to be lost in thought. When he saw the young man just now, he saw that what appeared in his eyes was not hostility, but ice-cold murderous intent.
He wanted to kill him, but why didn't he do it?
"Rongrong, who was that just now?" Senior Brother Minhui asked curiously.
"He is the Sword Master of Xuanyang Sect and Lu Rong's mortal enemy." Qiu Ling leaned over and deliberately spoke loudly.
"A Ling!" Lu Rong grabbed Qiu Ling and stopped her from speaking.
Qiu Ling smiled meaningfully, leaning close to her ear and asking, "Did Sword Master bite himself, or was he bitten by you?"
"Go away! Who bit him?" Lu Rong blushed, not daring to admit it. She quickly changed the subject, "Let's go find the main vine now. Zhou Li just said that if we find the main vine and kill it, the dead will come back to life."
"Senior Brother Minhui said the same thing just now." Qiu Ling blinked at Lu Rong.
Lu Rong kicked her, feeling that she was really just trying to create chaos in the world.
The four of them went forward together, killing many vine monsters along the way, but there was still no clue about the main vine.
Seeing that it was getting dark, Lu Rong subconsciously looked up into the sky, trying to find any trace of Zhou Li, but after looking around for a few times, there was no sign of this person.
It appears inexplicably and disappears inexplicably.
"Rongrong, why don't you send a message to Sword Master and ask him to reveal some more information to us." Qiu Ling was also tired of searching.
Senior Brother Lin also echoed: "If you can't find us, we can't get out."
The ancient vine forest was already large, and the four people were covered in a foul smell as they killed the vine monsters along the way.
Lu Rong looked at everyone's distressed state and said, "It might not be helpful even if I ask."
"Let's give it a try. The longer it drags on, the more people will die." Qiu Ling felt that Lu Rong still underestimated his status in Zhou Li's eyes.
Lu Rong took out the jade token hesitantly and wanted to contact Zhou Li, but looking at the looks from the three of them, he had a misconception.
It seems that they can't win outside, so they start asking for external help, and this external help can easily make others misunderstand that they have a close relationship with them.
She held the jade token between her fingertips, and before she could make up her mind, she saw the sky, which was already dim, darken completely.
The ground began to tremble. Lu Rong reacted and heard a roar in the silence. She subconsciously looked up and saw the shadow of the sword cracking in the ice.
"There! Zhou Li is there!" Lu Rong pointed excitedly in the direction of the sword light.
Several people flew over on their swords in a hurry and saw a huge monster in the darkness - a tree demon.
The tree was covered with white flowers, which fell down in the light of the sword.
"No one can stop my growth, hahahaha." The tree demon laughed sharply and arrogantly, followed by a blanket of vines flying towards him.
Qiu Ling hurriedly set up a barrier with her sword, but her ability was still no match for this thousand-year-old tree demon.
The barrier was broken, and the four people were separated by vines. Lu Rong was rushed several hundred meters away with the sword. When she was about to fall heavily to the ground, a force caught her steadily.
She smelled Zhou Li's scent and her body was pulled up.
Zhou Li's voice came from my ears: "Fire overcomes wood."
Lu Rong didn't see him, and even the ice cracks that had angered the tree demon had disappeared. It seemed that he really just told himself the location of the main vine.
But she didn't ask him.
Lu Rong didn't have time to think about it, and flew up on his sword again. Looking at the dense vines on the tree monster, it seemed as if there were millions of snakes wrapped around it, which could swallow people with its mouth open.
Lu Rong hurriedly drew a fire talisman in the air and pressed forward. The raging flames rushed over, but what faced him were still those extremely lethal vines.
"You don't know your own limitations." The tree demon roared, and its flames were pierced by the vines. Lu Rong retreated in panic, and a sword energy fell first. With a swing of the sword, the tree demon was split into two, and the sword light pierced the darkness.
The ground cracked and deep gullies appeared.
Lu Rong looked at the ice crack in front of her in surprise. Before she could be happy, she saw the tree demon that was split in two quickly recover.
"As long as there is soil, there will be rebirth!" Lu Rong said to Qiu Ling and the other two who flew back.
"But the entire Eighteen-Layer Mountain is made of dirt." Senior Brother Minhui frowned and looked at the arrogant tree demon below.
"Can we flood it with water?" Lu Rong asked them.
"We can try." Senior Brother Lin nodded. "Senior Brother Minhui will protect you. Ah Ling and I will burn those vines with fire."
"Okay." Lu Rong was actually unsure. She had never used the Yin Yang Spring. If it wasn't for saving the dead disciples of Xuan Yang Sect, she would not use A Miao's Yin Yang Spring.
Senior Brother Minhui protected Lu Rong. Lu Rong was thinking about the Yin-Yang Spring when a force flowed in her body. Before she could react, she saw a water belt flying from the sky, flying towards her and circling around her.
"Go and drown that tree demon." After Lu Rong said that, the water hose suddenly rushed towards the tree demon. The originally dry ground became a vast ocean in the blink of an eye. The tree demon was not affected in the water at first, but later it could be felt that it was roaring in pain.
The flames of Senior Brother Lin and Qiu Ling trapped the struggling vines.
Time passed minute by minute, and Lu Rong controlled the Yin-Yang Spring, consuming the spiritual power in his body crazily.
Big beads of sweat dripped from her chin, she bit her lip and persisted.
Senior Brother Minhui looked at her worriedly: "Are you okay?"
"No." Lu Rong's pupils shrank as she finished speaking. She wanted to step back but it was too late. A vine suddenly stabbed into her heart.
She felt it was over and her heart stopped. A figure arrived first and grasped the vine with his palm. The murderous vine shattered completely in Zhou Li's hand in just one second.
"Waste!" A cold voice sounded in his ears. Lu Rong's eyelashes moved, and he found that Minhui behind him had been knocked away by the hilt of Binglie's sword.
Zhou Li looked down at her. Perhaps things had gone too far, and she saw obvious fear in his eyes.
But it was only a moment's awareness. The next moment, Zhou Li grasped the ice crack with his bloody hands, turned around and flew towards the tree monster. His brows were sinister, and the ice crack changed its shape in his hands, and murderous aura filled the air.
Zhou Li had always been quick in solving these problems. Lu Rong had never seen it before, and now that he saw it with his own eyes for the first time, he was stunned.
He only swung his sword once and the arrogant tree demon exploded into powder with a bang. The vines that fell to the ground twisted and soaked in water, turning into living people.
Lu Rong was completely dumbfounded. How could he be... so powerful?
Zhou Li put away his sword, came to Lu Rong, and said coldly: "Take the Yin Yang Spring and don't let anyone see it."
After he finished speaking, he took Lu Rong's hand and took back the Yin Yang Spring. Lu Rong felt the warm blood flowing from his palm. She looked at him worriedly: "Are you okay?"
"Yeah." Zhou Li withdrew his hand coldly, as if he no longer trusted anyone, and took it directly out of the ancient vine forest and brought it to his father.
Lu Wen saw everything and grabbed Lu Rong in fear. He said to Zhou Li, "I saw that the vines were all covered with poisonous flowers from the tree demon. If they enter your body, it will be harmful. I will help you detoxify it now."
"No problem." Zhou Li said indifferently and left.
Lu Rong didn't even have time to grab his hand. She asked her father, "What effect do those poisonous flowers have on people?"
"If the body is healthy, it will cause confusion and unconsciousness. If the body is abnormal, it will become more serious."
Lu Rong thought, it’s over, Zhou Li is in mating season.
Wouldn't that be even more serious? The palm he held just now was indeed burning hot.
He wouldn't burn himself to death.
Lu Rong didn't care that she was in a mess and wanted to go find Zhou Li, but her father held her back and insisted on treating her injuries.
Lu Rong felt every second was an age, and he kept sending messages to Zhou Li using the jade token.
【Lu Xiaorong: Are you okay? 】
[Lu Xiaorong: Zhou Li, if you feel uncomfortable, just soak in cold water. It won't be very uncomfortable.]
【Lu Xiaorong: Wait for me, I, I will help you.】
Inside Wuhui Tower, a layer of cold frost and ice trapped Zhou Li, who was extremely excited at the moment, in the dim room.
The scars on his palms were torn open repeatedly, and he wanted to use the pain to wake himself up.
The blood from the countless torn wounds on his palms dripped from his fingertips, forming a small pool of blood.
The black jade token on one side kept lighting up as he looked at the message Lu Rong had given him.
When he saw the last one, the corners of his lips curled up.
He knew she would take the bait.
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