Chapter 15
Bai Zhou frowned: "He is injured?"
Pei Zhao felt a little guilty, but Zhou Yuli had a normal expression: "Well, it's normal to fail."
Pei Zhao: ...A truck with several boxes can really hold that much.
Bai Zhou's eyes switched between Zhou Yuli and Pei Zhao, and he smiled knowingly: "Oh~"
Pei Zhao: "Oh what?"
Zhou Yuli:?
Bai Zhou seemed to be in a good mood. He took a sip of the black tea in front of him and clapped his hands happily: "Anyway, the next thing should be handed over to you. My request is very simple. As long as Hall City can continue to survive, I can agree to any request of yours. By the way, in order to facilitate your work,"
Bai Zhou took out two flaming red medals and gave one to Pei Zhao and Zhou Yuli respectively. "As long as you wear this badge, no one will dare to touch you, at least in the West."
Pei Zhao was puzzled: "Then what are you going to do now?"
Bai Zhou jumped down from the chair and blinked: "Me? Of course I'm going to tease my obedient captive while I'm still here. In case I can't see him again in the future, I can leave him with a memory."
Pei Zhao was speechless. This fifth prince seemed to have a very bad temper.
Bai Zhou left happily.
Zhou Yuli walked up to Pei Zhao, took his hand and looked at it over and over again.
Pei Zhao looked at him: "What's wrong?"
Zhou Yuli was a little worried: "Your hand, is there really no discomfort?"
Only then did Pei Zhao remember that he had awakened his super powers.
"Oh my god! Do you know what this feels like? It's amazing. This is the first time I've felt the power of casting a spell in my life. It's really magical. But, speaking of the official feeling, this Hall City feels quite different from the worlds I've been to before."
Zhou Yuli nodded thoughtfully: "It is different, and there are fragments of the system here. I never expected this."
Pei Zhao naturally did not expect that the fragments in his hand clearly mentioned the dollization, forcing him to think about his current situation.
"Let's not worry about that for now. According to what the Fifth Prince said, he hopes we can find a way to solve the energy problem in Hall City. Perhaps we should go meet with the other princes."
Zhou Yuli also agreed, "Actually, I have someone who is even more curious."
Pei Zhao smiled knowingly: "I think I should know who you are talking about."
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The two came to Lan Ji's residence. There was not a single servant in the huge house. A huge fountain in the center had not been taken care of for a long time and had become dilapidated.
Pei Zhao was surprised: "Lan Ji is a duke after all, how come he doesn't have anyone to serve him?"
Zhou Yuli was also puzzled. "The Fifth Prince said he was a prisoner. Could this be related?"
Pei Zhao still felt strange, thinking, if they were prisoners, wouldn't someone be assigned to watch them to prevent them from running away?
Pei Zhao was thinking, Zhou Yuli's expression suddenly changed, "Pei Zhao, look."
Pei Zhao looked in the direction Zhou Yuli pointed and saw a bright red bloodstain on the ground.
Zhou Yuli wiped it and found a bright red mark on the end of his finger. "This is what was left just now."
Pei Zhao frowned: "That guy is really here!"
Lan Ji is here, and the two decide to look for people separately. The two of them became discouraged until they passed the last house at the end of the corridor.
Zhou Yuli: "Not at all... Maybe he just came back once and left again?"
Pei Zhao shook his head and touched his chin: "Logically speaking, this shouldn't happen. Hmm..."
Zhou Yuli turned to look at him: "What do you think?"
Pei Zhao: “Hmm…”
Pei Zhao made a hushing gesture to Zhou Yuli and pulled him to the courtyard where the bloodstains were found. "I felt very strange when I came here before. They were prisoners without even servants, so why was there still running water in the fountain in the courtyard? It's very strange."
Zhou Yuli still didn't understand and asked, "Why?"
Pei Zhao chuckled, stretched out his right hand and put it in the flowing water to test it, "The water in the west of the fire element is so cold, don't you think it's strange?"
Zhou Yuli reached out and tried it, and sure enough, the water was icy cold. Pei Zhao smiled faintly and placed his hands lightly on the water. In a short while, a thin layer of ice formed on the water. The water fell on the ice and turned into fine mist that rose up. A person walked out of the mist.
The man wearing the blue and silver robe was Lan Ji.
"...What's the matter?" Lan Ji took off his armor. The robe was a little big on him, and his figure looked a little weak. When he saw Pei Zhou and the others, he did not show any surprise, as if he had already expected it.
Pei Zhao didn't bother to be polite with him. He stepped on the edge of the pool and said, "Since we are here, Duke Lan Ji, won't you invite us in to sit down?"
Lan Ji was silent for a moment, finally nodded, walked down from the ice of the pool, and led the two into the hall.
Pei Zhao winked at Zhou Yuli, and Zhou Yuli looked over and saw that as Lan Ji went away, the originally thin layer of ice was melting rapidly. Zhou Yuli reached out to try and found that, sure enough, the water in the pool had turned to city temperature.
Lan Ji led the visitors into the lobby, and the three of them sat around an exquisite coffee table.
Zhou Yuli was the first to say, "Duke Lan Ji doesn't look too well."
Lan Ji's face was pale, and even his lips were bloodless. He looked nothing like the heroic figure he had shown before.
Lan Ji glanced at Pei Zhao and sneered, "This is all thanks to the Enlightened One. Lan Ji deserves it."
He looked like he couldn't eat anything. Pei Zhao and Zhou Yuli looked at each other. There was definitely something wrong with this guy!
Pei Zhao did not respond to Lan Ji's words, but stood up and paced around the room.
The room is very deserted. There are only a few blue paintings hanging on the white and green walls. The transition from light blue to Klein blue is very harmonious. All the furniture is made of silver lacquer, making the whole environment look extremely cold.
Pei Zhao stood still in a painting. In the painting, a general in silver-white armor pulled the reins tight, and countless snowflakes were raised by the front limbs of the snow-white horse.
"This painting..." Pei Zhao murmured.
Lan Ji slumped in the sofa with his eyes half closed, looking very tired, and didn't pay attention to Pei Zhao's actions.
Zhou Yuli came to Pei Zhao and asked, "What's wrong?"
Pei Zhao frowned: "I just think this painting is very strange, I can't tell what it means."
Zhou Yuli looked back at Lan Ji, and seeing that his actions had not changed, he made a "hush" gesture to Pei Zhao and raised his hand to take down the painting.
Pei Zhao took the painting and turned it over. "Look at it this way, does it look like an eye?"
The painting was turned over, with the original snowflakes becoming the highlight in the eye, surrounded by the general and the horse, forming the pupil.
Zhou Yuli hesitated to speak: "Why do I feel... these eyes are so familiar..." Before he finished speaking, he remembered where he had seen those eyes before, "...Fifth Prince?"
The Duke, who is at odds with the Fifth Prince, has a painting in his house that looks like the Fifth Prince's eyes. This matter seemed weird no matter how they looked at it. After thinking it over, the two decided to wake Lan Ji up and ask him what was going on.
Lan Ji was woken up, still a little dazed. It was rare that he was not as cold as usual, and he even looked a little gentle.
"Hmm? Painting... All the decorations here were installed by the Fifth Prince. I just borrowed..."
This makes sense, but Pei Zhao still feels weird. "What is your relationship with the Fifth Prince?"
As soon as the words fell, Lan Ji's expression changed, returning to his cold and ruthless appearance, and he stretched out his hand, "Give it to me."
Pei Zhao handed him the painting in silence.
Lan Ji took the painting, lowered his head and looked at it for a moment, then stood up and said in a bad tone: "Since the two Enlightened Ones are here to save the City of Hall, it should have nothing to do with me, right? I don't have any obligation to cooperate with you. In this case, please find a solution on your own and don't waste your time on me."
Pei Zhao and Zhou Yuli were driven out. Standing outside the hall, Pei Zhao was still indignant: "This Lan Ji is really hard to deal with. Is he okay? We didn't ask him to help with anything."
Zhou Yuli agreed with him and nodded: "That's right, but--" From the beginning, Pei Zhao noticed that Zhou Yuli had been keeping his hands behind his back. At this time, he took his hands out from behind his back, and there happened to be a painting in his hands, which was the eye of the fifth prince!
Pei Zhao was surprised: "How did you bring it out?" He remembered that Lan Ji had been holding it in his hand!
Zhou Yuli smiled mysteriously and snapped his fingers: "What we are pursuing is speed."
Pei Zhao patted Zhou Yuli's waist in praise, which undoubtedly caused him to blush. Zhou Yuli shyly changed the subject: "So what do we do next?"
Pei Zhao raised his eyebrows: "That Fifth Prince hasn't prepared a place for us to live yet, right? How about we go back and visit him again?"
As soon as Zhou Yuli saw Pei Zhao's expression, he knew that he had noticed again, and nodded immediately: "Then let's go meet him now."
The two of them went and came back, thinking that the notification would take some time, but as soon as they arrived at the lobby, they were told by the maid that the fifth prince was already waiting for them.
Pei Zhao was quite surprised, but still pretended to be calm and followed the maid. Zhou Yuli followed behind and observed. The floor tiles in the corridor were red and the entire wall was orange, which was completely different from Lan Ji's side.
Western fire element, this color combination is not strange, but Zhou Yuli's eyes fell on the junction of the floor tiles and the wall, and he slowly frowned.
Entering Bai Zhou's room again, Pei Zhao followed suit. The teacups they had used before were still there, so Bai Zhou sat on the sofa, sipping a cup of freshly brewed tea and daydreaming.
Seeing the two of them, he pushed the things on the table in front of Pei Zhao and said, "Residence."
Pei Zhao was surprised and thought to himself, I really didn’t say anything! When I looked back at Zhou Yuli, I found that he had been acting strangely for some reason.
"Are you okay?" After leaving the Fifth Prince, Pei Zhao felt more and more that something was wrong, so he asked Zhou Yuli.
Zhou Yuli pulled him to a deserted place and said mysteriously, "Do you know what I just saw?"
Pei Zhao was curious: "What?"
Zhou Yuli waved his hand. Pei Zhao leaned over and heard Zhou Yuli stretch out his hand and gesture a long corridor in front of him: "In the corridor just now, between the red brick wall and the orange wall, do you know what's there?"
Pei Zhao tried to recall: "There... is a black line?"
Zhou Yuli nodded: "That's not a line, it's moving."
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