Chapter 20
The donated blood flowed all over the ground in an instant.
Before Pei Zhao could react, Bai Zhou rushed over, swung down the ice cone, and pressed the wound that was bleeding.
"Lan Ji, what are you doing!?"
Lan Ji's blood flowed on the ice, emitting a sizzling sound, and like the high temperature, it melted holes in the ice castle.
"Since we will die sooner or later, we might as well do it now." Lan Ji said, "Besides, my blood can help you escape. Bai Zhou, promise me that you will never come back after you leave here. This city is not worth your efforts."
Lan Ji's voice was tiny and his blood was flowing rapidly. The moment you swim into the ice, all the ice and snow melted, and soon a hole big enough for one person to step out appeared in front of you.
Through the cave entrance, Pei Zhao saw the people surrounding outside and silently clenched the mirror whip in his hand.
The man under his command was breathing weakly, but was still alive. Bai Zhou didn't waste any time. After putting Lan Ji down to the side, he stood up and walked side by side with Pei Zhao, "Let's go."
The flames licked the mirror whip and rushed out of the cave. The next moment, they cut the approaching guards in half.
Blood spurted out instantly. Pei Zhao did not say a word, and found the hole in the mirror according to his memory. He turned around and shouted, "Here!"
A scorching breath hit him in the face. At the same time, Pei Zhao noticed that tongues of fire stood up around the entire ice castle, blocking outsiders from approaching.
This should be Bai Zhou's way of protecting Lan Ji.
On this side, tiny vines emerged from under Pei Zhao's collar and tightly wrapped around the entrance of the cave, with the branches exerting light force.
With a snap, the hole opened to twice its previous size.
Bai Zhou was not interested in fighting. The moment his eyes met Pei Zhao's, the two of them jumped down without hesitation.
At the same time, above them, a scorching fire phoenix swept across the entire floor.
The scene below was just as they thought. Without the red filter, the white worms looked even more disgusting to the naked eye. Pei Zhao raised his eyes and glanced at Bai Zhou's face. The man's face looked extremely bad.
The two of them remained vigilant and moved into the blind spot of the white worm's vision. Unlike the world in the mirror, everything in the real world happens synchronously with the timeline and there are real people.
Then Pei Zhao saw that not far in front of the flesh worm, there were five huge pipes, and unknown liquid was gurgling in the pipes.
The five tubes are translucent, and you can clearly see the color of the liquid inside: red, blue, white...
Pei Zhao frowned: "What is that?"
Bai Zhou said in a deep voice: "Energy from five continents."
As he was speaking, his expression suddenly changed and he raised his wrist to look. Pei Zhao also noticed his movement and looked over, and found that Bai Zhou's wrist had actually climbed up to the wood grain.
...Pei Zhao and Bai Zhou both knew what this meant.
"...Forget it. It's only a matter of time anyway." Bai Zhou was silent for a moment, then suddenly said. Pei Zhao felt him become dejected.
But he was in no position to comfort Bai Zhou. At the same time, for the first time, he felt that he was on the opposite side of these people from another world.
Honestly speaking, although we can't call each other friends after these days of scheming and bickering with Bai Zhou, it's no exaggeration to say that we are comrades who have been through life and death together. If they were not in a different world, they should have a chance to be friends. What a pity Lan Ji...
Thinking of this, Pei Zhao felt his collar move. He looked down and saw Zhou Yuli controlling his little vine to come out. He gently touched Bai Zhou's hand with the tip, as if he wanted to give him something.
Bai Zhou was stunned and stretched out his hand.
A tiny blue ice crystal fell into the palm of my hand.
Pei Zhao saw Bai Zhou's originally dejected and cold expression suddenly disappear after a few seconds of stunned silence. He carefully held the ice crystal and stuffed it into the inner pocket on his chest. After relaxing his emotions and expression for a few seconds, he looked up and said, "Thank you."
Pei Zhao didn't understand what was going on, but the little vine shook up and down twice.
"There's not much time left, let's just take action?" Bai Zhou instantly switched to combat mode.
Pei Zhao did not bother to ask questions. He clenched the mirror whip and glanced at Bai Zhou's hand, which was quickly covered with wood grain. He immediately made a decision: "Time is running out. I need to simply understand the principles and mechanisms of the flesh worms and affect the operation of Hall City as little as possible. We must fight quickly and decisively."
Bai Zhou nodded and rubbed a spark with his fingers, and quickly said: "Meatworms absorb energy to nourish themselves."
As he said this, a spark popped out at the same time. The rapidly spinning spark instantly left a fiery red track. Pei Zhao did not doubt it and immediately controlled the mirror whip to follow it.
In an instant, the fiery red sparks and the silver-white mirror intertwined with each other and instantly exploded on the white worm.
After a moment of silence, the heart-wrenching roar of the white worm was heard. Seeing it struggling desperately and about to break free from the five pipes, Bai Zhou shouted, "Stop it! Once the pipes are opened and the energy explodes, we will all die here!"
Pei Zhao didn't even think twice, he immediately drew back the whip and swung it out, trapping the white insect firmly in place.
The white worm seemed to find that it could not escape, so it stopped struggling and opened its bloody mouth to pounce on the culprit!
Seeing the dark shadow covering Pei Zhao, Pei Zhao subconsciously closed his eyes and felt someone moving the hem of his clothes.
A thick vine quickly climbed onto the monster's mouth and tore it apart with all its might.
After a sound of cloth tearing, all that could be seen were falling pieces of skin and vines, and the monster was nowhere to be seen.
Amidst the chaos, Bai Zhou stood with his hands behind his back, looking down at the glowing ice crystals in his palms.
Pei Zhao pulled Zhou Yuli out of his arms to check the situation. When he looked up, he saw the white boat shrinking rapidly. At the same time, he didn't know when the three familiar words "Puppeteer" appeared above his head.
Bai Zhou looked at the puppet in his hand, with a hint of regret in his golden eyes. He seemed to want to say something, but it was too late.
He has become a puppet.
The little puppet was lying on the ground, its golden eyes were delicate and beautiful. There was an ice-blue crystal on the puppet.
Pei Zhao stood there in a daze for a moment, then picked up the puppet.
After thinking for a while, he clenched the ice crystal in his palm again.
The next second, Xiaorui's voice rang out.
[Congratulations on completing this containment mission. Welcome home, host. 】
A bright white light flashed, and the scene in front of me gradually disappeared. Pei Zhao held Zhou Yuli in one hand and Bai Zhou in the other, his palms tightly grasping the ice crystal. It was difficult for him to stand in the cold wind brought by the white light, but Pei Zhao had no intention of letting go.
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The landing place is still a dormitory.
Zhou Ran was not in the dormitory, and the whole room was dark. Pei Zhao turned on the light according to his memory. The light of the incandescent lamp enveloped his whole body, and Pei Zhao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Putting Zhou Yuli and Bai Zhou side by side on the table, Pei Zhao casually pulled out a chair from under the table, sat on it and leaned on the table, feeling mixed emotions.
It’s not that he hasn’t experienced death education, but experiencing it is one thing, and experiencing it again is another. Pei Zhao opened his palm, the blue ice crystals were translucent, and Pei Zhao placed it in front of Bai Zhou.
"...You probably don't want to be given away to someone else." Thinking of the relationship between Bai Zhou and Lan Ji, Pei Zhao thought that this person definitely doesn't want to be adopted by someone else.
He couldn't help but think of the supernatural powers that he awakened in the City of Hall. He subconsciously opened his palms and tried to mobilize the energy - there was no damping at all, and no fragments of the mirror appeared in front of him.
"It seems that only a specific world has awakened." Pei Zhao felt a little regretful, but not disappointed.
Just as he was in a daze, he heard a noise behind him. Pei Zhao turned around and saw Zhou Ran pushing the door open.
Zhou Ran didn't expect Pei Zhao to be still awake at this time. Just when he was about to say hello, he was stunned when he saw Pei Zhao's clothes: "God Pei, are you... going to a masquerade?"
Pei Zhao was stunned for a moment, looked down at the clothes he was wearing, and instantly understood.
He was still wearing that damn robe! Because of the fight just now, the robe was torn and now almost the entire thigh was exposed.
Pei Zhao squeezed out two words with difficulty: "...right." Then he quickly picked up a set of clothes from the closet and went into the bathroom.
Zhou Ran put down his schoolbag and scratched his head, "What kind of masquerade is this? So brutal." Turning his head, he saw the puppet on Pei Zhao's desk and immediately frowned.
Zhou Yuli's puppet? Why are you back again?
Zhou Ran turned his head and saw a puppet with golden eyes next to him. It looked very familiar. He racked his brains to think about it and suddenly an idea came to him.
When Pei Zhao came out of the bathroom, Zhou Ran was sitting on the chair next to him, crossing his legs, swinging his feet, and looking at him sideways.
Pei Zhao was stunned and thought, could it be that the puppet Zhou Yuli was discovered? He asked tentatively, "What are you doing?"
Zhou Ran sniffed: "Humph, you'd better tell the truth!"
Pei Zhao felt guilty: "Hand over... what to confess?"
Zhou Ran slammed the table and said, "Tell me, are you a fan?!"
Pei Zhao: “Ah?”
Zhou Ran pointed at Bai Zhou's puppet and opened his eyes wide: "That's him! He played the protagonist in the teenage years of the recently released movie "Soul Search"!"
Pei Zhao: “Huh?”
Zhou Ran flipped through the stills on his phone and handed them to him. Pei Zhao opened his mouth and said, "Ah...it's him."
The photo is a still from the TV series "Soul Search". Among a bunch of famous old actors, there is the only young and unfamiliar face, which looks exactly like Bai Zhou.
Pei Zhao's heart sank involuntarily. This was the third time that the puppet he caught had a prototype in real life.
However, it might be more convenient if it's a celebrity. At least the celebrity's schedule is public. It's better than a Zhou Yuli suddenly appearing out of nowhere one day.
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Pei Zhao placed Bai Zhou and Lan Ji's ice crystals on Zhou Yuli's bed, and put Zhou Yuli next to his pillow.
The reason for doing this was that when Bai Zhou turned into a puppet this time, he also did not feel any connection in his heart. Pei Zhao thought, maybe Bai Zhou was a puppet that didn't belong to him.
It was not the first time that he slept in the same bed with Zhou Yuli, but maybe because Zhou Yuli had become an extraordinary person, Pei Zhao was a little nervous this time. He tossed and turned until most of the night, and although he was obviously very sleepy, his mind was still clear. Finally, Pei Zhao looked at the class schedule and found that there was an early morning class the next day. He thought that if he really couldn’t do it, he would just not sleep and stay up all night to attend the early morning class. When he opened his eyes resignedly and looked at the ceiling, a pair of burning hands attached to his arms.
"Zhou Yuli?" In the darkness, Pei Zhao only felt that there was a lot more crowd around him, and a warm source of heat was coming towards him.
"Yeah." Zhou Yuli's voice was a little weak. He reached out and hugged him, muffled and said, "Go to sleep."
Pei Zhao was forced to face him. The man's breath brushed against his forehead, and his breath just touched the man's shoulder. Inexplicably, Pei Zhao's heart calmed down, and sleepiness gradually invaded his brain.
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At eight o'clock the next morning, Pei Zhao was in high spirits. When he woke up, Zhou Yuli had already packed his schoolbag and textbooks for him and was sitting on a chair waiting for him.
On the way, Pei Zhao noticed that Zhou Yuli still looked unwell, weak and pale, and couldn't help but worry: "Do you want to see a doctor?"
Zhou Yuli shook his head: "Just take a rest for a while."
Pei Zhao didn't say anything, but he was worried in his heart. It seems that you still need to be careful and cautious when breaking into a dungeon, and you can't act recklessly. It's a real fight... I don't know when Zhou Yuli will be able to recover.
Fortunately, everyone went their separate ways for class in the morning, and when they met again at noon, Zhou Yuli's complexion had improved a lot.
There were no classes in the afternoon, so Pei Zhao suggested that they go to the store to accommodate Bai Zhou and the others, and Zhou Yuli naturally agreed.
The two came to the store, only to find that there was already someone standing at the door.
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