Chapter 177: Exploring the Mystery of the Small Town (5) He lowered his head and rubbed his eyes vigorously...
Si Ling stared at Xuan Chi in silence, with only one word in his mind: Is this right?
Yes, he needs to get the celestial bone, but...
Why did he go there by himself?
Does this person understand what their relationship is now?
Si Ling frowned and stared at him for a long moment. He was also looking at her. Suddenly, she noticed he was still standing by the bed, and she vaguely understood something she had been ignoring.
She breathed a sigh of relief silently, pursed her lips, and reached out to hold his hand: "Are you okay?"
Hyun Chi sat down beside the bed. Her brows relaxed, and she rested her chin on his shoulder, gazing intently at his cheek. She felt a strange sadness in her heart. "Is everything going well?"
"Hmm...nothing," Hyun Chi said as he recalled. "A little numb, like the feeling of water hitting your skin in the shower."
Si Ling's emotions were interrupted.
"I'm glad you're okay." She straightened her face and coughed lightly. "You rest first. I'll go get some food."
"I bought breakfast on the way," Hyun Chi said. "It's on the table outside."
Si Ling nodded: "Then I'll bring it in and we'll eat together."
After she finished speaking, she got out of bed and walked out. When she reached the bedroom door, she glanced at him inadvertently. He was still sitting on the edge of the bed, motionless, with his back straight.
Si Ling withdrew his gaze and walked out.
She thought he still understood the relationship between them, but in his heart, there was another relationship that was more important, or at least made him more accustomed to it.
There is no point in saying more about this issue, as there is still a long way to go.
Si Ling sighed softly, brought the breakfast he had placed on the dining table into the house, and pulled two chairs beside the bed to place the breakfast.
Breakfast was bought in town. It consisted of sausage, fried eggs, bacon, bread, potato wedges, pickles, and three different sauces. It looked lively when laid out on the chairs, but the taste was lacking. The potato wedges, in particular, tasted strange and were very hard. Si Ling took a bite, but after only two chews, his face contorted. He asked Hyun Chi in pain, "Is this a British restaurant?"
Xuan Chi looked at her inexplicably, picked up a piece with a fork and put it into his mouth, but soon froze.
"Ahem..." He forced himself to swallow the potato wedges. "Japanese food isn't that bad. Has my sense of taste deteriorated after being underwater for so long?"
What a terrifying speculation.
Si Ling shuddered and put a fried egg on his plate, which was unlikely to cause any trouble. "Tomorrow we will go and summon the heavenly soldiers. If we succeed, we will leave immediately."
"We have to find Luciano first," Hyun Chi reminded her, "We need those Cubes, and we also need to find him a currency alternative."
"I've thought about this." Si Ling chewed the fried egg, "But let's go find the Tianbing first, and then find Luciano when we come back."
"Okay." Xuan Chi nodded without hesitation.
Si Ling looked at him and said gently, "Don't you want to ask why?"
Xuan Chi said, "I'll listen to you." Still without thinking.
Si Ling sighed inwardly and said nothing more.
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After breakfast, Xuan Chi wanted to leave for Cangming Palace immediately, but Si Ling refused. She detained him and forced him to rest for a day. To be more precise, the two of them slept together for a whole day.
The next morning, Si Ling sat up yawning and subconsciously took out the Tongming Plate to check the messages. She saw that Azhu had sent her a "God is coming" emoticon an hour ago.
Si Ling replied: What? What happened?
Then she got up first and went out to find a restaurant with more normal food to buy two breakfasts. About twenty minutes after returning home, Hyun Chi also got up. Si Ling was sitting at the living room dining table drinking coffee. When she saw him come out, she casually said to him, "Good morning."
"Good morning." Xuan Chi pulled out the chair opposite her and sat down. "Are we going to Cangming Palace later?"
"Yeah." Si Ling nodded, and the two of them started to eat breakfast leisurely.
They didn't talk about summoning heavenly soldiers anymore, and set off directly after dinner.
Before entering the trench, Xuan Chi's Tongming Plate rang once. He unlocked it and took a look. What caught his eye was the "God's Descend" sent by Azhu.
This reminded him of the "King of Force is Coming" message from a few months ago. He raised his eyebrows, did not reply, put away the Tongming Plate, and walked into the trench with Si Ling.
The magic barrier in the trench still existed, but they already knew what was going on, so they naturally broke it at the first opportunity. Then they moved forward along the trench and arrived at Cangming Palace that night.
They swam over the neatly arranged sleeping celestial soldiers towards the Cangming Palace, landing in front of it. Si Ling squatted down, placed his backpack on the ground, and pulled out the square golden seal, throwing it towards Xuan Chi.
Xuan Chi caught it steadily. He lowered his eyes and stared at the golden seal in his hand. A sense of nervousness arose spontaneously. Si Ling noticed his expression when he stood up and smiled: "Don't be nervous, you try it first. If it doesn't work, we can find another way."
Xuan Chi nodded, calming his mind. He looked at the array of heavenly soldiers in front of him, which were arranged in an orderly manner like the Terracotta Army, and chanted the incantation word by word: "Starlight forges armor, and the blade rises to the sky."
Before he finished speaking, golden light burst out!
Beams of light shot out from the golden seal, instantly illuminating the entire underwater space. The ground and mountains shook violently, and Si Ling and Xuan Chi were unable to stand in the violent tremors. They were forced to float up and away from the ground to barely maintain their balance.
The smoke and dust that shook the surroundings fell down, filling the white light and melting into a thick fog.
For a long time, they could not see anything in the white light, but they kept hearing sounds - they could not tell whether it was the sound of combat boots rubbing against the ground or the sound of weapons scratching against the ground, it was so rough that it seemed to come from eternity.
This time, it was Si Ling's turn to get nervous. She couldn't quite put her finger on why, and subconsciously reached out for Xuan Chi. Soon, his hand grasped hers. Suddenly, she relaxed, feigning composure as she looked at him and said, "It's solved."
Xuan Chi nodded silently. The next second, Si Ling felt her hand sink. She turned her head and saw the square golden seal being stuffed into her hand.
He looked at the golden seal and said, "Return the military power."
The golden seal wrapped in white light made a buzzing sound and then returned to silence in an instant.
"No." Si Ling sneered, and pressed his hand with the golden seal, "Let's take charge together."
The humming continued for a moment, then fell silent again. A moment later, the earth stopped shaking, the white light and smoke began to dissipate, and Si Ling's vision gradually cleared. The formation slowly emerged. The heavenly soldiers were in formation as before, but the original gray stone statue color had disappeared, replaced by faces with normal skin tones and gleaming silver armor and weapons.
Si Ling looked down at the queue in front of him, a strange yet familiar feeling swirling in his heart.
She straightened her face and looked at Xuan Chi calmly: "Pick 10,000 people to follow us."
"?" Xuan Chi asked cautiously, "Who are you hitting?"
Si Ling thought for a moment and said, "As long as the aura is scary enough, that's fine."
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In the early morning, the sun shines on the sea, stopping at a depth of several dozen meters.
Thousands of meters underwater, the darkness remains unchanged for thousands of years. Although there are many light sources in the town, they cannot completely dispel the darkness.
Mayor Luciano walked into the office on time as usual, and his secretary quickly brought him hot coffee. Luciano took a sip and absentmindedly sorted out his work in the past few days when he heard the secretary say something like "I want to see you."
"What?" Luciano didn't hear clearly and raised his head and asked.
The secretary said, "There are two new residents who want to meet you. They are the two Asian faces from a while ago."
"Oh." Luciano nodded nonchalantly, "Please let them in."
The secretary looked embarrassed. "They want me to invite you outside the town, to the main gate. They said they'll wait for you at the gate."
"Ah?" Luciano was surprised. He frowned and looked at the secretary in front of him. "You agreed?"
"I didn't..." The secretary fell silent. "But they acted as if they didn't hear my refusal. They just said they had something important to discuss with you, and then left. They also said they would wait for you there for two hours."
Luciano frowned even deeper. He felt that this was a rude and arrogant request, which seemed to be a deliberate challenge to his authority as the mayor.
"Will you go?" the secretary asked cautiously.
Luciano put down his coffee cup in thought, hesitated for a long time, and sighed: "Let's go and take a look."
As a ghost pirate who had lived for thousands of years, he was quite experienced. He knew that such deliberate provocations often revealed extraordinary strength. So, why escalate the conflict? Let's go and see first.
If the other party is just bluffing, it won't be too late for him to teach them a lesson.
So he went out and walked towards the town entrance. When he was still a few dozen meters away, he saw two people waiting there bored.
Si Ling was staring blankly at the jellyfish floating outside the barrier. Xuan Chi noticed Luciano first and waved with a smile, "Mr. Mayor."
Si Ling turned around and nodded, "Mr. Mayor."
"What do you want to talk to me about?" Luciano put his hands in his pockets and stopped a few meters away from the two of them, looking very alert.
Si Ling didn't waste any time and took out a few stacks of paper money from his backpack and handed them to him.
...It was not the kind of white paper money with square holes that she used to create a terrifying atmosphere, but a kind of printed matter that is very common among Chinese people nowadays, with a bust of a god and the words "Bank of Heaven and Earth" printed on it.
Among the Chinese people, the most popular denomination of this "currency" is "one trillion", because everyone wants to burn more for their ancestors.
However, Si Ling brought notes of 1 yuan, 10 yuan, 50 yuan and 100 yuan.
Luciano took the colorful paper money and looked at Si Ling in confusion.
Si Ling said, "I've cast a spell on this money. Ghosts with a cultivation level lower than ten thousand years shouldn't be able to destroy it. From the perspective of preventing piracy, it should be enough. Just like your Cube, it's difficult to copy."
Luciano frowned. "What do you mean?"
Si Ling said directly: "I want to use this currency to exchange for all the Cubes in the town. Is that okay with you?"
"Huh?" Luciano laughed, spreading his hands. "Changing currency is a hassle. Even if it's as forged as you said, why would I bother myself with this?"
Si Ling said sincerely, "Just think of it as the survival of the town."
Luciano was stunned: "What?"
Si Ling smiled, raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
In an instant, outside the barrier of the small town behind Si Ling, thousands of troops appeared out of nowhere without warning and spread out into the distance in the dark and turbid deep sea.
Luciano felt dizzy. He lowered his head and rubbed his eyes hard. When he raised his head again, the troops were still there.
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The author has something to say: - A thousand years later, when Luciano recalled his decisive decision to go to the town gate to meet the two oriental ghosts that day, he would still be awakened by his own wisdom and rationality.
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