Chapter 33: Are you happy to earn money with blood? (11) This situation...
Among the three siblings of the Cui family, Cui Liming and Cui Han had already arranged the follow-up plan - the two of them just sat back and quickly finished the desserts on the table as if they were eating at 16 times the speed, and also drank the after-meal drinks in one gulp.
Now, amid Wu Zhexian's roar, they stuffed the snacks into their mouths and prepared to leave.
but--
Wu Zhexian realized his intention and quickly rang the service bell on the table. Although the service bell rang twice, the waiter still walked towards Wu Zhexian first.
This scene made Si Ling feel refreshed.
In her plan, constructing "pathogens" is the main purpose, but with so many people involved, the details are bound to be impossible to control accurately, and it is hard to say how many "pathogens" there will be in the end.
Furthermore, the criteria for automatically generating the rule scrolls were very loose, with completion calculated per table, not per person. In other words, if Cui Liming killed Wu Yunfeng, all three members of the Cui family could leave the restaurant; if Wu Zhexian corrupted Cui Lijin, the entire Wu family could also leave. This was an outcome Si Ling had no control over.
Under this premise, Si Ling felt that it was acceptable for two or three "slippery fish" to walk out of here in normal condition.
Anyway, the mission had only just begun half a day, and Lucifer's magic power was enough to maintain the barrier covering the manor for five to seven days. She had plenty of time and opportunity to slowly deal with these people.
But now Wu Zhexian pressed the service bell first, that’s different!
This time, Wu Zhexian made no attempt to avoid the Cui siblings. He stopped typing on his phone and even raised his voice, pointing at the Cui table and saying in a voice loud enough for everyone to hear, "Order three more glasses of red wine and three more glasses of white wine, and send them over! I'll have the waiters in red bow ties bring them. Tell them not to refuse my kindness!"
Cui Liming, who was only one step away from leaving the restaurant, felt his scalp tingle. He pressed the service bell frantically and said anxiously, "Check out! We've finished our meal, check out!"
The waiter standing next to Wu Zhexian turned around, nodded to Cui Liming from a distance, and said politely, "Okay, sir, please wait a moment, I'll pay your bill right away."
Cui Liming clenched his teeth and clenched his hands on the table. Cui Han lost hope at the waiter's reply and slumped back in his chair with a dazed look.
The waiter's answer seemed normal, because this restaurant has very few staff. There are actually only two blue-collar waiters providing service here, and now there is one in the kitchen. The only remaining one has to fulfill the needs of each customer one by one, which does not seem to be a problem.
But they all knew that before this, when Feng Yang and the three anchors left the restaurant, the waiter's words were: "Since you performed very well during the meal, we will provide you with a free meal privilege, you can leave directly."
This sentence is equivalent to the standard line for passing the level. As long as the participants can pass the level, the NPC serving as a waiter can say it.
Now the waiter didn't say this, which actually meant that they couldn't leave like this.
Sure enough, before the waiter with a blue bow tie came to settle their bill, the waiter with a red bow tie appeared first with the drinks that Wu Zhexian ordered for them.
"This is a bottle of wine sent to you by your friends over there. Please don't let their kindness go to waste."
Said the red bow tie waiter.
Cui Lijin smiled calmly: "Okay, thank you."
Cui Liming and Cui Han barely had the energy to react, and only nodded their heads reluctantly because they were afraid that Red Bowtie would mistakenly think they were trying to reject him.
Cui Liming stared at the crimson liquor in the transparent goblet, a cold smile curled across his face as he was stunned: "Oh, if you drag us down with you, you can't get away!"
——The wine he ordered for the Wu family is still on their table.
Although the red-tie waiter didn't urge Fang Liyi and her son to drink, they still had to drink after all.
Wu Zhexian and Fang Liyi had both accepted this cruel fact in their hearts, but when faced with life-and-death threats, people would always be timid, so in the previous moment, both mother and son hesitated and did not touch the glass of wine, subconsciously thinking that every second they could delay was a second better.
But now, provoked by Cui Liming, Wu Zhexian, already filled with resentment, became even more furious! He stared at Cui Liming intently, raised his glass, and drank it all in one gulp.
If the result of being "sacrificed" cannot be changed, he would rather fall into this result a few minutes earlier than watch Cui Liming gloat over his misfortune!
His action was so sudden that Fang Liyi didn't even have time to say anything to stop him. She fell silent, lowered her head and continued to remain silent.
Hyun Chi, who was floating beside Si Ling with his arms folded, looked at the scene and frowned: "This Wu Zhexian..."
He spoke in a long voice, as if he was hesitant about what to say and didn't know how to say it.
Si Ling looked sideways at him. He pondered for a moment and said in confusion, "I didn't think he was a good person, nor did I think he wanted to protect Wu Yunfeng that much, but now he seems to be very brave..."
After a pause, he added, "And it seems like he's really filial?"
The tone of his voice rose at the end of this sentence, and it was obvious that he himself was full of doubts about this evaluation.
After all, a moment ago, when Wu Yunfeng at least "seemed to be salvageable", Wu Zhexian was so cautious that he didn't even step forward to help him.
But now, Wu Zhexian hated the murderer of his father so much that he was willing to drink the glass of red wine early just to spoil the other party's fun?
Si Ling stared at him silently, only to see deep confusion hidden in his star-like black eyes.
It was just pure confusion, but this confusion made her a little sad because she knew the source of this confusion better than he did.
Human nature is complex, but for more experienced ghosts, it's not difficult to understand. Even ghosts who have only existed for a few hundred years can mostly be indifferent to human nature.
As for Xuan Chi - she didn't know how many years he had been sealed, but since the version of "Classic of Mountains and Seas" circulated tens of thousands of years ago did not have any records about the Suhuang clan, and he had no idea why the Suhuang clan disappeared, it seemed that he had been in that cave for at least ten thousand years.
Over the past ten thousand years, not only did his race disappear, but his memories also became fragmented due to death, and even his cognition disappeared along with those memories.
The mythical beast that had existed for tens of thousands of years was reduced to a blank sheet of paper in a catastrophe.
Si Ling was silent for a moment, not revealing much emotion as she patiently explained, "Human nature is like this; it's complex, but not that difficult to understand." She raised her gaze, her cold gaze drifting towards Wu Zhexian. "If you watched a few more funerals, you'd understand him. Many younger generations who didn't shed a single tear at funerals were actually very attentive and caring when their elders were alive. Some younger generations who cried so hard at funerals that they were almost dead were perhaps very bad people when their elders were still alive."
"Of course, this isn't absolute. Reality is often much more complicated." Si Ling shrugged. "I just want to say that people are sometimes very good at deceiving themselves. They're very good at putting on masks, using one emotion to cover up another. Take Wu Zhexian, for example. I think he knows exactly what his behavior was just now, and he also understands that it all started with him harming Cui Lijin. Facing his father's sudden death, he should have felt guilty, but he didn't want to face this guilt directly, so he blamed everything on Cui Liming. This would make him feel better, and the mask of 'hatred' covered up his 'guilty conscience'."
Hyun Chi listened to her quietly. Her voice was actually very powerful, but her tone was very calm, without any sharp edges.
He didn't know if it was because her 30,000 years as a ghost had made her indifferent and tolerant to everything, but in any case, when he listened to her speak, he always felt a sense of peace and tranquility in his heart.
He almost completely forgot what the gods looked like. Even the Emperor of Heaven, who had become his obsession, he could not remember the appearance or voice at all.
But when he heard her say this, he felt in his heart: She really deserves to become a god.
He felt that this was what God should be like.
Si Ling waited a long while without a response, so she turned her head to look at him again. Xuan Chi was staring at her intently, and when their eyes met, he suddenly looked away.
"?" A Zhui, who was floating on the other side of Si Ling, looked at the two big ghosts next to her in confusion. She felt that the atmosphere between them was a bit weird, but she couldn't tell what was weird.
Never mind, it doesn’t matter, as long as she knows that these two are her golden thighs, Ah Zhu thought.
"Wearing a mask"? Using one emotion to cover up another?
Xuan Chi lowered her eyelashes and frowned slightly.
He felt that he had thought of something, but it was like smoke and dust, intangible and even unclear.
Cui Liming saw Wu Zhexian really drink the wine, and felt complicated for a moment.
Wu Zhexian sighed silently with a dark face, and then at a certain moment, he was suddenly confused by his own anger.
——His father died, and it was Cui Liming who killed him. From this point of view, of course he should be angry.
But he recalled the determination he had shown when he drank the glass of wine just now, and couldn't understand why he needed to muster up the courage to drink it, and why he delayed for so long before drinking it.
Isn't it just a glass of wine?
According to the conventions of rule-based weirdos, he would be sacrificed to the "devil" for violating this rule, but that didn't seem to be a bad thing.
Besides, he felt that everything was normal now, and nothing seemed to have changed.
Wu Zhexian did not dwell on this confusion for long. He just wanted to leave the restaurant quickly and find an opportunity to avenge his father to relieve the hatred in his heart.
Wu Zhexian took a breath, looked up and urged Fang Liyi: "Mom, drink quickly, and then we can leave quickly."
However, he heard his mother say, "You go first."
"What?" Wu Zhexian thought he had misheard. "Mom, what did you say?"
Fang Liyi didn't look at him. She lowered her eyes and frowned as she said, "You go first. I want to wait. What if there's a chance of a turnaround?"
"What's the turning point?" Wu Zhexian stood up anxiously. "What are you talking about? Actually, it's okay to drink this glass of wine... Look at me, isn't everything normal? Hurry up and drink it, let's leave here together."
Fang Liyi raised her eyes and looked at her son in front of her.
As the "woman behind" the veteran artist Wu Yunfeng, she has turned a blind eye to Wu Yunfeng's various misdeeds for many years. Many close friends around her believe that her marriage with Wu Yunfeng has lasted because she has poured her affection into her son, but this is not the case.
There were simply too many interests involved between her and Wu Yunfeng, and a divorce could easily end up hurting both parties. For two shrewd people, it was clearly not worth it.
As for Wu Zhexian's existence, it is more like a spice of life for her.
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