Chapter 18 Chapter 18 Fried Noodles
Gojo Satoru, who was in a general directors' meeting, received a call from Jie.
There was nothing interesting about the content of the meeting. After his rebirth, he had some things to do with the help of the Directors' Council. He wanted it, so the Directors' Council had to give in to him.
Although power is something that only mediocre people and ordinary people would hold tightly in their hands, but now he can use anything for his own benefit.
After all, no matter how great the power is, if you don’t have the good luck to wield it, it is just a castle in the air.
So when Gojo Satoru received the call, he very rudely signaled the spokesperson to shut up, adjourn the meeting, and take a break.
Among the attendees were well-dressed rotten oranges and wrinkled orange peels that were as motionless as a mountain, but no one protested his unreasonable behavior.
Gojo Satoru walked to his own private lounge and set up a tent—it only blocked eavesdropping and surveillance, but not radio waves—just a little trick to prevent eavesdropping. Then he answered the phone, his tone light: "Hello, Jie, have you seen Miss Fairy?"
His story about how he had persuaded (tricked) Geto to go to the village sounded unreliable: "A few days ago, I accidentally entered the fairy lady's barrier. One day of training inside is equivalent to a month of training in the outside world. Geto, you must go and try it too. By the way, the fairy barrier cannot be revealed to anyone in the curse world. Oh, and you can bring some ordinary gifts when you go."
This is how Geto Suguru understood it: there was a very interesting cursed spirit that had developed a certain field, which was harmless to ordinary people - because Wu did not directly remove it, but it still had certain benefits for the sorcerer, so he asked him to try it as well. As for the greeting gift, it was probably a necessary condition for entering this field.
He is still carrying the "half-cooked noodles" set he bought at a high-end ramen shop: he bought it because he had ramen for lunch.
Geto: "Satoru, isn't there any cursed spirit in this village?"
Gojo Satoru was stunned on the other end of the phone, and almost instantly guessed what his friend had done: "Jie, you didn't let a cursed spirit in there, did you? Which cursed spirit? Is it really gone?"
Xia Yujie gradually fell silent as he listened to his words: "You know what happened in this village, but you didn't tell me?"
Gojo Satoru crossed his legs, tapping his knee with his other hand, his face full of interest: "Don't worry, Jie, there is only one strange person in this village, and that is Miss Fairy."
He explained this and that to Geto Xia Yu on the phone, and succeeded in making Geto Xia Yu frown: "Satoru, if there were still ordinary people living in this village..."
Gojo Satoru said firmly: "There is a reason why I don't tell you the truth, Jie, believe me, you have to explore this matter by yourself."
He himself hasn't fully figured out the mystery of Miss Fairy, so of course he needs his friend to explore the way. Will his gentleness satisfy Miss Fairy?
When Xia Yujie heard this, he sighed silently and said, "Okay, I understand."
He hung up the phone, jumped down from the tree, and walked into the village carrying the gifts.
As soon as he set foot in this village that made him feel something was wrong, the next second the only thought in his mind was "I really shouldn't have believed Gojo Satoru's words so immediately."
The ground beneath his feet felt like an abyss, and also like an ocean. His body felt as if it had been torn apart, and his magical energy was being continuously drained from the point where his feet met the ground. He couldn't even muster the strength to resist.
Geto Suguru's face gradually turned pale, and he began to think calmly: It was too late to withdraw now, and he couldn't just leave like this. If it really was such a cursed spirit, he had to find a way to remove it or subdue it.
He steadied himself and began searching for people: first find a local, then gather intelligence using the method Wu had just taught him.
He endured the strange feeling of loss of magic power and weakness and walked forward for a while, and saw farmers working in the fields.
The other party soon noticed him, and walked to the edge of the field with farm tools in hand, looking wary, and asked loudly, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"
Suguru Jie speculated that this village was likely seldom visited and had little contact with the outside world, so it wasn't surprising that he would be wary. So, without beating around the bush, he pulled out his student ID, recalling Gojo Satoru's words, and replied, "I'm a student at a religious school, and I was recommended by my teacher to study with Lord Miya."
He took out his student ID and a letter of recommendation with Gojo Satoru's forged stamp.
At this moment, villagers from the nearby farmland gathered around him, hoes in hand. After examining his recommendation letter and student ID card and discussing for a while, they said to him, "Wait here for a moment. Don't wander off."
While waiting, Geto began to try to improve his persona: "I heard that Lord Gong is here—" He looked around, only seeing mountains and a lake surrounding the village. "He is practicing here. I'm sorry to bother you."
A natural curse spirit?
The villagers were unmoved, so he said no more.
When the village chief Shigeru Yamada heard that a very suspicious stranger had come to the village and said he wanted to visit the shrine maiden, he immediately became alert. After thinking for a moment, he took out his cell phone and called the shrine maiden.
Gong Zhili rarely uses his mobile phone. He only checks it before going to bed to read ordinary people's news and messages on the dark web. He keeps his phone in the bedroom during the day.
So when the cell phone rang from the bedroom, she was confused for a moment before she realized it was her cell phone ringing.
When she answered the phone, she heard the village chief's descriptions, and thought Gojo Satoru was quite clever in using his student status to create a religious school. She asked, "Is that student wearing an all-black uniform?"
When she got the affirmative answer, she said, "Let him come to me."
After hanging up the phone, she returned to the living room to continue teaching her child how to knit. She placed the small ball with blue light on its surface on a plate aside.
The village chief told Geto Xiayou the route, but no one led the way for him, so they just watched him walk towards the northeast corner of the village.
The village was lush with trees, so you didn't feel the sun all the way to the dock. The cool breeze blowing from the lake to some extent soothed Geto Suguru's irritability caused by the sudden events.
He stepped onto the wooden trestle bridge, climbed up the terraced fields, and stood in front of the house.
He observed the surrounding environment, including the unfinished buildings on the terraces, the bamboo products drying by the lake, the freshly turned soil in the terraces below the house...all these things indicated that the owner of this place had just moved in.
He really wanted to use the cursed power to enhance his vision to see if there was any residual cursed power in this place, but the cursed power in his body was still weak, leaving only a faint sense of connection between him and the cursed spirit.
"Excuse me," he said, "I'm Geto Suguru. I was recommended by Gojo Satoru to participate in 'training'. Is anyone home?"
The enemy is in the dark and I am in the light, so let's follow the script.
Are these footsteps human?
The girl who appeared in front of him had long, slightly curly chestnut hair. In the backlight, he could see that her long hair had the luster of deep ebony. When she walked, the ends of her hair flowed with warm golden brown tones like maple syrup. Her light green irises were like peridot soaked in spring water. She stood at a higher entrance, looking down at him slightly. When her eyelashes drooped, they cast feather-like shadows on her cheeks. When she raised her eyes, a halo spread at the corners of her eyes, reminding people of a melting ice lake in early spring.
But what surprised him even more than her superior appearance was the blue light surrounding the girl—she truly looked like a wild goblin...
Gong Zhili looked at the new guest.
Slightly different from Gojo, who has immense cursed energy, this student named "Geto Suguru" does not have as much cursed energy as Gojo, but his aura is complex, connecting different - ah, wait.
When Geto Suguru met Miya Chiri for the first time, the cursed energy in his body was absorbed by the ground to the melting point, and for a moment he could not feel the connection between himself and the cursed spirit.
The strings in Geto's mind instantly tightened. Where would the undetectable cursed spirit go? Would it cause disorder again and disrupt the village? He had to protect the village -
In a flash, Gong Zhili reached out and patted his shoulder: "Don't be like that guy Gojo, who fainted before he could even say a word."
Feeling that if this guy fainted, it would be very troublesome to deal with the chaotic energy in his body, Gong Zhili used himself as a medium to stabilize the chaotic energy in his body: "Try to draw strength from the earth, or go to the well and help me fetch a bucket of water to water the land."
Geto Suguru felt the connection in his body being restored, and without questioning it, he quickly went to the well to get a bucket of water.
After fetching water, he could feel the thin yet thick cursed energy returning to his body. He froze for a moment, his mind grasping the word "cultivation" that Gojo Satoru had said to him. He turned around and asked two questions: "Are you human? Which field should I water?"
Nanako and Mimiko hid behind Miya Chiri. When they heard his question, Nanako immediately responded, "Of course Miya-sama is human!"
Master Gong wouldn't be...
Gong Zhili reached out and touched her head, then looked directly into Xia Yujie's eyes and said calmly, "Of course I'm human. Also, if you walk a few steps forward, the terraced fields are the ones we need to irrigate. So, do you know how to irrigate them?"
Xia Yujie glanced at the two children and replied, "It means pouring water on the ground, right?"
Gong Zhili patted Nanako and Mimiko on the head and said, "You go and teach this brother a lesson."
After watering the plants under the enthusiastic guidance of the two little girls, Geto Suguru finally felt the cursed energy in his body accumulating like a small puddle.
Gong Zhili then said, "Come in first. I always feel that Gojo Satoru hasn't explained anything clearly to you, and I actually only have a vague understanding of many things."
Forget about relying on Gojo Satoru to act as a messenger.
When Xia Youjie heard her words, he remembered that the gift he brought had just fallen to the ground. He picked it up and said politely: "This is a meeting gift. Sorry for disturbing you."
If he knew that the "cultivation" that Wu was talking about was actually serious "cultivation", he would definitely choose the gift more carefully.
Gong Zhili, however, liked the gift very much: "Half-cooked noodles... Do you want to eat fried noodles?"
Xia Yujie wasn't sure if she was looking at him to ask for his opinion, but he said, "Anything is fine. I'm not picky about food."
Nanako: "Yakisoba! It must be delicious!"
Mimiko: "It's fried noodles I've never eaten before!"
Geto Xia Yu couldn't help but look at the two children again.
Have you ever had fried noodles? Well, children probably can't eat fried noodles with a lot of oil and salt.
Miya Chiri smiled and turned her head to signal Mimiko to take out the extra reed slippers she had woven in the past few days and hand them to Geto Suguru.
When Geto Suguru entered the living room, he found that Miss Gong did not hide the fact that she was also a "newcomer": there was not even a chair in the living room, and the table was actually served as a suitcase.
Rather than an edible gift, it seems he should have brought a complete set of furniture.
The author has something to say:
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The Gojo here is probably the ultimate form - that is, Gojo-sama who is invincible in terms of political power, military power, and brainpower.
Finally, I haven’t eaten the fried noodles yet. I’ll eat it in the next chapter.
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