Chapter 191 Meow
The Lord of the Demon Prison dismissed all the jailers and ghost messengers, held Jian Yunlan in his hands, and walked towards the depths of Juntian Prison.
This road was extremely secluded and deep. The further one went in, the dimmer the light became. All one could hear was the thunderous footsteps of the Demon-Slaying Prison Lord. But soon, the footsteps seemed to be absorbed by the endless darkness, leaving only silence.
No one spoke.
The Lord of the Demon Prison remained silent with a solemn expression. He did not make any eye contact with Jian Yunlan the entire time. Various complex emotions flickered in his huge eyes.
Jian Yunlan keenly sensed that something was wrong, but in the end, the anticipation of meeting Taotie outweighed all her worries.
I don't know how long they walked in the darkness. Finally, after the two of them passed through a red barrier that was like a barrier again, the Demon-Subduing Prison Master stopped.
"This is it." He said in a heavy voice, bent down, and put Jian Yunlan from his palm to the ground.
Jian Yunlan looked around nervously and anxiously.
Unlike the stone cell seen before, the cell where Taotie is imprisoned is like another small world separated from the rest of the world. It is darker and more closed. Three thousand iron chains made of black iron and chaos stone converge in the center to lock the prisoners tightly.
But at this moment, the center of the cell was empty.
Where is Taotie?
The next second after this thought came to his mind, Jian Yunlan's eyes suddenly flashed with golden light. His vision blurred for a moment, then became clear again.
I smelled the familiar scent of sandalwood.
…At that moment, time seemed to stand still.
All the noise in my ears faded away, leaving only the sound of my own heartbeat. The anxiety and uneasiness that I had tried so hard to suppress for so many days now turned into a warm current that surged into my chest.
Jian Yunlan's fingers trembled a little. He raised his eyes and looked forward, meeting a pair of familiar dark golden eyes.
——Taotie yawned lazily:
"Human, what are you doing here?"
Jian Yunlan did not answer immediately, but looked at him carefully.
I don’t know whether the speed of time flow in the mortal world and the upper world is the same. Jian Yunlan has spent two days in the mortal world, but Taotie is still no different from when he said goodbye at the end of the world not long ago.
He was still wearing the same Warring States robe, ox-bone shoulder armor, his silver hair tied into a ponytail, and he looked like he hadn't woken up yet.
After taking a closer look at Jian Yunlan, Taotie's eyes trembled a little, but soon returned to calm. He asked again in a tone that seemed a little impatient: "I say, what are you doing here?"
Jian Yunlan said as a matter of course: "I came to find you."
Taotie seemed even more impatient: "What do you want from me?"
"..." When he said this, Jian Yunlan was a little unhappy, so he immediately took out the contract that had been prepared in black and white from his pocket, "Have you forgotten? We agreed before and signed the contract. Lord Taotie, do you want to breach the contract? There is no breach of contract clause in our contract. It is enforced--"
Taotie: “…”
My head is buzzing a little.
Taotie lightly swiped his finger, and the contract floated out of Jian Yunlan's hand and appeared in front of him.
——Just like what Tiandao had seen before, the contract period was written as "10 million years", and the signature part was the fingerprints of two people making a pinky promise.
Taotie lowered his eyes and looked at the contract, it was unclear what emotion was in his eyes.
But based on Jian Yunlan's observation and understanding of him over such a long time, he personally felt that Taotie seemed to have smiled, but quickly suppressed the smile and turned expressionless.
After a while.
"It doesn't work." Taotie said coldly.
Jian Yunlan: "Ah?"
"I've said that this contract is not effective," Taotie yawned again. The next second, Jian Yunlan watched a cluster of pale flames ignite on his fingertips.
Before Jian Yunlan could try to stop it, the flames engulfed the entire contract and burned it to ashes in the blink of an eye!
"..." Jian Yunlan was silent for a moment.
There was a look of hurt in those dark blue eyes.
Taotie pretended to glance at his face casually, pursed his lips, clenched his palms, and seemed to want to say something but couldn't.
Until the next second——
Jian Yunlan sighed and took out an identical contract from somewhere: "Fortunately I have a backup. Haha, what you just burned was a photocopy!"
As a qualified black-hearted boss, how could he not back up such an important file?
Taotie is just a ferocious beast that has existed for ten thousand years.
Compared with the veteran office worker Boss Jian, he is still a little short of his mark!
Taotie: “…………”
Taotie moved his fingers again, took the contract from his hand and burned it.
Jian Yunlan was silent for a while, then took out another identical contract: "Haha, a copy!"
Veins popped out on Taotie's forehead and he continued to burn.
Jian Yunlan continued to take out: "Haha!"
Gluttonous, burning.
Jian Yunlan, take out.
burn.
dig.
…
After several rounds, Taotie finally couldn't stand it anymore and shouted angrily: "Enough!!"
Jian Yunlan: “.”
He put the half-finished contract back into his pocket in disappointment.
"Master Taotie, please don't be angry with me," he softened his voice, walked in front of Taotie, looked up at Taotie's eyes, "If there is anything, let's talk about it when we get back, okay?"
The two of them were so close that their breaths were almost intertwined. The wind came from nowhere, blowing Taotie's silver hair past Jian Yunlan's ears.
The tips of Taotie's ears turned red. "Where are we going back to?"
"The Jian family villa." Jian Yunlan said, "I'll cook you a full banquet."
Taotie's pupils trembled: "......!!!"
This is really hard to refuse!
His eyes were complicated and hesitant, as if the word "OK" was already on the tip of his tongue.
until--
Jian Yunlan quietly stretched out her hand, wanting to hold Taotie's hand.
But his outstretched hand passed through the Taotie.
...Taotie was clearly standing right in front of her. Jian Yunlan could even feel his warmth and smell the sandalwood on his body, but the hand she stretched out seemed to pass through a shadow and touched nothing.
What virtual idol Hatsune Miku Taotie.
No, no.
Jian Yunlan shook off the random thoughts in his mind and was about to reach out to try again, but the Taotie in front of him suddenly took a big step back.
Taotie's eyes turned completely cold.
The dark golden pupils glanced at Jian Yunlan indifferently, and spoke without any emotion:
"Human, I was not serious about the previous agreement, so it does not count."
Does this mean that he can just say it doesn't count? Just as Jian Yunlan was about to continue taking out the contract, she suddenly saw Taotie's eyes.
Jian Yunlan just felt a skip in his heart.
Taotie had never looked at him like that before.
Before, whether at the beginning or later, Taotie looked at him with anger, impatience, indulgence, or tenderness, but never like now.
It was like looking at a person who had nothing to do with him, with an indifferent look.
This time, Taotie seemed serious.
Jian Yunlan opened and closed his lips, as if he wanted to say something.
However, Taotie interrupted him and continued: "Don't come to me again, just go and open your snack stand. Like you said before, open your snack stand all over the world. Hu Danggui and Niutou will help you, as for me..."
Taotie paused, and a furry white dog doll flew in front of Jian Yunlan.
The doll looked like a smaller version of Maomao, with Maomao's big gold chain around its neck.
However, holding the doll, Jian Yunlan felt nervous.
The gluttony continues.
"This is a puppet, no, a dog puppet, infused with the remnant of my working memory," Taotie curled his lips, "It can help me fulfill the contract and continue to work for your snack stand. If you don't need it, you can destroy it."
"Employees, you can have as many as you want, right? There are so many people vying to work for Boss Jian, one more person is enough for me."
"There's no need for a full banquet."
At that moment, for some reason, Jian Yunlan felt...
Taotie seemed to be saying his last words.
His expression was indifferent, and there wasn't even a trace of emotion in his eyes. But for a few moments, there was a smile on his face, and it seemed like he was still by Jian Yunlan's side. But when he looked closely, it seemed like an illusion.
After saying that, Taotie turned and left.
Jian Yunlan wanted to chase him immediately, but as soon as she took a step, the whole world suddenly spun around and she felt an inexplicable feeling of weightlessness and dizziness.
The completely silent darkness surrounded Jian Yunlan again.
Along with the darkness came many fragments of memory.
The continuous heavy rain made the sky seem to be leaking, and every breath was filled with a choking spiciness. The rain-soaked raincoat stuck to my body, and the damp load weighed heavily on my shoulders as I walked through the streets hawking goods. I could hear the heavy gasps of the dying, the bloody wounds, and the warmth of the food in my palms...
Also, in the cave at high tide, there are those gentle eyes belonging to the ferocious beast.
All those fragments could not be connected into a line, and they suddenly flooded over his head and passed through Jian Yunlan's body like waves. He seemed to instantly remember something that happened long ago, but it slowly faded away with the receding tide.
Jian Yunlan was a little dazed.
Until, I heard shouting in my ears.
“Jian Yunlan, Jian Yunlan!” The voice was heavy and anxious, vibrating in my ears like thunder, accompanied by violent shaking, “Wake up quickly, the world over there is not real, don’t get trapped!”
So noisy.
So noisy.
Want to continue sleeping.
but……
——"Aren't you still going to look for Taotie?!"
That question startled Jian Yunlan. A warm current surged between his brows and he suddenly didn't want to sleep anymore.
Under the repeated urging of the voice, Jian Yunlan struggled to open his heavy eyelids.
What came into view were the huge eyes of the Lord of the Demon Prison.
Seeing Jian Yunlan wake up, the Demon Prison Master breathed a sigh of relief and wiped his sweat: "Fortunately, you finally woke up."
"Where am I?" Jian Yunlan looked around and found himself outside Juntian Prison, lying on a cliff. The gray fog dissipated at some point, revealing a sky full of stars.
Jian Yunlan asked anxiously: "Where is Taotie? He was here just now."
Upon hearing this, the Demon-Subduing Prison Master was startled.
He did not answer, but asked Jian Yunlan:
“You just saw Taotie? This is impossible…” The Demon Subduing Prison Master muttered to himself for a while and asked, “How did you see him? What does he look like?”
Jian Yunlan told him roughly what had just happened.
After hearing this, the Demon Prison Lord's expression became more complicated, and he looked at Jian Yunlan with sympathy.
Jian Yunlan couldn't wait any longer, and with a burning fire in her heart, she asked, "What on earth is going on?"
The Demon Prison Master was silent for a moment and sighed.
"What you just saw should be a remnant of Taotie's soul that he left behind just for you."
"As for his true form..."
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