Chapter 148 Golden Butterfly
After teasing everyone, Yu Sui still allowed the injured Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu to board the Spirit Bird.
Nian Qiuyan led the way, avoiding the crowd and climbing into the corner passageway at the stern of the ship. Just as he turned around, Luo Fu grabbed him by the collar and slammed him against the railing wall with a loud thud.
Luo Fu didn't even care if this would attract other people. He bent his arm and pressed it against Nian Qiuyan's neck, forcing him to look up at him.
Nian Qiuyan's head slammed hard against the wall. He frowned and looked up, his eyes reflecting Luo Fu's cold, angry face.
"You'd better give me an explanation for what just happened." Luo Fu stared at Nian Qiuyan with anger in his eyes, a hint of murderous intent in his voice. "Why didn't the famous words in the water attack you?"
Luo Fu usually appears indifferent and aloof, but the underwater attack just now nearly cost him and Zhang Xiangyun their lives. This terrifying turn of events left Luo Fu feeling both fearful and furious.
Zhang Xiangyun was the most seriously injured. After boarding the ship, he was pale and busy taking medicine from his control box. He glanced at Nian Qiuyan, who was being controlled by Luo Fu, with a gloomy expression and said in a deep voice, "You brought other people with you. Did you want to make a move in the sea?"
The sarcasm in his words made Nian Qiuyan burst out laughing. He looked at Luo Fu and Zhang Xiangyun as if they were fools: "Why would I bother? If I wanted to kill you two, would I need someone else to do it for me?"
Enraged by these words, Luo Fu's fingertips crackled with golden lightning as he reached out to grab Nian Qiuyan's neck, his killing intent evident. But Zhang Xiangyun stepped in front of Nian Qiuyan to stop him.
Both of them were stunned for a moment, but quickly realized that it was a love potion.
Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu's expressions grew even more unpleasant.
Nian Qiuyan reached out and touched her neck, cleared her throat slowly, and then said, "It's one thing that you don't like to use your brain normally, but you still don't think about things at a time like this. It wouldn't be a shame if you died in the sea."
He stood behind Zhang Xiangyun and looked up at Luo Fu with the same look he gave him when he thought he was an idiot: "The love curse on Zhang Xiangyun hasn't been cured. It would be easy for me to order him to kill you or make him commit suicide."
Zhang Xiangyun grabbed Luo Fu's hand, gesturing for him to calm down, then turned to stare at Nian Qiuyan: "Who is that?"
“How would I know?” Nian Qiuyan leaned against the wall and crossed her arms. “Since it’s a famous saying, the person who used it couldn’t be too far away from us. They must be on the scene. But we can’t see where they are. Maybe we’re just unlucky. No one wanted to kill you two. We just triggered a mechanism on this ship.”
"A trap?" Luo Fu clearly didn't believe it, and sneered, "What trap only targets the two of us but ignores you?"
“I told you, I don’t know,” Nian Qiuyan said with a slight smile. “Even if you kill me, I still won’t know.”
Zhang Xiangyun's face was deathly pale, and his dark eyes stared at him as he said, "Then you do the math."
"You want me to use today's last divination in this kind of situation?" Nian Qiuyan raised an eyebrow. "Impossible."
Zhang Xiangyun sneered, "Then how can you expect me to believe you?"
"Believe it or not is up to you," Nian Qiuyan said. "My mission this time is just to bring you to find the Milky Way; I don't have time to do anything else."
“Isn’t the Milky Way Water gone?” Zhang Xiangyun, pale-faced, stood in the shadows, his gaze fixed on Nian Qiuyan with a dark, sinister look, like a cold, slippery snake standing upright. “Shouldn’t your last divination be to find out where Mei Liangyu, who took the Milky Way Water, is?”
"How do you know he took it?" Nian Qiuyan retorted. "You saw the abnormality of the Abyss Sea. The sea eye suddenly appeared. Perhaps the sea eye swept away the Milky Way water. Besides, I had already calculated before I came, and I couldn't figure out Meimei's location."
Luo Fu scoffed, "Perhaps Mei Liangyu and the other two are already dead in the sea eye."
Nian Qiuyan looked over with a smile: "Isn't this perfect? It saves a lot of trouble."
Luo Fu stared at him coldly, as if judging whether what he said was true or false.
Zhang Xiangyun was injured and in a state of confusion. After thinking for a moment, he decided to avoid conflict with Nian Qiuyan for the time being. Nian Qiuyan's words made sense; if he wanted to kill him and Luo Fu, he wouldn't have gone through all this trouble.
He walked past Nian Qiuyan to a corner to tend to his wounds. Blood was dripping from his sleeves onto the ground, a shocking sight.
Luo Fu also went over to help, glancing at Nian Qiuyan every now and then with a wary look in his eyes.
Nian Qiuyan surveyed her surroundings, paying attention to the nearby commotion, and said without turning her head, "What are your plans next? This ship looks like the work of the Mechanists. They must have sensed the movement at the sea eye and sent someone to make contact with the underwater Mechanist City."
"It's probably full of people from the government agencies up there now." Nian Qiuyan glanced back for a moment, "and maybe quite a few of the academy's saints are here too."
"Then let's not go up for now." Zhang Xiangyun had his back to Nian Qiuyan, so his expression was unclear, but his words sounded cold.
Nian Qiuyan bluntly asked, "Can you hide your current state?"
Zhang Xiangyun hissed, "If we can't hide, we'll all die together."
Nian Qiuyan said gently, "There's no need to be so extreme. Even if the people from the Mechanical Family find out, you won't die."
Zhang Xiangyun shut up, not intending to talk to him any further.
Luo Fu opened the mechanism box, glanced at the bottles and jars inside, casually scanned them, quickly took out a bottle, opened it, and poured the powder onto Zhang Xiangyun's shoulder wound.
Nian Qiuyan heard Zhang Xiangyun gasp, and this time he didn't even turn his head as he said, "You want the person with the lowest score in the medical class to apply your medicine?"
Zhang Xiangyun's temples twitched as he snatched the medicine from Luo Fu's hand and nearly fainted upon seeing it.
Luo Fu turned his head and glared at Nian Qiuyan, "Why did you have to be so nosy?"
Yu Sui squatted in the corner, resting her chin on her hand, watching Zhang Xiangyun and the other two argue with amusement.
When Zhang Xiangyun questioned Nian Qiuyan, he couldn't help but cover his nose and chuckle.
Standing beside her, Li Jinshuang, who was peeking out of the aisle, heard the girl's soft laughter and turned around in confusion: "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Yu Sui buried her face in her arms, waved her other hand at Li Jinshuang, and chuckled in a low voice, "I just suddenly remembered some funny things and couldn't help it."
Li Jinshuang said helplessly, "Can you still think of anything funny?"
Yu Sui said, "I couldn't help myself."
Li Jinshuang asked, "What's so funny?"
“I’m afraid I’ll make you laugh too.” Yu Sui looked up, her eyes full of smiles. Just as she turned to look at Li Jinshuang, she noticed someone walking this way, so she stood up and said, “Someone’s coming from ahead. Let’s step back a bit.”
The person who came was Situ Jin. He was on his way to the observation platform, looking down at the wind-listening ruler in his hand. Halfway there, he suddenly remembered something he had forgotten to tell, hissed, and turned around and walked back.
They hadn't walked two steps back when they ran into Hu Gui and Lin Chenghai.
"Where are you going?" Lin Chenghai, with Wen Yangzhou's face, greeted Situ Jin very naturally.
“Back to the helm,” Situ Jin was familiar with the Wen Yang family’s children. Although Wen Yangzhou was a few years older than him, he wasn’t difficult to get along with, and they chatted naturally like peers. “Why did you come here too?”
"I'm also planning to go to the helm to check on the sea eye," Lin Chenghai said. "Then let's go together."
Yu Sui and Li Jinshuang quietly moved to the back of the passageway, where many abandoned mechanical boxes were piled up. The Spirit Bird had set off in a hurry and had no time to deal with the trash.
At this moment, these mechanical boxes were piled up into a small mountain, casting a huge shadow, and Yu Sui and his companion hid in this shadow.
Yu Sui watched Lin Chenghai and Situ Jin walking together, chatting and laughing, while Situ Jin seemed completely oblivious to anything amiss. This made Yu Sui narrow her eyes slightly. If she hadn't witnessed the possession through the Five Elements Light Core, given Lin Chenghai's current behavior, Yu Sui wouldn't have been able to distinguish between the real and fake Wen Yang Axis.
What kind of outrageous, low-class technique is that?
Yu Sui fell into thought.
Lin Chenghai and Situ Jin went to the observation platform together and saw many new sea eyes near the Spirit Bird. Fortunately, they were able to avoid them perfectly and were not caught in the sea eyes, but they just missed them every time, which was terrifying.
If you can't avoid it in time and happen to be driving right in the center of the eye of the ocean, you're doomed.
Yu Sui and Li Jinshuang did not move; they stayed in the passageway where discarded mechanical boxes were piled up. This passageway was only used to go to the observation platform, and generally no one went there.
About an hour later, Situ Jin and Lin Chenghai left the observation platform.
Li Jinshuang, who had been pretending to be asleep with her eyes closed, opened them when she heard the noise. She watched as the three people walked past without noticing her and Yu Sui's presence, and only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.
Just as the three were about to leave, they encountered the agricultural sage Ou Rushuang in front of the passageway.
"Professor Ou," Situ Jin greeted first, "Are you also going to the observatory?"
Ou Rushuang nodded and asked with a smile, "It looks like you just came out from over there. How was it?"
"The growth rate of the sea eye is as expected, although it is a bit fast, but it can effectively avoid contact in the sea by using the echo of the golden conch," Situ Jin said. "There is no need to worry for the time being."
After pondering for a moment, Ou Rushuang asked, "Is it possible that the underwater mechanical city could be swallowed up by the sea eye?"
Situ Jin was taken aback by the question, then shook his head and said, "How could that be? We know the location of the underwater mechanical city, and there's no movement from the sea eye there."
Ou Rushuang smiled and stroked her chin, glancing at Wen Yangzhou next to Situ Jin as she spoke: "In that case, these two friends of yours are here for the Undersea Mechanized City, right?"
Situ Jin didn't understand the meaning of those words.
Even Yu Sui was taken aback.
Lin Chenghai saw a golden butterfly peeking out from behind Ou Rushuang's ears. The butterfly had not yet revealed its full appearance; Lin Chenghai reacted as soon as only half of its wing was visible.
With a flick of his sleeve, he tore off the white cloth wrapped around his wrist, simultaneously igniting golden protective energy. The white cloth billowed forward, meeting the enormous golden butterfly that had filled the entire passageway and was about to take flight.
The golden butterfly's wings were semi-transparent, and when it flapped its wings, golden powder rained down on Lin Chenghai.
Before anyone else could react, the two streams of Five Elements energy clashed violently, creating a golden shockwave that shattered the doors and windows on both sides of the passageway. The pile of abandoned mechanical boxes, which had been stacked into a small mountain, was also affected, and a series of cracking sounds rang out, forcing Yu Sui and Li Jinshuang, who were hiding behind, to retreat repeatedly.
Situ Jin was still thinking of turning her head to look at Wen Yangzhou, wondering what Ou Rushuang meant. Before she could even catch a glimpse of Wen Yangzhou, Hu Tao grabbed her by the neck and held her hostage, instantly flashing away to a great distance.
He was being choked and forced to look up ahead, his eyes reflecting the scene of golden butterflies dusting off the powder, but his mind was full of questions.
[Author's Note]
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