Chapter 42
Three days passed in a flash.
Chi Ying, who was in charge of the secret surveillance, brought back some bad news.
Su Chengyue is missing.
"Gone?" Tang An's hand trembled as he was carefully pouring some milky white nectar into a special jade mold, and a few drops of precious liquid spilled onto the ground.
The next second, all kinds of strange-looking little beasts emitting faint spiritual light lurking in the corners of the eaves swarmed up, vying for licking those drops of magic wine.
Chi Ying walked over, took the half-empty pot of Xianqiong Yulu from Tang An's hand, and continued to fill the mold with skillful hands. "It's the weekend, and I thought this guy might have taken a day off. I searched everywhere I could, even the music hall where he kept his mistress, but there was no sign of him. It's like he's vanished from the face of the earth."
Tang An watched Chi Ying operate while muttering, "Could he be in seclusion? Isn't that what happens in immortal cultivation novels?"
Chi Ying raised his eyes and said, "Whenever this guy goes into seclusion, he always gives you eight hundred reports three days in advance. This time, he's so quiet, there's definitely something fishy going on."
Tang An didn't argue. He picked up the mold filled with liquid steadily and placed it on the bed of ten thousand year old ice that he had moved from Gu An's ice storage to freeze it quickly. "Who knows? Sometimes you go out to eat with friends without informing me, don't you?"
Chi Ying: “…”
Tang Yan placed a mold, then picked up a small cube that had been frozen and was as crystal clear as crystal from the ice bed. He tapped it gently, and with a crisp sound, a popsicle with a hint of cold air fell into his hand.
He put it in his mouth and tasted it: "It tastes pretty good, the fairy world version of pudding."
As he said that, he knocked off another piece and handed it to Chi Ying.
Chi Ying lowered his head and took a bite. In an instant, a sweet and cool taste with a rich aroma of spiritual fruit exploded in his mouth, making his whole body feel comfortable.
"Amazing." He took the popsicle, his eyes shining. "Now that I'm no longer an immortal, let's go to the Immortal Realm Pedestrian Street and set up a stall selling this stuff. Let's call it Condensed Frost Jade Dew Jelly!"
Tang An rolled his eyes and said, "I'll sell them for nine nine spirit stones each."
Chi Ying chuckled: "Okay, let's make it bigger and stronger. You take six and I take four."
Tang An: "I came up with the idea, the formula, and the raw materials. Why do you only get 40%? I get 70% and you get 30%!"
Chi Ying had just finished pouring the last drop. Upon hearing this, she reached into the mouth of the pot with her finger to wipe a circle of the remaining nectar, then unexpectedly put it to Tang An's lips: "Baby, this is not how it's calculated. You know, your husband is a business elite. When our business really takes off, brand operation, market coordination, financial statement analysis, etc., all of which cannot be done without me. Otherwise, the tragedy of the previous emperor's demise before his business is halfway through will repeat itself in a matter of minutes."
Seeing that he was talking so convincingly, Tang An was filled with hatred. He bit the finger that was stained with the nectar and mumbled, "Bullshit."
"Ouch, it hurts! Let go, let go!" Chi Ying shook his hands and grimaced in pain.
The two were arguing with each other when a spirit beast nearby, which was licking a piece of broken ice enthusiastically, suddenly began to tremble violently.
It made a strange hoarse sound in its throat, as if it had epilepsy, and its limbs twitched stiffly as it moved step by step towards Tang An and Chi Ying.
“…”
Tang An and Chi Ying looked at each other and stopped fighting.
At this time, the spirit beast stopped trembling.
It raised its head, its pair of originally dark eyes now glowing with a bright inorganic yellow light. It stared straight at the two of them and uttered a cold, emotionless voice, "How's the progress?"
This tone...
It’s Gu An!!!
Tang An immediately released the hand that was biting Chi Ying, put his fist to his lips and coughed softly: "Progress is good."
Then there was an awkward silence.
The other side seemed extremely impatient, and another gentle voice came in time: "We have made some progress here. After talking to you this morning, we followed the instructions of Taoist He at noon and found the place where Su He was last seen. We also met two friends."
Chi Ying frowned: "Friend?"
Shen Qi: "They claimed to be old friends of Chi Ying and Tang An. One of them was surnamed Luo, and the other had the same surname as the Taoist priest."
Tang An and Chi Ying: "..."
Roy? He Chenzhou? What a coincidence!
Shen Qi continued, "Xiaobao and I didn't dare to have too much contact with them, fearing that we would be exposed. But that friend named He seemed to have noticed something strange..."
"Just kill him." Gu An's cold voice interrupted without any emotion.
Tang An's eyebrows jumped, and his tone suddenly turned cold: "Gu An! How dare you?!"
Gu An snorted coldly: "You are just an ordinary person, not worth mentioning."
Seeing the tension rising again, Shen Qi quickly raised his voice to change the subject: "There is one more thing. The place where Su He went last is very likely to be where our bodies are buried."
This information was like a bombshell. Chi Ying couldn't help but ask, "Are these two places the same place?"
Chi Ying's words were rather abstract, and Shen Qi and Gu An obviously didn't understand.
Tang An, however, understood what Chi Ying meant and asked thoughtfully, "Are their remains buried before or after the dinosaurs became extinct?"
Chi Ying: "...This question is beyond the scope."
Listening to the two people's riddle, Gu An's voice was full of impatience: "We have explained it clearly, what about you?"
This reminder brought the two back to their senses from their imagination about the parallel world.
Tang An was about to report about Su Chengyue's substitute when Chi Ying quickly covered his mouth and mouthed: I'll do it.
Tang An didn't understand, but nodded anyway.
Chi Ying folded his arms and slowly walked over to the spirit beast that served as the phone. He looked very arrogant and said in a deliberately drawn-out tone, "This matter...it's a long story...it's actually not a big deal...that's all..."
Tang An: “…”
He seemed to have seen the bulging veins on Gu An's forehead.
Sure enough, a crisp sound came from the other end of the line, as if someone had crushed something. Gu An suppressed his anger and said, "Get to the point."
Chi Ying raised his eyebrows proudly at Tang An, meaning: Look, he is getting anxious.
Tang An was speechless.
If I were Gu An, well, in a sense I am, then I would really want to hit someone.
Chi Ying's desire to get a beating is really ingrained in his nature.
Seeing that he had successfully angered the other party, Chi Ying was satisfied and got to the point: "Su Chengyue raised someone in the mortal world."
Shen Qi's voice was filled with a hint of simple surprise: "It's not easy to raise a person, it takes a lot of effort."
Tang An held his forehead with his hand: "...It's not the literal meaning of raising someone."
Shen Qi: “Oh.”
Gu An finally spoke, with his usual indifference: "Su Chengyue's private affairs in the mundane world, I... never interfere."
Chi Ying sneered, not wanting to stop until he had shocked the world. "Really? Then what if the person your proud disciple raised in the mortal world has a face, eyes, and figure that are at least 70% similar to your Great Immortal Lord Gu?"
There was dead silence on the other end of the line.
Chi Ying continued to add fuel to the fire, his voice full of sarcasm: "What? Are you mute? Do you need me to explain it more clearly? Your good disciple Su Chengyue has the same feelings towards you, the high and mighty master, as the unspeakable feelings you have towards Shen Qi. Do you understand now?"
"Chi Ying." Tang An called out in a low voice, a hint of worry in his eyes.
He was afraid that these words would be too hurtful.
Chi Ying took a deep breath, held Tang An's hand with his backhand, and patted it gently: "Don't worry, I know my limits."
Mainly because it was so satisfying to see Gu An get humiliated.
Tang An was in mixed mood.
He really wanted to ask Chi Ying why he had such a deep dislike for Gu An, but he felt that his position seemed a bit unreasonable.
He arrived late, and his knowledge of Gu An was limited to Chi Ying's description and two phone conversations.
When Chi Ying kept raving about how annoying Gu An was, he subconsciously chose to believe and agree with her, just like when he and his good friends were kids complaining about someone they both hated.
So he also labeled Gu An as mean and arrogant.
But sometimes, Tang An would wonder, does this person really only have a hateful side?
Were we not born to be disliked by others? Perhaps we were once endearing in some way?
Just as his thoughts were drifting, Gu An's voice finally rang out again: "Su Chengyue is not such a despicable person."
Tang An was slightly stunned.
Yes, this seemingly cold-hearted person will also defend others and choose to believe.
After the information was exchanged with difficulty, the two sides exchanged a few details intermittently.
In the end, it was He Miao's voice, as weak as a candle in the wind, that forcibly cut off the communication.
The spirit beast that served as the telephone was as if pardoned. It broke free from its restraints with a squeak, and did not forget to snatch away a box of Frost Jade Dew Jelly that had been frozen on the ice bed. It turned into a gray shadow and fled in a panic.
Tang An silently glanced at the empty ice box, then looked at Chi Ying: "I suddenly remembered something very important."
Chi Ying: "What?"
Tang An said seriously, "We seem to have forgotten to ask them if we can do that."
Chi Ying: “…………”
On the other side, a campsite in the wilderness.
After this communication across time and space ended, He Miao, as expected, fainted again from exhaustion.
In the setting sun, Bu Suanzi's face, which always had a youthful look, was now so gloomy that water seemed to drip out of it.
He bent down and carefully picked up He Miao's body, which was so thin that it seemed like it could be blown away by a gust of wind.
Before he walked towards the only slightly larger tent with the person in his arms, he paused and swept his cold eyes over Gu An and Shen Qi who were standing next to Huangshi.
"Master is kind-hearted, mindful of karma, and allowed you to abuse his body like this." Bu Suanzi's voice was soft, yet it carried a chilling feeling of impending storm. "But I am different."
He paused, his eyes fixed heavily on Gu An.
"If this matter doesn't turn around..." He tightened his grip on He Miao's arm slightly, "We, the master and I, won't want the 10 million."
He lowered his head, looking at his master's pale face in his arms. His voice was so low that it was almost a whisper, but every word was clear:
"A dilapidated Taoist temple that has lost its incense and should be buried in the dust..."
"It's not worth risking his life like this."
After saying that, Bu Suanzi didn't even look at the two of them. He hugged He Miao and went into the tent without looking back.
The slight sound of the tent curtain falling startled Gu An, who was still standing there as if in a trance.
He had no expression on his face and walked towards another small tent.
"Wait!" Shen Qi subconsciously reached out and grabbed Gu An's sleeve.
Gu An paused, turned his head coldly, and looked at Shen Qi's hand that was grabbing his sleeve.
Ever since the secret he had hidden for many years was revealed in public, he had never spoken a word to Shen Qi.
Shen Qi felt awkward when he looked at her, and let go of her hand awkwardly: "I don't mean anything else, I'm just a little worried about you. Just now, Master Bu..."
Gu An scoffed and interrupted him, his voice strangely complex: "Fortunately, you are here."
After saying this, he did not stop, turned around and swiftly lifted the curtain of the small tent, and his figure disappeared into it.
Shen Qi stood there in a daze, as if he had been cast under a spell of immobilization.
What did Xiaobao mean by that sentence just now?
Luckily you're here?
Fortunately, what I am referring to here is that if I were in the original world and was still a dragon, would the other party kill me for the sake of justice?
An indescribable sadness instantly gripped Shen Qi's heart.
He recalled how he had spoken without restraint in his rage when he had forcibly brought Gu An from his warm nest back to the Ninth Heaven. Later, when he learned that Tang An was Tang An and Gu An was Gu An, his first reaction was to be thankful that those hurtful words hadn't been heard by the real Gu An...
etc.
Shen Qi suddenly opened his eyes wide, as if he had been enlightened.
He was not glad that Gu An was not here at the time.
So what the other person means is regret and guilt???
Shen Qi suddenly realized.
It turned out that Gu An was no longer angry with him.
He was delighted.
After all, Gu An’s rebellious period lasted too long. Now that they have finally reconciled, does it prove that the other party still recognizes him as his father?
Thinking of this, Shen Qi couldn't help but smile. He turned around almost excitedly and walked quickly towards Gu An's small tent.
He seemed to have completely forgotten Chi Ying's shocking remarks this morning.
After all, in the simple cognition of Shen Qi, a dragon who has lived for countless years, the three most important things in life have never changed.
Mung bean cake, sleep, and Gu An.
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