Chapter 44
When Gu An suddenly opened the tent, Bu Suanzi and He Miao, the master and his disciple, had already fallen asleep.
Everything was silent, except for his own heavy breathing and the rustling of the bushes in the night wind.
A belated sense of embarrassment suddenly gripped Gu An.
How long had it been since he had been so reckless and out of control? He was like a young boy who didn't know the seriousness of the matter.
Gu An's cheeks instantly turned hot.
At this moment, Bu Suanzi was startled and sat up dazedly. Through his sleepy eyes, he saw Gu An's face flushed red, and in his hand was a funny-looking thing with its legs upturned in the air...
Husky???
Bu Suanzi subconsciously thought that he was still dreaming, and with a plop he lay back down straight, folded his hands on his chest, and closed his eyes peacefully.
There was about ten seconds of dead silence.
Perhaps it was because he was frightened by the overly scorching gazes from the man and the dog, or because He Miao's deafening teeth grinding was really annoying, but Bu Suanzi sat up again like a corpse, all sleepiness gone.
Although he had no grumpiness when getting up, he hated being disturbed when he was sleeping soundly.
unless……
"More money."
Bu Suanzi confidently spread out his palms towards Gu An, his eyes clear.
Gu An's face was as gloomy as water: "How much do you want?"
Bu Suanzi raised two fingers.
Gu An nodded: "Two taels of gold, okay."
Bu Suanzi was stunned for a moment.
Wait! He meant 200 RMB!
The price of gold is high nowadays, and two taels is one hundred grams. Even if we use the most conservative calculation of seven hundred and fifty per gram, it is also...
He suddenly covered his mouth with both hands, fearing that the ecstatic folk song would burst out of his throat in the next second.
Seeing that he was silent, Gu An thought it was too little, and was about to add another zero, but Bu Suanzi quickly woke up He Miao, who was sleeping like a rag doll next to him.
He Miao's body swayed softly in the air with the force of the shaking.
Bu Suanzi immediately pried open his eyelids: "Master, Master! It's time for work! Big work!!"
He Miao was forced to turn on the camera, his eyes blankly focused.
Gu An, who witnessed the whole process: "..."
He Miao had a very good temper. Even though he was treated so roughly by his apprentice, he remained calm and composed, without any resentment. After listening to the victim Gu An's brief and powerful statement, he relaxed and calmly waved his hand: "It's just a dog, no big deal."
Gu An frowned and corrected: "Chen Qi is a dragon, not a dog."
He Miao touched his chin: "We are changing places, when in Rome, do as the Romans do."
Gu An's eyes narrowed dangerously.
This old Taoist clearly knew the inside story, but he pretended to be deaf and dumb.
Anger suddenly rose in his heart, and he unconsciously tightened his fingers on Shen Qigou's head.
Shen Qi only felt that his entire dog face was pulled backwards by a huge force, and in the eyes of everyone, it was instantly twisted into a hideous and funny ghost face.
Bu Suanzi quickly clenched his fist and coughed, winking at his master frantically.
Stop playing around! Let’s get down to business!!
He Miao cleared his throat: "It's a long story."
Gu An sat down cross-legged, expressionless: "I'm all ears."
He Miao: “…”
He needed to think carefully about where to start this story to make it complete.
With He Miao's imaginative narration and Bu Suanzi's occasional supplements, Gu An finally pieced together the truth about Shen Qi's transformation into a dog.
But after hearing this, Gu An's face became even uglier.
According to these two people, Gu An turned out to be a narrow-minded, cold-blooded, and ungrateful scum. He cast such a vicious curse on Shen Qi after turning love into hatred. If no solution is found, he will completely disappear after twenty-four changes.
And now, it is the eleventh time.
In other words, Shen Qi only has less than thirteen chances left.
He Miao sighed deeply, his tone heavy with sorrow: "They came to me for this matter and offered me a price of tens of millions. Although I despise money..."
"Cough." A loud cough interrupted him.
He Miao glanced at Bu Suanzi and continued calmly, "But you and I both know that for those who defy the heavens, merit is the foundation of their existence. Only by accumulating merit can they avoid falling into the desperate situation of losing all five senses and the five decays of the celestial beings when the heavens are enraged and take back their cultivation..."
"Cough." Another sound.
He Miao looked at Bu Suanzi in confusion, it wasn't him.
Turning to Gu An, he saw that his teeth were clenched, veins on his forehead were throbbing, and his eyes were cold as if he wanted to kill someone.
He Miao scratched his nose guiltily: "Anyway, I accepted this karma, but who would have thought that something strange would happen, and you would be dragged into this world, and they..."
"Hiss." The words were interrupted again.
I can't stand this.
He Miao's face darkened, and he made a lightning-fast move, quickly and accurately grabbing the uninvited guest's vital point. His fingers flew around and tied a knot, and with a swing of his arm, the long black shadow was thrown far away into the depths of darkness like a meteor.
Bu Suanzi was still in shock: "Master! There are people outside!"
"It's okay. If you throw it far enough, it won't be able to climb up for three or four days." He Miao clapped his hands and sat down again. A warm smile instantly returned to his face. "Where were we talking just now?"
Bu Suanzi held his forehead and said, "You are ready to help."
"Oh, yes." He Miao suddenly realized, "I was about to cast a spell, but unexpectedly, time and space were dislocated, and you had already arrived. According to Hawking's A Brief History of Time and Einstein's General and Special Theories of Relativity, the same universe cannot accommodate two identical individuals, so they were replaced in your world."
Gu An's brows knitted into a knot: "What's that thing in the middle?"
"These two groundbreaking physicists have made outstanding contributions to the quantum field, which will be remembered for generations to come."
Gu An: “…I don’t understand.”
He subconsciously looked at Shen Qi in his arms, only to find that this heartless guy had fallen asleep without him noticing.
Bu Suanzi pressed his hand deeper into his solar plexus, supporting his forehead, and complained feebly, "Master, flying with a sword violates Newton's second law."
The implication is that explaining modern physics to a group of immortal cultivators is like taking off your pants to release an atomic bomb, which is superfluous and terrifying!
He Miao coughed awkwardly. "In short, to return to our homeland, we must find the source. The biggest suspect right now is Su He. We'll set off at dawn to the place where Su He was last seen."
After a long talk, finally back to the topic.
Gu An's patience, which was on the verge of bursting, was finally appeased when he heard the words "set off at dawn".
He picked up Shen Qi, who was sleeping like a dead dog, and was about to say goodbye, but the dog suddenly woke up and twisted its body frantically to break free.
“Woof woof woof!!!”
[Gu An, you bastard! ! ! !]
The dog burst out with amazing brute force, and Gu An was caught off guard and broke free.
The next second, a gray shadow with tremendous anger threw him to the ground.
The angry barking of dogs sounded like thunder.
[Gu An, why the hell didn’t you tell us!!!]
[You are a fucking dying tuberculosis bastard!!!]
[Tang An is still there! Tang An is still there! ! ! !]
Why am I the only one back?
Why is this happening!!!
The sharp dog claws instantly cut several bloody marks on Gu An's exposed neck and arms. He awkwardly used his hands to hold the dog's mouth full of sharp white fangs tightly, and the fishy and hot breath almost sprayed on his face.
Gu An frowned and turned his head, shouting at the two dumbfounded guys beside him: "Why don't you come over here?! Are you waiting for me to be bitten to death by this mad dog?!"
The master and disciple woke up as if from a dream, rushed over in a hurry, grabbed the mad dog with all their might and dragged it back.
"Chen Qi! Shen Qi, what's wrong with you?!"
"Disciple, this dog... Ugh, Shen Qi is too strong! Hold on! One, two..."
Before the third move came, a bony hand suddenly stretched out like a pair of pliers, precisely and fiercely strangling the dog's neck, while the other hand tightly grasped the roaring mouthpiece.
Gu An's icy voice carried the power to penetrate the chaos as it slammed down, "Shut up Chi Ying! You can't come back even if you kill me, Tang An!"
These words were like a blast of cold water, instantly extinguishing the vortex of anger burning wildly in Chi Ying's eyes.
His bloodshot eyes stared at Gu An, and an unwilling growl came from his throat, as if he wanted to nail the last bit of resentment into the other's face with his gaze.
Gu An loosened his grip and let the exhausted dog's body slide down.
He raised his hand expressionlessly and used his fingertips to wipe away the warm blood that was winding down the side of his neck. The wound was burning with pain, but fortunately the artery was not torn.
Should we be thankful that this mad dog still had a bit of sanity left at the last moment?
Gu An stood up and looked down at the dog that was lying on the ground panting. A hint of cold mockery appeared at the corner of his lips: "Compared to Shen Qi, you are really far behind."
Chi Ying buried his face in the cold ground, his body trembling slightly, and the huge despair drowned him like a cold tide.
what to do……
I was the only one back.
Tang An is still there, Tang An is still there...
His eyes became hot and hot tears fell silently into the ground. The dog completely lost the strength to struggle and became like a puddle of mud, allowing Bu Suanzi and He Miao to turn him over and drag him up.
Perhaps the deep sorrow in his eyes was too contagious.
Bu Suanzi and He Miao glanced at each other quickly, and there was a shock in each other's eyes like a storm.
“Really Ji Young??!!”
“He’s back???”
He Miao touched his chin, looking incredulous: "I haven't even started to exert any strength yet, and it's already worked?"
"Or," he paused thoughtfully, "is finding Su He the right path by accident?"
Bu Suanzi subconsciously looked at Gu An. The other party seemed indifferent to Shen Qi's matter. He just drooped his eyelashes, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Seeing the glaring scars on his neck, Bu Suanzi took out disposable gauze and iodine from his backpack and asked, "Do you need help?"
Gu An raised his eyes and glanced at the modern medical supplies in his hand: "I don't know how to use them."
Having said this, Bu Suanzi could only squat down and accept his fate: "It might hurt a little."
When Gu An heard this, a very light and sarcastic sneer escaped from his nose.
Bu Suanzi's hand that was twisting the cap of the iodine bottle suddenly stopped.
This laughter, this overwhelming sense of contempt from a king, was Tang An really this uncultured in his previous life? ! !
He suppressed the urge to complain and maintained a professional demeanor. While gently wiping the wound with a cotton swab dipped in iodine, he casually asked, "What do you think of Chi Ying's return?"
Gu An didn't even bother to raise his eyelids: "I don't have any opinion."
Bu Suanzi: "What about Shen Qi going back?"
Gu An: "What does this have to do with me?"
Bu Suanzi: “…”
No wonder you have no friends!!!
When the cold liquid with a pungent medicinal smell touched the cracked flesh, Gu An's brows frowned almost imperceptibly, which was keenly captured by Bu Suanzi.
"Does it hurt?" Bu Suanzi felt secretly happy.
No matter how awesome you are, you're still a mortal! Just bear the pain!
Gu An seemed to have read his mind, his brows instantly relaxed, his expression unchanged: "It's just a trivial injury, I always disdain to pay attention to it."
Bu Suanzi: “…”
This Lord, this Lord, this Lord! I'm here! Someone, come! Drag this pretentious criminal out and give him eighty lashes of the cane!
He moved faster, and with a bit of force to vent his anger, he quickly treated the wound in a few strokes.
At this time, the sky was already getting light.
He Miao stretched out his body and patted the drooping dog's head beside him: "It's almost time, let's get ready to go."
Everyone had packed up, and around seven in the morning, the other tents in the camp were also packed up.
Just as Gu An and his companions were about to set off, the young man named Roy suddenly caught up with them. To be precise, his target was Gu An.
Roy seemed to be still brooding over Tang An's indifference yesterday. He rushed over in two steps, opened his arms and was about to hug her. His voice was sticky with grievance: "I sent you so many messages, but you didn't reply to any of them! Don't you love me anymore? Wuuwuwu——"
In Gu An's life, except for Shen Qi when he was a child, he had never been hugged so closely by anyone else. In an instant, goose bumps covered every inch of his skin.
He raised his hand without mercy and pushed Roy away as if brushing away something dirty.
Roy staggered backwards like discarded garbage, but was caught by the quick-eyed and quick-handed He Chenzhou.
This is simply turning your back on me!
Roy's heart was broken on the spot, his eyes widened in disbelief: "I'm Roy! Your Roy!!!"
Gu An responded with a cold side profile.
Roy didn't give up and performed some of his signature ballet moves.
A cold sneer appeared on Gu An's lips.
Roy's eyes flushed red, and he clung to He Chenzhou beside him like a frightened octopus, whimpering and complaining, "He doesn't recognize me anymore! He's really turned from a fan to a hater! He's even more cruel and ruthless than the haters now! Wuwuwu, this is too cruel, this is really too cruel——"
He Chenzhou glanced at Gu An, suppressed the doubts in his heart, and comforted the sobbing person in his arms: "Maybe it's because my uncle came and he's in a bad mood."
This reason is ridiculous.
But Roy actually believed it. He sobbed and wiped his tears: "That's right... Tang An can't be... so cruel..."
Seeing this, Gu An was about to raise a sneer on his lips, but Bu Suanzi quickly covered his mouth with his hand: "It's getting late! We really have to leave! Goodbye!"
He Miao quickly stuffed two heavy backpacks into Gu An's arms and said, "It's your turn now."
Before, Shen Qi was the coolie, but now that Shen Qi is gone and Chi Ying is still a dog, it is naturally Gu An’s turn.
Gu An lowered his eyes, his cold gaze falling on Bu Suanzi's hand that was covering his mouth.
Bu Suanzi quickly retracted his hand as if burned, grabbed He Miao's arm and ran into the mountain, shouting without looking back: "Hurry up and follow me."
Gu An looked at the dying dog at his feet, then at the two heavy backpacks in his arms that were almost hanging down to his waist. Without thinking, he loosened his arms.
“Plop.”
The two backpacks were thrown to the ground mercilessly.
Gu An turned around and walked away, his steps as fast as the wind.
Only a dog and two piles of luggage were left standing there, staring at each other in bewilderment.
He Chenzhou frowned and grabbed Roy who was about to rush over to remind him: "Wait."
Roy stamped his feet anxiously: "What are you waiting for! The dog and the luggage have been left behind!!"
He Chenzhou's gaze was fixed on the Husky, and in those ice-blue eyes, there was a surge of extremely human and complex emotions.
This strange scene made his temples throb, and he almost thought he was hallucinating.
He Chenzhou rubbed his forehead and decided to call Chi Ying first.
Of course, Ji Ying couldn't answer the phone.
In the end, Gu An, who had followed He Miao and his apprentice, was forced to turn back when they discovered that he had left his dog and luggage behind.
As soon as he returned to where he was, Ji Ying's phone rang.
Gu An took out his cell phone under everyone's gaze.
He Chenzhou hung up his phone, his eyes dark, "Where's Chi Yingren?"
How could a living person like him disappear out of thin air today when he was still here yesterday? Given Chi Ying's tendency to want to just carry Tang An with him, how could he possibly leave on his own?
It's not impossible, but it's very small.
He Chenzhou looked at one of the parties involved. The other party still had that strange look of keeping strangers away, as if he had been possessed by another body.
He turned to look at Bu Suanzi and He Miao. "Hello, I was in a hurry yesterday and forgot to introduce myself. My last name is He Chenzhou, and this is my wife, Luo Yi. Tang An used to work at my law firm, so we're old acquaintances."
He extended his hand and shook hands with the two of them politely.
Bu Suanzi and He Miao: "Hello, hello, hello..."
The atmosphere fell into an eerie silence.
What finally broke the silence was Chi Ying's two low barks.
He no longer looked at anyone, turned around and jogged in the direction where Bu Suanzi and the others had left.
"Hey hey... the dog ran away!!"
Bu Suanzi reacted very quickly. He picked up the two backpacks on the ground and ran away.
He Miao also resigned himself to his fate, picked up another heavy bag, and caught up with difficulty.
Only Gu An was left there.
A few seconds later, he left without looking back.
He Chenzhou and Roy looked at each other.
“???”
The mountain road was rugged, the sun was getting higher and higher, scorching the forest. When they were about half an hour away from their destination, He Miao suggested taking a rest under an old tree with twisted branches.
Bu Suanzi agreed immediately. Just as his butt touched the tree roots, Gu An, who had been silent until then, suddenly spoke in a cold voice, "If you have something to say, just say it. There's no need to stare at me like I'm the murderer of your father."
“…”
Bu Suanzi looked at Chi Ying, who had regained his human form. He was leaning against a tree trunk on the other side, his face so gloomy that water could drip out of it, and his whole body exuded a low pressure that kept strangers away.
After being pointed out by Gu An, he could no longer endure it. He stood up suddenly, strode to Gu An, and asked through gritted teeth: "You have such a serious health problem, why didn't you mention a word when you contacted me?!"
Gu An raised his eyes, his gaze filled with a coldness. “…You didn’t say you would turn into a dog at midnight.”
He still had that indifferent attitude, and when he saw Chi Ying choking, the corners of his lips even curled up slightly, almost mockingly: "I'm not feeling well, and I'm the only one who knows. How can I trust you with everything that's going on right now?"
Chi Ying's eyes were filled with anger, and every word he said was filled with hatred: "I have become like this because of you!"
Thinking back to what Mr. Rabbit said, the source was Tang An’s obsession, but now it seems that the real owner of that obsession is probably Gu An in front of him!
"You loved Chen Qi! But Chen Qi only had protective feelings for you! He was just a foolish dragon, how could you expect him to understand human love? You pursued immortality and practiced hard for thousands of years, wasn't it just so that you could be with him forever? But you can't do it! Your immortal path is cut off! So you hate! Hate the injustice of heaven! Hate Chen Qi's ignorance! You died with hatred, and your obsession lingered, turning into the most vicious curse. After Chen Qi's death, this curse was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, and it will be reincarnated with him in every life..."
Chi Ying pointed to his heart and said in a hoarse voice: "And then it fell on me!"
“But I’m not Shen Qi!!!”
"I'm Chi Ying! Tang An and I met in college. I thought he was incredibly handsome the first time I saw him, but no one taught me how to truly like someone, so I was like the most childish kid in elementary and junior high school, only able to clumsily tease him. Even after I found out he had someone else in his heart, I still foolishly wanted to keep him by my side..."
His voice gradually became softer, filled with deep fatigue and regret.
"Filing for divorce is one of the most regrettable decisions I've ever made in my life. Now that I think about it, I have to thank this curse for turning me into a dog so that he wouldn't sign his name. Otherwise, I really don't know what I would have done..."
Chi Ying's eyes were red, his throat was rolling violently, and he was suppressing the sobs that were surging.
"I can't live without him, just like Shen Qi can never lose you."
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