Chapter 156 The Queen and Her Fiancé
The troublemaker ghost was quickly swarmed by the other ghosts. With each ghost punching and kicking him, he vanished with a scream. For the first time, Tu Lanxun had a real sense of the combat prowess of the surrounding ghost bandits.
These people seem to be a little better than the Toothless Ghost and his tribe.
"Our tribe is not good at fighting, especially hand-to-hand combat." The toothless ghost smiled, but was not ashamed of it.
Tu Lanxun nodded: "I will definitely visit if I have the chance."
The toothless ghost stared at her, revealing a shrewdness that surpassed all previous impressions. He smiled and said, "That pendant wasn't from that ghost, was it? You put it there."
"How did you know?" Tu Lanxun asked curiously.
Indeed, she picked up the green elementary school student pendant while working on a case at school, and she put it into the spy ghost's clothes.
The toothless ghost replied, "That ghost doesn't have the energy of having killed children, and that green pendant doesn't have his energy either."
Tu Lanxun was surprised: "The reason your tribe has survived to this day is because of the ability to observe qi?"
The toothless ghost was slightly surprised. "That's right, but I'm above average in my tribe."
"Do the living people of your tribe have such abilities?"
"I guess so. You'll know when you see it." The toothless ghost evaded the question.
Tu Lanxun noticed he wasn't ready to answer clearly, so he changed the subject. "What kind of energy did you see coming from the ghost that was just beaten to death?"
The toothless ghost pondered for a moment and said, "He has too much lying in his blood, and too much killing in his blood. He's killed not only humans, but also mice, rabbits, and monkeys."
Tu Lanxun relaxed a little, at least she hadn't killed the wrong person. Even if the spy wasn't so evil, it would be hard for her to let him go when she saw him as the instigator of the "convenience store massacre."
It seemed that this kind of thing was not that difficult for her to do. I wonder if she inherited it from Tu Penglai.
Tu Lanxun's eyes darkened for a moment, then returned to normal in an instant.
Could it be that, after all, she is the same kind of person as the mother she dislikes?
But, so what?
Shaking off the slight irritation in his heart, Tu Lanxun composed himself. He walked over to the ghost bandits who were still cursing with a smile and put the green pendant into his pocket. "I will investigate this matter thoroughly, as well as the evil deeds this ghost has done before. Now, I invite everyone to come inside and talk."
Some of the bandits still didn't believe it: "Boss, are you really treating us to a free meal? Don't just send us away with a bag of expired dry bread."
"That's right! We are not beggars!" another ghost shouted.
Tu Lanxun smiled slightly and asked back, "Excuse me, do you have a place to stay?"
"Yes, of course not?" The bandit leader glared, feeling slighted. He shouted, "The tunnel under the Jinjie Bridge in Lucheng, the service area beside the provincial road in Fushi, and the rocky and flowing water in the 4A-level scenic area in Yangguang City are all where we live!"
This was said with confidence, but many of the direct descendants of the ghost bandit leader turned their heads away and did not admit to his face their tragic fate of being homeless and living in the open air following their big brother.
"What are you hiding for? What are you hiding for? We are all ghosts, and ghosts don't need to sleep so well. This is called freedom, freedom, you know?" The ghost bandit leader was furious.
Tu Lanxun looked at him with a smile, which made the bandit leader look a little irritated. "What's wrong?"
Tu Lanxun: "Look, I have food and shelter here. Why don't you and your friends please stay here for a while? I'd love to host you all for free, but I'm afraid you're all upright and chivalrous people and wouldn't want to eat and stay for free. So, I'd like to ask you to join our patrol team and take turns patrolling the area. That way, we won't have to be so nervous and I can provide you with shelter and food. What do you think?"
Tu Lanxun's words were polite, as if they were lacking protection and had no choice but to beg for the services of these bandits. After hearing these words, the bandits' expressions became subtle.
I have food and shelter, I don't have to go out in the rain under the bridge, and I have an easy job that seems to be able to help people in need.
So everyone's eyes were directed towards the bandit leader, filled with expectation and copy-pasted "promise her, promise her, promise her, promise her".
The bandit leader felt a little embarrassed and said, "Well, fine. We'll stay here for a while. But we have to agree in advance that we need three meals a day and a bed and a closed room to sleep in at night. Can you do that?"
The ghost bandits behind him blushed. What kind of conditions were these? It was as if they had never seen the world before.
Tu Lanxun's expression was extremely serious. He shook the bandit leader's hand firmly, and before the other party could pull away in panic, he promised, "I promise."
Thus, the siege of the convenience store was successfully lifted, and the glass door was opened again. The frightened faction represented by the computer ghost girl and Liu Maosheng and the fighting spirit faction represented by Sonya and Potato Cake rushed out. Seeing that Tu Lanxun was fine, they breathed a sigh of relief.
"Uncle Liu, please register these friends and take them to clean, comfortable and suitable accommodation. For now, they will be provided with free food and accommodation..." Before Tu Lanxun could even send a glance, he received a micro-expression from Liu Maosheng that said "I understand everything".
"And there's Suoniya and that guy." Tu Lanxun put one hand on his waist, pressing it against his pocket. "Please do a polite check. There might be a hidden agent of the Heavenly Kingdom Group among these friends."
When Sonia heard the words "Heavenly Kingdom Group", she was eager to take action. Tu Lanxun quickly added: "Young Clan Leader, please come along." The person she called was the Toothless Ghost.
She did not completely trust the Toothless Ghost, but letting him participate in the screening operation would, on the one hand, allow Sonya and N to verify his ability; on the other hand, even if he was acting before and was actually a member of the Heavenly Kingdom Group to deceive her trust, in order not to expose himself too early, he might really offer a few tokens of allegiance.
N was summoned and instantly appeared behind Tu Lanxun. The toothless ghost showed a handsome smile with missing front teeth, "Okay, okay."
Soon, three more ghosts who were determined to be spies of the Kingdom of Heaven Group were thrown out of the ghost bandit team. They were found by Sonya, N and the Toothless Ghost. The ghost bandits were unfamiliar with the first two, who were followers who sneaked in halfway, so nothing happened to them.
But the third one caused a huge uproar among the ghost bandits.
“Second brother!”
"What are you going to do to my second brother?"
"This guy with missing front teeth who can't even speak Mandarin can't be trusted. Second Brother has been with us for almost ten years! He's making random accusations!"
Even the leader of the ghost bandits looked at Tu Lanxun with disbelief.
Tu Lanxun tilted his head to look at the Toothless Ghost, who whispered, "That person also has the aura of killing and lying."
"Have you seen this face in Tianguo Group?" Tu Lanxun asked Suo and N again with his eyes. Both shook their heads in response.
What should I do about this?
If they don't arrest this person, he might betray and escape at any time. If they arrest this person, the ghost bandits are obviously unwilling to do so.
Now their discussion has reached the point of "Our second brother has been framed, let's go and not eat anything!"
Tu Lanxun pondered for a moment, and the toothless ghost whispered, "I have a way."
"What method?" Tu Lanxun's eyes lit up.
The toothless ghost suddenly became cunning: "I want the ghosts of my tribe to be treated better than them."
"Do you have money?" Tu Lanxun was more concerned about this issue.
The toothless ghost nodded, and Tu Lanxun made the final decision: "Deal! I'll give you better treatment, but in order to avoid making them unhappy, you have to pay money openly."
"No problem. We have plenty of money. Just don't ask us for 'that'." The Toothless Ghost agreed.
Tu Lanxun didn't have time to ask what "that" was. He saw the toothless ghost walk to the edge of the green belt and pluck two branches. The leaves were carefully selected, one from the highest bud at the top and the other from the lowest bud at the bottom. Then, the toothless ghost dug into the soil of the green belt with his bare hands, digging two spindle-shaped holes to the left and right of the tree's base.
The more you look at the two holes, the more they look like eyes. What's even more strange is that you can just see the roots of the tree through the holes.
"One land, one day, eyes of the soil... and..." The toothless ghost muttered to himself, gathering the sprouts and lumps of soil in his palms and kneading them into two chocolate-coated biscuit sticks.
"The blood of a living person." The toothless ghost looked at Tu Lanxun. She was the only living person present.
Tu Lanxun held out his wrist. "Any living person's blood will do? Don't you want to pick out the date of birth, horoscope, zodiac sign, or MBTI?"
"No need for those." The toothless ghost said to her confidently with a strange accent: "When deciding to perform the ritual, the blood of the first living person who encounters this tree is used." But he pushed away the wrist painted with blue Xun.
Tu Lanxun was puzzled. The Toothless Ghost no longer looked like a rustic, rural youth, but a mysterious master. He pointed at the tree and said, "It's the one who will choose the bloody part. It's the one who will guide this matter."
The toothless ghost probably meant that the tree was the medium between heaven and earth for some mysterious power, and the tree could only continue if it received benefits and agreed to help.
The toothless ghost leaned over to the tree trunk, knocked on it, and whispered a few words in their local dialect. Finally, he carefully observed the grain of the bark he had knocked on. Finally, he looked up and said to Tu Lanxun, "I want the blood from your ears."
Tu Lanxun raised her eyebrows. This tree was quite picky. It reminded her of the diners choosing fresh seafood in the hotel lobby, except that the one in the glass tank had become her.
"How about a different approach?" N suddenly spoke up. "I don't doubt the abilities of the Southern Province's Tree Worshipers, but it's best not to harm a living person."
The Tree Worshipers? N actually knew their names?
The toothless ghost smiled at Tu Lanxun and said, "Your real fiancé is quite knowledgeable. However, the Baishu Clan is what outsiders call us. We call ourselves the Tree Clan."
Tu Lanxun was startled. "You can tell from his aura... is he my fiancé?"
"I can't tell by your aura. You haven't experienced any natural fusion." The toothless ghost said calmly, then pointed to his face: "But my eyes can see that you two are in love. I'm not blind."
Tu Lanxun didn't know what to say, but suddenly remembered something and leaned in to whisper, "Then why did you tell your people that I was some kind of queen who wanted to choose a fiancé from among you? Now that you've said it, how can you explain it back?"
The Toothless Ghost's gaze was as innocent as that of the other tree tribe members around him. He asked in return, "Who said you can only have one fiancé?"
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