Chapter 12
"Why do you ask?" He forced a smile.
Liu Huaizhao looked at him seriously and said, "Because you really didn't pay much attention to me. Every time I tried to talk to you, you pretended not to see me. Did washing my hair today tire you out?"
"No." Qin Zunyue said, "Not tired at all."
"Why is that?" Liu Huaizhao thought for a moment and added earnestly, "My master said that if there's anything between friends, they should communicate promptly. If you're dissatisfied with me, you should also tell me."
"I'm not dissatisfied with you." Qin Zunyue touched the back of his head, looking unusually bewildered. "It's just that I can't tell you the reason right now."
"Okay." Seeing that he was unwilling to speak, Liu Huaizhao did not force him. After thinking about it, he asked again, "Then can you help me wash my hair until my spiritual power recovers? It's quite comfortable."
"Of course." Qin Zunyue showed Liu Huaizhao's familiar smile again, "If you want, I can help you wash after I recover my spiritual power."
Although he still didn't know why Qin Zunyue suddenly ignored him, Liu Huaizhao was still very happy to get the permanent shampoo card. He returned to his room humming an opera he had heard before.
Qin Zunyue looked at his back, his thoughts surging. After Liu Huaizhao entered the room, he closed the door and stood behind it for a long time.
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This time, his spiritual power disappeared more completely than the time when he just woke up, but this also allowed Liu Huaizhao to confirm that although there was no pure yang energy in the world, he could still practice and recover his spiritual power.
This made him feel relieved. As long as he still had spiritual power, he would definitely be able to kill that person.
Yes, now he no longer plans to just seal the monster. During the time when he had no spiritual power, he flipped through the ancient book and found several formations. Although he could not kill that person, he could use the formations to protect the safe city so that the turbid monster could no longer harm mortals. Then, he could slowly fight that person.
He told Qin Zunyue about his discovery, and Qin Zunyue immediately took him to Yan Ming's office.
The first time is new, the second time is familiar. Liu Huaizhao once again sat at the table in the conference room, explaining the formation to the senior leaders of the command center.
"What is the maximum range that this formation can protect?" Yan Ming asked.
Liu Huaizhao said, "There's no set range, but the formation requires pure energy to work, so you must find a way to extract the pure energy from the golden elixir—just like a smoke gun, only this time you need to combine the pure energy with the formation."
Liu Huaizhao and Tong Le have been together for a long time, and his vocabulary has exceeded the elementary school level. Qin Zunyue sometimes almost forgets that Liu Huaizhao came from a thousand years ago.
"Let the research institute handle this task," said President Xu. "We can definitely accomplish it."
Liu Huaizhao nodded. Unknowingly, he had become the commander of this meeting.
"The demand for golden elixirs will increase, and the military will also try to get more of them," said Yan Ming.
"It doesn't have to be a golden elixir, a black elixir will do. I can channel the pure energy into it."
This is a surprise, and it can be said that we can achieve twice the result with half the effort.
"Oh, right," Yan Ming asked. "Qin Zunyue said you encountered another man in black on the mountain this time. He's not the same person who entered the safe city earlier."
Liu Huaizhao nodded and said, "The man in black from before, like me, came from thousands of years ago. I remember my master told me that the heavy turbid energy had made a deal with a mortal and occupied that mortal's body. The man in black also said that I was the one who sealed him away, so the man from before was the mortal whose body was occupied by the turbid energy. As for the man on Fir Mountain, he is most likely the man in black's subordinate."
"Okay." Yan Ming said, "We understand."
"There's one more thing. The ancient book we found in Mount Song is only half a volume, and the second half has been torn off. After the formation is completed, I will go find the second half."
Liu Huaizhao had not told Qin Zunyue what he said before. After he finished speaking, he glanced at Qin Zunyue secretly.
Qin Zunyue had a blank expression on his face, but his hands under the table clenched unconsciously.
After the meeting, the research institute began to work overtime to make smoke guns. After all, if they wanted to hunt monsters on a large scale, smoke guns were indispensable.
Without his spiritual power, Liu Huaizhao had nothing to do for the time being. Every day he either read the book given to him by his teacher, or sat on the sofa with others doing nothing.
During this period, his relationship with Qin Zunyue and others became better and better. Sometimes when he heard the sound of them playing, he would think that he had returned to his master's sect.
Qin Zunyue hadn't asked him about the ancient books in the past few days, but he couldn't help it and told it one afternoon when everyone was slumped in the living room.
Tong Le had been lying on Yan Liao's lap, squinting his eyes and preparing to sleep. After hearing what he said, he sat up suddenly and asked, "Are you leaving?"
"I won't leave for now. I will complete the formation and ensure your future safety before leaving."
Tong Le felt a little disappointed after hearing this, but they had already agreed with Liu Huaizhao when they met that Liu Huaizhao was only staying temporarily.
Qin Zunyue opened his mouth and closed it again. He had not dared to bring up this topic since the meeting that day. He did not expect that Liu Huaizhao would bring it up himself today.
He had not yet figured out what he thought of Liu Huaizhao, but now he clearly felt that he did not want Liu Huaizhao to leave.
After Liu Huaizhao finished speaking about this, everyone fell silent.
Qin Zunyue hesitated again and again, but decided to follow his heart. "If you don't mind, can you take me with you?"
As soon as these words were spoken, except for Liu Huaizhao, the others also looked at him suddenly.
Guiltyly avoiding their gazes, Qin Zunyue continued, "I know I can't help you much, but I just want to offer some help. After all, he killed so many people."
He wasn't trying to make excuses for himself, but the scene on Fir Mountain made him too angry. If possible, he wanted to avenge those who died in vain.
Although he had hesitated before whether to say it, Qin Zunyue still felt relieved after saying it.
This idea has been in his mind for a long time. Now that Liu Huaizhao can create a formation to protect the residents of the safe city, he no longer needs to worry about his most worried friends and the teachers in the shelter.
In this case, he wanted to follow his heart - whether it was following Liu Huaizhao or fighting to the death with the culprit who caused all this, it was what he wanted to do.
Liu Huaizhao paused and said, "Of course."
Qin Zunyue smiled at him and said, "As long as you agree, I can drive the car and carry the luggage."
He no longer had to be alone. Liu Huaizhao didn't show it on his face, but he was very happy in his heart.
At this time, Tong Le said weakly beside him: "Can you add me? I want to come too."
Tong Le said he wanted to go, and Yan Liao naturally agreed: "Then I'll go too."
"I'm going too!" Qiao Lang shouted, unwilling to be outdone. "Holy crap! Are we really saving the world?"
"Tsk." Wei Zhirong gave him a look of disdain and said, "Don't be so childish, okay? You're already that old."
"If you don't want to go, then don't go. Why are you scolding me?"
"Who said I won't go?" Wei Zhirong leaned back. "What will you do if you catch a cold or fever if I don't go?"
Zheng Shu smiled faintly, without commenting, and simply said, "We have always acted together."
Liu Huaizhao had already prepared himself to search for the other half of the ancient book alone and completely eliminate the heavy and turbid air. Who would have thought that it would become a collective action now? He felt warm in his heart and lowered his eyes to hold back the tears that were about to fall.
Qin Zunyue had been observing him secretly and knew that he didn't want others to pay attention to him at the moment, so he changed the topic that was about to be brought up about Liu Huaizhao and let Liu Huaizhao calm down himself.
In the evening, Qin Zunyue sat alone in the yard, drinking the tea he got from Wang Haitong, looking at the moon quietly, but his heart was not at peace.
He didn't know whether the choice he made was right or wrong. If he was the only one, it would be fine, but now others were following him, and he began to worry about what would happen if he couldn't protect them well.
"You're in such a refined mood." Zheng Shu's voice sounded from behind.
Qin Zunyue turned around and saw Zheng Shu walking towards him dragging a stool.
Qin Zunyue asked her, "Why haven't you slept yet?"
Zheng Shu didn't answer, but only said: "I guess you must be worried about what will happen after you leave the city in the future."
"What a brilliant plan." Qin Zunyue didn't hide it from her. He sighed and said, "I kind of regret saying this in front of you."
"Even if you don't tell us now, we will definitely find a way to follow you when you want to leave." Zheng Shu took out a cup from his pocket and put it on the table. Qin Zunyue poured her some tea.
Zheng Shu took a sip and continued, "We are all adults. We are responsible for our own choices. Why are you worrying about it?"
Qin Zunyue didn't say anything and could only drink tea quietly.
Zheng Shu added, "Besides, why didn't you tell us about such a big thing in advance? What do you think of us?"
Qin Zunyue understood that if this happened to someone else, he would definitely not want to be kept in the dark.
Seeing that his expression had softened and he was no longer stubborn, Zheng Shu finally felt relieved and joked, "From what you said today, it sounded like you were going to elope with Xiao Liu."
As a result, after she finished saying this, she saw Qin Zunyue pause.
She then felt a chill in her heart and said with a wry smile, "No way..."
"I don't know either." Qin Zunyue said, "How long have we known each other?"
"I understand. It's love at first sight. It's lust at first sight." Zheng Shu said as he looked at Qin Zunyue carefully.
Qin Zunyue was annoyed by her stare and asked, "What are you looking at?"
"I really didn't notice it before. No wonder you were never happy every time Uncle Wang asked you to go on a blind date."
"I myself didn't expect that I... Hey, stop talking, let me think about it myself."
"So are you going to pursue him? Or are you just going to keep it to yourself?"
"……have no idea."
It was rare to see Qin Zunyue so indecisive, and Zheng Shu didn't know what to say for a moment.
So Zheng Shu stood up and prepared to go back to his room, and patted him on the shoulder: "Come on, I'm rooting for you."
Qin Zunyue was just about to calm down when he heard Zheng Shu come back and ask him, "Xiao Liu, an ancient man, do you know what homosexuality is?"
Qin Zunyue was so disturbed by this problem that he couldn't sleep well all night.
The next day, Tong Le was startled by the dark circles under his eyes. "Brother, were you a thief last night?"
Qin Zunyue found a place to sit down, and habitually glanced at Liu Huaizhao first, and then saw Zheng Shu smiling at him opposite.
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Liu Huaizhao and Tong Le sat together. The two of them had been talking and reading together every day recently, and Yan Liao had gradually become familiar with Liu Huaizhao.
On the contrary, Qin Zunyue and Liu Huaizhao hardly spoke to each other except when he washed Liu Huaizhao's hair.
After the two of them chatted for a while, Tong Le suddenly looked up and said, "Brother, we have finished reading our books. Liu Huaizhao and I will go to the teacher to borrow some more today."
"Well, do you want me to go with you?"
"No, there are three of us. We can take it."
So in the afternoon, Liu Huaizhao, Tong Le and Yan Liao went to school with their previous books.
Qin Zunyue was busy in the kitchen. He had exchanged ingredients with Boss Yu and was making ice cream for the children at home.
Zheng Shu leaned against the kitchen door with his arms folded, watching his movements and said, "I was wondering why you suddenly started learning desserts."
"You're not done yet, are you?" Qin Zunyue sneered.
"Tsk tsk tsk, you don't show this face to Xiao Liu." Zheng Shu said a few sarcastic words and stopped talking. He started to help him.
When Liu Huaizhao and the other two came back, they accompanied Tong Le to the research institute and brought back good news - smoke guns could be mass-produced.
This means that it will soon be possible to hunt monsters on a large scale and put the creation of formations on the agenda.
In order to quickly recover his spiritual power, Liu Huaizhao prepared to practice in seclusion the next day.
The other people were very curious about the retreat and pulled Liu Huaizhao to ask him all kinds of questions. Qin Zunyue remained silent. They didn't know when Liu Huaizhao stopped telling him his decision in advance.
But that’s okay, Qin Zunyue thought, he could take advantage of his retreat to think carefully about his ideas.
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