Chapter 97
He Fanxin was familiar with the place and quickly took Ye Lan to a private room to sit down.
For some reason, Ye Lan always felt like someone was staring at him from behind, causing cold sweat to break out on his back.
I clearly didn't do anything wrong...
There is a floor-to-ceiling window in the center of the private room, which allows people sitting in the seats to see the male cultivators dancing with swords in the center of the stage below.
Ye Lan glanced at it casually, and he felt relieved.
It's pretty normal here!
He Fanxin ordered some food and then spoke frankly, "Actually, I have something to ask of you, Brother Ye. I wonder if you're interested."
Ye Lan couldn't control himself when he saw the delicious food. He picked up the chopsticks with his right hand and prepared to pick up the roast chicken on the table.
But after gesturing around, I found that the roast chicken was too big to fit in one pair of chopsticks.
Ye Lan threw away the chopsticks, picked up the roast chicken and started to eat it.
"Brother He... don't be offended! I haven't eaten such delicious food for a long time! I really couldn't resist it!" Ye Lan chewed it voraciously and took a while to explain to He Fanxin.
He Fanxin twitched his lips and said that it was okay, but his favorability towards Ye Lan obviously dropped a few points.
Ye Lan doesn't care. With delicious food in front of him, everything else means nothing.
He Fanxin is a good guy. He has eaten a lot of delicious food following him, unlike that traitor, who only ate a few fish he caught, and they were raw. Bah!
For some reason, Leng Qingqiu's face appeared in his mind again. Ye Lan shook his head in annoyance. It would have been fine if he hadn't shaken his head, but when he shook his head, he actually saw the people going upstairs through the floor-to-ceiling window.
Among them, there was a very dazzling person who appeared in the crowd.
Take a closer look!
If it’s not that traitor, then who is it!
Ye Lan: “…cough cough cough!”
The chicken leg that Ye Lan had just taken a big bite of was stuck in his throat. He coughed violently, and his ugly face became even uglier and more distorted due to lack of oxygen.
No, isn’t the male protagonist doing well in Xiaoyao Sect?
How come you are here!
However, there are so many private rooms here, there is no way this traitor would come here.
As Ye Lan thought about this, his bad mood finally improved a little.
"Brother Ye, are you okay?" He Fanxin gave him a concerned look and quickly poured a glass of water into Ye Lan's hands.
"Ahem... I... I'm fine!" Ye Lan quickly drank it all and responded to He Fanxin.
At this moment, there was a knock on the closed door.
Ye Lan's heart, which had finally calmed down, began to rise again. He Fanxin didn't notice anything wrong with Ye Lan. He said one word calmly: "Come in."
As soon as he finished speaking, the person outside the door pushed open the tightly closed door from the inside.
A young man walked in, huh... it’s not Leng Qingqiu!
Ye Lan breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously.
He watched the man bow to He Fanxin and said respectfully, "Sir, we're here."
Ye Lan: “???”
He didn't understand what the master and servant were talking about.
What's arrived?
Ye Lan was still surprised when the young man waved to the door.
After a while, the people who were seen through the floor-to-ceiling window just now walked in one by one.
"Puff!" Ye Lan, who had just drunk a sip of water to calm down, spat out the water in his mouth.
He hurriedly wiped the water from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, trying to conceal his existence.
It’s not because of anything else, it’s just because one of the people in this group is Leng Qingqiu.
Ye Lan just wants to die socially!
But he quickly consoled himself by thinking that he had changed his face again and the traitor would definitely not recognize him!
As Ye Lan thought about it, he relaxed and continued to eat and drink without any image.
He Fanxin glanced at the group of people who had just arrived, stood up and pointed to the empty seats nearby, saying, "It's great that you're here. Please take a seat."
After he finished speaking, he winked at the person at the door and sat down.
Those people responded and sat down. It was not known whether Leng Qingqiu did it on purpose or not, but he sat opposite Ye Lan.
However, his action made Ye Lan breathe a sigh of relief.
When He Fanxin saw that everyone was present, he told them the purpose of his trip.
"I've called upon all of you here to ask if you could go to the Forest Abyss and help me find a Hellfire Lotus. My sister has been suffering from an extremely rare ice poison since she was a child. I've been asking around for years, and finally heard from a fellow Taoist that there's a Hellfire Lotus at the bottom of the Forest Abyss that could just neutralize the poison my sister has contracted. If you could get me this magical herb, I'd definitely reward you handsomely!"
Ye Lan frowned as he heard this. If He Fanxin had mentioned this to him alone, he would have definitely agreed to it.
After all, the Forest Abyss is also a place I want to go, so it’s just a matter of convenience.
However, he refused to be in the same team with the traitors again.
Ye Lan spoke first with an apologetic look on his face without thinking.
"Brother He, if I hadn't suddenly had other things to do, I would have fought to the death. This meal is mine, just as an apology!" Ye Lan said as he stood up and pretended to walk out the door.
When He Fanxin saw this, he immediately stood up, grabbed him and tried to keep him.
"Brother Ye, didn't you say earlier that you wanted to go to the Forest Abyss? Isn't this just a chance encounter?"
Ye Lan: “……!!!”
Leng Qingqiu on the opposite side glanced at Ye Lan calmly.
Ye Lan instantly slapped away He Fanxin's hand that was grabbing his wrist. He took a step back, clenched his right fist, put it to his mouth and coughed lightly.
"Ahem, Brother He, that was a previous arrangement. Yesterday, I met a fellow villager who invited me to go to a secret place together. So this time, I really can't do anything."
He Fanxin didn't understand what "fellow villager" meant, but that didn't stop him from understanding the meaning of Ye Lan's words.
Seeing that Ye Lan was determined to leave, he had no choice but to stop trying to dissuade him.
Ye Lan almost fled in panic. The treasure-hunting rat, which had not yet figured out the situation and wanted to come out to take a look, was ruthlessly pushed back by Ye Lan as soon as its little head popped out.
"Go back, go back, don't come out!" Ye Lan said anxiously, fearing that the traitor would have sharp eyes and see the treasure-hunting rat as solid evidence.
At the same time, the dragon that was quietly serving as a decoration on Leng Qingqiu's wrist turned its body slightly, looked out the window, and asked its master in confusion.
"Master, I seemed to smell the scent of Little Brother just now. But it disappeared too quickly."
Leng Qingqiu looked at Ye Lan who had already walked out of the door, and the corners of his mouth curled up for a rare moment.
"It's not like, it should be."
As soon as he stepped in here, that familiar feeling came back.
It was as if the receiver in my brain turned on automatically, and someone's voice was frantically drilling into my mind.
That person even changed his face in a clever way. His taste...
Still so strange.
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