Return to the old home
“Is this the district and county barrier?”
Qianluo arrived at an open meadow. To her left were trees and flowers, and to her right were cliffs and surging waves. It was a completely different scene. Separated by a thin barrier, it emitted a brilliant blue light.
She could see the scenery of District 8 through the blue light shield, which was no different from District 9. She was now only one step away from District 8.
“Zizi—”
Before she even got close, she felt a huge resistance, making it difficult to move forward. It turned out that the barrier attack had been increased. If Yan Bufan hadn't closed the passage, she would have caused a big commotion here.
She has seen the ends of the earth.
She didn't expect that the smuggling point she had been looking for for months was right here, but all the passages were closed.
Chi Zhao was puzzled, and with eyes as clear as those of a cow or a deer, he said, "This is also a formation!"
Qian Luo nodded: "Yes, but this kind of formation is something I can't break with my current abilities. It seems I still have a lot to learn!"
Chi Zhao: "Then how do we two get out?" He knew that the stinky master must have his own way, but he was very curious about how to get out?
He saw the stinky master take out an ordinary little black tripod from the storage bag. The little black tripod was the one she had woken up from and was making a fuss in Yan Bufan's palace, talking about the little black tripod.
No, he was about to get dizzy. Didn't they say they couldn't find this thing? Then where did the thing in her hand come from?
Chi Zhao was puzzled. "This thing looks ordinary. Is it really useful? Are you going to use this plastic thing to fight against the formation?"
Qian Luo smiled mysteriously: "I don't know either, but someone told me that with this tripod, you can pass through the barrier. We can try it now."
"Is what this person said accurate? Is he lying to you? I think this formation has a very strong attack power. Otherwise, you, my stinky master, go first and I'll slip away." Chi Zhao was so scared that his whole body was shaking, and the small flame was almost extinguished. He gurgled out of her arms, squatted on the ground, and smiled flatteringly, "Beautiful lady, please go first."
Qianluo: “…”
"Ah, let me go quickly, don't go over there, I don't want to be beaten--"
No matter how Chi Zhao struggled, Qian Luo was determined to take him there. Just when Chi Zhao thought his life was hopeless, he saw Qian Luo holding the small black tripod and passing through the barrier as if it were as easy as passing through a water mirror.
Just came here like this?
Chi Zhao: "???"
Qianluo threw it to the ground in annoyance: "It's too heavy!"
Chi Zhao was still confused: "We two really came here, am I dreaming? Or did we not come here at all?"
Qian Luo shrugged, took the Breath-Resting Pill and the Disguise Pill, and her appearance changed into a baby-faced girl. Her cultivation level was probably at the 5th level of Qi training, and she looked innocent.
"In District 8, my name is... um, Jiang Xiaoqing!" Qianluo pulled his ear, "And you have to disguise yourself as an ordinary animal and not speak human language. You have to restrain the flames in your body and disguise yourself as a fat little cat, no! A fat big cat!"
Chi Zhao's eyes narrowed: "Why?!"
Qianluo rubbed his big cat face and said seriously: "Because there are many dangers here, if you don't want to die, just do as I say."
Although Chi Zhao still had doubts in his heart and was a little angry, he knew that what the stinky master said was right. In District 8, she would meet a new district chief and new bad guys, so he had to cooperate with the stinky master.
"I know. It's so annoying, so annoying!" Chi Zhao retracted the flames on his body and turned into a super fat cat.
Chi Zhao actually just looks like a cat, but after several months in the Dao Mountain, no one knows what kind of elixir those people fed him, but he kept getting fatter and fatter. At first glance, he looks no different from an ordinary cat.
Qianluo thought: Could it be that there are hormones in the pills? How did she get so fat?
So, the baby-faced girl went out with her super fat cat.
After a while, I followed the route map in the simulation information and it went smoothly all the way. However, when I passed a fork in the road, I turned a corner instead of following the memory in the simulation.
Everyone who saw her along the way was respectful, because she was no longer a cowardly and bullied mortal, but a real cultivator. A cultivator as young as her who was at the 5th level of Qi training would attract the attention of other cultivators.
Because such cases are rare, and female monks are even rarer.
Many cultivators were discussing, "Whose girl is this? How come she has already reached the fifth level of Qi training at such a young age?"
Their mortal parents responded, "I've lived on 8th Street for so many years, how come I didn't know about this girl?"
"This girl is pretty, but she can't compare to that little girl named Qianluo in Yard 8 on Street 8. She's incredibly pretty and she just turned 18 this year."
"I know about their family. Doesn't she have a brother who's also very handsome? He has white hair and blue eyes. We always thought he had a single spiritual root, but we didn't expect he only had four!"
"Ah, I know, but they haven't been around for a long time. Maybe they were kicked out by the rent collectors?"
"You don't know this, do you?" a cultivator said mysteriously to his family, "One day, a rent collector named Zhang Yong went to collect rent, but he never came back, and everyone in their yard No. 8 disappeared!"
"What do you mean, Da Zhuang? Are they dead?" His grandmother's jaw dropped. "Could it be that someone still dares to kill monks? No wonder that house has become a haunted house! No one in the entire compound dares to rent it!"
"The monks are very strict now. The district chief and his men have closed all the passages. Many people have slipped out early, leaving only us old people here!"
"Yes, Dazhuang, you are such a loser. You only reached the first level of Qi training not long ago! Otherwise, your grandparents would have enjoyed the happiness with you!" His parents were so disappointed in him that they grabbed their son's ears.
His grandfather smoked a cigarette and said, "You're now collecting rent with another rent collector, and I don't see your spirit beads increasing much! The rent is getting more expensive, but I don't see your salary increasing!"
Da Zhuang looked worried: "Oh my, my grandparents, my parents, please stop talking. There are no good jobs or good salaries these days!"
He was also complaining about the rising rent and the lack of salary increases. His family was expecting him to earn more spirit beads from this respectable job, but he hadn't expected that after becoming a cultivator, he wouldn't earn much. Every day, the rent collector would deduct a portion of his earnings. What kind of performance appraisal was that?
"By the way, Dazhuang, you're already a monk. Do you have any inside information? You're a rent collector now, but our rent is getting more and more expensive. Can't you talk to your boss and ask him to reduce our rent? We're also monks' families! Don't we have any benefits?"
Da Zhuang wiped his sweat: "Grandma, please don't embarrass me. What's the market like now? What happened before is all history. Now the policy changes every day, and the rent is getting more and more expensive. It's not me who made the decision, it's the district chief. How should I know why he raised the rent!"
"Bah! You cultivators just don't care about the life and death of us mortals. If I weren't your grandma, you would have executed me on the spot, right?" Grandma almost cried, made a fuss, and even tried to hang herself, and Dazhuang was so scared that he hugged her in time.
Da Zhuang: "Alright, alright, Grandma, don't be like this, but I do have some inside information recently. I heard that the district chief is wanted for someone, and if you catch him, you can get 1,000 low-grade spirit stones!"
Everyone's eyes widened: "Who is it?"
Da Zhuang touched his nose and said, "Before I could even look at the portrait, it was taken away by the leader. It seems to be a teenager?"
His mother was so angry that she hit him with a stick: "You didn't see anything after all this time, and you still want to catch someone and get a reward? Dream on!"
The quarrels among this family provided Qianluo with a lot of information.
First, the rent has increased. Second, all access roads are closed. Third, the wanted person is a teenager.
She knew about the rent increase several months ago. It was because of the rent increase that the first person in their family could not afford it and was dragged away by Zhang Yong and others. Then, when they were fighting for the spiritual herbs, they decided to kill her, so she killed them to protect herself.
It seems that the channel is not only closed in District 9, but also in District 8. Fortunately, Aunt Wang Wenxiu and her family of three escaped before. I wonder if they are doing well in District 7?
There is no good news when the channel is closed, and a storm is brewing.
As for the wanted person being a teenager? That was a new thing. She had thought the wanted person was herself. After all, in the simulation, she had killed Zhang Yong, so District Chief Wang Tongtian sent someone to assassinate her.
What's so special about this young man that he's wanted by the district chief?
Qianluo suppressed her doubts and prepared to go to her former residence to get some old things when no one was around.
——
The yard at No. 8, Street 8, District 8, was deserted as soon as the door was opened. Dust filled the air and it seemed no one lived there.
According to what the family just said, because Zhang Yong died, this place became a haunted house, no one lives there, and the previous neighbors are gone.
She looked at the bare clothesline in front of her and remembered that morning when she saw Aunt Wang Wenxiu hanging clothes while complaining to her about the rent increase. She also mentioned that a distant relative of hers accidentally entered the teleportation array and was transported to Area 9, and after returning, she was lying in bed.
I didn't expect that she was in the same situation as this distant relative.
But she only now realized that the distant relative was truly lucky, having stumbled upon the teleportation array again and been transported to Area 8. Many people never come back.
When she opened the door, she saw two small beds and a small table... This was the home of her, Grandma Qian, and Qian Ruixue, warm but small.
It's a pity that everything can't be turned back. She smiled helplessly, opened the wardrobe, took out all the clothes, and saw some books that Qian Ruixue often read in the corner. She waved her hand and took them all away.
She was filled with longing and opened the door of House 8-9, which was Aunt Wang Wenxiu's house. The narrow kitchen was where she had been that day in front of Aunt Wang Wenxiu. There was also a small table in front of her, where the three of them drank spirit wine and ate spirit noodles together.
There are also 100 spirit beads hidden under Aunt Wang Wenxiu's pillow. I don't know if they have discovered it.
She went forward to take the pillow and found that the spirit pearl was gone. She was delighted and said, "They took it away." Just as she was about to leave, she heard a noise under the bed.
"Who!" She used her spiritual sense to investigate and found that it was a strange young man.
She pulled at his arm, only to see the young man shrinking back, covered in a cold sweat: "Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"
"Who are you……"
Qianluo saw that the young man's face was covered in dust and she couldn't see his features clearly, but she just wondered why he was hiding here?
His spiritual sense was magnified, and from a thousand meters away, he saw a cultivator rushing towards him at high speed, with a fierce momentum, and it was obvious that he had no good intentions.
Qian Luo looked at the panicked young man in front of her, and remembered the wanted person that Da Zhuang's family mentioned. Could it be that he was... the wanted person of the district chief?
In the simulation, she did not take the fork in the road, so she did not hear what Dazhuang's family said, nor did she open Aunt Wang Wenxiu's house, so she did not meet the young man in front of her.
"Good sister! Take me away!" The young man looked at the fat big cat in front of him and knew that the person in front of him was not the district chief's subordinate. He seemed to be a monk with profound cultivation and might be able to save his life!
"This is spiritual wine! If you save me, I'll give it to you!" He stuffed half a tael of wine into her hands.
Qian Luo looked at the turquoise bottle of wine in front of her. Wasn't this Uncle Wang Wutong's spiritual wine? They had only drunk half a bottle at the time, and Uncle Wang Wutong put it aside, saying that he would wait until Qian Daxue and Wang Siyu had absorbed the Qi into their bodies before drinking it!
Qianluo raised an eyebrow: "I won't save thieves."
The young man was stunned, then became anxious: "This is my cousin's wine. I'm not a thief. They forgot to take it away after moving! I know my cousin must have left it on the cabinet!"
Seeing that Qianluo still didn't believe him, he became anxious: "My name is Wang Nanxing, and this family consists of three people: Wang Wutong, Wang Wenxiu, and Wang Siyu!"
Qian Luo's face darkened. It was indeed him, the Xiaoxing who had mistakenly entered the teleportation array and arrived in Area 9. Everything matched. She had never expected to meet Aunt Wang Wenxiu's relative!
As she heard the noise outside getting closer, her expression changed. She immediately grabbed his arm and flew up to the roof, rushing all the way to a cave in the back mountain.
"Wow! You're amazing! You got rid of them so quickly!" Wang Nanxing clapped his hands excitedly. "You're like the heroine in the comic book, who sees injustice and helps others with her sword!"
Chi Zhao curled his lips, and was yelled at again: "You are such an amazing cat, he is looking down on me!"
Qian Luo held her forehead and asked a key question: "...Ahem, why is District Chief Wang Tongtian wanted for you?"
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