Watching the woman walk out of his sight, Qin Xiao lowered his head heavily. Soon, drops of scarlet blood fell on the dirty water surface, more and more.
*
After dinner, Shen Huaixu took a walk around the house where he lived as usual, leisurely and aimlessly.
She thought, such days are so boring, and Qiao Man is so slow.
By the way, she once wore an invisibility cloak in the house. Not long after she put it on, the door of the house was opened. The two guards asked her to take off the cloak and not to embarrass them.
That's when she noticed something strange about the left eyes of both of them, a blue glow. It was the first time she'd noticed this.
Chen Huaixu originally wanted to put the invisibility cloak into the space, but was stopped by the two people. She was obviously an ordinary person, but being stared at by two pairs of eyes like that, she always felt weird and dangerous. In the end, Chen Huaixu burned the invisibility cloak in front of them.
Without the cloak, the blue light in their eyes disappeared inexplicably.
At that time, Shen Huaixu understood that the connection between these people guarding him and Qiao Man might be closer than she imagined.
"Miss, it must be boring to be detained here all day long, right?" The maid beside her interrupted Shen Huaixu's thoughts.
Chen Huaixu glanced at her sideways: "It's boring indeed, but compared to the beginning, being able to walk around in the yard is not bad."
"Young lady's ideas are always unexpected." The maid pursed her lips and smiled, "The whole Xiangyi City is in turmoil, but following young lady makes my heart calm."
There are no stars or moon tonight, and there are guards all around the house. Shen Huaixu doesn't have to think about it, as there are probably people outside the high courtyard wall.
"After all, I am from the Great Jin." Shen Huaixu said, "When two countries are in conflict, I can hate the war, lament its cruelty, and sigh at the innocent people involved, but I can't show too much sympathy."
"That's right, young lady." The two of them walked to the door of the room, and the maid stopped. She always kept her eyebrows down and looked obedient, not making much of a presence, but now she raised her eyes and looked at Shen Huaixu for a moment before saying, "It might rain tonight, young lady, please be careful at night, it would be bad if you catch a cold."
She seemed to remember something and took out a sachet from her waist. "This, girl, wear it. It contains some medicinal herbs that can strengthen your body."
Shen Huaixu took a steady look at it, raised his hand to accept it, and watched her retreat back to the dark place under the eaves, curling the corners of his lips, "Okay, thank you."
After the door was closed and locked, Shen Huaixu sat down at the desk as usual. A piece of paper appeared in his hand. The paper was divided into two parts. It was densely covered with small characters. Words like "inside the house", "east", and "west" were faintly written on it. Many of the written words were crossed out.
There are many names written below.
After taking a quick look, she folded the paper again and put it away.
There was a pot of new tea on the table. Picking up an upside-down teacup, Shen Huaixu poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip, played with the teacup for a while, and quietly recalled the maid's abnormal behavior just now.
It was indeed unusual for Shen Huaixu—inquiring about someone's well-being and sending gifts—that had never happened before. It made one suspicious.
She took out the sachet given by the maid, exerted force on her hand, and opened it. There were some spices inside. She used the other end of the brush to scrape it, and sure enough, she found a strange-looking black metal with a small round hole on one side, which faintly revealed a strange luster.
Such a strange thing can only belong to Qiao Man. What is her plan?
Shen Huaixu frowned and didn't dare to take action.
Just when she made up her mind to destroy it and throw it away, a red light flashed in Shen Huaixu's eyes. Shen Huaixu reacted quickly and raised one hand to block it. With the other hand, he picked up something and covered the black metal with it. However, he found that the red light penetrated the paper covering it, flashed three times, and then there was no movement. She neither fainted nor felt unwell.
This made Shen Huaixu feel very bad.
What kind of disposable device was it? Where did it work? Was it radiation? Was it a laser? Would it cause fatal damage to her? Shen Huaixu didn't know.
After arriving at this place, for the first time, Shen Huaixu's expression was a little ugly.
Just as she was about to put the thing into the space and ask Fu Yin about it later, she heard it making a strange dripping sound again. Shen Huaixu, who had a bad feeling, quickly stood up and stepped back. The dripping sound became more and more rapid, and finally a wisp of white smoke emerged from the circular groove of the black metal, and then there was no movement.
Self-destruction?
This was the first thought that came to mind when Shen Huaixu came up with the idea.
She immediately checked herself up and down and felt her pulse, but nothing was wrong. After a moment, she remembered something and immediately closed her eyes to check. The scene before her left her speechless and relieved.
There was only one planting space left in her space. For some reason, the things in the other two spaces were automatically moved into the planting space. At this time, Fubao was circling around this huge mess of things, as if checking whether there was anything that could be planted inside.
It seems that the red light can close the space. Shen Huaixu concluded, why not close it all for her?
If they were all closed, not only would she and Fu Yin lose their convenient passage, but everything inside would pour out all at once and crush her to death, so Qiao Man wouldn't have to exert any effort.
The only explanation is that Qiao Man didn't know that this thing couldn't cover such a large planting space. She inexplicably did not lose everything and escaped the disaster.
After figuring this out, Shen Huaixu let out a breath. As she walked towards the bed, she slowed down the flow of time in the planting space, lay down on the bed with her clothes on, and closed her eyes.
I don’t know how long it took, but Shen Huaixu opened his eyes again, his eyes were clear as if he had never fallen asleep.
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