Chapter 149 Night Candle Rules 27 A Lamb Enters the Tiger's Mouth?
Watching Ying Yao try to gouge out his own eyeballs, Nanmen Jue's eye twitched almost imperceptibly. Seeing that he didn't actually gouge his eyes out, he breathed a sigh of relief. "You mean chewing gum? I was really afraid you'd pull something out of your mouth."
Ying Yao glanced at her, but didn't respond. He silently took out a bottle of water and rinsed the contact lenses clean.
“Once you put it on, the world will look completely different to you,” he said. “I’ll watch you put it on.”
Nanmen Jue took it, but didn't put it on immediately. "Deng Erhuai contacted me last night. She found Mo Gui and Wei Chongru, but didn't see Xiao Nuo."
"Is only the crow capable of finding the anchor point?"
Nanmen Jue nodded slightly; neither of them looked very happy.
“Even if you can’t find the anchor point, don’t blame yourself. It wasn’t your responsibility in the first place.” Finally, Ying Yao said, “Focus on yourself and come back alive.”
“I should be the one saying that,” Nanmen Jue said with a slight smile. “Don’t let me see you in Zhang Jin’s cage, Instructor.”
Ying Yao was slightly taken aback. He had shown no mercy when training Nanmen Jue, pushing her to her limits every day. The more he pushed her, the more determined she became, though she would jokingly call him a heartless instructor.
Aside from the training period, Nanmenjue never called him that again.
Nanmen Jue gave him a deep look, then left first. She waved her arm behind Ying Yao as a farewell.
The agreed meeting place with Deng Erhuai and the others was nearby. Nanmen Jue lit a candle and held it in his hand, stuffed a piece of bread into his mouth in a few bites, and freed one hand to put the cleaned taffy from Ying Yao into his glasses.
A violent wave of dizziness washed over Nanmen Jue, and he felt as if he had been hit in the face with a club. His eyes were in excruciating pain, as if hooks had pierced his eyeballs and absorbed something into them. Nanmen Jue staggered and crashed headfirst into the wall next to him.
She now understood why Ying Yao had made her wear it in front of her.
The excruciating pain and dizziness that even Jin Ming couldn't withstand would probably have made someone with lower tolerance vomit on the spot.
Nanmen Jue leaned against the wall for a while, then slowly opened his eyes.
She put the implant in her right eye, and when she opened it, the world inside was completely different. The colors were crystal clear, and everything was crystal clear. With a thought, Nanmen Jue could automatically zoom in and out of her field of vision, leaving no detail unnoticed.
There are also some particles of different colors in the field of vision. According to the prop's description, these are the particles of the person being tracked after the tracking information has been entered. When the scan is not completed, it cannot directly show where the person is looking for, but as long as the person has existed, particles will be left behind, and you can follow the tracking.
Different colored particles represent different identities, and the identity of each person is set by the user. What she is seeing now is the information set by Ying Yao.
Green represents teammates, red represents enemies, and there are also yellow, blue, purple, and other colors. He didn't erase any of this information because the item was essentially lent to Nanmen Jue, and its owner was still Ying Yao.
The usage rights for gold items are more complicated than those for others.
Ying Yao simply lent the props to Nanmen Jue for his own use; the side effects were still on him, so he gave them away very readily.
But Nanmen Jue was not willing to accept this outcome.
As she familiarized herself with how to use this precious prop, she flipped through its instruction manual. Suddenly, she noticed something: the light spots of everyone else were all the same color. She could see the four green light spots representing Deng Erhuai and the other three approaching in the direction they had agreed upon, scattering a trail of tiny green light spots. Even her sister Nanmen Yu's light spot was only a slightly darker green. Among all the recorded information, only her light spot was golden.
She was standing on the spot of light that represented herself, so she didn't notice it at first. It was only out of curiosity that she brought up Nanmen Jue's name separately, and it stood out conspicuously.
After staring at the golden dot for a long time, Nanmen Jue suddenly remembered something, opened the system panel, and brought up the Newcomer's Guide.
The beginner's guide has a dedicated page for item descriptions, ranging from green to gold, and it's quite long. However, because each item comes with its own description, these general descriptions are rarely read.
However, Nanmen Jue happened to be a very stubborn person, and she read all of these introductions in their entirety.
She remembered that when they talked about the golden props, they mentioned something... She'd got it.
[If ownership of a golden item has not been transferred, the user can transfer the side effects borne by the owner to themselves, but the reverse is not possible.]
It really works!
Nanmen Jue glanced back. Ying Yao had lost the prop and definitely couldn't catch up. She smiled and decisively transferred the side effects to herself, just as instructed.
"Hmm!"
In an instant, an indescribable feeling of exhaustion washed over him, as if he had just taken sleeping pills. Nanmen Jue shook his head vigorously, then opened the system panel and saw that all his data had dropped a little, with red warning signs appearing behind them, and his health points were slowly decreasing.
So Ying Yao has always been in this state throughout the cycle of reincarnation?
Nanmen Jue suspected that if Ying Yao wasn't Jin Ming and had a high enough health bar, he probably would have died from automatic health depletion after wearing this item for a short time.
She tried moving around and found that the more vigorous the movement, the faster her health points were depleted.
No wonder...
...
"South Gate!"
Leaving aside how shocked Ying Yao was when he suddenly discovered that the debuff had disappeared, when Deng Erhuai and the other three found Nanmen Jue, she was walking unsteadily and even leaning against the wall as if she were very weak. This scared the four of them quite a bit, thinking that something had happened to her, and they rushed towards her.
"Nanmen, what's wrong with you?!"
"Brother Nanmen!"
"Brother Jue!"
The four surrounded Nanmen Jue. Lu Yunxiao asked worriedly, "What's going on? Have we been attacked again?"
Nanmen Jue leaned against the wall, squinted at them, and smiled. "It's nothing, just a little anemic."
The side effects may not seem to have a high numerical impact, but they persist and are surprisingly difficult to get used to.
Nanmen Jue shook his head again, shaking off the urge to yawn. Seeing the four people's worried but hesitant eyes, he straightened up.
Have you seen my crow?
The four looked at each other and shook their heads.
Nanmen Jue wasn't surprised, but he was truly puzzled. Where had Xiao Nuo gone? Had His physical body really died?
She had gotten used to the side effects and her voice had regained its strength. "I need to go back to that eerie realm."
“Brother Jue, that place is now a ruin,” Mo Gui said. “Sister Deng said your crow is missing. We went to look for it, but unless it was buried under that mountain… it has collapsed.”
"I have to go back and see for myself." Nanmen Jue glanced at Deng Erhuai, opened his mouth as if to speak but then stopped, looked at the others, thought for a moment, and then turned back to Deng Erhuai to ask, "Where is President Terra now?"
“A provisional coalition government,” Deng Erhuai said. “That’s why she found out so quickly what Zhang Jin and Zhou Yiming were doing.”
That's why Deng Erhuai rushed over so quickly.
Nanmen Jue gave her a deep look. "Tell her that Ying Yao is going there, and he and Zhang Jinzhou may have a battle. Tell her to prepare in advance."
The expressions on their faces changed.
"Ying Yao is going to fight those two people?" Deng Erhuai said in shock.
“Zhang Jin and Zhou Yiming are both famous, how dare Ying Yao go up against both of them alone?” Wei Chongru was also dumbfounded. “Could it be, could it be that he is…”
“He is indeed the president of the Crimson Church,” Nanmen Jue calmly dropped a bombshell, then added, “but he probably won’t be for long.”
"Why?" Mo Gui asked instinctively.
“He wouldn’t want to cause trouble for the Crimson Church, so he should resign after he goes back,” Nanmen Jue said with certainty.
Ying Yao hadn't mentioned this, but she understood him. As long as he was no longer the president of the Crimson Church, other guilds would have no reason to make things difficult for others. Even if the guild lost its gold name and was kicked out of the top four guilds, at least their lives would be safe.
The news came somewhat suddenly. No one expected that the person who had been with them all along in the previous world and who had protected them when the world collapsed was actually the most mysterious Chairman Jin Ming.
"No wonder he's so strong," Lu Yunxiao murmured.
Yes, even with those lousy glasses on, Ying Yao was still very strong, which is why he shocked her at first sight.
Nanmen Jue thought to himself, and then smiled with amusement. “Mo Gui and Wei Chongru, come with me. In their eyes, you two are already tied to me. You can’t appear in front of them anymore. As for you two, go back to Terra as soon as possible.”
Upon hearing that they could follow Nanmen Jue, both of them showed expressions of surprise and delight, and ran over to stand beside Nanmen Jue. Lu Yunxiao didn't say anything, but turned his head to glance at Deng Erhuai.
Deng Erhuai pursed his lips and stared intently at Nanmen Jue.
Nanmen Jue calmly met her gaze.
After a long pause, her expression darkened. "I understand."
Although she disregarded Terra's objections and traveled a long way to this place, not to wait for Nanmenjue's words, she knew what she should do at this moment.
The situation is chaotic. The five major gold medalists have split into two distinct factions. Terra is currently on Zhang Jin's side. Unless she withdraws from the association on the spot, she cannot continue to stay by Nanmen Jue's side. This is not good for her, for Terra, or for Nanmen Jue.
But... there's always a bit of resentment.
"Nanmen Jue!"
Looking at Nanmen Jue's retreating figure, Deng Erhuai suddenly shouted.
Nanmen Jue stopped walking, but did not turn around.
"When you hit me back then," Deng Erhuai's lips trembled, "was it really because you wanted to kill me?"
“No,” Nanmen Jue said.
After saying that, she continued walking forward. Deng Erhuai didn't say anything more. She and Lu Yunxiao stood there, watching the three figures disappear in a hurry.
Nanmen Jue led the two back to Feng Jiabao's ghostly domain. They searched the area where the mountain had been before several times, but apart from the scattered broken limbs and ruins, there was indeed no trace of crows.
She adjusted the settings of the gadget several times, and had to admit that Ying Yao was right; the gadget couldn't read the crow's biological information.
Seeing the somewhat cautious look in their eyes, Nanmen Jue sighed.
"Let's go. It's getting dark, let's find a place to spend the night."
Mo Gui jumped down from a large rock and followed Nanmen Jue with a bouncy gait, "Brother Jue, where do we go next?"
“Anxia City,” Nanmenjue said.
Based on the signals that have been scanned, there are residual light spots representing the older sister.
"Oh," Mo Gui said with great interest, "What are we going to Anxia City for?"
His expression suddenly changed. "You're going to... to massacre the city?"
Nanmen Jue glanced at him, and he swallowed hard, his expression turning dejected, and he fell silent.
“No,” Nanmen Jue said, “I’m going to find someone.”
Mo Gui's puppy-like eyes lit up again in an instant.
Wei Chongru followed behind, looking at this and that, sighed inwardly, grabbed Mo Gui who was about to speak, and gestured to Nanmen Jue's expression.
Her face was expressionless, but her complexion seemed strangely pale, which made her eyes appear even darker.
He looked like he was in a bad mood and was someone you didn't want to mess with, yet this silly kid still insisted on walking right into his line of fire.
However, Mo Gui, instead of calming down, moved even faster to Nanmen Jue's side, looking worried, "Brother Jue, are you still not feeling well?"
Nanmen Jue was indeed in a bad mood, so he simply ignored Mo Gui, silently kicked open the door of an abandoned convenience store, did a quick check, and decided to use it as cover for the night.
According to the timeline of this world, the apocalypse has just begun for about a year, and many of the existing foods are still edible. Although this convenience store has also been ransacked, they have actually managed to find some things there.
The fish cans that had fallen to the bottom of the shelf, the potato chips that had been torn and were already damp, the slightly moldy bagged steamed buns, and Mo Gui even found a bubble blower with the liquid inside still wet. He pressed it, and a jingling sound rang out, accompanied by colorful and dreamy bubbles that filled the convenience store.
The other two looked at him awkwardly as he frantically tried to stuff the bubble machine into his clothes.
He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt like Nanmen Jue had smiled.
Nanmen Jue reached out and popped a bubble that floated in front of her, then chose a seat near the door and sat down, her eyes filled with gloom as she looked outside.
Her physical discomfort affected her mood, and her aura was now much sharper and more intense.
The candy shop was always open, and the night was as clear as day in her eyes.
Suddenly, her eyes narrowed as she saw several red particles appear from the street corner. She subtly zoomed in, and an unexpected figure came into view.
Yu Wanyan? What is she doing following them? Doesn't she know that without the rules, her appearance before Nanmen Jue is like a lamb entering a tiger's den?
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