Du Lanshan tossed out the card. Regardless of how the virtual projection in the void depicted Du Lushui's being tricked and murdered, he quietly moved closer to Cheng Shuang, pulled the little girl out of Liu Juan's arms, and hugged her tightly.
The man patted the girl's back with great care and solemnly promised, "Shuangshuang, your Uncle Lushui and I owe you several lives. From now on, even if you stab Lushui with a white knife and then a red knife, I will not blink an eye, and I will hand you the knife without stopping!"
Moved, Cheng Shuang patted Uncle Du on the shoulder and said, "These are truly brothers!"
The little girl was reminded of Uncle Sihai, who was searching for his sister in a Buddhist-like manner. Same world, same kind of brother!
Liu Juan and Liao Yuewei, who were standing to the side, were amused by Du Lanshan. One second, this grown man was crying so hard for his younger brother that his eyelids were swollen, and the next second, he was selling his brother off with incredible efficiency.
Sun Han shook his head helplessly. Men express their emotions differently than women. Du Lanshan seemed to be joking, but strictly speaking, he valued Du Lushu's life more than his own. Similarly, this promise was undoubtedly telling Cheng Shuang that both brothers could trust her wholeheartedly and risk their lives for her. If Du Lushu dared to betray or deceive Cheng Shuang in any way, Du Lanshan might take care of his brother first.
"Shuangshuang!" Du Jun suddenly spoke up. He stared intently at the empty screen, and when Cheng Shuang turned her head to look at him, he pointed at her. "Do you still remember him?"
Cheng Shuang looked up and saw a white-haired young man on the pixelated virtual screen. He looked both unfamiliar and familiar. The young man wore a black diamond earring on his right ear and was showing Du Lushui a handwritten card with a line of letter coordinates on it.
"Aona!" she exclaimed in surprise.
The white-haired youth left such a deep impression that she couldn't forget him, after all, he was the first bad person she encountered when she entered the gate of reincarnation.
"Who is he?" Du Lanshan asked in a deep voice.
“A madman who wants to drag everyone down with him to his dead comrades,” Du Jun replied coldly.
Du Lanshan stared intently at the white-haired youth on the screen, as if trying to imprint him deeply into his heart.
When the scene shifts to the two white-haired young men with their arms around Du Lushu's shoulders like good brothers, the good brother reappears. Du Lanshan can't help but roll his eyes and complain, "They look smarter than anyone else, but they're actually dumber than anyone else. They've been dumber since they were little!"
A few people... Oh ho, has the arrogant older brother come online? If Du Lushu were completely finished, he definitely wouldn't be behaving like this now!
"Can't we hear anything?" Liu Juan asked, trying to decipher what Du Lushu and the white-haired youth were saying from the silent pantomime. Before the answer could be given, she followed the white-haired youth's lip movements and said, "I'm pretty good, brother. You've seen it too. My attack power is decent, but I don't have any means of protection. I used to protect the stationmaster at my old rest stop, but unexpectedly, after just one ticket, the stationmaster didn't come back."
"I've taken your coordinates, brother. Thanks for helping me out before. I think your combat awareness is really good. I'll communicate with everyone when we get back, and if there are no unexpected events..." This was Du Lanshan translating.
"Liar!" Cheng Shuang curled her lip. "The stationmaster of Qingnai Rest Station was killed by a homeless person, right in front of Qingnai. And he was quite a bad guy."
The little girl is not good at talking badly about people behind their backs; describing someone as bad is already a very bad compliment.
“After we entered the Gate of Reincarnation, we were completely separated.” Du Lanshan sighed. “The Fog City Maze is huge, not the maze game we are used to. I suspect that the maze area involved in that Death Domain is the size of a city. The chances of us meeting again are too low.”
"The dangers inside are mostly from those around us. We eat and drink very little. Have you seen the Harry Potter series of movies? There's one, but I don't remember the specifics. It's a maze competition with all sorts of obstacles and monsters. We encountered those as well."
"The clothes that Green Water left behind were brought by another temporary companion of his. At that time, everyone was standing in front of the Gate of Reincarnation. He didn't say anything. I was afraid that this person was the murderer. I only glanced at the contents of the card. I was distracted and was attacked from behind. Luckily, I reacted quickly and rushed into the Gate of Reincarnation."
Du Lanshan turned around, revealing a large area on the edge of his lower back that looked like it had been burned. The skin and flesh there were dented to the size of a fist, revealing the blackened muscle texture. If he had reacted even a little slower, it might have hit his lumbar spine.
"Qingnai's skill is a cannon. Could it be an upgrade?" Cheng Shuang asked, puzzled. "Or does he have another accomplice?"
"Wait, isn't Du Lushu saying she's the convenience store manager?" Liao Yuewei, who had been staring at the screen, looked at Du Lanshan in surprise. "Why would she say that?"
Du Lanshan scratched his head. "It can't be vanity, can it?" To be honest, he wasn't sure either. Sometimes he couldn't figure out what his brother was thinking at all.
“I saw it.” Sun Han pinched the center of his eyebrows. It took a lot of effort to catch the conversation between the two. “Qing Nai may have some kind of card that makes people tell the truth. Every question he asked had a guiding effect. According to Lu Shui’s personality, he shouldn’t be careless, but the premise is that he once helped Lu Shui. When Lu Shui answered him, her mouth was originally doubled, but she changed it to “me” halfway through.”
Sun Han looked at everyone and said, "I observed that Lu Shui looked confused for a moment, so the possibility of her taking the initiative is extremely low."
"That man sneered behind Du Lushu's back, and his face even turned gloomy," Liao Yuewei continued.
The two characters on the screen went through level after level together. The cards were drawn from the screen, and many of the fight scenes were sped up.
"Given Qingnai's petty and vindictive nature, I suspect he thinks Uncle Du deliberately tricked him about the coordinates. Qingnai might believe the stationmaster has the absolute right to choose his companions." Cheng Shuang scratched her cheek. Since returning to the convenience store, she felt her awkward mentality had calmed down considerably; at least her speech wasn't so sharp anymore, and her body felt much more relaxed than when she was in the food street. It seems her weak and sickly negative attributes only manifest within the Gate of Reincarnation.
“It’s not a possibility, it’s a certainty.” Du Junqing smiled coldly. “His former station manager must have operated in this way, which is why he was so arrogant in front of Qing Nai, and Qing Nai could only choose to endure it.”
On the screen, Du Lushui's cause of death was clearly shown to everyone.
They encountered a trap in the maze, a precipice-like structure. Du Lushui grabbed Qingnai, who was about to fall, but he didn't notice that countless vines were wrapped around Qingnai's feet. Just as Du Lushui was about to collapse from exhaustion, Qingnai used a card, instantly reversing their positions, and then Qingnai fired a shot directly at the furious Du Lushui...
Du Lanshan slapped his thigh in anger, "That bastard! That son of a bitch! I'll never let him get away with this again! Doesn't he know that stupid kid's only redeeming quality is his face?! Using dirty tricks, I'll make sure he gets what's coming to him next time!"
Everyone... he really is my brother!!
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