Chapter 118: Scene 32: A Thorn Called Minglin...
"Hmm?" He Yuezhe turned around suspiciously and looked at Shan Lao San. "What's wrong?"
"No, no, wait! Where are those people?! Weren't they just scolding me here?!" Shan Lao San's eyes gradually turned from fear to embarrassment, "Hey, no, I'm serious, don't disbelieve me, I really just -"
“Oh, because I killed them.”
"Don't say anything. Listen to me. What happened just now? No no no?! Wait, what did you say?!"
Shan Lao San looked around at He Yuezhe, then slowly lowered his head.
He Yuezhe followed his gaze and looked at the ground.
On the red and yellow diamond-patterned carpet, beneath the girl's high leather boots, thick and sticky blood plasma and pieces of flesh kept wriggling, changing again and again between the states of roots and liquid.
"Are you sure you killed them? Then, then these... what are they?" Shan Lao San stretched his neck and swallowed, pointing at the mass of flesh with trembling fingers.
He Yuezhe narrowed his eyes, and the last snowflake in his hand shattered.
——The formation [Corruption] is activated instantly!
"Bang!"
The door was pushed hard and hit the flowerpot next to it!
The wind and snow suddenly howled in from outside!
"What? Why is the wind suddenly so strong?! Won't these things be blown directly into the house?!!"
Under the effect of [Energy Visualization], the moment He Yuezhe sensed the explosion of the formation energy, he easily used the snowflakes to gain momentum, jumped over Shan Lao San, and jumped into the house!
"Wait, what are you doing?! Aren't you going to— BURR ...
"...Oh, it seems to be stronger than I expected?"
“Ohh ...
"Bang!"
“…”
“…”
"Oh, okay?" He Yuezhe stuck his head out, and sure enough, as expected, the door had been blown shut automatically by the departing wind and snow.
She loosened her grip, carefully put the snowflake fragments in her palm into her waist bag, and then put her gloves back on.
"Oh," He Yuezhe sighed and walked around Shan Lao San, who was standing there motionless, and began to search in the black and gray, bubbling flesh and blood. "What a hassle! I have to look for it myself..."
"Host, you've been wondering what you're looking for in these things since you snuck out of the Academy."
"Well... of course it's the [Deformations], [Deformation variants], and the [remains] of those [mages] that [they] [swallowed]."
He Yuezhe grabbed a piece of meat that had no energy fluctuations at all.
"So heavy? Something's wrong..."
She picked up another piece of meat filled with energy fluctuations and weighed it in the palms of her hands.
"really."
After confirming that there was indeed a problem with the weight, He Yuezhe swiftly summoned the dagger from the [Rules] and slashed the piece of meat without energy fluctuations several times at an extremely fast speed!
“Chi——!!!”
Perhaps it was because the energy of the formation suddenly exploded, resulting in uneven energy distribution. After the piece of meat was cut open, countless sticky blood columns that were still blood-red suddenly spurted out!
"Oh my god, I almost didn't recover. I didn't expect that after all the [injections] of [sleeping pills] over the years, the [blood] of these B-level [deformed species] would still cause me [adverse reactions]..."
"Huh," Shan Lao San wiped the sweat from his forehead with the handkerchief he had tucked at his waist and breathed a sigh of relief, "Luckily, I spray [Sleeping Fragrance] every day, otherwise this time would really be..."
"Hmm? No, that's not right. Minglin, that's what you call her, right? Minglin, where have you been?"
"Hey, Minglin?! Minglin, I've already, ahem, I've already dealt with these [Deformed Species]. Don't be afraid!"
"Minglin? Minglin! Hey, there's really no need to be afraid. I wasn't coerced. This is truly resolved!"
"Wow!"
"Oh my god, what the—ooh!"
"Ugh... this... uh huh huh huh huh huh huh... [Deformation]... uh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh, [Deformation]!!!!"
"Ouch! O ...
^
"that……"
"Shut up."
"Oh, little ancestor..."
“…”
"I really know I was wrong. I shouldn't have vomited directly on you..."
“…”
"Oh, but I didn't know it was you. You looked like that..."
“…”
"Host, host, emergency report!"
"explain."
"It seems that Mountain Honeysuckle had an argument with the capture target because of you. She has already left the [Academy] and is heading in your direction!!"
“…”
"Ming, Minglin...?"
He Yuezhe curled his lips in dissatisfaction, finally pulled the trigger of the trap, and said, "...Okay, come down."
"thump!"
"Ouch!" Shan Lao San was pulled by a hemp rope and fell heavily from the ceiling of the living room. He cried out in pain, "It hurts! It hurts so much! Can't you be gentler?..."
"Huh? Did you say something you shouldn't have said?" He Yuezhe shifted his gaze to Shan Lao San, stared at him and asked with a smile.
"Ouch! No, no, no!! It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt, you must have heard it wrong, hahahaha, hahahaha..."
"Did you hear that right? Okay, then sit down there and we'll talk."
He Yuezhe raised her hand slightly and gestured towards the single sofa opposite her.
"please."
"Okay, okay." Shan Lao San responded, turned his head, and limped onto the sofa.
"Well, that's great." He Yuezhe leaned on the back of the sofa and clapped his hands. Several leather belts suddenly came out from around Shan Lao San and tied him up.
"Well!"
The way Honeysuckle sets the [trap] is actually very similar to mine.
"First question, what is your real name?"
"Real name? It's Shan Lao San."
The dagger pierced through the man's ear bone and went straight into the sofa!
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!"
"I accept your ears."
He Yuezhe controlled the dagger and easily cut off his left ear, the left ear that he had cherished since the first time they met!
"Then, don't lie to me anymore."
"One last chance. Answer me, what is your real name?"
"Real name! ——Yes, my real name is Shantan!!"
"Mountain pool? Never heard of it."
"Oh, little ancestor, of course you haven't heard of it! I'm not a very famous figure, I just survived the war by luck! There's no need to be so suspicious of me, right?!" Shantan wailed a few times with a face full of pain.
"Second question, Minglin is your daughter, right?"
"……What?"
"answer the questions."
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! That’s right, that’s right!! Minglin is my daughter! Minglin is my daughter!!”
"Very good, third question, you are not [Shan Lao San], you are from [Outside the City], right?"
"Wha-what?! What are you talking about?! How could I possibly-"
"You have to know that I don't care whether you live or die. Even if you die, I will still find a way to know the answers to these questions." He Yuezhe put the dagger against the man's neck, "But when that time comes, you will have no choice..."
"I, I said!!!"
"I'm definitely not Shan Lao San!!! But in this world, there won't be any other Shan Lao San besides me!! So, so you can't kill me!!!"
"I, I am indeed from [Outside the City]!! But I haven't done anything bad!!!"
"Very good, very good. Fourth question. Minglin and Shan Rendong are all you, Shantan, or rather, Mingtan. They are all your children, the lives you conceived, right?"
“You—! Yes! So what?!”
"The fifth question is, where is the real Shan Lao San?"
"I can't possibly tell you!!!"
"...Is that so? Then, for the sixth question, you followed Minglin's orders and deceived Shan Honeysuckle here, right?"
"Host?!"
"What the hell are you—you!!! Forget it! Yes! That's right! As a [Deformed Species], I am born to obey the [Deformed Species Alien], even if it is my child!"
"I know all this."
"Then why are you asking?!"
"I want to know why Minglin asked you to lie to Shan Rendong all this time, making her think that she and Minglin had swapped bodies, and even before that, she was still a [human]?"
"Humph, they're fighting for the position of the next generation of the family's ruler." Shantan spat out a mouthful of blood. "Killing each other... Minglin has loved doing this since she was a child."
"Did she also do the Ming Jiao thing?"
"Ming Jiao? Yeah, that fool, he poured out his heart to that person. Unfortunately, that person is a cold-blooded animal even more indifferent than the [Deformed Species]!"
"It was clearly that Ming Jiao was given [that] [drug], intending for Ming Jiao to violate the [family] [rules]. Not only did he kill those [deformed species] who had the power to [choose the sacrifice], but he was also killed by the [rules] for violating the rules."
"If Ming Jiao hadn't stabbed Ming Lin with his first blow, her plan would have succeeded."
"But even so, Minglin still used the sleeping pills to brainwash Mingjiao."
"Host……"
"She told Ming Jiao that she rushed to the [sacrifice] platform because she wanted to save Ming Jiao, but Ming Jiao accidentally [killed] her...!"
"From then on, a thorn was buried in Ming Jiao's heart."
"A thorn from childhood, full of laughter, called Minglin."
"No wonder."
"...No wonder what's going on?"
"No wonder you were so 'excited' the first time you saw me."
"You! Of course, I don't want to see Minglin again!"
“…”
"Why, don't you ask anymore?"
"Well, I won't ask."
He Yuezhe twirled the dagger in her hand, stood up, and slowly walked towards the mountain pool: "It's time."
"Since I've been considered a part of the plan, I should also fulfill my responsibilities, right?"
"[Peeper], Yamaji?"
"What did you say??!!!--"
"That day, I saw you in the sunshine."
"You're talking nonsense—"
“Bang!!”
"Minglin is evil, but if you hadn't begged her to kill all the Deformed Species of your generation, how could she have attacked a Magician?"
"That's a [Mage], you could get important information from her, so why kill her?"
"you!!?"
"... Shan Er, human greed is insatiable. You only have desires but no abilities. You will only reap what you sow."
The dagger was burning with flames and pierced the man's stomach in the blink of an eye!
“Aa ...
"Aa ...
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…
"Squeak."
"Bang."
"Huh," He Yuezhe rubbed his hands and exhaled a breath of hot air, "They really calculated that I would guess their plan. It's a bit too bold."
"Host, so it seems that Minglin is a bad character?"
"Bad character? Not really. I should be a bit worse than her." He Yue folded her scarf and looked into the depths of the alley following the sunlight of the two suns in the sky. "Hmm, the timing is perfect."
I saw a figure stumbling towards me in the flickering sunlight.
He Yuezhe nodded slightly in that direction, then turned around, answered the call from Tang Xiqin, and headed towards the [College].
——"Hello, Minglin? I finally got through! Where have you been? Something happened at the [Academy], come back quickly!!"
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The author has something to say: Minglin may be bad, but she is really beautiful...
Minglin should be the perfect and innocent type with a pretty face. Anyone who sees her for the first time will find her pitiful and delicate, and may even be bewitched by her and do bad things for her.
She's not the particularly pretty type, but no one can dislike her.
Also, I'm not adding any extra words, that's what Shan Er called me at the time!!!
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