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Jiang Nian's pupils shrank slightly, and the shock in her heart was forcibly suppressed. After a moment of silence, she smiled lightly.
"I thought you were going to ask something extremely serious, not this."
She glanced at the talisman array beside her.
"Why, because it doesn't light up, you blame it on me?"
You's gaze lingered on Jiang Nian's face.
In the dim room, everyone's faces and expressions were hidden behind the vague light.
The heavy color blocked out the subtle changes in Jiang Nian's expression.
The room was silent for a minute or two before the inquiring look on his face was slowly retracted.
He didn't see anything wrong.
…
Jiang Nian lowered his eyelashes naturally, his mind tense with alert nerves, and continued: "Since nothing happened, it's time to start the question-and-answer dialogue."
The pressure surrounding Jiang Nian lightened and dissipated like mist.
She smiled and replied, "Okay."
"The talisman paper in this talisman array has changed its function."
His thoughts changed slightly, and he became willing to say a few words. I wonder if it was after he confirmed that Jiang Nian "really" had not been here that he made this judgment.
"The function of the talisman paper is to make others fall into dreams."
"And the core of your dream is what you want most in the near future."
Jiang Nian's sight immediately fell on this layer of talisman formation. The light around the talisman formation was dim, as if all the strength had been used up by someone, and it could only maintain the weakest breath. The difference in brightness between the bright and dark was not that big.
"But this dream has a premise——"
Yu folded his arms, and the look of interest that wanted to see through Jiang Nian's skin to see what was in her heart, to clarify Jiang Nian's purpose and present it to the goddess appeared again.
Following You's words, Jiang Nian turned around and looked at him in the dim darkness: "What's the premise?"
“…”
You stopped the conversation here and just stood there with his arms folded, waiting for her to show her sincerity in exchange.
The room was silent for a moment, and the wind on the corridor could not reach the end of the darker and deeper corridor.
Therefore, this place is quieter than other places, shrouded in darkness, and it is easier to magnify the greed in one's heart.
As far as the eye could see, there was only a glimmer of light outside the half-open door.
Jiang Nian's nerves were tense, and he subconsciously looked over there.
The pale light poured down on the ground, without any rough dark marks to break up the light and shadow.
There—no one was standing quietly.
The person who had just eavesdropped seemed to have obtained completely satisfactory information and fled.
She took a deep breath and said, "Since you have a close relationship with the Goddess, I might as well change it first. After I finish talking about this, I will let you choose one of the rare items."
After receiving Xiao Yingzhu's reply letter, she had already connected the whole thread and had a grasp of it almost to the point.
In this regard, she is one step faster than You.
However, the other party always maintained the attitude of "No matter how you investigate, I can eventually exchange information with these talisman arrays", and did not stop Jiang Nian, who seemed to be in more urgent need of clues than him.
In fact, from this point we can see that You really follows the goddess.
Wherever the goddess goes, he goes too.
But has he ever thought that the goddess, in order to not let the final outcome of this dispute involve him, had completely abandoned him from the moment she brought him to Zuihualou?
You didn't have much objection to Jiang Nian's sudden change of clue exchange.
Jiang Nian hid the bright light in his eyes. Seeing that he didn't interrupt him, he continued, "Let's talk about the 'medicine lead' first."
"That 'medicine lead', like the goddess, was not originally a voluntary member of the Wu Mi people. He was from Xiaoxiang, just like the goddess."
"—So, you should be able to guess."
She didn't put it very clearly, but the hint was almost obvious.
It's just a matter of breaking through that fragile film window paper.
“…”
Worry fell into a long silence.
He seemed to have thought of something else and did not ask a single question about the clue Jiang Nian mentioned, nor did he question, test, or confirm the clue.
Footsteps sounded on the wooden floor. The room here was not as beautifully decorated as the one outside. Even the floor was old and made noises when stepped on.
An unavoidable sound.
In order to track down something, no matter how cautious you are, no matter how hard you try to avoid attracting other people's attention, you have to hide your thoughts.
There will also be inevitable noise.
This is a trace of passing by.
When you look back, you will know how far you have come, which will give you comfort and peace of mind.
But if you don't look back, it may also become a deadly knife.
You fell into that deep layer of self-doubt again.
He turned silently and walked towards the door.
Jiang Nian took a last glance at the talisman formation and then followed.
—
The guard standing at the corner of the corridor returned to his post.
He sat lazily in the chair, looking boredly at the square patch of blue sky above the corridor.
When he heard footsteps behind him, he turned his head and saw You's figure. He stood up with a start and made a 180-degree turn towards him without slacking off.
As he walked past the guard, You paused for a moment.
He broke free from his heavy thoughts, just like a ball of wool that had been completely tangled, which he put aside with disgust, and then went forward to carefully sort it out when no one was around.
"Have you seen anyone else here?"
This was the first time the extraditionist had spoken to him.
The guard's heart tightened, and he immediately remembered that he had just gone to the bathroom for a while. Whether anyone had come during that time was a problem for him.
Adhering to the doctrine of Zuihualou that one must not deceive the goddess or the extraditionist, the guard's lie was half-circled in his throat. He raised his head and glanced at Jiang Nian, who was smiling lightly but seemed to be hiding murderous intent. Suddenly, he felt cold all over.
Under the indifferent gaze of the extradition officer, the guard finally felt that he could not escape the blame for his irresponsible guard duty and confessed: "My Lord Extradition Officer! I, I left for a while during the journey."
As expected, Jiang Nian turned his gaze away and looked elsewhere helplessly.
This is an internal matter of Zuihualou and has nothing to do with her.
As for how You wants to punish him, it depends on what he thinks.
After a moment of silence, she could only see the lush green trees outside the courtyard, nothing else changing. The conversation in her ears seemed to be abruptly cut off, and no response reached her ears.
Jiang Nian maintained the angle, looked up at the corridor for a while, then raised his hand to rub his sore neck, turned his body, and faced You Zheng again.
In less than a minute or two, while You was still wiping his hands slowly, the guard in front of him disappeared.
The eye-catching crimson color was particularly noticeable on You Lengbai's skin. Jiang Nian's gaze paused, then moved to other places as if he knew nothing about it, bringing up another topic.
"Let's go to the second floor next?"
"Um."
Perhaps he was still feeling unsatisfied after punishing the guards. You's reaction was dull, as if he didn't want to talk to her any more.
...After all, he is still a child protected by the goddess.
Jiang Nian walked behind You, keeping a distance, and lowered his eyelids to hide the sharpness in his eyes.
Now Xizhen, or the goddess's position in this game has been clearly listed.
The goddess's bias was so obvious that she went to such great lengths to create such chaos just for one person.
In fact, it was not only to see Xi Zhen, but also to free himself from the oppression of the Wu Mi people for so many years.
Why can't the goddess leave Zuihualou?
The Wu Mi people usually use cruel methods, which are to cut off others' escape routes forever.
Jiang Nian was thinking carefully as she passed by the corridor. A light golden halo flowed across the grape purple hem of her maid's dress, reflecting the golden light on her dark long sleeves.
All I could see were the footsteps moving forward and the person walking in front of me, and only a piece of clothing entering my sight.
She blinked, raised her eyes from the clean wooden floor of the corridor, and looked at You's back.
Then he hid the sharp light in his eyes thoughtfully.
Now he should be thinking about how to help the goddess create this chaos.
But time is running out, and everything around him has been arranged almost seamlessly by the goddess. Where should he put the needle?
Or... was he thinking about the problem of the goddess being unable to leave Zuihua Tower?
Walking up the stairs, Jiang Nian felt a little aesthetically fatigued by the uniform platinum color of Zuihualou. She closed her eyes and suppressed the nameless irritation in her heart.
Just a little bit more.
I have to maximize the benefits of the rare item before taking her to the next talisman formation.
What words should I use to deal with worry?
Jiang Nian has always disliked this kind of behavior where people use the excuse of "knowing other people's every move for their own good" to try to get the truth out of them without any bottom line. Therefore, every time he saw You suspicious of the goddess, he felt a little disgusted.
What's the difference between this and that kind of voyeurism?
On one hand, he is being monitored by spies from all sides of the Wu Mi clan, and on the other hand, he has to hide it from You, a young man who tries to see through every possible means to understand what he is thinking.
It's really hard for the goddess to persist until now and still be able to make plans with a smile.
wrong.
Jiang Nian's thoughts suddenly paused.
Her premise has always been "How can the goddess escape from Zuihualou alive and gain boundless freedom?"
But in this environment of long-term mental oppression, would the goddess really feel like abandoning everything and flying away with Xizhen without hesitation?
Even if you escape far away.
Memories will follow her without a trace.
Maybe under the starry sky on a certain night, or in a hotel somewhere.
Whenever she dreams about the Wu Mi people, the goddess will wake up from a safe place and look around for any signs of the Wu Mi people's visit.
Even if it wasn't a dream, the mental trauma she suffered during her time among the Wu Mi people would endlessly haunt her even in the "freedom" of traveling far away.
The memory cannot be forgotten.
And the goddess' body...
Jiang Nian recalled that yesterday, when he was sending the goddess to visit a guest, his eyes accidentally fell on the lines on the goddess' arm.
Blood red, like vines, pierced through her skin, leaving traces, and spread one after another on her white arms and neck covered by her long skirt, blooming like flowers.
Lifelike.
Yet it's unspeakably creepy.
“…”
Jiang Nian raised his eyes again and looked at You who was walking in front.
He stood outside a door and reached out to open it.
His long eyelashes blocked the thoughts in his eyes, and Jiang Nian couldn't tell whether he had thought it through or not.
But even if you think it through, will you accept it so quickly?
The fact that the goddess planned the chaos from the beginning and didn't want to continue living.
The trajectory of her life was disrupted and broken up by one accident after another, becoming tattered and difficult to restore to its original state.
He was first captured by the Wu Mi people, and then tried to escape, but he could only rely on his own strength to resist the Wu Mi people's pursuit of Xi Zhen, leaving Xi Zhen to escape alone.
He wanted to ask He for help again, but because the old man was unwell, the letter for help was not found until recently after many years.
Would the goddess ever think of preparing an antidote for herself?
She must be the kind of woman who refuses to succumb to fate.
But... judging from the clues we got from the maid and secret guard yesterday.
The goddess did get the antidote that could free her from the Wu Mi people, but things happen unexpectedly, and the two antidotes along with the disguised goods were lost in the chaotic border.
…
Jiang Nian couldn't tell whether the goddess still wanted to live.
It is to move forward with all one's strength, just like Meng Zheng's walk towards extinction.
Or they still firmly hold on to the hope of finding a way to survive, and continue to resist the oppression from the Wu Mi people in this not-so-good era.
People are fickle.
The goddess can still hold on at this moment, but when the fatal blow comes in the next moment, or the next moment, can she still resolutely seek a way to survive and fight for her life?
But they live on with the prayers, blessings, or beliefs of their families.
But after the goddess escapes from the Wu Mi people, she will face the pursuit from Huandu, which is another dungeon without sunlight.
Jiang Nian stroked the perfume bottle and entered the room where You had already opened the door.
She suddenly made up her mind.
Let’s try it again.
See how much hope the goddess still has left to live.
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