Chapter 35 Chapter 35 His Straight Wife from Kongtong
Thanks to Tolijaya, silence was their common bedtime theme tonight.
She hurriedly covered her mouth and disappeared from everyone's sight. Feng Lili, with a noble and cold face, shruggedly chose a room nearby and dragged his luggage in.
For a moment, Qin Sheng and Xu Zhaoyi were the only ones left in the corridor. The former wanted to act as if nothing had happened and ease the atmosphere, but the latter was so ashamed that he couldn't even raise his head, leaving him no room to maneuver.
"You've worked hard today. Go to bed early!" In the end, Qin Sheng simply and roughly picked up the noodles from the ground and stuffed them into his arms, and let him go to bed.
There is no mental pollution that cannot be cleansed by sleeping with a furry friend. If that doesn't work, just sleep a little longer.
"Yeah." Xu Zhaoyi responded vaguely.
Noodles doesn't need to sleep, so while nestling in Xu Zhaoyi's arms to provide sleeping service, he also has to keep an eye on Feng Lili's movements, and chat remotely with the host in the next room before bed. He is doing three jobs at once, and can't help but complain to the host why his life is so hard?
After Qin Sheng finished washing up, he checked in on the progress of the search for the Dream Fish he had just assigned, casually offering comfort: "When you feel your life is miserable, think of that colleague you ate and vomited out, who is now in a coma and undergoing recovery. Humans generally find happiness in contrasting contrasts. I sincerely suggest you try this."
[………]After hearing this, Noodles’ face fell into a skunk-like state. His colleague’s misery was all caused by him. If he really built his sense of happiness on other people’s misfortunes, would he still be a human being?
Well, it doesn't seem to be human.
Anyway, it was very comforting. Don’t comfort me again next time!
It felt extremely guilty whenever it mentioned this matter, and it nudged itself silently into Xu Zhaoyi's arms. Well, although it still had room to argue about the part about accidental ingestion, it had to take good care of the little father for its unfortunate colleague, otherwise it would have no explanation.
[Let's get down to business.] Qin Sheng didn't bother to play along with the emo guy. This guy never gets tired, he just talks a lot. He changed the subject and asked, "Can you find information about that Karuna wizard? I want to know what his relationship with Feng Lili is."
Feng Lili's cultivation is definitely not good. In the organization, she can only rely on her brain, and she has Karuna's trust and support behind her. Her position requires both of these two.
Maybe he was a little dark-minded, he always felt that this trust was illusory, especially when Feng Lili misjudged the importance of this sickly boy to the Qin family, and hit a wall that almost caused the entire organization to be wiped out in the country, this protection and trust did not diminish.
It's not that Karuna can't be a person who trusts people when he employs them and won't employ people he doesn't trust. It's just that Qin Sheng thought that there might be a second reason. He is not writing an epitaph for Karuna and can't just flatter him in a good way. He needs to consider it more comprehensively.
Although comprehensive information may not always be useful, it is better to be prepared than to know nothing.
But he was to be disappointed in this matter.
[Nothing.] Noodles was also surprised. It was rare for someone to find no trace of their past: [In this case, there's only one truth: Karuna isn't his original name. He abandoned his past and adopted a completely new identity. He's lived like a primitive person ever since, avoiding socializing and rarely using electronic devices. Therefore, his connection to the past has been completely severed, and I have no way of investigating.]
This is entirely possible. According to the information they know, Karuna is the kind of caveman who is obsessed with cultivation and rarely appears in public all year round.
The reason why he became famous was that when he was staying at home, some local practitioners who were dissatisfied with Feng Lili's behavior of stealing his business when he first started his business came to him to challenge him. The result was naturally that these people, regardless of their strength, never returned in the end.
"Okay, this guy is quite mysterious." Qin Sheng's search yielded no results and he could only put his doubts aside for the time being.
Wait until Feng Lili is brought back after being swapped, and see if you can dig something out of her mouth, so that Feng Lili can be better prepared when he impersonates her.
Thinking this way, everything for today came to an end. The other end of the email also replied that Dream Fish had found a seller. Qin Sheng only told them to complete the transaction as soon as possible and closed the computer to prepare for bed. Unexpectedly, he was fine, but Noodles was in trouble.
It said in a dull voice: "What's going on, host? Your wife tosses and turns eight hundred times a minute in bed. She seems to be suffering from insomnia."
[………] Qin Sheng paused as he lay down, speechless for a moment. Should he ask him this question? What could he do? Could he go and tell him a bedtime story instead?
If he really did that, wouldn't his straight wife, who is so stubborn that she can't stand any ambiguous teasing, run away on the train overnight?
[Let him be. He has to figure this out on his own. My presence before this only makes things worse.]
Qin Sheng didn't care. Even if he had already made up his mind to take good care of the male protagonist, he wouldn't even bother taking care of a sleepless night. This attentiveness was a bit beyond the limits of a guardian and was kind of perverted.
If Xu Zhaoyi really misunderstood that he had any ill intentions, given this guy's sensitivity, it would be detrimental to unity.
Fortunately, he didn't care, because the next morning, Noodles announced the good news loudly as soon as he woke up, that he now had the plug-in for the sixth level of Qi Refining!
It turned out that Xu Zhaoyi, who was suffering from insomnia last night, simply got up and meditated, using cultivation as a substitute for sleep. Unexpectedly, in the second half of the night, his cultivation was like a mad horse that had broken free from its reins. He galloped all the way as if with the help of God, as if he was in a hurry to be reincarnated, and he directly broke through the fifth level of Qi Refining.
Xu Zhaoyi himself was also confused.
He was too embarrassed to inform everyone - this sounded like a really low-EQ show-off. If he was the backbone of this temporary small team, he might not need to care about this, but obviously he was not, especially to Raphael. The words of thanks were too empty and not suitable for their pure interest relationship, but if it came to rewarding merits, it was not his place to say it.
But you can't not inform them. We are all working together in danger. Improving our strength is good for the entire team. How can you hide it from everyone just because you don't know how to start the conversation?
He had no choice but to let Noodles tell Qin Sheng first. It would probably be friendlier to everyone if Qin Sheng told him the news. After all, in his impression, Qin Sheng was naturally good at understanding other people's psychology and was also good at the art of speaking.
As for why it is innate, we can only say that it is unreasonable if it is not a talent forced by God. Qin Sheng is a young master who is spoiled by a family with ulterior motives and is given everything he wants. Normally, it is good enough if his eyes are not on the top of his head.
But whether it is the gloomy and unpredictable Young Master Qin in the previous life or the rational and gentle Qin Sheng who is engaged to him, they are both good at bewitching people. On this point, Xu Zhaoyi feels that he should have a say after experiencing two lives.
In her previous life, she was cheated to death by Qin Sheng. In this life, she was reborn and saw Qin Sheng again. He coaxed her into marrying him with just a few words. At that time, she didn't think anything of it. Now when she thinks back on it, she realizes how absurd it all is.
Although everything that happened later proved that his choice was correct, he did not regret it.
As expected, when Qin Sheng told everyone the good news during breakfast, everyone was relieved.
"Although Ah Zhao has great talent, he lacks experience. Before we came to Nanyang, his cultivation had been stuck and no amount of retreat training could improve. Thanks to Master's patience in teaching him, it hasn't been long before the bottleneck that had held him back for so long has finally been broken."
He remained calm as he spoke, with his usual faint smile on his face. "Such a sudden and timely breakthrough. It seems luck is on our side."
Lian Lijia's expression jumped back and forth between jealousy and happiness that her safety was more guaranteed, and then stopped at the latter.
Raphael smiled reservedly. Although he was hit hard by the waves pushing forward, he had known for a long time that Xu Zhaoyi was a genius. It didn't matter if his cultivation speed was a little outrageous now. What's more, he had contributed a lot to this. Qin Sheng had pointed it out specifically, so he naturally benefited from it.
You have to know that Qin Sheng's gratitude is not just empty words. They all know that the cooperation between the two parties is based on interests, so only spiritual energy is the real reward worth mentioning for his contribution.
Raphael was sure that Qin Sheng had never said it explicitly, otherwise it would be unfair to his face, which lacked the words "good fortune and prosperity" clearly written on it.
If the first two had gone through some psychological ups and downs, Feng Lili was simply happy that her own strength had increased. She now just wanted to kill her black-hearted sister as soon as possible and remove the biggest landmine buried in her life!
Xu Zhaoyi looked puzzled for a moment. After revealing his identity to the small team, he changed from Aci back to Azhao.
Tsk, a subtle feeling of dissatisfaction rose from the bottom of his heart, but he found that he was actually a little happy. In the end, he could only try hard to keep a straight face and not smile at all.
After saying this, he got back to business. Anel had been pickled in Gu by Raphael for the entire night.
"We'd better transport Arnel to another place. Miss Feng Lili can pretend to be your sister and stay there until he wakes up. Then make up a lie and tell him that the people who attacked him yesterday were sent by the 'fake Feng Lili' and that you managed to save him from being killed.
Don't worry, the poison in his body will make him trust you unconditionally. Coupled with his admiration for your sister, these two things will work together to make him firmly believe that you are the real Feng Lili, and he will naturally be willing to do anything for you."
Anel was originally willing to go through fire and water for Feng Lili. The trust and closeness brought by the insect was just a love call transfer. Neither Anel himself nor outsiders would find anything unusual in it.
With Anel guaranteeing Feng Lili, the fake became real and the real became fake. As for the other people in the Southern Tradition, instead of suspecting that Anel had mistaken his beloved goddess, they would probably be more inclined to question their own cognition and judgment.
This was done better than Qin Sheng had expected. His original plan was just to let Anel bring Xu Zhaoyi and Feng Lili to Feng Lili to give them the opportunity to switch people.
There is no need to deal with Anel now. Besides avoiding alerting the enemy, Feng Lili also has an extra amulet.
He had originally considered letting Raphael stay in Nanyang after things in Nanyang were over and help Feng Lili to take charge of the rear, but now he felt that such an arrangement was a sheer waste. This fat old man was not good at fighting, but he was really too practical.
Have to pack it up and take it away.
The Southern Buddhism headquarters was converted from a resort, and is filled with an air of wealth and grandeur. This is incompatible with the local practice of only letting clients stay in luxurious villas while they themselves prefer to hide in the city.
The local practitioners have always regarded them as outsiders. Even though many young monks born and raised in Southeast Asia joined the organization later, this view did not change. Instead, they regarded these people as short-sighted traitors. The people of the Southern Buddhism also looked down on the stubborn behavior of the locals. The two sides basically looked down on each other.
Before Feng Lili was forced by the Qin family to flee back to Southeast Asia, the people of Nanchuan generally had a strong sense of superiority, and when they walked on the street they wished that the road would be paved with yellow earth and the streets would be splashed with clean water.
But now, the entire headquarters is filled with a depressing atmosphere. Almost all businesses have been cut off, and everyone is forced to be idle. The longer the time goes, the more complaints there are, and all the pressure falls on Feng Lili, who caused this situation.
Contributions may not be remembered by people in the organization, and the beneficiaries may even feel that all this is the result of their joint efforts. However, Feng Lili's wrong decision destroyed all the efforts of all of them over the years.
Feng Lili has been having an extremely frustrating time these days. If it weren't for Karuna and Anel keeping her in check, she would have been squeezed out of the management team by those people long ago.
She really wanted to change the status quo, but in fact, even in Southeast Asia, she did not dare to go too far away from the headquarters. Even if she dared, she would be powerless to change the situation if she stayed in Southeast Asia, unless Nanchuan tore up the agreement and turned around to seize the local business.
This will inevitably lead to local practitioners being open about the truth and even becoming enemies with the Southern Buddhism. Except for Karuna, the others in the Southern Buddhism are generally young and weak. Although Karuna is powerful enough, it is difficult for him to cope with the siege of so many high-level practitioners.
Moreover, Feng Lili knew very well that Karuna continued to protect her and did not hold her accountable for her mistakes because he did not care that much about Southern Buddhism. But if she caused trouble in order to avenge her past humiliation and affected his cultivation, his reaction would probably not be so warm.
Her only hope of turning the tables now is Anel, and she wants him to be her puppet willingly.
So when Arnel messaged her to ask her out, even though she was extremely disgusted - when she was deified, even the dogs that once worshipped her like a god and only dared to wag their tails dared to come up and lick her - she finally suppressed her nausea and agreed.
She came to Anel's dojo as agreed, and left all the people she brought outside. She didn't want anyone to see the humiliating scene of her condescending to coax a dog. At the same time, she also knew that it was safe enough here and Anel would protect her with his life.
She never imagined that before she came, Master Raphael used the love call transfer method on his dog, and Anel was now her sister's dog.
Almost as soon as they met, Anel knocked her down. When he saw the unbelievable look on her face before she fell, he was dazed for a moment, but he quickly attributed this distraction to his unwillingness to see this face.
"What do you want to do with your sister?" He turned his head and looked at Feng Lili who came out from behind the screen with fascination and restraint.
Feng Lili kept silent with a look of noble world-weariness on her face, and inwardly roared, "Of course I want to kill them!" But Qin Sheng and the others clearly still had some use for her, so she wasn't in a hurry.
She kept silent and pretended to be deep, thinking of a reasonable excuse to send Feng Lili to the place agreed with Qin Sheng and the others.
Arnel mistakenly thought she was hesitating, so he thought for a moment and guessed, "If you're worried that Master will blame you if you do it yourself, I'll arrange for someone to send her back to where she came from. But to prevent her from threatening your safety in the future, I'll erase her memory and make her forget everything about you."
Feng Lili: "..." Whether Feng Lili wants to kill her own sister with her own hands or not, what does it have to do with Karuna? Could it be that the practitioners in Nanyang still have the rule that forbids brothers from killing each other?
And sending him away was fine, but clearing his memory was not. Otherwise, wouldn't she be sending a fool to Qin Sheng? This was not the way to treat a savior!
She was filled with suspicion, but that didn't stop her from taking advantage of it. She said in a cold tone, "I won't let her go back alive, but she's still useful now. Don't let anyone know she's in my hands. Find a big box to put her in. I'm taking her away."
Feng Lili had used her as a scapegoat once, so it was reasonable for her to hint that she wanted to repeat the same trick.
As expected, Anel did as he was told without any suspicion.
Soon, she came out of Anel's ashram carrying a large box and returned to the Southern Transmission headquarters.
Thanks to the excellent living environment and advanced equipment left by the predecessor resort, the surveillance here is quite complete, which means that Noodles has already figured it out. Feng Lili didn't know where Qin Sheng got the floor plan of the Southern Transmission Headquarters, but she didn't ask about it. She just felt it was impressive.
On the way back, she had put the box containing Feng Lili at the agreed place, and Ligaya was waiting there.
'Familiar Place' I returned to Feng Lili's residence. The door was unlocked by iris recognition, and it was said that even identical twins couldn't fool it.
Fortunately, Qin Sheng had given her a watch before and told her how to use it, and also emphasized that she must not take it off under any circumstances. She always listened to advice. After standing at the door, she pretended to casually raise her hand to smooth her hair, shook the watch in front of the door lock, and the door was opened with a click.
Feng Lili didn't expect it to happen so quickly. She looked down at her watch and was silent for a second. She felt that everyone should be grateful that Qin Sheng had no ambition to rob a bank.
The noodles squatting in the watch have great achievements and fame.
In the villa, Qin Sheng saw a prompt on the system panel. The reward for assisting Xu Zhaoyi in capturing Feng Lili had been issued. It was a purple talisman, and Qin Sheng planned to give it to him after returning home.
Lijia brought Feng Lili over, fed her a bottle of medicine to ensure that she would remain unconscious, and then left with Raphael. This time, Qin Sheng gave Raphael ten bottles of spiritual water at once. The old man was probably in a hurry to go back to practice.
In addition, the dream-making fish were also delivered this afternoon. Qin Sheng and Xu Zhaoyi squeezed into the kitchen and were discussing together how to deal with these fish skulls.
Seeing Xu Zhaoyi about to take action, Qin Sheng thought for a moment, went upstairs to take out the pair of golden silk gloves that the Qin family had given him, and handed them to Xu Zhaoyi to put on.
"Even without special preparation, the skull of this fish contains a strong hallucinogenic toxin. Be careful. Don't get pricked by a fishbone by accident. I won't know how to save you."
"Oh." Xu Zhaoyi put on the gloves and found that they fit his hands perfectly. His eyes flickered slightly as he said, "The hallucinogenic toxicity of unprocessed fish skulls is more severe on ordinary people, but it's not so bad for practitioners. At most, the mind will be unclear and unable to distinguish between dreams and reality. It will be fine in three days at most."
But this was quite poisonous, so he did not refuse the gloves. He unskillfully removed the skull of the dream-making fish bit by bit, and then put it into the basin to wash it repeatedly. With the protection of the gloves, there were no accidents during the process.
Qin Sheng looked at it for a while and then felt relieved and went to do other things. He also wanted to have a remote chat with Feng Lili about how she could regain her foothold in Nanchuan as Feng Lili.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he left, Xu Zhaoyi encountered a small problem - during the final stage of grinding into powder, he had no experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing and pounded the powder a few times, successfully inhaling some of the flying powder.
Xu Zhaoyi: “…” numb.
Qin Sheng probably has some talent as a prophet.
This thing didn't break out that quickly. After Xu Zhaoyi stood there sulking for half a minute, he quietly put on a mask and continued to work.
Qin Sheng, who was having a private meeting with Feng Lili upstairs, suddenly heard his wife call out to him in an unusually calm voice: [Qin Sheng.]
"Well, what's wrong?" He felt a sudden pang in his heart, and had a bad feeling.
As expected, as a villain, his premonitions about bad things are always surprisingly accurate.
[Due to my carelessness and your slightly overbearing mouth, I just accidentally inhaled a little bit of the Dream Fish Skull powder. Please keep an eye on me for the next three days. I suspect I might do something strange because I'm not fully awake.]
[You…what?]
Qin Sheng was stunned for two seconds before he realized what he said. He immediately disconnected from Feng Li Li and almost ran downstairs to the kitchen.
Xu Zhaoyi heard his hurried footsteps approaching and quickly covered up the fish bone powder he was grinding. If Qin Sheng accidentally inhaled it, it would not be as easy to deal with as just keeping an eye on him for three days. He might even have to be admitted to the ICU.
He sighed and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine. The poison hasn't taken effect yet! Besides, this poison needs to be specially processed to cause severe hallucinations in practitioners. Plus, I didn't inhale much, so I'll probably be psychotic for a day or two at most. A conservative estimate is three days, with some cognitive confusion and whatnot."
"Are you sure you don't need Raphael to come over and check on you?" Qin Sheng was still a little worried. He always felt that Xu Zhaoyi had developed the habit of not paying much attention to what he thought were minor physical problems because he had been taking care of himself since he was a child.
"No need. Raphael might not be able to figure out what it is. We found this thing in that formation book, remember? It says that even if it's a well-made Bright Light Drunk, it only causes severe hallucinations in practitioners for a certain period of time, and has no other effects."
"Okay." Qin Sheng could only compromise. If he went to the hospital, he probably wouldn't be able to find anything. After all, the symptoms Xu Zhaoyi showed were different from those of ordinary people.
It’s just that Xu Zhaoyi was still wearing a mask, which made his voice muffled. Qin Sheng’s ears itched as he listened. He felt that this guy’s brain must have been affected by the drug.
He stopped Xu Zhaoyi's dangerous and irregular operation in a firm attitude, and ordered him to lie down on the bed and rest immediately, so as to metabolize the toxins as soon as possible.
"As for Mingguang Liuzui, after these three days, I'll have someone send over a set of protective equipment for the experiment before we continue."
"……oh."
Okay, Xu Zhaoyi, stop it. When Qin Sheng mentioned it, he reflected on it. It was indeed a bit cruel to make medicine when his mind was not clear and to treat the enemy who did not deserve the death penalty.
Qin Sheng watched him pack his things and go upstairs to lie down on the bed. His movements were smooth, but he didn't take off the mask until he closed his eyes. He knew that his judgment was correct.
He reached out to take off Xu Zhaoyi's mask, then tucked in the raised corner of the quilt. He instructed, "No cultivation allowed, only sleep. If you feel unwell, call me immediately, even in the middle of the night. Do you understand?"
"Okay, good night."
"……good evening."
Qin Sheng paused before leaving the room, then turned around to draw the curtains to block out the glaring sunlight.
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