Chapter 37 Chapter 37 In fact, both peacocks have spread their tails...
Nothing else happened that day. Xu Zhaoyi finally woke up on the morning of the third day. His state could only be described in one sentence:
Thanks for the invitation. I’m in Southeast Asia and have become socially dead.
I can't even recall what he did?
Not only did he say good night to Qin Sheng in broad daylight, Qin Sheng didn't even refute him.
When he woke up, he thought that he and Qin Sheng were a real couple. He also misunderstood that he was a self-deceived marriage fraud and ran to apologize to Qin Sheng. He told Qin Sheng that he actually liked him a little bit... Every step was a disastrous development. It is hard to imagine how Qin Sheng felt when he heard him say this.
Then it got even more outrageous. What the hell was the red string? What the hell was the hallucination? He even tried to drag Qin Sheng into the bathroom with him! Could he be so careless when he wasn't in his right mind?
Fortunately, Qin Sheng was a gentleman in this regard. Regardless of whether Qin Sheng's act of covering his eyes with a tie was mixed with some impure and evil taste, he was already very grateful.
But the scary thing is that this is not the end!
If the day before yesterday was just a social failure, then the conversation between him and Qin Sheng on the rooftop terrace yesterday morning, and the last words he silently recited in his heart, were pure and scary.
Just... who is he calling a bad person? He is really rude to me when he is not in his right mind.
Xu Zhaoyi thought dryly, the light in his eyes almost extinguished. He was in a daze while washing up, and walked downstairs in a daze.
It was at this time that the importance of Qin Sheng's high emotional intelligence could be seen. As soon as they met, he found that Xu Zhaoyi had returned to normal. He ignored the other party's embarrassment, as if he could dig out a Qin family forbidden area at any time, and smiled at him as usual.
"Some basic laboratory equipment has been delivered. I asked them to clear out a room specifically for making medicine for you."
"…OK, thanks."
Xu Zhaoyi was indeed relieved, but he wasn't actually very happy about Qin Sheng's way of handling the situation as if nothing had happened. However, he also knew that it was his own problem, so he didn't show it.
They hadn't done any serious work in the past two days. Qin Sheng just watched him act stupidly. Now his IQ finally came online. Qin Sheng accompanied him to have breakfast and then continued to have a meeting with Feng Lili via video link.
Feng Lili lived a stable life in Nanchuan. She had someone to support her, so even though many people complained about her, they didn't dare to do anything to her. She had a high status and great power, so she was quite free.
As soon as the video was connected, Qin Sheng first apologized for having to ignore her for two days.
Feng Lili said hurriedly, "It's okay. I'm fine here. There's nothing wrong at all. Is Mr. Xu okay over there?"
"He's fine now." Qin Sheng wanted to laugh when he thought of all the stupid things Xu Zhaoyi said in the past two days, and the corners of his lips curled up.
"That's good." Feng Lili also smiled and said, "I saw how anxious you were that day. You caught me off guard and gave me a big mouthful of dog food."
Qin Sheng raised his eyebrows when he heard this, but did not refute.
"Okay, let's get down to business." Feng Lili only dared to tease her boss with this remark. Although Qin Sheng had a good temper, for some reason, she still didn't dare to act too rudely in front of him.
"I've already prepared the list you asked me to make last time. I have free access to the Southern Chuan archives. I've picked out all the members who have owed countless lives over the years and haven't been able to recruit any of them. I'll send it to you later."
Feng Lili scratched his head and said, "The case of Mr. Xu's parents that you mentioned hasn't been overturned yet."
To pick a list, she only needed to randomly check a dozen records of each member to know what kind of person they were. However, it was still a bit time-consuming to find a needle in a haystack in a room full of paper documents. She couldn't spend all day in the archives, as that would arouse too much suspicion.
She was able to be so efficient these two days thanks to the watch Qin Sheng gave her. It automatically scanned, translated, organized and summarized everything she wanted, and gave her exactly what she wanted. She only had to do some work of flipping through books.
"As for the remaining members, I plan to call them for a private meeting and tell them that I have teamed up with a force that can compete with the Qin family and am ready to regroup. For those who are willing to support me, I want to provide them with a batch of spiritual water to let them have a taste of the sweetness first. Is that okay?"
"Okay." Qin Sheng nodded. This was a reasonable expense.
People are moved by interests. As long as Feng Lili can continue to provide them with resources that the real Feng Lili cannot, it doesn't matter to those people whether she is real or fake.
The previous list was just packed up and given to Xu Zhaoyi to gain experience one by one so as not to waste these heads.
"Oh, right, there's one more thing." Feng Lili said with some hesitation, "Actually, I'm not sure either. The other day, Anel casually mentioned that if I chose to kill my sister, his master might blame me. I didn't understand why at the time, but I've been thinking about it these past two days, and I think I have a good idea of who he is, but I'm not sure if I'm right."
Qin Sheng immediately understood what he said and asked bluntly, "Do you suspect he is your sisters' father?"
"Well, I think that's possible. Otherwise, since he and I have no relationship at all, how could he blame his trusted subordinates for killing me because of that bitch sister?"
Feng Lili sighed with mixed feelings. She had no memory of her father for a long time. After bringing Feng Lili to Nanyang, this man never contacted her and her mother again.
After many years, Feng Lili showed up and deliberately brought them a catastrophe with a hidden dagger in her smile.
She should have hated everyone in the family, but after hearing what Anel said, she knew that her heartless father didn't know what Feng Lili had done to her in the country and would probably not approve of it, so she couldn't hate him at all.
The only thing that is certain is that there is not much father-daughter affection between them.
Died of laughter, not familiar at all.
She would not burst into tears of gratitude just for the word "blame", as if it was a severe punishment that could bring her justice or even save the lives of both mother and daughter.
"That's better. You'll be safer."
However, Qin Sheng felt that this kind of affection was not something he could count on, so he advised, "Stay away from him if possible. Don't take the initiative to get close to him. We can't be sure whether you and your sister have the same weight in his eyes. If you kill your sister, will he only blame you?
Don't leak the spiritual water and supply him with it, but I'm going to lower the spiritual energy concentration of the batch provided to Nan Chuan to 20%."
It is in a very precious range - given the current situation of thin spiritual energy, it takes at least a month to absorb it by meditating day and night, but it is not so precious that it will not have much effect on Karuna's cultivation and will not help the enemy.
Even so, the total amount he provided was large enough that no one dared to say it was not a large amount.
"That's no problem." Feng Lili agreed.
After Feng Lili got the accurate information, he began to arrange the plan to steal the house, and also sent the list to Qin Sheng.
Qin Sheng took a quick look and found not only the names of the people, but also the addresses of their respective dojos. If the person who took the order from his father-in-law and mother-in-law was still alive and had not retired, he should also be on this list.
That happened more than ten years ago. At that time, Feng Lili was still young, and the Southern Transmission was just starting out, so he was a veteran member. The box was made with good craftsmanship, and even the protectors didn't dare get too close to it. It shouldn't have been made by a young man. However, considering that the members of the Southern Transmission are generally young, let's take a middle value. Those under the age of 35 are excluded, and there are only two people over 35 and around 50 years old who meet the conditions of being a veteran of the organization.
Qin Sheng circled these two names.
Qin Sheng was not sure whether they were the ones or not, and he probably wouldn't be able to find out even if he asked. These people were not from the Xu family, and they would remember for the rest of their lives that they had harmed their elder brother and sister-in-law. To these people, it was just a small order they had taken many years ago, and it would be strange if they could remember it.
But this is not important. Anyway, congratulations to them for winning the prize and giving them priority in selecting Xu Zhaoyi's upgrade experience pack.
He just wanted to give Xu Zhaoyi an outlet.
Xu Zhaoyi was fully armed and preparing Mingguang Liuzui in the temporary laboratory. This time he didn't dare to be careless anymore. He wrapped himself tightly and even put on goggles.
Qin Sheng was about to knock on the door when the system notification sounded in his mind that a new task had been released, so he stopped to look at the task.
Overall, it was consistent with what he planned to do, except that the system required more maximization of benefits.
He needs to assist Xu Zhaoyi in using Su Cizhao's identity to set up a prototype of a law enforcement organization to manage practitioners in the name of hunting down Nanyang practitioners who have killed people in the country.
It has to be said that offering the list in his hand as a sacrifice to the heavens is indeed standing on the moral high ground. For Xu Zhaoyi, it is a good start to establish his authority externally and accumulate reputation.
In the original work, this organization is called Juesailou, but Xu Zhaoyi did not use any fake identity and has always been doing things under the real-name system. However, now they cannot reveal their strength in front of the Qin family, so this requirement has been added to the mission content.
It's not difficult. It's just a matter of doing good deeds and leaving a name for oneself. He originally just wanted to kill two birds with one stone, and this way he could kill three birds with one stone.
If you are too high-profile, you need to be wary of Karuna coming out to intervene. But when you think about the big trouble Feng Lili has caused and all of Nan Chuan's business has almost come to a halt, and Karuna has not come out, Qin Sheng guesses that this person probably doesn't care about Nan Chuan.
It makes sense when you think about it. If Karuna is really only one step away from building a foundation, he certainly won't be patient enough to deal with these mundane trivialities and waste his time on cultivation. Moreover, with his high level of cultivation, there is no shortage of people offering him resources no matter where he is. Even if the Southern School is gone, it will not have much impact on him.
He was lost in thought and didn't notice how much time had passed until Xu Zhaoyi came out. He found that he had been waiting at the door, and he didn't know how long he had been waiting silently.
"Why didn't you knock on the door and call me?" He felt a little uncomfortable, but there was still a bit of not-so-righteous joy rising from the bottom of his heart, like a magic mirror, making it impossible for him to deceive himself.
Qin Sheng spoke frankly: "I was just thinking about something."
"Okay." Xu Zhaoyi didn't dare to expose her, so he could only ask sincerely, "What do you want to talk to me about?"
"I have an idea I'd like to discuss with you. Let's go to the living room." Qin Sheng took the lead and asked, "How's your progress with Mingguang Liuzui?"
"It's almost done. It just needs to sit for one night. It should be done tomorrow." Xu Zhaoyi followed behind him neither slowly nor quickly.
"That's good." Qin Sheng nodded. With Mingguang Liuzui, the Nine-Curved Corridor Formation could be used at any time with the help of paper figurines, and Xu Zhaoyi would be more confident in going out to gain experience.
However, since they have to use the banner of justice, Raphael and Ligaya, the two South Asians, cannot appear. He still has to follow them personally to feel at ease.
After the two of them sat down, Qin Sheng handed the list sent by Feng Li to Xu Zhaoyi and explained to him the origin of the list and why he circled two people separately.
"I just want to ask if you're interested in using this opportunity to build your reputation and start your own team in the future."
Seeing Xu Zhaoyi's puzzled expression, Qin Sheng thought about Xu Zhaoyi's original intention for establishing the Peerless Tower in the original novel and explained, "You know it's not just foreign practitioners who are stirring up trouble in China. Our own circle has had no constraints for many years. Big and small matters all rely on the self-conscious support of various forces. The truly weak have nowhere to turn when they encounter persecution. To put it in a more mercenary way, this is the fastest way to unite the majority of weak groups."
No matter how weak the fireflies are, they can win by numbers.
Qin Sheng laid out the situation for him to analyze: "Anyway, this list is what I prepared for you to use to gain experience. Whether you should take this extra step depends on whether you have a legitimate reason to start.
Another advantage is that this time you're not targeting any particular faction within the country, so you'll have a good reputation and they won't be too wary of you. This gives you a buffer period, allowing you to slowly develop."
He had considered this matter carefully, but he never expected that Xu Zhaoyi did not have such ambition at this time.
In the original work, even after he was reborn, it was very difficult for him to protect his weak self in the early stage. In the process, he witnessed many tragic scenes of persecution of the lower class. At that time, he really hated all kinds of chaos in the practice circle.
But now he is taken care of too well by Qin Sheng. Apart from hating the people who killed his parents and disgusted with the Qin family who hurt Qin Sheng, his kindness and integrity cannot radiate to people outside of his cognition, nor does he have the lofty determination to change the world of cultivation.
Xu Zhaoyi frowned and thought for a long time before finally saying, "Using Su Cizhao's identity, it's possible to punish evil and seek revenge. This could also create a deterrent effect and prevent my parents' tragedy from happening again elsewhere. However, there's no need to go through the trouble of setting up a dedicated team."
Facing Qin Sheng's surprised gaze, he said with a mixture of amusement and anger, "Do you think I'm a saint? It's true that those who are successful should benefit the world, but our situation is not good right now. Your fate is still in the hands of the Qin family and is precarious. My parents can't be reincarnated yet, and I can't even take care of my own family. How can I have the time to care about so many trivial matters that I can't see elsewhere?"
Qin Sheng: "..." He felt complicated after hearing this.
He never expected that the stumbling block hindering the progress of the mission would be himself.
However, after thinking about Xu Zhaoyi's words, he did not seem to refuse to use Su Cizhao's identity as a legitimate reason, so no matter what Xu Zhaoyi thought in his heart, in theory this system task could still be completed smoothly.
As for whether to form a group in the future, let's talk about it later. Maybe Xu Zhaoyi will meet someone in the future who will make him change his mind.
But speaking of this, it seems that since he pulled the person onto his boat to protect him, he inadvertently caused the other person to miss all the romantic encounters in the early part of the plot, and none of the women he met later fell in love with him at first sight, so what about Xu Zhaoyi's luck in love?
He didn't even think about the fact that the peacock itself didn't spread its feathers but was busy practicing every day. Even he once thought that Xu Zhaoyi was too home-bound. No matter how lucky he was in love, he couldn't cook without rice!
Xu Zhaoyi was now showing some signs of blooming, but both he and Qin Sheng were blinded by their own shortcomings.
The next day, Mingguang Liuzui finally recovered after many twists and turns. After a day of memorizing the formation transformation rules, Xu Zhaoyi planned to choose one of the two circled by Qin Sheng from the list to try out the effect of the Nine-Curved Corridor formation first.
After all, it was his first time using it, so out of caution, he chose a younger one, 41 years old, named Fernando. He was not a native of Southeast Asia. His information showed that his real name was He Zai, and he and Feng Lili and his daughter came to Southeast Asia almost at the same time.
Xu Zhaoyi followed Qin Sheng's instructions and posted a message to Fernando in the name of Su Cizhao, and arranged a time for revenge. After Feng Lili received the news, he held a meeting to spread fear and helped him get some free publicity.
Qin Sheng specially customized a silver mask for Xu Zhaoyi to cover half of his face, which had a certain anti-poison effect. Raphael also cast a more complicated confusion spell on it than the one on Feng Lili's face.
That night, Qin Sheng originally wanted to call Noodles back to follow him, but then he thought that with Noodles around, it would be difficult for Xu Zhaoyi to mobilize all his strength to fight the enemy, so he gave up.
Xu Zhaoyi said hello to him and left, and Qin Sheng changed into concealed clothes and followed slowly behind him.
Of course, Fernando would not flee without a fight just because of an unknown Su Cizhao. He even arrived at the place they agreed on first. In his opinion, this was just a stupid boy who was ignorant of the world and pursued fame and fortune.
However, after Xu Zhaoyi showed up, his evaluation changed to a greedy but slim and sleek boy.
And the first time their eyes met, he whistled with great interest.
He originally wanted to let this kid who came to provoke him die miserably to scare others, but now he changed his mind. As long as the kid's face under the mask was still acceptable, he could still keep the body and make it into a puppet to enjoy.
Before Xu Zhaoyi could frown at the noise, Qin Sheng, who was far away, felt a wave of disgust and asked Noodles remotely: "What's going on? Is Fernando gay?"
[What's wrong with him?] Noodles was curious. The place where they agreed to fight was in an open space. There was no surveillance, so it couldn't see it.
Qin Sheng's expression was blank: "Oh, nothing much. I just whistled at your little daddy in a gruff way."
Noodles' eyes lit up into the shape of a gossip bag: [Wow!]
[Wow, this Fernando is gay, why isn't it written in the profile?]
[Because I don't know who would write down a person's sexual orientation in their Death Note!]
Noodles are justified.
It had been crouching in Feng Lili's watch these days, unable to pop up and chat with Feng Lili, and was getting bored. Finally having a chance to have fun, it wouldn't let it go. It asked secretly: [Host, do you have any mood candies on hand now?]
[No, what's wrong?] Qin Sheng was puzzled. He didn't like eating that, so why would he bring it with him when he went out?
[That's such a shame.] Noodles said with a grin, "It's nothing, actually. I just thought it would taste amazing if you blew one right now."
[……boring! ]
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