Chapter 210 The Goddess's Purpose
After Gu Chenran finished asking the question, Lu Jian still drove with his back to him and did not reply for a long time.
Gu Chenran finally realized something was wrong. He put one hand on Green Sword's shoulder and with a little force, turned Green Sword around.
Only then did I realize that Green Sword was looking straight ahead with lifeless eyes, with no focus at all.
Gu Chenran narrowed his eyes slightly, took out an amulet from his sleeve and slapped it on Lu Jian's chest.
Green Sword's whole body trembled slightly, and his eyes instantly became bright, as if he had just woken up, as if he had just woken up from a dream.
He saw Gu Chenran, who was facing him with a serious face, and asked curiously, "Your Majesty, I'm driving the carriage, what's wrong?"
Gu Chenran asked: "Think carefully, were you really driving the car just now? What else did you do besides driving the car?"
Green Sword: "I was just trying to catch the car. Aren't there three more intersections ahead to reach the palace? Wait, why do I feel like I've been circling around here for a long time..."
When he said this, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and felt a chill on his back: "No, I seem to have been circling around here since just now. Why am I circling around here?!"
Gu Chenran pointed at the amulet that was still smoking after hitting Green Sword's chest and said, "I suspect that something may have blinded you just now, and you don't know it, so you keep going around in circles here.
Are you the amulet on your body? Didn’t the princess give it to you? How could it be ineffective? ”
With the amulet, ordinary evil spirits can basically not get close to you.
"I always carry the amulet with me. Yes, how could the amulet become ineffective?!" Green Sword said, and felt around for the amulet on his body.
As a result, he touched nothing. Then he remembered: "No, I changed my clothes today. My amulet was placed in the clothes in front of me. I haven't changed it yet. No wonder I got tricked!"
"Wait," Green Sword just realized what was happening: "Doesn't that mean we are in danger now?!"
Gu Chenran nodded, and signaled Lu Jian not to panic and not to alert the enemy: "Just pretend nothing happened and keep going forward to see what happens."
"Okay." Lu Jian trusted Gu Chenran and just continued driving the carriage forward as he instructed.
Gu Chenran also retreated back into the carriage and lowered the curtain again, but this time he was careful and deliberately did not lower the curtain completely, leaving a gap so that he could clearly see the situation outside.
From outside, the scene where Gu Chenran called Lu Jian just now seemed like Gu Chenran felt that the carriage had been driving for too long, so he lifted the curtain and called the sleepy Lu Jian.
The carriage continued to move forward quickly.
Soon this time, Gu Chenran and Lu Jian discovered that something was wrong.
After the carriage slowly passed an intersection, the intersection that appeared in front of them was clearly the one they had just passed!
This cycle repeated three times, and each time they passed through this intersection and came back again.
Lv Jian's palms were sweating as he held the reins. He whispered to Gu Chenran in the carriage, "Your Highness, something seems to be wrong. We seem to have run into a dead end!"
A very standard example of a ghost wall.
No matter which direction you go, no matter how you walk, you will eventually circle back to where you started.
It's like being trapped to death and unable to ever get out.
Just now, Green Sword was confused and didn't know he was trapped in a ghost town. He felt that he was moving forward all the time.
But now that he was awake, he realized they were trapped.
Gu Chenran felt that the situation was almost over and there was no point in continuing to pretend.
He stopped Green Sword: "Okay, let's stop here. No need to go any further. Let's see who is trapping us this time and what they are planning to do."
"Whoa!" The green sword let out a long cry and stopped the carriage.
Gu Chenran came out of the carriage again, and this time he jumped directly to the ground.
At Gu Chenran's hint, Lu Jian pretended to be annoyed and said, "Your Highness, what should we do? We seem to be trapped! No matter where I drove just now, I couldn't leave here!"
Gu Chenran expressed six parts of doubt, three parts of panic, and one part of hidden fear vividly.
He also said in distress: "What should we do now? The princess is not here, and she is not with us. We are trapped now. What should we do?"
Lu Jian knew clearly that Gu Chenran was acting in order to lure the people in the dark out, but he couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth. No, how could he not know when their prince's acting skills became so good.
As if everyone knew, his sleeves and chest were all covered with all kinds of messy talismans drawn by Wen Ling, ranging from protective amulets to offensive talismans.
It would be strange if such a small ghost wall could trap him.
Not to mention this ghost wall, even if this street is really full of ghosts, the attack talismans in the prince's hand can blow through the whole street!
But Green Sword still cooperates with his prince.
He drew out his sword and blocked Gu Chenran's way, his expression ready to die: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, as long as I am here, if those people really dare to harm you, they will step over my body first!"
The corners of Gu Chenran's mouth twitched. No, why does this Green Sword seem to be more adept at acting than him?
When did they start to love acting so much?
At this moment, the street, which had just been calm without a trace of wind, suddenly became windy and violent gusts of wind blew, with rocks and sand flying everywhere.
The strong wind made it impossible to open my eyes, and when I opened my mouth slightly I felt sand blowing into it.
Gu Chenran had to raise his arms and cover his eyes with his sleeves to be able to see what was happening around him.
Suddenly, a strange-looking beast pounced out from the yellow sand.
It looks like a combination of various animals. Its appearance can be described in one word: ugly. If I have to use two words to describe it, it would be disgusting!
Gu Chenran narrowed his eyes and put one hand into his sleeve, ready to throw out the attack talisman when the monster approached.
Just as he was about to throw the talisman away, he saw another figure in another corner out of the corner of his eye.
So he paused his hand movements and took a step back.
Just as he was stepping back, a white figure suddenly appeared in front of him.
All I heard was a clear ringing sound, and that sound was like a sharp blade cutting through the fog.
The yellow sand and fog that originally filled the air around him seemed to dissipate in an instant.
"Break!" followed by a female voice's sharp shout.
A sword energy flew out from the white figure's left hand out of thin air and hit the strange-looking monster accurately.
"Roar——!!" The monster let out an unwilling roar, and then disappeared into thin air just a few inches away from Gu Chenran.
The white figure also landed gracefully beside Gu Chenran.
The person who came was none other than the goddess whom he had seen in the Golden Palace in the morning.
At this moment, the goddess changed her gorgeous white robe and put on a simple white dress.
But there was a circle of golden shiny things on her white wrists and ankles, and I didn’t know if it was a bracelet or something else.
Even though she was wearing just a white dress, she looked gorgeous and beautiful because of the golden bracelet.
She was holding a string of bells in her left hand and a jade sword in her right hand. She was wearing a veil and gracefully fell in front of him.
As she fell, the veil on her face fluttered gently, revealing her entire face hidden beneath the veil.
After she landed, she saw Gu Chenran staring at her. She took a few steps back as if she was frightened and quickly held down her fluttering veil with her hands.
She looked very annoyed and whispered, "Oh no, I was so anxious that I revealed my true face..."
However, Gu Chenran saw clearly that the face beneath the goddess' veil was indeed about 60% similar to Wen Ling.
However, no one is as pretty as Wen Ling, and no one can match Wen Ling’s spiritual energy even a bit.
Seeing the goddess who had gone to great lengths to appear, Gu Chenran was a little curious about what she was going to do next, so he thought about cooperating with her in a play.
Gu Chenran took a half step back, saluted the goddess, and said gratefully: "I don't know what happened just now. Thanks to the goddess for saving me. If it weren't for the goddess..."
He didn't finish the rest of the words, but patted his chest in fear, looking very grateful and fortunate.
Before, the distance was quite far in the Golden Palace, and the goddess only looked at Gu Chenran from afar. Now, looking at him from such a close distance, Gu Chenran's face was exactly the same as that of a god, and his expressions were as vivid as those of a human.
The goddess only felt her heart pounding wildly, and looking at Gu Chenran's reaction, she knew that her goal was half achieved.
She nodded slightly to Gu Chenran, saying in return: "No need to thank me, I just happened to meet him while I was out walking around the capital, and I helped him. No matter who it is, I will help him if I meet him."
Gu Chenran bowed again, with an expression of admiration and respect: "As expected of the goddess of the Moon Country, your kindness and broad-mindedness are admirable. Alas, I really don't know why I suddenly encountered such a thing. This is really scary."
The goddess raised her head slightly, with an unfathomable look: "It is no coincidence that you encounter such a thing. You have the true dragon purple energy, and you are the most potential among all the princes to ascend to that position.
You have good luck, and many people want to take advantage of you. The beast just now was obviously coming to devour the purple energy on your body.
Logically speaking, with your luck, you shouldn't encounter such things. These things don't dare to attack you directly.
It should be that your luck was taken advantage of by others, so you encountered this kind of thing. If you hadn’t met me this time, I’m afraid…”
The goddess didn't say anything else, but everything was implied.
Gu Chenran asked anxiously, "Then why was my luck being devoured and used by someone? Who is the person who devoured and used my luck?!"
The goddess did not speak this time. She just looked at Gu Chenran with a face full of pity: "You are a good person. You should have been safe and sound. You shouldn't have experienced this..."
Then he stopped talking.
Gu Chenran asked anxiously: "Goddess, please give me a hint so that I can agree to any request you make."
The goddess raised her hand and said, "I'm not helping you for anything. That's all. I'll help you to the end. I won't say anything else. I just want to remind you to be careful of the person next to you."
After hearing this, Gu Chenran finally understood that she was waiting for him here.
Her purpose was to sow discord between him and Wen Ling.
That was really unfortunate. After the goddess's series of moves, no matter what she said, Gu Chenran was willing to listen more and think about it.
The only thing that could not be questioned by anyone was the relationship between him and Wen Ling.
But then again, the goddess probably didn't know that Wen Ling wanted to help him get rid of his evil heart, so she was pretending to be mysterious and wanted to use this to sow discord.
After the goddess said to be careful of the person next to you, she has been observing the reaction on Gu Chenran's face.
But what surprised the goddess was that there was no expression on Gu Chenran's face. She didn't know if it was her illusion, but there seemed to be a subtle curve at the corner of Gu Chenran's mouth.
The goddess frowned. What went wrong? Why was it different from what she had imagined?
Just when the goddess was about to say something, a clear female voice sounded from the end of the street: "Gu Chenran."
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw Wen Ling rushing over.
The goddess has used up all her magic power today, and she doesn't want to fight Wen Ling again, fearing that Wen Ling will do something bad to her.
So she left a message to Gu Chenran: "That's all I have to say. We have no grudges against each other. I have no need to harm you. It's up to you whether you believe it or not."
After the goddess finished speaking, she walked in another direction without looking back and left.
At this time, Wen Ling flashed in front of Gu Chenran.
She looked at the direction where the goddess left and asked curiously, "That woman just now was the goddess, right?"
Gu Chenran nodded: "Yes, it's her."
Wen Ling wrinkled his nose and sniffed the surrounding air: "Why is there a disgusting smell of the evil god here? What happened just now? I didn't wait for you to come back on time at home, and I felt the fluctuation of magic power here, so I hurried over to check it out."
Gu Chenran first took Wen Ling into the car, and then told her everything that had just happened.
Wen Ling touched his chin and asked, "So what do you think? Do you believe what she said?"
Gu Chenran, who had been very calm in the face of the emergency just now, suddenly got angry at this moment: "How is it possible? How do you think I would believe her? How can you ask me that?!"
Wen Ling: "...No, I'm just asking. Don't get excited. I just want to ask your opinion."
"Of course my opinion is that she deliberately set this up to make me encounter what happened today. She deliberately appeared as a hero to save the beauty at the critical moment. Her purpose was to make me believe her and alienate the relationship between you and me!" Gu Chenran said firmly.
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