Chapter 151
That's not called slowness, that's called flirting.
He since...
No matter how straight Cheng Hui is, he would not sleep in the same bed with someone after the other person has made their attitude clear.
That's not called slowness, that's called flirting.
He thought he hadn't fallen in love with Qiu yet... No, he should say he liked her quite a bit, but not that kind of love.
This kind of love is too superficial and cannot be compared with the deep feelings like Aqiu's.
So he thought that it would be better to forget about sleeping in the same bed. Even if Aqiu had no other thoughts, he didn't want to do it.
I always feel that doing this is disrespectful to Aqiu's feelings.
Cheng Hui was very moved but still declined Aqiu's invitation.
A Qiu secretly thought it was a pity, it was not that easy after all, he would keep trying next time.
Silently taking out another quilt from the cupboard, Aqiu tidied up the couch for Cheng Hui under his speechless gaze.
Cheng Hui: ...
Never mind, as long as you are happy.
Cheng Hui lay back down on the couch, but he wasn't sleepy at all.
As a ghost, he doesn't actually need to sleep, but he's just used to it. At night, if he doesn't lie in bed, he always feels something is wrong.
Of course, he could give up sleep when necessary, but right now... there was no such need.
After a while, Aqiu's steady breathing could be heard from the bedroom.
After entering this world, Aqiu became Liu Qing, and his body was restricted, so he needed normal sleep.
Cheng Hui listened to his regular breathing and couldn't help yawning. He was about to take a nap when he suddenly felt something touching him.
"Um?"
Cheng Hui sat up with a start.
Although Lin Tianlong treated them very well, he still maintained a certain degree of vigilance.
His spiritual tentacles were spread throughout the entire courtyard, and no one could enter the courtyard without him noticing.
Just now he felt that something had touched his consciousness. It was not particularly obvious, a bit like something passing by.
The place where they lived was relatively remote and quiet. Cheng Hui couldn't figure out why someone would pass by their yard in the middle of the night. He thought about it and followed quietly.
Now they still live in the village. If something happens in the village, it would be easy for him to deal with it, but he is afraid that Liu Qing will be implicated.
He magnified his spiritual sense and quickly found the source of the spiritual sense.
In his spiritual consciousness, he could feel that someone was heading towards the back mountain at a very fast speed. This person was running very fast, even faster than Zhou Tong. Although Zhou Tong was not proficient in lightness skills, by comparison, it could be found that this person's lightness skills were very good.
The village where Lin Tianlong and his people live is essentially a village. Cheng Hui couldn't figure out why someone with such high lightness skills would enter the back mountain in the middle of the night.
Moreover, the location he chose was not the gate of the village, which means that he most likely entered the village from other directions, otherwise he would not have passed through this secluded courtyard.
"Could it be that the government is targeting him?" Cheng Hui whispered as he followed the man closely.
On second thought, I heard Village Chief Lin say yesterday that the county magistrate from the nearby town was coming to the village to extort money again... Although he said extortion, his tone was a bit teasing, which showed that he had a good relationship with the county magistrate, so this person should not be a government official.
Cheng Hui felt a little more nervous.
This is a world without magic. It is very powerful to be able to fly over eaves and walls. What is such a person with superb lightness skills doing in the village?
Cheng Hui had a bad feeling in his heart, so he followed the man closely, following him through a small path and to the top of the cliff.
Then...jumped off a cliff.
Cheng Hui: ???
What the hell?
Coming out in the middle of the night just to commit suicide?
It’s impossible just by thinking about it!
So he hurried to the edge of the cliff and looked down, only to find that someone had actually fixed a peg on the edge of the cliff. The peg was deeply inserted into the ground and was covered by the surrounding weeds, so it could not be seen from a distance.
There was a rope tied to the peg. The man seemed to have jumped, but he was actually sliding down by grabbing the rope.
"I told you..." Cheng Hui muttered, and also flew down.
As a ghost, he has an unparalleled advantage in this regard.
He flew down and slid down the rope, and soon he found a small platform not far below the cliff.
Because the cliff is protruding and this small platform is sunken into the cliff, the platform cannot be seen from above. There is also a large patch of bushes growing on the side, which just happens to cover the platform.
There was a man standing on the platform, concentrating on studying something facing the rock wall on the other side of the cliff.
Cheng Hui went over to take a look...
That’s it?
He was secretly excited for a while, thinking he might find a treasure map or something, but the result... was just a bunch of matchstick figures on the rock wall?
It's the kind produced by a soul painter!
Cheng Hui suddenly felt his interest wear thin. He was already a cultivator, so why would he care about martial arts secrets?
It's like a fighter pilot who certainly wouldn't dream of flying a biplane.
The man in the nightgown gestured to the little figures and muttered something. Cheng Hui moved closer and listened for a while. It seemed to be a set of matching martial arts formulas.
As long as it’s not a treasure, Cheng Hui thought lazily.
According to his experience from reading novels, if a treasure appeared in the world of martial arts, it would definitely not be the end unless a group of people died.
Those treasure hunters died, but he was afraid of encountering a ruthless demon. If he thought that the people in the village might expose his target, he would kill them to silence them, which would be very unpleasant.
On the contrary, one can learn this martial arts secret book by reading it. If one is a little greedy, one can just destroy the original map. There is no need to implicate other people, and the people in the village will naturally be safe.
The man in black gestured for a while and then grabbed the rope and returned to the cliff.
Cheng Hui followed him back to the mountain village, passed through a remote courtyard, and then... disappeared among a group of houses.
Cheng Hui smacked his lips and decided to tell Village Chief Lin about this tomorrow.
Although he was kidnapped, Ah Qiu was not harmed and was even received very warmly and attentively. Even for the sake of those aunts, he had to tell them about this.
It is not very safe to have such a person hiding in the village. As for what to do after knowing the existence of this person, it is up to the village leader Lin to decide.
Cheng Hui observed for a while and the man did not appear again, so he must be living in that house.
Cheng Hui was about to go back to sleep, but he turned around and came to the small platform where the secret book was.
He was still mumbling to himself that since he had come here, it would be a shame if he didn't take a closer look. What if it could be of some reference value...
In short, for some reason that he himself didn't understand, he returned to the small platform.
Seeing these stick figures again, Cheng Hui still felt that they were eye-catching. Even if he asked a child of a few years old to draw them, he would not be able to draw such a little figure with a short head and legs and twisted limbs...
Tsk... Could it be that this soul painter is a disciple of the Cthulhu pantheon?
Forget it, even if it costs him his SAN value, he has to take a look anyway so as not to miss anything.
He tried to open his eyes wide and stared at the little men.
From top to bottom, from left to right, these little figures seemed to perform a set of movements.
At first Cheng Hui didn’t understand it, but then he remembered the formula that the man muttered, and looked at it again in conjunction with the formula, and finally he saw some clues.
"Huh? Interesting." He suddenly felt that this martial arts secret book might be more advanced than he imagined.
He found that when he recited the incantation, the little man on the rock wall seemed to come alive, but there were still some intermittent parts.
He closed his eyes and pondered for a while, then decisively floated his body outside the small platform, adjusted the angle, and looked at the little people again.
Finally, this time, the villain became different.
The little man that he thought was a soul-like figure, turned out to be a normal-sized... stick figure after he changed the angle.
Moreover, there is no space between them, as if all the little figures are forming a circle. It is hard to say what kind of martial arts can be learned from this picture, but Cheng Hui figured out a formation diagram from this picture.
He kept drawing something in the air with his fingers, the smile on his face growing wider and wider. "So that's how it is... I get it! That's right! This should work! We can do it!"
He eagerly tried to find the materials, but then realized that this was a low-magic world, and there was no way to set up a formation...
It looked like he could only wait until he got back to try again.
He rubbed his hands excitedly. If his calculations were correct, this formation would likely become the most powerful one he had.
If the Nascent Soul cultivators were not prepared, they might die in this formation diagram.
Of course, if you want to defeat a Nascent Soul cultivator, this formation diagram requires a lot of energy, and ordinary spirit stones may not be able to activate it. At least high-quality spirit stones are required to do so.
"Very good, very good. It's not a wasted trip to this mountain village." Cheng Hui returned to the courtyard happily. When he opened the door, he saw Aqiu sitting on the bed with a bad look in his eyes. He paused slightly and took a step back unconsciously.
"Why are you awake?" he asked as gently as possible.
"If I hadn't woken up, how would I have discovered that you were wandering around in the middle of the night?" Qiu smiled and pursed her lips.
Cheng Hui shuddered. Qiu was clearly smiling, and smiling happily, but he just felt that he was angry, and in a dangerous way.
He coughed twice and said, "Aqiu, I found a good place. Come on, I'll take you there."
Ah Qiu raised his eyebrows: "Oh? What unexpected discovery?"
"You'll know when you get there. Let's go!" Cheng Hui deliberately whetted his appetite.
Aqiu gave him a look with a half-smile, but didn't expose him in the end, and followed him to the small platform.
"Is this the place?" Qiu asked.
Cheng Hui nodded vigorously and shared all his findings with him. "You should give it a try too, maybe you will gain something."
Aqiu readily agreed, but as he watched, he felt dizzy and his body swayed, and he almost fell down.
Fortunately, Cheng Hui reacted quickly and hugged the person, thus saving him from danger.
"Aqiu? What's wrong with you?"
Cheng Hui was startled.
Aqiu's body is a little weak, but he is definitely not the kind of scholar who is powerless. Although it takes some effort to climb down the cliff, it is not enough to kill him.
"It's okay..." Aqiu quickly woke up from his dizziness, and his eyes suddenly changed when he looked at the stickman.
"This thing is really powerful. I only took a few glances at it and I felt it consumed a lot." Before he finished speaking, he looked at Cheng Hui in astonishment.
If he couldn't hold on after just a few glances, then how did Cheng Hui persevere and even figure out a formation diagram?
Is there such a big difference in their talents?
A Qiu was unwilling to give up and asked in detail about everything Cheng Hui had done before.
Comparing the two people's actions, he indeed found the differences.
He looked at these little figures from right to left, while Cheng Hui did the opposite.
Is this the key point?
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