Chapter 177
"Here! I don't recognize these items. Name a price." Cheng Hui placed the three items in front of the ghost cultivator and added a special instruction: "Just because I don't recognize them doesn't mean they're necessarily good. They could also be garbage. So don't quote too high a price. I'm just curious and want to study them. If they're too expensive, I won't buy them."
Cheng Hui was telling the truth. He might be very curious about the black stone, but that was just to satisfy his curiosity. If this ghost cultivator thought he was a rare commodity and offered an extremely high price for it, he would not be taken advantage of.
From the moment Cheng Hui started sorting through the goods, a number of ghost cultivators gathered around to watch. They learned quite a bit from Cheng Hui, and when they saw that Cheng Hui also had three things he couldn't identify, one of them couldn't help but wonder, "Hey, young man, if even you can't identify these materials, are they some kind of treasure?"
Cheng Hui laughed immediately. He took the black stone as an example. "That one might not be the case. For example, if you look at the stone, I don't know what it is, and I can't sense any spiritual energy fluctuations. So it could be the treasure that has hidden itself, but the more likely possibility is... it's just a piece of stone."
As soon as Cheng Hui finished speaking, the people around him burst into laughter.
They were all low-level ghost cultivators, and they all knew that there were few free lunches in this world. Or perhaps some of them had mistaken trash for treasures and become the laughing stock of others.
The ghost cultivator who asked the question at the beginning scratched his head embarrassedly. He accidentally knocked his head off and fumbled on the ground for a while before picking it up and putting it back.
Cheng Hui turned his face away silently. These ghost cultivators usually looked normal, but from time to time they had to use these eye-catching scenes to remind him that these people were not actually human...
"One hundred Yin stones." The thin ghost cultivator seemed to have taken these words to heart and gave a price that was not too high.
"Deal." Lin Qingyang was too lazy to bargain and agreed immediately.
The ghost cultivator seemed to regret not offering a higher price, but in the end he didn't say anything and handed over the things honestly.
Cheng Hui bought something he liked, but he didn't feel like continuing shopping, so he and Lin Qingyang went straight back to the small courtyard where the city lord was resting.
"What do you think this thing is?" He put the stone on the table, observed it for a long time, and asked in confusion.
Lin Qingyang also picked up the stone and took a look at it. This black stone was only the size of a fist, with an irregular shape and jagged edges. It felt like it was torn off from something.
Most minerals are very hard, and after being cut apart, what remains is a relatively smooth surface, but this black stone is very special.
"Is this some kind of wood?" Cheng Hui took the stone and looked at it, but couldn't tell anything from the outside.
"Just cut it open and take a look." Lin Qingyang said indifferently.
Cheng Hui thought about it and agreed. After all, this thing was just to satisfy his curiosity, so he wouldn't feel bad even if it was destroyed.
He took out a knife and cut in the middle of the black stone. With this cut, the black stone cracked and suddenly emitted a strange fragrance.
Cheng Hui was stunned for a moment. For some reason, he felt that this smell was so fragrant. This aroma was very strange, constantly changing. It was roasted chicken, crayfish, braised pork, and... a bowl of clear soup noodles that his grandmother had made for him...
"Grandma..." Cheng Hui's expression became a little dazed. He seemed to see the kind old lady again, holding a bowl of steaming noodles and placing it in front of him.
But before he could be moved to tears, the old lady's face suddenly darkened, and like a magic trick, she took out a feather duster from behind her and hit Cheng Hui on the butt.
He beat her while cursing, "You little bastard! I told you to be naughty and do bad things! Huh? You're getting too brave! I've told you so many times not to eat anything carelessly. How come I didn't poison you to death, you little bastard!"
Cheng Hui: ...
"It hurts, it hurts!" Cheng Hui screamed, jumped up reflexively, covered his butt and ran away.
Cheng Hui himself was actually still a little confused, and he was able to run thanks to the stress response he had that year.
He ran away like a puff of smoke, and could still hear the old lady in the distance behind him still cursing: "Don't come back now that you've left. This is not the place you should be. If you come back again, I'll beat you to death, you little bastard!"
Cheng Hui came back to his senses and was horrified to find that he was actually putting the half black stone into his mouth.
Cheng Hui:!!!
"Pooh, pooh, pooh! What the hell!" He threw away half of the black stone and slapped the one in Lin Qingyang's hand away. Only then did he feel scared.
It was so close, he almost swallowed that strange stone.
No, not stone.
He smelled the fragrance when the stone was cut just now, but he didn't pay attention to what the cut stone looked like. Now he saw that only the outer layer of the stone was charred, while the inside was red and tender with blood. Looking at this piece of "meat", he smelled the strange fragrance again.
But this time he wasn't tempted, instead he felt a bit of pain in his butt... the kind of pain you get from being hit with a feather duster.
Cheng Hui: ..._(:з」∠)_
After Cheng Hui knocked the flesh off Lin Qingyang's hand, he regained consciousness. After waking up, his expression was a little strange, with a look of nostalgia mixed with a bit of disgust... For some reason, Cheng Hui had the urge to beat him up.
"Huh..." Lin Qingyang let out a long breath, and his expression returned to normal.
In fact, even if Cheng Hui hadn't knocked off that piece of flesh, he was about to wake up, because he suddenly saw Cheng Hui, a Cheng Hui who was completely different from the man in front of him.
He instinctively knew that the man was Cheng Hui, and he was not pretending. If he guessed correctly, then it might be Cheng Hui from his previous reincarnation.
Lin Qingyang had always maintained an evasive attitude towards the Lin Qingqiu that Cheng Hui mentioned. He pretended to be that person in front of Cheng Hui, but in essence he didn't really want to believe that they were really the same person.
But now... the truth was before him, and he couldn't escape it any longer. Perhaps he really was a clone of Lin Qingqiu...
Lin Qingyang clenched his fists tightly. He was unwilling, very unwilling.
No matter what kind of past Lin Qingqiu and Cheng Hui had, as Lin Qingyang, he didn't want to be replaced by that Lin Qingqiu at all.
Sadly, when he realized that he was just Lin Qingqiu's spirit, he knew that he could not fight against him at all. How could a spirit fight against his main body?
Lin Qingyang felt extremely lost and even had an urge to take revenge on society.
He thought viciously, why not kill Ah Hui the moment before he was absorbed? If he couldn't coexist with Ah Hui, at least he could die with him.
"Idiot! You are me and I am you! When the time comes, you will just awaken, not be devoured! Do you think I will allow my clone to approach Cheng Hui on my behalf? Use your brain, idiot!"
A very familiar voice sounded in Lin Qingyang's mind, and then he realized that it was his own voice.
So, the person who was speaking was... Lin Qingqiu?
Hasn't he always been in Ah Hui's sea of consciousness?
"Do you think it's easy for me to talk to you? If you hadn't thought of hurting Ah Hui, how could I have woken up? I really don't want to admit that you, a fool, are actually me. Was I so stupid when I was young?"
Lin Qingyang: ...Don’t think I can’t hear you scolding me!
"Tsk!" The voice sounded a little irritated. "Anyway, let me put it this way. I won't devour you. You are me, the me after I sealed away all my memories after the age of twenty-five. You'll know when you wake up, believe it or not!"
Lin Qingqiu's voice disappeared, and no matter how Lin Qingyang called him, there was no response.
But this kind of Lin Qingqiu actually made Lin Qingyang feel relieved.
He believed that Lin Qingqiu might lie to him, but the sentence "I won't let my distraction get close to Cheng Hui on my behalf" was definitely not a lie.
Put yourself in his shoes. Given his possessive nature, it is indeed impossible for him to allow anyone else to get close to Cheng Hui, not even his own distraction!
"What was that expression on your face just now?" Cheng Hui looked at Lin Qingyang in confusion.
Lin Qingyang came back to his senses and immediately remembered the scene he had just seen. He couldn't help but reveal an expression of disgust.
"You actually despise me?" Cheng Hui was shocked.
In fact, he was not angry, but a little surprised. He didn't know what role he had played in Lin Qingyang's illusion that made him show such an expression.
Lin Qingyang: ...
"I'm not, I didn't, don't talk nonsense!" He denied it three times in a row.
Cheng Hui's mouth twitched:
Feeling guilty!
He feels guilty!
Lin Qingyang's eyes drifted left and right. What should he say? He couldn't tell Cheng Hui that he had seen himself and Cheng Hui in a secret place in a dream. Due to the environment of the secret place, the two of them had to eat like ordinary people. He couldn't cook, so Cheng Hui took the initiative to cook, and the result was...tsk tsk.
Even if Lin Qingyang had to go against his conscience, he couldn't say it was delicious, and it was even difficult for him to eat.
At that time, he was disgusted by the fishy and bitter smell and woke up from the illusion immediately.
"Well, what on earth is this thing?" Lin Qingyang decisively changed the subject, looking at the two pieces of meat that fell on the ground with disgust.
"I don't know." Cheng Hui was also confused. The stone suddenly turned into meat and produced a smell that attracted people to eat it. If it weren't for the reminder from the grandmother in the illusion, he might have fallen for it.
grandmother……
Cheng Hui thought of the lively old lady and suddenly felt sad.
People in the cultivation world have a chance to enter the underworld after death, but their world...
He shook his head slightly, wondering what he was thinking. After his grandmother passed away, he would burn paper for her every New Year, and he left her a house, a car, a cell phone, and everything else. He wanted to make sure that even in the afterlife, his grandmother would still be the fashionable old lady and her quality of life would not decline.
If the underworld really exists, with my grandmother's personality, she will definitely live a good life.
Lin Qingyang's heart skipped a beat when he saw Cheng Hui's nostalgic expression.
Who is Ah Hui thinking about? Who in this world is worth his nostalgia?
He quickly went through the people they knew, and no one was killed. As for the dead enemies, it was obvious that Cheng Hui was not missing them.
Lin Qingyang didn't like Cheng Hui's expression. He bit his lip slightly and asked softly, "Ah Hui, who are you missing?"
"Ah?" Cheng Hui was stunned for a moment, then smiled gently: "Nothing, I just suddenly missed my grandma a little bit."
"grandmother?"
Lin Qingyang was stunned.
He had never heard Cheng Hui mention his experiences in the Cheng Mansion before. It turned out that his grandmother...
wrong!
If his grandmother, with whom he had a deep affection, had died in that disaster, Cheng Hui would never be as relaxed as he is now. Sometimes, Lin Qingyang would even forget that Cheng Hui's family was wiped out...
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