Ning Jue laughed in exasperation, "I think I'll just call you little liar from now on."
"You're cheating!" Lian Han pouted, accusingly.
“Little liar, now tell me what you plan to do. Or you can try to see if you can fool the Word Spirit.” Ning Jue stood up and looked at her.
I refuse to answer that question.
Ning Jue wasn't surprised by her answer. He had only restricted her from lying, and not answering wasn't considered lying, so Ning Jue smiled and said, "Then stay here. Keep me company while I handle official business."
Lian Han: ...So why did she suddenly decide to come to someone else's birthplace again? Wasn't being forced to compromise last time enough?
[Tsk! You never learn.]
Is it meaningful for you to make things difficult for me?
"So you think it's fun to lie to me? Count how many times you've lied to me now?"
"What do you mean?" Lian Han opened her mouth to refute, but what came out was: "She's only been lying from the beginning until now..."
Lian Han shut his mouth and stopped talking.
"You've been lying from the beginning until now?" Ning Jue raised an eyebrow and walked closer to her.
Lian Han opened her mouth to explain, but by the time she realized that what she said was the truth, it was already a little too late. "It was only when I recognized you as Xing Xiting at the Muse Cafe that I was able to reveal that mark."
Lian Han's inner thoughts: ...
"Then how did you recognize it?"
Of course, it was because of the old man. But this time, Lian Han turned his head away and stopped talking, completely refusing to communicate with Ning Jue.
Ning Jue frowned and placed her hands on Lian Han's shoulders. "Then can I assume that you were lying to me about my brother as well?"
Lian Han: ?!
Lian Han: "I didn't. It was indeed him who entered my sea of consciousness, but—you just want to know what I'm planning to do! Is it wrong for me to cause trouble during that selection?"
She forcefully changed the subject. Ning Jue looked at her, knowing that asking about this again would probably cause an explosion. "How are you planning to cause trouble?"
Compared to exposing Old Man Xing, this matter was insignificant. She wasn't sure if this person could stop her. So the girl weighed the pros and cons, raised her right hand, back of her hand up, "Blood Nether Flower is superior to Blood Worm, but there are also differences in strength among Blood Nether Flowers. Compared to those who don't even have the mark yet, I am confident that I can evoke their thirst for blood—no one wants to become a monster."
"Then use the grafting card to save people?"
"The grafting card has limited durability, so I borrowed a purification card."
A purification card? "Jing Li lent it to you?"
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend. At least on the Blood Netherworld Palace, our attitudes are aligned." She had just confirmed his stance through Jing Li's words.
What do you think of Jingli?
“An enemy, intelligent as a demon, always threatening people.” Just as Ning Jue’s brows were about to relax after hearing these three comments, Lian Han continued, “But he is also a very persistent person.”
"Persistence?"
"I promised to keep it a secret. I wouldn't go so far as to betray someone's privacy."
Regarding that document, and the person he wanted to save, according to Old Man Xing, he had wanted to save that person for over ten years and hadn't given up yet. Ten years of unwavering dedication—even Han wasn't sure she could achieve that.
She also had secrets with others. This realization made Ning Jue somewhat unhappy. "You'd better be careful not to be sold out by Jing Li."
"It'll be next year before it's sold. Can I leave now?"
"I'm sorry, but I can't." Ning Jue looked at the girl's accusing gaze and patiently explained, "Have you ever wondered why the Blood Nether Flower in your body manifested directly, while others didn't?"
If this had happened before, Lian Han would have said he hadn't thought about it, but now—"I have. But no matter the reason, if he dares to do this, I dare to sabotage it to show him."
Ning Jue was such a perceptive person; she immediately understood her suspicions from those words. "You think Cangming did this on purpose?"
"I can't think of any other reason." After all, she had asked the system to remove the power of the bloodworms before, so there couldn't have been anything left out.
Thinking of Zhu Yan, who was quite a distance from the capital planet, Ning Jue knew that this girl dared to speak her mind only because she felt she couldn't be controlled. "Go ahead and sabotage things if you want, I'll have Xiao Mo cooperate with you. But Lian Han—his life is the most important, you know that?"
"I know."
Tsk. Old Xing said, "If you lose your life, you lose everything," but Ning Jue says, "Life is the most important thing." Don't you think they're truly brothers?
"Then I won't disturb your work."
Ning Jue shook her head, flicked her forehead with her finger, and changed the birthplace permissions back. "Go offline and rest. Good night."
"You too, go to sleep early. It's almost midnight. If you really can't, you can do it tomorrow."
Ning Jue smiled as she watched her leave, but her expression was more worried than anything else.
Yu Hui had previously mentioned that the Divine Alliance would end the Death Selection tomorrow, and today they finished the first round, with all the participants logging off. Was this a coincidence? Or was it pre-planned?
If it's the latter—Ning Jue didn't want to think about it too much, but he couldn't help but continue. Was the Divine Alliance, the cleanest and most impenetrable place in the Federation, still truly clean now?
What exactly does Cangming want to achieve by making such a large-scale mobilization this time?
Ning Jue tapped his fingers on the table. He couldn't remain passive any longer. Once this matter was over, he should let the other party know that the Federation wasn't a toy he could manipulate at will...
When Lian Han woke up in the morning, she opened her eyes and saw the young man sitting by the bed. She was so shocked that she was no longer sleepy at all.
After recognizing who it was, he said irritably, "What are you doing? Trying to scare people this early in the morning?"
“I didn’t wake you because you were sleeping so soundly,” Qianya said, extending his right hand. “The Major General said you should know what this is.”
In the young man's hand was a pale, alluring flower, the one that Lian Han was quite familiar with.
"What did Li Yingmo say?"
Qianya frowned. "He said that this thing hasn't been found on any of the other contestants yet."
Lian Han sat up, reached out and touched the Blood Nether Flower. Its aura was similar to that of Li Yingmo, still within Lian Han's influence range. So, this flower would manifest—"It should be a matter of constitution. You joined the Ice Clan, and although I don't know the process, since you were able to become the First Ice Palace Master, your constitution must be different from ordinary people. Others also have it, but it hasn't manifested."
That answer was reasonable. But Qianya grabbed Lianhan's hand, "Then what about yours? Why is the mark on yours so dark? Isn't it a flower or a seed?"
This is indeed a point of suspicion. However—
"Probably because I originally had this power within me." Lian Han casually told a lie. In truth, she had told countless lies by now. Ning Jue's "little liar" comment wasn't entirely unfounded.
"It was always there?"
“This is related to my childhood experiences,” Lian Han said, taking out a grafting card for him. “This card can eliminate that power, but you will also be participating in the second round later, so I don’t recommend you use it now.”
"Thank you." Qianya paused for a moment. "I'm sorry, it seems we've dragged you into some trouble."
"Then I can take care of the problem. You can go back now. I'm going to sleep a little longer."
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