Chapter 61: Of course, Miss will always be Miss
After discussing countermeasures yesterday, Yan Shiman had been following her closely. Although there was obviously no difference from usual, she could see that he was at a loss.
Yin Zhiyi felt that he was irritated by Ji Changfeng's words yesterday and felt insecure.
"Miss, aren't you afraid of me? What if... I really killed my mother and my master? What if I really become an uncontrollable puppet..." Yan Shiman's tone was full of uncertainty, and the look he gave Yin Zhiyi was even more panic-stricken.
Yin Zhiyi could see a bit of pity in me.
She had previously felt that it was not a good idea to open up Yan Shiman's scars for the second time, but if she didn't say it now, she felt that this person would cry. She softened her tone and said, "What do you want to say?"
Yan Shiman's eyes were clear: "I didn't kill them... I didn't."
Yin Zhiyi was slightly stunned. She remembered that it was indeed Yan Shiman who killed those two people. Why would Yan Shiman lie to her?
She paused and said nothing.
"Miss, don't you believe me?" He laughed at himself and continued, "For so many years, you are the only one who always stands in front of me when I encounter danger. It turns out..."
When Yin Zhiyi saw his sincere yet lost eyes, she suddenly doubted the authenticity of the information the system had previously sent to her. It was not her fault, after all, the system was unreliable many times.
For example, last night, after one person and one user finished their conversation, the system went offline again with garbled characters.
She said solemnly: "Of course I believe you. No matter how close we are, I will not listen to Ji Changfeng's one-sided words. If you say there is no such thing, then there is no such thing."
After he finished speaking, Yan Shiman finally smiled: "I know that Miss is the best to me. Miss said before that she would never leave me. Miss will not break her promise, right?"
Yin Zhiyi suddenly heard the words 'will never leave me' and was unable to react for a moment until she remembered what she had said in Zeyu Village: "I will never leave him."
She felt a little guilty for a moment, and she added a prefix at that time: as long as she was still in this world, but when the soul-sacrificing formation was broken and the book "Xuan Tianshi" ended, she would leave this world.
At that time, she was not breaking the promise.
However, looking at Yan Shi's expectant eyes, she suddenly felt a little upset.
I didn't feel that way when I was just reading the book, but when I really became a character in the book and looked at Yan Shiman's first half of his life, it seemed that he had been in a cycle of being abandoned and betrayed.
She still wants to lie to him. Isn't that a bit too cruel to him?
"I……"
Yan Shiman smiled faintly: "Miss, don't you remember? Then Miss, can you say it again?"
Yin Zhiyi still felt somewhat guilty, so he just said, "I won't abandon you."
Yan Shiman said: "Even if the lady is not a lady anymore, you will not abandon me, right?" Hearing this, Yin Zhiyi suddenly froze for a moment. The amount of information was a bit too much, and her mind was working rapidly.
She turned her head suddenly, but when she looked at Yan Shiman, she still had those innocent, expectant eyes.
Seeing Yin Zhiyi in a daze, Yan Shiman smiled and said, "I was joking. Miss will of course always be Miss... I know Miss's answer."
But Yin Zhiyi didn't know that where she couldn't see, the young man clenched his fists, and his arms were instantly covered with black lines.
This nonsensical sentence made Yin Zhiyi a little dazed.
If she didn't know that Yan Shiman couldn't hear her conversation with the system, she would have suspected that her recent conversation with the system was eavesdropped by someone.
What Yan Shiman said might be a coincidence.
After all, it's just a paper man.
Well, she had asked the system before, and there would still be some buffer time when she leaves the world. She could also say goodbye to Yan Shiman properly and hope not to leave any shadow on the child.
…
Thinking of this, Yin Zhiyi's flustered heart calmed down a bit, and he changed the subject: "Hahaha, this play is really good."
The play in the audience had already changed. On the stage, Du Liniang's sleeves swung out in a sad arc, and the lyrics came faintly: "The living can die, and the dead can live--"
"Miss, do you like this kind of tragic love?" Suddenly, Yin Zhiyi saw Yan Shiman's fingertips tapping on the table in a rhythmic pattern.
The moment they looked at each other, they continued their conversation calmly, but their eyes were looking towards the table beside them.
"Fortunately, perhaps tragedy can make a deeper impression on people."
If nothing else, the restaurant is well-informed, and the lobby is full of guests gossiping.
The most talked about topics are the women who disappeared some time ago.
A big bearded man was sitting nearby, drinking and eating meat. When others greeted him, he didn't say a word. He was quite cold and a bit intimidating. There was a bamboo hat on the table in front of him, a large gourd hung around his waist, and his eyes were sharp, observing his surroundings from time to time with a hidden gaze.
Soon he put on his hat, left a piece of silver on the table, and left the restaurant quietly.
Yin Zhiyi and Yan Shiman followed him immediately. Bai Zhixing had told her before that among this group of independent practitioners, there were three with considerable strength and appeal, and this bearded man was one of them.
At the corner, a bamboo hat broke through the wind and flew towards Yan Shiman's face! Yan Shiman flew with his sword, then attacked the man, and the two of them instantly tangled up in a fight.
Yin Zhiyi was shocked. This big man had such sharp insight.
In a few breaths, Yan Shiman put his sword to the opponent's throat.
The big man looked at the sword at his throat, somewhat doubtful, but still unwilling to show any weakness, and snorted coldly: "Two little brats, why are you following me?"
Yin Zhiyi didn't make his intention clear, but only said, "We want to talk to you about the missing woman's case. We know something about it."
"Hmph, little girl, do you think I would believe you? If you really knew the inside story, why didn't you take the reward yourself?" He glanced at the two of them coldly, obviously not believing that anyone would share such good news for free.
"You have the life to get the reward, but you also have the life to spend it, right?" Yin Zhiyi said with a smile. For a wandering Taoist priest like Bearded Man, the fastest way for the two to reach an agreement is to bind themselves by interests.
"Of course, he and I can't afford such a large reward, so we came to find someone to cooperate with us. Are you unwilling?" She asked back, "The greater the risk, the higher the return. Then we can split the reward. How about it?"
The bearded man felt a little moved when he heard this, and he could feel that the moment the little girl finished speaking, the sword against his throat got closer, like a naked threat, that if he didn't agree, she would kill him right now.
In the end he agreed.
Yin Zhiyi gave Yan Shiman a look, and the sword hanging from the bearded man's throat fell.
Yin Zhiyi smiled and said, "It's a pleasure to work with you."
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In the inn, eight people with different expressions were sitting around the wooden table.
The bearded man slammed the big gourd on the table and said angrily: "This is what you told me, you two can't finish it? What about the others..." If they divide it like this, there won't be enough reward for each person.
Before he finished speaking, Yan Shiman calmly placed the sword in his hand on the table, staring at him calmly, and the bearded man instantly fell silent.
Yin Zhiyi coughed twice embarrassedly. Her words just now were indeed somewhat misleading, but if she hadn't said that, the bearded man would never have come back with them. It was just a white lie.
The other two people invited by Bai Zhixing were a couple.
The woman's name was Qiu Sanniang. Although she was over 30 years old, she still had a pretty face. She was wearing a bright red dress and had a very hot temper. As for the man, he had a stern face. He only nodded when Qiu Sanniang spoke throughout the whole process, without saying a word.
The two were traveling from south to north, but coincidentally, they happened to be old acquaintances of Bai Zhixing.
Qiu Sanniang had not originally planned to come to the capital. She only turned back after hearing about the disappearance of a woman in the capital.
It wasn't because of the reward. Although it was said that independent cultivators were poor and miserable, she was not. She came from a wealthy family. It was purely because of her strong sense of justice that she became an independent cultivator and learned skills from a master.
After listening to Bai Zhixing's description, he almost slammed the table.
Those are the people of the entire Shangjing!
Qiu Sanniang held the man beside her and made the final decision: "Brother, we have to take care of this matter!"
The cold-faced man beside him said without hesitation: "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Now, everyone looked at the bearded man. He could only smile bitterly, feeling that he had been cheated, and it was a huge cheat.
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There were many independent Taoist priests in the city, and the task of gathering them together was given to those three.
At that time, Ji Changfeng said that the formation would be fully opened in three days. In other words, the current formation has not been fully opened, and there is still a steady stream of evil energy being transported into the palace.
Bai Zhixing wanted to let some of the weaker independent cultivators hold back the Northern Taoist priests who continued to transport evil spirits to the palace, and when there was a chance, send a signal to the outside world so that the stronger ones would follow them into the palace.
Zhu Qingshan said with excitement: "As long as there is enough power to break the center of the formation and break the soul sacrifice formation, everyone will be saved!"
Ji Ci suddenly spoke up: "No, if the formation is broken, all the evil spirits that were originally suppressed under the formation will come out. By then, Shangjing will still be littered with corpses."
In an instant, the field became cold again.
Everyone seemed to have forgotten about this before, and only thought about breaking the formation, but now -
"This is a dead end! If we don't break the formation, half of the people will die. If we break the formation, all of them will die, unless... unless..." Zhu Qingshan looked somewhere unconsciously, his tone was filled with anger, and he was so angry that he smashed the cup in his hand.
Yan Shiman continued his words calmly: "You mean, unless you dig out my heart and use it to block the eye of the formation, there is still a glimmer of hope." After all, the Peacock Feather can purify evil spirits.
Zhu Qingshan stopped talking. He actually had some resentment towards Yan Shiman, which he had been holding back for the past few days. After all, if he had not taken the initiative to grab the other half of the peacock feather, it might not have been taken away by Ji Changfeng, leading to the current passive situation!
Yin Zhiyi had just brought in a plate of dim sum from the kitchen and heard this conversation when he walked to the door.
Because of her God's perspective, although she was also nervous during this period, the psychological pressure was actually not comparable to that of the protagonists. Moreover, because the task was about to be completed, her original feeling of being integrated into the book was gradually alleviated.
The sudden outbreak of conflict at this moment immediately made her feel frivolous again.
She stopped for a moment and pushed the door open.
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