Chapter 22 22 I will definitely follow you closely from now on!
After the two of them finished discussing, they decided to talk to Wen Lanzhi to see if she wanted to go with them.
Murong did not go in. She knew that Wen Lanzhi was in a bad mood at the moment, so she decided to let Wu Ci Yan take on the bad luck.
Wu Ciyan patted the quilt twice, "Lanlan?"
Wen Lanzhi twisted twice in the quilt.
Wu Ciyan clapped twice more.
Wen Lanzhi poked her head out and muttered a few words.
"What?" Wu Ci Yan leaned over and listened carefully.
Wen Lanzhi muttered again.
Wu Ci Yan still didn't hear clearly, so he moved closer and almost put his ear against Wen Lanzhi's mouth.
This time he finally heard it clearly and repeated it, "Are your socks torn?"
He slowly repeated it in his mind twice, and looking at the blush on Wen Lanzhi's cheeks, he suddenly reacted.
He raised his head and laughed loudly: "Hahahaha! Karma, karma! Hahahahaha! Wen Lanzhi! This is all karma for you! Karma!"
Murong, who was strolling outside the palace, stumbled and almost fell on the peach tree.
Wen Lanzhi kicked him a few more times through the quilt.
Wu Ciyan stood up, and stood three steps away from the bed. He raised his head again and laughed: "Hahahahaha! Wen Lanzhi! It's karma! It's karma! Hahahahahahahahaha, this is all your karma!"
Murong: "..." Sure enough, the thunder would not strike only once. Fortunately, she was mentally prepared.
She looked at the monsters who were admiring the flowers with her and asked, "Does your king often do this?"
The monster next to him quickly defended the king's reputation: "He has never shown signs of madness before. Today is the first time."
Wen Lanzhi took off her socks and crawled out of the quilt.
Wu Ciyan immediately changed his tone, "Okay, okay, I was wrong, wrong, wrong. I'll go find you some socks."
He opened the wardrobe and turned sideways to show Wen Lanzhi, "Look, aren't these all your socks? And clothes too." He took a pair and handed it to Wen Lanzhi.
Wen Lanzhi put them on and went back to put her shoes on. When Wu Ciyan handed her the socks, she noticed the blood on his hands and lowered her head guiltily. After a while, she said, "I'm sorry."
"What?" Wu Ci Yan asked in confusion.
Wen Lanzhi pointed at his wound.
"Oh!" Wu Ciyan almost forgot. He raised his arm and said, "It hurts."
Wen Lanzhi took out the small bottle that Wu Ciyan had given her before and applied the medicine to him carefully, covering him with several layers.
Wu Ciyan touched his forehead to hers and said, "Close your eyes and I'll perform a magic trick for you."
Wen Lanzhi closed her eyes.
"Three, two... one! Open your eyes!" said Wu Ci Yan.
Wen Lanzhi opened her eyes, and the wound that was facing her just now disappeared.
"Wow!" Wen Lanzhi held his arm and looked at it again and again, "How amazing."
Wu Ciyan had heard her say the word "amazing" more than once, so he imitated her tone and said, "amazing."
Murong came in and asked, "Can you two talk about something serious?"
When Wen Lanzhi heard Murong's voice, she quickly turned around and bumped heads with Wu Ciyan.
"Ouch!" Wu Ci Yan pretended to be in pain, covered his head and looked at her.
Wen Lanzhi didn't feel anything. She looked at him, then at Murong, and said, "I'm sorry, but you can heal yourself anyway. Sister Murong! The grapes in the demon world are delicious too. I haven't finished eating them yet. Come and try some."
Wu Ciyan: “…”
Murong smiled and was pulled to sit on the edge of the bed by her, and was given a basket full of grapes.
She tasted one and said, "Hmm, very sweet. Zhizhi, I have something to tell you."
Murong explained the matter of Qin Qingguo in simple and easy-to-understand language.
After that, Murong asked again: "Do you want to go?"
Wen Lanzhi nodded repeatedly, "I want to go!"
Sister Murong said that if you eat the Qinqing fruit, you can turn into a smart little rabbit. Wen Lanzhi really wanted to turn into a smart little rabbit. She couldn't wait to ask, "When are we going?"
Wu Ciyan said: "Now then."
As soon as the words fell, the scene in front of the three people began to change, and the things around them moved rapidly. Wen Lanzhi saw the three people passing through the wall, and then she could not see anything clearly. She only saw that the things on both sides were moving backwards rapidly.
Wu Ciyan snapped his fingers, "Stop!"
Murong and Wen Lanzhi were still sitting on the bed, and Wu Ciyan was still standing by the table, but the room had become simpler and the surroundings were no longer quiet. There were noises coming one after another: laughter and fighting.
Murong looked around carefully, "Is this... an inn?"
Wu Ciyan said, "Yes, a little further north is Xixi Lake. I just checked with my spiritual sense, and there's only this inn with rooms available."
He took out some silver from his purse, threw it into Murong's arms, and said, "Go and book two rooms quickly. There are only five rooms left in this inn, and they will be gone soon."
"Five rooms? Book two?" Murong counted the number of people in her mind again.
"Ahem!" Wu Ciyan turned his back. "So many people are sleeping on the floor outside. If we save one room, there will be one less person sleeping on the floor."
Murong was speechless for a moment and went downstairs to pay the room fee.
The people downstairs seemed to be full of strange people, as well as some monsters that had not hidden their tails well.
"Two rooms!"
"I want four rooms!"
The two said in unison.
The shop owner was not surprised to see Murong coming down from upstairs, as there were many strange things happening here.
He looked at the two of them and said, "There are only five rooms left."
Murong looked at the other person. He was a strong man. Although being strong didn't necessarily mean he could fight, she really didn't want to fight.
She negotiated kindly, "How many of you are there? Can you squeeze in? There's really no room for the three of us."
The burly man was about to speak when the person behind him made a "tsk" sound. The burly man hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, we want three."
Murong breathed a sigh of relief.
The sturdy man moved aside, revealing a thin man who looked like a goblin. There were two large black boxes on the ground. The sturdy man carried one, and the man behind him carried the other and walked upstairs.
Murong looked at the two boxes and always felt something was strange.
After returning, I found Wu Ci Yan and Wen Lanzhi were playing rock-paper-scissors. They actually enjoyed such a boring game so much.
Wu Ciyan said: "Give up, you can't win."
Wen Lanzhi was unconvinced and said, "Why? Isn't it just luck? Try again."
Murong: "...I just now."
"Wait a minute!" Wu Ciyan interrupted her, "Come on, three! Two! One!"
"Scissors!"
"Stone!"
"Hehehe! I won!" Wen Lanzhi cheered.
Murong: “…”
Wu Ciyan turned around and asked, "What do you want to say?"
Murong said, "I just saw two people carrying two boxes that were almost as tall as people and entering the room opposite us."
Wu Ciyan thought for a moment and said, "Do you think someone is raising a ghost?"
"Raising a ghost?" Wen Lanzhi asked curiously.
Wu Ciyan explained, "It's about imprisoning a person's ghost in one place. You feed it with blood, and it can help you fight. Moreover, because it drinks your blood, it recognizes you as its master and becomes a part of your body. So if you die, it will die too. This is forbidden in the ghost world, the demon world, and even the heavens. To raise a ghost, you need to carry the ghost's corpse with you. The closer the ghost is to the flesh, the greater its power."
"But," Wu Ciyan changed the subject, "if the mortal world doesn't prohibit it, no one will care. If those two people are from the mortal world, we can't do anything about it. If they are from the demon world, we can take them back to the demon world and punish them. If they are from the ghost world, we can just find a ghost king and hand them over to him."
Wen Lanzhi continued, "Then it should be from the mortal world, right? Otherwise, it would definitely be hidden!"
"Look." Wu Ciyan turned to look at Murong, "Wen Lanzhi understands everything. We can't do anything about it."
Murong sat down and said, "If we can't send people back, can't we send ghosts back?"
"What do you mean?" Wu Ciyan saw Wen Lanzhi picking up an unpeeled orange on the ground and slapped her away. "How dare you pick up things casually in a place like this?"
Murong said, "The human-ghost contract may not be unbreakable. Tomorrow we go to Xixi Lake, there will definitely be thousands of people there. If this ghost comes out to harm people, what should we do? Besides, Zhizhi is still in the team."
Wu Ciyan took a peach from his pocket and handed it to Wen Lanzhi, saying, "Breaking the contract... this is too complicated."
To break the contract, you must first snatch the ghost from the other party, turn it into your own little ghost, and then send it back to the ghost world to reincarnate. Once it has a new skin and becomes a human again, the contract will naturally be broken.
However, Murong was right. Ghosts can easily go mad, especially captive ghosts. When they go mad, they will attack indiscriminately except for their owners. The owner will probably be reluctant to kill the ghost they have finally captured. If that happens, who knows how many people will die.
What if, what if, Wen Lanzhi gets separated from them...
"Okay, I think it's reliable." Wu Ciyan figured it out, "Let's go open those two boxes tonight."
Murong patted Wu Ciyan's shoulder and said with relief: "Reliable, you are the most reliable!"
"You are the most reliable!" Wen Lanzhi also imitated Murong and said.
Wu Ciyan touched Wen Lanzhi's head and said, "Well, I'm the most reliable. You must follow me closely in the future."
Wen Lanzhi shouted, "I will definitely follow you closely from now on!"
Boom boom boom, boom boom boom.
Wen Lanzhi exclaimed, "Did you hear that? What? It's such a small sound, is it knocking on the floor?"
"Is it possible?" Murong tilted her ear and listened carefully.
The surrounding noises were very noisy, and the sound was very small. Murong carefully distinguished it for a long time and said, "It should be the sound coming from the other side."
Wen Lanzhi also listened carefully, "Does it really sound like... knocking... on the floor?"
Murong said, "It could also be that he knocked on the box."
Then, there was the sound of the door opening opposite, then it opened and closed again. Not long after, the knocking sound on the floor disappeared.
"Not a little ghost?" Wu Ci Yan guessed.
"Why?" Wen Lanzhi asked.
Wu Ciyan said, "When the little ghost is not crazy, he is very obedient. He will definitely not knock if he is not allowed to. If he has gone crazy, it will not be as simple as knocking on the box."
Wen Lanzhi shook her head. She didn’t quite understand any of this and felt that it didn’t matter.
After a while, she suddenly said in astonishment, "Could it be a living person?"
Wu Ciyan held her hand.
Murong asked, "Is it possible? Are you asking for help?"
"Carrying a living person to Xixi Lake..." Wu Ciyan shook his head. "I think the possibility is small. What can we do? Kidnap? Sell him here?"
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