Chapter 4
It is no exaggeration to say that Yu Tu's eyes turned black.
If it weren't for the good upbringing he had received over the past decade that prevented him from doing anything too unreasonable, he would have slammed the door and locked it with five big locks right in front of the male protagonist.
The only thing more terrifying than experiencing social demise is that the person you just saw as social demise reappears in front of you five hours later.
Yu Tu: “…”
He doesn't understand!
There are so many families in the town adjacent to the barren mountain, why did the male protagonist choose his family by chance!
Perhaps because he was silent for too long, Gu Hongying, who was standing outside the door, took a step back with an unusually sincere expression on his face:
"I mean no harm, I just encountered an emergency. Can I borrow a place to wash up and call my family?"
Gu Hongying himself was aware that his current image might be a bit bad. After all, he had been climbing the barren mountain for nearly ten hours from midnight yesterday to noon today. He was definitely a wolf in sheep's clothing. It was normal for the person who knocked on the door to be suspicious and alert.
"I have asked several people. I am not a bad person."
Gu Hongying has sought help several times. If this family is unwilling to help, he can only change to another one.
Yu Tu looked at Gu Hongying outside the door. He was a mess with black and white spots on his face. The grandparents on both sides would definitely not believe him. After all, the town officials had just carried out anti-fraud propaganda from door to door a week ago, and informed every household of the diversity of fraud methods in the world. One of them was to dress up as a child as a wolf to arouse people's sympathy, enter the house to observe the situation, and then wait for an opportunity to commit a crime.
The protagonist's height is totally different from that of a child. He is tall and strong and more dangerous than a child. No wonder the grandparents are afraid.
Gu Hongying was already a little disappointed when he said this. Seeing that Yu Tu was still in a daze, he let out a long sigh, turned around and prepared to try his luck at the next store.
The three green creatures above his head patted his head with their wings:
"Dealing with the unexpected is also a compulsory course in life. I've only been rejected five times. No, this is the sixth time. I'll just get used to it!"
Gu Hongying: “…”
Thank you, he was not comforted at all.
Maybe it was because she had seen Gu Hongying's funny side in the comics and had experienced social failure in front of him without being noticed. Although she was frightened by the male protagonist knocking on the door, Yu Tu still softened her heart when she saw his dejected back when he left.
"Wait." Yu Tu opened the door slightly, "Let me lend you my cell phone to make a call."
After walking a distance, the man and the bird turned back at the same time.
Sanqing stood up from Gu Hongying's head in shock: "Fuck, what a naive child! Gu Hongying is in this state now, and you dare to lend him your phone?"
Gu Hongying: “…”
Why does he feel like he is being implied even though he is clearly praising others?
"Wait here for me. I'll get my phone."
Seeing Gu Hongying coming over, Yu Tu gave some instructions and went into the house. When he came out with the phone, before he handed it to the male protagonist, he heard the male protagonist's stomach growling. He was so embarrassed that he wanted to crawl into the ground.
This scene looked so pitiful that Yu Tu spoke faster than he could think: "I made a lot of lunch. Do you want to eat some together?"
Gu Hongying: “!!!”
He was really touched this time. If he had a tail behind him, it would have turned into a propeller by now: "Eat, eat, eat! Thank you, thank you! You are such a good person!!"
Yu Tu: “…”
Is it too late to say that what he just said was just a courtesy?
Since I invited you first, there is no reason to regret it. Yu Tu stepped aside and said, "Come in first."
Gu Hongying happily stepped over the threshold, his wide-open shark-mouthed slippers making a cheerful clacking sound on the ground.
"Can I use your bathroom to wash my hands?" Gu Hongying raised his dirty hands. "We always have to be hygienic when eating."
Yu Tu pointed him the way, and Gu Hongying walked towards the bathroom. Sanqing then flew down from over his head and landed on a branch of flowers in the yard.
In the bathroom, Gu Hongying was silent in front of the mirror.
The mirror reflected a face that was dirty enough to play a beggar. There were even a few green leaves in the tangled hair. The pajamas were covered with mud, as if he had rolled in a mud puddle and then came out to sun himself.
Given his current appearance, those grandpas and grandmas did not call the police, which shows that they are very strong mentally.
Gu Hongying washed her face with cold water in front of the faucet, watching the clear water gradually turn turbid and then flow down from the sink. Suddenly, she felt that Sanqing's just sigh really made sense.
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Gu Hongying went to the bathroom, and Yu Tu sat on the stone bench waiting for him. His peripheral vision was quietly paying attention to Sanqing jumping on the branches. In reality, Sanqing looked like a fist-sized green plush ball, with a slightly curved red feather on its head, round black eyes, and when it tilted its head, it was hard to tell where its head was and where its neck was.
It was jumping on the branch when it suddenly stiffened and fell straight onto the bluestone slab, with its round belly facing upwards, revealing its third claw on its abdomen.
Yu Tu was startled. He subconsciously stood up and ran to the place where Sanqing fell, squatted down, and prepared to pick it up to check the situation.
Before his fingers touched, Yu Tu saw Sanqing's tightly closed eyes suddenly open one side, and there seemed to be a flash of satisfaction in those round black eyes as if a prank had succeeded.
It rolled over from the ground, shook its round belly, and its fluffy feathers shone golden in the sunlight. It shouted loudly, "You can really see me!"
"You are so easily fooled!" Sanqing sighed and said angrily, "Don't be too kind to others. You should be more vigilant!"
Yu Tu retorted softly: "But you are not a human either..."
Sanqing: "..."
It spread its wings and flew to Yu Tu's shoulder. Yu Tu felt a weight on his shoulder, and then heard a round voice -
"So what if you're not a human? Just because you're not a human, you can't have bad intentions. You'll suffer the consequences sooner or later if you keep doing this!"
"Let's not talk about this anymore, let's test your spiritual power attributes first!"
Sanqing whispered something that Yu Tu couldn't understand, and then a white spot of light appeared at the same level as Yu Tu's line of sight. The light spot turned into a circle of light, and an elliptical box with long arms and legs flew out of it. Behind the box was a pair of elf-like wings that were flapping gently.
"Oh no! It's turned into a monster!" Sanqing muttered something again, and the oval box flapped its wings and flew back to the light circle by itself, and a small doll made of clay walked out.
"This belongs to the human race." Sanqing patted Yu Tu's shoulder with his wings and comforted him, "I'm going to take a drop of your blood to verify your attributes. Don't be afraid, it won't hurt at all."
A feather fell off Sanqing's body and floated down to Yu Tu's fingertips. Yu Tu only felt a slight numbness on his fingertips, and the tiny feather turned from green to red and sank into the center of the little doll's eyebrows.
There was no reaction.
Sanqing: “???”
It flew down from Yu Tu's shoulder and kicked the clay doll with its claws: "What's going on? Is Kunlun's product out of warranty?"
With the corner of its eye, it saw Gu Hongying walking towards them, so it flapped its wings and flew over, poking Gu Hongying's fingertips hard. Along with Gu Hongying's scream like a pig being killed, a drop of blood flew onto the little doll's forehead.
This time, the little doll turned into a brilliant golden color, like a shining little golden man.
"Gu Hongying is indeed of the metal attribute. The spirit puppet did nothing wrong." Sanqing flew back and faced Yu Tu. It was puzzled. "How can you have no attributes? Only ordinary people have no attributes."
But whether it is the inner world or the outer world, no attributes means no spiritual power, and it cannot be seen.
Yu Tu's heart skipped a beat.
He might just be an ordinary person, but by chance he was given the terrible task of saving the world, so he intersected with the world in the comics.
"Your situation is too strange." Sanqing was so confused that the red feathers on his head drooped down. "In previous years, there were also children with special attributes who were missed, but once they were found, their spiritual attributes could be detected, and we could just send them another admission notice."
This is the first time it has encountered Yu Tu’s situation.
"Sanqing..." Gu Hongying, his face still distorted by pain, slowly walked over and said unhappily, "Are you blind?"
Gu Hongying was not stupid. From Sanqing's words, he concluded that this so-called spirit doll had already been tested by Yu Tu, but for some reason a problem occurred in the middle.
Sanqing retorted unconvincedly: "You are the one whose eyes are blurry!"
But soon, it was stunned.
The puppet that had just turned golden was beginning to turn green little by little from its brows, and finally became like a piece of exquisite imperial jade.
Wood attribute.
"Things produced by Kunlun would actually be delayed?" Sanqing muttered in a low voice, "How strange!"
Yu Tu did not participate in their conversation. The bead hidden under his lapel and hanging on his heart was now heating up. It was a tiny dot, but it felt extremely hot.