Chapter 53

For a moment, Yu Tu thought he had been discovered, but soon, a drunk man emerged from the tall grass path, walking unsteadily and reeking of alcohol.

He raised his hand and pointed at the Nuo performer on the bridge.

"Hey, beautiful lady, where are you going? I'll take you there~"

His voice sounded frivolous and dissolute, and it gave off a bad vibe.

The Nuo performer on the bridge is wearing brightly coloured clothes. A wide belt makes his waist look slimmer. His hair is finely braided and decorated with beautiful decorations. When he wears a mask, he indeed looks androgynous.

The Nuo performer actually started to speak, but the drunken man didn't listen carefully. He was drunk and not sober anyway, so he took advantage of his drunkenness and staggered toward the bridge. Before his hand touched the Nuo performer's sleeve, he fell from the wooden bridge into the water.

The water under the bridge was not deep, at most it could only cover a person's chest, but the drunk man was not sure whether his legs were weak or he had no strength, but he sank a little bit. The drunkenness he felt instantly disappeared in the cold water at night. He struggled, his face full of panic, his voice was shrill because of panic: "Help! Help! Help me———"

Looking around, there were only the Nuo performers on the bridge. The man stretched out his hand in his direction: "Save me! Come down and save me!"

The Nuo performer rested one hand on the railing of the small bridge, his eyes beneath the mask filled with interest. He leaned forward slightly, the silver bells in his hair made a crisp sound, and his other hand was slightly raised forward.

The man in the water saw hope, but the hand just pressed down slightly. He suddenly felt as if there was an invisible weight on his shoulders, pressing him into the water in an irresistible manner. The water flooded over his shoulders, neck, chin, and then over his mouth, eyes and head until he was completely submerged in the water, and could only spit out a string of futile bubbles.

"Heh." A light laugh escaped from his throat.

A green vine broke through the water, picked up the drowned and unconscious man and dragged him to the shore.

The Nuoze was not surprised at all. He just cast his beautiful eyes towards the place where the green vine appeared and said, "Is this kind of trash worth saving?"

"You are deciding life and death for your own selfishness." A figure slowly emerged in front of a bush as tall as a person. He was wearing a black robe, black hair and phoenix eyes. Although he looked young and handsome, his eyes seemed to have been stagnant for a long time. There was a kind of calmness and heaviness that did not match his appearance. "Not right."

"It's just like those old-fashioned people in the inner world who are full of dogma." The Nuo practitioner withdrew his hand and leaned on the railing on the side of the bridge again. There seemed to be an illusory flame burning in his gorgeous red pupils. He raised his hand and tapped his eyes, and the red flame seemed to burn more vigorously: "The transformation of plants and trees? Interesting."

Before he finished speaking, a halo suddenly appeared under the feet of the man in the ink-colored robe. The halo was a light silver-white and radiated to the green vine that saved the man.

The white light suddenly disappeared and shattered into tiny stars in the night.

"Huh?" The Nuo practitioner's eyes flashed with suspicion, "Your true identity is unknown?"

After the suspicion, he became more interested. The Nuo performer put his hand on the rough and simple mask and then took it off.

Behind the mask was a very young face. His features were elegant and pure, and when he smiled, his red pupils and the corners of his eyes looked inexplicably seductive.

"You don't know me," he said firmly.

Di Changqing has always been at the top of the wanted list in the inner world. He is not bragging. If you are not an old antique who lives in the deep mountains and old forests, isolated from the world, almost no one has not heard of his notoriety. The name of Di Changqing in the inner world can stop children of all races from crying at night. Even if people really don't know him, his identity should be recognized by others once his talent [Illuminating the True Body] is revealed.

But the person in front of him was so peaceful.

Whether he wanted to drown the blind scum who dared to tease him, or he suddenly took action to investigate his true identity, the man in front of him did not show much emotion. Whether it was taking human life lightly or being provocative and rude, it could not arouse his emotions - Di Changqing actually felt a kind of weird tolerance from it.

He blinked his eyes, and there was a hint of contemplation in them.

Plant tribe...

In a flash, he seemed to have figured something out: "Oh, I see. You came here for that cub."

"Are you from the Grass and Tree Tribe too protective? It's just a small 'nightmare', yet you refuse to let it go even after being discovered?" He leaned slightly and sat on the railing. The night wind blew his clothes, making the slender Nuo practitioner seem like he would be blown away by the wind at any time. "Who told you guys to be so fiery? Just have a good dream in the 'nightmare', and you will wake up naturally when the dream ends. Why bother to leave in such a tragic and decisive way?"

'Nightmare' is just a small skill he picked up when he was bored. Its function is to pull a person's consciousness into a beautiful dream that he most desires. In the dream, he can have everything he doesn't have, and 'Nightmare' will automatically fill in all the illogical places.

The stronger the dreamer's mental power, the clearer and more detailed the dream will be, the larger the scope of the dream will be, and the faster and more reasonable the logic in the dream will be completed.

Even if the young ones of the Plant Tribe, who have not yet fully grown up, were dragged into a beautiful dream by the Nightmare, the range of their mental power that can be conjured is probably pitifully small. The scenery and passers-by may be in shapeless form. No wonder they were discovered.

Although Di Changqing was the creator of the nightmare, he would not know what the dreamer saw in his dream after he dragged them into it. He could only sense how the dreamer escaped. The cub who had looked him in the eyes on the balcony before should have used the simplest and most painful method - suicide.

No wonder the parents came to the door.

What's wrong with indulging in beautiful dreams? It's just that people with weak minds tend to confuse dreams with reality after waking up from a big dream, and the probability of breeding inner demons during the process of cultivation is greatly increased.

"Ding-ling~Ding-ling~"

The silver bell in Di Changqing's hair began to ring, and the man on the ground, whose facial features were wrinkled in pain due to drowning, smiled a comfortable and somewhat crazy smile, as if he had sunk into a beautiful dream of satisfaction.

The person standing next to the man did not react from beginning to end.

There are only three situations in which one can resist the "nightmare". One is that one has been dragged into a beautiful dream by his "nightmare" within a month, the second is that one is a person who specializes in mental strength and is at a similar level to him, and the third is that the person in front of him is stronger than him.

If it is the latter two, then it is really troublesome.

Di Zhangqing smiled, but he was not very nervous: "Why are you not talking? Didn't you come here for the cub?"

One of them was on the bridge, and the other was beside the bridge, as if they were two completely different worlds.

He heard the man who had been extremely silent except at the beginning say: "It is not advisable to harm others. It is better to stop as soon as possible."

———It was as if the old man on Kunlun many years ago was chattering away again.

Di Changqing: “…”

He was now certain that this person he did not know was just an old antique who had come out from some unknown mountain or forest.

His strength is unknown, his true identity is unknown, he is just being kind and targeting good people.

He suddenly felt extremely bored. The same circle of light as before reappeared under the man's feet. After it shattered into starlight, he still could not see anything.

"Tsk." Di Changqing licked his fangs with the tip of his tongue, feeling a little annoyed for a rare time.

He attacked without warning.

The space was torn apart, and the invisible attack was imminent.

But Di Changqing did not feel like he had attacked a solid entity. The blow seemed to have penetrated the empty air rather than a living person.

After the attack failed, Di Changqing looked up and saw that everyone had disappeared, including the piece of trash who was dreaming on the ground.

From the beginning to the end, he did not realize that the person who appeared and disappeared silently was just an energy clone condensed casually.

———An energy clone that can appear in the surface world.

Di Changqing, who had originally just been wandering around the gate of the Grass and Wood Clan to catch a traitor on a whim, was now really interested.

Whether he wanted the little array mage from Kunlun or the young plant tribe cub who had solved the "confusion" and was stranded outside, he only had a passing interest in them. If they came into his hands, he would try his best to get them, and he would not feel it was a pity if he did not get them.

But this time, he felt something different.

No one has ever successfully fooled Di Changqing, who has the Di Ting bloodline and is good at distinguishing the true from the false.

He remembered this mysterious man.

…

"Tu Tu?" Yu Tu heard Gu Hongying's voice, "Why did you freeze again while eating? It took you nearly an hour to gnaw on a rice cake!"

The sudden change of perspective made Yu Tu's brain a little confused. He mechanically bit off the last piece of rice cake on the skewer in his hand and ate it. The charred aroma of the rice cake sprinkled with cumin and chili awakened his taste buds and also cleared his mind a little.

It was ultimately too risky to use the energy condensation vest to track Di Changqing's actions. Facing Di Changqing's sudden attack, half of the energy in Yu Tu's condensation vest was directly offset, and the other half was used to protect the drunkard on the ground and move away.

Although he had no good feelings towards such people who harassed others, it was a life after all, and the trial should be judged by the laws of the outside world. So Yu Tu directly threw the man into the yard of the police station in the town, hoping that when he woke up he would be scared to death, turn over a new leaf, and start a new life.

Yu Tu took another skewer of squid from the grill and started to eat it expressionlessly. He wanted to suppress his surprise by eating.

Seeing that the man was about to drown, Yu Tu had no choice but to take action. However, facing Di Changqing, the top of the inner world's wanted list, it was impossible for him not to be afraid.

His mind was almost completely blank, and when the white halo suddenly exploded under his feet, he had no reaction at all. Fortunately, the strange halo was like a strange projection, and after it disappeared, Di Changqing instead felt inexplicably jealous.

Yu Tu could only listen to him talking to himself in confusion, which made the relationship between Ma Jia and him more and more solid.

The thing that pulled him into the dream was called a "nightmare". It seemed that this "nightmare" could not know everything that happened in his dream. Otherwise, based on their brief contact, if Di Changqing knew that the inner world was drawn in the form of comics, his reaction would definitely not be this.

Yu Tu had a bad guess. Since he escaped from Di Changqing's hands, it was very likely that Di Changqing had become interested in him.

Yu Tu finished chewing the squid tentacles in his hand, and went to get a string of fried potatoes. He glanced at Gu Hongying who was eating happily, and suddenly an inappropriate thought popped up in his mind—

When the comic was exposed, Di Changqing knew that Gu Hongying was the male protagonist. Gu Hongying might, probably, estimated... could not escape the fate, right?

The accumulated energy was almost consumed. Yu Tu was originally still grieving over this huge expenditure, but the emptiness only lasted for a while, and the energy refilled in a surging manner, and even more than before - just like when Di Changqing paid attention to him through Lu Susu's eyes before.

The fear and attention of the strong is also a way to increase energy.

Immersed in the recovery of lost things and more, Yu Tu took out his mobile phone and asked Elder Di Xiu in a tactful manner about Di Changqing, for example, whether his ability to use aperture to detect a person's true identity was a skill he practiced or his [talent]?

When the barbecue on the balcony was almost over, Yu Tu received a reply from Elder Di Xiu.

Di Changqing's talent is called [Illuminating the True Self], which allows him to identify the original form of anyone, and he rarely fails.

If he cannot identify him, there are only two possibilities: one is that the person he is targeting does not know his true identity, and the other is that his ability is much higher than his, resulting in actual suppression.