Chapter 77

The puppy was sleeping soundly on Yu Tu's lap with its belly turned over. One could hear its cheerful little snoring without having to get close.

Yu Tu touched its bulging belly and put the puppy back into its own nest.

The main body was resting in the dormitory, gathering strength for the military training that would begin tomorrow night. The Marquis of Buye moved some ancient books from the antique shelf, preparing to read in the evening. As long as his body had enough rest and there was no great exertion, his mind would not feel particularly tired.

After studying for this period of time, although he could not recognize all the characters in the ancient books, he could still read them roughly. After reading was no longer as stumbling as before, Yu Tu became fascinated by reading.

Tonight, Yu Tu had only read three or four pages of the book in his hand when he heard the sound of banging on the carved wooden door. The sound was extremely chaotic, and there seemed to be a panicked cry for help.

Yu Tu frowned subconsciously.

Although the previous wave of tableware escape left him with a black history of emoticons, Yu Tu gained a lot of energy from the "tableware" around him. If he encounters an incident like the previous zombie attack again, he won't have to search and calculate when using energy.

Yu Tu's mind moved, and the door opened, and a panicked girl rushed in.

"Help! Someone is following me!"

The panicked girl rushed in, only to find that there was only one person in the dimly lit shop.

Being in a closed space with a stranger of the opposite sex at night is a very dangerous thing, but of two evils, Yan Momo chose the lesser evil. She gritted her teeth and turned around, wanting to close the carved wooden door behind her. The shop owner didn't look like a bad person, and he might not have the same bad intentions towards her as the person following her. Having a shop on a commercial street, one must always think about the future, and he must be a little cautious in his heart!

But what she never expected was that the door that she had opened after knocking a few times would be so heavy when she pushed it back. She almost used up all her strength, but she couldn't close the door!

Yan Momo: “…”

Hearing the footsteps getting closer, Yan Momo became furious and pressed almost all her strength against the door, but the door remained motionless.

As she was panting and begging, a hand suddenly touched her shoulder. She froze and almost screamed! Yan Momo turned around in horror and found that the person who touched her shoulder was the person behind the counter.

She was panicked when she first called for help, and she was standing in the dim light. Yan Momo felt that the owner was not very strong, so she planned to close the door to deal with the terrifying harassment following her.

Now that the shop owner himself walked to a brightly lit area, Yan Momo discovered that the shop owner had a stunning face, so much so that his clothes, which basically only appeared in TV dramas during the Republic of China, became extremely harmonious because of the existence of this face.

The stunning shop owner smiled and raised her finger to her lips: "Pfft."

Yan Momo followed his actions and calmed down obediently, her panic in her heart much less—even she herself found it incredible.

Although she is indeed a face-lover, her life is in danger, but she can actually lower her vigilance just because of the comfort of this good-looking shop owner?

This is too outrageous!

Although her mind was in a turmoil of thoughts, Yan Momo's hand that was pushing the door slowly dropped.

The footsteps outside the door were getting closer and closer. Yan Momo's palms were covered with cold sweat and her heart almost jumped out of her throat!

Soon, a drunk, staggering, shabbily dressed man appeared outside the open door. He was looking around with a frown on his face, and there was a malicious and evil light flashing in his eyes.

The strange thing was that, although the store door was half open and the light from inside had even illuminated a portion of the steps outside, the man who was following her turned a blind eye to it - he even stood at the store door and looked around for a long time, but he couldn't see Yan Momo who was only five steps away from him!

The scoundrel walked away, and Yan Momo breathed a sigh of relief after she could no longer hear his footsteps. After her courage faded, her limbs began to weaken. "Thank you."

Although she didn't know why the man didn't see her when he was so close to her just now, Yan Momo's intuition told her that it must have something to do with the shop owner behind her.

The shop owner smiled at her and said, "Young girl, don't go home so late when you walk alone at night in the future."

"You don't look much older than me..." Yan Momo muttered softly, "Why are you acting so old-fashioned?"

After the crisis was resolved, Yan Momo was not so nervous anymore, but the shop owner who had looked so stunning just now now had a layer of mysterious filter in her eyes.

Yan Momo wanted to go home, but she was afraid that the drunk man was waiting in some corner. She wanted to pay the owner to escort her, but she was too embarrassed to ask for it and her face was almost wrinkled.

"You can go home now." Perhaps the shop owner saw her confusion, he smiled and said, "No matter what you see on the way home, don't make a sound or say a word, and you will get home safely."

Yan Momo had a lot of concerns in her mind, but when she looked at the shop owner's eyes that seemed to be shining under the light, she suddenly nodded as if possessed by a ghost.

"Thank you."

She thanked him again, hesitated at the door for a few seconds, and then stepped into the darkness outside.

As they walked further and further into the darkness, the warm light from the store disappeared, and the courage that Yan Momo had just inexplicably felt also disappeared bit by bit.

She regretted her rashness a little.

Today was originally a birthday party for a friend, and her parents had asked if they would pick her up after the party. She thought that her parents were tired after a day of work and might as well rest early, so she lied that a classmate would take her back after the party. The party ended late, and her phone ran out of battery after she called to report safety halfway. There were almost no taxis on the road in a remote small city late at night, so Yan Momo could only grit her teeth and walk back by herself, praying in her heart that she would never encounter any trouble.

But people tend to fear something more and more, and when passing a road, Yan Momo heard footsteps behind her. At first, she thought it was someone going the same way as her, but she didn’t expect that after she walked two blocks, the footsteps were still following her. Yan Momo walked faster and faster, and became more and more panicked. In the end, she almost started running in a panic, but the footsteps kept following her like a leech attached to her bones.

Yan Momo quickly looked back in fear. Following her was a man holding a bottle of wine and with a strange smile on his face. He didn't look like a good man. His eyes kept scanning Yan Momo's skirt and thighs.

Seeing Yan Momo turn around, the man drunkenly said, "Why are you running away, little beauty? I just want to make friends with you."

He pointed behind him and said, "Let's find a place to sit down and have a chat and a couple of drinks?"

Yan Momo felt cold in her heart when she was looked at by him, and she felt so disgusted that she wanted to vomit. Her way home was even more remote than this place, and in panic, she thought of a relatively prosperous commercial street not far from her. Maybe there were still shops on the street open at this time!

Panicked, Yan Momo gritted her teeth and ran to the commercial street, frantically seeking help from the only store that seemed to have people, and only then did she escape the hateful man.

But now, Yan Momo felt that she had done something wrong. She should have borrowed the store owner's cell phone to call her parents and ask them to pick her up!

The dim street lights and the endless darkness outside the street lights made Yan Momo want to back out more and more. She decided to go back to the store owner to borrow a phone, but she found that in the alley in front of her, the drunk man... was walking out slowly!

Fear instantly swept through Yan Momo's brain, and she couldn't help wanting to scream. However, in the split second, the words that the shop owner had just said suddenly flashed through her mind -

[No matter what you see on the way home, don't make any noise or say anything, and you will get home safely.]

Was it also within the store owner's expectations to meet this man?

The sound that escaped was stuck in her throat. Yan Momo covered her mouth tightly. He was clearly just a stranger whom she had met briefly at night and spoke a few words to, but she didn't know why, but she felt that he was very reliable.

Yan Momo froze in place, not daring to move, trembling with fear. The man got closer and closer to her, and finally passed her by very close. Yan Momo could clearly hear the swearing and dirty words coming out of his mouth.

Yan Momo watched him go away. Only when he completely disappeared from her sight did she dare to breathe deeply. She really...really escaped a disaster!

Perhaps her fear just now was too intense. Yan Momo saw from the corner of her eye that her shoulders were glowing. Stars of light floated up from her shoulders, rising higher and higher, and gathered in the air to form a butterfly with a star-shaped tail.

The butterfly flew forward a bit and saw Yan Momo still standing there motionless. It flapped its wings and stopped in the air, as if silently urging her.

Yan Momo widened her eyes and took a few tentative steps forward. The butterfly then flew forward a little. When she stopped, the butterfly would wait for her quietly.

Wow...so magical!

This strange scene diluted the unspeakable fear in her heart when she just faced that malicious man.

Yan Momo, with tears still in her eyes, suddenly smiled brilliantly.

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"Where did that bitch go?" The drunken man muttered dirty words, "You just wanted to play with her? Why are you running away? It's her blessing to play with me!"

As he spoke, he regretted: "If I had known she could hide so well, I should have caught her directly before!"

He had a quarrel with two old guys at home today, and ran out to drink with his buddies until midnight. On the way back, he saw Yan Momo walking alone.

The sight of the long white legs under the skirt made his heart itch. How could a woman who hangs out at night be a good one?

Maybe the alcohol was a bit too much, he just followed her. After following her for two blocks, he felt that the woman was obviously getting anxious and started to walk and run. With the mentality of a cat playing with a mouse, he just followed her slowly.

When the girl turned around, he realized that he had misjudged her age. She was obviously an underage girl. Not only was she pretty, but she was also well-developed. He flirted with her casually, and she became even more panicked.

He originally planned to find a place without surveillance to talk with her, but the girl ran to the commercial street and he chased her and she disappeared. He thought that no store was open on this commercial street.

He was holding a bottle of wine, wandering around the street in disbelief - the girl must be hiding somewhere, he had to find her and have a good chat with her!

After wandering back and forth on the street twice, he suddenly found that the door of a shop was half open and light was shining from the shop.

He had wandered here twice before and passed by here twice, but he had never seen this shop that was brightly open and had the lights on - this should have been a very strange thing.

But the alcohol had already corroded the man's brain, making him unable to make rational judgments. The little thoughts he had left were all on bad things. When he saw this store, his first reaction was -

That little girl must be hiding here!

The drunk man walked in through the open door, and before he could see clearly what was inside, he shouted rudely: "Get out, little girl! I saw you hiding in here!"

"The person you are looking for is not here."

He heard an unfamiliar voice.

"Impossible!" He smashed the wine bottle against the carved wooden door, his gesture even more ferocious than before, "I saw that little girl come in, I warn you not to meddle in other people's business! Be careful or I'll make sure you can't survive here!"

He looked over with his hazy drunken eyes. There stood a thin figure in the dim light. He could not see his face clearly, but he could see his eyes clearly. There was an inexplicable coldness in those distinct black and white eyes.

He suddenly felt a little cold in his heart, and his fierce aura weakened a lot. He said arrogantly: "Hand over that little girl, and I will leave immediately! Anyway, you don't know her anyway, why bother yourself?"

"You are a scum who only knows how to bully girls..."

The drunk man heard the strange shop owner say something, but the voice was too soft for him to hear clearly: "What did you just say?"

"I say—" said the chilling shopkeeper, "Do you want to get rich overnight?"

This nonsensical remark made the man's fear dissipate a little. He seemed to have heard a very funny joke and asked sarcastically, "Who doesn't want to get rich overnight?"

He scoffed, "You weren't going to tell me you had that ability?"

To his surprise, the strange shopkeeper nodded.

"Yo~" the drunk man laughed, "Then you can make me rich overnight!"

"Of course." The strange shopkeeper took a few steps forward, and the man realized that the shopkeeper was wearing clothes that no normal person would wear. "As long as you can afford the price."

The man thought he was stalling for time and asked with a squint, "What's the price?"

"Thirty years of luck and longevity."

"I think you have a brain disease." The man sneered, obviously not believing it. "Thirty years of luck and life? Are you kidding me?"

He held the broken bottle in his hand and weighed it: "If thirty years of luck and life can make me rich overnight, then I'll do it!"

Just after he said this, he saw the shopkeeper's lips curled up into a smile, like a sneer.

Light spots of light in light gold and pale white flowed out from the man's body and spread throughout the teahouse in an instant. A thin, black "thread" separated from the "thread" in Yu Tu's consciousness that was connected to the teahouse contract and sank into the man's wrist.

An evil fate was formed and a contract was established.