Chapter 114: Birds of a feather flock together. No, I want to go back.
Just as the trainee spiritualists had expected, they were able to leave the tree world between the Yang World and the Yin World through the "door" they came from.
Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi climbed out of the well together.
The two of them looked at each other, and without hesitation, they ran away, and they ran in opposite directions.
Shi Can supported himself on the edge of the well with one hand and climbed up nimbly. He took a step forward and rushed towards Gong Yongyuan.
Gong Yongyuan had already run to the wall.
Considering that cats often walk on the walls and sleep here, the owner of the hot spring resort did not embed glass shards in the walls.
Gong Yongyuan thanked the boss for his kindness from the bottom of his heart. He jumped up, grabbed the wall with his hands, and climbed over it as fast as he could in his life. As he climbed, he thought:
It didn't climb this fast when I tested it.
But Shican was faster.
"Where are you running?"
Shi Can grabbed Gong Yongyuan's collar from behind, pulled him down from the wall just as he was about to climb over it, pressed him to the ground, and summoned the Lingwu Jue Blade.
Meng Qi, who ran to the other side, was also unable to escape.
Before he ran a few steps, he heard Lin Zhuyue shouting "Ukiyo-e Scroll". The next moment, he was tied up tightly by the scroll and fell to the ground in a mess.
The partners Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can had long been aware of the possibility of the secret being leaked, so after leaving the tree world, the first thing they did was to prevent Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi from escaping.
Gong Yongyuan asked, "Do you really want to silence me?"
"How could that be? Murder is against the law."
Shi Can turned the blade and used the relatively harmless back of the blade to press against Gong Yongyuan's neck, thinking carefully,
"I just want you to forget about the Ukiyo-e scroll and the key, cause you some psychological trauma, and then cast a spell. That should be enough, right?"
"After all, neither the Gong family nor the Meng family is willing to stand on the Ling family's side. They can't even be considered neutral. If we don't deal with you two properly and leak information, things will become very troublesome."
Gong Yongyuan struggled even harder and exclaimed in shock:
"He'll be crippled, right? You're so vicious!"
Shi Can didn't answer, but had already started aiming the back of Gong Yongyuan's head with the back of the knife.
"I won't tell anyone! Let me go!"
Gong Yongyuan hurriedly said,
"The spell tells me to do it myself!"
Meng Qi was surprised: "Gong Yongyuan?!"
"Shi Can, Lin Zhuyue, you two listen carefully."
Gong Yongyuan stopped struggling and said seriously,
"I don't know whether it's right or wrong to keep the Ukiyo-e scroll and the key secret for you... As the old lady from the Geng family said, what you did is in line with the greater good. However, I'm a descendant of a family of metaphysics, and I'll be the next head of the Gong family. I must consider the interests of my family."
"I'll only forget this once. Next time, if you reveal the existence of the Ukiyo-e scroll and the key, I won't be polite anymore."
Shi Can stood up and let go of Gong Yongyuan.
He turned around, looked at Meng Qi who was tied up by the Ukiyoe scroll, and asked:
"What about you? What do you think?"
"Can I do whatever I want?"
Meng Qi got up from the ground and threatened,
"Shican, you bastard, just wait for me."
Although Meng Qi's words were quite harsh, the hidden meaning behind them was "I'll let you go this time."
Lin Zhuyue breathed a sigh of relief. She raised her hand and let Ukiyo-e scroll let Meng Qi go.
Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi stood back to back.
Shi Chan used the branches to draw a neat circle around them.
Lin Zhuyue didn't understand why he could draw such a circle.
Have you learned sketching?
Or is it that drawing a circle with bare hands is a basic skill for charlatans?
After drawing the circle, Shi Can wrote runes inside and outside the circle and placed a crystal ball. He wrote the spell to be recited on a piece of paper and handed it to Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi.
Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi took the spell written on the paper that Shi Can handed over with reluctance.
Gong Yongyuan handed the spell back:
"What the hell? I can't read it."
Shi Chan crossed his arms, "This is German, are you pretending?"
Gong Yongyuan was furious. He and Meng Qi shouldn't have taken this German course back in the middle school... It was written in German, so it was a Western technique, right? How could that bastard Shi Can know everything? He knew he had a wide range of interests, but wasn't this too much?
"Mother Earth."
Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi said resignedly,
"Love is like sugar, and like strong liquor it burns a knife. Being together is like honey, and separation cuts the heart. Please take my love and let it go to a distant place like the free wind."
A breeze blew by, and Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi fell down at the same time.
"This is magic created in the olden centuries by a witch who lost her lover, using crystals from the earth as a medium."
Shi Can took the Qiankun bag and approached the well, calling the living souls while explaining the origin of the spell to Lin Zhuyue.
"Later, the spell was passed down and used to erase memories. However, it wasn't very effective because it only affected one's own memory. The person being cast was the same person as the caster. There weren't many people in the world who knew how to use this spell and didn't want to retain their memories."
"Oh, I see..."
Lin Zhuyue just responded when she suddenly realized what Shi Can had just done and asked,
"...Wait? So you can't do anything to them at all, and you're deliberately tricking them into erasing their own memories?"
Shi Chan nodded: "Yes."
……hiss.
This person is so vicious.
Shi Chan reminded, “Don’t scold me in your head.”
Lin Zhuyue asked: "Do you have the ability to read minds?"
"No, I guessed."
Shi Can paused and said,
“Guessed it, you really are scolding me.”
Shi Can took the unconscious Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi back to the hotel, one in his left hand and one in his right hand. He took out the room card from Gong Yongyuan's trouser pocket, swiped the door open, and threw the two people onto the bed.
After throwing it away, Shi Can left the room, patted the non-existent dust on his hands, looked at Lin Zhuyue, and said:
"Alright, let's go and return the souls. Then, we need to discuss how to respond to the questions Daxian and Meng Dake may have after they wake up... Well, let's just tell them that they suddenly fell into a well and became unconscious. How about that?"
"What about Shang Gengfan's matter?"
Lin Zhuyue followed Shican's footsteps and asked,
"Gong Yongyuan asked the logistics center to investigate Shang Gengfan's intelligence. This is recorded."
Before Shi Can opened his mouth, Lin Zhuyue had an idea -
Lin Zhuyue took two quick steps, walked around to the front of Shi Can, turned around to face Shi Can, and said:
"So, after Gong Yongyuan and Meng Qi fell into the well, we were worried about their safety, so we engaged in a fight with Shang Gengfan. We didn't pay attention to the severity of the situation and dispersed Shang Gengfan's soul. As for Shang Gengfan's relationship with the Ling family..."
"We met her purely by chance... What a coincidence! We actually ran into a descendant of the Geng family, who once followed the Ling family. What a coincidence!"
Shi Chan stopped and commented, “It’s very suspicious.”
"It's suspicious, so it is."
Lin Zhuyue walked back a few steps and said,
"Anyway, we, especially me, will be suspected even if we really didn't do anything."
Shi Can's eyes were filled with smiles, and he said, "You have learned bad things."
Lin Zhuyue looked up at Shi Can and said:
"He who keeps company with vermilion becomes red, and he who keeps company with ink becomes black..."
The two of them started arguing with each other.
While arguing, they set out on the journey to return their souls.
The boss's mother was at the resort hotel, so that was easy enough to handle. But the other two victims were in the hospital, not very close. Shi Can and Lin Zhuyue were both drunk and unable to drive, so they waited for the Didi driver to pick them up late at night on the side of a desolate suburban road. They looked utterly miserable.
After being sent to the hospital and the order was completed, Lin Zhuyue asked the driver not to leave and take them back later. Of course, she promised the driver enough compensation and paid a deposit.
By the time we finished everything and returned to the resort hotel, it was almost dawn.
Lin Zhuyue and Shi Can did not sleep, but discussed the next countermeasures.
"The key needs to be 'charged'. I don't know how long it will take."
Lin Zhuyue sat at the table, clinking glasses with Shican while holding the can he had just opened. Amidst the gurgling sound of the soda, he asked,
"Until then, all I need to do is 'wait'?"
Although she didn't know when the key could be used, Lin Zhuyue was very excited to get it. There was a gleam in her almond-shaped eyes with gentle contours, which was the reflection of the future in her eyes.
Shican put the soda on the table and said:
"It's not that easy..."
"The Spiritual Master Mansion has been sending spiritual masters to conduct mapping work in the underworld. I almost died in the underworld before because I was trying to find a surveyor who had lost contact. Do you know why we need to conduct mapping?"
Lin Zhuyue looked at Shi Can seriously, indicating that she was listening.
"Everything in the underworld is made up of spiritual energy, which is a very illusory thing. This is why the underworld is not as stable as the yang world, which is a combination of spirit and matter. It is constantly changing."
Shi Can supported his face with one hand and explained,
"Its changes are sometimes slow, sometimes rapid. Because of these changes, the terrain and roads of the underworld are difficult to control. The Spiritual Master's Office must constantly survey it, and this survey will never end."
"In other words, the location of the underworld is constantly changing."
Shi Can paused and added:
"After Uncle Ling Yan passed away, my family stopped interfering with the surveying work because we felt it was meaningless..."
Who would have thought that more than ten years, nearly twenty years later, a Lin Zhuyue would suddenly appear?
"We don't have a real-time map of the underworld."
Shi Can said to Lin Zhuyue,
"I don't know how far the Spiritual Master's House has come in mapping the underworld. I hope they're working hard enough. Otherwise, even if the two of us find a top hacker to hack into the Spiritual Master's House system, it will be useless."
Lin Zhuyue thought for a moment and asked:
"So, until the key can be used and the map is obtained, we have to return to Tiancheng and lie dormant for a while?"
Shi Chan asked, "Don't you want to go back?"
He was thinking about how to comfort Lin Zhuyue——
Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Is the pain finally over? Is there no winning by running away?
"No, I want to go back."
Lin Zhuyue used her fingers to catch the water droplets condensed on the can. She said in a leisurely and calm tone,
"I want to participate in the Four Schools League. Even if I don't win the championship as our homeroom teacher expects, I still want to fight hard on the court... This is determined by Ukiyo-emu's ability."
The Spiritual Master's Mansion, the Xingyi Society, and Minghui—
You wait.
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