It would take a while for the air conditioner's warm air to warm up the living room, so Lu Jiajing hugged a blue cushion to her chest.
"Xiaoxi, where is Sister Zhuyu?"
“My sister went out to take photos with her friends. She likes to take landscape photos. You can see that the photos on the wall over there are all taken by her.” An Qiuxi pointed to the photo frames on the wall behind the dining table.
Lu Jiajing nodded.
“My dad also loves photography, but unfortunately he doesn’t have much talent. The photos he takes are just average, so his equipment ended up gathering dust.”
Tu Luoxue looked around the house. The overall color scheme was cool, and it looked deserted, as if no one had lived there for a long time, but it was very clean.
"Xiaoxi, may I see your room?"
An Qiuxi nodded and stood up.
"Let me show you around."
When they arrived at An Qiuxi's room, Tu Luoxue and Lu Jiajing looked inside curiously. It was very ordinary and clean, with no signs of habitation. Even the bed was neatly made, and apart from the books arranged on the desk, it was hard to tell that it was a girl's room.
However, Tu Luoxue and Lu Jiajing didn't think much of it. An Qiuxi was usually a very meticulous and reliable person, and this room style actually suited her image.
Lu Jiajing entered the room.
"Jingjing, your room is so plain, there aren't any dolls. I'll give you some later."
An Qiuxi shook her head. "It's okay. I usually sleep with a pillow, not a doll, so I don't have many dolls."
Actually, An Qiuxi loves to sleep while holding a doll.
Nangong > Doll > Pillow
An Qiuxi will only choose a pillow when she has no other choice.
Lu Jiajing chuckled.
"I usually sleep with Xuexue in my arms, but I want to try something different tonight. Consort Xi, just give in to me!"
Lu Jiajing pounced on An Qiuxi on the bed and roughly handled her, while Tu Luoxue covered her mouth and laughed.
After playing around for a while, the girls returned to the living room.
Tu Luoxue felt the temperature rise and took off her coat. "Xiaoxi, how old is your grandma this year?"
An Qiuxi casually gave a roughly accurate age.
"She went back to her hometown to visit old friends, and I estimate she won't be back until the week after next."
Lu Jiajing also took off her coat.
"I've never heard you mention your uncle and aunt, Xiaoxi. Don't you live together?"
An Qiuxi shook her head.
“They all died. I lived with my grandmother. Later, my cousin took us in, otherwise life would have been quite difficult.”
This made Tu Luoxue and Lu Jiajing hug An Qiuxi with heartache, only to find that An Qiuxi's body was unusually cold.
"Xiaoxi, you're so cold. Aren't you cold?"
As Lu Jiajing spoke, she was about to drape her coat over her shoulders.
An Qiuxi shook her head again, "It's okay, I don't feel cold, and the heating isn't on in the room, it's just my constitution."
Feeling a bit bored at home, the girls decided to go out and have some fun.
There wasn't much to do in Guangzhou, so Tu Luoxue and her two friends decided to take a plane to visit their cousin next door. After telling Yan Luo, they set off on their own.
Let's go back to Friday, January 3rd. Nangong boarded a plane bound for Dihua, the capital of the Western Regions Province.
The team sent out to search for a method around the world finally found a clue in an abandoned village in a snow-capped mountain in the Western Regions.
Nangong arrived in Dihua in the afternoon and then went straight to the small village. Upon arrival, Nangong was led by a female member of the team to a cave below the village.
"Madam, please be careful. The cave is filled with the aura of our kind, which is stronger than ours. Therefore, we dare not act rashly and can only inform you to come here."
Nangong nodded.
"Thank you for your hard work. Leave the rest to me."
The female team member looked at Nangong with admiration, then silently withdrew from the cave.
Nangong Xue's eyes were bright, and the dark cave was crystal clear in her eyes. The cave was very deep, and she walked forward step by step.
The closer Nangong got to the depths, the stronger the aura of his kind became. However, when he reached the end of the cave, he did not see any of his kind. There was only a strange and huge red magic circle engraved at the end.
"Is any medium needed?"
Walking to the center of the magic circle, Nangong pricked his finger and dripped a drop of bright red blood, but it was of no use; the magic circle did not react.
Over the decades, Nangong has learned a lot and has also done some research on magic arrays.
There are several possibilities for the red magic circle. Nangong dripped blood to test what type of magic circle it was. If the blood was ineffective, it proved that it was a sealing magic circle.
However, these ancient patterns were something Nangong had never seen before. He judged them to be a sealing formation. To break the seal, the formation had to be destroyed. With a casual strike, Nangong directly destroyed a large area of the formation patterns.
A cloud of dust billowed up, and as the dust settled, the magic array patterns flickered with a faint red light. In Nangong's sight, a male ghoul appeared, with a standard blue face and fangs, but a terrifyingly thin figure, with long, tangled hair, and wearing only a pair of beer-colored trousers.
It looks like it has been sealed away for many years.
Even though the seal was broken, its limbs were still bound by cold, thick iron chains.
The ghoul smelled a new scent, opened its eyes, and saw the woman standing not far away in its dark red blood-red eyes.
"Who are you?" The ghoul's voice was hoarse and sounded somewhat harsh.
Nangong looked at the other person indifferently without saying a word.
The ghoul looked around, moved its body, and found itself bound by iron chains. It smelled the scent of its kind on Nangong, but it only thought the scent was pleasant and did not sense anything special about it.
How many years have passed?
The male ghoul muttered to himself.
After adjusting to the environment and its stiff body for a while, the male ghoul looked at Nangong again. It felt a sense of familiarity with Nangong, as if it were seeing the figure of an old friend.
It asked again.
"Who are you?"
"Shouldn't you state your own name before asking someone else's name?"
Nangong stared intently at the male ghoul, trying to discern something from it, but aside from the aura of its kind emanating from it, she couldn't see anything particularly special about it.
The male ghoul looked at Nangong with great interest.
"My name is Wu Yansheng. And you, beautiful lady?"
"You may call me Madam Nangong."
Wu Yansheng looked at Nangong with a puzzled expression.
“I had a close friend whose surname was also Nangong, but unfortunately I killed him.”
Nangong found it amusing, "You killed your best friend?"
Wu Yansheng's tone instantly turned cold.
"Anyone who tries to stop me from achieving immortality will die. I have already warned him. It is his own fault."
Nangong expressed his understanding.
In order to be with Yanluo, she would do everything in her power to overcome any obstacle.
Seeing the only thing Wu Yansheng was wearing, his worn-out trousers, Nangong asked him, "Why was Mr. Wu sealed here?"
"I don't know, I came here in pursuit of immortality..."
Wu Yansheng then recounted his past.
During the war years, Wu Yansheng inherited the family business and became the richest man in the area.
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