Library, banned books
"Okay." Cong Mo was unfazed by their provocation and agreed, "I am willing to fulfill your heroic wish."
Covering Leng Can's eyes, she gripped the sword and was about to chop him down immediately.
However, the instantaneous courage and the instinct for survival always conflicted with each other. At the moment the sphere shattered, they were ultimately unable to resist the strong desire to survive and shouted, "Ahhh... We were wrong!"
"Then tell the truth and open your eyes." Cong Mo narrowed his eyes, revealing a hint of cunning, a playful look of someone who had succeeded in a prank.
She reached out and took the sword back into her hand. She was just trying to scare them, and the sword didn't even move.
Leng Can pinched her ear and whispered in her ear, "You lied to me and covered my eyes."
"You will be scared, but I can't let you be scared." Cong Mo pinched his hand in response, "I'm tricking the monsters."
"Bad guy."
"Once in a while."
Seeing them whispering, he immediately pulled Leng Can's sleeve and asked in a low voice, "What are you talking about? I want to listen too."
Leng Can smiled obscenely, "I won't tell you."
"No, I'm your senior brother, you have to tell me..."
The old man rolled his eyes at the three of them in disdain, "Stop messing around and be serious."
Then he looked at the black ball and said, "Speak."
"We...we are..." The two spheres looked at each other, and the brother stood in front of his sister and said, "The Demon Lord asked us to guard it."
"Demon Lord." Cong Mo asked, why?
"Because we were born with resentment, we have no body since birth. We are just a ball of air. We need to stay in a container and rely on the container to survive."
"We're in such a bad state. We don't have any bodies to begin with. Please stop trying to kill us." The younger sister quickly replied, "It's...it's the Demon Lord who said someone would break into the Demon Realm in the near future. He told us to keep an eye on them and report back. If we perform well, he'll create bodies for us. My brother and I thought if we could catch you, the Demon Lord would definitely reward us. We got greedy for a moment, but who knew you were so powerful?"
"That's right, we didn't lie." The elder brother closed his eyes and shouted, "Kill me or chop me up, whatever you want."
"According to our wishes?" Cong Mo frowned in confusion. She felt that they were too stupid. They told the truth just to survive, but in the end they still had the courage to brag and let them kill them at will.
It was simply shooting oneself in the foot. It was meaningless. Not only did he throw away his family fortune, but he also disregarded his life. It was unreasonable and stupid, which made her sympathize with the Demon Lord in an instant.
She put down her chopsticks, picked up her sword, and walked towards them.
The two little balls huddled together tightly, not daring to look at her, "That's right! We are not afraid of you!"
"Well, I'll grant you your wish."
The two little balls closed their eyes in fear, waiting for death to come.
The pain I could imagine did not subside. When I put my hand on my head, I felt a warm hand with thin calluses, which seemed to be able to dispel all the cold.
Slowly opening his eyes, he saw Cong Mo's expressionless face and beautiful eyes that were inexplicably filled with pity. He opened his thin lips slightly and said, "Coward, you are talking big."
"Oh... Xiao Mo won't kill innocent people." Walking around Cong Mo's figure was Leng Can with a smile on his face, his freckles brightening up, just like the time when winter is about to pass and spring is coming, with vibrant warmth and lingering coldness, he looked at them tenderly.
"Don't worry, we have a way to give you a body. We have experience." He narrowed his eyes, his fair skin as smooth as tofu, his silver hair shining in the orange light, a unique color. "But you can't repay kindness with hatred. The four of us are very powerful."
"It doesn't matter if you repay kindness with evil. If I do it again, I will have a legitimate reason to kill you." The old man faced them sideways, his mouth stuffed with food. His usually stern face became somewhat amiable, even cute.
My brother whispered, "Why... did you give us your body?"
Cong Mo said calmly, "It's not a difficult matter. It's just a matter of convenience. You've already told the truth, so how can I let you die? Besides, you're not bad, just stupid. There's just a misunderstanding between us. We are here to resolve misunderstandings and those who created them. If we hurt innocent people, bah, monsters, then we will become the ones who created the misunderstanding."
"But we are from the demon world."
"So you're bad?"
"Of course not..."
"That's great. The Demon Realm and the Immortal Mountain are not enemies. They are meant to coexist in this world. Neither can exist without the other." Cong Mo grabbed them and held them in his arms. "Master, eat quickly."
When the old man heard this, he chewed even faster, "I'll be right there, you guys go first."
The two balls leaned against Cong Mo's hands, snuggled tightly together, and he lay down shyly, not daring to face them for the time being.
It seems that the people in the fairy mountain are not as bad as my parents and the Demon Lord said.
They need to observe carefully for a while, then go back and tell their parents and the people in the Demon Realm to resolve the misunderstanding Cong Mo mentioned. Maybe they can live in peace with the Fairy Mountain and make friends with the people in the Fairy Mountain. Then they won't have to hide in the Demon Realm and can go to more distant places to have a look.
"How about these two puppets?" Yu took out two puppets from the wooden box. In order to restore Leng Can, he made many puppets that could bear souls. "I haven't used them for a long time. I don't know if they can still be used."
"You try and see if you can sense it." Cong Mo retracted the transparent spherical shell and placed the two balls of air on the ice bed.
The black air drifted upwards, each of them found a puppet, wrapped it up, and rose into the air.
Soon, a faint light began to appear around the puppet, and black gas and brilliant aura tightly wrapped around it.
An old man had just finished eating and was standing at the door, greeting Cong Mo and motioning her to come over.
Cong Mo nodded, "Xiao Can, Senior Brother, Master and I are guarding the door. If anything happens, please let us know immediately."
"good."
"good."
"She would never send two such weak and stupid things to guard against us." The two leaned against the stone wall side by side, and the old man even brought her a piece of snack.
Cong Mo ate his fill, taking small bites as he lowered his eyes in thought, "Indeed, then what could her purpose be?"
"Tell me, is it also part of her plan for us to bring them back?"
"Did the people from Xianshan bring the people from the Demon Realm back? Or... were they from Wuqing Mountain?" Cong Mo's pupils shrank suddenly. "Master, you said that in Master Shuyi's controlled memories, there was a fight that we didn't know about, which was fabricated. They said that the mastermind behind it was Wuqing Mountain. What if we combine these two things?"
"You mean..." The old man raised his head, his eyes widening for a moment, "If they..."
"Master, Junior Sister!"
His words got stuck in his throat.
Yu ran out and said anxiously, "The body has been shaped, but due to the conflict between the demonic energy and spiritual power, although it has been completely integrated with the puppet, their consciousness has temporarily fallen into a coma and they probably won't wake up until tomorrow."
"It's only tomorrow, why rush?" The old man tapped his head. "Let them sleep here for one night, and we'll send them back tomorrow. Don't worry."
The words were interrupted and stuck in their mouths, and they didn't say anything, but they both knew what was going on.
Without noticing the expressions of the two, he covered his head and curled his lips, "I was afraid you would worry and be anxious!"
"Alas... There are so many urgent things in this world..." The old man sighed, left an unclear sentence and left first.
Only Cong Mo knew that he told himself in his spiritual consciousness to go to the library to find him when she went to sleep.
"What does Master mean?" Xi didn't understand what he said and asked Cong Mo.
"I don't know." Cong Mo shook his head. "It's getting late. Let's close the ice room and go back. They will be safe in Wuqing Mountain. There's no need to worry."
"Yes." He nodded, "I'll go call my junior brother."
"Okay." Cong Mo said, "Let's go back together."
Cong Mo had recovered her memory and no longer needed to rest in the back mountain at night to maintain her spiritual strength. As the moon hung high in the sky, she dressed neatly and went to the library in the dark.
The reason why banned books are banned is that they contain methods and theories that are not in line with common sense and normal use and are beyond the scope of this era. They can easily cause unrest, lead people astray, and thus have dangerous consequences.
It can be considered as heresy.
Furthermore, using forbidden techniques will usually backfire and cause one to lose their sanity.
Cong Mo thought that it was fortunate that she insisted on going to the underworld to find Leng Can last time. If it were someone else, they might not be able to live like a normal person after returning to the world. She just lost her memory because her spiritual power was exhausted and the backlash took advantage of her. It was not a big deal.
However, they had no idea about the backlash that could be caused by the other forbidden techniques. They only knew that Xiaocan and his senior brother must not be informed of this matter. This was a point that she and the old man Qingyi had never questioned. Knowing this would not only cause them to worry uselessly, but would also easily lead to unpredictable and uncontrollable consequences.
Things have developed to this point, every step is unexpected and unreasonable. The only thing they can do is to let Leng Can and Xi maintain a certain cheerful innocence within their ability, without having to think about complicated things. With them around, Xiao Can and his senior brother don't have to rely on themselves. Under the protection circle they have built, they can be free.
However, when forbidden techniques in forbidden books are used, the methods to crack them naturally cannot be found in ordinary books. As long as the other party does not abide by the rules, they cannot be confined by the regulations.
After all, now, as far as they know, they are the only ones who can truly be considered alive.
Pushing open the door, the library was completely dark. Cong Mo lit a talisman, which gave off a little light. He called out softly, "Master, where are you?"
"Here." A light appeared in the corner, and the figure of an old man gradually emerged. "You're finally here. Come in."
Cong Mo followed him towards the light. As the two disappeared, the orange light gradually went out.
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