Fanning was surprised for his own reasons. The man in front of him looked... familiar to him.

I didn’t expect...it was this person.

Why could Fanning recognize the other person so quickly... After all, everyone has read comics, and the person in the comics left a deep impression on him. Everyone who reads comics knows about the conversation between this person and Yuan, and he is no exception.

But Fanning's reaction in the comics was different. After all, the protagonist can't read comics in comics, right?

So in the comic, when Fanning saw the head of the Li family, the thought in his mind was changed to ["Why does this person look so similar to Siqun?"]

That’s fine too.

But Yuan Yuanyuan didn’t know that this had been changed. She cried out, and thought, “Oh shit, this is bad.”

Li Siqun... No one has ever connected him with the head of the Li family, because in the comics, Li Siqun doesn't look like he does in real life. If you look closely, their facial features are very similar, but their drawing styles are different, one is a little more icy, the other is a little more refined.

Now these words appeared in Fanning's mind, and Yuan Yuanyuan knew that Si Qun's identity could no longer be hidden.

Does this count as being "beeped"? Yuan Yuanyuan shook her head, thinking about the four groups downstairs just now, and suddenly felt that he was also quite small and pitiful.

[Fanning and Yuan Yingli came from the side, and they disguised themselves as two strangers to visit the head of the Li family.]

[At this time, the faces of the two people were no longer the same as before, but the faces of two businessmen. These two businessmen had long-term business dealings with the Li family. I was dealt with by Fanning and his men on the way here, so naturally no one discovered me.]

[The decoration inside the house is very elegant. There is a bunch of flowers in the vase. There are flowers everywhere in this house. Even in the decoration of the house, flowers are often used as elements.]

[The head of the Li family, who was sitting there, was wearing a white single garment and gently brewed a pot of flower tea. Fanning didn't know what kind of tea it was, and there were flowers floating in the tea in front of them.]

This person... Yuan Yuanyuan frowned slightly.

When she met him that year, he was still an old man with wrinkles all over his face, but now... does he look like a young man?

Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly remembered the Journey to the West she had read when she was a child. In it, there was a king who used children's hearts and livers as medicine to cure diseases... She also suddenly remembered the Li family's head looking for humans everywhere, and she vaguely felt that these two had something in common...

In fact, Yuan Yuanyuan had felt a long time ago that the age of the Li family patriarch was a little beyond her expectations, because Li Siqun, who was of the same generation as him, still looked like a college student this year. And no one seemed to find it strange that Yuan, who was resurrected from Hongshajing, had the face of a young man in his twenties.

There are few powerful old monsters, not because they have reached the end of their lifespan... but because all the old monsters without any power died in that era. Those who were slightly more ordinary would not have been involved in the war back then, and would not have such a long lifespan.

But looking at Li Siqun, the head of the Li family is not that kind of monster without talent... but he has a stern look on his face as soon as he meets him... Is this retribution? Yuan Yuanyuan thought with some malice in her heart, she didn't have any good feelings towards him at all.

And Yuan Yingli... The "relative" he mentioned actually refers to the Yuan family member who later married into the Li family, right? Yuan Yuanyuan suddenly remembered this.

The last time the two met, the head of the Li family said that his wife was not in good health. How is the woman from the Yuan family now?

[Fanning explained the "transaction" to the other party. Before coming, he had used the Tao to check the minds of the two monsters, and everything was memorized in his mind.]

[Yuan Yingli beside him naturally knew the merchant's mission this time. Sometimes he would fill in the gaps that Fanning could not take care of. The two of them seemed very normal, but in fact they had already observed everything.]

【“Okay, let’s send the two of you out.” The head of the Li family who was sitting there said, two people came and prepared to send the two people out. Fanning and Yuan Yingli stood up obediently and prepared to go out. Suddenly, a voice sounded, “Aren’t you going to see my mother?”】

[Hmm? That voice? Fanning's eyes widened and he turned to look at the person who spoke.]

[A girl in white stood there with a cold expression, looking at the head of the Li family.]

[…Why is she here? ]

[Fanning looked at the girl with a strange expression as she walked away. Someone beside him asked, "What is it, sir?"]

【“No, no, no…” Fanning shook his head quickly. 】

[After he and Yuan Yingli came out, he kept looking back. Yuan Yingli asked, "What happened?"]

[“How did we… run into this guy?” Fanning had a strange expression on his face. He turned to look at Yuan Yingli and the monster who led the way. The two looked at each other. Yuan Yingli stepped forward to deal with the two monsters, and the two of them secretly turned back.]

[Fanning used an illusion to sneak in. Yuan Yingli did not come with him. The abilities of old monsters are all extraordinary. Last time, when he encountered an old monster who was particularly familiar with the Blood Jade Monster Army, Fanning still used this illusion and almost failed.]

[So this time he improved his illusion again. Although he didn't know how effective it would be against the big monster, he had to give it a try. Fanning really couldn't wait to go back.]

[Fanning returned to the room he had just been to. He originally intended to look for the girl, but in the blink of an eye, the girl disappeared.]

[This made Fanning feel a little sad. He vaguely guessed the identity of the girl in white. The last time they parted, Fanning suddenly disappeared and didn't talk to anyone. Naturally, he didn't explain anything to the girl in white.]

[Fanning was about to turn around and leave to look for someone, but suddenly he heard something unexpected.]

[The voice came from this room, and the person who spoke was the head of the Li family who had just talked to them.]

[“…You really didn’t find it?”]

[… Fanning sneaked back again, his ears erect, and a gossipy look on his face. This topic sounds interesting… He wondered if he could talk about something explosive.]

[The person in the room who is not the head of the Li family said something.]

[“I think Yuan… must be really dead. After all, we have been looking for him for such a long time…”]

【Faning's pupils shrank sharply.】

…

The funeral march started playing in Yuan Yuanyuan's ears again... A light snowflake began to fall from the sky.

Ah...why so sad?

Fanning's pupils are so exquisitely contracted... the painting gives people a sense of déjà vu.

Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the girl in white. Her current identity was revealed... How come it was like a werewolf? But after the other party was revealed... would she have a good life? The head of the Li family was not such an easy person to talk to, and he didn't look like a good father.

Of course, Yuan Yuanyuan was just casually thinking this way. What happened between the father and daughter had nothing to do with her... With her status, she should naturally stand on the opposite side of the Li family's father and daughter.

Fanning in the comic book almost stopped breathing. He had never thought that he would hear such a thing when he sneaked over. He sneaked over again and his breathing became much lighter.

[“How much of that thing… is left?” asked the Patriarch of the Li family, and there was the sound of bottles and jars being put into the container.]

[“Forget it. Put away the remaining ones. If you want to find them again, they will be gone.” After a while, the head of the Li family sighed.]

What are you looking for? Yuan Yuanyuan also became serious. Is it Siqun’s hair?

She wanted to continue reading, but who knew that the head of the Li family in the comic did not continue talking.

"We have placed them wherever possible," the voice in the room said, "but he has not come out."

[“Since he didn’t come out… that means he is really dead?” The head of the Li family murmured.]

[“He must be dead.” The monster said with certainty, “Even this thing couldn’t force him out… so he must be dead. He definitely couldn’t stand this thing.”]

Shit... Yuan Yuanyuan in the front of the comic seemed to have some inexplicable enlightenment. She said why the other party kept clicking on Siqun’s hair in various places... It turns out that they were trying to force herself out!

So... her initial guess was correct. Yuan was indeed infected by a dragon, and this dragon might be the thing that caused Yuan to capsize in the end.

Yuan Yuanyuan glanced at the wound on the back of her hand that had not yet healed, and thought to herself, she didn't know when the dragon that had bitten her could have such a destructive power, and she didn't know what Yuan herself would be like... maybe she would really be forced out by this dragon.

However, it was because she and Siqun became workmates that she was unknowingly caught in the trap, and then by some strange coincidence, she ended up with the same effect as Yuan himself.

It's a blessing in disguise... For now, she can still endure it and won't be forced out for the time being. Seeing how confident the head of the Li family is, there is a high probability that the real Yuan can't stand this pig.

......

[“This thing will slowly dissolve him from his body.” The Patriarch of the Li Family said, “I’ve seen that happen… red spots will appear on the skin, and eventually the places where the red spots appear will all rot.”]

[“Do you know what those red spots are?” The Li family patriarch smiled, “It’s the blood seeping out from under the skin… This thing can dissolve all his internal organs.”]

...What a huge hatred this is. Gao Ling got goosebumps all over her body when she read this description. She knew in her heart that Yuan was really not dead... Although she didn't know why the other party didn't behave the same as the head of the Li family expected, he was still not dead.

She pinched the back of her hand, and suddenly some red dots flashed through her mind.

Is that what the boss saw on his hand this morning?

Gao Ling uttered "Eh" again. She didn't know how many times she had made such a sound since she met that boss.

All these "coincidences" added together... always gave her a strange feeling.

No way...

Gao Ling rubbed the back of his hand and thought, Na Yuan really went beyond the expectations of the Li family's patriarch and managed to survive it.