Chapter 508: The Visitor
"Are you here?" Lin Haoxue's words had just finished speaking, Shao Hui had not answered, suddenly, he heard a voice coming in from the direction of the door, and the voice came into Lin Haoxue's ears, it was so familiar, and his heart suddenly moved, Lin Haoxue immediately turned his gaze, and the moment he turned around, he saw Mr. Ai standing at the door smiling at himself.
Mr. Ai is still the same as before, it seems that he has not changed, he is still dressed in white, with a good demeanor, and he is a handsome man who can easily arouse people's affection for him. No, in fact, he still has a certain amount of change, although his appearance and age have not changed, but his momentum has changed a lot, but this change is very restrained, very obscure, and it is not easy for ordinary people to notice.
With just a glance, Lin Haoxue could clearly see Mr. Ai's current strength, he had reached the level of the peak of the Immortal King, it seemed that after breaking through the bottleneck of the realm of Xuan Immortal, his cultivation path could be described as advancing by leaps and bounds.
"Yes, I'm here. Lin Haoxue smiled slightly, "The ten-year period is coming, and I am here to fulfill the ten-year covenant." β
"It's hard for you to remember the original agreement. Mr. Ai looked at Lin Haoxue with gratitude, admiration, and a little surprise.
In recent years, Lin Haoxue's name in this Nanyu is too big, so almost no one doesn't know Lin Haoxue's name, and that name represents confidence and hope, especially for those countries that are deeply persecuted by the Blood Demon Valley and the Soul Hunting Sect, the name Lin Haoxue is simply a round of sun in a cold winter, which is so desperately hopeful.
Of course, Mr. Ai is no exception, so when he remembers that he once asked Lin Haoxue to worship him as a teacher, he will feel embarrassed, in this Nanyu, I'm afraid no one dares to say that Lin Haoxue is accepted as an apprentice, right?
"People don't stand without faith, of course I remember what I promised Mr. Ai, not to mention, Mr. Ai helped my Lin family a lot, and it can even be said that he protected our Lin family, such a great kindness, I dare not or forget. Lin Haoxue said with a smile, her tone was friendly, but her heart was slightly sour.
Although the relationship with Mr. Ai was not close at the beginning, but there was no pressure to intersect, but they could just speak freely and say whatever they wanted, but now, ten years have passed, and she clearly feels that Mr. Ai is unfamiliar with the politeness and politeness hidden in the face of herself, which is not what she is happy to see.
"Thank you, Miss Lin. Mr. Ai nodded slightly at her, and stopped talking.
Even the title has become Miss Lin, it seems that she is really rusty.
"Hehe, the two of you have come from afar, please sit down quickly!" His eyes patrolled over Lin Haoxue and Mr. Ai several times, and he seemed to be aware of the strangeness and distance between the two, His Majesty the Emperor of the Shao Hui Empire was naturally also a human spirit, and interjected at the right time, "Xiao Ai, you also sit!"
This time, no one was polite, Lin Haoxue and He Yi'an quickly sat down in the guest seat, watching His Majesty Shao Hui order someone to serve tea, and didn't say anything, even Fang Xingai, who had been lowering his eyebrows, also found a lower position and sat down, gently sipping the fragrant tea that had just been served.
"Today, are there any other people coming?" Glancing at the vacant chair beside His Majesty Emperor Shao Hui, Lin Haoxue asked casually.
"Miss Lin is really as careful as a hair," Lin Haoxue asked, His Majesty Shao Hui didn't seem surprised at all, he also glanced at the vacant place beside him, took a sip of fragrant tea, and then continued, "Indeed, there should be one of my sworn brothers who came here today, but I don't know when he will come for the time being." β
"Even His Majesty the Emperor doesn't know?" Lin Haoxue raised her eyebrows in surprise and said, "In this way, the identity of this visitor is really mysterious enough?"
"It's not that he's mysterious," Shao Hui explained with a smile, "It's just that, as far as I know, my sworn brother just came out, and I played a dumb riddle with him, and I don't know if he can guess the riddle I gave him, so I'm not sure if he'll come here or when." β
"Brother Shao, it's just that we haven't seen each other for fifty years, how can my little brother be looked down on by you like this?"
And just at the moment when Shao Hui's words fell, a laughing voice suddenly came from the door, and this voice was still very familiar.
Even if she didn't have to look up, Lin Haoxue knew that this new visitor was also an acquaintance, at least, there was a relationship. Sure enough, the moment she looked up, Lin Haoxue saw a handsome young man striding in, and unceremoniously sat down in Shao Hui's position, that person was Fang Rui, the head of the Fang family who had just been separated for a long time.
"Brother Fang is right, I really underestimate you coming," Seeing this visitor, Emperor Shao Hui's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately stood up to greet him, laughing and said, "Although I expected that you would definitely be able to meet my thoughts, you would have come here, but I didn't expect that you would come so quickly and so early!"
"Why, I'm here early, isn't it good?" Fang Rui raised his eyebrows and joked, it could be seen that the relationship between the two of them was really good, and there was no sense of distance at all because of Shao Hui's identity.
"Yes, of course, that's for the best. His Majesty Shao Hui didn't seem to mind Fang Rui's unreasonableness at all, but still smiled, and then turned his head to Lin Haoxue and He Yi'an, who were sitting quietly in the guest seats, and introduced, "Miss Lin, Mr. He, since you are here to find the children of the Fang family, then, compared to you, you must have seen my virtuous brother, what about him, he is the patriarch of the Fang family, Fang Rui, who is equal to my strength, and will be a great help for eradicating the stronghold of the Blood Demon Valley in the Shao Hui Empire." β
Lin Haoxue nodded, indicating that she knew, and He Yi'an, who was sitting beside Lin Haoxue, kept looking down and tasting the tea in the cup, never raising her head or opening her mouth.
"Okay, since that's the case, then, should we talk about the matter of the Blood Demon Valley in Shao Hui's empire?" Seeing that Shao Hui and Fang Rui's greetings were over, Lin Haoxue took a sip of tea and said leisurely.
She came here this time to repay Mr. Ai's favor, and now, she already knows that Mr. Ai is not in a big deal, so why not deal with the things in the Blood Demon Valley? What's more, whether it is in the previous life or in this life, she and He Yi'an are incompatible with an evil existence like the Blood Demon Valley Soul Hunting Sect, and they cannot coexist, either you die or I die, and there is absolutely no possibility of peaceful coexistence.
"That's right, Miss Lin. At this moment, whether it was Shao Hui or Fang Rui, the head of the Fang family who had just come, they were all sitting down firmly in their seats, and it was Emperor Shao Hui who spoke.
"About eight years ago, I received a distress letter from the lord of a relatively remote city, saying that all the people in their city were in danger of life, and hoped that I could send someone to rescue them, and when I saw the distress letter, I didn't take it to heart, after all, a small city like this is too insignificant in the huge territory of our Shaohui Empire, so I just sent a team of guards to rescue them, but I didn't know that when my people arrived at that place, all the people in the entire city disappeared, and there was no shadow of a single personγ β
"Were they arrested?" Lin Haoxue couldn't help but ask, although the words were asked like this, but Lin Haoxue faintly felt in her heart that this was not the case, she also knew the people of the Blood Demon Valley, it was said that it was a very troublesome thing to want to capture people alive, such a troublesome thing, they would not do it, they would only simplify the troublesome things, so they would not care if it was reasonable or not.
"I still don't know if this is the case. Speaking of this, Shao Hui's face became very ugly, as if it was covered with a layer of frost, which made people dare not look directly, however, he did not pause the slightest, but continued, "It's just that the guards I sent out didn't see anyone's shadow, but in the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion in that city, a huge pool of blood was found. β
"Blood pool?" Hearing these two words, Lin Haoxue was almost startled, her eyes were staring at Shao Hui tightly, and she didn't say a word, but her gaze was like a substantial ten thousand years of ice, which made people can't help but feel chills in their hearts.
At this moment, her mind kept tumbling the blood pool that she saw in the Chen family, the imperial capital of the Wuhuan Empire, and in that blood pool, there were all fresh lives, I don't know what method the people in the Blood Demon Valley used, they could not even keep their bones, and they all turned into a pool of blood. That picture, thinking about it to this day, makes her extremely angry.
"Miss Lin, what's wrong with you?" Lin Haoxue's sudden abnormal behavior startled Shao Hui, who was sitting opposite her.
"Haoxue, calm down!" He Yi'an, who was sitting beside Lin Haoxue, naturally noticed Lin Haoxue's uneasiness, gently patted the back of her hand on her knee, and said comfortingly.
"Well," Lin Haoxue came back to her senses at this time, looked at Shao Hui's surprised gaze opposite, and quickly shook her head, "I'm fine, I just remembered some old things, Your Majesty, please continue to talk about it." β
"Okay," Shao Hui saw that Lin Haoxue didn't seem to say anything, so he didn't ask any more, but continued, "The blood in that blood pool is shocking, originally the people of the guards thought that everyone in that city was killed by the people of the Blood Demon Valley, but there were no human bones in the blood pool, so they were not sure, but they never found anyone. β