Chapter 12: The Shadow Showdown
Ling Xiao, who returned to the living room, saw Wu Qianqian and Zhang Xiaoli were already waiting for him at this time, Zhang Xiaoli saw Ling Xiao coming and said funny, "You're really welcome, you disappeared when you just came to my house, we have been waiting for you for a long time, by the way, where have you been?" Ling Xiao smiled, "I'm going to visit your father, I always have to visit the master's house when I come home, otherwise it's rude," Zhang Xiaoli was also surprised when she heard it, "What?" Have you seen my father? Isn't it, you're not talking nonsense, are you? Oh, no, he didn't say anything, did he? Looking at Zhang Xiaoli's nervous appearance, Ling Xiao had the urge to tease her, and then replied, "Hey, don't talk about it, I wanted to go and greet your father with a friendly attitude, who knew that we talked okay at the beginning, but we quarreled while chatting, and now it's okay, your father and his old man are ready to let me get out, hey" Ling Xiao's words combined with his deliberately pretended expression of loss, which made Zhang Xiaoli on the side suddenly jump up, "What?" Isn't it, how can you quarrel so well, what are you talking about, did your father say something that embarrassed you, no, I'm going to find my father to theorize" After that, Zhang Xiaoli anxiously prepared to go up the stairs to find Zhang Qian to settle accounts, seeing Zhang Xiaoli's unintentional move, Ling Xiao's heart was suddenly moved, and then haha said, "Wait, don't you want to know what your father told me?" Hearing Ling Xiao's words, Zhang Xiaoli stopped and turned around and asked curiously, "What words?" Ling Xiao teased and laughed, "Your father said that you usually have no one to take care of, and you are used to being free and casual, let me educate you well, but as your good friend, I sternly refused, so" Looking at Ling Xiao's hippie smiling expression, even if she was stupid, Zhang Xiaoli suddenly reacted and shouted, "Bastard Ling Xiao, you lie to me again, see if my aunt doesn't beat you" After speaking, he rushed to Ling Xiao's small fist and crackled on Ling Xiao's body, but Ling Xiao hid his mouth and shouted "Ouch, it's so comfortable, I'm working harder", and suddenly the two chased and frolicked, Wu Qianqian, who was watching on the side, was speechless. It's just that after a while, Zhang Xiaoli was tired and panting, "There is a kind of don't you run, see if I don't clean you up well, dare to play me, huhu" Fight for physical strength It is estimated that no one in the world can compare with Ling Xiao, just when Zhang Xiaoli wanted to say something, at this time a majestic voice came from upstairs, "Xiaoli, you are messing around again, why don't you entertain the guests at home, look at you" Although Zhang Qian said this, he still unabashedly revealed a strong fatherly love from his tone, At this time, seeing Zhang Qian walking out of the study, Wu Qianqian downstairs affectionately shouted "Hello Uncle Zhang" As Xiaoli's good friend, Zhang Qian naturally knows Wu Qianqian, and also knows Wu Qianqian's life experience, and feels that this little girl is very rare, in a poor family, she can also be admitted to the university with her own excellence, so Zhang Qian also takes care of her very much on weekdays, in fact, these are all known in Wu Qianqian's heart. "Well, Qianqian, you're here. This time there is nothing to do to stay for a few more days, Uncle Zhang is busy on weekdays, and Xiaoli's girl relies on you to take care of her" At this time, Zhang Qian had a kind face, and he was completely a loving father. It's completely different from the expression when I was talking about the dark group in the study just now. Then Zhang Qian looked at Ling Xiao again and said with a smile, "Xiao Ling, you just treat this place as your own home, and if you have anything, just ask Steward Qian to do it" At this time, Zhang Qian's tone of speech to Ling Xiao was very polite, not at all like the tone of an elder who cared about the junior, but put Ling Xiao in the same class as himself. This makes Zhang Xiaoli feel strange, she knows her father best, she has been fighting in the mall for many years on weekdays, except for herself, she usually treats everyone very majestic. Boss, it's all the same, Qianqian is also because she grew up with herself since she was a child, so her father also takes care of her as his own daughter, Zhang Xiaoli also thought in her heart that maybe her father was very polite to Ling Xiao because Ling Xiao saved her. Zhang Xiaoli is a person who pretends to be confused about small things, and sees clearly what is right and wrong, and doesn't think much about things that he doesn't understand, and then looks at Zhang Qian and says, "Hmph, stinky dad, you want me to entertain you, okay, I'll make two cups of coffee in a while, and entertain him well, but you also have to drink it, father......" Hearing this, Zhang Qian's face turned blue, and he pretended to cough and said, "Cough, cough, alas?" Recently, I seem to be unwell, and the doctor takes care of me to drink as little coffee as possible, so I can't drink my good daughter's coffee, hey, regret, regret. Zhang Xiaoli looked at her father's pretending to be "poof" and smiled, and did not debunk it, "That father doesn't drink, I can't be rude to others, then Ling Xiao, you drink two cups." Hearing Zhang Xiaoli's words, Zhang Qian upstairs looked at Ling Xiao sympathetically, and immediately returned to his study without looking back. Ling Xiao touched his hair, looked at Zhang Qian, who was very unrighteous upstairs and fled back to the room, and said with a haha, "Huh? Uncle, don't go, your doctor also introduced me to take a look, I don't seem to be in good health lately." After speaking, he pretended to be ready to leave, but before he could move half a step, he was stopped by the sharp-eyed Zhang Xiaoli, "Hmph, see if you dare to tease me in the future, dare to bully me, and pour you coffee every day." Ling Xiao was thrilled when he heard this.
After dinner, Steward Qian helped Ling Xiao prepare a room, Ling Xiao's room was very spacious, the decoration was very gorgeous, and the facilities were all available, Ling Xiao looked at his room and nodded with satisfaction, at this time Steward Qian's voice came, "Young Master Ling, you rest early, you can call me for anything, then I won't bother you" After that, Steward Qian slowly turned around and prepared to leave, but before he went far, Ling Xiao suddenly stopped Steward Qian, "Wait, Steward Qian, this, don't call me Young Master in the future, I'm not used to hearing it, I myself was born in a mountain family, and I have beaten a lot of young masters, but I have never been a young master, you can just call me Ling Xiao in the future, Xiao Ling can also be. After speaking, Ling Xiao walked into his room, but when Steward Qian heard this, his heart was moved, and he thought that this young man was also rare, not arrogant or impatient. Although he has a different status from ordinary housekeepers in this family, Steward Qian has also received a lot of Zhang Qian's business partners, they are not so polite to themselves, they always feel that they are superior, and they see that they are just a servant, so what is the respect. After thinking about it, Steward Qian nodded, closed Ling Xiao's door, and gently retreated.
At this time, Ling Xiao was sitting on the sofa, thinking about something in his mind, and suddenly, he took out a piece of paper and a pen from the coffee table and wrote something densely on the paper, as if he had drawn a picture on the paper, and hurriedly walked out of the room and handed it to the money housekeeper after finishing it, and explained, "Help me get these things out as soon as possible, as for the things on the painting, it is best to give them to me in a week." Steward Qian took the list that Ling Xiao gave him, and was scared silly after just a little glance, but it didn't mean much, just replied, "Leave this matter to me" and then after Ling Xiao returned to the room, Steward Qian hurriedly ran to Zhang Qian's bedroom and handed the paper that Ling Xiao handed him to Zhang Qian, Zhang Qian was also shocked when he took the paper, and then said, "What strange things does this little guy want?" "At a cursory glance, almost all of them are books and other things, such as ancient mythological books, historical books, medical books, Buddhism, Taoism, and even a lot of foreign books. Without exception, they are all history books, all sorts of them, the only exception being that it is written on paper that a short knife is made of the best metal in the world, and the short knife is not very large, the shape is somewhat quaint, and there is a scabbard. Ling Xiao painted this painting very exquisitely, and even had a way to create it, Zhang Qian looked at this picture, his heart was relieved, thinking that this kid had made a weapon for himself, but for modern society, what can a knife do? And the enemy he faced was still a dark group, originally Zhang Qian thought that Ling Xiao would choose a hot weapon such as a gun for himself, but he didn't expect the result to be this. Despite this, Zhang Qian still instructed Steward Qian, "Old Qian, you send the things on the paper to Ling Xiao as soon as possible tomorrow, as for this knife, I'll find a way" After waving his hand, Steward Qian replied and exited the room.
After a night, Ling Xiao got up very early, it was only six o'clock in the morning, when the sky was dark, Ling Xiao walked to the villa garden alone, his hands slowly opened and stretched a lazy waist, and suddenly he thought about something, so he began to practice boxing. The people in the villa were still asleep at this time, except for Steward Qian and some servants, almost all of them were still asleep, Steward Qian in the distance looked at the white-haired young man in the garden playing something alone, Steward Qian walked in and looked at Ling Xiao with interest, but he saw a strange scene, only to see Ling Xiao's punching speed was extremely slow, and his feet moved slowly, as if he was playing Tai Chi, but Steward Qian knew that this was not Tai Chi, and Steward Qian didn't know anything like boxing. But he could feel the incomparably strong aura from Ling Xiao's boxing technique, Ling Xiao moved from retracting his hand to stretching his fist, and moving his footsteps and body from step to step, almost taking several breaths, which would make the people on the side look anxious, but Steward Qian's eyes have been firmly staring at Ling Xiao, and he wondered in his heart, what kind of punch is this young man fighting, and what is the use of such a slow punch? Is it for exercise? But in an instant, Steward Qian seemed to see that there were layers of figures after every step and every punch, he shook his head and raised his head to look at Ling Xiao, Steward Qian was suddenly scared into a cold sweat, because Ling Xiao, who had been boxing in the garden, suddenly disappeared, Steward Qian couldn't believe his eyes, and continued to shake his head vigorously, rubbing his eyes, something strange happened again, Ling Xiao, who had disappeared, appeared in place again at this time, and as at the beginning, his punches were extremely slow, Even an eighty-year-old man is a little sharper than him. Steward Qian thought that he was hallucinating, and sighed, "Hey, I'm really old, my eyes are not very good" and then left the villa alone, not for anything else, the first is because he still has to help Ling Xiao buy what he needs, and the second is because Ling Xiao's punches are too boring. At this time, Ling Xiao was only quiet in that set of boxing techniques, as if he was appreciating something, time passed quickly, and when Ling Xiao was over, it was already eight o'clock in the morning, Ling Xiao's boxing method had been fighting for more than two hours, when he stopped moving, he nodded with satisfaction, bowed his head and said to himself, "I didn't expect this set of ghost duels to be useful, I thought it would be impossible to use it in this life." The Phantom Shadow Duel that Ling Xiao said in his mouth was his own top martial arts in the mortal world, such martial arts can be called the top in the mortal world, but it is useless in the cultivation world, and at that time, Ling Xiao had a thousand miraculous skills in his hands, and he didn't care about the martial arts cultivated by mortals at all. Who would have thought that this set of martial arts will shine in this world now. With Ling Xiao's current perception and comprehension, this set of martial arts is not a big problem for him, when he was in the cultivation world, Ling Xiao tried to use this set of martial arts to guide his own aura, but the result made him very disappointed, such as the turn of him to guide his own aura at all, he can't bring this set of martial arts at all, and even when Ling Xiao uses immortal qi in the immortal world later, he can't guide it, for the exercises that can't be guided, it's not as good as the lowest exercises in the cultivation world but can guide his own aura. But now this set of martial arts is just right for the current Ling Xiao, there are a total of three Phantom Consecutive Duels, Phantom Footwork, Phantom Fist Method, and Phantom Knife Technique, especially the Phantom Knife Technique is even more unpredictable, with Phantom Step, it can definitely kill people invisibly. It's a pity that the production and material of the Phantom Knife are a bit special, although these special metals are very common for the cultivation world, but in this world, I don't know if there is any kind of metal that is extremely hard and tough, and the production of this knife also requires a very experienced blacksmith to build. Ling Xiao was also worried in his heart. Although I gave the production diagram myself, it is still a question whether someone can create it.
Just as Ling Xiao was thinking about it, a small noodle car outside the villa stopped, and the efficiency of the money housekeeper was still very fast, because after getting the list given by Ling Xiao yesterday, he had already started to contact him, and the books that Ling Xiao wanted were just more and miscellaneous, and it was not difficult to get. Going out in the morning is just going straight to get something, so it's ready in a short time. As soon as Ling Xiao saw someone coming, he ran over excitedly and helped put a pile of books into the living room. Wu Qianqian, who got up quite early, saw a lot of books in the living room at this time, and couldn't help but be startled, picked up a book casually, looked at it and said, "My God, Ling Xiao, what are you doing with so many books, this?" What kind of books are these? "The Story I Had to Tell God and I"? Even if you take it to read, how long will it take you to finish reading so many books" Ling Xiao smiled and said, "Hehe, secret, you have to read it if you can't finish it, haven't you heard that swimming in the ocean of knowledge is an extremely happy thing?" Wu Qianqian was speechless for a moment, in fact, what she didn't know was that Ling Xiao had the ability to never forget, and his super comprehension and perception, reading a book, as long as he turned it a few times, he could destroy a book in almost a few minutes. Looking at so many books, Ling Xiao was excited, so he beckoned someone to move all the books into his room, and at the same time asked the housekeeper for a laptop, and in the next week, Ling Xiao never went out except for dinner. Zhang Xiaoli and Wu Qianqian have both seen Ling Xiao's state of being a top student, and they don't react too much, only occasionally after eating, they will remind Ling Xiao to care about him and let him pay attention to rest. In this week, Ling Xiao almost went through all the books, although he didn't find anything in them, but Ling Xiao always felt that something seemed to have been erased in this world, from the ancient paper of Wu Qianqian's grandmother's house, the disappeared aura, and the spirit grass and spirit beasts that disappeared in this world were alluded from the ancient medical books, Ling Xiao thought about these questions, and suddenly he wondered in his heart, thinking that there was a history that had been erased? It's the feeling he feels in his heart. But what is just reflected in the book doesn't mean anything. Ling Xiao thought to himself, and secretly decided that he would have to go to the places mentioned in the books when he had time in the future, maybe this would let him know more secrets.