Chapter Twenty-Seven: The clouds under your feet are all illusory
Mai Mendong pinched Qin Lan's chin with one hand, and a sly smile appeared on his face, "Mr. Li, I don't know if this time, are you afraid or not?" โ
Seeing me tied into a dumpling, Qin Lan couldn't care less about being afraid, and asked angrily: "Master, did this hurt you!" โ
"Children are not allowed to swear."
"When death is imminent, Mr. Li is still thinking about this."
The smile on Mai Mendong's face gradually retracted, and he took out a dagger from his waist and pressed it against Qin Lan's Adam's apple, "You're really not afraid that I will kill her?" โ
The moment he was caught by the knife, Qin Lan was not only not afraid, but lowered his head and bit Qin Lan's tiger mouth.
"Oops!"
Mai Mendong covered his wrist in pain, and Qin Lan took the opportunity to pounce on me and hurriedly pulled the handcuffs.
But the handcuffs are made of stainless steel, and they can't be pulled apart at all.
Qin Lan was so anxious that he burst into tears, "Master, what should we do?" You've got to find a way, right......"
Facing Qin Lan's expectant eyes, I couldn't help but feel dim, and shook my head helplessly.
The two bodyguards rushed forward and pressed Qin Lan to the ground again.
Mai Mendong covered his bloody wounds and said with a treacherous expression, "Little girl, if I can give you a bronze mask and an immortal body, you can take back this power. โ
"You're really not afraid of death?"
"Kill me if you have a seed! Sao * Zi, if you frown, I was raised by you! โ
At this time, Qin Lan was like a little tiger who chose people to devour, and he no longer had the slightest appearance of being well-behaved and gentle.
From her, I seemed to see Qin Yin's appearance......
I repeat again: "No swearing, children." โ
Poofโ
The sharp dagger pierced into Qin Lan's eyebrows, her pretty face stiffened slightly, she stopped cursing, and just landed her affectionate eyes on me.
Mai Mendong put down the dagger, dipped his fingers in Qin Lan's blood, and sketched a spell on the big locust tree that I couldn't understand.
After the incantation was outlined, Mai Mendong smiled and said, "Mr. Li, I'm afraid I don't know, an immortal like us, from fatal injury to loss of consciousness, it takes about five minutes. โ
"The little girl's eyes are full of nostalgia and reluctance, don't you feel sad?"
Even though Qin Lan's eyes were like a thorn poking at someone, I was still expressionless and unheard.
The spell written by Qin Lan's blood on the locust tree demon was lit up with bursts of red light, and the energy in it expanded rapidly, and from the top of the treetops, a thick branch like a straw stretched out.
The branches connected to the wound where the dagger was inserted into Qin Lan's eyebrows, and began to frantically absorb the essence of life.
Qin Lan's complexion, pale, visible to the naked eye, eventually became transparent and dissipated into nothingness.
Mai Mendong said in surprise: "This kid is gone, don't you feel it at all, Mr. Li?" โ
I asked, "How do you want me to feel?" โ
"Probably...... Grief-stricken, or hated me to the core, scolded, or killed me. โ
"Then you're a pervert."
Mai Mendong's face was slightly sluggish, and he suddenly smiled and said, "You misunderstood." I just don't believe that there really are people in this world who are fearless, desireless, and wantless. โ
"There should be, but unfortunately it's not me."
I sighed, remembered my grandfather's words, and reluctantly replied, "I do have something to fear, but it's not death, and it's not you." โ
Mai Mendong smiled, "You're really a weirdo. โ
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Not long after Qin Lan's body disappeared, the locust tree and the nearby underground began to tremble wildly, and the clear lake surface was as black as ink.
In the reflection of the moonlight, you can see the black shadows of the lush locust trees, and the bare branches of the trees are hung with dense corpses, gently swaying with the wind.
A wave of resentment rose from the ground, and an invisible energy condensed from the treetops, eventually forming a fruit about the size of a fist, with a whole body as white as jade.
The locust tree is draining itself of life, pouring energy into the white fruit, which is estimated to be fully ripe in another ten minutes.
Due to the shaking of the ground, the security guard was so frightened that he withdrew a few dozen meters, leaving only me and Mai Mendong, standing calmly with our backs to the tree.
I said, "I'm a little confused now, and I wonder if you can help me with that." โ
Mai Mendong said with interest: "Mr. Li, excuse me." โ
"Before coming to Changshou Village, Qin Lan had a dream. In my dream, I was hanged from this big locust tree. It was this prophetic dream that made Qin Lan pester and had to come with me. โ
"I wonder if the reason why she has this dream is that you are using illusion to make trouble of it?"
Mai Mendong said without the slightest hesitation: "Yes." โ
"Also, I want to know what you are doing for funding Changshou Village for hundreds of years, creating an evil tree, and designing to trick Qin Lanyu into killing here?"
Mai Mendong looked up at the white and faintly reddish fruit, and his eyes were vaguely greedy, "Of course, it is for immortality." โ
"As the patriarch of the Xiling clan, I have been seriously injured, and my lifespan is only a thousand years, and there are less than two years to go, and it is about to expire."
"Before Heaven takes me, I must renew my life!"
"With this little girl as an introduction, this Divine Tree Fruit can give me at least five hundred years of life!"
Looking at Mai Mendong's expression, which gradually became hideous due to greed, I asked calmly, "What will happen to you after five hundred years?" โ
"Five hundred years is enough time for me to kill the phoenix and become an immortal again!"
As he spoke, the locust tree had begun to decay from its roots, and the last bit of vitality had been sucked into the white fruit.
A gust of wind blew, and the thick locust tree, which was more than ten meters high, was torn apart like an afterimage and disappeared into the air.
The white fruit fell from the sky, and Mai Mendong stretched out his two hands, eager to catch the fruit.
At this moment, I easily broke free from the chains of my hands and feet, and because I was much taller than her, I took the fruit first.
Sure enough, it's full of extraordinary vitality.
Maimendon looked at me in astonishment, "You...... How did you break free from the handcuffs!? โ
"Ordinary things can't lock me up."
I threw the fruit on the ground, and Maimendon was so anxious that he leaned down to grab it, but I stepped into the mud.
"You!"
Mai Mendong swept away his graceful and luxurious posture and looked at me with a hideous expression, "You humiliated me so much, didn't you think about the consequences!?" โ
"When you stabbed the dagger into Qin Lan's eyebrows, how could you have thought about the consequences."
I indifferently persuaded and said, "This fruit can't make you immortal, it will only increase resentment and obsession." โ
Unfortunately, Mai Mendong couldn't listen to me.
As if she was crazy, she grabbed the mud from my feet and stuffed it into her mouth, until she swallowed all the mud stained with the flesh, and then she raised her head and covered her mouth, holding her face so red that she didn't dare to cough.
After a long time, she suddenly spat out a mouthful of mud with a pale face, "How can there be no reaction!?" โ
"Of course there will be no reaction."
Behind Mai Mendong, Qin Lan's voice suddenly sounded.
The clouds blocking the moonlight were blown away by the wind, and Qin Lan stood in the bright moonlight, followed by a fox woman in yellow.
I picked up the real fruit from behind my back and asked in a calm voice, "I remember you once said that the illusion of the Xiling clan is particularly profound, guess what you just ate?" โ
At this time, Mai Mendong's hair was covered with mud, his knees were on his knees in the muddy water, and he swept Qin Lan behind him with shocked and angry eyes, and finally calmed down.
"Mr. Li, whether it is from illusion or means, you have won. I beg you now, give me this fruit. โ
"Although the sacrifice has not been completed, the energy in it is enough for me to live for three or five more years!"
"With these three or five years, I can completely turn over! Please, give me something! โ
I pointed to Maimendon's back, "If you ask, it won't answer." โ
Behind Mai Mendong, there stood a huge corpse with a height of nearly three meters, and from the eyes, ears, nose and mouth that were inflated countless times, it could be barely discerned that it was Shi Chengxian himself.
For hundreds of years, the resentment and evil spirit accumulated in Changshou Village condensed into new life in Shi Chengxian's corpse.
"I ...... I don't want to die! โ
Shi Chengxian approached Mai Mendong step by step, and the forty or fifty bodyguards saw this scene and fled in fright.
Mai Mendong's throat was choked by Shi Chengxian and pressed into the muddy water.
"Save ...... Save me! โ
Mai Mendong rolled his eyes, and desperately kicked his legs to ask me for help, but I took Qin Lan with me, and I wouldn't leave with my head......