Volume 1: Induction Section 13: Recruiting Relatives in Competition
"Are you awake?"
Looking at Pu Zitong, who was lying on his bed and slowly opened his eyes, Zhang Su asked with concern.
"What am I?" Pu Zitong cautiously looked at Zhang Su in front of him, and said in a daze.
"Forgotten? You defeated Cao Xuanqing, and when you walked back, you fell on the steps in the backyard of Heavenly Soul Castle, but fortunately, I arrived in time and helped you back. Zhang Su explained.
"Oh, I remember, I'm fighting with the Cao family." Pu Zitong thought about it, as if recalling the previous situation.
"Where am I now? Why can't I move my body? ”
Pu Zitong came back to his senses, his head struggled on the bed a few times, but he found that his body seemed to be unable to move, and he couldn't help but be a little frightened in his heart, and asked loudly.
"This is the room of the little brother Zhang, because your spiritual sense and soul power have been overused, and you can't control the movement of your body, so you have temporarily lost control of the entire body, and now your soul strength is only enough to manipulate your head, and the rest of your body belongs to a naturally existing biological state, with vital signs, but due to the weakness of your spiritual sense and soul, it has become a soulless life form." Fan Zengming explained in a still rough voice.
"It turned out to be Brother Fan." Pu Zitong heard Fan Zengming's voice.
"Well, it seems that the matter of me and Little Brother Zhang having dinner tonight is going to be ruined." Fan Zengming said softly.
"Overuse of soul power? It's the first time I've encountered this situation. ”
Pu Zitong turned his head left and right, looking down as far as he could, as if looking for his unconscious body.
After listening to Fan Zengming's explanation, Zhang Su looked at Pu Zitong's appearance again, and thought of a joke that he had read, saying that someone was injured, and the doctor recommended that he amputate all his limbs below the head, which should be Pu Zitong's true feeling at this time.
"Brother Zhang, feed her that thing now." Fan Zengming commanded.
"Okay, Brother Fan, I see."
Zhang Su reached for the head of the bed, picked up a small box on the bedside table, opened it, and took out a small plastic bottle from it, which looked similar to some eye drops sold on the market, and also contained some transparent liquids, about half a bottle.
Immediately afterwards, according to Fan Zengming's instructions, Zhang Su opened the lid of the small bottle, lifted it to Pu Zitong's face lying on the bed, and stopped between Pu Zitong's delicate but dry lips.
"Miss Pu, please open your mouth." Zhang Su asked gently.
Pu Zitong didn't know what was in the vial in Zhang Su's hand, so he pursed his mouth and stared at the vial in Zhang Su's hand in a little panic.
"Miss Pu, don't be nervous, this is our company's medical soul master Lin Yan's special spiritual cultivation liquid, which has the effect of nourishing the soul and repairing the soul power, which is much better than the spiritual cultivation liquid sold in the outside world, and it is helpful for your soul power recovery, if you don't use it, you won't be able to move freely all day tomorrow from tonight, and you may not be able to arrive on time for tomorrow's training, I, the team leader, will be responsible." Fan Zengming saw Pu Zitong's caution and suspicion, and explained to Pu Zitong.
Pu Zitong looked at the small bottle that Zhang Su had been holding, and after some mental struggle, he finally decided to give up the guard in his heart, slowly opened his mouth, and waited for Zhang Su to feed the medicine.
"Little brother Zhang, although this spiritual cultivation liquid can quickly repair the soul, but the medicinal properties are also relatively violent, you can't overdo it when using it, you can only feed one drop at a time, drop it every three hours, with Miss Pu's current situation, you need to drop it four times, after the fourth time it takes effect, Miss Pu's soul can be restored, and her body will naturally recover as before." Fan Zengming explained the use of spiritual fluid.
Zhang Su nodded, indicating that he understood, but he thought in his heart that this was no different from ordinary people taking medicine and feeding medicine, and when he drank medicine, he also drank it according to the course of treatment, and then put the mouth of the vial downward, pinched it gently, and slowly squeezed out a drop, which fell into Pu Zitong's open mouth.
After Pu Zitong entered the body, he closed his eyes tightly, as if he was feeling the changes in his body, and as if he was checking whether there was a problem with the medicinal liquid, and after a while, after finding that there was nothing abnormal, he opened his eyes again, and breathed a sigh of relief slightly, although the sound was not very loud, but Zhang Su felt a sense of tension being relieved.
"It's not early, I'll go get some food for you later, little brother Zhang, Miss Pu will be tired of you taking care of it tonight, you can be a temporary nurse, help the little girl in the family, and feed her medicine on time at night." Fan Zengming instructed again.
Zhang Su is not a person who can take care of people, but the matter is in front of him again, how to say that Pu Zitong is his future colleague, and now he is lying on his bed and can't move, even if he wants to refuse, out of humanitarianism, Zhang Su doesn't know how to speak.
"Brother Fan, you can just call me Zhang Su, that, what I want to say is that it's not good for us to be alone in the same room like this." Zhang Su could only excuse himself like this.
"What's wrong? Could it be that you see that Miss Pu is young and cute, and you want to do something to her? ”
Fan Zengming seemed to be speaking seriously, but he said it so bluntly, as if he was hinting at something, which made Zhang blush, and quickly waved his hand to explain: "I didn't mean that, I'm afraid that others will gossip, this kind of thing is not easy to explain, I'm afraid it will be bad for Miss Pu's reputation." ”
"Is it important to cure the sick and save people or to make a reputation? People don't have to be too old-fashioned. Fan Zengming replied seriously.
Zhang Zhen can't see it, Fan Zengming, who has always been more serious and traditional, would persuade himself not to be old-fashioned, so he could only rub his head a little crazy, the reason why he refused to take care of Pu Zitong was of course not that he was afraid of the little thing between men and women, it was just a rhetoric, what Zhang Su was really afraid of was having a relationship with Pu Zitong, judging by what he knew now, at least the purpose of the soul master Cao family and the soul master Ye family was related to this Pu Zitong, and being involved with the girl in front of him was like falling into the spider web of grievances and hatred of the soul master family. When the time comes, it's hard to get out.
"I agree!" Just when Zhang Su and Fan Zengming were discussing, Pu Zitong, who was lying on the bed, spoke.
Pu Zitong, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, Zhang Su and Fan Zengming both froze, stopped the discussion about curing the disease, saving people and the reputation of chastity, and looked at Pu Zitong together.
"Don't look at me like this, I agree to let Zhang Su stay and take care of me, I don't want to be paralyzed in bed for a longer time, and I don't want to cause trouble to Brother Fan, so I have to recover as soon as possible." Pu Zitong spoke his mind.
"Miss Pu, aren't you afraid that if I am alone with you, it will damage your reputation?" Zhang Su asked.
"I'm not afraid, but there are three chapters of the Offer Law." Pu Zitong seemed to have planned it a long time ago and replied.
Zhang Su doesn't like the law, mainly because it will increase the restraints, but Zhang Su can also guess that Pu Zitong is now lying on the bed in his room and can't move, although there is no special worry in the tone of his voice, but he must be uneasy in his heart, in addition to needing to feed her medicine regularly, it is estimated that she will also put forward restrictions to herself to protect herself, and Zhang Su is not easy to refute.
"Say it." Zhang said.
"First, you can't touch me without my permission." Pu Zitong said the first one.
"No problem, I think I'm a decent gentleman and won't take advantage of others." Zhang Su nodded and agreed.
"Second, you sleep on the ground tonight, and you are not allowed to come near me." Pu Zitong continued.
"Yes." Zhang Zhen thought about it, the closer he got to it, the easier it was to get off the fire, and he originally thought that even if he was alone in a room, he should try to distance himself from Pu Zitong as much as possible, and it was inevitable that he would be burned because of the entanglement of the soul master family.
"The third point, it's not a covenant, it should be a warning, you also know that I come from a relatively large soul master family, soul masters are different from ordinary people, they have powerful supernatural means, if you dare to bully me at night, I guess you won't have a good time in the rest of your life!" Pu Zitong said the last one, and his voice became as piercing as a cold wind.
"I don't like to be threatened for no reason." Zhang Su refused.
"Tilt your ears here!" Pu Zitong called out to Zhang Ji coldly, meaning that he had something to whisper.
Zhang Su thought about it, so far, there was no grudge between himself and Pu Zitong, so he leaned forward without any scruples, wanting to hear what Pu Zitong said.
"In return for the three chapters of the covenant, I will help you enter the soul master realm tonight, and it will be 100% successful." Pu Zitong whispered softly to Zhang Su.
Although Zhang Su doesn't like to be threatened, but after listening to Pu Zitong's last whisper, it means that these three treaties seem to have returns, and they are a return that can make them become soul masters immediately, which still has some temptation for Zhang Su, Zhang Su's purpose in coming to the soul hunting company is to become a soul master, and Zhang Su knows that it seems not easy to become a soul master, and the success rate is not very high, and the little girl from a certain soul master family in front of her has a way to make people 100% become a soul master, which is also an attractive condition. But after thinking about it, the reason why Pu Zitong said this is probably to dispel his possible ill intentions with both soft and hard.
Zhang Su glanced at Pu Zitong, a girl from the soul master family, I don't know why she ran to this soul hunting company, and now she is injured and can't move, the only people she knows around her are himself and Fan Zengming, who came together, although he doesn't know what Fan Zengming's strength is, but from the words, he can judge that his strength is strong, at least much stronger than Pu Zitong, not this little girl can compete with, and he is just an ordinary person, compared to Fan Zengming, he is relatively weak, It is estimated that Pu Zitong chose to stay by himself and made a secret deal with himself, even if he is not even a soul master, but there is also a threat to Pu Zitong who is lying on the bed, so Pu Zitong will say that kind of warning words, the purpose of Pu Zitong's series of actions is to reduce the potential danger as much as possible, Zhang Su only felt after analyzing how thoughtful the little girl in front of him was.
"Don't agree?" Pu Zitong asked.
"Agreed, you don't have to threaten me like that, I have no bad intentions, staying is just feeding medicine regularly, it's no problem for me." Zhang Su finally agreed.
"Okay, since you said okay, I'll go to the restaurant to eat later, and then ask the staff to pack two set meals and send them to you, you choose what to eat according to the information on the menu, and then send me a message." Fan Zengming saw that Pu Zitong and Zhang Su both agreed, and said.
"yes, okay." Zhang Su and Pu Zitong nodded and agreed.
After a while, Fan Zengming packed two boxed lunches according to the menu information sent by Zhang Su and Pu Zitong, and asked the staff to send them to Zhang Su's room, Zhang Su helped her up with Pu Zitong's consent, fed her some food, and found her a thick pillow, let her sit up, leaning on the pillow, and Zhang Su found the spare futon in the cupboard, made a small bed on the ground, lay on his side, turned his back to Pu Zitong, and played with his mobile phone.
The clock on the wall clicked, indicating that time was passing minute by minute, for a long time, neither of the two people in the room said a word to each other, and even the urge to speak did not seem to be, although the distance between the two was only half a bed, but it was as insurmountable as a thousand rivers and mountains, the solidified atmosphere in the room continued to ferment, and the two of them even became cautious in their breathing, giving birth to some embarrassing taste.
When the alarm clock rang again, three hours had passed, Zhang Su got up and fed the second drop of spiritual cultivation liquid into Pu Zitong's mouth.
"Did the Cao family and the Ye family come to you?" Zhang Su decided to break this embarrassment first.
"The Ye family?" Pu Zitong asked puzzled.
"Well, before you fought against Cao Xuanqing of the Cao family, Cao Xuanqing had fought once with a person who called himself Ye Liao of the Ye family, and on the first day we came to report, that is, yesterday......" Zhang Su told Pu Zitong what he saw and heard.
"I see, even the Ye family is here, and things are a little troublesome." Pu Zitong seemed to be thinking about something, and said to himself.
"Why are they looking for you?" Zhang Su asked.
"Marriage." Pu Zitong blurted out.
"Marriage?" Zhang asked puzzled.
"I am from the Soul Master family, the Pu family called the Soul Master by the Soul Master Realm, and now it is my father who is in charge of the Pu family, and I am the only daughter of my parents, and I have the inheritance of the next patriarch, but the Pu family has a key secret skill that can only be passed on by men, and the inheritance of that secret skill can maintain the longevity of the Pu family." Pu Zitong replied blandly.
"Is it patriarchal?" Zhang Su was surprised.
"I can't say that, most of the secret techniques of the Pu family are not divided into men and women, only the highest secret skills can only be practiced and performed by men, and daughters cannot be practiced, this is the restriction of secret skills, so the family requires me to find a male soul master who can inherit the secret skills related to the rise and fall of the family before inheriting the patriarch, otherwise I will not inherit it when the inheritance of the patriarch expires." Pu Zitong said the reason.
"Then your parents can give you another brother, now that the second child is also open, give birth to a younger brother to inherit the patriarch, you can still have a companion, how good." Zhang Su joked.
"Do you think giving birth is about eating and drinking? My mother had a blood collapse when she gave birth to me, and her life was saved, but she couldn't give birth again. Pu Zitong shook his head.
"That is to say, after you find a man who can cultivate the key secret skills of your Pu family, you can keep your position as the patriarch." Zhang Su understood a little.
"According to the records of the ancestors, the heiress can find a soul master as a husband inside and outside the clan, as long as my husband can practice and perform the highest secret technique of the Pu family before the previous patriarch abdicates, I can become the patriarch under his protection." Pu Zitong explained.
"Then, your family can't wait to help you recruit a son-in-law?" Zhang Su smiled and said.
"Almost, it's okay to say in the clan, soul master families like the Cao family and the Ye family outside the clan will definitely not be willing to be my Pu family's son-in-law, they are just to swallow or kick out my Pu family after getting the highest secret skills and various resources of my Pu family." Pu Zitong said.
"So they came for you? If they want to marry you, shouldn't they serve you with good food and drink? Why are you fighting? "Zhang Su always feels that some things are unreasonable.
"Because my father made a condition for marriage." Pu Zitong sighed and replied.
"Marriage conditions?" Zhang Su asked.
"Well, first, the age difference between the applicant and me cannot be more than five years old; The second is that he must be a soul master, and his strength must be stronger than me and other competitors who come to admire him; The third is to treat me and the Pu family well after marriage. That's it. Pu Zitong said the conditions for the Pu family's marriage.
"Don't want a car, don't want a house, just choose the strongest, your family is engaged in a martial arts competition to recruit relatives, no wonder they all came to you." Zhang Su smiled.
"Sort of, so I quietly ran out of the house, I still didn't expect the Cao family and the Ye family to hear my news so quickly, and they also came in after I quietly joined the soul hunting company, but my father's marriage period is two years, and they probably came to me to test the water, and I don't know how many people will come in the future." Pu Zitong sighed deeply again.
"It's dodging, I think you came to this soul hunting company to gild, and then improve your strength, you can save yourself, you don't have to obey the arrangement to marry someone, then there will be two solutions, one is that you find a soul master you like and take it home to marry, I guess your father won't particularly oppose your choice, the other is simpler, that is, you get the power that can't even beat the competitor who stands at the end, in this way, that person will not meet the conditions for marriage, and you don't have to marry casually, He can also speak with strength to the rest of the family. Zhang Su showed his strong analytical skills and told his inferences.
"Smart, I think so too, so that I don't go against my father's wishes, I don't have to marry someone I don't like, and I can block those who don't have good intentions towards my family, and defeat them all, even if I can't cultivate the highest secret skill of the family, other clansmen will not dare to covet the position of patriarch easily." Pu Zitong nodded.
Zhang Su realized that the innocent and cute but taciturn little girl he once thought was hiding such a distressing thing, but from the conversation with Pu Zitong, Zhang Su felt even more that the little girl in front of him had unusual intelligence, tenacity and courage, as well as a fighting spirit and self-improvement, which was stronger than himself, a person who always likes to think twice and do nothing, and he didn't feel that he had some changes to Pu Zitong in front of him.
"It's so simple and crude!" This is Zhang Su's praise for Pu Zitong's desire to rely on strength to resist fate.
"After your reminder, I seem to have thought of another good idea."
As Pu Zitong spoke, his eyes suddenly showed some sly gaze and looked at Zhang Su.
"What's the solution?" Seeing Pu Zitong's bad appearance, Zhang Su's heart trembled slightly, and he asked weakly.
"You can be my boyfriend! Temporary! Pu Zitong showed a wicked smile and excitedly said his own way.
"Ahh
Zhang Wei's mouth grew in surprise.