Chapter Seventy-Four: Tangled
"You...... You just said that you came down from Leng's Villa? So, are you from Leng's Villa? β
Hua Yuzhu realized it later, and suddenly remembered what they had just said, and looked a little surprised.
"What? Are you prejudiced against the people of our Leng Villa? β
Qiu Rong'er squinted at Hua Yuzhu with a surprised face.
Hua Yuzhu was surprised, and looked at the people at the table with strange eyes.
The people of Leng's Villa have always been demons and monsters in Hua Yuzhu's mind, and since she was a child, Hua Shimo has been lying to her that they are cruel, sinister, and ugly.
However, when she saw it today, she realized that she had fallen for her own father.
After learning the truth, she only felt that she was really naΓ―ve and a little ridiculous, and she believed everything casually, and inadvertently laughed out loud.
"Is it that the owner of the flower farm is talking bad about us behind our backs......"
Qiu Rong'er looked at Hua Yuzhu's unadjusted appearance, and guessed accurately.
After hearing this, Hua Yuzhu couldn't help but be stunned, and suddenly froze her original smile, she didn't expect that this could be guessed by Qiu Rong'er, and she couldn't help but admire her a little.
It's just that as soon as Qiu Rong'er said this, several people inexplicably fell into a slightly embarrassing situation.
"You just said that this jade pendant was picked up in Hongshan, right?"
Hua Yuzhu came to her senses, and suddenly her words changed, and she confirmed to Leng Chitong again.
Leng Chitong hesitated for a moment, and then nodded in a wooden voice.
Hua Yuzhu rolled her eyes, then put on a posture of a child of the rivers and lakes, and said in a straight voice: "Today is a little woman who is reckless, and there are many disturbances, please don't be surprised, say goodbye!" β
After speaking, everyone saw her clutching the jade pendant in her hand and preparing to leave with her maid.
Leng Chitong knew in his heart that Hua Yuzhu must have returned disappointed this time, and he knew best about this kind of feeling of caring for the safety of his relatives, and he couldn't help but have a special emotional swing in his heart.
However, for a stranger he didn't know well, he didn't seem to find much room to interject.
What's more, his current situation is also very embarrassing, and it can be said that he can't take care of himself.
Although he hesitated, Leng Chitong didn't get up in the end.
Hua Yuzhu walked to the door, suddenly stopped, and glanced back at Leng Chitong, with a faint hint of obedient emotions in her eyes.
After she left, there were several people at the table, each with their own concerns, and they were inexplicably silent.
After a long time, Jiao Niang broke the silent atmosphere, "I think, when Wang Yun recovers from his injuries, we still have to leave this Cloud Light City......"
"Also, there's really no way to have peace here." Qiu Rong'er's fingers kept tapping on the tabletop, showing some uneasiness.
Obviously, no one has any objection to leaving this place, but the world is so big, where should it be.
Several people looked at each other, and they couldn't come to a consistent conclusion for a while.
......
At night, the night is as cool as water.
Leng Chitong looked fixedly at the slightly yellowed wordless book he was holding in his hand, and pondered alone in the room.
Strange to say, since the suppression of the Hundred-Eyed Giant Serpent Demon in Leng's Villa, this book has gradually begun to turn yellow and gray, and it is no longer as white as snow as it was at the beginning.
Thinking of his memory of fighting with the purple-blooded bat beast this time, he vaguely suspected that the wordless book had lost its special ability, and he was even more inexplicably worried about the situation of the white-robed old man.
Why did the purple dragon jade flute not move at all at that time? What's going on here?
Leng Chitong's mind kept recalling the situation when the purple-blooded bat beast appeared, and he was secretly uneasy in his heart.
Just as he was pondering the doubts in his heart alone, the yellowed wordless book suddenly appeared abnormal again.
It suddenly began to faintly emit an extremely faint hazy golden light, and some text appeared on the otherwise empty page for the second time, and each character gradually began to sway slightly from side to side.
Leng Chitong looked intently at the wordless book in his hand, which rarely moved, and there was both surprise and fear in his heart.
He was pleasantly surprised that since the wordless book could still move, it meant that the white-robed old man was at least alive and had some mana left.
However, after he waited for a long time, those characters were still only wriggling in the book, and it seemed that it was difficult to detach themselves from the physical carrier of the pages.
Sure enough, the characters didn't survive in the end, and even the faint light that the wordless book had originally emitted dimmed.
"Master!"
Seeing that the wordless book had inexplicably returned to normal, Leng Chitong subconsciously felt that something was wrong, and couldn't help but call out urgently.
Because the strange state of the wordless book is like a person in a situation where he is in a gossamer.
Who knows, just when the characters that have just appeared are almost disappearing, the characters in the book are reassembled into a few short words, "A Thousand Shapes Phantom".
Looking at the words that appeared in front of him, and then thinking of the past he had experienced before, Leng Chitong instantly understood that this must be a new power from the purple spirit bead.
Only this time, he couldn't be happy anyway, he only felt mixed feelings in his heart.
"Knock knock!"
There was a knock on the door.
Leng Chitong came back to his senses, quickly hid the wordless book in his hand back into his arms, walked to the door leisurely, and cleaned up his emotions a little before opening the door.
"Squeak...... Creak? How are you? Looking for me? β
Although Leng Chitong was a little unclear and squeaked suddenly, he still pretended to be calm and looked down at her, trying his best to maintain an indifferent demeanor.
Squeak didn't answer, just quietly looked back a few times, and then hurriedly walked into the cold red pupil room, and then closed the door casually.
"Master? You ......"
The sharp-eyed squeak suddenly noticed the sporadic glimmer in Leng Chitong's arms, and he spit out in surprise for a while.
Seeing that Leng Chitong didn't reply, Squeak didn't say more, and when he was stunned, he quickly reached out and snatched the mysterious wordless book in his arms.
It's a pity that although Squeaky Hand is faster and successfully grabs something, the wordless book has completely returned to its former normal.
Although Squeak didn't see the content in the book with her own eyes, at this moment, she could almost conclude that Leng Chitong had something to hide.
"Master, tell me, how did the purple-blooded batmon die? What happened after I fainted that day? β
After a few seconds of silence, Squeak changed to an extremely serious expression, and then asked Leng Chitong about the situation that day.
"Squeak...... Squeak, you say, am I really some kind of demon......"
Leng Chitong didn't immediately answer the question just now, but suddenly said such a sentence for no reason, which surprised Squeak.
"Master, what the hell happened that day!?" Squeaky emotions suddenly became agitated.
He bowed his head and was silent for a while, and finally decided to tell Squeak in detail what happened to him that day and what he thought afterwards.
When Squeak really understood the details of what happened, he was surprised again.
She didn't expect that Leng Chitong would be able to eradicate the abnormal purple-blooded bat beast at that time with her own strength.
Suddenly, there was silence in the room, and the two fell into silence.
"Squeak, if one day I'm gone, you must promise me to take care of my mother and that dead girl, okay?"
Seeing that Squeak didn't speak for a long time, Leng Chitong took the lead in breaking the silent atmosphere and said something strange to herself.
"What!? Master, what do you mean by this, I think you are weird today, you can't be that you have secretly made some ridiculous decisions! β
When he heard this, his eyes widened in shock, and he strode closer to the cold red pupils who suddenly looked sad, and subconsciously pulled his cuffs, afraid that he really drilled some horns.
"Just say if you promise me or not!"
Leng Chitong shook off the little hand that was clutching his cuff just now, and took a few steps back, just looking at her expectantly, as if waiting for her affirmative answer.
"No, no! Master, I don't think you can be a demon! If you are an evil demon, could it be that your master is also a demon? An unfathomable mysterious person like him, unless he is also a demon, he shouldn't be trying to help you all the way......"
Squeak had no choice but to let go of the fear she had just had, trying to dispel Leng Chitong's idea that she was an evil demon.
"But what if Master is really a demon too? Then I'm definitely a demon. If it was an accident and coincidence that the spirit bead of the hundred-eyed giant snake demon fell into my body back then, then what about the spirit bead of this purple-blooded bat beast this time? Why did you choose me so ......?"
Leng Chitong said worriedly, and at the same time, he was afraid to recall that he had inexplicably injured Qiu Rong'er on the floor of Leng's Villa that day.
"Smack!"
Squeak seemed to think of something important, and slapped it excitedly.
"Master, you just told me that the spirit bead of the purple-blooded bat beast fell on your second hole?" Squeak suddenly smiled and said.
Leng Chitong looked at Squeak blankly and nodded, not knowing why she was suddenly so excited.
"I see! Spirit beads, it turns out that what your master asked me to find with you is the spirit beads of those demonic beasts! β
Squeaky and overjoyed, through this matter, she finally figured out the old man in the white robe who brought Leng Chitong from the Foggy Mountains to the world, and finally understood what she should be looking for to accompany Leng Chitong.
"Looking for a spirit orb? Is that really the case? But...... Why is Master so tricky? Wouldn't it be nice if he just laid everything out? All along, he refused to tell me the origin of the Hundred-Eyed Giant Serpent Demon, and I always suspected that the white-clothed mysterious man who gave the purple dragon jade flute to my father back then was my master. Besides, why did he bring me to the world and suddenly become a wordless book? It's all really weird......"
The more Leng Chitong thought about the past, the more suspicious he became about the white-robed old man and his true identity, and he deeply felt that he had fallen into an abyss full of doubts.
However, on the other hand, Squeak had a relieved expression, not at all as worried as Leng Chitong.
"Master, the facts are already clear. One hole corresponds to one spirit orb, so we still need to gather the remaining twelve spirit beads, right? β
After speaking, Squeak winked at the cold red pupils who were confused for a while, and his smart and ethereal eyes were ethereal.
"However, you haven't explained what I am ...... demon for a long time" Leng Chitong frowned, obviously not understanding what the squeaky words were saying.