In the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion, Bai Musheng, who was lying on the ground only as high as the table, was rubbing his head and preparing to leave. Suddenly he felt the fluctuations in the barrier of the City Lord's Mansion and immediately used his spiritual power to stabilize his body.
When Hua Ruxue and others entered the main hall, they saw the young city lord who was usually personable and elegant.
Bai Musheng saw the little figure in the group of people who had been looking forward to it day and night. He immediately put down the tea in his hand, stepped forward and asked with concern: "Has Sister Xiaoxue been found?"
Without waiting for Hua Ruxue to reply, Li Chu, who was anxious to find his brother, put the compass in front of Bai Musheng and said, "Brother, please repair this thing quickly. The price is negotiable. Ah Zhi has been missing for half an hour. I'm anxious!" "
"I know you're anxious, but don't be anxious yet." From Bai Musheng's perspective, the position of the compass just blocked Hua Ruxue. Bai Musheng turned his head and saw only his sister Xiaoxue, who he longed for.
Su Yi understood something from Bai Musheng's eager eyes. He lowered his head and motioned to Hua Ruxue to follow Bai Musheng's previous request.
Adhering to the principle of not being cold-hearted when asking for help, Hua Ruxue raised the corners of her mouth to make herself look less serious. Thinking about Bai Musheng's request, she answered seriously:
"Brother, the compass is broken and I can't find anyone. I'm also anxious."
"Don't worry, Xiaoxue! I'll fix it right away!" Bai Musheng's eyes lit up, her heart felt like honey, all she could think about was: She called me brother, she called me brother again!
Bai Musheng snatched the compass from Li Chu's hand and raced against time to repair it.
Seeing Bai Mushengxiu's seriousness, Li Chu let out a shallow breath, turned around and saw Hua Ruxue and Su Yi who were also waiting for the compass, and then remembered that he hadn't had time to ask them who they were looking for.
"Who are Jun Yi and Jun Xue looking for?" Li Chu asked.
Su Yi said: "Dongyang Ning family, Ning Shuyan."
"Ning Clan of Dongyang?" Hearing that he was looking for someone from the Ning Clan of Dongyang, Li Chu asked alertly, "But he is the beloved disciple of Ning Chufeng, the head of the Ning Clan of Dongyang?"
"Exactly."
"This is not good. The head of the Ning family is the most protective person. In the early years, he was accidentally injured during a fight among the juniors. He came to the door with a sword and asked for an explanation." As if remembering some bad memories, Li Chu shook his head and asked: "How long have you been missing?"
"Four hours remain."
"Four hours?" Li Chu's uneasy feeling subsided a little after hearing this, and he said: "Guanyun City has a simple and honest city style, and internal fighting is strictly prohibited. No one will harm the beloved disciple of the Ning family."
After a pause, he added: "The beast tide is coming, and everyone in Guanyun City is busy fighting the beast tide. Even if they have personal vendettas, they will not provoke the Dongyang Ning clan at this time. Maybe they meet friends and have a long chat. Go, you two don’t have to worry so much.”
Hua Ruxue couldn't help but raise her eyes and looked up, thinking: I don't know who it is who just didn't see Li Zangzhi for half an hour, so she lost her sense of control and broke into the city lord's mansion. How dare she blame her?
However, Li Chu's sincere words of comfort were somewhat familiar, as if he had heard them once before. Isn't this Bai Yi's rhetoric?
People in Emotional Cloud City share a common rhetoric...
Bai Yihou stood aside with a slightly satisfied look on his face and thought to himself: The young city lord is mighty! Even Young Master Li learned the Young City Master's assessment answer sheet! He must learn more and remember more when he is with the young city lord! Take notes and sell!
In the night, the purple milkvetch in the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion bloomed quietly. Bai Xun looked at the purple that suddenly appeared on the ground in surprise, and then a strange voice sounded behind him:
"City Lord, would you like to know who these flowers bloom for?"
Bai Xun's expression was indifferent, and he was not even interested in testing the speaker. He focused on the sea of flowers blooming in front of him, and his cold back seemed to say: Please forgive me, he just pretended that he had never seen it.
The man was wearing a black robe and his aura was restrained. It was impossible to tell his level of cultivation. He could only tell by his voice that he was a premeditated and pretentious male monk.
Today, when the flower bloomed for the first time in fourteen years, that person must have seen it and knew the reason.
If it were anyone else, he might have followed that person's words, but Bai Xun was not an ordinary person. He knew clearly that he was waiting for someone who would never come back.
He is here waiting for the flowers to bloom, yes
I hope this sea of flowers can make his vague memory clear.
Seeing that Bai Xun was unmoved, the man in black robe laughed and said, "The person the city lord is waiting for will not come back, why not go and look for him?"
This man in black robe seems to be able to easily read other people's thoughts.
When Bai Xun heard this, a wave of emotion flashed through his calm eyes. This proposal was indeed exciting.
Bai Xun looked up at the sky above the Forest of No Return. If he hadn't promised the people vaguely in his memory to guard Guanyun City, he would have left at this moment.
"City Lord, have you ever thought about why no one in this world mentions his name anymore, why no one remembers him?" As he spoke, the man in black robe presented a scroll.
The scroll was slowly opened. From top to bottom, the first thing that caught the eye was a head of silver hair, followed by a pair of smart fox eyes. He seemed to be looking at the person he cherished most, and the joy in his eyes seemed to break the thin paper.
At the bottom of the scroll is the sea of milkvetch flowers where the two of them are.
Bai Xun looked at the scroll in confusion. The familiar yet unfamiliar face of the person in the painting coincided with the person who always liked to wag his tail in his memory. But whenever he wanted to recall in detail, a layer of mist blocked his eyes.
"So, City Lord, can you listen to the contents of the transaction?" The man in black robe handed the scroll to Bai Xun, and the eyes hidden in the dark overflowed with black mist.
The black mist slowly approached Bai Xun. Bai Xun dispersed the black mist vigilantly, and his eyebrows moved slightly, "Demon energy?"
In this world, people are not allowed to become possessed by demons. People and demonic energy do not interfere with each other. People cannot control demonic energy, and demonic energy cannot control people.
But the man in black robe in front of him can control the demonic energy, or in other words, cultivate the demonic energy.
The man in black robe controlled the black mist, and the dispersed demonic energy regrouped. He lowered his voice and said, "That person's existence and name are listed as taboos. The only way to break the taboo is to use another taboo."
The man in black robe continued, trying his best to sound sincere, but in fact his voice was full of indifference: "To show my sincerity, I will first unlock the sealed memory in you. The world cannot cultivate demonic energy. The same goes for you, this demonic energy will not cause any harm to you."
As the words fell, black mist swept in, and the shackles wrapped around Bai Xun's body were suddenly untied. His hands holding the scroll trembled uncontrollably due to the increasingly clear memories in his mind.
At the same time, the purple milkvetch beside Bai Xun suddenly closed its flowers, leaving only a familiar green patch.
The man in black robe moved slightly and coughed twice. It seemed that it took him a lot of effort to help Bai Xun unlock the restraint. He looked towards the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion and said, "Today is the time of the full moon. How can the City Lord be so relieved that the young City Lord will leave the City Lord's Mansion?"
Bai Xun naturally knew that Bai Musheng had just left the City Lord's Mansion, but he didn't care. People must always be responsible for the choices they make and be prepared to bear the consequences.
Bai Xun put away the turmoil in his eyes. He seemed not to have heard the black-robed man's words. He took the black-robed man to the darkroom of the City Lord's Mansion and hung the scroll in the most conspicuous place in the darkroom.
"Deal." Bai Xun returned to his previous indifferent look. Only when he saw the scroll, there was a trace of emotion in his eyes, half happy and half sad.
The man in black robe coughed twice more, as if he didn't expect Bai Xun to be so dedicated to the person in the painting, and so indifferent to other people, that even Bai Musheng didn't care.
"Before that, can the city lord promise me that I will never kill anyone?"
"Who?" Bai Xun looked away from the painting. In the dim room, his voice was particularly calm, so calm that he was a little cold.
"You also know a child."
As soon as these words came out, Bai Xun's eyes darkened. As if to confirm something, he asked directly: "Name."
The man in black robe didn't seem to expect that the person in front of him knew who he was talking about, but he still wanted to confirm it again.
He hesitated for three breaths and uttered three words: "Flowers are like snow."
When Bai Xun heard the name, a coldness flashed in his eyes. He stared at the scroll for a while without answering.
Over there, Hua Ruxue didn't know that she had become a foreplay for other people's transactions. She and Su Yi were following Bai Musheng, Li Chu and others to the direction of An's family.
Among the group of people, Bai Musheng was walking
Before, he recognized that the compass had been tampered with. He wanted to tell Hua Ruxue that everyone who had come into contact with the compass had problems, but when he thought that she had guessed this with her intelligence, he said nothing more.
However, thinking that there was someone with evil intentions hidden beside Hua Ruxue, Bai Musheng suddenly felt uneasy and decided to look for the person personally.
What's more, according to the compass, Ning Shuyan and Li Zhizhi are both in the north of the inner city of Guanyun City.
He didn't know Li Zhizhi for the time being, but Ning Shuyan, he had clearly detected that this person had not entered the inner city or left the outer city these days.
Why does the compass show her to be in the inner city?
Following the guidance of the compass, the group quickly arrived within An's sphere of influence.
The lights on the long street were not lit, and it was pitch black. Only the shallow breathing of a group of people could be heard around, and a strange atmosphere spread instantly.
Li Chu couldn't help but feel angry when he saw this, "When did An's family become so poor that she couldn't even light a lamp?"
Li Chu was about to move forward, but Bai Musheng reached out to stop him, looked ahead warily, and said, "Wait a minute, there is a problem here."
Hua Ruxue stopped when she heard the sound. She knew that Li Zhizhi was in Anjia, but she couldn't figure out why Ning Shuyan was also in Anjia.
Who is responsible for the predicament on the long street in front of us? What's the purpose?
"When did the An family set up the tracking array here?" Li Chu calmed down and looked around.
"Delay time." Hua Ruxue and Su Yi said these four words at the same time.
Just like Tian Weimo's guards and the hands and feet on the compass, this tracking formation was also designed to delay time.
But once this formation is set up, wouldn't it mean that there are no three hundred taels of silver in this place, which means that there is a problem with the An family.
Hua Ruxue counted the time carefully. Haishi was approaching. It had been five hours since Ning Shuyan lost contact and one and a half hours since Li Zhizhi left the Li family without a trace.
If the previous inference is true, the ghost king Chu Ming has taken over An Yueming's body. He borrowed An Murong's collection of single spiritual root monks to make a puppet. At this moment, he is extracting Li Zhizhi's soul to complete the last step of making the puppet.
With his cultivation as a ghost king, even if his cultivation in the human world is suppressed, if he wants to escape, who can stop him?
It's a bit unreasonable to use these little tricks to delay time now.
