"You actually have the nerve to come to me. Your shamelessness is truly breathtaking."
This is how Ye Xuici commented on Lord Jiyue. The latter didn't make any fuss, he just sat quietly opposite the stone table with a smile on his face. He never seemed to get angry about anything. Ye Xuici's four fingers tapped the table in order, deliberately showing a little impatience. Seeing that Mr. Jiyue didn't speak, she added:
"It's really hard for me to meet you. It's as if I could kill you if I say a word. But when you come to look for me, it's like buying vegetables at the market. The stall is that stall and the person is that person. , it’s easy to find wherever I move. I put down my dignity and even sacrificed my dignity to ask you for something, but you ignored me. I was approached by the six paths of impermanence, so how could I not see you? Don’t think you saved me when I was a child. I should be grateful now that I can be summoned here and there by you. There is no reason for this."
She was as sarcastic as she could be, without mercy. Lord Jiyue just listened silently and never refuted. The corners of his mouth did not rise and fall, and his gaze, which was obscured by black eyelids, was even more difficult to detect. After a while, Ye Xuici finally became quieter. Although it doesn’t seem like he’s calmed down, it’s probably just an intermission.
"Well, are you done now?" Jiyue Jun finally said, "Is there anything else you want to scold?"
"What you said is really more irritating."
"I didn't mean that."
"What's the matter with you finding me? Are you inferring something from your six paths? Do you want to charge me with something and cause some trouble? Or do you want me to be an evil envoy to do something for you good people?"
Lord Jiyue smiled, with undisguised helplessness. But how could he contradict what she said? I did come with a purpose. There was continuous autumn rain outside the window, and the sound was soft and weak. Ye Xuici's voice had just covered it, but now it was a little more obvious. Lord Jiyue took a breath slowly and said:
"I'm here to ask for some information."
"The buying and selling of information is never done for free. You should know the rules, right?"
"As long as you tell the truth."
"I'm not the kind of guy who talks nonsense. I still understand the rules of doing business - no matter how much the buyer says or does too many hurtful things. Who makes me useless? Where are the long things?”
Having said that, a woman with the qualifications to be an evil messenger is too modest. She doesn't know how much influence her information can have on the human world. In addition to information, there are also objects that may be stolen by her hands. But before Ji Yuejun could answer, she said again:
"Maybe I will increase the price? Who makes the fragments of Yun Waijing no longer useful. After working in the Shadow Pavilion for so long, apart from other improvements, I feel that I am better at doing business. . How much effort you put in, how much reward you should ask for. Just like melons and fruits that are not in season, shouldn’t you also ask for a higher price? This is matching. But compared to the unnecessary absoluteness of the Death Shadow Pavilion It’s fair. If you’re a regular customer, I’d still be willing to negotiate a lower price.”
"What I want to ask is what happened in Death Shadow Pavilion." Lord Jiyue looked in her direction and said, "What do you know?"
Ye Xuici fell silent. She turned her head and looked out the window where the drizzle was falling. The pattering sound was louder than before, especially prominent in the short silence. Is she reviewing what she knows, or is she plotting some conspiracy to deceive Mr. Jiyue? But her silence was enough for Lord Jiyue to realize that she did know something.
The wind picked up again, politely inviting the drizzle to the window. Ye Xuici stood up, walked over slowly, and closed the window. The sound of rain suddenly became quieter, and the room was no longer so cold. But she did not return to her position, but stood still and said:
"I know that many people are paying attention to the Death Shadow Pavilion...because it can never be found again. Different from the past, they no longer use intricate terrain, complex spiritual veins, and advanced formations to hide, but The ghost fairy's shadow was used. Not to mention outsiders, even our own people who were trapped outside could not get in touch. You are all trying to figure out what happened there and what Satsuki-kun was planning. But I want to say, for these I didn’t know anything about it. After I left, I realized I couldn’t go back.”
"That's not all you should know."
"It's useless to deceive me, right?" Ye Xuici turned around and spread his hands, "That's all I know. Although it's a little troublesome, it's better to say that I'm free from the surveillance of the Death Shadow Pavilion, and I can move much more freely. I I should thank Kanna-kun for inviting me out. But they did give me a reasonable reward. After all, treasures from the deep sea are rare. Alas, even revealing that I have no information is itself part of the information... …”
Lord Jiyue knew what she was implying. "Six Paths of Impermanence and Two Sleeves Qingfeng, there is indeed nothing I can trade with you. But if you have anything you want or information you want to know, I can exchange it with you - as long as they are reasonable and cannot kill or harm others."
Ye Xuici thought for a while and said this:
"I have nothing to want and nothing to know. Why don't you do something for me?"
"What's the matter?"
"I haven't thought about it yet, but I can let you give it on credit. After all, to be honest, even what I know about what happened there is very limited. If you owe me a favor, after all, I have earned more. Even if In this case, do you still want to continue asking?"
Mr. Jiyue knows that this is not an equal transaction. What's more, it's hard to say whether the conditions proposed by the evil messenger will have any bad impact. They are always so cunning. After pondering for a while, Lord Jiyue replied:
"I can promise you, but you must tell me everything you know, and you must not spread rumors or lie. And for what I promise to do for you, you must not harm nature, kill people, or harm others."
"That sounds good, I can promise you. But how can you guarantee that you won't regret it after I tell you?"
Mr. Jiyue has his own way. He took off the long harp behind him and placed it on the stone table in front of him. He stretched out his hand, which was only bone-white, and stroked it from the center to both sides. Then, he grabbed something out of thin air and lifted it up slightly, and there was a harsh sound of broken strings coming from the empty piano surface.
Spiritual power gradually gathered on Ji Yuejun's hand bones, and a green light enveloped the strings, but there was nothing in the center of the strings. One end of this hollow string, surrounded by spiritual power, wrapped lightly around Ye Xueci's arm on the table, startling her.
"What's this?!"
"Please imitate my actions."
Lord Jiyue grasped the other end of the string and pressed it into his palm with the bone of his thumb. Ye Xuici imitated his movements, frowning and observing. The string was straightened by the two of them and hung tightly in mid-air. Lord Jiyue said again:
"Please read as I am."
He repeated what the two of them had just agreed upon, word for word, clear enunciation and precise wording. Ye Xuici didn't catch the clue, so she read it again according to what he said. And just after she said the last word, the strings suddenly broke in the middle, making that weird sound again. After that, the two strings penetrated into their cuffs like snakes, snaked down their arms, and finally wrapped tightly around their forearms. Ye Xuici immediately pulled up his sleeves, but couldn't see anything anymore.
"After that, as I just said, you have to ensure that everything you say is the truth. This string will always exist until I complete what I promised you. As long as I still exist and you still survive, it will be valid forever."
Ye Xuici lowered his eyes and looked at his arms carefully. Not to mention the strings, even the traces of pressing can't be found. She hesitated whether she could tell some lies to get away with it, but the moment she spoke, she clearly felt a tingling sensation on her skin. If you look closely, you can see that there are several spiral-shaped depressions on her forearms, which are very thin and very deep. But no matter how she looked, no matter how she scratched with her other hand, she couldn't feel any trace of the strings.
She had no doubt that if she really told her nonsense, the invisible strings would crush her arms.
"Don't worry. If I break the contract or fail to comply with your request, I will suffer the same fate as you. Moreover, the damage caused by breaking the contract is irreversible, even if it is the impermanence of six paths and the lost arm??? ?????????????will never come back again.”
Ye Xuici thought about it again and again, and felt that there was no regret. No matter how you say it's a promise made in an impermanent way, you still make money after all. She took a deep breath to calm down her uneasy mood and prepared to tell what she knew.
"I don't mean to deceive, but I really don't know much. However, I think I can tell you what happened before the Death Shadow Pavilion was hidden. I think it can be regarded as a clue. You know that there is a corpse pool deep in Qingli Ze. Is that what outsiders call it. Although, the people who know about this matter are not 'outside' anywhere. They call it Wan Gu Pond, because there are indeed countless poisons raised there. They spread it wantonly before The epidemic was fished out of that pond, and Wu Yin... or whoever extracted the needed part. I heard that the poisonous pond was used to dump useless waste at first, and then it was gathered into a large number. Slowly, they will take advantage of it. The weird thing is, no matter what is poured in, no matter how much is poured in, the pool will never fill up. Maybe it is eroding the soil below? Who knows. One day I I found that the place where the pool used to be was suddenly filled in. I didn’t think much about it at the time, after all, it had nothing to do with me. But not long after, it appeared again. Most people would think that they had remembered the wrong location, but I am confident that mine Memory, I guessed there was something fishy about it. I paid attention to it a few more times and found that it not only disappeared frequently, but also appeared in different places. Although I thought it was strange, I never asked about it. After all, it was their business. Now that I think about it , maybe they want to use that Gu pool to plan some conspiracy? But what it is, I'm afraid it's not my turn to know. Although I like to steal secrets, I don't want to get into trouble at all for these six things that are impermanent. So I’m really sorry, your promise can only be exchanged for this worthless information.”
After saying that, Ye Xuici lay lazily on the table. The strings did not change, and that was the end of her statement. At least she said everything she thought was questionable. Mr. Jiyue fell into thinking. Indeed, as Lin Shanhai suspected, the most problematic aspect of the Death Shadow Pavilion was the Corpse Transformation Pool. In other words, what this group of people wanted to plan was related to poison. One of the worst possibilities is that they want to create a larger-scale epidemic, but for what purpose? Ji Yuejun alone cannot figure these things out. He will convey the information verbatim to others, hoping it will be helpful.
At the same time, he was also prepared to pay the price.
