Hearing Zhao Chen's words, Qi Feimeng looked at him several times with a strange expression. Until Zhao Chen felt a little uncomfortable, he teased:
"You have hidden a lot of problems yourself, and you are still wearing a 'purple ribbon robe' that may have questionable origins. Now here comes a gunsmith master with questionable purposes... I always feel that this trip to Dunhuang It won’t go well.”
The "Purple Ribbon Robe" is a lined garment and is no different from ordinary clothing when it is not activated, so Zhao Chen wore it closely.
"You haven't counted yourself as the one with identity issues... Let's not talk about the other." Zhao Chen said angrily when he heard this.
"That's true..." Qi Feimeng nodded in agreement, then asked, "Aren't you worried?"
Zhao Chen knew that she was referring to this abnormal "fate" pull, so he smiled and shook his head and said: "Is there any use in worrying?
"Any talk of 'resistance' now is just a lie. The levels are too different... It's better to be conciliatory first and wait until you have accumulated enough capital.
"And apart from causing some trouble, the people behind the scenes may not have overly forced us. Most of the time, it is us who make the choice first, and then the corresponding 'fate' is involved, right?"
"You are really open-minded..." Qi Feimeng sighed slightly and stopped continuing the topic. Instead, he said, "It's not far from the time when the last series of missions started. We have to be prepared. .”
——Special tasks and ordinary tasks are separated and will not interfere with each other.
"With Fairy Yinglong here, why don't you just close your eyes during this mission?" Zhao Chen asked in surprise.
Qi Feimeng shook his head and said: "The clone is the clone, I am me... Although some means can be used to bring 'Zheng Qingyan' into the fog of history, the difficulty of the task will probably increase to a very scary situation, and the gain will not be worth the loss. .”
"Is that so...can't she also help with the special mission in three months?" Zhao Chen asked after thinking for a while.
After all, the ability to enter the "mist of history" is Qi Feimeng's "hang", and she obviously knows more.
"Special missions are different. There are definitely 'Dongxuan' monks there. One more 'Zheng Qingyan' will not increase the difficulty much..." Qi Feimeng shook his head again.
…
Tang Dynasty, Beiting Protectorate.
Near Luntai City, there is a small town called Shenjiabao.
In the evening of this day, a rather tired team entered the entrance of the small town.
The leader of this team looks to be in his thirties. Although he looks a little embarrassed, his temperament and appearance are first-class, especially the red mole between his eyebrows, which is unforgettable at first sight.
This person is none other than Gu Feng, Gu Daxia, who is known as "a little cinnabar makes a ghost sad".
And beside him were Zhang Yunlu, a girl in white with a pretty appearance and pure temperament, as well as many heroes who had received favors from the Zhang family and volunteered to escort Zhang Yunlu to Luntai.
Only the old man in black whom I saw in the ruined temple last time was missing.
Zhao Chen and Qi Feimeng, who entered this world again, also followed the team, as if they had been following each other after the battle of destroying the temple.
But the fact is that three days have passed since the night when the temple was destroyed. They have no impression of what Zhao Chen and Qi Feimeng did in the past three days, but they have no doubt at all.
"It seems like our character identities have been re-woven based on our performance on the last mission.
"Now you are truly an outer disciple of 'Tianyong City'."
Qi Feimeng said quietly to Zhao Chen.
Zhao Chen nodded slightly, but always felt that something was not right, so he frowned and said, "Feimeng, what do you think of this mission?"
Qi Feimeng thought for a moment before speaking carefully: "The mission requires us to solve the root cause of the accident in Shenjiazhuang...
"This description is very similar to the original Mirror Village. I think we have to be prepared for another god to turn into a 'Dao Evil'!"
Although she didn't want to think about it, her intuition told her that it was quite possible.
While the two were talking, the dark sky had already fallen, making the earth completely dark.
Gu Feng, Zhang Yunlu and others who entered Zhuangzi were preparing to find an inn to stay. After all, although cultivators are not afraid of sleeping in the open air, having a tile to cover their heads is better than nothing.
But at this moment, everyone's expressions, especially Miss Qi's, changed.
Because they vaguely heard chanting from inside the town.
And it’s not just any widely circulated “safe” Buddhist scripture.
Its pronunciation is vague, its sentences are simple, but it has a grunting sound, mixed together, as if countless instruments are playing at will, turning into strange notes. Just listening to it makes me feel that my mood is getting heavier, as if being pressed by a huge stone. , giving people an indescribable weird feeling.
In addition, there were very few pedestrians on the town's main roads, and they all looked dull, like zombies.
Gu Feng signaled one of his men to step forward and stop a middle-aged man who looked like a farmer, and asked:
"A group of us want to stay overnight, but we don't know where is the best place?"
"Zhuangzi...to the east...Shen Dashan's family." The farmer said intermittently.
"Thank you. I wonder what that sound of chanting was about just now?" Seeing his strange tone, the quack man asked again after thanking him.
"Do you know... Guanyin at six o'clock?"
The man's expression suddenly changed and became fanatical, and his speaking speed became much faster: "The Pure Light of the Six-Occasion Avalokitesvara, which is spread day and night, spreads its loving voice. I wish all sentient beings in reincarnation to suffer, and I wish you peace and happiness to relieve their hesitation..."
This is very wrong! How can followers of Guanyin be so morbidly fanatical? Zhao Chen frowned when he saw this, and at the same time looked at Qi Feimeng beside him.
She must know much better than herself about "Guanyin".
Unexpectedly, Qi Feimeng was a little distracted at this time, and murmured: "In this era, are the signs beginning to appear?"
Hearing this, Zhao Chen was about to ask something, but Gu Feng, who noticed that something was very wrong in the town, had already ordered: "Everyone, exit the town immediately. We will camp outside tonight and leave for Luntai early tomorrow morning."
Seeing this, Zhao Chen, who couldn't find a suitable reason to refute, had no choice but to follow the team with Miss Qi and temporarily withdraw from the town, planning to wait until nightfall before entering the town to investigate alone.
But the moment they stepped out of the town, everyone seemed to have forgotten Gu Feng's order and actually came to the gate of the town again.
Even Qi Feimeng leaned into Zhao Chen's ear again and said: "It seems that based on our performance in the last mission, we have re-weaved our role identities.
"Now you are truly an outer disciple of 'Tianyong City'."
Everything was the same as what happened before, except... the charlatan who asked the villagers about their accommodation had completely disappeared.
Update progress on making up for arrears (2/45)
(End of chapter)
