Chapter 399 Confusion
Time passed slowly in Xiao Ye's contemplation, but Liu Xingchen never appeared.
At this time, several people entered the restaurant, sat down at the table next to Xiao Ye, and shouted: "Waiter, come here."
"Here we come!" The waiter from before came forward with a menu and asked with a smile: "Sir, what would you like to eat and drink?"
The few people casually glanced at the menu and said, "Signature dishes and fine wines, whatever is more expensive, please order!"
"Okay, sir, please wait a moment!" The waiter smiled brightly, put away the menu, and quickly notified the kitchen.
The food and wine were served quickly.
It has to be said that as a secular industry of the Xiaoyao Sword Sect, the food and wine in this restaurant are first-class and delicious, and you can have endless aftertaste after just a few bites.
The few people were eating with relish and chatting.
Nothing seems out of the ordinary.
After a while.
A few more people came to the restaurant. They were relatively young and exuded faint spiritual energy fluctuations. They should be monks from a certain sect. As for whether they were from the Xiaoyao Sword Sect, Xiao Ye couldn't tell.
However, the fluctuations in spiritual energy on their bodies made Xiao Ye feel a little strange and seemed a little evil.
As usual, the waiter came forward to ask. Judging from his appearance, it was obvious that he did not recognize this group of people, so there was a high probability that these people were not from the Xiaoyao Sword Sect.
At this time, Xiao Ye had finished eating the food on the table, but the wine was not touched. He never liked drinking.
The few people casually ordered a few dishes and sat at the table in front of the restaurant.
It wasn't that far away from the table where Xiao Ye was sitting.
The waiter took note of their orders and was about to leave when he was held back by one of them.
"Boy, I want to ask you something." The man looked around and saw that no one was paying attention, then he spoke in a low voice.
"Excuse me." The waiter was not surprised. He could meet such people almost every day.
In fact, the restaurant is also the most well-informed. From small gossip to big sect movements, almost everyone in the restaurant knows something.
The nature of a restaurant is like this. People from all over the world come and go, and there will always be someone who inadvertently leaks some information.
"Has anything special happened to the Xiaoyao Sword Sect these days?" the man asked in a low voice.
Xiao Er's body stiffened slightly, then quickly returned to normal.
This is the worldly property of the Xiaoyao Sword Sect, and he is also the spy of the Xiaoyao Sword Sect placed here for the purpose of collecting information for the Xiaoyao Sword Sect.
Xiao Ye, who was by the window, perked up his ears after hearing this.
He was also curious about whether something really happened to the Xiaoyao Sword Sect, otherwise Liu Xingchen's previous statement was so weird.
How could a big sect close its sect without any reason and not allow outsiders to enter? Something must have happened.
At the same time, Xiao Ye also noticed that when the people at the table next to him heard the question, their movements in their hands stopped for a moment, and then they continued to eat as if nothing had happened.
It seems that this group of people is not as simple as they appear on the surface!
"Sir, you asked this question to the wrong person." The waiter said with a smile on his face.
"Why did you ask the wrong person?" The man raised his eyebrows and said, "Didn't you say that you have the best information here?"
"Sir, we are just a small restaurant here. How dare you ask about the Xiaoyao Sword Sect? Even if we occasionally know something, we don't dare to talk nonsense. After all, we still have to do business here. Here, the Xiaoyao Sword Sect is... I'm telling the truth." The waiter said with a wry smile, and the expression on his face was as genuine as possible.
"It seems that this restaurant is obviously owned by the Xiaoyao Sword Sect, but not many people know about it." Xiao Ye was secretly surprised and continued to listen to their conversation.
This waiter's acting skills are quite good. If Xiao Ye didn't know the background of this restaurant, he might have been deceived by him.
"Do you need money?" The man took out the spiritual stone without saying a word, threw it on the table, and said, "Tell me, these are all yours."
Spiritual stones are a kind of currency in this world, circulating among monks and rarely touched by mortal words.
The waiter smiled bitterly, waved his hands and said, "Sir, this is really not the problem!"
"That's not enough. You're really greedy!" The man sneered and took out a few spiritual stones again: "If this is not enough, I can only use another method."
The eyes of the people next to him also turned cold, looking at the waiter unkindly.
One of them nodded and said: "Although this is the place of Xiaoyao Sword Sect, I don't think they will make things difficult for us for an ordinary waiter in a restaurant."
"This is very reasonable."
"So you're going to say it or not?"
Several people stared at the waiter.
The waiter broke out in a cold sweat. After working here for so long, this was the first time he encountered such a person who was not afraid of trouble. However, the sect already had a way to deal with this situation.
He put away the spiritual stones on the table without leaving a trace, then leaned over and whispered a few words into one of them's ears.
"I heard that the disciples of the Xiaoyao Sword Sect met a demon when they went out. Half of the disciples died tragically. The elders went to rescue them, but they encountered a trap and suffered heavy losses..."
Xiao Ye's spiritual consciousness was so powerful that he heard everything the waiter said.
But Xiao Ye didn't believe it. Most of the news he said was false.
Because when the waiter accepted the spirit stone, the look in his eyes was very calm, and there was no surprise at all about suddenly getting a huge amount of money.
Although this kind of micro-expression was hidden from those people, it could not escape Xiao Ye's pervasive consciousness.
Most of the people here are not very strong and cannot detect his spiritual consciousness at all.
The existence of divine consciousness, even in the world of immortality, is difficult to gradually emerge. It does not come into being when the realm is reached, but it requires an extremely powerful soul to be cultivated.
But what surprised Xiao Ye was the people at the table next to him.
He originally thought that these people were ordinary people. After all, they did not have any spiritual fluctuations in their bodies, but with his spiritual consciousness, Xiao Ye saw something was wrong with them.
"The principle of this level of breath concentration is somewhat similar to the hiding technique I obtained from Lost before. It has a very strong hiding effect on those whose realm is lower than mine or those who are in the same realm. However, if the opponent's strength is too high, it will There are big flaws!”
Xiao Ye was deep in thought, and separated a part of his consciousness to stare at this group of people and the other group of people carefully, while the rest of his consciousness spread out completely.
He felt that these two groups of people were coming for the Xiaoyao Sword Sect.
After a while, a group of people came again, still with faint spiritual energy fluctuations on their bodies. They glanced at the restaurant and then sat down in a corner of the restaurant.
I ordered some food and drinks and started eating without saying a word.
"Senior Brother, many monks came to the restaurant, and one of them even inquired about the sect's situation."
The waiter was in the backyard, quietly passing the news back to Xiaoyao Sword Sect.
Senior brother?
Liu Xingchen?
Within a few minutes, he received a reply, but the contact between the two was through a special method. The waiter just glanced at it without interpreting it, so Xiao Ye didn't know what Liu Xingchen said?
At this time, Xiao Ye felt something was wrong. The existence of this restaurant should be a very secret place for Xiaoyao Sword Sect.
Why didn't Liu Xingchen tell him this? Instead, he brought him here generously and even told him that this was the property of the Xiaoyao Sword Sect.
If Liu Xingchen trusted him, Xiao Ye wouldn't believe it even to death.
Now it seems that he may have been involved in something very troublesome, and if Liu Xingchen does this, there is a high probability that he will be used as cannon fodder.
He didn't care about those fellow apprentices who were trapped by demons. How could he still have compassion for a stranger he had only known for less than a day.
Xiao Ye wanted to leave directly, but all this was his own guess. If his guess was wrong, it would mean that he was judging a gentleman's heart with a villain's heart.
Xiao Ye sighed silently, thinking quickly about how to deal with it.
If my guess is correct, then this matter must be very troublesome. If it is not handled well, it is very likely that I will be blamed here.
The world of immortal cultivators is really not as beautiful as imagined. There are intrigues and demons running rampant. The enemies are not only demons, but also people around them.
After pondering for a while, Xiao Ye stood up directly and left the restaurant. As for the fee, he believed that the waiter would not ask him for it.
"Elder brother, the person you brought back has left the restaurant."
Shortly after Xiao Ye left the restaurant, the waiter immediately reported Liu Xingchen, and then a waiter walked out of the back door of the restaurant and followed Xiao Ye from a distance.
Xiao Ye walked casually on the street, looked at someone following behind him, lowered his head and pondered, the situation seemed to be developing into a bad place.
After a moment, the heart of time merged into the thousand-faced phantom.
…
He quickly turned onto a certain road, his figure and appearance instantly transformed into someone else, then blended into the crowd, and followed the crowd away from the street.
The person following Xiao Ye was stunned for a moment, and in the blink of an eye, he disappeared!
After confirming that he had lost him, he quickly returned to the restaurant and reported the situation.
