After exhausting myself to death - #After exhausting myself to death | Chapter 220 - Chapter 220: I have been wandering for a long time (7)

Lin Yaochuan finally made up his mind to protect the reputation of his idol. He forced a smile and said without confidence: “Maybe, maybe there is a misunderstanding? Shen Minghuan can’t be a scumbag, right?”

After Ling Xiaowan was full, she got up and moved to eat, “Who knows? Anyway, my master has no feelings for him anymore.”

“Why?” Lin Yaochuan was curious: “There was a time when the sea was difficult to overcome, except for Wushan and Yun. Having met such a good person like Shen Minghuan, it should be difficult to forget him, right?”

Xu Qingyun sneered: “Would you like someone who is picky, hard-to-serve, and calls you short?”

Lin Yaochuan: “…Ah this.”

Shen Minghuan: “…”

This description vaguely reminded him of some scenes.

“You like me? Ha, it’s normal. There are many people who like me.”

“Xiaobai also likes me, and my people also like me. Do you also want to be my subject?”

“But even so, I won’t like you. You’re too short, hahaha. You’re not as tall as my sword, right?”

Shen Minghuan put down the bowl and chopsticks and lowered his head in shame.

No wonder he had no impression of Luo Jinghong. It turned out that the dwarf was Luo Jinghong, and he didn’t know his name from beginning to end.

Ashamed, ashamed.

“Brother Shen, what’s wrong with you?” Lin Yaochuan noticed something strange about Shen Minghuan.

“I’m reflecting.” Shen Minghuan sighed, “I’m thinking that when I was young, I also said such outrageous words to a girl.”

He has a fair face, and he is particularly pitiful when he looks guilty and regretful, making people unconsciously feel soft towards him.

Ling Xiaowan comforted him: “It’s okay, it’s okay. If you have a chance to meet her next time, just apologize to her.”

Shen Minghuan nodded apologetically.

Lin Yaochuan: “…”

Why is it that when his idol Shen Minghuan performs the same behavior, he is considered a “scumbag”, but when his brother Shen performs the same behavior, it is “no problem”? Is this reasonable? !

No one cared about Lin Yaochuan’s injustice. Qiao Yunni asked the waiter to take away the finished food, and then pretended to have a long conversation.

Xu Qingyun sat across from him with a grimace.

Why would God make things difficult for her like this? She can kill with real swords and guns, why must she use her brain?

Xia Ru wanted to leave, but Ling Xiaowan held her down and said, “Junior sister, sit down.”

Lin Yaochuan coughed heavily, reminding Shen Minghuan at the window that it was time to do business. However, Shen Minghuan leaned on the window sill and looked down, seemingly in a trance.

Xia Ru was curious: “Xiao Shen, what are you looking at?”

Shen Minghuan said “Ah”, “I originally wanted to open the window wider to disperse the smell of food in the house, but I didn’t expect…”

“What?” Xia Ru was impatient, “Say it quickly!”

Shen Minghuan pointed out the window and said slowly: “I didn’t expect that Liucheng would be more lively at night than during the day.”

These words combined with the dark scene outside the window made it seem a bit gloomy for no reason.

Everyone was stunned and rushed to the window.

Lin Yaochuan shuddered, gritted his teeth, and moved forward in small steps.

There are no stars or moon outside the window. I don’t know if it’s because the night in Liucheng is particularly dark, or if it’s just tonight.

Several doors opened tentatively, but Lin Yaochuan clearly heard a “squeaking” sound from a distance, and his eyes widened.

The residents who had greeted them during the day came out of their homes, holding a small lamp and walking aimlessly on the street with expressionless faces and stiff and rigid movements.

It’s like some unknown being – maybe an animal, maybe a ghost, has put on human skin and learned to walk on two feet.

“boom–“

Suddenly there was a loud noise from the window, like someone knocking on the window.

Lin Yaochuan screamed and took two steps back.

Xia Ru stuck his head out to take a look, then turned back and glared at him: “Are you too timid? It’s just that the tree next to you just scratched the window.”

There are many trees in Liucheng.

Lin Yaochuan held Shen Minghuan’s arm tremblingly: “I don’t want to either. I have not been afraid of anything since I was a child. I am only afraid of Ah Piao. Brother Shen, do you think they are humans or ghosts now?”

“Don’t be afraid.” Shen Minghuan gently comforted him: “Of course it’s a human being, ghosts don’t need to carry a lantern.”

That’s true.

Qiao Yunni breathed a sigh of relief. She was actually a little scared, but she didn’t show it. It didn’t matter if she knew he was a human.

Qiao Yunni said: “Let’s go downstairs and have a look.”

Xu Qingjun whipped out his whip and pulled his junior sister behind him. She walked in front and led the way.

Ling Xiaowan and Xia Ru also hurriedly followed, snorting disdainfully as they passed by Lin Yaochuan: “Don’t you understand? Sometimes people are much scarier than ghosts.”

They didn’t just go downstairs in a big way, but went downstairs invisibly.

With their cultivation levels, no one in Liucheng could defeat them, so no one could detect them.

The lobby on the first floor has long been closed, the chairs are upside down on the table, and the waiter is cleaning up with a broom and rag.

The movements are exactly the same rigid and rigid.

“rustle–“

He swings his arms mechanically, and it often takes several minutes before he remembers that he also needs to move his steps. So I slowly moved to another place and repeated the above process.

It was scary even for a human being. Lin Yaochuan covered his mouth, fearing that he would accidentally scream again.

Ling Xiaowan pointed at the counter and motioned to them with her eyes. Only then did everyone realize that the shopkeeper was still there.

The counter is high, and there is no lamp in the lobby. The shopkeeper kneels on the inside of the counter, and you would miss it if you don’t pay attention at a glance.

The bottle statue is still on the counter.

The shopkeeper is worshiping.

He bowed his head deeply with a pious look on his face, then bit his fingertip, and a drop of blood was lifted up by his spiritual power and sent to the statue. It was obviously an ordinary piece of wood, but it magically absorbed the drop of blood.

Everyone has the ability to see at night, so they can naturally find that the drop of blood pouring out from the fingertips is actually colorless and transparent!

Is this really blood that humans can have?

Lin Yaochuan wanted to scream again.

Shen Minghuan poked his back, and when Lin Yaochuan turned around, he mouthed amnesia: “Go back and talk.”

There is no way, who told him that he shouldn’t be able to communicate with the soul now? Otherwise, we can just say it directly.

“That’s heartbreaking.”

After returning to the room, Shen Minghuan explained to them, the young master’s voice was gentle: “Normally, heart blood is red, but if it is forced out with spiritual power, it will be colorless and transparent. It is the monk’s vitality that condenses, and It’s the lifespan.”

Lin Yaochuan was shocked: “You mean, the Lord of Shangqing Palace is absorbing the vitality of the residents of this city?”

Shen Minghuan gave a soft “hmm” and said calmly: “I don’t know how to practice on the path of faith now, but robbing others of their life span, in my eyes, is the same as evil ways.”

Probably because this fact was so shocking, no one noticed the strangeness of Shen Minghuan’s words for a moment.

Qiao Yunni leaned back on the chair, “This is too…isn’t he afraid of divine punishment?”

If one has evil intentions and relies on evil methods to achieve cultivation, the power of the Heavenly Tribulation will also increase exponentially when breaking through.

Shen Minghuan said: “If the sacrificer is willing, God will turn a blind eye.”

“Voluntary?” Lin Yaochuan thought it was ridiculous. He pointed out the window: “Brother Shen, do you call them voluntary?”

Shen Minghuan glanced at him and said lightly: “I will make you into a puppet, and you will be willing to do it.”

Lin Yaochuan choked.

Well, the puppet is always loyal to its master.

“Xiao Shen, you mean that all the residents of Liucheng have been turned into puppets by the Lord of Shangqing Palace?”

Xia Ru stood up suddenly, “Then my mother…”

“It’s just a half-puppet.” Shen Minghuan said warmly: “He did not harm the original souls of the residents, which is no different from killing people. If I guessed correctly, he should have left a trace in the sea of ​​​​consciousness of the residents. Soul, subtly fighting for control of the body. During the day, they greet us, lead the way, and joke with us. It should be their own consciousness that takes the lead. But at night, he begins to speed up and learn to control with that small ray of soul. Other people’s bodies.”

Shen Minghuan chuckled lightly, but there was not much smile in his eyes: “I’m guessing that the instructions he gave to the residents during the day should be to let them live according to normal routines. He didn’t know that although your father was gentle and mean, it was not out of love. “Yi, I didn’t know your father was so sensible, I just thought this was the so-called husband and wife, and I didn’t expect Miss Xia to be so sharp.”

Qiao Yunni was not stupid, and quickly linked up their current clues and doubts: “Residents said that evil spirits caused many people to die. Could it be that the master of Shangqing Palace had a problem when he was testing the technique?”

Xia Ru sat down angrily: “He imprisoned a city, isn’t he afraid of being discovered?”

Qiao Yunni shook her head: “As long as I don’t realize something is wrong as soon as I enter the city like my senior sister, I’m afraid I will be planted with a split soul later, and I won’t even realize it by then.”

“Is the Lord of Shangqing Palace so powerful?”

Liucheng is a very large city, with more than ten thousand people living in it.

Xu Qingjun, the most powerful senior sister, thought for a moment and said unwillingly: “We can’t solve it. The Lord of Shangqing Palace is a Mahayana perfection. The only way to solve it is to ask the Tribulation Period to take action.”

Yu Shenghan, the leader of Biluo, Mo Jingchun, leader of Jinghua Merchant Alliance, and Yue Qing, leader of Qianji Sect, are the only three people in the world who have survived the tribulation period.

Shen Minghuan asked: “But do we have evidence?”

Everyone: “…”

Lin Yaochuan pointed to the dancing demons outside the window, “Record this with a photo stone?”

Shen Minghuan didn’t blink: “They themselves were possessed by evil spirits, what does it have to do with the Shangqing Palace?”

“We saw the shopkeeper sacrifice his life with our own eyes?”

“That’s because the shopkeeper is pious and wants something. What does it have to do with the master of Shangqing Palace?”

Lin Yaochuan was stunned, “Brother Shen, do you mean that the invading souls cannot be found in the residents’ consciousness sea?”

Shen Minghuan smiled slightly, “Otherwise, where do you think the master of Shangqing Palace’s confidence comes from?”

Everyone’s mood suddenly dropped, “What should we do?”

Shen Minghuan blinked, “If you don’t know what to do, why not come with me and cut down the tree?”

“Tree? What tree?” Everyone except Ling Xiaowan asked in confusion.

“It’s that big, lush locust tree.” Shen Minghuan explained.

Lin Yaochuan was instantly excited: “Brother Shen, are you saying that the master of the Shangqing Palace used this tree to send his soul into the sea of ​​consciousness of the residents, and if we cut down the tree, everything will be fine? Brother Shen, you are so amazing, how do you know so much? Something?”

Shen Minghuan smiled slightly and said slowly: “I didn’t say anything, I just don’t like that tree very much.”