In the dark of the night, Lu Chen and Old Ma walked side by side. For a while, neither of them spoke.
Just like that, they walked across the long street. When they reached the Horse Washing Bridge, Old Ma suddenly stopped in the middle of the bridge and listened for a while, then looked down.
Lu Chen paused and said, "Why aren't you walking?"
Old Ma pointed to the river under the bridge and said, "Look, doesn't this river look like Qingshui Creek?"
Qingshui Creek was the stream in Qingshuitang Village. Lu Chen and Old Ma had lived there for ten years, so of course they knew. He walked to the edge of the bridge and looked down. He saw that the tributary was indeed very calm and quiet. In the darkness of the night, there was almost no sound of water splashing. It was really similar to the small stream in the mountain village in the past.
However, Lu Chen did not laugh. He only looked at the stream under his feet. After a while, he shook his head and said, "This river is much bigger than Qingshui Creek and much deeper. It doesn't look like it."
Old Ma was startled. A trace of surprise flashed across his face. His expression was also a little complicated. After a while, he seemed to sigh and said, "Seems like you don't miss the ten years you lived in Qingshuitang Village."
"There's nothing to miss." Lu Chen said faintly, "In those ten years, we just hid like turtles, desperately avoiding the pursuit of the Devil Cult. Day and night, we were always like a string that was stretched taut. When we saw a stranger, we would suspect whether he was a killer or not. What's so good about these days of fear?"
He paused for a while and turned his head to look into the distance. After a moment of silence, he said, "Not to mention that I still had my old injuries. Every now and then, they would act up and it was unbearable. So you want to ask me about those ten years? I don't like it at all. "
Old Ma nodded silently and said, "What you said does make sense. But as far as I'm concerned, sometimes I feel that staying in Qingshuitang Village for ten years made me far away from right and wrong, far away from scheming, not to mention killing and arson for a living. So now that I think about it, I don't think those days were too hard. "
Lu Chen looked at him and suddenly smiled. "Why did you suddenly think of the past?"
Old Ma also laughed. He patted the stone railing on the bridge beside him, then walked forward and said, "I'm probably a little old."
He walked down the bridge, but when he was five or six steps away, he suddenly heard Lu Chen call him from behind. Old Ma stopped and turned around in surprise. "What's wrong?"
Lu Chen walked over and frowned slightly. Looking at Old Ma's face, his expression seemed to be more serious and dignified than before. He said, "You've said this to me several times recently. You're not in a good mood."
"Uh, is that so?" Old Ma was a little surprised. It seemed like he didn't notice what Lu Chen said.
Lu Chen stared at him for a while and then said calmly, "Don't say this again, especially not in front of our Perfected Cultivator, understand?"
Old Ma's expression changed slightly as if he thought of something. The corner of his mouth twitched as if he wanted to say something, but he saw that Lu Chen had already turned around and walked towards the alley.
Looking at Lu Chen's back, Old Ma wanted to say something but stopped himself. For a moment, his expression seemed to have become unusually subtle and complicated.
…
After returning to the residence, or rather, back to their "home", they didn't say a word. When the door was closed and they were finally separated from the outside world, they probably felt a sense of relief.
In the deep courtyard at night, their rooms were far away from each other. When they arrived here, Lu Chen first greeted Old Ma and was ready to return to his room. But at this time, Old Ma suddenly stopped him and looked at the door, saying, "Where's Atsu? Is he still sleeping inside?"
Lu Chen smiled and said, "It's so quiet around here. He's probably still sleeping like a dead pig."
Old Ma also smiled, but he quickly put away his smile and said to Lu Chen, "What you said to me just now is quite good. I'll remember it all."
Lu Chen nodded with a smile and didn't say anything.
Old Ma hesitated for a moment and said, "But tonight, I actually have a question in my heart that I want to ask you."
Lu Chen said, "Well, go ahead."
Old Ma looked at his eyes and said, "It's still the same question, why did you choose that nightclub?" Without waiting for Lu Chen to explain, he waved his hand and said, "We already have this kind of relationship, you don't have to say those nonsense to me. Immortal City is so huge and prosperous, there are countless nightclubs of all sizes. Even though we may have the opportunity to find traces of the Evil Sect's evil people on this road, but no matter what, it's impossible to really find them one by one like this. "
He stared at Lu Chen and slowly said, "So, how did you determine that it was that nightclub? Or is it that you're actually just saying it casually, and just went there to have fun? "
Lu Chen's eyes slightly drooped, and after a moment, he suddenly smiled and said, "Actually, I just went there to have fun, and to see if there's any chance to find any traces, but if there's none, then forget it."
Old Ma seemed a little surprised and said in astonishment, "Really like this?"
"Yes, yes." Lu Chen said, "Those people from the Evil Sect are not so easy to find, otherwise, wouldn't the remnants of the Evil Sect in this Immortal City have long been caught and killed by Xue Ying?"
Old Ma hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, you're right."
Lu Chen laughed, turned around and walked towards his own bedroom, and at the same time said with a smile, "Go back early and rest, don't think too much …"
"Lu Chen, do you really believe what True Monarch said?" Old Ma suddenly interrupted him.
Lu Chen's footsteps were three steps away from his door when he suddenly froze and then stopped. In this quiet and serene courtyard in the dead of night, the two of them looked like illusory shadows.
"Do you really believe what he said? That legendary Tree of God, its branches, leaves, seeds, divine weapons and treasures, and with the power of us mortals, to try to destroy that kind of creation divine object? Do you really believe it? "
Old Ma's voice reverberated in the courtyard. The darkness around Lu Chen's body suddenly seemed to thicken, as though his body was obscured, making it difficult for people to see his face clearly.
After an unknown period of time, Lu Chen was heard saying calmly, "I believe it."
Old Ma did not speak, only looked at him. Lu Chen waved at him, then turned and walked to the door, pushed it open and walked in. After a moment, the two doors closed behind him, blocking Old Ma's view.
Old Ma's throat moved, his expression seemed a little nervous. After standing silently on the spot for a moment, he also walked out of his bedroom, but when he pushed open the door, for some reason, his hand suddenly trembled a little.
After a long time, with a creak, he pushed open his door and walked in.
…
Standing in his bedroom, Lu Chen noticed at first glance that Atsu did not seem to be sleeping peacefully on the ground. Then he subconsciously looked at the bed, and sure enough, he saw a pair of shining green eyes in the darkness, looking at him.
Lu Chen smiled and walked over to sit on the bed. He hugged Ah-Tu, who had been lying on the bed for some time, and patted its head.
Atsu also gently rubbed its head against Lu Chen's body, but suddenly Lu Chen found that Atsu's eyes had never moved away from a certain direction. Even when he just came in, it seemed to be looking at that direction, at the door, or somewhere outside the door.
He glanced at Atsu, the smile on his face slowly disappeared, and his eyes became a little colder. Then he followed Atsu's silent gaze and looked at the closed door. And outside the door, if he remembered correctly, after crossing the dark and deep courtyard, it was Old Ma's bedroom.
Atsu had been here, staring in that direction.
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