On the way back, Qi An was silent. When she said those words, there was a panic in the bottom of his heart.
He didn't quite understand where that panic came from.
It wasn't disgust, but … …
He also couldn't explain his feelings.
"Zhuo Yue is dead. Who else wants to kill?"
Qi An hung his head and didn't respond. Shi Sheng frowned and stretched his face over. "I asked you a question. What are you thinking?"
Qi An suddenly came back to his senses. He stared at Shi Sheng for a few seconds and shook his head. "No."
"Okay, then let's go somewhere."
"Where to?"
"To find an idiot."
"Idiot?"
Their shadows were elongated under the blood-red setting sun, but they were still tightly pressed against each other.
… …
The news of Zhuo Yue's murder quickly spread throughout Jianghu.
The murderer was also quickly locked onto Shi Sheng. Although Shi Sheng felt that those people were just throwing the blame around and blindly guessing.
But she was the murderer. She had nothing to defend.
So when people came to the door, Shi Sheng generously admitted it.
They asked her why she killed Zhuo Yue.
Shi Sheng's answer was called infuriating – because he didn't like it.
You killed him because you didn't like it?
Then if you didn't like the people of Jianghu, would you have to kill them all?
But not long after, rumors began to spread in Jianghu that Zhuo Yue was secretly a perverted sadist.
The righteous people of Jianghu certainly didn't believe it!
Zhuo Yue was such a righteous person. How could he suddenly become a perverted sadist? Someone must be spreading rumors.
The more these people didn't believe, the more they were slapped in the face when the evidence was placed in front of them.
A person with a bright and beautiful appearance, in a dark place, could be even more filthy than a person with a dirty appearance.
Qi An stood in front of the window of the restaurant, listening to the endless stream of voices below. His expression was a bit unpredictable and dangerous.
"When my parents died, I saw them fall in front of me with my own eyes." His voice suddenly sounded. It was slow and clear, without any unnecessary ups and downs.
"Zhuo Yue killed them, took me back to the Zhuo family, and locked me up with those children. Luckily, I ran away … I met my master, the previous Pavilion Master of Delicate Feather Pavilion. He taught me martial arts, taught me how to kill, taught me how to be emotionless and desireless. "
Qi An summarized the process of escape in six words, but from his slow tone, it could be heard that the process of escape was not very smooth. He had paid an unimaginable price.
Qi An continued, "Master said that once an assassin becomes emotional, it's like taking a slow-acting poison. It's dangerous and fatal."
Qi An paused and turned around to look at the woman behind him. "But Master also said that I will be the pavilion master of Qian Yu Pavilion in the future. I am different from them."
Qi An stretched out his hand. There was a white porcelain bottle in his palm. The corner of his mouth rose slightly. "Lou Yue, take it. Life and death will follow."
Shi Sheng glanced at him and took the porcelain bottle from his hand. There was a pill inside. She sniffed it and smelled blood.
She returned the porcelain bottle and shook her head.
There was blood inside.
Qi An smiled slightly and gripped the porcelain bottle tightly. He lowered his eyelids to hide the rolling hostility in his eyes. He could not hurt her.
… It was good that she was alive.
"Stretch out your hand." The woman on the other side suddenly spoke.
Qi An suppressed the hostility in his heart. After a while, he stretched out his hand. When he raised his head, there was nothing on his face.
Shi Sheng took out a dagger and slit Qi An's wrist. Qi An's body stiffened and he let Shi Sheng continue.
She cut her wrist and put it close to him. "Close your eyes."
Qi An looked at her for a few seconds and closed his eyes.
At first, there was a tingling pain on his wrist. Then, there was a warm and comfortable feeling. There was a warm current slowly entering his body.
"I, in the name of Shi, conclude a soul contract with the person on the other side …"
[Warning -]
[Activating emergency response plan, time freeze …]
The space suddenly quieted down. Time was frozen at this moment.
[Host, you are crazy!] The system's sharp voice rang directly in the air.
"Crazy." Shi Sheng nodded.
The system spoke after a while. It was obvious that it had calmed down.
[You can't do this in the virtual plane … it will hurt him.]
"What do you mean?"
[Anyway, you can't do that. Host, trust me this once.]
"Do you have any trustworthy words coming out of your mouth?"
[If I lie to you this time, I will never see my master again.] That's vicious enough!
Shi Sheng raised his eyebrows and looked at the person on the other side. He maintained his posture just now. There was a bit of gentleness between his brows …
He couldn't conclude a soul contract …
What was his identity?
Shi Sheng quickly picked out the things in his mind that couldn't be concluded with a soul contract … The corner of his mouth twitched. It shouldn't be that bad, right?
[Host, don't overthink it.] System was afraid Shi Sheng would think of something weird and throw Feng Ci away just like that. That would be too much of a joke.
It didn't doubt that with the host's calmness and rationality, if she imagined something terrible, she wouldn't hesitate to pull Feng Ci out of her world.
"Okay, I understand."
[Unfreezing time, countdown to recovery … 3 … 2 … 1 …] The host had always been an understanding person. The system didn't say much and returned the space to normal.
"I, in the name of Lou Yue, conclude a life contract with Qi An …"
Qi An felt that the woman's lines seemed to have changed, but also didn't seem to have. The words she said were very profound. He couldn't understand them. It was like an ancient incantation.
She read it out in a clear voice. Her speed was neither fast nor slow. It was very pleasant to hear.
But he didn't have time to dwell on it. Because when she finished speaking, he felt a strange connection in his body.
A connection with her.
Shi Sheng bandaged Qi An's wrist. His voice was faint. "In this contract, you live and I live. If you die, I die."
Qi An reached out and touched his heart. "Why?"
"Why what?" Shi Sheng casually stopped the bleeding on his wrist and sat back in the chair next to him.
"Why are you doing this to me?" She was really willing to live and die with him.
Shi Sheng's eyes narrowed slightly. He pulled the corner of his mouth into a smile and didn't answer.
Qi An held his breath and waited for her answer, but there was no sound for a long time. He slowly approached her and hugged her from behind. "It's good that we're together."
Nothing else was important.
He didn't want to pursue those matters. Perhaps he had an intuition that even if he pursued it, there wouldn't be any answers in the end.
Or perhaps, he didn't want to.
What he wanted was only the person in front of him.
No matter who she was, no matter what her purpose was, she was just herself.
*
[This is a fake group.]
Little Fairy: It's Sunday.
Cherub: Who's Sunday?
Little Fairy: Stop playing dumb. Vote on Sunday.
Cherub: What is voting? How do you vote? I've only heard of shooting.
Little Fairy: … I might have a group of fake Cherub.
Little Angel: "It's the real deal."
Little Fairy: No, you must be someone else's.
Cherub: Alright then.
Little Fairy: … Fuck, you guys don't follow the routine!
Cherub: Not taking the usual path, not the usual feeling.
System Notification: Your dear Little Fairy has left the group chat. Please use the item to recall (09999).
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