Chapter 1189: Colored Lantern Festival

Colored Lantern Festival

"Thank you, Maternal Uncle," Lu Xun replied.

After the crowd left the Lotus Guest House, they began looking for a new place to stay, to prevent being found by Ying Fu's people again... However, they were after all not familiar with Wushan. In the end, it was still Lu Xun's maternal uncle who proposed going to his previous old house to rest.

According to what he said, this old house was originally intended to be sold, but there had never been a suitable buyer. Furthermore, the surrounding residents had basically all moved out, so it was just suitable for the few of them to temporarily settle down. On the way over, he also conveniently bought some groceries, and in a short while he made a home-cooked dinner.

"These dishes smell so good..." Yang Xiao looked at the steaming hot dishes on the table and couldn't help but gulp down a mouthful of saliva.

"My maternal uncle's culinary skills have always been quite good."

Lu Xun recalled the meals he had eaten at his maternal uncle's house when he was a child, and said with a smile.

Hearing this sentence, the boss's eyes instantly lit up. He naturally could feel that Lu Xun's attitude toward him was changing. He was instantly endlessly happy and immediately said:

"The conditions here are crude, and there aren't any good seasonings... You guys make do for now. It just so happens tomorrow is the Colored Lantern Festival, let's go back to Maternal Uncle's house to eat together. Maternal Uncle and Aunt will make a table full of dishes for you, to properly entertain you!"

"It's a special festival over here in Wushan. In ancient times, the residents here lived at the foot of Wushan, living off the mountain. Every year there would be one day where lanterns and festoons are hung up, to offer sacrifices to the mountain god, expressing gratitude for Wushan's protection and gifts over the year... Although it's not any particularly grand festival, it's also quite lively," the boss explained.

The crowd suddenly saw the light.

Lu Xun hesitated for a long time, but did not directly agree to it.

"Tomorrow... we'll see the situation. If there's time, we'll go."

"Okay, anyway we'll go by your schedule." The boss laughed.

The crowd successively moved their chopsticks. The few of them were already hungry at this time, especially Chu Changqing. Ever since being captured by Ying Fu, he had hardly eaten anything. He laboriously picked up the chopsticks, bearing the pain to start picking dishes for himself...

Seeing this miserable appearance of Chu Changqing, Lu Xun couldn't help but ask:

"What's wrong with you?"

"...That group of people pierced some kind of thing into my body. If the range of my movements is slightly larger, it hurts terribly. Now I can't even walk." Chu Changqing spoke bitterly.

The rest of the crowd exchanged glances, wanting to try to see if they could help him resolve it. However, after trying one by one, they could all only helplessly shake their heads.

"It won't work... We'll wait for Director Chen to come over in a bit, and see if he has a way."

Chu Changqing was taken aback. "Director Chen?"

"Right ah..."

"Yi, it seems he's here."

As the crowd was speaking, the room's door lock suddenly turned. A figure very naturally walked into the room, as relaxed as if returning to his own home.

The boss was stunned for a moment, his eyes instantly widening. "You... how did you come in without a key? I clearly deadlocked it just now ah..."

Chen Ling glanced at this unfamiliar face, then turned his head to look at Lu Xun, seemingly somewhat confused.

"Maternal Uncle, we're fine here, you go back and rest early." Lu Xun immediately got up. "Tomorrow if we go eat, I'll send you a message in advance."

"...Alright, that's fine too, then I'll leave first."

The boss gave Chen Ling a strange look again, carried his things and turned to leave. As the door closed, only Chen Ling and the others were left in the entire old house.

"Who was that?"

"My maternal uncle, who is also the boss of the Lotus Guest House... Thanks to him, we were able to quickly find Chu Changqing."

Chen Ling nodded slightly, his gaze subsequently falling on Chu Changqing.

"Let me introduce him, this is Director Chen, you should have all met him back in Shennongjia," Lu Xun introduced to Chu Changqing.

Seeing Chen Ling's face, Chu Changqing's expression suddenly became incredibly bizarre... In his mind, he instantly recalled when he was kidnapped by Ying Fu and street racing, the red paper monster chasing all the way from behind the car... The situation at the time was too urgent, Chu Changqing only felt that face was somewhat familiar, but at this time with Chen Ling standing in front of him, he instantly realized!

"...It's you??" A touch of panic and fear flashed in the depths of Chu Changqing's eyes. "You are that red paper monster with many tentacles..."

"It's me."

Chen Ling knew he had already left a psychological shadow on Chu Changqing at the time, and helplessly spoke, "The situation at the time was urgent, so I utilized a portion of my true body... But in most situations, I am still human..."

Chu Changqing: ...

"Although Director Chen is an alien, he is a very nice person. At the time we planned to directly rescue you from the laboratory, but didn't expect to be one step late, letting you be abducted by someone else," Yang Xiao immediately stood out to explain on Chen Ling's behalf.

Hearing the word "alien", whether it was Chen Ling or Chu Changqing, their expressions were both somewhat strange...

But Chu Changqing seemingly still couldn't easily accept it. Perhaps having just witnessed with his own eyes the ferocious spiders he personally created killing people, he was always somewhat resistant toward non-human things, and his gaze looking at Chen Ling was also full of alertness.

Chen Ling knew that if he wanted to gain Chu Changqing's trust, he still needed to take it slowly. His gaze swept over Chu Changqing in the wheelchair, and he let out a light "yi"...

"They tampered with your body?"

Chu Changqing was taken aback. "Yes... that whatever Chancellor Han, pierced a few thorns into my body."

"Let me take a look."

Chen Ling walked in front of Chu Changqing and gently pressed his palm on the latter's head.

Chu Changqing was somewhat uneasy, but what happened in the next moment made him so scared he almost cried out loud... Only to see Chen Ling's entire palm turn into extremely tiny strips of Red Paper, directly drilling into his scalp and squirming inside his body!!

Chu Changqing could clearly feel as if there were crawling insects spreading under his skin one by one. Itching and piercing pain covered his entire body, making him incredibly uncomfortable. The dual torture of body and spirit made Chu Changqing raise his hand wanting to stop Chen Ling, but as it happened he couldn't move anything at all at this time, and could only look at Chen Ling's face in despair.

As the tiny Red Papers wandered under Chu Changqing's skin, one by one long needles of Ink and Brush resembling nails were reflected into Chen Ling's perception.

He exerted slight force, then controlled the Red Papers to pull out these Ink and Brush distributed all over his body bit by bit. Fine blood spots instantly surfaced from Chu Changqing's body, and those Ink and Brush that originally drilled into his body began to be forced out of his body.

Swoosh swoosh swoosh——!

Needles of Ink and Brush flew out, nailing into the surrounding walls under the terrifying force. The entire process lasted for about ten seconds, and all the Ink and Brush within Chu Changqing's body was completely cleared out, while he himself also almost became half a blood man...

But Chu Changqing's body hadn't suffered too much harm, it was just that fresh blood flowed from the wounds where the Ink and Brush drilled out, spreading over the surface of his skin, looking incredibly terrifying.

Ugh——!!!

As soon as this process ended, Chu Changqing violently crashed onto the ground, vomiting intensely. The discomfort of the Red Paper entering his body just now was like a nightmare, unable to recover his senses for a long time.