Chapter 25

Li Li Banfeng thought this person pretending to be He He Jiaqing would go to the toilet with him.

But "He He Jiaqing" didn't go; he didn't want to have too much contact with Li Li Banfeng anymore. He found Li Li Banfeng's behavior a bit abnormal.

There's no need to worry about abnormalities. From the moment Li Li Banfeng entered this Western-style house, he believed the ending was already doomed. Li Li Banfeng was doomed to replace him and become a prisoner of the Western-style house.

To be safe, "He He Jiaqing" let Li Li Banfeng drink some tea with "ingredients," the purpose being to let him have a good sleep.

Afraid Li Li Banfeng wouldn't sleep soundly, he also wanted to feed Li Li Banfeng a bowl of soup, but Li Li Banfeng didn't drink it.

Now it seems Li Li Banfeng really didn't sleep soundly. Maybe the ingredients weren't enough, or maybe Li Li Banfeng's body was too good, and that cup of tea couldn't completely knock him down.

These don't matter.

What matters is that Li Li Banfeng can't get out.

He can't possibly find the exit.

"He He Jiaqing" had been looking for it here for several days, and until now, he hadn't been able to find the exit.

Wait until dawn, and I'll be free.

Li Li Banfeng, you fool, I wonder how long you can hold out in this house.

"He He Jiaqing" walked down the stairs and slept in a room on the first floor near the door.

Li Li Banfeng entered the bathroom and saw a yellow cat and a white cat looking for something to eat next to the washbasin.

There was no faucet on the washbasin; instead, there was a hand pump. The white cat jumped onto the handle of the hand pump, and the yellow cat squatted at the outlet to see if water would come out.

The rustling sound was made by them. How did these two cats get in?

There are many cats in the Western-style house; how did the other cats get in?

Did they come in through the window?

There was indeed a small porthole in the bathroom, very small.

The porthole was tightly closed. Li Li Banfeng pushed it several times; it was as sturdy as the window in the bedroom, with no possibility of opening.

Li Li Banfeng hissed lowly at the two cats. The white cat was already wary of Li Li Banfeng. Hearing these two hisses, it was so scared that its fur stood on end, and it ran and drilled into a small hole under the washbasin.

The yellow cat followed and was about to drill in, but Li Li Banfeng grabbed the yellow cat.

He looked at the hole next to the floor drain.

This should be a ventilation hole, with a diameter not much larger than an adult's fist.

Cats are truly a magical animal; how did it drill into such a small hole?

Meow~

A cat's meow came from outside the window.

Through the frosted glass on the window, Li Li Banfeng vaguely saw a white figure calling its companion outside the window.

The white cat ran outside the house!

It drilled out through the ventilation hole.

A person can't get out, but a cat can!

Click!

The bathroom door handle turned, and "He He Jiaqing" pushed the door open and walked in.

He had just heard the cat's meow.

"Li Banfeng, what are you doing?"

"I'm sitting on the toilet." Li Li Banfeng sat on the toilet, holding the yellow cat in his arms.

"You're petting a cat while sitting on the toilet?"

Li Li Banfeng nodded: "There's a cat in the bathroom. If I don't pet it while sitting on the toilet, where is it appropriate to pet it?"

"He He Jiaqing" closed the bathroom door. He couldn't evaluate Li Li Banfeng's behavior.

Li Li Banfeng's behavior was completely unreasonable, but he could always find a reasonable explanation for himself.

Why bother about whether he is reasonable or not?

As long as tomorrow morning passes, I will never see him again.

Li Li Banfeng reached his hand into the ventilation hole under the washbasin.

This ventilation hole didn't lead directly outside the Western-style house. Li Li Banfeng didn't know what the structure was inside or how many turns it took.

Although a cool night breeze surged into the ventilation hole, Li Li Banfeng had no way to use the ventilation hole to throw the key directly outside the Western-style house.

No way to throw it directly, so he could only gamble once.

This yellow cat clearly didn't have much courage. To win the gamble, it needed a little incentive.

Li Li Banfeng took out the top hat he just bought from his pajamas; there were two things inside the hat.

Before changing into pajamas, his wallet and some personal items were taken away by He He Jiaqing.

But there were two things Li Li Banfeng never left his side: one was the key, and the other was a spicy stick, both of which were now in the top hat.

He first took out the key, entered his "Portable Abode," and took out the phone's charging cable from the backpack.

Returning to the bathroom, he used the charging cable to tie the key to the cat's body.

He first carried the yellow cat to the ventilation hole, then, gripping the key, opened the door to the Portable Abode again.

The moment before entering the door, Li Li Banfeng took out a spicy stick and stuffed it into the yellow cat's anus.

With a shrill scream, the yellow cat ran like the wind and rushed into the ventilation hole.

Li Li Banfeng immediately entered the Portable Abode.

Cat, if you rush directly outside the Western-style house, I'll consider it a win.

If you choose to squat in the ventilation hole and not go out, I'll consider it a loss!

If I lose the gamble, your life won't be easy either; the spicy stick will definitely burn you to death!

"He He Jiaqing" heard the sound and rushed into the bathroom again, but found Li Li Banfeng wasn't in the bathroom.

Where did he go!

"He He Jiaqing" felt his brain buzzing!

Footsteps came from outside the window. "He He Jiaqing" rushed to the living room on the first floor, came to the floor-to-ceiling window, and saw Li Li Banfeng standing in the garden.

Beside Li Li Banfeng was a yellow cat, currently taking a bath in a puddle in the garden.

"He He Jiaqing" was very shocked; Li Li Banfeng was very calm.

Just a few seconds ago, "He He Jiaqing" firmly believed he was already free; he firmly believed Li Li Banfeng couldn't walk out of the He family's old mansion.

Just a few seconds ago, Li Li Banfeng wasn't sure if the yellow cat would rush out of the ventilation hole, but now the yellow cat was sitting in the puddle in the courtyard, whimpering softly.

Li Li Banfeng entered the "Portable Abode" in the bathroom. The yellow cat brought the key in the bathroom, ran outside the house through the ventilation hole, and brought the key outside the house together.

The "Portable Abode" follows the key. The key left the house, and the "Portable Abode" brought Li Li Banfeng out of the house together.

At this moment, "He He Jiaqing," standing in the living room, beat the floor-to-ceiling window hard, seeming to call Li Li Banfeng, but Li Li Banfeng couldn't hear him.

"He He Jiaqing" dug his hands into the floor-to-ceiling window, and amidst a harsh, sharp sound, the floor-to-ceiling window opened a crack.

The crack opened wider and wider. When it opened to more than ten centimeters, "He He Jiaqing" squeezed his head into the door crack and stretched it out.

"Li Banfeng, you're the only brother I have, are you just leaving me like this? Are you just abandoning me? Li Banfeng, aren't you here to save me?"

Li Li Banfeng took a few steps back. This fake He He Jiaqing's strength was clearly greater than Li Li Banfeng's. Li Li Banfeng couldn't open this floor-to-ceiling window, but he could.

"Who exactly are you?" Li Li Banfeng gripped the key, already prepared to run away next.

"He He Jiaqing" wanted to probe his body out of the floor-to-ceiling window, but he couldn't; the floor-to-ceiling window tightly stuck his shoulders.

"Li Li Banfeng, come here, walk closer, I'll tell you, I'll let you know who I am immediately!"

This fake He He Jiaqing seemed unwilling to reveal his identity. Li Li Banfeng intended to leave the courtyard, but didn't expect someone to answer this question for him.

To be precise, not a person, but the house spirit.

The house spirit didn't allow "He He Jiaqing" to leave the house.

Even if he opened the window, he couldn't get out. Even if he could open the door and let Li Li Banfeng in, he still couldn't get out.

"He He Jiaqing" had his head stretched outside the window, still struggling desperately. The vines hanging from upstairs suddenly wrapped around his face and began to tear continuously.

A layer of exquisite skin was torn off, and He He Jiaqing's appearance disappeared from her face.

Li Li Banfeng saw her true face.

It was Lu Lu Xiaolan!

He He Jiaqing's girlfriend.

Why would she be in the He family's old mansion?

No wonder she said so many private things between me and He He Jiaqing in the text messages.

He He Jiaqing ate with her, and I went with her; she knew about this.

He He Jiaqing slept with her and was asked out by me halfway; she knew about this too.

Did she know about He He Jiaqing giving me the answers? Did she know about He He Jiaqing going to the construction site to work to pay for my medical expenses?

Could it be that He He Jiaqing told her?

Why could she hang a hook on my phone?

Could it be because of the phone call He He Jiaqing asked me to make?

Was He He Jiaqing her accomplice?

Did He He Jiaqing sell me out?

Wait, if He He Jiaqing was her accomplice, why wasn't He He Jiaqing himself here to trick me?

If it were He He Jiaqing himself, he would never have revealed so many flaws!

She is a Peeping Cultivator. There are many things He He Jiaqing never told her, but she could peep them out.

Regarding the text messages, she was always the one in control, letting me fall into her trap.

When they really met, some flaws could no longer be avoided because she couldn't possibly peep every detail.

He He Jiaqing shouldn't be her accomplice, but why would she be trapped by the house spirit?

As his thoughts flew, Lu Lu Xiaolan shouted to Li Li Banfeng with a hoarse voice: "Li Li Banfeng! Do you want to save He He Jiaqing? If you want to save him, come find me. Only I know where he is!

Li Li Banfeng, I love He Jiaqing, I am truly good to He Jiaqing. In this world, besides you, only I am sincerely good to him!"

Hearing this, Li Li Banfeng turned and left.

That's not the kind of relationship I have with He He Jiaqing.

Li Li Banfeng! Don't go! You will regret it for the rest of your life! You have become a dark energy user, right? You are a martial cultivator, right? You can turn invisible, right?

Teach me the way to leave here, and I'll give you whatever you want! I'll give you whatever you want! I have many good things!"

Li Li Banfeng's figure disappeared into the night. Lu Lu Xiaolan, with tears all over her face, pulled her head back from the floor-to-ceiling window.

She had to pull it back; the vines had already torn off the fake face, and next, they would tear the real face.

In the past few days, her real face had been torn many times, which brought heart-wrenching pain and scars that were hard to heal.

She sat under the floor-to-ceiling window and cried bitterly.

She didn't understand why Li Li Banfeng didn't fall for it?

She successfully tricked Li Li Banfeng to Puluo Continent and into the house, but why did Li Li Banfeng still escape?

Not long after the train derailed, He He Jiaqing received Li Li Banfeng's phone call.

This phone call saved He He Jiaqing's life.

Lu Lu Xiaolan struck He He Jiaqing, but couldn't kill him.

He He Jiaqing fought back, but couldn't kill Lu Lu Xiaolan either.

He He Jiaqing, relying on the phone call from Li Li Banfeng, escaped back to Yuezhou and sent Lu Lu Xiaolan back to the He family's old mansion.

It was precisely because of this phone call from Li Li Banfeng that Lu Lu Xiaolan used the Peeping Cultivator's "Wind-Listening Ear" skill to hang a hook on Li Li Banfeng's phone.

Later, when they arrived at the He family's old mansion, this hook became Lu Lu Xiaolan's straw to clutch at.

On the train, Li Li Banfeng's phone ran out of power.

The hook broke, and Lu Lu Xiaolan was very afraid, very worried, and even felt despair.

She suspected Li Li Banfeng might have encountered an accident.

Unexpectedly, Li Li Banfeng still came.

Restricted by the house spirit, Lu Lu Xiaolan didn't intend to use force, nor did she intend to tear off the mask before Li Li Banfeng discovered the truth.

To ensure Li Li Banfeng lived in the house for a night in good condition, she practiced every detail after meeting him many times.

She maintained sufficient restraint and didn't rush to mention the Mysterious Lotus in front of Li Li Banfeng. Li Li Banfeng left the lotus at the station, and she didn't get angry about it.

She tried her best to imitate He He Jiaqing's way of speaking. Every detail was very similar. When Li Li Banfeng entered the door, she even specifically learned He He Jiaqing's manner and mocked Li Li Banfeng's backpack.

As long as she waited until tomorrow morning, she could leave this mansion.

Why?

She really couldn't understand why Li Li Banfeng would escape?

Which sentence did I say wrong, which thing did I do wrong?

Why did Li Li Banfeng escape?

Lu Lu Xiaolan grabbed her hair and wailed hoarsely.

She realized for the first time that she might die here, die in hunger, until she became a rotting, foul-smelling corpse.

After crying for a long time, Lu Lu Xiaolan's voice gradually weakened, and the tears on her face gradually dried.

She went to the kitchen, chopped some cat skin and cat bones into pieces, chopped them into powder, and poured them into the pot.

Then she took out a small porcelain bottle from her pocket, poured out a little powder from the small porcelain bottle, just a little, and sprinkled it on the cat skin and cat bones.

This medicinal powder was very precious; she only had this one small bottle left.

Smoke rose in the pot, just like the oily smoke from stir-frying some ingredient.

Under the oily smoke, the cat skin and cat bones slowly turned into an indescribable paste, emitting a faint fishy smell.

She divided the paste in the pot into five cat food bowls and placed these cat food bowls in different corners of the room.

One in the entrance hall, one in the living room, one in the kitchen, one in the bathroom, and one in the hallway on the second floor.

This faint fishy smell could drift very far.

Relying on this faint fishy smell, it could attract stray cats, or possibly weasels; they had ways to enter and exit this house.

As long as they ate the food in the cat food bowls, they would fall into a deep sleep, just like the flower cat sleeping soundly in the kitchen.

Lu Lu Xiaolan picked up that flower cat, tore open its fur directly with her teeth, and gnawed on its flesh and blood hard.

She also wanted to eat cooked food, but she couldn't, because firewood was very precious and had to be saved to trick the next person who entered the house.

Lu Lu Xiaolan chewed the raw meat in large mouthfuls, muttering to herself while chewing.

Can't die, absolutely can't die.

I want to live.

I can still get out.

Leaving the He family's old mansion, Li Li Banfeng ran out of several alleys, arrived in an alley, entered the Portable Abode, and hid the key under the window root of a family's house.

Sitting silently in the Portable Abode, Li Li Banfeng fell into deep thought.

Where exactly did the real He He Jiaqing go?

Could it be that the He He Jiaqing lying in the hospital is the real one?

PS: Li Li Banfeng didn't take out the spicy stick he stuffed into the yellow cat. I hope that yellow cat is doing well.

(End of Chapter)