Chapter 248: A Little Apricot Luck

"I had hoped to intercept them before they came out, but I was still a step too late," Luo Qi said.

Du Zhengyi pulled him across the eaves and down along the courtyard wall into an empty courtyard; they were already very close to the village entrance, far from the house where they had been staying.

"Once you leave the battlefield, it is very difficult to make the wind blow exactly according to your wishes," Du Zhengyi said calmly.

Luo Qi bit his lip and said nothing, leaning against the corner of the wall to wait for the arrival of the nameless fierce ghost. According to Luo Qi's schedule, those Seal Beasts should have already arrived here, yet the Ancient Town in the night wind remained silent. The only thing worth finding comfort in was that the silence at least indicated that Mahjong and Guan Xinyue had not yet encountered anything.

This gust of wind also stirred a glimmer of hope in Luo Qi's heart. "Brother, the wind is picking up."

Du Zhengyi raised his head to look at the faint moonlight above the thick fog. "Yes, the wind is picking up. The fog they created cannot maintain its density in the wind; in a while, our visibility will be better."

Luo Qi looked at Du Zhengyi and said, "Try not to use too much Magic, okay? Don't use space-type Magic, especially things like Space Distortion."

Du Zhengyi stared at Luo Qi with a hint of amusement. "Look who's being the mother hen now?"

"I am analyzing the brains of the Mind Mages, but my dad is too shameless. I suspect the most important part of the data is in his brain, and he's just bullying me because I'm too embarrassed to look at his private thoughts..." Luo Qi felt a bit awkward and couldn't continue. "In short, I will try my best to figure out the brains of the Seal Beasts as quickly as possible. Can you hold out a bit longer by relying on your combat power? If I find a way to cut their power all at once, wouldn't that save us the trouble? I have the support of thousands of Ghosts now, after all."

Du Zhengyi looked up at the thick fog in the night sky with a hint of worry. Luo Qi knew what he was thinking, even without using Telepathy or synchronizing with him. This was a death trap designed by a Mind Archmage, and its primary purpose was to kill Du Zhengyi, so it must be a heavy-firepower weapon. They must have also considered the situation of him being a Mind Mage and the thousands of Ghosts of the Society existing simultaneously.

Du Zhengyi's hand landed on Luo Qi's shoulder. "Don't overthink it. Of course, I will adopt the method with the highest win rate and the least loss. I have never been one to sacrifice myself willingly; I am no saint."

Luo Qi smiled, but suddenly the hand Du Zhengyi had placed on his shoulder tightened. Luo Qi's heart tightened, and he looked in the direction Du Zhengyi was watching. A night wind blew, and the thick fog dispersed a little more; this time, Luo Qi also seemed to see something.

Luo Qi's scalp tingled. The black shadow on the eaves ahead looked like a black panther hunched there, sinister and motionless, yet poised to strike.

However, the reason Luo Qi's heart truly sank was not because of how sinister that thing looked, but because Luo Qi had not detected it at all.

He had not detected it. In his Consciousness World, in the Consciousness World where thousands of Ghosts were with him, he had not detected the existence of any thought. The so-called complex brain, the brain characteristics of higher organisms, did not appear in his field of vision.

"What is going on?" Luo Qi muttered. Since the incident in the Public Station Forest, this was the first time he felt he was blind. "What is going on? I didn't detect him!"

Du Zhengyi did not answer him; he suddenly pushed Luo Qi away, shoving him behind the old apricot tree with thick branches in the courtyard.