Chapter 350: Love and Take

*Ding*—

A copper coin fell on the table, and the four Chinese characters engraved on it were clearly visible: Peace and Joy.

"I won."

Pulu Pulu Meiliya smiled, ignoring the Gambler's ugly face, which was a mix of blue and white, and reached out: "A bet is a bet."

The Gambler didn't say a word. Its pale, corpse-spotted palm reached into its chest and fished out a tattered old almanac from between its ragged clothes. The paper was withered and yellow, just like fallen leaves.

Pulu Pulu Meiliya took the almanac and smiled, touching Xia Rong's head: "Finally got it back."

In a sense, Fen Wu was actually right. She did embark on the path of ascension with "Tai Yi" as the starting point. Zhao You was not within her system, and even if she really lost Him, it wouldn't have much impact.

Losing Zhao You wouldn't cause Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe to encounter danger; instead, it could avoid the risk of sudden death one day when "everything is unfavorable" was flipped out. In addition, she could exchange it for Bai Zhi, who carried "Tai Su." Why not do it?

Pulu Pulu Meiliya scoffed and tucked the almanac into her pocket: "Even if I don't use it myself, I absolutely cannot give it to Fen Wu."

Everything Fen Wu supports, I must firmly oppose.

The more Fen Wu opposes me, the more it shows I did the right thing.

There was still no expression on the Gambler's pale dead face, only silently picking up the copper coin on the table and looking at Pulu Pulu Meiliya again.

"Want to gamble again?" Pulu Pulu Meiliya raised her eyebrows and said: "You don't have a bet of sufficient value on you anymore. If you want to gamble again, you can only bet yourself."

The Gambler didn't speak, only silently slapped the copper coin on the table.

"Sure enough, greedy." Pulu Pulu Meiliya shook her head.

Different ghosts have different characteristics or personalities, and the Gambler's personality is undoubtedly greed—extreme greed, insatiable greed. The Gambler doesn't accept losing, doesn't accept a draw; it only accepts winning. In order to win, even if it bets itself as a bet, it will definitely gamble on.

"Then come on, let's continue gambling."

Pulu Pulu Meiliya pushed the copper coin in front of the Gambler and said without any hesitation: "This time I choose heads, Everything Goes Well."

After speaking, the Gambler picked up the copper coin and tossed it upward.

With a *ding*, the copper coin landed on the table, and the four Chinese characters engraved on it were clearly visible: Everything Goes Well.

"You lost again," Pulu Pulu Meiliya said: "You have nothing left. This time... you lost yourself."

As soon as she finished speaking, the Gambler's tall, thin, and shriveled corpse collapsed with a *bang*. The strong stench of corpses drifted away, and it completely turned into an ordinary corpse without any supernatural influence.

Game over.

The ownership of the rules of the loser "Gambler" had been transferred to the winner "Pulu Pulu Meiliya."

At this moment, Pulu Pulu Meiliya knew its name:

【Love and Take】

"Love and Take...? A strange name."

Pulu Pulu Meiliya shook her head, stood up, held Xia Rong, and left the room, walking toward the exit of the opera house:

"Although the Gambler is greedy, it still keeps its word. This should also be one of its rules."

"But like Zhao You, 'Love and Take' also cannot be integrated into the rule system with Tai Yi as the core. Mastering 'Love and Take' not only cannot make up for Juanyuan's defects for me, but also adds another kind of defect to me, which is somewhat not worth the loss."

Pulu Pulu Meiliya thought while walking, thinking about the next countermeasures:

"And what's even more dangerous is that whether it's the Serpent God Zhao You or the Gambler Love and Take, their rules have already been known by Fen Wu. Rashly mastering these two ghosts is no different from actively exposing more than one soft rib to Fen Wu, just short of going to the street and shouting, 'Don't miss it when you pass by, hurry up and stab me'..."

Thinking of this, Pulu Pulu Meiliya's expression became even more solemn: "Fortunately, the Gambler's rules can strip the ghosts already mastered from people. I can make a fuss about this."

"I mastered Juanyuan and possess part of Fen Wu's identity, so I can borrow 'Taishui'. I might be able to try brainwashing someone, use a thought seal to create a slave who is absolutely loyal to me, and then gamble with him to lose 'Love and Take' and 'Zhao You' to him."

"The slave masters the ghost, and I master the slave."

"In this way, I can leech off the ghost's power without suffering the backlash of the rules."

Once the thought of leeching arises, the world instantly widens. Pulu Pulu Meiliya feels she understands Fen Wu a little; leeching is indeed satisfying—it's always satisfying to keep leeching.

Thinking all the way about who should be chosen as the candidate to master "Love and Take," Pulu Pulu Meiliya returned to the Saint-Abilon airship before she knew it.

Opening the door and entering the familiar room, the chessboard placed on the table came into view. The "Pulu Pulu Meiliya" in a black dress was sitting on the sofa, a charming smile on her face.

"Back?"

"Yeah." Pulu Pulu Meiliya nodded, walked straight to the center of the room, and reached out to take the bronze mirror placed on the table to return to the real world.

Just then, suddenly, a soft call came from behind:

"Young lady?" Pulu Pulu Meiliya's body trembled violently, and she froze in place.

A cold wind blew in the 3-7 mirror world. An invisible fierce ghost quietly lay behind the girl, calling softly with a voice she was extremely familiar with:

"Pulu Pulu Meiliya?"

The gentle voice was her half-sister. Pulu Pulu Meiliya had lived with Mei Lin since she could remember, and even if her memory was erased, she still felt close to her. At this moment, she had a strong urge to turn her head and take a look, but it was suppressed to death by the self-cognition named "Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe."

"As expected." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe looked at the scene in front of him and nodded thoughtfully.

Although all memories were deleted and even the self was lost, Pulu Pulu Meiliya, who had been "reformatted" by Taishui, still had an instinctive curious reaction to her own name.

"Previously, when in the Chenyu Valley Prison, that unlucky prison guard named Yan Yan Yukuan was also deleted by Fen Wu, reformatted, and then implanted with a part of Fen Wu's memory. He thought he was Fen Wu and chased me all over the prison."

"But even though he already thought he was Fen Wu, when the Chuideng Ghost called his real name 'Yan Yan Yukuan', Yan Yan Yukuan still instinctively reacted and even doubted his own identity, to the point of being driven crazy alive by Juanyuan taking advantage of the situation."

The current state of Pulu Pulu Meiliya is very similar to Yan Yan Yukuan back then. They were both cleared of memories and deleted of self by Taishui, but the difference is that Yan Yan Yukuan was implanted with Fen Wu's memory by Taishui, while Pulu Pulu Meiliya was implanted with a part of Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's memory through the Tai Yi rule.

"Pulu Pulu Meiliya?"

The Chuideng Ghost spoke again persistently. The gentle call seemed to contain some kind of magic. Pulu Pulu Meiliya clearly knew she was Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, and the Chuideng Ghost wasn't calling her name, but the moment she heard the call, she still instinctively thought that this voice was calling her.

"What... is going on?"

Am I not Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe? Why would the Chuideng Ghost call Pulu Pulu Meiliya's name behind my back?

Am I not Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe? Why would I feel like answering when I hear the Chuideng Ghost calling Pulu Pulu Meiliya?

"Young lady? Didn't you hear me calling you?"

The Chuideng Ghost's voice came faintly, carrying a hint of reproach:

"Pulu Pulu Meiliya Freimisslet!"

Oh no! Mei Lin sister is angry!

Pulu Pulu Meiliya felt anxious in her heart and subconsciously wanted to turn her head. Since she was a child, Mei Lin would either call her young lady or her nickname "Pulu Meiliya." Only when she made a mistake would she call her full name very angrily!

"Wait... me?"

Why is it, me?

Pulu Pulu Meiliya's face turned pale at this moment. Mixed emotions surged into her mind in an instant, making her whole body freeze, followed by a slight tremor, sliding from the top of her head to the tips of her toes.

"Am I... Pulu Pulu Meiliya?"

"But am I not Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe?"

"No, that's not right, I should be Pulu Pulu Meiliya, but I am Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, no I am not Pulu Me... Ning, no... is, I, I am Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe not Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe I am Pulu Pulu Meiliya no that's not right I..."

Pulu Pulu Meiliya's legs went soft, and she sat on the ground, repeating the incoherent self-talk neurotically. Her hands were trembling and held in front of her chest, her pale face was bloodless, and she muttered to herself:

"Who... am I?"

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe walked to the girl and squatted down, pinched her fair and delicate chin with two fingers, lifted the doll-like face slightly, and examined and appreciated the deep fear revealed in her eyes, which was an instinctive fear of the loss of "subjectivity," even more desperate than death.

"Be good, don't be afraid." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe hugged her trembling shoulders into his arms and placed his hand on the girl's head to stroke it gently: "I'll tell you who you are."

"Who... am I?"

"You are Pulu Pulu Meiliya."

"Pulu Pulu Meiliya?"

"Yes." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe nodded, feeling the girl's trembling in his arms, and branded a thought seal for her who was on the verge of collapse: "You are Pulu Pulu Meiliya."

"Am I... Pulu Pulu Meiliya?"

"Yes, my dear Pulu Pulu Meiliya."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe said softly, the features on his face deformed and twisted, turning into a mass-market face with no characteristics, and a voice with no characteristics came from his throat: "Okay, good child, sleep for a while, forget all those pains that don't belong to you, be good, after waking up, you will find that everything is still the same..."

Pulu Pulu Meiliya closed her eyes, and scene after scene drifted away in her mind. "Taishui's" rules began to take effect, selectively deleting the memories belonging to "Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe" that she had stolen through the Tai Yi rule, leaving only the memories of "Pulu Pulu Meiliya in Mei Lin's cognition" that Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe had stolen before.

"Good night, dear."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe placed the sleeping Pulu Pulu Meiliya on the sofa, took out a silk scarf to wipe the tear stains on her face, and then stood up and picked up the bronze mirror on the table.

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Volume Three: Walking the Four Directions.

End.

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