Chapter 156: The Fifth Wave

The sky was just beginning to brighten when Tan Wenbin woke up, intending to go to the bathroom to relieve himself and then come back to doze off again.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Brother Xiaoyuan sitting in front of the desk, with a newly finished painting hanging on the wall; the person in the painting held a candle, looking eerie and chilling.

Tan Wenbin sat up immediately and walked silently behind Brother Xiaoyuan.

He was very surprised; had the Jiang Shui come again?

Li Zhuiyuan spoke, "Notify the others, enter a state of alert."

"Understood."

Tan Wenbin threw on his clothes, walked out of his own dormitory, and arrived at the door of A You's dormitory.

At this hour, everyone else in the dormitory was fast asleep; knocking directly would disturb their rest.

Tan Wenbin reached out and patted his own left shoulder.

The Grudge Infant raised its head, and ghost energy dispersed.

He knew clearly that no matter how soundly A You had been sleeping before, he would definitely have his vertical pupils open by now: there was an evil spirit!

Sure enough, the dormitory door was opened shortly after, and Lin Shu You rubbed his eyes while looking at Tan Wenbin: "Brother Bin?"

"Notify Runsheng and Mengmeng, enter a state of alert."

Lin Shu You's expression immediately turned solemn: "Understood!"

Tan Wenbin went straight to the bathroom to relieve himself.

He had A You do the notifying, not to be lazy, but because he knew that A You, who had newly joined the team, really liked and enjoyed this sense of participation.

Even if it was just a simple errand, he was happy to do it, as it could continuously deepen the cognitive imprint of "I am a member of the team."

Tan Wenbin, when he first joined, had also gone through this period; he would feel restless all over if he didn't have some work to do.

In the dormitory, Li Zhuiyuan continued to look at the painting he had made.

He now needed to clarify two questions.

The first question is: Has the fifth wave arrived?

No, that shouldn't be; it couldn't be this fast.

Having solved the fourth wave ahead of time, there should be a relatively long period of stability, or what could be called a rest period.

Even if the Jiang Shui wanted to continue changing its strategy against him, it couldn't possibly fall to winning through volume and fast pacing, leaving him unable to catch his breath; that didn't fit the aesthetic of the person setting the questions.

From another perspective, if it were truly that low-level, it would actually be something Li Zhuiyuan would be happy to see.

Therefore, this should not be his fifth wave, nor was it driven by the Jiang Shui.

The second question: the purpose.

When eating in the afternoon, the Golden Lion had opened its eyes to him.

When sleeping at night, the Lion Spirit entered his dream, not hesitating to burn itself as the price to convey a message to him.

Was it warning him, or was it seeking help from him?

Similar things had happened before; the big fish of the second wave and the corpse-driving Daoist of the fourth wave were actually equivalent to seeking help from him.

But that was while walking the river; he had to face it, and while the other party sought help from him, it also meant he could gain certain benefits and assistance from it.

Therefore, Li Zhuiyuan believed the Lion Spirit was warning him.

It wouldn't be seeking help, because they hadn't reached that kind of relationship, and the other party hadn't given him enough benefits; he wouldn't meddle in other people's business.

Of course, if it was warning him, there was also a demand for benefits, just that the demand came later.

Once he confirmed the warning was real and solved this problem, acknowledging this "lion sentiment," he would inevitably want to repay it with feedback.

After clarifying these things, when Li Zhuiyuan looked at the person in the painting again, it was much clearer.

What,

are you coming to find me?

Drinking soup,

do you think you're Meng Po?

Tan Wenbin returned.

Li Zhuiyuan stood up: "Brother Binbin, take down the painting, we're holding a meeting."

"Alright."

The basement of the shop had high privacy, suitable for meetings.

The disadvantage was that it was a bit dim; even with a light bulb, it glowed with a yellow halo once turned on, appearing even more gloomy, but it also fit the spiritual atmosphere of the meeting.

Entering a state of alert was a term from the "Code of Conduct for Walking the River."

After the notification was issued, all members of the team immediately cut off all non-essential social interactions, maintained short-distance responses, and no longer acted alone.

These were all lessons learned that everyone agreed upon.

It's just that before, this method was used to deal with walking the river, and only when sensing the waves wetting the nose would they enter this state.

"This time, I don't think it's the waves."

Li Zhuiyuan's voice echoed in Runsheng's room.

Yin Meng's room wasn't suitable as a meeting room because someone needed to smoke.

Tan Wenbin sat there and lit a cigarette.

Lin Shu You reached out, wanting to learn how to light one, but was slapped on the back of the hand by Tan Wenbin, who glared back: don't learn bad habits.

Actually, Li Zhuiyuan knew that there was another reason Tan Wenbin couldn't quit smoking: as they walked wave after wave, the two Grudge Infants on his shoulders possessed a certain amount of merit and had further revived; the original seal was already somewhat difficult to isolate their influence on the host.

Tan Wenbin would constantly endure the distress of being upset, especially when thinking, his emotions would fluctuate with obvious irritability, but he had been restraining himself and hadn't spoken about it to the outside.

Runsheng lit a "cigar."

He wasn't good at thinking about big events, but fortunately, the team didn't need his brain for that.

But during meetings, he still hoped to understand more.

In the room, besides being dim, there was an additional layer of smoke.

If someone passed by outside and climbed down to look inside through the half-window, they would likely mistake it for seeing a group of ghosts holding a meeting inside.

Xiao Hei continued to sleep sweetly, its dog nose sniffing in and out; the fragrant mist exhaled by Runsheng was inhaled by it, appearing very comfortable.

In the past, when Runsheng smoked in the room, Xiao Hei would eat along with it, purely acting as an exhaust fan.

Xiao Hei would sneeze occasionally; today, the smoke didn't taste pure.

Yin Meng used a rope to hang the painting; the rope had a handle in the middle, allowing the painting to slowly rotate in front of everyone.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Not walking the river, the Lion Spirit warned me; I suspect someone is plotting against us."

Tan Wenbin: "Then who could it be? We have always been kind to others and really don't have any enemies."

This was the benefit of seeking revenge by targeting the household register.

When you think about enemies, it's easy to use the elimination method because basically, they've all been eliminated.

Li Zhuiyuan: "It might not be targeting me personally or the group; it might be targeting the Qin and Liu families. Qin Shu's failure in walking the river was because he was plotted against by outsiders."

Runsheng took a fierce drag of the fragrance; he had to avenge his master.

Tan Wenbin pursed his lips and asked: "Do we need to report this to the old lady?"

Any force that dared to strike at those walking the river from the Qin and Liu families must be extraordinary; ordinary sects and families wouldn't even dare to have the courage.

Moreover, this time it didn't involve walking the river and didn't touch the karma of walking the river; the old lady could take action.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Although the Qin and Liu families have few people left, if the old lady really gets ruthless, bringing Qin Shu and Liu Yi, she can still make the outside world wary.

It is true that Qin Shu's failure in walking the river was because he was plotted against, but the old lady should only be able to guess which families would do this, yet she cannot lock onto the family that actually took action.

This should be the tacit understanding and unspoken rules of competition between Long Wang families.

I believe that since the other party dared to take action, they would inevitably handle the details cleanly, leaving no traces.

There is no need to tell the old lady about this now."

When Li Zhuiyuan said this, a trace of pain appeared on his face.

Fortunately, the light was dim and the smoke was swirling, and combined with him lowering his head in time, it was covered up.

From a purely rational perspective, telling the old lady immediately was the right thing to do.

The old lady was able to endure Qin Shu's matter back then and swallow a bitter pill; now that she was older and regarded him more highly than she did Qin Shu back then, it was impossible for her to choose to endure again.

Therefore, if he told the old lady about this, the old lady would only have one choice left, which was to take Qin Shu and Liu Yi to find those forces that might have taken action and provoke them to fight to the death.

Not knowing which family did it specifically didn't matter; randomly choose an unlucky one, and the old lady, Qin Shu, and Liu Yi would have to sacrifice at least one to bite a piece of meat off that family.

In this way, make other families wary, thereby scaring away that hand that attempted to reach over.

For the fallen Qin and Liu Long Wang gates, this was the only solution.

The killing intent the old lady revealed when listening to him and A Li play the zither during the day was actually the embodiment of this thought of hers; she was already preparing to sacrifice herself.

Suppressing this "correct" approach and starting to act emotionally made Li Zhuiyuan feel painful.

In his mind, the expression on Li Lan's face when she washed her hands instantly appeared; it was a kind of disgust for "stupid thinking."

To alleviate the torment in his heart, Li Zhuiyuan began to look for a new logical self-consistency.

That was, if the old lady did this, it would also trigger another possibility, making those forces realize again the unusual nature of the walkers of the river of the Qin and Liu families of this generation, making it even more impossible for them to grow up and revitalize the gate.

Therefore, that hand might not only not be scared back, but many more hands would appear, reaching towards him together.

Moreover, it didn't exclude forces one level below the Long Wang family wanting to use this method to fish in troubled waters, stir up contradictions, and let the Long Wang family engage in internal friction first, so as to make room and opportunities for them.

If it were the Qin or Liu families of the past, facing such things, they could have more methods, not even needing to take action; communicating within the same circle and giving a heads-up could solve it.

But now, the cards in the old lady's hand were really too few, so it was easy to judge the order of her playing cards.

Phew...

Li Zhuiyuan let out a breath, feeling comfortable.

Lin Shu You asked curiously: "Can you kill directly like this?"

Tan Wenbin explained: "Generally not; walking the river represents acting on behalf of heaven. If you want to kill someone walking the river, you either need to have direct karma that can be explained, or you have to pay a corresponding price for it.

Just like Zhao Yi that day, as long as he kept shouting about defending the righteous path, we couldn't eliminate this competitor in advance."

Lin Shu You: "Then are they willing to pay a huge price to solve us?"

Tan Wenbin pointed to the painting: "If they were willing, why not send a few real experts directly instead of making this thing?"

Hearing this, Li Zhuiyuan suddenly raised his head, his eyes condensing.

"Everyone, I suspect my calculation was wrong from the beginning."

Everyone present was stunned upon hearing this; the "cigar ash" in Runsheng's hand fell off a section.

Everyone had long been accustomed to being led by Xiaoyuan's superior brain, no matter what they encountered, they could be calm and prophetic; this was the first time that just as the matter started, Xiaoyuan had negated himself first.

"That hand is much smarter than we imagined.

I don't know if behind that hand is another Long Wang family, but since it dared to reach out, it meant its confidence at least considered itself not inferior to the current Qin and Liu families.

This is the first time I have felt the foundation of a Long Wang family."

A smile appeared on the corner of Li Zhuiyuan's mouth.

The other party's plotting level was very high; this kind of opponent didn't make the boy feel afraid, but instead made him feel excited inside.

Its effect was no less than controlling a dead corpse.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Paper and pen."

Runsheng immediately took out paper and pen from the mountaineering bag placed by the bed and put them in front of the boy.

Li Zhuiyuan picked up the pen and drew four waves on the paper very casually.

"Just as A You asked just now, the other party is certainly not willing to pay the price for this.

That hand is not only unwilling to pay the price for killing a walker of the river for no reason, but also unwilling to face the extreme retaliation of the Qin and Liu families.

It is laying out a layout,

a layout that makes all other walkers of the river feel terrified when looking back later.

That Lion Spirit was not a simple warning at all; it was a link in the layout.

The reason I thought wrong from the beginning is... we have a cognitive depth that exceeds normal walkers of the river.

This point can be clearly seen from the comparison between our team and Xiong Shan's team in the previous wave."

Tan Wenbin added a sentence: "Walkers of the river..."

He understood.

But to take care of the three whose eyes were still clear,

he circled the key points.

It was also mainly to save Brother Xiaoyuan from having to explain further.

Brother Xiaoyuan used "walkers of the river" to refer to them; Xiong Shan was not a walker of the river, but he had rich experience, so Brother Xiaoyuan meant that their team, because of the "Code of Conduct for Walking the River," was much higher than peers of the same level.

This was also to pave the way for what was said below.

Li Zhuiyuan: "If we lower our cognition back to the level of normal walkers of the river, then you will immediately find that this matter has changed its appearance.

First is the Lion Spirit warning; for me, this picture came out.

Our first reaction,

what should it be?"

Lin Shu You answered first: "A new wave, this is a clue."

Li Zhuiyuan looked at Lin Shu You and nodded at him: "Yes, correct, I reward you with copying the 'Code of Conduct for Walking the River' and the 'Secret Scroll' ten times."

Lin Shu You: "Uh..."

Lin Shu You really wanted to ask why he was punished for copying even though he answered correctly.

Li Zhuiyuan added a sentence: "Because you are the least influenced by these two books."

Lin Shu You lowered his head.

He told you to lower your cognition and try to substitute yourself, but you succeeded immediately, which shows that your cognition is already at this level.

Tan Wenbin, Runsheng, and Yin Meng nodded one after another later; they were indeed switching their thinking, but it was difficult, and there was one point they couldn't get around, which was that the connection of this wave was too fast.

Li Zhuiyuan continued: "A You's program was merged temporarily; we are following the normal process here. Logically, there shouldn't be a collision of programs of the same category, so there should be a problem on the other side.

The compromise solution is to merge the original two programs into one; two lions that don't know each other going on stage together will inevitably compete.

Our development after yesterday afternoon is actually a deduction under normal circumstances.

The Lion Spirit warning brought out the hint of a new wave of walking the river; this is a causal line that can be reverse-deduced. We will trace the source, find the Zhou brothers again, find the program organizer, find the relevant personnel of the other party's school, and touch this line all the way up against the current.

Besides this, I suspect that in the next few days, a second and third line will appear, touching our side and forming a combined force.

And this is where that hand is smart."

Tan Wenbin immediately spoke: "Damn, it's simulating walking the river for us!"

Yin Meng took over: "If we fold in walking the river, then even if the old lady is there, she can only accept it; the real mastermind can avoid all suspicion and gain safety."

"Moreover, if that hand guides us to find this person..." Tan Wenbin reached out and patted the painting, "then it's us who actively provoked it, or rather, actively went to eliminate demons and defend the way, so the causal price that hand needs to bear is very small."

Runsheng exhaled a thick smoke ring: "It doesn't touch either side."

Tan Wenbin took a deep breath: "This is playing 'borrowing a knife to kill' into an art."

Seeing that everyone had spoken, Lin Shu You added: "It's quite scary."

Li Zhuiyuan: "There is a loophole."

Tan Wenbin, Yin Meng, and Runsheng said in unison: "Too fast."

For their team, the fourth wave had just finished, and the fifth wave shouldn't come so early; this is the biggest unreasonableness.

Li Zhuiyuan: "But this is exactly where the other party is truly brilliant and truly scary; that hand can even calculate our frequency of walking the river."

Saying this, Li Zhuiyuan took the pen and drew a line downwards on the fourth wave drawn on the paper:

"Right now, isn't this the time for us to normally carry out the fourth wave?"

Everyone stood up and looked at this line; at first, they were all a bit puzzled, then one by one, they revealed a look of sudden realization, followed by gritting their teeth, gasping, or pursing their lips.

They understood.

The reason this loophole appeared was because under Brother Xiaoyuan's leadership, everyone completed the fourth wave ahead of time.

This point, that hand... didn't know.

Therefore, it chose to launch at this time; at this time point, under normal circumstances, it is exactly the moment when everyone's third wave has ended, the stable period is about to end, and they start to collect their minds and concentrate their attention to capture any wave of the river.

Excluding the influence of this loophole, that hand really calculated the whole situation!

Tan Wenbin: "No wonder, Brother Xiaoyuan, you said just now that you saw the real foundation."

Yin Meng: "So, we just need to ignore the clues that will appear in the next few days, and we can avoid bumping into this thing in the painting?"

Tan Wenbin: "That hand can guide us to find that thing here, can't it guide this thing to bump into us? It's just that if we ignore it, that hand will pay a bigger price for it."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Start assigning tasks now."

Tan Wenbin and Runsheng put down the cigarettes and fragrance in their hands, and Yin Meng and A You also straightened their backs.

"Lin Shu You."

"Here!"

"You go to contact the Zhou brothers, contact the organizer, contact the relevant school officials who sent the program; you are responsible for touching this line that has already appeared up for me."

"Understood!" Lin Shu You puffed out his chest first and responded, "I will never let down Brother Xiaoyuan's trust!"

Lin Shu You was very excited; he could finally stand on his own!

Li Zhuiyuan: "You just investigate step by step; even if you encounter a hurdle, that hand will give you clues to help you eliminate difficulties and guide you to continue.

If you can't investigate it, it will be more anxious than you."

Lin Shu You: "..."

Li Zhuiyuan: "The others, after dawn, act as usual, making a posture that you are actively receiving the river water, which is convenient for the other party to hand over the next clues to you; you can go out more."

"Understood!"

"Understood!"

Li Zhuiyuan reached out his finger and poked his temple:

"There is one point that needs attention; this time is different from the past. After receiving the clues, don't ask for speed, ask for slowness; every step, slow down as much as possible for me.

Any new progress at any stage must be communicated and reported in the most timely manner; if you are outside, report the progress to Lu Yi at the shop.

Tan Wenbin, give Lu Yi a raise."

Tan Wenbin: "Understood."

Li Zhuiyuan: "We have already done experiments; everyone recall and review in your mind how we went to Zhangjiajie in the previous wave.

I require you, from now on, to start pondering your respective script routes."

The boy held the pen and pulled out another wave on the vertical line he had drawn earlier:

"That hand, isn't it wanting to set up a fake walking the river wave and guide us to drill into it to borrow a knife to kill?

Then this time,

we will lead the real river water over and drown it!"

"Crack!" Deng Chen, who was sleeping, heard the sound of the photo studio door opening.

He sat up immediately and reached out to take two eyeballs from the medicine pool used for washing photos in front of him.

Shake them, breathe on them, lift his pajamas to wipe them, and press them back into his eye sockets.

In the medicine pool, there were three small figures swimming; those were his three good brothers.

Pushing open the room door without haste, he came to the front desk and saw Tan Wenbin sitting on the small sofa with his legs crossed.

Tan Wenbin had more than just the key to the dormitory door.

Deng Chen: "Please instruct."

Tan Wenbin: "Disturbed your rest, sorry, come, borrow your eyeballs, help me roll them."

A painting was handed to Deng Chen.

"Please wait a moment."

No mistakes, one head, one hair, one content, look at it!

Deng Chen took the painting and walked back, starting to work.

Not long after, he took out a long, large photo.

Tan Wenbin took the photo; while he rotated the angle, the person in the photo holding the candle and lowering his head was also turning.

Deng Chen: "I made some supplements to the details; it might deviate from reality."

"It's okay, it's already very good, you are great."

"He is..."

Tan Wenbin said with some surprise: "Why, you know it."

"No, I don't know it; since I had consciousness, the four of us have been living anonymously; we are far inferior to you in our understanding of this world.

But I felt the feeling Brother Xiaoyuan wanted to express from Brother Xiaoyuan's painting.

It is very scary."

"What other feelings do you have?"

"When washing this photo, I was very afraid that it would suddenly raise its head."

"Continue, anything else?"

"Brother Xiaoyuan's painting skills are really good."

"Brother Yuanzi is not here, no need to flatter; you provide me with more valuable clues, and I will flatter for you in your tone after I go back."

"It's the texture of this painting."

"Texture?"

"It might not exist in reality."

This should have been nonsense, after all, it was something seen in a dream.

But Tan Wenbin narrowed his eyes, leaned towards Deng Chen, and whispered: "Say it in more detail, come on, organize your language."

He could feel that Deng Chen had discovered something; after all, the other party was the Eye of the Black Python.

It's just that the other party lacked language description and couldn't hit the point.

Deng Chen rolled his eyes a few times, and finally simply raised his hand to pat the back of his head, patted the two eyeballs down, and handed them to Tan Wenbin.

"I imprinted another copy in my eyes; this is my feeling, you experience it."

"How to use it?"

"Just use it like this."

Tan Wenbin held an eyeball in each hand and placed them in front of his eyes.

This action was very much like playing marbles when he was a child, placing two marbles in front of his eyes to observe this bizarre world.

He saw it.

In front of him was still the person holding the candle.

However, this time, the figure of this person showed a change from real to virtual and then from virtual to real; it was indeed a very strange texture.

Tan Wenbin frowned; he felt that when Brother Xiaoyuan painted this painting, he just tried his best to depict the charm of the scene seen in the dream; Brother Xiaoyuan himself might not have had a deep perception of this.

This is normal in the bureau; finding physical evidence is the first step, and then handing it over to professional departments for physical evidence analysis can make the physical evidence speak and obtain more information; Deng Chen is the analysis section.

Finally,

Tan Wenbin expressed his feelings, a sentence that sounded more like nonsense than Deng Chen's:

"This guy seems to exist in a dream."

Affordable Shop.

Lu Yi was a bit excited, but also a bit uneasy.

His salary here was already quite high, exceeding his income from tutoring, and it was on campus, which was very convenient.

Therefore, he would skip some water classes if he could, just to stay in the shop for a while longer to be worthy of this salary.

Earlier, just as he entered the shop, Tan Wenbin walked over, patted him on the shoulder, and told him that he had gotten a raise again, and it was a 50% raise at that.

The additional work content was that he had to keep records and convey in time the calls made to the shop by their small circle of people.

In fact, he had been doing this before and didn't feel it was hard or tiring; wasn't it just answering calls and passing messages? Although for a while when answering calls, he felt an inexplicable palpitation, scaring him into returning to the dormitory to set up the altar again.

But after analysis, it might have been caused by poor sleep recently.

Tan Wenbin's request for a raise couldn't be refused, and Lu Yi finally accepted it.

He had a feeling that ever since he started worshipping that fellow villager, he had been having good luck.

Lu Yi put his hands together, shook them in front of him, and muttered to himself:

"Sausage Ghost bless me, Sausage Ghost bless me!"

Just as he was worshipping in the void, Lu Yi saw Yin Meng and Runsheng walking out side by side.

Yin Meng asked him: "Do you have many classes today?"

Lu Yi shook his head: "It's almost the end of the term, there are no classes; I can stay for a day today, and I can do some final exam review when there are no customers."

"Then you work hard, I'll take Runsheng out to buy clothes."

"Haha, okay."

Lu Yi nodded with a smile, while feeling a bit strange; he knew Yin Meng liked to go shopping, but Runsheng actually didn't like running outside; Runsheng only liked moving goods in the shop.

However, why bother with other people's business.

Lu Yi picked up the phone and dialed the button; he intended to call home and ask his parents to send him some more sausages.

Runsheng and Yin Meng walked out of the shop; just after descending the steps, Runsheng sighed unconsciously.

He would rather deliver goods ten times a day for Grandpa Li or run to the brick kiln to move bricks back home than accompany Yin Meng shopping.

"Didn't we just buy clothes?"

"We only bought a few pieces; yesterday there was only one top and one pair of pants that were suitable; I have to return the rest later."

"That's enough; there's no need to buy new ones unless the clothes can't be mended."

"How can I create an opportunity for that hand to deliver clues if I don't go out?"

"You can call Zheng Jiayi to go shopping."

"If I call her out at this time, I'm afraid she will be implicated."

Runsheng nodded; he accepted this reason and continued to walk forward following Yin Meng.

Yin Meng was quite happy; she raised her hand and said: "Hey, why are you so unhappy? If someone could take me to buy new clothes when I was a child, I would be happy to death."

Runsheng: "That's a human trafficker."

Yin Meng rolled her eyes at Runsheng: "Didn't you want to wear new clothes when you were a child and show off in front of your friends?"

Runsheng: "Grandpa and I fished for corpses; I had a smell on me, and no children wanted to play with me."

Yin Meng's tone suddenly sank, saying: "Me too; the children of the same age on the street were all told by their parents not to play with me, saying my family opened a coffin shop, which was unlucky.

When I was a child, even if Grandpa bought me any toys or dolls, I had no one to show off to, hehe."

Yin Meng said, lowering her head, and sniffed hard twice.

Runsheng was stunned upon hearing this, and finally could only quicken his pace to walk in front, then turned back and urged:

"Go, let's go buy new clothes."

Yin Meng reached out and wiped away tears that didn't exist at all, pretending to be "broken into laughter" and smiled:

"Alright, let's go!"

The small pickup truck was driven away by Tan Wenbin, and the two could only walk to the school gate.

Yin Meng: "I'll go call a taxi."

Runsheng: "Take the bus."

Yin Meng: "Sigh, when I saw other people's families taking taxis when I was a child, I was so envious, unfortunately... Hahahahaha!"

As she spoke, Yin Meng couldn't hold it anymore and laughed.

Immediately after, she poked Runsheng with her elbow and asked: "Didn't you see just now that I was pretending to be pitiful?"

Runsheng: "I saw you were pretending."

Yin Meng: "Then you still obediently listened to me and went out to buy clothes?"

Runsheng: "The regrets of childhood are not pretended."

Yin Meng paused, then put her hand on her waist and said hatefully:

"I wish I could take a whip and lash you, ruining my good mood when I went out today!"

Lin Shu You came to Jin Ling University; when eating yesterday, the Zhou brothers said their department, plus the fact that they could perform lion dancing, made them quite famous in the school.

Through asking, Lin Shu You found their dormitory, but their roommate said they went out early in the morning.

Lin Shu You noticed that a large pink star wallpaper had been newly pasted on the corner wall of their dormitory.

If Li Zhuiyuan or Tan Wenbin were here, they would definitely go up and peel it off to see what traces were being covered, and then they would discover the charred black color of the wall.

But Lin Shu You only felt that pasting this kind of wallpaper in a boys' dormitory was quite effeminate.

Then, he left.

Next, by asking students on the road, he found the clues, coming from the school living area to a relatively remote riverside adjacent to the school.

He really found the Zhou brothers.

Zhou Cheng and Zhou Feng were talking to a newly buried mound, and then the two turned and left with red eyes.

After they left, Lin Shu You walked to the mound, took out a trident from his bag, and intended to dig to see what it was; after all, this should be an extremely important clue.

Just after digging the soil twice, he heard footsteps coming from behind.

Turning to the side and looking back, he saw the Zhou brothers who had returned, one holding paper money in his hand, and the other holding a candle.

The Zhou brothers' faces were very ugly; their eyes, which had been red from crying, became red with anger.

Lin Shu You: "Sorry, please listen to my explanation."

Zhou Cheng: "Okay, I'll listen to you..."

Zhou Feng dropped the candle in his hand, took a quick step forward, and then gave Lin Shu You a flying kick.

Lin Shu You dodged to the side, and then habitually raised his leg to hit Zhou Feng's waist.

This was the instinctive reaction of a martial artist; performing on stage yesterday with a lion on him had restricted him greatly.

It was because of this hit that Zhou Feng's flying kick direction changed, and his legs were inserted deeply into the soft soil pit where the lion head had just been buried.

Seeing this, Zhou Cheng raised his fist and rushed up too.

The three of them immediately fought fiercely together.

In the dormitory, Li Zhuiyuan set up a calculation formation for himself.

He sat in the middle of the formation patterns, lit three candles, and began to chant spells while deducing; he was trying to calculate himself.

Halfway through the calculation, he stopped immediately.

Calculating oneself is a taboo; he couldn't make this mistake again; he just wanted to use this method to explore whether someone was calculating him.

He couldn't perceive it.

This meant that the other party might have a more brilliant method, at least a more perfect layout; considering the background of that hand, this was not strange.

After erasing this formation layout, Li Zhuiyuan turned the copper mirror and opened the isolation formation in the dormitory.

Then he squatted by the bed, pulled out the large package placed under the bed, and walked back to the desk to peel it open.

This "Evil Book" had burned last time; after opening it this time, there was no sign of recovery.

Li Zhuiyuan spread it out, skipped the burnt paper, and found a page that was only smoked yellow and curled.

Prepared the palette, picked up the brush, and began to paint on this paper; he didn't rush to paint the person lowering his head holding a candle, but painted the burning lion from his dream last night.

Halfway through painting this lion, the "Evil Book" spontaneously filled in the remaining half.

Immediately, the whole painting gradually faded, and a line of words appeared:

"Lion Spirit entrusts a dream, burning body warns."

The Lion Spirit warning itself had no problem, but the problem was its form of development.

Li Zhuiyuan painted it first, not to seek an answer, but to test whether this "Evil Book" still had an effect.

Facts proved that this book was quite tenacious.

Li Zhuiyuan picked up the brush again; this time he painted the person lowering his head holding a candle.

The boy suspected that this "Evil Book" recognized this guy.

Because since that hand wanted to set up a layout for him, it certainly couldn't use existences related to its forces, and it had to objectively find "third-party evil objects."

Only in this way could it better justify itself to the Heavenly Dao.

Moreover, this guy had to ensure it had enough strength advantage to defeat him; even if it couldn't kill him directly, it had to at least seriously injure him, forcing him to light the lamp a second time and admit defeat.

Therefore, this guy was likely not an unknown person.

In his eyes, the "Evil Book" was a dynamic encyclopedia; it might really know who this guy was.

At the same time, judging from the situation he was currently facing, the person who set the trap for Qin Shu might not necessarily be the person who set the trap for him now, but the baseline of the plotting level of both sides should be about the same.

After all, those who dared to play dirty tricks on the Long Wang family couldn't be ordinary goods.

Moreover, from an absolute strength perspective, the hand that set the trap for Qin Shu would only be stronger than this one, because Qin Shu started walking the river after he became an adult, and he was prepared.

Remembering that Qin Shu used "they" to describe the person who plotted against him before, did it mean that more than one hand plotted against Qin Shu?

In this difficult situation, although Qin Shu was forced to fail in walking the river, he could still survive and light the lamp to admit defeat, and he could still stand up and continue walking now, which was enough to show Qin Shu's strength.

This also reminded him that the other party might just treat him as an ordinary walker of the river from the Qin and Liu families; they would use their full strength even when fighting a rabbit, but they would likely not put their trump cards on the table.

And this was where his opportunity lay.

Setting aside the old lady's help, his strength compared to that hand was definitely very asymmetrical.

But fortunately, he was walking the river.

Professor Zhu just pointed out a new perspective for observing the river water yesterday; he didn't expect to use it now.

Between him and the river water, there was identity and struggle; now, it was time for identity to play a role.

"I don't know what your real purpose for me is, but at least so far, no matter what I think in my heart, I am indeed willing to eliminate demons and defend the way, and do things in the way of a righteous person.

No matter how we fight wits and courage, that is our own business, an internal contradiction between the two of us; what does it have to do with the third-party hand?

Look, that hand is imitating you, blaspheming you; what does it think it is?

You can endure it, but I can't.

I guess you couldn't do anything before and could only lower a little causal punishment.

It's okay,

this time I will help you bridge the gap, and together, let's play a big one."

Li Zhuiyuan didn't know if saying these words was useful; anyway, his hand was painting, and his mouth was idle anyway.

When painting to the feet, he couldn't paint anymore.

The tip of the pen touched, and it didn't appear on the page anymore.

It seemed that having learned the lesson of being burned last time, this book actually didn't let him paint anymore this time.

Moreover, beside this almost completed painting, a few lines of words began to appear faintly.

Appearing and disappearing, no matter how good one's eyesight was, one couldn't see clearly what the words were.

Because the original intention of the "Evil Book" was to tell him that it already knew who this guy was, but it just wouldn't tell him.

It was manipulating him.

Li Zhuiyuan picked up the brush and wrote on the side:

"Tell me the answer, and after it's done, I promise you a request that doesn't violate the standards of the righteous path."

The words Li Zhuiyuan wrote faded away, and a short line of words appeared instead:

【You are tricking the book】

Obviously, one book and one person, after several rounds of contact, understood each other.

The "Evil Book" knew that Li Zhuiyuan wouldn't reach any deal with it.

There was no embarrassment on Li Zhuiyuan's face for being exposed; instead, he picked up the pen again, dipped it in ink, and wrote on this page one after another; every time he wrote a line, the "Evil Book" gave feedback immediately:

"Yin-Yang Li Fire Evil-Slaying Formation"

【You should at least give me something to replenish the ink and pages】

"Broken Evil Cutting Yin Chopping Dragon Formation"

【You should just pity me and bestow some miscellaneous items】

"Eight Desolations Thunder Pool Demon-Subduing Formation"

【You are really a heartless person; don't you have any compassion at all】

"Azure Dragon Red Blood Heavenly Punishment Formation"

【My life is so bitter, really so bitter】

Li Zhuiyuan dipped the brush in red pigment and poked it on the page.

A red dot immediately appeared on the page.

The boy's eyes were cold; after the tip of the pen left the page, once this matter was over, he would start to destroy this book.

He believed that the "Evil Book" could sense his truest emotions through the tip of the pen.

The best threat is the truest statement.

Without waiting for long, Li Zhuiyuan lifted the brush.

The red circle began to rotate, forming words at the fastest speed:

【It is a Dream Ghost!】

(End of chapter)