thefictionvixens Chapter 111 Blue Ghost and Red Ghost
Chapter 111 Blue Ghost and Red Ghost
Chapter 111 Blue Ghost and Red Ghost
At night, a fierce snowstorm raged, and although it was only autumn, the eastern Tianshan Mountains were transformed into a snow-covered landscape.
Fortunately, they brought plenty of clothes with them. The wind was howling outside, but it was still warm inside. He slept in the middle bed, the young lady slept on the left, and Lu Youhe slept on the right.
The house was dilapidated, and the howling wind outside made one wonder if the mud house could withstand the blizzard. If it couldn't, then he could play a live-action version of "Endless Winter".
With Xiaoyueying around, there shouldn't be a shortage of charcoal for heating. Then he and Ali will go chop wood, dig holes to build shelters, and everyone will survive in the freezing cold together. He has a fever now, and this is what happens when you have a fever: it's hard to fall asleep, and the little figures in your head are a mess and can't calm down.
It's already past 10 o'clock, and there's not much to do in this remote mountain village. Logically, it should be almost bedtime. Lu Ren knows that the other two are still awake, but the room is unusually quiet.
No one was asleep, but no one spoke; the house was unusually quiet, which made the howling wind outside seem even more desolate.
He didn't say much because he wasn't feeling well and wanted to rest early, but why were Lu Youhe and the young lady so quiet?
You have to understand, it's nighttime now. During the day, Shen Yaoxing is a perfect young lady, but at night, she's a three-year-old girl.
Anyone with experience looking after a three-year-old knows that if she's making a fuss next to you, that's fine, but if you can't hear her at all, then you should be wary of what kind of mischief she might be up to.
Lu Ren silently observed the bed on the right. The young lady sat on the edge of the bed, not saying a word, her eyes fixed on him—it was very strange, but after all, she was the young lady at night, so it was normal that he couldn't understand it.
Lu Ren looked at the bed on his left. His throat was sore and he wanted to cough, but he didn't dare to because Lu Youhe was also staring at him, holding a thermos in one hand.
The moment he coughs, hot water is poured into his mouth, and she says things like, "Mom said you need to drink more hot water when you have a cold. Are you going to disobey your mother?"
But he really didn't want to drink hot water anymore; he had already been given two or three kettles of hot water and had gone to the toilet four or five times.
He swallowed hard to relieve the itching from his cough, then broke the silence and asked Lu Youhe, "Why are you staring at me like that?"
The young lady behind him suddenly spoke up: "Lu Ren has spoken! Lu Ren lost!"
So it was a game where whoever spoke first lost? He had no idea he was involved in their game.
Lu Youhe was pouring water: "Lu Ren, were you about to cough? Hurry up and drink some hot water."
Jin Luren rolled his eyes at her: "You're crazy."
"Young Miss, look at him! He's actually swearing!"
Shen Yaoxing was also surprised and said, "Lu Ren, you can actually swear! But you can't swear at me!"
"Young Miss, you should tell him to forbid everyone from doing that!"
Lu Ren lay back down, not really wanting to talk to the two of them.
The dim yellow light in the mud house resembled the tungsten filament lamps used in rural areas when I was a child. Lu Ren had just been turning to his left, but now that his left nostril was blocked, he simply turned to his right.
Shen Yaoxing stopped staring at him, guessing that the game of not being allowed to talk was over. She leaned against the headboard, holding a book and reading.
The girl's legs were outstretched, her ankles crossed, and she was not wearing socks. The insteps of her feet were very white, her toes were slightly curled, and her toenails were pale. There was a faint mark on her right ankle, probably from the socks.
She wore a cotton nightgown with long sleeves and the neckline buttoned up to the top. The fabric was very soft and draped loosely against her body, perfectly showcasing her youthful curves.
Lu Ren also noticed a suspicious piece of fabric under the pillow. Judging from the texture, it was probably something indescribable. In other words, if he took off the cotton nightgown, he could easily see all the secrets of the girl's upper body.
He was used to it; the young lady was basically unguarded in front of him, not because they had become partners, but because they had been like that since their first meeting.
In the small rented room he shared with Lu Youhe, after Shen Yaoxing finished showering, she put on a borrowed short-sleeved T-shirt and came out of the bathroom with her bare legs, holding the pants she had lent her. She said the pants were too loose and she couldn't wear them—at that time, Lu Ren thought that all aristocratic sons were so open-minded.
However, after studying it for more than two months, he understood that the young lady would have two layers of review when doing things: one is the intuitive machine review, and the other is the rational human review. The human review would be temporarily offline at night.
Manual review will not be completely offline. If someone encounters another person at night, manual review will be activated. However, there is one exception: when someone obtains the identity of a close female friend.
Only this category doesn't trigger manual review; other categories, such as parents, elders, or even former crushes, cannot break this rule.
Lu Ren had long understood this. In Shen Yaoxing's mind, he was no longer just an ordinary subordinate; he was like a close confidante!
"————" This is too strange. Even if this game has this achievement, it should only be triggered if you choose a female player at the start. Why can he achieve this achievement?
However, since it's machine-based review, it's understandable that there might be occasional bugs. Lu Ren thought that the young lady's intuition must have been malfunctioning, and that she had mistaken him for her best friend.
He had a fever and couldn't sleep, so he asked curiously, "Why is it so quiet tonight? Why aren't you asking me to tell you a story?"
Shen Yaoxing leaned against the headboard, flipping through a book with a hint of boredom. "Weren't you sick? I'll give you a day off, otherwise you'll just coldly say again, 'Miss, aren't you being too willful?'"
She spoke in a disdainful and affected tone when she said the last sentence, her voice sounding as if she were imitating how he had spoken to her that morning. Lu Ren couldn't help but laugh, feeling that Shen Yaoxing was really cute at night.
Of course, she's also very cute during the day, but there's an inexplicable sense of distance. Shen Yaoxing is polite and considerate; her upbringing is so good that you can't take another step forward.
Lu Ren has now gotten used to spending time with the young lady every night, and he suspects that the reason he's not asleep is because he didn't tease her tonight.
"I'm sick and can't sleep, would you like to tell me a story, Miss?"
"don't want!"
"Huh? Why?" Lu Ren was a little surprised. Wasn't the rejection too straightforward?
Shen Yaoxing stroked her chin, pondering, "Why?"
"That's right, I've told so many stories, but the young lady won't tell me even once."
"Hmm—okay, just beg me."
Like a child, she is capricious and illogical.
Lu Ren turned his head to look at the other side. When Lu Youhe saw him looking at her, she took out a pair of headphones, put them on, plugged the headphone wire into her phone, and then started listening to music, nodding along with the rhythm, as if she could no longer hear any sounds from the outside world.
"Why did you turn on the recording function on your phone?" Lu Ren asked.
"Tsk!"
"What do you mean by clicking your tongue?"
She was surprised that she had been discovered, so she had no choice but to quietly turn off the recording.
Lu Youhe knew that her brother was about to start comforting the child.
Seeing that she was genuinely listening to the music this time, Lu Rencai looked at Shen Yaoxing again.
"Then please, young lady, tell me a story."
"Okay, okay!"
"What story does the young lady want to tell?"
"Tell scary stories."
"A scary story? Won't it scare me?"
"meeting!"
"Then I won't listen."
"ha"
He told her not to listen, but Shen Yaoxing got excited instead. Actually, spending time with the young lady at night was like playing with a child, which was a lot of fun.
But the next second, Shen Yaoxing, holding her book, jumped onto his bed: "I want to lie down next to you and talk!"
Very well, he's out of the game. Even if he's judged to be a close friend because of a bug in the "Remote Star Intuition System," he can't pretend to be ignorant and take advantage of the young lady.
Youhe and Yueying are like best friends, able to play and joke around on the same bed, but I'm not really their best friend.
But Shen Yaoxing insisted on explaining to him one by one, and in the end Lu Ren had no choice but to let her push the bed over.
Although we're still very close, it's at least better than sharing a bed.
"Let me see this story. It's the story of the Blue Demon and the Red Demon—"
Lu Ren lay on his side, watching the young lady tell him stories, but as he watched, he began to lose focus on the stories.
He felt that the brain-degrading buff was getting a bit too severe, and he started to have wild thoughts again. But instead of thinking about a real-life version of Endless Winter, he suddenly couldn't help but wonder what it would be like if he were a member of a large clan, just like the young lady.
The horror story Shen Yaoxing was about to tell seemed to be a story from her book, which she found in the village church.
The story wasn't scary at all; in fact, it was quite hypnotic. But being hypnotic was even better. Lu Ren couldn't sleep because of a fever, and as he listened to Shen Yaoxing's intermittent voice, the sound of the wind and snow outside seemed to fade into the distance.
"Lu Ren, Lu Ren?"
"Asleep?"
"Okay, goodnight."
Seeing that Lu Ren was sleeping soundly, she lay back down and wrapped herself tightly in the blanket.
"Miss, did I turn off the lights?" Lu Youhe asked softly.
"Okay, turn it off!"
In the pitch-black room, she chatted quietly with Lu Youhe for a while, telling stories of her and Lu Ren's childhood. Sometime later, the room fell silent, save for the howling wind outside the village. Thinking about tomorrow's battle against the Void Beast and spending time with her friends, Shen Yaoxing suddenly realized that this was probably the kind of adventure story she had longed for as a child. Fragmented thoughts drifted in with sleepiness. In her hazy state, she felt a hand tucking her blanket around. It couldn't be anyone but Lu Ren. Shen Yaoxing felt so sleepy, so very sleepy. She thought she had said goodnight to Lu Ren again, or perhaps it was just in a dream.
Lu Ren covered the young lady and Lu Youhe with blankets and went back to sleep. He was in a daze because of the fever and even had a dream.
This dream was related to the story Shen Yaoxing told him. He saw a pair of twin boys, one named Red Ghost and the other named Blue Ghost.
The two ghosts lived in a village. One day, they met a man who had a torch and a knife. He asked the two ghosts what they wanted.
The red demon chose the torch, and the blue demon chose the knife.
The villagers liked the red ghost because the torches could light up the village at night, while they disliked the blue ghost because it always played pranks with a knife and frightened the villagers.
One day, the Blue Ghost approached the Red Ghost, wanting to exchange his knife for his brother's torch. The Red Ghost agreed, but at that moment, angry villagers rushed over.
It turns out that Blue Ghost had played another prank, this time angering all the villagers.
The villagers couldn't tell the twins apart; they only knew that the one with the knife was the blue ghost, so they drove the red ghost, who had the knife, out of the village.
Blue Ghost was smug, thinking that all the villagers were fools who had been completely fooled by his schemes and didn't even realize it. Instead, they liked him because he had obtained the torch.
But on the day the Red Demon left the village with his knife, wild beasts attacked the village.
Because they had no knife, the village and the Blue Ghost were all killed by the wild beasts.
In his dream, Lu Ren seemed to see Lan Gui, who kept apologizing to him.
I'm sorry to the villagers, I'm sorry to the Red Demon, I'm sorry to him.
"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I lost my things, I'm so sorry—"
The next day, when Lu Ren woke up, the young lady had already finished dressing up.
The snowstorm hadn't stopped, but it was much lighter than last night, and the mountaintops were covered in a blanket of white.
There are environments in the virtual world that are even worse than snowstorms, so there's no reason to suspend the mission just because of the weather.
"Ahem!"
Lu Ren's face was flushed with an unhealthy redness because of the curse.
Shen Yaoxing dressed neatly, recalled the events of last night, and immediately—
She was starting to lose her composure—what was going on? Why hadn't she heard the finale of Battle Through the Heavens last night? Instead, she had to tell Lu Ren a story!
What's wrong with Lu Ren? Oh, he's not feeling well, never mind!
Looking at Lu Ren, who was coughing violently, Shen Yaoxing reached out and touched his forehead, somewhat worried: "Your fever hasn't gone down. Just rest in the village today. We'll take over the expedition mission for now. At most, we'll give up some of the mission rewards to the Black Mountain High Moon Squad. We didn't come here for the money."
Lu Ren took the hand that was on his forehead and put it down. "Don't worry, the curse hasn't worsened, and I should be at my strongest right now."
He checked the attribute panel this morning, and all the values had increased by 30%, which had not changed since last night, proving that the effect of the curse had not changed much.
Lu Ren and Shen Yaoxing tested the Sin of Wrath, and found that the effect was best when the increase was between 30% and 40%. At that time, the physical condition and various functions would not decline much, and the values would be at a very high increase.
Shen Yaoxing's expression was serious as she refused, "Don't be silly, and with me watching over them, they won't be in any danger—"
"Then, Miss, use your intuition to tell me if I'll be in any danger if I follow along."
"My intuition can at most determine whether I am in danger, but it is much less effective for those around me."
"With Sister Zhaozhao with us, there won't be any problems even if something goes wrong."
"It's because she's with us that we won't have any problems, so you should stay here and rest."
The two argued for a while, but Lu Ren was unwilling to stay and rest, mainly because he was worried about Lu Youhe.
"If we finish the mission sooner, we can get down the mountain as quickly as possible."
Shen Yaoxing was somewhat persuaded. After thinking for a moment, she finally said, "Your rationality has declined and your judgment is not good enough right now. You have to promise that you will follow my arrangements 100%."
"I've always followed Miss's arrangements, and I don't think my rationality has decreased much."
Shen Yaoxing knew she couldn't persuade him, so she sighed helplessly and tried to pull his hand away, but she still couldn't get it out.
"Can you let go of my hand now?"
"oh oh."
Lu Ren wanted to explain, but he figured the young lady wouldn't listen to his explanation in the next couple of days. However, he really didn't mean anything by it just now.
Well, even he didn't believe it, so Lu Ren could only hope to finish the mission quickly and then get down the mountain as soon as possible.
The Black Mountain High Moon Squad emerged, and the two squads reunited.
"Let's go, and come back as soon as possible."
"Captain Mei, our personnel, because of yesterday—"
Shen Yaoxing still mentioned that her team was cursed, and she hoped that the Black Mountain High Moon Squad would take the lead in the battle, while they would be responsible for support and containment.
Li Haoke looked at the sorcerer, who chuckled at him again.
The man did look tired, but for some reason, the oppressive aura emanating from him was even stronger than yesterday.
He reflected on it yesterday. The sorcerer's illusion skills were very strong, but if he had taken precautions, he shouldn't have been hit instantly, and even if he had been hit, he wouldn't have been unable to recover for a long time.
But there's no point in thinking about these things; they're not enemies after all, they're still partners.
The wind swept along the hillside, and the snowflakes stung my face.
The sky was gray, the mountains were gray, and snow was falling from all directions, making it impossible to tell whether it was falling from the sky or being swirled up from the ground.
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