Chapter 73: What am I?

I almost stumbled back to where I lived. In the dormitory, Chengxin and Shen Xing were still awake. They were worried when they saw me come back so dazed.

At this point, I realized how bitter it is to be unable to distinguish between dreams and reality.

Fortunately, seeing their familiar faces, I finally slowly adapted to reality and finally returned to a normal state.

It was the last night of the Ghost Market. After Shen Xing fell asleep, Cheng Xin and I were not sleepy at all, so we walked outside the dormitory area.

The ghost market had ended by this point, and all the guards had completely relaxed. Many people chose to leave that night. After all, everyone had more or less gained something from the ghost market, and leaving that night would at least give them a sense of security and prevent them from being coveted.

So, at this moment, walking outside, I suddenly felt a sense of desolation. The once bustling scene would suddenly become desolate, and what people have to adapt to is never the blooming flowers, but the loneliness that one should have after the blooming flowers.

In this thick night, there are too many thoughts, such as stars, the waning moon, the breeze, the chirping of insects, but reality will never allow your thoughts to wander too far. Leaning against a big tree, Brother Cheng Xin, with his pipe in his mouth, said to me, “Since this is the case, the clue is with the old master. It seems that we will have to come to the ghost market often. But this is a difficult road. In the future, Kunlun can’t be mentioned openly, and we can’t ask about the old man openly. I don’t know how many times we have to go to the ghost market in our lifetime to dig out this clue.

I leaned against a tree, hands in my pockets, and said, “Master used a secret method to find the Ancestor. I’ll go back and look through the things Master left me, and try to learn that secret method. It won’t work to just ask around. In just a few days, it’s like I’ve been through years. This circle is very complicated. We have to be careful about everything.”

“Secret method? Don’t talk about secret methods, kid. That also requires a lot of effort. Go find the essence of ginseng. As long as I have that, I’ll have a way!” Chengxin’s eyes flashed with a strange light, and then he continued, “When are we going to the old forest in the northeast?”

“There are a few things to do. First, I have to go find Master Liu and exchange the things he promised. Second, I have to go do a feng shui for the old lady’s descendants. Third, I have to find someone and pass on the Xuanlin family’s secret techniques. After these things are done, we’ll go to the old forest in the northeast.” Unconsciously, I took out a cigarette and lit it. Life is full of things. A cigarette can help you forget your worries.

“Okay, you go do these things. I don’t have anything special to do at the moment, so I’ll stay in Tianjin! When I’m free, I’ll go to Beijing to have tea with Brother Chengqing and see when I can bring Chengzhen over. I need to relax for a while.” When Brother Chengxin spoke, he unconsciously squinted his eyes, and it looked like he had something else in mind.

I laughed and said, “Come on, you want to stay by Shen Xing’s side.”

“No, where did you get that idea? I’m such an upright person…” Chengxin seemed to be embarrassed, lowered his head, and kept playing with the hem of his shirt with one hand. But after just a second, he suddenly raised his head, narrowed his eyes, and said to me in a deep voice, “Don’t fight with me, Ruoxue…”

I was speechless and covered his mouth. Here we go again, right? How deep a shadow has the matter of Ruoxue left in this guy’s heart?

But then, the two of us burst into laughter.

The mountains were in the distance, the night was clear, and we were so happy planning for the future. But who knew that after we set off on different journeys, we would discover that life is unpredictable, just as the fortune-telling tools in Chengqing’s hands could not calculate the sweet and bitter flavors of life!

Shen Xing’s life, encountering the most dangerous real little devil, is too fucking in the future…

We left the ghost city at 10:00 a.m. the next day. Needless to say, we had to travel through mountains and rivers, but we weren’t as rushed as when we first arrived. Three days later, we returned to Tianjin.

Shen Xing was the same as always along the way, a wise, humorous girl with a little bit of a guard, and we got along very well with her.

I thought that Shen Xing and I were friends.

But when we entered the small building where Master Liu lived, Shen Xing suddenly turned around and smiled at me and Brother Chengxin. In the bright sunlight, Shen Xing’s smile was like a blooming flower, so beautiful that it seemed a little unreal.

I have always had a premonition in my heart because of my intuition, and her smile inexplicably made my heart sad. But I didn’t understand what I was sad about. Was I sad that Shen Xing would return to this little house and become the same as she used to be, talking nonsense?

Brother Chengxin probably didn’t have the same premonition as I did, but he was just a little dazed. Maybe the smile was just too beautiful.

I wanted to say something, but before I could, Shen Xing suddenly patted me and Cheng Xin on the shoulder and said, “You two are great kids. It’s been so much fun. I’m going to go in first.”

Everything is normal!

Chengxin quickly chased after him and said from behind, “Are you done having fun? You have to invite me to dinner!”

It was a very ordinary scene. Was I mistaken? I didn’t think about it any more, but went straight upstairs and found Master Liu’s room as usual.

The room was as dark as ever, and Master Liu was sitting hunched over behind the big desk as usual. I don’t know if it was my imagination, but I always felt that Master Liu looked a little older today.

Master Liu was not very excited to see me, but he coughed twice and said, “You’re back? Sit down.”

I sat down across from him with my backpack, and the two of us were silent for a moment. I took out the paper from my backpack that recorded everything he needed and pushed it in front of him.

“Master Liu, the job is done. The people listed on the paper are all the ones you asked for. Take a look,” I said calmly.

Master Liu took a sip of tea from his teacup, nodded, and then picked up the paper. He began to read it carefully by the dim oil lamp. At the same time, he was also thinking, not knowing what he was thinking about.

After about 10 minutes, he finally found the paper and pushed it in front of me, pointing to a name on it and saying, “If you can, bring her back to talk to me. I can give you more benefits.”

I shook my head and refused, saying, “Master Liu, the only thing I promised you before was this, and I won’t do anything else.”

I always felt that what Master Liu wanted to do must be something very evil, and I didn’t want to get involved.

Master Liu didn’t mind. After a few unpleasant laughs, he picked up his teacup, took a few sips of tea, and coughed a few more times before saying, “Chen Chengyi, I’m old and very weak! I’m so old and weak that my body no longer allows me to go out and do anything… So, I need your help! You can listen to what I have to say before deciding whether or not to help me.”

I was silent. In fact, I had already obtained a lot of clues about Kunlun in the ghost market. The clues that Master Liu could give me might not be as good as the ones I had obtained in the ghost market. The reason I insisted on completing the deal with him was that I had promised to do so from the beginning.

Master Liu seemed to have read my mind and said softly, “Little girl, with your personality, you can’t possibly not collect clues about Kunlun in the ghost market, right? Do you think it’s dangerous to collect clues about Kunlun?”

When he said this, a fierce light flashed in Master Liu’s eyes, as if it were piercing my heart. I was shocked, and suddenly I thought of what Kunlun had said afterwards. Before, I was a fool, I didn’t understand anything, and I had no idea that the information I had revealed to Master Liu would put me in such a dangerous situation.

But now that I suddenly thought of this, my face changed!

At the ghost market, I always thought I was being very careful, but I never imagined that I would leave such a big loophole before going there.

I really wanted to calm down, but the look of panic I had just had betrayed me. I was afraid that someone as shrewd as Master Liu would understand from my expression that I had at least learned what the Kunlun Queen was.

The atmosphere became a little tense!

But Master Liu suddenly smiled and said, “It seems that you know a lot. Guess what my identity is?”