Chapter 93: Nothing

I have many thoughts, and in this place, I have no choice but to be like this. Pressure and crisis can always force a person to become like this.

This person in the black robe was obviously a woman, and she didn’t try to hide her appearance. In the moonlight, her facial features could be faintly seen, but her expression was of a different kind of enchanting feeling, enchanting and deliberately, but instead it seemed to have a kind of vicissitudes of life.

Such a special woman, if you have seen her once, you should remember her, but I don’t remember this person.

I had my hands behind my back, quietly watching her, and in fact, I had already begun to secretly prepare my hand gestures… After all, someone who could appear in this courtyard without a sound and observe me for so long must not be so easy to deal with.

Thanks to the miraculous medicine of the gods, I have recovered well.

The woman looked at me without a care in the world. That glance was flirtatious, but it was actually conveying a certain emotion. It was as if you didn’t have to be so on guard, and in fact I could see through your little tricks.

The reason why people can feel her emotions so clearly is because she seems to have the same powerful influence on people’s spirits as the god, and she also seems to disdain to hide any of her emotions.

This association made me pay more attention to the woman, and then I noticed a detail. The style of the black robe she was wearing was the same as the white robe the god was wearing. However, it was a black and white Hanfu for men and women. Could it be an ancient couple’s clothing?

I couldn’t help but think about it, and the woman in the black robe standing on the rockery was smiling at me, allowing me to take a good look. After I withdrew my gaze, she floated down from the rockery she was standing on, her movements light and graceful…

After coming down from the rockery, the woman appeared on the other side of the pond, facing me from a distance of about 50 meters.

She didn’t stop at all, just strolled along the pond towards me… Her pace was fast, and her figure was also very erratic. She couldn’t walk in a straight line, as if she was drunk. But at that moment, my heart was pounding, because I knew that she wasn’t drunk at all. It was because there was a formation in the courtyard, and she was just walking the “correct” path. I had studied it for so many days, but I had only broken through a dozen steps. If…

Thinking this way, I widened my eyes, and at that moment my concentration reached its limit, wanting to clearly remember the woman’s steps and her position.

But she was very fast, and the layout of the courtyard was extremely complicated, with many pavilions, towers, rockeries and strange rocks that could cause visual blind spots. How could I remember so many things? But if I could just remember a few steps, it would save me a lot of trouble, right?

“Heh heh heh…” the woman laughed. While I was carefully and anxiously trying to remember her steps, she was also looking at me, wasn’t she? She didn’t deliberately avoid my behavior, but instead let out a series of laughter that was ambiguous.

I let her laugh, but I was intent on memorizing her steps. Unfortunately, for someone who is familiar with this courtyard, a distance of 50 meters is not a long distance, even if you walk around it.

So, in just three minutes, the woman had already reached me, standing quietly at a safe distance of one meter away, still looking at me with that ambiguous smile.

My forehead was already sweating profusely, because the burden of concentrating on the forced rapid memorization just now had caused it. I reached out and wiped the sweat off my forehead, and I didn’t care what her expression meant. I just asked, “Who are you?”

“Does it matter who I am? Do you believe I am a poor woman?” The woman crossed her arms and leaned casually against a tree. Her simple movements were charming, and she reminded me of a familiar woman, my sixth sister.

I don’t know if Sixth Sister is still happy now. Thinking of such an old friend, I couldn’t help but be in a trance for a moment, and then I said, “I believe it.”

“I wonder who she was talking about?” The woman smiled sweetly, but there was a hint of sadness in her eyes. She looked up and said to me, or perhaps to the moon in the sky, “I am very pitiful. I followed him like a believer, but he followed death.”

What nonsense? Who is she following? That god? But would that god follow death? Judging by the way he looked, it was clear that he was disgusted with himself for not living up to being an old monster.

I didn’t understand, and I didn’t bother to ask. I also leaned against a large rock behind me, waiting for her to continue. I didn’t think that a strange woman would break into this dangerous courtyard just to say something so full of literary flavor to me.

Fortunately, she didn’t intend to continue with her lyrical musings, but looked at me directly and said, “I heard a while ago that a guy had completely angered the owner of this place.”

“You mean me?” The owner of the house is naturally the god, but I was lying in bed for nearly half a month, so I didn’t think it was me at all.

“What do you think? I heard that this person angered the owner in a very special way. I heard that he consciously volunteered to be struck by lightning. Do you think that’s funny? Hahaha…” As if she was really talking about something funny, the woman laughed very comfortably, and the meaning was obviously talking about me.

I shook my head and said, “What does it matter to him if I get struck by lightning? Why get angry?”

Without saying a word, I was already trying to get information out of her. Although the conversation with the woman was short, the information she revealed showed that this mysterious woman must have a very special status here and should know a lot.

The woman looked at me again with that penetrating look, but said, “What is a god? A self-proclaimed one certainly doesn’t count. Doesn’t the legend also require a list of gods, sealed by heaven? The host here is just a human being, full of flaws, and you can feel it when you get close. He is just as greedy and possessive. Can you see the things that can’t be stacked in the house? The famous paintings can’t be hung, so they’re simply hung on the wall. There are so many antiques that they simply fill every corner… He’s angry with you. Why do you think that is?”

“Why?” I couldn’t help but break into a cold sweat, and I already had a bad feeling in my head.

“Because in his eyes, you are already a precious object to him, and of course he cannot tolerate the slightest mistake. Therefore, the best medicine in the world is to personally heal it… He cannot tolerate the slightest loss to your body. In other words, your body will soon no longer belong to you, but will become his body, and your soul may also be quite beneficial. The woman was saying something terrible, but she sounded as innocent as a young girl. As she spoke, she looked at her hands and played with her fingernails, as if she didn’t care.

However, I couldn’t help but swallow a mouthful of saliva. Despite all my speculations, I never imagined that the god would have such an idea. It was like a “possession” that wanted to completely possess my body. No, it should be even more ruthless than a possession. My soul would also become his supplement.

No wonder Grandma Ling Qing was so afraid of this god. She was cold-blooded and cruel to the extreme.

In the eyes of this god, there is no concept of life.

“Scared?” The woman suddenly withdrew her hand and looked at me.

I smiled bitterly and said, “Yes.”

“You are a fish that is not very old, right? Always thinking about how to bite through the net that traps you, right? In fact, from the first day you came out of the courtyard, I have been watching you from the fence over there, bored.” At this moment, she seemed tired and leaned against the tree to stretch.

“Then you are indeed bored.” I didn’t know what to say. This damn strange place, strange people.

“You probably think you have plenty of time to slowly study the layout of this courtyard, right? Unfortunately, you’re very stupid. By the time you’ve studied it thoroughly, you’ll probably have disappeared here for a long, long time, won’t you?” The woman tilted her head and looked at me with a teasing smile.

This was the first time I had been called stupid since I started learning Taoism, but that wasn’t the point. The point was that she was clearly reminding me that I didn’t have much time left.

This fact made my heart shrink all of a sudden. I had thought that I had nothing, but I had time.

In the end, I found that I didn’t even have time.