Quadruple split.

Chapter 2769 Seeking Another Expert
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Mo Tan's Apartment, Dexin District, City B

I miss you~ I miss you~ I miss you~

"Cola, beer, or fried chicken—games I don't really understand~"

"It's all because I miss you~ I miss you~ I'm thinking about you all the time~ I miss you~"

"It's okay to be late because you overslept, don't try to reason with a pretty girl~"

But I miss you~ I miss you~

I'm thinking of you~ I miss you~

"I'm part of the privileged class, and you must bow down and obey me."

"I miss you~ I miss you~"

"For me, the world is invincible!"

"Don't let the night fall silent, become my miracle~"

"No beer! Fried chicken!"

"Let's go dig for oysters at the beach!"

Kneeling beside the sofa in the living room, wearing a huge beret, a planet-level idol who used magic (?) to transform her hairstyle into a completely natural super spiral twin tail, rested her chin on her hand and shook her head while humming and hawing.

The beautiful female Onmyoji kneeling beside her grew even angrier.

"Hey!"

Gu Xiaole glared at her idol, who had barged into the room shortly after she entered, and asked irritably, "Are you sure you can make him feel better? He's still sweating!"

"She must have been aroused and burning with desire by Xueyin's singing!"

Xueyin glanced at Gu Xiaole and said in the same displeased tone, "As for you, is that Yin-Yang magic barrier really that useful? Won't those Japanese tricks make my Tan even more uncomfortable? Things like sleep paralysis and being trapped in a ghost wall."

"Show some respect!"

Gu Xiaole gritted his teeth and rebuked, saying seriously, "What do you mean by 'the devil's trick'? Our Gu family's Yin-Yang technique is an improvement on the ancient spiritual medium techniques of our motherland. It is an advanced version that enhances the use of spiritual power to control shikigami on a large scale. The Yin energy is much lower than that of the native spiritual medium techniques! I even use the Yang trigram as the base for this enhancement method. Not to mention feeling unwell, I can cure minor illnesses like colds and fevers in no time."

Xueyin blinked and asked curiously, "So, the barrier you set up was basically a greenhouse plus cold medicine? In that case, you might as well go home now and I'll just order some Vitamin C to be delivered to Tan. The effect will be about the same anyway."

"だまれ!"

Gu Xiaole raised her hand and flicked Xueyin on the forehead, saying angrily, "Compared to criticizing my Yin-Yang magic, you're almost a half-demon yourself! You're clearly an outsider, yet you don't improve your symbolic abilities but instead spend all your time studying demonic arts with that rat. A demoness like you would have been beheaded in ancient times!"

"behead?"

Xueyin chuckled, rubbing her forehead and laughing, "A vixen like me could have harmed or ruined whomever she wanted in ancient times. Even if I messed things up in the end, the whole world would pay for it. Besides, even if I am a vixen, I am a pure and innocent native vixen. What are you? A Japanese pirate?"

"Girl, I have dual citizenship, and I speak the Tianlong dialect better than you. Don't push me, or I'll beat the crap out of you!"

"Oh, what's wrong? You want to fight just because you can't win an argument? Are you a female gorilla?"

"I don't know if I'm a female gorilla, but if you keep talking nonsense, I'll help you go see your great-grandmother who has turned into a star."

"you……"

"You two! Stop fucking arguing!"

The next moment, a dark figure darted out from Xueyin's sleeve, instantly transforming into a slender human form and standing between the two beautiful girls, whose tension was escalating due to their anxiety and unease.

As the saying goes-

Her hair, piled high like a cloud of crows, adorned her in a green velvet embroidered vest. Her bound feet were just barely open, her ten fingers like spring bamboo shoots. Her round, pink face was like a silver basin, her lips as smooth as cherries. A truly beautiful woman, even Chang'e in the moon would be pleased. This is…

"A rat spirit?"

Gu Xiaole glanced at the beautiful woman next to her, whose appearance was quite classical, and her eyebrows furrowed slightly.

"I am not a rat spirit."

The beauty sighed, bowed to Gu Xiaole, and said weakly, "I am a golden-nosed white-haired rat spirit who accidentally attained enlightenment. You may call me Charming Maiden or call me by my Taoist name 'Lady Earth Emergence'."

As the saying goes, one cannot hit a smiling mouse. Seeing that the other party was so polite, Gu Xiaole could not make a scene. He could only force a somewhat forced smile and said in a dry voice, "Well, this lady is now in the 21st century, so let's keep it simple. I won't speak Japanese, and you shouldn't speak ancient language either."

"Oh, okay."

Then the beautiful woman nodded, and in a flash, her rather glamorous outfit transformed into a studded jacket, a deep V-neck butterfly bustier, low-waisted black shorts, and sky-high platform sandals. Her hairstyle became a shoulder-length bob that was both capable, handsome, and dashing, and she had a tattoo on each of her collarbones, one being the Chinese character "子" and the other a pretty little mouse.

"Ah this..."

Gu Xiaole stared blankly at the very fashionable and rock-and-roll punk beauty in front of her, and after a long while, she managed to say, "Sister, you're so cool."

"Keeping up with the times is a basic quality for longevity. I remember twenty years ago there was an idiot junior who was sealed away before Christ. He had been cultivating diligently for several centuries and was preparing to travel across the ocean to the land of those 'primitive people' to become a local deity. However, before he even reached the land, he was hit by a hostile air interception point. His three thousand years of cultivation were directly destroyed, and he was reduced to ten idiots. Now he only has two idiots left with his cultivation. He cries in the club every day. He is both annoying and stupid."

"Hao..." The woman pursed her lips, casually took a cigarette from her pocket, put it in her mouth, snapped her fingers to summon half a cluster of Samadhi True Fire to light it, and said lazily, "But I only developed the habit of reading newspapers during the Republic of China era, and then... how should I put it, I devoted myself to cultivation, fighting and killing, and so on, not rock and roll at all."

Xueyin grinned and said happily, "Shushu is really amazing. She even joined a girls' band as a bassist back in the day, and they were popular for four or five years."

Gu Xiaole blinked and asked curiously, "Why four or five years?"

"Because after four or five years, the other members were no longer 'teenage girls'. In addition, they all had their own studies and lives, and they didn't plan to support themselves with the band, so they announced their graduation and disbandment. Then, more than ten years later, they contacted me and wanted to form a 'young women band'."

The woman shrugged and said casually, "It's not that I didn't want to join, but considering that I have severe appearance anxiety and can't accept that I'm not a beautiful girl, I declined in the end. I didn't expect that their 'young woman band' would actually become so popular. Sigh, touring sixteen countries and stuff... I'm so envious."

"Uh……"

Gu Xiaole swallowed hard, and after a long pause, he let out a long sigh and complained, "Is this what the demons of the Celestial Empire are like? They're much better than all those good-for-nothing creatures back home that only know how to harm people and drain their yang energy."

"Yang Qi?"

The demon girl repeated dismissively, then chuckled, "Instead of sucking a living person to death, it's better to just cosplay a good-looking character and go to an exhibition. Every guy who comes over to take pictures and watch can suck a little bit. That's much more efficient than grabbing an unlucky guy and sucking him to death. If the male demon doesn't want to transform into a woman, he can also go to places like brothels and become a gigolo..."

"Cough cough."

Noticing that the fairy sister's remarks were becoming increasingly outrageous, Gu Xiaole quickly coughed lightly, interrupting the former's eloquent speech, and exclaimed in admiration, "In short, I understand completely now, so um... Sister Charming, with your extensive experience, do you know exactly what symptoms Mo-chan is experiencing right now?"

The woman walked lazily to the sofa, half-kneeling and looking down at Mo Tan, who, although unconscious, still frowned from time to time, his face contorted in pain and covered in sweat. Her eyes gradually turned from black to gold—"No illness or disaster, healthy body, balanced nutrition."

Having practiced traditional Chinese medicine for decades, the woman, using only the four diagnostic methods of "observation, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation," directly determined that Mo Tan was not sick in the conventional sense. She said calmly, "Moreover, in my opinion, he doesn't seem to have been tainted by anything bad. What do you think, Miss Gu?"

"Yes, I also think that Mo-chan is not cursed or possessed. I checked this neighborhood carefully on the first day I returned to the country. The feng shui is very good, even a bit abnormally good. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be that Uncle and Aunt secretly helped to change it. After all, Mo-chan has always taken good care of Dongzi and has always spoken well of Dongzi and Uncle and Aunt. The two parents like him very much."

Gu Xiaole nodded slightly, then looked at the maid with some confusion: "Speaking of which, you just called me 'Gu family sister,' was it because..."

“I’ve had dealings with your elders before, back when they hadn’t gone to Japan yet…”

The maiden smiled faintly, then turned to look at Xueyin, raising an eyebrow and saying, "Why don't you try kissing him? There are quite a few fairy tales that mention this, like how a princess cleverly used CPR to wake up the prince or something."

Xueyin immediately drank water to rinse her mouth, rubbed her hands together, and said, "That's great!"

"Not good at all!"

Gu Xiaole immediately stepped in front of Mo Tan and said angrily, "Don't joke around at a time like this!"

“I don’t mean to joke, but his current condition clearly indicates a problem ‘here’.”

The woman pointed to her head and said lazily, "No matter how anxious you are, you can only... be anxious. Oh right, there's another way that should work."

Xueyin and Gu Xiaole's eyes immediately lit up, and they asked in unison, "What method?"

"Find marginalized people."

Without hesitation, the girl gave the theoretically optimal solution and said in a serious tone: "Let's not talk about Xueyin. You should know very well what kind of weirdos those marginal people who live in B City are. Whether it is knowledge, strength or methods, they are much better than an old witch like me who does not strive for progress, a novice Yin-Yang Master like you, or a wild talent monster like Xueyin. You can't go wrong by looking for them."

Xueyin pursed her lips and hesitated, "That is indeed a solution, but... Tan probably doesn't like getting involved with marginalized people, right?"

"I don't think this is a good idea either..."

Gu Xiaole scratched his head in frustration and gritted his teeth, saying, "But the problem is, I don't have any better ideas right now."

After thinking for a moment, the girl said, "Or, Miss Gu, why don't you go directly to your aunt and uncle? Don't they know this kid? They certainly won't stand idly by, right?"

“I thought about that too, but…”

Although she didn't know how to explain it, Gu Xiaole instinctively felt that Mo Tan absolutely didn't want things to develop in that direction. She took a deep breath and asked, "Is there any other way?"

The woman took a drag of her cigarette and pondered, "Other ways... If that's the case, that kid who runs the club seems to have some connection with this kid. If all else fails, we'll just have to send him there. Oh, right, I remember there's a shop nearby run by wanderers. The owners are twins. Although they came from the west, their skills are unfathomable. If we pay them enough, they should be willing to help as businessmen."

"Then it's settled. Let's go find that kid and the twin boss you mentioned first. If that doesn't work, we'll consider my aunt and uncle."

Gu Xiaole nodded vigorously, then asked anxiously, "How do I contact them?"

"cell phone."

The woman was also a decisive person. She immediately took Xueyin's phone, dialed a number with lightning speed, and after the voice prompt "The number you dialed is not in service" appeared, she entered another string of numbers on it. Then she turned on the speakerphone and said calmly, "Hey, kid, it's me."

"what happened?"

On the other end of the phone, a childish voice, so young it was almost impossible to tell if it was a boy or a girl, asked curiously, "Has Xueyin gotten into some trouble?"

"No! Xueyin is very honest!"

Xueyin, who had absolutely nothing to do with the word 'honest', but had indeed been trying to be honest today, immediately chimed in, then said seriously, "It's Tan, something happened to Tan."

"Tan? Mo Tan?"

The child's innocent voice quickly realized what was happening and casually asked, "If something happened to him... um... would he have fainted?"

"Eh?"

Xueyin, Gu Xiaole, and Cha Nu looked at each other, then said in unison, "Yes, they fainted!"

"Does your expression show pain?"

"Yes!" *3
Are you sweating profusely? Are you trembling?

"Yes!" *3
"Are there any pathological symptoms?"

Yes! *3

"Um... okay, I don't know what's going on either."

"what?"

Xueyin immediately became anxious and shouted, "You were right about everything, so why are you saying you don't know why!"

"I simply made a judgment based on your reactions."

The child's voice on the phone said dryly, with a hint of helplessness, "There are over six hundred possibilities that match this symptom. How am I supposed to know which one he is?"

"Then, what can we do? We can only find marginalized people or..."

"No."

"Hey?"

"No matter what, you are not allowed to contact any outsiders regarding matters concerning Mo Tan, nor are you allowed to contact his good brother's spiritual medium parents."

"why?"

"There's no reason why. If you don't want him to die, then don't look for him."

"Then...do you have a solution?"

"There's no other way, you'll have to find someone else. Goodbye."

"Hey! What do you mean by this...?"

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Chapter 2760: The End
Her hair was piled high like a cloud of crows, and she wore a green velvet vest adorned with flowers. Her feet were like lotus blossoms, just half-open, and her ten fingers were like spring bamboo shoots. Her round, pink face was like a silver basin, and her lips were as smooth as cherries. A truly beautiful woman, even Chang'e in the moon would be pleased.

—From Journey to the West, not original.