Quadruple split.

Chapter 2770 Hidden in the City

"He died..."

The girl shrugged, turned to look at the two pretty heads next to her, and said innocently, "He just hung up the phone."

Gu Xiaole sighed, looking at Mo Tan, who was still tossing and turning on the sofa, unable to regain consciousness, with heartache in her eyes, and said in a dry voice, "I heard it..."

"Tan's condition cannot be delayed any longer."

Unusually, Xueyin didn't crack a joke. Instead, she suddenly stood up, made a hand gesture to transform her magnificent spiral pigtails into a short bob. After getting up, she walked to the side, bent down to pick up the hat she had immediately thrown on the ground after entering the house, forcefully put it on her head, and said seriously, "Let's go find those Wanderers. Where is their shop?"

Seeing that Xueyin had made up her mind, the girl didn't hesitate any longer. She pulled Motan up from the sofa and carried him on her back, saying, "I'll take you there. That place is a bit strange. Although ordinary people can find it if they want to, people like us might not find it even after searching for months without a method or introduction."

"Don't they mainly cater to 'abnormal' people like us? And what about demons and monsters? Why is it easier for ordinary people to find them?"

Gu Xiaole was stunned for a moment, then her gaze suddenly sharpened: "Wait a minute, why are you carrying Mo-chan on your back! Why isn't it me!"

Xueyin also stood on tiptoe and shouted, "Yes, yes! Xueyin can carry Tan too! Although Xueyin is a petite and beautiful girl, Xueyin can use symbolic power to strengthen herself. Hurry up and hand him over so I can carry him!"

"That's why I'm carrying this kid myself. Although I don't really want to suffer like this or take advantage of him, I'm thinking that if either of you carries him, the other will have a problem with it, so I'll have to do it."

The woman said helplessly, then added to Gu Xiaole's explanation: "As for why that [Strange and Unusual] only accepts regular customers for the time being, you can probably understand it as the fact that the twin owners achieved financial freedom a long, long time ago. If the club's information is correct, they should be the two richest and most capable among the 'Wanderers'. In fact, even in that unprecedented event more than 20 years ago, the twins seemed to have a hand in it."

Gu Xiaole's eyes widened immediately, and she exclaimed softly, "They were involved in that battle too. I thought it was just the two mediums, the marginal man and my uncle and aunt."

"It wasn't that simple. The implications were actually much greater back then, but... well, it's hard to say. Anyway, everything was out of control. Almost all the abnormal and alien beings around the world were involved. No one could escape unscathed."

The woman shuddered with lingering fear and said in a dry voice, "However, most people were forced to protect themselves and had no chance to get involved in the main battle. Although you, as a junior, don't know, in those years, no less than a million of us outcasts died. Many wanderers, ability users, and even innocent ordinary people died. It's just that the relevant information has been sealed away."

"What?! What are you talking about?!"

Xueyin pouted in dissatisfaction and protested loudly, "It sounds like a lot of fun! Xueyin wants to know too! Tell Xueyin quickly!"

"It's just a tired old story about a bunch of lunatics trying to reboot the world. There's nothing to say about it."

The maiden shook her head, then walked towards the door while reminding him, "Besides, you don't have time to waste anymore, do you? Isn't solving this kid's situation more important than listening to my old stories?"

"Woo..."

After hesitating for less than half a second, Xueyin finally gave up her desire to continue asking questions and ran to the foyer to change her shoes.

Gu Xiaole sighed softly and then followed him out with a complicated expression.

Reason told her that the best course of action was to find her aunt and uncle, because they would never harm Mo Tan. However, her emotions kept warning her, making her feel an inexplicable sense of crisis about that idea, as if taking even the slightest wrong step would lead to utter ruin.

She didn't know where this inexplicable sense of crisis came from, but what was frightening was that the child in the club that the woman mentioned made a judgment that was exactly the same as her 'intuition', which made Gu Xiaole even more panicked.

It was only then that she realized that Mo-chan's problems were probably not simple at all.

And this ulterior motive, no matter how you look at it, is definitely not a good thing!

But now we can only take it one step at a time...

Hopefully, things won't get to the worst possible outcome.

The young female Onmyoji pursed her lips, silently prayed in her heart, and then followed Xueyin and Chanu away.

……

Half an hour later
A small commodity market in City B
"Are you sure this is here?"

Xueyin lowered her hat brim and whispered to the invisible woman, who was walking beside her with Mo Tan on her back, "This looks like an ordinary market."

The beautiful woman, carrying a grown man on her back but showing no signs of fatigue or strain, grinned and said merrily, "Haven't you heard of 'the truly wise live in seclusion'?"

"Uh... the market is indeed a 'market'."

Gu Xiaole twitched the corner of her mouth, then looked around at the people buying vegetables, meat, fake antiques, and flowers, birds, fish, and insects, and asked curiously, "So how are we supposed to find that store?"

"Option one: find a passerby who can normally see strange things and go in with them, but this is too reliant on luck and takes up too much time."

As she looked around, the woman said, "Option two is to pass the test set up by the twins, which is specifically designed for those with abnormalities."

Xueyin immediately became excited and asked repeatedly, "What kind of test? What kind of test?!"

"I can't say for sure, since there are just too many different forms."

The maiden gently shook her head and said seriously, "However, the only thing I know is that those trials generally cause harm to people's physical and mental health, some more serious than others. But there will never be any easy options that allow you to pass by simply turning around or eating a candy. Anyway, let's look for one first. If it is an abnormal person, as long as they get to the vicinity of [strange and unusual], they should be able to easily find the 'trial'."

"Well, I found it."

Before the maiden could finish speaking, Gu Xiaole pointed to the ground next to the vegetable stall in front of him and said with a somewhat subtle expression, "It looks like they're eating candy."

Charming Woman: "...Huh?"

She looked a little confused and followed where Gu Xiaole was pointing. Guess what happened next?

Hey, they really are eating candy!
In fact, right where Gu Xiaole pointed, there was a small area that was brightly lit by a 'light source' that completely defied the laws of physics. On that bright area were two things: one was a candy wrapped in candy wrapper, shaped like the dollop of ice cream on a cone, and the other was half a line of small print with a concise message—[Please have some candy].

"Uh……"

The girl who had just said the test couldn't be that simple immediately looked embarrassed. She looked left and right, then walked discreetly toward the candy that was invisible to most people, and whispered, "I bet it's not that simple. There's definitely a trap."

"Eh? Really?"

As a result, Xueyin darted to the small area in one stride, dramatically bending down and exclaiming, "Oops, my sanitary napkin fell down!" She quickly picked up the candy, and before Cha Nu could stop her, she unwrapped it, popped the brown candy inside into her mouth, and let out a delighted "Whoa!" "Hey!"

Startled half to death by Xueyin's reckless action, the girl immediately grabbed her and pulled her in front of her, saying angrily, "Don't just pick it up and eat it! What if it's something terrible?!"

"what?"

While munching on her candy, Xueyin tilted her head and mumbled, "It's just a piece of candy, what's so bad about it? Oh, by the way, I can get to the [Strange and Wonderful] shop now, can you?"

"How could it be so simple... uh?"

Just as the girl was about to say something, she suddenly noticed that the words on the bright spot on the ground had changed to 'Next,' and at the same time, another piece of candy appeared.

"Then I'll go in first, the two bosses are calling me."

Xueyin smacked her lips and waved to Cha Nu and Gu Xiaole with a smile. Then she turned around and took a step into the gap between the vegetable shop and the fake antiques. In the next instant, she appeared in front of a shop with a sign that read "Strange and Wonderful" in big characters. It looked very fancy.

“It’s an honor to meet you, dear superstar. I’m Ferry Rice, and this is my brother, Joe Rice.”

One of the owners, who looked remarkably young, strode to the door, pointed to his brother who looked exactly like him, introduced him, and then pulled out two photos of Xueyin, saying cheerfully, "Please give us your autographs."

"no problem!"

Looking at the two tall, slender Caucasian twins with fiery red hair and a few freckles, Xueyin happily agreed. After taking the photo, she used her gold pen to write in a flourish, "Xueyin visited [Strange and Wonderful]! Wishing the young men great success in their business!" and asked cheerfully, "Is this okay?"

"It's absolutely wonderful, darling."

Ferry Rice accepted the photo with a broad smile, then snapped his fingers, conjuring up a DSLR camera that looked cheerful and was bouncing around in mid-air as if having a seizure. He grinned and asked, "And also, if you'd like to take a picture with us brothers and authorize us to put it in a prominent place for advertising..."

"From now on, every time you visit our store, all items will be 20% off, and you will enjoy a huge amount of interest-free installment payment, which is valid for life and can be inherited by your children."

Joe Rice snapped his fingers, looking at Xueyin with expectant eyes: "What do you think?"

"I am very honored."

Xueyin chuckled, then took off her hat and used her magic (?) to transform her hair into super trendy spiral pigtails. She walked happily between the two brothers and enthusiastically took their left and right arms respectively: "Is this a good photo?"

"My God, Ferry!"

Joe Rice pretended to cover his face with his free left hand and cried out loudly, "Teacher Xueyin held my arm!"

“That’s right, Joe.”

Ferry also let out an excited and high-pitched howl, shouting, "I won't take a shower until tonight!"

“That’s a good decision, brother, even though you wouldn’t normally shower during the day anyway.”

Qiao shrugged, and then, with a 'click,' he and his brother very gentlemanly withdrew their arms from Xueyin's grasp, and said cheerfully, "Well then, thank you again, Teacher Xueyin."

"no problem?"

Xueyin blinked and hesitated, "I was so focused on listening to you guys taking a shower that I might not have been paying attention to the camera."

"Oh, please don't worry about such a small problem."

Ferry chuckled, then grabbed the increasingly frantic (even smoking) DSLR camera, fiddled with it for a bit, and then pulled out a huge photograph from under the camera like pulling out a strip of cloth. The twin brothers and Xueyin in the photograph looked incredibly lifelike.

Uh... it means literally lifelike.

At this moment, in the photo, Xueyin is attacking the shelf and throwing [Poop Candy] and the [Little Crocodile Money Bag] with iron teeth and copper fangs at Ferry behind her who is trying to stop her. After that, she pulls out a [Big Ivan Staff] from somewhere and excitedly smashes it at Joe, who is covering Ferry from being bitten to death by the wallet.

Boom! ! !
With a silent but unmistakably loud explosion, the bizarre hall in the photo was left in a mess. Countless poop candies exploded in a chain reaction under the intense heat. The Rice brothers fled in despair, covering their heads, while the twin-tailed girl, her face smeared with candy and laughing maniacally, brandished even more "Ivan's Staff," eagerly attempting to attack the brothers' buttocks.

"Oh no!"

Ferry covered his mouth with both hands and exclaimed in excitement.

"That's so cool, bro!"

Joe clapped his hands vigorously and shouted, "Look! Teacher Xueyin is collecting more Big Ivans!"

"Ouch."

Xueyin, while looking at the mess in the photo with great interest, said with a slight blush, "Is this a photo that reflects our true appearance?"

"It can't be said to be its true nature."

Ferry chuckled and said with a cheerful expression, "But it can indeed make appropriate eye extensions for some 'tendencies'."

In other words~

Ferry blinked and said with a grin, "Miss Xueyin, you probably never intended to pretend from the beginning, did you?"

"Hehe, after all, I can easily swallow that kind of candy, so you probably wouldn't believe me if I said I was a lady from a respectable family."

The planet-level idol grinned and said mischievously, "Speaking of those two, shouldn't they have finished eating their shit by now?"

Before the words were finished, two figures silently appeared at the entrance of "Strange and Unusual," accompanied by a series of—

"Ugh—!!"

"Ugh—!!"

Chapter 2761: The End