Grudge Breaker

Chapter 345: Bait in the Game
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Inside the Luanfeng tent, Li Qingshui's pair of arms as smooth as lotus roots were wrapped around Shu Xinglong's neck, her voice was melodious and full of spring love.

But then one could hear the creaking sound of mechanisms deep in the dome, and a giant wooden sandalwood snake snaked out from the roof. Its body was covered with distinct layers of scales, all inlaid with mortise and tenon joints. On the edges of its scales hung circles of fine silver needles, the needle tips were black, and it was obvious that they were poisoned.

The giant snake swam and hovered, and finally hovered three feet above the sandalwood table beside the Luanfeng bed. The prismatic crown on the snake's head bounced up with a "click", and one of the snake's eyes began to spin with the sound.
The sandalwood table, which was originally empty, seemed to sense something. The yin and yang of the Tai Chi diagram in the middle of the table opened up, and an exquisitely carved sandalwood lotus platform rose from it and headed towards the snake head.

"Click."

The spinning snake eye gently fell onto the sandalwood lotus platform. Upon closer inspection, it was a golden ball with the Chinese character "螣" engraved on its surface. It was about the size of an egg, with fine patterns on the ball, and clearly had a mechanism.

In the spring night tent, Shu Tinglong obviously heard the noise, and the intense enthusiasm in his eyes gradually faded, returning to a deep pool. He released his grip on the small cherry-colored mouth in front of him and leaned over to lift the curtain.

"Taki..."

Li Qingshui stretched out her beautiful legs and hooked them around the man's strong and narrow waist. Her eyes moved around with a hint of red at the corners of her eyes.

Shu Xinglong twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, leaned over again and pecked her lips lightly, then stood up neatly without any reluctance. Behind him, Li Qingshui's eyes gradually became resentful.

"The appearance of the Teng Snake must be related to that bitch. What's so good about her that makes him care so much about her!"

"He always lied to me that he wanted to trade, but after all this time, I still didn't see who he was going to trade with! Besides, shouldn't the best trading opportunity be the time when he was kidnapped to the ghost market? Men are really bad. They haven't even finished their bowls yet, but they're already thinking about the pot!"

Li Qingshui secretly complained in his heart, and seeing Shu Tinglong staring at the paper taken out of the golden ball, his back became more and more chilling, so he casually wrapped himself in his outer robe and stood up.

"Brother Taki, is there something urgent?"

Shu Tinglong leaned his head closer to take a look, crumpled up the paper in his hand and threw it into the open Tai Chi diagram on the sandalwood table. There was a sudden sound of metal biting inside, and one knew without even looking that the "information" had been completely destroyed.

"Gu Cangyue is in Sikong Mansion right now."

Shu Xinglong's voice was low, and his expression could not be clearly seen from the side, but it still made people feel depressed.

……

"What? That madman would actually give up the cloud cocoon?"

Li Qingshui was indeed surprised.

Yunjian can avoid all tracking, so even though Cangyue Mansion is full of spies, there has been no news about him for a long time. What on earth could have blown him out? Thinking that it was the mechanical beast "Teng Snake" that came to deliver the information, Li Qingshui curled his lips.
"That girl is also in Sikong Mansion, right?"

Li Qingshui noticed that Shu Tinglong secretly clenched his hands half-hidden in his robe sleeves after hearing this. Although he did not hear his personal response, he had already guessed about 60% of the answer in his heart.

Yes, who else but her could make that madman and this dog-like man in front of her who could never keep her heart warm so much care about her.

"I knew it!"

Li Qingshui turned around angrily and tried to leave, but Shu Tinglong grabbed her wrist.

"Find an excuse to go to Sikong Mansion. No, you don't need to find an excuse, just go."

"……What did you say?"

Li Qingshui was so angry that his lungs ached. He knew without asking why this "arrangement" came about.

"Don't understand? I want you to go to Sikong Mansion immediately to deliver medicine to her. If Song Weichen dies now, it will affect the transaction and ruin my plans!"

Shu Xinglong didn't notice Li Qingshui's emotions at all. Xu noticed it, but didn't care.

In comparison, the few words on the paper made him even more nervous.

The informant had obviously seen Song Weichen. "Injury to the internal organs, loss of blood and exhaustion, caused by the Mad King." These words were particularly glaring to him. The girl must not die now, otherwise the things that had been brewing in the magic array of the Mind Pond for many days would be completely useless. Wouldn't it be a waste of years of hard work? He could not allow such a thing to happen!

Feeling that Li Qingshui beside him did not move at all, he glanced over with a hint of resentment, and saw that she was holding back tears, with her nose and eyes red, looking like a pear blossom covered in frost and rain. His heart softened, and he held the porcelain doll in his arms again.

"Shui'er, listen." "I am the hunter and she is the bait. As a hunter, I should take good care of the bait and keep it alive before luring out the beast. Don't you agree?"

Li Qingshui gave him a tearful look.
"I'm afraid the hunter will be too concerned about the bait, and won't be willing to put it down when the beast comes!"

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"Silly words."

Shu Tinglong's eyes darkened, and he pulled Li Qingshui's shoulders to make her look at him.

"The letter from Sikong Mansion said that Gu Cangyue and Mo Tingfeng have been alone together for a long time and must be plotting something. Unfortunately, with so many barriers between them, our people are unable to find out the truth. If you find an opportunity, try to find a way to test it out."

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After some persuasion, Li Qingshui left without saying anything more. The room suddenly became quiet, like a huge wooden underground palace with no sign of life.

Shu Tinglong picked up the scattered golden balls in the wooden lotus seat and pressed them lightly. The fragments interlocked with each other, turned and twisted, and restored themselves in an instant.

After stuffing it back into the snake's eye, the giant wooden sandalwood snake "came back to life" and swam back to the dome, disappearing in a moment.

The sandalwood desk had been restored to its original state at some point; even the Tai Chi pattern that could open had disappeared, and the entire tabletop was smooth and seamless.

Shu Xinglong put his slender fingers on the table, touched the edge and lifted it up, and it turned out to be a mirror.

There was a secret compartment in the table. He casually took out something from it and placed it in front of his eyes. Then a face wearing a mica bird beak mask appeared in the mirror - if it weren't for his ink-black hair, he would be exactly the same as Gu Cangyue in appearance and appearance.

"Gu Cangyue, you are not naive enough to think that adding Mo Tingfeng can change the ending, right?"

"He is also in the game and is also the bait. Don't you feel it at all?"

"Idiot! Don't get too close to the bait, or other hunters will think you're bait too. It's not a pity that you die, but don't get me involved at the wrong time."

"Don't struggle. Not only the position of the main soul, but also that girl, I'm going to take it all."

"Gu Cangyue, tsk, this really makes me angry, what on earth are you talking about with Mo Tingfeng?"
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"Please recall carefully where this contaminated dream bud came from?"

Sikong Mansion, Xisui Hall.

Mo Tingfeng placed the purple dream bud taken out from Gu Cangyue's eyes on the wine plate and looked at it carefully. It seemed that it had been away from the body for too long. The spider-leg-like filaments on the bud had withered, and it looked weak, helpless and harmless.

"Are you sure that the Dream Weaving Department is not secretly controlled by Shu Tinglong?"

Gu Cangyue didn't say anything, but just picked up the dream bud, as if he was playing with a purple crystal. As he twisted it, suddenly a magical power was released from his fingertips, and the dream bud immediately dissipated into a wisp of purple mist and disappeared.

After it had completely dissipated, he put his finger to his nose and sniffed carefully. After confirming again and again, he looked at Mo Tingfeng seriously.
"not him."

"If he was involved in this, even if he didn't do anything, as long as his consciousness and thoughts were related to this matter, I could sense it through the method I used just now, but there is not even a trace of that evildoer's soul aura, it definitely couldn't be him."

who can that be?

Gu Cangyue picked up the wine glass and stared at his blurry reflection in the glass in a daze - after taking over the Dream Weaving Department, he deliberately replaced all the people in the core positions. The "fetal warehouse" where dream buds are stored is the top priority, and he added many more people to ensure that they are all his own people.

To be on the safe side, he was the only one who went into the fetal warehouse to pick dream buds. He randomly picked a dream bud that he liked, and the whole process was not done by anyone else - how could he have picked the problematic one among such a huge number of dream buds?

Moreover, as the director of the Dream Weaving Bureau, all dream buds are under his control. How could he be controlled by this dream bud in reverse without knowing it?
What exactly is the problem?
Could it be that the evil creature Shu Xinglong chose it for him when he had completely lost his mind?
Do not,
impossible.

Gu Cangyue immediately rejected this idea. If that was the case, even if he didn't remember, the dream bud would definitely be tainted with the aura of Shu Tinglong's spirit, and it would be impossible to get nothing with the previous method.

So this dream bud must have been chosen by him.

Is it...