The disciple of Yue Lao

Chapter 256: A Game within a Game
Bai Yu cast a spell to heal Xia Yu for half an hour, but found that Xia Yu was crying silently.

"Junior sister..." Bai Yu wiped her tears and comforted her, "Don't worry, Senior Brother will definitely catch the man in black. Don't worry."

"Senior Brother..." Xia Yu hesitated to speak. She really didn't know how to tell Bai Yu. She just kept crying.

"What's wrong? Tell me slowly..." Bai Yu thought about it and felt very strange. He suddenly asked Xia Yu: "When something like this happened, your second and seventeenth brothers were not by your side to help you? What happened?"

When the God of Land found Bai Yu and delivered the message, Bai Yu knew that this matter must be complicated. He was quite far away from Xia Yu. Why would Xia Yu go to him for help when he encountered problems?
"Senior Brother Seventeen...is missing..." Xia Yu choked.

"Second Senior Brother..."

As Xia Yu spoke, she exhaled another breath of "fairy air" and her eyes were filled with tears.

"Little Junior Sister, let Senior Brother take a look."

Bai Yu stopped Xia Yu from continuing speaking, raised his hand and cast a spell on Xia Yu's forehead.

Xia Yu knew that Bai Yu was checking her memory, so she closed her eyes and tears rolled down her cheeks.

After reading it, Bai Yu put away the spell. However, there was not much useful information in Xia Yu's memory, because Xia Yu himself was the one who was kept in the dark.

"Little junior sister!"

Li Jian rushed over and saw Xia Yu injured. It seemed that he was in several times more pain than Xia Yu.

"Big brother."

Li Jian also politely saluted Bai Yu.

When Xia Yu saw how distressed Li Jian was for her, she couldn't feel happy at all and closed her eyes and didn't want to look at him.

"Junior sister..." Li Jian squatted down, leaning close to Xia Yu, and apologized repeatedly: "I'm sorry, Second Senior Brother is late. After I solved several messed up marriage lines in [Neon City], I found some in other places, so I went a little further away. When I heard the message from the land god, I rushed back immediately, but I didn't expect to be a step late..."

"Fortunately, Senior Brother is here." Li Jian said with a look of "gratification".

Xia Yu was sitting on the ground at this time, Bai Yu was on her right and Li Jian was on her left.

As if feeling that sitting on the ground would dirty Xia Yu's clothes, Li Jian considerately cast a spell to produce a cushion and let Xia Yu sit on it.

Xia Yu looked at the extra cushion under her butt, then turned to look at Li Jian, stared at him for a minute, then cried to Li Jian: "I went to many places, but when I got untied in front, someone would pull red strings behind me. So I went around several nearby cities, as if someone was deliberately playing a trick on me."

"Second brother, do you know who that person is?" Xia Yu asked with a lonely look.

Hearing this, Li Jian suddenly seemed to have an epiphany. He looked at Bai Yu and then asked Xia Yu firmly, "Is it Yan Lan?"

Xia Yu didn't expect Li Jian to say Yan Lan's name so directly, and didn't know how to answer for a moment.

"It's her." Bai Yu continued.

Xia Yu also became excited, staring at Li Jian with tears in her eyes: "You are the one who said that if Yan Lan's spare marriage string is tied to your wrist, she will listen to you; you are also the one who said that you did this for me. So, Second Brother, where did Yan Lan get so many 'universal marriage strings'? Who did she listen to to go against us?"

"Junior sister, don't be angry, listen to me..." Li Jian saw that Xia Yu and Bai Yu were glaring at him. He probably felt that he couldn't explain himself clearly, so he simply waved his hand and cast a spell to recreate his experience.

In the scene, after Li Jian solved the "marriage line disorder" problem in [Neon City], he rushed to various remote places to "save marriages". While Li Jian was working, a man in black suddenly appeared, also wearing a black suit, sunglasses and a mask, and snatched a bunch of "universal marriage lines" that Li Jian had just recovered.

Li Jian fought with him, but he couldn't beat Li Jian. Li Jian lifted up his mask and sunglasses and found that he had turned into Li Jian's own appearance.

The fight became more intense, and only two Li Jians were seen fighting each other. In the end, the man in black was defeated by Li Jian and was forced to restore his true appearance under Li Jian's relentless pursuit...

It's Hua Chang Yi!

The face of the man in black changed from Li Jian's to Hua Changyi's.

Then Li Jian was shocked and stunned. The man in black successfully escaped.

Seeing this, the reappearance of the scene ended. Xia Yu was stunned after watching it, and Bai Yu also looked incredulous.

"Big Brother, Little Sister, since I used Yan Lan's backup marriage string to control her to listen to me, how could I let her sabotage my work? What's more, Little Sister, you also know that the backup marriage string on her wrist was tied by me. I knew that you would suspect me at the first moment, so would I be so stupid as to do such a thing?" Li Jian explained very aggrievedly.

"Really?" Xia Yu still confirmed with Li Jian carefully.

Seeing Xia Yu give in, Li Jian pretended to be angry and said, "Junior sister, the facts are in front of us. Junior brother Seventeen deceived us and changed his appearance to make trouble everywhere. You don't believe me but instead suspect me? At that time, I only told you and Seventeen about this matter. I didn't expect that he would change his appearance to me to instruct Yan Lan. But junior sister, you should believe me if you know me as you do..."

"I..." Xia Yu was so anxious that she just kept crying.

Both Li Jian and Hua Changyi were senior brothers whom she trusted very much. She could not accept if either of them deceived her.

But now she saw with her own eyes that the person who deceived her was Hua Changyi.

Bai Yu was standing next to Xia Yu, but he secretly patted Xia Yu's back. Then, he said to Li Jian in a similarly angry tone, "This Seventeenth Junior Brother actually dared to betray Heaven and Master. When I catch him, I will never let him off easily!"

Xia Yu felt Bai Yu's actions, and she understood what Bai Yu was hinting at: he... didn't believe Li Jian.

But Second Senior Brother recreated those scenes, and the culprit who appeared in them was indeed Seventeenth Senior Brother.

Could it be possible... that the reproduced image could also be faked?
Thinking of this, Xia Yu felt even more distressed, because it meant that the mastermind behind this was either Li Jian or Hua Changyi.

If the scene just reproduced was fake, then the one who did it was Li Jian; otherwise, it was Hua Changyi.

"Big Brother, Little Sister, you have all worked hard. Let's go back and eat something, and then discuss carefully what to do next." Li Jian said as he helped Xia Yu stand up.

"Second Junior Brother." Bai Yu also stood up, took Xia Yu's hand and put it in Li Jian's hand, and instructed: "Young Junior Sister does not have the 'Marriage Bracelet' with her, so her magic power is weakened. She has been working for so long and has consumed a lot of magic power. She was hit by the man in black, so she really needs a good rest. You take her back and take good care of her. I will go and check the whereabouts of Junior Brother Seventeen."

"Don't worry, big brother." Li Jian responded.

However, Xia Yu grabbed Bai Yu's sleeve with one hand, somewhat reluctant to let him go.

if……

just in case……

What if it was really her second senior brother who was lying, then once the eldest senior brother left, she would be left alone with her second senior brother.

Ninth Senior Brother also never returned, and now she was becoming more and more panicked.

"Don't worry, little junior sister. Second junior brother will protect you." Bai Yu also looked at Xia Yu firmly and patted Xia Yu's hand, as if he wanted to reveal something to her with his eyes.

Xia Yu reluctantly let go of her hand.

Bai Yu patted Li Jian on the shoulder and said with emotion: "Second Junior Brother, I feel most relieved that you are protecting Junior Sister. Be careful and take care of each other."

"Yes." Li Jian replied.

"Little Junior Sister, Second Junior Brother, take care. I am leaving now."

After Bai Yu finished speaking, he turned around and disappeared into a wisp of white smoke.

In fact, he just had some doubts in his heart, but he was not sure.

The spell that recreates a scene that has already happened cannot be faked, but if that scene is designed, it is just a reproduction of the plot at that time.

It's not that Bai Yu is targeting Li Jian. It's mainly because he has witnessed Hua Changyi's style of doing things and Li Jian's style of doing things for tens of thousands of years. The two of them have been fighting openly and secretly in private. If the culprit is really Hua Changyi, Li Jian can't be so calm now and still bear not to report him to the Heavenly Court.

However, as the eldest senior brother, Bai Yu couldn't trust anyone without evidence. If the scene recreated by Li Jian with magic was not irrefutable evidence, then he could only find Hua Changyi and confront him.

Bai Yu used a good trick of "letting the dog watch the meat" by arranging Li Jian to protect Xia Yu. If Xia Yu got injured, it would be Li Jian's failure to protect him well.

(End of this chapter)