The King of Curses

Chapter 325 Yi Qingyan's admirers

He was now sitting in the little girl's boudoir, and they were the only ones in the room, staring at each other.

Perhaps for this reason, Chen Jiu looked uneasy.

"Do you feel it?"

The young snail girl sat upright on a chair, her hands with sharp nails placed neatly on her knees, just like the state of students when school leaders came to check on the class; the cartilaginous tail thorn extending from the end of the spine swayed behind her skirt.

After hearing Cen Dongsheng's question, Chen Jiu shook his head.

"His 'gaze' is still on me. It hasn't left. However, there has been no movement for a while."

The Paradise Feast gathered most of the top-notch spell-control masters from the Chinese region, and without exception, they were qualified to become the future "Ancestors".

Apart from An Zhizhen and Yi Qingyan, Wan Dugu has already fallen into a disadvantage in the battle against the sisters joining forces, and Cen Dongsheng's task is to keep an eye on the remaining two first.

So, he would come here.

Meng Huafan's previous body, the Mirage Master, died, and the two Snail Girls broke free from their restraints one after another. On this Mirage, he only had one clone that he could control smoothly.

All possible means have been used, and the probability of him descending upon Chen Jiu seems to be the greatest.

However, he must have another clone hidden somewhere else. If Meng Huafan was not a person with a strong sense of self-esteem, Cen Dongsheng could not think of any reason why he would stay on the dilapidated Mirage.

And, Meng Huafan had been watching all that Chen Jiu and the snail girls did to break free. If it were Cen Dongsheng, he would not have chosen Chen Jiu as the host.

No matter how much he despised his own creation, he would not take the risk.

"I, I don't know... maybe—"

"Relax."

Cen Dongsheng comforted her. He had no hope for the little girl's plan.

In order to change the subject, he asked an irrelevant question:
"By the way, how old are you?"

Chen Jiu was stunned for a moment, then answered honestly.

"I'm fourteen years old. If I were a normal person, I would be in middle school now."

As expected. From her appearance, you can tell that she is still a child.

"Younger than my sister."

"Miss Yi is Mr. Cen's...sister?"

Little Snail Girl seemed to be somewhat interested in this topic.

"Yes. Did you hear the sound just now?" Cen Dongsheng pointed to the sky, "That was a contest between special-class spell-forbidden masters."

As Meng Huafan's assistant, there was no need to explain what "Special Curse Master" meant. Seeing the snail girl nod slightly, he continued:

“My sister is one of them.”

"..."

There was a look of respect in the little girl's pupils.

"Miss Yi is a few years older than me... If I could possess such a powerful force, I wouldn't be helpless."

After a pause, she continued.

"I've actually heard of her a long time ago."

"is it?"

"Yeah. Just in the last few months."

After Snail Girl One left, Chen Jiu replaced her as Meng Huafan's assistant. This was a career she was interested in, but it didn't mean it wasn't hard work. Meng Huafan didn't care how old the child was. Anyway, she had been transformed into a Snail Girl and would not die of exhaustion in the laboratory. If she couldn't keep up with his pace, he could just find another assistant.

She must work hard to learn and understand, and engrave the knowledge given by Meng into her brain.

As a result of his interest and persistence, Chen Jiu's level improved by leaps and bounds in just one year, from a blank slate to being able to reverse the restrictions imposed on Meng Huafan.

"He occasionally tells me about other special curse masters."

Meng Huafan often invites spell masters from all over the world to visit him. In front of outsiders, he acts "hospitable"; behind their backs, he regards them as cold experimental materials.

How exactly did the curse-breaker obtain the power to violate the laws of nature? This kind of research that traces the origin of the matter interested him a lot.

Some "guests" may even be directly imprisoned and fall into cruel traps;

Some guests are not easy to treat rudely, but important observations can still be gathered from them.

On this basis, Meng Huafan had already had the idea of ​​entertaining other special spell masters.

He knew that they were a group of paranoid and willful "kindred spirits". In order to prevent the wealth he had created from his own hands from being wasted in the hands of others, Meng Huafan made a special reminder.

"Yi Qingyan is the most dangerous person in his eyes."

With the help of a huge intelligence channel, he had already known of her existence before the Battle of Ghost City.

In Meng Huafan's opinion, Yi Qingyan is a madman who is impossible to communicate with and difficult to understand, with an unpredictability that does not match his age and appearance.

She was filled with irrational madness, meaningless brutality and killing. She did not pursue interests, nor did she pursue any belief. She just acted recklessly. This was the most difficult person for him.

"After listening to her, I just felt that...she was very 'free'."

A look of longing appeared on Chen Jiu's face.

"I believe Miss Yi has always been a person who follows her own will, right?"

Cen Dongsheng nodded and replied with a smile:
"She would be very happy if she heard you."

……

Chen Jiu is a strange little girl.

It was the first time he met Chen Jiu since he boarded the ship. The two had met several times, but they were not familiar with each other. Moreover, even her blood relative, her brother Chen Yuan, found it difficult to understand the child's thoughts, and in the end he could only say goodbye to her temporarily.

However, from these few conversations, Cen Dongsheng could still see the girl's personality:

She has a maturity that is not common in her age group. She is strong-willed and opinionated, and will not be shaken by the attitudes of others. She is simply like a "born wise person";
Her only goal is to take back her own life from Meng Huafan, and this can only be accomplished by her own hands.

All of the above make her give people the impression of being "emotionally indifferent".

But Cen Dongsheng suddenly discovered that Chen Jiu had a special concern for his sister.

Maybe it was because after hearing about Yi Qingyan's deeds, he saw in her a quality that did not belong to him but that he longed for; maybe it was simply because Yi Qingyan was someone that even Meng Huafan had to be wary of...

When talking about this high school girl who he was supposed to be a stranger to, the usually calm face of a little adult became lively and he asked the man a lot of questions about her.

A few minutes later, Cen Dongsheng received another message from An Zhizhen.

He replied silently in his heart, feeling that time was running out. So he looked at Chen Jiu again.

"Now, you—"

Before Cen Dongsheng could ask, Chen Jiu seemed to have a premonition of something.

Her expression changed drastically, and she hugged her shoulders with both hands. It seemed as if a chill kept coming, and her thin and petite body began to tremble uncontrollably.

"... Almost there... I can feel... his footsteps are getting closer... He is right in front of me... looking at me..."

(End of this chapter)