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As soon as Fan Hemian’s question was spoken, everyone’s eyes focused on her.
“Fuck, why didn’t I think of that!”
Mo Tiangen slapped his forehead, quickly took out the wooden token, and then spread his hand in the direction of the crane-shaped candlestick, his palm dangling in the air as if touching someone that no one else could see.
“The young master of your family, his voice…”
He thought for a moment and described.
“Is it a soft, slightly nasally voice that drags a little at the end of each sentence?”
Seeing Mo Tiangen like this, Ji Dong couldn’t help but be curious and remove his wooden token.
As a result, he also saw Zhao’s appearance.
She was indeed an elegant woman with a beautiful face and proper mannerisms. However, her figure seemed illusory as the wall behind was vaguely visible through her body. Looking closely, her body was floating in mid air with the tips of her toes half a finger joint off the ground.
At this time, the woman in white stretched her hand forward, and the translucent fingertip was placed in teacher Dagen’s palm. Her lips opened and closed slightly, as if she was talking, but Ji Dong could not hear her voice.
“Indeed!”
Mo Tiangen nodded repeatedly, then he thought about it and asked again.
“Then… about this hide-and-seek game, what do you know?”
The Fan siblings immediately pricked up their ears, and even Ren Jianmo’s expression gradually became restrained, his gaze moving towards the invisible white clothed lady in the void.
Ji Dong, on the other hand, saw that Zhao’s eyes had widened slightly after listening to Mo Tiangen’s question, seemingly quite surprised, and then her lips moved silently again.
“Okay, now it’s all clear!”
Mo Tiangen “listened” to Zhao’s narration, retracted his outstretched hand, looked around him, and immediately repeated the answer he just heard.
“Zhao said that the young master of the villa does speak softly, and he likes to drag a longer note at the end of each sentence.”
The Fan siblings very tacitly clenched their fists together.
“That’s right. The voice we’ve been hearing must have been that of the little boy!”
“Besides, she also said that the little child used to play hide and seek in the courtyard with the servants and the yard guards. He would supposedly tie a red cloth towel on one of them to be a ‘ghost’, and they had to go find the others, and then pass the cloth towel to the person they caught. Doesn’t that sound like the situation we are in now?”
“Ah! Tell me, is there something wrong with that young master?!”
Fan Luming was so angry after hearing this that he stomped his foot.
“It’s obviously the monsters outside who killed his whole family. It’s fine if he doesn’t take revenge, but he has to torture us innocent passersbys. What is he trying to do?!”
Ji Dong: “……”
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He also held the same question.
In Ji Xiao’niao’s opinion, even if the little master was Ma Liang and the magic brush with an ability to recreate the entire mansion by magic in the painted wall. Then, after he and his family were killed by demons, why did he not retaliate against that group of demons, and instead harassed human participants—this was strange and unreasonable.
With the lessons learned from the previous [Films], where the “King” was also possessed by the little boy Su Lin, Ji Dong had learned to sum up his experience.
The people living in each [Film] were not just NPCs in a video game. They could think independently within their own dimensions, and do what was logical.
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In that case, the key to the matter lied in the little master who got the set of four treasures.
After all, no matter how talented and gifted the young child was, he was just a thirteen or fourteen-year-old ordinary mortal. There was certainly nothing like an immortal realm where one could commune with heaven and earth, manipulating ying and yang, through a single mural drawing.
Even Ma Liang, the magic painter had to rely on the magic brush gifted by immortals to make his wishes come true, to then paint what he wanted into reality ah!
Obviously, not only Ji Dong, but also several other people thought the same way.
At this time, Fan Hemian had already stood up, taken a stride, and rushed to the corner. She picked up the black dog that was wrapped into a tight bundle, and without saying a word; created a wild and violent storm with slashing wind and rain that lasted a while; which shook Chief Yan who kept shouting “Ahhh” “Owhh” loudly and so frequently that he even forgot how to speak.
“Quickly say, where the hell is that set of pen, ink, paper, and inkstone?!”
The sister of the Fan family threatened fiercely:
“Or I’ll peel your skin off and use it as a foot mat!”
Chief Steward Yan was held upside down by the girl, and the whole dog was dizzy. He felt that everything in front of him was spinning.
“What, what… Ouch, what kind of pen, ink, paper and inkstone?”
He was on the verge of crying out, “I, I really, don’t know ah…”
“Is that so?”
Fan Hemian pulled out the dagger tied to her belt, she waved the blade twice in front of it, and said with a fierce smile, “Since you can’t think of it now, I’ll chop your tail off first so that you can think more carefully!”
She raised up the dagger while speaking, and pointed it towards the tail of the black dog.
“No, don’t, don’t. Stop it!!!”
Chief Steward Yan screamed hysterically and miserably.
Are you kidding me! Don’t you know that these demons are different from humans, and their tails are more exquisite and valued than hands and feet.
Just a while ago, that curly haired boy nailed his tail with an arrow, which is equivalent to damaging his accomplishments for a hundred years. If this vicious woman cut his tail off, his path of cultivation will be completely cut off!
“Listen to me! Listen to me!”
He cried out, “I know! I know where the thing you are looking for is!!!”
“Heh.”
Fan Hemian dropped the frightened black dog and ordered in a cold voice:
“Speak up!”
“I, I really, really don’t remember any pens, ink, paper, and inkstone…”
Chief Steward Yan said while warily looking at the cold, shiny blade in the girl’s hand, afraid that she would chop his tail again.
At this point, he did not lie.
In this mansion with a group of mountain spirits and wild monsters, over 90% didn’t know a single Chinese character. Besides, the monsters with some abilities were basically all able to use some minor magic to send information or message, so they usually wouldn’t have any use for writing characters or letters, and it was even less likely for someone to enjoy reading books or appreciating paintings.
——Okay, if you compare the [Film] to a task chain of an RPG game, the “current task” will be to find the treasury full of valuable things.
Ji Dong thought so.
Sure enough, the black dog, who had been worried about his tail, confessed first without waiting for Fan Hemian to speak.
“The storeroom is just behind the main hall! It’s just behind the main hall! There are two guards crouching at the door. It’s easy to find them!”
Chief Steward Yan said, and then cautiously looked at several ferocious humans, and shivered to finish the second half of the sentence.
“No, but, when we were searching for the treasure, we almost turned the whole mansion upside down, and then, then–”
Fan Hemian stretched her foot and stepped on the black dog’s tail, “And then what?”
Chief Steward Yan hurriedly said.
“Then, whatever seemed to be worth some money, we collected and handed it over to Wutongshen!”
He clenched his buttocks, trying hard to shrink his tail in as much as possible.
“The Emperor didn’t find the treasure he wanted in it, so he locked all those things up in the treasury!”
“However, the warehouse is secured by a nine-hole exquisite lock setup by the Emperor. Yes, it is a powerful magic weapon… If there is no key, it is not easy to break the lock. Moreover, if the prohibition of the exquisite lock is touched, it will also alarm the Emperor…”
Fan Hemian raised her eyebrows, her red lips just opened, and before he had time to speak, Chief Yan was very clever and answered immediately,
“The Emperor usually carries the key with him, it’s inlaid in his crown!”
Hearing this answer from Chief Steward Yan, the crowd was silent for a while.
Obviously, in order to find the set of four treasures, which were likely to be the beginning of everything, they must enter the warehouse.
And there were two ways to enter the treasury.
The first method was to break in, which would alarm Wutongshen and a large group of monsters in the house, which was basically equivalent to mass suicide.
The second method was to find a way to get the key from Wutongshen… This was so, it was very difficult!
For almost a minute, no one spoke, and even the black dog held his breath nervously, not daring to take a breath.
“Cough.”
At this moment, a hoarse cough broke the silence.
Ji Dong and others looked at the sound and found that Zhao Zhui had woken up, sitting up from the ground with difficulty since his hands and feet were tied behind him.
“I know… hiss!”
This movement of his immediately put pressure on the arrow wound on the calf, and he couldn’t help gasping for breath, but he still finished the sentence firmly:
“…I know a weakness of Wutongshen’s.”
Seeing his pain-bearing expression, Fan Luming got up and walked to his side, spreading his hands to cover his wounds, pushing his own healing powers to heal his wounds, while the others stared at Zhao Zhui with burning eyes, waiting for him to finish his words.
Zhao Zhui actually awoke as he was being bound by his hands and feet.
But he knew it was useless to struggle, so he simply faced the wall, closed his eyes and pretended to be unconscious, and listened to the others silently.
So of course, he heard all the information about the mansion, and also learned the conversation between Ji Dong and Ren Jianmo about not wanting their lives and planning to cooperate with them.
When he realized that he still had a chance to survive, Zhao Zhui was overwhelmed with surprise, and decided to show his utmost sincerity and tell everything he knew:
“I heard some demons chatting earlier and mentioned that there was a kind of wine brewed by macaque monkey demon in the wine cellar called ‘Thousand Days of Drunkenness’, which is extremely strong and even the Wutongshen would get drunk with just one drink.”
All of them turned their heads together and looked at Chief Steward Yan, asking in unison.
“Is that true?”
“Yes, there is such a wine, and it is indeed strong…”
Chief Steward Yan paused and added with trepidation.
“But this wine…. You can smell the rich fragrance of a hundred fruits, the Emperor, after being drunk once, and he refused to touch it again…”
The implication was that it was impossible for them to trick him into drinking a “Thousand Days of Drunkenness”! So please give up any hope!
Ji Dong: “……”
Honestly, he did feel very frustrated.
He thought he had finally found a shortcut, but it turned out that this method did not work at all.
What’s worse, they were running out of time, and if they didn’t finalize a workable plan, they would probably really be wiped out here.
At this point, Ren Jianmo suddenly spoke up.
“That Thousand Days of Drunkness,” he asked the black dog.
“Are you sure that with just one drink, the Wutongshen will get drunk?”
“Yes, yes!”
Chief Steward Yan hurriedly nodded his head.
“When the macaque monkey demon offered this wine, the Emperor was drunk for a day and a night after drinking one cup, and I was the one who served it!”
“Good.”
Ren Jianmo nodded his head in satisfaction.
“If it’s just one cup, I should have a way to make him drink it.”v
Hahahaha using your charm right JRM? 😏🤭
thank you for the update! 💕☺️
Will he seduce the Emperor?