CH 81

Bai Xiaoyao pondered.

Emotionally, she was inclined to believe her senior brother’s words.

But her intuition told her that things weren’t so simple.

(It could be just a difference in perspective… Perhaps my senior brother really only thought he had done something insignificant, but it meant something else to others…)

At this moment, she also looked resentfully at the black eyeball on the screen.

Why doesn’t it have the power to read minds now?

And why does it feel like her senior brother has such a low probability of being affected? The only time it happened, it was just an inconsequential remark?

Could it be that her senior brother is actually controlling the mind-reading ability of this eyeball?

This thought crossed her mind, and Bai Xiaoyao’s gaze towards her senior brother became somewhat doubtful.

If the mind-reading power was orchestrated by her senior brother, and the previous incident of her senior brother being read was just an intentional act to make himself appear less special…

(No, no, why am I doubting my senior brother like this… Moreover, if it’s my senior brother, he would definitely not use such a simple trick.)

Recalling her senior brother’s careful actions during these days, Bai Xiaoyao felt that she might be overthinking.

Since that night when she heard her senior brother’s analysis of the situation in the royal city, she increasingly felt that her senior brother was hiding something deep and unfathomable.

Despite being with her senior brother every day, she never knew when he collected so much information about the royal city, and even had clues about the hidden secrets and various events in the city.

She also found it difficult to imagine who could be the mastermind behind the scenes, playing chess in the royal city with her senior brother.

However, when she thought back to that night, uncontrollably, images of herself wearing the modified immortal attire, standing in front of her senior brother in the black silk garment he made, flashed through Bai Xiaoyao’s mind.

Her cheeks blushed slightly.

[Well… I should put that immortal attire and the others in the wardrobe and seal them for now. I shouldn’t… wear them for a while……]

Her inner thoughts came to a halt.

Because the eye was gazing at her.

On the screen, her unfinished inner thoughts drifted slowly.

In an instant, Bai Xiaoyao’ face blushed crimson.

As she looked at the words floating on the screen, Bai Xiaoyao’s head buzzed, and for the first time as the Demon sect famous  “Demoness,” she felt a blankness in her mind.

“The others?”

She heard a hint of confusion in her senior brother’s voice.

At this moment, she didn’t dare to look at her senior brother’s expression. She stared at her own toes, her voice barely audible.

“S-Senior… Brother… Xiaoyao suddenly remembered that she still has to cultivate today, so… she’ll take her leave…”

Her voice was very soft, even Luo Wusheng with his Golden Core cultivation found it difficult to hear clearly.

Before her words could even fully land, she hurriedly left. Her steps were slightly chaotic, and with her Foundation Establishment perfection cultivation, she nearly stumbled at the entrance.

Leaving only Luo Wusheng alone in the hall, he watched the direction in which his junior sister had departed, and rubbed his chin.

Did she just self-destruct?

(The immortal attire mentioned by Bai Xiaoyao should be the one from the night before yesterday? And she mentioned “the others,” meaning she has other styles? But why seal them away?)

And what’s so special about this matter? Why did his junior sister react so strongly? Could it be that there are some inappropriate styles inside?

Luo Wusheng suddenly became curious about what his junior sister’s secret little wardrobe contained.

“Phew… I finally made it through smoothly.”

Although he didn’t know what his junior sister had thought of, judging from the extent of her shaken state, it would take some time for her to recover.

If similar situations arise in the future, would it be effective to bring up his junior sister’s hidden wardrobe?

Ahem, he was a righteous senior brother and couldn’t do such a thing.

Anyway, since his junior sister has also returned to her room, at least the crisis of his image collapse today is completely over.

Feeling that his eyelids no longer had the desire to twitch, Luo Wusheng nodded in satisfaction.

But if his junior sister recovers, she will definitely go and probe Little Yuli, right?

Miss Sword Fairy would also keep her own death event hidden. In this matter, she and Luo Wusheng were in it together.

Even if the little girl’s own strength is low, she will surely protect what she needs to protect.

Putting this matter aside, Luo Wusheng began to contemplate the true intention behind Yao Ji’s visit today.

(Yesterday, she declined my invitation, but today she appeared again… It’s unlikely that she had planned this from the beginning. But the only event that occurred around that time was me suppressing the rat demon…)

(Because I suppressed the rat demon, what purpose does she have for me? And during our conversation, she seemed to have gained something else, to the point where completing that purpose didn’t matter anymore?)

What happened back then?

Right, it was after the time when the maid Xiao Guai almost had her true identity exposed through mind-reading that she suddenly changed her attitude.

Luo Wusheng recalled the question asked by the courtesan before she left.

(She seems to have knowledge about the upcoming chaos in the royal city… Could she really be the mortal incarnation of the Empress?)

After some speculation, Luo Wusheng found himself uncertain again.

The identity of this courtesan was truly elusive.

Unable to come to a conclusion, Luo Wusheng turned his attention to today’s greatest contributor.

The small eyeballs continued to slowly rotate on the screen.

The eye seemed uninterested in everything when there was only Luo Wusheng present. Even though Luo Wusheng had contemplated numerous events just now, it couldn’t be enticed to convert those inner thoughts into bullet comments.

“This is quite a good thing.”

A faint smile appeared on Luo Wusheng’s lips.

The low-grade version of the Death Reading Mind technique had a frighteningly high probability of triggering the death point. It was simply brutal.

But the indiscriminate bombardment and lack of control were somewhat chilling…

His gaze shifted downward.

In the image displayed on the screen, Long Dahai and Gao Shi, who were locked in a small black room, lay on a cubic platform, looking confused.

……

“Long Dahai, when do you think we can get out of here?”

On the white platform, Gao Shi, dressed as a diviner, turned his head to look at Long Dahai, who was lying beside him.

“I don’t know… Maybe we can get out once Senior Luo regains control of this special artifact…”

Long Dahai’s gaze was somewhat distant.

Why did things turn out like this?

It’s completely different from what he imagined.

He couldn’t quite tell whether his senior brother, Luo Wusheng, did this accidentally or deliberately, bringing the two of them into this world.

It shouldn’t be deliberate, right? After all, he came to help with good intentions…

But the result was being stuck in this empty world with a grown man.

Gao Shi, on the side, gazed at the dark sky. “Long Dahai, are you really not deceiving me? I always feel that Senior Luo’s gaze earlier didn’t seem welcoming to me…”

“In theory, it shouldn’t happen…”

Long Dahai tried to comfort, but it seemed like something got stuck in his throat, and he didn’t continue speaking.

To be honest, he also had a faint feeling about it.