Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 661 Meeting Like-minded People

Yun Shili recognized Yuwei's voice, so after a brief moment of surprise, he immediately replied, "Wow~ you're finally talking again? Why didn't you say anything when I asked you about that spine a couple of days ago?"

"Since I can't answer you, I'm just ignoring you," Yuwei said matter-of-factly.

"Huh?" Yun Shili pondered these words for a moment, then asked, "Your 'cannot answer' doesn't mean 'I don't know,' right?"

Yun Ge's logic is sound. If Yu Wei didn't know what was so special about this spine, she wouldn't have let Yun Ge take it in the first place. So, the phrase "cannot answer" here probably doesn't mean she doesn't know, but rather that it's inconvenient to say.

“Let me put it this way…” Yuwei’s next words confirmed Yun Shili’s guess, “There are some things that I can only tell you when the time comes. If I tell you too early, it will plant the seeds of karma and then produce the fruits of karma… In the end, we will both have to pay for them.”

Yuwei's words can be summarized as "Heavenly secrets cannot be revealed," so Yun Shili didn't want to dwell on it.

Yun Ge was a pragmatic person. After hearing this, he only thought for a few seconds before replying, "Alright... So, the fact that you're reminding me not to fall asleep now means that something 'would' be about to happen?"

“Yes,” Yuwei replied.

"Sigh... well, then tell me." Yun Shili replied listlessly, having already put on his boots and gotten off the bed.

His current state is like someone who has just lain down to sleep, only to receive a call from their company asking them to work overtime all night. It would probably be better to just get up in one go than to sleep a few more minutes.

Yuwei's next sentence also went straight to the point: "This inn is haunted."

"Oh..." Yun Shili's face didn't show any panic after hearing this. He simply responded and then said, "So, judging from this... is this ghost coming for me?"

“It wasn’t specifically targeting you,” Yuwei replied. “Besides… there’s more than one kind of ghost.”

"Heh...I see..." Yun Shili nodded, then put on a "I'm done" expression. "Then let me double-check...you're not one of the groups, are you?"

“I am a demon, not a ghost,” Yuwei denied.

"Oh," Yun Ge replied emotionlessly, then added, "So, I can just run away right now, okay?"

Yuwei was not surprised by Yun Shili's answer, but she continued to ask, "Aren't you going to do anything about it?"

"Ha..." Yun Shili almost laughed in anger, "I say, my lady, we Embroidered Uniform Guards arrest people for the Emperor, not catch ghosts for the common people. Is this any of my business?"

"Okay." Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Yuwei immediately added, "Then you can run away."

"Huh?" Yun Shili thought that since the other party had come out to tell him all this, it meant that things were not so simple. That's why he used the seemingly complaining "Is it any of your business?" to give Yu Wei a starting point and get her to say why he had to get involved.

Yuwei didn't argue with Yun Shili at all. After just one round, she gave up trying to persuade him and went "out of contact" again after saying "Then run away." Yun Shili asked her several more questions, but she didn't answer.

Then Brother Yun is stuck at the end of the line. Now he can't run away, and he can't stay still either.

Fortunately, his ability to withstand pressure and his thick skin when faced with embarrassment are both top-notch. He quickly sighed and gave himself a way out: "Sigh... never mind, I'll go take a look. If I can manage it, I will. If I really can't... I can always slip away later."

This sentence can be seen as talking to himself, or it can be seen as being said to Tamao, and it doesn't matter whether the latter replies to him or not.

Yuwei wasn't intentionally joking with Yun Shili. Seeing that he had agreed to take care of it, she spoke again: "Then go and take a look at the best room on the southernmost side of the building upstairs."

"Wow, you even know which room the ghost is in?" Yun Shili complained, but he didn't stop walking. Before he could finish speaking, he had already left the room.

Yun Ge is beyond reproach in this regard. He values ​​efficiency in everything he does. Once he decides to do something, he doesn't let complaints interfere with his actions.

In less than a minute, he had already made his way to the corridor in front of the superior room upstairs.

At this moment, the innkeeper and waiter were still eating melons in the lobby, so no one noticed that this "poor wretch" was wandering around the inn.

Of course, even if the shop assistants didn't go to watch the excitement, with Brother Yun's professional skills as a member of the Imperial Guard, it would be a piece of cake for him to search around without being discovered.

"Hiss... This noise... Is someone writing?" After arriving at his destination, Yun Shili didn't rush to poke at the window or anything. Instead, he stood at the door and listened to the sounds inside, muttering this to himself.

Unexpectedly, he had only listened for less than half a minute...

"Who? Who's outside the door?" A man's voice suddenly rang out from inside the house.

This surprised Yun Shili a bit, because he had kept his footsteps and breathing quiet when he approached the room; although he hadn't been trying very hard to keep quiet, he had just used some basic stealth skills, but this level of "silent walking" should still be something that ordinary martial arts nobodies could detect.

Thinking of this, Yun Shili immediately reacted: the next second, he kicked open the door with a "bang" and strode into the guest room.

His original intention was to catch the other party off guard by using this action of "not only not running away after being discovered eavesdropping, but also rushing out to take the initiative."

But judging from the results... he seems to have misunderstood something.

Upon entering the room, Yun Shili discovered that the person inside was not a martial arts master, but a middle-aged scholar who showed no signs of martial arts training whatsoever.

This Confucian scholar's appearance is also quite typical: he wears a square scarf on his head, a jade-embroidered robe, a silk sash around his waist, and black leather boots on his feet. Moreover, he has grown three strands of beard at a young age... Basically, he looks exactly like the stereotypical image of an ancient pedantic Confucian scholar that we modern people have of him.

However, there was one thing that Yun Ge misjudged: the scholar was actually not yet "middle-aged," but his appearance made him look old.

In fact, this scholar was only a few years older than Brother Yun, not even forty.

"You...you...you...this is in broad daylight..." The scholar was so frightened when Yun Shili suddenly rushed into his room that he fell off his chair and sat down on the ground. Then he stared at the other man with wide eyes and began to stammer nonsense.

But when he mentioned "in broad daylight," he seemed to remember that there was no sunlight outside, so he obsessively swallowed his words.

Squeak—Bang!

Seeing the other party's reaction, Yun Shili initially judged that this person was not acting, but he did not lower his guard because of this. He simply kept his eyes fixed on the scholar and closed the door behind him with very steady and quick movements.

"What are you talking about? This is an official case, don't make a fuss." After closing the door, Brother Yun's tone and voice had already switched to his "office-like" manner.

He deliberately used this official tone because he saw that the other party really looked like an ordinary person, so he wanted to use his "official" identity to intimidate the other party and stabilize the situation first.

But the scholar's next words once again surprised Yun Shili.

"You...you're a member of the Embroidered Uniform Guard?"

Yun Shili only said that he was an "official," but the other party pointed out his identity as a member of the Embroidered Uniform Guard without even thinking. Combined with some of the previous abnormalities, Yun Shili was increasingly unable to understand this person's situation.

"Who said I'm a member of the Embroidered Uniform Guard?" Yun Shili's expression immediately turned cold, and he pressed on, "Why would you think I'm a member of the Embroidered Uniform Guard?"

His questions were also very careful, and he didn't make any definitive statements, leaving room for him to deny that he was a member of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

The Confucian scholar was now on the verge of wetting himself from Yun Shili's imposing aura: "Come...come to arrest me...but...but aren't you the Embroidered Uniform Guard?"

"Oh?" Upon hearing this, Yun Shili's keen criminal intuition instantly detected a different kind of scent.

"You're quite self-aware, aren't you?" So, having come this far, Yun Shili stopped hiding his identity as a member of the Embroidered Uniform Guard and instead used this ambiguous remark to try and trick the other party.

The scholar was indeed fooled: "My lord, I know my crime..." As he spoke, he skillfully changed from a sitting position to a kneeling position, "I only beg you to show leniency!" He paused noticeably at this point, then inexplicably hummed in agreement, and added, "Uh... if there is anything I can do to help, please don't hesitate to ask, my lord."

eccentric.

For some reason, even though the scholar's words and actions didn't seem fake, there was still a strange feeling about him.

Yun Shili couldn't explain why for a moment, but his years of experience in handling cases and his intuition told him that the person in front of him must have some secret that he hadn't yet figured out.

Just as Yun Shili was gazing at the other person, pondering and hesitating... his gaze suddenly caught something else.

At first, Yun Shili thought he was seeing things, but when he concentrated and looked more closely, he discovered that there was a faint, floating figure in the shadows behind the scholar, which was hard to see if you didn't look carefully.

"That's right, I'm here to catch ghosts." At this moment, Yun Shili suddenly realized.

The scholar's various "strange" behaviors, including his ability to sense someone outside the door despite having no martial arts skills, and his halting speech as if he had been given a hint that "begging for mercy is useless, bribery is necessary," all point to one fact...

"Could this be the legendary 'Stand users attract each other'?" Two seconds later, Yun Shili murmured a sentence he had heard from Sun and Huang before.

At first, he didn't understand what that meant, so he asked again, and Sun Yixie explained it to him, but he still didn't understand.

But now, he seems to understand a little...