It's not too much to say that a beauty is a little bit stronger

Lu Yuanshi's gaze also fell on the painting, with a rare seriousness on his face:

"Birth, aging, sickness, and death are all natural processes. But the mural you just saw records a person who has been resurrected from the dead. It seems there is something extraordinary in this world."

When Xiao Huai heard this, his heart moved.

Resurrection from the dead.

Who brought them back to life?

What did you pay for it?

Could that be the source of the pollution?

Xiao Huai was talking to Lu Yuanshi when suddenly, a faint smell of blood drifted into his nose.

He frowned, and a sharp light appeared in his eyes. Like a hound that had caught a key clue, he stepped forward without hesitation.

Without even waiting for Lu Yuan, he walked through the crowd and approached the source of the bloody smell.

The pavilion was still bustling with activity, the sounds of stringed instruments and the clamor of people moving around before one's eyes.

But Xiao Huai's steps were firm and quick, as if everything around him was isolated from him.

His instinct told him that there was something crucial waiting for him to uncover in that direction.

Xiao Huai stopped only when he followed the clues and found a quiet corner.

He tilted his head slightly, glanced around, and suddenly found out——

Lu Yuanshi did not follow.

He's not around.

But based on Lu Yuanshi's personality, he will definitely be able to keep up.

Unless something irresistible happens.

Xiao Huai narrowed his eyes and became a little alert.

He looked around and realized that the surrounding scenery had quietly changed.

This was no longer the hall he was familiar with, but a strange corridor.

The corridor stretched into the endless distance, with countless doors lined up on both sides. Every door was tightly closed, and the wooden door panels seemed to be silently hiding something, bringing with them an indescribable sense of oppression and gloom.

Xiao Huai stopped.

Even if it was a rest room, the corridor wouldn't be so quiet in such a noisy building.

The way we came from disappeared out of thin air, and in its place was this endless corridor.

Not right.

Then, he suddenly heard the sound of a door being slowly opened.

The sound was slow and sharp.

He subconsciously turned his head and was about to find the source of the sound when suddenly, he felt a cold touch from his wrist.

Cold and creamy.

Xiao Huai looked down and saw a slender black snake coiled around his wrist.

The snake scales glowed with a faint cold light. No one knew when it approached, and no one knew where it came from.

Xiao Huai's pupils shrank slightly, and he flipped his wrist and quickly threw the black snake away.

But at the moment he moved, a hand suddenly reached out from the side, accompanied by a chuckle, and a lazy and somewhat playful voice sounded -

"Oh, sorry, I thought you were the girl from this store."

Xiao Huai raised his eyes coldly, his gaze falling on the owner of the voice.

It was a man in a dark robe, smiling with his eyes narrowed.

It seemed as if he was just joking with the girl.

What was striking was that three or four slender black snakes were wrapped around his wrists, with their tongues spitting out cold light, forming a strange contrast with the man's smile.

Xiao Huai's eyes were cold.

Which store has a girl who is over 1.8 meters tall?

Even if your eyesight is poor, you shouldn't be unable to tell whether he is a man or a woman, right?

Not only that, with the appearance of the man, Xiao Huai also smelled a stronger smell of blood.

The smell comes from this man.

The man chuckled, seemingly completely unconcerned with Xiao Huai's indifference.

He slowly opened his eyes.

As he opened his eyes, Xiao Huai also saw the difference in this man.

It can even be said to be an extremely weird place.

There were actually four pupils in the man's eyes.

Each eye has a different color, interwoven with strange light, like a whirlpool in the abyss, which is chilling.

If an ordinary person saw this, they would probably have screamed in shock.

But Xiao Huai just raised his eyes slightly, showing no sign of being frightened.

The man seemed a little surprised when he saw this.

He tilted his head, his smile growing wider: "Strange, you weren't scared by me?"

Xiao Huai looked at him coldly and asked, "Do you want me to be scared? Or are you already used to people being scared when they see your eyes?"

The man was stunned when he heard this, then he laughed out loud, with a hint of approval in his smile.

He leaned forward slightly and saluted Xiao Huai. His movements were strange and exaggerated, as if he was joking, but also as if he was deliberately showing politeness.

"I am Jiang Fu, sorry for the offense."

He raised his head, his eyes gleaming with a deep light, and smiled meaningfully, "May I ask what your name is, sir?"

Xiao Huai looked at him calmly, "Marquis Qinglan."

The air around them seemed to be still for a moment. As the snake shadow moved, Jiang Fu's smile deepened. "So it's the Marquis. I'm sorry for the offense."

Jiang Fu asked with a smile, "Why is the Marquis here? Are you looking for something?"

Xiao Huai looked at him with a calm and sharp gaze, and spoke without hesitation:

"Looking for you."

Jiang Fu's smile froze for a moment, as if he was stunned by this sudden answer.

The expression on his face was one of great surprise, even with a hint of comical seriousness:

"Looking for me? Really?"

He paused, then shook his head gently, frowning slightly, as if he was recalling something: "But... I don't remember knowing you."

"You believe what I say so easily?" Xiao Huai raised his eyelids.

Jiang Fu was slightly startled, then reacted and smiled: "So it was just a joke, the Marquis is really good at making people laugh."

Xiao Huai no longer paid attention to him, walked forward, and said in a cold voice:

"I just went to the wrong place."

The smile in Jiang Fu's eyes gradually deepened, as if he was secretly sizing him up.

His fingers unconsciously fiddled with the black snake wrapped around his wrist. After a moment, he spoke slowly, his tone calm but revealing a hint of ambiguity:

"Sir, that's a dead end. You're going in the wrong direction."

Xiao Huai paused and glanced at Jiang Fu's face, especially his four eyes with different colors.

The moment their eyes met, Jiang Fu still smiled meaningfully, as if everything was under his control.

Xiao Huai withdrew his gaze, turned around expressionlessly, and walked in the direction Jiang Fu pointed.

He still walked calmly and slowly, but there was a hint of coldness in the depths of his eyes.

The scenes on both sides are exactly the same, whether it is the arrangement of the doors, the patterns on the ground, or the subtle sense of oppression in the air, they all seem to be copied and pasted.

A dead end?

Is he telling the truth?

Xiao Huai's figure gradually disappeared in the long corridor.

Jiang Fu still stood there, watching him go away.

He lowered his head and continued to fiddle with the snakes on his wrist. The black snakes seemed to have sensed their owner's emotions and spit out their tongues as they moved around his wrist.

Jiang Fu raised the corner of his mouth and whispered softly as if talking to himself:

"This person's aura is truly pure... He didn't even notice my territory and just walked in so brazenly."

He tightened his fingers slightly, and several black snakes made a slight hissing sound, as if responding to his words.

Jiang Fu narrowed his eyes, his pupils dark and strange, and continued in a low voice: "It seems that things will become more interesting from now on."