Rescuing the Villainous Boss with a Little Dirty Master

Chapter 181 Something's Wrong with This Villain (21)

After returning to the fork in the road where they had parted ways, Qin Yun and the others searched in the other direction, consciously avoiding the villagers. However, they searched all the way to Uncle Fu's house but still couldn't find Li Hua.

The three of them stood by the wall of Uncle Fu's house, looking at each other in bewilderment.

Wang Wei timidly asked, "Could Li Hua have also been chosen by the mountain god?"

She immediately rejected the idea as soon as she finished speaking.

I don't mean to say Li Hua is ugly, but compared to Jiang Lan, unless the mountain god's aesthetic standards fluctuate wildly, it would be an absolute desecration of Jiang Lan's face.

Banishing her unrealistic thoughts, Wang Wei looked at Uncle Fu's tightly closed door. Qin Yun had already taken a few steps back, then sprinted and leaped onto the wall. Half a minute later, Uncle Fu's door was opened from the inside.

"It doesn't look like anyone lives here permanently."

In just a few short steps, from climbing over the wall to opening the door, Qin Yun had already roughly surveyed the courtyard. In other words, Uncle Fu and Fu Cheng must be living in Fulin Village, a different dimension.

“We wanted to enter this space, and Fu Cheng and the others also wanted to lure us in…” Zhang Sheng paused, then immediately corrected himself, “Oh no, it should be that they wanted to lure Jiang Lan in, and we were just incidental.”

"So how exactly did the mountain god choose Jiang Lan? Fu Cheng said the mountain god hasn't descended for thirty years, isn't that a contradiction?"

Qin Yun pondered Wang Wei's words, "Remember the last line of the dungeon storyline? 'That wasn't the god who protected the village,' but the main quest asks us to find the lost mountain god..."

The three exchanged a glance and said at the same time, "There are two mountain gods!"

Zhang Sheng clenched his right fist and slammed it into his left palm, suddenly realizing, "If the one who chose Jiang Lan is the mountain god we're looking for in the main storyline, then we can just sit back and win."

Li Hua, who had just escaped from the old woman's house, heard these two sentences as soon as she stepped into Uncle Fu's house.

Li Hua: "......"

He closed his eyes, suppressed his emotions, and asked Zhang Sheng in a deep voice, "Jiang Lan has been chosen by the mountain god? Where is he?"

"How could you...?"

Zhang Sheng turned around and saw that Li Hua's clothes and hair were covered with dirt and grass clippings, as if he had rolled around on the ground several times.

Li Hua waved his hand, not intending to go into details about how he got rid of the old woman.

Zhang Sheng was about to tell him what had happened before when Qin Yun interrupted him, "Let's exchange information."

Li Hua glanced at Qin Yun expressionlessly, then raised his chin, signaling them to speak first.

When he heard Jiang Heng disappear on the spot as soon as she put her hand on the tree trunk, he suddenly remembered the unusual little purple flower, but his thoughts were not very clear, so he could only suppress his doubts for the time being.

"So where did you go? We've been looking for you ever since we came down from the mountain."

Li Hua pinched the bridge of his nose, as if he was extremely reluctant to discuss what had just happened, but he still spoke in a deep voice.

“I was looking for clues at Fu Cheng’s house when an old woman invited me to her house, wanting me to marry into her family. I ran away while she was setting up the room.”

Qin Yun, Zhang Sheng, and Wang Wei: "??!"

How did he describe such explosive information in such a calm tone and in such a short sentence?

Wang Wei thought to herself, "Oh wow!" She hadn't expected that this person, who wasn't chosen by the mountain god, would be favored by the villagers.

For a moment, the group couldn't help but feel sorry for him as they looked at his disheveled appearance. They wondered how he had managed to escape and end up in such a state.

Inside the mountain god temple, after Jiang Heng cracked the threshold, he suddenly heard the sound of fabric rubbing together.

The sound must have been produced by the fluttering and friction of the wide sleeves of the robe as the person moved.

It's not Wei Shenglan.

Jiang Heng gripped the flashlight tightly, focusing his gaze on the source of the sound. Although it was still dark in front of him, it didn't stop him from hitting people with the flashlight.

"You are the one they chose for me? You are indeed pure enough."

A clear, ethereal voice rang out, making Jiang Heng momentarily believe she was in a valley. A blurry silhouette lingered a few steps away. Jiang Heng looked up at the top of his head; he didn't have antlers.

"What have you chosen? To be the mountain god's bride? Do you dare to marry him?"

The mountain god glanced at the crack on the threshold again and couldn't help but laugh out loud. "Although I don't need any bride, since you asked, I really dare not."

His temple is too small to withstand even a few acts of human malpractice.

"You didn't need a bride, so why did you bring me here? And why did you make the place so creepy?"

The mist that had been surrounding Jiang Heng suddenly dispersed and then gathered around the mountain god.

The mountain god touched the mist, somewhat helplessly, "They are welcoming you, but you won't listen to me."

"meet?"

This word confused both Jiang Heng and 886. "Welcome?" Under what circumstances would the things surrounding a mountain god need to welcome a human?

"Host, is this mountain god trying to take a roundabout approach? First, lower your guard, then capture your heart, and finally make you willingly agree to the marriage?"

Jiang Heng: "A dignified mountain god need not do that."

886 was amused by his own thought, covered his mouth and chuckled twice, and continued to observe in the consciousness space.

The mountain god beckoned with his finger, and the small purple flower that was originally firmly pinned behind Jiang Heng's ear floated up into the air. After struggling for a few moments, it finally turned into a purple light spot and merged into the mountain god's body.

"They like you very much."

"Those paper effigies?" Jiang Heng's tone unconsciously carried a smile as she recalled the paper effigies climbing through the window and stacked on top of each other.

"That's right, because your soul is pure enough to fight against another version of me."

"Another you?"

Just then, the broadcast sounded in Jiang Heng's mind again.

[Triggering Event: The Mountain God's Avatar]

One day, the Mountain God discovered that the villagers of Fulin Village were becoming increasingly greedy and wanting more and more; they were no longer the simple and honest children he remembered. But out of compassion, he extracted a portion of his divine power to create another version of himself, allowing that other version to protect Fulin Village in his place, while his original self fell into a deep slumber.

Unexpectedly, through the villagers' daily offerings, He began to develop his own consciousness, and because of the villagers' no longer pure desires, the nascent consciousness of His clone was tainted.

When the mountain god awoke, this clone had grown increasingly powerful. Meanwhile, the original body, having lost its offerings over the years, was no longer strong enough to resist and was ultimately trapped in this small mountain god temple.

Dungeon puzzle progress: 55%

Jiang Heng and 886 were completely speechless, never expecting to encounter such a soft-hearted god in the dungeon.

"I can help you, but first hand over my boyfriend."

"Host, Wei Shenglan is right here in this room!" 886 was a little excited, unable to imagine how Wei Shenglan would react upon hearing this.

"I only said that because I knew he was here."

Although the flashlight went out quickly, in those few seconds he had already seen the figure reflected in the window, and he knew the person's build and posture all too well. This was why he didn't look for the person immediately.

Now that they've confirmed the mountain god is on their side, it's not a bad idea to take advantage of Wei Shenglan.