Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 562 - Three Hundred and Fifty-Six: Fusion_2

Chapter 562: Chapter Three Hundred and Fifty-Six: Fusion_2

"So, that’s how it is."

Lou Ji nodded slightly with a smile and commented, "Such a blatant exposure is quite ironic..."

Seeing that the other party readily accepted this explanation, Xu Yuan was slightly taken aback:

"You... won’t even ask who that person is?"

"Does it matter?"

Lou Ji glanced sideways and reproached him with a glance before talking to herself:

"Hmm... it seems quite important, indeed. Someone who can come into contact with such matters and still lives after escaping from that place must hold a high status and power within Wanyao Valley."

As she spoke, she raised a finger and gently traced her smooth chin:

"Let sister think, which high-ranking individuals of Wanyao Valley haven’t shown their faces for a long time..."

"Zhang Xingtian...

"Lyu Kongdao...

"Or Yue Yanxun?"

"......"

Xu Yuan took a deep breath and began to panic.

He hadn’t expected this ’auntie’ to be so capable of deduction.

In an instant, she had narrowed the correct answer down to a handful of people.

"Why are you looking at your sister like that?"

Lou Ji stretched languidly in front of him and leaned on his shoulder, laughing softly:

"When one has most of the information, just a key clue is needed to deduce the correct answer."

After a brief pause,

Lou Ji’s voice rose again, soft as a ghostly whisper from hell:

"Of course,

"The main reason is that sister has such places under her control."

"....."

Xu Yuan was startled and glanced over reflexively, meeting her dark, profound green eyes.

A silent gaze.

With a flirtatious smile, Lou Ji laughed, her body trembling slightly, "Changtian, you don’t think your sister here is a good person, do you?"

Xu Yuan was silent for a moment, then laughed softly, looking down:

"Heh... a good person?"

After speaking, he lifted his gaze to hers, saying very seriously:

"What others think, I, Xu Changtian, don’t care.

"As long as you are a good person to me, that’s enough."

"........"

Lou Ji’s smile faded slightly upon hearing this.

Then,

she happily pressed his head into her wicked bosom and, smiling with curved eyes, said:

"Not bad, knew my care for you wasn’t in vain~"

"....."

Every evil shall be harnessed by law.

With the fragrance of flowers from the other shore filling his nose, so Xu Yuan thought.

After furiously tousling his hair for a few moments, Lou Ji gently released Xu Yuan and stood up.

As the warm softness disappeared, Xu Yuan looked up with slight regret.

Lou Ji suddenly turned her head back, meeting his gaze with a smile:

"Hmm...? Seems like our Changtian still wants more?"

Xu Yuan snorted with a laugh, not taking it to heart:

"This level of teasing is nothing to me."

Upon hearing this, interest flickered in Lou Ji’s eyes, and she leaned forward slightly, creating a deep ravine beneath her black drape, tousling his hair:

"It seems sister will have to reward Changtian with something deeper next time~"

Xu Yuan remained unfazed.

One empty promise after another, he wasn’t about to fall for it.

Pausing for a moment, Xu Yuan raised his hand to release hers:

"Sister, aren’t you going to ask who that person is?"

Lou Ji retracted her hand and stood straight, looking down at him:

"It doesn’t matter."

Xu Yuan frowned slightly.

Lou Ji softly explained:

"If that person truly wanted to provide more information about the dens of thousands, sister would probably have received the news before Changtian even mentioned it."

As she said this,

she spread her bare, pale arms to either side:

"But since there isn’t any, it means that person simply couldn’t accept Wanyao Valley’s cruel inhumanity and isn’t really looking to betray Wanyao Valley."

Xu Yuan pointed at himself, unfazed:

"Yet he told me the information."

"Changtian, humans are contradictory and complex,"

Lou Ji said in a lingering tone:

"The evil deeds committed by the Sects do not affect the Sects’ favor towards a person or that person’s affection for those close to him within the Sects.

"To repay the Sects’ favor by not raising a hand against them, yet avoiding them for their evil deeds, and for the sake of one’s own moral compass, leaves a thread of clue."

At this,

Lou Ji suddenly chuckled lightly, "Changtian, sister didn’t describe that person incorrectly, did she?"

"...."

After taking a deep look at the graceful woman in front of him, Xu Yuan licked the corner of his mouth and said in a low voice:

"You didn’t."

"Since I’m right, the other party has already gone into hiding, and it’s inconvenient for sister to look for that person now."

Lou Ji let out a long sigh, speaking with profound meaning, "Changtian, if we don’t look for him, the person might live, but if we do find him, he will certainly die."

"...."

Xu Yuan fell silent.

He suddenly had a feeling that Lou Ji in front of him had, like him, seen the plot of the story.

What Lou Ji meant was not that she would kill the person herself, but that upon meeting her, the Chief of the Black Scale Guards, that person would certainly take his own life.

Even without giving her a chance to interrogate him.

And indeed, as Lou Ji said, in the plot of "Cangyuan Chronicles,"

after the player clears the dungeon of Ten Thousand Pits, Wanyao Valley faces an attack and destruction due to the dungeon.

After all that, upon returning to the person’s place of hiding, the player is presented with a choice upon submitting the task.

To inform the person of the destruction of Wanyao Valley, or to conceal it.

If not informed, that person becomes a friend of the player, available for trade, and even if monsters are drawn to their place of hiding, that person will come forward to help.

If informed, when the player returns to the hiding place next time, all they find is a skeletal corpse.

There’s no revenge, no information, only death to honor the favor owed to the Sects.

At the same time, the player achieves a feat named "Ostrich’s Deception."

If not aware, then it’s as if nothing has happened...

The ostrich that buries its head in the sand.

"Complex people..."

After mumbling to himself, Xu Yuan suddenly felt the urge to meet the person but then thought better of it.

Now that the original protagonist, Qin Mo, is dead, there would be no one else to bother that person.

If by chance he went and the person recognized him, he’d needlessly be responsible for the rather hearty old man’s death.

He didn’t dislike the man, so he decided against it.

"Indeed complex, but also quite common,"

Lou Ji seemed to have become accustomed to such situations, "Not everyone is born purely self-interested, nor are all people callous to human life. On the contrary, many in the Sects are actually bound by self-interest to do things they must, soothing themselves with grand causes like for the sake of humanity, or for the Sects, until they can’t delude themselves any longer, and they end up like the person you mentioned."

Listening to her complex tones, Xu Yuan sipped the Dragon Yan fragrance in his cup:

"Why suddenly bring up so much?"

Lou Ji snorted with laughter and glanced at him, "I just remembered a former comrade-in-arms."

"Comrade-in-arms?"

"An admirer of your father, she used to hold you when you were little, but she wanted to remain neutral on Sect matters and your father ordered her killed. Hmm... sister did it with her own hands."

"...." Xu Yuan’s eyes twitched.

Her tone was casual, but it betrayed the chill of power.

No wonder he’d heard that most of his father’s friends from his generation in Di’an City had been killed by him and the Emperor.

After a quiet moment, Xu Yuan said in a low voice:

"Sister, you’re being rather sentimental."

Lou Ji looked deeply at him and snorted with laughter:

"Heh, sister’s sentimentality is not something just anyone can witness."

With that,

she glanced sideways at the room where Tianyan was:

"There are things, Changtian, that you’d better be mentally prepared for."

Having said that,

Lou Ji ruffled his hair and turned to walk toward the door, swaying her hips lightly as she went.

Xu Yuan was quiet for a moment, then said in a low voice:

"Can I take a look at what’s in that jade bottle?"

Standing at the doorway, Lou Ji paused instinctively, her eyebrows slightly furrowed:

"This stuff is very dangerous, if you’re affected by it, sister here can’t produce an antidote just yet."

Xu Yuan looked into her eyes and said softly:

"Sister, trust me this once."

As he spoke,

Xu Yuan raised his hand as if showing something off, and red, viscous silk roamed around the palm of his hand.

Lou Ji narrowed her beautiful eyes and chuckled softly:

"It seems, Changtian, you want to ask about the spirit charm within your neck? Why not let her out to meet with sister?"

"...." Luo Xiran.