Chapter 111: The Disappearance of Oneself

  It turned out that the most dangerous place was actually the safest, and as time passed bit by bit, none of the evil god's minions broke into this room. The evil god who had sparked both curiosity and fear in Rosalie also didn't return here.

  Luosi Qi had been watching Tang Xiaoxia's daze for long enough, so she asked him what this painting meant. Tang Xiaoxia looked at her, his eyes full of sadness. Suddenly, Luosi Qi felt that the thing in his eyes was the same as the bandit in the painting. He whispered to her: "What do you think?"

  "Me?" Rosy didn't know where Tang Xiao Xia's sudden emotions came from, and she looked at the painting again, trying to answer: "Is it that the bandit behind the child has a grudge against his father, and after killing his father, he must also kill the child to eliminate him, but when the bandit saw the child's innocent face, he couldn't bear to do it, so he looked so painful?"

  Tang Xiaxia shook her head and left the painting, no longer looking at it. She sat down in the chair to Luosiqi's right, closed her eyes slightly, and stopped speaking.

  The prolonged silence and unknown fear made Losie feel unbearable all over, although the door of the small cottage had been closed, but she knew that if the evil god really came back, it couldn't stop him for even a minute.

  She took out her phone to check the time again, and it was only a little past 7 o'clock. She hadn't eaten dinner yet, but now that she felt temporarily safe, she started to feel hungry. However, there was no food in this room. She asked Tang Xiaoxiao many questions about tonight, but Tang Xiaoxiao responded with silence until she told him that she was hungry. Only then did Tang Xiaoxiao tell her that he couldn't do anything now, and if she was really hungry, it would be better to sleep. Everything would be fine when it reached 12 o'clock.

  Luosi Qi didn't know what significance the twelve o'clock mentioned by Tang Xiaoxia had, could it be that he had an appointment with someone else at twelve o'clock here and when the time came, there would be companions coming to rescue them?

  Because I'm hungry. And the more I think about it, the hungrier I get. Luosiqi couldn't sleep even if she wanted to, and not only that, but there was no one to talk to her either. The room was so quiet it was terrifying. When she insisted on Tang Xiaoxiao accompanying her in saying something, Tang Xiaoxiao told her it's better not to make any noise, lest they attract the enemy.

  There are still more than four hours until midnight, and she is worried that the evil spirit will come at any time. She doesn't even dare to fall asleep with her eyes closed on the table, and since there's no other way, she starts to recall everything from the moment she woke up in the morning of that day and found herself transported to the Spring and Autumn period until now. Her previous self was always troubled by various things for some reason. Often, one thing hadn't been taken care of yet, another thing would suddenly happen.

  She didn't think she had time to sort out what happened before when she was in such a predicament, it was in this calm that was dug out.

  She and Tang Xiaoxia appeared in Xueyun Valley, Qingyuanzi, who claimed to be pure, told her and Tang Xiaoxia a lot about the universe and time-space, with the central idea that the power of the evil god had become so strong that it was about to eliminate him. The only way to stop the evil god is for her and Tang Xiaoxia to thoroughly activate all seven stones in the Seven-Colored Linglong Stone.

  Among these seven stones, she has thoroughly activated the orange stone symbolizing jealousy and the green stone symbolizing betrayal. After thoroughly activating the orange stone, she felt that her magical powers had increased significantly compared to before. Now that she has also thoroughly activated the green stone, logically speaking, she will possess even stronger magical powers in the Spring and Autumn period. Next, what she needs to do is quickly return to Qingyuanzi's side and ask him which stone she should thoroughly activate next. However, for some unknown reason, she suddenly returned to modern times again. The Tang Xiaoxiao in front of her appeared once more just in time to save her, but he remained mysterious and refused to say anything.

  Luoshiqi met the protagonist of this era, Wu Zixu, in Xueyun Valley with Tang Xiaxia. They also listened to his grand words about reviving the Chu State. However, ironically, the current Wu Zixu may have fled to the Wu State in disarray, filled with deep-seated hatred for the King of Chu. Logically speaking, as a friend, Luoshiqi should help him, but what is she doing now? During the Spring and Autumn period, she was working for the King of Chu, resolving the crisis of Mo Ye's assassination attempt on him, and soon she would rush to Chengfu with Tang Xiaxia again, leading the great army of Chu State along with Tian Yu and Sima Yue to fight against the allied forces of Qi and Jin, lifting the siege of Zheng State.

  What kind of country is Zheng Guo? Zheng Guo is the country that killed Crown Prince Jian and forced Wu Zixu to a dead end.

  Good grief!

  Luosi could only feel that all of this was a twist of fate, and she had not expected to possess the power of the Moon Goddess. Moreover, in order to obtain the Lingxian Grass to cure Tang Xiaoxia's illness, she had no choice but to owe a favor to the people of the Moon Goddess Sect. She had to agree to Han Yue's request to go to the capital of Chu State and become the goddess of Chu State. The problem was all caused by the Lingxian Grass, but Tang Xiaoxia's severe injury was not entirely due to the sudden appearance of the monster in the underground cave of Xueyun Valley.

  Because she was in a hurry to find the Lingxian grass, she didn't even have time to ask Qingyuanzi about the monster in the underground cave. At first, she thought it might be because some monsters hadn't become extinct in that era and had entered the underground cave through the waterway, which wasn't unusual. But when she saw that kind of monster again for the second time in the underground cave, it was worth thinking about, because it was clear that it couldn't have been left over from Tang Xiaoxiao's first killing spree. Tang Xiaoxiao must have turned all the monsters to ashes during her rampage.

  "Could it be that the creature was being raised by someone in the underground cave?" The more Lossie thought about it, the more frightened she became, and she even dared not to think any further.

  Luosiqi encountered too many dangers tonight. First, she found the campus shrouded in a strange black fog, then saw a classmate who suddenly went mad and became extremely terrifying charging towards her with a steel pipe. Next, several guardians of the evil god began to appear one after another. Luosiqi counted that she had met four guardians under the evil god tonight, and if they hadn't been competing with each other for credit and attacking each other, she might not have even seen Ge Lin and Tang Xiaoxia who came to help her.

  Although she was hungry and scared, Luosi finally fell asleep due to the exhaustion from running away all night. She didn't know how long she slept, but she knew it was a very sweet sleep because when Tang Xiaoxia woke her up, she embarrassingly found that she had drooled a lot on the table.

  She opened her eyes dazedly and heard Tang Xiaoxia say to her, "It's almost time, dear. I have one last thing to tell you."

  She took out her phone and saw that the time on it was already 23:57. She had unknowingly slept for so long, Tang Xiaoxia's "dear" was filled with deep emotions, yet sounded so natural, Luosiqi didn't know why she felt that these three words contained too much emotion. She remembered that since the Black Wind Fortress incident, she and Tang Xiaoxia hadn't said those three words to each other again.

  She had no idea what Tang Xiaoxia's words meant. She was just very happy, looking up at Tang Xiaoxia who had already stood up, and said: "Dear, what do you want to say?"

  She saw him slightly turn his body. He pointed to the painting on the wall with his hand and said to her: "Actually, your previous understanding of this painting was wrong. The reason why the robber looked at the child with a painful expression in his eyes is because that child is actually himself thirty years ago!"

  "Is that himself?" Rosy looked at the painting, the robber's eyes were filled with sadness and the child's joyful expression formed a strong contrast. However, before she could have more feelings about it, she suddenly found her right hand slowly disappearing, without any blood or pain, as if the hand didn't belong to her at all. She looked at Tang Xiaoxiao in surprise, but Tang Xiaoxiao's eyes showed no surprise, as if he had expected this situation to happen.

  Her hands disappeared first, then her arms, and finally her legs. As Lucy's body vanished faster and faster, just as it had dispersed above the chest, in the last moment before she lost consciousness, she heard Tang Xiaoxiao say to her: "Dear, you have to believe me!"

  She didn't know what Tang Xiaoxia meant by saying that. What did she believe in him? Was it believing he could protect her forever? Or was it believing he would always like her? Love her?

  Lucy sat up abruptly in bed, looking around at the furnishings, and had no idea which world was real and which one was in a dream.

  She took out the seven-colored Linglong stone from under her pillow and put it on her wrist, vowing never to take it off again. The green stone symbolizing betrayal was indeed thoroughly activated, and compared to the orange stone symbolizing jealousy, it was still emitting a very bright light because it had just been fully activated. Luosi Qi scolded it in annoyance: "You've just been activated and you're already showing off! Before sending me back to modern times, you didn't even say goodbye, almost getting big sister me killed!"

  It was already daylight outside, and as the camp consisted only of tents, the light came in through the openings between the flaps of the tent doors. The oil lamps inside the tent had also been extinguished long ago, which was what Rosalie had ordered her maid to do before she went to sleep.

  She put on her outerwear, walked out of the tent, and took a deep breath of the fresh morning air. She saw Tang Xiaoxia walking towards her from afar, probably coming to find her as soon as he woke up.

  Luosiqi had too many things to ask him, his strength last night was amazingly powerful, even the most powerful guardian under the evil god's command fell down at his hands, much stronger than himself who had no ability except for being immune to magic.

  However, Tang Xiaoxia was somewhat perplexed by her question, and didn't say a word, evading it vaguely. Especially when it came to the origin of his powerful abilities, he surprisingly said that even he himself didn't know, and that they had disappeared after arriving in this era. As for the painting, he was even more perfunctory, only telling Luosi Qi that he had actually been bored and used the painting to play a joke on her.

  Luosiqi felt that things were not so simple, and Tang Xiaoxia must have something else to hide from her. But Tang Xiaoxia didn't give Luosiqi another chance to ask him more questions. He told Luosiqi that they had already wasted a lot of time in Nanjiang, and asked her to pack up immediately and leave with him for Chengfu.

  Tang Xiaoxia's actions made Luo Sicong even more incredulous. Hadn't he always been strongly opposed to her excessive involvement in Chu State affairs, which delayed the matters they should have resolved together? How did he suddenly become so supportive of her now?

  Luosha felt that Tang Xiaoxia's current actions were no longer just about supporting her, but his enthusiasm was as if he himself wanted to lead the Chu army and Qi Jin allied forces into battle.