Chapter 22 Misunderstanding
Meng Ting arrived at the center of the previous battle. There was an empty space all around. There was no trace of a tree or a stone. Everything was blank, and in this blankness.
Meng Ting saw Lin Mo holding the bloody knife in his hand and walking towards a woman in black in front of him step by step.
Meng Ting looked carefully at the woman in black. Her face was slightly pale under the moonlight, and there was a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth. The red color not only did not destroy the beautiful face of the woman in black, but instead highlighted her weakness and powerlessness. Even Meng Ting, who was also a woman, was confused and looked at Lin Mo, who was expressionless and walked steadily towards the woman.
She couldn't help but feel sorry for the woman's current situation, and she also felt quite disgusted with Lin Mo. When Meng Ting took out the flying knife in her arms and prepared to shoot at Lin Mo, Lin Mo immediately turned his gaze to Meng Ting. His calm expression and a pair of murderous eyes immediately shocked Meng Ting.
Meng Ting stumbled and shook her head, feeling scared. What happened to her? Why did she want to attack Lin Mo? No, it was that woman. When I saw that woman, I couldn't help but give up everything for her. In the end, it must have been Lin Mo's murderous aura that woke me up. If I really attacked, I would definitely die. Lin Mo's eyes just now really wanted to kill me.
In fact, Meng Ting was overthinking it. Lin Mo's strength at the moment was only enough to deliver one strike. When he looked at Meng Ting just now, Lin Mo used the soul-transferring technique he had just learned. Since Meng Ting had been threatened with death by Lin Mo before, Lin Mo took the opportunity to use a little mental power to trigger some psychological loopholes in Meng Ting when she was about to face death.
At the same time, Lin Mo also discovered that Liu Emei should be able to cast illusions. Since his first sword strike, she had been constantly casting illusions on him. Fortunately, he had already mastered the soul-transferring technique, and the sword heart was meant to destroy all illusions. The embryonic form of the sword heart also had a strong resistance to this illusion.
At this time, Meng Ting recovered from her previous psychological trauma, and her rationality prevailed. She suddenly remembered that this woman was Liu Emei from the Yuenu Sword Society, so she said loudly to Lin Mo:
"Lin Mo, don't kill her yet! She came with me with no ill intentions!"
Lin Mo stopped and tried hard to recover his internal strength while saying to Meng Ting, "I need an explanation." At the same time, just when he approached Liu Emei, he suddenly felt a sense of death crisis. Although he didn't know the reason, he needed to speed up the recovery of his strength in order to deal with it.
Liu Emei gradually restrained her killing moves, took out some pills and began to recover from her injuries. Lin Mo realized that the threat of death had disappeared, nodded to Liu Emei, stepped back for a distance, took some pills, and sat in meditation to regulate his breathing.
Liu Emei was no longer releasing her own illusion charm at this time, and explained to Meng Ting:
"Sister Meng, you misunderstood me. After all, you should know what happened at the Hu family just now. I just wanted to meet you in the evening, but I was a little curious when I saw you running to the suburbs by yourself."
Speaking of this, it was indeed a misunderstanding. After all, Hu Weidi had intended to target Liu Emei from the very beginning in the Hu family. Although he did not achieve his goal, Liu Emei was a disciple of a big sect after all. She had a natural sense of superiority over such a small family. However, she was severely humiliated by the patriarch of the family whom she looked down upon in front of disciples from other forces.
As a vengeful woman, she naturally wanted Hu Wei to pay the price, so she wanted to come here to discuss with Meng Ting to see if she could dig out more value for the transaction, and then she would get rid of Hu Yi for Meng Ting. Once Meng Ting joined, she would become her own person, and naturally everyone would be happy.
After listening to this, Meng Ting nodded and told Lin Mo everything that happened in the Hu family this time. Lin Mo was silent for a long time after listening. What surprised Lin Mo the most was that Hu Weidi was actually stronger than Xu Tianfu, which was a bit troublesome.
Liu Emei watched the exchange between Meng Ting and Lin Mo, and naturally understood that the relationship between the two was unusual. She said to Meng Ting very calmly: "Sister Meng, don't think too much. I came to you to tell you that I want to help you get rid of Hu Yi. You also know how disgusting he looked at me at the banquet. But it seems that you have a deep connection with this young master Lin, so there is no need for your sister to take action.
When we are done with the underground palace, you can go back with me to the Yuenu Sword Meeting. By then, Jinyang City will surely be in chaos for a while. Hu Weidi is very powerful after all. In case of any changes, you can come to me after you have dealt with Hu Yi in the underground palace."
After hearing this, Meng Ting also understood that this was Liu Emei's care for her, and said to Liu Emei:
"Sister Liu, Lin Mo and I still have something to talk about. How about we go find Sister Liu tomorrow morning?"
Liu Emei couldn't wait to leave. She almost lost her life because of her curiosity. Fortunately, she still had three days to recover after the underground palace was opened. She glared at Lin Mo and said to Meng Ting:
"Then I will go back to the inn. You and Mr. Lin should be careful tonight. From Mr. Lin's martial arts, we know that he has done many cruel things to destroy beautiful women. Please pay attention to your safety."
After saying that, he winked at Lin Mo with a provocative look.
Lin Mo's mouth twitched. This woman didn't forget to put eye drops on her eyes before leaving. Really? Then he glanced at Liu Emei and continued to close his eyes and began to regulate his breathing.
Liu Emei felt very surprised by Lin Mo's expression of not wanting to pay attention to her. She snorted coldly and walked towards Jinyang City.
Meng Ting looked at the expressions between the two people from the side, feeling a little sad and a little bitter, and said to Lin Mo:
"There was too much noise here just now, how about we discuss it somewhere else?"
After Lin Mo nodded, he took the lead and walked towards the depths of the beast forest. Now most of the beasts in the beast forest were frightened by the fight between Lin Mo and Liu Emei just now and fled in all directions. A small number of them also hid in their own caves. After all, the last blow directly wiped out everything within a mile radius.
This also allowed Lin Mo to move forward without encountering any wild animals. After walking deeper, Lin Mo said:
"You should have seen the head, and the quantities of the other pills should be correct, so this first transaction is successfully completed."
Meng Ting looked at Lin Mo with a complicated look. After all, the battle between Lin Mo and Liu Emei just now was too huge. Although she also saw Hu Weidi and Xu Tianfu fighting twice today, because Mr. Zhou from the Yinmo group eliminated the aftermath around, from Meng Ting's current perspective, she felt that Lin Mo and Liu Emei were more terrifying.
Just some sword and knife energy emanating from the surroundings could easily take his life. So was Lin Mo not serious at all when he attacked him last time, or did he show mercy, otherwise he would have died in one move with his own strength.
Thinking of this, Meng Ting felt much better. It is true that it is really hard to guess what girls are thinking.
In fact, Meng Ting was indeed overthinking it. After all, Lin Mo had not learned the Zhenhai Tianshan Gong before. Although the realm of this technique did not change much after the conversion, it had greatly increased the offensive and endurance against the enemy. In addition, the last move was completely driven by Lin Mo with all his internal strength, and he suddenly realized something about the use of the embryonic form of his own sword heart. This was a move that brought together the right time, place and people.
If Lin Mo were to use this move again now, the effect would be greatly reduced. Besides, there was no need to fight so hard with Meng Ting. Lin Mo always believed that as long as the enemy could be defeated, it would be fine. If 80% of the strength could be used, 100% of the strength would not be wasted in vain.
Lin Mo didn't care about Meng Ting's thoughts at the moment, and continued: "Then in the second transaction, I will deal with Hu Yi. Don't forget your spiritual secrets, and tell me in detail about the fight between Hu Weidi and Xu Tianfu this time."
Meng Ting also put her thoughts aside, thought for a moment and said, "Hu Yi, you can deal with him in the underground palace. The Hu family asked me to go to the underground palace with him. If we can meet up after entering the underground palace, I will lead him to find you. Then I will give you the spiritual secret method and go find Liu Emei."
Lin Mo nodded. This method was the best. It did not involve too much risk and could also avoid Hu Wei's suspicion of him at the first moment. After dealing with Hu Yi, he could withdraw from Jinyang City when the underground palace was closed. Although this city was the first place he had been to since his rebirth, he did not miss it too much.
Meng Ting then gave Lin Mo a detailed account of the fight between Hu Weidi and Xu Tianfu, but with Meng Ting's current vision she could not give Lin Mo much reference, so Lin Mo secretly planned to go to Tang Yu to inquire about the situation after meeting Captain Mu tomorrow.
After all, I heard from Meng Ting that everyone in the restaurant went to the Hu family at that time. I believe Tang Yu will tell me this information.
At this moment, the system's voice in my mind suddenly rang.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the first stage of the novice mission and completing the A-level evaluation. I will be rewarded with a three-star lottery for the evil character's skills."
Lin Mo said to the system in his mind: "This A-level evaluation is the highest, right?"
The system said: "The task completion evaluation is divided into C, B, A, S, SS, SSS. If you reach S level or above, you will get star-level rewards that exceed the original rewards, or even multiple star-level rewards. For example, if your evaluation reaches S level or above this time, you may get a three-and-a-half-star or even four-star skill lottery, or you may get two three-star skill lotteries. That's it."
Lin Mo nodded when he heard this, and gave up the idea of continuing the conversation with the system, and said to Meng Ting:
"That's nothing, you go back first, and be careful not to be discovered by others. We will settle everything in the underground palace then."
Meng Ting saw that Lin Mo was silent for a while and then drove her away. She felt a little aggrieved, but thinking that no matter what the reason was, it was her previous betrayal, she looked at Lin Mo blankly for a while, then turned around and left.
Lin Mo didn't care about these. He didn't have any feelings for Meng Ting now. After the transaction was over, if she was still troublesome, he would just kill her.
As for Meng Ting's betrayal of her former nerdy bootlicker Lin Mo, although Lin Mo has integrated this part of the memory, those past events are like watching a movie. With Lin Mo's personality, he is not interested in the things between the Mary Sue and bloody male and female protagonists. What does it have to do with him if the two of them are willing to fight and be beaten? He will never really put himself into the perspective of his former bootlicker Lin Mo. He knows very well who he is.
Will an egoist be affected by a movie? As long as everything develops in his favor, he will be fine. If Meng Ting dares to betray him, he will kill her.
After shaking off these thoughts, Lin Mo asked the system: "What about the next main task?"
The system replied: "It is expected that the next round of main quests will be released in half a year. Please trigger more side quests."
Lin Mo couldn't help but roll his eyes after hearing this . The only branch quest he had encountered since his rebirth was triggered by his ex-girlfriend Lin Mo through his resentment. This wasn't like playing a game where he could accept quests by talking to NPCs one by one.
