Volume 2: Memories of Yonghui (Part 1) Chapter 05: A Good Destiny by Mistake
At this critical moment, a bamboo leaf, yes, a bamboo leaf, swayed and floated down on Mo Yi's head. The air flow around it was unusually calm, without a trace of wind.
Just like when it fell on the head of the woman in green before, the bamboo leaf fell so abruptly and so accurately that Mo Yi's expression suddenly became uncertain because he felt the oppression brought by the bamboo leaf. It was a threat, or a warning.
restraint.
In Yonghui City, you can only compete in martial arts, but not kill people.
This is the rule, and no one can break it.
Mo Yi was a smart man, a smart man who knew the current situation. He knew that his every move was actually under the observation of that person, so he simply obediently suppressed his murderous intent.
Are you satisfied now?
Because the city lord is not easy to kill.
As long as it doesn't involve life and death, Mo Yi is willing to have some fun.
The expressions on the faces of the two who had just appeared were even more exaggerated than Mo Yi's. They also noticed the abrupt bamboo leaf on Mo Yi's head.
They actually didn't realize Mo Yi's killing intent, Mo Yi hid it very well. Most people in the world felt Mo Yi's killing intent when the tip of Mo Yi's blade slashed across their throats. When the Nayu people killed people, they were as aggressive as fire and as still as a mountain.
Although he couldn't hide it from the man named Zhuo Ao, at least the two people in front of him were unaware of it.
But they were still frightened and their faces turned pale. What they thought in their hearts was different from Mo Yi's. Perhaps it was because they all felt guilty, so when they saw the bamboo leaves that announced Zhuo Ao's existence, they subconsciously understood it as a threat and warning to themselves.
In fact, the two men had just broken through an ambush and were running over desperately to catch their breath.
The moment he saw Mo Yi and Yao Ji, he was a little panicked, but more of it was secret joy.
Because they keenly noticed the bamboo stick spinning in front of the girl in green. They were all sensitive people, and as soon as they saw the bamboo stick, they understood the girl's ability.
Just as Mo Yi said before, although these two are considered top masters in terms of martial arts skills, they could only stare blankly when faced with the formation being broken.
Although they had overcome numerous trials along the way, they still found themselves going around in circles in the bamboo forest. Everyone knew that this was not a solution, but they could not find a way out and could only run around in the bamboo forest like a headless fly.
It would be better to travel with the young man or girl.
Young man, respect yourself!
Although one of them was already very seriously injured, his subconscious admiration and fear for Zhuo Ao still made him instantly dispel the idea of taking shortcuts that suddenly popped up in his mind.
The two visitors looked at each other, as if they read the same thoughts as their own in each other's eyes. They put on the grease and were about to escape, but an accident happened!
Because they were indeed too close to Mo Yi and Yao Ji! So when Yao Ji suddenly opened her eyes, the bamboo sticks in front of her flew away and formed a square barrier in the air, just encircling the four people!
Like Mo Yi, they didn't have time to react. They just felt their bodies shaken, and the scenery around them was completely different...
In an instant, everything turned gray and black. I could hear howling, screaming, the clashing of weapons, roaring, crying, and crazy laughter.
Everyone was horrified to find that those voices seemed familiar, as if they had echoed in their ears not long ago.
Then he saw countless desperate eyes, bodies pierced by spears, dark shadows struggling in the raging fire, or human figures swallowed by the whirlpool of the bamboo forest passing by one by one.
Yes, they were the people who had entered the bamboo forest like himself before. I just wondered if what I saw just now was their current miserable condition or an illusion in my mind?
However, these four people did not have time to think carefully. Their limbs seemed to be pulled, broken, and torn apart. The intense pain almost made them collapse.
Soon, darkness and silence descended. After perhaps a trillion years, the endless waiting made people despair, and even some pain was better than being completely ignorant.
"Hey, wake up, are you planning to sleep until dark?" Mo Yi felt a gentle kick from his toes while in a trance. He tried to open his eyes, but found that he had a splitting headache. He was about to reach out to rub his head, but found that his raised left hand seemed particularly heavy.
Wait! Why do I have three hands?
He looked back and forth blankly at his right hand and the two hands on his left that were tied tightly with a green hairband. One of the hands was so thin that it seemed boneless and obviously did not belong to him. Oh, consciousness finally returned.
Mo Yi subconsciously looked in the direction of the hand, and saw the girl in green sleeping soundly on his lap. She looked exhausted, her two beautiful willow-shaped eyebrows slightly frowned, forming a faint wrinkle between her eyebrows, and her white teeth biting her lower lip tightly, causing a few bloodstains on her cherry-red lips...
Presumably, breaking the formation just now consumed a great deal of her spiritual energy. Although she has lost consciousness now, she still has a painful expression.
"Don't wake her up for now, let her rest for a while." Mo Yi suddenly had such a gentle and compassionate thought in his mind. He carefully moved his sitting position, and his left leg, which was pressed by Yao Ji, was so stiff that he dared not move it.
"Congratulations on passing the second level." A faint voice at the side finally called back Mo Yi's attention. Mo Yi raised his eyes and was not surprised to see the indifferent look of the girl in blue.
Did he finally get out? Mo Yi looked down at the sleeping girl on his knees expressionlessly, thinking, it was all thanks to her.
Looking around again, I found that it was already sunset. I wonder how long they had been asleep? Looking at the surrounding scenery again, it was not the same as when I entered the formation just now. A row of bamboo houses appeared neatly in front of me. On the steps in front of the bamboo houses and on the grass, there were two or three equally exhausted figures sitting sparsely. It seemed that they were also lucky people who passed the level.
However, there are only a handful of lucky ones in this round, one, two, three, four... eight in total.
Obviously, the girl in green was still a little dissatisfied with this result.
Because the host behind him had prepared in advance six bamboo houses for the contestants to rest, how come there were suddenly two more people?
The master has always been very smart, why is it that this time...
What she didn't know was that Zhuo Ao had indeed calculated correctly before that only six candidates were capable of passing his second level which was full of mysteries and traps.
Zhuo Ao is not a very patient person. The purpose of his Yonghui Martial Arts Competition is not to give most young people a chance to communicate and compete, but only to select outstanding young people he likes. Therefore, it doesn’t matter how many people there are, as long as they are good!
Those who have only ordinary abilities or little potential will all be sent back to their hometowns in the second stage to save time. As for the remaining few with outstanding abilities and talents, more time will be given to them so that they can be observed carefully.
Originally, there were only six young people that Zhuo Ao liked, but there were always some unexpected things happening in the world, and no one knew that someone would suddenly break in when Yao Ji was about to break the formation, and luckily be taken out of the formation together.
Sometimes, luck is also a kind of strength.
Since it is God's will, Zhuo Ao is not reluctant to give them another chance.
Since the master has already tacitly accepted this good fortune, the woman in green naturally has nothing to say.
She looked at Yao Ji on Mo Yi's lap and the dark-faced girl with fiery eyes in the corner, then looked at the two people who were supporting each other and trying to get up from the ground, and her eyes lit up.
"Everyone is tired today. This bamboo house was specially prepared for everyone by my master. Go and have a rest. You have all spent a lot of energy on this level, so the third level of competition will be scheduled for three days later ." After saying this, the girl in green frowned slightly again.
She didn't know why the master was so uncharacteristically favorable to this group of people. In the Yonghui martial arts competitions over the years, there were more brutal trials than this, but at most they would rest for a night before fighting again. This three-day period was obviously too generous.
However, since the master had arranged it this way, he must have his reasons. The woman in green never doubted Zhuo Ao's orders. She collected her thoughts and changed the subject: "It's just that this room was originally planned to have only 6 rooms, but you have 8 people."
After saying that, she pointed at the black-faced girl and Yao Ji and said, "You two are the only girls here, so just live together."
Hey, half human, half demon. The woman in green didn’t know that she and Mo Yi had some kind of terrible tacit understanding in this regard, and she actually used the same adjective to describe that person.
"You two..." She thought that these two lucky extra people had not been allocated their own rooms, so it was reasonable for them to squeeze into each other.
But when she looked at the two men's figures, she still looked a little embarrassed.
The short fat man was flattered and quickly responded: "It's no problem for us to squeeze in. Don't bother, young lady." His eyes, which were already narrowed to a line, were now deeply sunken in the clustered flesh on his face, looking quite ridiculous, like a pile of big meat balls.
Hey, half-human, half-demon, now he thought that it was hopeless for the two of them to break the formation, and they were lucky enough to get through by chance, so how could he dare to be picky.
While everyone here was celebrating, someone over there was not quite satisfied. Mo Yi's brows were deeply furrowed at this moment. He had already noticed the black-faced girl following the green-clothed woman's fingertips . Wasn't this the girl from the Kongming tribe who had been rejected by him before?
It was within Mo Yi's expectation that she could pass the test, after all, illusion was the specialty of the Kongming clan.
However, seeing that she was still looking at him with fiery and piercing eyes and the vicious look she cast at Yao Ji, Mo Yi felt a little uneasy in his heart.
Yao Ji on his lap would not have been so exhausted, but because of the two people who came in temporarily, she consumed more spiritual energy. He shook his head with a mocking look on his face, not knowing whether he was mocking Yao Ji's kindness or thinking that her behavior was stupid.
He knew that Yao Ji was a kind-hearted girl. If he had forcefully thrown the other party out of her barrier when the other party had already stepped into it, he might not have been so exhausted, but the consequences for the other party would have been very serious.
The lighter ones are thrown into an illusion and lose themselves.
In serious cases, you may even lose your life.
Yao Ji must be clear about this. If it were her, Mo Yi's choice would definitely be unique, cold and resolute. As long as she could pass the test, what did the life and death of others have to do with her?
However, Yao Ji was not Mo Yi after all, and she foolishly chose to exhaust her own spiritual power in order to bring the four people out of the bamboo forest.
At a time when everyone is conserving their strength for future battles, such a move cannot be considered smart.
Perhaps the two people who were rescued were also deeply grateful for Yao Ji's painstaking efforts. At this time, the two of them were supporting each other and walking towards this side, and the concern on their faces was not concealed.
"How's the little girl?"
"Is she okay?" As soon as the half-human, half-demon spoke, everyone was petrified, including the woman in green who had been indifferent all along. She couldn't help but look sideways. This, this was actually a completely charming woman's voice!
Could it be that “he” is really a woman…
Everyone's eyes quickly swept over the "weirdo", up and down, left and right, as if they wanted to strip him naked and take a closer look. People's curiosity can be really scary sometimes.
Mo Yi came back to his senses very quickly. He quickly shook off those inappropriate thoughts in his mind and replied, "It's not a big deal, but my spiritual power is exhausted. I don't know if I can return to my best condition in three days."
Upon hearing this, the two lucky ones naturally showed guilt on their faces, which was expected.
After hearing this, the dark-faced woman from the Kongming tribe looked surprisingly calm. Mo Yi originally thought that she, who had always been hostile to Yao Ji, would have some intention of taking advantage of her misfortune. However, he unexpectedly found that she was much calmer than he had imagined.
It wasn't that kind of calmness that she pretended to be, but she really didn't feel any joy. Was it because she disdained such a kick when someone was down? Or did she actually not take Yao Ji seriously at all?
This person's mind is a little unpredictable. Originally, I thought she was a person who showed her happiness on her face, but I unexpectedly found that she also had a deep side. Such a person made Mo Yi more vigilant, and he immediately made a decision.
"She and I will share a room." Mo Yi carefully untied the tattered green hairband tied on his and Yao Ji's hands, hesitated for a moment, stuffed it into his lapel, then picked up Yao Ji and walked straight into the bamboo house in the center in the astonished eyes of everyone.
The silly girl had lost all her spiritual power at this moment. If she was left in such a state to live in the same room with that unfathomable woman from the Kongming tribe, it would be like a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth.
Mo Yi felt a sense of pity for this straightforward, simple and strong-willed girl for no reason.
Perhaps, he was just still thinking of the friendship they had just had, Mo Yi told himself.
