Shock! The Evil Emperor actually pampered the entire cultivation world

Chapter 289: Unable to Look Straight

Yi Chi and the other man escaped to the surface of the river and saw several monks from the city hunting team coming out from the bottom of the water, reporting something seriously to the team leader.

They must have noticed the underwater turbulence just now and are organizing people to investigate the source.

Yi Chi and Yi Yuanmao hid behind a large patch of reeds in a tributary and were not noticed.

Yi Chi glanced at the sky. It was already past noon. There was still half a day before the flood broke out. The coffin at the bottom of the river...

She looked at Yi Yuan, who was also soaking wet.

Yi Yuan wiped his face, looked at the wound on her palm, and took out the blood-healing pill and gave it to her.

When Yi Chi opened it, she saw that it was all yellow-grade pills with a lot of impurities, which were almost useless for her physique.

To be honest, Yi Chi had never eaten such inferior pills in his life, but it was better to have some than nothing. Yi Chi stuffed them all into his mouth, then covered his mouth with a frown.

"Yue! What does this blood-healing pill smell like!"

The mouthfeel is moist and sticky, and it tastes like seven or eight days old washing water.

Yi Chi said disdainfully: "It must be some idiot alchemist who didn't remove all the impurities from the Bailing grass!"

Yi Yuan touched the back of his head awkwardly, "I practiced it. I'm sorry."

Yi Chi: "...You used to be able to make pills?"

Yi Yuan said sadly, "At that time, I wanted to make some meridian-clearing pills for my sister, so I saved money to buy spiritual herbs and tried it. Unfortunately, I didn't have much talent. After my sister ate them, she vomited for three days and her condition became worse."

"..." Yi Chi seemed to be thinking about something, "So you are here to harm me now?"

Yi Yuan became even more nervous and looked like he had been scolded by Elder Luo.

"I'm just kidding." Yi Chi laughed awkwardly twice to try to ease the atmosphere, patted his shoulder, and then asked seriously: "What did you find?"

Yi Yuan relaxed unconsciously and said in a focused manner, "After the flood that year, all the surrounding villages and towns were flooded. It was quite serious. Mincheng sent high-level monks to investigate, and they only said that it was caused by an ordinary river ghost who died in vain."

"It didn't say there were any man-made traces like the Yinhuai wood or any other formations."

Yi Chi used a handkerchief to bandage his injured hand and said, "So, the demon array is most likely the anomaly?"

"Not necessarily. What if Mincheng didn't discover the formation under the river before?"

At that time, the higher-ups would not pay much attention to such minor incidents as occasional floods in mortal villages.

When he said the latter sentence, Yi Yuan's face darkened. It was obvious that this speculation was very difficult for him to accept.

He frowned: "Then how do we tell which one is the real one..."

After all, if they make a wrong judgment, they may be trapped in this torrent of memories and unable to get out.

"Then let the flood happen. If it is the same scale as in my memory, it will not be an abnormality. Otherwise, it will be." Yi Chi suddenly said coldly.

After all, the fundamental purpose of the anomaly is to kill the people in the scene.

Yi Yuan was stunned and turned to look at Yi Chi's creamy profile. The water drops slid down, making the angular profile look sharper.

Yi Chi glanced at her and saw the disbelief and flicker in her eyes.

"You've thought of it, too." Yi Chi smiled, "But it would be better if I said it for you."

Yi Yuan's Adam's apple bulged, but he didn't say anything. His face turned pale, and shame and reluctance ran through his face.

Yi Chi tilted his head and said, "Do you still think that someone like me shouldn't say such things or do such things?"

Yi Yuan looked at her with trembling eyelashes, pursed his lips and said nothing, with a hint of being overwhelmed.

Yi Chi smoothed his wet hair, squeezed some water from his shoulders, and said calmly: "People who have died can no longer be resurrected. This is just a false memory fragment. Don't indulge in it."

"Remember the ultimate purpose of being here. It is unnecessary to give up the opportunity to save yourself just to miss them."

Yi Yuan choked and held his breath for a long time, then dropped his shoulders in frustration.

……

Yi Chi and Yi Yuan, who had no professional ethics and was absent from work and missing, returned to Yijia Village together. The sun was setting in the west, with half of its face hidden behind the treetops.

Now that the abnormality has been confirmed, we still need to check on Hei Yichi's progress in gathering his companions before night falls and make preparations for both scenarios.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the two of them sneaked back to Yijia Village, they saw chaos from afar. The village was full of the joyful squeals of pigs, and a bunch of farm tools and haystacks were knocked over and sent flying.

A group of people cried and screamed, "Oh my God, the pigs have escaped! Who on earth opened the pigpen door? Someone, come! Catch the pigs quickly!"

Yi Chi saw that all the villagers had come out, holding ropes and sticks, and were chasing more than thirty pigs in a hurry.

Yi Dazhuang panted heavily, "Damn it, these beasts have been restless these past two days. They eat and sleep all the time, but I didn't expect them to be so strong and able to run so fast. They almost pushed my lungs out just now!"

"Once I catch it, I'll skin it alive!"

"Stop scolding and catch the pig quickly. It's getting dark soon and it will be hard to find it if it runs away!" The village chief shouted anxiously, stomping his crutch.

Yi Chi and the other man squatted outside the fence and watched the chaos. Yi Yuan's eyes flashed with nostalgia and sorrow.

"Could it be Xiao Hei who did it?" Yi Chi clicked his tongue, thought for a moment and said, "We have to meet up with her first and get some information."

Yi Yuan's home was on the outskirts of the village. The two of them walked around the outside for half a circle to get there, avoiding being seen.

On the way, Yi Yuan suddenly had a question, "Who are you playing? Why do you still look your original self?"

He himself has become the person he was two years ago. He couldn't tell when Yi Chi disguised himself. When he went into the water, the disguise materials melted and his original face was revealed.

Yi Chi did not answer Yi Yuan's question, but showed a mysterious smile.

Yi Yuan successfully imagined it, nodded in sudden realization, and understood. This was another secret that the boss couldn't tell.

Thinking of this, he became a little worried. After hesitating for a long time, he asked anxiously, "I know so much, I won't be silenced one day, right?"

Yi Chi laughed sinisterly and said, "Only the dead are absolutely safe."

Yi Yuan was so frightened that he stopped walking: "...I will never tell anyone."

"No, you have to swear."

"I swear I won't tell anyone."

Yi Chi saw a black pig frantically hacking at a fence. She smiled evilly, "Okay, if you tell anyone, the pig will fly two miles away... I'm awesome!"

As Yi Chi was talking, she felt the ground shaking slightly and the sound of four hooves hitting the ground approached rapidly. She turned around and saw an excited pink-skinned pig flying out of the fence in an unusually agile posture.

Fei Tian came towards her.

Yi Chi: “???” Why is it this pink pig again!

No, this stinky pig must have hurt the wrong person! The one who swore was Yi Yuan!

Yi Chi's expression collapsed, but he swiftly avoided the pink-skinned pig and kicked the several hundred kilograms fat pig back into the fence. It can be seen that Yi Chi also has extraordinary strength.

The pink-skinned pig fell to the ground with all four hooves facing the sky with a "bang", making a painful sound like a pig being slaughtered. He glared at Yi Chi with his green eyes filled with anger, and kicked his legs on the ground like a cricket pupa, but he couldn't stand up.

Yi Chi flicked his sleeves with a smug smile, "Third time is better than the last time. You still want to defeat me? What strength do you have, my brother!"

As he said this, he put his hands on his hips and gave a thumbs-down gesture.

The pink-skinned pig seemed to feel that it had suffered the greatest humiliation in its life. Its eyes turned red and its four hooves left afterimages.

But because he was too fat, he could not stand up no matter what, so he could only make angry "hmm" sounds.

Yi Chi laughed out loud.

Yi Yuan held his forehead in silence, wondering what kind of magical person Yi Chi was that he could chat with a pig at this time.

Seeing that someone was attracted by the voice of Pink Pig, he grabbed Yi Chi's wrist and slipped away.

Just after climbing over the side wall of the courtyard, Yi Chi looked up and met Hei Yi Chi's contemptuous gaze.

She played with the tips of her hair and said sarcastically, "People without status are sneaky wherever they go."

Yi Chi sat on the wall and patted the dust off his hands, then looked up and smiled: "Oh, you, a sickly person, can still climb onto the roof, you are really amazing~"

He glanced at the four-cornered stool on the chicken coop at the base of the wall and said, "Tsk, does the saint need to step on a stool to climb onto the roof?"

"Real food."

Hei Yichi's face darkened slightly, and he smiled with his face but not his heart: "...Haha, that's better than someone almost getting killed by a pig. The senior sister is not only popular among people, but also among pigs. That's really good."

Yi Yuan was sandwiched between the two people, looking at Yi Chi on the left and at Hei Yi Chi on the right, feeling uneasy in the tense atmosphere.

Finally, he looked at Hei Yichi and interrupted: "Um, why are you... on the roof? What happened outside?"

Hei Yichi looked at Yi Yuan, his cloudy face brightened up, he smiled and called him "brother" in a familiar voice.

The person involved successfully shuddered at Yi Chi's face and intimate expression.

Help, what should I do when the cold-blooded and ruthless boss's clone Tiantian calls out to me!

Can't look straight.

Hei Yichi did not immediately talk about Yijia Village, but instead asked about the discovery of the lake system.

When Yi Yuan was about to speak, Yi Chi glanced at him, and the latter was stunned and said nothing.

Seeing this, Hei Yichi narrowed his eyes dangerously and asked, "Brother, do you listen to her?"

Yi Yuan looked left and right: "Uh... No, it's not."

Yinming Xiezun should have captured him as well. He should have had as many clones as Yi Chi had. This way, he wouldn't have to face such a horrific situation.

Both of them are Yi Chi, who should he listen to?

Hei Yichi smiled at Yi Yuan, his frail face brightening up, "If it's not him, then what did you find out, brother? Can't you tell me?"

It was also the first time that Yi Yuan saw Yi Chi's face smiling at him like this. He was a little stunned and wanted to say something, but subconsciously turned his head to look at Yi Chi. His lips moved and he was in a dilemma, "This..."

Hei Yichi's eyes darkened for a moment. Since they were both clones, why did Yi Yuan always instinctively seek permission from his other self?

Yi Chi smiled and said, "Why make things difficult for your brother? Can't you solve your own problems yourself?"

"As a weak and pitiful patient with limited mobility, if you want to learn information that you can't access, shouldn't you be sincere and tell us what you have discovered first?"

Hei Yichi's smile faded, "How do I know if you will go back on your word and lie to me?"

Yi Chi spread his hands indifferently: "Then just don't tell me. Anyway, there is still an hour before the flood. I am confident that I can personally investigate Yijia Village, but can you see what is happening ten miles away?"

Hei Yichi looked at Yichi's expression and knew very well how stubborn the other party was. He was silent for a moment and said coldly: "If there was a possibility of death for me, I would definitely drag you down with me without hesitation, outsider."

The last three words were emphasized, as a warning to Yi Chi that if he harmed her, Yi Chi's identity would be revealed and they would all die together.

Yi Chi nodded without comment. Hei Yi Chi then looked slightly serious and said as he looked at the chaos in the village: "During the day I found some excuses and checked several nearby households, but there was no sign of my companions."

"Not only that, they were very nervous about my rash behavior of going out. They soon became suspicious of me, tested me, and followed me. I had no choice but to go home first." Hei Yichi was very depressed when he said this.

Why isn’t this the identity that Yi Chi uses?

"If I continue, I will only expose my identity, so I will go out in the afternoon while they are sleepy and release the pig for sacrifice."

"After the situation becomes chaotic, our companions will have more freedom and will naturally find an opportunity to come over."

After all, in each other's eyes, her abnormal behavior today was very telling.

Yi Chi nodded in agreement, "That makes sense."

"So the result now is?"

A look of embarrassment flashed across Hei Yichi's face very quickly, and he said expressionlessly: "So far, no one has come."

Yi Chi's eyebrows twitched slightly, feeling something was wrong.

Yi Yuan hesitated and said, "Maybe there are only three of us in this scene?"

Hei Yichi reacted quickly, frowning and asking, "Are you saying that the City Hunting Team doesn't have any either?"

Yi Yuan realized that he had said the wrong thing. He glanced at Yi Chi and nodded unsteadily. Seeing that the latter had no reaction, he continued to talk about what they had discovered at the bottom of the river.

The three of them fell into unified contemplation.

The current situation is that there are only three of them as companions, and they are not sure about the abnormal points.

Yi Yuan suggested: "Shouldn't we rush to the Chiliang formation before dark? If there is any abnormality when the river monster erupts, we can find the time barrier and leave. If not, there will be no problem gathering our companions."

Both of these will form a time channel back to reality at the end of the segment.

It’s a good idea, Hei Yichi agreed.

The entire Yijia Village was now like a transparent piece of white paper. She had made no progress here, and was leaning towards the lake which was obviously the center of the anomaly.

"What are you waiting for? It's getting dark, and the smell of the river is getting worse. The river monster should be brewing. Let's go."

Hei Yichi walked to Yi Yuan and signaled him to take her down.

Yi Chi did not move. She sat on the eaves with her legs crossed, looking at the village chief, Yi Dazhuang and others in the distance, who were furiously beating a dozen captured pigs until their skin was torn and then roughly stuffing them back into the pigsty.

The unfortunate pink pig was caught because it couldn't get up after being kicked by Yi Chi. It would rather die than surrender and struggled violently. It took four big men to hold it down.

The pink-skinned pig's trotters were scratching at the pigsty, exerting force on every piece of fat. It howled miserably towards the sky, and coincidentally, its direction was exactly the direction of Yi Chi and the other two.

As Yi Chi watched, he suddenly couldn't help laughing, adding a different kind of beauty to the dark night.

Hei Yichi was supported by Yi Yuan and looked at her sideways from below: "What are you laughing at? Are you going to leave or not?"

Yi Chi said casually but decisively: "I'm not leaving."

Two people: "?"

Don't you want to live anymore?

Yi Yuan's eyes fell on Yi Chi's smiling face and asked in surprise: "Why?"

Hei Yichi's eyes flickered, and he responded, "What did you find?"