CH 281

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"Senior Li, look! There are lights in the sky!"

Upon hearing this, everyone looked up at once and saw the floating paper lanterns with flickering lights, as well as the round paper balls floating in the air like jellyfish.

"It's just a Kongming lantern, nothing special." Li Huowang picked up his bowl and took a sip of the delicious shrimp soup.

Kongming lanterns with various surnames, such as Fu, Miao, Zhao, and Li, slowly flew towards the sky and merged with the twinkling stars. It seemed to be a way of mourning in Daliang.

"Not only in the sky, look over there on the river in the distance!"

On the river that ran through the city of Yinling, there were also flickering lights swaying on the flower boats.

"Daliang has so many ways of doing things." Li Huowang muttered as he watched the Kongming lanterns.

He could feel the obvious difference between Daliang and other places, and the depth of its heritage was far from comparable.

"By the way, Miaomiao, Siqi, Houshu, Qingqiu, Daliang, which country is beyond Daliang?" Li Huowang asked Bai Lingmiao beside him.

"Beyond Daliang? There's only the sea."

Hearing this, Li Huowang suddenly understood that Daliang was actually a coastal country, but he wondered if there were any other different countries on the sea.

"But I guess there might be, and maybe..."

Just as Li Huowang was thinking about it, a very faint voice suddenly sounded in his ear, a voice that was very mixed but contained some phrases used by people.

"Hungry...mouth...wood..."

The moment this voice appeared, Li Huowang's body hair stood up instantly. He stood up abruptly, looking around with a very ugly expression on his face.

Li Huowang's movement was so loud that the soup on the table was spilled, and the lively atmosphere just now suddenly quieted down.

All the people at the table and the others nearby turned their heads in surprise to look at him.

"Senior Li...?" Feeling the worried gazes of his fellow apprentices, Li Huowang shook his head slightly and sat down again, his expression quickly calming down.

"It's nothing, you know me, it's just my old problem. Let's eat."

Upon hearing this, everyone put down their worries and started eating again. However, Bai Lingmiao, who was sitting on Li Huowang's left, noticed that his hand holding the bowl was trembling slightly.After a satisfying meal, they left the restaurant and headed towards the inn. Along the way, Lv Zhuangyuan, who had a pained expression on his face, was calculating how many pigs the cost of the meal could buy.

While they were eating, they felt content, but when it was time to pay the bill and they saw their hard-earned silver being spent, it was harder than killing them.

"Senior Li, are you really okay?" Bai Lingmiao held Li Huowang's hand, which was calloused from holding a sword for a long time.

"Don't worry, I took Black Taishou and my illness has stabilized." Li Huowang gave her a reassuring look.

After returning to the inn, everyone went back to their own rooms, discussing what they had seen and washing up.

Nothing happened until the inn's door was closed and the candles were extinguished.

At three in the morning, Li Huowang, lying in bed, suddenly opened his eyes. He turned to look at Bai Lingmiao, who was sleeping next to him, and pulled his wrist out from under her neck, lifted the blanket, and walked towards the backyard of the inn.

As soon as he arrived near the carriage where Black Taishou was, the bun, who was there to watch the carriage, crawled out from under the carriage and wagged its tail towards him.

Li Huowang violently lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw Black Taishou, who was tightly bound with tendons.

Looking at Black Taishou, Li Huowang's face turned very ugly as he remembered the voice he had heard before.

For a while after eating Black Taishou, everything was normal, so normal that Li Huowang forgot that he was a heart素. However, today, he heard the hallucination again.

Li Huowang looked at Black Taishou in front of him and asked with a trembling voice, "Mom, can you call Dr. Wang for me? I need to talk to him about something."

After a while, Li Huowang, who had closed his eyes, opened them again and looked calmly at Black Taishou. "Wang Wei, is that you? Did you give me something a few hours ago?"

Faced with Li Huowang's inquiry, Black Taishou did not respond and sluggishly swallowed the filthy and viscous liquid from the holes on its body.

"If it really was you, I'll tell you that the medicine worked. Give me a higher dose to try now."

Li Huowang waited quietly for the hallucination to appear again, but nothing happened.

Looking at the squirming monster with long tentacles in front of him, Li Huowang's breathing became heavy, and he lowered his voice with a ferocious expression, "Don't play these tricks. If you want me to believe that it's real over there, then have the ability to pull me back completely!"

In Li Huowang's shout, Black Taishou's body wriggled, trying hard to regain freedom from the bound tentacles, but the tough tendons made its movements futile."Hoo...hoo..." Li Huowang gasped heavily, the sudden sound had thrown his heart into chaos.

He stood there in the stable as if waiting for the world to collapse.

He didn't know how long had passed when he heard the sound of bamboo knocking on the wall outside, "Duo~ the weather is dry~ Duo~duo~ be careful with the candles~"

Hearing the night watchman's voice outside, Li Huowang knew it was already past midnight. He had been standing here for hours, but there was still no change around him. His panicked heart finally calmed down a bit.

Li Huowang took out a dagger from the bag of torture tools at his waist and cut off a piece of meat from Black Tai Sui again, chewing it vigorously.

As he chewed, Li Huowang suddenly stopped. An indescribable feeling of sadness surged up in his heart.

He had always thought he had let it go, but when this elusive hope reappeared, Li Huowang realized he was lying to himself.

It was not easy to abandon the place where he was born and raised, especially when there was no comparison, there was no harm.

If possible, Li Huowang would have wished that the other side was real and this side was fake.

"Maybe... maybe it's not about the other side, maybe it's just my illness. Don't be suspicious, it's just an auditory hallucination, nothing serious. Yes, that's right, it must be like this."

Just as Li Huowang was thinking this, a strange gaze instantly calmed his thoughts.

"Who?" Li Huowang quickly closed the curtain of the cart and turned his head around, only to see a person standing alone in the dim stable with a big-headed doll on top of their head.

"Someone asked me to come and see you, saying you want to work for the Monitoring Bureau?" A hoarse voice similar to Li Huowang's came from under the hood.