116 The Thing That You and I Canst Figure Ou (2/2)

Chen Pipi leaned against the wall near Ning Que, and rubbed his tired eyes, mumbling, ”You're a guy that stepped one foot into the dead world, but you can't figure out who saved you once you have become sober.”

Ning Que smiled tiredly, and quietly saw his big round face. He never thought Chen Pipi, who had left his messages for a long time, would have had such an appearance. Then he asked, ”How did you cure me?”

Chen Pipi moved his fat body, rubbed his back against the wall, stood up hard, and stretched his numb body with his hands on his waist. He smiled slightly with a wave of his hand, saying, ”I've told you so many times, I am a genius that has been hardly seen in the world. If an ordinary doctor saw your wound, you would have died. But for me, it was just a tiny thing.”

The fat lad always took himself to be the genius that had not been seen in 100 years, so he always demanded himself to act like a real genius. He adored his Senior Brothers' manner, so he did not like to mutter things.

Last night, to cure Ning Que, he gave him a very valuable pill that was hardly ever found in the world. But it was so worldly to emphasize this because he already gave it to him. Besides, it totally did not fit his taste, so he did not explain the details, but just shook his sleeves to show that he did not care about it.

Of course, if someone had stood in front of him, they would see his fat face slightly trembling because of his pity and regret.

Chen Pipi restored calm when he turned around, and looking into Ning Que's eyes, he made a request, ”Can I see your big black umbrella?”

Ning Que said after he went silent for a while, ”I don't have the strength, do it yourself.”

It made Chen Pipi lose his mind. He frowned and looked at Ning Que for a while, bent down his body with difficulty, and grabbed the handle of the black umbrella.

He felt a little bit cold when he held it at first. The wood that made the handle seemed to be ground from an ordinary tree in the northern part of the empire. He did not know what was smeared on the black umbrella, for it seemed a little oily. Except for that, you could see nothing strange.

Chen Pipi looked at the black umbrella in his hands for a long time, and found nothing. He put it back down at Ning Que's side, saying, ”Last night, I inquired about something.”

”What?” Ning Que asked tiredly.

”Yesterday, the Vermilion Bird woke up.” Chen Pipi stared at his eyes.

Ning Que frowned slightly, thinking of the feeling when he passed out on the street due to serious injury, and his fear that appeared for no reason when he walked with Sangsang and held the black umbrella several months ago. But he really did not know the portrait of the Vermilion Bird woke up at that time, so he only shook his head.

Chen Pipi did not find any problems, so he paused before he continued, ”Last night, a Sword Master was found dead in Chang'an.”

Ning Que went silent.

Chen Pipi looked at him with a forced smile, saying, ”You have many wounds made by swords. Although you don't bleed now, your wounds were burned by fire, rather than being old wounds.”

Ning Que smiled, and lifted his head saying, ”What on earth are you trying to say?”

”You were wounded very much, however you didn't go back home to lie down but came to the Academy by carriage. It only shows that you were injured by the sword in the morning. At that time, the Chang'an Local Government chased you very close, so you couldn't go back home, but escaped to the Academy. The Chang'an Local Government wouldn't dare to block a carriage going to the Academy, not to mention search you here.

”Yesterday morning, the Sword Master died, the portrait of the Vermilion Bird in the street woke up, and you were very badly injured by a sword yet without a trace of blood, and your wounds were cauterized by an invisible fire, which only means one thing.”

Chen Pipi looked at him and frowned, saying, ”You are the person who killed the Sword Master, and the person who annoyed the Vermilion Bird. But what confuses me all this time is that you did all of this and you are just an ordinary person.

”I admire you. Your first name could be Fu, then Mine could be Hua.”

Ning Que leaned against the wall tiredly, saying, ”The problem is that you struggled so hard to save me, so I believe you won't take me to the government. Then why do you bother to ask all this?”

Chen Pipi lifted his eyebrows, saying proudly, ”Because I, the genius, want to prove to you that nothing can be hidden from me!”

Ning Que smiled at him, and said suddenly, ”There is no such big family in West Hill as what you said in your messages. There is only one place that can influence cultivation and the common world and make the Academy fear—the Haotian Divine Hall.

”You are not some inheritor of a big family, but the selected inheritor of Haotian Taoism. I don't know who your master was when you were a child, the hierarch of Haotian Taoism or some Great Divine Priest? And what confuses me most is, as a genius given great hopes by the Haotian Divine Hall in West Hill, chosen by the hierarch as the inheritor and received by the Academy... why you are so fat?”

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