Chapter 51 - Brain circuits that went in all directions. (1/2)
Yan Xuanjing looked at the two messages from Di Wu for a long while, and in the end, he chose to skip over the unhappiness in his heart as Lin Mu’s affairs still prevailed.
Swiping on the screen, Yan Xuanjing glanced at the long list, and after he had realised what was going on, slightly raised his eyebrows.
He glanced at Lin Mu, who was lying on the sofa with his eyes half-closed and was obviously very tired.
No wonder his spirits were so bad at that time, it turned out that the enemy had sent themselves to his door.
Yan Xuanjing’s senses of politics were still quite sharp in this area, and almost immediately, he realized that Lin Mu’s intention of sealing the mountains wasn’t out of his attitude towards official business.
His selfishness prevailed, and the mountain was sealed because he wanted to go after an easy prey.
First, lock those people up and isolate them from the outside world, so no matter what kind of bloodshed happened in the mountains, it wouldn’t disturb the outside world. After all, the rules for their kinds of existences were very unreasonable and inhumane.
According to the rules, those who neither went to the office to register nor took the initiative to find them for help were deemed to have given up their third-party assistance.
They would not take the initiative to intervene, and even if they asked for help, those people would have to go through Lin Mu’s to see if they could leave in the first place.
Because sealing the mountains was something that had to go through both the humans and monsters side, and even if they didn’t go through Lin Mu, they would have to go through Da Hei, thus, there was a very large area to work on.
It was a good solution.
The fox spirit supported his cheek, and his finger tapped on the screen of the phone, making a slight clicking sound. But it was hard to say if the human side would attach as much of an importance to this kind of matter, or would they keep an eye close and let their own kind go.
Lin Mu eye’s opened slightly, and he squinted at Yan Xuanjing, “what’s wrong?”
“How are you planning to ensure that the human side takes this matter seriously?” Yan Xuanjing simply asked.
“……”
Lin Mu pursed his lips, and was a little hesitant.
He looked up at Yan Xuanjing, and when he found out that Yan Xuanjing’s attention was still on the phone, fell silent for a while before he spoke in a soft voice, “I told them that there was a Wandering Vein in the mountains, and that those people came rushing here because of it.”
Yan Xuanjing heard the words and looked at Lin Mu quite unexpectedly.
Lin Mu proposing the matter of sealing the mountains was, in his opinion, still within his normal expectations. After all, the humans had come to their door looking for a solution, and it wasn’t difficult for him to make use of this opportunity to gain an upper hand.
But to reveal Qin Chuan’s existence, this really surprised Yan Xuanjing.
No matter what, Qin Chuan was somebody more familiar to Lin Mu — it wouldn’t be wrong to call them friends.
With Lin Mu’s usual attitude, he wouldn’t be the type to put his friends in danger.
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Lin Mu was being judged by Yan Xuanjing, and felt very uncomfortable.
He was already quite uneasy when he mentioned the Wandering Vein in the office. Now that he was being stared at by Yan Xuanjing with a little surprise and contemplation, he immediately sat up on the sofa, and felt as if he was sitting on a bed of nails.
“I just think…… it’s very safe at home, you’re here, and so is my father. Else, there’s Di Wu and your father.” Lin Mu looked down, nervously grabbed at the cushions, and cautiously said, “there should be no problem with Qin Chuan’s safety.”
Yan Xuanjing realized that his gaze was making Lin Mu uncomfortable, looked away, and after hearing what Lin Mu said, nodded and said, “having me is enough.”
Lin Mu looked up at Yan Xuanjing and wondered if what he focused on was a little skewed.
“Although it was a little unexpected…… but it was a very beautiful job.” Yan Xuanjing commented.
As a monster — a half-monster, if he still shrunk back while facing humans who were far less capable compared to him whilst he had a strong backing, then what would that be like?
Let alone monsters, even humans knew how to reasonably make use of their existing resources to obtain benefits for themselves.
As for the questions of humans minding being thought of as bait, in the monster’s mind, it didn’t really matter.
Monsters didn’t have a sense of guilt when they betrayed another’s trust. Believing in others and being unable to protect themselves, if they were sold out, then they could only consider themselves to be unlucky.
If a monster was strong enough, then the friends around them would rarely choose to betray or backstab.
Because the cost of doing this was too high. As time passed, unsuitable friends would be filtered out, and out of the ones that would be left, most of them were devoted and brave types that would treasure the ones that were similar to them.
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As for those monsters that are too weak to be mentioned, they rarely needed to practice this kind of awareness, because they didn’t have anything of value to be betrayed and backstabbed for.
To sum it all up.
As monsters, there was only one reason that they would be betrayed by others: not being strong enough.
Towards the vast majority of monsters, this was perfectly logical and valid.
Although Yan Xuanjing was somewhat surprised, this surprise was due to using Lin Mu’s way logic to infer the matter, and not because of the matter itself.
About this matter, he felt that there was nothing wrong with Lin Mu, and that he even did a good job.
When Lin Mu explained that because of his presence that he dared to mention about the Wandering Vein, Yan Xuanjing’s heart feel really comfortable.
As for the names that Lin Mu had added later, it didn’t matter.
In any case, Yan Xuanjing himself was at ease.
Lin Mu took a closer look at Yan Xuanjing, realised that he didn’t really have any special expression, and couldn’t help but feel a little dumbfounded.
He thought that he would be chided at least.
“Qin Chuan’s going to be okay, right?” Lin Mu asked.
Yan Xuanjing lifted his eyebrows, “yes.”
Lin Mu sighed, “you’re not a real pet dog.”
Lin Mu let out a sigh of relief, “then I’ll go upstairs to find Qin Chuan, this matter still has to be told to him.”
She still had some sense of presence before her mother passed, but after she did, other than her older brother and younger brother, nobody bothered with her anymore.
Yan Xuanjing watched as Lin Mu hurriedly slip on some slipper then pattered up and stairs. It was only until Lin Mu’s figure disappeared from the entrance of corridor did he slowly take back his sight.
Out of the three children of the Lin family, the daughter that ran away didn’t really mean much to Father Lin.
Still a little naive, he thought.
So he didn’t allow his children to go out of his control.
This was probably the Relaxed Emperor’s family’s innocence.
…… But it was pretty good.
The fox spirit remembered Lin Mu’s slightly guarded and cautious appearance, and felt as if his heart had been scratched slightly, and was a little itchy.
Lin Mu didn’t need to rush and adapt to the rules of monsters.
Yan Xuanjing thought.
He was there.
The nine-tailed fox lowered his head and began to slowly flip through the information in the phone,
The pile of information that Lin Mu send Di Wu was quite detailed, from their name to their photos to their birth chart1 and their cultivator sect, everything was there.
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These were all moved down from the reference room on the second floor and sorted out, so they were very detailed.
In particular, those individuals who shared the same name as those sent by Di Wu, even their biographical details were there.
Little spy.
Lin Mu felt somewhat helpless as he took off the leash attached to the door, and said goodbye to Grandpa Liu who was still reading the newspaper.
Yan Xuanjing remembered all the looks of the people in the phone, thought for a moment, and turned around to find Di Xiu.
Milky followed behind Lin Mu, jumped onto the back of the little electric scooter after it was unlocked, and lifted his head to aid Lin Mu in removing the leash from his neck.
Lin Mu looked towards the Li Hua cat that came up behind them and said, “Blossom is really quite bold.”
“I wasn’t in a good condition at that time, and had some premonition that something was probably going to happen.” Di Xiu raised his hand and touched his heart, “I gave this fruit to your mother very early…… and as long as she ate it, she would forget me.”
But Lin Xueji didn’t eat it.
Lin Mu found Qin Chuan who was hanging himself on a clothesline on the second floor.
Not only did she not eat it, but she also clenched her teeth and kept that secret for eighteen years, not telling anyone, including Lin Mu, one of the ones involved.
Recently, it had started to rain sporadically. There wasn’t any moon, nor moon essence, and only a few scattered stars in the sky tonight.
Lin Mu looked up at the small dragon hanging on the clothesline and said, “Qin Chuan, I have something to tell you.”
“Ah?” Qin Chuan responded, looked at Lin Mu upside down, and when he spoke, there was a slight dragon’s roar in his words, “if it’s about the things you told Yan Xuanjing, I’ve heard it all.”
Lin Mu made an ‘ay’, and just as he wanted to say something, he was interrupted by Qin Chuan.
With a flick of his tail, Qin Chuan jumped down from the clothesline, landed precisely on Lin Mu’s shoulder, and said lightly, “I don’t really mind. I’m having such a good time at your house, I’ll just take it as repaying you!”
Lin Mu was still a little embarrassed.
When he used to be bullied because he didn’t have a father, he had actually used the kindness of several people because he looked cute to accuse others behind their back. However, this was the first time he had used this kind of method on someone that could be called a friend.
Even if he didn’t mind, Lin Mu himself couldn’t bear it.
He thought about it, and simply took Qin Chuan into the room, opened a certain Bao2 website, and asked Qin Chuan to choose something he liked as a gift to compensate him.
Qin Chuan’s eyes lit up, and wasn’t planning to be courteous towards Lin Mu at all.
Then, he took the mouse and clicked away as he picked stuff.
Lin Mu sat on the bed next to him and listened to Qin Chuan’s rhythmic mouse sounds. His eyelids started to fight each other, and before long, he fell asleep.
With this sleep, Lin Mu slept until dawn the next day. After washing up and returning to the room under Qin Chuan’s eager gaze, he glanced at what Qin Chuan had placed into the cart and found that it was hundreds of plush toys.
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