Chapter Seventeen: A Night in a Foreign Land

  The four beds were just next to each other, all with two lower bunks and two upper bunks. Originally, Liu Yi and Zhao Tong were on one side, while Hu Jingjing and Liu Yiyi were on the other. Liu Yi and Hu Jingjing had the upper bunks, while Zhao Tong and Liu Yiyi had the lower bunks. However, Liu Yiyi insisted on sleeping in an upper bunk, so Liu Yi swapped with her.

  After all, it was already dark, and several people lay down on their beds. Yili turned her body sideways, facing Liu Yi. This way, she could see Liu Yi with just a glance to the side...

  To be honest, Liu Yi was also speechless about Liu Yiyi. After all, the two were not close relatives, and Liu Yi had always been looked at like this, feeling strange, and when he looked at the other two again, he found that Hu Jingjing was also secretly stretching her head to glance at herself, thinking in her heart "This is not good, these two people won't have any ideas about themselves, will they?"

  Alas, it's better to hide, Liu Yi thought, and quickly shrunk his whole body, including his head, into the quilt, and fell fast asleep.

  The two girls saw Liu Yi and directly hid under the quilt, each turning over to enter dreamland. Zhao Tong didn't notice these things, playing his mobile game self-absorbedly, after a while, he realized that everyone had fallen asleep, so he hurriedly put down his phone under the pillow and closed his eyes too.

  The sky was still gray, and Liu Yi had already opened his eyes, walked to the window seat, and began to cultivate the Dragon Subduing Technique. The words of Huan Ling yesterday morning gave him a great boost, thinking that he would soon break through, Liu Yi's spirit was lifted, as if he had been injected with chicken blood. Although he had already used 4 refined pellets, being able to upgrade early wasn't a bad thing either.

  The remaining two were stored by Liu Yi in a cabinet at home, thinking that no one would usually go through it, so he didn't carry them with him.

  After practicing for a while, Liu Yi guessed that everyone might have woken up, so he went back to the bed and started washing with his toiletries.

  Liu Yi had just picked up the towel and toothbrush when he realized a pair of crystal clear eyes were gazing at him with deep affection, no need to guess, it was Liu Yiyi. Liu Yi thought to himself, could it be that this Liu Yiyi has developed feelings for him because he saved her last time?

  Liu Yi was indeed intimidated by Liu Yiyi's behavior, but in fact, Liu Yi is still relatively simple-minded and doesn't have many thoughts about girls, although he is neither a monk nor a mountain hermit.

  "We'll arrive around noon, let's get up and have something to eat first." Liu Yi said in order to break the deadlock. After speaking, he took out four bowls of instant noodles from his luggage and headed towards the hot water dispenser.

  Not even back yet, Zhao Tong was already hooked up by the fragrant noodles, Liu Yi speechlessly looked at Zhao Tong and sighed "A foodie is a foodie! In the past, beating you wouldn't wake you up, didn't expect a bowl of noodles to settle it."

  Zhao Tongxiu smiled and started eating, picked up the bowl of noodles, and began to slurp them down. Without waiting for the noodles to fully soften, he wolfed them down in just a few mouthfuls. Finally, he said with a grin, "I'm a foodie and I'm proud of it!"

  This woke up Hu Jiajia too, and Liu Yi hastily invited her over to eat noodles...

  A few people ate and sat together to chat, two girls sat together gossiping about Korean male stars, Liu Yi and Zhao Tong couldn't get a word in edgewise, so they picked up their phones and started searching for various scenic spots on Mount Huangshan, so that when they arrived, they would have an itinerary.

  After a long journey, the group finally arrived in Huangshan City and checked into an inn near the scenic area. Liu Yi thought of booking two standard rooms, so he and Zhao could stay in one room, and the two girls could stay in another.

  However, during the May Day holiday, tourists were packed to capacity, and there were only a few rooms left. There was only one single room and one large bed room left. Liu Yi showed his gentlemanly demeanor by giving up the large bed room to Liu Yiyi and Hu Jingjing, while he and Zhao Tong went to the single room.

  Compared to the simple facilities, this price is really not cheap. Looking at the relatively small space in the single room, Liu Yi was speechless, and estimated that if Zhao lay down alone, there would be no place for himself.

  Zhao Tong was quite righteous, seeing the space was very narrow, he said to Liu Yi "Yi Ge, you sleep on the bed, I'll just make do with a makeshift bed on the floor."

  Looking at the passage that was even narrower than the bed, Liu Yi shook his head and said with a serious expression, "No need, you sleep on the bed first, I'll go out for something. By the way, I might come back late, don't wait for me."

  Zhao Tong was also stunned, nodding and saying "Then, Brother Yi, you should go and come back early."

  He didn't know that Liu Yi had found a secluded street with no one around as soon as he went out, and started practicing. In this May sky, although it was already spring, the temperature at night still made people feel cold, fortunately Liu Yi wore more clothes.

  However, after practicing the Dragon Subduing Technique, Liu Yi felt a warm current surging throughout his body, driving away all the coldness. Before long, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

  After practicing for several hours, he took out his mobile phone and saw that it was only 1 o'clock in the morning. Liu Yi suddenly wanted to stroll around this unfamiliar street and take a look at the night scene of this strange land.

  Liu Yi looked up at the sky and muttered to himself, "The heavenly stage is as cool as water on a summer night, just waiting for tourists to appreciate it carefully. It's not easy to come out and play once, if you don't take a look at this night view, wouldn't it be a waste?"

  Walking alone on the streets of this foreign land, Liu Yi could feel a sense of desolation in addition to the freshness. When it was quiet and deserted, he always felt like something was missing inside him.

  On this late night street, there were not many people. Under the dim light, Liu Yi's figure was vaguely visible. As he passed by a hair salon, several coquettish women kept throwing flirtatious glances at him, playing with their hair.

  Liu Yi was quite disdainful of these people, so he didn't even give them a proper look and continued walking forward. But before he had taken a few steps, he saw a girl about his age walking towards him.

  "...Hello... Excuse me... Do you need someone to accompany you?" The girl was clearly a novice, and her face turned bright red like a ripe persimmon under the dim light.

  Liu Yi raised his head, looking up and down at the girl in front of him. She had a simple ponytail, a plum-red checked shirt with a yellow down jacket over it, and a pair of tight-fitting jeans that accentuated her slender legs.

  Liu Yi never thought that a seemingly simple girl would do such a thing. Gazing into the girl's eyes, Liu Yi felt that this girl must have a story.

  The girl saw Liu Yi staring at herself like that, and her face felt hot, so she turned her head to look elsewhere, deliberately evading him.

  "Why? Why are you doing this? Why are you so dirty?" Liu Yi's eyebrows were tightly furrowed as he stared at the girl and asked.

  Under Liu Yi's intense questioning, a girl's eyes suddenly welled up with tears.

  Seeing the girl biting her lips, her bright eyes shining with tears, Liu Yi felt that his words were a bit too harsh. Changing his tone, Liu Yi gently said to the girl, "Sister, don't be afraid, I just think that a girl like you shouldn't be doing this, you should have a better future."

  The girl's clear tears flowed down her cheeks, sobbing incoherently "I... I... I didn't want it to be like this either, but... I had no choice, I... I had no other option."

  Liu Yi looked at the girl with slightly red eyes and felt a pang in his heart, "Tell me what happened, maybe I can help you."

  The girl shook her head. "You're a good person, I won't harm you. Forget it, I'll just leave..." She said as she turned around and walked towards another street.