Chapter 67: Easy to put on, hard to take off

  At this time, Xiao Yu sat in the lobby of the inn, watching Wang Zimeng gritting his teeth to compensate the inn owner for the broken things.

  Xiao Yu smiled slyly, stroking the new wristband on her hand, thinking about how to take it off. As for Wang Zimo's anger, Xiao Yu didn't put it in her heart at all, anyway she had already thoroughly provoked him and wasn't afraid of provoking him again.

  Xiao Yu knew that the guy was definitely thinking about how to deal with himself after arriving at the Wang family, but Xiao Yu was now a dead pig who wasn't afraid of boiling water, you can do whatever you want, I'll just fight back and defend myself.

  "What the heck is this thing? How can't I take it off? Is it trapping the slave or the master? Am I trapped too?" Xiao Yu pouted, trying his best to remove the circle, but no matter how hard he tried, his wrist was already swollen, and he still couldn't get it off. The circle seemed to be stuck to his skin, and he couldn't figure out how to take it off.

  Xiao Yu had also thought of cutting it off with a knife, but thinking that if she cut it off now, she would have no leverage over Ophelia, so she decided to leave it for the time being and only cut it off when there was no other choice.

  Xiao Yu was so engrossed in his thoughts that he didn't notice an old man sitting in front of him, with a sly smile on his face and eyes narrowed, just like the great magician Antonidas.

  "Ah, old man, you want to scare me to death!" Xiao Yu was indeed startled. He had been in this world for some time and his strength had gradually increased, so his perception had also improved greatly. However, the old man's appearance was completely silent, and he hadn't noticed it at all, as if he were a ghost, which gave him a good scare.

  "Young man, it's not that I scared you, but rather you scared yourself. It's because there are things in your heart that you fear, that's why you got scared. Like me, an old man, no matter what appears in front of me, I won't be scared." The old man said with a smile.

  "Cut it out, stop pretending to be tough with me. I'm not afraid of anything in this world." Xiao Yu continued to study his wrist with a very cool and composed expression.

  "What's wrong? Can't pick it?" The old man asked with a hint of schadenfreude.

  Xiao Yu raised his head, looking at the old man's face full of wrinkles and a lewd smile. If it weren't for the socialist education he received since childhood to respect the elderly and love the young, he would have kicked this old man out long ago.

  "What does it have to do with you whether I pick it or not?" Xiao Yu rolled her eyes.

  "You're so reckless, you don't even know what this thing is and yet you put it on yourself, only to bind yourself up and lock yourself in forever. How ridiculous! The old man grabbed the pastries that the waiter had just brought over and hadn't even taken a bite of, and stuffed them directly into his mouth, chewing loudly."

  Then the old man saw the cup of red wine beside Xiao Yu and said, "A 300-year-old Chateau Lafite, being treated like this by you is really a waste."

  The old man didn't mind that the cup of wine had just been drunk by Xiao Yu, and he directly picked it up and took a light sip, then nodded very comfortably.

  Xiao Yu's eyes narrowed as he listened to the old man's words, and he stopped examining the wrist guard. Instead, he stared straight at the old man, trying to discern something special about him.

  But this old man seems to be no different from a beggar on the street who eats and drinks randomly, except that his clothes are cleaner, basically just an old swindler who goes around with a cloth sign.

  "Do you know what this thing is?" Xiao Yu asked casually, although he didn't quite believe that the old man in front of him really knew what it was.

  The old man finished eating a piece of pastry, picked up another one and stuffed it into his mouth, mumbling: "Hmmm, the pastry is not bad, the wine is especially good, if there's another bottle that would be even better."

  Xiao Yu watched the old man pretending to be mysterious, wondering what he was going to do next. With a crisp snap of his fingers, he ordered the beast beside him: "Beast One, go get another bottle of good wine."

  The beast received the order and immediately ran out with a thud. Not long after, it brought over several bottles of red wine and put them on the table.

  The old man looked at the red wine, and suddenly he seemed like a pervert who had seen Sora Aoi, his mouth making sucking noises nonstop. At the same time, he inadvertently glanced at the beastman and praised: "Hm, this beastman is not bad, among all the beastmen I've seen, he's considered quite sturdy."

  "Have you seen a beastman?" Xiao Yu looked at the old man with slanted eyes, somewhat disbelieving.

  The old man opened a bottle of red wine by himself, panting with exhaustion, and said, "That was many years ago, having lived to such an age, I've seen a bit of everything."

  "Hmm, then tell me what this wristband is?" asked Xiao Yu. He really wanted to know what this thing was.

  The old man took another look at the circles on Xiao Yu's wrist, sipped a mouthful of red wine, and savored it extremely before saying: "This is called a slave circle, used by some evil magicians in ancient times to enslave some powerful warriors."

  "Oh? If you know what this thing is, then you should know how to get it down." Xiao Yu's heart skipped a beat when the other person actually called out the name "Feng Nu Quan", and he asked.

  The old man shook his head and said, "There's no way."

  "Cut it out, no use bragging wildly." Xiao Yu said in a bad temper, and snatched the wine bottle from the old man's arms.

  "Hey, hey, I'm an old man, okay? How can you be so ignorant of respecting the elderly and loving the young?" The old man protested.

  "If I didn't respect the elderly and love the young, I would have kicked you out with one foot a long time ago." Xiao Yu pouted, directly tilting her head back to drink from the bottle like soda.

  The old man watched Xiao Yu drink so much and his mouth twitched, what a prodigal son.

  "You seem eager to get this thing down?" The old man leaned back in his chair, smiling.

  "Nonsense, if you had to wear this thing for your whole life, wouldn't you be annoyed?" Xiao Yu continued to play with the ring.

  "It's useless, even if you break your arm, it can't be pulled down. Since you don't want to bring this, why did you enslave others in the first place?" The old man asked with a seemingly profound meaning.

  Xiao Yu said in a bad mood: "How was I supposed to know that once I put it on, I wouldn't be able to take it off? I just wanted to scare that person and give her some punishment. Now look, damn it, I've even punished myself. Why is my luck so bad?"

  "Young man, you should know that harming others is also harming yourself. Only tolerance is the right way. Don't do evil because it's small, don't neglect good because it's small." The old man said to Xiao Yu with a very serious tone.

  Xiao Yu listened to this and although she rolled her eyes, didn't refute it. Although the old man said this sentence perhaps just to show off, but what he said wasn't wrong.

  Xiao Yu is a bit of a small-time hoodlum, but he still knows right from wrong.

  "Beast one, bring a knife, I don't believe it, even with a knife can't cut it open." Xiao Yu found that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't open it, and wanted to use a knife to cut it.

  As for how to threaten Oceania, let's talk about it later.

  He didn't want to be trapped by something for his whole life, just thinking about it was unbearable, and suffering for a female slave wasn't worth it.

  "If a knife could be useful, magic would be too cheap." The old man smiled and took the opportunity to take out the bottle of wine again and pour himself another glass.

  Xiao Yu was annoyed and didn't bother to respond to him.

  Before long, the beast brought over a sharp dagger and said, "Master, do you need my help?"

  Xiao Yu took over the dagger, twisted her mouth and said: "Forget it, I'm afraid you'll cut off my hand along with it."

  The beastmen brothers were so thick-skinned, Xiao Yu had no confidence in them at all.

  Xiao Yu picked up the knife and ground it against her wrist, back and forth, for half a day, but found that it was completely useless, without even leaving a mark on the skin.

  Every time he exerted force, a purple glow would appear on the surface of the leather circle, as if it was protecting the circle.

  "What the heck is going on? Am I supposed to be cheated for my whole life?" Xiao Yu was furious, and directly cut off the corner of the table with his dagger. Then he said to the inn owner who was counting money beside him: "Add this to the bill too."

  Wang Zimo's mouth twitched at the corner, and he couldn't wait to kill Xiao Yu immediately.

  "How's that? Not bad, huh?" The old man chuckled with a pleased smile.

  Xiao Yu rolled his eyes and flipped them over, today his eyeballs were almost popping out, but he was helpless in this circle.

  "As a matter of fact, I do have a suggestion for you." The old man said mysteriously.

  "What advice?" Xiao Yu is now at a loss, and can only ask for guidance.

  "Agreed." The old man clearly spat out two words.

  "I'm fine." Xiao Yu also clearly spat out two words.

  "Alas, fate, everything is fate. Young people, when you reach my age, you will believe in fate too. When I was young, I was fearless and arrogant. But as I grew old, I had to succumb to the forces of destiny. No one can escape its grasp." The old man said with a tinge of emotion.

  "Hmph, I don't believe in this evil omen. I'll take it down sooner or later." Xiao Yu said gritting her teeth.

  The old man looked at Xiao Yu's appearance, as if he saw his younger self, slightly shook his head, and didn't say anything else.

  "Old man, can you or can't handle him? If not, I'll do it myself. At worst, we'll die together." Just then, Ophelia suddenly appeared beside the table, glaring viciously at Xiao Yu.

  "Ah, so you're the reinforcement she invited." Xiao Yu glared at the old man who was still drinking his wine and snatched it away from him.

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