Chapter 21 Conflict

  Naguo Yun'er's face looked somewhat tired, and she just silently drank her coffee with the four of us, the atmosphere was awkward. To break the deadlock, I pretended to look around and asked: "Didn't Yuan Nuo Yi come back with you? Where is he?" Naguo Yun'er's eyes turned gloomy: "He...was taken away."

  "What?! Lee Shan Yu jumped up from the sofa: "How could this kid be taken away? It's strange, if Master was by her side, how could he have been brought away?" "Am I all-powerful?! Can I solve everything?! I told Yuan Nu earlier not to follow me!" Na Gu Yun slammed down her cup and shouted. Xiao Lu sighed and asked: "Where was she taken to?" "It's the Fei Shan Zhuang." Na Gu Yun seemed to have lost all her energy as she replied. The expressions on Xiao Lu and Lee Shan Yu's faces instantly froze, I asked in confusion: "What's wrong? Your expressions look very serious." "That mountain villa is actually a good place, Yuan Nu being taken away isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's just... if no one brings Yuan Nu back, he won't be able to come back on his own." Xiao Lu sighed, shaking her head while secretly glancing at Na Gu Yun.

  "I won't be able to go, and Friede and Ak are not in this city for the time being." Nagi Kumorin said lazily as if she was about to faint. "The curse on her wrist is real, right?" Yeziko grabbed my wrist and handed it over to Nagi Kumorin, whose fingers lightly brushed against the snake and scorpion pattern, and strangely, the snake and scorpion began to move.

  "Isn't it obvious? Don't you have it on your arm too, Ye Zikuo?" Nagu Yun'er said calmly and composedly. Ye Zikuo's face turned ugly on the spot: "Nagu Yun'er, are you kidding me?! If my curse was placed by Li Zhiqiang, then what about Ning Hong? She got this curse for no reason, how do you explain that?"

  I was stunned. It turned out that Nagu Yun'er had never saved Ye Zikuo in the first place. The reason he's still alive now is because Li Zhi, in order to gain liberation, forcibly gave the contract signed with the demon to Ye Zikuo? She deceived me! She tricked me into becoming her apprentice, but she didn't do anything for Ye Zikuo. "Nagu Yun'er, don't you think you're being too much?" I was surprised by my own emotional turmoil. Xiao Lü walked over and held me back: "Ning Hong, calm down first." "Master has her own difficulties, please forgive her." Li Xiangyu said as she stepped forward. Ye Zikuo gritted his teeth for a long time before speaking: "Forgive? She deceived me, deceived Ning Hong, now she can even ignore Yuan Nuoyi, who should be forgiving whom?"

  Nangong Yun'er walked up to Ye Zikuo with a wry smile: "I know you don't believe me anymore, but there's something I have to tell you. The curse between you and Ning Xue can be lifted, but it must be resolved at the Yeshan Manor."

  "You're trying to deceive me again," Ye Zikuo said, his face looking terrible. "Every time there's a task, you always come up with some lies to trick me. Why should I believe you? You're Yuan Nuo's aunt, and you don't care about him at all?"

  "I'll go," I said calmly, then walked quietly up to Nangong Yun'er: "Is there anything I need to pay attention to?"

  "There's nothing that needs your attention," she replied. "Everything you encounter is what you should experience. All I can tell you is that Yeshan Manor is a very spiritual place, but the road up the mountain has many strange things." Nangong Yun'er's eyes were icy cold, making me suspect whether she really didn't care about Yuan Nuo's life or death, and what exactly was going on at Yeshan Manor that she wasn't planning to tell me.

  After saying this, she turned around and walked upstairs, with Li Xiangyu hastily following her up.

  "Ye Zikuo, do you also have a curse on your arm? What's going on?" I asked this question, Ye Zikuo seemed reluctant to answer me, and instead sat down silently. Xiao Lü ran in front of Ye Zikuo, lifted his chin and said "Sorry!" After that, she stared at Ye Zikuo's eyes, and soon Ye Zikuo's eyes became dull. A while later, Xiao Lü ran back to me and said: "It was Li Zhi, who made a contract with the devil to help his son take revenge, but after his son was saved, he wanted to leave, however, the contract wasn't that easy to resolve. Except for transferring the curse, from Ye Zikuo's memory, it can be inferred that when they fell down the stairs together, Li Zhi took advantage of the opportunity, cut open the cursed mark on his arm, pressed Ye Zikuo's arm, and transferred it to him."

  "This is why Ye Zikuo is still alive, which means Li Zhi has already been freed. Alas, Ye Zikuo is really pitiful." "Do you have a habit of peeking into people's memories?" Ye Zikuo's cold voice sounded from behind Little Green, who jumped up with a start and said: "Don't hit me! I still know your other secrets, do you want me to say them out loud?" Ye Zikuo's hand, which was about to hit Little Green, stopped in mid-air: "You can get lost."

  Xiao Lü stuck out her tongue at me and ran upstairs in a hurry. "Why didn't you tell me?" I asked, looking at Ye Zikuo who sat down beside me, seemingly not having heard my question: "Do you think we should get rid of Xiao Lü?" "Uh, she's already dead..." I hastily made excuses for Xiao Lü, "Then let her die again!" I was taken aback for a moment before slapping Ye Zikuo on the head: "You're not possessed by an evil spirit, are you?!" Looking at Ye Zikuo's scowling face, I chuckled, "Does it hurt? I was just joking!" Ye Zikuo rubbed his sore head, saying discontentedly.

  "Both of you!" Li Xiangyu's voice came from the stairs, "Come to my room for a bit!" After saying this, Li Xiangyu went back to her room. I and Ye Zikuo looked at each other in confusion, with questions in our minds, we headed to Li Xiangyu's room. Unexpectedly, Little Green was also there, she greeted us brightly, but when she saw Ye Zikuo's dark face, she immediately lowered her head pretending not to see us.

  Li Shan Yu hugged her arms and said, "The matter of Jia Ke Plastic Surgery Hospital is considered settled, but you all know that the ones Ning Lie killed were just some dead puppets. Their souls are still there, and now I can infer that they are part of a demon team. Otherwise, Ning Lie wouldn't have been cursed." Xiao Lü also nodded: "I can feel their breath still exists!" "So this time is about the Non-Mountain Villa?" Ye Zi Ke asked lightly, "This time we four will go together! Only I can't guarantee that everyone can come back together."

  Li Shan Yu said this, and I felt a chill run down my spine. "That mountain road is strange, we don't know what we'll encounter, and I can't guarantee everyone's safety, so learn to take care of yourselves." Li Shan Yu tidied up the various items on her desk and said, "Actually, Ning Xue, you don't have to go, after all, you're still a newcomer." Li Shan Yu looked at me and said, "No way, Yuan Nuo Yi is my good friend, I must go rescue him!" After saying this, she couldn't help but think of the grudges between their family and ours. If mom found out, would she scold me? "Ning Xue, are you really okay? After all, Yuan Nuo Yi's family..." Xiao Lu's words were cut off before she could finish, I glared at her fiercely: "Do you like snooping on people's memories or something? Believe it or not, I'll kill you!" Xiao Lu's next sentence was swallowed back, and she said innocently: "You're all bullying me." After that, she left. "Alright, everyone pack up, we leave tomorrow!" Hearing this, I felt relieved and left Na Gu Yun Er's house.

  When I got home, my mom was moving boxes and said to me, "The thing I told you about last time has come true, I'm going to open a store in A City soon! You should congratulate me!" I smiled and said, "That's great! This way you won't have to work so hard anymore." "But aren't you worried about being alone at home?" My mom still looked worried, "It's okay, didn't you say that once things are stable, I can go there too?" I helped my mom move the boxes into the car, and Uncle Wang came out of the car and said, "Xiao Hong, I've done what I promised you, thanks for helping me with things." I nodded, "Thanks, Uncle Wang." The car drove away from my sight, and I walked into the empty house, suddenly feeling very sleepy, and fell asleep on the bed.

  In the middle of the night, I suddenly woke up and looked out the window at the moonlight. Just as I was about to get up, I thought, "The last surgery wasn't finished yet?" A chill ran down my spine as the doctor standing in front of me took a step closer with a knife in hand. "You... aren't you dead?" My voice began to tremble and I tightly grasped the ring on my finger, but there was no reaction. "How could I bear to die? My revenge hasn't been fulfilled yet! No matter if it's Nagu Yuner, Li Shan Yu, or you, none of you can escape this fate!" A knife pierced through my heart, and I smelled the stench of blood. I clearly felt the pain in my heart, and everything before me became blurry. When I opened my eyes again, the sunlight was dazzling, and as I got up, I could still feel the pain in my chest, which seemed like an illusion. However, the pain on my wrist was real, and the snake and scorpion tattoo was staring coldly at me... it was just a dream. Looking at the time, I suddenly remembered that today was the day to go to Yishan Manor. I hastily packed up and rushed straight to Nagu Yuner's house.