Chapter Seventeen: Everything Remains the Same

  By the next day, Zehong was already able to get out of bed, he was just a bit weak.

  I sent him back to the hotel and suddenly saw Zhang Ting and a few others walking down together. I let Ze Hong wait for me downstairs and rushed over to ask Zhang Ting.

  "Where are you going?" I looked at Zhang Ting, but she didn't say a word and shook off my hand to follow them. And that Yi Fan was still staring at me.

  I don't want to argue with you either, if I wasn't so tired now, I would have hit you a long time ago.

  "What are you going to do next?" I asked Ze Heng as I sent him back to his room and sat on the stool.

  "Alas, I don't know either. This time the sect's trial has also come to an end for me... I'll head back to my sect first and then send Ruan back to Cao Mountain..."

  "Or I'll go with you."

  "It's okay, we'll meet again in the future. I've made up my mind about you as a brother. No matter what happens in the future, just give me a call and I'll be there."

  Although we didn't say it out loud, in our hearts, brothers have already recognized each other.

  Zehong didn't bring anything either, just wrapped the knife and hung it on his back. I accompanied him to the hospital to collect Yan's body and helped him hail a taxi.

  "I'm leaving... remember to keep in touch."

  "Uh-huh," watching Ze Hong's distant figure felt a bit reluctant... but who knew that it was already destined for us to take on some responsibilities together...

  Back at the hotel, I looked at myself in the mirror and found that I had aged a lot in just a few days. My face was covered with stubble that hadn't been shaved... sigh.

  Wait, what did I just see! Through the mirror, I saw that my forehead seems to have a very transparent mark! Slanted and skewed, it's written with a character that looks like Oracle bone script... It's the character "Chuan"! The Chuan character!

  I recall that at the time, my soul was in a state of turmoil, and I felt like my forehead was burning hot, as if it were about to melt. And when I used the "lie zi jue" (a type of meditation technique), my forehead also started burning, feeling as if something had pierced through me. Could this be due to the "chuan zi"?

  I pulled open the curtains and let sunlight in, but now I still can't see a thing. How strange!

  A person lies in bed... feeling much emptier.

  Suddenly thought of Zhang Ting, this girl is probably still very angry with me. Just saw them going out, she didn't even bother to talk to me, I should go and try to please her...

  I dialed the phone number and said hello! But nobody answered!

  It rang three times before it was finally answered.

  "Ting Ting... where is she?" I asked her with a smile.

  "Are you annoyed?!" Hmm, looks like she's still very angry...

  "Hmm, I'm annoyed, so I came looking for you..."

  I kept pestering her like this until she couldn't take it anymore and told me they were fishing by the willow lake.

  There are so many water ghosts in Liu Lake, and yet there are still fish? Thinking back to what Ze Heng told me before that Liu Lake is also known as the Thousand Ghost Lake, just thinking about it makes me shudder.

  I rushed out to find Zhang Ting, after a while I finally found them, and walked over...

  Zhang Ting had her back to me, I slowly approached and stood behind her, her classmates saw me with a look of disgust on their faces...

  Am I really so hateful to them?

  Zhang Ting also felt that there was someone behind her, turned her head to see me, and didn't say anything, then turned back again. I stood there feeling very awkward, so I walked over to a nearby rock and sat down watching them.

  This is really cruel, I was just trying to annoy her, but she actually left me here all alone.

  In the meantime, I saw a girl turn her head and smile at me, but the more I looked at her, the more uncomfortable I felt.

  "Wow! I caught it!" I heard Wang Dan exclaim, and everyone gathered around.

  "Does Liu Hu really have fish?" I muttered to myself and walked over with a thick face...

  "What kind of fish is this? Carp? Or catfish?" Wang Dan said to herself.

  I took a look and it was an African cichlid, I could tell from the teeth alone, but this fish is fatter than the African cichlid, and its whole body is more transparent... The most important thing is that I saw this fish emitting waves of dark energy... It turns out that all the fish in Liu Lake are strange.

  "Don't touch!" I saw Wang Dan was about to reach out and touch when she was startled by my sudden words, looking at me with contempt.

  "Why can't I touch? Why are you so nosy?" I saw Zhang Ting being super mean to me again since the last time she got angry, and it was her who made things difficult for me...

  Everyone's gaze is piercing and unbearable, forget it, let them touch me, at worst it's just a minor illness.

  I'm just an interlude... I went back to sit on that stone again, seeing them catch more and more fish, my heart getting more and more anxious. But I didn't dare go over, I just hoped they were just fishing for fun, but...

  "Fishing is almost done, let's go back and ask the chef to help us cook it." I saw Lv Xin say this, what a joke! You're still going to eat after stirring up such bad luck?

  I saw them carrying 2 buckets and walking towards us. I directly blocked their way.

  "This...this fish can't be eaten..." I saw Zhang Ting looking at me with a hesitant gaze saying.

  "Oh? Can't eat? Hehe, are you afraid that you won't have enough to eat?" Yifan said this and then scooped out two more fish from the bucket and threw them on the ground.

  All those men laughed...

  I feel like I've eaten a turtle, but I don't dare to lose my temper in front of Zhang Ting... I thought Zhang Ting would help me say a few words, but she didn't say anything and just walked past me...

  This is no joke! If the fish eats it, it will go mad and die! I ran past them from behind, took advantage of the person carrying the bucket not paying attention, snatched it over, and ran towards Liu Hu.

  "Damn it." I saw those men see the bucket of water being snatched by me, all of them chased after me. Yifan took the opportunity to kick me from behind, and I fell directly to the ground. The fish in the bucket all scattered out, most of them rolled into the lake, but there were still 5 or 6 left.

  I saw this scene and relaxed a lot, but I was still being beaten by them. I was about to turn around and fight back when I saw Zhang Ting running over and pulling at these three people. Alas, she was still taking care of me, but in the process of pulling, they accidentally pushed Zhang Ting down.

  I saw fire coming out and you hit me, but also hit my wife!

  "Wait! The mountain is quiet..." No, that's not right... I remembered what Master taught me, not to use my skills to harm others... I was silently reciting it in my heart when suddenly I kicked him without thinking.

  Although they were three people, I wasn't afraid at all. Pulling and pulling, there's still a bit of hooliganism in my heart. Anyway, I specifically picked on this ordinary guy, I've wanted to beat him up for a long time!

  After a long fight, it seemed that both sides were tired and stopped. The master had taught me some boxing and kicking skills. If I hadn't been injured by the tree spirit last time, they would be nothing! So I'm still not afraid of them, although my face was swollen, but those three weren't much better, especially Yifan, I kept hitting him on the head!

  "Wait for me!" Yifan tossed out these words and turned around to pick up those few fish into the bucket and took them back.

  I saw Yifan going to pick up the fish, I was too lazy to remind him. Seeing them leave, Zhang Ting ran to my side and asked me anxiously.

  "Zihe, are you okay..."

  "I thought you were ignoring me!"

  "Who told you to make me angry! It's just a few fish, do you have to be like this?" I saw Zhang Ting at least vented some of her anger, and I was also quite happy in my heart.

  "That fish doesn't want to be eaten." I couldn't tell Zhang Ting that the fish had some bad aura, but I also couldn't come up with a good excuse...

  "Oh? You also know what fish think?" I saw Zhang Ting laugh out when she heard me say that.

  "Ah, Tingting, you have no idea how much I've wanted to die for you these past few days!" I blurted out the words uncontrollably, feeling like I was about to collapse, but all for love...

  Later on, Zhang Ting and I made up again, and I took her to my room to sit together.

  "Zi Chuan, I feel that you've been doing some things lately that I just don't understand." When Zhang Ting said this to me, I was shocked.

  "No, nothing's wrong, don't think about it!" I said with a smile, and she didn't mention it again. After checking the time, which was already past 6 o'clock, I prepared to take Zhang Ting out for dinner.

  "Wait a minute, I'll change into something else." Only then did I remember that I had been wearing this outfit for several days and immediately took it off in front of her to put on another one.

  "Zi Chuan! What's wrong with you!" I saw Zhang Ting anxiously asking me.

  "What's on me?" I looked down at myself and had forgotten! There are many blood holes that have already scabbed over on my body...

  How should I tell Zhang Ting...

  "Oh... this, I had cupping therapy recently..."

  "Can fire cupping be done like this?"

  "The latest technology...the method of combining acupuncture with fire cupping has become like this."

  I saw Zhang Ting also didn't ask with a suspicious look...

  After dinner, I sent Zhang Ting back to her room and returned to my own room to watch TV.

  As a result, it seemed very noisy outside and everyone was running around.

  Won't it be an earthquake? I subconsciously thought of an earthquake because that's how they're always portrayed on TV.

  I opened the door and saw them all running downstairs out of the room.

  I followed the crowd running downstairs and saw that everyone stopped at 4th floor, even jammed at the staircase.

  Something happened on the 4th floor? I remembered that Zhang Ting was on the 4th floor! I called Zhang Ting while pushing my way into the crowd, but couldn't squeeze in!

  "Zhang Ting! What's going on with your 4th floor!"

  "Huh? ...I don't know." I heard Zhang Ting was still yawning... It's just past 9 o'clock and she's already sleeping. But it's good that she woke up, at least nothing happened to her.

  "Uh-huh, you keep sleeping, don't come out."

  "What's wrong? Why is it so noisy outside?"

  "It seems like something's going on outside, don't open the door."

  I hung up the phone and jumped up to see what was going on inside.

  "Hey, buddy, what's going on inside?" I patted the tall guy in front of me, trying to get some information out of him.

  "I just arrived, I heard that a guest in one of the rooms died." When the tall guy said this to me, I thought to myself, another death?