Meet the Gentleman

Chapter 720: I Won’t Be a Watchdog
The horizon of the bitter grinding day.

The darkness is like water and also like a dream, giving a very strange feeling.

Xiangliu went westward, feeling uneasy all the time, as if the man had caught up with him.

"Is that person following us?" The main snake leader looked back from time to time, but didn't see anything.

but.

The uneasiness grew stronger.

This strange darkness, like water and a dream, was not very friendly to it. It not only blocked its way like mud, but also obscured its vision.

"Old Black, don't scare me." The white snake head looked back and said, "How could that person catch up here so quickly? You just said that it is possible that person tampered with our memory? Is this true?"

"What do you mean by memory tampering?"

The main snakehead asked.

"Ah? Are you really sick?" The white snake leader was stunned for a moment, looked at the main snake leader with great confusion, and said: "If you are really sick, you'd better abdicate as soon as possible, otherwise..."

"roll!"

The main snake head shouted angrily.

"Boss, you, forgot?"

The red snake head asked after a moment of hesitation. It had just felt that something was wrong with the main snake head.

"Forgot what? What did I just say?"

The main snake head asked doubtfully.

The red snake head repeated it, but the main snake head said: "I didn't say that at all? How is that possible? Who can tamper with our memories? Although I really don't like that person and don't want to listen to his orders. But we were indeed created by that person. If there is no that person, there will be no us..."

The snakeheads were a little dumbfounded. What was going on?

"Could it be that the dream erased the boss's memory?" A snakehead thought for a moment and said, "Or, as long as we know that the memory has been tampered with, our memory will be erased?"

"It's very possible."

"It must be so."

All the snake heads said this one after another, becoming even more afraid of that man.

"Humph, I don't believe it."

The white snake head said.

At this moment, the main snake head was a little confused. Could it be that his memory had really been erased? Although he didn't quite believe the words of the white snake head, he could still believe the words of the other snake heads...

They are one and will not do anything to harm their entity.

of course.

Except for that idiot White Snake Head...

“No matter whether it is true or not, let’s escape from the dream first.” The main snake head said uneasily, speeding up to the west, but the darkness ahead was even more difficult to break.

Like mud, it trapped it tightly.

"There is indeed Qing Jia's aura here. This must be the path Qing Jia walked on."

A snake head looked at the dark road ahead, looking for traces of Qing Jia's footsteps, which would make it easier for them to pass through. If Qing Jia hadn't walked in front of them, perhaps they wouldn't be able to walk in their dreams at all...

"No, I can't walk anymore."

Not long after, the main snake leader said anxiously, his mind was extremely uneasy, and he always felt that something was following him.

But when I looked back, I couldn't see anything.

"It's strange, why is there no trace of Qing Jia here? It seems that Qing Jia is not heading here." The purple snake head observed carefully for a while and said, "Boss, Qing Jia should have changed direction. It didn't come here, so it's difficult for us to pass through the dream..."

"Hurry and look for traces of Qing Jia."

The main snakehead said.

All the snake heads observed carefully, except the white snake head, which looked around, with no one knowing what it was looking at.

"Boss, there is no trace of Qing Jia's scent left. It seems that Qing Jia suddenly disappeared." The purple snake head was extremely shocked. "It's strange. How could he suddenly disappear? This shouldn't be the case. Could it be that Qing Jia suddenly walked out of the dream from here?"

"Walk out of the dream from here?"

“There are no traces.”

The snake heads were all thinking.

"Idiot, Qingjia may not have walked out from here at all, but walked back along the same path." The white snake head glanced at the purple snake head and said, "Qingjia is so afraid of death that he must have left many mazes to confuse that person. It is impossible for him to walk in a straight line to the end..."

"Go back the way we came."

The main snake head suddenly said.

At this time, the other snakeheads also understood...

When they returned to the original route not long ago, they found that Qingjia had indeed turned back and went from the other side. Moreover, he still did not go in a straight line, but turned corners from time to time, or turned in circles, and the route was very tortuous.

If they were not one of the sixteen taboos, there would be no way to find Qingjia's trace.

However, since they can all be found, people should also be able to realize that it just takes a little more time.

What’s the point of this?

For others, they simply could not find Qing Jia's traces. It made no difference whether they left a straight or winding route. They could still find Qing Jia's traces. However, for that person, no matter how complicated the route was, he could still find his traces...

So what's the use?
Xiangliu couldn't understand it. Was he just trying to delay time?

But what’s the point of delaying?

It's totally useless.

At this time, it was thinking while following the traces of Qingjia.

Feng Qingyan still followed it quietly. Just because he heard Xiangliu's words, he didn't plan to take any action. He would wait until he found Qingjia and then catch it in one fell swoop.

If Xiangliu hadn't reminded him, he would not have noticed the traces of Qingjia.

of course.

With the existence of red spider lily, Qingjia has nowhere to hide and no way to escape.

No matter where he hides, he can know the direction. He just needs to follow the direction indicated by the red spider lily.

However, the red spider lily is still pointing to the west, but in the current situation, Qingjia and Xiangliu are in the same line?

This shouldn't always be the case.

Xiangliu sometimes turned left and sometimes turned right, and his direction was not always west.

Feng Qingyan discovered that the red spider lily always pointed in the direction of Xiangliu, that is, when Xiangliu turned left, it would point left, and when it turned right, it would point right...

What about Qingjia?

If multiple taboos appear at the same time and in different directions, how should the red spider lily point? Should it point to the nearest taboo, or the first taboo? Or should it point to different directions from time to time?
Fortunately, Qingjia and Xiangliu were in the same location.

As time went by, he discovered a lot of information about Xiang Liu, such as knowing that someone had tampered with the memory of the Sixteen Taboos. For example, if the Sixteen Taboos knew that their memory had been tampered with, their memory would be erased immediately...

At this time, he was also curious about who had tampered with the memory of the Sixteen Taboos.

Were the Sixteen Taboos created by Emperor Shang?
If it wasn't the Shang Emperor, who could it be? And was the misfortune that happened to the Shang Emperor in his later years related to the person who tampered with his memory?
There are also black pottery flower pots, etc.

As he went deeper into the dreamlike darkness, Xiangliu walked even slower.

Feng Qingyan had no choice but to slow down and follow from a distance to avoid being discovered by Xiangliu.

Xiangliu became more and more uneasy, his mind was shaken violently.

"Oh no, that guy must be chasing us. He is right behind us." The main snake head said in panic. The fear of that man in his heart had penetrated deep into his bones.

"No."

The white snake head looked back and seemed to be confused as to why Lao Hei was so afraid of that man. "Even if that man catches up with us, so what? Isn't it just obeying orders again? We have heard of this before."

"This time is different..."

The main snake head shook his head, unable to hide the fear deep in his heart.

"Well, Lao Hei, aren't you too cowardly? I advise you to abdicate as soon as possible." The white snake head said with a laugh.

"roll!"

The main snake head roared angrily and rushed madly along the path Qingjia had taken.

"That person seems to have caught up with us. I feel he is not far behind us. He is watching us..." The Red Snake Head said in shock.

"Isn't that person in Zhoutian? How did he come to Kumotian?" The purple snake head was confused. "Is there only one entrance to Kumotian? How did he pass through the cursed stone mill? This is a taboo in the heavens. Isn't there a curse on his soul?"

"There is a dark prison beneath the cursed millstone. Logically speaking, it is impossible to get through it..."

A snake head frowned and said.

"But I feel like he is following us." The purple snake head said, "He has been watching us. I feel like he must be mocking us, with a playful expression on his face, as if he is watching a play..."

"Uh……"

The white snake head was stunned for a moment, and said, "Xiao Zi, stop talking. You're making me nervous."

"Your perception is correct. That person is indeed following behind us."

The main snakehead said.

"So, are you still going to run away?"

The white snake head asked.

"Escape. We must not let that man suppress us again." The main snakehead said, "If we are suppressed again, we will completely lose our freedom and become his watchdogs from now on..."

"Watchdog?"

The white snake head blinked and said in astonishment: "We are one of the sixteen taboos. We have become watchdogs? This, is it..."

"So, if you don't want to be a guard dog, you have to escape!"

The main snakehead said.

"Qingjia is such a coward, isn't he just aware that he will be suppressed and become a watchdog?" The Red Snake Head asked doubtfully, "Boss, if we are suppressed, will we really lose our freedom completely and become watchdogs?"

"Not bad!"

The main snake head nodded in fear, as if he had thought of something. His expression suddenly changed drastically, and he said in horror: "I, I remember, our memories were tampered with because someone needed a watchdog. So, that person wanted to transform us into loyal watchdogs..."

"Boss, our memories were tampered with because of that person? Not someone else?"

The purple snake head said.

"Yes, that's the man..."

At this moment, the soul of the main snake head vibrated again, and something like a dream seemed to flow through it, and the memory was washed away again.

not good!

When the other snake heads saw this, they knew that the main snake head’s memory had been erased again.

When asked after a while, it turned out that the main snakehead knew nothing about the watchdog, nor about his memory being tampered with.

It wanted to escape, but it was afraid of that person...

As for why he was afraid, he couldn't explain it for the moment, which made the snake leader a little confused.

Feng Qingyan, who had been following silently behind, was a little surprised at this moment. Could it be that the watchdog that Xiangliu mentioned was the ghost guarding the Ghost Gate?
This is indeed a watchdog...

but.

He still couldn't be sure whether the person who tampered with their memories was Emperor Shang.

It would be fine if it was Emperor Shang, after all, he was his previous life.

If it wasn't the Shang Emperor, wouldn't even the Shang Emperor, an existence at the level of the Emperor of Heaven and Earth, have become that person's pawn?

And he, too, could not avoid being a pawn.

This feeling is not good.

Therefore, he didn't know whether to continue suppressing the taboo.

If he were a chess piece, and continued to suppress the taboos and make all the sixteen taboos become ghost generals of the Ghost Gate, wouldn't that be completing the mission of the chess piece?
And the chess pieces will also lose their value.

However, if he did not suppress the taboo and allowed it to harm the world, he could not sit idly by. Therefore, he had to continue to suppress it...

and also.

This ghost gate should be his...

So he thought that the man was more likely to be the Shang Emperor, and this was probably a trap set by the Shang Emperor. After all, the Shang Emperor was the last emperor of the world, and there would be no ominous signs for no reason. Perhaps he had already noticed it, so he set up a trap that he didn't know about...

As he walked and thought, he found that darkness flowed like water.

The dream-like feeling became more real.

This is a real dream.

But soon after, the dream in front began to shake, as if something was shattering the dream.

Blue Armor——

Feng Qingyan immediately thought of Qingjia.

Based on what Xiang Liu said, he probably knew that Qing Jia had the special power to travel through the void and through dreams. Perhaps now, Qing Jia had reached the edge of the dream and was breaking through the dream and escaping from it.

Because breaking the dream will definitely cause a shock to the dream.

It may even lead to the collapse of dreams.

At this moment Xiangliu was overjoyed. He saw hope of escaping from the dream and was rushing towards Qingjia frantically.

"Haha, we're almost there."

The red snake head said in great surprise, and vaguely saw Qingjia's figure.

Moreover, the dream was shaking violently at this moment, as if something was trying to break the dream, causing the dream to shake violently.

"Is this dream going to be shattered?"

The purple snake head said.

"That person's dream is not so easy to break. At most, it is just a marginal dream, and only a small part is broken." The main snake head breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, but he was still very uneasy in his heart and his mind could not calm down.

Because that person has been following behind...

It couldn't understand why that person just followed behind them and didn't take action to suppress them? As long as that person took action, they would have no power to resist at all.

Could it be that that person wants to find Qingjia through me?
The snake leader's expression changed.

but.

It was not difficult for the man to find the Green Armor, and he did not need to go through it.

Or, is that person also trapped in his own dream, causing him to be unable to wake up? So, that person also needs to escape from the dream? In order to truly wake up?
The main snake leader thought in surprise and felt that there was some possibility.

"Come on."

The main snake head couldn't think so much at the moment.

As long as you escape from the dream, even that person will be unable to do anything to you.

From now on, I can live freely in my dreams, no longer have to obey that person's orders, and no longer have to be a watchdog...

Something like a dream once again flowed through its soul.

It was washed away from memory again.

"Boss, what are you waiting for? Let's go." The red snake head urged, not knowing why the main snake head suddenly stopped.

"Oh no, the boss's memory has been erased again."

The purple snake head said.

At the end of the dreamlike darkness, a huge monster covered in green armor was frantically ramming the wall-like darkness, causing the strange darkness to shake violently and fall like fragments.

These fragments of darkness are what dreams are made of.

It is about to break through the wall of dreams.

It is the Qingjia.

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