What evil intentions could an evil god possibly have?

Su Yan's cheeks flushed slightly, and she bit her lower lip lightly. After a moment, she said, "I'm not used to change, and you're really good as you are."

"I see..."

Gu Yuqiu laughed, very happy, and said earnestly, "Me too."

Chapter 167: Chapter Fifteen Gu Yuqiu's Laziness, the Crimson Sword

(The chapter number is wrong, but I rarely make mistakes, so I won't change it.)

A dozen days later, the rare warmth of winter dissipated.

The entire city was hit by a heavy snowfall.

Gu Yuqiu was excessively quiet. Despite living in the most bustling area of ​​Tokyo, she always kept to herself and rarely went out, much like an ascetic in religious legends.

In fact, her life was not bitter at all; on the contrary, it was extremely happy, a blissful existence born from idleness.

She had already read all the readable parts of the Ancient Scroll of Sleep, and the rest had been burned to ashes, so she could no longer care about them and just let nature take its course.

at the same time.

After the meeting at the White Water Shrine, the forces that govern the entire Yingzhou finally stopped hiding beneath the surface and revealed their hidden power. They worked hard to fulfill Su Yan's request, hoping to gain her approval and sit in the vacant position.

As for Shen Muchan, many people had worried about her existence, but after she disappeared, people gradually guessed that she was related to Su Yan and stopped paying attention.

No one cared anymore about how the monk Jiehai died, except for his daughter.

As a result, the latest news and data began to arrive daily and fell into Su Yan's hands.

Interestingly, under such large-scale collective activities, the security situation in Yingzhou became excellent. Occasionally, cases related to supernatural powers would occur, but these were unavoidable out-of-control situations, rather than crimes committed by supernatural beings.

However, none of these are the key points.

The most important thing is always how to derive a sufficiently clear range of extraordinary fluctuations from those messages and data.

Next, based on this result, we will try to calculate the extent of power that the sea could use if it tried to prevent Gu Yuqiu from leaving.

This is an extremely troublesome problem that requires a large number of extraordinary individuals to calculate, or for a peak fifth-order individual to directly deduce it. Participants will expend enormous amounts of mental energy.

There are very few forces in the world today qualified to solve this problem; no matter how you calculate it, there can't be more than ten.

—The messenger of natural disasters happens to be one of them.

Without any hesitation, Su Yan did not feel that she was abusing her power for personal gain, and directly mobilized the most elite force of the Disaster Messenger to solve this problem.

The day after she made this decision, Lu Xiu, in his capacity as a representative of the Special Affairs Bureau, requested to speak with her.

There were nearly ten more similar requests after Lu Xiu's.

The first words these forces said to her were exactly the same, except for slight differences in wording.

—What exactly are you and your messenger of natural disasters trying to do?

……

……

"This is not an overreaction on their part."

Gu Yuqiu stood by the window, looking at the snow that had not yet melted in the courtyard, and casually said, "If you just transfer almost half of the entire Disaster Messenger force to Tokyo like this, everyone will be afraid."

That makes sense, but unfortunately Su Yan doesn't like it.

"If I had such intentions, why would I abandon neutrality and stop persisting in things that will never be finished? Why would I be doing this now?"

She sneered, "Do they think I wouldn't choose a good time and create a legitimate excuse as a prelude?"

Gu Yuqiu glanced at her and said helplessly, "It's normal to be afraid because you're always so impatient and give people the impression that you're never idle."

Su Yan raised her eyebrows slightly and looked at her without saying a word.

Gu Yuqiu didn't care about being watched, but she did care about the emotions conveyed in those gazes.

The decision to mobilize extraordinary individuals from all over the world and transfer half of the Disaster Messenger's forces to Tokyo was ultimately made by Su Yan for her sake.

She should at least say something nice, like putting herself in others' shoes and stopping making people angry.

"But these are all insignificant things."

She smiled and said self-deprecatingly, "It's mainly because I'm by your side, and I have a criminal record. Otherwise, why would anyone in this world suspect you?"

Upon hearing this, Su Yan deliberately snorted and said in a nonchalant tone, "You and I aren't that clearly distinguishable."

Gu Yuqiu wondered what those words meant.

She thought about it somewhat casually, but still couldn't come up with a satisfactory answer, so she walked into the courtyard.

Su Yan walked side by side with her.

Unlike in the past, this time the two did not live in a high-rise building, but instead moved to a villa, which felt much more spacious.

Even if they always stay at home and don't go out, there are still too many unused rooms in the villa. Unless Songtang runs around hundreds of times every day without sleeping and leaves a pile of cat hair, the cold and desolate feeling will never dissipate.

Amidst this desolate chill, the courtyard where the two of them were situated was unique.

The weather these days has been intermittently sunny, but mostly snowy.

Gu Yuqiu liked to bask in the sun. On sunny days after the clouds had cleared, she would move a chair out of the house and place it in the yard, casually lie down, close her eyes, and start to sleep.

Su Yan thought she was crazy, but she couldn't possibly argue over such a trivial matter, so she reluctantly offered to cover her with a blanket.

From this perspective, this was the first time the two of them had stood side by side in the snow-covered yard since moving into the villa.

"Why have you been sleeping so much these past ten days or so?" Su Yan asked, recalling these events.

"There's nothing else to do."

Gu Yuqiu's tone was casual: "I've finished reading the Ancient Scroll of Sleep. I've walked this path before, and I know the right way to go. All I lack is time."

Su Yan frowned slightly and said seriously, "Then why don't you think about the future?"

The so-called future does not refer to the days after leaving this world, but to the threat from that sea.

Gu Yuqiu stretched, yawned, and said, "Isn't it because you're thinking of me..."

The words stopped abruptly because Su Yan's eyes turned extremely cold, her dislike for him was very obvious.

Gu Yuqiu was speechless, as if nothing had happened. She looked at the sunlight reflected on the glass of the distant building and thought to herself, "I'm saying all this because I don't want to argue with you."

She was silent for a moment, but still didn't change the subject. She said seriously, "Time is on our side. We're not the ones who should be anxious."

Su Yan looked at her quietly.

"The principle is actually very simple."

Gu Yuqiu said, "I did nothing, yet I did everything."

Su Yan quickly realized what was going on and said, "Is it crimson?"

Gu Yuqiu hummed in agreement.

At the end of that conversation about the road signs, she deliberately instructed Shen Muchan to monitor Qiuye Chunhai, not hoping to obtain concrete intelligence, but to convey a message.

Beneath her seemingly indifferent facade, countless vicious schemes are actually hidden.

In a sense, this is very much like a stratagem of empty city.

The only difference is that if she's willing to pay the price, she really has the ability to kill everyone, leaving no one alive.

“Since we’ve kept them running around like crazy, we should get some rest,” Gu Yuqiu said, looking at her.

"Sometimes I really can't help but admire you, to the point that I'm too lazy to argue with you."

Su Yan turned around, pointed to the chair in the room that had been slept on for many days, and said angrily, "Your rest is just sleeping every day and doing nothing, like a pregnant woman?"

Gu Yuqiu raised an eyebrow slightly, his gaze falling on her stomach, and asked with a smile, "Could you possibly get me pregnant?"

"you……"

Su Yan took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down, and didn't continue speaking.

She closed her eyes, remained silent for a long time, and then asked, "So what did you make Crimson do?"

Gu Yuqiu smiled and said, "Give Qiuye Chunhai a chance to persuade her. Once this happens, it means the situation is in our favor."

Su Yan suddenly fell silent; those words reminded her of certain past events.

When they were still in Xinchu, she was extremely angry and did many things to make Gu Yuqiu feel the same sadness as her.

In retrospect, the things she did behind the scenes, such as persuading Songtang to betray her, were not exposed, but she still felt uneasy deep down.

This unease does not stem from regret.

Even if she could choose again, she would still make the same choice under those circumstances.

Her unease stemmed from her desire to prevent Gu Yuqiu from taking advantage of her and becoming increasingly reckless.

"what happened?"

Gu Yuqiu's voice rang out.

"fine."

Su Yan thought to herself that she definitely couldn't tell her this. Seeing her questioning look, she simply kissed her on the cheek and said, "It's just that the pressure is a bit much."

Gu Yuqiu's expression changed slightly, and she said, "This is not like you."

Back then, when the two of them walked on the battlefield, braving continuous artillery fire and all sorts of unexpected events, with the possibility of death at any moment, Su Yan was still able to remain calm.

The current situation seems extremely tense and will inevitably affect the world's格局 (geju, a term referring to the overall situation or pattern of events), but for her, it shouldn't be like this.

"Has something happened?" Gu Yuqiu asked seriously.

"fine."

Su Yan lowered her eyelids slightly, concealing the emotions in her eyes, and said, "Maybe I'm just a little tired."

Gu Yuqiu said gently, "Shall we go to sleep?"

……

……

Under the same sky, at Shiramizu Shrine.

Akiha Shunkai sat on the floor, facing the dry landscape garden in the courtyard, with a tea tray beside him.