“Oh my!”
“Look how careless that was!”
Seeing there was someone behind the door, Yino quickly walked forward with an apologetic tone and offered a helping hand.
Chen Jianxin stood up shakily and looked up, only to see Yino’s seemingly kind but actually mocking cold smile at the corner of his mouth.
“You… you bastard…”
Chen Jianxin’s fist clenched, glaring at Yino with even more hostility.
He suddenly stood up and swung his fist at Yino’s fake smiling face, but the latter reacted quickly, simply sidestepping and causing Chen Jianxin to fall to the ground again.
This time, however, Yino didn’t let him make a fool of himself again. He directly reached out and steadied Chen Jianxin, who was about to fall flat.
“Brother Chen is really too enthusiastic. We haven’t seen each other for just one night, and you miss me this much?”
“Stop… stop pretending, you bastard…!”
Chen Jianxin shook off Yino’s steadying hand and cursed in a low voice, feeling extremely humiliated.
This time, he had learned to be smarter. Instead of breaking down in front of everyone, he chose to glare at Yino privately, gritting his teeth as if he wanted to tear Yino to pieces.
-See, the protagonist isn’t completely as stupid after all!-
-At least Chen Jianxin had some learning ability and wasn’t a complete idiot-
Thinking of this, Yino suddenly felt gratified. In his previous life when he played the game, if only the protagonist had this kind of shrewdness. At least a decisive and ruthless personality could avoid many of the plot’s carefully planned feasts in the middle and late stages.
It’s just a pity that now this rare darkened and growing protagonist has encountered Yino.
The innocent are not guilty, but possessing treasure brings calamity…
Yino sighed inwardly.
He withdrew his hand and took out a handkerchief from his sleeve to wipe the hand that had just steadied Chen Jianxin.
“Whatever makes you happy.”
Facing Chen Jianxin’s expression of extreme shame and anger, Yino’s face showed no anger, only a barely contained smile, nodding with a polite smile.
But the more he acted like this, the more angry and fearful Chen Jianxin became.
Angry because he felt an unprecedented contempt.
Fearful because even his anger was completely tolerated by this black-haired boy’s gentle demeanor.
Rather than mockery, Yino’s eyes even held a hint of pity, as if he was providing end-of-life care to a terminally ill person!
“Get out of the way!”
Chen Jianxin stopped arguing with Yino and turned his gaze back to the end of the underground room.
Yino didn’t stop him, obediently stepping aside and watching as the many disciples entered the underground room batch by batch.
Tsk tsk…
-If there was a life sacrifice altar in the secret room at this time, it would really be a perfect opportunity for sacrifice. At least I could break through to the Core Formation stage-
Yino stood outside the door, hands behind his back, looking at the crowded small underground room. He suddenly felt something and let his imagination run wild.
However, this strange evil thought didn’t last long before the silly girl beside him poked his waist-
“Young Master, what should we do about this?”
Seeing that everyone had gone inside, Yunjin quietly took out the bottle of deer antler powder from her arms and asked Yino in a hushed voice, covering her mouth with her small hand.
Seeing Yunjin’s innocent and cute little round face, Yino’s mood instantly improved.
He blinked and couldn’t help but smile, reaching out to pinch Yunjin’s soft and bouncy cheek:
“What else can we do? If they ask about the treasures in the underground room later, just give them this bottle”
“But… I don’t want to give it to Chen Jianxin…”
Yunjin puffed up her cheeks. Perhaps not used to speaking ill of others behind their backs, her eyes showed dissatisfaction but also some guilt. This time, it was Yino who raised his eyebrows, surprised that the kind-hearted novice guide would say such a thing.
“Why?”
“Because… I, I’ve seen it several times already! Chen Jianxin is either cursing you behind your back or targeting you for no reason… He even wants to attack you…”
Yunjin pouted, feeling more and more that it wasn’t worth giving the precious deer antler powder to such a person for Yino’s sake.
Yino found it interesting: “But didn’t he protect you from the cult members before?”
“…”
At these words, Yunjin’s beautiful eyes, which were already a bit conflicted, became even more complex.
She lowered her head, the ahoge hair on top drooping down. For a moment, she was at a loss for words, not knowing how to answer this fatal question.
Yino was very patient, as if observing a little white mouse experiencing an inner ideological struggle.
“I just feel it’s unfair for you, it’s not like I really hate Chen Jianxin!”
“Chen Jianxin is always petty and targeting you, so I don’t want to give him the deer antler powder…”
“But! But if cult members came again and Chen Jianxin was really in mortal danger, within my abilities, I would still be willing to help him!”
After much thought, Yunjin finally gave Yino a relatively rational answer.
Actually, the fact that Yunjin could sort out the logic to this extent showed that she wasn’t really stupid. She just lacked experience, which made her mentality seem a bit naive and kind.
On the other side, seeing the girl puffing up her cheeks and thinking so seriously for his sake, Yino felt a warmth in his heart, and the few traces of evil thoughts hidden in the depths of his heart dissipated. The corners of his mouth curled into a smile as he continued:
“Then, if Chen Jianxin and I fell off a cliff together, who would you save?”
“Can’t I save both?”
“No, you only have enough strength to grab one person’s hand.”
“Then I’ll save you!”
This time, she didn’t hesitate at all.
Yino felt a surge of happiness. Although he was too embarrassed to say it out loud, the corners of his mouth were obviously trying to hold back a smile.
“Do you dislike Chen Jianxin that much?”
“I didn’t dislike him at first… but he keeps picking on you over and over again, and we haven’t done anything wrong! Do we have an obligation to share our treasures with him?”
The series of questions didn’t make Yunjin hesitate. Instead, her answers came faster and faster, and even her tone and gaze became more determined.
Yino rubbed the girl’s chubby little round face in praise, then turned his gaze to look at Chen Jianxin, who was still rummaging through the underground room not far away, laughed:
“How about this, when Chen Jianxin comes to ask later, you just follow my lead and act according to my eye signals.”
“Oh, okay.”
Yunjin’s face was rubbed until she felt dizzy. She didn’t notice the scheming look in the depths of Yino’s eyes and just nodded obediently at him.
Although Yino wasn’t high in seniority, Yunjin always felt a sense of reliance on him as an ideal senior by his side…. Anyway, no matter what difficulties they encountered, listening to Yino was always right!
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“Did you empty all the boxes in this underground room by yourself?”
Chen Jianxin walked up, glaring at Yino with anger.
The latter protected Yunjin by his side and said calmly, “I didn’t empty them. These boxes were originally empty. Maybe they were looted by the cult members before?”
“Bullshit! This underground room is hidden so deep, and the footprints in the dust on the ground are only yours and Yunjin’s! Who else could have emptied the things if not you?”
“You’re making baseless accusations. Do you want to cut open my stomach to see how many bowls of noodles I’ve eaten?”
Yino played with the storage ring on his right index finger with his left hand, not taking Chen Jianxin’s questioning seriously at all.
Seeing the former so blatantly showing off his storage ring, Chen Jianxin became even more angry-
“Damn it! The Nine-Colored Compass needs materials from the Nine-Colored Deer to activate! Now that you’ve hoarded all the materials, how can we use the Nine-Colored Compass to find the whereabouts of the Nine-Colored Deer?!”
“He Yino! I’ve long suspected you’re a mole! That night, you deliberately got rid of Sister Jinyue, and then left Yunjin alone at the hot spring base!”
“Later, when we were attacked by the cult members, you happened to not be there! You must have led the cult members to our hot spring base!”
“And now, you’ve hoarded all the materials in the entire warehouse. You’re clearly up to no good, not wanting us to find the whereabouts of the Nine-Colored Deer!”
Chen Jianxin could no longer control his temper. He cursed angrily while suddenly rushing forward to grab Yino’s collar.
But this time, before Yino could act, the green-dressed girl beside him unexpectedly joined her two fingers, conjuring a green feathered crane to block in front of Yino, knocking back the charging Chen Jianxin.
“Chen Jianxin, we’re all fellow disciples. Don’t always resort to violence!”
Facing everyone’s surprised gaze at Yunjin actively protected Yino, gritting her teeth and joining her two fingers, calling back the green crane to her side, ready to fight.
For a moment, not only was Chen Jianxin, the person involved, dazed by the impact, but even Yino and Jinyue looked at each other in surprise.
Jinyue looked at Yino with shocked eyes, while the latter shrugged his shoulders to indicate innocence.
“Sister Yunjin, even you–”
“If you have something to say, say it properly. Don’t just curse and slander others, and try to hit people!”
Even Yunjin, who was not usually assertive, was now thoroughly fed up with Chen Jianxin’s repeated outbursts of temper.
She had never really scolded anyone before, nor had she thought about disciplining others, but she knew the basic mutual respect between people!
As Yunjin stood up to reprimand him, the other Wuji Sect disciples present also nodded in agreement, daring to be angry but not daring to speak out against Chen Jianxin, whose emotions had been strangely out of control recently.
It seemed that ever since that battle last night, Chen Jianxin had become a bit mentally unstable and sensitive, suspicious of everything, and always muttering strange guesses to himself.
For a moment, Chen Jianxin once again became the weird psycho in everyone’s eyes.
“Fine! Fine! Fine!”