I have always felt grateful towards Sun Chuang, for it was he who brought me from the north to the south to earn money. Although his methods were somewhat lacking, from my master's perspective, he wouldn't dare do anything to me.
As for Zhang Dabiao, there was even less to say. He had saved my life. If I couldn't trust him, then there was almost no one else in this world I could trust.
Therefore, as soon as I asked the question, I regretted it, because knowing Zhang Dabiao's personality, he would definitely explain the whole story. Asking now would make it seem like I didn't trust him.
Just as I was regretting and wondering how to explain, Zhang Dabiao spoke first.
"I know this might be hard for you to believe, but I truly saw Sun Chuang trying to absorb your yang energy this morning..."
I stumbled, almost falling to the ground, and directly interrupted him, "Wait a minute, what did you say? He was trying to absorb my yang energy? Brother Zhang, are you still half asleep?"
This time, it wasn't that I didn't believe Zhang Dabiao, but the matter itself was too unbelievable.
Sun Chuang was a living person, not a ghost or a fox spirit. What yang energy would he absorb? Besides, absorbing yang energy requires mouth-to-mouth contact, and the thought of it made me feel disgusted.
After gagging for a while, I said in a deep voice, "He didn't succeed, did he?"
Zhang Dabiao rolled his eyes. "What are you thinking? If he had succeeded, would I still be pinning him to the ground and beating him?"
"Oh, that's good." I felt my wildly beating heart finally settle back into its original place. If Sun Chuang had really kissed me, I would have had the urge to kill him.
I was still a virgin. If my first kiss was taken by him, it would be unfair to my first kiss if I didn't kill him.
"Heh heh... What, are you still a virgin?"
Facing Zhang Dabiao's teasing, I could only pretend not to hear and replied, "Brother Zhang, this joke isn't funny at all. Did you drink too much yesterday and see wrongly this morning? Sun Chuang is a living person, how could he absorb yang energy?"
Seeing my doubt, Zhang Dabiao let out a sound of disdain, then opened his phone, searched for something, and pointed the screen at me.
"I knew you'd say that. Here, look for yourself if he was absorbing your yang energy?"
I snatched the phone from Zhang Dabiao and looked closely at the photo. It was a bit blurry, but I could still see myself lying in bed asleep, and Sun Chuang, with a sneaky look, leaning towards my face. At first glance, it really looked like he was absorbing yang energy. Sudan Novel Network.
However, I soon noticed something different. Perhaps due to the angle of the sunlight, I could see Sun Chuang's face leaning towards mine, but the reflection in his eyes wasn't quite the same.
It seemed he wasn't trying to absorb my "yang energy" but was using the sunlight to look at my chest. Perhaps because of the quilt, he couldn't see my chest directly and could only lean his face close and peek downwards.
I told Zhang Dabiao about my discovery. He took the phone back and looked. "Hey, you know what, it really seems like that. But that doesn't make sense either! You're not a young maiden. If someone peeks at you a few times, you're a bit handsome, but I don't see why he'd be so infatuated with you!"
I was amused by his words. "What, do you suspect I'm a girl? Do you want me to take off my clothes and show you?"
Although I knew Zhang Dabiao was joking, I still took off my shirt and shook my lean muscles, saying, "How is it? Don't look at me, I'm skinny, but I still have muscles." I patted my chest. "Understand now? I'm a proper man." Saying that, I even turned around in front of him.
When I turned back, ready to put on my clothes, Zhang Dabiao stopped me.
"Don't move, there seems to be something on you?"
I was startled by Zhang Dabiao's words. I looked down, and on my chest, apart from the scars left by the fire, there was nothing else.
"Brother Zhang, don't scare me, I'm timid."
"I'm not joking. Move your body a little to the right, and let your chest face the sunlight..."
After posing as Zhang Dabiao instructed, he took out his phone, pressed the shutter button, and then handed me the phone. "I understand what Sun Chuang was looking at now."
Looking at the photo on the phone, I lowered my head and looked at my chest again, feeling like ten thousand horses were galloping in my mind.
"Are you kidding me with this?"
I never expected that with the pose I struck and the sunlight shining, several lines would appear on my chest. Combined with the eye-like object left by Wu Gege, they actually formed a map.
This was somewhat similar to the map I saw when searching for Sun Chuang's soul. Both were presented in the style of an Ouroboros, but the map on my chest was a bit more complex, and it couldn't be seen without the sunlight.
I stared blankly at Zhang Dabiao. "When was this left? I didn't even know! This... this is a trap, isn't it?"
Facing my rambling, Zhang Dabiao laughed heartily. "Kid, it seems someone doesn't want you to leave! They deliberately left you some clues so you can stay here. Who do you think it could be?"
By now, I was immune to Zhang Dabiao's teasing. The eye-like thing on my chest was left by Wu Gege. As for the lines on my body, they were left when I ran out of the cave after setting myself on fire.
If I were to say it wasn't deliberately left, I myself would find it hard to believe. How could things be so coincidental? Getting burned by fire left some marks on my body, and these marks, combined with the eye-like pattern, formed a map. Even a three-year-old child wouldn't necessarily believe such a thing.
"You mean Wu Gege left it?" I thought for a moment and then denied it. "That shouldn't be right! Wu Gege cannot leave the Yin-Yang Realm. Qingfeng Mountain is tens of miles away from the Yin-Yang Realm, which is beyond her capabilities. It couldn't have been left by Wu Gege."
Facing my denial, Zhang Dabiao sneered. "How do you know she can't leave the Yin-Yang Realm? What if the thing she left on you is a medium, or a signal marker?"
"This..."
I was suddenly at a loss for words. Given Wu Gege's abilities, it wasn't impossible, but I felt something was wrong, as if a crucial clue was missing.
Just then, there was a knock on the door from outside. Three knocks, a pause, then three more knocks, repeating this pattern three times.