Chapter 301 A Familiar Face

When Mingmei and the others arrived at Linjing City in the evening, the Zerg had just been suppressed back into the dungeon, leaving behind only a mess in the City Lord's Mansion, which was now being cleaned up by others.

"Damn, what's going on at the entrance? Did they open a vegetable market here?"

Lu Xiaoyao's sensitive nose, besides being excellent at smelling food, was also terribly sensitive to bad smells.

As soon as she got off the flying artifact, she almost fainted from the stench.

Fifth Elder, however, pinched a magic seal, and a gust of fresh wind blew by, completely dispelling the odor.

Before Lu Xiaoyao could even give a thumbs up to flatter him, she heard Fifth Elder say, "The Cleansing Spell can even purify the surrounding air. None of you remembered this most basic skill for beginner disciples? Is this how you practice on the mountain on weekdays?"

Lu Xiaoyao: ...

Zhen Po: ...

"Deduct half a month's salary or copy the Disciple's Handbook ten times."

Fifth Elder's smile was radiant as he spoke, and the disciples who heard his words felt a chill run down their spines!

Being fined a month's salary was like taking their lives!

Copying the Disciple's Handbook ten times was also a death sentence!

The Disciple's Handbook had tens of thousands of words—he was just telling them to copy it?

Lu Xiaoyao's face went from a look of wanting to vomit from the stench to one of relief, and then instantly to one of suffocation upon hearing the elder's words.

Mingmei couldn't help but admire the smoothness of her expression changes. No wonder Lu Xiaoyao, the streamer who prided herself on relying on her strength but was actually "talented in both looks and art," became popular for her hilarious meme-worthy facial expressions.

"Are we staying at the City Lord's Mansion tonight?"

Mingmei hadn't noticed when they arrived at the entrance of the City Lord's Mansion, but now the gates opened, and servants came out to greet them, as if they had known in advance.

Looking at Fifth Elder's normal expression, Mingmei felt she hadn't guessed wrong.

Therefore, she deliberately asked.

"Yes, the inns are too noisy."

Mingmei: ...

This person clearly had something going on, but still used an excuse to fob her off. How insincere.

"Doesn't that mean we can go see that insect... insect villain, the evil cultivator?" Lu Xiaoyao almost blurted out the wrong thing in her excitement, but managed to recover in time. However, that nickname...

It was a little cute.

Fifth Elder didn't say anything, but after following the servants to the arranged courtyard, he asked, "Does anyone want to come with me to see that evil cultivator?"

"Me!"

Almost everyone raised their hands, including Mingmei and Mei Jiu.

"Listen to me, stand behind me." These words were mainly for Mingmei and Mei Jiu. "The rest of you must not be careless. Evil cultivators may not be so easily captured..."

His words implied that the evil cultivator was faking it, doing it on purpose, and was about to cause trouble.

Mingmei took these words to heart.

If there were no problems with the Zerg, the game should be over by now.

But from just now until now, Mingmei felt that things were not so simple.

"So many people want to see him?"

The City Lord of Linjing City, who had not shown his face until now, finally appeared.

After all, so many people were going to see the imprisoned evil cultivator in his territory, so he should show his face no matter what.

However, the first time Mingmei saw this City Lord, she subconsciously felt that he looked familiar.

That was strange.

"Wow, this City Lord is so individual, with short hair..."

Mingmei heard the exclamations of others beside her, and then realized what was wrong.

In this world, apart from some body cultivators and a few demonic cultivators who liked to keep their hair short, most cultivators had long hair, regardless of gender. And Mingmei and the others didn't expect that this City Lord of Linjing was wearing a cultivator's robe, but the length and style of his hair looked out of place.

...

"I see, so that's why you weren't completely down during that time, and could still play games sometimes. You didn't seem like you had lost a close friend at all."

Outside the game, when Mei Shi saw Mo Wenshu's face, her expression became very subtle.

A person who had originally died at her hands suddenly appeared. Although many years had passed, the old grudges had disappeared with the changes in the zombie world, but seeing him again, Mei Shi still couldn't help but recall the memories of the past.

"He's not alive now, either..."

Yan Hui didn't say much, just looked at the person in the light screen, and glanced at Mei Shi, who was staring at him. Then he sighed and said, "I don't intend to resurrect him."

"We've come this far. You don't want to?" Ming Yi, who hadn't spoken for a long time, also said this.

"When I was lost, he gave up everything to bring me out of that world, and ended up getting trapped himself. I just... I just thought that since that's the case, I should bring him back too."

Yan Hui had communicated with the Main Brain about this matter. After all, the Main Brain had tricked them back then. Even though Mei Shi and the others had turned the tide and brought the world of that plane back on track, the Main Brain ultimately agreed to compensate them because of its selfishness in involving them in that world.

"Forget it, now is not the time to discuss this." Mei Shi's gaze once again fell on the game world. She frowned, remembered something, and asked, "Since that Mo Wenshu has already obtained the Zerg, why hasn't the game announced the end yet?"

Yan Hui's expression was a little awkward.

"Actually, it's not a big problem."

"It's just more difficult to deal with." Mei Shi finished Yan Hui's sentence directly.

Yan Hui: ...

What could he say to that?

"What exactly is going on?" Ming Yi frowned. He felt that Yan Hui was hiding something from them.

"Well... it's just that Xie Chen and Chan Guang's obsessions are too strong. The game world has begun to lock down, not allowing any internal data or spiritual bodies to escape."

"Wait, what does this have to do with Chan Guang?"

Mei Shi was completely confused now. She knew that Mu Chen had a crush on Mingmei since he was a child, but Chan Guang, that little monk?

"He likes Xiao Jiu?"

"No, don't you know? He also likes Meimei."

Mei Shi: ??!!

Ming Yi: ??!!

How could they not know?!

No, should they know?!

"How did you know this?" Mei Shi couldn't hold back any longer.

"I saw it in Mu Chen's memories..." After Yan Hui finished speaking, Mei Shi and Mingmei exchanged glances. Mingmei frowned and denied, "That's not right. I remember Xiao Jiu said later that Chan Guang finally ascended and became the first Buddha to ascend in Lotus Temple. Why would he like her?"

"You don't really think that Mu Chen, at his age back then, even if he was a genius, could drag the entire continent into the abyss and stir up trouble, do you?" Yan Hui said with a surprised expression, "Even if such a person suddenly had an epiphany and turned back to the right path, would you really feel comfortable with him dating Meimei?"

The couple was silenced by Yan Hui's question. Ruan Xun, who had been watching the show all along, couldn't help but say at this point, "Sister Mei, are you two really that carefree?"