News from Qingqiu (Part 2)

Upon hearing Li Miaosheng’s sarcastic tone, Bai Ze instantly deflated and muttered softly:

“S-sorry!”

“I came here to seek opportunities and help Big Brother along the way.”

“Moreover, my generation is absolutely not the type to just freeload and wait for death.”

“In fact, my ideal is the same as Big Brother’s—to achieve the Dao and ascend as soon as possible…”

“………”

“Then what do you want to eat this morning?”

“I’ll go buy some…”

He waved his hand, thinking expressionlessly.

“Fried chicken, hamburgers!”

“Roast pork buns, soup dumplings…”

But halfway through speaking, the voice in his mind suddenly stopped…

“Oh!”

“What’s wrong, not going to continue?”

Li Miaosheng’s lips curled up in disdain.

“Didn’t you say you wanted to achieve the Dao and ascend as soon as possible?”

“It seems your mouth has betrayed you!”

“No!”

“It’s not like that!”

“Big Brother, listen to me explain.”

“It happened so suddenly, I just didn’t process it in time…”

“Still trying to make excuses?”

“Boohoo~ I was wrong (sob, sob~)…”

A pitiful voice echoed in the protagonist’s mind.

It was the same old saying: even though Bai Ze had lived for over two thousand years, she still had the temperament of a child…

After hearing this, the protagonist didn’t plan to make things difficult for her anymore.

A quick test confirmed that the daytime Bai Ze and the nighttime Bai Ze were indeed different.

If it were the nighttime Bai Ze responding to the same sentence, it would definitely be:

“Go die!”

“None of your business, hmph~!”

Then she would turn her small face away, displaying an annoyed expression…

***

“Well~ alright, alright!”

“Jokes aside!”

“Today we’re going to help that girl out; it’s what we call doing business!”

“Bai Ze, do you understand now?”

“Mm!”

“Yeah!”

“Big Brother, I understand…”

“As long as you understand.”

“Then stop nesting on my shoulder and hurry up and lead the way!”

With this command, Bai Ze finally realized something and jumped down from his shoulder.

Fortunately, they were currently in some corner of the main street, and there was basically no one around this corner.

This allowed Bai Ze to safely transform.

However, the form she took today was that of a young man about the same age as Li Miaosheng.

Apart from still having the green hair and amber eyes, her clothes had changed into a brown detective outfit.

This left Li Miaosheng somewhat astonished:

“Hey!”

“Hey… what are you doing?”

“What’s with this look…”

“Ah, wait~!”

“Haha~ Didn’t Big Brother say we’re investigating?”

“A while ago, I saw them acting like this on TV, so I planned to do the same…”

Bai Ze stood rooted to the spot, scratching the back of her head.

Feeling mentally exhausted, the protagonist could only silently applaud from the sidelines.

He thought to himself:

‘Well, people already say we’re cosplaying anyway… sigh~!’

‘That’s true, besides attracting a bit of attention, what else can it do?’

***

A little while later, after everything was ready, Li Miaosheng spoke up:

“Alright!”

“Stop playing around; hurry up and investigate the situation.”

“Quickly use your omnipotent Bai Ze powers to figure out where Building 29 of the Pufa Residential District is…”

Seeing Bai Ze still stroking her brown coat, he couldn’t resist giving her a swift chop on the head, leaving a steaming lump.

“I’m talking to you!”

“Don’t just stand there.”

“There’s plenty of time to play.”

“Once we finish this job, you can play however you want; if you want to eat something, just tell me…”

“Really?!”

Bai Ze immediately interrupted.

Hearing the protagonist say this, she ignored the pain coming from her head and instead broke into a joyful smile instantly.

This startled Li Miaosheng:

“Really!”

“Time is food, so lead the way properly~…”

He mimicked the routine his Grandmaster Grandpa often used to trick him when he was young.

But he didn’t expect it to work so surprisingly well…

Bai Ze immediately grabbed his hand and ran towards the so-called Building 29 of the Pufa Residential District…

The process took exactly less than ten minutes.

The two of them arrived at the bottom of Building 29 without panting or skipping a beat.

At this time, it was exactly eight o’clock in the morning…

Yang energy had already filled the earth, and Yin energy was gradually dissipating.

But strangely, the Yin and Yang inside this building were unbalanced.

It emitted waves of ominous energy…

As soon as Li Miaosheng walked in, he noticed something amiss and said, word by word:

“Bai Ze~ did you notice?”

“The Yin and Yang energies in this building are mixed together.”

“Not only is it terribly murky, but I also seem to smell a hint of violence…”

“What?”

“Is there, Big Brother?~”

“I feel like it’s really cool inside this building…”

“Makes me really want to sleep~~”

As soon as these words were spoken, the original tense atmosphere was instantly disrupted.

The protagonist could only reach out his left hand to cover his face, forcing a smile as he said:

“No!”

“I didn’t say anything.”

“Bai Ze, you go play by yourself~”

“Looks like I really need to change my opinion of you…”

“Eh?!”

“Really?”

“Then Big Brother, I’m going to play…”

“Mm!”

“Go, go~”

“Just be careful not to scare the flowers and grass…”

‘Keeping her around would be a burden anyway.’

‘I’ll be truly thankful to the heavens if she doesn’t ruin the scene…’

But before running even a few meters, Bai Ze turned back with a worried expression:

“Big Brother!”

“Is it really okay?”

“What if Big Brother can’t win?”

“I still think…”

“No!”

“No need!~”

“Trust your Big Brother.”

“A mere minor demon is nothing I, Li Miaosheng, can’t handle…”

The protagonist hurriedly reached out his hand in denial, terrified that Bai Ze might inadvertently change her mind.

“Really?”

“Really!”

“Ah~ go play, go play.”

“With your Big Brother here, everything is safe…”

Finally…

Under the barrage of ‘everything is OK’, Bai Ze finally skipped away.

As he sent her off, Li Miaosheng put on a stiff smile.

However, if Bai Ze had observed a little more carefully, she would have been able to tell that Li Miaosheng was completely disgusted in his heart.

It couldn’t possibly be a whim; it wasn’t as simple as just giving Bai Ze a day off.

“Phew!~”

“She’s finally gone.”

“Now then, I will immediately come and meet you, the culprit who caused this Yin and Yang imbalance!~”

He hesitated for a moment in the first-floor lobby, and a few seconds later, stepped into the elevator and pressed the button for the seventeenth floor.

As the elevator ascended, he instinctively sensed a wave of foul chill…

This chill wasn’t the kind from winter, but one born of an emotional shift…

Fear!!

“Eleventh floor, fifteenth floor~…”

“Phew, I’m actually a bit nervous for the first time!”

Sweat continuously seeped from Li Miaosheng’s palms.

Accompanied by the chime of the elevator bell, he finally arrived at the seventeenth floor.

But as soon as the elevator doors opened, an ominous aura hit him directly in the face.

It stung his brain…

“Hiss~ this foxy stench…”

“It stinks so much!!…”