Kicked out of Rhodes Island, a small quilt was covered in the hole of the Longmen Bridge

"Dragon Gate?"

The younger brother's words made Bai Hua a little curious, and Jing Zhe at the side also shook her leaked tail a little.

"That's right, I just returned to Dayan from Longmen—dammit, I was going to find an item, and the other party was a 'detective' like you, but after I passed by, I realized that the item had already been stolen Come on, that detective is simply an incomprehensible piece of trash!"

"There are indeed such unreliable people in the industry, and I know one."

Bai Hua on the side also nodded in agreement with "Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm".

"That guy said that he only knew that things were stolen to Yan Country, but he didn't know the exact location—really, he obviously ran a detective agency, but his behavior was so ridiculous! After I catch the thief, I must first ruthlessly Kick that thief 50 times, and then go to that detective to settle the score!"

"Miss Du is right! Unreliable guys and thieves are really annoying!"

Bai Hua continued to echo by the side, and because of the previous experience of being secretly asked for a wallet/fooled by an old carp, Bai Hua's echo was not flattering, but full of true feelings.

"Huh... I think you are quite interesting. If you travel through Shangshu, you can find me. I will treat you to a cup of tea and stay overnight. But today I have something to do, so I'm leaving first."

"Shang Shu?"

Before Bai Hua had time to ask, Du Yaoye had already left the street with a few subordinates.

"What a cute and energetic head of the bodyguard bureau"

"Birch?"

Looking at Du Yaoye's back, Bai Hua sighed, but before he finished speaking, the red robe beside him came over and stared at him with eyes full of spiritual pressure.

"Uh, it's not that cute..."

Bai Hua swallowed her saliva and quickly changed her words, the faint electric current on Jing Zhe's body slowly disappeared.

Jingzhe had been left aside from the very beginning, and it seemed that the Miss Supervision Department still felt uncomfortable.

"Speaking of which, I forgot to ask just now, what is the difference between an escort agency and a logistics company - Lingling Ling!"

Halfway through, the phone in Bai Hua's pocket rang, and the words 'dead salted fish' were printed on the caller ID.

"What's the matter, old carp?"

Bai Hua picked up the phone and chatted with Old Li on the other side.

after awhile……

"Well, uh... Is Miss Jingzhe in a hurry to go to Shangshu?"

After talking with Lao Li, Bai Hua asked Jing Zhe again about Shang Shu's arrangements.

"I have postponed it for a month, and it is not short of a few days."

"Well... Sure enough, why don't Sister Jingzhe go to Huiqi Mountain with me first."

Bai Hua proposes an invitation to Jing Zhe, and the two go to find Nian's younger sister 'Xi' first.

"Of course it's fine, but why did you suddenly make a decision now, Bai Hua?"

Jing Zhe was a little curious, before Bai Hua couldn't make a decision, but now she decided to go to the Year Beast first, this change made Jing Zhe very curious.

"Well, how should I put it... avoid 'acquaintances', ahaha."

Bai Hua talked about him from left to right, and at the same time pushed Jing Zhe to get on the off-road vehicle to prepare to run.

——At the same time, the girl Du Yaoye who claims to be the head of the Xingyu Escort Bureau—

"By the way, Ah Liang, didn't Longmen send a message, what's on it?"

"Oh miss. It's about the 'thief' who stole the goods."

"Huh? Did that Dead Fish Detective finally speak?"

"Actually... well, we stuffed a little money, and he just said it all."

"Tsk, this guy really has no professional ethics... Let me see."

Du Yaoye frowned, then took the intelligence document.

"A summary of information about the 'thief'—it seems to be from the Lupu tribe, or possibly from the Pelo tribe, with different pupil colors, two white hairs on both sides of the bangs, and a very moist tail...?"

Looking at the content described in the newspaper, the shadow of a gray wolf with its tail dangling immediately appeared in Du Yaoye's mind.

"That guy... actually took me for a fool!!"

Boom!

Du Yaoye directly kneaded the information into a ball, and she kicked at the notice board next to it, directly folding the iron metal pipe into a < shape.

——The next time we meet, I will crush your tail...!

Du Yaoye gritted his teeth thinking that Bai Hua had set him up, but never thought about whether this was the "detective with no professional ethics" who made money at both ends.

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"Ah!"

"Are you all right, Birch?"

"I feel like someone is cursing me. In fact, I can probably guess who it is... But it's really not all right now."

Bai Hua rubbed her nose, then looked at the off-road vehicle that had broken down on the side of the road in front of her.

"Sorry Birch, I probably shouldn't have tried to charge the buggy without plugging in the transformer..."

Jing Zhe bowed his head and apologized in a low voice, it seems that this time the car broke down, and this inspector Qilin is also inseparable.

"It doesn't matter, anyway, I don't have any expectations for Sister Jingzhe's ability to use electrical appliances. But it seems that we can only walk now. According to the map, this place is already within the range of Huiqi Mountain, but the There is no trace of the village where Xi may have lived."

Bai Hua took out a map for comparison, but she couldn't confirm her exact location, while Jing Zhe was a mushroom that said "Woo...".

Because he was afraid of being shot dead by Du Yaoye directly in Shangshu, Bai Hua finally decided to bring Jing Zhe to find Nian's younger sister first.Four days had passed since the two set off, but they still hadn't found Xi's residence, but the off-road vehicle broke down first.

"By the way, she gave me a note a year ago, and she specifically told me to open it when I got to Huiqi Mountain and had no clues, so that I could easily find my sister."

Bai Hua remembered something, he went to the trunk of the off-road vehicle, rummaged through the note for the year in his luggage bag.

- take me

"?"

A strange voice disappeared from his mind, and Bai Hua couldn't help but look at the wine glass wrapped in tape and plastic foam.

Although this wine glass looks ordinary in appearance, as long as I hold it, I always feel like I am being watched.

And this thing seems to be conscious, it will attract people to want to have it unconsciously...

"But drunk driving is not allowed."

——You b...

Boom!

Bai Hua casually tossed the wine glass further inside, then finally took out the note that Nian gave her, and opened it expectantly.

I saw four large characters written on the note:

【Turn Around】

"...I knew that Sui Beasts are a bunch of unreliable guys!"

Jing Zhe, who came over, frowned instantly after seeing the contents of the note.

"Wow, calm down, sister Jingzhe! It's not the year beast that's unreliable, but the year!"

Bai Hua hurriedly stopped Jing Zhe from getting angry, after all, when the electric unicorn got angry, he was the one who was struck by lightning in the end.

"But 'going around'... eh?"

After seeing the content of the note, Bai Hua looked around, and then saw a dilapidated house in the deep forest not far away.

"Sister Jingzhe, there seems to be someone over there."

"It didn't seem to be there before... Well, anyway, let's go and have a look."

Jing Zhe frowned, but decided to go over to find out.

"Well, just leave the car here, and no one will come to this place—by the way, you have to take this with you."

Bai Hua took out the exquisite handicraft called "True Eye" from the co-pilot and kicked it into his pocket, then followed Jing Zhe to the dilapidated house in the mountains.

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Just as the two set off for the dilapidated room, in a room that could not be described with words or coordinates, a strange-looking creature with indigo patterns in black ink was twisting and twisting. It moved to the side of a woman who was leaning over a desk with a paintbrush in her hand.

"Gah..."

The creature of Liuha Lazi uttered a wonderful speech, which also made the artist pause for a while.

"Anyone who lost his way again didn't come from Yan Kingdom?"

"It doesn't matter, whether you are attracted by the paintings, or simply because of luck, you will eventually sink into the illusory paintings."

The painter put the brush aside, and in front of his eyes was a picture scroll of magnificent mountains and rivers. The majestic and steep rock walls were so lifelike that he could hear the sound of rushing waterfalls with just a glance.

However, in the next second, the artist did not hesitate, and threw the scroll into the stove beside him, and the mountains, rivers and lakes instantly turned into ashes of sparks and fell in all directions.

Although it was late at night, the artist did not close his eyes, but spread out a new blank scroll.

267. "Birch (Blackened)" (8K5)

"The painter thought hard and finally became enlightened. If everything in the world has the form of existence, then he can draw the 'scenery of non-existence' by himself, and he will be famous forever and shock the world."

"But how could the artist paint non-existent scenery so easily? He fell into confusion again, and even locked himself in the house, without eating or drinking for three to five days, just to extend his thoughts to the invisible edge."

"At the moment before the painter's consciousness completely dissipated, the darkness that wrapped around him instantly dissipated cleanly like enlightenment, and thousands of wild horses rushed in, and they couldn't stop pouring in to wrap it up and get sucked into the depths. It was thrown high again. Everything that exists and does not exist in the world can be seen in the eyes of the painter. At this moment, he finally had a complete epiphany, and witnessed a magnificent scene that no one in the world has ever known."

"The painter swipes his brush, splashes ink on the blank paper, takes the brush as a song, pours it wildly and unrestrainedly, and engraves the scene he sees on the white paper exactly, and finally falls asleep contentedly."

"The next day, the people in the village remembered that the painter did not show up today. The worried villagers came to the house, but found that the painter had starved to death at home, and there was an empty blank paper in front of him. Said that the painter lost his inspiration and committed suicide. Only the farmer who lived next to the painter dared not speak. He accidentally caught a glimpse of the painter waving his pen and ink that night. For posterity—and this is the version of these stories that has been passed down by word of mouth."

Mr. Storyteller tapped the gavel in his hand on the table, and with a bang like a flare gun, the thoughts of the audience were brought back to reality.

"It's an incredible story, isn't it Miss Jingzhe?"

Sitting in the front row, Bai Hua rubbed her chin half-understood, nodded and sighed.

"Well, to be honest, I don't really understand the story."

Unlike Bai Hua, Jing Zhe, who was also sitting in the front row, frowned, and didn't seem to have much reaction to the story she just heard.

"If I look at it, this story is simply a story about an unsatisfactory painter who was starved to death because he had no inspiration and everything went wrong. Because I often deal with false stories and false lies, so Compared with the testimony of the last farmer, what I need is the collective objective testimony of other people in the village, or more intuitive and conclusive evidence."

"Wow..."

Seeing Jing Zhe's serious analysis of Yan Country's folk tales, Bai Hua couldn't help but frowned slightly, maybe this is a top-level occupational disease.

"Then, Bai Hua, what do you think of this story of chasing enlightenment?"

Jing Zhe asked the gray wolf boy back, as the saying goes, thousands of people face thousands of faces, Jing Zhe was also a little curious about Bai Hua's point of view.

"Well... To be honest, I don't really agree with it. It doesn't matter if I'm alone. After all, it can be regarded as self-satisfaction in terms of the result, but if there are other people who care about me, then this kind of self-sufficiency Gu Zi's behavior of walking away, at least for me, is not acceptable."

After a short thought, Bai Hua gave her own opinion on this story.

"So that's it. It seems that the two of you have their own understandings of this anecdote about Bo Jun Yixiao."

"Ah, you are a storyteller just now, the story itself is really interesting!"

After the discussion between Bai Hua and Jing Zhe, a middle-aged man who was dressed in the traditional dress of Yan Kingdom and had indigo and red decorative ribbons on his cuffs also came to the two of them. Bai Hua recognized that the other party was the storyteller who was telling a story in the garden just now. .

"It's good if you both like it, but that's all for today. If you two are interested, you might as well come back tomorrow."

"Hey, is it okay? The story sir tells is really interesting, I have never heard it before. More importantly, there is no ticket... Cough cough, if sir is ok, then I will tomorrow - no, I really want to Didn't you come to listen to the story?"

As soon as he heard that he could come to prostitute for free tomorrow, Bai Hua immediately became interested. He cheerfully nodded to the storyteller to say yes next time, but as soon as he finished speaking, Bai Hua vaguely realized that something was not quite right.

Gray Wolf stretched out his hands and rubbed his ears, his blue-gold pupils narrowed his eyes, showing a pensive expression.

Finally, Bai Hua finally remembered what she had forgotten.

"We are actually here to find someone, that's right! This...uh"

Bai Hua finally remembered his goal. He looked at the storyteller, but realized that he still didn't know the other person's name.

"You can just call me 'Cooking Umbrella Layman'. Although it replaced the old name and came up with a code name on a whim, it is still in use today."

The storyteller nodded slightly and said his title, then looked at Gray Wolf and Red Robe in front of him.

"Then I'll call you Mr. Cooking Umbrella. I'm Bai Hua, and this is Jing Zhe. We're actually here to find someone, and the other party happens to be a painter... By the way, where did this come from?"