Когда мы вернёмся - Глава 144
Half an hour later, Qingyun finally remembered that Li Jing was placed in the hidden compartment.
"You have a terrible memory, woman. You always say you have a photographic memory."
Knowing she was in the wrong, Qingyun pursed her lips, took out a black box inlaid with rubies from a hidden compartment, and placed it on the stone table.
In the candlelight, the box looked somewhat eerie.
The black box had a strangely shaped hole on its exterior, surrounded by seven smaller round holes. Candlelight flickered in the ruby, refracting a blood-red hue.
Qingyun and Lige sat on either side of the table, staring intently at the box.
After a long while, Li Ge couldn't help but exclaim, "As expected of the world's number one locksmith, the lock is designed with such precision and uniqueness. Without the key, it would be impossible to steal Li Jing from inside."
"Hehe..." Qingyun thought of the Immortal Elder's mechanism, "I wonder how long it would take him to open it if we gave it to him?"
Li Ge laughed and said, "Elder Immortal's mechanisms are unmatched in the martial world, and it shouldn't take long for them to work."
Qingyun nodded in agreement.
Then Qingyun took out the key that Situ Xingyun had given her, inserted it into the strangely shaped hole, and gently twisted it. Miraculously, the ruby on the box turned black.
Li Ge couldn't help but marvel at its wonder once again.
Suddenly, Qingyun stopped what she was doing, her expression somewhat strange.
Seeing this, Li Ge asked, "Woman, what's wrong?"
Qingyun bit her lip and said, "I don't know why, but just as I was about to take the bracelet off, I felt like there was a gas flowing through my body."
"Extend your hand, let me take your pulse."
Qingyun shook her head and refused. "It's probably just psychological! Maybe I ate too much today."
Qingyun took a deep breath, bit her lower lip, and took off the glass bead bracelet from her wrist.
She untied the bracelet and inserted the glass beads one by one into the holes.
At that moment, the black gemstone emitted a white light. In the blink of an eye, the gemstone transformed into a transparent crystal. Qingyun breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank goodness it's the same as before. I was really worried that the way to open this box would be different after all these years!"
Li Ge stared at the transparent crystal.
Suddenly, his pupils contracted sharply, and an unbelievable shock spread from the bottom of his heart throughout his body.
Through the reflection of the crystal, he saw a silver tinge gradually emerge from Qingyun's dark eyes, and that silver tinge gradually spread from her pupils, emitting a faint silver light.
Qingyun, with her silver eyes, looked so captivating.
In that instant, a beautiful woman in red seemed to appear before Li Ge's eyes. The woman also had such silver eyes. When she smiled, her eyebrows curved, carrying a sinister charm like blooming blood flowers.
"Li Ge, look, this is the Li Jing." After taking out the Li Jing, Qing Yun smiled, her eyebrows curving upwards.
Li Ge looked up and was even more horrified. He seemed to see a bright red blood flower slowly blooming.
He quickly took off the glass beads, strung them back together, and put them back on Qingyun's wrist.
Qingyun looked at Lige with confusion, "Lige, what's wrong?"
Li Ge's lips pressed into a tight line. He stared at Qing Yun's eyes and found that, just as he had expected, they slowly turned back to black, and the silver light dissipated.
Li Ge nodded thoughtfully.
"Hey! What's wrong with you?" Qingyun blinked, still puzzled.
"You..." Just as she was about to ask, Li Ge suddenly swallowed her words. "Woman, I suddenly thought of a question. How do you plan to send Li Jing to the Li Palace?"
Qingyun raised an eyebrow and smiled, "I've already thought it through. We don't need that stinky bird to relay messages for us now. It's been quite free lately, so I've decided to make it do some work!"
Li Ge nodded in agreement, saying, "Alright. The spirit bird will definitely deliver it safely." After a pause, Li Ge glanced at the moonlight outside. "Alright, woman. It's getting late. Let's go back to the Snow Palace to rest!"
"good."
"I have to go out tomorrow. There's someone in Fengcheng who's seriously ill."
"oh."
After sending Qingyun back to Xue Palace, Li Ge looked somber.
It seems he'll have to go to Xiangu tomorrow.
Volume 3: The Real and the Fake Palace - The Spy Mirror Operation 4
Fairy Valley.
"Senior Immortal, I've come to see you!" After passing through the traps, Li Ge lightly touched the ground with his toes and arrived in front of the old man's hut.
When the old man opened the door and saw Li Ge, he chuckled, "It's you!"
Li Ge clasped his hands in greeting and said, "It is indeed I, Li Ge."
"Come in!" The old man turned and entered the house, sitting down in front of a wooden chair. "You want to ask about Yun'er, right?"
Li Ge had just sat down when he heard the old man say this, and was immediately taken aback, but he then said, "Senior old man, you are indeed a man of great wisdom."
"I dare not claim to be a master strategist. I simply knew this day would come long ago. From the day I saved Yun'er, I knew you would come to ask. But I thought Yun'er would come too. Why didn't she come?! I haven't seen her in so long. Is she doing well at the Li Palace?"