The Evil Beauty I Met Chapter 6

After a night, Ethan recovered some of his strength. Although his knees were still shaking when he got up, he was able to stand steadily.

The gold chain on his wrist had disappeared along with Marcus. The strange thing was that there was no red mark left where he was tied, and he didn't feel much pain when he moved.

I walked out of bed slowly and found that the bathtub was full of hot water and still steaming.

He didn't hesitate and took a nice bath. After washing and tidying himself up, he took the folding fan from the bedside and went out for some fresh air.

There was a drizzle of rain outside the tower. As soon as Ethan walked out of the tower, he saw Noah, who was only his head above the ground and full of resentment.

Noah's face turned pale when he saw him, but he was unable to look away and could only look up at him fiercely from the horizon.

For some reason, when Ethan saw Noah's gritted teeth expression, he especially wanted to tease him.

He squatted down and asked with great concern: "What's going on?"

Lucas, who was using a banana leaf to shield Noah from the rain, said to Ethan obediently: "He was punished by Marcus for teasing my senior brother yesterday."

After hearing the whole story, Ethan fanned Noah with a fan and gloated: "You must have worked so hard."

Noah's face was filled with "roll roll roll".

The more this happened, the more Ethan wanted to bully him.

He wanted to reach out and touch Noah's head, but found nothing. Then he remembered that Noah had died long ago, and the person in front of him was just a soul, and mortals could not touch him at all.

Just as Ethan felt a little bit of sympathy, Noah glared at him and said, "...Ethan, just wait for me. I'll beat you to death when I come out."

Ethan's sympathy disappeared in an instant.

He casually lifted a strand of hair hanging from his temples and smiled at Noah: "Sir, please come over."

Noah was so disgusted that he wished he could crawl out and kill this evildoer with his own hands.

While he was happily teasing Noah, suddenly, Ethan vaguely heard a woman singing in the woods. The tune was beautiful, as smooth as butter and as gentle as an oriole. Occasionally there were a few sounds of bamboo, which seemed to be accompanied by the sound of a 羯鼓.

Ethan looked and found that the bone girl who could perform healing skills emerged from the bamboo forest.

After she met Ethan's eyes, she stopped singing and all the joints in her body began to tremble.

After staring at him for a long time without blinking, the Bone Girl suddenly realized something and turned around and fled into the bamboo forest.

Ethan remembered that he had indeed written about a woman in his book who specialized in healing arts and who was indeed a body of white bones.

If someone is injured, as long as the bones are not injured, she can transfer the wounds to herself and make the injured person heal. Yesterday, she used this strange technique to eliminate the burns on Marcus's body.

But Ethan didn't know what the relationship between her and the original owner was. When she saw him, she seemed to just want to avoid him and refused to meet him.

Lucas stared at the back of the bone girl, then looked at Ethan and asked softly: "Brother, you don't recognize her, right?"

Most of Lucas's face was blocked by the hideous ghost mask. Ethan couldn't see his expression, but he could hear the unspeakable regret in his tone.

"Who is she?" Ethan asked following his words.

Noah clicked his tongue and signaled Lucas not to speak.

Lucas pursed his lips: "She specifically told us not to tell you last night."

......But what's so hard to guess?

The long pale blue hairband worn by the Bone Girl is exactly the same as the one worn by Marcus. They must be unique tokens of Fengling Mountain.

Her body was washed clean, and her skin was as white as jade. Even though she only had long hair left, she would comb it neatly before going out. She must be a person who loves beauty.

In Ethan's fragmented memory, there was indeed such a beautiful woman, her surname was Yuan and her name was Yuan Ruzhuo. She was the youngest sister in Fengling Mountain. She was as beautiful as a flower, her complexion was as brilliant as tea clouds, she was good at music, and she loved to laugh.

But now she is just a skeleton, wandering and singing in the mountains and forests.

Ethan knew what was going on, but he pretended not to know. He waved his fan and smiled, "That's strange. I can't guess who it is. But judging from her bone structure, she is very, very good. She is a beauty."

Noah, who was buried in the ground, said disdainfully: "...What woman in the world is not a beauty in your eyes?"

Ethan closed his fan and said, "Every woman in the world has her own beauty. Some are beautiful in their skin, some in their bones. You don't understand this principle."

Gu Nu hid in the mountains and forests and listened to Ethan's words carefully.

She shed hot tears, turned around and ran away.

Her withered white soles stepped on the dry bamboo leaves, making a slight rustling sound.

After teasing Noah enough, Ethan walked slowly around the tower, still thinking about his own thoughts.

Everything here was slightly different from what he had imagined. There was no grand scene with many disciples and little ghosts everywhere. It was just a lonely tower.

Marcus had been in the wilderness for more than ten years, but he had not cultivated any subordinates of his own. This really puzzled Ethan.

In Ethan's opinion, this place did not seem like a dangerous place, but more like a peaceful and comfortable natural residence, only for Marcus and a few of his good friends to live in.

However, judging from the group of barbarians who came to harass them yesterday, their days were not particularly peaceful.

No one knew where Marcus had gone. Noah was still working in the field with Lucas beside him. Zoe was nowhere to be seen either. Even the dozen or so ghost slaves that Lucas controlled yesterday had disappeared. Not even a shadow of them could be seen.

Ethan put his fan into his sleeve and walked around the tower like a young man visiting a theatre, feeling quite bored.

It’s so annoying. I don’t want to play anymore and want to go home.

After walking around, Ethan picked a dry spot, sat down on the ground, and said loudly: "...Come out."

Ethan knew clearly that there had been someone following him ever since he left the tower.

But the man was very gentlemanly when he followed me. He said nothing, stayed neither too close nor too far, and was quite patient.

After being exposed, a man came out from behind the tower.

Ethan exclaimed.

This person was not the Marcus he had imagined, but a stranger, a young man dressed like a scholar.

He was wearing a brown robe that had turned white from washing, but it was clean and fresh. In his hand he held a white whisk, which looked spotless and elegant.

His facial features are very handsome, as if he was born to be as gentle as jade.

The visitor walked to Ethan's side, and greeted him with a slightly curved eyebrow: "......Xingzhi."

Ethan frowned and thought carefully, going over the person written in his book in his mind, roughly determining his identity, and frowned slightly.

He patted his side and motioned for the visitor to sit down, and the visitor sat down, sitting properly, with his eyes straight and his back as straight as a pine. Ethan felt that his manners were no different from a puddle of mud compared to his.

But he certainly had no intention of mending his evil ways.

Ethan recalled the name he heard from Marcus yesterday and tried to put it in his place: "Quinn?"

Obviously, Ethan was lucky and guessed it right the first time.

The visitor smiled at him warmly: "......Yeah."

Ethan sighed.

......It’s really him.

Quinn was very polite and his tone of voice was very gentle, as if it had filtered through the clear water of a stream: "...Marcus asked me to follow you and protect you."

Ethan couldn't put on any fancy words in front of him: "Thank you very much."

Quinn kindly pointed out: "Your sitting posture is not in accordance with etiquette."

Ethan continued to lie there contentedly: "It's comfortable this way."

He spoke lightly, but his eyes remained on Quinn.

Quinn naturally didn't know what Ethan was thinking. He felt in his pockets twice and politely invited him: "...I'll treat you to some candy."

As he said this, he opened his fist towards Ethan.

Inside lay two objects wrapped in colorful cellophane.

Ethan took a piece, unfolded the glass paper, and found a small stone the size of a fingernail lying inside.

Quinn highly recommends: "It's delicious."

Ethan poured the stone into his palm, weighed it twice, and asked: "...Is this sugar?"

Quinn nodded and said confidently: "Yes, I want to eat candy. This is what Awang found for me. She said this is called candy."

Ethan played with the small stone and found that it was washed very clean.

He confirmed with Quinn again: "...You can't swallow candy, right?"

Quinn answered obediently: "No. A Wang and Theo wouldn't let me swallow it. They said it's not good to swallow candy."

Ethan affirmed: "That's right, you can't swallow the candy."

Without further hesitation, he naturally threw the pebble into his mouth and laughed at Quinn.

Quinn also put the remaining pebble in his mouth. His happy expression didn't look like that of an adult at all, but more like that of a child.

Naturally, Shi Tou had no taste at all, but Ethan pretended to eat it with relish.

Speaking of which, Ethan's perception of Quinn is indeed different from everyone else's.

When he met Noah, Ethan did not have any strong emotions towards him because Noah was eager to kill him.

When he met Marcus, his mind was full of the mission to kill the villain given to him by the so-called "Knowledge of the World". He was too nervous and had no time to think more about him.

But when he saw Quinn, Ethan's mood was no longer so peaceful.

Because Quinn is the only person in the book whose history is set by Ethan.

Combining the original owner's sparse memories, Ethan learned that he was originally the eldest senior brother of the righteous Danyang Peak, who was attacked by the evil sect and was beaten to the point of suffering from a heart disease.

In other words, Quinn's current mental state is at most that of a five or six-year-old, and he can't even tell the difference between candy and stones.

Ethan guessed that thirteen years ago, he helped Marcus steal the artifact and fell into barbarism because of his mental defect.

Seeing Quinn, Ethan couldn't help but think that if he had written a positive and interesting story, perhaps these people would be much happier and would not be trapped in this huge prison, some going crazy, some paranoid, and some stupid.

When Ethan was daydreaming, Quinn, who had just shared candy with him, suddenly changed his expression. He waved the whisk in his hand and stood horizontally beside Ethan to protect him.

Before Ethan could react, several plum blossom blades came rushing towards him from the right like flowing fire, hitting Quinn's whisk like heavy rain, making a clanging sound.

Quinn's wrist flew, and with a free and easy movement, he wrapped, pulled, and shook, and then used the whisk to shoot all the sneak attacking blades back to where they came from.

Suddenly, several screams were heard in the forest. Judging from the sounds, they were probably pierced like a sieve by the plum blossom blades they had just used.

Quinn held the whisk in one hand and drew the Yuchang sword from his waist with the other. He was on full alert, facing the direction of the forest on the right where the blade was coming from, and ordered Ethan: "Go back to the tower quickly. Marcus said that if anything happens to you, he will take all my candy."

...It's really a severe punishment.

Ethan suspected that in Quinn's eyes, he was just a walking candy bar.

Although he was complaining in his heart, Ethan still knew his own weight and naturally would not stay here to hold them back. He started to run away, but was grabbed by the arm by a figure who appeared from the middle of the road.

Ethan was stunned.

Quinn turned around suddenly and saw who was coming. His nervous expression became much calmer: "Marcus, quickly take Xingzhi into the tower."

Hearing this, "Marcus" sneered.

The hand holding his arm was holding too hard, and Ethan suddenly felt something was wrong.

He looked up and saw that Marcus's eyes flashed with a wolf-like clear yellow color.

The man grinned at him, with two sharp canine teeth standing out, like a carnivorous monster. Facing the newly captured muntjac under his claws, he was thinking about where to start.

Ethan was shocked and said to Quinn: "Wait! He is not..."

Quinn didn't notice it at all, and pushed Ethan into Marcus's arms: "Go into the tower quickly."

Ethan felt a chill in his heart, but before the chill penetrated into his heart, the smug smile of the person in front of him froze.

His body fell forward uncontrollably. Ethan quickly dodged and watched him fall face down to the ground, twitching.

------The connection between his fourth and fifth vertebrae was obviously broken, and there was a hole as deep as a finger there, which was deeply sunken.

The real Marcus was standing behind him, slowly wiping his hands with a handkerchief, and then gently pulled Ethan back to his side: "Brother, are you hurt?"

Ethan shook his head in shock and looked at the fake Marcus on the ground.

The facial features of "Marcus" who was struggling to death underground twisted like dough for several times, and finally returned to his original appearance, turning into a beast-skin man with a green and yellow face, messy beard and mustache.

The back of the beast-skin man was broken, and he was in unbearable pain. He gritted his teeth and groaned: "Marcus, why are you......"

Marcus squatted down and grabbed his hair, still smiling: "If I stay in the tower all the time, how can I know who will take advantage of my absence to attack my brother?"

The beastman's throat was soaked in blood and was terribly hoarse: "Just now... the spy clearly said that you were at Lanqiaopo, a hundred miles away..."

Marcus answered in a nonchalant tone, as if he was making an insignificant joke: "It's only a hundred miles. I run very fast."

The beast-skin man knew he was going to die, so he used up all his strength and roared miserably: "Marcus, you monster------"

Marcus remained calm, bent his fingers into joints, and with a faint smile, he hit the uppermost section of the beast-skin man's spine, turning his unspoken curses into a series of sharp howls.

"You use my face to hug my senior brother." Marcus said, "Do you want to die? No, it's too easy for you."

Right in front of Ethan, he smashed the beast-skin man's spine into pieces like cracking a walnut.

The beast-skin man had already fainted, and after he had been chiseled into a ball of mud, Marcus ordered the somewhat bewildered Quinn: "Quinn, bring back all those people in the forest on the right side, and keep them alive. I will kill them myself."