Ethan was stunned for a moment, touched the side of his face, couldn't help laughing, and flicked Marcus on the forehead: "Little ba5tard."
Marcus was pushed back a step, touched his forehead and looked at Ethan pitifully: ...
Seeing him like this, Ethan suspected that he had hit him too hard: "Does it hurt?"
"Yeah." There were tears in Marcus's eyes, which were shaking, and his mouth was raised high, "...It hurts."
The nine lanterns not far away frowned slightly.
Ethan crossed his arms, looking at the child who might burst into tears at any moment, and felt a slight headache: "Man, don't act like this."
Marcus seemed not to understand, his eyes, which seemed to contain thousands of pearls, were misty: "......"
The child's skin is as thin as tofu. It turns bright red if you tap it a little. It looks really serious.
Ethan had no choice but to bend down and blew on the red spot, then pressed his head and pushed him to Jared: "...Don't act like a spoiled child. This won't happen again."
Marcus held back his tears, turned around and smiled sweetly, "Yes, Senior Brother Xu."
…dmn, so cute.
Ethan turned around and thought as he walked, now that the name has been decided, what surname should he choose?
He was picked up by himself, so should we call him Xu?
No, if my surname is Xu, my brother will definitely not agree.
After thinking it over, Ethan secretly made the decision.
......I'd better go back and look up the Hundred Family Surnames, close my eyes and draw circles with a pen, and whichever name you circle is the one.
Just as he made up his mind, Ethan saw Noah carrying a steel chain on his back and stepping out of a door with rippling green light.
As soon as he landed, he saw Ethan, and Noah silently rolled his eyes.
Ethan held a folding fan in his hand, opened his arms as he walked, and said with a smile: "Look, who is back?"
Noah said disdainfully: "......You are shaking like this, how can you be so dignified."
Ethan staggered over and said, "Even if I roll away, don't the disciples here still have to call me Brother Xu?"
Noah: "......Hehe."
Ethan was not shy about it. He went up to Noah and touched his shoulder, tapping his chest with the handle of his fan: "Why, are you still holding a grudge against me in the last Heavenly Ranking competition? I wonder why you are so petty."
Noah let him flirt with him and snorted coldly: "It's an unfair victory. How dare you bring it up like that."
Ethan laughed out loud: "What do you mean by winning unfairly?"
He played with the folding fan in his hand, and with a spin, the fan turned into an extremely sharp Yuchang sword.
He turned the hilt again, and the sword body turned into a 10-foot-long spear carved with a bronze snake head.
Ethan spun the spear around a few times, then turned it back into the bamboo fracture fan.
"Aren't spearmen fighting each other your forte?" Ethan threw the fan up with his right hand and caught it again, "...You actually lost to me. How shameful."
Noah was so angry: "...... Nonsense, didn't you say before the competition that you wouldn't use this broken fan of yours to perform magic tricks during the competition?"
"Oh my god." Ethan opened his eyes wide, "We grew up together, and you actually believed what I said. Fatty Zhou, you are so cute."
Noah: "......"
Without saying a word, he pulled out a spear from his back and stabbed with his backhand.
In a flash, Ethan dodged and the folding fan in his hand turned into a pair of shark scissors. The serrated edges of the scissors tightly gripped the long spear that Noah was stabbing at him, and lifted the tip of the spear high.
He smiled and said, "Be careful, be careful. Xiao Beibei, I was wrong."
Noah was just bluffing, and when he heard him surrender, he withdrew his attack, but he still refused to let him go: "...How could Qingjing Jun accept someone like you as Fengling's first disciple?"
Ethan said shamelessly: "Maybe I'm too handsome."
Noah: "......"
Quinn who was passing by: "......"
Noah turned to Quinn: "...No, Quinn, don't you think he deserves a beating?"
Quinn couldn't help laughing: "...Occasionally."
Ethan transformed the shark scissors into a folding fan and fanned himself: "... Noah, this is your fault. This 'idle pen' was made by me, and my master allowed me to use it in the Heavenly Ranking Competition. It's not shameful for you to lose to me, really."
Noah poured cold water on him: "What's the use of having this broken fan? In the end, you will still be beaten by Quinn, right?"
Ethan sighed, "What do you mean by 'beating him with all your strength'? I only lost to him by one move in the end. When the Heavenly Ranking Competition comes in five years, I will definitely be the first. By then, I will write the words 'First on the Heavenly Ranking, Fengling Ethan' on my fan..."
Before he finished speaking, another light gate opened near the three people.
A wheelchair rolled in from the light gate, creaking as it rolled over the jade bricks.
A Qingliang Valley disciple happened to pass by with a scroll in his arms. When he saw the man, he immediately fell silent and bowed, "Hello, Senior Brother Wen."
The visitor was wearing a thin blue dress as thin as a cicada, and a yin-yang ring made of jujube wood struck by lightning. Hearing the greeting, he did not even raise his eyelids, but simply replied: "......OK."
He wheeled his wheelchair straight to the three people and asked, "What are you guys doing?"
Quinn held a whisk in his hand and replied with a smile: "Xingzhi and Noah are arguing again."
Wen Xuechen's skin was very white, but strangely white, and there was even a faint purple hue around her lips.
Therefore, his voice was very ethereal, revealing a pale and weak feeling: "...Are you guys free?"
Ethan sat on the armrest of Wen Xuechen's wheelchair: "I just came back from work, and I have nothing to do. It's not against any rules to chat. ... Speaking of which, these monsters guarding the sacrificial objects are getting more and more boring, and each one is more difficult to beat than the other."
Wen Xuechen looked at him and said nothing.
"Now it seems to me that there are only two kinds of monsters in the world." Ethan continued to brag while playing with his fan, "the soft persimmons that are easy to pinch, and the soft persimmons that are not easy to pinch."
Noah: "......"
Quinn: "......"
Wen Xuechen raised his chin slightly: "Oh? Really? Xingzhi is really fearless now."
Ethan opened his fan in a casual manner and answered cheerfully: "Of course..."
His eyes turned and his breathing stopped immediately.
Wen Xuechen opened his right hand, which had been clenched tightly for a while, and there lay a huge beetle in it. Its flesh was as big as a tadpole, and it was waving its tentacles and crawling slowly in his palm.
Wen Xuechen said, "Xingzhi, this is a specialty of Yaoguang Mountain. I think its shape is cute, so I brought it to you to see."
Ethan, sitting on the armrest of Wen Xuechen's wheelchair, became as stiff as a sculpture.
A moment later.
Marcus, who had just changed his clothes and was sitting on the steps swinging his legs out of boredom, heard a scream in the distance that pierced the sky, followed by Noah's unrestrained laughter.
His ears twitched and he jumped down the stairs: "Senior Brother Xu?!"
Jared wiped the sword calmly, with an indifferent face, and said calmly: "No need to go. Brother must have encountered a bug."
Marcus blinked his eyes: "Brother, are you afraid of bugs?"
Jared, who had been silent and indifferent from the beginning, had a faint look on his face when he mentioned Ethan: "...Every time there is a Donghuang sacrifice, Senior Brother will always go to the five mountains he is responsible for half a month in advance. First, he will scout the way for the participating disciples, and second, Senior Brother will use his spiritual power to stun all the snakes, insects, rats and ants in the mountains for half a month. Otherwise, Senior Brother will not dare to set foot in the mountains no matter what."
The huge beetle that suddenly emerged from Wen Xuechen's palm made Ethan break out in a cold sweat. He felt dizzy and as if he had fallen into a whirlpool. Under the huge suction force, he was getting farther and farther away from the group of people.
Finally, he fell onto a bed, feeling dizzy.
The moment he opened his eyes, Ethan's brain felt as if it had exploded.
The scent of the redwood trees still lingered in his nostrils, but he had already torn himself away from the memories of the original owner and returned to the tower in the wilderness.
......Marcus was not in the bedroom, but Noah was beside the bed, bending over, arranging the pillow for Ethan.
Noah was embarrassed when he found Ethan awake. He pointed at the pillow and said, "You are sweating too much. I will change your pillow for you."
After he finished explaining, he had a subtle expression that said "Why the hell do I have to explain so much?"
He couldn't stay there any longer, so he simply turned around and walked out.
Ethan's mind was still confused, and he called out, "Fatty Zhou."
Noah, who had already walked to the door, suddenly stopped.
This title seemed to ignite the suppressed emotions in his heart. He turned around and walked a few steps quickly, returned to the bedside, and asked sternly: "...Where have you been for the past thirteen years?! What on earth do you want to do in the wilderness?"
He reached out to grab Ethan's collar, but missed.
Noah has been dead for many years, and he is a ghost slave under Lucas. Strictly speaking, he is no longer a human being. At most, he is a humanoid weapon under Lucas. He can only kill people with his ghost weapons, but he cannot touch anyone except Lucas.
His translucent hands went straight through Ethan's body, but even so, he clenched his fists with all his strength.
He gritted his teeth and whispered: "Ethan, do you know that I thought you were dead for many years..."
......Ethan actually heard a hint of sadness in his gnashing of teeth.
In Ethan's original fragmented memories, the original owner and Noah fought whenever they met, and when they first met in the wilderness, Noah was even more rude to Ethan and never looked at him in a good light, so Ethan took it for granted that the relationship between the two was as hostile as fire and water.
But in that complete memory, the relationship between the two was obviously very good.
Ethan's mind was a little confused at the moment. He held his temple, which was swollen and painful, and pinched it hard twice before he could barely calm down.
After calming down, Ethan raised his head and said to Noah: "...someone asked me to kill you."
He admitted it so readily that Noah was stunned.
After a while, he asked: "...Did Jared ask you to come?"
Ethan gave a wry smile and did not answer.
His appearance made Noah even more certain of his judgment.
He sat down on the bedside: "He asked you to kill Marcus?"
Ethan nodded: "You know. Marcus will not be on guard against me."
Noah showed an expression of understanding, and then laughed in anger: "This little ba5tard really wants to kill us all."
Ethan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
...Finally managed to deal with it.
The original owner had disappeared for thirteen years, and now I had taken his identity and suddenly appeared in the wilderness. This matter in itself was too suspicious.
Ethan failed to kill Marcus in the first place. Therefore, if he wanted to stay with this group of people and look for opportunities to take action, he had to find a decent reason to convince them to accept him.
The most clever lie is to mix truth with lies, which sounds the most real.
As Ethan expected, Noah believed his words.
Noah leaned forward and asked seriously: "Does he know that we are about to find the 'key' to the wilderness?"
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