Ouyang Tianyun laughed at this. "Senior Brother Sikong, stop talking. Junior Sister’s points are many times ours. She contributes more, so she has more points. Don’t you see she never worries about points?"
Sikong Xuran paused, then laughed. "You’re right. It is true."
Zhu Yanyi grinned. "If you want points, the best way is to negotiate with the Dean. We can do her tasks, but we must agree on the price first. That way, she can’t trick us."
Fortunately, Xi Muzheng wasn’t there. Otherwise, she would have jumped up. She wasn’t that kind of person. Zhu Yanyi just liked to find chances to extort her.
Zhu Yanyi and the others were patient. Seeing Wang Xiuliang didn’t wake up, they didn’t rush to wake her. Instead, they started stacking firewood and making a late-night snack.
"It’s warm here, but without a late-night snack, life feels hard," Zhu Yanyi said with a smile.
Ouyang Tianyun took out some seasonings and helped Zhu Yanyi. As they cooked, she said, "Since we came to this mortal realm, we feel we’ve fallen a bit. We didn’t eat like this before. We couldn’t even finish three meals a day, let alone late-night snacks."
Zhu Yanyi laughed loudly. "That’s good! It shows you’re becoming more human. Didn’t you always say you wanted to be people with warmth?"
Yi Yunfei glanced at Zhu Yanyi. "Can ‘human warmth’ be understood that way?"
"Actually, that understanding isn’t wrong," Zhu Yanyi said, blinking her innocent eyes at Yi Yunfei.
Yi Yunfei felt it was wrong but didn’t argue further.
Perhaps the food smelled too strong. Wang Xiuliang, who had been unconscious, slowly woke up.
Although Wang Xiuliang hadn’t opened his eyes, everyone felt he was awake when he moved.
Sikong Xuran walked over and kicked Wang Xiuliang a few times. "Stop pretending. You should know there are people who are very familiar with the human body, including the difference between deep sleep and waking. Their breathing feels different. These people are doctors. Pretending to be asleep or unconscious in front of so many doctors is useless."
Wang Xiuliang wasn’t pretending on purpose. He just wanted to guess when he woke up. He hadn’t figured out what was happening yet.
Before he was fully awake, Sikong Xuran kicked him awake.
Wang Xiuliang looked at Sikong Xuran, then at the people by the fire. He realized there were more than just Sikong Xuran and Ouyang Tianyun. There were three others hiding in the dark.
Unfortunately, she didn’t know Zhu Yanyi and Yan Aohan had arrived later. She wrongly blamed them.
Wang Xiuliang looked around. "Where is my Life-Devouring Gu?"
"Go look in the ashes of that piece of firewood over there. You might find some powder," Ouyang Tianyun pointed in a direction. There was only a piece of wood turned to charcoal ash. There was no Life-Devouring Gu.
"You… you really burned my Life-Devouring Gu?" Wang Xiuliang couldn’t believe it was true.
Ouyang Tianyun nodded. "Such a harmful thing is only good for harming people. It’s better to destroy it directly. Don’t worry, the fire burned it quickly and happily. It died quickly. Its death cry wasn’t pleasant, though. It was much uglier than an owl’s call."
"Senior Brother Tianyun, how can you speak ill of owls? Owls are innocent," Zhu Yanyi said with a disapproving expression.
"Owls are guardians of the night. What is that Life-Devouring Gu? Its only feature is taking lives. Can such a thing compare to an owl? Don’t tarnish the owl’s reputation."
Does it have a reputation? Wang Xiuliang thought these people must be crazy. How could they say such things?
Zhu Yanyi tilted her head and looked at Wang Xiuliang, examining her carefully. Yan Aohan, standing nearby, was unhappy. He directly took out a pair of sunglasses and put them on Zhu Yanyi.
Zhu Yanyi took off the sunglasses and looked at Yan Aohan unhappily. "Making me wear sunglasses at night. Do you hate seeing me in the light so much?"
"It’s not that I hate seeing you in the light. It’s that I hate seeing you look at other men," Yan Aohan said directly. His jealousy was open and bold.
Zhu Yanyi smiled and walked up to hold Yan Aohan’s arm. "You’re jealous. Actually, you don’t need to be. With such a good husband as you, other men can’t enter my eyes.
I’m just curious. This man doesn’t look like much, so how does he have such dark thoughts? Also, he looks somewhat like us Chinese, but not entirely. Look at the ratio of his upper body to his lower body. It’s almost one to one. Based on this length, I think he is a descendant of Japanese people."
Yan Aohan nodded. "Probably."
Zhu Yanyi looked disgusted. "Indeed, she is a descendant of the people from the country with the thickest skin in the world. That’s why she did such things."
Hearing Zhu Yanyi and Yan Aohan’s conversation, Wang Xiuliang was shocked in her heart, but she denied it on her face. "I don’t know what you’re talking about."
Zhu Yanyi raised an eyebrow slightly. "Don’t worry. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know what we’re saying. We don’t plan to let you know. I’m just curious. How did you successfully hide for sixty years in Wangjiagou without anyone discovering you?"
"Don’t understand what you’re saying?" Wang Xiuliang was surprised in her heart that Zhu Yanyi knew their identity, but she didn’t show it on her face.
Zhu Yanyi snorted. "Forget it. I’ll give you some Truth Powder. Then you won’t make trouble, and I won’t need to try hard to dig up your secrets."
Wang Xiuliang truly didn’t understand the meaning of Zhu Yanyi’s words. What did "make trouble" and "try hard" mean?
Zhu Yanyi took out the Truth Powder and threw it to Sikong Xuran. "One-third dose is enough."
Sikong Xuran nodded. He directly pried open Wang Xiuliang’s mouth and stuffed one-third of the dose into it.
Wang Xiuliang felt a strange taste enter his throat, then rush to his brain. He felt somewhat numb.
"Now you can speak. How did you successfully hide for sixty years without anyone discovering you are not Chinese?" Zhu Yanyi asked.
Wang Xiuliang wanted to say he didn’t know, but when he opened his mouth, the answer was completely different: