NCCnovel Chapter 303 You're the one who fired the cannon, aren't you?
Chapter 303 You're the one who fired the cannon, aren't you?
"You guys did a good job finding this place!"
Xu Ning and Kong walked in, and before they could even look around, a young man appeared.
The young man walked slowly with his hands in his sleeves, his flowing purple robes seemingly carrying a misty aura.
Although he was speaking in a tone that sounded like praise, the sarcasm in his voice was enough to make anyone's blood pressure rise.
Are you the person in charge here?
Kong unconsciously adopted a wary posture and asked the boy a question.
"I guess you could call me the person in charge, since I'm the executor! But I'm just here to carry out the plan for others. As for the mastermind here, you guys are so capable, go and enjoy the fun of the search!"
Paimon asked in surprise, "You're an Executive? An Executive like the lady and the young master?"
The boy smiled. "It seems you've already met my two unreliable and useless colleagues. I am the sixth seat of the Fools' Executive, a skirmisher. It's a pleasure to meet you, the famous Strangers."
"Let's get down to business. You've come all this way to my cave, you can't just be here to satisfy your bored curiosity, can you?"
Paimon pointed to the crystallized bone marrow outside and said, "You're producing the Evil Eye here..."
The boy who called himself a skirmisher laughed, interrupting Paimon, "Obviously. But I didn't expect you to come here for something so trivial? That's quite disappointing."
Kong Ta stepped forward and said in a deep voice, "You actually say this is a trivial matter?"
Xu Ning and Paimon, who were familiar with Kong, knew that when Kong asked the question in such a tone, it was clear that he was extremely angry.
The evil eye deliberately spread by the Fools almost killed his good friend Zheping. If it weren't for Brother Xu's effective wine, he would have regretted it for the rest of his life.
Moreover, it involved more than just one life, yet the other party described it as a trivial matter that they wouldn't even mention.
"What? You have friends who died because of using the Evil Eye? Even without the Evil Eye, they would still die. At least now they can still gain some power and realize their humble and pitiful dreams."
"Shut up! I won't allow you to talk about Teppei like that!"
Kong angrily charged toward the scattered soldiers.
"Ha, you're actually angry. If you knew that we were the ones who orchestrated the Eye Hunt Order, created the conflict, and paved the way for the promotion of the Evil Eye, wouldn't you be even angrier?"
The skirmisher lightly touched the ground with his toes, seemingly slow but actually swift, dodging the empty thrust.
"To gain the feeling of controlling the world for just a small price, exchanging one's life for supreme power, isn't that a good deal? Haha!"
Amidst the laughter of the scattered soldiers, Kong seemed to grow increasingly enraged, his longsword wielding seemingly losing all rhythm, hacking wildly with each strike more ferocious than the last, as if he had forgotten how to unleash even elemental attacks.
"Be angry, for anger is the best food for the demon's resentment; it will devour you entirely..."
Amidst the soldiers' wild laughter, the surrounding purple mist grew even thicker.
Kong seemed to have completely lost himself, and finally cried out in pain in the purple mist.
"Hey, Kong, calm down... you big drunkard, come help me..."
Xu Ning, who was drinking at the back, saw Paimon turn around and suddenly clutched his throat. "Ah, there's something wrong with this fog. I feel... really uncomfortable..."
Then he collapsed to the ground with a thud and never reacted again.
This terrified Paimon.
The little guy had never seen Xu Ning so disheveled before. Seeing Kong collapse as well, the little guy was so anxious he almost cried.
"What to do? What to do? What to do……"
The seemingly harmless boy from a moment ago now appeared like a devil in Paimon's eyes. The little thing desperately tugged at Kong's arm, trying to escape, but it was too weak, and the skirmishers were already upon it.
"Oh, don't scare the little girl like that!"
A soft sigh escaped.
The graceful fox priestess slowly materialized in the purple mist and complained, "I was just getting into the exciting part of the novel when I was forcibly interrupted to deal with your trivial matters. It's really annoying."
The soldier seemed surprised to see the fox-like palace guard here, and asked in a cold voice with a stern face, "What are you doing here?"
"Oh dear, are you even stingy with honorifics? How rude and heartless to treat an old friend like this!"
Lady Yaezakura of Narukami Shrine tapped her fair chin with her finger and asked with a charming smile, "Didn't you decide to leave many years ago? Why have you returned now?"
"Naturally, it's because I have enough power to take back what rightfully belongs to me."
The soldier's solemn statement, which sounded like a declaration of sovereignty, made Yae no Miko laugh.
She flipped her fingers, revealing a chess piece shimmering with a crystalline purple light nestled between her two fingers.
"I wonder if my guess is right? Is this what you're talking about? Oh dear, judging from your expression, I think I guessed correctly."
The fox, who loved to manipulate people's hearts, smiled slyly, "So you've always wanted this? If you had told me sooner, I might have given it to you decades ago, saving you the trouble of having to take care of it."
The soldier, his face grim, said coldly, "You're willing to give it to me?"
"It's just a useless heart of a god, what's there for me to be reluctant about..."
Before Yae no Miko could finish speaking, Xu Ning, who was lying on the ground, seemed to twitch in pain, his arm trembled, and his palm lightly rubbed against Yae no Miko's ankle.
The clever fox immediately stomped on the hand and twisted it hard.
"If you have something to say, stand up and say it. Don't lie there touching my feet!"
"It hurts..."
Xu Ning could no longer pretend. He quickly pulled his hand away from Shenzi's feet, rubbing it as he said with a wry smile, "I was just embarrassed to disturb your reunion, and I was thinking of lying down a little longer..."
Paimon, who had been shaking the empty space beside him, was completely stunned to see Xu Ning sit up unharmed.
Then, with a "whoosh," it pounced over and forcefully pulled Xu Ning's hair upwards.
"Baldy, I'm going to pluck you out of the water and make you bald, you shameless drunkard!"
Xu Ning hurriedly ripped the little white hair off and threw it into the Dust-Hidden Cave, then threw the empty space on the ground into it as well.
Then, rubbing his head, he asked Yae no Miko, "Is it really okay to just give him the Heart of God so casually? Lord Lei shouldn't agree to that, right?"
Yae no Miko glanced at Xu Ning, "You want it too? Just say so. If you want it, I'll give it to you. Oh, right, I remember the little girl in blue said that this is good for brewing wine..."
At this point, the Divine Child turned to the scattered soldiers apologetically and said, "It seems I can't give it to you, but I can share some wine with you; it's very good!"
The stragglers who had been coldly staring at Xu Ning remained unperturbed. Only when they heard the Divine Child mention wine did they speak up, saying, "This wine smells very familiar. You were the one who fired at me at Tabaisha that day, weren't you?"