NCCnovel Chapter 298: Helping the manager or not helping the bride
Chapter 298: Helping the manager or not helping the bride
Lu Bai looked at the two people in front of him, feeling inexplicably sad and angry.
The murderer who killed the eldest senior brother was right in front of him, but he didn't even have the attitude to avenge his eldest senior brother!
The upbringing he received since childhood and the instructions from his master made it impossible for him to abandon his conscience and blame others for his senior brother's mistakes.
What's more, Senior Sister Bai has saved him many times and is grateful to him for saving her life!
How could he repay kindness with enmity? !
Chen Yingjie couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw Lu Bai's expression.
Although this time, the expert group brought them a lot of good things based on the environment here.
However, if disputes can be avoided, it is better to avoid them.
Once they take out those big guys from Blue Star, their identities will probably be exposed...
"Lu Bai!" Bai Yaoyao naturally heard what Chen Yingjie said. She took a step forward, came out from behind Chen Yingjie, and stood side by side with Chen Yingjie.
"It's hard for you to be a person who only supports the right and not your relatives. We look up to you."
Bai Yaoyao paused, thinking of the little things she had known about Lu Bai before, and still couldn't bear it, so she kindly reminded him, "Although your senior brother is dead, he is a member of your Xiaoyao Sect after all. Now that the Saint Girl has returned, the elders of the Mermaid Clan already know what Lu Fengxian did to her. I'm afraid they will come to you for an explanation soon, so you'd better make plans early!"
Lu Bai nodded, "I know! I have heard about what happened at the inn this morning. I didn't expect that the shopkeeper Canglan was actually the master brother's spy. Now that the spy has been caught, I guess the next step is to come to me and question him!"
Lu Bai smiled bitterly, "My Xiaoyao Sect is in decline, and we don't have any rare treasures to compensate the Mermaid Saint. The only valuable thing is the Jade Sea Tide Pearl that I bought at the auction at the Treasure Pavilion a few days ago. I will go back and remove it from my body, and when the Mermaids come to question me, I will make compensation."
Chen Yingjie frowned as he looked at his decadent appearance, and suddenly felt a little bit reluctant.
It was obvious that when he went to the Shadow Mist Reef before, Lu Bai was still an innocent young man, but after just two days of not seeing him, he had become so gloomy.
Chen Yingjie sighed, thought for a while and then said, "Your senior brother murdered the saint of the mermaid tribe. I'm afraid that a mere blue sea tide bead is not enough to extinguish the anger of the mermaid tribe. I have a suggestion, you can consider it."
Lu Bai looked puzzled: "What's the proposal?"
Bai Yaoyao suddenly had an idea and glanced sideways at Chen Yingjie beside her.
As expected, Chen Yingjie said, "Shopkeeper Canglan may not be your senior brother's accomplice. We are investigating this matter. Why don't you help us catch the real thief? This can also be regarded as helping the mermaids to clean up their doorsteps and prevent them from being deceived by the thief. Then you can find a way to compensate them and ask for forgiveness from the mermaid saint and the elders. What do you think?"
In the end, Lu Bai accepted Chen Yingjie's proposal.
He knew very well that his senior brother had committed a huge mistake this time. If he could not obtain the forgiveness of the mermaids, there would be no place for the Xiaoyao Sect members to stand in the Mirage Sea Secret Realm in the future, and they might even be deprived of the qualification to enter the secret realm.
The Xiaoyao Sect was originally poor and weak. The Mirage Sea Secret Realm was full of treasures, and sea beasts were also rare spiritual food. For the past fifty years, the sect had been entirely supported by the things that the eldest senior brother brought back from the secret realm last time.
If the Xiaoyao Sect loses the qualification to enter the Mirage Sea Secret Realm, it will probably be completely degraded from a third-rate sect to a second-rate sect!
So he must ask for forgiveness from the mermaids!
When several people were investigating in the side hall of Jubao Pavilion, Lu Bai's eyes kept sliding over Bai Yaoyao, and he felt extremely conflicted.
After feeling Lu Bai's gaze countless times, Bai Yaoyao finally sighed and took the initiative to say, "Lu Bai, if you want to ask me for help, just say it!"
Seeing that he was caught, Lu Bai put down the box he was checking, walked up to Bai Yaoyao, and said hesitantly:
"Senior Sister Bai, I... I do have an unwelcome request..."
Bai Yaoyao looked at his shy look and found it a little funny. "Why, knowing that I have phantom octopus eggs, you want me to give you some and give them to the merman tribe as compensation?"
The value of octopus eggs was already reflected in the last Jubao Pavilion auction.
Moreover, it is said that the mermaids have been trying to tame sea beasts in recent years. If Lu Bai can take out a batch of phantom octopus eggs as an apology, the anger of the mermaids will surely be extinguished a little.
When Bai Yaoyao revealed his thoughts, Lu Bai blushed and bowed, "Senior Sister Bai, please understand! I really don't have any treasures to give out right now, so I really want to ask for help. But I don't want you to give me anything for free. I just hope that you can lend me some treasures for the sake of our past companionship. After the calamity with the mermaids is over, Lu Bai will find ways to find treasures of equal value and return them to you!"
Bai Yaoyao and Chen Yingjie looked at each other, and after seeing Chen Yingjie nodded slightly, he chuckled, "Sure! You followed us on a trip to the Shadow Mist Reef before, and I originally promised you that if you completed the task, I would give you 2000 points as a reward, so use an octopus egg in exchange. In addition, if you want to shut up the mermaids, I'm afraid you'll need at least hundreds of octopus eggs, so I'll lend these to you!"
Seeing Bai Yaoyao agreed, Lu Bai couldn't help but be overjoyed, and bowed deeply to Bai Yaoyao, "Thank you, Senior Sister Bai! Senior Sister Bai, you are so kind! Lu Bai will never forget it! If you have any orders in the future, as long as it is not against justice, Lu Bai will respond!"
Bai Yaoyao smiled and nodded.
There were more than tens of thousands of octopus eggs in her system backpack. Although she had to prepare to exchange them for other treasures to bring back to Blue Star, exchanging a thousand or eight hundred octopus eggs for Lu Bai, or in other words, for a favor from the Xiaoyao Sect, it was a worthwhile deal.
I heard from Lingmao that although the Xiaoyao Sect is now in decline, it was once a top sect in the Hongmeng Fairyland.
In the past when the sect was at its peak, Xiaoyao Sect collected countless immortal classics. Now that they are in decline, they can't even afford to provide spiritual food for their disciples.
It is a very suitable object for trading.
This is also the reason why Chen Yingjie wanted to curry favor and bring Lu Bai along to investigate the traitor together.
Helping Lu Bai is equivalent to helping Xiaoyao Sect. First, improve their favorability. When the time comes to trade with Xiaoyao Sect, it may have a miraculous effect.
After all, what they were interested in, besides the sect's classics, was also Xiaoyao Sect's most famous mountain protection formation...
Bai Yaoyao collected his scattered thoughts and patted Lu Bai on the shoulder, "Keep checking! If we can finish this soon, we can go to the Mirage Sea to collect some sea beast spiritual food earlier. Then you can bring it back to the sect and honor your master and brothers!"