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Lu You turned his head to the window reflexively: the sun outside was very good, and the slightly transparent window paper reflected bright gold.There were no people outside the window, nor any moving things, only the shadows of a few leaves and branches in the distance fell on the window paper, like patterns drawn in light ink—this was a clear and windless day.

Since the system asked him about the plan, it has not made a sound since then.

Lu You quickly lowered his head, and quickly got into the quilt. After making sure that his whole body was covered tightly, he pushed up the edge of the quilt a little bit, and watched the movement outside through the gap.When he focused on listening, a wonderful thing happened: the movement around him suddenly became clear.

The sound of people walking and whispering, the sound of birds chirping and flapping their wings in the trees, the sound of fish jumping and splashing in the pool... These subtle sounds that were originally imperceptible were amplified in Lu You's ears, like Grabbed from a distance by some force, let him hear it.

Lu You recalled the sudden choking fragrance on the quilt just now.Is this some kind of ability that monsters use to probe the environment?

He heard the soft-soled shoes tread almost noiselessly up the steps and into the corridor, the light coming in from under the edge of the door halfway interrupted by shadows.The little fox shrank back under the quilt, feeling anxious—although the monster power had recovered a bit, it was not enough for him to transform into a human form.I just hope that the noise just now wasn’t really someone peeking out the window, at least he couldn’t see the process of his transformation into a fox, then he can still pretend to be a little beast that sneaked into the room, and then find a chance to escape...

The door was knocked lightly. "Master?" said a young girl's voice from outside the door. "It's time for lunch."

The maid in Tsing Yi waited at the door for a while, but the room was silent and there was no response at all.This is the case every meal, she has long been used to it.It's just that yesterday she found out that the food in the food box that was sent out had been tampered with, and she was secretly happy that the young master was finally willing to eat, but now it seems... she is still angry.

The maid sighed inwardly, opened the door softly, and walked into the house with the food box.There was a faint fragrance floating in the room, and the light was much darker than outside, which made her feel a little dull when she just walked in.

The curtain hanging beside the bed blocked out more light, and it was dark behind the curtain, only the quilts could be vaguely piled up in a mess.The bottom of the curtain was also a little messy, as if it had been put down in a hurry - the young master must have heard the voice again, and didn't want to meet her, so he hurriedly hid back on the bed.

What a childish move.The maid laughed in her heart, put the food box in her hand on the table, opened it, and laid out the dishes.Although the young master is now "shutting himself up and thinking about his mistakes", he has been on a hunger strike before, but the food he sent was not vague.She softly reported a few meals that the young master liked on weekdays, and after waiting, there was still no movement on the bed.

She became a little puzzled: at this time before, the young master should say "I don't want to eat" in a muffled voice, and ask her to take it out again.Are you really willing to eat this time?She looked towards the bed and vaguely sensed something was wrong.

Even with a curtain to block the light, it's too dark inside...

"Young master?" She couldn't help calling out in a low voice again, and walked to the bed after a moment of hesitation.Just when she carefully raised the curtain, worried that the young master was sick and didn't respond, she saw the shadow wrapped in a ball on the bed move, and a hand stretched out from under the quilt.

The surrounding darkness seemed to retreat voluntarily.She didn't even know what she saw. What was imprinted in her mind was a silhouette that seemed to exude a hazy light... flexible, thin, white and flawless.The white was cold, so cold that when she took a look at it, she couldn't help shivering as if she had touched ice and snow, but it was as if she had drunk wine, and suddenly there was a wave of drunken heat.

As soon as she let go, the curtain fell again, covering this hand.

Lu You grabbed the clothes that fell off when he turned into a fox, and quickly dragged them under the quilt.The slightly cool silk was attached to his body, and he was relieved: he was almost discovered...

After realizing that the maid didn't know about the fox, the magic of incarnation finally worked.While the maid was talking with her back turned to him, Lu You hurriedly transformed back into a human body wrapped in the quilt. Although she was not very skilled, fortunately she didn't make any strange movements.

When he read the information, he saw the young master pretending to sleep when someone came, and he thought that as long as he kept quiet, the maid would leave after a while, but for some reason, she noticed something was wrong, so she came to check... Then he remembered that there was another thing The clothes were left outside, and it was too late to wear them, so I had to quickly tuck them into the quilt and hide them.

He should be pretty fast, right?Didn't find anything abnormal?

I don't think his behavior is strange, so I have to come and lift his quilt...

Lu You coughed lightly, and was thinking about what to say with the character of the young master, when he heard a burst of hurried footsteps leaving the bed—the maid ran directly outside the house.This made him startled: Did he do something scary just now?

The maid in Tsing Yi didn't realize she had run out until the door closed behind her.She seemed to have discovered something she shouldn't know, and when the sun was shining on her body, she felt the warmth, and when she calmed down, she felt that the panic just now was inexplicable.She looked back at the door, but she didn't dare to go in again, and stood there for a while, hesitatingly preparing to leave.

Suddenly something sounded from behind.She turned her head suddenly and saw a white bird flying up from the window, fluttering its wings, and quickly disappeared into the sky.

Finding that it was just a bird, she relaxed, stroked her chest, and quickly walked away from this somewhat gloomy place.She didn't remember that when she was standing at the door just now, there was nothing by the window...

After the maid left, Lu You immediately picked up the clothes wrapped in a quilt, tossed and tossed for a long time at the folded and tangled pieces of cloth and laces, and finally managed to wear them reluctantly.He didn't look for any shoes anymore. After getting out of bed, he ran to the door with bare feet, stuck to the door, listened carefully, and tried to open the door again—it was locked from the outside.He turned to the window again, trying to find if there was any damage in the window paper for peeking, but he didn't find any holes, but found a small piece of white stuff caught in the window crack.

He squeezed the piece, looked at it for a while, then kneaded it again, and easily kneaded it into a ball.

Is it blank paper...?

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The white bird flew over the roof and out of the small yard.It leisurely flew over the entire Lu family's mansion, and after reaching outside the wall, its height decreased. It dexterously avoided the high bamboo poles and fluttering flags on the street, passed through the gaps between the houses, and finally flew to the A window on the second floor of a restaurant.It flew in through the window and landed on the hand of the person sitting at the table by the window.

The feathered, agile bird became stiff the moment it fell.In the blink of an eye, there was only a paper bird made of white paper left in the man's hand, with a small piece missing from the edge of the wing.

The man slowly took apart the paper bird, flattened the creases on the paper, and gently stroked it between his two fingers.Where the paper was touched, a spider's silk-like extremely thin silver rune line emerged and then disappeared. After the finger left, the paper spontaneously ignited and disappeared without leaving any ashes.

The person sitting across the table raised his head drunkenly, glanced at him, and let out a belch. "You laugh so, so disgustingly," he commented.After he finished speaking, he laughed, picked up the empty wine jug on the table, filled the wine glass with air, raised his head and drank the glass of air, and clicked his mouth unsatisfied—obviously drunk Very deep.

The person who was teased by him smiled slightly, but did not say anything to refute.He twirled his fingers thoughtfully, and brought it to his nose for a light sniff: What was brought back by Shiratori and stuck to his hand was a sweet smell like some kind of pastry and dessert. "I want to ask you something." He said suddenly, "The fox demon's charm... can be passed on by entrusting a dead object without seeing it with your own eyes?"

The person on the other side of the table stared with a pair of misty eyes, as if he couldn't turn his head. It took a long time to understand his question, and it took the same long time to respond. "Who the hell did you spy on with that bird? Still looking silly--silly--foolish?" God—god—" Before he finished speaking, his forehead sank against the tabletop, knocked loudly, and then fell silent.

His words were followed by a snort that started suddenly and stopped abruptly.The old man who had been dozing off on the side opened his eyes.The skin on his face was as wrinkled as an old tree, but his eyes were shining brightly, and he looked out of the window with enthusiasm - the window of the restaurant was facing the direction of the Lu residence.

"The demonic aura is soaring to the sky...I thought it was a little demon yesterday, but it seems I was wrong." He looked at the sky, "This kind of demonic aura...I am afraid that the heart has been refined, and it won't be long. It's time to cross the robbery."

After the old man finished speaking, he pondered for a while, and was a little puzzled, "How did this fox live to become a demon without even knowing how to restrain his breath?" He saw the man sitting by the window stand up, "Why, you going?"

"Go and have a look." The young man in gray said.He lowered his hand, and another white bird fell from his sleeve onto his finger, jumped slightly, and flew out of the window.At the same time, his figure became blurred.All the other people sitting and drinking in the restaurant turned a blind eye to this vision.

The old man's expression became serious, "Did you... find it?" He asked in a deep voice.

"I found it." The young man said, a smile unconsciously appeared on his lips.

He had been dreaming for so many years, the person he had dreamed repeatedly but never met... finally found it.

The old man watched him disappear.This apprentice who was picked up and raised by him as an abandoned child and who has always been calm, rarely showed some impatience.He looked at the sky outside the window again. Ordinary people couldn't see anything unusual, but in the eyes of a person like him, there was a faint surge of black energy in that sky.

"Everyone who has been talking about it for more than ten years is a demon in the end." He muttered this sentence, without the slightest awareness of being an exorcist who had to clean up the evil spirits. Blocked, and then shook his head and ate the food and wine on the table.

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