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Just like people are always the slowest to their own aura, Lu You didn't know anything about the situation where he was exuding a demonic aura without concealment. He only felt that the surroundings seemed to be getting colder, but it made him feel very comfortable.After a cloud slowly drifted over the small courtyard and blocked the sunlight, the coldness caused by this trace of evil spirit became even more difficult to detect.

Lu You found a corner of shredded paper in the crack of the window. The crisp texture is different from the window paper. I don't know where it came from.He tried to push the window again, but the window couldn't be opened like the door.He began to wonder if the young master had done any other acts of resistance that were not mentioned in the materials besides the hunger strike—looking at these arrangements, he might have failed to escape several times before the fox demon arrived.

Unable to see outside with his eyes, Lu You leaned against the window, recalling the state when he had not transformed from a fox back into a human, and could hear clearly even distant movements.He guessed that it should be some kind of sorcery, and wanted to see if it could be done in human form.

If you can master this ability to the extent that you can use it as you like, it will be much more convenient than the system's map function that can only be used once a day and can only be viewed for a few minutes at a time...

Initial attempts failed.Even if I managed to make the voice louder in my ears, it couldn't be maintained stably. Sometimes it was far and near, and sometimes all the voices were mixed together, and the noise was endless.Lu You made himself dizzy, and finally found the trick after a few times: Let the mind spread out slowly, like ripples in the water, spreading out round and round.

Wait for various sounds to faintly appear in the ear, and then concentrate in a certain direction at this time, and then you can "catch" the one you want to hear.

Lu You "heard" the flowers and plants in the courtyard outside the house, the pond and the perforated rockery beside it, the maids who were busy tidying up in the side room, chatting and laughing softly... Even if people don't speak, their breathing and heartbeat can make sounds.He closed his eyes, allowing the nuanced sounds of heartbeats to slowly emerge from the darkness.

There are less than ten maids, handymen and guards in total, less than he imagined...

A maid was throwing fish food by the pool.Lu You's attention was drawn to it, and he unconsciously locked on the one that was fighting the most fiercely.The sound of fish pecking at the water surface and wagging their fins and tails became louder and clearer in his ears as he concentrated...

The maid sprinkled the last handful of fish food, and found that the shoal of fish, which were already full and somewhat lazy, started to stir again.One fish seemed to be frightened by something and was running around in the school of fish.She was about to take a closer look when the fish suddenly sank into the water and disappeared.The school of fish around it dispersed abruptly, and no matter what fish food was floating on the water, they all fled the shore in the blink of an eye.

In the house not far away, Lu You suddenly withdrew from that state.He opened his eyes, feeling cold all over his body.Just now at the end... He seems to have heard something exploding...

It's like filling a small balloon with water, and gradually clenching it in your hand until the sound of the balloon bursting under pressure.

The sorcery just now can do far more than just collect information...

Lu You backed away from the window as if avoiding something.He was full of fear: What if what he noticed just now was not the fish, but the breathing of the maid by the pool?Is it her heartbeat—?Just trying to see what a monster can do unconsciously, what kind of terrible consequences will it cause?

He didn't dare to try again, retreated to the table, and sat on the only chair in the room.There are white porcelain bowls and dishes on the table, and the dishes inside are only a little bit, which looks very delicate.Lu You smelled the aroma of the food. After a while, he picked up the slender ebony chopsticks, picked up the green filaments of the chopsticks from the plate, and put them into his mouth.

It tastes sweet.Lu You was a little puzzled: Isn't this a vegetable?He tried several others, all with the same cloying sweetness.At first he wondered if the sense of taste of monsters is different from that of humans, but after a while he remembered that there is also such a thing as "repercussions" - the abnormality that he didn't notice at the beginning was waiting here.

Lu You reluctantly ate some, it was too sweet to swallow.After putting down his chopsticks and sitting silently at the table for a while, he raised his hand to cover his eyes.In front of his eyes... what had been appearing alternately since just now was the imaginary image of the fish being exploded from the inside into pieces, and the image of Shigure falling slowly in front of him with blood gushing out.

It turned out that he was still affected by this incident... His hands trembled a little, and he swallowed lightly.In order to dissipate the too stagnant silence around him, he asked in a low voice, "Are you there...?"

Lu You asked the system, but the system didn't answer.He was answered by two light knocks on the outside of the window.

It took him a while to react, and he turned his head to look at the window, and it took a few more seconds before he found the extra round thing in the shadow of the leaves.The thing jumped on the window sill, turned around, and the outline of the shadow showed a sharp beak and tail that were easy to distinguish.

is a bird.

The window couldn't be opened, so I could only see the shadow on it, and I couldn't tell what kind of bird it was.

The system is silent, which means that a plot character has appeared nearby... Is that person coming?Although there was no evidence, and he didn't know the other party's situation in this world at all, Lu You already had a sense of expectation in his heart.He gave up the table of dishes that didn't taste right, got up and walked to the window.

During the time he walked to the window, the bird kept hopping slightly on the window sill, showing no intention of flying away.When Lu You stretched out his hand and touched his fingertips to the window paper, it was not scared away by the sudden touch. Instead, it lowered its head and lightly pecked his fingertips through the window paper.

It "chirped" outside the window, and then jumped to the window crack.Something was stuffed in, it was the white corner of a piece of paper that looked familiar.At first, Lu You thought it was holding something in its mouth... Then, a whole square piece of paper squeezed into the room through the window.

When the paper fell, Lu You subconsciously reached out to catch it, and the paper quickly folded inward in mid-air, folded itself back into the shape of a bird, and changed from origami to a bird with all claws in the blink of an eye. The living creature landed on Lu You's finger.

It was a bird covered in white, with silver-gray eyes, which looked a bit fake from a close look.But it does have weight and body temperature, and its soft and warm feathers rub against Lu You's hand.Lu You witnessed this series of changes in amazement, and raised his other hand tentatively, but the white bird obediently did not dodge, letting Lu You pinch its wings.

"... Was it you just now?" Lu You asked it tentatively.There was no gap on the piece of paper just now, maybe it wasn't the same bird.The gray eyes of the white bird were stiffer than those of a real living thing. It seemed that it could not understand Lu You's words. It turned its head and combed the feathers on its back with its beak. It flew up from Lu You's hand, circled around the room, and finally stopped. on the washstand.

Lu You was still standing in front of the window.He couldn't help but want to use that sorcery, but hesitated again. "...Who is it?" Finally he asked softly, guessing that there might be a hidden person outside who could hear him.There was no response from outside.The white bird on the shelf tilted its head, watching the profile of the person by the window with cold eyes.

By the pond in the courtyard, the people standing there watched the same scene through the eyes of the white bird.His field of vision seemed to be split into two parts, and what he was looking at with his own eyes was the slightly rippling water surface ahead.A few pieces of fish food that had been soaked whitish stuck to the edge of the lotus leaf, and it never sank, and no fish came to eat it.

From the bottom of the pool, a shadow of a fish slowly floated up and approached the surface of the water—turning its belly, the fish had several deep cracks and was already dead.

He stared at the dead fish for a while, and he was sure that it was the same evil spirit as in the house.Using what can be considered a profound sorcery, he killed a fish... Do you want to eat it?he pondered.The koi is not tasty... Or is it boring to be locked up all the time, is this just for fun?

He could easily break through the doors and windows to escape, but he stayed in the house as if he was really locked up. This little fox should have something to do with this family...

He turned his attention back to the room, and saw the messily dressed boy by the window, before waiting for a response, he went to the shelf to look at Shiratori again.The fox should have liked the game of catching living things, and the monster would instinctively respond to spells, but he seemed to really think that the bird was cute, not only continued to try to talk to it, but also wanted to feed it with rice grains.

This paper bird is different from ordinary puppets, using the spell of sending souls, it can speak human words, and it can truthfully convey what it sees, hears and touches.But he remained calm, just controlled the white bird to lower his head, and ate the rice in the boy's hand.He had used the paper bird to send messages and make weapons before, but he hadn't tried feeding it. He wondered if the paper talisman would stick from inside... Forget it, just replace it with another if it's broken.

The figure by the pool fluctuated like a reflection on the water, then faded and disappeared.A passing maid seemed to see a figure by the pool, turned her head, but saw nothing.She only thought that she was wrong, and left this illusion behind her, and left in a hurry.

Lu You waved his hand in front of the white bird, causing it to jump to his hand, and touched the feathers on its back.He thought the bird didn't seem to communicate, looked like some kind of... toy?Signal?

There was no such thing as "doing things you need to know about being a demon" in the information he got. Although he guessed that the paper bird may be made of talisman paper, and it may be some kind of illusion that it can appear in the form of a living creature, he didn't know that the talisman The paper became hot because of his evil spirit, and he sighed that he did it well.He took Shiratori back to the bed and sat down. The system that didn't give reminders when it was blocked finally made a sound again.

"The plot... the thing... is gone." It spoke intermittently, as if it had been tapped, "You know... this is... what... is it..."

"...Shouldn't I ask you this?" Lu You said, "It's talisman paper, I seem to see lines on the paper..."

"Just...take...in your hand..." The system finished the second half of the sentence firmly, turning the question into a mockery.Then it finally managed to catch its breath, and the next sentence became smoother, "Aren't you afraid that some demon extermination master passing by will find a demon here, and throw something over here to kill you?"

"Isn't it all right?" Lu You insisted.He was really busy guessing who broke it, but he didn't expect that there was such a possible danger... He tried to change the subject: "What happened to you just now? Did you also have bad contact?"

The system probably felt that his vigilance was hopeless, so he didn't train him anymore. "Don't worry about it." Its answer was also very perfunctory, "Anyway, it's all right now."

Lu You also wanted to ask it if it knew how to practice witchcraft, and the system said that it was not familiar with creatures like monsters—otherwise, there would be no mistakes in incompatibility that caused data delays when it was released.

Even though he was very worried about the ending of the fox demon dying at the hands of the exorcist in the original plot, and he really wanted power, Lu You didn't dare to practice blindly by himself.He had no choice but to wait until the moon came out at night, maybe it could evoke some "body memory" about cultivation.

And... we need to hurry up and end the current state of being locked up.

He didn't want to be locked up until "marriage".The most urgent thing is to determine whether that "Xu Xingchun" is "him".

This determines all his next plans.Thinking that the mission requirement given by the fox demon was to kill this person, a shadow passed over Lu You's heart.Probably not...

But if it is really not, it will be another kind of feeling uncomfortable.

The meaning of "repaying kindness" in the request is not clear, so Lu You can only continue to play the young master obediently for the time being, and can't say that he directly ruined the marriage and escaped, and waited until the force value was enough—or he had a teammate with enough force value— —Take the Xu family again, kill the one who deserves to be killed, and save the one who deserves to be saved.This would be much more refreshing, but the item of "repaying favor" became a roadblock.

He played with Shiratori for a while, then sat back at the table, endured the sweet smell that made people want to drink water, and tried to eat some food on the table, hoping to convey the attitude of giving up resistance.It wasn't that when another maid came to collect the plates, he tried to ask to open the window, but he was not refused - it was just someone staring at him from afar, making sure he wouldn't run away from the window.

From the window, you can see the garden outside and a corner of the pond.Although it is a beautiful scenery, it has a sense of crampedness like sitting in a well.Lu You was lying on the edge of the window, and the white bird was sleeping on his shoulder, a ball of feathers, warm and cozy.He looked at the leaves falling from the trees and the swaying grass stalks on the ground, and carefully tried to sense them with the sorcery that he felt was dangerous, trying to change their trajectories.

When night fell, a leaf turned in mid-air, flew towards the window, and landed in Lu You's hand.It's just that Lu You pinched it lightly, and the leaves shattered.It's still not perfect...but at least it's a bit of progress.

Probably because he believed that he was willing to eat, the maid who brought the dinner did not leave immediately, and waited to pick up vegetables and soup for him.Lu You accepted this kind of service awkwardly, and felt even more awkward when he was being served to wash and change clothes at night.Moreover, he also discovered a strange thing: these maids would look at him in a daze...and blush...when they regained their senses and averted their eyes, they seemed a little panicked.

Shouldn't they be used to getting along with the young master?

Lu You was afraid that he would reveal his secrets by talking too much, so he didn't dare to speak more, and the maid was even more afraid to speak. After finishing all the affairs in a tense atmosphere, he hurriedly evacuated, and closed and locked the window before leaving, leaving Lu You two Candle.Lu You stayed at the window for a while, but didn't feel any changes in himself at night... Could it be because he wasn't directly exposed to the moonlight?

He practiced black magic control on the candle flame, and then he really had nothing to do, so he decided to turn off the lights and go to sleep.He put the white bird on the washstand and watched it lie down, its two paws hidden in the fluff under its belly, as if it was going to sleep.

After blowing out the candles, the room was plunged into darkness, and Shiratori's eyes gave off a faint light. "Good night." Lu You whispered, and touched it lightly before walking away.Shiratori rubbed his fingers.

He went back to the bed, and after lying down, he was still thinking about the fish with no ending at first, about Shi Yu, about that person in every world... thinking about it, he fell asleep.

There was no dream all night until she was awakened by the maid the next morning.While washing, Lu You found that the white bird had disappeared.He searched the house several times, but couldn't find any trace of it. At one point, he wondered if the fox's beastly attack had eaten it after he fell asleep... Then this morning, he was alone looking out the window. daze.

This kind of daze... The training didn't last until the afternoon.After improving his control, Lu You wanted to try to maintain the state where he could vaguely hear voices.So before noon, he got the news from a maid passing by outside the yard: Xu Xingchun came to visit Lu's house.

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