SCWP Chapter 40

Delusion

Delusion

The wild grave behind the Meng family’s mountain appeared suddenly. The world line didn’t describe the reason in detail, only saying that En Sihan and Meng Yu worked together to solve it.

At that time, En Sihan had just come into contact with these things and wasn’t very capable. There were only two possibilities for her to solve a problem that troubled the century-old Heavenly Master family.

First, she was favored by the heavens and relied on luck (generally, this option would be excluded): second, there was a problem with the person beside her.

No matter what, Meng Yu was considered half a Ghost King. Letting him solve a wild grave was like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Meng Yu stayed in the Meng family but waited for En Sihan to arrive before dealing with the grave.

Everything pointed to the problem.

The Meng family received the news early, and Lin Qichi saw the welcoming party as soon as he got off the car.

“Young Master Wen Ren, you’ve finally arrived.”

Lin Qichi declined the enthusiastic Meng family members, leaving only one guide, instructing them that a female disciple of the Wen Ren family would be coming later and shouldn’t be neglected. After an hour, they should take her to the back mountain.

“Yes.”

Lin Qichi just glanced briefly at the people along the way, some he didn’t even look at, but Qi Feiyu was different.

He had only walked a few steps when he started to comment on them.

“This person is ugly and hurts public morals.”

“Looks like a yellow eel that hasn’t transformed yet.”

“Only knows how to parrot, doesn’t understand education.”

“…”

Qi Feiyu commented all the way, but only Lin Qichi could hear him. The Meng family members, seeing him being led by the next potential family head, were all respectful to him.

He couldn’t openly agree with Qi Feiyu, and had to suppress his laughter, nodding and smiling at the Meng family disciples.

When they arrived at the back mountain, Lin Qichi told the guide to leave. As soon as the person left, he took out a talisman to conceal their aura.

Finally, he couldn’t help but ask, “Why do you have so much resentment towards them?”

“Objective evaluation, without any personal feelings or biases. I haven’t even said that they polluted the air of my landing site.” Qi Feiyu shamelessly turned the tables.

“Okay, okay, you’re generous.”

Lin Qichi took out a tracking talisman, which immediately transformed into a nimble butterfly.

Suddenly, a gust of yin energy came and knocked the butterfly down, and the yin energy condensed into a small gardenia flower.

Without guessing, he knew who did it.

“Why did you hit my butterfly?”

“Your butterfly ate my flower and got drunk. It’s useless, what does it have to do with me?” Qi Feiyu’s reasoning was far-fetched, but it seemed to hold a bit of truth.

Lin Qichi felt that he was just taking the opportunity to tell himself that he was like that butterfly, drunk in the gardenia pile and no match for him.

Honestly, it was quite damaging to his self-esteem.

Lin Qichi said nicely, “Okay, okay, my butterfly is too weak, no match for you.”

He hadn’t forgotten that Qi Feiyu was still angry with him, so he should be accommodating.

Finally getting the upper hand, Qi Feiyu was in a good mood: “Aren’t you going to find that grave? Follow the flower.”

“Okay.” What else could he do? He had to spoil him.

Lin Qichi followed the direction of the gardenia flower, getting further and further off course, and the resentment in the air became stronger and stronger.

The gardenia flower was trembling in mid-air, very uneasy.

“Have you been here before?” Lin Qichi pushed aside the weeds in front of him and asked.

“He’s been here.” Qi Feiyu’s tone was impatient.

“You’ve been here.” Lin Qichi said affirmatively, forcing Qi Feiyu to recognize himself.

“Alright, alright, I’ve been here, I’ve been here.” Qi Feiyu didn’t argue with him, firstly because he couldn’t win, and secondly because he felt that if he continued to argue with him, something evil would happen.

Qi Feiyu’s intuition was right, but Lin Qichi’s long speech was nipped in the bud before it could even show its face.

The gardenia flower floated to a patch of weeds and stopped.

A small grave was buried here, surrounded by weeds. If the gardenia flower hadn’t landed here, no one would have noticed it.

Calling it a grave wasn’t accurate, its appearance was more like a small mound of earth, covered with weeds.

The distinguishing feature was that the weeds on it were half as low as the ones beside it, indicating that it hadn’t been buried for long.

The gardenia flower floated up and down, as if cheering for something.

Lin Qichi squatted down, picked up some soil from the edge of the grave, felt the familiar yin energy inside, and asked in surprise, “Your grave?”

“I thought you knew where I was.” Qi Feiyu’s voice came through the jade pendant, but it felt like he was speaking in his ear.

“I could also not know.”

The yin energy here was strange. Besides that familiar feeling, there was also a strong resentment, which made people feel cold.

Although Qi Feiyu was annoying, occasionally like a severe case of middle-school syndrome, and suspected of having schizophrenia, even if he searched the world line, he couldn’t find any description of Qi Feiyu feeling unwilling or having enough resentment to turn into a grave.

Lin Qichi touched the moist soil on the ground and began to guess blindly: “Could it be… this is you after mitosis?”

Qi Feiyu was so angry that he wanted to jump out and strangle him to death, angrily scolding: “If you’re sick, go get treatment early. The Wen Ren family’s millennia of heritage should be able to cure your brain.”

“Tsk, ever since I came out to them, I’ve rarely used the Wen Ren family’s power.” Lin Qichi said with emotion.

“Did you tell them who it was?” Qi Feiyu asked calmly, pretending.

Was it him, or another?

Lin Qichi shook his head: “I said I’ll wait until I catch up, then take them back to show them.”

Qi Feiyu didn’t expect this answer. This person just casually fooled everyone!

“You’re really not feeling well.”

“What can relieve longing?” Lin Qichi took out a talisman and wrapped the soil he took, reciting a poem with melancholy, “Longing cannot be relieved.”

“I think you want to die.” Qi Feiyu’s voice was gloomy. If it were someone else, they might have been so scared that their legs would be weak.

But the only listener was Lin Qichi, and this guy was not only not afraid, but also had a headache.

“If that’s the only way to be with you,” Lin Qichi said sadly, and paired it with a gesture of holding his heart, but his eyes were clear and thoughtful, “I wouldn’t do it either.”

Qi Feiyu said in a low, nostalgic voice, “Aren’t you afraid that I’ll cut out your heart and eat it with wine?”

Hearing his words, Lin Qichi suddenly thought of a philosophical question: “Can you drink wine? Can you even taste the wine?”

Qi Feiyu choked and retorted, “Have you ever tasted the tenderness of a heart?”

Lin Qichi seriously thought for a moment before saying, “I still prefer to eat it salt-baked, I don’t really like it boiled.”

Qi Feiyu was stumped and said angrily, “You’re not allowed to talk to me for half an hour.”

Where did all these messy brain circuits come from! Was his brain broken? It must be broken, right?!

“A cold war? This is a bit unreasonable.” Lin Qichi said emotionally, but his hands were busy digging up the grave.

Qi Feiyu said one thing and did it, acting on his words.

Lin Qichi had already dug out a corner of his skirt, teasing him for a long time, but he still refused to say even an interjection.

“Baby, don’t you think this skirt looks familiar?”

Lin Qichi stopped digging after uncovering a piece of skirt, his hands stained with some wet mud.

Lin Qichi took out some tissues and wiped his hands clean.

With a slight shake, the dirty tissues immediately burned in his hands.

“What do you want to do again?!” Qi Feiyu questioned angrily.

“What?” Lin Qichi was inexplicably scolded.

“Do you want to hurt yourself so I’ll sympathize with you?”

Lin Qichi understood. Although the deviation was quite large, it wasn’t impossible. The fire talisman and cleansing talisman, which were disguised as tissues and couldn’t hurt people at all, made an exception today.

The flames burned the tips of Lin Qichi’s fingers black and red, which was very different from the delicate white skin elsewhere.

Before Lin Qichi could feel the pain, a gardenia flower appeared out of nowhere and landed on the burned area.

The yin energy condensed gardenia flower was transparent, moist, and cool. When it landed on the burned area, it only felt itchy, and the tips of his fingers returned to their original state.

“Don’t do this again.” Qi Feiyu’s voice was cold.

“Next time will be normal.” Lin Qichi twisted the remaining coolness at his fingertips, as if touching Qi Feiyu himself.

Beautiful, cold, but unbelievably soft.

Qi Feiyu should be married as a wife.

Qi Feiyu ignored him again, and Lin Qichi also remembered where he had seen this dress, and there was no need to dig deeper.

The blue plaid skirt was exactly the same as the clothes En Sihan wore when he first met her.

No wonder he had to wait for En Sihan to come before dealing with this grave.

No wonder Meng Yu would choose the Meng family.

No wonder there was a phenomenon of the small world catching the wrong protagonist.

If he guessed correctly, En Sihan had already died once.

That’s why she could see things that human eyes couldn’t see.

But… how did she divide herself into two?

Could it be that true mitosis was En Sihan?

While En Sihan hadn’t arrived yet, Lin Qichi covered the exposed corner of the skirt with soil, found some gravel, and threw out eight tracking talismans at the same time, landing at eight points, forming a circle.

He threw out the gravel in his hand one by one, accurately landing each one in the center of each talisman.

The talismans spun and drilled into the ground, leaving only eight pieces of gravel scattered everywhere.

“Are you going to reincarnate her?” Qi Feiyu couldn’t help but ask as he watched him set up one formation after another.

Lin Qichi looked up at the time. It should be an hour.

Besides, Qi Feiyu spoke first.

“I’m locking her.” By finding the original soul through the body, he might be able to complete the mission directly, within the scope allowed by the world.

“Cruel.”

“You would actually say something like that?” Lin Qichi continued to set up the formation, one layer on top of another, hoping to delay it for a while.

“Say these words to yourself first.” Qi Feiyu said irritably.

“You’ve been in a bad mood ever since you got here. Did I hurt you too much last night?”

“We’ll talk about those things when we get home.” Qi Feiyu suppressed the restlessness in his heart, saw that it was still early, and quietly slipped out a wisp of his clone from the jade pendant.

Lin Qichi only felt a chill around him, and the jade pendant on his waist heated up again.

“Uncomfortable?”

Lin Qichi could only feel the yin energy around him, but he couldn’t touch Qi Feiyu. If he didn’t want to, Lin Qichi really couldn’t do anything to him.

“Let me hug you for a while.”

“Okay.”

Lin Qichi’s neck was pricked, but he suppressed the urge to dodge and counterattack, relaxed his body, and quietly acted as a human-shaped pillow.

“Just keep going.” Qi Feiyu seemed to have eased up a bit, his voice was weak, but not as irritable.

“You must tell me if you’re uncomfortable, these things aren’t that important.”

The amplitude of Lin Qichi’s movements became smaller, but the speed remained the same, and even became a bit faster.

“Okay.” Qi Feiyu’s voice was muffled, as if it was coming from behind something.

When Lin Qichi had stacked all the seals he knew, the heavy yin energy stopped on his back, and the outline vaguely resembled a human body.

It had been quiet all along, maybe it was watching, maybe it was sleepy, but there was a feeling of tranquility, a sense of peace and quiet.

“Are you done?” Qi Feiyu’s voice was still weak, and before Lin Qichi could answer, he lightly added, “She’s here.”

The yin energy behind him suddenly dissipated, and the temperature on his body gradually increased. Everything just now was like a gentle and cold illusion.