SCWP Chapter 42

Return (Crimson Fox Arc)

The people who went to get the tools rushed back, and with more manpower, the speed increased a lot.

The thing under the mound was also revealed.

It was a straw dummy.

“How… possible…”

Ye Chenxi rushed towards the newly excavated pit like a madman. Lin Qichi shielded En Sihan and retreated far away.

“Haha, these are just illusions. As long as you touch them, they will reappear.”

Ye Chenxi grabbed the corpse in front of him and showed it to the people around him.

But around him was only a group of indifferent onlookers, with only a small number of people showing some sympathy in their eyes.

And those who could clearly see what Ye Chenxi was holding were only En Sihan and Lin Qichi.

Lin Qichi was busy thinking about how to secretly talk to Qi Feiyu, while En Sihan mostly felt disgusted.

When the Meng family’s patriarch arrived after hearing the news from his subordinates, the matter had already been resolved by Meng Yinzhi.

A pit suddenly appeared in the back mountain of his own house. Without much explanation, he understood at a glance what was going on.

The Meng family patriarch, Meng Li, understood the situation at a glance, and humbly looked at Lin Qichi, waiting for his instructions.

The Meng family was still strong, but they were not brainless. He had been paying attention to the happenings in the back mountain of the Meng family.

Hearing the Ye family’s intentions, he knew that it would not end well.

With his insight and experience, although he could see that the earthen pit was covered with formations, he was also clear about Wen Ren Yi’s influence.

Seeing Lin Qichi smiling without saying a word, he immediately issued three orders.

Decline guests, close the door, and welcome the honored guest.

The Ye family dragged Ye Chenxi away in disgrace. Even if they could see through the illusions, what could they do?

Casting the illusion already clearly showed Wen Ren Yi’s attitude, as well as the Meng family’s tacit approval.

It would be fine if the Meng family just stood by. A mere illusion, although time-consuming, was not impossible to break. But the Meng family clearly told them with their actions that the Meng family unconditionally supported all of Wen Ren Yi’s decisions.

Then they were destined to fail in today’s plan.

After the Ye family left, Meng Li tactfully dismissed the Meng family disciples, but still selfishly left Meng Yinzhi aside to await orders.

Wen Ren Yi, that was the Heavenly Master Association’s long-predetermined next leader, a genius rare to come by in a thousand years, destined to lead the new generation of the Heavenly Master Association to write a generation of legends.

Only those with a guilty conscience would question Wen Ren Yi’s value.

The Heavenly Master Association often used the method of seeing who voted against Wen Ren Yi as an opportunity to increase investigation and supervision efforts, to see if they had done something they shouldn’t have done. This method always worked wonders.

Today, the Ye family left unscathed, but what would happen tomorrow was hard to say.

Lin Qichi asked En Sihan, “Can you see it?”

Meng Yinzhi thought he was asking himself. Just as he was about to answer, he heard the little girl next to him say without changing her expression:

“My corpse.”

Meng Yinzhi widened his eyes and looked at her, then at the straw in the pit.

Her own corpse was being treated like this, but she wasn’t angry?

Although Meng Yinzhi’s first reaction was strangely circuitous, he also understood that what the Ye family member said was likely true, but so what?

Going against Wen Ren Yi was almost the same as going against the entire Heavenly Master Association. He was surprised that the Ye family actually dared to do it!

“Yeah.” Lin Qichi nodded in approval, bent down, picked up a pebble, and hit a formation eye.

The thing hidden under layers of formations finally revealed its form.

It was a decayed female corpse, with a faded blue dress, wrinkled and wrapped around the blackened, shriveled body.

En Sihan took a step back, finally unable to bear it anymore, covering her mouth and silently shedding hot tears. The real sensation of the tears on her hands allowed her to confirm that she was still alive.

Tears kept falling from the corners of her eyes, drop by drop.

Lin Qichi didn’t dare to actively step forward to comfort her, worried that it would have a counterproductive effect. He only said, “Think about it carefully,” and gave the space to the two young people.

He thought to himself: I knew I should have brought Wen Ren Shu along.

Qi Feiyu hung on him, listlessly fiddling with Lin Qichi’s eyelashes, insisting on making him feel it.

Qi Feiyu did it on purpose. Lin Qichi felt it, but he couldn’t speak to him. He felt very suffocated.

The formation was complete. With Ye Chenxi’s help, recalling the original En Sihan of the world was no longer difficult.

Lin Qichi began to set up the most basic soul-calling formation, layering it with higher-level ones. After all, he was summoning the female lead of the world. Although she had the support of the world, he couldn’t be careless.

“Are you summoning a soul?” Qi Feiyu didn’t understand why Lin Qichi wanted to summon someone who was right behind him, but taking the opportunity to take advantage of him was a good idea. “Beg me, and I’ll help you.”

Lin Qichi couldn’t answer, worried about being mistaken for having a mental disorder by the two behind him. He shifted his steps, and the formation he was setting up also slowly changed its formation eyes.

Qi Feiyu didn’t understand what he was doing anymore. He could feel that En Sihan could see him, but the person he was clinging to couldn’t see him and wouldn’t respond when he spoke to him.

He couldn’t help but feel depressed. He shrank back into the jade pendant, leaving a trace of Yin energy hanging on Lin Qichi.

The formation under his hands was completed. In an instant, dark clouds covered the sky, and thunder rumbled, striking down one after another.

Lin Qichi picked up En Sihan and Meng Yinzhi, who were still standing in place, and hid far away. Lightning points containing powerful laws struck down, causing no damage to the land, but some things were different.

The three of them retreated together to the formation eye that Lin Qichi had set up in advance. With the protection of the talisman paper, they could barely hear the voices of the people next to them in the thunder.

Lin Qichi told them to continue to retreat, as he had to stay in place to observe.

Meng Yinzhi didn’t dare to stay any longer and protected En Sihan, retreating to the position specified by Lin Qichi.

“What did you do?” Qi Feiyu was alarmed and came out of the jade pendant. He saw lightning points all over the sky and couldn’t help but question Lin Qichi loudly.

Lin Qichi didn’t care anymore. Anyway, the thunder was loud enough to easily cover up his voice. He laughed and shouted, “The wage slave is applying to get off work early.”

“You’re crazy!” Qi Feiyu didn’t understand what he meant, but he could feel the terrifying power contained in the lightning, which seemed to be able to destroy everything.

Lin Qichi looked at the gradually changing humanoid figure in the formation eye, opened his arms, and made an embracing gesture: “Hahahaha, baby, Uncle is taking you on a trip.”

In that instant, Qi Feiyu seemed to see a strange and familiar person in Lin Qichi. He had never met him before, but he was so familiar that he felt at ease.

Qi Feiyu fell into his arms in a daze, staring blankly at the slightly curved light-colored eyes.

The lightning behind him gave his body a blurred color. Lin Qichi wrapped him in his arms, the image in front of him was empty, but the weight on his body was real.

En Sihan watched with her own eyes as the corpse in the pit was charred by the lightning. The shriveled skin on the corpse was scorched yellow and slowly turned milky white.

Meng Yinzhi looked in shock as a semi-transparent, long-haired man suddenly appeared in Wen Ren Yi’s arms. Judging from his aura, he seemed to be a very powerful ghost, with blurred features and dense Yin energy floating around him.

He couldn’t see anything clearly, but Meng Yinzhi’s intuition told him: They… were kissing?

Lin Qichi supported Qi Feiyu with one hand and protected the back of his head with the other. The mission was overfulfilled. The unreliable system was forcing him to do free labor, so he always had to ask for a reward.

The thunder stopped, and a dazed woman appeared in the formation, looking exactly like En Sihan.

En Sihan firmly walked towards her step by step. Her intuition told her to accept her, to contact her, and everything would end. She would return to the world that belonged to her.

Meng Yinzhi hesitated, looking at En Sihan who was walking away, and then at Lin Qichi. In the end, he decided to follow En Sihan.

Lin Qichi, holding a listless ghost, stood beside the earthen pit and looked at them.

Finally… it was over.

“Help me find a body.” Qi Feiyu’s semi-transparent hand covered Lin Qichi’s eyes, preventing him from looking at others.

“Okay.” Lin Qichi closed his eyes and felt the restrictions that the world had opened to him.

His body gradually filled, as if he had returned to the Infinite Flow World. Qi Feiyu clung to him even more tightly, and his unconscious Yin energy wrapped around his entire body.

Lin Qichi felt strange. The world had opened the restrictions. Logically speaking, what Qi Feiyu should feel was the aura of his main body, the aura of the target object in this world, which should be rejected.

But Qi Feiyu clung to him even more tightly, and he himself didn’t seem to realize this.

Qi Feiyu straightened up, his hand still around Lin Qichi’s neck, and said, “When you find it, let’s get married.”

“Haven’t we already gotten married?” Lin Qichi said as he gently pried open Qi Feiyu’s soft lips, and sure enough, he saw sharp fangs inside.

No wonder he felt a tingling sensation on the tip of his tongue just now. He thought it was the effect of Yin energy, but now it seemed that he had grown teeth.

“Would you, a marriage-obsessed person, really admit to that childish marriage?” Qi Feiyu bit down on Lin Qichi’s fingertip, which he hadn’t pulled away yet, and used his teeth to grind it left and right.

“Don’t you like it?”

“Hmph.”

“By the way, we don’t seem to have had a wedding night yet?” Lin Qichi lowered his head in thought, missing the momentary panic in Qi Feiyu’s eyes.

“Help me find my body first.”

“Hmm, can’t we do it like this now?”

“No!” Qi Feiyu said sharply.

“Okay, okay, we can’t. Don’t struggle, you’re going to fall.” Lin Qichi, of course, followed his wishes in everything and hugged him tighter.

For a moment, he forgot that he wasn’t holding a living person. He usually liked to float around, so how could he fall?

En Sihan and the person in the pit held hands tightly. She completely remembered that she wasn’t from this world. She had her own home, in a place very similar to this.

The world found their true female lead and was finally willing to let people go. The always opportunistic Mirror World exchanged the correct En Sihan back.

En Sihan, with a scar on her face but firm eyes, gradually faded away, leaving a bright smile as she looked in Lin Qichi’s direction.

The En Sihan they brought disappeared completely, leaving behind an inconspicuous card.

The recalled En Sihan picked up the card, her consciousness still not very clear.

Meng Yinzhi looked confusedly at the pit under him and the strange woman in front of him, not understanding what had happened.

The world line was being pushed back on track little by little. En Sihan felt like she had a long dream. When she woke up, she had an extra memory out of nowhere.

She remembered that she was dragged to a mountain by two people. The two men were talking about framing someone, Wen Ren, the Ye family, the door…

Those people gave her something, and after that, she was always confused. She seemed to have been reborn, going straight to university. There were no annoying things there. It was very peaceful and quiet, with a rich university life, exciting commercial battles, and a mutually beneficial lover.

But the dream ended, and she was back.

And in the memory just now, she saw those smelly men again.

Lin Qichi walked to the grave pit, unable to crouch down completely, looking at the two people in a mess inside.

During his walk, Qi Feiyu gradually turned into a short-haired child, looking like he did in One Chi Alley, but with bright red eyes.

The person in his arms suddenly shrank, but Lin Qichi remained calm, quietly wrapping the entire child into his arms.

Possessive to the extreme, not allowing others to pry.

“What did you do there?” Lin Qichi pressed Qi Feiyu’s head into his arms, so En Sihan wouldn’t see his face.

The current En Sihan was not the one they could trust and help, but the “Crimson Fox” from the original world line, who would fight to the death even with her lover. He didn’t want to cause unnecessary trouble for Qi Feiyu because of this damned non-stop work.

“Bidding.” As soon as En Sihan raised her head, she met his cold eyes and blurted out without any concealment.

This person’s eyes seemed to be…

“Who are you bidding for?”

“Qi Feiyu.”

Hearing his name, Qi Feiyu wanted to turn his head to take a look, wondering what it had to do with him, but Lin Qichi held him down first.

“You go. Pack your things, and don’t go to the Wen Ren family anymore.”

“Thank you.” En Sihan shook off the dirt on her body freely. Although she had those memories, there was still a gap in her emotions.

Wen Ren Yi’s words actually relieved her.

The supernatural things in this world, although not common, were mostly vaguely known. Everyone tacitly avoided those lives. En Sihan, who grew up here, naturally accepted the strange and chaotic things well.

What’s more, she had revenge to take.

Although the Wen Ren family was a good backer, she preferred to do it herself.