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Gu Shi couldn't shamelessly accept such flattery. Even if this young man was not Aizen, his exaggerated talent was still the real thing, and it would be easy to beat him.
The young boy Yusuke wanted to say something else, but the Death Girl no longer had any interest in listening to their continued polite words and simply waved her hand to "cut off all ties" between the two of them.
"Stop! Stop flattering each other! Yusuke, right? I will deliver food and other supplies to you on time, just like the bearded man did before. You just continue to maintain your previous life and attract the hollows to move closer to this area."
After saying that, the Death Girl jumped onto Gu Shi’s shoulder with ease.
"As for us, now that the big guy is gone, let's hurry up and hunt for the Hollows to accumulate spiritual power. If you want to break through the boundary between the God of Death and the Hollow and return to your original form, the spiritual power required is extremely huge. If you keep dawdling, by the time you have accumulated enough spiritual power, I'm afraid you will have forgotten how to swing the sword!"
This was the first time that Gu Shi agreed with the words of the Death Girl. He couldn't wait to get away from this dangerous shrine as soon as possible, and nodded cooperatively.
"Okay, okay, let's go now. Young man, we're leaving first, you be careful on your own!"
After saying that, Gu Shi called out to Ji Lang and strode out of the shrine.
Along the way, Gu Shi kept running until he got down the mountain where the shrine was located, then he slowed down a little.
"Phew, this boy's talent is really not exaggerated. I almost lost control just now. It was a close call. I must stay away from him in the future."
As soon as he opened his mouth, Gu Shi hurriedly continued to reinforce the rationality of his statement "staying away from the boy Yusuke because he didn't want his appetite to get out of control" in order to prevent the Death Girl from noticing anything.
Fortunately, Gu Shi’s excuse was indeed reasonable. The Death Girl had no doubts and just nodded in agreement.
"Indeed, with that little guy's talent, if you plan to eat him, you will definitely be killed if you fight him alone. If you need to see him in the future, remember to call me along. Even if your appetite gets out of control, I can help you cut off his hands and feet to prevent you from getting hurt while eating."
"That's not what I meant."
Gu Shi, who had adjusted his mood, rolled his eyes and returned to his normal state. He complained naturally and then sniffed the air hard.
"Wow, it's no wonder that we're near a shrine. I can smell the scent of Hollows everywhere. Is the environment in Hueco Mundo just like this?"
"This is just the beginning. The density of Hollows in Hueco Mundo is much higher than here. With your strength, once you enter Hueco Mundo, you will basically be a walking piece of meat. You will be eaten by Hollows in the blink of an eye. There is no time for you to sigh."
The Death Girl used her spiritual meridian technique again to identify the remaining spiritual energy in the air and pointed to the southwest.
"Let's go this way. The Void here is weaker."
Gu Shi nodded, tried his best to restrain his breath, and ran in the direction pointed by the Death Girl.
In the shrine behind the two of them, the gentle young man was still sweeping the courtyard slowly and leisurely. Even though he was alone, there was a gentle smile on the corner of his mouth. As the broom swung, the spiritual energy emanating from his soul quietly changed.
Among the group of Hollows wandering around the shrine, many powerful Hollows suddenly raised their heads. Just now, the soul with an alluring fragrance but whose source could not be found when approached seemed to have fought with someone, and the spiritual fragrance that permeated the surroundings suddenly became much stronger.
The source of the taste change...
This is the direction!
For a moment, many powerful virtual beings became excited and couldn't wait to move towards a certain direction.
Chapter 27 Silly Girl
There was another noisy jeer from behind him. Hai Ren frowned impatiently and looked back. Sure enough, the silly girl was following him again. A little further away were the group of annoying guys who were causing trouble every day.
Waving farm tools, Hai Ren glared at those guys who were making a fuss and threatened to beat them if they didn't shut up. Then he glared at the silly girl who could only smile foolishly, and then he pulled the silly girl away with a look of disappointment and continued walking towards the fields.
The silly girl and Hai Ren have no blood relationship. The reason why they get together every day is because of an accident.
About three years ago, it was a hot day similar to today. Hairen was rushing to work in the fields just like today. He was walking along the path just fine when he suddenly heard someone behind him yelling at him, calling him a fool and an orphan, and saying some nonsense like "Why aren't you dead yet?"
Hai Ren, who was eleven years old at the time, was already familiar with the survival rules in the village. He knew clearly that if he was provoked, he had to fight back fiercely, otherwise it wouldn't be long before more severe bullying would occur. So he cursed back without hesitation. The curse was extremely ugly, and he threw out all the dirty words he learned from his elders.
As a result, Hai Ren, who couldn't wait to respond, turned around and found that those peers were not scolding him, but the silly girl who happened to pass by not far behind him.
Everyone had long forgotten the silly girl's name. All they knew was that she fell ill when she was seven years old. After she recovered from the illness, she became a fool and acted crazy all day long. No one in the village liked her. Even her parents abandoned her shortly after she became stupid, kicked her out of the house, and left her to fend for herself.
No one in the village understood how the silly girl managed to survive by herself, but she did survive. However, she became more and more crazy and stupid, and her dirty body was very annoying to look at.
Hairen didn't like the silly girl either. When he realized that he had misunderstood, he secretly regretted it and criticized these idle guys. When they cursed someone, couldn't they add a name in front of the name to make it clear who they were cursing?
However, no matter how much he regretted it, it was impossible for him to give in. Hairen had no intention of apologizing because he knew that even if he apologized, those guys would not be generous enough to forgive him. Instead, they would think that he was weak and easy to bully, and would bully him as well.
Therefore, Hai Ren simply swung the farm tools in his hands, rushed forward and beat up all those guys, and threatened, "I'm protecting that silly girl! If anyone of you dares to bully her again, I will beat you all up!"
Hai Ren claimed that he would protect the silly girl, but in fact he just wanted to save face and find a reasonable excuse for his own actions, but the silly girl seemed to take it seriously.
Of course, the silly girl was crazy and stupid, and maybe she didn’t understand what Kaito said, but at least she could see that Kaito protected her.
So, from that day on, the silly girl became completely entangled with Hai Ren, and when the group of guys who were beaten came to retaliate, she swung her fists around and beat up those guys together with Hai Ren.
It's strange to say, when the silly girl was bullied, even if she was beaten she would just smile foolishly and never fight back. But since she followed Hai Ren, whenever someone came to cause trouble for Hai Ren, she would rush up and beat them up in anger, and her strength was extraordinary.
At the beginning, Hai Ren was annoyed with the silly girl who kept pestering him and thought she was a trouble. But after the silly girl helped him in a few fights, Hai Ren's thoughts changed a little. He felt that this silly girl didn't seem so annoying after all and no longer thought about how to drive the silly girl away.
After that, the silly girl followed Hai Ren for three years. During these three years, Hai Ren also developed many uses for the silly girl other than fighting.
For example, for some reason, the silly girl was very strong. Although she didn't know how to do farm work, every time she went to work in the fields, as long as she was given a farm tool and asked to imitate her movements, the workload could be reduced by half.
Of course, after the silly girl's parents found out that she could do farm work, they thought about taking her back. But the silly girl had no intention of going with them. When her father pulled her hand and tried to take her away by force, she swung a farm tool and beat the man.
Or, when climbing other people's fruit trees to steal fruits in the fall, the silly girl can be responsible for helping to keep watch. Compared with those friends who have grown up with her and would run away as soon as the owner of the fruit tree comes, the silly girl is much more loyal and will never leave him alone.
However, the silly girl was very strong and had a big appetite. Often, when the seaman risked his life to steal the fruits, he could only eat one or two, and the rest would all disappear into the silly girl's stomach.
In short, after three years, although Hairen sometimes still feels that the silly girl can't speak clearly and can't express her meaning clearly during occasional communication, which makes people feel a little irritated, it is undeniable that the silly girl has become an indispensable part of his life.
Many times, even if he said he disliked it, Hai Ren would still hide part of his dinner and bring it to the silly girl the next day, and then secretly mutter in his heart that he was the real fool, who couldn't even eat enough himself and yet still treated others to food.
Today is another familiar day in the past three years. Hai Ren handed the second set of farm tools to the silly girl and planned to start working.
But at this moment, the silly girl who usually always had a silly smile on her face showed an expression that Hairen had never seen before for the first time. He was stunned for a moment before he reacted. It seemed to be an extremely intense fear.
Hai Ren couldn't help but become nervous. He turned around, holding the farm tools tightly, and looked in the direction the silly girl was looking at, but the scenery in his field of vision was still the same as before, without any change.
Hai Ren breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He thought that the silly girl was probably going crazy again and had seen some terrible hallucinations. So he decided to comfort the silly girl and let her rest under the shade of the tree for a while.
But before he could say any words of comfort, the silly girl grabbed his hand, pulled him and started to run away desperately. Hairen was caught off guard and staggered and almost fell. He couldn't help but feel a little angry and opened his mouth to teach the silly girl a lesson.
But at this moment, a loud bang suddenly exploded, and Hairen saw with his own eyes that the place where he and the silly girl had just stood was still empty, but it seemed as if it had been hit hard by something. The ground was deeply sunken, forming a shape similar to a claw mark.
In an instant, a strong fear surged in his heart, and Hai Ren began to run desperately. Although the silly girl was stronger than him, he was much taller than the silly girl who never grew up. When they started running, he was actually pulling the silly girl along.
After running a few steps, the silly girl and his tightly clasped hands suddenly pulled lightly to the right. The tacit understanding developed over the past three years made Hai Ren change direction without even thinking, and he made a sudden right turn and continued to run wildly. The next moment, another huge claw mark appeared out of thin air in the direction the two were originally moving.
Having once again narrowly escaped death, Hairen ran for his life while cursing loudly in his heart to ease his fear.
[Damn it, damn it, damn it! What the hell is this thing? Are we going to die today?]
Chapter 28 Conspiracy?
"I say, is there something wrong? The two Voids we met in succession seemed very excited."
While Gu Shi was biting the head of the rooster Daxu in his mouth hard, he looked behind him in confusion. He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that after leaving the shrine, the two Xu he met in succession didn't seem to be wandering aimlessly, but moving in a certain direction with a clear goal.
Obviously, not only Gu Shi had such thoughts, the Death Girl who was standing by had similar doubts. She frowned, carefully identified the direction, and suddenly a bad premonition arose in her heart.
[If the paths of these two virtual entities are extended, the place where they finally meet will seem to be very close to where I placed the bearded man?]
The bearded Shinigami is seriously injured and unconscious at the moment. Once he is discovered by a Hollow, it goes without saying that he will be eaten. The death of the Shinigami stationed in the real world will definitely lead to the Soul Society sending people to investigate. When the investigation team arrives, even the Shinigami girl, as a noble, will inevitably find herself in some trouble.
Apart from anything else, it is not easy to conceal the existence of the big guy during the search by the investigation team. If she is unlucky and the search team finds the big guy, she will most likely have to find a way to kill the Grim Reapers who come to search.
This would inevitably lead to a more intensive search in Soul Society, and she might have to defect with Gu Shi for a while before she could return to Soul Society with a new identity under the operation of her family.
After a slight hesitation, the Death Girl immediately made a decision. She placed her hand lightly on her Zanpakutō and gave a smile that was so bright and somewhat scary to the still somewhat confused Gu Shi.
"Big guy, there seems to be something going on over there. I'll go over and take a look. Try not to move around recklessly, lest you run into a Void that you can't handle and lose your life in vain.
"Well, but if you really can't sit still and want to wander around, that's fine. With the spiritual network, I can find you quickly. You don't have to worry about getting lost."
After saying a few words that seemed caring but were actually threatening, the girl of death did not delay any longer. She took instant steps and rushed at the fastest speed towards the direction where she had placed the bearded death.
As she hurried on her way, the Death Girl couldn't help but feel secretly confused.
[Are these imaginary targets really bearded men? ]
[Big Beard is just an ordinary Grim Reaper. When I placed him, I used the Sky Breaker to isolate his aura.]
[In this case, with the level of spiritual power of the bearded man, the smell he exudes should not be noticed by even the Voids within a ten-meter radius for a few days. How could it be possible that he could attract Voids from such a far distance?]
[Could it be that I am just unlucky, and a genius happened to die nearby, and his soul left his body, so a large amount of spiritual power was exposed without the cover of the body, which attracted the attention of the virtual group? ]
[Although the big guy is also weak, he has been following me all the time and is enveloped by my spiritual energy. That’s why he didn’t notice the subtle fragrance in the air? ]
[Tsk, when did genius become so cheap? When I found the big guy, I met a genius at the vice-captain level. The bearded man has a super genius. There is even a genius hidden in the countryside nearby? ]
The Death Girl cursed inwardly, but she quickened her pace. Her original plan of taking the big guy to adapt to the surrounding environment and then going back to slowly deal with the bearded man was ruined, making her mood worse, and the murderous intent in her eyes gradually became stronger.
Gu Shi watched the Death Girl go away and couldn't help but narrow his eyes. He certainly guessed that the imaginary targets were the bearded man, and the previous questions were just to remind the Death Girl and make her pay attention to this situation.
The Death Girl thought that she was unlucky, which led to the hidden danger of the bearded man being discovered by the Hollow Group. Even though this hidden danger appeared shortly after the two left the shrine, she did not doubt the super genius in the shrine at all.
In her opinion, no matter how talented a living person is, he is just a living person. Under the limitations of the flesh, it is amazing enough that he can develop the means to use spiritual power to kill some virtual beings. How could he be a chess player, secretly controlling the situation behind the scenes and plotting against her, the god of death?
But Gu Shi didn't think so. The face of that genius, the face of the young version of Aizen, made him point his suspicion at that genius without hesitation.
If that genius was really Aizen, with Aizen's intelligence, he would probably have already drained the bearded man's background in his daily interactions with him, and asked him about all the common sense of the Soul Society, knowing that the death of a living Shinigami would attract an investigation from the Soul Society, and it is not impossible that he had even learned some of the Kidō in advance.
Knowing a large amount of Soul Society information, the lies of the Death Girl will become extremely fragile and the flaws can be seen at a glance.
Combined with the fact that she clearly had something to ask of the genius Aizen, but was not in a hurry to take Aizen away, and instead asked Aizen to continue living in the shrine, Aizen could have guessed that the bearded man was not dead, but was just imprisoned somewhere. That's why the Death Girl was not worried about the Soul Society's investigation, and it was not difficult at all.
As for where the bearded Grim Reaper was imprisoned, it is easier to guess. At that time, the Grim Reaper girl was anxious to receive the bearded Grim Reaper's inheritance, so she rushed all the way to the shrine. If she searched in the opposite direction she came from, it would definitely not be difficult to find the bearded Grim Reaper.
The problem is how Aizen mobilized the group of hollows and made them act according to his own ideas. Gu Shi couldn't figure it out at all.
However, as long as that person is really Aizen, no matter how outrageous things he does, Gu Shi will not find them outrageous.
After all, in addition to his all-encompassing wisdom, Aizen is also incredibly strong. Even when he did not have the power of the Hogyoku, he could still kill the dog-headed captain in one move.
With such strength, one can imagine how powerful Aizen's talent must be.
Even if he is powerful enough to be a living person, he can do things far beyond the average god of death, which is natural to Gu Shi.
[But, what is Aizen's purpose in doing this? To silence the bearded man so that he won't leak his information? Or is he digging a big hole and intends to bury that madman in it? ]
[It can't be that the target is actually me, and the attack on the bearded man is just to lure away that madman and create an opportunity to be alone with me, right? ]
Thinking of this, Gu Shi couldn't help but shudder. Although he didn't think that Aizen could discover his peculiarity after only meeting him once, when he thought of this possibility, he still had the illusion that a huge dark hand was covering him.
"Forget it, don't think too much about it, just run away!"
Fortunately, Gu Shi's advantage of getting rid of negative emotions when he became virtual was once again demonstrated. Whether it was tension or fear, it could only stay in his heart for a short time, and he soon became optimistic again.
"As long as I take advantage of this opportunity and find a Hollow that can open a black chamber, and force him to do so, I can successfully escape from the Hueco Mundo. By then, whatever conspiracy these people have will have nothing to do with me at all."