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Jiang Lu clapped his hands and threw some money on Erhu, who was lying on the ground groaning and wailing with a bruised face and nose. "Here, medical expenses. Your brother Jiang is still much more honest than you were when you were a child."
Erhu took the money tremblingly and groaned aggrievedly: "Oh... No... Brother Jiang, your money... is not enough for me to buy medicine..."
"nonsense."
Jiang Lu said confidently, "I said I would give you medical expenses, but I didn't say I would give you enough money to get fully cured. You didn't give me anything when you bullied me and made fun of me. That's enough."
"Then you can't..." Erhu was about to refute, but suddenly changed his words: "Oh...hiss...brother, I really know I was wrong. It was my fault before. I apologize to you."
"Yeah, that's right." Jiang Lu put down the stool in his hand and considerately helped Erhu, who couldn't get up for a while, to close the door.
After picking up the bicycle, Jiang Lu stood there and lit a cigarette.
“But I always feel like I’ve forgotten something…”
"Well..."
"what is it then?"
"【Super Memory】, activate!"
"Oh my god, Huang Xiu'e!"
So Jiang Lu got on his bike again and started pedaling hard to get back...
......
When Jiang Lu received Huang Xiu'e's call, he remembered that he had not written the task log yet, so he hurried back to the minister's office. The man with the sword had not even left yet, and the two were still discussing the details of the reception.
Upon seeing Jiang Lu, the sword bearer and the minister asked in unison: "Where have you been?"
Jiang Lu's face showed a free and relieved smile full of stories, as if he was lucky enough to be alive after drifting for half a lifetime and sitting in a simple roadside stall with a few good friends who had experienced the hardships together in their youth, toasting and reminiscing about the past.
"I...went to an appointment that was long overdue."
Jiang Lu said solemnly: "It can be regarded as a satisfactory answer to my childhood."
Since he said so, the two naturally didn't ask any more questions.
They could all see that Jiang Lu seemed to have accomplished something worth remembering for the rest of his life.
If that is the case, it is understandable.
"Congratulations." The minister greeted with a smile.
“I don’t know what it is though.” The sword-bearer nodded, “But congratulations.”
Jiang Lu straightened his chest and said, "I congratulate myself, damn, I almost got away with it."
"?"
The taste seems a bit strange.
But the two didn't think much about it.
Jiang Lu walked closer to Huang Xiu'e, who was already weak from eating, and urged her, "Where's the mission log? I have to fill it out and go home quickly. My cat seems to be dying of overeating."
"..."
The man holding the sword remained silent.
The director guided Jiang Lu to enter the task log on the system while asking in confusion, "What do you usually feed it? I just heard Feng Wan say that it eats everything and even gnawed several pieces of bones."
"what?"
Jiang Lu first patted Huang Xiu'e's cat face and lectured her, "I haven't even had the marinated bones yet, and you're still chewing them?"
Then he answered the minister: "Hehe, I haven't fed it."
The minister was stunned for a moment, and showed an expression of as expected: "No wonder... then it is really a sin."
"How to fill it in?"
Jiang Lu didn't waste any more time and directly brought the topic back to the task log.
The minister knew what the swordsman was thinking about, so he gave the swordsman the opportunity to teach Jiang Lu how to write a mission log: "You teach him."
Jiang Lu didn't think much about it and looked at the sword holder: "Why don't you just copy what you wrote for me? It's the same spiritual realm anyway."
The sword-bearer looked at Jiang Lu in silence for a long time, and then answered with difficulty: "What I wrote...is useless."
"Please show it to me. If not, you can just let me copy the format."
Helplessly, the sword-bearer had to let Jiang Lu accept his friend request first, and then sent his diary to him.
Jiang Lu looked at the log, then at the sword holder, then at the log again, and said slowly:
"You...didn't you do anything?"
"So I told you it was useless, but you insisted on watching it, and you complained after watching it, right?"
At this point, the sword-wielder no longer wanted to save face, and simply got straight to the point:
"Okay, I said I saw you write a diary because I actually wanted to know why you successfully conquered the Spirit Realm for no apparent reason."
"Inexplicable?" Jiang Lu raised his eyebrows, feeling a little confused.
Why do I feel like everything is connected?
"Yeah, we're still investigating who the devil is, but the Spirit Realm has already been conquered. What on earth did you do?"
"I didn't do anything..."
Jiang Lu looked innocent:
"I am undercover beside White, right? Through my observation, I found that he is not a bad person at heart. He is a kind person. So out of sympathy for him, I advised him not to make deals with the devil anymore."
After waiting for a long time, seeing that Jiang Lu had no intention of continuing, the sword-bearing man could not help but ask:
"and then?"
“And he agreed.”
"That's it?" The sword-wielding man was stunned.
"That's it." Jiang Lu explained casually: "I have a skill called persuasion, which I used to defeat him directly. Who knew that he had just promised me that he would not trade with demons again, and then the Spirit Realm was captured.
Combined with the hint of the demon's birth and termination, now that I think about it, after all the twists and turns, the final target is actually White. When he trades with the demon to a certain extent, he will be corrupted into a new demon. As for the demon he traded with, it is not on the map at all."
"This..." The sword-wielding man fell into deep thought.
The minister listened in confusion from beginning to end and was unable to get a word in.
He was like a college student who listened to his new roommates talking about flash and roundhouse kicks, and then enthusiastically joined in and said, "I can play Blind Man so well that even the Ma's triangle kill is no problem." Then he heard the other party reply, "What's Blind Man? We're talking about Bodhidharma." He looked pitiful, weak, helpless and embarrassed.
"Maybe it's just a coincidence. I've always had good luck."
Jiang Lu added another sentence.
Although I felt something was not right and suspected that the truth was not as simple as Jiang Lu said, I felt that this seemed to be the most reasonable explanation.
It's just a coincidence. Luck is also part of strength, so it makes sense.
"You didn't seem to think so originally." Jiang Lu stared at the sword-wielding man suspiciously.
"Ah, haha, no." The latter laughed and said jokingly: "Originally, I thought it would be more complicated. For example, you signed a contract with White and then deliberately broke it. When the devil appeared, you fought back and finally freed White, and then you completed the mission."
"?" Jiang Lu had no expression on his face, but he was panicking inside.
Seeing his displeasure, the swordsman said, "But now that I think about it, how could it be possible? It's really too dramatic, haha."
"Yeah, haha..." Jiang Lu stiffly echoed the swordsman's laughter.
At this time, the minister clapped his hands to break the awkwardness.
"By the way, Jiang Bao, there is something going on recently that requires your participation."
To Jiang Lu's curiosity, the minister repeated what he had just said to the swordsman.
At first Jiang Lu behaved normally, but when he heard the two names Qingying and Hongchuang, he was suddenly stunned and then shook his head vigorously.
"I'm not going!"
"Why? This is a rare opportunity." The minister expressed his incomprehension.
The sword-bearing man also began to explain to Jiang Lu how excellent and beautiful these two female exorcists were, and how supported they were by the exorcists in the southwest region.
"If you want to see their appearance normally, you can only see them on the forum. Now it is very rare to see them in person."
As he spoke, the sword-wielding man also pulled out the post of the previous "Southwest District's Most Popular Exorcist Popularity Poll" and showed Jiang Lu the appearance of the two people.
After seeing this, Jiang Lu became even more certain.
It really is them! Fighting against those two bad women in the Spirit Realm!
So he became more determined.
"I'm not going!"
"No." The sword-bearer smiled helplessly, "There has to be a reason, right?"
"I...actually I have a strange disease."
Jiang Lu said sadly, "Whenever I get close to a girl, I get a rash on my body. The doctor said it's a terminal illness."
The sword-wielding man's mouth twitched, but he couldn't hold it in after all: "No, then what is your relationship with Mrs. White? Can you explain it?"
Jiang Lu was shocked. You know all this?
But fortunately, he was calm enough and immediately thought of a way to deal with it.
"Well...actually..."
Jiang Lu sighed: "That's not Mrs. White, it's actually Mr. White."
"Mr. White?" the swordsman repeated in confusion.
"That is to say..." Jiang Lu explained with a complicated expression: "That is not White's mother, but White's father who loves to dress up as a woman."
“?” The sword-wielding man was stunned.
The minister didn't understand, but he was still shocked.
"Yes." Jiang Lu nodded: "That's actually a male girl."
Chapter 93: Is a crisis approaching?