">:| No, I don't want to!!"
"Why?" Lin Heng asked, puzzled.
"Hmph! There aren't many honest words in your mouth. I'll only know whether it's dangerous outside once I see it for myself. Who knows if you're just making up some excuse to trick me into staying here."
Seeing that his little scheme had been exposed, Lin Heng's eyes rolled, and he immediately had another idea.
"All right, all right, to think I couldn't fool you. Actually, the Demon Venerable has already been beaten back. Your uncle hasn't been able to find you and has been terribly worried."
Dugu Yueli froze, then immediately said, "Then what are we waiting for? Send me out!"
"No!! I think this is a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity!" Lin Heng patted her soft, tender shoulder, his smile strange.
"What do you mean?"
"Sister Yueli, everyone knows you disappeared while fighting the Demon Venerable, and I saved you, right?"
"Right!" Dugu Yueli nodded. "And then?"
"Let's put it this way. This Small World is a space I opened up separately. The scene was so chaotic back then that as long as I admit you're here, no one can find you."
"In other words, if I tell the outside world... that you were slapped to death by the Demon Venerable, with not even a speck of dregs left, then what?"
"?? ?? ? ?? ?? Huh?" Hearing that, Little Yueli's expression changed slightly. Her cherry lips parted as she vaguely sensed something wrong, and she hurriedly pushed him away. "You... why would you say that?"
"Tsk, tsk!" Lin Heng clicked his tongue, turned around with his back to her, and pretended to be unfathomably profound. "If something unexpected happened to Sister Little Li, the Nine Dust Alliance would be a flock of dragons without a head. In their grief,