After confirming that she had escaped danger, Tang Ya found an inn and stopped.
It wasn't because she had run out of Milk Bottles—she still had two left, and using one more should have been enough to get back.
Nor was it because she was injured. She just wanted to get herself cleaned up and change clothes. She had just finished killing people, and the murderous aura clinging to her was too strong. She didn't want to go back and see Chu Mo in that state.
Tang Ya thought the inn looked decent, so she went inside, locked the door, and headed straight for the shower.
Splash, splash~
[Ya: Is anyone there? I can't believe I ran into a Level 98 Evil Spirit Master while getting revenge. Luckily, he didn't mean to kill me.]
Tang Ya wiped her snow-white skin with her small hands while gossiping about her situation through the Chat Group.
[Ice Frog is Stronger than Poison Frog: ?]
[Revenge Girl: ?]
[Dong'er is Not a Girl: Oh, Tang Ya, you're okay, right?]
Chu Mo was eating at a table in the cafeteria when he saw the message. He looked up in shock and glanced at Wang Dong'er across from him, wondering how she could have said something like that!
If Tang Ya really had been in trouble, would she still be able to send a message?
[Chu Mo: @Ya, you're not hurt, are you, Yaya?]
The reminder made Wang Dong'er realize the mistake in her message, too. Her little face reddened, and she lightly nudged Chu Mo with her leg to show her displeasure. Then she sent another message to the group.
[Dong'er is Not a Girl: Right, right! If you're hurt, Chu Mo can send you a Healing Pill.]
[Xiao Who Plays the Flute: Sister Tang Ya, I wanted to ask—how did you escape from him?]
Xiao Xiao was a bit of a gossip. She kept up with rumors around campus, like the one about Tang Ya being won over by a new junior student who had just enrolled.
Or the rumor that Jiang Nannan was actually in love with the new junior student. Xiao Xiao listened to all that sort of gossip, so she found it hard to believe that Tang Ya, who was just a student, had escaped from a Level 98 Super Douluo.
Inside the inn...
Tang Ya paused slightly in the shower. Hadn't they already learned about the lottery draws? Even if the newcomer had no draw history, surely he'd seen the conversation from earlier. They had just traded that morning, and he still didn't know.
But now that she had already gotten her revenge, Tang Ya was in a fairly patient mood. Besides, she had nothing else to do while bathing, so she didn't mind explaining it to him again.
As she explained it to Xiao Xiao, Chu Mo fell silent. He remembered that in the original story, when Tang Ya had gone to get revenge, she had been taken away by one of the Holy Spirit Cult's leaders.
She had fought back and forth with a Level 98 Demon Puppet, and he claimed he hadn't meant to kill her? It wasn't hard to guess who he was: Zhongli Wu.
Tang Ya was explaining things to him energetically, which clearly meant she wasn't hurt. It looked like she had already gotten her revenge; otherwise, she wouldn't be in such a lively mood.
[Chu Mo: As long as you got your revenge. The one who stopped you was probably Zhongli Wu, the Holy Spirit Cult's leader. His Martial Soul is the Death God Demon Puppet. He likes to travel between the three great empires, looking for promising recruits for the Holy Spirit Cult.]
[Ice Frog is Stronger than Poison Frog: ...]
Seeing Meng Hongchen's silence, Chu Mo felt a little puzzled. Although she was the Sun Moon Empire's state preceptor, she should still be keeping a low profile. Given Jing Hongchen's current position, he would surely remain neutral and wouldn't let her know about it—let alone Meng Hongchen.
Could she have overheard something?
But Chu Mo was overthinking it, making complicated assumptions about someone else's thoughts.
Meng Hongchen's actual thoughts weren't complicated at all. She just wanted to pop into the chat and raise her activity points. Next time she had to win a prize, then she could give that Wang Dong'er, who'd been showing off to her, a good pounding!
But there wasn't much to say about the topic, so she could only pop in with a brief message.
[Cat Who Controls Speed: Why are there such powerful Evil Spirit Masters?]
[Ya: Why else? They came over from the Sun Moon Continent when the two continents collided.]
[Ice Frog is Stronger than Poison Frog: ...]
[Revenge Girl: ...]
That time, Meng Hongchen was genuinely speechless.
Sitting on her single bed with her legs crossed, she pursed her lips in boredom, tilted her head back to stare at the ceiling, and opened the Chat Group again.
Frogs!
Her head felt so heavy.
What a huge blame to pin on her!
[Ice Frog is Stronger than Poison Frog: How can you say that? Are there really no Evil Spirit Masters on your continent?]
[Dong'er is Not a Girl: But I heard the Holy Spirit Cult is based on the Sun Moon Continent. You've been saying how powerful Soul Tools are, so why don't you just have them wipe the cult out?]
[Ice Frog is Stronger than Poison Frog: Uh, well...]
[Chu Mo: You're not wrong, since most Evil Spirit Masters did come from the Sun Moon Continent. But there are two other reasons.]
[Cat Who Controls Speed: What reasons?]
[Ya: What reasons?]
Chu Mo was just about to reply when he sensed someone watching him in the real world. He turned and found the other three girls staring intently at him!
"Why are you sticking up for Meng?"
Wang Dong'er bared her little tiger teeth and asked angrily.
If she changed back into women's clothes, she might look very pretty, but right now, she was not someone he wanted to provoke.
The other two girls nodded, too, seemingly suspecting that he had some strange ulterior motive.
Misunderstood, Chu Mo gave a light cough. He was an upright gentleman; he was only expressing his suspicions.
He coughed again and replied, "I have my reasons. I'm a really good person."
Wang Dong'er folded her arms and huffed, turning to look away.
"Hmph. I don't think so."
"Of course, I'm only speculating about what might have happened. After all, ten thousand years have passed. How could everything have stayed exactly the same? Even a small incident could have caused huge changes."
Chu Mo waved his hand. He felt like she was being a little oversensitive, as if his reply had somehow slighted her.
Hadn't he agreed with her first, then added that there were other reasons?
"Brother Chu Mo, hurry up and tell us. Let's hear what the reasons are. Do they have something to do with what happened ten thousand years ago?"
Xiao Xiao loved gossip most of all. She nodded sweetly, her green twin ponytails swaying slightly.
Little girls were so much more likable. Tsunderes were really difficult. Chu Mo nodded to her, then returned to the group chat to send a message. After all, there were others in the group, too.
[Ice Frog is Stronger than Poison Frog: @Chu Mo, hurry up and tell us!]
[Ya: I want to know what the other reasons are, too.]
Tang Ya was curious as well as she waited in the bathroom. She lathered her small hands with slippery shower gel and slowly rubbed it onto her fair skin. The scent of lavender gradually spread through the air.
Slick, slick.
Compared with the first time she had showered in Chu Mo's dorm room, this time she took much longer and washed much more carefully.
As the hot water poured down, steam filled the bathroom. The murderous aura left from her recent killings lent her a peculiar beauty, like a depraved, deranged fairy.
But once the shower gel had been rinsed away, she began humming softly, and her appearance changed noticeably. She was once again her lively self.
Ding! A new message popped up in the chat interface.
[Chu Mo: Here it is, here it is. The other two reasons are that there aren't any organizations or places devoted to hunting down Evil Spirit Masters and holding them captive, and the other reason they're becoming more numerous is that ordinary people have always made up the majority of the world. When they have no hope of staying alive, becoming an Evil Spirit Master is their only option.]
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