Chapter 1168: Chapter 9: Bubbles
“Drama class?”
Ren Ziling glanced at the kitchen—ever since ing back from the balcony, Luo Qiu hadn’t said a word, going straight into the kitchen and closing the door, not knowing what he was fussing with inside.
“Sorry, Ms. Ren.” Song Ying now put on a sincere and apologetic face, “I’ve had a lot of coursework lately, and soon there’s an exam from the class teacher, I’m almost going crazy… so I was just dancing on the street to release a bit of myself.”
Ren Ziling was still frowning.
Song Ying’s heart skipped a beat, “At that time, it was just a sudden thought, I didn’t realize you were so nice… you understand that feeling of being caught in a situation. And I didn’t expect that junior brother Luo Qiu would actually be your son, Ms. Ren.”
Ren Ziling’s brow remained furrowed.
Song Ying, with a stiff smile, said, “Speaking of which, I haven’t seen junior brother Luo Qiu for a long time… I heard he transferred to another school, didn’t expect to bump into him. Ms. Ren… are you listening?”
“So it was all fake…” Ren Ziling said expressionlessly.
“I’m sorry…” Song Ying dared not meet Ren Ziling’s gaze, “I realize the prank went too far… I’m very sorry!”
The attitude of admitting mistakes was quite sincere… it’s just that Ren Ziling suddenly couldn’t tell truth from falsehood—the important thing is, this kid is quite the performer.
Ren Ziling sighed, “So what, the exotic encounter, love at first sight, they’re all fake?”
“Fake…”
Ren Ziling sighed again, glancing at Song Ying’s belly, “Then… then your belly, is it fake too?”
“Of course.” Song Ying nodded.
From a young age, she attended aristocratic-style schools, and her elder Song Tianyou was extremely traditional… Though the Princess of the Song Dynasty lived quite a prudent life, particularly regarding issues with men.
Ren Ziling just collapsed on the sofa, grabbing a cushion and wildly vented, “Didn’t you say you were in drama? Couldn’t you have performed for a couple more days? Would it kill you? I would definitely play along!! Can’t you let me be happy for a few more days? Look down on people huh?! My goddamn grandchild…”
“Ha…” Song Ying opened her mouth slightly, suddenly not knowing what to say.
Despite hearing about Ren Ziling’s somewhat unique personality early on from Akiko’s report, seeing her today was indeed a case of reputation falling short of reality.
Ren Ziling suddenly stopped and stood up, which scared Song Ying a bit.
“Not happy anymore!” After saying that, Mammy Ren stomped off to the bathroom to take a shower, “My grandchild…”
Not long after, Luo Qiu emerged from the kitchen, casting an indifferent glance at the bewildered Song Ying, “Handled it?”
“Should be… kind of?” Song Ying chuckled dryly.
Luo Qiu nodded, casually saying, “Time’s getting late, you should head back.”
Song Ying hesitated, instinctively saying, “You’re right, it’s late, but it’s inconvenient now… I’m not bothering you.”
Luo Qiu smiled faintly, gazing at Song Ying without saying a word.
“Got it… I’ll leave.” Song Ying rolled her eyes, “So heartless…”
Ms. Song reluctantly left… Remind me, this guy won’t even see me out?
When the door closed.
“Tomorrow, I’ll find time to contact you.” Luo Qiu suddenly said.
“I’m not interested anymore, whether you do or not!” Song Ying snorted lightly, closed the door, then the outer security door, quietly enough not to disturb anyone.
…
Ren Ziling walked out while drying her hair, casually sitting down on the sofa, “Where’s the kid?”
“Gone home.” Luo Qiu approached holding a bowl of something, setting it on the table, calmly saying, “Drink it.”
“What’s this?”
“Sobering up medicine, drink it if you don’t want a headache tomorrow morning.”
“Oh…” Ren Ziling obediently picked up the bowl, sipping a little, found the taste quite good, “By the way, what were you talking about outside earlier? You’re not hiding anything from me, right?”
Luo Qiu didn’t say anything, just suddenly pulled out a medicine box, sat down, and pointed at Ren Ziling’s foot.
“???”
“Disinfect, apply medicine.” Luo Qiu said expressionlessly, “Do you want to be unable to wear shoes tomorrow?”
It was a scratch from chasing a thief barefoot… Ren Ziling chuckled awkwardly, stayed silent, sipping her wake-up soup like a goldfish, watching Luo Qiu carefully working on her foot’s scratches.
“I said it, my son can’t possibly be a scumbag… it hurts, it hurts, take it easy, easy…”
Luo Qiu exhaled, “Feeling pain, then don’t chase thieves barefoot next time, this isn’t some TV show.”
“Got it, won’t do it again.” Ren Ziling blinked, suddenly using her foot to rub Luo Qiu’s hand, smiling, “Speaking of which, what’s with Song Ying? How e I’ve never heard you have a female friend? This kid seems to have a thing for you… Tell me, son… it hurts, it hurts!!! My bad, my bad!!”
“Medicine’s applied.” Luo Qiu stood up, “Wear sneakers tomorrow, and make sure to wear socks.”
“Hey hey… Tell me.” Like a snake, Mammy Ren now crawled over on the sofa.
Returning to his room, Luo Qiu casually just switched off the living room lights.
…
In the room, only a desk lamp was lit, Luo Qiu sat at the desk, reaching for an album from the bookshelves, flipping it open.
Silent.
After a while, Luo Qiu opened the room door, seeing Ren Ziling had returned to her room and was sleeping, he left the house.
Disappeared, reappeared.
At this moment, Luo Qiu was far from home… atop this city’s tallest building—the rooftop. He didn’t choose to go back to the club immediately.
With a hand gesture… In front of Luo Qiu, beams of mysterious light appeared—like standing before a giant screen posed of hundreds of smaller screens.
Each small screen was currently displaying something different.
Different angles, different positions, different perspectives, yet collectively reproducing a certain occurrence… from several years ago, during an armored truck robbery in this city.
“Warning! Warning! You are surrounded! Drop your weapons and surrender immediately!!!”
“Report! Report! Suspects possess heavy firepower… they’re insane, what should we do?”
“Open fire! Absolutely do not let these thugs escape!!”
“Ah—!! Help, I’ve been shot…”
“Snipers are ready! Reporting plete!”
“Careful… they have grenades!”
“Captain Luo is injured, go support him! Go!!”
Luo Qiu reached out, all screens almost fast-forwarded at this moment… When a certain bullet was shot, all the screens switched to the same picture at this moment.
A terrified face now appeared on every screen… Finally, the screen suddenly dimmed, and hundreds of screens ultimately bined this terrified face.
The person who fired the last bullet.
Luo Qiu watched silently, finally exhaled a sigh, waved to disperse these shimmering lights, bowed his head, and remained silent.
…
…
In the night sky, a figure was moving rapidly—this figure was so fast, it almost swept across most of the city in a breath… It seemed to be searching for something.
Finally, it suddenly stopped, as if it discovered something, and quickly descended from the night sky.
Just after landing, the true dragon of China, Long Xiruo couldn’t help but frown, “Just now… was the phenomenon caused by you? What are you doing here?”
“Just catching a breath.”
Luo Qiu turned around and looked at Long Xiruo, who was full of urgency. She should have returned to this city a bit later than him—although he didn’t intend to greet her.
Long Xiruo still frowned and stepped forward. She held a phone, which was continuously emitting ‘beep beep, beep beep’ sounds… as if some chat app was being flooded.
“Did you hear that? You, this time, brought out some old guys who’ve been closed off for ten or twenty years… This group is all bewildered and scared, I really don’t know what to say! If you truly want to destroy the world, just do it directly! Stop frightening people… What do you want to do? To show the world how terrifying you are?!”
All along, Long Xiruo feared this guy and the shop behind him more than anyone, and knew better than anyone how ridiculous the power of the so-called invincible Godly Land was against him.
However, the recent past, just the ten or so seconds… the ley line of the whole China was rioting, save for the recent Mount Tai event which caused an eruption of the Twelve Ancestral Veins, currently the Earth’s ley lines are weak, the disaster and terror brought by such a riot are unimaginable… Despite this, it took her quite an effort to calm the major ley line down.
After this, the munication methods belonging to the Dao and Demon Realms saw all kinds of explosions… especially since it was just a few days after the news conference of the Mount Tai incident.
The true dragon of China is now beyond simple trouble.
Mount Tai’s incident mobilized the Dao and Management Bureau, as well as her, even the state machinery, barely suppressing it temporarily, yet still facing many remaining issues, and a large number of international movements—this guy was good, not watching for a while and caused such terrifying motion.
Long Xiruo widened her eyes, “Are you trying to kill me with exhaustion or what?!!”
“I’m sorry.”
“You think a simple ‘sorry’ will…”
Long Xiruo instinctively wanted to yell… but she suddenly paused—on this man’s face, she didn’t see the usual posure, nor any usual etiquette… at this moment, he was more like an ordinary person, she tentatively asked, “Did… did something happen to you?”
Luo Qiu slowly exhaled, “Indeed a bit, but it’s okay, I… should be able to handle it. Tonight’s events were not my intention, nor did I expect this situation… but rest assured, I’ve controlled it later. The Mount Tai incident can’t be fully covered; there will only be more and more bizarre things happening… Just consider this as one of them.”
“What do you mean by that?”
Luo Qiu said calmly, “After the Spiritual Energy Awakening, what kind of impact it will have, Lord Long should know too, right.”
Long Xiruo remained silent… At this point, Luo Qiu seemed to have returned to his usual appearance—this made her suddenly feel an indescribable annoyance—especially the chat app on her phone was still ringing constantly.
The true dragon of China angrily shut off the phone, stuffed it into her clothes, and casually pulled out a pack of cigarettes, taking out one, instinctively about to light it.
Except Luo Qiu was calmly watching.
Long Xiruo shifted her gaze slightly, and hastily stuffed the cigarette back into the box, “Don’t get me wrong! I’m not a regular smoker, just occasionally smoke one!”
“I’m much better.” Luo Qiu smiled slightly, “If you want to smoke, go ahead. This little harmful substance would probably be erased just as it’s absorbed due to Lord Long’s power.”
“You… you really have no issue?” Long Xiruo tentatively asked again.
Luo Qiu shook his head, looked up at the slightly waning moon, and suddenly said, “If possible, could Lord Long acpany me a bit longer tonight? The moonlight’s quite nice tonight. Of course, if you want something, I’ll give you a discount.”
“Hmph… You think I’m you?” Long Xiruo snorted softly, “Profit-driven, rogue! Why should I acpany you just because you ask?”
But didn’t leave.
Luo Qiu chuckled and continued gazing at the moon.
Long Xiruo felt unfortable being stared at and opened her mouth several times to say something, yet nothing came out… The quiet atmosphere left her somewhat bewildered.
“Don’t you have a servant like a little tail following you?” Finally, the true dragon of China couldn’t help but speak: “Why not let her acpany you?”
“Because Lord Long happened to appear at this moment.” Luo Qiu sighed and said, “Earlier, I just wanted some peace.”
Long Xiruo glanced, stepped closer, “Why… did you have a quarrel?”
“Being able to argue might be a good thing.” Luo Qiu said vaguely.
“What does that even mean…” Long Xiruo muttered, rolling her eyes, “Tell me, what’s the problem this time? You’re not much, but don’t seem like someone who’d get angry randomly, right?”
Luo Qiu looked at Long Xiruo, not speaking for a while.
“What are you staring at!”
Luo Qiu smiled slightly, “Lord Long, have you seen everything in this world?”
“Huh?” The true dragon of China was startled, instinctively said: “You, did you take the wrong medicine today… hmm?”
She only felt a very strange power, weak… as weak as the fluctuation of a tiny ant, barely perceptible.
But the scene before her suddenly changed drastically.
She saw the sky full of stars, saw the moon much closer… and saw the world.
Half blue-white, half dark, slowly rotating… right beneath her feet.
The true dragon of China felt immensely weak at this moment… This was a place devoid of the power that the Divine Land could convey.
“Just looking like this.”
The voice… continued to spread, ignoring certain principles.
Luo Qiu spoke slowly, simultaneously reaching out his hand, grabbing in the void towards the massive sphere within this star.
Due to proximity, the sphere was easily held within the small hand, grasped gently… as if capable of crushing the blue foam with one grip.
“What do you intend to do!” Long Xiruo exclaimed in horror.
After a while, Luo Qiu finally lowered his hand, turned to Long Xiruo, and softly said, “I don’t intend to do anything. There are things I cherish in it, how could I… bear to destroy it now.”
“Let… let me down!!” The true dragon of China shouted abruptly.
Her heart was pounding fiercely.
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