Chapter 549 Does Our Taixu Look so Unreasonable?

"Mei Mei! Don't go to the cafeteria! I heard that a fried chicken shop has just opened in the snack street behind the school. Let's go and try it!"

My hand was pulled forward, but I didn't feel any resistance when I saw the familiar figure in front of me.

The road in the school is spacious and bright, with brown-red floor tiles under my feet. Every hundred meters, I will pass through an arch made of white marble. There are emerald green bushes on both sides of the road, the noise of the lawn mower drifts from afar, and the air is still filled with the fragrance of green grass.

The blue sky is high and far away, and even the hanging white clouds don't seem to be something that can be touched with just these two hands.

It's not just the blue sky and white clouds. The white marble reflecting the sunlight is like the white snow on a sunny day in March and April, which has the potential to blind people's eyes. There are dazzling little spots of light left on the floating leaves of the bushes. Squinting my eyes and looking carefully, I found that it was the water stains left by the previous sprinkler truck.

Not to mention the girl in white clothes and white hair in front of him, her whole body seemed to have a circle of light edges, leaving a blurred track in the movement.

Even her voice had a certain sharp feeling, like an arrow shot from afar, brushing past the ear - everything, everything, seemed like a distant and false phantom, an untouchable dream.

However, there are indeed things that can be grasped.

Meiyi held Kiana's hand tightly.

It's really strange, knowing that this is not reality, but still unwilling to leave on her own initiative.

"Kiana, don't eat outside! You had diarrhea two days ago, and you follow Bronya to buy games every day. Is the allowance really enough to spend..."

"Enough, enough! At worst, I can ask my aunt for an advance!"

Kiana turned her head while running and stuck out her tongue mischievously.

"Besides, I took Mei with me because I was afraid that it was not clean outside!"

"It has nothing to do with me..."

"As long as Mei learns other people's skills and cooks for me, we don't have to worry about hygiene issues and we don't have to spend money!"

"Uh... okay, okay."

"Yeah! Mei is the best to me!"

The whole arm was tightly hugged by the excited girl, but Mei just smiled casually and lifted Kiana's sleeve.

"Kiana! You drooled all over your sleeves during class... Forget it, I'll buy you a small portable pillow next time. It's hard to wash... Hehe... Hehehe..."

As she spoke, Mei also hugged her shoulders and laughed.

This is clearly a story from when she first arrived at Saint Freya... I never thought that those daily routines that seemed plain, boring and a little troublesome would become a dream that she didn't want to wake up from three years later.

Just laughing, she found that the people around her disappeared.

"Boom--"

The huge arch collapsed, and there was no flame around, but the wind brought the scorching air waves and choking smoke to the front. The bricks and tiles under her feet were broken, and Meiyi silently came to the scorched earth on the side. Every step forward, she could step on the carbonized bushes.

Is Saint Freya like this now?

No, how could it be possible.

Meiyi neither spoke nor thought, nor did she cry or be surprised, and she didn't even deliberately look for Kiana's figure.

She just emptied her mind and kept moving forward.

Finally, she saw the familiar figure in the ruins.

The girl who obviously preferred braids had her hair loose, and was floating in the air with her back to her.

But when she turned around and revealed her bright yellow eyes, Meiyi realized that this was not the girl she was familiar with.

"What a pity, you are late."

A familiar face, a faint smile, but that smile was full of ridicule.

She opened the space crack with her bare hands, pulled something out of it and threw it in front of Mei.

Mei lowered her head silently. At her feet was Kiana's body covered with purple lines.

"Make a decision quickly. If you continue to hesitate, either I will occupy this girl's body, or she will die of Honkai disease because she cannot withstand the power of the core. Raiden Mei, is this the future you want to see?"

"I know."

Biting her lower lip lightly, Mei closed her eyes and opened them again. The ruins, the Herrscher of the Sky, and Kiana no longer existed. Only the undecorated beams and the low chirping of sparrows outside the window remained.

The corners of her eyes only opened for three seconds, and then closed again under the incomparable sourness.

She lay quietly for a while, and the sparrows outside the window also made noises for a while.

After a while, Mei opened her eyes helplessly.

This sleep could not go on, but the sleepiness was still invading her mind.

She slowly put on her clothes in the quilt, and then lay in a daze for a long time before slowly getting out of bed.

First, she rinsed her mouth with the remaining tea from last night, and then wiped her face with cold well water.

It was quiet outside the house. The morning exercises at Taixu Mountain started much earlier than Saint Freya's morning reading, so there was more than enough time. Besides, she didn't need to participate in the exercises that Taixu disciples had to punch in, so she could boil a pot of water and wash up.

It's just that she didn't have the mood to do so.

Besides, compared to warm water, the biting cold is obviously more sober.

After wringing the towel dry and hanging it on the rack beside her, Meiyi pushed open the door, and the cool breeze from the top of the mountain rushed in with fresh air, but this level alone was far from enough to dispel the confusion in Meiyi's heart.

"Huh..."

As her chest rose and fell, she exchanged the turbid air accumulated in her body for the whole night with the clouds in the mountains. The sky above her head was not the blue-green color in her dream, but was wrapped in the thick night. Only a little light leaking in from the east mixed the sky there with the gray clouds into one color.

It was still early for sunrise. Meiyi walked back into the house and scooped up a little cold water to splash on her face. Her thinking was indeed much smoother. At least she knew what she should do now... no, what she could do now.

She took out the potatoes, carrots and black pepper that she had ordered last night from the antique refrigerator one by one. She also put out the kitchen utensils that she had ordered last night one by one. After checking them all, she put the peeled potatoes in the pot and steamed them with water. After the water boiled, she scooped some out, mixed it with cold water, controlled the temperature, and then mixed it with yeast and flour.

If it was Kiana, she should have guessed what she was going to do... When she thought of this, Meiyi couldn't suppress the corners of her mouth.

Unfortunately...

When the air outside gradually became noisy, Mei wrapped the finished product in oil paper, then wrapped the oil paper in her cotton coat, and trotted all the way to a path beside Taixu Mountain to sit down.

The uneven bluestone slabs were full of overnight dew. After sitting for a long time, a damp coolness soon climbed up along the coccyx.

The air behind was noisy and lively, but the sea of ​​clouds in front of her was so quiet that not even a wave was raised.

The sleepiness came back unconsciously. Before Mei saw the sunrise in the sea of ​​clouds, her head kept nodding until she fell into a dreamless sleep.

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“Hmm…Ah…Ah…Ah…Alas, since the old Chen couple passed away, the meat filling in their buns has become less and less, and the price has increased by fifty cents…If it were me, I would just raise the price by one dollar, and not reduce the filling. Who needs such a little money these days? Don’t you think so, kitten!”

“Uh…Hehehe, Sister Suchang, let’s call you Paduo…”

Paduo is still wearing the black robe from before, hiding those organs that do not belong to “human” under the cloth. She has a plastic bag hanging on her fingers, holding a bun in her hands obediently, biting it in small bites, just like a kitten eating.

Compared with her, Suchang’s eating manner is much more heroic. She wraps the bun with oil paper and tucks it under her armpit. As for the one in her hand, in just two sentences, only the last handful of bun skin covered with gravy is left.

"Speaking of which... Sister Suchang, is it really okay for you to miss morning exercises like this? Although I am very grateful for you accompanying me down the mountain, if you are found to be lazy by the disciples, it won't be... uh, it should be okay, right?"

If someone familiar with Paduo was present, they would definitely be able to imagine the words she swallowed hard-"Sister Suchang! You won't put all the blame on me in front of the disciples, saying that I seduced you to go down the mountain and missed the morning exercises!!"

Unfortunately, there was no such tacit understanding between Suchang and her, and she also encountered new troubles-

"Burp!"

"Sister Suchang?"

"Burp-burp-"

Paduo hurriedly supported Suchang's shoulders and patted her back gently. But Suchang just waved her hand to refuse.

"Burp-no need to burp-look at this aunt's burp-this girl's burp-"

Suchang held the last bite of bun skin in her palm, and while patting her bulging chest with her left hand, her index finger gently hooked, and then stopped where it was.

"Hiccup--"

The wind suddenly rose, sweeping quickly through the forest beside the path. Countless dewdrops jumped from the petals, green leaves, and roots, and then merged in mid-air, and finally flowed into Su Chang's mouth.

"Gulp--ha! That's good!"

"Great... so powerful! Is this the Taixu Sword Qi?"

"Isn't it! It's quite convenient! But I can't let my mother and master see it, otherwise they will chase me and spank me."

Su Chang casually threw the flattened bun skin in his palm into his mouth, and began to respond to Paduo's previous question again.

However, her words sounded like those of a fellow traveler to Paduo:

"This is not the first or second time that I have sneaked down the mountain. How many people on Mount Taixu don't know this path? Even if a disciple sneaked down the mountain, the elders would turn a blind eye. I'll tell you in secret, whether or not you dare to sneak down the mountain is also part of the sect's assessment. After all, we call ourselves people of the martial arts world. If we don't even dare to sneak down the martial arts world, what's the point? And this girl is at least the current headmaster! Headmaster! If the headmaster doesn't even have the privilege of staying in bed, how can he motivate those ordinary disciples to climb up? This girl just needs to show up before they finish their morning exercises. The elders of the Sword Holding Hall have been replaced for many times, and it's not that no one has talked about this problem, but it's a pity that they haven't lived as long as this girl."

"You are so right, Sister Suchang!"

Looking at Paduo, who was clapping and giving a thumbs-up, Suchang grinned.

"Besides, if I hadn't shown up in time last night, what would you have done?"

"Ah? This, this, this... I just came out to look at the stars!"

"Do I need to wear a black robe to look at the stars?"

"We're afraid that the disciples on Mount Taixu will treat us as monsters and kill us! Sister Sushang! You can't bear to wake up early in the morning and see a disciple holding our heads to exchange for a reward, right..."

"I think it's more likely that you'll be taken to the Sword Holding Hall and then obediently hand over all the stolen goods..."

"How could that be? Hehehe... But what is the Sword Holding Hall you've been talking about, sister Suchang? When we came to Taixu Mountain five hundred years ago, there were only Ah Hua and her seven disciples here!"

"Huh?"

Suchang's smile froze.

"That... Little... Little Paduo, what did you say just now? You... came to Taixu Mountain five hundred years ago?"

"Yes, at that time, something happened in Australia, which is what you call the South China Sea. It was us who drove a flying vehicle all the way to tell Ah Hua. Later, Ah Hua drove our flying vehicle and took seven disciples to the South China Sea to kill the Collapse Beast... Alas, I don't know if our big villa in the South China Sea is still there, and our flying vehicle, Ah Hua hasn't returned it yet..."

Every time Paduo said another word, Suchang's forehead would add a drop of cold sweat.

[It's over, the story told by the master and mother is exactly the same. I heard that the master's real name is Hua, and when he went to Saint Freya Academy, his alias also had the word Hua in it. "Ahua" wouldn't be referring to the master... Then she wouldn't be... It's over! Mother and Master will go to Taixu Mountain in the next two days. If they knew that I and Paduo were brothers, bah - arm in arm - colluding with each other, bah - peers, I would definitely be publicly executed for disrespecting the immortal master! ! ! 】

"Ahem!"

As expected of someone who has lived for more than 500 years, Su Shang immediately stopped smiling and looked at Paduo with a serious face.

"Miss Paduo, you must be tired carrying the buns! I'll help you!"

Paduo opened her mouth wide, her eyes widened to the maximum, as if she was stunned by this sudden change of attitude.

She looked at the two lonely meat buns in the plastic bag she was carrying, and then looked at the gravy that had not been wiped clean at the corners of Li Suchang's mouth. She seemed to understand something and shook her head vigilantly.

Seeing her alertness, Susang was stunned for a moment, and soon realized that the girl in front of her was the same kind of person as herself in a sense.

She couldn't help but chuckle, took the oil paper package tucked under her armpit, and touched the smooth oil paper with her fingertips reluctantly, then gritted her teeth and handed the oil paper package to Paduo.

"Ahahaha, although I am the headmaster, it would not be a good influence if the disciples saw me holding the buns bought down the mountain, so I would trouble you, Miss Paduo, to deal with it!"

"Really, really, really! Then I'm not polite!"

A golden light suddenly appeared in Paduo's eyes, and she hugged the package of buns tightly in her arms.

"Ahem! Miss Padu, this mountain road is so long! Are you tired of walking up the mountain? Do you want me to take you flying on a sword?"

"Well, well, well... forget it, I'm a little afraid of heights..."

"Then I'll push you from behind!"

Suchang deliberately fell behind and stood behind Padu, with both hands on her back. With a little force, Padu felt that she was almost flying on the stairs up the mountain, and even landing on the ground became a luxury.

"Slow down-ah-"

Suddenly, at the end of her sight, that is, the end of the trail, Padu saw a figure.

"Stop-stop-stop! Sister Sudu, you're going to hit someone!"

Yai opened her eyes in the noise, rubbed her eyes with her fists for no reason, and then felt the light in front of her dim, and two familiar figures stopped in front of her.

Padu obviously didn't exert much effort, but she supported her knees with her hands, panted heavily, and kept patting her chest with her hands.

"Oh my god, my heart almost jumped out of my chest at that speed."

Her exaggerated action could hardly fail to attract Mei's attention. Sushang took the opportunity to look at the bamboo forest behind Mei, where an elder whose name he could not remember stood.

The moment the elder saw her, no matter how hard he tried to hide his face, he could not suppress the embarrassment and helplessness, but he quickly nodded and left here consciously.

Sushang then turned his sight back.

"Um...you are Mei Lei Dian, right, a friend of the Second Herrscher?"

Sushang certainly knew that the girl in front of her was once a qualified person of the Third Herrscher. But since the Third Herrscher core is no longer in her body at this time, it is better to use a normal name.

But it is obvious that Mei cannot accept this name-not for herself.

"Kiana...she is not the Second Herrscher. As long as her consciousness is still clear, she is not the Second Herrscher."

The voice was still high-pitched when it sounded, but soon became low again.

Sushang fell silent. She knew that the girl in front of her lowered her voice not because she felt guilty, but because Kiana's fate was completely controlled by Taixu Mountain, or more precisely, by Li Sushang. That's why she was so cautious, afraid of angering her.

So pitiful.

Sushang sighed secretly and turned to look at Padu.

"That... Miss Padu, I want to talk to Miss Meiyi in private..."

"Oh, oh, oh! I understand! We still have to take care of Kiana, so I'll leave first!"

Padu left faster than the elder, almost in the blink of an eye, and there was no trace of her.

After confirming that there was no one around, Sushang sighed and was about to lean over to sit on the steps, but saw Meiyi standing up, pounding her numb thigh.

"Hey, be careful!"

Sushang instinctively wanted to help, but Meiyi retracted her hand, took out a still warm oil paper bag from her arms, and stuffed it into her hand.

"What does this mean?"

"Well... I heard from Pado that the head of the family likes to eat steamed buns very much. I thought that you might not have tasted a kind of curry stuffed steamed buns from my hometown, so I made a few for you to try..."

Looking at the humble girl in front of her, Su Chang sighed first, a fire surged in her heart, and she wanted to express something fiercely, but maybe she had lived for too long, and this overly intense emotion disappeared in the blink of an eye. All that is left is sadness.

She opened the oil paper bag, and inside were five ordinary steamed buns. However, the shape of the steamed buns was not particularly special. It was a bit bigger than the one she bought before. From the thin skin, you could still see the yellow color mixed with curry sauce.

"Speaking of which, the fillings of steamed buns have been changing with the times. I remember when I first became the boss, there seemed to be a popular type of sweet stuffed buns similar to five-nut mooncakes, but they are no longer available now. For a while there were only meat buns. , vegetable buns, bean paste buns. Later, there were some vermicelli buns, tofu buns, and custard buns, which were all fancy, but this was indeed the first time I saw curry buns... Well, you know, when I was a child, I was a very disobedient child."

"Huh?"

Yayi didn't understand why Sushang started talking about seemingly unrelated things, but this did not prevent Sushang from continuing to talk.

"My mother and master were very strict with me. They forced me to get up early every morning to practice kungfu. Later, I could even doze off while standing. But as you know, when you reach a certain age, you can't help but give birth to... Being rebellious, I forgot which day it was. I didn’t go to practice the exercises after I got up in the morning. I sneaked down the mountain. When I got down, I realized I didn’t have any money with me. Hahaha! I was a kid wandering around the town until the evening. I happened to meet an old man selling buns. He saw how pitiful I was and gave me two of the buns he sold. Meat Bunzi also used a stick to help me drive away wild dogs that were snatching food. Later, I often sneaked down to patronize his business, hahaha.

"Then again, there are people who make steamed buns in the canteen on the mountain, and their skills are also good, at least better than that old man at that time. And the inheritance of the skills at the foot of the mountain is also very unstable. I went out to travel around the world when I was fifteen years old, and I wanted to take him with me on the way back. Luo...want to go After visiting the old man's business, I found out that he met a freeloader and made trouble three months before I came back. He was so angry that he got into a fight and was beaten to death. I couldn't even avenge him. Arrive, because that guy has been beheaded by the government.

"But, after he died, a new person soon started selling steamed buns in the town, and his skills were better than his. However, after that person died, his son did not learn his skills, and was squeezed out by another steamed bun shop. I lost my business. When I was thirty years old, my master suddenly gave up his job, passed the reins to me, and went away on his own. My mother also had a long time ago. I ran away to Sichuan and Chongqing with my father. I couldn't escape on this mountain alone, so the only fun I had was sneaking down the mountain to buy steamed buns. It's a pity that for five hundred years, the people in that town have been destroyed because of the war. It has changed three times, and the one I bought this morning was also a new store that opened twenty years ago. There are no traces of the past, let alone the smell of the past.

"Oops, I accidentally chatted too much. In short, the reason why I go to the foot of the mountain to eat steamed buns is never because they are delicious. No matter how delicious the buns are, I will still get tired of them after five hundred years. It's not that I miss the taste of the past—— The buns stuffed with five kernels make my teeth ache just thinking about them, please spare me.”

"ah--"

"Okay, I said some weird things, don't worry about it."

Su Shang patted Mei Yi's head gently, stuffed a curry bag into her mouth, and swallowed it in one gulp.

"Huh?"

She quickly took out another one, bit open the skin gently, smelled the fragrance, and closed her eyes with satisfaction.

"Hehe, I have to say, what you made is really delicious."

"You...just like it..."

"Crack!"

Su Shang suddenly patted Mei Yi's shoulder, which made the gentle girl in front of her tremble, because with this action, the naive and free and easy look in Su Shang's eyes disappeared, replaced by a deep and playful look. .

Meiyi had seen similar looks from two men before, and it was hard not to bring back some bad memories for her.

Su Shang didn't seem to notice this.

"Speaking of which, Raiden Meiyi, you should also understand that if you do this, you won't be able to sway my decision at all, right?"

"I...I know, but I want...at least I hope you guys don't treat Kiana too...well...too..."

"Do we Taixu look so unreasonable?"

Mei Yi didn't know how to respond to Su Chang's words. After seeing the dark side of reverse entropy and destiny, she certainly couldn't think that Taixu Mountain was a gathering place for righteous partners. Besides, Kiana's identity was so sensitive. Whether it's to think of her as an innocent girl or as a Herrscher who brought irreparable harm to the world, it seems inaccurate but neither is wrong.

Seeing that she was silent, Su Chang probably guessed what she was thinking, so her expression became even weirder, and she even showed an indescribable smile.

She lowered her voice and said seriously:

"Let me tell you some good news, Mei. Personally, I support handing Kiana over to Anti-Entropy."

"Ah! That's great..."

"But, for such an important matter, it can be said that it involves the fate of the entire China and the entire world. I can't bear such a heavy responsibility alone, so I plan to summon the master and several uncles to have a meeting to vote."

"ah……"

Seeing Mei's expression change from being touched to despair, Su Chang finally couldn't help but pat her shoulder and laughed softly, scaring the birds in the forest to flap their wings and fly towards the rising sun in groups.

"Hahaha! I thought you were a very smart girl, or are you slow to react when it comes to your friends? Can't you see it? Shenzhou, as a long-standing ally of Tianming, certainly couldn't do such a thing as handing Kiana over to Anti-Entropy, especially since Orlandel is still here. If I had known, I wouldn't have brought her back. But we really don't think it's a good idea to hand over Kiana, a Herrscher who may fight for humanity, to Otto. So, we can only take a compromise.

"My master and several uncles are all over the world. It will take a lot of time to rush back to Taixu. Even if they come quickly, the meeting can be delayed for a few days, and Orlandel can't say anything. As for what we are delaying? Of course, it's waiting for Theresa to come. On a quiet morning, the head of Taixu went down the mountain with several of her uncles to buy steamed buns for team building. As a result, the anti-entropy troops appeared directly on the mountain. Theresa used the eleventh divine key to control Yulan Dell, and then you took Kiana with you. We, Taixu, really didn't expect such an emergency. We were helpless... How is it? Is this script exciting? Do you think Otto will be satisfied?"