The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#748 - Old Friend

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Lu Jing filled the trained shadow puppet with secret power and dragged it back to Green Dragon Mountain.

He watched it execute planting orders in the medicine garden on the mountaintop, marching in goose steps from one end of the field to the other, casting a 'Lush Green' spell every so often.

As a result, everywhere Lu Jing looked was lush and green.

Lu Jing checked it over. While satisfied, he also thought to himself that it would be even better if this shadow puppet could also water the medicine field, apply fertilizer, and pick out pests.

That would truly be one-click托管 (fully automated).

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Unfortunately, this puppet had only been in Lu Jing's hands for a short time. It wasn't impossible to do so many things at once, but it would take a long time.

Lu Jing hadn't lied to Chi before. Seeing that the secret realm trip was about to arrive, he really didn't have that much energy to put into the shadow puppet.

Anyway, if the shadow puppet wasn't useful, he still had a human puppet he could use.

At worst, he would give Chen Hanqing a raise and have him apply water and fertilizer when he was free.

… … … …

After testing the shadow puppet, Lu Jing also set up the improved formation for gathering secret power, as written by Qi Wenren.

Perhaps because four or five letters in a row had disappeared without a trace, Granny Tang, who had been anxiously looking for him, seemed to have given up on asking him to investigate the case. She hadn't sent any more letters to bombard him these past two days.

And Lu Jing was finally able to calm down and seriously consider whether or not to join the Si Tian Jian's secret realm team.

The danger of the secret realm goes without saying. Even the youngest and gentlest secret realm had never truly been reached at its center by anyone.

During Guo Shouhuai's last secret realm adventure, his companions were all top experts from the Si Tian Jian. However, in the end, not only were there still casualties, but Guo Shouhuai, the Shao Jian (Vice Director), also paid the price of an arm.

The result was only getting close to the center.

Even with the so-called map in hand… this would still not be an easy path.

But on the other hand, Lu Jing could indeed understand why the Si Tian Jian had no choice but to take this gamble, because, as Huang Jianyuan said, the current situation couldn't be maintained forever.

As long as the secret power continued to decrease, the Si Tian Jian's power would also weaken accordingly. Sooner or later, there would be a day when they couldn't stop the surging tide of strange objects.

However, besides opening a hole in the cage, there was actually another solution.

Lu Jing believed that the high-ranking officials of the Si Tian Jian, led by Guo Shaojian and Huang Jianyuan, must have also thought of this method, but they had all tacitly chosen to turn a blind eye.

— That was to unite with the strange objects under Ji XianSheng's command to deal with the strange objects.

Although these strange objects were all missing a soul and had some problems, compared to the cold and ruthless strange objects that only acted according to rules, they were at least able to communicate.

And the most crucial thing was that their abilities were similar to those of the strange objects and would not be affected by the decline of secret power.

So the question now was whether the Si Tian Jian would accept Ji XianSheng and his disciples' act of refining living people into strange objects in order to fight against the strange objects.

This was a bit like the famous trolley problem in Lu Jing's previous life.

Should a small group of innocent people be sacrificed to save the vast majority of people in this world?

Ji XianSheng had given his answer, and Guo Shouhuai and his Si Tian Jian had obviously given their own answer, another kind of answer.

As for who was right and who was wrong, perhaps no one would know until the very last moment.

The jet-black feathers all over its body—this was Kui's messenger.

Speaking of which, Lu Jing hadn't seen Kui for a long time.

In fact, the number of times the two had met before could be counted on the fingers, but for some reason, Lu Jing always had a trace of inexplicable goodwill towards this mysterious Kui Supervisor.

When eating reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, Lu Jing had specially invited Kui, but Kui hadn't appeared.

Although he was slightly disappointed, Lu Jing wasn't too surprised.

Because the feeling Kui gave him had always been like this, elusive and aloof, just like the moon reflected in the water, desirable but unattainable.

Lu Jing couldn't help but be a little curious about what Kui was contacting him for this time.

He casually grabbed a handful of millet from the kitchen and beckoned for the black nightingale to eat.

But like master, like messenger, the jet-black nightingale only glanced at the grains of rice in Lu Jing's hand.

It didn't lean down, but instead stretched out a leg, signaling Lu Jing to read the letter quickly.

Seeing this, Lu Jing could only throw away the millet in his hand and untie the strip of paper tied to the nightingale's leg.

As soon as he took off the strip, the black nightingale spread its wings and flew away.

Lu Jing then unfolded the strip of paper and found that there was only a location and a time on it. In addition, Kui had specifically instructed Lu Jing to be careful not to be targeted by others when going out.

So mysterious?

Lu Jing didn't quite understand why Kui didn't just come to him openly, but he glanced at the address on the strip of paper and found that the place Kui had asked him to meet was very close, right in the capital.

And the time was tonight.

Lu Jing practiced martial arts for a while, and only set off after the sun went down.

He quickly found the location on the strip of paper.

This was the residence of Cai Yong, the current Grand Tutor.

Even if Lu Jing didn't care much about politics, he could see from this mansion Cai Taizai's status in the court. This was indeed a first-class mansion in the capital.

He just didn't know why Kui would arrange the meeting place here.

Lu Jing reported his name to the doorman at the entrance. When the other party heard that he was the famous Lu Jing, his expression was very respectful, but he still said that he needed to go in and report.

After a while, the doorman trotted all the way over and said respectfully, "My master invites Grand Hero Lu to come in and have a chat."

Lu Jing didn't think much about it, lifted his foot and walked in, and then followed a maid who was leading the way for a while.

Seeing that he was walking further and further away from the main hall and study, Lu Jing finally couldn't help but ask, "This doesn't seem to be the way to the main hall and study."

When the maid heard this, she didn't stop, but only said, "Grand Hero Lu will know when you arrive."

So Lu Jing simply stopped asking and eventually followed the maid to a small courtyard surrounded by peach trees.

The maid pointed to the courtyard door and said, "This servant can only go here. Please enter on your own, Grand Hero Lu." After speaking, the maid bowed and left.

Lu Jing waited for her to leave before pushing the door open and walking in.

However, he didn't see any Cai Taizai inside, only two little girls. Lu Jing even recognized one of them, raised his eyebrows and said, "Xie Lili, why are you here?"

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