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Chapter 311 Emergency Meeting

Mo Hanyu noticed that Qin Xiao was in a low mood, and couldn't help but turn his head to look. He saw that he was staring at their clasped hands. His fingertips trembled, and he reluctantly pulled his hand away.

"Okay, okay, I get it." Mo Hanyu thought he didn't like him being so clingy, so he muttered and put the fruit to his mouth, "Do you want to have a bite?"

"……Need not."

Qin Xiao didn’t understand what Mo Hanyu knew, but it was clearly the result he wanted... but he began to feel uncomfortable.

Because of what?

Because Mo Hanyu got the fruit and obtained the attitude he wanted, did he let him go easily?

Don't you want to stop bothering me?

Now that you have gotten what you want, can you let go so easily?

Qin Xiao stared blankly at his fingertips, which seemed to still retain the boy's slightly cool body temperature.

After a moment, he rubbed his eyebrows and felt a little amused at himself.

He wanted to laugh at his own wild thoughts, but he couldn't bring himself to smile, and instead felt even more uncomfortable.

Didn't you say you loved me? Why did you let go so easily? Why haven't you noticed that I'm feeling bad yet? Why... are you still smiling?

The seed fell unexpectedly and sprouted the moment it touched the soil.

Qin Xiao lowered his head quietly, hiding his expression completely with one hand, and the shadow covering his face made it impossible to see any clues.

Mo Hanyu, who was happily eating fruit, suddenly stopped and looked at Qin Xiao, who seemed to be dozing with his eyes closed, and keenly noticed that his mood was becoming increasingly gloomy.

But didn't he just give him some fruit to eat? Why did the situation suddenly change?

Although Qin Xiao's breathing was as slow as usual, Mo Hanyu knew him. Qin Xiao was always patient and hidden, and his emotions were restrained and obscure. If you didn't observe carefully, you would definitely not notice it, or even ignore it.

Mo Hanyu did not alarm Qin Xiao, but observed him carefully. When he found that the fingertips placed beside him began to tremble, he held them.

His fingers were slender, not as distinct as Qin Xiao's, but fortunately they were able to cover them and even grow a little bit.

Qin Xiao's hand trembled violently the moment he touched it, but it soon calmed down. But Mo Hanyu held his warm fingers, rubbed his fingertips twice, turned them, and moved them down along the back of his hand, interlocking his ten fingers.

Qin Xiao suddenly pulled his hand away, as if struck by lightning, and leaned to the side, keeping a distance from him.

"Mo Hanyu..."

Mo Hanyu was at a loss as to what to do, and when he heard Qin Xiao calling him, he responded softly.

"You--" Qin Xiao seemed to want to ask something, opened his mouth, but closed it again.

"What's wrong?" Mo Hanyu felt that this was a very important matter and asked.

Qin Xiao finally showed one eye and gave him a cold look: "No, forget it... Let's talk about it when we get back."

Mo Hanyu tightened his fingers slightly, not knowing why Qin Xiao had changed in just a few breaths, and felt inexplicably uneasy.

Qin Xiao ignored him and glanced at the few people around him who were secretly paying attention to him, with an unusually cold attitude.

The few people who received the gaze secretly sighed in their hearts and reluctantly shifted their gaze.

Yin Xihui sneered in his heart, looked at Qiu Puyue who was drinking tea beside him, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "This tea is well brewed."

Qiu Puryue paused and chuckled, "You taught me..."

Yin Xihui's eyelids drooped slightly, and his eyes became darker.

Yin Xihui likes to drink tea. Qiu Puyue's tea-making skills are limited to brewing tea with boiling water after putting tea leaves in it. The taste is just drinkable, not good. Once she drank the tea brewed by Yin Xihui, she became interested, so Yin Xihui taught her step by step. After Qiu Puyue learned it, she brewed tea most of the time.

Since the Demon Tamer Competition seven years ago, Qiu Puryue was afraid of facing her father and stepmother's family, so she accepted Yin Xihui's invitation and lived in his mansion. And just as Yin Xihui promised her, no one knew her identity and no one came to disturb her.

It's simply... like hiding a beautiful girl in a golden house.

Qiu Puyue was still young at the time and had never thought about it, but as she got older, she gradually felt something was wrong, but even if she looked back at Yin Xihui's words and deeds now, she couldn't find anything wrong. She didn't think she had the capital to be kept as a concubine, and after thinking for a long time, she only felt that her ability to imagine things had improved a bit.

Qiu Puryue lowered her eyes and looked at the steaming tea in the cup, her fingers tightening a little.

"It's a bit slow..." Yin Xihui suddenly spoke, casually glancing at the hot jade token in his hand, his eyebrows raised, as if he saw something interesting.

"Indeed." Xia Wuliao threw the grapes in his hand into his mouth, stood up straight, and said suspiciously, "It's past the agreed time."

"Did something unexpected happen?" Lan Huaiqiu asked worriedly.

"There must be some accidents... but I don't know what they are." Shen Youge smiled and put away the chessboard. "Let's ask them when they come."

"What did you see?" Qin Xiao noticed Yin Xihui's expression and asked.

Yin Xihui turned to look at him and smiled: "It was sent by an elder."

"Is it your aunt?" Lan Huaiqiu suddenly remembered the figure he saw on the street that day.

"Yeah." Yin Xihui nodded, glanced at Qiu Puyue's face, and understood.

Lan Huaiqiu hasn't told her yet.

"Oh."

Since Yin Xihui had said so much, everyone thought it was something at home and it was not a good idea to pry into other people's privacy, so they stopped asking.

Qiu Puyue hesitated to speak. She wanted to ask who that aunt was and why she had never heard him mention her. But then she thought that Yin Xihui had never mentioned anyone in his family to her, whether it was his father who sat high on the throne or his mother who sat firmly on the throne. So it seemed that there was no need to mention this aunt.

Yin Xihui thought she was also curious, so he flipped open the jade token and showed it to her generously: "Here, that's all."

This was beyond Qiu Puyue's expectation. She hesitated for a moment and moved closer. However, she stopped the moment she saw the words clearly. After reading the whole thing, she was surprised.

"how--"

Just as Qiu Puryue uttered a questioning sound, the door opened.

"Sorry, I'm late."

Before people arrive, the sound comes first.

Perhaps it was a training match arranged in the name of the academy. All the latecomers were wearing academy uniforms - clothing specially customized for fighting, which was both beautiful and durable. Not only could it perfectly show off one's figure, but the material also looked very expensive.

"This outfit is worth at least one hundred thousand." Chen Mo estimated, surprise flashed in his eyes, and he marveled at his wealth.

"What unit is it?" Lan Huaiqiu didn't know much about this and glanced at him.

"Gold coins." Yin Xihui took over the conversation.

Those who had never seen the world gasped.

"This thing is worth one hundred thousand?!" Miao Kaijie said in disbelief.

"Ahem—!"

Xia Wuliao wanted to intercept him, but it was too late. The exclamation of the inexperienced person had already reached the ears of the few people who had just entered the door, and they couldn't help but show a bit of strangeness on their faces.

No future...

Xia Wuliao secretly held her forehead with her hand, even though she was also amazed just now.

One side realized that his behavior was too vulgar, and the other side hesitated because of the surprised question, and the atmosphere froze.

They looked at each other in bewilderment, and the atmosphere was dead silent.

"Why are you all standing here? Did you go the wrong way?"

A familiar voice broke the awkwardness. Xia Wuliao immediately recognized it as the voice that had talked to him before. His eyes sparkled as he saw a black-haired young man walking out of the crowd with a strange look on his face.

"That...senior, is..." Ruan Yu was speechless when he thought about what he had just heard, and he looked down on the Jade Academy even more, which already had a bad reputation.

"Actually, not really. A set costs about 80,000 if you buy it in a group." Qin Jinyi suddenly spoke and replied seriously.

"Oh..." Miao Kaijie suddenly realized, "That's quite expensive. Your school is really rich."

"No, I mainly used the prize money from the competition..."

"Ahem——!!"

Just as the two were about to start chatting as if no one was around, Xia Wule interrupted them by coughing twice, then stood up and gestured to Mo Hanshang with a smile.

"Did something happen on the road?"

"Ah, no..." Mo Hanshang glanced at Qin Jinyi, whose mouth was forcibly grabbed by Qin Jiuyuan, and a smile flashed across his eyes, "Don't you know?"

"Know what?" Everyone was confused.

Qiu Puryue's face turned pale as she thought of the words she had just seen. If this was true...

"Just now the organizers urgently summoned the team leaders of each academy to attend a meeting. We were delayed for a while because of the team leader selection. Sorry." Mo Hanshang walked over slowly, observing the expressions of everyone, "So, don't you know?"

"...We haven't received any notification." Xia Wule thought of something and his face darkened.

Mo Hanyu had put on a mask before everyone entered the room. Now, looking at Mo Hanshang's hesitant face, he said impatiently, "Just say whatever you want to say."

"The notice said that we need to go to the designated place for the meeting within the specified time. If you don't go, it will be regarded as automatic waiver. Now that the time has passed, you may..."

Everyone's expressions changed.

Xia Wule tightened his fingers: "Then, there is——"

Shen Youge: "Some of our people went there."

"What?!" Xia Wule suddenly turned his head, surprised.

Not only Xia Wule, Yin Xihui and Mo Hanyu were also a little surprised.

"Who among us went?" Qin Xiao secretly calculated the few people who didn't come, and suddenly he had an ominous premonition in his heart, "Could it be--"

"Yes." Shen Youge smiled slightly, "I asked Qiongqi to go there before, but I didn't expect to get an unexpected reward."

"Qiong, Qiongqi..." Lan Huaiqiu thought of something and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

"At least I didn't give up passively, right?" Miao Kaijie comforted her.

"How did he inform you?" Xia Wule felt relieved and asked Mo Hanshang who was sitting next to him.

When the people who came in saw that they were going to chat for a while, they found a seat and sat down, listening to the conversation.

"The event organizer distributed a communication device, but you don't have one?" Mo Hanshang took out a metal sheet engraved with dense words and asked.

"Yes, but they didn't say anything." Xia Wuliao took out the iron sheet and threw it to him to see, "Isn't it this?"

Mo Hanshang compared them repeatedly and nodded: "That's strange, why don't you have--"

The conversation stopped abruptly, and both sides thought of a possibility.

"...No way?" Mo Hanshang's mouth twitched.

Xia Wuliao was upset and sneered: "I hope it's not like that."

"...What's wrong?" Lan Huaiqiu didn't understand why the atmosphere suddenly became so gloomy.

Miao Kaijie's smile faded, and he leaned close to her ear and whispered in her ear to explain.

Before the competition, a meeting was suddenly held, inviting all team leaders to attend, and using the uniformly distributed Qi devices for communication. It seemed that the communication equipment was in good condition, but only they did not receive it, and such serious consequences were added to the end of the notice...

"Targeting you? Why?" Lan Huaiqiu was surprised and a little angry.

"It's just a guess..." Miao Kaijie smiled helplessly.

"Almost certain." Mo Hanyu added fuel to the fire nonchalantly, "No one looked down on our school in this competition. If we didn't participate, we would be disbanded. Who would come?"

Xia Wuji felt uncomfortable hearing these words, and the person on the other side felt even more uncomfortable.

"Discussing this in front of us...are you looking down on us or are you too confident in us?" Ruan Yu muttered, but was stopped by Ruan Yingli's eyes.

"It has nothing to do with us—"

"Do you need help?" Mo Hanshang suddenly asked.

"Senior?" Ruan Yingli looked at him in surprise, trying to find a joking expression on his face, but there was none. So he turned to look at the others, but found that either they had a calm expression as if they had known he would do this, or they seemed to be hesitant to speak.

She didn't understand why even Senior Xu, who always opposed Mo Hanshang, was silent, but this was obviously not a rational decision. If it was a mistake, it would be fine. But if it was really targeting Yushi College, then they would have done their best not to add insult to injury, so why bother getting involved?

It is certainly not just the organizers of the competition who are targeting the jade. If they want to set a precedent for this evil cultivation academy, they will definitely be opposed by many forces. Under such circumstances, if they want to stand on the side of the evil cultivators, wouldn't they be putting themselves on the spot?

What's more, Yuhua is a country that is quite sensitive to evil cultivators and corpse binders.

Ruan Yingli couldn't understand why Mo Hanshang, who was always smart, suddenly had such an idea. It seemed that the other seniors understood it very well.

Is it because of whom?

Ruan Yingli's eyes changed color several times, and he looked at the lazy white-haired boy. The boy was still wearing the white mask, and his expression could not be seen. Only the pair of scattered blue eyes could be seen from the narrow eye sockets.

Fortunately, Liu Xiangyue spoke up in time to stop him: "Mo Hanshang, please don't be too sympathetic, okay?"

Mo Hanshang frowned: "How can I——"

"We appreciate your kindness, but there's no need for that." Xia Wuliao saw that the other party was about to quarrel, so he quickly waved his hand to refuse, "We will solve it."

"If we don't want to, just disband." Miao Kaijie smiled sarcastically.

Xia Wuliao frowned and looked at him.

"...I'm sorry." Miao Kaijie was silent for a moment and said in a low voice.

They all saw how much effort the dean put into this academy. Although Miao Kaijie just said it casually, even such an assumption made Xia Wule unable to tolerate it, and it made them who had received the favor feel uneasy.

"Is there any news about Qiongqi?" Qin Xiao asked Shen Youge.

"The meeting is over. Our companions have sent us a message." Mo Hanshang ignored Liu Xiangyue and looked at everyone. "What about you guys?"

Qin Xiao suddenly noticed that when Mo Hanshang said the word "companion", Ruan Yingli and others looked at him strangely.

Qin Xiao frowned slightly.

"Got it." Shen Youge tapped his temple with his index finger and smiled gently, "He will be here soon."