0p0 Chapter 242
Chapter 242
"Shui Ru? Shui Ru, how do you feel? Don't scare me, wake up, okay?"
On the bed in the manor bedroom, Bai Shuiru was sleeping soundly, shaking her head slightly, muttering curses in an attempt to get rid of the nightmare. In the dim light, it seemed as if a very gentle voice was calling her repeatedly with concern, as if guiding her but confusing her, and she kept stumbling around under the watchful eyes of the nightmare.
The same man kept asking urgently:
"Don't you remember our agreement?"
Agreement?
What agreement?
Bai Shuiru muttered to herself, her chaotic thoughts gradually pieced together the missing pieces as Bai Ri drank a cup of Meng Po soup mixed with her to restore her washed-away memories:
"Your Majesty, I am the one who is here to patrol the mountain... Ugh! No! It's 'Your Majesty, I'm here to patrol the mountain myself', eh!"
While Chou Muxian is changing his clothes to practice martial arts, I have to hurry up and run out to walk around. Humph, otherwise I will get all sweaty.
Yu Bi Shuiru hummed a tuneless song and quietly came to the judge's office. She leaned against the window, raised her brush tip and "kicked" the window screen, "peeked" inside through the small hole, and "saw":
The judge was concentrating on examining the habits of each person during his lifetime, assigning "charges" to them, and yawning from time to time.
I worked overtime late the day before yesterday, and now I feel sleepy, so I just slept~!
After a few minutes, the judge nodded slowly and began to doze off.
Yu Bi Shuiru jumped into the room through a small hole in the window screen, and while trying to hold back her laughter, she dipped the brush in ink and carefully drew a picture on the judge's face. Then she kicked the brush on the pen holder away and lay down to pretend to be an ordinary brush.
Not long after, another judge pushed open the door and entered the office. "Old He, I'm here to take over your shift... Pfft! Who painted this clown face... No, this looks like a map?"
Then, another judge came, "I miss my lost vacation so much. I won't be able to see you again until next year. Lao Xu, what are you doing? Treasure map!! The judge's 'treasure map' for collecting snacks!"
"Shh!! Turns out he hid the spicy strips here!"
"I saw where my chips were hidden, too!"
"What are you arguing about... Three floating nuts?! Pistachios and cashews are so far away~! Damn it!"
"Shh! Keep your voice down~! He's awake, run!!"
"Give me back my snacks!!"
Yu Bi Shuiru left the office area and slipped into the garden while trying to hold back her laughter. Just as she was about to burst out laughing, she heard Mu Xian's voice and hurriedly hid among the flowers.
"I'm sorry, I've said it many times, even I can't reveal the secrets at will."
"I am just an ordinary person who is looking for my ancestral home and roots." Another young man sighed:
"Perhaps this is something that you, the children of aristocratic families, cannot understand."
Is it Wuchu?
Yu Bi Shui Ru "listened" to Mu Xian walking away, tiptoed out of the flowers, and suddenly "cried" and "patted" Wu Chu's shoulder, "Wu Chu~!"
"What were you talking about with Mu Xian? Why did he reject you so stubbornly?"
Wu Chu looked at Yu Bi Shui Ru and his smile disappeared in an instant. He sighed softly and said nothing.
"What's wrong? Tell me~!" Shui Ru repeatedly brushed the young man's cheek with the brush, acting coquettishly.
Wu Chu was softened by her, and his tone was still slightly complaining:
"You seem to be enjoying yourself so much that you don't want to trace your roots at all."
"I am just a pen, why should I trace back to the source?"
"Then will you help me?"
"Is that so?" After listening to Wu Chu's request, Yu Bi Shui Ru gently waved the tip of her brush, "It's not that I can't help you, it's just..."
"What are the conditions?"
"As long as you promise to help me escape, go to the human world and have some fun, I will help you look through the Book of Life and Death to trace your origins."
"I must have owed you and Mu Xian in my past life! That's why I'm being threatened by you in this life." Wu Chu pinched the jade pen lovingly, "It's a deal."
As Meng Po soup slowly flows, it condenses into another piece of recovered memory.
In the underworld, only the residence of the Emperor of Hell can display the sun, moon, stars, and the four seasons of the human world. This is a privilege enjoyed by the Lord of the Underworld.
As the night deepened and the dew got heavier, words fell silently on the soft pillow of the high bed and instantly turned into glowing stardust and scattered away.
"Don't rush me~! I haven't escaped from Mu Xian's arms yet~! Your soothing incense is useless, you liar~!"
Yu Bi Shui Ru responded to Wu Chu in a low voice, and finally "climbed" out of Mu Xian's arms. She arrogantly used the brush to paint the young man's entire face black, leaving only a crescent shape in the middle of his forehead, "Lululu, goodbye, no need to see you off~!"
Yu Bi Shuiru dodged security guards all the way and successfully slipped through a dehumidification drain outlet into the "Guiyuan" Hall, which was the archive room, where the "Book of Life and Death" was stored.
Only the current Underworld Emperor and Judge are allowed to enter here, so even though Yu Bi Shuiru has been following Mu Xian and is used to seeing the world, she couldn't help but admire the magnificent dome that is about a hundred meters high in front of her.
In the center of the hall is an intricately carved white marble sculpture of the Eighteen-story Hell in the Underworld, depicting the retribution for sins and evil deeds. The images of the Piao being punished are lifelike, and even their wails are deafeningly silent and echoing repeatedly in the hall.
Above the sculpture, a normal-sized blue account book is "enshrined".
"This 'account book' must be the Book of Life and Death." The jade pen gathered its strength and rushed up to a high place, hovering in front of the blue account book. Sure enough, it saw three seal characters writing "Book of Life and Death" on the cover of the book.
Wu Chu, who always maintained a state of synaesthesia with Yubi Shuiru, explained:
"Legend has it that the Book of Life and Death is a stone that fell from the sky after Nuwa repaired the sky. After being stained by the mud that Nuwa used to create humans, it formed into a sacred object between heaven and earth. It records the cause and effect and trajectory of all things in the Three Realms and Five Elements.
Only a holy creature like you can read and write the Book of Life and Death."
"It's a lie! Is Goddess Nuwa doing shoddy work? The stone that fell after mending the sky~! If you spread rumors, you'll become a turtle in your next life! How do you know I can read?"
"If you don't believe me, you can go and read it yourself."
"Look if you want to!" Yu Bi Shuiru slowly approached the Book of Life and Death. The moment the brush touched it, she suddenly screamed and was knocked away to the ground, rolling almost to the door of the hall.
"Shui Ru, how are you?! Shui Ru? Answer me." Wu Chu's anxious and regretful call gradually disappeared in the special communication channel between him and Yu Bi.
However, there was silence in the hall, like the vacuum of the universe.
I don't know how long it took before a faint voice came:
"Wuchu~! You've caused me so much pain, I want you to pay with your life!! Wuchu~! Give me your life~!"
Wu Chu rolled his eyes and replied:
"Are you really dead? If you were to die, I would definitely fill your shoes!"
"Tsk, you have no sense of humor at all!"
Shui Ru used her jade pen to open the Book of Life and Death. The yellowed pages turned immediately like a fluttering of butterflies. Shui Ru suddenly put down her pen heavily on a certain page, and then fell between the pages. An endless stream of words flowed into her body.
"Shui Ru, what did you see?" There was obvious worry in Wu Chu's anxious tone, as if he was afraid of being betrayed, and repeatedly betrayed.
"Can't you see it? So much information!" Yu Bi Shui Ru's tone became more and more excited.