My Seven Sisters Are Stunningly Beautiful (The Return of the Gods)

Chapter 2861 Last Night's Assassin

"My dear Lu, my dear Shen, what is the purpose of your visit to our Ge family this time?" asked Mr. Ge.

Lu Yun and Shen Yuanbao looked at each other and secretly groaned in their hearts. They couldn't say that they were here to look for a secret treasure, right?

"This..." Lu Yun hesitated, not knowing how to explain.

"Dad, don't ask." Ge Wen said quickly, "Brother Lu and Brother Shen are guests, we should treat them well."

"Yes, yes." Mrs. Ge also said, "Master, don't ask."

Seeing this, Mr. Ge had to give up. Mr. Ge and Mrs. Ge arranged for Lu Yun and Shen Yuanbao to stay.

Lu Yun and Shen Yuanbao thanked Mr. Ge and Mrs. Ge and returned to their rooms.

"Brother Lu, what should we do now?" Shen Yuanbao asked.

"Let's take a rest for a night and talk about it tomorrow." Lu Yun said.

"Okay." Shen Yuanbao nodded.

They blew out the candles and lay down on the bed, but they tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep.

The figure of Master Qingxu and the words he had said kept appearing in Lu Yun’s mind.

"In this world, there are some things that the more you know, the more dangerous they are..."

A feeling of uneasiness suddenly arose in Lu Yun's heart.

He always felt that something was happening quietly...

Lu Yun did not sleep all night, and the words of Qingxu Zhenren seemed to echo in his ears, like thunder, making him uneasy. He simply got up and opened the window, hoping that the cool night breeze would blow away the boredom in his heart.

The moonlight poured into the courtyard like water, but it could not illuminate the heavy shadows of the Ge family mansion. Lu Yun suddenly felt a strange feeling in his heart. This Ge family seemed to be weird everywhere.

"Brother Lu, you can't sleep either?" Shen Yuanbao's voice came from the next room, with a hint of fatigue and confusion.

Lu Yun turned around and saw Shen Yuanbao had also opened the window and was looking at him.

"What do you think about the Ge family's affairs?" Lu Yun asked in a low voice.

Shen Yuanbao sighed, walked to the window, and whispered, "Mr. Ge and Mrs. Ge look warm and hospitable, but I always feel that they are a little deliberate, as if they are hiding something. Also, it is too much of a coincidence that we encountered the assassin just after entering the city."

Lu Yun nodded in agreement: "I find it strange too. And that Ge Wen, he is very precise in what he says and does. He seems enthusiastic, but in fact he is hard to figure out."

Shen Yuanbao walked to the table, poured himself a cup of tea, drank it all, and said, "What do you think? Could it be that the Ge family stole the money and deliberately arranged for someone to attack us so that we would let down our guard?"

"That's unlikely." Lu Yun shook his head. "If it was really done by the Ge family, there's no need for them to make a big fuss. Wouldn't it be cleaner and more efficient to just kill them and silence them?"

Shen Yuanbao was silent for a moment, then said, "Then tell me, who wants to kill us? We are new here, so we shouldn't have offended anyone, right?"

Lu Yun walked to the table and poured himself a cup of tea, but did not drink it. Instead, he gently stroked the rim of the cup with his fingers and fell into deep thought.

"Could it be... related to the purpose of our coming here?" Lu Yun said slowly, with a hint of uncertainty in his tone.

Shen Yuanbao raised his head suddenly and said in a low voice, "Are you talking about the secret treasure?"

Lu Yun nodded without saying anything, just looking at the deep night outside the window, with a hint of worry in his eyes.

"But, apart from us, the only one who knows the secret treasure is..." Shen Yuanbao stopped talking halfway and his face turned a little ugly.

"You mean, Master Qingxu?" Lu Yun took over his words, his tone becoming more serious.

Shen Yuanbao didn't say anything, but from his expression, Lu Yun had already got the answer.

"If it's really him, then things will be troublesome." Lu Yun whispered, "With his strength, it would be easy for him to deal with us."

"What should we do now?" Shen Yuanbao asked anxiously, "Are we just going to sit there and wait for death?"

Lu Yun pondered for a moment and said, "No, we can't just sit there and wait for death. We know nothing about the secret treasure, but Qingxu Zhenren knows it very well. We must find the secret treasure before him to seize the initiative."

"But where should we start?" Shen Yuanbao asked.

Lu Yun walked to the window and looked at the towering mountains in the distance, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.

"Since the Ge family has been guarding the secret treasure for generations, it must be nearby. We will go into the mountains to look for it tomorrow. I don't believe that we won't find any clues."

Shen Yuanbao's eyes became firm after hearing this: "Okay, I'll listen to you. We'll go into the mountains tomorrow!"

The next morning, Lu Yun and Shen Yuanbao pretended to go out for a walk, avoiding the eyes and ears of the Ge family and sneaking into the back mountain.

The mountain is towering into the clouds, the terrain is steep, and it is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round. It looks like a huge maze, which is daunting.

Lu Yun and Shen Yuanbao fought their way through the thorns and moved forward cautiously, fearing that they would alarm anything.

"Brother Lu, what do you think this secret treasure is? Is it worth so many people fighting for it?" Shen Yuanbao asked curiously while wiping the sweat from his forehead.

Lu Yun shook his head and said, "I don't know either. However, since Master Qingxu is willing to pay any price to get it, it must be something extraordinary."

Shen Yuanbao suddenly stopped and pointed to a huge rock not far ahead and said, "Brother Lu, look there, there seems to be something!"

Lu Yun looked in the direction of Shen Yuanbao's finger, and saw some strange symbols engraved on the huge stone. They looked like some kind of writing, but they were not like any writing they knew.

"What kind of text is this? Why have I never seen it before?" Shen Yuanbao asked puzzledly.

Lu Yun observed the symbols carefully, and suddenly his mind moved, as if he remembered something, but he couldn't grasp it.

At this moment, a cold wind suddenly blew from the depths of the valley, making people shudder.

At this moment, the huge rock suddenly shook violently, and the earth vibrated wildly, as if something was about to break out of the ground.

"Not good!" Lu Yun's face changed, "Retreat quickly!"

However, it was too late.

A deafening roar came from under the peach tree, and then a huge black shadow emerged from the ground.

The black shadow was huge, several feet tall, covered with black scales. Its blood-red eyes flashed with ferocity. It opened its bloody mouth, revealing sharp fangs, and pounced towards Lu Yun and the others.

"What the hell is that?!" Lu Yun and Shen Yuanbao became alert at the same time, drew their swords, and took defensive postures towards the monster.

Then, a figure wearing a black robe and a bamboo hat, with an unclear face, slowly walked out from behind a huge rock.

The black-robed man said in a hoarse voice, with a hint of teasing in his tone: "You two, how are you?"

"I let you escape last night, and today you actually showed up at my door. It's like finding something after searching for a long time without any effort!"

When Lu Yun and Shen Yuanbao heard this, their faces suddenly changed.

"Are you the assassin from last night?!"