Chapter 17: First place

Happy or not Jiang Luo doesn't know, but it must have been an exciting night.

The evil spirit used the words that Jiang Luo had once said to him, and with that one sentence, it had already highlighted Chi You's vindictive character.

Such a character on Jiang Luo himself, Jiang Luo think quite good, have revenge will be avenged, if people offend me I will return. But when it comes to Chi You, Jiang Luo would like to sneer and curse him for being a small-minded person.

He stood half in the water, looking up at Chi You with an expressionless face.

There was a smile on the ghost's lips, a smile that curved like a hanging noose around a person's neck. Half of the ghost's perfect face fell into the shadows and the other half was reflected in the moonlight, so handsome and handsome, but only creepy.

"Jiang student," the evil spirit took an easy step forward, the sound of his leather shoes being sucked away by the damp, loose earth, his voice pleasant and darkly amused, "you look ...... really pitiful right now. "

He was dressed in an expensive suit, with not a crease in his jacket, and the evil spirit looked like it should not be in the middle of a dense forest at night, but rather at a lively party with a lot of people mingling and drinking.

--or maybe it's in a cowboy store.

Jiang Luo thought maliciously.

"Thanks to you," Jiang Luo said with a fake smile, not much surprised by Chi You's appearance, "it's all because of you, Sensei."

As the evil spirit said, Jiang Luo's present appearance is indeed pitiful.

He was soaked to the skin, and the water rippling around him stuck to his waist in circles. His black hair stuck to the clothes behind him, twisting into several curving black threads, his lean figure completely unburied at this time of the year.

Anyone else here would have thought that Jiang Luo was the ghost that crawled out of the river to bewitch people.

Anyone facing the evil spirit in such a wretched and helpless position would be frightened and despairing, but Jiang Luo was calm and collected, looking into the eyes of the evil spirit, along with a marvelous courage and unyielding fire.

It was an unbelievably bright soul.

It was the look in his eyes that raised the evil spirit's interest, and even the very act of killing the dark-haired youth turned into a game that was rarely pleasurable to him.

The evil spirit said with a smile, "A thank you is not necessary."

He lowered, passing the word ambiguously over his lips, yet it seemed cold and dangerous, "Who made me your suitor."

Jiang Luo's brows jumped, but he saw the drone not far away, his tightly knit brows loosened and he slowly smiled, "Teacher, do you know that this competition of ours is live?"

The evil spirit but laughed.

Also, Chi You is everywhere, what he wants to know, as long as he performs the art of puppet soul refining, both the living and the dead will become his loyal subordinates. Even if he is transformed into a cloud of air that no one can see, he can easily get the information into his hands.

Jiang Luo got up from the water and walked to the shadows under the trees. Wet trails of water were dragged all the way by his feet, and a few drops, even dripped on the Evil Ghost's brand new scuffed and shiny leather shoes.

He was so bold that it was as if he was risking his life to anger a hungry beast. Jiang Luo smiled and raised his two arms, which were covered with river water, and put them on the evil spirit's shoulders. I don't know how the evil spirit did it, but the material on his shoulders was wet with water from Jiang Luo's arms.

The sound of water trickled down from Jiang Luo's hair on the corner of his coat.

Black hair sticking to the side of Jiang Luo's face on the neck, into an irregular size of the circle, ants crawling as difficult. Jiang Luo's eyes glowed as he smiled and turned his head sideways, saying in the evil spirit's ear, "Right behind you, there are two drones."

"They're flying this way, there should be a contestant heading this way, it's really dangerous," Jiang Luo laughed as one of his hands rested gently on Chi You's back, "You'll be seen, won't you?"

"If you're seen by a drone, you're seen by everyone," Jiang Luo said softly, "Spider-Man just now, and now you, all appearing in out-of-the-way corners where no drones are filming. Is the teacher afraid of being seen? Why, is it because you don't want to expose your strength?"

"Or ......" Jiang Luo lengthened his tone and gloated, "Wouldn't Chi You, who's known for her good reputation, want to be seen following a pervert-like peeping behind a student's back? "

The evil ghost's eyes narrowed and suddenly laughed lowly, he casually reached out and held Jiang Luo's hand that was holding the dagger to stab at him, his long and pale palm easily wrapped around Jiang Luo's palm, as if he was doting on it, he said, "You are fierce."

As soon as the words fell, he turned into a hideous black mist, and from afar, the black mist slowly wrapped around the black-haired youth, as if it was embracing the black-haired youth against his death.

After the black mist had finished eating away at the black-haired youth, it stealthily hid itself in the shadows and blended into the darkness of the night.

The black mist was pervasive, Jiang Luo was forced to close his eyes, his wrist hurt, the dagger in his hand was snatched away by another, and an elusive laugh came from his ear, "The second thing your teacher taught you, there are some things that are better left unsaid."

Jiang Luo's heart fluttered, and in the next second, the tip of the sharp dagger was frivolously pressed against his eyebrow.

The dagger was cold, sharp, and could have pierced Jiang Luo's skin with a little force. The invisible evil spirit clutches the dagger and slowly moves downward, cutting through the ends of Jiang Luo's eyes, his cheeks, and all the way to the corner of his lips.

A red mark appeared where it had been scratched, and on Jiang Luo's unflinching and excessively beautiful face, a tyrannical desire to destroy rose.

For the first time, the evil spirit looked so closely at Jiang Luo's appearance.

The murderer undoubtedly had a good skin, and after killing him, it became more and more attractive and dazzling. It was like a rose planted in Chi You's garden, blossoming violently with its fragrance, announcing its bloom to everyone with its red petals and flamboyant gesture.

The look seemed to say that all humans who saw it had to bow down under its beauty.

Beautiful things are always pleasing to the eye, but Chi You prefers them to be moving when they are about to wither.

His laughter went from low to high as the dagger gently pressed against Jiang Luo's lips, the dark-haired youth's lips were incredibly soft compared to the ice-like surface of the blade, even as the dagger pressed it downward into a depression.

"This mouth ......" said the evil spirit regretfully, "obviously looks so beautiful, but always say something to make me feel angry."

Jiang Luo closed his eyes, judged Chi You's position, and slammed his fist over.

The punch naturally fell short.

The fog was invisible, and whichever part of the black fog that wrapped around Jiang Luo was Chi You. Chi You smiled, and the laughter in his voice grew deeper and lower as he slowly said, "Don't be in a hurry."

The dagger gently picked at Jiang Luo's upper lip.

In order to keep the dagger from tearing his mouth apart, Jiang Luo had no choice but to open his lips in response to the force of the dagger.

The tip touched the white teeth gently, the evil spirit thought absently, like petals of a flower.

Only this person under his knife was no rose to be plucked, but a big cat that would claw and tear at people.

The dagger was removed from his lips after a long time, Jiang Luo pursed his lips tightly, his long eyelashes trembled, and the corners of his suppressed eyebrows and lips were full of hidden anger.

The tip cuts across the shapely chin to the knot of Jiang Luo's throat.

The knot in Jiang Luo's throat rolled up and down as he was provoked by the cold and dangerous dagger.

"Oh," the Evil Ghost said in a moment of realization, "I have a newfound appreciation for what you said earlier about how to put a spider's egg into your body."

"Maybe going in through your mouth would be a good way to go," he held the dagger down, "They'll slide down through your mouth."

The blade touched the clothes, and after a slow pause, there was a loud "rip" as Jiang Luo's clothes were abruptly cut open by the dagger.

From his collarbone to his chest, the split in his clothes grew wider and wider, and the body of the dark-haired young man loomed in a "Z" mark.

The lean but tight body was fair and beautiful, the skin half hidden in a large, fragmented and tenacious covering of fabric, glowing warmly like jade.

Unfortunately, the black mist wrapped around Jiang Luo, and even the water and moonlight could not peer into the scene.

Chi You looked at him in amazement, "...... then into your gut, your abdomen."

With his words, the sound of the fabric being torn grew, and finally, the fabric around his waist couldn't take it any longer, snapping the last threads and falling into the black mist.

A very resilient waist is revealed.

"That sure is more fun than cutting open your flesh." The evil spirit eventually said.

Jiang Luo sneered coldly, and even at this moment, his mouth would never admit defeat.

"It's not impossible to like me ...... but spying on me and scratching my clothes without my consent," he said, "that's a question of your character, teacher."

"Like a pervert," Jiang Luo, "who likes perverts?"

Jiang Luo subconsciously ignored the 3,000-word long review he had skipped work to write for Chi You.

Black Mist seemed to smile, the red marks that the dagger had scratched on Jiang Luo's body slowly emerged, he took the knife and scratched through these red marks again, the fragile skin was unbearable to be tortured over and over again, a few tiny beads of blood competed to be the first to spill out from the broken skin.

The tip of the knife drew circles around Jiang Luo's heart as the evil spirit said, "You've been very bad."

Suddenly someone else's voice came from the outside, "Hey, why are there a pair of shoes there? No, aren't those Jiang Luo's shoes?"

Footsteps approached, as did the sound of a drone. The evil spirit looked down, only to realize that the brunette youth was wearing only a layer of soggy socks on his feet.

The ankles were bare, green veins surfacing in threes and twos, the ankle bones protruding beautifully from thinness as if they were artifacts. The dark-haired youth pulled his lips into a smile and said harshly, "Teacher, someone is coming."

Jiang Luo took the opportunity to take his shoes off as soon as he was wrapped in the black mist that Chi You had transformed into, and threw them in the direction of the two drones coming over.

A pair of shoes suddenly appeared in the middle of the road, and even if the participants didn't see them, the drone wouldn't be blind. Jiang Luo was expecting to meet someone he didn't know, but he didn't expect to meet Lu Youyi.

Jiang Luo's closed eye tails were slightly raised, his smile couldn't be concealed, "Even if the students can't discover you, there are other powerful characters watching behind the drone."

Even if those people couldn't find Chi You, it didn't matter. Jiang Luo knew that Chi You, this madman, must have an unusual reason for pretending to be weak in the original text, and if he could pretend to be weak for so long, why would he risk revealing himself here.

Sure enough, he guessed right. After the black mist had stagnated for an instant, the evil spirit laughed softly twice, took the dagger and gently patted the side of Jiang Luo's face, saying intimately, "This time, I'll let you go first."

The next moment, the black fog dissipated and Jiang Luo was exposed to the moonlight again.

Lu Youyi, who was squatting on the ground with Sai Liaoer and looking at his shoes, stared blankly at his sudden appearance.

Jiang Luo was dressed in rags, his face as black as a pot, his body and the side of his face covered with red slashes from dagger cuts, and dirty muddy patches.

There is something surprisingly beautiful and colorful about such a wretchedness that is a mix of sternness and vulnerability.

Jiang Luo took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart before opening his eyes, and the first thing he saw was Lu Youyi and Sai Liaoer with their mouths wide open in shock, each holding a chicken leg in their hands as they looked at him in confusion.

The pop-up exploded.

Who the hell is this handsome man!

What kind of asshole did this to people's clothes? Can't you just tear it all off?

[Battle-damaged beauty I licked and licked, tears slipped from the corners of my mouth, oooh oooh oooh is this beauty real]

[Half-covered yyds! Sorry brothers and sisters I died first]

[I didn't believe my friend when he shouted at me to come and see Shengshi Beauty, but I'm really smelling it now, and I just want to ask my little brother if he can give me a contact number.]

"Be bold, get high on your husband.

[I'll ask! Who can resist this!

[Blessed Infinite Heavenly Father, is this a test of our morality? Then please test us a little more.

Jiang Luo didn't need to look to know how messed up he was, he simply looked away and stared suspiciously at Lu Youyi and Sai Liaoer, "How did you two get together?"

Jiang Luo was completely overwhelmed by the mysterious Chi You, and was afraid that Lu Youyi and Sai Liaoer, whom he met by coincidence, were also one of Chi You's stooges.

Lu Youyi: "Ah, we've always gone together."

Sai Liaoer nods frequently from the sidelines.

"During the competition, Sai Liaoer and I happened to share an entrance," Lu Youyi scratched his hair, "You know I'm afraid of the dark, and Sai Liaoer is a roadie, so the two of us teamed up and went together."

Jiang Luo observed their looks, Lu Youyi and Sai Liaoer's looks were natural and their eyes were confused, he then put his heart down, "Do you have any clothes?"

Sai Liaoer immediately raised her hand, "I have one, the crooked set."

The thick accent cleared Jiang Luo's face a bit, "Lend it to me."

Sai Liaoer pulled his jacket out of his bag and threw it to him, Jiang Luo raised his hand to pick it up, and when he raised his arm, his clothes were ripped up, and his tight waist and stomach caused the pop-ups to erupt again.

Jiang Luo puts his jacket on and zippers it up again, and Lu Youyi asks, "Jiang Luo, how did you become like this?"

"Boing-boing, my little brother's name is Jiang Luo.

[Did you go to school with these two fools? I see. Birch University.

[I looked at the aerial record, Birch University people are very good ah, fell behind the last is the group walking together Lu Youyi and Sai Liaoer, but they both are also medium speed, by the way, this school is not admissions look at the face?

Viewers of Jiang Luo's live stream also rushed to Lu Youyi and Sai Liaoer's live stream.

Gam Gam Gam! Are Brother Beauty and Qi Ye all right? I watched them run around and disappear in the forest. It scared me to death!

[Garbage drone, garbage tournament party!]

Huh? Why don't you see Qi Ye?

Below, Jiang Luo and Lu Youyi finally remembered Qi Ye after they had finished asking questions, and he turned around to see that the river forest was so dark that even the gods could not remember the way back.

Jiang Luo is silent for a moment and looks up at the drone, "Qi Ye and I met Spider-Man, Spider-Man ran after me and hung him on a spider web with spider silk, is anyone watching right now? Help tell a staff member if anyone sees it."

Copy that!

Is it so dangerous?

Now it was too dark, the road was not easy to walk. The three of them found a place to rest, Lu Youyi handed him the food and water in his bag and said sympathetically, "How is it that everything unlucky is met by you, look, your backpack is gone."

Jiang Luo Oh two sound, tear open the bread bag viciously bite, "I also want to know, how what unlucky things let me meet it."

Sai Liaoer squatted down next to him and gnawed on a chicken leg and said, "When we pass the barrier, we'll go and, uh, worship God."

Lu Youyi rubbed his chin, "There are a few temples over here in Yunnan that are very famous, Jiang Luo, go and worship them and see if you can get rid of the bad luck."

The three of them ate and drank, and Lu Youyi even lit a fire. When the morning dawned, the three men woke up one after another and started to hurry towards the eye of the formation.

Jiang Luo goal is clear, the compass is lost, he does not even pretend to pretend, staring at the golden light is unwavering to go over.

At first, Lu Youyi doubted that he was pretending to walk blindly, but when he was really brought to the eye of the formation by Jiang Luo, Lu Youyi was stunned, "Jiang Luo, how did you do it?"

He vaguely felt that the penultimate name on him was really going to be unstable, and was heartbroken and excited, "Crap, are we the first ones to come to the eye of the formation?!"

The staff answered the question, "Yes, you are the first ones to arrive."

Lu Youyi and Sai Liaoer let out a cheer, and the two perennial bottom-feeders jumped directly onto Jiang Luo and kissed him hard on his left and right cheeks, "Crap you're awesome!"

Jiang Luo rolled his eyes, took the flag, and led them towards the exit.

Although there is no golden light at the exit, because there are more people coming and going at the exit, there is more life than anywhere else. Jiang Luo went to the place with the strongest energy, and before ten o'clock, they finally got out of Hu Bu Village.

All three were in some degree of disarray, but in good spirits; they were given three lunchboxes, and while collecting them, Jiang Luo asked the staff, "Has Qi Ye been saved?"

The staff nodded, "He's fine, he went on with the game after we put him down."

At least we have been in the same boat together as comrades, hearing Qi Ye is fine, Jiang Luo no longer worry about it.

They were the first contestants to come out, neatly hogging the top three spots. The three of them squatted at the intersection, picking at their rice while watching who would be the next to come out.

Half an hour later, Qi Ye, sweating and with a smelly face, walked quickly out of the intersection.

As soon as Qi Ye came out, the first thing he saw was Jiang Luo, he quickly walked up to Jiang Luo and wrinkled his eyebrows, "Are you alright?"

Jiang Luo was still wrapped in Sai Liaoer's jacket, the red marks on his face had subsided, he shook his head, "It's fine."

Qi Ye's handsome eyebrows relaxed slightly, and as if remembering something, "You're number one?"

Sai Liaoer foolishly picks up, "Jiang is number one, Lu is number two, and I am number three."

Qi Ye grimaced, he never imagined that a simple broken formation match was just a simple match, and he had fallen out of the top three.

Jiang Luo was fine, but where did this second and third place come from? He knew at a glance that these two were simply rubbing off on Jiang Luo to get this ranking.

He took a deep breath, looked at Jiang Luo with burning eyes, and solemnly promised, "Next level, I'll be number one."

Jiang Luo inexplicably, "? You cheer."

After twelve noon, more and more students came out. Those from Birch University came out fast, and the last one to come out was Kuang Zheng, who came out before 1:00 pm.

Immediately after the race time reached 3:00 pm, the staff stopped the clock and announced the end of the race.

Jiang Luo roughly counted the number of people, compared to the one hundred and eighty people before the competition, the first level of the broken formation eliminated about fifty people, leaving only one hundred and thirty people.

People from various schools gathered together, and after realizing that Jiang Luo's three were the top three in the first level of the competition, Zhuo Zhongqiu gave a thumbs up and raised his smoky voice, "Not bad brothers, awesome."

Wenren even laughed, "In previous years, the top three of the first level of the competition would get a hint with a clue about the second level, and this year the top three are out of our school, so we're taking advantage of it."

Lu Youyi leaps to his feet, "When's the next level?"

Wenren Lian said, "Five days later."

A few people had been chatting for a while when suddenly a group of people came trooping towards them. Kuang Zheng was the first to notice them and stepped forward to block his companions, "Someone's there."

Jiang Luo looked back.

This group of people wearing uniforms printed with "Shanhai University", the leader is a boy wearing silver glasses, the corner of the boy's mouth tacked with a smile, appearing to be a spring breeze, elegant gentleman.

They walked straight up to Jiang Luo's group, and the boy with glasses swept over everyone's face, his gaze settling on Jiang Luo's. He was very happy to see that Jiang Luo's face was not the only one in the group, but he was very happy to see that Jiang Luo's face was not the only one.

"Hello," the boy smiled, "You're Jiang Luo, right? My name is Bai Yefeng, how about making friends?"

He held out his hand.

Jiang Luo looked at him for a moment and shook his hand, "Hello."

Bai Yefeng smiled, nodded toward a few people around him, and suddenly sincerely told Jiang Luo, "When you receive the clues for the next level later, can you sell us a copy?"

So it's business, Jiang Luo The corner of his mouth hooked up, much more enthusiastic than just now, "You want to buy the clues I'm holding?"

Bai Yefeng nodded and shook his head again as he pointed to Lu Youyi and Sai Liaoer and smiled easily, "It's the clues in the hands of the three of you."

Wen Renlian whispered in Jiang Luo's ear, "He is the fifth place finisher in this match, but his strength is more than fifth place. Before the match, both he and Qi Ye were predicted to be first place reserves."

Oh, so it's another smart and rich high roller.

Jiang Luo's smile remained unchanged as he silently doubled the price in his mind and said, "We can sell it, but we'll only sell one copy of the clue."

Bai Yefeng raised his eyebrows and patiently said, "Mr. Jiang, we have money."

Jiang Luo said, "What a coincidence, we are not short of money either."

Ge Zhu, who wanted to speak again and again, was covered by Ye Xun, who said, "Don't interrupt."

"Ah," Bai Yefeng smiled again, "Is it really only one copy?"

Jiang Luo also laughed, "Right."

Bai Yefeng's eyes narrowed slightly under his lenses as he shrugged, "Fine, one copy then, but I want the lead you're holding."

The first place should have more clues than the second and third place by any stretch of the imagination, Jiang Luo nodded understandingly, "Deal."

Ten minutes later, the top three finishers of the competition got their clues. Jiang Luo opened his note and saw that there was only a simple line on it: 4-5 people.

The sentence was so vague that Jiang Luo read it three times without understanding it. Lu Youyi and Sai Liaoer both got clearer messages than he did: "In 2012, some of the city's schools were expanded", and "the gender ratio is unbalanced".

The two of them were given clues that at least inferred that the next venue should be at the city's once-expanded school in 2012, but the message, Jiang Luo, was unclear.

A group of people were all trying to figure out what this clue meant, Zhuo Zhongqiu looked grave, "The clue for the first place is a top priority, but this year's first place gave such a vague clue, it seems that the next level is not simple."

Jiang Luo is very open-minded, "The question is difficult, everyone is difficult, just pass the test."

He gave the clue to Bai Yefeng, who had arrived after hearing the news, and Bai Yefeng frowned, "I see."

He simply paid the money, and was about to turn around and leave, but without taking a few steps, Bai Yefeng suddenly turned back, smiled at Jiang Luo, and raised his voice: "Fellow student Jiang Luo--"

This "Jiang Luo" made Jiang Luo's eyebrows involuntarily jump a few times, he felt a bit strange and vaguely familiar, Jiang Luo looked up towards Bai Yefeng.

Bai Yefeng The corners of his mouth raised as he said meaningfully, "I heard that your previous results were very bad, and it was by chance that you were able to participate in the competition this time ...... but you became the first place at the first hurdle, which is really a remarkable achievement."

He laughed silently and continued, "I think highly of you, and in the second level, you will definitely be number one as well, no one here can compare to you."

As soon as his words fell, the people of Shanhai University exploded, Bai Yefeng's popularity in the school should be extraordinarily good, these people talked about comforting Bai Yefeng, vaguely hostile eyes toward Jiang Luo.

In addition to people from Yamahai University, Jiang Luo heard whispers from people in the neighborhood.

"Isn't that Bai Yefeng from Shanhai University? Why is he saying such things."

"Who is this Jiang Luo? I've never heard of him. Bai Yefeng is no match for him? Qi Ye? Which of the many geniuses here is more famous than him?"

"Damn angry, did this guy go through the back door?"

Jiang Luo's smile slowly tightened as he looked at Bai Yefeng.

Bai Yefeng seems to be praising him, but in fact he is pushing him to the tip of the storm.

Jiang Luo had only wanted to keep a low profile to get through the second hurdle and see what Primordial Heavenly Pearl was all about, but Bai Yefeng's words made it a good thing not to mention keeping a low profile, but not to be targeted by the crowd.

But why would Bai Yefeng target him?

He'd never offended Bai Yefeng, except for the fact that he'd just sold him only one clue.

Is this the reason why Jiang Luo was targeted?

If it was true, this Bai Yefeng's heart was not much bigger than a needle, but Jiang Luo had a vague feeling that it was unlikely.

As he watched, Bai Yefeng's mouth curved at the corners, winked at him, and walked slowly away, surrounded by the crowd.

Jiang Luo's mind suddenly flashed.

There was only one person who would target him so badly.

He gritted his teeth and read in his mind.

-- Chi You.

Bai Yefeng, could it be Chi You?