A series of crisp knocks rang out, and Zhang Nian, who was standing at the door, muttered, "This guy, I just saw him go in, won't he be pretending to be dead on purpose? There's no other way, I can only break down the door."
As she spoke, Zhang Nian's right hand reached for the doorknob, and as a green light lit up, the doorknob's volume also shrank, and the density inside increased, until it was disengaged from the door, and it turned into a mini doorknob that was less than one centimeter in diameter.
And the door, which didn't have a handle, naturally became able to be entered and exited at will, and as if she was a thief, Zhang Nian gently pushed open the door, and what entered her eyes was Yuuki, who was squatting down and staring at her…
"You're being a thief in your own home, is it fun?"
"...This."
Zhang Nian, who had been caught, was speechless for a moment, but she still said stubbornly, "Who told you to not open the door, and I've been knocking for a long time, and I thought that you had died inside, and I'm clearly just concerned about you, alright."
"Put the door lock back on, and say whatever you have to say directly, and it's okay if you don't like me, and I'll just be staying for one night, and that's just until tomorrow morning."
Yuuki got up, and turned on the lights inside the room, and sat on the bed and started dozing off, and he seemed somewhat tired, and it was as if he didn't want to have too much communication with her, and this was his way of driving her away.
"It's not simple to install a lock? This lady can do it with ease."
Zhang Nian put the shrunken door lock back in its original place, and then released the technique, and the door lock, which had originally been disengaged, instantly returned to its normal size, and it was firmly stuck in the door.
Compressing the volume and increasing the density huh, and she was slightly disappointed, and she had thought that she could control the volume and molecular structure at will; Yuuki's eyes revealed a slightly disappointed expression.
It was like shrinking the object, and at the same time, subtracting the number of molecules that made up the object inside, and allowing them to reorganize;
Or the technique itself could do this, it was just that this girl's intelligence wasn't enough, and she couldn't play it, and she could only simply shrink the volume and increase the density, and expand the volume and decrease the density.
Yuuki retracted his gaze, and a person's technique had infinite possibilities to begin with, as long as their vision was broad enough.
"How is it?!"
"What's how?"
"My technique ah?"
"It's alright, but it's a little different from what I imagined."
Yuuki said bluntly, after all, the sense of incongruity was too great, but he also felt that it was reasonable, and maybe his vision was too broad.
"What did you imagine it to be?!"
Zhang Nian looked at the young man, who was sitting on the bed, and she didn't understand how he viewed her technique, and wasn't she strong enough?
Although she hadn't seen how jujutsu sorcerers exorcised cursed spirits, she still knew that those things could only be touched with cursed energy, and she had touched one, which was called a "Fly Head", and she had almost lost her soul back then.
"While changing the volume of an object, you also change the molecular structure inside, and you transform the mass, and it's not for you to compress the volume and the weight doesn't change, and you're not going to use a slingshot with a compressed stone to hit cursed spirits, right? And with your thin arms and legs, I'm afraid that you can't even pull back the slingshot."
Yuuki was speechless, and he had a disgusted expression, and this guy had a technique, but she was still an amateur, and it could also be seen that her brother really didn't want her to step into the jujutsu world, so he had raised her to the point that she didn't know anything.
"Alright, and that's my evaluation of your technique, and also my evaluation of you, good night, and remember to turn off the lights and close the door when you go out."
"..."
Looking at Yuuki, who had laid down on the bed and fallen asleep, Zhang Nian couldn't get over it for a long time, and she hadn't expected that he would see through her technique at a glance, and this was the difference between her and him… and they were clearly both sixteen years old.
"Then, that, I want to leave with you tomorrow, and weren't you going to find someone or something? Can you teach me how to exorcise cursed spirits along the way? My brother and the others aren't willing to teach me."
"...I won't teach you, and you're a burden, and you're a burden who will die at any time if you follow me."
Yuuki didn't say anything after he had finished speaking, and he hadn't come to China to play house, and he wasn't going to run around in the forbidden lands with a girl who didn't know anything;
Was he a god?
He wasn't, and he didn't want to remember any more people, after all, those who could be remembered by him, other than friends and family, were all enemies.
"I'm being sincere, and what's wrong with you taking me out? You can just run by yourself if we encounter danger…"
The more she said, the less confident Zhang Nian became, and looking at Yuuki, who wasn't saying a word, she said "I'm sorry" and then turned off the lights and left.
She knew that she had said the main point, and he might really run by himself if they encountered a cursed spirit that he himself couldn't handle, and then she would die on the spot…
It wasn't easy to be a jujutsu sorcerer…
Her brother had gone out on a mission a few years ago, and half of his left face had been destroyed during the mission, and he had almost died on the way to being saved, and she also wanted to help her brother, after all, she would be left alone in this world if he died…
But, it was obvious that she didn't seem to have the talent to be a jujutsu sorcerer, after all, her technique wasn't powerful, and it couldn't be used for solo combat.
Not just anyone could become a jujutsu sorcerer, and having cursed energy was just the first standard, and although there were few people who possessed cursed energy, it didn't mean that the jujutsu higher-ups would lower the assessment requirements for jujutsu sorcerers.
...
The next day.
[6:30]
"Click—"
The villa door was opened, and Yuuki, who was carrying his backpack and sling bag, and was wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap, also set off and left, and he looked at the sun that was still rising, and also glanced at the tree on the side, and his left hand took out a 『Bird』 from the sling bag and put it on the ground, and his right hand made a hand seal, and shouted softly: "Ha."
"Bang!"
The shrunken clay instantly returned to its original volume, and the two-meter-long wingspan spread out fiercely, and the white smoke dissipated, and the "Golden Eagle" raised its head and gazed at the sky.
"Let me see, which direction is Mount Everest in."
Yuuki unhurriedly took out his phone, and looked at the map after opening it, and then he silently retracted the "Golden Eagle", and the journey was three to four thousand kilometers, and it was really a bit far…
He felt that it would be more energy-saving to take a plane…
He didn't have that much cursed energy to squander, and he had to go to three forbidden areas, and he didn't know their true strength, and he would laugh to death if he ran out of cursed energy.
He had bought the 『Yin Seal』 at the end of June, and then he had basically exhausted it during the battle with the Kamo Clan on July 25th, and he had started to store cursed energy again, and it was only August 8th now;
The recovery of cursed energy in his body was also at a normal level, and he wasn't that kind of freak who could quickly recover the cursed energy that he had consumed in a short period of time after he had just used it up, and it was estimated that he could be like this if he got his hands on the Sage Body, but it wasn't very useful for him at this moment.
The priority was always the Eternal Mangekyō.
Yuuki booked a plane ticket online from Beijing to Xizang, and then set off and left.
The slowly rising sun illuminated the earth, and reflected Yuuki's figure on the ground;
But the sun never moved, and the reason why it rose in the east and set in the west every day was because the earth was revolving around the sun, and this also meant that the sun could be without the earth's company, but the earth couldn't leave the sun's illumination, and it was like people…
The weak would lean towards the strong, and the strong would stick closer to the even stronger, and it would repeat like this over and over again.
Yuuki didn't know if he belonged to the true strong at this moment, but he was walking on the path to becoming the strongest, and this path was also a path that had no end, and there was no so-called end point, but everywhere was the end point.
"Hehehe, you didn't expect it, right, and this young lady would secretly follow."
Zhang Nian walked out from behind the tree after Yuuki had just left, and she was wearing short sleeves, shorts, and running shoes, and she was carrying a pink backpack on her back, and she displayed the lively temperament that a 16-year-old girl should have.
After thinking about it all night, Zhang Nian had still chosen to follow, because she would never grow if she stayed under her brother's protection, and she still wanted to help her brother, and become a person who could stand on her own;
Even if this road would be very difficult.
Looking at Yuuki's figure, Zhang Nian was just looking from afar, and she was following him.
Yuuki had naturally also sensed Zhang Nian, who was following him secretly behind him, but he didn't care too much, and she had the guts to follow him deep into Mount Everest, and anyway, only she would die at that time, and that was all.
The plane ticket that he had bought was for three o'clock tonight, and it would take close to five hours to fly, and he would arrive at around eight o'clock tomorrow morning.
There was no conversation all the way, and Yuuki didn't stop, and he walked for two hours before he walked out of this remote suburb where there weren't even any taxis, and it had exhausted Zhang Nian, who was carrying a backpack, and she cursed in her mouth, "Is this still a person? He walked for two hours, and he's carrying two bags, and he's not even breathing."
Seeing Yuuki sitting on the side of the road, Zhang Nian quickly walked forward, and sat down on the side as if they had met by chance, and she was very naturally familiar, and her chest was rising and falling sharply, and she said with a smile, "What a coincidence, it looks like we're going the same way."
"..."
Knowing that this guy would never admit that she was following him, Yuuki nodded and said, "Mm, what a coincidence, I'm going to Xizang."
"Aiya, then that's even more of a coincidence, and we're going the same way, and I'm also going there, and what time is your flight, and maybe we can meet on the same plane again."
After she had finished speaking, Zhang Nian then took out her phone, and looked at what times the flights from Beijing to Xizang were, and she was also somewhat panicking in her heart, and Mount Everest in Xizang was a restricted area, and what was he going there for, and was he going to find someone who had crossed all of China?
Wait…
She seemed to have heard her old brother talk about China's Four Great Forbidden Lands when he had been eavesdropping yesterday, and he had been talking to him, and he shouldn't be going to enter them, right…
"Is the person that you're looking for in XZ?"
Zhang Nian looked at Yuuki's black pupils, and she seemed to be worried that he was really going to enter the forbidden area, and although she didn't know what was inside the forbidden area, she instinctively felt that it would be very dangerous there.
"I'm not too sure, but I still have to go and look for him, and I can return to my country after I find him, or maybe I won't be able to find him at all."
Yuuki sensed that a car was driving over, and he got up and said, "You can follow me, but I have nothing to do with it if you die, after all, I have to face a Special Grade cursed spirit, and even if your brother takes care of me and gave me very important information, I won't risk my life to save you, and cherish your life and go and stay at a hotel, and you can continue to follow me after I'm done, and if I die in battle, then you can go home yourself."
"Where are you going?"
A taxi stopped steadily in front of Yuuki.
"Go to Beijing Airport."
Yuuki opened the back car door and said, and as soon as he sat in, the car body visibly sank, and it was because the 『Clay』 in Yuuki's bag was too heavy.
"Young man, I can't tell, but you're pretty heavy, and it's a bit expensive to go from here to Beijing Airport, and it'll be 120, including the money for the highway, and it'll be 80 if you're not in a hurry."
"I'm not in a hurry."
"Then it'll be 80, and you can give me the money when we get there."
The driver, who was sitting in the driver's seat, said jokingly, and looked at the girl, who was standing outside the window, and asked, "Aren't you getting in the car? Your brother has already gotten in, and I can wait on the side for a bit if you want to buy anything."
"He's not my brother."
Zhang Nian retorted, and she also didn't know if she should enter the taxi in front of her, and the Special Grade cursed spirit was something that she had only heard about from other people, and it was like that 『Night Parade of One Hundred Demons』 that had destroyed half of her brother's face, and if he didn't find that person on Mount Everest, would he go and exorcise that guy?
Moreover, did he really have the ability to exorcise the cursed spirit that had almost taken her brother's life? Would he die…
Unknowingly, she had still gotten into the taxi, and said arrogantly, "I'm not concerned about you, and we're just going the same way."
"Yes, yes, you're going the same way, and whatever you say."
Yuuki rolled his eyes, and turned his head and looked out the window, and he had already said what he should say, and whether she obeyed was all up to her, after all, his life was only in his own hands.
"Hehe, you two have a really good relationship."
The driver smiled, and then started the car and headed to Beijing Airport.
"It's not good at all, and I just want to go and see if he really has the strength to defeat something that my brother can't defeat."
Zhang Nian muttered to herself, and her voice was as small as mosquitoes, and her big copper-bell-like eyes would occasionally glance at Yuuki, who was on the side;
She doubted in her heart: Was he really only 16 years old? She had seen mature boys in her class, but they were the kind who were very good at talking, and they were very kind, and they didn't have any reckless and unthinking behavior, and they made people feel inexplicably reliable, and it was like her brother.
As for him…
He caused people to instinctively hate him, and his words pierced the heart with every sentence, but they were all the truth, and she couldn't refute them, but she also felt somewhat sad…
The words from last night and just now intertwined in Zhang Nian's mind, and he was becoming increasingly mysterious, and it caused people to want to tear open that layer of hazy veil, and go and see the him inside; beneath this real but seemingly incongruous face, what exactly was hidden?
And who was this Maki that he had mentioned, was she the person that he liked?
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