"Ghost!!!"
The girl's terrified scream rang out, continuing to spread into the distance.
It drew countless early-rising workers to glance over.
After seeing Levi's appearance, their eyes felt a bit sore, and they all turned their heads and continued on their way.
Those who could walk around the two of them tried their best to go around.
Those who couldn't go around lowered their heads, looking at the ground under their feet, staring straight ahead without glancing sideways.
"What are you screaming for!"
Qingque, who was trying to run away, was grabbed by Levi's arm. She steeled herself and was just about to fight to the bitter end when she suddenly heard a familiar voice.
The fear on her face disappeared, replaced by confusion and curiosity.
"Levi?"
She circled around him twice. Qingque didn't quite dare look at his face, afraid her eyes wouldn't withstand the appearance of an ancient god and explode on the spot.
At the same time, she was afraid of having nightmares at night and being left with a lifelong psychological shadow.
But judging by the same body shape alone, Qingque roughly confirmed the real identity of the person in front of her.
"It really is you!"
Qingque squinted sideways and reached out to pat his shoulder.
"What kind of outfit is this today? Did you lose a bet with someone yesterday?"
"Speaking of yesterday, what were you doing yesterday? Did you know something happened at the Alchemy Commission yesterday?"
'Yesterday?'
"Went to save the world."
He really did save a world, although the reason that world became like that seemed to have something to do with him…
As for what happened at the Alchemy Commission, Levi himself was the one who started it.
How could he not know.
Pulling Qingque along, he quickly walked deeper into the Divination Commission.
Because they had just experienced an invasion by the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus yesterday, there were basically no spies left inside the Divination Commission now.
So Levi could safely reveal his real face.
He washed off the makeup on his face with clean water, only to find that no matter how much he rubbed, it was useless.
After contacting Elysia he learned that special water was needed to remove it.
"So troublesome."
Levi muttered, holding the makeup remover Elysia sent him and slowly wiping away the colors on his face bit by bit.
Looking at Qingque in front of him, he said, "I'm a pretty famous person now. If I don't disguise myself when going out, I'll probably attract a lot of attention."
Qingque's mouth twitched.
She felt that Levi in that appearance attracted even more attention.
Although it gave the feeling of dripping chili water into your eyes, compared to Levi's original appearance, the disguised face was clearly more eye-catching.
Levi shrugged.
"As long as I'm not recognized it's fine."
Whether it was passersby or Disciples of Sanctus Medicus hidden among them, after seeing that appearance of his just now, they would definitely curse their bad luck in their hearts.
They wouldn't think further about it at all, and would even want to forget him faster.
After all, as long as they still remembered it in their heads, their eyes would feel phantom pain.
"Speaking of which." Levi very naturally wiped the water off his hands on Qingque's clothes, then looked at the heavy dark circles under her eyes and couldn't help asking, "Did you stay up all night playing cards?"
While talking with him, Qingque kept yawning.
Very obviously her mental state wasn't good right now.
Levi opened the jade communicator. "Let me check your transaction records."
"Huh?"
"Transaction records zero. You didn't stay up all night playing cards yesterday either, so why do you look like someone who stayed up all night cultivating immortality."
Realizing she had misheard, Qingque focused her attention a bit more.
After yawning, she waved her hand. "Don't mention it. Yesterday when I was about to get off work, because of the Alchemy Commission incident, Fu Xuan dragged me over to work overtime…"
'Worked overtime the whole night?'
Levi suddenly frowned. He didn't expect Fu Xuan to be such a black-hearted boss exploiting employees.
Resign... He had to resign.
Just as he made up his mind, Qingque's voice sounded again.
"But after I got there there was basically nothing for me to do. I just stood there for a while and then it was over."
Wasn't that just wasting her precious after-work time?
Of course this had nothing to do with why she ended up like this, since Fu Xuan didn't force her to work until dawn.
As for why she ended up like this.
Honestly, she didn't quite understand the reason herself.
Deep confusion appeared on Qingque's face.
It was like someone had cast some kind of spell on her. Every time she wanted to lie down in bed and sleep, her body would move uncontrollably toward outside, randomly finding a nearby bridge hole and crawling in to squat there.
But once she no longer intended to sleep, her body returned to her control.
The whole night, she wandered back and forth between her home and the bridge hole.
She simply couldn't sleep.
"Why didn't you just find a place to sleep under the bridge?"
"Under the bridge? You have no idea how lively it is down there!"
While speaking, Qingque seemed to remember something and suddenly looked at Levi with a strange expression.
"I seem to remember yesterday, didn't you say I should sleep under a bridge?"
At this moment Levi also remembered what happened yesterday.
He immediately realized that this was probably the contract causing trouble.
Even though he already had the answer in mind, Levi still showed a confused expression and said, "Did I?"
"How could you not!"
Qingque suddenly became excited. She felt like she had discovered the culprit.
"Alright alright, we're buddies! Why bother arguing about this!"
Hooking an arm around Qingque's shoulder, Levi laughed awkwardly. "Old Madam Fu Xuan sent me a message this morning telling me to hurry over and see her…"
Fu Xuan's figure immediately appeared in Qingque's mind.
"Qingque!"
Qingque shivered, then immediately pushed Levi away. "Then hurry up and go! And I'm telling you, don't use me as a cover!"
Hearing Qingque's words, Levi readily agreed and quickly ran toward Fu Xuan's location.
After confirming Qingque couldn't see him, he slowed down and walked leisurely.
By the time he found Fu Xuan, an hour had already passed.
Click!
The office door opened without any warning.
Fu Xuan, who was working, felt slightly dissatisfied when she heard the noise.
Not even knowing the basic courtesy of knocking. When did her Divination Commission become like this?
Fu Xuan looked up, slightly opening her mouth, just about to scold a few words.
After discovering it was Levi who came in, she silently closed her mouth again.
She didn't have many expectations for Levi and Qingque.
As long as they stayed at their posts, it was already like the Aeon's blessing.
She glanced at the time and realized it had been nearly an hour since she sent him the message.
Looking at Levi who was greeting her, she asked, "Why did you only come now?"
"Qingque held me up."
"..."
Fu Xuan fell silent.
If Qingque held him up, aside from playing cards and slacking off, what else could it be?
She took out her jade communicator and sent a message to the diviners under her command, telling them to check whether Qingque was in the archive.
Then she looked at Levi standing in front of her.
With both elbows resting on the desk and fingers interlocked in front of her, she stared at him with calm and serious eyes.
"Now talk to me about where you got yesterday's intelligence from…"
"..."
[🎉 Shoutout to Asriels, LN and Slashdog for joining p@treon. Thank you very much.🤗]