The Female Lead is Looking at Me Differently (GL) - Chapter 45.2

The white clouds drifted past her fingertips, like soft cotton candy or slowly flowing white sand.

Her fingers measured the slippery silk ribbon, inch by inch, caressing the comfortable silk, as if she could tailor it into clothes that fit her perfectly.

The seawater that lapped against the shore occasionally rushed onto the beach and then slowly receded, leaving behind only a few sparkling watermarks illuminated by the sunlight.

On the fine white sand, a hermit crab was crawling slowly, but no matter how hard it tried, it couldn’t reach the end, couldn’t reach the peak.

At this moment, another wave came crashing in, carrying with it the sound of the waves and something else.

In the sound of the water and the seawater, a hand pressed against hers, helping her move.

A drop of sweat fell from her cheek, landing on Fu Yu’s neck, and then slowly slid down.

Then, the waves crashed onto the shore.

Fu Yu raised her head, her Adam’s apple bobbing.

Wen Zhao couldn’t help but close her eyes. After a moment, she lowered her head and gently kissed Fu Yu’s neck.

••••

After everything was over, Fu Yu fell asleep again, but compared to her previous state, her body temperature had returned to normal. All that was left was to go to Lotus Platform and have Xie Ting help remove the icy poison.

Because the situation was special and there was no hot water to be found, Wen Zhao simply took a clean cloth and wiped them both down. Then, she changed her clothes and got out of bed.

The blush on Wen Zhao’s face had not faded. Her eyelashes trembled slightly as she tried hard to suppress the urge to recall what had just happened and the various expressions Fu Yu had shown because of her actions.

She finally tucked Fu Yu in and took a deep breath before getting up and leaving.

Wen Zhao quickly found You Zixia and the others. They hadn’t gone far but had gone to a nearby room to investigate.

However, this time, instead of investigating the formation set up in their room, they were investigating the other guests who had died tragically in the next room.

When Wen Zhao walked over, the three of them were each examining the situation in the room.

And on the bed in the middle of this guest room, a middle-aged man was already dead.

Of course, the other guest rooms were in the same situation, the only difference being the deceased person.

It was obvious that other guests had also stayed in this inn, and although it was unclear where they had come from, they were all now dead, killed with a single, swift sword through the throat.

There weren’t many sword cultivators with such a high level of cultivation. And what kind of person, who could do this without attracting attention, would have any reason to kill the others?

Most importantly, none of the sword cultivators in the story had a grudge against the Fu family or Fu Yu.

Wen Zhao frowned slightly, unable to understand.

After seeing Wen Zhao come over, Zhan Fu greeted her first, “A Zhao, you’re here.” She briefly explained the situation, “We’ve just checked our own room, and apart from the broken formation talisman, we haven’t found anything else, so we turned to investigate these murdered people.”

Wen Zhao nodded, she slightly covered her nose, and lowered her eyes to observe the situation, “So, have you found anything?”

Zhan Fu shook her head, her brow furrowed, her expression slightly serious. Then she asked Wen Zhao, “By the way, is everything settled on your end?”

Wen Zhao knew what she was referring to. Her eyelashes fluttered, and then she said calmly, “Yes.”

Zhan Fu nodded and didn’t say anything more, just sighed and said, “We can stay here at most for five days. If we still haven’t found anything, then it’s better to rush to Lotus Platform as soon as possible.”

Wen Zhao also agreed with Zhan Fu’s suggestion.

Then You Zixia came over. At this moment, he had simply tidied up his appearance and was no longer so dusty.

“No, there’s still nothing. Judging from the wounds alone, it’s impossible to tell. It seems we can only wait for other forces to come and solve this…”

Zhan Fu didn’t say anything when she heard this.

Wen Zhao, however, was a little thoughtful.

For some reason, she felt a strange sense of familiarity about all this.

Thinking about this, Wen Zhao’s heart moved slightly.

Then she asked You Zixia, “Senior brother, which other guest rooms have experienced the same thing?”

You Zixia looked at her in confusion, but at the same time, he didn’t hesitate to tell Wen Zhao the room numbers of the guest rooms.

Wen Zhao frowned slightly, then picked up the hand-held lantern next to her and walked out directly.

“Hey, Junior sister?” You Zixia called out in surprise and confusion.

Then, the three behind her followed.

You Zixia asked her, “Did you discover something?”

Wen Zhao pursed her lips and didn’t answer him. Because she really didn’t know what to answer. After all, she hadn’t discovered anything. The reason she was so eager to act now was just to verify some things and to explore why she felt a strange sense of familiarity with these scenes, as if it was a scene that had happened before.

This feeling was like arriving at a place she had never been before, but vaguely feeling as if she had dreamed of it before.

Wen Zhao pinched the palm of her hand and walked quickly, checking every guest room one by one.

Open the door, check, then exit, and then go to the next one.

Wen Zhao walked the entire way without saying a word, her jaw clenched tightly. The three behind her didn’t make any sound to stop her, they just followed behind Wen Zhao, quietly accompanying her.

Towards the end, Wen Zhao’s breathing became slightly unsteady.

When she pushed open the last door, Wen Zhao felt a moment of dizziness. She supported herself on the doorframe with one hand, and the other hand holding the lantern trembled slightly.

The light flickered, casting shadows, and seeing the large expanse of bl00d red in front of her, Wen Zhao’s vision blurred for a moment.

At that moment, the scene in front of her seemed to shift slightly.

——As if she was no longer in a guest room but in a wilderness, with a cold wind blowing past her, causing her to tremble. She could faintly hear the ominous cawing of crows, one after another, as if telling her that this place had become a dead land. In front of her were piles of corpses, covered in a large amount of bl00d.

Wen Zhao closed her eyes tightly.

At this moment, that familiar feeling reached its peak.

[The bl00d moon hung high, and the cold wind howled. The bodies of her clansmen lay before her, their eyes wide open in death, their faces contorted; countless streams of bl00d flowed from beneath them, gathering into a stream that soaked Fu Yu’s feet; a thick, foul smell of bl00d wafted in her nose, and in her ears were the mournful cries of crows. They lay in pools of bl00d, all with their throats slit open by a single sword.]

Wen Zhao suddenly opened her eyes, her pupils constricted, and her pupils trembled.

She couldn’t help but grab the front of her clothes and breathed rapidly.

“Junior sister?!”

You Zixia came to her side and supported her worriedly.

Lu Bicai frowned, then squatted down and waved her hand in front of Wen Zhao’s face. A refreshing scent of mint spread out, and Wen Zhao’s eyes moved, and she came to her senses.

She supported herself on the ground with one hand and retched a couple of times, then coughed violently.

Zhan Fu frowned and walked over, asking worriedly, “What’s going on?”

Lu Bicai looked at her, then thought for a moment and replied, “There must be something.”

You Zixia looked up puzzled, “What?”

Lu Bicai looked at Zhan Fu, “Your sense of smell is so sensitive, why don’t you smell it? Behind this strong smell of bl00d, is there something else hidden?”

Zhan Fu looked up and sniffed lightly, but because the smell of bl00d was so strong here, she couldn’t tell for a while.

At this time, You Zixia patted Wen Zhao’s back and asked, “Junior sister, are you feeling better?”

I’m fine, Senior brother,” Wen Zhao replied, her voice hoarse as she stopped coughing.

A tear glistened in the corner of her eye. After pulling herself out of that almost delusional state, Wen Zhao finally calmed down. But even so, her heart was still pounding wildly.

Wen Zhao slightly loosened her clenched fist and took a shallow breath.

Her forehead was covered in cold sweat, as if she had been terrified.

You Zixia was a little worried, “What happened to you just now?”

At this moment, Zhan Fu said, “Although I can’t smell what it is, it feels like something like pollen?”

Lu Bicai narrowed her eyes, “It’s the pollen of the Heart Demon Flower”.

Hearing this name, Wen Zhao’s eyebrows jumped.

There was no other reason, only because this thing had also appeared once in the original story.

In the latter part of the plot, when Fu Yu went to the abyss, she was plotted against by the villain and inhaled the pollen of the Heart Demon Flower. Then, the other party deliberately created a scene similar to the night of the Fu family’s extermination for Fu Yu, in order to make Fu Yu emotionally agitated, integrate the pollen into her body, and thus stimulate her heart demon, causing it to enter her body.

Thinking about it now… wasn’t it exactly the same as the current scene?

Only the location had changed, and the premise had set up different challenges for them, trapping them in the formation, so that Wen Zhao hadn’t thought of this aspect for a while.

And the reason why she felt familiar with these scenes just now was because she subconsciously recalled the description of the night of the extermination in the book, so…

The pollen of the Heart Demon Flower could be inhaled by anyone, but it would only work when the inhaler was in a state of great emotional excitement. Otherwise, after a short while, the pollen would automatically metabolize out of the body.

And among the few of them, only Wen Zhao met this condition, so she had almost gone into a demonic state just now. It was only because she hadn’t become overly agitated and her cultivation was too weak that the pollen hadn’t had time to merge with her bl00d and was awakened by Lu Bicai, so she had escaped this disaster.

If the person who had witnessed this had been Fu Yu…

Stimulated by so many scenes, she would definitely have thought of what happened on the night of the clan’s extermination, and thus—

Thinking of this, Wen Zhao couldn’t help but pinch her fingertips.

Fortunately, it wasn’t Fu Yu.

The person who set this trap obviously didn’t just want to trap them with the formation, but had a ulterior motive. Therefore, this trap was aimed at Fu Yu.

But they definitely didn’t expect that Fu Yu would fall into a deep sleep due to the icy poison in order to save Wen Zhao, thus rendering the Heart Demon Flower pollen useless.”

Wen Zhao said, “Senior brother, don’t you think these scenes are very familiar…”

You Zixia frowned, with a hint of solemnity and surprise, “Hmm? What do you mean by familiar?”

Wen Zhao said slowly, “According to the rumors, the night the Fu family was exterminated, it seemed to be a similar scene…” She pointed to the sword wounds, “A fatal blow, leaving only an inch-long wound, bl00d gushing out, bl00d forming a stream; no matter how you look at it, this is something that only a great sword cultivator can achieve. Besides the real culprit, who else… can do something like this?”

What Wen Zhao couldn’t understand was that in the original story, that person was clearly willing to tell Fu Yu and let her go to the abyss to find him. Similarly, in the current plot they were in, and judging from Xie Ting’s reaction, the clue she wanted to tell Fu Yu should also be this. So this means that person wasn’t afraid of Fu Yu finding him. But why would he do something like this halfway through?

Wen Zhao didn’t understand.

After hearing Wen Zhao’s words, You Zixia couldn’t help but gasp.

Then, Lu Bicai and Zhan Fu also frowned.

Wen Zhao slowly told them her guess.

After the initial surprise, Zhan Fu quickly regained her composure, “In other words, the other party wants Fu Yu to become demonic? I don’t know why, but he didn’t, wasn’t willing, or didn’t want to kill Fu Yu and eliminate the threat forever?”

Wen Zhao also frowned.

For them, who knew nothing at present, they were faced only with endless difficulties and mist.

Then, You Zixia quickly drew a talisman, and then a flash of black and red demonic energy.

You Zixia’s expression was tense, “Sure enough, it’s demonic energy…”

For many years, there had been no demonic cultivators for a long time, and only once had they seen their figures, and that was on the night of the Fu family’s extermination.

And now, they had appeared again.

A/N: “Wow, a little cutie actually guessed my plan!! Are you a prophet?”

“I cooked the vegetarian dish so badly (aba aba)”

“I wonder if anyone noticed the little detail”

“Although it seems like Wen Zhao is the attacker on the surface, it’s actually Fu Yu who’s attacking (?)”

“By the way, I don’t think this counts as the main character being attacked either”