txolops Chapter 436 You Make Me Look at Your Face
Chapter 436 You Make Me Look at Your Face
As Mo Chengyue raised his right hand, the black hand outside the door stopped in front of the blood oath. Black water climbed up his torn sleeve, and the red patterns on his palm shone brightly in the dampness. Even the lightning marks hidden in the patterns were forced to emit tiny white light.
Shopkeeper Hu had already placed his hand on the white paper lampshade, preparing to extinguish the lamp, but when he saw that the shopkeeper's right hand had instead reached out, he almost fell towards the threshold.
Mo Chengyue gripped the Rain Flower Sword with his left hand, the hilt striking the end of the hook, instantly tightening the dry leaf thread that was catching the hem of her clothes.
"Don't move."
Shopkeeper Hu's knees slid a bit on the damp wooden board, and she hugged the small box in her arms back to her chest. The white paper lantern almost touched the talisman on the box lid.
"You're sending it out with your right hand."
"I saw it."
"You saw it and didn't hide?"
"There's no escaping it."
Manager Hu's face turned pale, and her voice was clenched tightly.
"Then I'll turn off the light."
"Wait for me to speak."
"You just said it would perish if it encountered a blood-stained post."
"It's not time for it to touch the blood ointment."
Mo Chengyue looked down at his raised right palm, stuffed half of the Tranquilizing Talisman under the cloth wrapped around the sword hilt with his left hand, and spoke with a bloodthirsty tone.
"It was my right hand that invited it to touch me."
Shopkeeper Hu tightened his grip on the box, causing the soul-sealing talisman inside to make a popping sound as it was squeezed.
"Yu Lin Hong?"
"Um."
"Is she trying to use the unlit boat to make ends meet?"
"She knows how to pick her time better than the red-light boat."
"Could you please stop praising her?"
"This is just me calling roll before I start holding a grudge."
The black hand outside the door had no palm prints, but its fingertips slowly spread out above the red patterns on the blood-stained talisman. Black liquid dripped from between its fingers, falling silently outside the threshold, leaving only a hollow boat-shaped mark on the talisman ash.
Manager Hu felt a chill run down his spine, but dared not look down for too long, so he could only stare at Mo Chengyue's left shoulder.
"Does your right hand still obey you?"
"I won't listen."
"Then why are you so calm?"
"I haven't quit my job with my left hand yet."
"Can the left hand control the right hand?"
"It's beyond our control."
Shopkeeper Hu was speechless. She wiped away the tears at the corners of her eyes with the back of her sleeve, preventing them from falling onto the small box.
"So what are you waiting for?"
"Wait for it to bite."
"Are you crazy?"
"Don't say such unlucky things, I'm just outsourcing."
Mo Chengyue held the Yuhua sword in his left hand, and gently moved the tip of the sword along the crack in the wooden board, revealing a section of dark red ash in the groove of the hook.
The ashes were neither bright nor smoked. After being smothered by the black water vapor, they shrank back and hid behind the hook groove. If it weren't for the white paper lamp shining at an angle, Manager Hu would not have been able to see that there was anything there.
Manager Hu glanced at it, then immediately looked away.
"What is that?"
"The leftover embers from burning Yulin Red."
"When did you hide it?"
"When my right hand was still under my control."
"Were you pretending you couldn't find the array hook just now?"
"It's not an act."
Mo Chengyue pressed the sword hilt down, and the end of the array hook bit into the wooden gap, squeezing out a line of white ash from the hook groove.
"I really couldn't find it; I only remembered it was still usable after I found it."
Manager Hu's lips moved, but he finally suppressed the urge to curse.
"Could you tell me the truth at a time that isn't scary?"
"The truth is usually scary."
"So you want Black Hand to bite you along the blood-stained bandage, and then shove Thunderfire into its mouth?"
"That's a rough way of putting it, but the meaning is roughly the same."
"What if it takes your shadow away first?"
"Then turn off the light."
"You've made me wait again."
"Because you are destroyed now, Ah Sui is weak first, the ship without lights may not retreat, and Yu Lin Hong will still laugh."
The old silver light inside the small box flickered slightly, and a girl's voice came from deep within the Soul-Sealing Talisman.
"Sis, don't move."
Shopkeeper Hu stopped resting her hand on the lampshade. She didn't lower her head, but instead pressed the small box tightly against her heart.
"Ah Sui, I'm not moving."
Mo Chengyue immediately spoke.
Don't reply too much.
Manager Hu gritted his teeth.
"I know."
The girl's voice inside the box was even softer.
"He's lying about the ship."
Mo Chengyue lowered his eyelids, smeared the blood and talisman ash together on the hilt of his sword with the pad of his left hand, and pressed them into the binding cloth.
"Miss Ah Sui, save your soul points, don't sabotage me."
Manager Hu hurriedly asked, "Is she right?"
"right."
"Then why didn't you say so sooner?"
"You should have told me you would look at my hands."
"Can't I even look at their hands?"
"Look, the light is off-center, so the shadow moves."
Shopkeeper Hu placed the white paper lamp to the side of the box, the light shining on her chest and the box lid, not falling to her feet.
I'm not watching it now.
"Don't look at the ship's nameplate."
"I didn't see it."
"Don't look at the black hand."
"I didn't see it."
"And don't look at my right hand."
"Is it alright if I look at your face?"
Mo Chengyue's lips twitched, blood smearing from his chin to his collar, preventing him from managing a complete smile.
"Charging based on facial features."
Manager Hu was so angry he wanted to curse, but at that moment the fingertips of the black hand outside the door pressed against the edge of the blood-stained patch.
The blood-stained inscription appeared first, followed by the dark hand. The red lines on Mo Chengyue's right arm climbed up his wrist bone, as if someone was dragging a pen to write words under his skin.
His left hand, which was gripping the hilt of his sword, suddenly exerted too much force, crushing half of the Cleansing Talisman into pieces with his fingertips. The ash fell into the cracks in the wood and was swept away by the black water vapor.
Manager Hu's expression changed.
"Mo Chengyue".
"Don't shout."
"It encountered it."
"Haven't taken a bite yet."
How did you know?
"I haven't been in enough pain."
Manager Hu swallowed back the words that were rising in his throat and spoke more steadily.
"What do you want me to do?"
"Don't tilt the light."
"Anything else?"
"The box must not leave your chest."
"besides?"
"You can criticize me, but don't criticize the ship."
Manager Hu was so speechless by his words that his eyes welled up with tears.
"If you get out of here alive, I'll give you a good dressing down."
"Keep the accounts in the books, but don't settle them now."
The black hand slowly closed its five fingers, and the fingertips finally pressed against the red pattern of the blood-stained talisman. The red light and black water vapor overlapped in Mo Chengyue's palm. Taking advantage of the situation, Yu Linhong's lingering resentment in the blood-stained talisman pushed it outward. The right hand actually turned its palm over and sent the red pattern deeper into the black hand.
Manager Hu's voice changed.
"She's pushing you."
"I can tell."
"Does she want the black ship to erase your shadow, and then use an empty shell to make up for it?"
"almost."
"You still let her push?"
"If she doesn't push, the black ship won't take hold."
"Mo Chengyue, your method is too risky."
"That's how cheap methods are."
The low thud of the tidal wood bearing the weight finally came from beneath the hull of the unlit boat. The original words on the boat's nameplate were washed away by the black water, and the blank nameplate faced Mo Chengyue's right palm.
The fingertips of the black hand pried inward from the edge of the blood-stained inscription, and the shadow under Mo Chengyue's feet was dragged out by a corner of the bow of the ship, sliding outward along the ash of the threshold talisman.
The lamp in Manager Hu's hand flickered, and she immediately used the back of her hand to protect the lampshade, bringing the light back to the front of the small box.
"Your shadow has gone out."
"see."
"Would you like to turn off the lights?"
"Wait a little longer."
"Still waiting?"
"It just took it in its mouth, it hasn't swallowed it yet."
Shopkeeper Hu bit his teeth so hard that he tasted blood.
"Can you please stop talking so disgustingly?"
"To put it another way, it was just signed for, but the money hasn't been credited to the account yet."
"Even worse."
Mo Chengyue pressed the Rain Flower Sword against the end of the array hook with his left hand, and the thunder and fire ash in the hook groove was forced out by the sword energy, and drilled into the dry leaf line below the threshold along the dark groove of the array hook.
The thread, originally used to pin Hu Zhanggui's clothes and shadow, was burned by the lightning and fire. It dimmed for a moment, then silently swam down the path of the black water that bit the real shadow towards the fingertips of the black finger.
Shopkeeper Hu noticed a white light appearing at the edge of the dried leaf and immediately looked away.
"Will that wire burn me?"
"Won't."
Are you sure?
"Even if you're unsure, you still have to say it this way."
"You deserve to have your account book thrown at you."
"The ledgers are already outside the door."