This Damned Thirst for Survival

Chapter 193 - You are not allowed to skip a word

Jiang Luo's spoon in his hand lurches as he continues to eat his meal uneventfully.

He vomited blood again this morning, and the pain from the vomiting still lingers today, making Jiang Luo's hand unable to hold his chopsticks, and he can only hold his spoon.

Jiang Luo eats slowly and intensely, because if he doesn't give his full attention, the hand holding the spoon trembles from the residual pain.

His self-improvement would not allow him to show such a weak side to others.

Daoist Master Wei He was excited, "Which mountain range is it?"

Ge Wuchen is dewy, his shoes are stained with mud, and his face is tired, as if he has travelled all day and night to get here. He smiles at Wei He, but does not answer, looking instead at Chi You.

The evil spirit Yu Guang looks at Jiang Luo, but Jiang Luo looks as if he has not heard Ge Wuchen's words, eating steadily, as if the bowl of rice in front of him is more important than the mountains that will keep him alive.

The face of the evil demon, who had been unpredictable in his moods for a few days, turned gloomy to the naked eye, the knife and fork in his fingers were twisted by the press, the evil demon put down the cutlery in his hands, took a handkerchief aside and wiped his hands gracefully, his thin lips curled up into a smile as if he was quite interested, "Yes, where is the mountain range? You have a good talk with Daoist Wei He. "

Ge Wuchen responded and unfolded the map in his hand in front of Daoist Master Wei He, pointing to a mountain range to the north and said, " The Dawu Mountain Dragon Vein, surrounded by mountains and water, is coiled into a reclining dragon position.

Daoist Master Wei He lowered his head to the map and carefully followed the course of the mountains. The mountain is the dragon's momentum and the water is the dragon's blood. In addition to these two things, one must also look at the mountain's earth, rocks, grass and trees, which are the dragon's flesh, bones and hair. In addition to the map, Ge Wuchen also took field photographs of Dawu Mountain. After looking at it for a while, Taoist Master Wei He nodded slowly, "This dragon vein, I think, can be used."

Ge Wuchen looked at Jiang Luo in a submissive manner, "What do you think, Master Jiang?"

Jiang Luo said calmly, " If Daoist Master Wei He thinks it will work, then it will work."

Ge Wuchen, looking at his master's increasingly gloomy face, can only find something to say to make Jiang Luo talk, trying to make Chi You feel better.

He had actually returned last night, but as soon as he did, Liao Si told him that his master and Jiang Luo had had a fight. In order to keep his master's mood from getting worse, Ge Wuchen chose to report the news at breakfast time, hoping that Jiang Luo would be happier when he got the news about the dragon veins and make up with his master again.

But after asking a few questions, Jiang Luo either did not answer or just said a few words, his expression remained indifferent. Ge Wuchen couldn't take any more questions, and in the awkward silence, Taoist Master Wei He stepped forward and said seriously, "Jiang Luo's health cannot be delayed any longer, and since we have found the Dragon Vein, we had better leave for Dawu Mountain in the next two days.

The evil spirit threw his handkerchief heavily on the table and said with an expressionless face, "We leave tomorrow."

Jiang Luo got up and went back to his room straight after he had said this.

He sent Wen Renlian the information about the Dawu Mountain dragon vein and asked him to take his department to search the mountain for information on any dangers. After making sure Wen Renlian had received the message, Jiang Luo deleted the message and searched the internet for information on Dawu Mountain.

After a while, Ge Wuchen knocked on the door of his room, "Master Jiang, may I come in and have a chat with you?"

Jiang Luo said lazily, "Come in."

Ge Wuchen pushes open the door and as soon as he walks in he sees the doorway littered with broken glass and a vase that has been here for days.

Jiang Luo was sitting at the table, smoking a cigarette, looking calm, with no sign of anger or rage.

Ge Wuchen closed the door and walked over, smiling, "Master Jiang, I heard you had a quarrel with your master?"

Jiang Luo laughed and downplayed the nature of the outburst a few days earlier, "On purpose."

Ge Wuchen was not surprised to hear this, but rather expected it. He knew that Jiang Luo was a sensible and calm person who had a purpose for everything he did, and that the previous argument must have been a deliberate attempt to get something out of him. Ge Wuchen easily believed Jiang Luo's words and relaxed a little when he realised the fight was fake, jokingly saying, "What did you argue about? It took the others by surprise."

Jiang Luo exhaled a puff of smoke and said indifferently, "A little something."

Ge Wuchen was noncommittal as he tore the Buddha beads from his hand and flicked them on the floor, where they moved on their own and ran to the four corners of the room. Ge Wuchen said, "Master Jiang, our conversation now will not be overheard by the master."

Jiang Luo laughed twice instead, " Ge Wuchen, why have you become stupid after a trip? You're being completely redundant. You think he won't know you've come into my room? He's got both eyes on you, and when you do that, it's clear that there's something going on between us."

But he sent the cigarette into his mouth the next second, put away his smile and said diffidently, "But I don't care. Say, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Ge Wuchen was prepared to deal with this when he did so. He smiled equally calmly and said, "Master Jiang, the words you left for your master last time did me in, and seeing how pitiful I am, why don't you and I settle our previous grudge? Although I have lied to you, I have the same goal as you."

As he said that, he couldn't help but get a little excited, "Master Jiang, you've done better than I thought you would, the master can't let you go at all. You just had a fight with him and ignored him for a few days, do you know what he's become? Basically anyone can see how annoyed he is! I've never seen such a human side to him ...... Jiang Luo, you're so good, you've got him completely under control, in time you could definitely make him give up on a future like that."

Jiang Luo listens quietly, his feet crossed on the table, his mouth chewing on his cigarette. Ge Wuchen's tone is infectious, but his excitement only emphasises the calmness of Jiang Luo's face.

There were no windows in the room, only incandescent lights overhead, and Ge Wuchen, propped up on the edge of the table after his excitement, his breathing quickening as he repeated, as if brainwashed, " Jiang Luo, only you can avoid that future."

Jiang Luo suddenly smiled a mocking smile, "You think I can get Chi You to give up the idea of destroying the metaphysical community for me?"

Ge Wuchen nodded.

Jiang Luo shakes his cigarette exaggeratedly, "Don't be silly, Ge Wuchen, it's impossible."

He shrugged, "My aim is indeed the same as yours, but the means I will use are not the same as yours. I have already absorbed half of the power of the predestined man, Wei He Daoist also said that I could also become a false god after quenching my body. I can just overpower him with force, you know? Beat him up until he dares not turn human society into a demon again, that's my way."

Ge Wuchen frowned and looked at Jiang Luo oddly, "Suppressing by force? Jiang Luo, are you kidding me?"

Jiang Luo tugged his lips up, " Ge Wuchen, my goal and yours are the same but a little different. He and I both know that I don't care how many of the Six Families he wants to kill, it's up to him how he wants to toss the occult community. The world of occultism has been rotten to the bone for a long time, and it's none of my business even if he stirs it up. On the contrary, if the world is in chaos, we at the Research Council can take over. I will not protect the six families, even the Jokhang Temple, after all, why should I stop them from taking revenge? But if he wants to use ghosts and monsters to rule the metaphysical community and pull it down together and disrupt the normal social order, then I will take my measures."

Ge Wuchen sensed that something was wrong. Jiang Luo's businesslike indifference was a little different from before, and he said keenly, "Even by force, the predestined could not stop him, so how did you stop him?"

When Jiang Luo did not wait for Jiang Luo to say anything, Ge Wuchen immediately advised again, " Jiang Luo, if you want, the master will definitely give up the idea of destroying the whole arcane world for you to take revenge, isn't this much better than using force? I don't mean to discourage you, but the Fates are powerless against him, and even if you become a god, you can't help him."

Ge Wuchen was a little anxious and Jiang Luo wondered if his anxiety was genuine or a feigned emotion as he took a slow drag on his cigarette and asked rhetorically, " Ge Wuchen, do you think I am important to him?"

Ge Wuchen nodded without hesitation and said firmly, "You are a unique being to him."

A year ago, Ge Wuchen would never have believed he would have said such a thing. Chi You would care about a person? Don't be ridiculous, it's not possible. But a year later, the impossible has become possible, and Ge Wuchen says it with absolute certainty. He can even guarantee on his life that Chi You cares about Jiang Luo more than 'important'.

It was a deeper meaning that Ge Wuchen did not dare to think about, but which he had a vague sense of.

Ge Wuchen spent five years at Chi You's side, five years long enough to realise just how cruel and dark Chi You's nature was. Chi You's special treatment of Jiang Luo succeeded in igniting Ge Wuchen's hopes, probably without Jiang Luo himself knowing what kind of gold Chi You's special treatment of him represented.

He said bluntly, " Jiang Luo, you may not see it clearly from where you are, but your influence over him is so great that we all can't believe it."

He even suspects that Chi You ...... has more than a crush on Jiang Luo.

Jiang Luo's eyes didn't even move as he continued to ask without a ripple, "What kind of person do you think I am?"

Ge Wuchen mused for a moment, "Decisive, calm, impulsive and risky."

These two sets of adjectives are completely contradictory, but Jiang Luo himself is a contradictory man. He repeatedly tested his sanity on the edge of life and death, and no one can say whether he was sensible or impulsive when he made these moves.

Jiang Luo turns his head sideways and looks at the windowless wall, which he tries to imagine has an extra window in it, and he is looking out of it.

Ge Wuchen is right, he is one of those people. Jiang Luo's upper ego jumps wildly through his cerebral cortex when he faces Chi You, making him always bold and desperate when he faces Chi You.

He longs to conquer the evil spirit and delights in it for the sake of its fascination.

But Jiang Luo is seldom really angry.

But he was genuinely angry when he argued with Chi You.

The anger came with such haste and frenzy that Jiang Luo could barely contain himself. At the beginning, he had only been casually testing a question he didn't care about in a joking tone.

Jiang Luo thought deeply about it afterwards, but he couldn't figure out what he was angry about. He texted Wen Renlian and decided to leave Chi You's side once his body had been hardened, as Jiang Luo didn't want to see himself lose control again.

How strange.

He had always insisted on using his strength to get Chi You to give up that idea, so why did he say something about threatening Chi You with himself that night?

What was he thinking? What kind of feelings did he have? Why was he so impulsive?

Was it Chi You's attitude towards him that made him lose his normal judgement.

And what was Chi You thinking?

He knew exactly what Jiang Luo meant, he remembered exactly what Jiang Luo had said to him in his dream. He knew that Jiang Luo would not care about his revenge on the occult community, that Jiang Luo would not care about anything he did as long as it did not affect Jiang Luo's friends or normal society.

But even though he knew that, and knew that Jiang Luo had warned him against the ghostly rampage, he didn't want to change anything because of Jiang Luo.

What a normal thing to do.

The more he thought about it, the more puzzled he became, and Jiang Luo himself did not even know why he was so angry.

How inexplicable.

It was as if he still had the unpleasant feeling of a clenching heart because of it.

Jiang Luo came back to his senses, he snorted and tucked his legs back on the table, his cigarette pressed into the ashtray, " Ge Wuchen, how you made the same mistake as I did."

Ge Wuchen: "What?"

Jiang Luo raised an eyebrow and said slowly, "How can an evil spirit give up what he has always wanted because of his feelings."

"Don't think too much about it," he advised in turn, " Chi You's been in a bad mood for a few days purely because I've been arguing with him to disgrace him and he can't kill me, so it's just so hard to watch. I had no reason to quarrel with him but because I wanted to break off my lover's relationship with him. Chi You is such a dangerous evil spirit, I have to let him wear out his feelings for me. When he has worn out enough and realizes that I am nothing to him, the two of us will definitely break up peacefully and we will not cross the river in the future. But don't worry, as long as he commits a crime, I'll definitely do the right thing."

That's right, it's gone after a while. Jiang Luo thought.

When he finished, Jiang Luo was a little disinterested, he looked down and picked up the pen on his desk, "You've been in for five minutes, it's time to go."

*

Ge Wuchen leaves Jiang Luo's room.

He had just closed the door and taken two steps when there was an abrupt blackness before his eyes and he was caught in a black mist before the evil spirit.

There were no lights on in the room, and the figure of the evil spirit was even darker than the darkness, his cold, hard jawline outlined in the darkness, his aura so gloomy and uncertain that it was frightening.

"What did he tell you."

The evil spirit's voice is raspy with blood and suppressed violence.

A cold sweat broke out at the corner of Ge Wuchen's forehead. He had been prepared to face Chi You, but it was still a bit frightening to be caught off guard.

"Amitabha Buddha, Master, Master Jiang he-"

The evil spirit interrupted him and a hideous black mist spread across the room in an instant, transforming into a single sharp clawed tooth aimed at Ge Wuchen.

The evil spirit said coldly, "Think carefully before you say, Ge Wuchen, you are not allowed to skip a word."