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Chapter 124: Exploring information

"Aren't you going to training today?"

Qiu Puyue sat on the bed, holding the toothbrush in her mouth and pinching the metal ball, a little surprised. Qin Xiao's voice came from the ball.

"Well, I went over there and took a look. There were too many people."

"Then where are we going?" Qiu Puyue frowned, ran to the bathroom, spat, and rinsed her mouth.

"I'll come find you first." Qin Xiao said, and the lights went out.

Qiu Puryue washed up and looked at the man who was already dressed and sitting on the sofa next to her, looking at the spirit screen.

"Any news?" Qiu Puryue asked, sitting down opposite him.

"I saw some news." Yin Xihui flicked his finger and turned a page. "What's your opponent's name?"

"Hmm... her name seems to be Feng Rutang." Qiu Puryue recalled the drawing yesterday, "She is a girl who looks to be in her twenties."

"Oh?" Yin Xi raised his eyebrows, seeming a little surprised.

Qiu Puryue saw this and didn't understand why: "What's wrong? Is there anything special about her?"

"You don't know?" Yin Xi looked at her, "She is also from Lei Ting."

Qiu Puryue: “…Oh?”

"I remember that she seemed to be quite strong." Yin Xi smiled, "It's a pity that she lost to Liu Qingfeng in the second round."

"Really..." Qiu Puryue nodded slightly, rolled her eyes, and pointed at herself tentatively, "Then what do you think... about me and her——"

"Not really." Yin Xihui shook his head decisively without any hesitation.

Qiu Puryue: ...

……

"Feng Rutang?" Qin Xiao walked in carrying the breakfast he brought for them, looked at Yu Jin who had just returned from his meal, and greeted him, "Hello."

Yu Jin looked at Qin Xiao, whose expression was calm, and suddenly, for some reason, his whole body trembled. With a complicated expression, he nodded at him.

Qiu Puryue rubbed her hands and stared at the breakfast Qin Xiao brought with anticipation.

Qin Xiao brought two bowls of sweet porridge and a few bags of buns. Breaking open the fragrant and soft outer skin, you can see the tempting, shiny fillings. When you take a bite, the aroma overflows, and the fresh and fragrant smell fills your entire mouth.

"Delicious, delicious..." Qiu Puryue squinted her eyes in satisfaction and took big bites of the meat bun. She almost choked and quickly took a mouthful of the warm sweet porridge. "Where did you buy it? It's delicious."

"The fifth one on Central Street." Qin Xiao glanced at Mo Hanyu who was sitting next to him, "He recommended me to go there."

"Because I saw a lot of people queuing up before, I thought it should taste good." Mo Hanyu smiled, leaned back slightly, and leaned on the back of the chair, "How is it?"

"Hmm!" Qiu Puryue's eyes lit up, "It's delicious."

Seeing her showing such support, Mo Hanyu couldn't help but chuckle and looked at Yin Xihui: "What do you think?"

"Not bad." Yin Xihui nodded, whispering the stirred porridge, and brought the topic back to the topic, "Feng Rutang is also a well-known figure in our place. She is now in her fifties, but she still maintains this image--"

"Over fifty?!" Qiu Puryue's eyes widened in astonishment, "But when I saw her before... she was clearly only in her early twenties."

"So I'm saying that she can still maintain this image today because she has a very high level of cultivation. I watched her match with Liu Qingfeng, and I can only say that there are always people better than you. Although I don't know if she used her full strength, the strength she showed is worthy of recognition."

Yin Xihui was suddenly interrupted, but he was not angry and continued speaking slowly.

"How many rounds do you have left?"

"Didn't I tell you, three games..." Qiu Puryue sighed and looked a little distressed when talking about this.

"Do we have to play three more games, or win three games?" Qin Xiao asked.

"Win." Mo Hanyu glanced at him and replied, "Now she has one win and one loss. If she loses this time, even if she wins the next one, she will have to play an extra game - the extra game should not be counted in the three games."

"It's like this." Qiu Puryue said with a bitter face, "It's so troublesome... If you don't want to play a tiebreaker, you have to win two games in a row. It starts today. My game will be in the afternoon of two days later."

“If I win three games in a row, I can still make it to the top 16 even if I lose the rest.” Thinking about winning, Qiu Puryue felt the steamed bun in her hand no longer smelled so good.

"So what are you going to do after you get in?" Qin Xiao asked.

"After sneaking in?" Qiu Puryue was stunned, then smiled brilliantly, "I will admit defeat after the lot is drawn."

Qin Xiao: ...

"It must be so painful for those who haven't entered to see it like this." Mo Hanyu smiled.

"It's hard to say right now." Yin Xihui brought them back to reality, "Feng Rutang is very strong."

"Yeah, what should we do?" Qiu Puryue frowned and lowered her head to drink porridge for a while. Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind. She raised her head suddenly with shining eyes, "Then how about we make sure she can't play in the game before the game?"

Qin Xiao: ...

Mo Hanyu: ...

"Wake up." Yin Xihui slapped her on the head and sighed, "If it's really that easy for you to do it, why would Yuhua hold the competition?"

“…Oh.” Qiu Puryue had no choice but to lower her head dejectedly and continue eating.

"You don't have to do anything to her, right?" Qin Xiao said, "Can't we put something in her food before the game to make her feel sick?"

When Qiu Purue heard what he said, hope was rekindled: "Yes, I said -"

"She brought a special team with her this time." Yin Xihui once again ruthlessly broke her fantasy. "They have their own people to take care of all the food and drinks. They even go out to play with two high-level monsters. You don't stand a chance."

Qiu Puryue: ...

"Also, someone may be following you recently, so be careful." Yin Xihui glanced at her and reminded her, "They also have people observing the opponents over there, and they may very likely target you in the next two days."

“...Oh.” Qiu Puryue nodded honestly.

Mo Hanyu suddenly thought of something: "Where is Taotie?"

"Ah?" Qiu Purue was stunned, "Isn't he with Qiongqi?"

Qin Xiao paused and looked at her suddenly: "When did you say he was with Qiongqi? I haven't seen him."

Qiu Puryue: ...

Yin Xihui slowly sat up straight.

Several people looked at each other, and the atmosphere became increasingly silent.

"I'll go look for it." Qin Xiao suddenly stood up and turned around to go out to look for it.

"What are you looking for?"

Taotie's lazy voice suddenly came from above their heads. They looked up at the sky and found that Taotie had sat on the railing on the second floor and was looking at them lazily.

"...I was scared to death." Qiu Puryue breathed a sigh of relief and patted his chest.

"...Look at you guys." Taotie looked at her with disdain, jumped down, and walked over leisurely, "You slept for the past two days, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, I just haven't seen you for two days and I missed you a little." Yin Xihui said with a smile.

"Come on." Taotie sneered at his statement, "Aren't you just afraid that I will go out and eat people randomly? You speak as if it were true..."

Yin Xihui: ...

Quite self-aware.

"What's wrong? Are you in trouble?" Taotie raised his eyebrows and stared at Qiu Puryue with a crooked smile.

"No, it's about the competition." Qiu Puryue rubbed her eyebrows, looked at the remaining buns on the table, and looked at Yin Xihui, "You don't want to eat anymore?"

As soon as Yin Xihui made eye contact, he knew what she wanted to do. He smiled helplessly and pushed the bun to her: "You eat it."

Qiu Puyue smiled when she heard that and took it happily.

Qin Xiao glanced back and forth between the two of them, and suddenly asked Yin Xihui: "How many meals a day do you go hungry when you follow her?"

Qiu Puryue:……?

Qiu Puyue looked at Qin Xiao in disbelief: "What are you talking about?!"

Yin Xihui felt helpless and amused after hearing this, and wanted to say something for her: "No—"

"I saw you eat two just now." Qin Xiao looked at him, "Qin Jiuyuan can eat four of these buns."

Yin Xihui: ...

Mo Hanyu couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Qiu Puyue's face suddenly turned red. She looked at Yin Xihui, stuffed the bag of buns into his hand again, and ate the only few buns left in the bag herself.

"...There's no need to do this." Yin Xihui was helpless, "By the way, who is Qin Jiuyuan?"

"My sister." Qin Xiao said, looking at Taotie, "She didn't come this time. She said she wanted to play with her friends."

"Really?" Yin Xihui was a little surprised. "How many brothers and sisters do you have?"

"Four." Qin Xiao didn't think there was anything to hide. "What's wrong?"

"No, it's nothing."

"Yu Yunhao told me yesterday that your brother and Xu Junyi have a good relationship." Qiu Puryue suddenly spoke up, with a bun stuffed in her mouth, and said with a bulging voice.

"Yu Yunhao?" Mo Hanyu frowned.

Seeing that no one paid attention to him, Taotie was about to get angry, but Mo Hanyu took out a large bag of dried fish from his ring, and Taotie sat down.

"Yeah." Qiu Puryue nodded, thinking of what Yin Xihui said to her yesterday, she glanced at Qin Xiao and told him about it, "...Is he trying to instigate something?"

Qin Xiao twitched his lips when he heard her question: "Isn't this already obvious?"

Qiu Puyue met his eyes and immediately understood, saying "Oh" twice.

"I don't know what he wants to do." Yin Xi frowned and glanced at Taotie gloomily, "It's better not to kill the opponent's monsters casually during the game. It's easy to make enemies."

"Really?" Qiu Puryue was stunned and blinked.

Yin Xihui nodded.

"It's very simple. For most of their demon tamers, magical beasts are basically their friends. If you kill a magical beast, it is basically equivalent to killing their partner. Some extreme cases may even lead to a fight to the death." Seeing that Qiu Puyue didn't quite understand, Mo Hanyu explained to her.

"But the rules of the competition are not—"

"Rules are one thing, and human nature is another." Qin Xiao said calmly, "It's better to leave a way out when doing things."

Hearing this, Qiu Puryue nodded thoughtfully and glanced at Taotie.

"Why are you looking at me?" This look caused Taotie to be dissatisfied. "I only ate one, and you guys just couldn't beat it. Why are you looking at me like that?"

Qiu Puyue lowered her head silently and said nothing.

"By the way, wasn't Liu Qingfeng playing against her in the last game? You can go ask him." Qin Xiao thought of something.

"Ah? It's not very convenient..." Qiu Puryue hesitated.

"Isn't this nothing?" Qin Xiao was puzzled. "Just asking about her monsters or something."

Qiu Puryue pursed her lips and looked at Yin Xihui, wanting to see his expression.

He didn't seem to like being too close to Liu Qingfeng...

"I think it's okay." Yin Xihui nodded in agreement, "You can go and find out first. It's only two days anyway."

"When is Liu Qingfeng's competition?"

Qiu Puyue was stunned when she suddenly heard Yin Xihui's question, and then replied: "Same day as me, in the morning."

Yin Xihui nodded: "It just so happens that he doesn't have a game today. Don't you have a way to contact him? Do you want to ask him?"

Qiu Purue stared at his face. Perhaps because she had been staring at him for too long, Yin Xihui showed a puzzled look on his face.

Qiu Purue retracted her gaze, confirmed that he was no longer as gloomy as before, and nodded: "Okay, then I'll go ask him today."

"Then these two days..." Qin Xiao seemed to have thought of something, frowning and looking a little conflicted.

"What's wrong?" Qiu Puryue was puzzled. "Is it a problem with the venue?"

Qin Xiao nodded: "Yes, there are some... Or you should practice more in the next two days, and then find out about her characteristics and do some training for her, how about that?"

"Sure." Qiu Puryue had no objection.

After making the decision, Qiu Puryue quickly finished her breakfast, wiped her mouth, took out the ring given by Liu Qingfeng, injected Qi into it, and waited for the other party's response.

The flashing light of the ring suddenly paused, then stopped flashing and began to emit light continuously.

"Hello?" Liu Qingfeng's steady voice came from the ring, "Are you that child?"

"Yes... yes." Qiu Puryue was a little nervous. Qin Xiao and the others were still sitting next to them, listening to their conversation. "My name is Qiu Puryue."

"I know." Liu Qingfeng seemed to chuckle, "Then can I call you Pu Yue?"

“…Okay.” Qiu Puryue blinked, seeming a little embarrassed, with her cheeks slightly flushed.

Qin Xiao gave her a strange look.

"What's wrong? Are you in trouble?"

"No..." Qiu Puryue pursed her lips, "It's just, I heard that your opponent in the last round seemed to be my opponent this time, and his name was Feng Rutang, right?"

"Ah, yes." Liu Qingfeng was stunned for a moment, then realized, "You want to ask me something?"

"Yes." Qiu Puryue couldn't help but cover her forehead when she heard how quickly he understood her purpose. "I'm so sorry, because I heard from others that she is very powerful, so I wanted to learn more about her..."

"Oh, so that's the case." Liu Qingfeng understood and smiled.

"Her attribute is a purple flower that can spread all over the place in an instant. The fragrance it emits can numb people's nerves, making them weak all over, and can also cause people to hallucinate..."

Liu Qingfeng did not hold back and told Qiu Puyue everything he knew and the details of the battle, which took a full hour.

"...Actually, I think you are not her opponent, but anyway..." Liu Qingfeng said, perhaps not wanting to dampen her confidence, he added the last sentence, "Keep trying."

"Okay, thank you." Qiu Puryue, whose head was numb, forced her brain to move and thanked the other party, "I also wish you a winning streak."

Liu Qingfeng was stunned for a moment after hearing this, then smiled and said, "Thank you for your blessing."

Qiu Puyue nodded, her brain still a little numb. After a moment, she realized that the other party couldn't see her, and opened her mouth again: "Then I'll hang up first. Thank you so much."

"It's ok."

After Liu Qingfeng finished speaking, he saw the light on the ring went out.

Liu Qingfeng stared at the ring, not knowing what he was thinking, and suddenly smiled.

"What are you thinking about? I've been waiting for you for a long time." Xu Junyi, who was sitting next to him, was dissatisfied and shouted, "I originally asked you to spar with me, but who have you been chatting with for so long? You're wasting time!"

"My question." Liu Qingfeng smiled, "Do you have time this afternoon? I'll make it up to you."

Xu Junyi's eyes rolled when he heard this, and his displeasure slightly eased: "That's more like it."

……

Qiu Puyue hung up the call, her eyes dull as she looked at Yin Xihui who was deep in thought and Qin Xiao who was almost asleep with drooping eyelids, and spoke softly:

"Do you... understand?"