Chapter 811 - 45: What Did You Touch
Chapter 811: Chapter 45: What Did You Touch
The next day.
Yun Wu opened her eyes groggily, only to see Wei Wan, Si Minglan, and Mo Xiaolan all standing off to the side. She hurriedly sat up:
"Sister Wan, Sister Si, Sister Xiaolan, you all didn’t sleep?"
All the women had been very worried last night; Yun Wu had only fallen asleep when she really couldn’t hold on anymore.
Now that she was awake, she saw the others had stayed up all night.
Wei Wan said softly, "It’s fine for us to go without sleep for days on end, Xiaowu. You sleep a bit more."
Yun Wu shook her head and looked toward the room not far away: "How is Sister Xia?"
Mo Xiaolan said, "Liu Su is still healing her. It’ll probably take another day."
Yun Wu let out a sigh. "I wonder how Brother Qin is doing in there?"
...
"Rock, paper, scissors!"
"Rock, paper, scissors!"
"I win, I go first!"
In the Divine Statue Hall, Luo Xiaohong cheered and hopped about. Having won the hand game, she hugged a leather ball and walked up to a white line drawn on the ground, then put the ball down.
Then, with a kick, the ball spun through the air and flew into a small hole more than ten zhang away.
Luo Xiaohong jumped up. "It went in! I scored again!"
Qin Gengyun, meanwhile, looked utterly dejected, his face full of the exhaustion of a middle-aged man who’d stayed up all night. He also placed a leather ball at the white line and kicked.
The ball failed to fly into the small hole.
Luo Xiaohong cheered. "I win!"
Qin Gengyun smiled and clapped. "Xiaohong, nice kick!"
Last night Luo Xiaohong said she wanted to play. Qin Gengyun didn’t know many games, so he’d improvised two leather balls and started playing cuju with Luo Xiaohong.
It was obviously Luo Xiaohong’s first time playing something like this; she was brimming with enthusiasm, so Qin Gengyun had no choice but to keep her company all night.
Now that Luo Xiaohong had won another round, she immediately cheered and bounced about.
"Playing with a friend really is as blissful as eating delicious food!"
Her face was lit with excitement as she said to Qin Gengyun, "Are there any other games?"
Qin Gengyun gave a wry smile. "Isn’t this game enough? I don’t know any other games."
Luo Xiaohong squatted down, elbows braced on her knees, chin cupped in both hands—purely innocent, and killing intent overflowing:
"If you don’t have any other games, I’ll cripple you."
"...Hold on."
Helpless, Qin Gengyun racked his brains, trying to recall the games he’d played as a child.
After thinking for a long time, his eyes lit up. "Got one! Blind Man Touching the Elephant!"
"Blind Man Touching the Elephant?"
Luo Xiaohong looked at him curiously, and Qin Gengyun explained:
"One person plays the elephant, the other covers their eyes and plays the blind man. The blind man has to try their best to touch the elephant, and once they touch it, they have to say which body part they touched."
In truth, Qin Gengyun no longer remembered the exact rules of this Blind Man Touching the Elephant game; he was just bullshitting based on a vague impression.
After he finished, he felt something was off, but with this Female Demon about to flare up, he could only grit his teeth and act absolutely confident.
Sure enough, as soon as Luo Xiaohong heard it, she clapped her hands. "That sounds really fun! But even if I cover my eyes, I can still see."
Qin Gengyun said, "Can you block off your own eyes?"
Luo Xiaohong raised a slender finger. "Good idea!"
Qin Gengyun asked, "So which of us will be the blind man and which will be the elephant?"
"I’ll be the blind man!"
Luo Xiaohong raised her hand at once. Qin Gengyun took out a piece of black cloth and symbolically covered her eyes, reminding her:
"You’re not allowed to cheat. You have to really block off your sight, or the game stops being fun."
"Okay!"
Luo Xiaohong agreed, then went still.
Qin Gengyun slowly stretched out his hand and waved it before her face. Luo Xiaohong didn’t react.
Had this girl really blocked off her sight?
Qin Gengyun’s gaze turned cold.
Should he strike?
"Has it started?"
Luo Xiaohong asked.
Qin Gengyun backed off several zhang away and smiled. "Let’s begin."
He still decided not to make a rash sneak attack for now. He’d finally managed to gain a sliver of the Tao Spirit Body’s trust; if he tried a sneak attack now and failed in one blow, all his prior efforts would be wasted.
If this girl really went berserk, who knew what she might do.
For now, it was better to humor her.
Just treat it as playing with a child.
With that decision made, Qin Gengyun earnestly played along with Luo Xiaohong.
Luo Xiaohong truly didn’t use a bit of Spiritual Power. Like an ordinary person, she groped around in all directions, giggling from time to time, clearly enjoying herself.
Qin Gengyun had previously marked off the area for Blind Man Touching the Elephant—only three to four zhang in all directions. With Luo Xiaohong’s extremely agile movements, she quickly found Qin Gengyun.
She ran her hands all over Qin Gengyun, seeming a bit troubled:
"It’s so hard. What part is this?"
A moment later she suddenly realized, "It’s the chest, right?"
"Correct."
Qin Gengyun felt a bit awkward. The rules were that once you were touched, you couldn’t move. Worried that breaking the rules would anger Luo Xiaohong, he had no choice but to endure her hands roaming up and down.
Fortunately, this girl was basically a child; she didn’t understand anything about matters between men and women. As soon as she heard she’d guessed right, she burst into cheers.
"My turn to be the elephant!"
Luo Xiaohong took off the black cloth, then excitedly wrapped it around Qin Gengyun:
"You’re not allowed to peek either!"
Qin Gengyun said, "I don’t have your level of Spiritual Sense. How could I peek?"
Of course, he wouldn’t tell Luo Xiaohong his Divine Sense was more intricate than a spiderweb.
Qin Gengyun put on the black cloth. So Luo Xiaohong wouldn’t sense his trump card, he didn’t use The Sky is Round and the Earth is Vast, and instead groped about like an ordinary person.
From the side came barely stifled snickers from time to time; clearly Luo Xiaohong was very excited. It made Qin Gengyun think of how, when he played this game as a child, he’d been just as excited, desperately trying to keep from laughing.
Suddenly, a thought flashed through Qin Gengyun’s mind:
This Tao Spirit Body was actually as pure as a blank sheet of paper. It was just that Immortal Flying Pavilion had already been the first to draw their markings on this sheet.
If he could erase Immortal Flying Pavilion’s markings and leave his own strokes, perhaps he could gain control over the Tao Spirit Body.
But that thought only flashed by. For now, he still had to find a way to maneuver and keep himself alive first.
As he was thinking, Qin Gengyun’s hand touched a patch of cool softness.
Beside his ear came Luo Xiaohong’s excited voice. "Hurry up and guess what you touched!"
Qin Gengyun found it funny; why did this feel like playing games with a courtesan in Yihong House?
He thought for a moment. "Your shoulder."
"Wrong!"
Luo Xiaohong giggled, then raised her hand and took off Qin Gengyun’s black cloth.
Qin Gengyun glanced down at where his left hand was touching and instantly felt awkward.
"Sorry, I didn’t do it on purpose."
Luo Xiaohong said in puzzlement, "What are you talking about? Keep going!"
Seeing that she wasn’t angry at all, Qin Gengyun understood her a bit more.
He really didn’t know what Immortal Flying Pavilion was thinking, training such a powerful Tao Spirit Body, yet not teaching her the rules of the world or human relationships.
Luo Xiaohong actually had no understanding at all of the treachery in people’s hearts or the boundaries between men and women.
To send such a naive Tao Spirit Body down the mountain like this—weren’t they afraid someone would abduct her?