Let’s Squander A Billion First!

Chapter 1282: Chapter 1282: River God Above (28)

Next day.

The morning sun rises, its golden light falling in the backyard.

Chuzheng walks on the stone slabs to the courtyard, not seeing the monster from yesterday, assuming Xuan Ying has already dealt with it.

Chuzheng lifts the curtain to go to the front, bumping into someone.

Xuan Ying supports Chuzheng: ”Careful.”

Perhaps due to last night’s events, Xuan Ying’s tone carries a hint of gentleness.

Chuzheng steadies herself calmly, seeing the medicine in his hand: ”Why are you grabbing medicine? Are you feeling unwell?”

”Making incense.” Xuan Ying replies.

”Oh.”

Chuzheng signals Xuan Ying to go, she heads straight to the front.

Xuan Ying: ”...”

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The River God hasn’t shown any movement, but it’s obvious someone is keeping watch outside the shop.

Chuzheng observes for two days, discovering nothing unusual.

Even Yuh Lian hasn’t come to trouble her...

This morning, the townsfolk are hurriedly heading in one direction with their tools.

Chuzheng grabs someone and asks: ”Where are you all going?”

The person pales upon seeing Chuzheng, trembling as he responds: ”To...to repair the River God’s gold body.”

”Gold body?”

”Yes, yes...” Chuzheng’s ferocity compels the person to answer.

The idea to repair the gold body was proposed by the Yuh Residence.

But because of the River God’s protection, the townsfolk are quite willing; they’re going to work early in the morning.

Chuzheng returns to the shop, Xuan Ying is making tea in the backyard, Chuzheng takes the tea from his hand, downs it in one gulp, then returns it to him.

”Drinking tea early in the morning isn’t good for your health.”

Xuan Ying pauses, then shakes his head, pouring another cup in the same cup, drinking slowly.

”Why is it so noisy outside.”

”They said to repair that loach’s gold body.” A loach has a gold body... I’m living even worse than a loach, sigh.

Chuzheng glances at Xuan Ying, whose face is as bright as the moon, feeling a bit comforted inside.

Thank goodness I have a Good Person Card.

So beautiful.

Want to...

Xuan Ying becomes slightly uncomfortable under Chuzheng’s gaze: ”What are you looking at?”

”Looking at you.”

”What’s so good to look at?”

”Everything is good to look at.”

Xuan Ying always feels there’s another meaning in Chuzheng’s words, but with her poker face, it’s impossible to tell.

Xuan Ying can only change the topic: ”The River God has the townsfolk molding his gold body?”

”Mm.”

Xuan Ying ponders for a moment: ”Molding the gold body brings about a power of faith, which will undoubtedly draw the attention of the Heaven and Earth Laws, why would he do that?”

Didn’t the River God hide in Hanjiang City to avoid the Heaven and Earth Laws?

Now why attract the attention of the Heaven and Earth Laws?

This is contradictory...

Chuzheng sees Xuan Ying looking at her, she spreads her hands expressionlessly, indicating she doesn’t know.

How would I know.

Maybe the little loach just wants to die.

”Yesterday I went out and saw several girls...”

Xuan Ying’s words are interrupted by Chuzheng: ”Why are you looking at other girls?”

Am I not enough for you to look at?

Xuan Ying is stunned, then shakes his head: ”I just felt something odd about their aura, no other intention.”

Chuzheng stares at him for a few seconds, suddenly rises, pins him down on the chair and kisses him.

Sunlight envelops them, the noisy clamor outside contrasts sharply with the quiet, intimate kiss in the courtyard.

”Xuan Ying, you are mine.” Chuzheng presses Xuan Ying’s shoulders, her tone overbearing and fierce: ”Remember that.”

”...”

Feeling like I’ve boarded a pirate ship, but I have no proof.

Chuzheng naturally continues the previous question: ”What’s odd?”

Xuan Ying almost couldn’t follow, is this topic changing just like that?

”They don’t seem like living people, there’s a strange smell on them.”

”Monsters?”

”No.”

That’s not Monster Qi.

Chuzheng feels irritated: ”It can’t be ghosts, right?”

Ghosts are unlikely, he observed, those people all had shadows, no different from living people.

Chuzheng suspects the people Xuan Ying referred to are the ’sacrificial offerings’ that returned with the loach.

The next day, Chuzheng has Xuan Ying take her to see, and he indeed points to those people.

Previously, Lang Sha also mentioned there was something strange about those people.

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Chuzheng observes for some time, those girls do not seem any different from ordinary people, she doesn’t smell anything strange.

Chuzheng doesn’t know what the River God’s plan is, but it’s definitely not good, so she decides—to strike first!

Go catch the little loach first, preventing any trouble.

Chuzheng schedules the action for a moonless, windy night, without telling Xuan Ying.

Firstly, it’s annoying when Xuan Ying interferes.

Secondly, differing opinions on actions are also annoying.

So...

Not telling him is the right choice.

Chuzheng thus sneaks out alone on a dark and windy night.

The River God’s gold body is being molded in the largest square in Hanjiang City, Chuzheng has to pass the square to get to the Yuh Residence, and given the number of workers, the outline can already be seen in a short time.

Chuzheng walks to the Yuh Residence, a place the original owner’s memory is very familiar with.

Circling the Yuh Residence, Chuzheng picks a corner to climb over, avoiding the patrolling servants, feeling her way to the small courtyard where the River God lives.

The courtyard is silent at this time, but it’s clear someone is hidden in the dark.

Chuzheng first deals with these people, then slips in through the window.

”Coming uninvited like this, Miss Chuzheng, you’re breaking the rules.”

The room suddenly lights up, and the River God stands by the door, looking at her with a grim face.

Chuzheng pulls her clothes from the windowsill, calmly saying: ”I need to follow the rules for you?”

Attempting to harm me repeatedly and talking to me about rules.

Do you even know how to write the word ’rules’?!

The River God sneers coldly: ”You shouldn’t have come here alone today.”

So what if I came!

Will you bite me!

”I can handle you alone, no need for others.” The cold and indifferent look in Chuzheng’s eyes seem to hide a bit of wild arrogance.

”...”

Chuzheng raises her hand, a silver line shoots out, the River God seems to sense it, his expression changes slightly, immediately dodging to the other side of the room.

The silver gleam flashes in the air, the River God can only glimpse slightly, dodging a few times purely on instinct.

Chuzheng finds it strange that he didn’t use any spells, relying purely on physical movement...

Afraid of attracting the Heaven and Earth Laws?

Chuzheng manipulates the silver line, cornering the River God.

Crash—

Clatter—

The objects in the room fall to the ground, making noise.

”Lord River God, what happened?”

Someone knocks on the door outside.

The River God, tripped by the silver line, climbs up and pounces towards the door, opening it, pulling the person outside in.

Squelch—

That person doesn’t even see the inside of the room clearly before the light in their eyes fades.

The River God pulls out the hand piercing that person’s heart, almost simultaneously, a spell assaults Chuzheng from nowhere.

The spell doesn’t hit Chuzheng, the River God forms a grasp with his fingers towards the door, pulling people from outside, gripping their necks, piercing them in the same manner, their eyes widen in disbelief, filled with shock.

The River God tosses that person aside, his expression twisted: ”Miss Chuzheng, hand over the item obediently, otherwise...”

”Or what? Kill me?” Chuzheng, witnessing the River God murder two people, remains mostly unemotional, arrogantly saying: ”You can’t kill me.”

The River God’s aura grows fierce: ”Then let’s try...”