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Chapter 1216 Ning Ruan is missing
"I told you, I have plenty of spirit stones, so getting you a room won't be a problem."
"I already owe you so much."
"You really don't want to stay in a room?"
"It's not safe to stay here."
"Okay, then come in."
Inside the VIP room.
Ning Ruan immediately pulled out the scroll that had sheltered many cultivators.
If you don't want a room, live in the painting.
Anyway, it's spacious, so you can stay anywhere.
No problem.
Before Li Yuan could ask, she had already sucked the person in.
Li Yuan: "..."
He blankly tried to raise his hand.
As a result, only the branches were lifted up.
He... reverted to his original form.
The prototype of the rosewood flower is naturally the jasmine tree.
The air was filled with the fragrance of jasmine, and Ning Ruan felt as if her paintings had become fragrant as well.
It's a pity that this aroma isn't the aroma of food.
"You can't use your spiritual power inside. If you want to get out, you can tell me."
Li Yuan: "..."
It silently experienced the sensations.
Aside from losing his spiritual power, as long as he doesn't move around recklessly, it seems there are no other effects.
He was originally just a jasmine tree, and there was no need to disturb him.
Therefore, it can be said that there is absolutely no problem.
It's a very safe place.
The reason he absolutely refused to stay in the passenger boat's room was, besides, that he genuinely felt he shouldn't waste his benefactor's spirit stones any longer...
There was also an element of fear involved.
Separated from his benefactor, he could be kidnapped by that madman Long Lingzhu at any time.
Even if it means standing guard at the door of one's benefactor.
It's at least close.
Admittedly, he was also worried about whether his benefactor could really stand up to Long Lingzhu.
Even if he couldn't fight back, when things really came to a dead end, he could at least die first, buying his benefactor a moment to escape.
...However, this was my thought before I started painting.
Now... he couldn't help but ponder whether his benefactor could truly contend with Long Lingzhu.
I didn't hear silly Jasmine say anything more.
Ning Ruan simply rolled up the painting.
Hold it casually in your hand.
She did not completely seal the scroll as she had done before.
She can hear Riwon whenever she wants to speak.
Similarly, when she speaks outside, the people inside the painting can hear her.
She strode out of the VIP room and headed straight for her accommodation.
When she reached the door, she discovered that the array she had set up outside her room was completely gone.
It was completely destroyed.
It's obvious who would do something like this.
"That's really impressive."
Ning Ruan stood at the door, talking to herself.
Little Red floated beside her and nodded in agreement, "That's amazing."
"She's courting death," Ning Ruan said.
Xiao Hong chimed in, "She's courting death."
Li Yuan, quietly standing like a tree in the painting: "..."
He hesitated before speaking, "...Lord...benefactor, has something happened?"
"I guess so. The array I set up in the room was broken."
“That must have been done by Long Lingzhu.” Li Yuan couldn’t see what was happening outside, but seeing that Ning Ruan could still speak to him in such a calm tone, he naturally assumed that Ning Ruan was the only one outside. He immediately said worriedly, “Why don’t you leave first, benefactor? I’ll stay and hold her off.”
"Hold me?"
A delicate, sweet voice suddenly rang out at the end of the corridor.
She was clearly smiling.
But when it reached the ears of others, it only sent chills down their spines.
This sound...
Li Yuan's heart skipped a beat.
Even through the painting, the voice seemed to be pulling him into an abyss.
terror.
hatred.
disgust.
A mix of emotions welled up inside me.
"My benefactor, please let me go..."
Ning Ruan directly blocked the scroll.
Her calm gaze fixed on the figure at the end of the corridor.
In the dim light, a slender, crimson figure leaned lazily against a pillar, toying with a stray strand of hair, a mocking and cruel smile on her face.
Who else could it be but Long Lingzhu?
Behind her was still the burly man called Long Li.
"It won't be easy to hold me back." Long Lingzhu's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, her gaze seemingly able to penetrate the painting in Ning Ruan's hands. "My little flower, you're already eager to 'serve your new master'? It's truly... touching."
"Then you were moved for nothing." Ning Ruan chuckled and met the other person's gaze. "He didn't hear what you just said. Why don't you say it again?"
"..."
Long Lingzhu's smile faltered slightly.
Then she laughed even more brightly, and her body, which was leaning against the pillar, trembled slightly with laughter.
"You're so funny, I think... I'm liking you more and more."
She straightened up and walked towards Ning Ruan step by step, her crimson skirt brushing the ground without making a sound.
"No wonder my little flower 'fell in love' so quickly, the new owner is indeed... very special."
She stopped ten steps away from Ning Ruan, tilted her head slightly, and looked at the scroll in Ning Ruan's hand. A hint of inquiry flashed in her eyes. "What is this? What kind of scroll does it look like? Is it a spatial artifact? It looks quite extraordinary."
"Is my little flower inside?"
"Guess." Ning Ruan smiled at her, then casually put the painting into her storage ring.
Long Lingzhu's gaze followed the scroll, her smile deepening: "It's alright, it doesn't matter if you don't want to talk about it, anyway, it will soon be mine, including you, you will be mine too."
Her gaze returned to Ning Ruan's face, as if she were examining a novel and desirable toy. "Let me guess, which race's hidden treasure are you? I didn't even know you existed. Are you human? Or, like me, from one of the ten races?"
Before Ning Ruan could answer, she raised her hand and lightly touched Ning Ruan's cheek with her slender, white fingertips: "Let me see your true colors, okay?"
"Okay, then you'd better watch carefully!" Ning Ruan blinked, her smile unchanged.
Upon hearing this, Long Lingzhu let out a short, pleasant chuckle.
This prey... is indeed extremely interesting.
Even as death approaches, they still feign composure, attempting to maintain a ridiculous sense of dignity in such a childish way.
And coincidentally, what she enjoyed most was watching the process of crushing the other person's feigned composure inch by inch.
"Okay~"
Long Lingzhu trailed off in a sweet, cloying tone, her phoenix eyes curving into a captivating arc.
His eyes gleamed with undisguised excitement, as if he were about to seize his prey: "Don't disappoint me!"
I'm so excited!
The proud and confident young man was trampled under her feet. He tried to resist, but she shattered his pride.
In the end, amidst repeated despair, they could only fall completely from the clouds and plummet into the dust.
He begged her for mercy.
Just imagining that scene made her blood boil slightly.
As Long Lingzhu thought about it, her body instinctively leaned forward slightly, as if she were watching a long-awaited show begin.
I was almost impatient.
However, just as her entire being was absorbed in this, and even her pupils slightly contracted with excitement—
Ningruan is gone!
No warning!
Even the aura and spiritual energy fluctuations have completely disappeared!
She simply tilted her head slightly, her long eyelashes blinking, as if to confirm that the scene before her was not an illusion.
The fingertips remained suspended in mid-air, still in a dotted position.
"Ah..." A very soft sigh, tinged with confusion and bewilderment, escaped from her crimson lips.
She lowered her hand, tilted her head, and carefully examined the area where Ning Ruan had disappeared.
He looked from left to right, from top to bottom, with the focused expression of a child studying something new and interesting.
"Gone?" Long Lingzhu muttered to herself, her voice soft but full of keen interest. "How could it be gone?"
She showed no anger whatsoever.
Instead, as if she had discovered an even more interesting way to play, her beautiful phoenix eyes lit up again.
"Dragon Power, can you sense her?"