I’ve Reloaded the Save File! [Transmigration] 34

34: Current Situation

The situation on the scene was not as tense as Mo Xiao and the others had imagined. Those people had acted only after careful observation.

In their eyes, Qiu Wu barely blinked when buying materials, spending a few hundred high-grade spirit stones in a short time. They just wanted to scam her out of a hundred high-grade spirit stones. Shouldn’t Qiu Wu, in the spirit of “less trouble is better than more,” have just given them the hundred high-grade spirit stones?

Qiu Wu herself felt that a hundred high-grade spirit stones was nothing, and she could just give it to them as if giving to a beggar. But Yun He seemed to have been stimulated by yesterday’s events, making her very sensitive to spirit stones. The moment she heard they were trying to extort nearly one-twentieth of her entire fortune, she became exceptionally agitated.

“Forget it, I’ll just consider myself unlucky. Give me fifty spirit stones, and we’ll just say we’re both at fault for this,” Seeing Yun He go to get reinforcements, the scammer also became nervous.

He didn’t have any so-called big backer. He had simply seen that these people were strangers and spent money lavishly, so he wanted to take the opportunity to make some money.

If this stalemate continued, he might be seen by the nearby patrol guards, and then he would be in trouble. Although his actions did not explicitly violate the rules, they were on the edge. The longer it dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be for him.

“No. Fellow Daoist Yun told me just now that your things here are worth at most one hundred mid-grade spirit stones,” Qiu Wu was also a person who was particular about things. “If you think we are equally responsible, I can compensate you with fifty mid-grade spirit stones.”

“Fifty mid-grade spirit stones?” The scammer looked incredulous. “Are you trying to get rid of a beggar?”

Qiu Wu shook her head and said seriously, “If it were a beggar, I would usually only give them a few low-grade spirit stones, which would be enough for them to live on for a long time.”

“…” The scammer was stunned by Qiu Wu’s words and didn’t know what to say for a moment.

He had spent about fifty mid-grade spirit stones to buy these porcelain bottles. If he compromised like this, wouldn’t it have been all for nothing?

“No, fifty mid-grade spirit stones is too little. You have to… at least give me ten high-grade spirit stones! I’ll just consider myself unlucky this time!” Seeing the growing crowd of onlookers, the scammer also began to get nervous.

This was only the third time he had done something like this. Could it be that he was going to fail this time?

“Ten high-grade spirit stones?” Qiu Wu hesitated. It seemed that this stalemate wouldn’t solve anything. Maybe she should just give him ten high-grade spirit stones.

Just as Qiu Wu was about to take out the spirit stones from her storage space, Yun He finally arrived with Mo Xiao and the others.

“Senior Sister, Eldest Senior Sister, it’s him! He deliberately extorted Fellow Daoist Qiu!” Yun He said, walking nervously to Qiu Wu’s side. “How are you? He didn’t do anything to you, did he?”

Qiu Wu shook her head and said honestly, “He just wants me to compensate him with ten high-grade spirit stones.”

“No need. You don’t have to compensate him with a single spirit stone, Fellow Daoist Qiu,” Yun Yu, as the Eldest Senior Sister, stood up. “There is no residual aura on these fragments. If my judgment is not wrong, these have always been empty porcelain bottles.”

“Nonsense, I had things in them!” The scammer started to panic, but he was still stubborn.

“Is that so? Then tell me, what did you have in them?” Zuo Wuyi asked.

“It’s… it’s a family heirloom. It can only be stored in porcelain. Once the porcelain bottle is broken, it will disappear into the air!” The scammer said, observing his surroundings and thinking of a way to escape.

“Do you have any proof?” Mo Xiao pressed, and slightly released the spiritual pressure of a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

This time, the scammer was completely silent. He left a “You’re bullying people with your power!” and then squeezed into the crowd behind him and ran away.

Seeing this, Yun Yu couldn’t help but sigh. She raised her hand and patted Yun He’s shoulder. “In the future, when you encounter things, think more and don’t be so rash.”

Yun He lowered her head. “Yes, Eldest Senior Sister.”

Seeing Yun He become sullen like last night again, Qiu Wu frowned slightly, then took her shoulder and made her look up at her.

“Thank you, Fellow Daoist Yun,” Qiu Wu thanked her sincerely. “If it weren’t for you, I’m afraid I would have lost a hundred spirit stones today.”

“Huh?” Yun He looked at Qiu Wu. “But, if I wasn’t with you, maybe he wouldn’t have dared to extort you at all.”

“Not at all. If it weren’t for you, Fellow Daoist Yun, I would have definitely given him the spirit stones to avoid being entangled in unnecessary trouble,” Qiu Wu said with a very sincere expression. “Fellow Daoist Yun, you are the first person to make me save spirit stones. Thank you.”

Hearing Qiu Wu’s sincere thanks, Yun He couldn’t help but feel a little giddy again. “Is that so? I’m probably not as good as you think, Fellow Daoist Qiu.”

“Don’t be so modest, Fellow Daoist Yun. I like people with a true temperament like you the most,” Qiu Wu said. “From today on, you, Fellow Daoist Yun, are my best friend. In the future, if you have any need for spirit artifacts, just come to me.”

“Alright, from now on, you, Fellow Daoist Qiu, are also my best friend!” Hearing Qiu Wu’s words, Yun He felt as if her chest was full, and she became a little conceited. “As long as I, Yun He, am here, no one can hurt you, Fellow Daoist Qiu.”

Mo Xiao’s group of three had been silently standing by since the conversation began, witnessing the birth of this pair of best friends. Seeing the two of them already hugging each other, they even had the urge to applaud.

“Junior Sister, I think, unless it’s absolutely necessary, we shouldn’t bring Yun He along in the future,” Yun Yu said silently.

Mo Xiao nodded in her heart. “Junior Sister and Fellow Daoist Qiu seem to get along very well. They are both very suitable for cultivating in the sect.”

After all, with their temperaments, the outside world was still too dangerous. It was best not to travel around until they became very strong.

The hundred-spirit-stone extortion case ended with Yun He and Qiu Wu continuing to shop. After realizing once again that her junior sister was unreliable, Yun Yu still acted as a mother hen, following the two of them from a distance.

As for Mo Xiao and Zuo Wuyi, they were no longer interested in the commercial district. They planned to take advantage of the daytime to take a stroll outside the city and see if there were any secret realms nearby worth exploring.

After leaving the city, Zuo Wuyi thought of the little girl’s words from yesterday and walked in the direction she had pointed.

“A little Qi Refinement girl’s travel speed is limited. An hour’s walk should be around here,” Zuo Wuyi roughly estimated the route and then stopped in an open space.

“Are you looking for the same black eggs as yesterday?” Mo Xiao asked, at the same time releasing her divine sense to guard against any demonic beasts ambushing them.

Zuo Wuyi pondered. “I suppose so. Those black eggs give me a… not very good feeling.”

Thinking of her promise to Mo Xiao not to hide anything from each other, Zuo Wuyi began to feel a little conflicted. If she didn’t hide some things, she couldn’t seem to explain the origin of the black eggs at all.

But if she didn’t hide it and directly said that the black eggs seemed to be tainted with demonic energy, then she couldn’t explain how she had seen the demonic energy!

“Mo Xiao, do you still remember the name Rong Xue?” Zuo Wuyi asked tentatively.

Mo Xiao thought for a moment and nodded. “Isn’t Rong Xue the name you were supposed to have?”

Zuo Wuyi rubbed her nose. “In a way, Rong Xue is indeed my name, but now I am Zuo Wuyi, and in the future, I will only be Zuo Wuyi.”

She had already played the role of Rong Xue for a lifetime in her past life. This time, she wanted to be herself, to be the Zuo Wuyi who could be with Mo Xiao.

“Do you still remember Rong Xue’s background and final ending?” Zuo Wuyi continued to ask.

Mo Xiao shook her head. “I just remember that Rong Xue would get entangled with Xuan Min, and in the end, after many twists and turns, they got together?”

Speaking of which, this story with Rong Xue and Xuan Min as the main characters was recommended to Mo Xiao by Zuo Wuyi in university to pass the time. Mo Xiao had never remembered much of the so-called plot from the beginning, only a few words that Zuo Wuyi often muttered in her ear.

Anyone who goes against the protagonist will not have a good end. If you don’t go against the protagonist, you might become their stepping stone at any time. If I ever transmigrate into a book one day, I must stay away from the protagonist to ensure my safety.

Hearing Mo Xiao’s words, Zuo Wuyi was silent for a long time. She never would have thought that the reason she couldn’t find Mo Xiao in her past life was, in the end, her own fault?

“Then why did you suddenly start paying attention to me?” Zuo Wuyi asked. In her past life, she didn’t seem to have seen Mo Xiao when she was choosing a master. She had only heard the name “Yunmu” from Xuan Shuang a few times.

“Probably because of… your name?” Mo Xiao said tentatively.

Speaking of which, I don’t think I’ve ever told Zuo Wuyi that I also came back with the memories of nearly five hundred years from my past life. Could it be that Zuo Wuyi thinks I don’t know anything and that this is my first time in this book world?

“So that’s how it is,” Zuo Wuyi nodded. This was probably the butterfly effect. The moment she changed her appearance, perhaps some things began to change.

Zuo Wuyi indeed did not yet know that Mo Xiao, like her, was experiencing these things for the second time.

She simply thought that Mo Xiao had come seventy-odd years earlier than her and had simply adapted to this life in advance. And she had only returned to her childhood, that is, the beginning of the book’s plot, for some reason.

But Mo Xiao was different. After discovering that the female lead’s name had become Zuo Wuyi, she had been intentionally testing her, and finally confirmed that Zuo Wuyi was the woman in the red dress she had seen in her previous life, the so-called female lead who had perished together with the male lead.