Chapter 105
Mei Liangyu forced himself to snap back to attention, not using Nine Schools Arts, clenching his five fingers into fists, blocking arms with fists, relying on martial arts to fight.
Seeing his intention to attack, Brother Gu's expression grew even colder as he engaged Mei Liangyu in martial combat.
Both were trained fighters. Unlike Wenyang Hui who disliked martial arts, even though they weren't Military School disciples, they often went to Military School training grounds to spar.
Mei Liangyu's punches were swift, Brother Gu attacked his lower body, raising arms for proper defense, sweeping legs with fierce power. Their exchange speed was so fast that both their minds reacted very clearly and quickly to offense and defense.
In the distance, two or three night patrol instructors noticed the two fighting from afar and shouted loudly: "In the middle of the night, are you two sparring or having a private fight?"
Another instructor shouted: "Stop fighting, go back to sleep! If you want to fight, do it tomorrow after you wake up!"
Only then did Mei Liangyu and Brother Gu stop simultaneously, pulling apart.
Brother Gu said coldly: "Sui Sui..."
Before he could finish, he heard Mei Liangyu say quietly: "Go to my room and see if she wants to go with you."
As Mei Liangyu spoke, he had already walked around him, moving forward.
Brother Gu could only stare at his retreating figure, his hands clenched into fists in his sleeves as he said coldly: "You think I'd believe your divisive words?"
Mei Liangyu stopped walking, turned sideways, his face hidden in the dim lamplight, this backward glance appearing utterly cold: "You know Wenyang Hui is dead?"
Brother Gu sneered: "You still want to hide it? Having Saint Chang Gen kill him, I thought you'd announce this to the world."
Mei Liangyu looked at him with mocking eyes: "Wenyang Hui nearly killed my Junior Sister tonight. What are your thoughts on being indignant about Wenyang Hui's death?"
"Impossible." Brother Gu remained unmoved inside, believing Mei Liangyu was trying to sow discord. "Even if he was dissatisfied because Sui Sui is your Junior Sister, he couldn't possibly try to kill Sui Sui."
Mei Liangyu continued: "You mean it wouldn't matter if Wenyang Hui had really killed Nangong Sui tonight?"
Brother Gu smiled without warmth: "You're quite good at twisting others' words."
"Unless whoever told you Wenyang Hui died didn't tell you that Nangong Sui was severely injured and near death." Mei Liangyu's eyebrows lifted slightly for a moment. "I'll tell Junior Sister your words exactly as you said them."
Brother Gu suppressed his anger: "It's not your turn to pass messages between Sui Sui and me."
Mei Liangyu walked forward, not looking back: "What Junior Sister and I say to each other doesn't need your permission."
The instructors ahead hadn't left yet, all looking at the blood-covered Mei Liangyu with puzzled expressions, scratching their heads, unable to figure out how he had gotten himself into such a state.
The instructors all cast concerned, questioning looks at Mei Liangyu. He didn't explain, only saying that Master was waiting for him at the Saint Hall and he needed to hurry over. The instructors didn't feel they should stop him.
Ghost Way Saint Hall appeared very quiet in the deep night, with no summer night insect sounds audible. Flowering trees and plants stood still without wind. Mei Liangyu paused at the Saint Hall's main entrance, restraining all emotions before stepping inside.
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Brother Gu returned to the dormitory building, heading straight for Mei Liangyu's quarters, raising his hand to bang on the door.
He knew Mei Liangyu shared with Wei Ren, with only two people living in these quarters. If no one opened the door, he would force it open tonight.
Brother Gu's patience was limited. After knocking for a moment with no response, just as he was mobilizing Five Elements Energy in his body to break down the door, it opened silently.
Wei Ren stood leaning against the doorframe with arms crossed, drooping eyelids looking lazily at Brother Gu: "What are you doing in the middle of the night?"
If he'd opened the door any later, there wouldn't be a door to open tonight.
Brother Gu didn't even glance at him, flashing into the room.
Wei Ren didn't stop Brother Gu either, still leaning against the doorframe, watching with a leisurely expression.
Brother Gu stood in the clean, tidy, and somewhat empty main room, surveying the four room doors.
The table and chairs in the dormitory main room were academy standard issue, the beds and bookcases in the rooms were all the same, but after living there long, things accumulated and would inevitably become different.
Yet the table and chairs in this room looked exactly the same as when they first arrived. The teacups on the black and red table surface were arranged cleanly and neatly, the teapot next to the cups, with nothing else besides.
Not even a decorative item or flower vase.
The academy had even equipped every dormitory main room with solid wood flower stands by the windows, convenient for Agricultural School and Medical School disciples to tend their flowers and plants.
The solid wood flower stand in this room was completely empty, even covered with considerable dust.
Obviously Mei Liangyu had no interest in growing flowers and plants, and neither did Wei Ren. Or rather, even if he wanted to grow them, he couldn't put them outside. He'd have to keep them in his own room. Putting them outside would be like telling Mei Liangyu "these are my important medicinal flowers, please kill them quickly."
There were two empty rooms. Wei Ren's room door was open, and another remained closed with two black curse marks on the door.
Brother Gu walked toward this door expressionlessly, just as he reached out to touch it, he heard hissing sounds. Black vapor seeped from the door crack, and several small green snakes swam out, striking swiftly at his arm.
Faint spider silk shot down from above. Brother Gu reacted quickly, retreating several steps. After seeing that small, reddish Ghost Armor Sky Spider reflected in his eyes, he turned to look at Wei Ren by the door.
Wei Ren shrugged: "This is a surprise I left for Mei Liangyu. You insisted on trying it first."
Brother Gu asked: "He put Sui Sui in there?"
Wei Ren raised his eyebrows slightly hearing this, his mind racing. From the tone of these words, Mei Liangyu had returned from Mechanism Island? And brought Nangong Sui?
You came to Mei Liangyu's room looking for Nangong Sui? Wei Ren somewhat doubted Brother Gu's mental state.
Wei Ren couldn't understand. He spoke ambiguously: "Whether there's anyone in the room, you should be able to sense for yourself."
Brother Gu frowned. These words weren't wrong. He calmed his mind and sensed for a moment, unable to detect a third person in the room. Moreover, Mei Liangyu was covered in blood. If he had returned to the dormitory, the room couldn't possibly have no bloody smell at all.
Wei Ren had also just said these measures were left for Mei Liangyu, but they were triggered by him, showing that Mei Liangyu hadn't returned to his own dormitory at all.
Brother Gu ultimately believed Mei Liangyu's lies and came here for nothing.
Wei Ren added: "If you want to use techniques to break down the door, you'll wake everyone on this floor."
Brother Gu left with a cold expression.
Wei Ren closed the door, took out his Wind-Listening Ruler to ask Xue Mushi: "Nangong Sui is back? Brother Gu just went crazy and came here looking for someone, asking if Mei Liangyu had put her in his room."
Sick.
Could Nangong Sui be locked in Mei Liangyu's room?
Xue Mushi replied: "She was injured. Mei Liangyu brought her back, but didn't take her to her dormitory."
Wei Ren frowned: "Nangong Sui told you?"
Xue Mushi replied: "Li Jin Shuang said so. Brother Gu went there, she heard the conversation."
Wei Ren: "......"
Am I the last to know again?
Xue Mushi added: "Since she says it's fine, she has her own plan. Let's wait first."
Brother Gu still stood in the corridor without leaving. He settled down to think. Sui Sui was severely injured, he had to see her. How could he let Mei Liangyu hide Sui Sui away?
Since Mei Liangyu had left from the dormitory building and hadn't returned to his own room, it meant he had hidden Sui Sui in someone else's dormitory.
The dormitory building was hundreds of floors high with thousands of rooms. Without any clues, it was equivalent to being impossible to find.
Brother Gu recalled the Nine Schools Arts he knew in his mind.
School of Names: Word Search could indeed find the location of objects based on their "names." Brother Gu didn't usually remember where he put things, relying entirely on Word Search sensing when looking for items.
The habit of School of Names disciples was to give names even to doors, windows, tables, and chairs in their homes.
Using Word Search to find things in a small area was relatively easy, but trying to find Yu Sui in the dormitory building wouldn't be easy.
Brother Gu decided to grit his teeth and try.
He closed his eyes to establish a connection with the dormitory building in his mind, letting his consciousness and Five Elements Energy merge with this place. He raised his hand to write the three characters "Nangong Sui" in the air. Brother Gu opened his eyes, looking at the name materialized from Five Elements Energy.
Each stroke of the three characters separated individually - horizontals were horizontals, verticals were verticals. After separating, they didn't reconnect, showing his technique had failed.
Brother Gu didn't give up, continuing with a second attempt, a third attempt.
Until the room door whooshed open, and Wei Ren stood at the entrance, looking inscrutably at Brother Gu who was halfway through writing characters with his raised hand.
Brother Gu: "......"
He expressionlessly dispelled the characters "Nangong" he had written and walked away.
Brother Gu gritted his teeth inwardly. He decided to tell Sheng Hao about Yu Sui's injury, having him also go demand Mei Liangyu return her.
Sheng Hao had already gone to bed. Only he and Mu Mengbai lived in the dormitory.
Previously this room had also housed four people. The other two also had distinguished backgrounds: the son of Zhou Kingdom's great general, a Young Master from a Nanjing aristocratic family. Only Mu Mengbai had no background or status, his family just ordinary merchants who could make some small money each year.
Sheng Hao was a noble Young Master raised by Nangong Manor, with some spoiled temperament. His likes and dislikes were very obvious, and he wasn't willing to force himself to associate with people he detested.
He disliked the Zhou Kingdom general's son's daily behavior, and due to his own cleanliness obsession, couldn't stand the other throwing smelly socks around. The Nanjing aristocratic family's Young Master had a good relationship with Brother Gu. Sheng Hao, despising the house and its crow, also had no good expression for this roommate, often mocking his poor judgment.
Sheng Hao single-handedly destroyed the entire dormitory's harmony. When their conflicts intensified and they finally came to blows, Mu Mengbai was completely unaware, still fast asleep in his room. By the time he woke up, only he and Sheng Hao remained in the dormitory.
At this moment, Brother Gu arrived at Sheng Hao's dormitory entrance and raised his hand to knock. Mu Mengbai groggily got up to answer, yawning with eyes not fully open, squinting ahead. Seeing it was Brother Gu, he instinctively closed the door.
Brother Gu, shut out by Mu Mengbai: "......"
Mu Mengbai closing the door on him was both infuriating and amusing.
If not for Sui Sui, he'd rather die than come looking for Sheng Hao.
Mu Mengbai slapped his face, becoming somewhat more alert, scratching his head as he went to wake Sheng Hao: "Brother Gu is outside, probably looking for you."
Sheng Hao, covered by his blanket, said impatiently: "Tell him to get lost."
Just as he finished speaking, both heard a dull thud from the dormitory door, obviously under attack.
Mu Mengbai was startled fully awake: "What's this about? Not sleeping in the middle of the night, coming to fight you?"
"He's sick," Sheng Hao angrily got up, came to the main door, and whooshed it open. Just as he was about to curse, he heard Brother Gu at the entrance say: "Sui Sui was injured on Mechanism Island, brought back to the academy by Mei Liangyu and hidden away."
Brother Gu looked up at Sheng Hao, saying in a deep voice: "Sui Sui is severely injured. We need to find her quickly."
Sheng Hao looked at him coldly without speaking, turning back to get his Wind-Listening Ruler. His mind was clear. After receiving Brother Gu's message, he took the Wind-Listening Ruler and sent a message to Mei Liangyu, asking where my sister is.
Mu Mengbai looked back at him: "Who are you messaging? If sister is badly injured, she can't reply to messages right now."
Sheng Hao was still messaging, not looking up: "Asking Mei Liangyu."
Brother Gu's eyelid twitched hearing this. When did he get Mei Liangyu's Wind-Listening Ruler inscription?
After Sheng Hao finished messaging, he turned to change clothes, preparing to go out looking for her.