Chapter 1669 - 303: Skull Fracture

Lin Shuyou: "Run Sheng, how come you today… ouch!"

Ah You's foot under the table was stomped hard by Tan Wenbin.

Aunt Liu noticed it too, but she didn't ask.

Because of where he was sitting, Li Sanjiang could only see the three biggest eaters crowded around the big basin shoveling down food, snorting as they ate. He didn't notice that one of them had no appetite today.

Night grew deep, everyone had gone to sleep.

Lin Shuyou sneaked out of his coffin, tiptoed over to Tan Wenbin's coffin, and peered toward the crack, trying to see whether there was any light inside.

The next moment, the flashlight inside turned on, and Lin Shuyou saw an eye pressed right up against the crack.

Even as a True Monarch and Ghost General, he was startled.

Tan Wenbin: "What are you doing?"

Lin Shuyou: "The wind picked up tonight, I was afraid you'd catch a chill, Brother Bin, so I thought I'd get up and tuck in the corner of your coffin for you."

Tan Wenbin: "I'm not reading, I already said, I've finished reviewing."

Lin Shuyou: "Mm-hmm."

Ah You went back into his own coffin and fell asleep at ease.

Tan Wenbin turned on the flashlight, shone it on his book, and continued studying.

A short while later, he heard movement from Run Sheng's coffin next door. At first he thought Run Sheng was going out to relieve himself, but soon after he heard the sound of a tricycle riding out of the yard.

Weird, what's Run Sheng going out this late for?

On the late-night road, the tricycle sped along. Run Sheng had a "cigar" in his mouth, both smoking it and using it as a headlight.

Reaching the Jiang, Run Sheng got off the tricycle and sat down at the same spot as last time, staring at the calm river surface under the moonlight.

After a while, out on the river in the distance, a big white rat with a ladle and spatula hanging at its waist kicked its legs, pushing a pot as it swam toward him.

The big white rat swam while cursing:

"An ordinary person being able to eat a供餐 once in their life is already considered great luck, where do you get off, getting addicted and treating this place like a cafeteria?

Everyone's already asleep, in meditation, and I still get called up to cook. This life is impossible, someone come save this rat!"

...

The next afternoon, Zhao Yi, eyes bloodshot, handed a thick notebook to Li Zhiyuan.

Li Zhiyuan sat down on the wicker chair on the terrace and began flipping through it quickly.

After finishing, there were a total of forty-five fatal blind spots, and every single one had a solution marked after it.

Li Zhiyuan: "Very good, you've worked hard."

Zhao Yi: "I know Run Sheng is following the path of Qin's蛟 Observation Method, but to avoid these forty-five fatal blind spots, I made way too many changes. You have to redo the modifications and integration based on my line of thought, otherwise it won't fit."

Li Zhiyuan: "It's fine, we can just directly modify Qin's蛟 Observation Method."

Zhao Yi blinked and, for a moment, had nothing to say in rebuttal.

Li Zhiyuan: "Go get some rest."

Zhao Yi: "When do we start chiseling?"

Li Zhiyuan: "It'll have to be at night."

Zhao Yi: "Alright, I'll get some sleep and come back at night to watch the ceremony."

Li Zhiyuan went into the room, sat down at the desk, took a fountain pen in hand, and kept flipping through Zhao Yi's notebook laid out in front of him while drafting the final plan and design below.

Alii stood right beside the youth. Every time he finished drawing a sheet, she would take it and examine it carefully.

Late at night.

Tan Wenbin and Lin Shuyou had cleared a patch of land in Mr. Li's field and started setting up an Array around it.

Run Sheng wanted to help, but was refused.

At Li Zhiyuan's request, Run Sheng sat on a stool in the center of the circle.

Beside Run Sheng were several stools of varying heights.

Zhao Yi walked over yawning, and Lin Shuyou called out, "Three-eyed, come help with the Array Formation."

"Ah~" Rubbing his eyes, he walked up to Lin Shuyou, reached into his arms, grabbed a handful of black Small Array Flags, and gave them a casual toss. All the Small Array Flags landed and stuck into the ground in their proper positions.

Lin Shuyou: "What are you doing?"

Zhao Yi: "This is called the rice-seedling-throwing method."

Lin Shuyou: "How can you be so irresponsible?"

Zhao Yi spread his hands helplessly: "Go ahead and check the calculations, hurry."

Lin Shuyou glared at Zhao Yi. Even though he knew that at Three-eyed's level there wouldn't be any mistakes, for Run Sheng's sake, Ah You still went and checked each flag one by one. Mm, sure enough, no mistakes.

Zhao Yi walked over to Li Zhiyuan: "Who's the carver, why haven't I seen them?"

Li Zhiyuan looked behind him and said, "Here she comes."

Zhao Yi turned around and saw Alii in a goose-yellow dress, wooden hairpin in her hair, carrying a small basket as she walked over.

"I already guessed it would be her."

Alii walked up to Li Zhiyuan. In the palm of his right hand, Li Zhiyuan condensed array flags the color of blood porcelain. With a wave, the Array activated, and Tan Wenbin, Lin Shuyou, and Zhao Yi all stood outside the circle.

Run Sheng took off his upper garment and sat there bare-chested.

From the basket in Alii's hands, Li Zhiyuan took out a small hammer and a chisel, placed them in his right palm, and let those blood-porcelain-colored array flags cling to them, dyeing their surfaces a deep red.

Then, Li Zhiyuan handed the tools back to Alii.

Alii took the chisel and small hammer, stepped onto the stools, and climbed to the highest point.

At this moment, Alii was standing behind Run Sheng, his head just below and in front of her.

The girl raised the chisel, and the Array's aura stirred in all directions. She set the chisel against the central area on top of Run Sheng's head.

Zhao Yi lit a cigarette and took a deep drag.

Beside him, Lin Shuyou sighed: "Three-eyed, didn't see this coming, did you? It's nothing, because I also didn't expect Brother Xiao Yuan would choose this method to solve Run Sheng's problem."

Zhao Yi forced himself not to cough, swallowing the smoke down, then riding the breath, slowly exhaled it through his nostrils and echoed:

"Yeah, I really didn't see it coming. As expected of your Brother Xiao Yuan, truly one of a kind."

"That's right."

Zhao Yi flicked his ash, looked at the boy and girl inside the circle, and once again recalled that Great Elder who'd taken it upon himself to send him a marriage proposal.

He had said, he dreamed of two dragons soaring over Jiujiang—this was the destined auspicious omen of our Jiujiang Zhao!

Great Elder, you didn't dream wrong. Here, there really are two dragons.

Looking up, Zhao Yi saw a Gu Worm flying, wings flapping nonstop, its two feelers crossing and intertwining, as if incomparably nervous and anxious.

Inside the circle,

Alii lifted the small hammer with one hand. The blood-red light on it joined force with the Array, empowering it, and then she brought it down on the chisel held steady in her other hand.

"Bang!"

"Roar!"

Run Sheng, sitting there, first let out a beastlike roar, followed by a shrill tearing sound. Numerous cracks appeared on his face and kept spreading, to the point that the white bone inside could be clearly seen.

And that still wasn't the end of it. Along with a series of "crack, crack" bone-chilling scraping snaps,

Run Sheng,

his skull split open!