Chapter 2274: The Man Climbing Over the Courtyard Wall

The man being held up by the back of his collar by Gu Zhiqi was completely dumbfounded.

Because all three of them had Invisibility Talismans stuck on them, the man being grabbed by the collar simply couldn’t see any of the three.

Just now, he’d felt someone step on his foot, and right after that, he heard a strange voice say, "Come down, let’s go."

Now, with his collar suddenly being lifted, the man suspected he’d run into a ghost.

He trembled all the way along.

The cold wind rustled past his ears as he looked left and right, not daring to stop walking. Finally, he spoke up in a shaky voice, "G-good sir, I’m just passing through, where are you taking me?"

As soon as the man spoke, Gu Zhiqi, who was holding his collar, paused mid-step and abruptly remembered that they still had Invisibility Talismans on them.

Gu Zhiqi fell silent for a moment, then looked around, found a deserted corner, and set the man down.

After that, she canceled the Invisibility.

Seeing the sudden appearance of one, two, three... four people (?), the man shrank further into the corner, silently hugged himself, and edged away from them.

He suspected that these three in front of him were a Ghost Team for a wedding procession. Look, they even had a bride carried on their back.

"I-I didn’t see anything, didn’t see anything at all."

Seeing this, Gu Zhiqi was quiet for a moment, a bit annoyed, but she still looked at him and spoke. "What’s your name?"

"I don’t have a name! Don’t hook my soul, I really don’t know anything." The man spoke while shivering even harder, hugging himself tight and burying his head in his knees.

Gu Zhiqi: "..."

Gu Zhiqi was silent for a bit, then lightly coughed and spoke again, "Um, we’re humans."

"Did we scare you? Sorry about that."

Gu Zhiqi forced herself to be patient as she apologized to him.

Standing to the side, Tang Yichen and Su Yunling listened, both of their eyes tinged with confusion. They couldn’t understand why Gu Zhiqi was treating this timid man like this.

Not only was she being polite, she even seemed... a bit well-behaved?

This really didn’t fit her usual style.

Realizing this, Su Yunling felt distinctly displeased inside, his gaze chilling as it swept over the man.

And when the man felt that coldness land on him, he shrank back even more, not daring to lift his head at all.

Gu Zhiqi: "..."

She silently turned her head to look at Su Yunling.

Meeting Gu Zhiqi’s cool, faint gaze, Su Yunling felt even more annoyed, but he quietly withdrew the chill leaking from him, turned his head, and casually looked elsewhere as if nothing had happened.

Gu Zhiqi stared at the man who refused to raise his head for several seconds, then finally let out a soft sigh and said to him, "Don’t be scared, we’re leaving now."

After speaking, something occurred to Gu Zhiqi. She took out an ancient book and a Jade Pendant from the Universe Ring and handed them to him. "This is what you were looking for."

With that said, Gu Zhiqi turned her head to glance at Su Yunling and Tang Yichen. The two received Gu Zhiqi’s look, nodded, and followed her away.

Only after Gu Zhiqi and the others had been gone for quite a while did the man finally lift his head from his knees.

He quietly checked his surroundings, then turned his head to look to both sides. After confirming that no one was there, he let out a long breath of relief, like a survivor of a great disaster.

Because of that relaxing motion, the things stuffed into his arms slipped out and fell to the ground.

The noise startled him, and he instinctively looked at what had fallen. When he saw clearly what was on the ground, his eyes suddenly widened.

He quickly picked up the book, placed it on his knees, blinked several times in a row as he stared at the ancient book’s cover over and over, and finally couldn’t help exclaiming, "Did my luck just turn around?"

Muttering as he spoke, he opened the ancient book.