Jiangnan City, October 9, 2 a.m., Xingfu Community.

Just as Su Chen was concentrating on clearing the dungeon and continuously improving his level of Traceless swordsmanship,

A strange figure appeared silently around his community.

The man, wearing a hooded jacket, looked at the residential building where Su Chen's family lived from afar under the street light and whispered, "Xingfu Community. This is it for sure."

This person was none other than Zhao Lu, a student in the Human Dao class at Jiangnan City No. 3 High School.

Zhao Lu licked his cracked lips, then easily crossed the community fence and went directly into the community.

Soon, Zhao Lu followed the information in his hand and came to the door of Room 402, where Su Chen was.

He looked at the closed door and didn't rush in.

Instead, he took out a special bottle from his arms.

When he opened the bottle, a fleshy worm as long as a finger slowly crawled out of it and landed on his palm.

Looking at the strange fleshworm on his palm, Zhao Lu said in a low voice, "Go and take a look at the situation inside."

Hearing this, the strange flesh worm immediately jumped out of his palm and entered Su Chen's house directly through the crack in the door.

After waiting for three minutes, the fleshworm crawled back and crawled to Zhao Lu's palm.

Zhao Lu looked at it for a moment, then swallowed it in one gulp.

Phew!

After chewing it several times, he ate the disgusting worm directly into his stomach.

The next second, all the scenes of the fleshworm entering the room entered his mind.

"You haven't come back yet..."

Seeing that there was no one in the room, a sinister smile appeared on his lips.

Then he put his hand on the door lock.

The next second, the hand turned into a mass of twisted flesh and went directly into the keyhole.

Not long after, the door that was originally locked opened.

Zhao Lu walked in, looked at the empty room, and whispered, "If no one is here, I'll wait until you come back."

"It's just a bloodworm clone anyway. Even if I fail in the end, no one will ever think that it was me who did it."

Zhao Lu entered Su Chen's bedroom, and his body instantly turned into countless tiny insects, hiding directly in the dark space under the bed, breaking into pieces.

At the same time, Zhao Lu, who was in the training room of No. 3 High School, slowly opened his eyes.

Between his eyebrows, a thumb-sized bulge began to wriggle, as if something were living in his brain.

This abnormality lasted for a moment before returning to normal, and outsiders could not detect it at all.

Bloodworm clone: this is a special reward that Zhao Lu obtained after helping the Black Lotus Sect complete several tasks.

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And it was precisely with this special evil magic that he could hunt geniuses in the city without attracting other people's attention.

To make up for the lack of one's qualifications.

"Ding Dong."

Just as Zhao Lu was about to start practicing again, a text message came on his cell phone.

Looking at the content of the text message, Zhao Lu frowned.

[Son, the day after tomorrow is your birthday. I know you are under a lot of pressure from your practice, but you should not always stay alone in school. Go out more often when you have time.]

[Mom ordered a birthday cake for you. Do you think you can come back the day after tomorrow?]

[Don't worry; Mom doesn't mean to cause you any trouble. I just thought that you hadn't been home for a while, so I wanted to make you something delicious to nourish your body.]

[Mom doesn't know how to use a cell phone, so I asked Shouyi to help me write this. Remember to eat on time at school, take care of your health, and don't get too tired.]

Zhao Lu looked at the densely packed text on his phone and felt a little annoyed, for some reason.

Shouyi is such a nosy guy...

Go home for his birthday.

He doesn't have time to celebrate his birthday now.

If he doesn't seize this opportunity, he will try his best to improve his cultivation qualifications.

How can we catch up with the talented students in other schools in just one year?

He can celebrate his birthday at any time, but he only gets one chance to improve his qualifications.

If he fails to complete the mission of the Black Lotus Holy Envoys on time, then everything he has now will most likely be wasted.

The old woman is shortsighted and has no foresight at all. She is always in my way.

Thinking of this, Zhao Lu pretended not to have seen the text message and simply turned his phone to silent mode and put it aside.

In the dim training room, Zhao Lu suppressed his inner restlessness and secretly clenched his fists.

"People say that flowers in Luoyang are in full bloom, but it was not spring when I arrived."

"Why can't my name, Zhao Lu, be written in this huge city of Jiangnan?"

"Why can't the person standing in the light be me?"

At the same time, in a dilapidated residential building in the south of the city.

"Master Bian, did you send the text message to Lu'er? Why hasn't Lu replied to me after such a long time? Did something happen to him at school?"

Zhao Lu's mother sat on the sofa, holding the worn-out second-hand cell phone in her hand, her face full of tension.

Bian Shouyi, who was pouring water for her, thought for a moment and said, "Maybe Zhao Lu was practicing, so he didn't see it."

"Don't worry, Auntie. It's normal for cultivators to go into seclusion for a few days during their training. It's nothing serious."

After hearing what Bian Shouyi said, the tension in Zhao Lu's mother's heart was relieved a lot.

Then she saw Bian Shouyi pouring water, and then she realized it belatedly and stood up and said, "Hey, Master Bian, what are you doing? How can I let you pour water for me?"

"You were able to send a text message to Zhao Er for me, which was a great help to me."

"I should be the one doing this kind of trivial matter. Why would I bother you?"

As a nanny who has worked in the Bian Shou Yi family for more than ten years, Zhao Lu's mother naturally would not treat Bian Shouyi as an ordinary junior in her heart.

But Bian Shouyi didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

He placed the poured cup of water in front of Zhao Lu's mother and said politely, "Auntie, you are too kind. You have worked in our family for so many years. We no longer regard you as a nanny."

"Zhao Lu must be under a lot of pressure from his training recently, so you don't need to worry too much."

"I went to school to see him before; he's fine."

After hearing what Bian Shouyi said, Zhao's mother's slightly tired expression finally relaxed.

She might not believe it if someone else said it, but if Bian Shouyi said it, she would believe it.

Bian Shouyi grew up under her care, and he never lied.

"Thank you so much, Master Bian. I just feel that Lu'er has been a little strange recently. He hasn't been home for more than a month since school started. I'm really worried that something has happened to him."

"You know Lu'er well. He is a taciturn person. He keeps everything in his heart and never tells me."

"But Master Bian, you have a good relationship with him. I think there are some things he would tell you even if he doesn't want to tell me, so I troubled you."

"But now that I hear you say that, I feel relieved."

Hearing these words, Bian Shouyi lowered his head, which was rare.

Because he just... lied.

He instinctively felt that Zhao Lu seemed to be worried about something.

But looking at Zhao Lu's mother's worried look, he hesitated for a moment and decided not to say it out loud.

Because even if he said it, Zhao Lu's mother could do nothing except not be able to sleep at night.

Instead of doing this, it is better to tell a white lie to comfort the other person.

Perhaps because it was his first time telling a lie, Bian Shouyi was a little afraid to face Zhao Lu's mother.

So after a few simple greetings, he got up and left.

After leaving the residential area where Zhao Lu's mother lived, Bian Shouyi couldn't help but think back to the scene that happened between him and Zhao Lu at the gate of No. 3 High School.

"Zhao Lu, you wouldn't do anything stupid, would you?"

"Don't let your mother down."

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