"Why do vampires... need night vision?"
"Tsk, this is different from the setting on Earth..."
Qi Ji muttered, ignoring Bernice's astonished gaze, and slowly walked to the wall of the tree house made of branches and vines.
"Well, the room you built doesn't have a door?"
Bernice stood up while combing her hair, looking carefully at the strange tree house not far away, and asked in confusion.
The first time she saw the tree house, she noticed that apart from the windows, there seemed to be no other openings connecting the inside and the outside.
At first she thought it was a matter of angle and the door was in some invisible direction.
But now seeing Qi Ji walking straight towards the empty wall, she suddenly realized that this house seemed to have no door?
So how do they get in?
Drilling a window?
"unnecessary."
Qi Ji smiled playfully, spread out the five fingers of one hand, pressed the palm of his hand on the rough and solid outer wall, and activated the "Barrier Crossing" function.
An illusory and ancient double-door "door" appeared out of thin air, revealing a dreamy and colorful hazy wave of light.
Qi Ji went straight through the wall and his figure disappeared in the rippling waves.
"……what?"
Bernice was stunned for a moment, and then Qi Ji's childish and ethereal voice floated out from the waves:
"You can just walk in."
After hearing this, Bernice looked at the illusory "door" that opened and the rippling light, and hesitated for a while.
In the end, she did as she was told, walked to the ancient and illusory "door", took a deep breath, and took a few quick steps.
"brush--"
The view suddenly opens up to you, with a wide space, exquisite yet natural wooden tables and chairs, stairs, and a small duplex second floor unfolding in your field of vision.
Several bright yellow light balls hang high under the tree canopy more than ten meters high, providing lighting for the interior of the tree house.
"You can just stay here for the time being."
Qi Ji stood in front of her, interrupting the maintenance of the "Crossing Gate" and said leisurely:
"Food or anything, if you want to eat, just knock here."
As she spoke, she pointed to the small round coffee table next to the rocking chair not far away:
"Knock three times, and spit out a ball of 'life energy block', the same one I gave you before."
"Are you a mage from the 'Earth' realm?"
Bernice looked around the somewhat empty tree house and asked curiously.
Although she thought Qi Ji was a high-level warrior a few minutes ago, she had new guesses after witnessing her almost "instant teleportation" skills and this tree house full of natural life.
——The high-level extraordinary people in the "Earth" realm can move extremely fast on land. When the distance is not too far, it is not much different from teleportation.
"What do you think?"
Qi Ji shrugged indifferently and did not give a direct answer.
"Forehead……"
Receiving this answer that seemed to be both a nod and a denial, in short, it was very ambiguous, Bernice was confused and could not figure out the other party's true intentions.
"Forget it, it's not important."
After being stunned for a few seconds, she simply shook her head and stopped dwelling on it.
He then put on a more serious expression and asked in a deep voice:
"How...can you help me find my mother and go home?"
"Let me correct you," Qi Ji walked to the rocking chair, sat down, and rocked back and forth very comfortably, "I won't 'help' you, I will only 'assist' you."
"Is there any difference?"
Bernice tilted her head, her mouth half open.
“What a huge difference!”
Qi Ji resisted the urge to roll his eyes, and explained calmly:
"Don't expect me to teach you how to do it. You have to use your own brain! At most, I can provide some limited help to a certain extent, such as giving you a place to live now."
"why?"
Bernice was also outspoken, and she would speak out any questions in her mind directly, as if she didn't think about whether there was anything wrong with saying so:
"You, you are so strong, those guys will not dare to do anything! Besides, if you really rescue mother and help us get home, she will definitely be very grateful to you!"
"Oh?" Hearing this, Qi Ji became a little interested, "Is your mother's favor so important?"
"Of course!"
Bernice puffed out her small chest and said with great pride:
"Mother is the 'Blood Councillor' of the Guige bloodline, and her words are very effective! If she likes you, she can give you a lot of training resources!"
Vampires in the Moonlight Empire do not have the concept of "family". They prefer to use the word "bloodline", but the meaning is almost the same.
The so-called "Blood Senator" is one of the actual controllers of a "bloodline".
"I didn't expect this girl to be so prominent. Her mother is actually the head of the family."
Qi Ji looked at this vampire with an overly erratic personality with a little surprise, and couldn't help but complain in his heart.
"But it is also true. Although all vampires are born extraordinary creatures, those who are at the level of a magician are definitely considered strong in the tribe. It is normal for them to have considerable actual power."
Seeing that Qi Ji didn't reply for a short time and seemed to be thinking, Bernice thought that she was moved and was considering whether to accept the conditions and help her.
So he quickly seized the opportunity, struck while the iron was hot, and said with a bewitching smile:
"Also, mother is also an expert in Earth magic! She can teach you some of her experience in study and practice.
"Those knowledge and skills must be very helpful to a human mage like you in the 'Earth' realm. Maybe they can help you to impact the 'Jiyuan'... uh, 'Yeguang Master' in the future!"
After saying that, she came up to him with a smile, looked at Qi Ji's thoughtful face with admiration, and clapped her hands:
"How about it, very sincere, right?"
"That's true."
Although he was not interested in cultivation resources, magic skills, etc., Bernice's appearance and some of the information revealed in her words just now did give Qi Ji some ideas.
"But you don't seem to have considered one situation."
She had an unfathomable smile on her face.
"What?"
Bernice blinked, and a question mark appeared above her head.
"I mean……"
Qi Ji explained slowly, his expression suddenly turning a little colder:
"How can you be sure that your mother is still alive?"
Chapter 241 Unreliable Investigation Plan
The tree house, which was so spacious that it seemed somewhat empty, suddenly fell into a deathly silence as if it were in the dead of winter.
The smile on Bernice's face was still on the corners of her mouth and eyebrows, and had not disappeared.
It just solidified.
This eerie silence lasted for who knows how long. Bernice's face turned paler and paler, and her expression gradually revealed despair and fear.
The blood-red eyes seemed to dim a lot at this moment.
"You, you mean..." She took a few steps back and stammered in a trembling voice, "Mother, has, has..."
"I didn't mean that," Qi Ji continued to lie in the rocking chair and glanced at her, "I was just stating a possibility."
She stretched out her slender hands and gestured in the air:
"A mother left her hometown with her daughter and traveled to a foreign country thousands of miles away, only to find that some people with bad intentions were targeting them.
"One day, after her daughter fell asleep, she suddenly sensed some danger, or something very obviously abnormal.
"So, she decided to go check it out by herself and try to find these weird guys.
"As a 'Bloody' vampire, a strong person at the same level as a mage, she has a certain degree of confidence in her own strength, and she does not intend to investigate too deeply.
"So she didn't wake up her sleeping daughter, nor did she leave any message, and she didn't even take off the ultimatum, identity certificate and other documents she was carrying.
“But after that incident, she never came back, and her daughter never showed up even after she was attacked several times and nearly kidnapped by those people.
"It's obvious that after she went out to investigate that day, she encountered something that was completely beyond her expectations and even beyond her ability to deal with, causing her to lose her ability to move for a whole month."
After she finished speaking, she controlled the tree house, raised the angle of the rocking chair backrest, propped up her upper body, and tilted her head to look at Bernice, whose face was ashen and who looked like she had lost her soul:
"I think this conjecture is reasonable."
Bernice's face turned pale as paper, her head drooped a little, her eyes stared blankly at the floor, and she said nothing.
"I told you, this is just a possibility."
Qi Ji sighed slightly and added comfortingly:
"You don't have to take this as an absolute fact. In fact, your mother may be fine, but she was stuck with something and couldn't get out of it, which led to the appearance of disappearance."
After hearing these words, Bernice seemed to feel better. She said softly with a slightly tearful voice:
"I see……"
"So, what are you going to do next?"
Qi Ji's expression changed, and he said in a more serious tone:
"Aren't you going to find your mother and go home? You can't stay in my cabin forever, do you have any plans or intentions?"
"I……"
Bernice took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. After a round of deep breathing, she felt a little more refreshed. She looked up at the ceiling, as if thinking.
After pondering for a moment, her scarlet eyes rolled around, as if she had thought of something, and she slowly said:
"I can first try to find a way... to contact those who want to arrest me. It would be best if I could capture one of their followers and torture him to see if they know the whereabouts of my mother or their purpose in arresting me."
"It's a good idea," Qi Ji smiled and shook his head, "but aren't you afraid that your idea will play into their hands, and then the other side will get a vampire mother and daughter gift package, and the mother will be the prisoner in turn?"
"Uh," Bernice's expression froze, and a hint of anger appeared in her eyes, as if she was a little angry about Qi Ji's words, "You rude guy, how can you talk like that!? How could mother... um..."
Before she could finish her words, she softened.
Because Qi Ji was squinting his eyes at this moment with a gentle smile on his face, and several vague outlines appeared on the palm of his right hand, vaguely forming the holy emblem of "Left Hand of Law".
"You, you are an Earth Mage, how can you know Sun spells..."
Bernice immediately stepped back with tears in her eyes, no longer pursuing the other party's words that offended her mother, and said weakly:
"I, I can be more careful, make more preparations, set up an ambush, and then take the initiative to reveal some traces to attract them to show up. In this way, I can take the opportunity to make a move and capture one of them."
Qi Ji rolled his eyes at her:
"It's the same as if you didn't say anything. In the end, you still don't know how to avoid being caught by the other party."
"Um……"
Bernice didn't argue with Qi Ji. Instead, she started to think seriously about the plan, holding her chin with her right hand and thinking for a long time.
"Take your time to think about it," Qi Ji snapped his fingers, extinguishing the bright yellow ball of light under the tree canopy, "I'll take a nap."
Although she didn't need to sleep and didn't feel tired or sleepy, she wanted to clear her mind for a while.
Besides, Bernice obviously needed time to think, so she wasn't disturbed.
Lowering the backrest of the rocking chair, she closed her eyes and stopped any conscious thinking, letting go of the control over her own thoughts and allowing the thoughts in her mind to run freely without any constraints.
Absurd and bizarre scenes flashed before his eyes, and illogical thoughts flashed through his mind. Qi Ji felt a rare sense of relaxation and comfort.
