not in love

Chapter 152 The Rising Tide

It's obviously just the Liyue of Jixia, which has not yet entered the dog days, but the temperature has already risen to scorching heat.

In the early morning, the weather was still cloudy. I don’t know which piece of cloud was blown away and suddenly became clear and transpiration. Even the moisture of the sea foam was given a heavy value by the sun, and it scalded on the ground and emitted twisted hot smoke.

Zhuge Yunbai was not used to such a sunny day where the sun was too bright.

He flipped up the sun visor on the top of his head to block the scorching sun, which seemed a little unreal, and Yu Zhijuan at the side followed him and flipped down the front baffle of the co-pilot.

"I checked in advance, Lin Xie is not at home now, we will get the medicine for your brother as soon as possible, and then we can leave this damn hot place at night and go back to Gransu,"

Zhuge Yunbai confessed,

"It's very simple. You go home as usual and find the safe, the password Lin Xie told you."

"...he told me?"

Yu Zhijuan frowned, there seemed to be a white barrier between him and his own brain control, only when he heard Zhuge Yunbai's voice allowed him to think of something, he could react passively,

"Why did he tell me? Does he trust me?"

"Because he likes you,"

Zhuge Yunbai said lightly,

"But he only likes you now, he still liked your brother before."

He easily mixed Chen Hao's actions onto Lin Xie.

At this time, Yu Zhijuan's brain is like a huge wall of locked drawers. Zhuge Yunbai can direct him to open a box containing memory fragments at will, and then distort his original memory through simple lies.

"Okay, I'll send you off..."

Suddenly something flickering in front of his eyes dazzled him. At a certain moment, Zhuge Yunbai seemed to see a huge butterfly pounced on their car window, and he was so startled that he stepped on the brakes.

"Chucka—!"

"teacher?"

Yu Zhijuan reacted quickly, grasping the handrail on the window sill in time to avoid falling headlong into the windshield, he looked at Zhuge Yunbai worriedly,

"what happened?"

"……fine."

Zhuge Yunbai closed his eyes.

He seems to be able to do a job with ease, but in fact, he has already been exhausted from avoiding Lin Yeshan's search. In addition, he has almost exhausted his mental strength just now to hypnotize his mind, so it is difficult to concentrate again, but this is the first time he has appeared Hallucinations...

"Is it heat stroke?"

Yu Zhijuan thoughtfully handed him a bottle of mineral water,

"The climate here is very different from that of Gran Su, isn't the teacher used to it?"

"It's really hard to be hot and dry,"

Zhuge Yunbai took the water bottle. In short, he had to get the things for Lewis as soon as possible and then go back to Glensu.

"I'll be right here waiting for you,"

Zhuge Yunbai paused, and added,

"Go back quickly."

"……it is good."

Yu Zhijuan looked worried about him.

After all, in Yu Zhijuan's eyes now, the only person he can rely on is Zhuge Yunbai.

At noon, Tan Chaolu and Lin Xi who stayed at home had just finished their lunch.

Lin Xi, who was still having a low fever, was driven by Tan Chaolu to the garden to bask in the sun. When she was bored playing with picking the ears of grass in the meadow, she looked up and saw Yu Zhijuan who had just returned.

"Brother Tired!"

Lin Xi suddenly smiled,

"What are you doing out there? I read carefully the knowledge you helped me sort out this morning. It's really enlightening. I'm sure I'll get a high score in the next exam... Eh? Brother Zhiwen?"

Yu Zhijuan ignored Lin Xi's enthusiasm, but brushed past her expressionlessly.

"elder brother?"

Lin Xi blinked blankly, the look on Yu Zhijuan's face made her feel strange, even creepy,

"You, are you in a bad mood? Did my brother provoke you? Brother Zhijuan...?"

Yu Zhijuan entered the house and went upstairs without looking back, and walked straight into Lin Xie's room relying on muscle memory.

The moment the door was pushed open, the refreshing lemon fragrance and the vast vetiver fragrance rushed in, and the pheromones permeating the room smelled lazy and comfortable, without any compulsive meaning as described by Zhuge Yunbai .

But the memory about this room in Yu Zhijuan's mind seemed to be blocked and difficult to recover, he could only follow Zhuge Yunbai's instructions uncontrollably, and walked towards the safe step by step.

Zhuge Yunbai didn't wait too long to see Yu Zhijuan coming out, this outstanding student has never let him down.

It was only when Zhijuan approached through the rose bushes outside the courtyard that he saw Lin Xi who was being held hostage by Yu Zhijuan, followed by a weeping Tan Chaolu.

Which one is this playing?

Zhuge Yunbai frowned, unfastened his seat belt and got out of the car.

"Zhijuan, why are you arresting her?"

"There is no prescription in the safe,"

Yu Zhijuan replied, and at the same time squeezed Lin Xi's neck tightly,

"Only the jewelry with the butterfly pattern, Lin Xie changed the prescription."

"Zhijuan... Brother, cough cough cough! You, you are sober...! What, what prescription?! You were deceived by him!"

Lin Xi struggled to grab Yu Zhiwei's hand,

"I'm Linxi... Brother Linxi, you...cough, wake up..."

"Zhijuan, Zhijuan, what's going on here? Can you let go of Xixi first? Tell your aunt what prescription you want, and auntie will help you..."

Tan Chaolu chased after him with red eyes, and when he saw Zhuge Yunbai standing not far away, his face suddenly turned pale,

"You...it's you...!!"

After many years, she still clearly remembered the face of Leslie's "attending physician", young and flirtatious, and even the past ten years had not left any trace of aging on his face.

Zhuge Yunbai whistled when he heard the words, and smiled meaningfully,

"Ah, long time no see."

"...!"

Tan Chaolu was frightened and froze in place, because Lin Xi was held hostage by Yu Zhijuan, and the security guards at home did not dare to act rashly.

"Call Lin Xie,"

Yu Zhijuan ordered Lin Xidao,

"Ask him where Yu Zhiyi's medicine is hidden."

"What...? What are you talking about? I don't understand. What happened...Brother Zhijuan?"

Lin Xi looked at Yu Zhijuan in puzzlement.

In order to break through Yu Zhijuan's defensive line, Zhuge Yunbai deliberately lied by taking advantage of the brotherhood between him and Yu Zhiyi, and made up a lie that there is a prescription in the safe, thus guiding Yu Zhijuan to open the safe for him .

But this also caused Yu Zhijuan to be particularly obsessed with prescriptions.

"Zhilan, let her go first."

After thinking for a moment, Zhuge Yunbai slowly opened his mouth. He is now alone and weak, and he has no advantage in confronting Lin Xie on Lin Yeshan's territory. No matter what, he can't let Yu Zhijuan make the call.

And he was also worried that Yu Zhijuan would wake up from the hypnotic state after hearing Lin Xie's voice. After all, even after using the potion last time, he couldn't find anything useful about Lin Xie from Yu Zhijuan's mouth. information.

"Teacher, I want to save Zhiyi."

Yu Zhijuan bit his lower lip and looked at Zhuge Yunbai, but did not listen to his words and let go of Lin Xi.

"Actually, I have already obtained the prescription for you,"

In order to appease him, Zhuge Yunbai had to make a choice, took out a dry powder medicine bottle from the incubator hidden under the car seat and threw it to Yu Zhijuan.

Anyway, the things in the safe have been obtained, it doesn't matter whether Yu Zhiyi is dead or alive, he needs to take away Yu Zhijuan and the so-called "jewelry with butterfly patterns" before Lin Xie rushes back.

"Your brother will be fine, let's go."

The moment Yu Zhijuan caught the medicine bottle, Lin Xi's facial expression involuntarily relaxed. Zhuge Yunbai noticed this, and when he was about to think, Tan Chaolu's wailing suddenly interrupted his thoughts:

"Xixi! If you are tired, let go of your sister first, okay? Look, her neck is going to be pinched red!"

After being yelled at by Tan Chaolu, Lin Xi showed a helpless and frightened expression again,

"Brother Zhijuan... Hey, brother! Brother, you are finally back!!"

As soon as the little girl's voice turned gloomy, Zhuge Yunbai turned his head when he heard the words, only to see a large nanny's car blocked behind them.

Lin Xiezheng got out of the car with a gloomy expression.

"Zhijuan, it seems that you don't have to let go of that girl,"

Zhuge Yunbai hooked his lips, and hooked his hands towards Yu Zhijuan in a panic,

"Come over to the teacher."

Yu Zhijuan hesitated for a moment, then quietly put the medicine bottle into Linxi's pocket, then abducted her and obediently walked to Zhuge Yunbai's car.

"Young Master Lin,"

Zhuge Yunbai looked at Lin Xie playfully,

"If you want someone important to you to live, escort us to the airport."

He deliberately emphasized the words "important person". Not only Lin Xi, but Yu Zhijuan was obviously taken hostage by him.

"Do you think you can escape! You, you are whimsical!"

Lu Yuan spoke harshly, but was stopped by Lin Xie,

"...give them a way."

"What?! Master! We have so many people!"

"He's got a needle in his hand,"

Lin Xie said in a low voice,

"Listen to me, open the way."

"...Okay, okay."

Lu Yuan lowered his head disgruntled.

"You are very knowledgeable about current affairs, Master Lin,"

Zhuge Yunbai chuckled, knocked on the car door,

"Then trouble you to be the driver, remember to drive steadily."

Lin Xie glanced at Yu Zhijuan who was standing behind Zhuge Yunbai and was indifferently tugging at Lin Xi's collar. He could only grit his back teeth and obey Zhuge Yunbai's arrangement, getting into the car and driving for them.

With Lin Xi and Yu Zhijuan as hostages, Zhuge Yunbai arrived at the airport almost unimpeded, and the plane that Lewis had prepared for him was already waiting there.

He let Linxi go as promised, and boarded the plane bound for Gransu with only Yu Zhijuan.

The sunlight outside the window became more and more dazzling, and the sun seemed to be approaching the top of the head.

The plane took off smoothly, gradually left the ground, and crossed the endless sea.

Zhuge Yunbai wanted to pull down the sun visor on the window so as to block the light that hurt his temples, and when he glanced at the scene outside the window, he suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of disobedience.

The plane roared constantly, bumping and vibrating among the clouds, but the view outside the window remained motionless.

He finally realized what was wrong. The sea surface he saw at this moment was exactly the same as the sea surface he saw around the seaside villa a few hours ago, but this is definitely not the perspective that should be on the plane...

It seems that everything he sees is a world pieced together from the pictures in his memory.

"teacher,"

Yu Zhijuan, who was sitting next to him, looked at him quietly, his eyes were still out of focus, but Zhuge Yunbai felt a strong uneasiness that everything was out of control,

"What is really in the safe?"

"..."

Zhuge Yunbai took out the satin jewelry box that Yu Zhijuan got for him from the safe, and the moment he opened the box, a black butterfly suddenly rushed towards his eyes——

A few seconds later, he opened his eyes again, only to find that what was contained in the box was not a brooch at all, but his earring that had been lost for more than ten years.

"Teacher, the tide is rising."

Yu Zhijuan's voice rang in his ears again.

I saw huge black and violent waves suddenly rising from the motionless sea outside the window, and the plane with the Harris family pattern was like a butterfly in the rain, crashing uncontrollably into the turbulent waves.

The sun, the sea waves, the endless sky... everything quickly faded away amidst the roar of the plane, and finally even the noisy sound of the wings subsided, and everything Zhuge Yunbai saw and heard turned into a drop oozed from his forehead cold sweat.

He woke up in a dark room, and the seat belt on the plane turned out to be just a rope that bound him.

Yu Zhijuan was standing in front of him at the moment, rubbing his temples wearily, his vision blurred due to too much concentration for a long time, and was firmly supported by Lin Xie at the side.

"The hypnotized... has always been me?"

Zhuge Yunbai raised his eyes and quickly accepted the fact,

"...When did it start? I never taught you this technique."

"I've always been very self-taught."

Yu Zhijuan lowered his eyelids slightly, since Zhuge Yunbai grabbed him by the throat in the car and thought he had found his flaw, everything they experienced was already a half-truth and half-truth illusion.

Zhuge Yunbai was still teasing him a few minutes ago, saying that he shouldn't have sent away the people Governor Lin sent to protect him.

It seems that even Zhuge Yunbai, who is used to being a hunter, didn't realize how a predator would be willing to share the joy of hunting with others.

Of course, it is not easy to hide it from Zhuge Yunbai, and he almost found out several times.

"I really saw you right."

Zhuge Yunbai laughed at himself.

Even the bottle of medicine that can save Yu Zhiyi was deceived by Yu Zhijuan in the hallucination. He has lost all his weight and has no way to escape.

"For Lewis, is it worth it?"

Yu Zhijuan sighed.

I can't tell whether it's because I feel sorry for Zhuge Yunbai, or because I won this contest between master and apprentice.

"How important is Lin Xie to you?"

Zhuge Yun raised his eyebrows lightly.

Yu Zhijuan is very similar to him.

But it's not the same after all.

He was destined to go to hell with Lewis, but Yu Zhijuan could be firmly left in the clean world by Lin Xie.