People in Terra, poor and weak but invincible

Chapter 822: The Hungry Dog in the Painting

On the rooftops at the edge of town, three invisible figures silently watched the farce before them.

Qi Yan's legs hung outside the eaves, swaying slowly, with a bit of bright red blood on his fingertips. He tilted his forehead and continued to think about what new graffiti to add to the town in this painting.

Qi Lin watched Qi Yan's graffiti with great interest, trying to understand more about the perverted inner world of Qi Yan from these contents.

Wu Youze stood back with a dull look in his eyes, feeling that his spirit had received an unprecedented shock.

"Is this the powerful grandmaster?" Wu You felt like he had seen a new world.

Qi Lin turned around and gave a kind reminder:

“You can watch, but don’t learn.”

“I also need to have the ability to learn.”

Wu You gave a wry smile.

At this moment, he probably understood some truths. He and others were under some kind of control of Xi, and everything they saw was the content of a painting.

And Qi Yan is using his own blood to paint this picture.

Wu You also tried to bite his finger and draw a graffiti on the ground, but his graffiti was nothing special and could not be as magical as Qi Yan's.

He put aside his wild thoughts and turned to look at the townspeople rushing into the darkness.

Wu You knew that this was just a painting, and those townspeople were just people in the painting, not living beings with flesh and blood.

But he was still a little worried and asked in a low voice:

"My benefactor, will anything really happen to those townspeople?"

Qi Yan casually drew nine suns and threw them into the sky, dispelling all the darkness in the painting, and answered:

"All of these people in the paintings are given the ability to move by Xi's will. As long as Xi is safe, the people in the paintings will be safe.

If Xi couldn't bear it, she could just wipe out my graffiti with a stroke of her pen and restore the scroll to its original state, but if she did that she would expose herself."

"That's good." Wu You completely put his worries aside after hearing that.

"But sir, even if your behavior does not cause serious consequences, it is still a bad behavior."

A female voice with a hint of boyishness came from under the eaves.

Wu You looked down in surprise and discovered that a girl named Pelo, wearing Eastern monk's clothes and holding a naginata, was looking up at the three of them.

"Can you see us?" Wu You asked in surprise.

"I am not a person in the painting, so I can naturally see you three."

The girl with long black hair and a gentle expression nodded and said, "I can see that the three of you are all people with extraordinary skills, but I don't know why you treat this scroll like this?"

Qi Yan stopped graffiti, pushed himself up with both hands and jumped down from the eaves, landing cleanly in front of the Pelo girl.

Miss Pero:?

"Ahem, this is the Pingsha Luoyan style I just developed."

Qi Yan got up with a dusty face and said nonsense: "According to the principle that the larger the area, the smaller the pressure, the whole person will suffer less damage when he hits the ground instead of landing on his feet."

"But your nose is bleeding," Miss Pero reminded.

"Some dyes, not worth mentioning."

Qi Yan wiped the blood from his nose, then patted Miss Pero on the shoulder with his blood-stained hand: "My purpose is actually the same as yours, both of us want to meet the owner of this scroll."

After wiping his hands on Miss Pelo's clothes, Qi Yan withdrew his dog paws with satisfaction.

Miss Pero didn't pay attention to Qi Yan's little action, and asked with a puzzled look:

"Do you know the monk?"

Qi Yan performed a box opening on the spot: "Your name is Saga, a monk from the East Country. Because you are curious about the deep meaning of a scroll collected by your grandfather, the abbot, you come to travel around Yan Country to find the author of the scroll.

That's why you came to Xi's painting and always hoped to see Xi."

Saga was so shocked that his eyes widened.

Qi Yan didn't care how surprised she was, he stepped forward and put his arm around Saga's shoulders:

"I was originally planning to look for you, but you coming here on your own saved me a lot of effort. We can join forces. I will be responsible for forcing Xi out, and you will be responsible for playing witty tricks with her.

Then I will take her down when she is not paying attention, and I will get her, and you will resolve the doubts in your heart, isn't that wonderful?"

Saga frowned, unmoved:

“I do want to meet the owner of the scroll, but I don’t agree with what you did.

In my opinion, a goal is just a result, but what is really important is the process of pursuing the goal. "

Qi Yan tilted his head, feeling that this speech sounded familiar.

He thought for a while before reacting.

Isn't this the excuse he always uses when he's lost?

Saga put his hands together and said sincerely: "I am not here to seek cooperation, but I think your action is not good and I want to persuade you.

The people in the painting may not be creatures like you and me, but they also have their own lives and should not be fooled in this way."

"I teach them to open their eyes to the world and face the nature of themselves and the world. How can this be called fooling them?"

"What is the self? What is the essence? Is what you and I believe to be the truth? Sir, you are just forcing your own views on the people in the painting."

"If my behavior is considered forced indoctrination, then the teachers' quotations from classics and the elders' earnest teachings in the school are also considered forced indoctrination, aren't they?"

"This... I think it's wrong..."

"You certainly have the right to have your doubts, but you can't just deny my approach, right?"

"Little monk...hiss, sir, what you said makes sense."

Saga was obviously distressed and had no idea that the focus had been shifted. He began to struggle with the difference between education and forced indoctrination.

Qi Yan continued to say:

"Look, you've fallen into a daze, but I'm still lucid, so I'm ahead of you for now, right?"

"Of course I don't dare to talk about being ahead of you, sir." Saga quickly denied.

"That's right." Qi Yan said immediately, "As the saying goes, a wise man is a good teacher. The biggest characteristics of my character are generosity and kindness, so I don't mind accepting you as my little apprentice."

"Thank you sir...eh?"

Saga was halfway through agreeing when he suddenly realized, "Why does this little monk suddenly want to become my disciple?"

Qi Yan quickly patted her shoulder and continued to fool her:

"That's not important. What's important is that I have a gift for you to become my disciple. Please keep it."

Qi Yan tore the air beside him casually, tearing off a piece of Xi's scroll, and then condensed a string of dense words on it with his own blood.

After drafting the Rhodes Island employment contract, Qi Yan directly grabbed Saga's hand, condensed a drop of blood as ink, and helped Saga complete the fingerprint process.

Saga held his employment contract and fell into silence.

Qi Lin and Wu You also came to Qi Yan at this moment. Wu You glanced at the contract and whispered to Qi Yan:

"My benefactor, if you do this, no one will agree, right?

You see this monk girl is silent, she will definitely be angry and refuse, if you want to invite her, let me come..."

"gentlemen!"

Saga suddenly spoke up, with a serious face, "You made a mistake."

Wu You closed his mouth with regret, feeling that Qi Yan's move was a bit too hasty and he had wasted the first impression of their first meeting.

It would probably be even more difficult to invite Saga to join the team next time.

Just as Wu You was secretly regretting, he heard Saga'e's solemn voice:

"The apprenticeship gift should be given by the student to the teacher, not by the teacher to the student. I will go and prepare a apprenticeship gift for you now!"

After saying that, Saga turned and ran away.

Wu You: “…”

Qi Yan smiled evilly: "Do you know what a pure heart is?"

Wu You was silent, then felt a little suffocated and couldn't help but say:

"Is this girl a little silly?"

"This is called great wisdom in disguise!" Qi Yan corrected, "After seeing the fight between Xi and I, she knew she was no match for me. She took the risk to come and dissuade me, but when she found that she couldn't persuade me, she immediately found an excuse to run away...

Oh shit, she's running away?!"