After complaining secretly in her heart, A Ping looked into his eyes and replied: "You should go and eat by yourself. Do you need me to lead the way?"
Hearing these words, Xuanjie immediately became vigilant and took a few steps back, keeping a safe distance from Aping.
"Wait...are you sure you want to take me to eat?"
Ever since I ate a steamed bun from A Ping's hand, I have mentioned it frequently, but every time I got scolded.
This time he was prepared to be scolded as a habit, but these unexpected words suddenly came out, making him feel that a crisis was coming.
Seeing Xuanjie's cautious look, Aping almost couldn't hold back her laughter.
Haha, isn’t this guy shouting to go every day? Why does he have such an expression? It’s not because he’s afraid that I’ll poison him.
Seeing her suppressed smile, Xuan Jie suddenly felt bad and was about to run away.
"Uh... I suddenly remembered that I still have something to do, so I'll leave first... eh!"
Just when he was about to run away, A Ping rolled up her sleeves to reveal Bai Zhe's arm, and grabbed Xuan Jie's clothes so that he couldn't get away.
"Hey, why are you running away? Are you still afraid that I will eat you? After all, you are the God of Elements, can you be kind to me?"
The two of them pulled together like this and headed towards the city-state established by the Rock King.
A stone city rose from the ground on the desolate plain, and the sounds of human play continued to be heard from inside.
The devil inherently loves his people. Although Xuanjie did not enclose the land and lead his people as king, he still fell into this prosperous scene and was unable to extricate himself.
Children were playing and playing on the stone-paved streets. There were teams of armored men patrolling the road. When they saw A Ping, they would stop and salute. This is the most basic respect for the immortals.
"How about it? The city-state established by the emperor is not bad. There is a tower over there responsible for detecting the enemy's situation. I usually go there to take a look when I have nothing to do."
A Ping led Xuan Jie to the cave house built on the mountain wall, introducing the buildings here along the way.
The tower she was talking about was built on top of the city wall, so that it could be detected immediately if there was an enemy attack or a monster intrusion.
The cave house located on the mountain wall was built by the immortals themselves, and A Ping needs to use the immortal power to open it before entering. This is usually a place where important matters are discussed with the Rock King.
"Ping'er, why don't you bring me here? If you have something to do, I can wait for you outside, or you can throw me in the kitchen... Eh!"
A Ping ignored him, released her immortal power, opened the door of the cave, and dragged him in directly.
"What nonsense are you talking about? It's the emperor who wants to see you. Once the matter is settled, the boss will take care of it."
Emperor Yanwang wants to see me!
After hearing A Ping's words, Xuan Jie immediately stopped and refused to move forward.
"I don't want to see that old man! I will never be able to talk to him..."
How could A Ping give up after everyone was brought in, so she grabbed his wrist tightly and tried to drag him into the discussion room.
"You are obviously afraid that the emperor will pursue your behavior of stealing lotus roots and sneaking into the kitchen to eat steamed buns a few times before!"
The two of them were just arguing in the hall, completely lacking the magnanimity that immortals and demons should have.
"I know you won't let me go yet? Do you think I have to ask you to let me go?"
During the fight, a slight cough broke the deadlock, and A Ping was frightened and quickly let go.
Xuanjie lost his balance and fell heavily onto the wooden floor.
There are many wooden tables and chairs in the hall, and each table is equipped with a teapot. This is a place for chatting.
There are several paintings hanging on the walls. The paintings have golden light emitted by the reaction of the immortal power. They should all be extraordinary.
"Emperor...Your Majesty, I brought...the person back!"
A Ping blushed and finished speaking, and hurriedly hid behind a white crane as tall as a man.
The King of Rocks wears a white cloak, although he still wears the hat on the cloak in the room.
He nodded and said "Thank you for your hard work" and walked towards Xuan Jie who was lying on the ground and stroking the back of his head.
"Wow...why did you let go suddenly? It hurts...ugh!"
Xuan Jie, who was still complaining at first, quickly adjusted himself and stood up slowly after feeling the tall man beside him.
"Haha, the weather is nice today... Well, I heard that you were looking for me. Do you have anything important to discuss?"
After hearing Xuan Jie's words, Emperor Yanwang just chuckled and did not respond in a hurry. He waved his hand and summoned a woman holding a ledger.
She is the accountant responsible for recording grain output and warehousing it. She was recently assigned a task, which was to record the items stolen by Xuan Jie.
After bowing to the Emperor Yanwang to show courtesy, he took out the account book and read out everything recorded on it.
"Since the record was started three months ago, the God of Elements has sneaked into the kitchen twelve times and lost a total of thirty-eight steamed buns and thirteen meat buns.
In the lotus root paddy field, as long as the God of Elements passes by, some lotus roots will be lost, and there are only twenty-six lost ones that have been confirmed."
The report ended here. Just as Xuan Jie was about to retort, he heard a cough.
"Ahem... that," A Ping raised her hand carefully and said softly: "It should be twenty-seven. He picked another one today."
After saying that, he retracted his body to avoid looking into Xuan Jie's eyes.
"You... huh, I was thirsty when I passed by today. It shouldn't matter if I pick one to eat. After all, we are all old friends. As for the others... you can't make arbitrary accusations without real evidence."
Originally there were many people gathered in the hall, but they were all cleared out by the immortals.
The demon gods are so shameless and shameless that they have no shame to look at them, let alone the humans who are being protected.
Emperor Yanwang did not show any anger because of this, but instead smiled unusually calmly.
"Haha, it doesn't matter if Brother Xuanjie doesn't recognize it. It's just that from today on, special personnel will be assigned to guard the kitchen and the lotus root pond, so that the 'rats' can be kept out."
This move of Emperor Yanwang can be said to have accurately pinched Xuanjie's pulse, forcing him to reorganize his language.
Damn it...he actually did this!
"Ahem," he covered his mouth and coughed awkwardly, then slowly said under the disdainful gazes of the immortals: "Well... you definitely didn't call me here to settle accounts, why don't we talk about other things?
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Seeing this scene, A Ping could only stroke her forehead and smile helplessly.
"Although I had expected it, you are the only one who can be so careless about face. This is an indirect admission of those behaviors..."
Two strands of blue hair fell down her cheeks. Although Aping looked a little helpless, her rippling eyes could not be hidden.
The emperor chuckled lightly and extended his hand to invite Xuanjie into the conference room.
There is a rectangular table in the middle of the conference room. This is an area where the immortals temporarily discuss countermeasures. Mortals are not allowed to enter unless it is urgent.