Chapter 372: Wow, You Guys Are Amazing

Lin Xi propped up the charred umbrella handle in his hand, and a layer of oil paper automatically grew on its surface, returning to its original state in the blink of an eye.

"Rose Forest."

Lin Xi murmured. Hundreds of bright red roses bloomed on the umbrella surface, like a fire-red flower cluster blooming in the ruins. Suddenly breaking the shackles of the umbrella surface, countless petals wove into a red dragon, roaring toward the residual image in the sky!

Old Lu raised his hands, and a dense swarm of tiny ants gathered behind him, as if a pair of black wings had grown out of thin air. With a gentle wave, his whole body leaped up!

As for Feng Gui, who was standing at the end, he snorted directly, and his figure instantly turned into hundreds of maple leaves, disappearing from where he was.

These maple leaves rose with the wind, circling the side of Lin Xi's red dragon, like a dark yellow hurricane rolling into the clouds, going to seal the escape path of the residual image!

Lin Xi was the main attacker, Old Lu was the melee fighter, and Feng Gui was the interceptor; although it was the first time the three had cooperated, their attacks were very tacit, as if they had made up their minds to keep Chen Ling here... After all, this guy's methods were too strange. If they missed this opportunity, they didn't know how long it would take to catch him.

This scene, which was like a miracle, fell into the eyes of other guests, and they widened their eyes one after another!

"Sure enough! They are the legendary messengers of the gods!"

"Both the [Circle] and the messengers of the gods have appeared, and three of them appeared at once... What exactly happened to our Willow Town?"

"It should be to catch the madman who went on a killing spree in that theater troupe? I heard that the madman is very powerful."

"It's truly a blessing of three lifetimes to be able to see the legendary messengers of the gods take action..."

"That madman is dead."

“……”

While others were whispering, the four people in Room 301 walked out unhurriedly and stood in a row in the corridor, looking like curious onlookers.

It's just that after they saw the situation on the battlefield, their expressions were a bit subtle...

"Wow, you guys are amazing." The innkeeper stood beside Lin Xi and couldn't help but exclaim.

"Now that person who blew up my room shouldn't be able to fly away, right?"

【Audience Expectation +3】

Lin Xi was holding the oil-paper umbrella, concentrating on controlling the red dragon to hunt down the residual image in the thick smoke, without any intention of answering.

The innkeeper continued to speak incessantly:

"If I stand with you, will I be in danger?"

"What if he wants to kill you? Wouldn't that implicate me? You will protect me, right?"

"By the way, after you catch him, can you make him pay me the renovation fee for the room?"

“……”

"Don't bother me!" Lin Xi couldn't help but turn his head and curse. "Can't you see I'm busy?!"

The innkeeper closed his mouth silently.

As the strong wind gradually weakened, the moving speed of the residual image seemed to gradually decrease, far less flexible than before.

The red dragon woven by roses roared out of the thick smoke, riding the strong wind and biting the residual image in one mouthful. At the same time, Lin Xi's eyes lit up.

"Caught it!"

"Really?" The innkeeper was the first to applaud. "Amazing!"

Although other onlookers couldn't see clearly what happened, seeing the shadow being bitten by the red dragon, they also showed joy on their faces one after another and followed Chen Ling in applauding.

Old Lu waved his black wings and hovered beside the red dragon. Feng Gui, who was on the side, saw Lin Xi capture the target and landed steadily on the roof of a nearby building.

The thick smoke gradually dissipated, and Old Lu saw what was in the red dragon's mouth and was slightly stunned.

"Wait, this is..."

Old Lu pulled that thing out of the red dragon's mouth. The next moment, his expression was extremely ugly!

A bright red adult's bellyband was lying quietly in his palm, and it was even embroidered with a carp blowing bubbles... It's just that the bellyband seemed to have been smoked by smoke for too long; holding it in his hand, it was black in one patch and red in another, looking somewhat inexplicably ridiculous.

The smile on Lin Xi's face froze suddenly.

The onlookers, Passerby A, B, C, and D, also stopped their applause abruptly... They looked at the bellyband blankly, feeling somewhat at a loss for a moment.

"Huh." The innkeeper asked puzzledly, "Why is it a bellyband?"

Once these words were spoken, the inn fell into a dead silence.

Lin Xi's expression changed repeatedly. As if he had remembered something, he roared in a low voice:

"Damn it... that guy has the skill to replace items. Last time he replaced my umbrella with a tree branch! He is playing with us!!"

Old Lu and Feng Gui's expressions were also gloomy enough to drip water. They had taken action with such great fanfare, and in the end, under the eyes of everyone, they only caught a bellyband... Thinking that Chen Ling might be hiding nearby, watching their farce jokingly, they were all quite angry, feeling a burst of anger burning in their chests!

"Seeking death..."

"Teasing us time and time again, do you really think we have no way to deal with you??"

"He must not have gone far!! Search separately!"

"Even if we have to dig three feet into the ground, we must find him!!"

Lin Xi and the others were completely enraged. They had originally intended to follow the vine to find the melon and find Chen Ling in the simplest way, but they didn't expect to fall into Chen Ling's trap time and time again, bumping into a wall... This also showed that Chen Ling had indeed been monitoring them in the dark, and he was definitely not far from here!

Burning with anger, the three chose the simplest and crudest method. Anyway, they had walkie-talkies to contact each other. Once any one of them found Chen Ling's tracks, they could immediately call the other two for support!

The three figures rushed out of the thick smoke one after another and left the inn, leaving only the innkeeper standing alone in the courtyard, with no one caring.

He shook his head, sighed long, and walked toward the lounge alone.

In the rolling thick smoke, his figure appeared particularly lonely, like a middle-aged man who had lost everything, gradually disappearing from everyone's field of vision.

Click—

As he locked the lounge door from the inside, the corners of Chen Ling's mouth rose slightly.

At this moment, the inn had completely lifted its surveillance, and all the ants had been taken away by Old Lu... Under Chen Ling's misleading, they had completely cleared the suspicion of everyone in the inn. After all, before the explosion occurred, everyone was under the surveillance of the ants.

As long as Chen Ling wanted, he could continue to play the role of the innkeeper until the [Circle] disappeared, and no one would suspect him again;

But he didn't intend to hide like this forever.

His feint just now had easily tricked the three into using their ultimate moves. Chen Ling had a basic understanding of their respective strengths and skills, and since Floating Life Painting wanted to catch a turtle in a jar, Chen Ling would make them pay the price.

It was time for the identities of prey and hunter to be reversed.

As he tore at his chin with his fingertips, a face skin drifted into the void. Chen Ling returned to his original appearance, wearing a bright red opera robe, and leaped lightly from the window onto the narrow road, walking toward the distance unhurriedly.

At the same time, the ledger on the inn's counter was blown by the breeze and turned gently to the next page...

On that page, there was only a simple line of characters:

【Afternoon, 13:45, thick fog rises】