Chapter 51: Captured Cicada Wings
At this moment, a huge amount of heat and light gave her a unique and mysterious visual impact.

After Wei Canghao was restrained for a few seconds, in the midst of dust and sparks, he ignored the risk of being burned, took a step forward, and dragged her out of the cabin.

She was very light, so she leaned forward with the strength of his arms, and the two of them ran in the corridor that was mostly engulfed by flames.

Xu Shanshan looked at his resolute and cold profile, the deep outline as if carved by a knife. As he ran, a salty sea breeze blew into the cabin from the aisle, and their clothes and hair were blown up, fluttering in the wind, entangled and stuck together.

If you really encounter such a situation, it would be quite beautiful and thrilling, but what if everything is an illusion?

She lowered her eyelashes, the smile on her lips deepened slightly, and with a snap of her fingers -

All illusions suddenly faded, the fiery red colors and the brilliant sparks disappeared from my eyes, and all the perceived heat, scorching heat, and suffocating smoke suddenly faded and disappeared.

The dim corridor, the fishy air, the dry and smooth cabin, the wooden walls and ceiling were intact...

Wei Canghao's rushing body suddenly stopped.

The boatmen and soldiers outside who were carrying buckets and basins of water went from being busy pouring water and putting out the fire in a panic to staring in shock in just a moment.

The fire was clearly about to burn to the bow, but it disappeared without a trace in an instant. All the previous changes seemed like they were just having a very realistic and thrilling nightmare.

"what happened?"

"I, I don't know either. I clearly saw a huge fire just now..."

"Damn it, I saw that too."

"We all saw it..."

After a long while, Wei Canghao let go of Xu Shanshan's hand, and before he could ask any more questions, he said, "It was the King of Jin. He invited the evil master to help Liao Wenchang succeed."

"Evil master?" Wei Canghao seemed to be thinking about something.

Xu Shanshan tucked the loose hair behind her ears, revealing her jade-like face. Her dark eyes met his gaze and said, "A group of occult masters who have learned crooked ways. They can manipulate people's hearts and confuse their eyes. Those with advanced skills can kill people thousands of miles away."

Wei Canghao's response to the situation just now was consistent with the "evil master" she mentioned.

Xu Shanshan stopped talking, and Wei Canghao did not continue asking anxiously. He was calm and deep in mind. Now that everything had been explained, he turned his head with a stern look that was extremely majestic.

"What are you all standing there for? Don't you know what to do?"

"Yes, I'm sorry, Master Wei. We will search the ship immediately."

The soldiers who had gathered together on the boat dispersed in a hurry. When it was quiet and there was no one around, Wei Canghao did not ask her anything anymore, but returned to the room where she had just lived.

Inside, everything was the same as before, except that the porthole was open and a man in a black cloak was lying on the ground.

His eyes deepened, he lifted up his robe, squatted down, and stretched out his finger to feel its breath.

"How did the person die?"

Xu Shanshan stood by the door and listened to his question before saying, "He probably committed suicide."

"To send oneself to death" and "to commit suicide" have similar meanings.

Wei Canghao stood up, looked around the room, and then turned back to look at her.

"Xu Shanshan, since the evil master appeared in your room, you should not have panicked at all, and you even had the energy to control everything." The room was not big, but every furnishing inside was neatly kept in its original place.

But when faced with a sudden intruder, the first reaction of an ordinary woman is either to scream or to resist with all her might...

But in fact, when he broke in, she was calm and composed in the "fire", not even a strand of her hair was messy. The evil master who was said to be very vicious had died before he could do anything.

Although it was somewhat contrary to common sense, it only meant that as soon as the other party appeared, he had been subdued by her before he could do anything.

This man is indeed not easy to fool. He is extremely smart and can reconstruct the truth from any clues. He is also very rational and will not be deviated from the most appropriate judgment by emotions and arrogance.

"Besides, this evil master should have come just for you."

The center of the "fire" originated from this room, and the evil master did not go anywhere else, but came to her residence accurately. His goal was so clear that it did not seem like he had chosen it randomly or accidentally.

"Probably so."

Xu Shanshan did not deny his speculation.

Wei Canghao looked at her with a frown on his face, as if he had been feeling uneasy for a long time. "Can't you just behave yourself?"

His meaning was easy to understand. She did not cultivate virtues in her daily life and only did evil things. Not only was she arrested by the county magistrate and imprisoned in Hei Dao to serve her sentence, she also attracted an evil master who chased her for thousands of miles. Was she a born criminal?
Xu Shanshan: “…” I really can’t.

What she was about to do was no exaggeration to say that she was going to poke a big hole in the sky. A man like him who was self-disciplined, dedicated to public service, praised the good and condemned the evil, would surely not be able to understand her actions and would only think that "people with different philosophies cannot work together".

"Although the evil master came to test my background tonight, Wei Canghao, he didn't come for me in the first place. I see that your forehead is black, and I'm afraid that you will be in danger of a bloody disaster soon..."

When Wei Canghao heard this familiar opening line of a scam, he interrupted her in confusion: "You've been sentenced, but you still don't want to give up this scam?"

Xu Shanshan was silent for a second, then he sighed and said, "If I don't do this, how can I survive? After all, I haven't learned any other skills to rely on."

Wei Canghao had also long seen through that "Xu Shanshan" was lazy, greedy for pleasure, and not a down-to-earth person.

She said this just to excuse herself.

"Xu Shanshan, you still have the ability to protect yourself thanks to the backup plan left by the divine fortune teller, but if you continue to act lawless and disobey the law, you will suffer the consequences sooner or later."

He didn't believe that "Xu Shanshan" could solve the problem of the evil master, so he thought that the fortune teller must have left her some life-saving item.

"My master did leave me some powerful things. The mystical arts used by evil masters are beyond the ability of ordinary people to decipher. For example, the illusion this time. Why don't you hire me as a ship escort and I will help you deal with these evil masters?"

Didn't he think she wasn't doing her job? Now that she had "turned over a new leaf" and was looking for another escort job, he would no longer view her as a monster.

Unexpectedly, Wei Canghao flatly refused: "If you are short of money, then find another job. The lives of the people on my ship are also lives."

Xu Shanshan: “…”

What does this mean?
Are you so stubborn?

It can be seen that Wei Canghao really dislikes "Xu Shanshan". Various strong labels such as "resistance", "rejection" and "don't get close to me" can be clearly seen on him.

But when he left, he closed the porthole for her and took the cold body with him...

Maomao doesn't understand Wei Canghao at all. Is this a case of saying one thing and doing another?

"Shan, why do I feel that this guy named Wei is quite strange? He has saved you, protected you, and cared for you many times, but he won't allow you to get close to him?"