Hell Emperor

Chapter 22 Nan ​​Linghe - Answer

After returning to the wine country, Ye Jie had a wooden box next to him. As soon as he entered the hall, he saw Nan Linghe waiting anxiously in the corner.

"Woo... Brother Jie, I'm so scared."

Seeing Ye Jie return, Nan Linghe immediately came up to him, still with some lingering fear on his face, staring at Ye Jie with watery eyes.

"Don't worry, you are safe, he will never trouble you again." Ye Jie raised his eyebrows and said.

"That's great..." Nan Linghe patted her chest. Since Ye Jie said so, she could also put her mind at ease. Her eyes could not help but glance at the wooden box next to Ye Jie, "Brother Jie, why did you bring a box back?"

Ye Jie smiled: "This is a gift for you, open it and take a look."

"Gift?" Nan Linghe blinked, and the worry just now was instantly filled with unknown surprises. Although she didn't know what kind of gift Brother Jie brought back, she was very happy no matter what kind of gift it was.

Nan Linghe opened the wooden box, and saw a wide and round solemn stone platform made of high-quality black jade in the middle. The surface of the stone platform was glittering and translucent, smooth and delicate to the touch, and the edges were engraved with exquisite carvings. The appearance was extraordinary. If you carefully sensed it, you could also sense the amazing flow of spiritual power from the stone platform.

"Is this... a stone platform for exercising power?" Nan Linghe covered her mouth and exclaimed, her surprise was beyond words. Her face flushed, and she looked at Ye Jie with tender eyes, "Brother Jie, the stone platform for exercising power is very expensive, right?"

Ye Jie waved his hand and smiled: "Speaking of which, this is all thanks to the boy who came to trouble you. In order to express his apology to you, he had to give me all the Yin De on his body, and I couldn't stop him."

Nan Linghe opened his eyes wide and nodded repeatedly: "He is quite good!"

Ye Jie moved the stone platform and soon returned to the basement with Nan Linghe.

As soon as she entered the door, Nan Linghe noticed something different. When she left, there were still a lot of discarded items piled up in the basement, which looked very messy. Now it has become brand new. The piles of garbage have disappeared, and the dust and cobwebs have been swept away. The old and broken brick and tile walls have also been covered with a layer of new mud, which looks very neat at a glance.

Nan Linghe was slightly stunned by all the changes. She thought she had come to the wrong place until she saw the wooden table used to grind ink not long ago, and the four spirit stones placed next to it. Then she came to her senses and realized that she had returned home.

"Brother Jie, did you do this?" Nan Linghe looked at Ye Jie with more and more surprise.

Ye Jie laughed: "Since you said this is home, then of course it should look like home. How can it be too dirty and messy?"

Ye Jie looked around and chose the south side with the best feng shui. He put down the stone platform for training. After a careful inspection, he said:

"This is the first piece of furniture we have added. It is worthy of being worth 50,000 Yin De. It is a stone platform for training to assist in cultivation. As long as you sit on it and circulate spiritual power, you can speed up your practice by 30%. Maybe the effect cannot be compared with directly absorbing the spiritual power from the spiritual stone, but it can be used for a long time. Don't think that it only speeds up by 30%. In the long run, it can also save a lot of time for practice."

After putting the stone platform for training, Ye Jie looked at Nan Linghe again, but saw that the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned. In her bright and clear eyes, there was a deep smile that could not be dissolved. She couldn't help asking:

"Speaking of which... I don't know the results of the imperial examination yet. Did you pass?"

"Yes! I passed!" Nan Linghe nodded repeatedly, and the waterfall-like black hair hanging on her shoulders trembled.

When talking about the test results, Nan Linghe couldn't help puffing up his lips, his nose tilted up, and he looked quite unconvinced:

"I thought I could answer at least six questions correctly, but I only got three right... What are gold, wood, water, fire and earth? What are the five elements? There are three similar questions, and I got them all wrong..."

"What are you talking about?" Ye Jie was stunned, with a bit of confusion in his eyes, "Show me the test paper quickly."

After opening the test paper, he saw that he got the first three questions right, but the last four questions were all wrong. Nan Linghe couldn't help but tilt his head: "How come I got the first three questions right? Did I get questions 4, 5 and 6 wrong? It's impossible... It must be the invigilator who made a mistake!"

Seeing that Nan Linghe was sure that his answer was correct, Ye Jie was also quite helpless: "Wait a minute... Didn't I tell you that if you have questions you don't know, just ask the dice?"

Nan Linghe opened his eyes wide : "But the answer of the dice is wrong!"

"What?" Ye Jie's mouth twitched, "Tell me, why is the answer of the dice wrong."

Nan Linghe pointed to the fourth question on the test paper, took out two dice and threw them on the table, but saw that there was no point on the two dice, and couldn't help asking Ye Jie: "Brother Jie, did you see it? How could the answer to this question be zero?"

Ye Jie held his forehead: "The answer to this question is really zero."

Nan Linghe didn't believe it, and read the question: "There is a cannibal in Dongsheng Shenzhou, which needs to eat a living person every day. It now has seven heads, eight bodies, twelve arms, and twenty-two feet... With so much food, how can it not be full in a day?"

Ye Jie patiently explained: "The purpose of this question is to tell you that the monsters in the east are cruel, choose people to eat, and only eat living people. No matter how many corpses are given to them, they will not eat them. There is no living person in the question, isn't it zero?"

Nan Linghe opened his mouth wide, uttered an "ah", and looked at the next question. He threw the dice at the same time. The two dice added up to only one point: "What about this question? There are zombies in Xiniu Hezhou. Three zombies need one incense stick of time to eat three people. Nine zombies eat nine people. Isn't it three incense sticks of time? Or...actually nine incense sticks of time?"

Ye Jie's eyes twitched: "The purpose of this question is to tell you that the monsters in the west are strange. In addition to zombies and living skeletons, there are also werewolves and vampires. The beast-shaped hall master and the blood pool hall master of the Western Yama Hall are the monsters of those two races. As for the answer... even if a hundred zombies eat a hundred people, it only takes one incense stick of time. They start eating at the same time, not one by one."

After Ye Jie's explanation, Nan Linghe also showed a deep and thoughtful look, but there was still something unsolved in his heart: " What if a zombie eats very slowly? "

Ye Jie took a deep breath: "...You should look at the next question quickly."

"Next question..."

Nan Linghe threw the dice again, and this time both dice were four. She put her hands on her waist and said confidently: "Isn't the answer to this question four? There is a one-legged mandrill in Northern Juluzhou. It goes to the market to buy shoes. A pair of shoes sells for eight copper coins. It only needs to buy one, isn't it four copper coins?"

"...You only buy one shoe?" Ye Jie was almost defeated by her. "The purpose of this question is to tell you that the immortal gate in the north is powerful. Even monsters have to keep their tails between their legs. People buy a pair of shoes, and monsters also have to buy a pair of shoes. Even one-legged monsters are no exception, so the answer is eight copper coins. "

After listening to Ye Jie's explanation, Nan Linghe looked at the test paper, then looked at the dice next to him, and couldn't help but cover her mouth and exclaimed.

"So, the answers given by the dice are all correct." Her eyes were filled with astonishment and disbelief, "What kind of magic weapon is this? It's so powerful!"

Ye Jie almost couldn't breathe: "It's not that the dice are powerful, it's that you are very powerful, but you perfectly missed the correct answer... In short, if you encounter this kind of question again in the future, don't think about it, just believe in the dice."

Nan Linghe nodded slightly, picked up the spirit stone on the table beside him, and handed it to Ye Jie with both hands: "Brother Jie gave me such a powerful dice magic weapon, I, I have nothing to give in return, only these few spirit stones, I hope Brother Jie doesn't dislike it."

"...I said it was just an ordinary dice."

No matter how Ye Jie explained, Nan Linghe didn't believe it at all, and had to force the spirit stones over.

Ye Jie couldn't refuse, so he had to accept three spirit stones reluctantly. Nan Linghe, beaming with joy, then put the dice close to her body as if it were a treasure. Now, even if Ye Jie wanted to get the dice back, it would be impossible.

After a break, Ye Jie reminded her: "Since you have successfully passed the imperial examination, now go to Guangwang Palace and become a formal ghost messenger!"