My Zombie Husband

Chapter 102: A Letter From Military Counsellor

Translator: LiamHW

Mu Feng held the red chess on hands for a moment and looked at Cao Pi in puzzlement. He got an unspeakable feeling that Cao Pi had other intentions in his words. But then he was forced by Cao Pi to have no way out of retreat, leaving only one Mandarin and one Elephant and one rook to across the boundary. As for the pawns, he got no idea when he got only two left , which hadn’t crossed the boundary.

It was quite a long while that Cao Pi accompanied with Mu Feng to play the chess, and finally he forced Mu Feng to have nowhere to go and was about to win the game, “Checkmate.”

“Oh, I lost.” Mu Feng shrugged and smiled, “Chairman Cao, you are way intellectual. I’m impressed.”

At the end of the game, Zhao Yun and Guo Jia also happened to come down from the roof. Seeing the two coming over, Mu Feng asked, “How’s it going? Is the astrology thing reliable? Did you find the location of Xiaoyu?”

Zhao Yun’s got his expression changed all of a sudden, saying, “He said that he is not in this world.”

“What the…?” said Mu Feng, he couldn’t even believe what Zhao Yun had just said, and turned to Guo Jia, who innocently spread his hand, saying, “I have tried my best. The astrology shows that the young boy is not in this world, so I can’t find his whereabouts.”

“Not in this world? Are you going to tell me that he has crossed the space to somewhere unknown? Or was… was he passed away?” asked Mu Feng, he scratched the back of his head in a dismal way, and the one thing that annoyed them most in the explanation of not being in this world was that Xia Mingyu was dead. However, the blood contract did not get any influence or just disappear, so it shouldn’t be so. Or maybe Xia Mingyu had really crossed the space to another world. But this didn’t make any sense at all…

Guo Jia naturally sat next to Cao Cao and serve the tea to his master while comforting the two, “Don’t worry too much. The crossing space thing might not be true at the moment. As for the death of him, that would also be not the truth. Maybe there’s something wrong with the astrology. The fate of the heaven soul is not easy to read. So I can’t be that confident about everything.”

Zhao Yun nodded and showed his agreement to Guo Jia, while Cao Cao motioned to Xia Houdun to deliver a letter over, and Zhao Yun took it and asked, “What is this?”

“Ma Tianxing from the Ma Family gave us the letter when we left the tomb of Ma Chao, and he hoped that we could hand it to you.” explained Xia Houdun, they had not opened the letter, and that they did not need to open it when they were in the boundary of the King of Zombie, and they could see the contents of it when they took it.

However, the letter was not the same, as if there were any restrictions, Guo Jia looked at it and said it was probably written by Zhu Geliang, and they didn’t go to see it.

Zhao Yun couldn’t see the contents of the letterhead as well. and then put it away instead of figuring out the way to open it. Mu Feng probably knew the letter was important and immediately got up and said goodbye to the rest, saying, “Ah, since that’s the case, then we’ll try our best to find him. See you next time! Zilong, Zilong, let’s go.”

Zhao Yun nodded, and then two of them went downstairs by the elevator, Xia Houyuan looked at the numbers of the elevator with displeasure, and then he spoke to Cao Pi, saying, “Master, we just let them go?”

“Yeah.” Cao Cao drank the tea, as his fingers knocked on the table. Guo Jia uttered on behalf of Cao Cao, saying, “It’s nothing important. We can’t even decode the letter and it’s useless to keep it. However, it seems that Zhu Gekuabg is just like us, he probably uses some dirty tricks somewhere we don’t know.”

“Then Zhao Zilong is indeed a kind of jerk. Master treated him not bad, but he isn’t grateful to that.” complained Xia Houyuan, but then he was glanced at by Cao Pi, who was in anger, “Keep your mouth shut, there’s always something you as a follower shouldn’t know. What my father did was surely a decision of intelligence.”

Xia Hou Yuan clenched his fist and didn’t dare to talk back but lowered his head to admit his fault, saying, “Yes, Your Highness. I’ve been misbehaved.”

“Compared with General Guan, General Zhao seems to be more sensible and vigilant . It is not easy for such a person to perfunctory or muddle through.” uttered Guo Jia, who smiled and continued to say, “If, I mean, master, if you want to buy off Zhao Yun as a subordinate. I would advice you to focus on Xia Mingyu.”

“Oh? You got a plan?” Cao Cao raised his eyebrows and asked, while Guo Jia used his fan to cover and then approached to Cao Cao, he said in a light tone in Cao’s ear, “As long as you believe in me, I won’t make you disappointed. Besides the astrology I know, I am quite good at bewitching people.”

“Ah, then, I trust you.” replied Cao Cao, and Guo Jia thought of something for a while, then said again, “There’s another thing. I did get news when I mentioned your Highness Zijian last time. Luohe is where the Luo Shen is. His soul must be trapped by Luo Shen.”

“Luo Shen? … Oh, it’s just an ordinary woman. It was such a shame for Zijian to be enchanted by a woman.” Cao Pi snorted coldly, he didn’t hate Cao Zhi, but he felt that Cao Zhi was too accommodating to Luo Shen. In his opinion, if he was infatuated with someone or something, he would just rob it and possess, and that would be a silly to waste time to chase. And at the very end, Cao Zhi did not get anything back but regretted till they were separated life and death.

Cao Pi recalled the time when they both met Luo Shen, he did get enchanted by her beauty too, so that time he would pit against Cao Zhi for the girl, and he never lost since they were younger, because Cao Zhi got a softer heart than him… But he drove Cao Zhi to death.

“Ttsu…” Cao Pi got up and left with annoyance, saying, “Father, I’ll go out for a while.”

“Yuanrang, Miaocai, I would like to order you two to Luohe.” Cao Cao spoke lightly. Xia Houdun and Xia Houyuan got the order and then leave, Guo Jia approached and pinched Cao Cao’s shoulder for him, “Your Highness Zihuan is still as awkward as ever.”

“It was because I over-spoiled Zijian .” Cao Cao closed his eyes and continued to said, “It’s a pity, I didn’t expect that Zijian would make a big mistake for that woman, and at the end he lost his life.”

“Take it easy, master.” Guo Jia smiled calmly, “We need that boy to save the young master Zijian. So we only need to wait until Zhao Yun takes back Xia Mingyu, at that time young master will be saved and get his life back.”

“Blood of the heaven soul. Fortunately, the heaven soul of this term is still young and childish. Otherwise, I’m afraid it will wait for the next round again.”

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When the two returned to the apartment, Sun Yaxin and others hadn’t come back yet. While Mu Feng called and was about to tell them about the situation there, Zhao Yun pinched the letterhead and turned on his spiritual power to the maximum, aiming to crack the restriction on the letterhead.

But that restriction was rather strange that using spiritual power to break wasn’t an intellectual choice. Zhao Yun failed to crack the first time, so he couldn’t help thinking about the secret language on the bark in Ma Chao’s tomb. Could it be the same mechanism as the one in the tomb, which required him to decode.

Zhao Yun tried to imbue spiritual power with a secret language into the letterhead, the action did cause a resonance from it, but did not crack. It seemed that it also required some certain words.

It was just like a decoding process, which required the opener to calm down to figure out, Zhao Yun sat down and tried one after another. Since he found the rule of the cyphers, he quickly unlocked the restriction on the letterhead, and when Mu Feng came in, he was unsealing the letter.

“Hey, is it opened?” asked Mu Feng, and Zhao Yun nodded, he took out a small orange glaze from the letterhead, and a letter out of the coverage. What was written on the paper wasn’t in some secret languages, but the modern words instead. It was also easy to read for Mu Feng.

“Broken glaze? Is this one little thing able to break the space and transport us to other space? You gotta be kidding me. Isn’t this the luxury equipment that you got only after you invest money to become a VIP?” Mu Feng spoke in a teasing tone, “Zilong, are you sure Zhu Geliang will give you something like this? I don’t believe it.”

“If it was really from counsellor of the military, it would definitely be possible.” said Zhao Yun, who didn’t find it funny. Since the previous experience of decoding the secret language of State Shu, he had already learned the real message Zhu Geliang wanted to convey to him. He knew exactly that this piece of broken glaze would help him a lot. As long as he tried to contact with Xia Mingyu using the blood contract next time, he could use his spiritual power to initiate the glaze, and then used it to get to Xia Mingyu.

Mu Feng bit his nails and showed his disbelief, asking, “Are you sure it was Zhu Geliang who gave it to you? Do you believe him that much? Or it might be the trick of Cao Cao.”

“It’s impossible. There is a secret language in Shu State on this. No one knows the characters except the ones from Shu State.” retorted Zhao Yun, and then he looked at the broken glaze continued to say, “The letter conveyed us an information that when there is no moon hanging in the sky, the broken glaze can be initiated to break the space. I will try it tonight.”

“So urgent?” Mu Feng was surprised and said. Even if Zhao Yun was worried about Xia Mingyu, he wouldn’t trust something that was unknown, but now he was… Mu Feng continued to say, “Zilong, why don’t we wait a few more days. We can’t believe that all we heard from Guo Jia. You don’t have to take risks.”

Zhao Yun shook his head and his mind was full of determination with his red pupils firm and sharp, saying, “I will find Xiaoyu. I don’t know what the evil soul wants to do with Xiaoyu. To that end, I can’t be at ease.”

“Alright then … Try it tonight.” said Mu Feng, who noticed that he couldn’t persuade the man who was so determined, so he had to give up and said, “We got no ideas of what Wu Jiuge was thinking. Alas, Xiaoyu is the same, stubborn enough. Why didn’t he tell us the truth?”

Zhao Yun put the broken glaze into his pocket, but as he listened what Mu Feng said just now, he got unhappy expression again on his face, looking somewhat lost, saying, “Maybe… Xiaoyu really doesn’t trust me… After all, I… I can’t protect him so well along the way.”

Mu Feng put his hand on Zhao Yun’s shoulder naturally and comforted, saying, “It can’t be blamed for you either. We are not that kind of superpower to guess everything of Xiaoyu since he is kind of introverted. Maybe Wu Jiuge just happened to know, Cao Pi also knows the fact of Xiaoyu being as a heaven soul? Perhaps he just didn’t want to bring any troubles to us. So he would rather keep his mouth shut over the matter.”

Zhao Yun nodded but didn’t answer.

As the day had reached its close, Sun Yaxin and the others came back to the apartment. He Nai looked rather depressed because they still hadn’t got any news from Wu Jiuge. The boy just disappeared without any reasons as if he had evaporated from this world. Even Ba Wei and his loyal cats couldn’t find any trace of his.

“Meow! I’m so annoyed. Where did that that witchy boy hide?” uttered Ba Wei, as he felt quite hot and protruded his tongue out and slapped his claws on Wangchuan’s shoulder: “Whoa, Wangchuan, I’m boiling. Help me take a shower.”

“Hmm? Oh, okay.” Wangchuan promised, and then went upstairs, He Nai was on the sofa and shouted at Mu Feng with great distress, “Master, why doesn’t Senior Brother care about me? Shi Ba always dominates Senior Brother and doesn’t let him go, so that Senior Brother doesn’t care about me anymore. I’m so annoyed! Xiaoyu isn’t there too, even he was here, he would stay with Brother Zhao instead of me, why can’t I feel the charm of being a beauty that attracts all kinds of males?”

Mu Feng wiped a handful of sweat, seeing Zhao Yun go upstairs with awkward expression, he coughed lightly and touched his nose and said, “Hmm, Nai Nai, you’ve already won in life, haven’t you noticed?”

“Have I?” He Nai blinked and said, and looked at Mu Feng with great expectation, while Mu Feng slipped and almost fell, helped the sofa next to him to sit down, and looked at He Nai seriously and said, “Yeah, look around you, you’ve got group of hot guys surround. Aren’t you the winner of life? You’ve got types of supercilious one, abstinence one, lovely one, tsundere one, and prince one. But most importantly, I, as your master, am type of bossy one. You’ve got all tastes, aren’t you satisfied yet?”