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But... now that she's fallen, this method of relaying a distress signal is no longer viable.

Qiu Tu must go to Dongcheng, to Zhao Ji's territory, which is Dongcheng, and then try to summon Zhao Ji using the method taught by La Riluo...

After carefully memorizing how to contact Zhao Ji, Qiu Tu tentatively inquired about other information.

He asked, "Your Highness, what if Princess Zhao Ji doesn't believe me?"

Do you have any tokens or anything that can prove our identities?

Upon hearing Qiu Tu's words, La Riluo, trapped in the shackles of her soul and resembling an adorable music box princess, rolled her eyes dramatically. She said speechlessly, "Do I look like someone who could possess a token right now?"

"The method I just told you is a way of communicating that is unique to the two of us."

"If you contact her through this method, she won't disbelieve you."

After saying that, perhaps realizing she was now relying on Qiu Tu and should respect his opinions, she paused for a moment, then added, "Yueyue, when I was little, I liked to call her Sister Yueyue..."

"This is a name that only the two of us know."

Upon hearing this, Qiu Tu asked curiously, "Does this name have any significance?"

Larilu said nonchalantly, "What other reason could there be? My name has the character '日' (sun) in the middle. Her character '曌' (moon) has the character '月' (moon) in it. So that's what we call her."

Larilu explained it very simply, but Qiu Tu silently memorized it.

Next, Qiu Tu tentatively inquired about other clues and topics related to La Riluo.

Qiu Tu didn't end the conversation until he had made La Rilu sleepy. Only then did he belatedly realize that it was already dark...

Have we been chatting for this long?

Thinking this, Qiu Tu packed up La Ri Luo.

Qiu Tu closed the interrogation record book in his hand. He walked to the bedside, looked at the azure moon outside the window, and then estimated the time.

Dongcheng District and New Territories City are not far apart; it should only take three and a half hours to drive along the main road.

So... he'll definitely have enough for tonight's round trip. At worst, he'll just have to stay up all night.

Thinking this through, Qiu Tu didn't delay. He called Tan Huimin, and together they went downstairs, drove to buy the items needed for the ceremony, and then... headed towards the East District...

...

At 8 p.m., the two arrived in Dongcheng City.

Because his visit was for "private business," Qiu Tu didn't alert anyone.

He only wanted to come quietly and leave quietly, without anyone noticing.

After asking a few locals, Qiu Tu and Tan Huimin arrived at the most luxurious rooftop hotel in Dongcheng City.

They booked a suite at the hotel, and Qiu Tu and Tan Huimin, amidst the hotel staff's smirking expressions, "eagerly" went to their room...

Upon entering the room, Qiu Tu instructed Tan Huimin to stand guard in the outer room. He himself began the ritual in the bedroom...

Qiu Tu first took out four white candles and placed them in the four corners of the room.

Then he lit 12 incense sticks, put them in the incense burner, and placed them by the window in the room.

Immediately afterwards, he walked around the bed three times counterclockwise, and then twice clockwise.

Finally, he whispered three times, "Zhao Ji... Zhao Ji... Zhao Ji..."

In fact, Qiu Tu was tense throughout the ceremony, his gaze fixed on the upper left corner.

He had already made preparations: if a crisis countdown began, he would immediately stop the ceremony.

Fortunately, the ritual has continued until now, and the sense of crisis has not been triggered.

So Qiu Tu breathed a slight sigh of relief. He climbed onto the bed and, following the last step taught by La Riluo, found a spot in the exact center of the room before slowly lying down...

Strangely enough, as Qiu Tu lay down, the white candles in the four corners of the dark room suddenly burst into flame with a "whoosh!"

The pale blue flame leaped three feet high, casting countless tentacle-like shadows throughout the room.

Qiu Tu also felt as if his body had lost its weight. He was clearly lying on the bed, but... when he was tilted 180 degrees, he continued to fall.

Finally, he stood upside down in that illusory space, head down and body up.

I don't know how much time passed; it might have been a minute, or it might have been seven or eight minutes.

A cold voice, one that Qiu Tu had heard before, rang in Qiu Tu's ear: "Who are you?"

Upon hearing this, Qiu Tu replied, "I am... your brother-in-law."

Zehime: ? ?

Silence fell in the darkness for a moment...

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Chapter 309 La Riluo is My Woman (10,000 words, please vote!)

Qiu Tu wasn't teasing Zhao Ji on purpose; he had his own agenda.

During this time, in his interactions with Larilu, he discovered a very important issue:

Even someone as important as Old Master Qin, and someone as important as Jia Wei, were discarded or sold off by La Riluo without hesitation.

This shows that although the evil god treats believers as a source of power and a tool for his descent, he doesn't really value them.

This may be because the power of evil gods originates from themselves, and the help they receive from believers is not that great.

Therefore, if Qiu Tu tells Zhao Ji that he is a follower of La Ri Luo, then to a great evil god like Zhao Ji, it's equivalent to Qiu Tu introducing himself as: I am La Ri Luo's disposable sex item.

Therefore, after Qiu Tu devised the plan to deceive Zhao Ji, he figured out what identity he should use.

After much deliberation, he felt that the role of Larilu's partner was the most suitable.

This unique identity would attract Zhao Ji's attention while preventing her from making any rash moves. It would also increase the weight of his words. A win-win-win situation.

Of course... when he was making this plan, he was also afraid that Zhao Ji would not be able to accept an ordinary human as her "brother-in-law" and would directly disregard La Ri Luo's feelings and kill him.

Therefore, when he said his "identity", he deliberately dragged out the words, making the phrase "I am..." long and drawn out, while thinking about the identity of "brother-in-law" in his mind, just to give himself time to react.

If the crisis countdown gives him a warning, he will immediately change his tune. If there is no warning, then he will continue speaking.

Now it seems... everything is at least moving in a positive direction.

Thinking this, Qiu Tu ignored Zhao Ji's silence. He continued to monitor the crisis countdown while carrying out his plan. "Sister Yueyue, I've come to see you today because it's important!"

"It seems like something happened to Xiaora..."

The title "Sister Yueyue" seems to have triggered a certain keyword.

In that instant, Qiu Tu seemed to feel Zhao Ji's oppressive and scrutinizing gaze slowly descending upon him from the darkness.

Time seemed to stretch out at that moment...

After a moment, Zhao Ji gave a cold "hmm," as if to say that she was listening.

Qiu Tu breathed a slight sigh of relief before saying, "Xiao La and I met four months ago."

“At the time, she wanted to recruit me and have me serve her. She even promised me the position of ‘archbishop’.”

"But... I fell in love with her at first sight. All I want is to be with her."

"Therefore, I gave up the 'archbishop' position she promised me and instead began to pursue her."

"She didn't want to accept me at first. But..."

Qiu Tu slowly recounted his "past" with La Riluo. Nine of the stories were fabricated, but one was true.

Because most of it is "adapted" from real events, there are many details, as well as La Riluo's little habits and tricks to corroborate it.

So, it still sounds incredibly real.

However, Zhao Ji was clearly not one to enjoy long-winded explanations. So she coldly interrupted Qiu Tu, saying, "Get to the point."

Upon hearing this, Qiu Tu readily skipped over his complicated love-hate relationship with La Riluo and said directly, "Okay, Sister Yueyue."

“Xiao La probably realized a long time ago that she might have been tricked. That’s why she told me before she started pretending to be Yan Chen’s daughter.”

"If something really happens to her, tell me not to panic, but to come directly to you."

"She said you could sense her current condition and knew whether she was dead or not."

"After that, let me follow your instructions."

Qiu Tu paused for a moment, then added, "As for the ritual and method used to summon you, she told me all of that."

"So... how is Xiaola now? Is she still alive?"

"Can...we save her?"

After saying that, Qiu Tu stopped and waited quietly for Zhao Ji's reaction.

In the darkness, Zehime fell into a long silence.

She seemed to speak very little. From the moment she met Qiu Tu, she only said a few words, and each one was just one or two words.

Furthermore, since she hadn't shown herself at all, Qiu Tu had no idea what her current mental state was, so he didn't dare to make any rash moves.

After a full minute of silence, Zeji slowly spoke, "She's not dead yet. But... she's in very poor condition."

Upon hearing this, Qiu Tu hurriedly said with an anxious expression, "Then could we ask Sister Yueyue to save her?"

"She definitely needs your help right now."

Hearing Qiu Tu's words, Zhao Ji remained silent for a few seconds before coldly saying, "She's alive, but she hasn't contacted you or me. That means she doesn't need our help for the time being."

Qiu Tu, however, had a different opinion: "Could she have encountered some danger? Like being imprisoned?"

"That's why you can't contact us?"

If anyone else had seen that Qiu Tu was genuinely concerned about La Ri Luo and was constantly analyzing the situation and making assumptions, they probably would have already believed Qiu Tu or analyzed the situation with him.

But Zhao Ji was different. She clearly had her own strong opinions.

After hearing Qiu Tu's words, she coldly replied, "That's possible. But so what?"

"If she can't even handle this crisis, even if she becomes a god again, she will still just be someone else's prey."

Qiu Tu had now completely embraced the role of La Riluo's boyfriend. He stared at the darkness in shock, then said incredulously, "How could you say that?"

"You're her older sister!"

"Now that she's in trouble, aren't you worried? Don't you want to save her?"

"How can you be worthy of being her older sister!"

It was a rare opportunity to directly criticize such a powerful evil god, so Qiu Tu certainly wouldn't let it slip by. He opened his mouth, ready to unleash a few more words.

The result came at this moment.

A sudden flash appeared before his eyes.

The next second, lines of notifications appeared in his field of vision.

"Trigger crisis awareness! Generate a crisis report!"

"The Great Evil Goddess Zehime is angry because of your offense."

"She thinks only a fool like you would believe Lariro's nonsense about sisterly love."

"In fact, the two had a complete falling out years ago over something. The fact that she helped Lariro was already out of consideration for their shared twin status."

"But towards Larilu, she felt only disgust and alienation."

"The reason she didn't slap you to death is simply because she didn't want to get her hands dirty, since you're someone connected to Larilu."

"If you continue to offend her, she will not let you leave her divine realm."

Seeing the warnings from the "Crisis Sense" feature, Qiu Tu decisively shut his mouth.

He has no other redeeming qualities, except that he is genuinely good.

Since Zhao Ji can't stand criticism, he'll just keep quiet.

Qiu Tu's sudden stop brought the dark space back to silence.

Meanwhile, the hourglass of crisis countdown in the upper left corner of Qiu Tu slowly stopped ticking after a dozen seconds.

After a moment, seeing that Zhao Ji didn't seem to want to talk to him, Qiu Tu coughed and then tentatively said, "Sister Yueyue... if you don't want to save Xiao La, can I go and save her?"