In the villa's yard, Lisa was watering the flower beds with a watering can, the pale yellow tulips creating a warm atmosphere.
Suddenly, she looked up toward Carlyle, who was crossing the yard's gate.
"Good morning, Lisa!" Carlyle stopped in his tracks, greeting her timidly.
"Do you like Xu Yi?" Lisa suddenly put down the watering can, gazing into Carlyle's eyes.
Carlyle's face instantly flushed, sweat broke out on his forehead, and he was so nervous he almost passed out.
Had she been found out after all?
She had been tutoring Xu Yi in Japanese for three days now.
At first, she thought it was their beautiful ti alone together, but when she discovered Lisa's presence, it felt like soone had struck her forehead with a sledgehamr, leaving her dizzy and disoriented.
Xu Yi hadn't hidden anything from her, nor had he used honeyed words to deceive her; he simply ntioned that if she was willing, she could continue to help with tutoring the next day.
Carlyle returned to her aunt's ho in a daze, shut herself in her room, and lay there for the entire day, her aunt so anxious that she kept asking questions outside the door.
She should have taken the initiative to cut ties with Xu Yi, but the next day, as if possessed, she still slung her bag over her shoulder and went to Xu Yi's villa.
She didn't know why, maybe it was out of reluctance, or perhaps she wanted to see Xu Yi once more.
If there was a first ti, there could be a second, and with a second, a third; thus, on the third day, she arrived as expected.
Over these days, her interactions with Lisa made her realize that Lisa really was an amazing girl, beautiful, gentle, and kind-hearted, often feeding stray cats.
Lisa also invited her to work as a caregiver at an orphanage, where all the children were very fond of Lisa. Carlyle had more than once marveled at how Lisa was the most perfect girl she had ever t.
But the more perfect Lisa seed, the more Carlyle felt guilty; she couldn't bear to break up the relationship between Lisa and Xu Yi because of herself.
For this reason, she had been suppressing her emotions these past days, pretending she was just working a part-ti job.
"It's all over! Now everything is over!" Carlyle felt a bit despondent.
Lisa had been very nice to her these past days, and she had always thought that Lisa was unaware of her feelings, only to realize that Lisa had noticed after all.
But Lisa's next words completely stunned her.
"I think highly of you, hang in there!" Lisa said with a smile on her face.
"What... what do you an?" Carlyle's mind was a ss, wondering if Lisa and Xu Yi had had a falling out, or if Lisa was being sarcastic?
But Lisa's deanor didn't seem like that at all.
Lisa smiled and offered no explanation.
She wasn't being sarcastic; she truly thought that way.
It wasn't because there were no feelings between her and Xu Yi; quite the contrary, their relationship had long surpassed the stage of a young couple's "quarrels and frolics."
They had been through too many things, each far beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and their deep feelings couldn't be simply expressed in words.
Moreover, as they stepped into the supernatural, they began to care less about worldly conventions.
"I'll tell you another piece of news; after a while, another 'friend' will co over, a woman, very beautiful. Compared to her, I actually prefer you," Lisa dropped another "bombshell."
"You, you guys..." Carlyle felt her values were shaken like never before, speechless, and dumbfounded.
Just then, Xu Yi suddenly ca out through the door, glancing at Lisa and Carlyle with curiosity, but he didn't ask more.
"Carlyle, we're not going to study Japanese today. We're preparing to attend a friend's wedding. I've prepared clothes for you, do you want to co?" Xu Yi asked gently.
Carlyle, montarily stunned, still nodded her head.
The Maybach carried the three away from the villa. Before they headed to St. Na Church, they first went to MIT, where Xu Yi needed to visit Blood Group V.
He had recently been trying to synthesize "God-lting Blood," but unfortunately, the experint was proceeding slowly, leaving him sowhat discouraged.
A tributary of the Charles River flowed past MIT, and the three people and one cat strolled by the riverside, the water flowing quietly.
The Black Carp that had always been following Lisa suddenly darted into the river, its figure disappearing from the surface in an instant, heading towards the riverbed.
"Black Carp?" Lisa voiced her confusion.
She wasn't worried about the Black Carp drowning, for after obtaining the "Heart of the Apparition," the body of the Black Carp had mutated, and it could survive for a long ti even without breathing.
What puzzled her was why the Black Carp would suddenly plunge into the river?
The matter must be extrely urgent; otherwise, the Black Carp would definitely have explained the reason to her. Xu Yi had also thought of this and stood with Lisa at the riverside, waiting quietly.
"Oh no! The Black Carp fell into the water!" Carlyle was frantic; she was very fond of the Black Carp, the black cat with human-like intelligence.
Just as she was about to go into the river to rescue the Black Carp, it suddenly surfaced and swam back to shore.
"Lisa, did you forget to feed the Black Carp today?" Xu Yi joked.
The Black Carp held a fish in its mouth; it turned out that it had jumped into the river to catch a fish.
But his expression quickly turned serious as the Black Carp threw the fish on the ground, growling low at it, with fur bristling.
"There's sothing strange about this fish!" Lisa stared at the fish on the ground with caution.
Xu Yi threw a Flying Dagger, pinning the fish to the grass. Annabelle's Treasure Box space unfolded, and the air curtain isolated the Evil Deity's presence. Xu Yi snapped his fingers, and the Demon-Suppressing Fla engulfed the fish on the ground.
The fish on the grass struggled painfully, its body quickly shriveling up.
Lisa looked at the fish on the ground skeptically, while Xu Yi, relying on his powerful vision from the Eyes of Obscurity, identified the root of the problem.
He reached out and tore open the shriveled body of the fish, pulling out a slender black thread from within.
The thread wound around Xu Yi's fingers, seemingly trying to burrow into his body, but under the searing of the Demon-Suppressing Fla, the black thread could only squirm in agony.
Xu Yi stared at the black thread in his hand, his expression suddenly changing; the thread was clearly a much-reduced Eyeless Snake!
He felt the presence of the Evil Deity in the black thread.
"The Black Carp says there should be seven or eight more strange fish like this one in the river," Lisa said softly.
Xu Yi had a bad premonition. Just this short stretch of the river had seven or eight such "Eyeless Snake Threads," so how many might there be in the entire Charles River?
He picked up his phone and called Martin from the Special Affairs Team.
The call had just connected, and before Xu Yi could speak, Martin's hoarse voice ca through from the other end.
"Xu Yi! Sothing big has happened! A lot of 'vampires' suddenly appeared in Boston, and they are utterly irrational, sucking the blood of anyone they see."
"Are you sure they are vampires?" Xu Yi asked in return.
"Indeed, they don't quite resemble vampires; their pupils are black, and as they suck more blood, their skin also turns black," Martin replied truthfully.
"Have you continued to investigate the Evil Deities lately?" Xu Yi asked urgently.
"We have been investigating, but as you know, we can't maintain the sa level of search effort as before," Martin's voice beca fainter, sowhat lacking in confidence.
Xu Yi's voice grew colder, "Then let tell you so 'good news,' the Evil Deity is not dead!" Stay tuned with My Virtual Library Empire
"What?" Martin's frightened voice ca through, "What exactly is going on?"
"You guys go check the fish in the Charles River!" Xu Yi said impatiently and hung up the phone.
Screams suddenly emanated from within MIT, and Xu Yi turned his head to look in the direction from which they seed to co, which appeared to be from the direction of Blood Research Group Five.
He suddenly realized sothing, his expression changing slightly as he rushed toward the source of the screams.
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