No one notified me in advance. Everyone in the end times is crazy.

Chapter 329 I am a Shepherd Dog

The scene changed and Jiangnan had returned to his residence.

"What did Cui Ji mean when he told me to be careful of my master? No! I have to go back and ask for details."

Before he could open the space crack, he heard the sound of deer hooves getting closer and closer.

"Nannan~ Did you miss me when I was away? Woohoo~ I miss you so much! Come on, let me see if you've lost weight!"

Jiangnan was held in Luming's arms and looked left and right for a long time before he came to his senses.

"Master, I want to go..."

Before Jiangnan could finish, Lu Ming interrupted him, "You want to meet the new junior sisters, right? Master understands, Master understands everything."

"No, I think..."

"Okay, okay, go ahead."

Jiangnan was pushed out of the courtyard with a bewildered look on his face. He turned back to look at Luming, who had taken a break in the house, and said the second half of his sentence, which had been interrupted all the time: "I want to go find Cui Ji."

No response...

"It's too far away, Master. Didn't you hear me? Never mind. I'll be back soon. It shouldn't be a big deal if I'm away for a while."

Jiangnan opened the crack again, but found that the "door" was locked.

"Can't open it? Is Master afraid I'll run around and cause trouble? If that's the case, I can only go meet the new Junior Sister first."

As usual, Jiangnan sneaked into the children's rooms late at night, weaving sweet dreams for them and soothing their anxiety about being separated from their families.

"Sleep, your heart's desire will appear in your dreams."

After confirming that the girl on the bed was asleep, she picked up the lantern and left the yard.

The clouds that were blocking the moon in the sky drifted away, and the moonlight shone on her.

Jiangnan looked up, a smile on his face.

"It's great, there's a full moon tonight."

I stared at the moon for a while, and when I looked away, I just caught a glimpse of the tower.

Jiangnan didn't know why, but he walked into the tower as if possessed.

"Is Master in here?"

The door was pushed open a crack, and light shone out.

This made Jiangnan certain that Lu Ming was in the tower.

As all the doors were pushed open, the field of vision gradually widened. Jiangnan looked at the scene in front of him, his pupils trembling, and even his breathing stopped.

Several strands of heavenly power as delicate as silk flew out from those dim photos, wrapping up Lu Ming floating in the tower and forming a transparent cocoon.

Luo Shiyu rubbed his eyes and looked again before he dared to believe that the scene in front of him was not an illusion. He said, "This...Master...Teacher..." and looked at Jiangnan beside him helplessly.

What should I do? Can the teacher accept what I see?

Jiangnan kept shaking his head and retreated step by step.

After restoring the scene to the appearance that no one had been there, he returned to his residence, sat on the couch, and stared blankly at the lit oil lamp on the table.

Watching it burn itself, even when daybreak came, there was no intention of blowing it out.

A familiar figure appeared in front of her and leaned over to blow out the lamp.

"Nannan, Master has told you many times that staring at the fire will hurt your eyes."

When Jiangnan heard the sound of the deer, tears quietly rolled down his face for some reason.

She turned her head, looked out the window, quietly wiped away her tears, and said directly: "Master, I didn't sleep all night last night. I have many questions troubling me. Master, can you help me solve my doubts?"

Lu Ming didn't know what was going on. He poured himself a cup of tea and agreed readily: "Okay, tell me."

Jiangnan looked at the falling albizzia flowers outside the window and said calmly, "Everyone who appears in the tower will eventually die, right?"

The teacup in Lu Ming's hand shook and he almost lost his grip. He tried to cover it up, but was silenced by Jiangnan's tough tone.

"Master, all you have to do is answer yes or no."

"Nannan, did someone tell you something?"

"The answer is yes or no."

"Don't listen to anyone else."

"Yes or no."

"Nannan!"

"Yes, isn't it?"

Lu Ming didn't say anything, but Jiangnan had already gotten the answer from his expression.

She just wanted to hear Lu Ming's explanation, but all she got was a cover-up.

"Second question, were the dead eaten by Master?" Jiangnan corrected himself, "No, to be more precise, they were eaten by the world consciousness."

Lu Ming suddenly stood up and asked alertly: "Nan Nan, what did you know?"

Jiangnan raised his eyes and looked at Luming for a few seconds before he slowly said, "I saw it with my own eyes last night."

"what did you see?"

"Pupa, do you need me to explain it in more detail?"

"then you…"

"Task."

"what?"

"The so-called mission is a trap woven of lies. No matter what the process is, the ending is the same: no one can escape the fate of being devoured by the world consciousness. Is that right?"

Jiangnan realized this belatedly, held his forehead and sneered, self-deprecatingly saying, "I should have noticed it long ago. Why didn't I think more about it?"

"At the time, I asked Tongtong (the eye with the eyeballs) if the assessment task mentioned being wiped out by the plane consciousness, did it mean being eaten by him? Tongtong was completely unaware of this. Now that I think about it, everything makes sense. The plane consciousness turned out to be the scapegoat for the world consciousness."

"It's ridiculous, so ridiculous... So what are we? Livestock kept here?"

"Nannan..." Lu Ming reached out to touch Jiangnan's head, but the other party dodged him.

His heart ached, and his fingers curled into fists unwillingly and slowly retracted.

"I never intended to hurt you."

"Of course I know. They are the food you keep in the pen, but I am special; I am your pet. They are the sheep in the pen, and I am the sheepdog who tends them. When the sheep I tend mature, they will be taken away and replaced with a new batch of lambs, and I will continue to tend them. Why am I the last one left? Because the sheepdog is the most valuable! But what is the final fate of the sheepdog? Buried in the ground or becoming food on the table?"

As Jiangnan spoke, tears began to fall uncontrollably.

Those children who were once raised by her, those children who once said they would come back to see her, will never come back.

The culprit who caused all this turned out to be his closest master, and he was just an "accomplice".

Lu Ming forced Jiangnan's head into his arms.

Jiangnan resisted and punched Luming hard. Luming felt pain but said nothing and hugged Jiangnan to comfort him.

It wasn't until the sound of fists turned into crying that Lu Ming explained, "When I first accepted you as my disciple, I did have my own selfish motives. I wanted you to become the number one Taoist, so I could compete with Lie Danqing."

Jiangnan sobbed and asked, "You want us to fight each other so you can profit from it, right?"

"That's part of the point, but not entirely. You have to understand that the power of Heaven cannot be forcibly extracted from Heaven. Even the world consciousness cannot do it."

Jiangnan heard the key point in the words and looked up and asked, "What do you mean? Those people were not killed by Master?"

Her eyes were cautious, grateful and expectant.

Expecting Lu Ming to say that all this has nothing to do with him.

Lu Ming felt guilty being stared at by these eyes. He reached out his hands to cover her eyes and said truthfully: "Yes and no."

"What's the meaning?"

"Why do you cover my eyes?"