Qi Ji suddenly looked at her meaningfully and said with a smile:
"Are you interested in coming to my house to play?"
"……what?"
Donna was confused by this inexplicable suggestion and just blinked dryly with her pretty head tilted.
"Just tell me whether you're coming or not," Qi Ji shook his shoulders slightly and shook Donna's hand off, "You guys should have a day off today, right?"
"Forehead……"
Donna rubbed a few strands of dark green hair that hung in front of her with one hand and looked at Qi Ji blankly, as if she was hesitating or dazed.
This weird stalemate lasted for more than ten seconds before she slowly nodded:
"All right……"
Chapter 245 Confused Donna
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Beiyuan, "small woods".
Qi Ji took Donna and walked leisurely to the edge of this vast green area.
"Xiaoyao, you... live in here?"
Donna looked at the deserted, overgrown and eerie "grove" and seemed a little scared.
Although she had just been enrolled in Imperial University for a year, she still had a basic understanding of what places there were on campus and their approximate locations.
But she is not the type who likes to wander around the campus. Throughout the day, she rarely goes to other places except the cafeteria, dormitory building, teaching building and laboratory building.
Besides, the Imperial National University covers a very large area, and the campus area is equivalent to the urban area of some small cities. It is not possible to fully explore it in just one year.
In short, she had only heard of this "small woods" in Beiyuan, and had basically never made a special trip to see it, let alone enter it.
Qi Ji didn't answer her. He just walked on his own, stepping easily into the soft soil covered with weeds, bushes and exposed tree roots.
"Ah, wait for me!"
Donna hurriedly trotted after him.
"Hiss... it's a bit cold."
Once you enter the woods where the air is relatively humid, the surrounding temperature drops significantly.
Now that summer has arrived, she is wearing the summer uniform for lower-grade students in college, a long-sleeved shirt that has little warmth retention and a knee-length skirt, which overall does not provide much protection against the cold.
"Xiaoyao, you live in this...place?"
The sudden drop in temperature made Donna instinctively hug her shoulders, breathing out through her teeth, and talking to Qi Ji:
"It seems like there is no road here...Won't you get lost?"
Qi Ji suddenly stopped, looked forward, and said briskly:
"Here we are."
"……what?"
Donna was stunned—they had only been walking for less than five minutes!
She had heard from Xiaoyao that the other party's residence was next to the "back mountain"... Although she didn't know how far the "back mountain" was, she knew that it was located deep in the "woods", so how could it be possible to walk there in three or four minutes?
"Arrived, arrived?"
Full of doubts and confusion, she followed Qi Ji's gaze and looked towards a place in front of them.
"……what?"
She looked in surprise and saw... about ten meters in front of her, the trees and weeds suddenly became sparse, and a gray rock wall covered with moss stood at the end of her sight.
Rolling her eyes, she discovered that the main body of the rock wall was a huge rock as big as a hill.
"Back mountain"!
They actually reached the deepest part of the "grove" in just a few minutes!
"Huh? How come..."
Her thoughts were a little confused for a moment. She wondered if she had seen it wrong, or if there was something wrong with her brain that confused the length of time she had experienced.
"Let's go, the destination is on the other side."
Qi Ji glanced at her with a smile, took her elbow with one hand, and walked towards the east along the outer wall of the huge rock of the "back mountain".
As she pulled, Donna soon saw the huge, strange tree house full of natural atmosphere.
"This! This is..."
She was completely dumbfounded, standing there in a daze. She first suspected that she was dazzled, and then she suspected that she was still lying on the bed in the dormitory and had not woken up yet.
"This is the temporary hut I built," Qi Ji continued to pull Donna's elbow towards the tree house, "Come on, I'll take you to see it."
Donna did not resist, but she fell into a state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness, swaying with a dazed look and a dull expression.
Coming to the outer wall of the tree house, Qi Ji directly activated the "Crossing Barrier" skill and opened an illusory and ancient "door" on it.
She pulled Donna, who was still in a daze, through the dreamy and changing waves of light and into the tree house.
As soon as he entered the "door", Qi Ji's expression was slightly stunned.
On the rocking chair in the middle of the tree house, the "throne" that belonged to her alone, a slender figure was lying on it, soundly sleeping.
Needless to say, it was Bernice Quinn, a vampire who came to the human world to travel, but ended up wandering and stealing because of her mother's disappearance.
She did not change her clothes, still wearing the old and dirty long coat and the middle school girls' uniform, and lay directly on the rocking chair with the backrest adjusted to the lowest position.
"Tsk..."
Qi Ji's eyelids twitched slightly, pretending not to see it, and turned to Donna who was in a trance and said:
"The environment is pretty good, right? You can come and play whenever you are free. I am always here."
"Ah, uh..."
Donna is now completely confused.
What’s going on? Isn’t Xiaoyao the school’s handyman?
What's up with this tree house? How did it grow?
There is such a strange tree next to the back mountain, why are there never any rumors about it on campus?
Who is the beautiful sister sleeping on the chair, also with black hair... Xiaoya's sister?
Xiaoyao... who is she? Why can she live here? Why can she walk through the wall?
Countless thoughts bombarded her mind, making her thinking a mess. Her mind had never been so confused before.
Qi Ji looked at her silly and cute face and knew that this little girl needed some time to digest, understand and accept it.
Without saying too much, he just waved his hand, and a bright star sand appeared out of thin air, forming a vortex around Donna:
"Aren't you going to the library to review? I'll take you there first."
By the time the star sand whirlwind dissipated, Donna's figure had disappeared and was "teleported" to an inconspicuous corner of the large square outside the core library.
After sending Donna away, Qi Ji turned to look at Bernice who was still sleeping:
"This chair is mine..."
The rocking chair suddenly squirmed, as if it had turned into soft and flexible rubber, and directly threw the vampire with extremely long black hair out.
“…Huh?!”
As soon as Bernice left the chair, her eyelids suddenly opened, but her scarlet eyes were still hazy, and she obviously didn't understand what was going on.
"Paji!"
Before she could fully wake up, she slapped it to the ground.
"Ouch!"
Although this level of impact could not hurt a "budding" vampire equivalent to a regular mage, the sudden pain still made her scream instinctively.
"What, what happened?!"
Bernice was completely awakened by the fall. She immediately stood up from the ground and looked around with a look of vigilance and fear on her face:
"Then, those people...are here?!"
Then she saw Qi Ji take off his hood and jump onto the rocking chair with an expressionless face.
"Uh……"
After being stunned for a few seconds, she realized that it was Qi Ji who threw her out.
"I forgot to tell you yesterday, this chair is mine, you can't lie down."
Qi Ji raised the backrest and controlled the branches and vines that made up the chair to absorb the dust and dirt:
"And you, go take a shower and change your clothes. You are so dirty."
Chapter 246 Bathing and changing clothes
Hearing Qi Ji's extremely disgusted words, Bernice's pretty face immediately fell, and she said very distressedly:
"I want to, but, but you don't have a shower room, not to mention a bedroom. How can I take a shower and change clothes..."
As she spoke, she lowered her head and looked longingly at her dirty, wrinkled, and somewhat loose clothes with a very aggrieved and bitter expression.
As a noble vampire, the only daughter of the "Blood Councillor" of the "Guige Bloodline", she is strictly speaking a young lady of high status.
She was reduced to a miserable situation where she had to wander around, hide in dangerous places, and pick up garbage to survive. She herself felt very uncomfortable with such a huge gap.
Coming to this tree house last night, she was finally able to settle down. She no longer had to brave the scorching sun and buzzing mosquitoes, using the sky as her blanket and the ground as her bed.
The huge physical and mental pressure accumulated over the past month made her want nothing more than to have a good sleep, so as soon as Qi Ji went out this morning, she fell directly into the rocking chair and fell asleep instantly.
I didn't even have time to change clothes or take a shower.
Besides, she hadn't done these things for almost a month. Although she was extremely reluctant, she had to admit... she seemed, as if, probably, estimated, perhaps... used to it.
Seeing her sad expression, Qi Ji knew that this girl was quite pitiful, so he stopped making things difficult for her and said with a little sympathy:
"Okay, I'll make one now."
After saying that, she snapped her fingers.
The holy emblem "Tree of All Things" emerged from the ground beneath her feet, and the surging life energy was directly injected into this wooden house made of trees.
The branches and vines that formed the walls, floors, and partitions quickly squirmed and twisted, weaving into a small shower room at the edge of the tree house.
Although this tree house is quite large, many of the facilities required for a "residence" are missing, such as a bathroom, bedroom, shower room, etc.
Apart from the seats and benches, the room is empty and looks a bit shabby at first glance.
This is because when shaping the tree house, Qi Ji designed it only for her own needs, and she did not need to go to the toilet, sleep, or take a shower, so she did not build the corresponding facilities.
But now that there is a new resident, she might as well improve it.
"Okay, so fast!"
Bernice looked at the powerful, thick and extremely flexible roots, branches and vines and was amazed.
Although she knew that this tree house was built by Qi Ji using his own power, she also knew that Qi Ji was most likely a high-level wizard in the "Earth" realm.
But such abundant life energy still exceeded her expectations.
"This, this has already surpassed the realm of 'Out of Sludge', right? Could it be that she is not a 'magician', but... a smelter?"
All kinds of thoughts were swirling in Bernice's little head, causing her mouth to open involuntarily.
"Bloody Moon! I, I'm actually living with a strong man who is equivalent to the 'Jiyuan' realm?!"
"It's done!"
After controlling the tree house to create a bedroom and bathroom exclusively for Bernice, Qi Ji hid the "Tree of All Things" pattern under his feet, clapped his hands, and looked at the vampire:
"Hurry up and give me a bath. Throw away that set of clothes. I'll prepare new clothes for you later."
