"Don't worry, the dean won't find out, and I'm really tired. I'm going back to the consciousness space to rest."
Mu Qing'er finished speaking, and directly closed her eyes. The second personality entered the consciousness space.
Xin Ci, who had just recovered his energy in the consciousness space, found himself back in his own body the next second.
In front of him stood a tattered old man, staring at him with two eyes as large as brass bells.
Seeing this, Xin Ci instinctively took two steps back and asked cautiously, "Grandpa, who are you?"
Dao Yuanming was immediately angered by this.
He had seen the boy suddenly stop and close his eyes just now, wondering what he was doing.
As soon as he got close, the boy forgot who he was and directly called him grandpa, which infuriated Dao Yuanming.
"You stinking brat, you called me Dean just now, but now you're calling me grandpa and pretending not to know me. What do you mean?" Dao Yuanming said indignantly.
Hearing Dao Yuanming's questioning, Xin Ci was a little bewildered.
His original personality had been severely injured and was recuperating in the consciousness space, so he naturally had no time to understand the outside world through the light screen, and therefore knew nothing about what had happened before.
He looked at Dao Yuanming in front of him with a blank expression.
He asked Dao Yuanming with confusion, "Grandpa, who are you? Why should I know you?"
Dao Yuanming: "..."
After a moment of silence,
Dao Yuanming rolled up his sleeves and reached out to slap the silly boy's head.
"You stinking brat, are you still pretending to be foolish with me?"
Xin Ci took the blow, covered his head, and looked at Dao Yuanming with a bewildered expression, puzzled.
Why did this grandpa suddenly hit him?
Dao Yuanming looked at Xin Ci's innocent eyes and was stunned.
Because he noticed that Xin Ci's unusual Star Wheel Eyes had now turned into normal eyes.
This made him pause, and he muttered to himself, "Could I be hallucinating?"
Just as Xin Ci was confused, Elder Han transmitted a message to explain the previous situation.
Xin Ci then suddenly realized, and looked at Dao Yuanming, rubbing his head sheepishly.
"Grandpa, so you are the Dean of the Four Symbols Academy."
Seeing this, Dao Yuanming was speechless.
He couldn't help but roll his eyes at Xin Ci.
"Didn't you already know that, kid? You're acting like an amnesiac fool," Dao Yuanming replied with dissatisfaction.
Xin Ci gave an awkward smile: "Uh, I was just joking. Sorry, Grandpa Dean."
"Go away! It's one thing for you to pretend to have amnesia to mess with me, but you dare to call me grandpa? You should call me the wise and mighty, unparalleled Dean!"
Xin Ci: "..."
This grandpa dean was quite humorous.
However, he still obediently called out.
"Then student Xin Ci greets the wise and mighty, unparalleled Dean."
"Haha, that's more like it." Dao Yuanming was delighted at this and nodded with a smile.
"Alright, quickly find me a comfortable room to rest. I've been in the slave cells for so many days, and I haven't slept comfortably."
"Yes," Xin Ci replied.
Huh?
Did this stinking brat agree so readily?
That's not like his personality from before!
Dao Yuanming looked at Xin Ci with suspicion.
However, he didn't think much of it and went to rest.
Unconsciously, Xin Ci and Dao Yuanming had spent three months on the Jingchen merchant ship.
Because the Endless Vast Sea was too vast, ordinary merchant ships could not cross it.
However, the Jingchen merchant ship was a specially made merchant ship from the Central Continent. When its spiritual shield was activated, its navigation speed was more than a thousand times faster than ordinary merchant ships.
Even so, the Jingchen merchant ship still took three months to cross the Endless Vast Sea and reach the border area of the Central Continent, near the dock of the Jingchen Kingdom.
During this period, no matter what Dao Yuanming asked Xin Ci to do, Xin Ci obeyed like an honest person, without any complaints.
Dao Yuanming found Xin Ci increasingly strange, thinking, "Is this kid on the wrong medicine? Why has he become so dull these past few months?"
He clearly noticed that Xin Ci showed him much more respect.
However, Dao Yuanming still preferred the Xin Ci before three months ago, when his body was occupied by the second personality Mu Qing'er. At least he was more lively and not like a blockhead now.
Meanwhile, Madame Miao on the merchant ship was miserable. For these three months, she was like a servant to Xin Ci and Dao Yuanming every day.
All day long, with an iron collar symbolizing slavery around her neck, she was either made to pilot the ship or clean the ship. She was sometimes ordered around frantically.
Originally, she considered these tasks to be for slaves and servants, but now they all fell on her.
She couldn't help but develop a deep resentment towards Xin Ci and Dao Yuanming.
However, she knew that she could not resist now and could only endure.
Seeing that the Jingchen merchant ship had finally arrived at the dock of Jingchen Kingdom, Madame Miao was filled with excitement.
Next, she just had to sneak off the ship and go to the Yuhua Merchant Association. Then she could use her connections and background in the underground slave trade in Jingchen Kingdom to find a way to get revenge on Xin Ci and Dao Yuanming.
However, imagination was beautiful, but reality was cruel.
Xin Ci had long anticipated that Madame Miao would do this. Therefore, before disembarking, he released all the slaves in the ship's prison and removed their iron collars.
Suddenly, Madame Miao was surrounded by these slaves on the deck.
The slaves who had regained their freedom were very surprised at first. They never expected that.
A young man in the King Realm and an old man had actually subdued Madame Miao.
Seeing the iron collar around Madame Miao's neck, her true essence sealed, and the other guards on the ship defeated, these slaves...
The hatred of being enslaved was finally awakened in their hearts. They surrounded Madame Miao, preventing her from escaping.
"What... what do you want to do!"
"How dare you! Step back, you lowly slaves, don't touch me!"
Madame Miao was still making her last struggle.
But one of the slaves stepped forward and slapped her, scolding, "You damned wicked woman, you're still arrogant when death is imminent! Weren't you going to sell us as slaves?"
"Everyone, don't let this wicked woman go!"
These slaves swarmed forward, punching and kicking Madame Miao, venting their anger.
"Help, save me..."
Madame Miao pleaded desperately amidst the crowd of slaves. Through the gaps where the slaves crowded, she saw the backs of Xin Ci and Dao Yuanming slowly disembarking. Her hope gradually shattered.
"This is Jingchen Kingdom?!"
After disembarking, Xin Ci and Dao Yuanming surveyed the prosperous port before them. Logistics and water transportation were extremely developed.
Even the guard supervision was done well. Xin Ci hadn't walked a few steps before encountering a row of four or five guards in silver armor, carrying spears, walking by.