In Another World, Everyone Want to Kill Me!-Chapter 310: The Secret Scroll
"You don’t seem very eager to be the hall master. How about you give me that jade bracelet and I’ll take your place?" Xie Yunlan spoke as his figure suddenly appeared right in front of Yue Mingxuan.
Yue Mingxuan who is startled quickly covered the jade bracelet on his wrist.
Although he did not fully understand all of its uses beyond storage, he truly liked the bracelet.
He had never cared much for jewelry.
To him, beautiful and luxurious ornaments were far less satisfying than real gold and silver.
But this bracelet was an exception.
Not only was it practical, it was also elegant and pleasing to the eye.
Yue Mingxuan cherished it deeply and anything he truly liked, he would not give up easily.
Seeing how protective he was of the bracelet, Xie Yunlan did not press further.
Instead, he pulled out a scroll made of sheepskin from his robes and handed it to Yue Mingxuan.
"This is our exclusive martial art. Only the hall master is allowed to learn it."
"A sheepskin scroll?" Yue Mingxuan was momentarily speechless.
Did something like this really exist in this era?
He found it rather suspicious and more importantly... would the writing on it be in English again?
When Yue Mingxuan opened the scroll, he was surprised to find that it was written in Chinese characters and moreover, in handwritten simplified script.
The handwriting looked strangely familiar, bearing some resemblance to his own.
Could it have been written by himself?
Yue Mingxuan shook his head, dismissing the possibility.
If he had truly written it, he should have had some memory of it.
Which meant... the person who wrote this might also be a transmigrator.
"Where did you get this?" Yue Mingxuan asked.
"Ever since I took over Ten Thousand Wisdom Hall, I’ve carried this with me, until I meet the next hall master. My master gave it to me."
There was a trace of nostalgia in Xie Yunlan’s voice.
Yue Mingxuan nodded and began carefully reading the contents.
Xie Yunlan stood nearby as his gaze drifting toward the sheepskin scroll from time to time, yet he never once looked directly at the text.
"It really is one of Ten Thousand Wisdom Hall’s secret techniques..."
Considering that Ten Thousand Wisdom Hall dealt in intelligence, the contents of this scroll were indeed well suited to such a place.
"What does it say?" Xie Yunlan finally could not hold back and asked.
"Why don’t you read it yourself?" Yue Mingxuan asked curiously.
Xie Yunlan sighed. "It’s not that I don’t want to. When my master gave it to me, he repeatedly warned me not to read it."
Yue Mingxuan fell silent for a moment.
People of this era took such promises very seriously.
Seeing how pitiful Xie Yunlan looked, he could not help but feel amused.
"What if I don’t tell you?"
Xie Yunlan said nothing. He simply lowered his head. "It doesn’t really matter if I don’t know. This was never a secret meant for me. I shouldn’t overstep."
Yue Mingxuan smiled. "It’s nothing special. It’s just some kind of mind reading technique."
The moment Xie Yunlan heard that, he froze on the spot.
Not long after that, he disappeared entirely.
It’s likely he was too shocked to process it.
However, Yue Mingxuan did not believe this so-called mind reading technique was anything like truly reading someone’s thoughts as in mystical illusions.
After all, although this world had martial arts and magical storage bracelets, it did not possess anything excessively fantastical.
He guessed that this mind reading technique was simply the ability to analyze a person’s expressions and behavior to infer their thoughts and extract the desired information.
Although it did not sound particularly powerful, if used properly, it could have unexpectedly useful applications.
As expected, when Yue Mingxuan read further, it matched his assumptions.
He had once studied similar concepts systematically, but nowhere near as detailed as what was written here.
This text went far deeper than anything he had learned before, yet it also seemed to build upon that same foundation.
It felt as though this book had been written specifically for him.
He then studied the technique carefully.
What differed from his expectations was that the scroll contained not only theory, but also vivid examples.
These examples were simple and easy to understand, and he found himself engrossed in reading.
Before he knew it, he had already gone through a large portion of the text.
"So this mind reading technique is actually this fascinating!" Yue Mingxuan was delighted.
With this skill, dealing with Shang Qinghua in the future would be effortless! 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶
No matter what Shang Qinghua was thinking, he would know everything.
Handling him would become incredibly easy and then let’s see how he could ever trick money out of him again!
However, Yue Mingxuan’s eyes suddenly caught a particular line and his excitement instantly vanished.
This mind reading technique only worked on unfamiliar strangers.
When it came to people close to the user, it was completely useless.
Yue Mingxuan sighed.
When it came to Shang Qinghua, he was extremely familiar with him.
Although he did not know what kind of power stood behind him, nor what his true intentions were, the two of them had spent so much time together that their interactions had long since become intimate.
"Why is it useless..." Yue Mingxuan muttered with a sigh as he casually tossed aside the sheepskin scroll that Xie Yunlan treated like a treasure.
At some point, Xie Yunlan had reappeared while looking rather anxious. "Why did you throw that away?"
Yue Mingxuan sized him up from head to toe as if suddenly thinking of something. "Your light skill seems pretty good. How about you teach me?"
"If you haven’t mastered the secret technique of Ten Thousand Wisdom Hall, I won’t teach you."
Despite his usual carefree demeanor, Xie Yunlan was unexpectedly firm on this matter.
"Fine, don’t teach me then. Why so serious?" Yue Mingxuan sighed as he picking the scroll back up again, though his thoughts were clearly elsewhere.
