Chapter XI
I walked out of the cave with Jiangli and walked through the midday mountain forest. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Lushan is full of aura, lush vegetation, birds and beasts, I will leave all the way, the shade of the trees, far and near have the ups and downs of Gao.
"Tsubaki, I have two pieces of bad news for you. "Will leave the abrupt road.
I was still immersed in the mountain ghost's accusations, and I didn't react at once, "Huh?" I was at a loss, "Shouldn't it be good news, bad news?"
He looked at me like a fool.
"Falling into this situation and still thinking of good news?"
"My demonic power has not recovered, and I can't take you back to Cangwu. I just told the mountain ghost to take you back immediately, in order to dispel her vigilance. This is the first bad news. There is a lot of aura here, but we haven't seen any big demons so far, thinking that they saw the thunder god yesterday and fled when they heard the wind. So I decided to take possession of the mountains and rivers and practice here before they came back. In other words, you'll have to stay here with me for a day or two. This is the second piece of bad news. ”
"It's good that there are no big monsters. Staying with you for a day or two isn't bad news. "I said in my heart that I'm going to be so weak that I'm embarrassed to take up other people's time?
Jiang Li looked at me with a smile, and seemed to have a bad stomach: "It's good if you don't think it's bad news." ”
I was wondering, but he picked me up and leaped dozens of paces, and suddenly I saw a scorched earth still smoking between the mountains and forests, with a radius of eleven or twelve feet, and the vegetation had turned to ashes, so that the sun could spread on the ground without hindrance.
"I'm going to be in my original form here. lest thou be snatched by the beast of prey, thou shalt be kept in bondage. ”
"What......" I had the heart to ask what the imprisoning method was, but I was so shocked by the scene in front of me that I couldn't say a word.
He stood in the middle of the scorched earth, his hands raised upward, the sleeves of his robe sliding down to reveal his arms, as smooth as a woman's, only more slender and powerful. He looked back at me, smiled at the corners of his lips, and then suddenly turned into a huge plant, his rhizomes digging down into the scorched earth, arching up gravel and mud, causing the ground to shake slightly, and the ground was twisted and spread out to occupy the clearing. His stems and leaves grew rapidly from the nourishment, and they climbed into the air like vines, as if they were about to dig holes in the sky. As I stood aside, I could only hear the sound of growth, and when I looked up, my bewitching branches were already all over the sky, blocking out the sunlight tightly.
There was only one peony, but it seemed to have grown into a forest in a moment.
"This is what you are?" I exclaimed, "so beautiful." "As far as the eye can see, there are his thick green branches and leaves.
The wind blows the leaves, as if he is about to leave, "Of course." ”
I tilted my head and watched intently at his Xiao Xiao Xinye. He is so magnificent and enchanting that people are reluctant to look away.
It was at this point that I lost my only chance to escape. I regretted every minute of the next two days.
I didn't realize when the branches formed a cage-like space around me. By the time I could react, I was already detained in the middle of his towering foliage and the ground.
At the center of the mezzanine was the trunk that he could enclose in four or five people, topped by dense branches, and the ground was crowded with knotted roots. He crisscrossed the sides with arm-thick branches, leaving me a ring of space four or five feet wide. I finally realized that I was locked up again.
"What are you doing!" I angrily pounded his trunk, "Let me out!"
The leaves on his head were moving, as if he was about to leave, "Don't let go, what do you do with me?"
I tried to break the branches on the sides, but the more I broke them, the smaller the gap formed, and the opening that could have allowed an adult's head to pass through was now squeezed into a fist with only one hand.
It turns out that this is what he meant by imprisonment.
This bastard!
The original general is concentrating on absorbing the essence of heaven and earth here, and has no intention of communicating with me. I wanted to force my way through the barrier, but I was afraid of hurting him.
"What are you doing?" said a familiar voice.
The mountain ghost stood outside the barrier, looking at me indifferently. The leaves seemed to be enraged, and all of them moved at once, making a terrifying sound similar to the roar of a tiger.
"Don't get excited," the mountain ghost took a step back, "I just have a few words to say to Tsubaki. ”
I'm a little apprehensive.
"I thought about it, although you are not Tsubaki anymore, you can still bring him back. The mountain ghost's face was expressionless, only the eyes that stared at me were slightly bright, "If you are resurrected by the Fan Sheng Array, then the loss of memory should be due to the incomplete soul." Your soul, no, Tsubaki's soul, must still be scattered and not summoned back. The sparkle in her eyes grew, and she was sparkling: "Only you can bring him back." You go to him, go to the place he went to and summon him, and Tsubaki will definitely come back. He'll be back!"
"What if I'm a complete soul by now?" I couldn't bear to say, "I've already checked, and he didn't say anything wrong with my soul. ”
The mountain ghost laughed. "Jiang Li is a flower demon, and he may know better than me about the spirit of plants and trees, but the soul and memory of people, of course, I am more familiar with it. ”
I looked puzzled.
The mountain ghost patiently explained: "I am a mountain ghost, do you know what a mountain ghost is?" Seeing me shake her head, she was not surprised, "Of course you don't know, you are not Tsubaki yet." Mountain ghosts are condensed by human beings' fear of mountains, lakes and marshes, that is to say, I come directly from the human heart, and naturally I know the soul of man better than I will leave them. It's common to have a lot of lost soul fragments in the mountains and forests, and that's what I feed on. ”
"According to you, even if a fragment is lost, what if it has been eaten by a mountain ghost or other youkai like you?" I really don't want to mention her hope for "Tsubaki to come back", and even if Tsubaki does come back, it is unlikely that it will be realized by finding the soul fragment. After all, I in this body is not Tsubaki at all. Since it can't be realized, why bother giving her an ethereal thought.
"Listen to me. The mountain ghost was interrupted by me, not angry at all, "When you were still Tsubaki, we made a bet, and then I lost the bet, and I put a ban on you, your soul will not be eroded by monsters, and it is impossible to be eaten by mountain ghosts." ”
I was stunned for a moment, remembering what she said last night in the cave that she threatened to eat my soul.
The mountain ghost was not as indifferent as Fang Cai, and became vivid again, as if Tsubaki was standing in front of her. She was full of hope, and she told her how to find the fragments of her soul, like a deep boudoir waiting for a husband who was out of town, thinking about the bones buried in the barren grass.
"Memories can come back, as long as you summon them. You'll remember everything and complete the thread of everything. Don't you want to know what you were like before?"
I think.
I thought so much.
The world comes and goes, who is connected with me?
The world is vast, why am I standing here?
I was silent for a long time and asked her, "Is it common to lose your memory because you lose a fragment of your soul?"
The mountain ghost nodded vigorously. "The world has lost its memory only because of the loss of its soul. As long as you go to the places you have traveled before, the places you have the most nostalgia, or the places where you have the most mood swings when you are dying," she said, "Tsubaki will definitely be able to come back." ”
The mountain ghost looked at me quietly, waiting for my answer.
"Okay, then I'll try to find it. I finally relented. If you find Tsubaki's soul, return the body to him. If I find a fragment of my own soul, then I can also recall my past and present lives.
The mountain ghost received the promise and cheered: "Then let's go." First go to Cangwu, the place you miss the most must be Cangwu. ”
"I want to go too," I smiled wryly, "and I have to wait until I am separated into human form and released." ”
The mountain ghost said, "Didn't you notice? He turned into his original form, but he didn't even bloom a flower. He is dormant and will not be able to come back for two or three days. ”
I looked up, and sure enough, my eyes were full of green, and there was no trace of red. Fang Cai didn't care, but now he realized that he was already weakened to this point.
"I'll cut off the branches for you, and you'll be able to come out. You stand farther away. The mountain ghost said that he was about to do it.
As if sensing the danger, the leaves began to flutter again.
"Wait!" I hurriedly stopped, "If you hurt his original body, he will inevitably lose his vitality again, and I don't know how long he will have to rest." I thought about it, "It's better to be like this, I'll stay here with Jiangli, anyway, he has strong demonic power, and when he wakes up, take me to Cangwu as soon as possible." You go southwest and help me find someone. ”
"Who is it?"
"Zhan Xinghe. ”
The mountain ghost frowned, as if he didn't know the name.
"He was about sixteen or seventeen years old, tall and thin, with white skin, and a young man, very handsome, and he called me...... Mr. Tsubaki. ”
"What are you looking for him?" asked the mountain ghost.
I suspect that part of my soul is in him, so I have repeatedly regained consciousness while he is present. But you can't tell the mountain ghost about it.
"He was the last person Tsubaki came into contact with before his death, and he should know where Tsubaki's last place was. I said, "I originally planned to go to Cangwu to find him, but this kid has a lonely and rigid personality, and he will definitely not obey the arrangements of Cangwu people." He should come out to me on his own...... Look for Tsubaki, so you can only find him on the road. You go to Zhan Xinghe, I will go straight to Cangwu after the recovery, let's go separately and come faster. ”
"Okay. "But I don't know how many such teenagers there are, can you tell me exactly what he looks like?"
I thought about it and said, "You don't have to know what he looks like. If you meet a teenager whose Yin Yuan is stronger than yours, it is Zhan Xinghe. ”
The mountain ghost snorted, "No human Yin Yuan can be more prosperous than demons." ”
"You're right," I said, nodding, "I've long suspected that he's not human." ”