Chapter 54
The aura around the sword spirit soared, and the blade qi drew a semicircular silver arc in the night, castrating like electricity, and the black shadows within a radius of seven or eight meters were all cut off with a snap of their fingers, and they fell to the ground with a crackle.
Xu Mu took a photo of his mobile phone, and it turned out that those black shadows with teeth and claws were all branches and leaves of the camphor tree.
Is it really the dryad that is doing it?
He held his phone and looked up at the tall camphor trees around him, and if he looked closely, there were indeed a few camphor trees nearby that were unusually thick, and they should be quite old. Could it be that with the passage of time, the cultivation has become refined?
The little guy who is not yet the second level, Feng Yuan's eyebrows moved slightly, and he secretly let go of the fingers of the seal.
The husband in the unicorn bead sneezed solidly and couldn't help complaining. It had thought that it would go out and meet that thing, but it was smoked back as soon as it appeared.
Zhao Yan glared at the pile of things on the ground, put it in the past, he didn't bother to do anything with such a weak demonic energy.
【General......】
I don't know if I noticed that Zhao Yan's attitude was not friendly enough, or because of the strong momentum of these people in front of him, the black shadow finally didn't get closer this time, and stayed five or six meters away from them with interest, swaying slightly, with a little cautious taste in his movements and tone.
Qin Mian lay motionless on the ground, and he didn't know what the situation was.
"Little white face, are you okay?" Zhao Yan twisted his eyebrows and kicked Qin Mian's waist with the instep of his foot, but the other party was still silent.
Feng Yuan saw that the black shadow had no intention of attacking again, so he came to Qin Mian's side with Xu Mu and squatted down to probe Qin Mian's snort.
"It's fine, just dizzy. Facing Xu Mu's nervous gaze, Feng Yuan spoke gently.
"Tsk, that's weak. Zhao Yan's face was full of disgust, and he quietly let go of his clenched fists.
[General, return to ...... It's back. 】
The camphor branches around them shook and trembled, as if they were excited.
Xu Mu looked up at the camphor wood around him, and then looked at Zhao Yan, this guy knows the sword spirit?
"Let's send Qin Mian back to the hotel first, it's best to find a doctor to check it out." "Feng Yuanti, Qin Mian is just an ordinary person after all, he has just recovered from a serious illness, and his identity is relatively special, so it is better to send him to a safe place as much as possible. It just so happened that Qin Mian said just now that he and Shi Kai booked that hotel.
"Hmm. Xu Mu nodded, fully agreeing, last time at the crossroads, he personally learned Qin Mian's great agent's verbose mode, not to mention where Qin Mian was hurting, even a small piece of skin on his face was enough for them to accept at least half an hour of "nagging crit".
"Let's talk about it first, don't expect General Ben to carry this little white face. Zhao Yan folded his arms, looking too lazy to help.
"There's no need for so many people to toss, I'll send him back, and then contact Shi Kai to take care of him, you guys wait here a little, don't act rashly if you find anything." Feng Yuan made a decision neatly. With Zhao Yan's ability, this guy in the forest is not his opponent at all, plus Fu Zhu, Xu Mu must be safe. Alone, it is more convenient to avoid people's eyes and ears to go back quickly.
【Will ...... General, don't ...... Don't go......]
Finding that Feng Yuan was walking out with Qin Mian on his back, thinking that Zhao Yan and Xu Mu were also going out, the voice suddenly became impatient, and the dancing branches and leaves quickly surrounded him.
"Stay honest!" the sword spirit wrinkled his eyebrows and glanced at the restless branches and leaves, and the surroundings immediately fell silent.
"Brother, be careful, call at any time. Xu Mu only cared about telling Feng Yuan, and didn't pay attention to the surrounding movements at all.
[It's better to go with the master, this place smells bad and dies. A dissatisfied complaint from one of the unicorn beads.
After sending Feng Yuan and Qin Mian away, Zhao Yan found a camphor tree that looked pleasing to the eye, and leaned on it with a big grin, "Xiao Mu, there are monsters here, remember not to walk around." Cut off those threats...... Eight times out of ten, it is harmful. ”
"People are strange now, the rope is the rope, but it's called a strange name," Zhao Yan scratched his head and complained in a low voice.
Xu Mu: ..................
【Will ...... General......]
The leaves trembled, and the voice stopped talking.
Xu Mu held the Tang Dao, looked at Zhao Yan, and then turned his head to look at the branches that wanted to move but didn't dare to move, "General, it seems to know you." ”
"Know me?" Zhao Yan pointed incredulously at the tip of his nose.
Xu Mu nodded, "It seems to have been calling you just now." ”
"Impossible, the general has only known two of the grass and tree spirits for so many years, one is the begonia flower essence, which was killed by the thunder two hundred years ago in order to save a scholar, and the other is the willow tree spirit, who was burned to death by fighting with a Taoist priest ninety years ago. They must have nothing to do with the camphor wood in front of them. Zhao Yan said categorically.
Xu Mu: ..................
So, knowing your plant spirits is a bit of a bad death?
【General...... Arrow ......】
The voice didn't seem to be used to talking, or it was slow to respond, like talking at 2K speed, and the speed of speech was slow, and it could only stumble out a word or two.
Xu Mu blinked in confusion, could it be that they had met?
"Did you live nearby before, or did you pass by here?" Xu Mu looked around, desperately using his imagination. The dirt road outside couldn't really be an official road before, right?
Are there slippers floating in your head?The sword spirit rolled his eyes and raised his chin arrogantly, "General Ben has lived in the capital since he was a child, and he has never been to Jiangnan. ”
"Then do you have relatives or friends who live in Jiangnan?" the courier brother asked urgently without being discouraged.
This monster has always called Zhao Yan a general, and must have seen Zhao Yan before.
"How can I ......" Zhao Yan was halfway through his words, he suddenly paused, and after a long silence, he continued, "Three years after General Ben entered the camp, my uncle seems to have been transferred to Jiangnan, and the family should have moved south at that time. ”
"Do they live nearby?"
Zhao Yan shook his head dryly, "I don't know." ”
Until he died on the battlefield, he never came to Jiangnan to visit his uncle, so he didn't know where the house was.
【See ......】
The surrounding branches and leaves swayed slightly, the sound seemed to be a little anxious, a few branches swayed between Zhao Yan and Xu Mu, and finally stretched out to Xu Mu, dragging him to fly to the top of one of the camphor trees.
"Bold!"
Zhao Yan shouted violently, and raised his hand to emit a blade qi.
"I'm fine, there's something here. Xu Mu, who was dragged to the canopy, held the Tang knife with one arm, and waved the arm holding the mobile phone to report to Zhao Yan that he was safe. He then stood on a thick branch, carefully held up his phone, and shone it at the main trunk of the tree, where it was clearly protected by clumps of foliage.
Everywhere in the light, the hydrangea-like branches and leaves fluttered out, revealing what was inside, and on the yellow-brown longitudinal crack trunk were short branches that had been cut off long ago.
The short black-brown branch was only the length of an adult's finger, and there was a white ring three or four centimeters wide hanging on it, which looked like a ring, but the size was two or three times larger than that of an ordinary ring, a little sloped, and the white ring had a few yellow-brown cracks inside and outside, which looked like jade.
Zhao Yan jumped up, lightly landed on the branch next to Xu Mu, and looked at the truncated branch casually following Xu Mu's light, and then his eyebrows moved slightly.
"This thing must be a ring. Xu Muzheng turned his head and pointed to Zhao Yan with the white ring inquiring. There seems to be some pattern carved on the outer wall of the white ring, and the courier brother tilted his head and looked in the direction of the white ring for a long time, but he didn't understand.
Zhao Yan looked at the truncated branch silently, and reached out to take off the "ring". The surrounding branches and leaves fluttered and trembled, as if they were suppressing something.
"Don't move...... according to the situation just now surrounded by the hydrangea of branches and leaves, it must be protecting this thing. Xu Muzheng wanted to stop Zhao Yan, but the other party had already put the thick white ring on the thumb of his right hand.
"韘 (she), used to hook the string when archery. Zhao Yan demonstratively gestured with a bow and archery.
Wrench?
Xu Mu looked around nervously with Tang Dao in his arms, and was relieved to find that those branches and leaves had no intention of attacking, "You really know." ”
"Of course I do. Zhao Yan gently rubbed the white ring with his fingertips, "This jade is what General Ben used back then. ”
"Yours?" Xu Mu looked at Zhao Yan in surprise, "Then why did it appear here?"
Zhao Yan shook his head, "In the spring of that year, General Ben and the people competed with arrows in the horse farm outside the city gate, and a hundred steps away, they shot the copper coins hanging on the brocade rope. This jade hammer should have been damaged during that competition, and it would have been abandoned a long time ago. As for why he was here, he was also very puzzled.
[Ask yourself, the movement in the forest is all its tossing.] Fu Zhu couldn't help but remind Xu Mu.
It?
"Which ones were made by it just now?" Xu Mu looked at the jade hammer in surprise, he had always thought it was a tree spirit, but it turned out to be a spirit?
【General............】
Yu Zheng struggled to spit out words, but he could still hear the excitement.
Zhao Yan took the jade chisel and put it in the palm of his hand, "The biggest demonic aura in this forest is it, it should be the one who manipulated those branches and leaves to attack us just now." ”
[Now the biggest demonic spirit is obviously this seat!] A certain one in the unicorn bead shouted unconvinced.
Xu Mu shook his head helplessly, anyone with a discerning eye can see that you are far from Zhao Yan's opponent.
Ignoring the sound of a certain fierce beast, Xu Mu stretched out his fingers and played with the jade hammer in Zhao Yan's palm. Because it cultivates on the camphor tree, it can manipulate the forest trees?" "Those crew members, did you hurt them?"
[No...... There was no ......] that voice denied it slowly.
Wia ,...... It's those ropes hanging on the tree, do you know who broke them?" Thinking of Zhao Yan's complaint just now, Xu Mulian described it with a painting. Those guys I met before, although they all talk to themselves and live in their own world, at least most of them speak fluently, but this one is like a young child who has just been ignorant, with some lack of wisdom and slow reactions.
After understanding what Xu Mu meant, Yu Zheng spoke, [will...... Dead ......]
"Death?" Xu Mu couldn't help but be a little puzzled, what did he mean? He looked at Zhao Yan, the other party couldn't even hear the voice, he was at a loss, "What death?"
【Meeting...... Will die...... Want...... Interrupted] Yu Zheng tried hard to explain, and finally held back a relatively long sentence, [Hanging in ...... Rope ...... Yes...... Will die, Lan'er...... That's it...... Dead ......]
Is Lan'er a personal name?
Isn't it trying to hurt people, it's trying to save people?