16. Chapter 16
Today's whole day was extremely miserable for Fang Qiong. It was as if all the bad luck had gathered into this day, and Fang Qiong almost wanted to give up.
First, he stumbled and finally found the fairy grass, and then somehow his feet slipped, and the whole person slipped into a cave; Because he was too hungry, and there happened to be an unknown plant in the cave that had borne fruit, he didn't think too much, Fang Qiong directly picked the fruit and ate it.
The three fruits were very small, and they melted in their mouths, and after a while, they suddenly had a cramping pain in their abdomen, like a fire burning from their stomachs, slowly spreading to their whole body, and the taste of them, Fang Qiong didn't want to recall.
Finally endured this inhuman suffering, Fang Qiong was targeted by the wind spirit wolf again, and only then did he understand what kind of rare spirit plant he had eaten, provoking the head wolf who had been waiting for the spirit plant and waiting for it to mature.
Chased by wolves all the way, his body was hung with branches, and when he was about to exert his strength, he accidentally stepped on a small stone, and suddenly his legs weakened and he sat on the ground.
Seeing this, the head wolf chasing after him slowed down his pace, a few steps away from Fang Qiong, and observed from a distance. Fang Qiong had no choice but to β‘β‘ the small dagger hidden in the cuff and hold it in his hand, just hoping to get a chance of life in the end.
Seeing that Fang Qiong didn't move, just gasping there, the head wolf saw that he was just a child, relaxed his vigilance, and was about to step forward, Fang Qiong observed the head wolf's movements with the corner of his eye, and then tightened his grip on the dagger; And at this moment, the vision was abrupt, the wind was fierce, and a crack twisted out in the sky above their heads, and the crack suddenly expanded into a black hole, and then spit out a humanoid creature with a "snap", which happened to fall between Fang Qiong and the wolves.
After spitting out the unidentified object, the crack that appeared out of thin air immediately closed and disappeared out of thin air, as if nothing had happened before.
A group of wolves and a man were frightened by this miracle, and the two sides began to reach a stalemate again.
Fang Qiong watched that "person" stand up and looked at herself with interest.
Although he was just a teenager, but inexplicably, Fang Qiong suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
That "young man" is really not an ordinary person, just a glance, he scared away the wind spirit wolf, you know, the wind spirit wolf is a very proud spirit beast. Fang Qiong saw the "young man" walking in his direction, his heart was in a mess, and what happened next was completely beyond his expectations, he actually killed the "young man" with one blow.
Seeing that the "young man" was lying at his feet, dead and blind, and his blood was still all over his body, Fang Qiong was a little confused, firstly, because he felt as if he was not himself for a moment, and secondly, because he was ...... It stands to reason that the "boy" shouldn't die so easily, but he ......
He killed an innocent "person"?
He's become just like them?!
Stand.
Running away in a panic, Fang Qiong was terrified in her heart. However, he forgot that he was now in Qiling Mountain, the terrain of Qiling Mountain was complicated, and he had already deviated from the path he had been familiar with in the process of escaping just now, so he was lost.
Fang Qiong's sense of direction was not very good, he turned around in the woods, and finally when he was holding on to a tree to catch his breath, he found the rags hanging on the branches of the tree with sharp eyes, from this point of view, he accidentally turned back to the place where he killed the "boy" before.
As long as he walked a few more steps, he could see the corpse of the "young man", Fang Qiong didn't dare to look at it or think about it, and walked directly in the opposite direction with his eyes closed.
I don't know how long it was, when Fang Qiong happily found the exit of the woods, and after taking a few steps towards it, the blood on his face faded in an instantβthe tree trunk was clearly engraved with the mark he had made when he came before.
By this time it was already dark, and the howls of various animals of different heights could be heard in the woods. Fang Qiong swallowed a mouthful of saliva, took a few steps back, squatted down, and trembled.
He remembered a small story he had read in a book, saying that the dead man had a grudge against him, turned into a ghost, and used "ghosts to hit the wall" to trap pedestrians in the mountains and forests.
The "young man's" unsightly face has been circling in his mind, even if Fang Qiong is very psychological, he is just a child; With her hands clasped together, Fang Qiong's eyes began to have tears in her eyes, and at the same time she whispered: "I didn't mean to, I didn't expect it to be like this, please let me go......"
"Yay? Why are you still here? A clear young man's voice sounded behind Fang Qiong.
Fang Qiong was stunned for a moment, and the cold sweat went straight down.
"Why don't you speak?"
His lips turned pale, and his teeth began to fight up and down unconsciously.
There was a sound of rustling behind him, the hairs on his body stood on end, he wanted to run away but couldn't use his strength, after feeling a hand on his shoulder, Fang Qiong couldn't care so much, and directly broke down and cried: "Wow-"
Xuanli, who had always seen Fang Qiong's scared appearance before, had just wanted to tease this little bean Ding was startled by his howling; Knowing that he was in the wrong, he hurriedly helped Xiao Douding wipe his tears and snot: "You, don't cry, I just wanted to scare you before, I'm still alive, not a ghost, don't cry, good-"
When Xiao Douding heard this, he temporarily stopped crying, sobbed and choked his tears and tentatively held Xuanli's hand to wipe his face, pinched it, and hiccuped in the middle.
"You're really not a ghost? Belch. β
"No, you touch it, my hands are warm."
"Hmm." Relieved, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and after that, Xiao Douding inhaled again: "Wow-"
"Why are you still crying? Don't cry, if you're crying, I'll just, I'll just-" scratched his ears and cheeks for a long time, and seeing that Xiao Douding cried even more after hearing this, Xuanli sobbed and said aggrievedly: "I'm going to cry too." After saying that, his eyes turned red.
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Fang Qiong: ......
It is human nature to bully the soft and fear the hard, and Fang Qiong is no exception. Although he couldn't figure out why this powerful-looking teenager was suddenly so talkative, it didn't stop him from asking the teenager to help him prepare food on the grounds of mending his "wounded heart".
Happily sitting next to the campfire and munching on a fish, feeling the pieces of meat that had been warmed by the fire slide down the esophagus, comforting the stomach pouch that had been empty, Fang Qiong finally felt that she had come back to life.
When he was eight minutes full, Fang Qiong realized that the young man sitting opposite him hadn't eaten a bite. A little surprised, the speed of eating slowed down, Fang Qiong secretly observed the young man.
Through the flames of the campfire, the boy's face was softly lined, and he was intently flipping the fish strung on the branches. I don't know if it's because the color of the flame is orange, this scene seems to Fang Qiong to be very warm, and the fear of the arrival of the night before slowly disappears.
"What are you looking at?" The boy suddenly turned his head and asked.
Only then did Fang Qiong see the young man's face, and hurriedly looked away, and returned: "It's nothing." β
Because it was only a brief glimpse, the impression of the young man's face in his mind was slowly blurred, and the only thing Fang Qiong remembered was the dark blue eyes that the young man had, looking at himself intently just now, giving him the feeling that he was embracing the starry sky all summer.
In order to change the topic, Fang Qiong asked: "My name is Fang Qiong, what is your name?" β
The young man pondered for a while, and then returned: "Xuanli." β
Those blue eyes kept shaking in front of her eyes, and Fang Qiong was in a trance: "Are you a demon?" β
"Demon? No, I'm ...... You guess? β
"Immortals?"
"It's not."
"I see."
"What do you know?" The boy came over at some point and asked. This scared Fang Qiong enough, resisting the urge to retreat, Fang Qiong's neck stalked: "You are a demon." β
"Bingo, that's right." The index finger was a little on Fang Qiong's forehead, and the young man smiled, "It's so smart." β
"By the way, your surname is Fang, do you know someone named ...... Forget it, I'll find it myself. The boy was a little discouraged, withdrew his hand, held his chin and began to be in a daze.
With some doubts, Fang Qiong asked slowly, "Do you know the Bai family?" β
"What Bai family?"
"The Bai family, one of the seven great families in the human world."
"I haven't heard of it."
"Oh." Fang Qiong nodded, "It's nothing, I'm just asking casually." β
After that, Fang Qiong continued to nibble on the grilled fish, and Xuan Li did not speak. After a while, Xuan Li seemed to remember something and asked, "You are so young, why did you come to Qiling Mountain?" β
Fang Qiong stopped to eat the fish, took off a small bag from her waist, pinched it in her hand, and said, "In order to collect medicine for my mother." Speaking of this, he raised his head and smiled at Xuan Li, "Thanks to Xuan Li, otherwise I would have died under the claws of the wind spirit wolf and would not have been able to go back to see my mother." β
"Then you still want to kill me." Xuan Li rolled his eyes.
Fang Qiong picked her cheeks a little embarrassedly and said, "I was so scared at the time, you are so powerful...... Anyway, you didn't die anyway, and then you scared me, it's a clear ...... But then again, Xuanli, since you're so powerful, why don't you just fly out? β
"I want to, too." Xuan Li pursed his mouth and said, "But I always feel that it's not good to throw you away like this." There is also - "Elongated the tone, Xuanli is meaningful, "I am not familiar with the human world at all, so naturally I need someone to lead the way." β
It would be nice if he didn't say the latter sentence, Fang Qiong thought, a little depressed.
"Will you ruin the human world?" Fang Qiong asked.
Xuan Li was speechless: "You have read too much." β
"But that's what all the books say."
"No, it won't! Who wants the human world? The Demon Realm can't control it by itself. Xuanli returned with a huff.
"Oh." Fang Qiong nodded, and then asked, "Then you just went out of Qiling Mountain to find your way back?" β
"Hmm."
"What do I do after that? Will you eat me? β
"No, it won't."
"Why?"
"Human flesh is not tasty, it is sour."
Fang Qiong was stunned for a moment and asked, "How do you know?" β
A mysterious smile spread across Xuan Li's face.