Chapter Twenty-Six: Overnight in the Woods
Holding the Book of the Dead like a baby, Xiaoying frowned and observed everything around her.
After a long time, she finally came to the conclusion that there was no village in front of the village and no shop in the back, and she had to spend the night in the woods tonight.
There is nothing wrong with her resentful spirit staying in the woods at night, but the little girl is a real living person, and if she encounters a strange beast, the scene will definitely be out of control.
Seeing her hesitation, the little girl tilted her head and smiled slightly, and her chubby little finger pointed to the woods in front of her and said, "Do you want to go in!" ”
"Yes, of course." Xiaoying nodded in a panic, and when the words fell, she hurriedly added: "I want it, you don't want it." ”
"Why?" The little girl crossed her hands on her hips and asked savagely.
Shocked by her momentum, Xiaoying stood in place, her mind blank, no matter how anxious she was, she just couldn't think of a reason to get rid of the little girl.
"Tell you, my parents don't care about me, and you'd better leave me alone." Xu knew that there was something wrong with her attitude, and the little girl's voice softened a little.
"But......" Xiaoying wanted to explain something, but when she came to her mouth, she suddenly realized that she really had no position to care about the little girl.
After all, she is just a resentful spirit who does nothing now, maybe she was really the shadow master here when she was alive, but that is already her identity before her death, who knows if this is an excuse for the ethereal voice to deceive her and not let her feel inferior!
"Ann, I'll take care of myself, don't worry." Realizing Shadow's concern, the little girl grabbed her by the sleeve and forcibly pulled her towards the woods.
Embarrassed smile, Xiaoying snatched the initiative by the little girl, she is a resentful spirit, and she is a resentful spirit who has lost her memory before her death, she doesn't understand the so-called worry at all, since the little girl insists that she is worried about her, then assume that she is worried.
Into the woods, Xiaoying carefully recalled the road she had just entered, this forest is not big, but the night is high and the wind is clear, maybe she will get lost, if she really can't find another exit, she can also rely on her memories to return the same way.
After determining the way out, Xiaoying finally turned her attention to the little girl.
At this moment, she did not show the wild resentment of everyone's girlfriends, but wrote happiness on her face, as if she was very familiar with this life in the sleeping woods.
"You've slept in the woods before?" Thinking about it, I don't know when I actually said what I thought in my heart.
Honestly shaking her head, the little girl found a big tree with thick branches, and climbed it deftly and sat down.
"I have a search in my name, you can call me Xiao Xun." Seeing that Xiaoying found a big tree nearby, she also climbed the branch and sat down, and the little girl opened the conversation.
When she was very young, she was thrown out of the house by her father and ordered to go out for training, and at that time, she cried for so long that it was not clear when her own home disappeared in front of her eyes.
Later, when she was desperate, she experienced many tribulations that others could not imagine, and she didn't know if she needed to keep a low profile, but she vaguely remembered that her home was a place of golden glory, and her identity was enough for her to proudly despise all her peers, so after those tribulations, the pride in her bones was still there.
She didn't know what she was going to be like before her family summoned her back, but after being out there for so long, she no longer worried about whether she could go home, because she knew very well that as long as she had enough strength, in this complex seven cities, you could completely carve out your own territory and create the most perfect home in your mind.
"What's your last name? Although I rarely leave the place where I used to live, I am familiar with the nobility of the Seven Cities. Xiaoying boasted and showed off.
Compared to the other ghosts in the larger cemetery, there were indeed countless nobles she knew.
Xiao Xun hesitated for a while, making sure that Xiaoying would not hurt herself, let alone make fun of her surname if she had nothing to do, so she whispered, "My surname is Bing." ”
"Surname Bing?" Xiaoying's mouth opened slightly in surprise.
Regarding the nobles of the Seven Cities, she had heard of the compound surname Baiyi, and even heard of the phantom surname, but she had never heard of any nobleman with the surname Bing.
"You don't know, in fact, I have inquired about the nobles of the Seven Cities, and there is no big family with the surname Bing at all, and even people with the surname Bing have never heard of it." Xiao Xun said with a wry smile.
Xiaoying lowered her eyes, before Xiao Xun said this, she might be able to easily explain that she really didn't know the big family surnamed Bing, but just now, when Xiao Xun smiled bitterly, the ethereal voice gasped and muttered a word.
"After the Great War of the Ancient Ages, the ancient gods only left the four big families of Emperor, Feng, Bing, and Yan, but this family surnamed Bing has been completely wiped out by the family surnamed Yan five years ago, and it stands to reason that there should be no one with the surname Bing......"
"Hey, do you know Xiao Xun's family!" The ethereal voice was already weak, and it was just his muttering, Xiaoying heard it very vaguely, and she couldn't bear Xiao Xun to continue to be lost, so she asked loudly in her heart.
"I don't know, I don't know." The ethereal voice retorted.
"You're talking nonsense." She had already heard it, and he dared to deny it.
"I ......"
"Say you're a cold-blooded animal, you're really cold-blooded, don't you see other little girls homesick? Since you know the Bing family, why don't you say it. Xiaoying scolded it as a matter of course, but she didn't see the muddy place at all, the man's tightly knit eyebrows.
"Now you, it's best not to ask about these things, hurry away after dawn, and stay away from the Bing family." After Shen Sheng said this, the ethereal voice disappeared without a trace, and no matter how Xiaoying called, there was no response.
Knowing that if he continued to shout, he would not only annoy the person, but also annoy himself, Xiaoying had no choice but to stop, and his eyes subconsciously looked at Xiao Xun, and the girl who was originally sitting firmly on the branch disappeared at some point.
Xiaoying was frightened, afraid that there was danger in the tree, and she instinctively wanted to leave the branch.
At this moment, a voice came from under the big tree: "Hey, you come down quickly." ”
"Xiao Xun, why did you run down there." Hearing clearly that the voice was Xiao Xun's, Xiao Ying breathed a sigh of relief and quickly jumped down from the tree.
Fiddling with the dry branches that he picked up out of nowhere, Xiao Xun explained with a smile: "I saw you thinking just now, so I ran to find the dry branches myself, and this forest is somehow getting colder and colder when it comes into contact with popularity." ”
"Maybe it's late at night." Xiaoying speculated wildly.
She is a resentful spirit, and she doesn't have a clear sense of temperature, not to mention that all ghosts don't like heat sources, so she doesn't care if the woods are cold or not.
But Xiao Xun is still a child, no matter how high his cultivation talent is, he can't withstand the cold in his body, thinking of this, Xiao Ying squatted down and fiddled with the dry branches with Xiao Xun.
After fiddling with the branches, Xiao Xun snapped his fingers and made a fire at his fingertips, and the flame was close to the dry branch and immediately ignited a larger fire.
"Aren't you afraid of fire?" The fire was swaying in the night wind, and Xiao Ying squatted in place without any movement, Xiao Xun couldn't help but ask.
Blinking suspiciously, Xiaoying asked rhetorically, "Why should I be afraid?" ”
"Because you're a wraith!" Xiao Xun answered as a matter of course.
The ghost ghost doesn't like heat sources, and the resentful spirits also belong to the ghost ghosts, so Xiaoying should naturally not like heat sources.
"You're going to treat me as a freak." Xiaoying thought for a moment and said.
She has two attributes in her body to get along in balance, plus she is disgusted with rain and heat, but she is different, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she is a freak.
Nodding, Xiao Xun didn't ask any more, his small body shrank by the fire, and his glass-like eyes didn't know what he was thinking.
Taking this opportunity, Xiaoying took a good look at her, thinking that if she was to feed her with delicious food for half a month, there would definitely be another stunning little beauty in Qicheng.
"Hey, tell me a story." The silence of the night, for those who are awake, is always endless torture, Xiao Xun is not an idle person, like other children, she also likes to listen to stories.
Glancing at her in surprise, Xiaoying closed her eyes and searched, she did tell a lot of stories in the cemetery in the past, but those stories were so ironic, and now Xiaoxun wants to listen, so naturally she can't tell those stories.
Seeing Xiaoying close her eyes, Xiao Xun thought she didn't want to talk, so she pouted unhappily: "Don't be so stingy, I just want to know about the disappearance of the young master of Ying three years ago." ”
"Why do you want to know? You just asked me to tell a story, and I may not tell her about it. Xiaoying asked curiously.
Regardless of whether she is really the Young Master of the Shadow or not, she is very curious, why a child wants to hear about the Young Master of the Shadow.
"There are many celebrity stories in the world of Seven Cities, but the others are not as atmospheric as the story of the young master, you think, the Zero clan is one of the three major families that the ancient world has retained, and the three masters here are powerful characters comparable to the city lord, may I ask which story can have such an identity?"
"It seems that you just want to hear what kind of life the celebrities who are at the top of the rumors have." Xiao Ying's dark eyes flashed with a smart light, and she was now sure that Xiao Xun was not curious about the young master of Ying.
If there was another story about the city lord of the Seven Cities, she would definitely leave the young master of the shadow and listen to the story of the city lord.
Nodding undeniably, his glass-like eyes imprinted the figure of the fire ball, exuding an eager halo.
She also wants to be a celebrity, but she can't find her way to the city, but she is lucky enough to find it, and a special enchantment will appear in the Seven Cities to bounce her away.
Since she can't enter the city and become a celebrity, she can only listen to the stories of celebrities to comfort herself.
"Let's change to another story, I know a lot of stories about the children of the nobility, but I also don't know much about the story of the young master."
"How? Isn't the story of the Young Lord of the Shadow the most popular in the past three years in Seven Cities? Xiao Xun was surprised.
Xiaoying smiled apologetically and explained helplessly: "In the past three years, I have never been out of the Necropolis, and I don't know what is going on in the Seven Cities. ”
"It is said that the young master of the shadow is buried in the necropolis, haven't you seen her?"
Shaking his head, Xiaoying looked at Xiao Xun's lost face in embarrassment.