Chapter 11: Cultivators
When Xiao Lei woke up, his eyes were dim. The chill in his back penetrated his skin through his coat, and he found himself lying on the cold ground. After reaching out and touching the surroundings and finding that Shi Manman was not beside him, he immediately got up and patrolled around looking for her traces. Not far away, a vague figure fell to the ground, and he anxiously stepped forward to check the other party's snort, confirming that Shi Manman was only unconscious, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
After moving the stone vines to a slightly flat stone face, Xiao Lei carefully surveyed the surroundings, and the two of them seemed to be in a stone cave.
The entrance to the cave was filled with faint light, not too bright, and barely able to see the outline of the cave. There is no other exit than the direction in which the light is emitted. He looked at Shi Manman, who was still unconscious, and sat down beside her.
Shi Manman was deep in darkness at the moment, her nails and every strand of hair seemed to be sore all over her body, her body exuded a bone-piercing chill from the inside out, as if something was draining from her body to the outside, but she was powerless to stop it, until the soreness faded and only the cold remained.
After an unknown amount of time, the hazy stone vine felt a slight warmth from the object next to her, and her body unconsciously moved in that direction.
Xiao Lei saw that Shi Manman didn't seem to wake up for a while, so he sat beside her and fell asleep in a daze while waiting. But Shi Manman's slight movement still woke up Xiao Lei, and he only felt that his arm sank and his palm was cold. Shi Manman was already holding his arm, and a face pillow was pressed against the palm of his hand.
Shi Manman's palm-sized side face fitted against his palm, and the soft touch made Xiao Lei's body stiffen. He looked at Shi Manman's quiet sleeping face, his brows tightly furrowed, and the corners of his mouth were slightly smiling.
She curled up and rested her head on Xiao Lei's lap, but Xiao Lei found that Shi Manman's body exuded bursts of cold air, which seeped into his body little by little. The cold made him shiver, and the bone-piercing chill quickly soaked all parts of Xiao Lei's body like lightning, and he was like falling into an ice cave, his body stiff and unable to move. And Shi Manman's face began to become painful.
When the two of them were tortured by the cold, the stone pendant on Xiao Lei's chest suddenly lit up.
In an instant, the cold qi on the two of them gradually retreated from the limbs, and a milky white vortex formed in front of the stone pendant, and all the cold qi was sucked into the stone. Xiao Lei's human body has long been unable to bear the cold that freezes into the bone marrow, and as soon as the chill leaves, it seems that even the strength of his body is inhaled by the stone pendant. He leaned weakly against the stone wall, looking at the stone vine who was still holding his arm, and her face finally had a hint of ruddy.
The woman in front of her does not have a face that captivates the country and the city, and her personality is not gentle and meticulous. The ghostly light outside the cave was reflected on her face, revealing an unreal illusion and distance, Xiao Lei suddenly remembered the light pecking of the stone vines in the demon tide, and the frequency of his heart beat immediately faster. Looking at the quiet and sleeping stone vines, Xiao Lei reached out and gently softened her tender white cheeks.
But after doing this, he immediately regretted it, because Shi Manman suddenly opened his eyes alertly, and saw Xiao Lei's hand that he couldn't withdraw when he arrived.
"That'...... Well, I see that your face is a little dirty, and I want to wipe it for you. Xiao Lei covered up, and he didn't dare to look at Shi Manman's eyes with a weak heart.
"We're on earth?" Shi Manman hooked the emanation on his forehead, sat up and got up, and did not notice Xiao Lei's abnormality.
"I don't know." Xiao Lei shook his head.
"Where is this?" Shi Manman looked around and asked again.
"It's supposed to be a cave." Xiao Lei said his guess, and pointed to the entrance of the cave: "There is a light source there, we can go out and have a look." ”
"Haven't you been there?" Shi Manman asked Xiao Lei suspiciously.
"You were unconscious before, I'm worried that you are too reckless and will cause danger, after all, I don't know if we really came out of Kunlun." Xiao Lei replied.
"Oh, let's go, then." Saying that, Shi Manman and Xiao Lei walked towards the entrance of the cave.
The two of them stood at the entrance of the cave and realized that the entrance of the cave they were in seemed to be a small ear chamber in the cave, and there were many winding forks outside the cave entrance, and in front of each fork in the road was a bright moon pearl the size of a walnut. And with the depth of those forks, there is one at every fixed distance.
"What is this?" The stone vines pointed to the cave beside the bright moon beads that glowed with a ghostly light.
"This is called Suizhu, also known as the Bright Moon Pearl, which can fluoresce in the dark and is very valuable." Although Xiao Lei's family is wealthy, he has never seen such a large number of bright moon beads, even if the beads are not big.
"We're on earth now?" Shi Manman reached out and took the night pearl, and couldn't put it down.
Xiao Lei saw that the stone vines took down the night pearl, and just saw the wall of the cave where the night pearl was placed, as if it had just been dug up. Brand new digging marks, and rubble foam on the ground perpendicular to the digging marks.
"It's like a man-made trace, we should be back to the world. I just don't know the exact location. Xiao Lei said.
"Then let's check one by one." As he spoke, he wrapped one hand around Xiao Lei's waist, grabbed the clothes around his waist and kicked it hard. But unexpectedly, the two fell to the ground at the same time, and Xiao Lei was dizzy from falling suddenly.
"How so?" Shi Manman was no more embarrassed than Xiao Lei, she was sitting on the ground at the moment, staring at her scratched palm in disbelief.
"Hurt? Let me see! Xiao Lei saw Shi Manman staring at his palm in despair, and saw blood dripping along the edge of his palm. He immediately tore off the hem of his shirt and carefully bandaged the wound.
Before the wound could be bandaged, Shi Manman beckoned with his other hand to the rubble not far away. The rubble did not come as expected, but slowly moved in the direction of the stone vines. Seeing this, she stopped her movements and sat cross-legged and closed her eyes. Liang Jiu slowly spoke, "I can't use spells, and my body seems to be as fragile as a human...... Why is this happening. ”
Since Xiao Lei met Shi Manman, he had never seen her like this, and he was a little panicked in confusion. He suddenly thought of the abnormality of the stone pendant before, so he said it to Shi Manman.
"Can you show it to me?" After Shi Manman heard this, he said to Xiao Lei.
Xiao Lei took down the stone pendant and handed it to Shi Manman, who used his only remaining spiritual power to transport the stone pendant, but only saw that the stone pendant flashed a few times and then there was no movement.
"I ...... Can I come back first? Shi Manman hesitated. Her intuition told her that this stone pendant was very important to her current state, so she had to ask Xiao Lei for it. After saying that, he felt very embarrassed, after all, he gave it to him himself.
"It's okay, it's yours. Let's be careful and choose a brighter path. Xiao Lei saw Shi Manman's embarrassed expression and changed the topic.
"Hmm." After Shi Manman got up, he looked at the intersections that he didn't know where to go, and looked at Xiao Lei in embarrassment.
Seeing this, Xiao Lei pointed to the hole on the right and said, "There is a breeze coming from this hole, and it should be able to lead to the outside." After speaking, he took Shi Manman's hand and walked forward. Shi Manman followed obediently behind her, but every time she passed by a bright moon pearl, she would take it into her arms, and Xiao Lei walked in front of her without finding Shi Manman's small movements.
Just as the two of them walked forward, the more they found that the entrance of the cave became wider, Xiao Lei also felt that the cave was a little strange, and he began to wonder if it was his own illusion that he felt it was a breeze before. Until the two of them heard sparse human voices coming from the direction at the end.
Xiao Lei was happy in his heart, and in the small half of his life in Kunlun, he had never communicated with anyone except Shi Manman. Hearing human voices now is like a long drought in the spirit. While he was happy, he didn't listen carefully to the other party's conversation, and ran forward with Shi Manman.
"Senior sister, the master told me to wait for him to send a signal before coming in." A deep male voice whispered.
"Daddy is just too careful, the first wave of monsters before is not vulnerable at all." A woman replied, her voice crisp and childish.
"But it is mentioned in the ancient books of the sect that there are ancient demons behind the demon gate, and they are invincible to non-immortals. This demon gate has only been opened once in thousands of years, maybe there will really be ancient demons and evil ......," the male voice said with some hesitation.
"If you're afraid, go back! I also want to kill more monsters to increase my merits. The other sect disciples who were guarding outside the cave were like hungry tigers when they saw a demon flying out, and I couldn't grab a few...... Who! The woman exclaimed.
Shi Manman was not as excited as Xiao Lei, and he was worried that he didn't know how to get along with humans. When he heard the other party say that he wanted to kill the monster to increase his merits, he was shocked and grabbed Xiao Lei, who was still running forward.
But the two had heard their footsteps and were running towards them.
"Who are you?" The owner of the immature voice spoke, only to see that the other party was only thirteen or fourteen years old, dressed in a blue and white fairy skirt, and combed in a double bun. With a serious look on his immature face, he pointed his long sword at the two of them.
Shi Manman found that the person in front of him was dressed very familiarly, "Immortal cultivator." She blurted out. There was a picture in the message left by the fairy in red at the beginning, which was several humans wearing the same color clothes of the two in front of them, chasing her.
"Are you human?" The man asked, looking at the two of them.
"There is no one here! Look at the female monster still fluorescent! The little girl pointed to the stone vines and shouted.
Xiao Lei was still guessing the identities of the two, and after hearing Shi Manman say the identity of the other party, he knew that he had met the "immortal" that his grandmother had talked about. It's just that immortal cultivators in the human world are very rare, and they almost don't enter the world, unless there are demons and evil spirits. But where are there so many monsters in this world, so immortal cultivators often live in the inaccessible mountains for a long time. For Xiao Lei, these immortal cultivators are undoubtedly characters who only appear in the midst of strange and miscellaneous conversations.
Now when I heard the other party pointing at the stone vines, my heart was cold. Shi Manman is a real demon, can he be seen by the other party? Just look back when you think about it.
I saw that the upper half of Shi Manman's body was shining, and it was irregularly bulging in some places, and then looking at her hands, she was still tightly holding two bright moon beads. He looked up and looked behind him, and saw the bottomless darkness, where there was still the shadow of the bright moon pearl.
"Girl, you misunderstood. I...... We're not monsters, she's glowing because of the Bright Moon Pearl. As he spoke, he took a bead written by the stone vine in his hand and said. Shi Manman saw that the bright moon bead was taken by Xiao Lei, and he was slightly unhappy in his heart, and then took out one from his arms and played with it. When she saw that the other party couldn't tell that she was a demon, she no longer guarded against the other party.
"Wow! It turned out to be two thieves! The little girl put away her sword as she spoke, and wanted to step forward and take them down.
"Senior sister, wait!" The man next to him stopped the little girl who wanted to come forward, "How did you get to this hole?" "Men are a few years older than little girls, and they are more thoughtful than little girls.
In the few days that the demon gate was opened, there would be human intrusions, and it was unreasonable to think that there would be.
"I'm ......" Shi Manman was about to speak, Xiao Lei pinched Shi Manman's hand and said: "Below is the nearby hunter, a few days ago I went up the mountain with my sister to collect medicine. My sister entered the cave for fun, and I was worried that she would follow her, but it wasn't long before I found out that I was lost and ran out of dry food. You can only find the way in and out of the hole. I happened to meet two of them. ”
After saying this, Xiao Lei felt uneasy in his heart. This nonsense was thought up in an instant, and as long as you dig deeper, you can find that it is full of loopholes. But to Xiao Lei's surprise, the two actually believed it.