Chapter 219: The Black Cat Is Dead
After packing our things, we chartered a car and went to the same place.
In fact, I also asked Ize how he came out in the first place, but he didn't answer me, and only threw me a mysterious look at the time.
After we settled in the residential area, I wanted to go to Song Jiangqi to see how they were doing, but I didn't want to disappoint him, so I finally dismissed this idea.
The time was set at twelve o'clock tonight, and when it was almost twelve o'clock, the black cat, which had been quiet all the time, suddenly began to become restless, and the eyes with a faint green light were very angry.
Although its restless appearance made me a little worried, the anger it carried at this time was also close to the appearance of the first time I saw it, like a sick patient who had regained its vitality, but it made me a little more relaxed than before.
I glanced at Izawa, who was researching new food here, and he seemed to be very curious about food, and he had been studying it for a long time.
"Isn't it time for us to go?" I glanced at the time and couldn't help but remind him.
But he only stared at me with those ice-blue eyes for a while, and then slowly put down the food in his hand, got up from the chair, picked up the black cat, and said to me lightly, "Let's go." ”
Looking at the black cat in his arms, I suddenly understood why some people say that people are inferior to cats and people are inferior to dogs.
Since this black cat came to my house, he has not suffered any grievances, his originally thin body is now a little fatter, and now he is held by someone wherever he goes, and this little day is really much more comfortable than people.
Now this time is not the peak of tourism, there are still relatively few people here, we came out and walked on the grassland for a while, almost no one was seen, only the two of us were left walking in the huge grassland.
I thought of the first time I came here, when I remembered a wolf looking at me, I thought about it and couldn't help but ask him, "I remember that I met a wolf here when I came, did you know that I was going to the Shura Path at that time?" ”
I saw him pause slightly, but he denied it.
I couldn't figure it out when I fell into the swamp, and the wolves on the side didn't do anything to me, just like the wolves I met in the Shura Path.
Maybe I thought too much about it, how could he have known that I was going? And the time was set by myself, and no one informed him, so I must have thought too much......
"Why don't you go in until twelve? Couldn't it be at any other time? I walked up to him with some curiosity and asked.
"Why do you have so many questions?" As if he was a little impatient with my question, his usually calm brow suddenly furrowed, staring at me with those ice-blue eyes, and there was still some confusion between his eyebrows.
"I'm just curious, if you don't want to say it, I won't ask." These men have so many secrets, and they never told me anything about him when they were fine, and now they only have a wisp of his soul, but I didn't expect it to be like this.
But even if he is, it has nothing to do with me, one day he will be given by Xiongbo......
My eyes dimmed slightly, and I was still in a relaxed mood just now, but I suddenly lowered my mind, and I smiled reluctantly: "It's nothing, let's go." ”
He gave me a puzzled look, but didn't say anything, and looked back at me. The two of us walked forward in silence.
I thought he had some other way, until he stopped by the swamp and I realized that he had come from here.
Looking at the swamp in front of me, I felt a little difficult to jump, and I couldn't help but say, "Did you crawl out of here in the first place?" ”
Izawa didn't speak, his eyes kept staring at the swamp, probably not heard.
But what's in that place? He was so distracted.
I couldn't help but follow him as I looked at the swamp, where the moonlight above me reflected a sparkling light.
If you don't look closely, you won't notice that this is a swamp.
I looked at it for a while, and knew that my eyes were sour, and then I saw the swamp, and suddenly it tumbled, and then a few mud bubbles burst on the swamp, as if something was spitting bubbles in it.
At this moment, I felt an indescribable coldness around me, and I couldn't help but turn my head to look over, and I saw that Izawa's face was very ugly, with a heavy coldness in his ice-blue eyes, and his thin lips were tightly pursed. He was staring blankly at the swamp, as if he had something heavy on his mind.
"What's wrong with you?" I couldn't help but stretch out my hand and shake it in front of his eyes, and asked, "Didn't you say you were going to Shura Dao?" Don't you want to go yet? ”
His ice-blue eyes looked at me with a hint of dazedness and an imperceptible bleakness in them.
I've never seen him look like this, after all, a wolf is always cold, even if he sees his relatives die, he can be indifferent, but now his eyes have become like this, I suddenly feel a little frightened.
I felt a little uneasy when I came, could it be that he was the source of my uneasiness?
I saw the corners of his mouth raise slightly, and then he shook his head, his voice a little hoarse and bitter: "I can't go back now." ”
This sentence is like a thunderbolt, it explodes directly in my mind, and I can't go back, what does this mean?
I felt chills all over my body: "Are you kidding? How could you not go back to your own home? Also, isn't it okay to just jump in when you go back? Don't waste any more time, we'll be back tomorrow." ”
I was talking desperately, but I was actually trying to hide the panic in my heart.
If what he said is true, it means ...... He is no longer a person of the Shura Dao, for people in the yang world, he is already dead in the yang world, and he does not accept it in the yang world, so he can't go back.
But now I see that there is nothing wrong with him, and the aura emanating from his body still shows that he is indeed a person of the Shura Dao. But now that's it......
I also think that he is joking, but he doesn't look like a joker.
In just a few seconds, my mind was already flooded with turbulent waves, and countless thoughts flashed through me one by one.
I just kept looking at the look on his face, for fear of missing a little emotion from him.
But in the end, I saw him shake his head: "I can't feel the breath of my subordinates anymore, and when I first came up, I could still feel it...... Now ......"
He didn't say the rest of the words, but his voice had already said everything, and now he really couldn't go back.
But why is that?
He still seems calm on the surface, but I'm a little panicked in comparison.
Is it because of Xiongbo? Did Uncle Xiong take advantage of my inattention and act in advance?
"Isn't it okay to just fall right from here? Let's jump in now, I jumped in from here when I first went in......"
As I spoke, I took two steps forward and stood directly on the edge of the swamp, tempting to jump, but Ize was unmoved.
"Can't you jump from here?" I asked cautiously.
He looked at me directly and said, "Do you really think that when you fell in and survived in the first place, it was because of the Shura Dao below?" ”
I looked at him with some confusion.
"I sent my subordinates to pick you up, and my subordinates can come and go freely, because they can't turn into human form yet, they can come and go as they please, but they still have the breath of my wolf clan, and without their breath, I can......'t get in at all," he said.
It turned out that the wolves I saw at the beginning were really sent by him, but why didn't he admit it before?
He is telling me so much now, and I am completely convinced, he really has no choice.
"Do you say that as long as your subordinates come out, you can enter with their breath?" I said, "If that's the case, I can jump first, I won't die, and I can help you get your subordinates out." ”
My Yang Shou has been erased by the Imperial Priest's Order, and even if I die here, my ghost will not be accepted in the underworld.
But there was still a hint of despair in his ice-blue eyes: "Don't waste your efforts, my subordinates can't get out." Let's go back. ”
After saying that, he turned around and wanted to leave here, his steps looked a little chaotic, although he looked very calm on the surface, but now his steps betrayed him.
At this time, I suddenly thought, the mud bubble I saw just now, could it be that his subordinates wanted to come out at that time?
"Wait! Don't go yet! I couldn't help but shout at him.
But he didn't look back, at this time I remembered that his ears couldn't hear, I hurriedly ran up and followed him, the black cat had fallen to the ground, the black cat also became a little wilted, looked very unenergetic, I hesitated, but still held the black cat in my arms, I walked to Izawa.
"Shall we try to find another way? This is really different from your personality, when did you become such an easy person to give up? Can't you try a second time if you don't succeed once? It's when people are not careful, how do you know that you can't succeed the second time? I was right in front of him, and I was so loud and persuading him.
But his steps were still very fast, and I knew that he had seen me talking, but he pretended not to see me, and walked as he went.
The way he looks really worries me, a character who usually looks high, didn't expect to be hit a little bit, and his heart is so fragile.
He ignored me, and I couldn't just pull him back, so I had to follow him all the time in case he did something drastic.
In this way, he came out of the grassland until he stopped suddenly, and his long body stood in the moonlight, motionless, and his back looked a little sad.
I couldn't bear to say anything more about him, so I walked in front of him, and at this time I found that his face was even worse, his skin was originally very fair, and now it was even more pale, just like those ghosts.
"Actually, it's not bad if you don't go back, you have been living in my house, there are a lot of delicious foods in the yang world, it is much better for you to eat more delicious food here than you eat wild fruits there, right?" I say.
"And I know a person, he must know the way to go back, when I go back, I'll contact him, ask him, and it's not too late to try again." He's a great guy, there's nothing in the world that he doesn't know. I continued.
I found that I couldn't seriously look at him like this, like a lost soul, not at all the same as the Imperial Master I knew before, and now he looks invincible on the surface, but I didn't think he had such a fragile side.
It took a long time for his face to soften, and his ice-blue eyes had regained their previous coldness, and he gave me a faint look, and then took the black cat from my arms.
"If there's nothing to do, go back." He said.
I was slightly stunned, knowing that he had returned to normal, I was slightly relieved, and followed him back to the residential area.
But I couldn't ignore it, Uncle Xiong and the old man had said something, and now it seemed that there was an omen.
What happens at the end of the day?
I don't know, and I don't dare to imagine.
We left early the next morning, and when the black cat came back from the swamp, it had been wilting, and could not recover to its original appearance, as if it were very sick, but it could not be detected.
Izawa didn't say anything, and when he got home, he was still tired of being with the black cat every day, except for the sometimes depressed mood, everything else was the same as before.
I also wanted to ask how I could get him back, but I gave up.
Xiongbo definitely can't be contacted there, and the head lowering master is also in Xiongbo's hands, so I have no way to ask him.
As for my cosmetics store, because of what happened last time, it is now famous enough, and there are many big companies that want to come and buy my cosmetics, but I have all refused.
At the same time, I also feel a little pressure, if it has always been such a small cosmetics store, one day it will be pressed down by those big cosmetics, if it really puts pressure on them, they are likely to be destroyed directly.
It seems that I am going to work hard to make this cosmetics store bigger in a very short period of time.
And what makes me feel even more struggling is that because I didn't bring back the aura last time, and now the amount of cosmetics is more than before, and every time I produce a pill, I use a drop of my blood, which makes me feel a little unbearable.
If it continues like this, not yet, and when my cosmetics store grows bigger, I will just collapse.
On this day, when I had just finished practicing the pills and was about to send these things to the cosmetics processing factory, Fang Tianzheng called me, urging me to refine other pills.
I felt a little overwhelmed now, but his presence also gave me an idea in my head.
How could I not have thought of this before?
I asked Fang Tianzheng about Reiki, and I also asked him how to guard against those big cosmetics companies.
Soon I got the answer, there is indeed a place with abundant aura, that is, the original pharmacist intranet, in order to let those pharmacists refine the best elixir, as for those big cosmetics companies, they all have their people above them, just say hello.
At this time, I suddenly sighed a little, rights are really a good thing.
I always do my own, and he almost forgot that I have become the supreme pharmacist, and the resources there can be called upon as long as I want, provided that the entire pharmacist intranet cannot be dissolved.
After Fang Tianzheng's notification, my cosmetics store was really not attacked anymore, and everything went smoothly.
And when I was refining the elixir, I no longer studied my blood, and my aura was also very strong.
But you can't be happy too early, the aura is not inexhaustible, and it needs a certain environment to be preserved.
When the environment on the earth was very good, there was no need to worry that the aura would run out, but now this aura is gone, unless it can regenerate itself.
But it's not easy to find a second one for a divine beast like Xiongbo, and although the aura has been enough for me for decades, I want much more than that.
Although I have a bit of a holiday with some people in the pharmacist intranet, I can't let the pharmacists have no medicine to refine after 20 years.
Now it's very troublesome for me to refine it myself, so I just hand it over to those pharmacists directly, anyway, the refining methods are all public, and I can just let me come when I condense the pill, so that I will be much easier all of a sudden.
But I wanted to be a little more relaxed, and I thought that if one day I took in an apprentice and gave them all these things to do, I could do something other meaningful.
Like what...... Go to the person who gave me the Qingxuan seal, I want to see if it's my grandfather.
If so, then what exactly was my grandfather doing during this time? Why isn't there a bit of news? Now that I've done that, he should be able to see it, right?
But this candidate is still a little difficult to choose.
After going through so many things, it's hard for me to trust a person now, and it's harder to find.
During this period, there were also a lot of pharmacists who came to please me, and all kinds of explicit hints to me that they wanted me to teach them the techniques of alchemy, but I selectively ignored them.
And even if I teach them, they don't have that much ability, and I can't do anything.
Now I come to the pharmacists every day to walk around and condense the pills, and there are also employees in the cosmetics store there to watch, and I am now a hands-off shopkeeper.
At the beginning, this kind of day was still very good, I just lay on the recliner, watching those pharmacists busy and basking in the sun, almost every minute there are hundreds of thousands of income, I feel that this small day is very comfortable, but this kind of day is also very tired.
That afternoon, I couldn't help but call Fang Tianzheng over.
Fang Tianzheng's attitude returned to his previous appearance, as if there had never been any holiday between me, in fact, I also feel now that it is okay to let go of some hatred, as long as I don't forget it, I have been entangled in hatred in my heart, which is equivalent to not letting go of myself, and in the end it is also myself who is tormented, anyway, they are all doing coolies for me now, what they owe me, will be paid off one day.
I looked at Fang Tianzheng in the sun: "I want to find an apprentice, you spread the news." ”
Hearing me say this, Fang Tianzheng was a little surprised, and then laughed.
"What are you laughing at?"
"I thought you were going to hide all these skills in your heart for the rest of your life." Fang Tianzheng said.
I didn't expect him to see it, and now he guesses it's weird.
I sighed and said, "There's no way, looking at you all at such an age, there is no one in your hand that can do it, I am so troubled, this position of the highest pharmacist is also a little uncomfortable." The talent of these people is not enough, even if I teach you, it will not take a few years to teach young people, so you still don't get involved, but this time the matter of picking people, I will leave it to you, they have such vicious eyes and such a picky temperament, they will definitely be able to pick out a good candidate. ”
"Your mouth is really poisonous, if they hear it, you will be so angry that you will blow your beard and stare at it." Fang Tianzheng said with a smile.
I couldn't help but shrug my shoulders and be noncommittal.
Now I don't care what the pharmacists think, they don't deserve to be my apprentices now.
After Fang Tianzheng left, I suddenly became a little worried, I had been here for a whole week, and I didn't know what happened to Ize and the black cat.
I thought about it and prepared to go back.
When I got back, I expected to see the two of them still playing in the living room, but when I first entered, I didn't notice them.
The whole room was empty, and it was quiet, quiet with a little palpitation.
I was a little flustered all of a sudden, this scene was a bit familiar, and I felt this way when Kim Ci-hyun was about to leave.
I hurried towards Izawa's room, and I pushed his door open at once, and as soon as I pushed it open, I saw a figure standing stiffly in the room, and in his arms, a black cat that had long since lost its breath, was lying quietly in his arms. Looking at the stiffness of the black cat's body, it was obvious that he had been dead for a long, long time, and he didn't know how long he had maintained this position.
Black Cat ...... He's dead......