Chapter 3: An Old Taoist Priest Falls from the Sky

It was still chicken noodle soup, and Ye Xu had just taken a bite of it, and the thunder roared again. As if he had received a recruitment order, the clear sky suddenly became dark clouds again, and the heavy rain couldn't wait to fall down.

There are a lot of cursing voices on the side of the road, just because it is the rush hour after work, although most passers-by carry umbrellas, but the thunder and heavy rain come so suddenly, the umbrella has not been opened and has been wet by the rain, so compared to the morning, the cursing is much louder.

Ye Xu packed up the tables and chairs, came to the door, and observed the amount of water, but he was not too worried that it would overflow into the store. Just as he was about to close the door of the store, the white light flashed in front of him, and a thunderclap seemed to sound above his head, and he even felt his hair stand on end, accompanied by the roar of "buzzing" in his ears, Ye Xu looked up and was surprised to find that in the dark sky, with the help of the light of the remnants of the disappeared lightning, a vague figure fluttered and fell in the direction of the distant hill. The humming sound gradually disappeared, Ye Xu was stunned for a long time, carefully recalled the picture he had just seen, couldn't help but shake his head, turned around and closed the door of the store, and returned to the bedroom on the second floor.

The news of the disaster was broadcast on TV, and it was extremely bad to watch, and the hosts and guests discussed the reasons for the sudden concentration of so many disasters. Some people cite scientific records to argue that this happened many years ago. The literature goes back thousands of years, and watching the "expert" painstakingly translate the ancient text makes people even more unconvinced by his views. There are even activists who use this to accuse human beings of not protecting the environment, and this frequent natural disaster is nature's revenge on human beings.

Ye Xu simply turned off the TV, there was still lightning and thunder outside the window, and the rain not only did not decrease, but became more unscrupulous. The worry just now came to my heart, and after a moment's hesitation, I quickly got up and went downstairs, and came to the door of the store with a non-slip sandbag in winter, and began to stack it.

"Help, help, save me!" In the wind and rain, there was a sudden intermittent and erratic whispering sound, Ye Xu wiped his eyes full of rain, looked around, and didn't find anyone nearby, he wanted to listen carefully, but the thunder became more and more intense, and he couldn't hear other sounds at all. It wasn't until he stacked the sandbags neatly that the sound of a cry for help came to his ears again, fainter than the last time, but in the wind and rain, he couldn't tell the direction of the sound at all.

"Hey, where are you?" Ye Xu thought about it, and still shouted loudly, but the voice disappeared again, making it impossible to tell whether he had really heard it or not. Ye Xu stood in place for a while, making sure that he didn't hear any more calls for help, before turning around and walking towards the store. Before he entered the store, there was a sudden "stab" above his head, and a figure fell from the sky, smashing on the sandbag he had laid out.

"Hey, how are you?" Ye Xu hurriedly rushed over, and finally dragged the man into the store. Wiping the rain and sweat from his face, he looked at the "weirdo" lying on the ground in amazement.

The reason why he is called a "weirdo" is because although this person looks the same as ordinary people, he is about fifty years old, but he is dressed differently than ordinary people, it is a yellow robe that has only been seen on TV, although I don't know what is torn out, the complex patterns woven by the "gold wire" on the robe know that it costs a lot at a glance.

Maybe the lightning just now struck something critical, Ye Xu's mobile phone and the phone in the store had no signal at the same time. Fortunately, he also learned some first aid knowledge, and through the judgment of the pulse, although weak, the beating is still very steady.

The thunder outside the store became more intense, sounding more like a roar, hovering around the neighborhood all the time. The light from the lightning flashed like a searchlight, flickering inch by inch around the entire neighborhood, as if searching for something important.

Although my grandfather's body was also a little sick, there was no problem with his heart, so there was no medicine for first aid in the store. Ye Xu thought about the bridge on TV, opened a bottle of "Erguotou" casually, and poured the "weirdo" into his mouth with a small spoon. In a weak cough, the strange man barely opened his eyes, and for a moment Ye Xu seemed to see a ball of starlight passing through his eyes, and then returned to normal.

"Thank you, boy!" the strange man sat up weakly, looked around, and asked, "You're here alone?"

"My parents will be back soon, and the Public Security Bureau will get off work late!" Ye Xu said expressionlessly.

"Parents?" The strange man stared at Ye Xu carefully, frowned and asked, "You are still alive when your parents died early?"

"Neurotic! You can go, if you don't go, I'll call the police!" Ye Xu's face was ugly, what the strange man said was true, but no matter how he heard it, it seemed that his parents were killed by himself.

"I can't go out now! there's a mortal breath here, and they can't find me!" the strange man explained in a deep voice.

"Who, who's looking for you?" Ye Xu asked, but in his heart he was thinking about how to explain the "mortal breath" that the strange man said.

"You don't need to know that!" the strange man said weakly as he looked at the flashing electric light outside the store, "As soon as the thunderstorm stops, I will leave immediately!"

Mortal breath! As soon as the thunderstorm stopped, this man shouldn't look like a bad guy, but he was dressed so strangely. At a glance, people associate him with fantasy. If judged according to the rules of ordinary fantasy novels, if this person is a Taoist, he is becoming an immortal, and if he is a spirit, he is becoming an adult. Ye Xu shook his head lightly and drove away those weird thoughts. Seeing that the man was sitting on the chair himself, obviously not intending to leave as soon as possible, he had to ask, "Do you drink water or drink?"

"But what to eat?" replied the strange man, still looking out the window.

"Noodles!"

"A bowl is all it takes!"

"Okay!"

Ye Xu stood aside, watching the man eat the noodles absentmindedly, hoping that the lightning and thunder would pass sooner, so that he could leave earlier.

"Kid, aren't you really curious where I'm from?" The strange man glanced at Ye Xu, took out a handkerchief from the sleeve of his robe, carefully wiped his mouth and short beard, and asked with some curiosity.

"I'm not curious!" Ye Xu said indifferently.

"Oh?" the strange man was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "Can you guess?"

"Can't!"

"Then why aren't you curious?"

"It's none of my business, I don't want to be nosy!"

"Not bad! what a light character!" The smile on the strange man's face suddenly became richer, but as the thunder sounded outside the door, the smile gradually disappeared without a trace.

"If you save my life today, I will repay you!" said the strange man, looking out the window.

"No need!" Ye Xu said solemnly: "I said, I don't want to be nosy!"

"Hehe!" The strange man turned his head and glanced at Ye Xu, and continued: "Do you know the reason for the abnormal changes in the sky here?"

Seeing that Ye Xu didn't answer, the strange man didn't care, but just said to himself: "This world is where all walks of life are connected, and it has always been a place where all parties must fight! In the end, a powerful person from this realm was invited to take action, quell the war, seal the passages from all walks of life, and only then can the world recuperate!"

"But!" the strange man sighed lightly and continued, "It is precisely because of that powerful ability to seal all passages that the vitality of this realm is scarce, and since then, there is no one who can cultivate!"

Looking at Ye Xu's indifferent appearance, the strange man smiled and asked, "What, you don't believe it?"

Ye Xu shook his head slightly, for fear that if he said something wrong, he would cause this neurotic to burst out and hurt people.

"It doesn't matter! You saved my life today! If there is no accident after the storm and thunder, I can take you out of this realm, let you avoid this calamity, and also let you reopen your spiritual path. The strange man stared at Ye Xu and said sincerely: "You have a light temperament, but you are very angry with me!"

"Why should I go?" Ye Xu finally spoke.

"Calamity!" the strange man raised the corners of his eyebrows, and he looked like he hated it: "Now that the seal of this realm has been loosened, I am afraid that the tragic situation of competing for power from all walks of life will reappear in the near future!

"You just said that I was destined for my parents to die early?" Ye Xu asked.

"Why, am I mistaken?" the strange man curious.

"Then you can see if I can go with you?"

The strange man looked at Ye Xu in a daze, until the thunderous sound of the outside world gradually stopped, then he shook his head and sighed: "Forget it, after all, it's fate, and I don't have much time to stay here." As soon as the words fell, the strange figure shook, and instantly came to Ye Xu's body, without waiting for him to react, he held down his heavenly spirit with one hand, and flicked the back of his neck with the other hand, Ye Xu immediately lost consciousness.