Tomb of Impermanence Chapter 21: The Strange Mouse in the Mountains

The Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, which lies in the southern wilderness of the ghost domain of the Netherworld, includes the ten main peaks of the North Ice Ridge, the South Flame Peak, the Soul Interception Ridge, the Zhuyun Peak, and the Black Pine Ridge, stretching for thousands of miles, so it is also called the 100,000 Great Mountain.

This is a long loess avenue, and it is easy to forget the distance when walking on the road. This place has penetrated deep into the territory of the Southern Wilderness of the Ghost Domain, and if you continue to walk south, you can reach the North Ice Ridge, one of the ten main peaks of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range. On both sides of the Loess Avenue is a mangrove, the forest is filled with ghost mist all year round, such a dense forest is rare in the ghost domain of the Netherworld, and it will only appear in the 100,000 mountains. At the edge of the mangrove, a shady trail leads deep into the woods to the west.

The road was overgrown with weeds, and occasionally there were a few howls of wild beasts, which were creepy. Suddenly, a gray-haired mouse burst out of the grass, moving very quickly, and fled straight into the depths of the path.

I only heard the voice of a girl behind me shouting: "Brother Azhu, hurry up, it's going to escape!" A pretty girl's figure flashed out, this girl was wearing red, orange, yellow, green, purple five colors of alternating colorful clothes, her appearance was delicate and lovely, the most peculiar thing was that there was a pair of short antlers on one of her hair, which added a touch of playfulness.

Behind the girl, in a faint ghost fog, a young man in tan clothes rushed out, who looked slightly older than the colorful girl, with a sallow face, a slightly ugly face, a big nose on his face, and a large nostrils, at this time he was panting, and responded: "It's coming, Sister Alu, you first find a way to keep it up!"

The two of them went one after the other, desperately chasing the gray-haired mouse. The rat was chased by a fierce chase, and in a panic, he ran between the grass and the path, and suddenly slammed into a white shadow. The white shadow stretched out his hand, and the gray-haired rat rose into the air, unable to move, and was caught by the white shadow in his hand.

When the girl saw that the mouse was caught, she was in a hurry and shouted: "Hey, that mouse is ours! Give it back to us!"

The man in white held in his right hand a long, flagpole-like thing with a few white curtains floating on it, swinging in the wind, and in his left hand the big gray-haired mouse. The rat was caught in the palm of the palm of the hand by the man in white, and he trembled with fright, and did not dare to move.

The white-clothed masked man looked at the girl and said, "May I ask this little sister, what are you doing with this mouse?"

The girl Ah Lu said: "Of course we are useful, you look like a foreigner, do you know what kind of place this is?"

The man in white said: "Isn't this the boundary of the North Ice Ridge of the 100,000 Great Mountains?"

The girl Ah Lu said: "Yes, since you know that this is the North Ice Ridge, don't you know what kind of rat this is?"

The man in white was stunned, thought for a moment, and said, "You mean this rat is an ice beast?"

The girl Ah Lu said: "Well, the rat that can haunt the North Ice Ridge should of course be the Ice Beast! You can return it to us quickly!"

The man in white lifted the mouse a little higher, just in time to avoid the girl's grasp, and said, "I don't think this mouse is an ice beast. ”

At this time, the young man Ah Zhu also approached and said, "How do you know that this mouse is not an ice beast?"

The white veil on the white-clothed man's face moved slightly, and he said: "The ice beast is also called a rat, it lives under the cold ice cap, feeds on plants and trees, and its hair is eight feet long, and it can also grow to weigh a thousand catties. The strange thing is that its skin can be used to make a drum, and the sound of the drum can be heard thousands of miles away, you listen to the sound of the mouse's skin. As he spoke, he raised the white flag flag in his right hand and patted the rat lightly with the flagpole, only to hear a slight "poof", which was nothing unusual.

The man in white said: "Do you hear that? It's just an ordinary mouse ghost." ”

The girl Ah Lu said: "If it is an ordinary mouse, how can it appear in the North Ice Ridge?"

The man in white said: "In addition to the skin, the fur of the ice beast also has a peculiarity, that is, it can be used to make a mattress, and lying on it can ward off the cold. Although this mattress is good, it has a fatal drawback, that is, the hair of the rat can attract other rats, which is fine in cold places where there are few rats, and if it is in the warm south, it is no less powerful than the drum made of its skin. This is the North Ice Ridge, which is the coldest place in the southern wilderness, this mouse must have been attracted by the fur of the ice beast, so he rushed to the bottom of the ridge, but he was afraid of the cold on the ridge and did not dare to go up the mountain. ”

The gray-haired mouse in the hand of the man in white had a little spirituality, and seemed to understand human speech, so he quickly squeaked and nodded.

The white-clothed man had a white veil fluttering on his face, as if smiling, and said, "You gray-haired mouse, you probably have been practicing for a while, right? ”

The girl Ah Lu was very surprised, her eyes blinked at the man in white, and said, "Hey, I said that you are a foreigner, how can you know everything and know so much! Who are you?"

The man in white said slowly: "I am the master of the Soul Conjuring Division of the Netherworld, and the soul envoy is white and faceless. ”

The girl Ah Lu sighed and said happily: "You are Bai Wuchang! I have often heard people talk about many things about you, but I didn't expect to meet you today! Brother Bai, how did you have time to run to the 100,000 mountains in our southern wilderness?"

The girl Ah Lu looked at Bai Wuyan, her eyes were full of admiration, and the cry of "Big Brother Bai" was very kind and natural. The young man next to him, Ah Zhu, saw the girl Ah Lu so happy and excited, and felt a little unhappy in his heart, but he couldn't tell what it was like.

Bai Wuyan handed the gray-haired mouse in his hand to the girl Ah Lu, and said, "You see it's frightened, it didn't do anything wrong, you just let it go." ”

The girl took it and knocked it on the mouse with her finger a few times, and said, "Sure enough, it's an ordinary mouse! What did you run to when we were chasing you?"

Bai Wuyan smiled: "You chase it inexplicably, how can it not run." Let me ask you, what are you going to do with the Ice Beast?"

The young man next to him, Ah Zhu, hurriedly said: "I am one of the seven great protectors of the Ten Thousand Mountains Ghost Lord Ten Thousand Beasts Venerable, one of the Seven Monsters of Meishan, my name is Zhu Zizhen, and I came to the North Ice Ridge to catch a cold ice beast in accordance with the decree of my Venerable." ”