Chapter Twenty-Five: The Toad

Our dormitory buildings are all built in a single layout, with a long corridor in the middle and dormitories on either side. Nana's bedroom happened to be in the middle of the hallway, and the sound was coming from the other end of the hallway.

I heard the sound of footsteps clearly, and it was very rhythmic, as if someone was walking slowly at a steady pace, and every few steps, he stopped, as if he stopped every time he reached the door of a dormitory and peeked into the door.

The footsteps stopped at the door of the dormitory where we were, and I heard a deep sigh through the door. Then, the footsteps faded away, slowly to the other end of the hallway, and then back again, several times back and forth.

"What's going on?" I asked in a very bottom-out voice.

Bao Datong gestured to me, meaning to tell me to lie down on the top bunk and hide, not to make a sound, and he himself was drawing some charm on the door panel. The night was so quiet that he just scratched the plank with his fingers, and there was a slight 'swish' sound, and when he finished painting and got into the bed opposite me, it happened that his footsteps stopped at the door.

This time, instead of moving forward, the footsteps made a soft 'huh' and settled at the door of our room. I held my breath and didn't move, as I saw the spherical doorknob on the door slowly turn, and then there was a 'click', and the locked door opened, and a blurry white mist drifted in.

The mist was cold, wet and wet, with black hair like aquatic plants entwined in the middle, and as I passed by, I felt a sense of suffocation. I endured it, hid under the sheet and peeked out, only to see the fog slowly move to the window and open the curtains that had been hanging all along!

Outside the window, a bloody face is pressed against the glass!

It's the girl who jumped off the building! The two 'unidentified objects' were thus face to face.

With a 'bang', a hand pierced through the glass, grabbed the white mist, and pulled it downward, and the white mist instantly condensed into a human shape and fell out of the window. At the same time, the jumping girl crawled in from the window, found the bed under Bao Datong, smiled and threw herself on it, and the human figure disappeared instantly, leaving only the bloody short-sleeved pajamas!

"Danzhu mouth god, spit out filth and remove the atmosphere. The tongue is upright, and the gods are raised. Luo Qianfang God, but evil guard the truth. The throat god tiger ben, the Qi god Yinjin, and the heart god Dan Yuan, make me true. Thinking about the spirit refining liquid, the Tao qi always exists. Haste as a law! Bao Datong suddenly recited the mantra.

He spoke so suddenly that I was startled, and I thought something had happened again, so I sat up. I saw Bao Datong rolling in the direction of the bed, lying on the edge of the bed, holding a charm in one hand and pointing out to get out of bed, "The cycle is over, go!" ”

"I'm wronged!" A shrill female voice came from getting out of bed, and then the pajamas 'soared' out of the air, floating in the air, and began to cry!

It floated around the room, seemingly looking for a way out, and on several occasions it rubbed against the tip of my nose and made me tingle, but it didn't rush out of the room anyway.

"Alas, don't be persistent, evil will be rewarded!" Bao Datong sighed, and the fingers that had been pointing to the pajamas moved slightly, drawing a small talisman. As he went, an invisible vortex formed, sucking the pajamas in the direction of the bed. The pajamas refused to give in, moaning and struggling in pain, and Bao Datong had to add another hand to cast a spell. Now, it couldn't hold on anymore, and the whole dress shrunk into a wisp of rag-like things, and fell back to the bed with a 'swish', and it seemed to be 'painful' to writhe!

Bao Datong shook his head, as if he couldn't bear it, but he still cast the charm in his hand on the bed, and the pajamas immediately caught fire, and let out a cry of pain, although the sound was small, but it felt as piercing as a fingernail cutting through glass.

"I don't want to burn you, but you insist on not going, so I have to give you a ride!" As he spoke, he jumped out of bed and watched as the pajamas quickly turned to ashes!

"Come down, wait for me to hug you?" He said to me without looking back.

"What kind of road are you?" I jumped out of bed, looked at the pile of ashes and said, "Where did you get her?" ”

"Nature is where she should be." Bao Datong still didn't look back, "She died unjustly, that's why she never went, just now I asked her to repeat the process of being killed, but she had a wish." But she still refused to leave, and I had to see the righteous people of the wicked, so I could only forcibly send her away. ”

"You still haven't said where she went."

"You'll know where you're going when you're dead, but with your intelligence, it might be hard to understand!" Bao Datong suddenly turned around and grimaced at me, his eyes rolled white, and a mouthful of small white teeth were all exposed outside his lips.

I've been through too many unreasonable things this night, and he suddenly put on a distorted face in front of me, which really startled me, and he seemed to be very proud of the effect on me, "I finally got revenge for the punch you punched me!" He said with a smile.

I was angry and wanted to reason with him, but the 'kicking, kicking, danding' footsteps outside the door came again!

"Why did you solve only one?" I whispered as the footsteps passed by the door.

"This one is only in the water, I can't cast the spell until she dies! Besides, I'm not solving them, they're all poor people, I'm just sending them away and not letting them do anything wrong. ”

"Then why is she here?"

"This is the place she misses and wants to come to the most, or maybe she was hooked from here, stupid!" Bao Datong is still seizing the opportunity to take revenge on me.

"Could it be Xiaoling?" I ignored Bao Datong's provocation and was full of surprise at this answer, "It seems that there is still something wrong with that lake." ”

"I told you there was a grudge in the lake."

"We're going to burn the woods." I said ruthlessly.

"Yes, yes!" Bao Datong looked a little excited, not like it was to exorcise demons, as if he thought it was fun to burn the woods, "But burning the woods can only make the yang energy strong, but now there is resentment in the lake, which is to be resolved, but it is useless to burn." ”

"Then you still make this kind of suggestion!" I couldn't help but raise my voice.

Bao Datong made a downward gesture and pointed out the door. At this time, Xiaoling came back again, and after she passed by the door, I then whispered, "If it's useless, you won't talk about it in the future." If you are still cultivating the Tao, if you are so uncompassionate, aren't trees living beings? ”

"Yes." Bao Datong scratched his head, "Let me think of a way, I'm not sure what is underwater, and it will be bad if I act rashly." ”

"I think we'd better go out first!"

"Good way! But let's go through the window and don't bump into the one outside and cause unnecessary trouble. There are so many strange noises tonight, and tomorrow morning someone will find the broken window and the ash on the bed, and it will soon be rumored that the girls' dormitory is haunted! ”

I think he's right, so I'll climb out of the window. This time I was more careful, and I saw that it was indeed Bao Datong at the end of the rope that I dared to act, and Bao Datong then came down. When I was worried about what to do with the rope, I saw him shaking casually, and the rope obediently returned to his hand, as if it was a magic weapon for his cultivation.

The two of us wanted to discuss it, so we didn't go back to the dorm and sneaked off the campus. As we went, we deliberately stayed away from the woods and the small lake, for fear that we might encounter something strange when the hour was not in our favor.

Outside the school is an overpass, and Bao Datong and I are sitting under the bridge. He said that it is well connected and not easy to gather, which can prevent people from eavesdropping.

"Tell me first, why aren't you punctual? It didn't appear for half a day after the signal, and I almost fell to my death! "I'll settle accounts after the fall.

"No, I've been waiting since the signal."

"You talk nonsense, then how could I have met with that kind of thing?!"

"That's- we've been blinded and can't see each other. But - didn't it turn the tide in the end? ”

"Take my risk for you!" I was angry, "I don't have a spell, you have, how can you be easily fooled?" I don't think you're good at spells! ”

Unexpectedly, Bao Datong nodded and admitted it honestly, but immediately changed the topic and said, "But my frame is still good, very chic, but unfortunately I can't show it to girls." ”

When he said that, I lost all my faith. During that terrible trip to the mountains and forests, I had seen Bao Datong make a decent gesture a few times, but I never thought that he was actually very young and could not have such strong skills. He may be more than enough to deal with ordinary spirits, but what if there is an evil spirit lurking in the lake?

"I never thought that the things in the water were so strong that I couldn't see through the inside from the outside." Bao Datong seemed to understand what I was thinking, "From the fact that he was able to make me fall for the trick, I know that he is extremely difficult to deal with." It is precisely because he is the most evil that the people he killed are also very fierce, and I almost couldn't suppress it just now. Look at you, you are the only one in ten thousand physique, the yang energy is extremely strong, it stands to reason that there should be nothing close to you, but the girl who jumped off the building can get close to you, it can be seen that my judgment is correct. ”

"What then? Ah Zhan is not here, and he can't contact him at all when he goes home to worship his ancestors! I was a little worried, "I can't let him be so harmful, besides, he may have killed me and Nana, otherwise, can I call Uncle Bao to help?" ”

"He's gone to Yunyou, and I've been looking for him for days." Bao Datong sighed, "But I can't find it." ”

"Doesn't he give you a contact information when he goes out?"

"It's all tears when I talk about this!" Bao Datong said indignantly, "You see that he looks very kind, but he usually has a sheep-herding attitude towards me, and he is extremely incompetent as a sheep official, basically throwing me on a grassy hillside and leaving, not caring if I have enough grass to eat, whether there is a big bad wolf or something nearby." This time, if he hadn't been gone for a few months, how could I have come to you! ”

Bao Datong told the truth in one breath, and I realized that it turned out that he said that he came to visit and study Yunyun at the order of his father was false.

"Is there telepathy?" I grabbed the last straw, thinking that cultivators would always have these spiritual powers, but I still shook my head when I thought of Bao Datong.

When I received such an answer, my heart was cold.

Assuming that he did not misjudge and that there was indeed a powerful evil spirit against us, then his behavior could be explained by the fact that he felt that he could not deal with that evil spirit, so he would rather lose the opportunity to have fun with us and try to find Uncle Bao. Unfortunately, he couldn't find it.

The two of us were speechless for a moment.

"It seems to be up to us." After thinking about it for a while, I made up my mind, "Fortunately, Ah Zhan will be back in three days, and when the three of us join forces, we should have a chance of winning, right?" ”

Bao Datong nodded without hesitation, "Although he is strong, since he can be seen by me at all, he is not so strong that he cannot be defeated, as long as there is another person with magic power to help, it will be completely fine." Judging by the dark look on your and Nana's faces, you've been on a bad luck lately, and you've had a fierce aura coming to you, which is one of the reasons why I'm not leaving. ”

I almost laughed out loud when I heard his words, because he was willing to admit that he was not leaving, and that he had other ulterior but well-known reasons besides helping.

"But the problem is - I'm not sure if he's targeting you and Nana, and I don't know when he'll do it." He added, "The only way is for us to be careful and not let him take advantage of it!" ”

"What to do? Escape? I said, "What if we go and he gets angry and hurts somebody?" What if he hurts Nana's family? ”

"You're right, running away is tantamount to transferring your own decay to others, it will hurt the innocent, and it is too damaging to morality." Bao Datong agreed, "Tell you, if you do that, sooner or later, you will have to report it to yourself." The only way now is for the three of us to be inseparable and not give him a chance. Even if there are omissions, at least we can concentrate our efforts. We can do whatever we need to do in normal times, and we can't let him see that we're on guard, and we can't make Nana nervous. ”

I nodded, rarely agreeing with him, but when he mentioned Nana, I remembered Nana's strange behavior last night, and thought it would be better to ask. I said to Bao Datong, and Bao Datong also felt that from Nana's mouth, at least we could know whether the other party was targeting us.

"You're going to tell me what happened to you tonight, too." After we studied it for a while, he asked me.

I told him the whole thing.

"It's similar to what I saw from above, but I just saw the result, I didn't expect the process to be so thrilling, it's really good that you weren't scared to death!"

I don't know if he praised me or not, but I wasn't in the mood to think about it, and suddenly I remembered the toad, and felt disgusting and weird in my heart, so I quickly described it to him in detail.

"I didn't see it at all." Bao Datong was surprised, "I only saw the girl who jumped off the building and you climbing up along a rope, in fact, it was not an ordinary rope, I don't know what he used to transform." ”

"Transfiguration? It's just that I didn't grab anything in my hand and climbed directly onto the wall? "I was a little surprised.

"You think you're Superman!" Bao Datong sneered, "Although it is an illusion, there is also a real substance in it, but I don't understand what it is." You're too imaginative! Are you sure there is a toad, though? ”

I thought about it and thought that although I might have been magical, the toad's eyes were too real for me to believe it was fake.

"If you have a toad with human hair, and your eyes are so special, maybe he came in person tonight!" Bao Datong guessed from what I said, "You also said that his eyes were full of hatred for you - in this case, you can be sure that he is coming at you." Maybe Nana is here to protect you - no, no, wait! ”

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