Chapter 22: The Night Watch
Lu Yao floated out of the valley, completely unaware of the direction, the grass and trees here grew extremely tall, completely obscuring the view.
Suddenly, a shout came from not far away, accompanied by the sound of screams and whips.
Lu Yao looked for prestige and saw that there seemed to be a few people under the rocky slope, and she quietly approached under curiosity.
I saw several tall and burly people dressed in green, surrounded by black gas, with their backs to her, and the shouting just now was made by one of them.
At a distance of three or five meters, several people were handcuffed and handcuffed, squatting on the ground like prisoners, not knowing what they were digging.
Lu Yao could see that the people who were squatting and working were not people, they were ghosts.
The few people standing are also not human, they are demons.
"Presumably, these are the souls captured by the Soul Gate, because they are tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to abandon them, so they are all used as coolies."
"Hurry up! Say what about you! What is the rubbing? If you don't hurry, I'll tear you to shreds! The largest green-clothed demon waved the whip in his hand and threw it at a girl, who covered her head with her back to her and did not dare to resist, but could only whimper.
Lu Yao suddenly couldn't bear to look at her, and grabbed the stone on the ground and bounced it into the distance.
"What's going on?" The big man stopped the whip in his hand.
"You, go over and have a look." He instructed the little devil behind him.
The little devil ran over and came back to report, but he didn't find anything.
The big man seemed to sense something, and kept looking around vigilantly.
Lu Yao was worried about being discovered, so she quickly squatted down.
"Look at everything, get to work!" After a few seconds, he gave up his observation and flicked his whip at the prisoners.
Fortunately, he was simple-minded and had well-developed limbs, Lu Yao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the cat floated away quietly.
She didn't see that the female ghost who was sitting on the ground and was beaten just now turned around and raised her head, revealing a familiar side face.
I don't know how long it took, Lu Yao finally turned out of the mountain, and it was almost dawn.
She got into a taxi that had just gotten off the night shift and arrived in the city, standing at the intersection looking at the signs in a daze, not knowing where to go.
Suddenly, a puff of white smoke came out of the sewer beside her, and then the ghost woman stood in front of her.
"Ghost woman!" Lu Yao simply met a savior.
"Mother-in-law, why are you here?" She said excitedly.
"If I don't come to you again, are you going to stand here until dawn?" The ghost woman said leisurely.
"How did you know I was here?"
"Your ghost finger can make me sense you." The ghost woman stretched out her hand, and she was wearing a larger wrench on her hand, which was very special, and the pattern between the wrenches seemed to shake, which was extremely beautiful.
"Fang Nuo's body is in the hospital now, you have been missing for seven days, come with me, the sun is about to come out."
After speaking, he took Lu Yao's hand and disappeared into the air.
When she opened and closed her eyes, Lu Yao was already standing at the door of the ward.
"It's good that I injected aura into my body before, otherwise it would have been dust and dust now."
"Mom and Dad are crazy, aren't they?" Lu Yao felt very guilty.
"That day I saw this body being taken to the hospital, thinking that something had happened to you, and I tried to sense you, but I couldn't sense it." The ghost woman touched the wrench in her hand.
"How did you escape from the Soul Gate?"
"How do you know I've been caught in the Soul Gate?" Lu Yao asked.
"Answer me first." The ghost woman said.
"I was trapped in the jade gourd and inexplicably entered the soul gate, and I have been following a woman named Mengsha, watching how she dreams and hooks souls every day."
"One day, I was released by a little doll, and he and Mengsha both thought that I looked like an old friend of theirs, so they didn't eat me." Lu Yao told the truth.
"Little doll?" The ghost woman asked.
"Well, a very good-looking little doll."
The ghost woman wanted to say something, but sighed, "It's good to come back, it's good that you have a great fortune!" It's almost dawn, and you have to go back to your shell right away. ”
"I have something to go out first, and I'll come back to you in the evening."
"Wait, mother-in-law, you haven't told me how you know?" Lu Yao shouted to the ghost woman.
"There was a cat that wandered in front of the ward in the middle of the night every day." The ghost woman didn't look back, and disappeared with a wave of her hand.
"Cats?" Lu Yao raised her eyebrows.
Maybe it was because she had been separated from her body for a long time, and when she was just possessed, Lu Yao obviously felt the rejection of her by her body.
"It's only been a few days since you've been gone, so you don't know me?" Lu Yao was very dissatisfied.
Fang's father slept on the sofa, and Fang's mother was napping beside her.
Looking at the two people in front of him with sleepy and pale faces, he must have been exhausted in the past few days.
Lu Yao couldn't bear to wake up Fang's mother, she just looked at her quietly, she obviously cried, her eyes were swollen like walnuts, and she only felt distressed in her heart.
Fang's mother woke up and opened her eyes, and in a trance, she saw her daughter looking at her.
Since the hospital issued a critical illness notice three days ago, she has not been able to sleep all night, but she didn't expect to sit in front of her daughter's bed yesterday and cry, crying and crying and falling asleep.
Seeing Fang's mother's look of disbelief, Lu Yao gently held her hand.
"Mom, don't you know me?" Lu Yao said softly.
Fang's mother's eyes widened, and her eyes immediately turned red, and Douda's tears couldn't stop falling, and she couldn't say a word.
"Mom, I'm fine, don't cry." Lu Yao was also a little moved, she was really sorry for Fang's father and Fang's mother.
"Mom thought she was going to lose you!" Fang's mother lay in front of the bed and cried, crying silently all night last night, and the despair that had been piled up in her heart for several days finally collapsed at this moment.
"I'm sorry, it's all my fault, it's me who let you worry about it." Lu Yao cried.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? Dad Fang was awakened by the crying, and looked at his originally unconscious baby daughter and his wife hugging and crying, and he didn't shake his senses for a while.
Until I really heard a "Daddy." ”
He woke up like a dream, and ran over to hug Lu Yao excitedly.
"Oh, you tap, my daughter just woke up." Fang's mother, who was crying, stood up and gave Fang's father a big shock.
"Ah, yes, I'll call the doctor!" Dad Fang was at a loss like a child.
Looking at Fang's father and Fang's mother in a mess, Lu Yao felt that not only did she not replace Fang Nuo to fulfill her filial piety, but made them more miserable again and again.
"Fang Nuo, you must come back quickly." Lu Yao closed her eyes tiredly.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Yao, who was lying on the bed, finally couldn't stand it anymore, "I want to get out of bed, mother." ”
"No, the doctor said that you have just woken up, your body is very weak, and the examination has not been completed, so you can't get out of bed." Fang's mother didn't discuss it.
"Dad, I'm not sick, I can be discharged from the hospital!"
Fang's father shrugged, saying that everything was up to her mother.
"Humph!" Lu Yao's mouth is high.
"Good, I'll do a full interview tomorrow and yesterday, don't be angry with your mother." Fang's father walked behind Fang's mother and hugged her.
"You've been in a coma for the past few days, and your mother has become a crying bag."
"I'm sorry Mom." Lu Yao looked at Fang Ma's eyes that had not yet subsided.
"It's good if you're awake, if you're unconscious, mom will jump off the building." Fang's mother joked tiredly.
"No! Other! Never again! I'll never be in a coma again. Lu Yao's heart tightened, and she hurriedly hugged Fang's mother's waist.
"Look at how scared the kids!" Dad Fang saw his daughter's pale face, and couldn't help but blame Mother Fang.
"Mom scares you, don't be afraid, make a joke with you." Fang's mother hugged her daughter distressedly.
"Don't make jokes like that, it's not funny." Lu Yao buried her face in Fang's mother's arms and said sullenly: "Jumping off the building, it's really not funny at all." ”
Only those who have died know the pain of life and death.
In the middle of the night, Lu Yao lay on the hospital bed and tossed and turned, and Fang's mother went home to get a change of clothes, and only came back in the morning.
Fang's father lay on the other bed and fell asleep.
"Meow!" A cat meow came from the doorway.
Lu Yao was immediately quiet, closing her eyes and holding her breath without making a sound.
After a while, she felt something furry jump on her body and rub its paw against her face.
She didn't open her eyes because she wanted to verify one thing.
"I know you're awake, don't pretend." A nice bass in my ears.
Lu Yao pursed her lips, couldn't hold back her laughter, and betrayed her with the corners of her mouth hooked.
She opened her eyes, and the beautiful glass eyes of the black cat stared at her gently.
"I heard that you've been coming to my ward a lot lately?" Lu Yao joked softly.
"Well, I'm a little worried about you." The cat replied softly.
Lu Yao suddenly sat up and hugged the black cat, the black cat was startled, but did not dodge.
"This is compensation for me, who made you fail to protect me that day."
The black cat probed slightly, "It's my fault. ”
"It's good to know, how is Su Qiqi doing?" Lu Yao asked.
"He came to see this body twice and then disappeared, and I didn't see him when I went to West Street."
"This guy is really unrighteous." Lu Yao scolded.
"No, he's been crazy since you were caught in the Soul Gate, and he's studying how to enter the Soul Gate every day."
"He's crazy?!" Lu Yao couldn't help but raise her tone.
Fang's father was awakened by the sound of conversation, raised his head and looked around in confusion.
Lu Yao hurriedly lay back on the hospital bed and stuffed the black cat into the bed, and the black cat struggled to poke its head out of the bed.
Seeing that there was no movement, Fang's father thought he was dreaming, turned over and fell asleep again.
"I'll be out of the hospital tomorrow to find him." Lu Yao whispered to the black cat.
"If you can get out, I'd love to see him." The black cat said, "I'm afraid this kid will do something stupid." ”
"I can't imagine that Su Qiqi is so affectionate and righteous, if something happens to him, how can I repay him."
"Let's take care of our bodies first." The black cat jumped out of the hospital bed and walked to the door.
"You're just leaving, I haven't had enough of it." Lu Yao lay on the pillow and was reluctant.
"Actually, if you don't come back, I'll go into the Soul Gate to save you." The black cat stood in the doorway and turned around, staring at her with eyes brighter than pearls.
"Thank you. Thank you. Lu Yao didn't know what to say for a while.
"I'll come back tomorrow." After the black cat finished speaking, he ran out of the door and disappeared.
"Hey, hey, hey." Lu Yao lay in the quilt and smirked, I don't know why, after listening to Li Zhe's words, my heart felt as if I had eaten sugar, and it was as sweet as honey.
"Cats are the cutest existence in the world."
"What are you laughing at?" The ghost woman suddenly appeared, looking at Lu Yao's look with disgust.
"Did the cat come?"
"Just left," Lu Yao replied in a low voice.
"You're both almost one hundred and fifty years old, and it's time to fall in love." The ghost woman said.
Lu Yao couldn't help but feel a little relieved when she heard this number, and almost forgot that Li Zhe was more than a hundred years old.
"By the way, mother-in-law, can I trouble you to help me find someone?"
"The little mage?"
"Yes!"
"Don't worry, he's fine, his master came and took him away for the time being."
"Master Su Qiqi is here?" Lu Yao said in surprise.
"Did you bring him back to the Seven Nights?"
"Probably not, but he probably won't go back to West Street, and as for where to stay, you should ask the cat."
"Oh, actually, I want him to be brought back to the master's door, but I don't want to."
"Are you afraid of losing your friends?"
"Well, maybe, mother-in-law, am I a little selfish?"
"Human nature, ghosts have also been human, and there will be no less seven emotions and six desires."
"I'm glad I met them, and even though we had a big gap, they didn't dislike me."
"What do you have to be disgusted with?" The ghost woman asked, "Because they are human, are you a ghost?" ”
"Child, nothing in this world is eternal, you won't be a ghost forever, they can't be human forever, they don't have to be inferior at all."
"Mother-in-law, I spend more time being a ghost than being a person, aren't I still at ease and chic?"
"That's because mother-in-law, your magic is profound!"
"Do you think mother-in-law and I haven't been bullied as a little ghost?"
Lu Yao just wanted to sigh that the ghost woman had also had her own experience, and she couldn't help but get some comfort in her heart, when she heard the ghost woman slap her thigh.
"Hey, think about it, mother-in-law, I was a cultivator when I was alive, and even when I just died, no lonely soul and wild ghost who didn't have long eyes dared to bully me."
"Mother-in-law was a cultivator when she was alive?" Lu Yao asked.
"Alas, it's all in the past, so don't mention it." The ghost woman sighed, "The dog doesn't eat the rancid rice bran, what are you doing with it?"
"No wonder my mother-in-law knows so many things!"
"No, I'm no more well-informed than when I was a ghost, and I've been dead for more than a hundred years, and I've gossiped more and more."
The ghost woman lowered her head and looked at Lu Yao's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, "If you have any questions, just ask, what are you doing?" ”
"Do you know Zui Qingshan? The friend I just came to tell me that there was an old immortal there who was taking in lonely spirits passing by. ”
"Drunk Qingshan? Why haven't I heard of it? ”
"Oh, really?" Lu Yao was a little disappointed, and thought that she could learn more about Zui Qingshan.
"What did he tell you?"
He said that there is a drunken Qing Mountain near the Royal Cat Mountain, the scenery in the mountain is gorgeous and beautiful, there is an old fairy who lives here for a long time, he is kind-hearted and willing to give.
It will take in the souls of good conduct and often stay here, where the immortal roots are hovering and surrounded by aura, which is a good place to practice. ”
"I can't imagine that there is such a peerless and independent place in the world, I will definitely go and see it if I have the chance." The ghost woman smiled and said, "What? Do you want to go? ”
"Hmm."
Lu Yao nodded.
"If it really exists, it's a good place to go, and when you want to settle down, tell your mother-in-law, and your mother-in-law will go with you to see and learn."
"Well, if my mother-in-law and I can stay there, that's the best."
"Although my mother-in-law is old, she likes to be at peace with what she encounters, so she doesn't want to live in the deep mountains and old forests." The ghost woman waved her hand.
"It seems that my mentality is decades older than that of my mother-in-law." Lu Yao sighed and said, "If there is no hope of revenge, I can only cultivate and wait for the opportunity." ”
"Revenge needs to be considered in the long run, and you should not rush it."
"By the way, you don't want to go out of body when you go back recently, it will take at least a month to recuperate."
"A month?" Lu Yao exclaimed, and the next second realized that he would wake up Dad Fang beside him, so he quickly covered his mouth in fright.
However, Fang's father seemed to be sleeping very deeply, and he was not woken up.
"Don't worry, I already cast a spell on him when I came, and he's dreaming about it right now."
"You didn't say it sooner!" Lu Yao pursed her lips.
"I haven't said anything about you yet, what important thing does you little girl have to go out of body in three days?"
"I let you break away from your body once a month to condense yin qi, and I didn't let you run out night and night, now it's good, the yin qi is too strong and the yang qi is too weak, and in a few days, Lin Daiyu will not be as weak as you in the world."
"Those days, alas, were a long story, and I was forced to do so."
"Remember now, I can't go out for the time being."
Seeing that Lu Yao's mouth was pouting and could be filled with vinegar bottles, the ghost woman took out two shiny little bracelets.
"What kind of treasure is this?" Lu Yao's eyes suddenly lit up, like a wild dog that had been hungry for a few days and saw sauce bones on the side of the street.
"Tut-tut, look at you." The ghost woman shook her head in disgust.
"This pair is called the twin bracelets, which are the tokens of my sister and me, and I put them away after we broke up."
"Break, why?"
"Don't ask, don't publicize the ugliness of the family." The ghost woman put one of them into Lu Yao's left hand.
The other, within seconds of putting on his right wrist, turned into a silver light and disappeared.
"What's going on? The other one."
"The left hand is worn on this body, and the right hand that disappears is on your soul, so the naked eye can only see the bracelet on the wrist of the left hand."
"Oh, I see." Lu Yao looked at the white bracelet on her hand, beautiful like moonlight around her wrist.
"The one you wear is a rain bracelet, and this body is wearing a snow bracelet, and this pair of bracelets can separate your energy fields without interfering with each other."
"After you recuperate, you will wear this pair of bracelets every time you go out of your body, even if you go out of your body for three hundred and sixty-five days and nights, it will not have an effect."
"Really? So powerful? Lu Yao looked at the bracelet on her wrist more and more pleasing to the eye.
"Mother-in-law, what I gave you, which is not a treasure?"
"Ghost mother-in-law, you are a treasure chest, no, you are more treasures than a treasure chest."
"Okay, okay, don't fool my old woman with these sweet words here, mother-in-law, I've been a little busy lately, and I can't come to see you often."
"It's okay, I'll come back to see you."
"Well, even if you have a little conscience, I thought that now in your heart, there is only that little white face dressed as a cat."
"Mother-in-law, he's not a little white face, he's my friend."
"No matter what, the long oily head and powder face are all little white faces in my eyes." The ghost woman turned around and left arrogantly.
"Let's go, let's not stay here and make you angry with me."
"Remember!" The ghost woman walked to the door and turned around and instructed, "Don't try to find a way to enter the Soul Gate again!" Otherwise, you may not be so lucky to escape next time. ”
After saying that, he turned around and disappeared into thin air.
Lu Yao lay on the bed, listening to Fang's father snoring.
If she can't go out of her body for a month, it means that she has almost no free time for a month, in case Su Qiqi is brought back to the master's door, won't there be no chance to meet again in the future?
After killing the traitor and completing the mission, Li Zhe is also going back to the Royal Cat Clan, right?
She was left alone, a lonely ghost, and the ghost woman had a lot to do.
Forget it, Lu Yao turned over and looked at the ceiling, it was not herself before, it was even worse than now, now at least Fang's father and mother Fang's ghost mother-in-law, she can still go to school every day and contact many people.
Before, she didn't have anything, only Fang Nuo's friend. It seems that she has also become greedy, once you have a piece of paper, you want a pen, give you a pen, and you want a book.
If you lose your book one day, you'll forget that you used to have just a piece of paper.