When Lin Yuqing climbed a hillside and looked back, only the layers of mountains and forests stretched into a dark area, as if the free city was just a piercing illusion for him.

In the afternoon there was another heavy rain, and the dim rain washed away the two of them, and kept the best hunters out of the forest. The wings had long since disappeared from the sky, and no other fallen spirits had appeared behind them, but the two children dared to breathe a sigh of relief, and fled all the way until they could no longer run, and finally stopped.

Lin Yuqing exhaled, his legs went limp, and he fell to the wet grass as if he had lost support. The leaves and weeds from the bushes tickled his skin, but he couldn't find the strength to reach out and scratch it. Then I only heard a grunt around me, and Ada also planted it.

For a long time, neither of them could say a word, and could only lie almost drowsy—only when the sky was completely soaked in dark blue and scattered with a diamond-like starlight, did Ada turn and sit up.

Her delicate white shadow sat in the dark blue night, looking up at the starry sky for a moment.

Ada's white silk skirt was splashed with dry mud spots, and after being wet by the rain, it was crumpled layer by layer, and it was dirty to gray, only the dark brown blood stain on the corner of the skirt was still eye-catching. She subconsciously reached out and grabbed the corner of her skirt, and said softly, "We should have escaped from the sensing range of those falling spirits, right?"

This sentence is not like asking Lin Yuqing's opinion, but more like talking to himself. After waiting for a while, Ida took out a green spirit stone from the pouch on her waist - this is what she pulled from the spirit weapon - and gestured to Lin Yuqing.

"Nagarjuna. The boy shouted.

Silently, a black shadow the size of a cat appeared next to his ear.

After this period of fighting and fleeing, Nagarjuna looked extremely weak, and the silver streamer in his eyes dried up and turned iron-gray. It took a shortcut and stepped over Lin Yuqing's chest, walked slowly to Ada's side, and sniffed the spirit stone, which it had never known existed before landing in this world. Nagarjuna scrutinized the thing, his eyes faintly green.

"What about Baijiu?" Lin Yuqing asked, "doesn't it need to be added? It seems to be quite weak." ”

The corners of Ada's mouth unconsciously pursed downward into an arch. Although reluctantly, she finally threw the artifact on the grass and shouted, "Come out—"

Before she could say the word "bar", a white shadow suddenly jumped out, so fast that it startled the two of them, and Nagarjuna immediately jumped up and protected his spirit stone.

"Eh, eh, have you entered the mountains?" the white fox's hind legs dragged softly on the grass, a pair of surprisingly large ears trembled, and its black eyes were shining: it was not that it was energetic, it was the water that was shining with layers of tears. Bai Jiu had obviously tried his best to restrain himself, but he still couldn't hide his anxiety and urgency: "Okay, great, you've finally come to the right place, I-"

Before he could finish speaking, it suddenly fell to the ground, nervously rubbing its fur for a while, and the strength seemed to itch all its internal organs. When it lifted its face again, its eyes and nose were wet and black due to tears.

"What's wrong with you?" Ida raised an eyebrow, "Also, you tell me everything you know...... Where did you get those cat leaves?"

"Ah, cat leaves, yes. Baijiu nodded in confusion, sniffed in the night breeze, and became anxious: "Yes, go that way, north, go, hurry." ”

"What the hell, what's going on with you!" Ida grimaced, unmoved.

The white fox scratched its face anxiously, its tail, ears, nose, limbs...... There is no place where he can tremble that does not tremble, so that people will not be at peace just by looking at it. Lin Yuqing couldn't help but ask, "Do you want to pick cat leaves?"

"Nonsense!" Bai Jiu's two big fan-like ears slapped violently, stirring up a gust of wind. Nagarjuna had already retreated away with the spirit stone in his mouth, staring at it with a wary expression, and the hair on his back suddenly slid up. But the white fox didn't look at it at all—Baijiu didn't seem to care about anything except the cat leaves.

After turning around a few times, and seeing that there was still no one moving, it suddenly became angry. "Do you still have a conscience? If I hadn't endured it and saved all the cat leaves he fed me, you would have been two graves in the woods by now! Your grandfather and I haven't been in the leaves for so long, just to save you two things, why don't you hurry up and pick them for my grandfather!"

Ada, who was suddenly furious by it, was stunned for a while. "Who...... Who fed your cat leaves?"

"Who else?" Baijiu's eyes narrowed, "You Mesoko family can't produce a considerate person in a thousand years. Finally, I fell in love with Xiao Miya, but I called the only Roman Dan who knew how to pay tribute to my grandfather and me to death, which was really a creation and a trick. ”

Ida opened her mouth, but didn't say a word, but suddenly burst into tears.

"He's been feeding you cat leaves?" Lin Yuqing hurriedly asked, "But why do you want to eat it? You know that those fallen spirits are sprayed a little bit, and they are too soft to fight......

"You know what? I took a sip from my nose and chewed a few more slices in my mouth, and the cool mist and sweet juice poured into my throat and eyes...... Eh, that's a fairy tain. Anyway, I can't usually fight, so it's better to exchange it for fun. Bai Jiu shook his head and smacked his mouth, as if he was chewing an imaginary cat leaf: "Since Romandan let me taste it once, he has not cut off my supply in the past few years. If it hadn't been raining a while ago, and the people he sent out couldn't pick cat leaves, I wouldn't have taken a fancy to you. ”

"So...... You don't have the ability to fight, it's all your own doing. ”

Several pairs of eyes turned to Ada.

A little girl in the moonlight, a pair of blood-red eyes shimmering in the shadows. She said in a cool voice, "What Romandan gave you, do you want to eat it?" Just because of that little leaf, you watched my father and sister die. ”

Bai Jiu jumped up violently, and this was when Lin Yuqing noticed that its tail was disproportionately long—"Don't just pick up your mouth and say!" It pointed out and defended, "If I were for the leaves, what would I do to save you, you are so good-looking? If I don't save you, I can be so uncomfortable now? Besides, your father also agrees with me to eat the leaves." ”

Ida was stunned: "Father also knows?"

Baijiu's voice lowered, and he burst into tears again, sucking his nose hard, looking really uncomfortable.

"Nonsense, your father's health has been getting worse and worse in the past few years, and it is very difficult to raise the falling spirit on his body, and after I use up the leaves, the burden on him will be smaller, why don't you agree? I have been eating it for several years, and I have been doing well, how could I have expected that something would suddenly happen? When Romandan asked your father to lend me to him and go with me to the Overseer, I was still reluctant to move. But he told me that I had to kill the Overseer for the sake of the Mesokos...... If I kill him, I'll have to deal with as many leaves as I want. ”

He really didn't break his promise. I was so happy that night...... Groggy and can't care about anything, only vaguely knowing that your father is dead, but this is not surprising, he has ...... early Ahem, in short, even your sister's succession ceremony passed in a daze. When Baijiu said this, he didn't sigh in a breath, and suddenly shook his head and said to Lin Yuqing: "-Eh, come here, scratch the back of my neck, it's itching grandpa!"

Lin Yuqing glanced at Ida first, and saw that she didn't say anything, so she reached out and grabbed Baijiu. Half of its size was supported by hair, and it sank into half of his hand at once, and after scratching vigorously in the clumps of hair, Baijiu let out a long sigh of relief.

"I didn't understand until he killed Miya, but it was too late. I didn't swallow a single leaf of the leaf he fed me, but chewed it all up, because I knew it would come in handy sooner or later...... It's in the mouth, and you have to endure it, but it's not something that ordinary falling spirits can do!"

Baijiu's hoarse voice died down for a while, but Ada still kept her head down and didn't speak. Lin Yuqing couldn't bear it when she saw this, and just wanted to persuade her, but she raised her eyes coldly, and her expression was as stiff as a frozen stone in winter.

"I don't care, anyway, if you follow me, you won't want to eat leaves again," Ida looked at Baijiu coldly, "When do you quit it, when will I let you come out." I don't have any ability at all, what's the use of asking you? If you're like this, how can I get my territory back?"

These few words can fry the pot. Baijiu looked like an obedient person - it rolled to the ground, only to see a white shadow tossing and kicking back and forth in the night, and it was about to howl when it landed;

"There's a fallen spirit around here!" it said, its eyes rolling around.

"Where?" Lin Yuqing was startled and hurriedly stood up. "How far?"

Nagarjuna gestured for direction and replied, "It's fast, it's getting closer and closer to us." ”

The two children looked at each other in disbelief, and Ida didn't care about disliking Baijiu, so she hurriedly beckoned to call it back. But it has been eating cat leaves for a long time, and its body is weak and weak, and this cry has not been called back, and it is still lying on the grass like a piece of dead meat.

"What's the hurry?" Bai Jiu rolled over and snorted and said, "No matter how fast that falling spirit is, it is not coming at you." ”

"How do you know?"

"How many years have I lived?" it," Baijiu nodded at Nagarjuna with the tip of one ear, "How old is it?

Before Bai Jiu could finish his sentence, Nagarjuna suddenly raised his head, and a series of low roars rolled out of his throat. Almost immediately, there was a rumbling sound in the distant forest, and a falling spirit suddenly broke through the branches and leaves, and flew straight into the deep blue sky—

It was the homeless Benjamin's flat-fleshed falling spirit.

The two children breathed a sigh of relief. Although Benjamin probably had no ill will towards them, Lin Yuqing didn't want to make more trouble, and quickly whispered "Come back!" to the low-roaring Nagarjuna—on the other side, Ada personally picked up the soft Baijiu and stuffed it into the spirit weapon like a carpet.

The white fox hurriedly did not have time to retract its small body, but was hit several times on the nose, and tears welled up even more fiercely; in the blink of an eye, it hurriedly shouted into the air: "Look!"

As soon as the two of them turned around, they happened to see the flat-fleshed falling spirit "snap" to the ground and disappear into the night sky in an instant.

"Huh?" Ida was startled, her hand stopped, and she glanced at Lin Yuqing. The young man frowned, also confused: "What about the falling spirit?"

"I don't know, all of a sudden, it's gone......"

"Even if the fallen spirit is recalled, there must be a process, from where it goes back and forth, and it is impossible to disappear suddenly. Lin Yuqing didn't know what to remember, his face gradually sank, and he stared at the canopy of heaven - but in the night sky after the rain, there were only dense broken stars at this time.

Baijiu's voice just now was just to divert Ada's attention, but he didn't expect them to really find the anomaly;

Ida hung the artifact back on her waist, and the two children looked at each other and walked down the hill quietly. After searching for a long time along the way, they stopped in front of a mountain forest—the forest in front of them was so dense that it seemed that even the wind could not penetrate it, and they did not dare to rush in.

In the night, wherever there are trees, it looks like a dark and deep darkness. Lin Yuqing listened quietly for a while, and all that came into his ears was the rustle of the branches and leaves of a forest tree, but it was the sound of the wind blowing, and it was impossible to say whether it came from someone.

The two of them tentatively called Benjamin a few times—their soft voices melted as quickly as salt poured into the bathwater, and there was no response in the dark shade for a long time.

"Don't go inside," Lin Yuqing hurriedly reached out and grabbed her when Ida took a step forward, and said in a low voice, "I...... I suspect there's a problem here. ”

"What's wrong?"

"Do you remember, when we escaped from Jiyingling, Benjamin rushed ahead of us, and his falling spirit flew so fast that there was no shadow all of a sudden. It's been a day, and it stands to reason that he has already fled I don't know how far, why did he turn around and come back and be met by us?"

Ida furrowed her eyebrows as well. "That's right, Nagarjuna said that the fallen spirit flew all the way over...... Why did you fly back all of a sudden?"

"Is it possible...... Who is it running away from the people ahead?" Lin Yuqing's words were so light that they almost turned into a voice.

"Run, run away from whom?"

"I remember the Overseer saying that there was another group of people around here who were also capturing the Fallen Spirit. The boy said in a low voice, "That falling spirit suddenly disappeared...... Could it be because they've blocked it?"

Under the gaze of the dark woods, Ada couldn't help but shudder. She hurriedly took two steps back and said softly, "Then what are we still doing standing here, let's go!"

The young man stood in the shade of the tree, and he also condensed into a dark and gloomy silhouette, and his expression could not be seen clearly. He glanced back at Ada, a pair of eyes glinting in the night, and after a long while, Lin Yuqing suddenly said, "Not yet." ”

Ida was stunned.

"Do you want to go back?" the boy turned his head and looked at the woods, not at her. "You have to go back to Jiyingling and take revenge on Romandan, right?"

Ida bit her lip, vaguely understanding what he meant. She clasped her hands tightly together and said softly, "Yes." They would never have thought that I would run away and go back...... Besides, it is impossible for those lords to stay in Jiyingling all the time, and after this matter is reported to the Holy See, they will always disperse. As soon as they left, Romandan did not fall into the spirit, what about him, it is up to me to decide. ”

"But one hundred and nine—"

"Even if it can't use its powers, it's not a problem to deal with a person - isn't it what the Fat Overseer bit to death?" Ida seemed to sneer in the darkness of the moonlight. "What if...... I really can't do it, so I'll pick some cat leaves and take them with me. ”

Lin Yuqing exhaled a long breath. The shadows of the trees in front of him, looking like ghosts and ghosts in the thick darkness, looked back at him quietly, making him can't help but have an illusion: as if this mountain is full of endless and strange falling spirits, waiting to rush to the world.

"I ...... I can't go with you. He whispered.

"I know. Ida said quietly.

"That—those people—" Even though it was something he had to do, Lin Yuqing couldn't help but feel an inexplicable sense of guilt: "Listening to the meaning of that fat overseer, it seems that they are operating in this area, and my family and my friends may be caught by those people...... I'll have to go find them. ”

"I know. This time Ida paused and added, "You don't have to worry about me, I've thought of everything...... It's you, and your situation is much more dangerous than mine. ”

Lin Yuqing sighed, and in an instant, countless words came up from the bottom of his heart to tell Ada, but he didn't know where to start. The two children stood silent for a while, but he broke the silence first: "Let's go, let's pick cat leaves, and see if there is anything to eat." ”

Maybe not all fallen spirits react to cat leaves, but it's always a good insurance measure to pick a few just in case. What's more, no one knows when the lords will leave Jiyingling, and during this period of time, Ida didn't even have a penny on him, so he could only live on what was produced in the mountains and forests.

Before tonight, Ada had never eaten a wild fruit from the mountains and forests. She followed the forest fish and identified a circle of plants by the dim moonlight—the first thing she remembered was the appearance of a cat's leaves: a plant with round leaves and purple threads, often growing together in clusters, and the berries were sweet and juicy, especially thirst-quenching.

There is also a kind of white "ribbon" hanging down from the tree, which is picked and rolled up, and the outer layer is crisp and crisp, and the inner layer is soft, which is very filling. If you are not satisfied after eating this, then there are wild grapes and small purple radishes in the forest, and there is a sweet safflower that produces nectar by the stream...... Lin Yuqing carried several leather bags with him, and quickly filled them all, leaving the rest for Ada, except for a bag of cat leaves for himself.

During this period of time, Bai Jiu naturally cried several times, and even fell out of the spirit weapon, rolling and wailing on the ground back and forth, taking the opportunity to slap Lai, and using all kinds of means for a mouthful of leaves;

"I don't think it's a thief, and when you're gone, it will definitely come out. At the time of separation, Ida glanced at the spirit weapon, then at Lin Yuqing, and sighed softly.

"When are you going to go into town, go pick some more cat leaves, and don't let it take advantage of it. Lin Yuqing instructed and took off his coat: "You are too conspicuous in this skirt, so you should put this on." When you want to go to bed at night, you go to the mountain den I told you about, and there is no wind there. After the lords are gone, you have to think of a way to get in touch with Shi Lao......"

"I know all that," Ida interrupted, and a smile appeared on her little pale face, faint as a shadow in the water. "You can rest assured, no matter what, I have a fallen spirit now. When you find your family, I'll take the territory back, and we'll see you again. ”

Lin Yuqing glanced at her and nodded. The two were silent for a few breaths, and the boy turned around and walked into the night alone.