"Thank him? Who told you that he subdued the zombies?"
The cousin choked up and listened to Gao Daniu's tone as if he was questioning the immortal master. She was immediately dissatisfied and said: "Cousin, what are you talking about? You have to follow your conscience. It was obviously the immortal master who saved everyone, why don't you believe it? ? You quickly apologize to Immortal Master—Immortal Master? Immortal Master, where are you going?"
The Taoist priest saw Zhu Yuanyu and the others coming over, and was afraid that his lie would be exposed, so he wanted to run away. Unexpectedly, Gao Daniu's cousin-in-law called out to him. He cursed stupidly in his mind and walked away quickly as if he hadn't heard.
It was getting dark by now and it looked like it was going to rain.
The couple was very afraid of death. When they saw the Taoist priest leaving, they were worried that another zombie would pop up, so they chased after the Taoist priest.
Gao Daniu looked at the three people leaving in a hurry and snorted with disdain.
"Then let's go back too." He said to everyone.
Seeing that Zhu Yuanyu didn't move, Gao Daniu asked doubtfully: "Why don't you leave, brother Zhu?"
"You guys go back first, I still have something to do."
Gao Daniu really wanted to ask him if there was anything else he needed to do, but after thinking about it for a while, he finally didn't ask.
"Then... okay." After looking at the sky, he added: "It seems to be raining. There is no shelter from the rain nearby. You can finish your work and go back as soon as possible. Don't get wet... Then we will I'm leaving."
Zhu Yuanyu quietly looked at the leaving figures of Gao Daniu and said softly: "Then let's go too."
The temple was not far from the cemetery, but there was still a long way to go. However, Zhu Yuanyu and the others were fast on their feet and it didn't take them long to get there.
"Mountain-god-temple."
Zhu Yuanyu slowly read out the words on the plaque at the main entrance of the temple one by one. After reading it, he did not continue to read, but turned his gaze to an old locust tree.
"This tree is so big, it must be hundreds of years old..."
Qi Ao followed Zhu Yuanyu, keeping a distance of one meter. Hearing Zhu Yuanyu's words, he couldn't help but turn his head and look over.
Although the locust tree is old, its branches and leaves are still luxuriant, symbolizing its tenacious vitality; but there is a hole in the trunk, which looks a bit awkward at first, but over time it does not feel incongruous, as if the hole should have been there.
Thunder and lightning flashed in the sky, and Zhu Yuanyu pulled Qi Ao away.
Qi Ao stiffened his hands and felt that the skin touched by Zhu Yuanyu quickly became hot, making his ears red. He wanted to get rid of it for a moment, but he was obsessed with this feeling, and his eyes revealed struggle and contradiction.
Fortunately, Zhu Yuanyu just pulled him and took them away from the old locust tree, and soon let go.
Qi Ao looked at his wrist, showing nostalgia in his eyes, but it was quickly covered up again.
"Qi Ao, don't get close to the trees on rainy days, otherwise you will be easily struck by lightning, you know?" Zhu Yuanyu smiled slightly and said in a tone that sounded like someone who had come before.
Qi Ao nodded without asking why.
Zhu Yuanyu exhaled. Fortunately, Qi Ao didn't ask why, otherwise he wouldn't know how to explain it... He didn't want to tell Qi Ao that the reason why he knew it was not because it was common sense, but because he had tried it like this - I was standing under a tree on a rainy day and was struck by lightning.
Recalling his youthful and frivolous past, Zhu Yuanyu's eyes showed nostalgia, but he was immediately interrupted.
Because it finally rained.
Big drops of rain fell on his and Qi Ao's heads, shoulders, hands...
This time, Qi Ao took Zhu Yuanyu's hand and ran into the temple to take shelter from the rain.
They hid quickly and the two of them didn't get much wet.
Qi Ao quickly let go of Zhu Yuanyu's hand as if being scalded by fire, his heart pounding. He glanced at Zhu Yuanyu secretly and found that the other person had a strand of wet hair wrapped around his neck, probably because he was running. Be careful with it.
"Master, your neck... hair is tangled."
"Huh?" Hearing this, Zhu Yuanyu turned his head and lowered his eyes.
Qi Ao couldn't help but reach out his hand and carefully lift it for him. His fingertips accidentally touched the skin of Zhu Yuanyu's neck, and he retracted his hand like lightning.
The young master seems to be quite white - staring at the exposed skin of Zhu Yuanyu's neck, an idea flashed in Qi Ao's mind.
"What's wrong? Is there something on my neck?"
Zhu Yuanyu reached out and touched his neck, looking at the subordinate in front of him in confusion.
Qi Ao quickly came to his senses, shook his head and said, "It's nothing."
"That's good."
Zhu Yuanyu nodded and turned his attention to the statue in the temple - it was a very strange-looking stone statue; one foot high, five feet wide, five feet thick, without limbs, with a ferocious face and four upper and lower fangs that were three feet long.
"This statue... why does it feel weird?" Qi Ao also looked at the stone statue and said.
Usually the statues in temples are human-shaped, but the statue in this temple looks like...a monster?
The rain kept falling and the thunder continued.
Zhu Yuanyu suddenly felt that something was wrong around him. After careful observation, he finally discovered what was wrong.
From where the two of them were standing, they could clearly see that the branches of the old locust tree were swaying in the wind, but he did not feel the wind coming in at all. The candlelight on the desk did not sway at all. The space seems to be still.
Realizing this, Zhu Yuanyu couldn't help but frown.
Qi Ao noticed that something was wrong with his expression, so he secretly became wary and asked softly: "Master, is there anything wrong with this temple?" After speaking, he glanced at the stone statue.
Just as Zhu Yuanyu was about to speak, he suddenly felt that the world was spinning and he fainted.
Qi Ao hugged him in time to prevent him from falling to the ground. At the same time, he also felt dizzy. He struggled to hold on to the desk and slowly slid to the ground. He hugged Zhu Yuanyu tightly before passing out.
Zhu Yuanyu had a dream.
In the dream, he was the stone statue.
He could clearly feel the various emotions of the stone statue, happiness, expectation, satisfaction, disappointment, sadness, dissatisfaction, anger... and despair.
The stone statue is really a mountain god.
Its original form was a strange stone, and it was able to develop spiritual wisdom because it inadvertently absorbed the aura bred from heaven and earth. He has a kind nature, and when he transformed into a physical body after practicing for hundreds of years, he often went down the mountain to practice, and many people were benefited by it on the way.
When it arrived in the town, it found that some villagers had built a temple for itself. It was immediately happy and decided to stay and continue to help the people who came here for help.
But one day it found that it seemed to be eroded by filth, and became weaker day by day.
It doesn't know why it is stained, which is not a good sign. Once the filth takes over the whole body, it can no longer survive.
The mountain god began to think of ways to remove the pollution from himself, but he discovered that as long as he did not stop helping the villagers, the pollution would spread faster as he helped the villagers realize their wishes.
In order to prevent deterioration, it can only stop helping and concentrate on getting rid of the dirt on its own.
When the villagers found that their prayers had never been fulfilled, they suddenly felt suspicious and dissatisfied, and a large number of negative emotions flooded into the mountain god. The mountain god was in great pain, because negative energy is a catalyst for filth.
Finally, the mountain temple was destroyed.
One day, starting from a certain person, the angry crowd smashed everything in the temple.
The mountain god was very sad and didn't understand what he had done wrong.
But it didn't have much time to be sad, because the filth in its body was getting worse and worse, and it had begun to develop a dark side.
The mountain god was very worried, because filth was contagious, and he did not want the villagers to be harmed due to his own fault, so he decided to use his last strength to seal himself.
Before the mountain temple was built, the old locust trees were there.
The mountain god finally sealed himself in the old locust tree.
Unfortunately, the mountain god did not expect that time not only failed to help him eliminate the filth, but also allowed the dark side to become a climate, and eventually a second spiritual intelligence emerged from his body.
The second spirit always wanted to escape from the old locust tree, but it never succeeded.
Until the arrival of a Taoist priest.
The Taoist priest accidentally unlocked half of the mountain god's seal, and the second spirit took the opportunity to escape.
Then people began to come to the mountain temple to worship. The mountain god watched anxiously as the villagers became contaminated and died one by one.
The second spiritual wisdom that absorbed the vitality was stronger than the mountain god. The second spiritual wisdom trapped the mountain god in the old locust tree. Only at night could the mountain god have a chance to escape for a while.
The day Zhu Yuanyu and the others came to the town, the mountain god noticed something unusual about him and went to find him that night. Unfortunately, they had limited time and were unable to talk.
After the second Lingzhi knew about it, he trapped the mountain god the next night and went to Gao's house himself, but was blocked by the barrier and failed to return.
The mountain god thought that he would never have the chance to meet Zhu Yuanyu, but who knew that he would take the initiative to find him.
Every night the Second Spiritual Wisdom would suck the energy, so the mountain god took this opportunity to let Zhu Yuanyu enter his dream to explain everything, and Qi Ao did it by the way.
After the story was finished, Zhu Yuanyu woke up.
Finding himself in Qi Ao's arms, Zhu Yuanyu twisted around with some discomfort and sat next to him.
Feeling the strange movement in his arms, Qi Ao also opened his eyes with a dazed expression.
"Master... this subordinate seems to have had a... dream?"
The sound is a little uncertain.
Zhu Yuanyu looked at him and said, "I also hope it's a dream..." Unfortunately it wasn't.
No matter what, let’s fish out the mountain god first.
Zhu Yuanyu has now been targeted by the second intelligence, and he can't even sleep without destroying him.
