When Lu Jing and Xia Huai followed Huang Supervisor back to the end of the Nightingale River Valley, they looked at the bare rock wall and realized that there was a cave...it was really gone.
The original entrance was now empty. In order to verify this, Lu Jing then knocked on the stone wall with his Zen staff. He found that the rock formation there was extremely strong. Obviously, it was not just the problem of the entrance to the cave being gone, but the entire thing inside. The caves are gone.
At this time, there were not only the three of them in the open space in front of the cliff. In fact, many teachers and students from the academy rushed here after hearing about it.
Some of them were arranging formations and surveying to find a unique location, but in the end they found nothing.
As a result, everyone had to accept the fact that the most historic scene in the academy had indeed completely disappeared.
Afterwards, their looks at Lu Jing and Xia Huai became strange.
In the end, it was Huang Supervisor who said, "Okay, let's all disperse. I will report this later."
All the teachers obviously knew the prisoner's temper. Although they were a little curious when they heard what he said, they still walked out of the valley.
So after that, only Lu Jing, Xia Huai and Huang Jianyuan were left in front of the rock wall.
Huang Jianyuan first looked at Lu Jing and then at Xia Huai. He looked solemn and was about to say something when he suddenly heard a sharp and harsh bird call, followed by a long and melodious cry. .
Then the three of them saw a gray nightingale that looked like a sparrow and a slightly larger yellow nightingale that looked like a sneaky head flying over from the forest.
"Chicken legs!" Xia Huai said happily when he saw the nightingale behind him. He immediately stretched out his hand and let the nightingale land on it.
Lu Jing seemed to have thought of something, and quickly took out a fluffy little nightingale from the bag beside him.
It had just hatched when it fell into the cave, but when it came out of the cave, all its feathers had already grown.
However, this growth is purely physical. Due to the lack of guidance from his parents, this little nightingale still can't fly and can't even stand firmly.
However, it still recognized its mother. When it saw the gray nightingale flying in front, it immediately let out a shrill chirp, flapped its wings and jumped from Lu Jing's hand to the ground, and then snuggled up to its mother intimately. Together.
Seeing that Lu Jing had fulfilled his promise, a moment later, the gray nightingale flew up from the ground again and came to Lu Jing.
Lu Jing took out the pill he had previously received from Uncle Chen as agreed.
Then I saw the gray nightingale holding the pill and feeding it into the mouth of the little nightingale on the ground.
Huang Jianyuan has been watching silently. After the gray nightingale appeared, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes. When he saw the bird feeding the pill into the baby bird's mouth, he seemed to be unable to bear it. He paused and took half a step forward.
But he still didn't speak after all. It wasn't until the baby bird swallowed the pill that he sighed.
"Does Huang Jianyuan recognize this bird?" Lu Jing noticed the look on his face and asked proactively.
"Not bad." Huang Jianyuan nodded.
"Is there anything special about this bird?"
"No." Huang Jianyuan shook his head, "Or to be more precise, there was no one at first. As you can see, it is small in size and has an unpleasant cry. It was not very popular with other nightingales in this valley before. , until I met its owner.”
"Its owner? Who is it?" Lu Jing asked curiously.
He had previously found fingerprints on the gray nightingale's buttocks, and knew that this bird had served as someone's messenger.
However, the gray nightingale couldn't speak. Lu Jing thought he would never know who its former owner was, but he didn't expect that Huang Jianyuan actually recognized this bird.
Huang Jianyuan didn't hide anything. Hearing this, he said, "His master is Mr. Chi, the former Young Supervisor of Si Tianjian."
"Take office?" Lu Jing was stunned when he heard this, "The lifespan of an ordinary nightingale is less than ten years, right?"
"Well, but after swallowing the academy's secret pills, the messenger's lifespan can reach up to thirty years. As for it... it must have another adventure. Its current lifespan has exceeded sixty years, even among humans. It’s considered an elder, but I didn’t expect it to be able to reproduce.”
Lu Jing heard a hint of helplessness in Huang Supervisor's tone.
"Don't you seem to want it to thrive?"
"That's not true. It is Master Chi's messenger, and it has served our Tianjian for so many years. It can be regarded as... half a senior. After Master Chi's death, we also invited it back to this valley as usual. , spend the rest of your life peacefully.
“But it does have its share of headaches for us.
"Where?"
"We don't know how it does it. Its previous calls were just unpleasant but had no special effect.
"But after returning from Master Chi, it seems that it can control and command other nightingales with its own calls. In other words, it can intercept any messenger as long as it wants.
"So, you should be able to understand why we pay special attention to it. Fortunately, it has stayed in the Nightingale River Valley since it came back and has never gone out again. And a nightingale can only be a messenger for one person in its life, even if Master Chi is not here It's gone, and it can't find a new owner.
"So we don't have to worry about the students coming to the river valley mistakenly choosing it as a messenger, but we didn't expect...after such a long time, it suddenly bred three chicks, and one of them became your messenger. "Huang Supervisor sighed with emotion.
"Why didn't you stop me just now?" Lu Jing was surprised.
"There is no rule without rules. As the supervisor of an academy, I should naturally set an example and set an example for all teachers and students in the academy.
"Since Nightingale River Valley is the place where new students choose messengers, and we have not given any other explanation of the current situation before, I naturally have no reason to interfere with your decision.
"As for the two remaining baby birds, I will find another place to place them properly to prevent them from being chosen by other freshmen in the future. As for you... I only have one piece of advice."
Huang Jianyuan paused and continued, "If this bird really inherits its mother's ability in the future, I hope you can use it with caution and use it for the right purpose.
"I've been taught a lesson." Lu Jing said solemnly after hearing this.
After talking about the messenger, Huang Jianyuan finally returned to the topic. He looked at the empty rock wall and sighed again.
"Is what you said before true? Senior Jing and Senior Gu really died together in a different cave?"
