The Tale of the Kraken

Chapter 78 Revisiting the Cave Immortal
Because Hong Xin left, Zuo Yong let Chi Dun live in the room where Hong Xin slept last night.

Yuan Mu pretended to want to chat with his classmates, and followed Chi Dun into the room. Yang Yang talked with Zuo Yong downstairs for a while, and then went upstairs. When he passed the room, Yuan Mu pulled him in.

Yang Yang looked at the spell stuck in the room, he was speechless, then turned his head and asked, "What are you doing?"

Unexpectedly, Yuan Mu ignored him at all, just looked at Chi Dun and asked, "How is it? Is there any?"

"I'll take a look later." Chi Dun said in a low voice, squatted down, took out a spell from his wallet, stuck it on the ground, and muttered something.

Yang Yang looked at him, then at Yuan Mu who was staring at Chi Dun intently, sighed, and found a place to sit down on his own.

Forget it, anyway, if there is something, they will tell themselves later, there is no need to rush at this moment.

But having said that, he was still very curious, what did these two people do with their buttocks sticking a talisman on the ground?

After a while, the talisman didn't ignite spontaneously or fly into the air as he imagined, it just stuck on the ground like a piece of ordinary paper.

Chi Dun finally stopped muttering, he straightened up and tore the talisman off the floor, then stood up and said to Yuan Mu: "No, there is no reaction at all."

"Is it really not him?" Yuan Mu whispered to himself after hearing Chi Dun's words.

"I said, can someone give me a summary of the previous situation? What are you doing? Something dropped?" Seeing that the two of them had finished their work, Yang Yang finally couldn't help but reminded him.

Yuan Mu heard Yang Yang's words, turned his head and glanced at him and said, "The resentment on the gate must have been infected by a big monster who killed many creatures."

"Yeah." Yang Yang nodded to show he knew, and then made a gesture to signal him to continue.

"As I said before, our monster race is very sensitive to the smell of the same kind, but we are not as professional as the Daoist sect when it comes to resentment. That's why I asked Chi Dun to take a look."

Yuan Mu said, glanced at Chi Dun, and continued: "I was afraid that Menhuai would affect the mortals in the village, so I set up an enchantment, just in time to hear Zuo Yong mention that when you were at the gate of the courtyard the night before, there was Hearts left early in the morning, so I took it for granted that it was Hearts' fault."

"But..." Yuan Mu said, paused for a moment, and continued: "But I have seen Hong Xin, he has no bloody smell on him, not even a bit of evil. The strangest thing is, I can't see his origin , especially after you told me that he once prevented you from opening the door, I became even more suspicious."

"That's why Yuan Mu brought me here after dinner, and asked me to use Daomen's magic to find out whether the person who lived here last night was a monster, but I didn't find any monster spirit." After Chi Dun finished speaking, he spread his hands , looked at the talisman in his hand and said: "The demon detection talisman has no response."

"So, there is no way to know?" Yang Yang concluded after hearing this: "But regardless of whether Hongxin is a monster or not, I think he can at least rule out the suspicion in the matter of Menhuai, right? Yuan Mu, didn't you say you couldn't see it?" Is there evil in him? Since you can't see it, I think there must be nothing wrong with him."

Hearing that Yang Yang had such confidence in him, Yuan Mu didn't know whether to cry or laugh, he nodded and said, "For the time being, it can be ruled out."

"In that case, why not start with Menhuai first? Those grievances can't just appear out of thin air, there should be traces to follow, right?" Yang Yang said, looking at Chi Dun who was silent at the side, and said, "Chi Dun? "

"Well, when I dealt with those grievances, I noticed that although those grievances are terrible, they are not very powerful, and they seem to be a little old... It seems that those creatures who died unjustly have been dead for a long time .” Chi Dun explained.

"Long time?" Yuan Mu raised his eyebrows when he heard Chi Dun's words.Then he said: "You guys rest first, we are going to meet the Cave Immortal again in the evening."

"Are you going again?" Yang Yang wailed after listening.

"Don't talk nonsense, go to sleep." Yuan Mu ignored Yang Yang's wailing, and pulled him back to his room. When he opened the door and walked out, he suddenly paused, turned his head and said to Chi Dun, "I'll tell you what to do." Don't forget what you checked."

"Don't worry." Chi Dun nodded when he heard his words.

As for what it was, Yuan Mu didn't say anything, Yang Yang wanted to ask but was blocked by him saying shut up and go to sleep.

Anyway, it won't be anything that would harm him, Yang Yang thought so, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

In the early morning of that night, Yuan Muruo raised them up that night, woke the two up in the middle of the night, and then turned into a prototype and flew them towards the lake.On the way, Yuan Mu asked Chi Dun to play the flute left by the little fox, and then landed in the woods not far from the lake.

After the little fox arrived, Yuan Mu told him and Chi Dun to look for any signs of resentment around here, and then said to Chi Dun: "You are a Taoist, and you are more sensitive to these things. And..." He paused After a while, he looked at the lake not far away and said: "Besides, Dongxian doesn't like humans very much. If you go, I'm afraid he won't show up."

After finishing speaking, he waved to Yang Yang, motioning him to go to the lake with him, and Yang Yang followed Yuan Mu to the lake.

Same as that night, Yuan Mu said a few words towards the entrance of the cave, and then let a beam of silver light go in, but this time, the lake remained silent for a long time.

Looking at the calm lake, Yang Yang suddenly remembered what Yuan Mu said when he parted from Chi Dun in the woods, and couldn't help thinking: "Didn't you say that you don't like humans? I'm also a human! Is it because I'm a human? So you don't want to come up and meet?"

Then, he thought of the vertical pupil he saw that night, shook his head, and thought, no, no, didn't the same one show up before?I even touched its head myself!
Here Yang Yang was thinking wildly, while Yuan Mu waited on the shore with an ugly face. After more than half an hour, he found that the lake was still not moving at all, so he sighed, turned his head and said to Yang Yang: "Let's go, it seems Dongxian doesn't intend to see us today."

The two left the lake and waited for Chi Dun and the others in the woods. During this period, Yuan Mu urged Yang Yang to practice the Spirit Gathering Art for a while. Yang Yang naturally didn't dare to be lazy, so he nodded and practiced.

Not long after, Chi Dun came back with the little fox. According to Chi Dun, the vicinity of the lake is still very clean, and there is plenty of aura, but other places, such as the farther mountains and forests, faintly Some traces of resentment could be seen.

The little fox also said that he had been here for a day and hadn't found any traces of ghosts.

Although it is not easy to practice now, there are cave immortals guarding here, and the spiritual power is passable. Although it is not comparable to the ancient blessed land of cave heaven, it can be regarded as a treasured place for practicing geomantic omen today.

Logically speaking, there should be many unborn monsters here.

"Besides, the forest spirit here is very strong. There should be a lot of vegetation-type monsters, but I didn't see any of them." Finally, the little fox said doubtfully.

After listening to what they said, Yuan Mu nodded to show that he understood. After explaining that the little fox continued to search, he changed back to his original form and called Yang Yangchi Dun to go back to the village first.Putting aside the matter of monsters, now that there are monsters with such a strong resentment, protecting the mortals in the village is the most important task.

It would be great if Zhou Liang was here.While flying, Yuan Mu thought that Zhou Liang's spells are mainly for defense, and the barriers made by him have always been extremely strong. If he arranges the defensive barriers of the village, he will not have to worry about the intrusion of resentment and evil things .

After they returned to the village, they went back to their rooms.

That afternoon, Zuo Yong was finally dragged by his father to go on a blind date in the whole village, and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, when he thought he could finally be free to entertain guests, but something happened again.

This time it was nothing but Zuo Yong's father who really fell ill.And it came on suddenly.

At the beginning, he just had a low-grade fever. Zuo Yong said that people wanted to take him to the hospital, but he was unwilling. He said that many people in the village had caught a cold recently, and he probably caught it when he took Zuo Yong to a blind date.

The old man was stubborn and refused to go to the hospital, Zuo Yong couldn't persuade him, he could only urge him to take the medicine on time, but after two or three days, the illness not only didn't get better, but became more and more serious.

This made Zuo Yong very anxious. After looking for a car, he planned to take his father to the town to see a doctor, but he didn't know it until he went out. When he went to the village, he found that not only his father, but many people in the village were sick.

Several of them were too sick to even get out of bed, and they were busy looking for a car to take them to a big hospital.

Zuo Yong was terrified when he heard this, and hurriedly borrowed a small gold cup from someone he knew well, regardless of whether Zuo's father was willing or not, he was going to take him to the hospital.

But God seemed to be against them. He managed to find the car, but an accident happened halfway there—the only road out of the village was blocked by a big rock from nowhere.

If the car can't get through, it can only go back the same way.On the way, Zuo Yong called back to the village to ask, and the village committee said that they didn't know how the big rock got there, but they had already called the town, and the town was already sending a car to deal with it.

It's just such a delay, the earliest estimate is that it will take the next day to leave.

On the way back to the village by car, Yang Yang found that the small river flowing through the village seemed to have dried up, and more than half of the flowers and plants on the roadside had died.

This reminded him of the flowers and plants that the little fox had died before. For some reason, his heart skipped a beat, remembering that many people were sick at that time, so he quietly tugged on Yuan Mu's sleeve to show him the situation on the side of the road.

And Yuan Mu's face changed instantly when he saw those dead flowers and plants: "It seems that we can't leave for the time being."

(End of this chapter)