I'm Investigating妖怪Cases in the Human Realm

As a fake half-demon, Yue Jiuling feels that living in the human realm is actually pretty good. However, this is only true if she can retrieve her original body and separated soul. There's no c...

Chapter 167 Trouble Encounters

The forest was filled with gloomy energy. Yue Jiu Nian and Yue Jiu Zai walked hand in hand behind Jiang Yan. They had been walking in the forest for a long time, and it was already dark, but they still hadn't reached their destination. This puzzled Yue Jiu Zai. Was this cemetery too hard to find?

After dark, Uncle Zhao said that they could not continue walking and needed to find a place to rest, as it was not good to travel in these places late at night.

Lao Hei and Lao Wu agreed. Although they both wanted to find the place quickly, it was not appropriate to travel at this time. After all, they often encountered dangerous animals such as snakes, insects, and rodents in the forest during the day, so wouldn't it be even more terrifying and dangerous at night?

When they found a place to rest, Yue Jiu Nian and Yue Jiu Zai, the two women, shared a tent, while Jiang Yan stayed with the fat man again.

"Eat up, finish eating quickly and go to sleep. Don't run out unless necessary. Even if you escape from this place, you might not make it out alive."

Before going to sleep, Lao Hei coldly tossed Yue Jiu Nian two pieces of bread and a bottle of water.

Yue Jiu Nian lowered her head, holding the food in her hand, and nodded obediently: "Okay, I understand."

Yue Jiuzai also received the same food, but she was in a bad mood because she hadn't showered for two days, so she felt dirty and uncomfortable.

She touched her multicolored hair and sighed to Yue Jiu Nian, "Ugh, my hair is so dirty. I really want to take a shower and wash my hair. I wish it would rain right now. I don't hate water at all anymore."

Actually, Yue Jiu Nian also really wanted to take a shower, but the conditions didn't allow it, so she kept trying to endure it. She pouted and said, "Sigh~ I can't help it, I'm also very uncomfortable. But speaking of which, your hair has been like this for a while now, how come it hasn't faded much?"

Yue Jiu Nian remembers that Yue Jiu Zai's hair has been dyed for a while now, but the color is still so eye-catching, and it doesn't seem to be fading at all.

"Tsk~ I think I dyed my hair a few days before I woke up, right? But these things usually last for several months, so it's normal that the color doesn't fade so quickly. What do you think? Isn't my hair super cool?"

While biting into a piece of bread, Yue Jiuzai touched his hair and said narcissistically, "Hehe~ Although I didn't dye it, I still quite like this color."

Hearing Yue Jiuzai's words, Yue Jiunian laughed and reached out to touch the hair: "It's alright, it fits your image as a female hooligan, it's just a bit dirty now."

The two chatted for a few minutes before deciding to rest, because Old Wu, who had just passed by the tent, suddenly said to them, "We have to get up very early tomorrow to continue our journey, so you'd better get some rest."

"Tsk tsk~ If we didn't not know the place, would I need to travel with you guys?"

Before going to sleep, Yue Jiuzai muttered a complaint under his breath.

At night, almost everyone in the team was asleep. Uncle Zhao, Lao Hei, and Lao Wu held a meeting in their tent. There were only the three of them at the meeting.

Old Hei, with a cigarette still glowing, said with a distressed expression, "Sigh~ I clearly remember it being around here, so why can't I find it today? Could it be that I really remembered it wrong?"

Uncle Zhao raised his eyelids slightly, glanced at him, and said coldly, "If you really remember correctly, how could you have led us astray today? They didn't notice, but I did. You led us down the same route twice."

"Alright, then I might really have misremembered. But, Uncle Zhao, since you've been here before, why didn't you lead the way?"

Old Hei's expression darkened after Uncle Zhao said that.

Uncle Zhao's face was also a bit gloomy, probably because he had been traveling for too long today and was a little tired. In addition, Lao Hei had led them astray, so his tone of voice was not very good.

He said in a cold tone, "Heh~ If I weren't old and forgetful, would I need to come up here with you all?"

To put it bluntly, Uncle Zhao just wanted to go into the mountains with Lao Hei. He didn't have many people with him this time, and Lao Hei was also bringing an important person with him, so he had no choice but to go along.

Old Hei had already guessed Uncle Zhao's ulterior motives, so he just sneered and remained silent.

Old Wu listened to their conversation without saying a word. After a while, he said, "Tsk~ Forget it, we're all tired today. Let's leave it at that. Everyone, rest first, and we'll look for it again tomorrow."

Uncle Zhao nodded and said, "Alright, then go to sleep first."

He was about to go to sleep when they suddenly heard a scream from outside!

Ah!~

Judging from the voices, they seemed to be from their team. As soon as Lao Hei realized something was wrong, he immediately ran out of the tent to check. Yue Jiu Nian and Yue Jiu Zai also ran out to see what was going on.

Because the forest was too damp, they couldn't find any dry firewood to light a campfire outside the tents that night. They only turned on a lamp outside the tents and didn't leave anyone to keep watch.

So when everyone came out, all they saw was a bright light shining in front of the tent; they couldn't see anything else.

"Where's Ah Liang? Where did Ah Liang go? Did something happen to Ah Liang?"

When Lao Hei came out and didn't see anyone, he was about to ask what was going on and who had been shouting when he saw a tall man come out of a tent and start looking for a man named Ah Liang.

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