"Who poached it?" Shen Yijin asked in a deep voice.
The Western Ghost shook his head. "That happened several years ago. I can't remember it clearly. You know, we ghosts don't have much time to be awake."
Western ghosts and Eastern ghosts are two different systems. Shen Yijin doesn't know much about Western ghosts. When she heard what Western ghosts said, her brows furrowed tightly.
Now the clue is broken again.
"Then do you know why there are so many surveillance cameras installed on the island?" Shen Yijin pointed to a surveillance camera with a flashing red light on a tree not far away and asked the Western Ghost.
The Western ghost's eyes were confused: "What is surveillance?"
Chen Yijin: ...
I had planned everything, but I didn't expect that this Western guy didn't even know what surveillance was.
However, this Western ghost was unaware of the existence of surveillance, so it died very early, and it is quite pitiful that it is still wandering in the human world.
Shen Yijin planned to ask another ghost, but just as she was about to leave, the Western ghost stopped her: "Wait! I don't know what surveillance is, but I heard people talking when they came to the island during the day."
Shen Yijin stopped, intrigued by the Western ghost, and turned around to wait for him to continue.
"They said that a very powerful witch appeared in the East. She might know what happened eleven years ago. They are afraid that she will ruin the plan of a certain adult, so they must test her this time. Maybe it is for this reason that many of the surveillance cameras you mentioned are installed on the island." The Western Ghost said as he recalled.
The corner of Shen Yijin's mouth twitched, and she wondered if the witch was talking about her.
"Thank you." Chen Yijin burned a stick of incense to the Western Ghost as a thank you gift.
The incense combusted on its own without fire and quickly burned out in mid-air.
The Western ghost looked at Chen Yijin's hand in surprise. It didn't see Chen Yijin light the incense, but the incense started to smoke on its own. What was even more amazing was that as the incense burned out, its soul became more solid, and the sleepy feeling mostly disappeared.
Without a second thought, the Western ghost said, "So you are the witch they were talking about! You are so amazing! No wonder they are afraid of you."
Hearing the Western Ghost calling her a witch, Shen Yijin felt uncomfortable all over. She fled from the Western Ghost and went to a place with dense surveillance to look for clues.
The closer you get to the center of the island, the more surveillance there is around you.
But until Shen Yijin walked to the center of the island, she didn't find any clues.
The center of the island is just a little higher and has denser trees than other places.
Shen Yijin looked around in confusion, releasing his spiritual sense to carefully examine every corner of the central area of the island, and finally felt the fluctuation of the soul on a tree.
It was an old pine tree. Judging from the thickness of its branches, it must have been alive for at least several hundred years.
Shen Yijin walked to the old pine tree and gently stroked the rough trunk of the pine tree with her hand: "Do you know the whereabouts of Lan Cui?"
The pine tree gently shook its branches, and then an old voice came into Shen Yijin's mind: "Are you talking about the girl who was buried on this island eleven years ago? I know where she is now."
Chen Yijin was overjoyed when she heard this: "Yes, that's her! Can you tell me where she is now? She's been wandering around for eleven years and has always wanted to return to China. I'm here to take her home."
"You can find her if you go two islands west. However, if you want to take her away, it may not be that easy." The pine tree shook its branches and a pine cone fell.
Chen Yijin bent down to pick up the pine cone and humbly asked the old pine tree: "Is there something wrong with Lan Cui's soul? Senior, is there any way for me to take her away?"
She risked her life to come to this small island just to bring Lan Cui home. Now that she knew Lan Cui's whereabouts, she absolutely could not give up just because of difficulties.
The old pine tree remained silent, and Shen Yijin waited patiently.
A breeze blew by, causing the pine needles on the pine tree to sway slightly. Shen Yijin looked closely and saw that the originally emerald green pine needles were now turning yellow little by little.
This means that the pine tree in front of us is about to die.
"How could this happen..." Shen Yijin was stunned. She had just detected with her spiritual sense that the soul fluctuations on the pine tree were very strong. With such strong soul fluctuations, the pine tree could easily live for another thousand years.
But it is aging at a very fast rate at this moment. In ten minutes or so, it will become a completely dead tree.
"Girl, what are you standing there for? Aren't you going to find Lan Cui? Why don't you go quickly?" Before Shen Yijin could come to her senses, the sound of the pine tree rang in her mind again. This time the voice was much more childish than the previous one, as if an old man had instantly turned into a teenage boy from his twilight years.
Shen Yijin was surprised. She lowered her head and quickly used her spiritual sense to check the pine cone in her hand. Only then did she understand the reason why the pine tree died.
The old pine tree transferred its soul and all its strength to a pine cone, and then manipulated the pine cone to separate from the pine tree.
Without energy, the original old pine tree will naturally die.
After figuring out the key, Chen Yijin no longer hesitated and followed the direction that the old pine tree had just told him and quickly reached the island where Lan Cui was buried.
There are also surveillance cameras on this small island, but not as many as on the previous island.
Despite this, Shen Yijin was afraid that it was a plan of the beautiful people, so she was still alert to her surroundings and did not relax at all.
"Huh - finally I don't have to be stared at by those perverts!" After escaping from the small island full of surveillance cameras, Song Shu breathed a sigh of relief in Shen Yijin's mind.
Maybe it was because he had a younger body, but the pine tree became more talkative, and kept complaining to Shen Yijin about his miserable experiences.
The pine tree said in a sad and angry tone: "You don't know, for more than 50 years, I have been stared at by those glowing red eyes. Recently, the number of red eyes has increased! You say they are perverts, why are they staring at me, an old pine tree, and I am a grown man..."
"It seems they want to use me as an experiment. They've buried so many bodies around the island with me as the center, hoping I'll use their souls to create some kind of ghost army. Not only have they failed to figure out what they're doing, they've even threatened to saw me down and turn me into a Christmas tree if I don't cooperate!"
"This is such an insult to the tree! I just took a nap, and when I woke up I was forced to learn these weird talismans that make trees sleepy. There weren't any trees or people around me I knew, and I was threatened for no reason. This is really unfriendly to an elderly tree..."
Song Shu talked too much and too frequently, and Shen Yijin couldn't find a place to interrupt.
There was no other way, Shen Yijin could only turn off the microphone and listen to Song Shu's chatter, and see if he could get any useful information.
The pine tree was an intelligent tree staying on the island. It was all alone and had no one to talk to. When it finally found an audience, it couldn't stop chattering.
Chen Yijin listened attentively at first, but later on she was really annoyed by the noise and decided to temporarily block her hearing.
Just as she was about to close her ears, she keenly heard a key word in Song Shu's words.
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