Chapter 190 The Old Pine Tree in the Center of the Island
"Who poached it?" Shen Yijin asked in a deep voice.
The Western ghost shook his head: "It 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 flashing red light on a tree not far away and asked the Western Ghost.
The Western ghost looked confused: "What is surveillance?"
Shen Yijin: …
I had planned everything, but I didn't expect that these Western guys didn't even know what surveillance was.
However, if this Western ghost didn't know about the existence of surveillance, it would have died very early, and it's quite pitiful that it's still wandering in the human world.
Shen Yijin was going to ask another ghost, but just as she was about to leave, the Western ghost called her, "Wait! Although I don't know what surveillance is, 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. We are afraid that she will ruin the plan of a certain adult, so we 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 while recalling.
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 for the Western ghost as a thank you gift.
The incense combusted on its own without fire and burned out quickly 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 smoking 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.
The Western ghost said without thinking, "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 check 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 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 sea of consciousness: "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, it's her! Can you tell me where she is now? She has been wandering outside for eleven years and has always wanted to return to China. I am 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 dropped.
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 the 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 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, it would be no problem for the pine tree to 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 out in her sea of consciousness 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.
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 had 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 given 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 island full of surveillance cameras, Song Shu breathed a sigh of relief in Shen Yijin's sea of consciousness.
Maybe it was because he had a younger body, but the pine tree became more talkative, complaining endlessly to Chen Yijin about its 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, and recently there have been more red eyes! You say they are perverts, why are they staring at an old pine tree like me, and I am a grown man..."
"It seems they wanted to use me as an experiment. They buried so many bodies on the island with me as the center, hoping that I would use their souls to make a ghost army. Not only did they fail to figure out what they were doing, they even threatened me, saying that if I didn't cooperate, they would saw me off and make me into a Christmas tree!"
"It's such an insult to the tree! I just took a nap, and when I woke up I was forced to learn some weird talismans that would make the tree sleepy at the first sight. There was no tree or person I knew around me, and I was threatened for no reason. This is really unfriendly to an old tree..."
Song Shu talked too much and too frequently, and Shen Yijin couldn't find a place to interrupt for a while.
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, all alone and without anyone to talk to. It finally found an audience and couldn't stop chattering.
Chen Yijin listened carefully at first, but became annoyed by the noise later on and decided to temporarily block out 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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