Chapter 51
Regardless of whether he had real good intentions or not, he said to a group of people in the middle of the night "girls go, boys stay" and looked like a human trafficker no matter how you looked at him. Even any one of Su Yun's group of girls could twist the trafficker's head off.
Su Yun smiled and said, "No need, we can find a way ourselves, Auntie, please go back quickly."
So the kind aunt left with regret, and reminded Su Yun and the others to be careful at night and not to be eaten by the wild animals nearby, as there were animals like wild boars nearby.
Train stations in small places will close at night after they stop operating, and may stop very early. When they arrived, it was already the last train. There were only two people on duty in the entire train station, one was the attendant on the platform, and the other was the security guard at the exit. Apart from these two people, there was not even a 24-hour convenience store outside the hall.
Among the group of people, only Che Xuming had the experience of living in such a remote place, because Jinglingmen was such a remote place. He would encounter such a situation when he returned to Jinglingmen. There was nothing nearby, and he had to use the technique of shrinking the earth into an inch to run back to the mountain. Occasionally, he would encounter owls and wolves in the mountains, and he had to fight with them before entering the mountain gate.
After scanning their ID cards and walking out of the train station, it was pitch black outside. There were no buses, coaches, taxis, or even tricycles. Among the people who got off with them, except for the aunt who rode her family's tractor with only two seats, everyone else was picked up by their family on motorcycles.
Su Yun raised his hand and gestured in front of his eyes, jokingly saying, "If you are blind, you can't see your hand in front of you. Come to think of it, why don't we just buy some tents? We can also go camping."
Everyone was silent. They had almost no experience of going out, and with their cultivation level, they could actually rest anywhere. If they had no place to stay, they could just run around all night. Only Su Yun was so particular, which showed that the eldest lady had never suffered any hardship.
Che Xuming glanced at her and said directly: "It's not easy to find a place to pitch a tent in a place like this. You might as well go to the town to see if there is any guesthouse."
They had no idea how to get there. The train station was closed at that moment. The attendants and security guards lived directly in the duty room of the train station and did not come out at all. They turned off the lights and locked the doors, so they did not even have to go out and face the darkness.
Su Yun observed the sky and suggested, "Why don't we travel overnight? No one seems to be very tired anyway."
"Director, of course we are not tired. Are you tired?" the ghost asked worriedly. The employees of the funeral home were all looking at Su Yun nervously. She was the only vulnerable person here.
"I'm fine. Sitting on the train isn't that tiring. There's no detailed map to refer to here. So, who among you is good at learning astronomy? How about using the stars to lead the way? Once we get to the village, we'll have a place to rest. Or if we come across a village with a guesthouse on the way, we can stop and rest." Su Yun was not used to sleeping on the streets, so he suggested continuing on his way.
Among them, the only one who can observe the celestial phenomena at night is Che Xuming. He makes a living by doing this and his calculations are quite accurate.
So Che Xuming led the way in front, holding Youlan's hand. It was quite cold in the mountains, and the wind made a whistling sound, mixed with all kinds of sounds that only belong to nature. The leaves were rustling, which somewhat affected hearing judgment.
Che Xuming did have some real skills. In the second half of the night, he led them to find a village that was hard to tell how big it was, because the village was divided by various small woods, and almost every small woods only surrounded one house. It seemed as if everyone was on bad terms.
As it was still dark, they did not want to disturb anyone, so they just wandered around the village along the dirt road, asking the village god and the city god what this place was, whether there was a guesthouse, and whether there were any wolves around.
The God of Land is easy to find, but the village doesn't worship him much. Due to wind, sun, dust and dirt, he looks quite shabby, and the clay sculpture is hardly visible.
The cook found the God of Land and used cleaning skills to clean it up a bit. The God of Land replied, thank you and asked if they were here for tourism.
"But you will be disappointed. There is nothing fun here, and there are no hotels. Many young people who come here for adventure bring tents and find a place to sleep by themselves. There are not even homestays." The God of Land answered all the questions of Su Yun and the others in one breath, and his skillful manner was heartbreaking.
Su Yun squatted down and placed a piece of peach cake in front of the God of Land. "God of Land, are there any wolves here? There are so many forests here, there should be wolves, right?"
The peach blossom cake suddenly disappeared, as if it had been taken away. The Earth God replied, "Little girl, do you want to see wolves? Then you have to walk a little further to the northwest. There are no wolves here because the environment is too humid and wolves will not come."
Upon hearing this, everyone looked at each other. At least it proved that their direction was correct. There were indeed wolves nearby, and they were quite close to the location provided by Xin Dechang.
Su Yun thought for a moment and asked again, "Have there always been wolves there? Have they ever been absent? For example, one day the wolves suddenly disappeared, and the wolves that appeared later migrated here?"
The God of Land replied somewhat embarrassedly: "I don't know about that. I actually took office late. As you know, China doesn't keep idle gods. The original God of Land became a mountain god because he did a good job, so the position was left vacant and it was my turn."
Generally, those who can become the local land god have made contributions to the people of this land and are believed and respected by people. After their death, they can become a very high-ranking immortal. It is not a high position, but they have a lot of work to do.
After asking about the God of Land, Su Yun followed the rules of worship and offered incense and candles to the God of Land, burned some paper money for him, and took out some cakes and fruits he had brought with him as offerings, hoping that children passing by would not steal any of them.
By the time they were done, it was already daybreak and people in the village began to come out to farm. When they saw them burning paper money, they all avoided them, thinking it was unlucky.
Su Yun was helpless about this situation. People in poor towns and villages often treated such things with awe and disgust, as if it was okay to worship one's own ancestors but not good for others to do the same.
After simply packing up their things and reminding the God of Land to remember to blow out the candles according to the weather so as not to cause a fire, Su Yun and his companions continued on their journey, following the direction indicated by the God of Land.
Continue walking forward and you will reach the village market. Today is not the first or fifteenth day of the lunar month, so this place can be used as a vegetable market when there is no market. Many people come here to sell things. In addition to the village that Su Yun and his friends passed by, people from several nearby villages also come here to sell.
Although they are all people living nearby, this is a very classic economic principle. If you exchange the extra things you have for other people's extra things, you can make money and the economy will grow.
Su Yun looked for a while and felt that many of the things were very good, especially the free-range chickens. If they didn't have other tasks to complete, they could definitely stock up on some goods to take back.
There were so many little gadgets in the market that Su Yun was dazzled. Che Xuming was running around with Youlan, and soon they bought all kinds of random things. They looked like they were being taken advantage of.
Usually the people who buy things at the funeral home are all sexy ghosts. She was so distressed when she saw Che Xuming buying things without blinking an eye. She bit her paws and said, "What kind of future can Youlan have with him, a lousy man who doesn't know how to live?"
"It doesn't matter. When it comes to life, having money means you don't have to worry about anything. Besides, at worst, Master Che will return to Jingling Sect and spend more or less. Taoism provides subsidies. Besides, he earns a lot, and there are only two people in the family, so he doesn't have to worry about spending too much." Su Yun said comfortingly.
"So Director, are you saying that there are too many people in our funeral home?" The sexy ghost looked over.
Su Yun shook his head: "Of course not, I just said that compared to Master Che, I just make less money. He has been in business for ten years, so he can spend his money freely. Don't worry, I will work hard to take orders in the future."
Having said that, Yan Gui just calculated the expenses for this trip. If Xin Dechang had not been so wealthy that he said all expenses would be covered and even gave extra travel expenses, they would definitely have spent more than they earned, which was equivalent to being paid for work.
Soon they finished their visit to the market, and Che Xuming brought Youlan back. They both had a lot of small items on them, including those flower bracelets that cost two yuan a string and could only be worn for one day. Youlan bought one for each girl, choosing different flowers that she thought were more suitable for the other person's image.
Flowers that can be made into bracelets are very small, such as jasmine. Youlan gave Su Yun a small white flower. She said: "This kind of flower is actually the flower of the grass on the ground. It is very easy to find, but no one will pick it when it blooms because it is too common. Only little girls will pick it up and make it into wreaths, bracelets, and rings."
"Then why did you choose this as a gift for me?" Su Yun raised his hand and let Youlan tie it for him, and asked curiously.
"We demons look at people differently from you. I think, Director Su, you are a very common person, but... a person who can't be burned out by wildfires but will grow again with the spring breeze." Youlan was a little confused about the description, so she simply said a familiar poem.
Su Yun chuckled: "You are right, it is true. For someone like me, as long as I am not dead, I can definitely be reborn again."
Afterwards, Youlan played with Yan Gui and the others for a while, and then prepared to continue on their journey. After leaving the market, there was a long mountain road. Even the mountain road was not very clear. There was no such miracle as "when more people walk on it, it becomes a road". Instead, it was grass and mud roads. In addition, it had been raining recently, so it was very difficult to walk on foot.
After walking out of the village, they gradually came to a place where there was no mobile phone signal. They were unable to report the specific location to Xin Dechang. The scenery was similar wherever they looked, either trees or mountains. If it weren't for the sun, they couldn't even tell the directions of east, south, west and north.
They walked until noon, and they didn't see any guesthouse or even a village.
Che Xuming observed the direction from the tree, and everyone rested under the shade of the tree. After a while, Che Xuming came back with a strange look on his face: "I should have taken the right direction. How could there be no village here? Could it be that it has been too long and the village is gone?"
"The village may be cancelled, but the houses will never disappear. We haven't seen even a single house along the way." Su Yun seemed to be thinking about something. Was it that the land god pointed the wrong way, or were there other problems?
"What should we do now? Should we continue to follow the direction pointed by the land god? It doesn't look like there is any village where we can stay." The ghost asked while distributing dry food to everyone.
Now Su Yun had to make the decision. She knew the most information and also had Xin Dechang's letter. Even if they turned around and headed for the base now, it would be inconvenient to look for the wolf girl openly there. This kind of weird and superstitious thing belonged to the category of feudal superstition.
Su Yun stood up, patted Lin Lang's arm with his fan, and said, "Lin Lang, take me to the top of the tree. I want to see the terrain nearby."
Lin Lang stood up and used a Taoist magic to help Su Yun reduce her weight so that she could float. Then he lifted her up gently and Su Yun flew up and landed on a relatively stable branch at the top of the tree. She had reduced her weight so that she could just stand on the top of the tree without worrying about breaking branches and falling down.
Standing high and seeing far, at a glance, all you see is dark green.
Logically speaking, they were walking up the mountain, which means that their level was getting higher and higher. Their level was so high that those with altitude sickness would probably start to feel uncomfortable. At this location, there was not even a trace of smoke from cooking.
This can only mean one thing - there is no one nearby.
After observing, Su Yun lowered his head and shouted to Lin Lang: "Lin Lang, I'm done, take me down."
Lin Lang blew a gust of wind directly from below, rolling Su Yun down smoothly and landing safely.
"How is it? I didn't lie to you, did I?" Che Xuming asked with a sigh.
"That's right. We don't know where this place is, but we know that the direction is correct because I heard the sound of airplanes. This means we are getting closer to the base in the Tibetan area. It's hard to calculate how close we are, but the general direction is definitely correct." Su Yun was also helpless. If there were no villages or villages nearby, their inquiry plan would be in vain.
Not being able to find a place to rest is the secondary problem. If there is no one to ask, they will have to ask the nearby monsters. It is not clear how many questions they can ask, and they don't know whether the clues are true or false.
Che Xuming said directly: "Why don't we give up looking for the village? Let's find the nearby demon tribe first. Wolves are social animals, so they must be very conspicuous. Not only will people avoid them, but most animals will also avoid them. Compared to looking for humans like headless flies, the range of looking for animals is smaller."
At this point, Su Yun had nothing to refute, so he agreed to find animals nearby to ask first. It would be best if he came across one or two spirits, as they lived longer and probably knew more.
When everyone was resting and preparing to leave, the ghost bride suddenly said, "Speaking of which, have you ever thought that the Earth God lied to us? If he lied to us, would other animals and demons tell the truth?"
Hearing this, everyone turned to look at her, and suddenly they all stopped moving and remained silent.
The ghost bride was startled when she saw that they were all staring at her: "Why are you all looking at me like that? Did I say something wrong?"
Su Yun said faintly: "You are not wrong. We are the ones who don't want to think in this direction. Please understand."
You have come this far, and if you suddenly say you have been cheated, it is easy for you to be unable to go on the rest of the way. The best thing to do is to ignore it and just leave.
The ghost bride reacted immediately. They didn't think about it because they were not completely sure that the God of Land was lying. They would compare it with the information obtained from other monsters later. If the God of Land was really lying, it would not be too late to deal with him.
Then they continued to move forward, and this time they focused on the passing elves, flowers, trees, birds and animals, and soon they got new information.
Youlan asked an old fir tree about the range of the wolf pack's activities. She repeated the old fir tree's words to the others: "The old fir tree said that there were wolves nearby before, but we have to go further west. In other words, the distance we have walked is too short."
"Then where is the nearest human being?" Su Yun asked again. She wanted to know if the village that Xin Dechang mentioned was still there.
"Humans? Old Shanshu said that there haven't been many people coming here. The last time someone came here was more than ten years ago." Youlan repeated the story truthfully.
Su Yun calculated in his mind how long it would take to walk, and whether the money he collected was a loss: "... Forget it, let's just keep going forward, maybe we'll run into someone."
With Youlan, a little expert who can communicate with plants, everyone's journey becomes smooth. Some long-lived plants can show them the way, but some are very confusing, it mainly depends on the species.
They walked from afternoon to evening, but saw no human beings and no signs of so-called wolf activities. They even felt like they were trapped in the mountains.
If a person stays in a repetitive and featureless environment for too long, his psychological defenses will collapse, just like when a person is locked up at home, strayed into a rainforest, or exiled at sea. These are all possible causes of human suicide.
In this haunted environment, the temperature dropped sharply at night and everyone could only talk around the fire. There was not even a place to sleep because we didn't buy sleeping bags and tents.
Fortunately, they all had enough cultivation to hold on. Che Xuming and Lin Lang didn't look tired at all. Su Yun couldn't hold on any longer, so he leaned on the ghost and fell asleep. In the second half of the night, he suddenly heard a noise and woke up suddenly.
Su Yun opened his eyes and found that the fire was still burning, but the people around him were lying all over the place, as if they had lost consciousness.
"Are you all asleep?" Su Yun got up from the ghost, rubbed her eyes, and suddenly found that her hands were empty - her folding fan was gone!
At that moment, the hairs on Su Yun's back stood up, and he immediately pushed the ghost and the ghost bride: "Ayan, Ayan, Xinxin, Xinxin, hurry up, my folding fan is gone, my folding fan! Have you put it away for me?"
However, no matter how Su Yun pushed, they had no response at all, and it could even be said that they were like... dead.
Ghosts don't breathe, and Su Yun couldn't even tell at once whether they were dead or had other problems.
Su Yun felt as if ice water was poured over her head. She was shivering with cold all over and even began to shiver. Her teeth were chattering as if her brain was trembling. This was proof of her extreme fear and excitement. At this moment, she was both afraid and angry.
The fire continued to burn as if nothing had changed. Su Yun stood up, walked to Lin Lang, and reached out to touch his pulse. Before he could touch it, another strange voice suddenly came from the depths of the forest.
"Are you sure you want to break your illusion?"
"Who?" Su Yun withdrew his hand and looked suddenly towards the place where the voice came from.
The voice in the forest smiled, but did not introduce itself. Instead, it said, "In fact, you know very well in your heart that you are already dead. These people are just your fantasy to accompany you before you die. Listen to my advice, don't reach out to touch them. If you break the illusion, you will have to face your own death."
After hearing this, Su Yun touched Lin Lang's pulse without saying a word and found that he had lost his breath, but the situation around him had not changed at all.
Seeing that Su Yun was still checking Lin Lang's pulse, the voice in the forest sighed: "You are really worthy of being the rebellious eldest daughter of the Su family, Su Yun. You are more like the daughter of a famous family than the biological daughter. How can someone like you be a fake daughter? You should be the real one."
After checking Lin Lang, Su Yun went to check on Che Xuming. Sure enough, he had no pulse either. It looked like all of them were dead.
Su Yun sighed: "Master Ziyuan, if you have the guts, just come out and confront me face to face. Those who pretend to be ghosts are really despicable."
The people in the woods suddenly stopped talking, and the only sound around Su Yun was the crackling of the burning fire. It was so quiet that it made people's spines creepy.
After a while, Su Yun still didn't hear the other party's reply, so he became a little impatient: "If you don't want to speak, then don't come. You are playing tricks, do you really think you can control people's hearts? You just ran into a few greedy people, not that you are very capable."
After saying that, Su Yun didn't wait for him. He took a deep breath, held his breath, bent down, picked up a red-hot branch, and inserted it directly into his neck. The next second, Su Yun suddenly woke up from his sleep and found a group of people surrounding him.
"Wake up, wake up!"
"Director, you scared me to death! He finally woke up. You just called him and I couldn't wake him up!"
"Yes, Director Su, what happened to you? Are you okay now?"
Su Yun's eyes turned red. She covered her neck and breathed deeply, looking at the faces in front of her one by one: the sexy ghost with nervous eyes she was looking at, the ghost bride who had been pinching her wrist to feel her pulse, Youlan who was holding a few herbs in her hand, and the others were on guard nearby.
Su Yun fell asleep in a daze just now. Her body was designed according to the structure of a normal person. Lin Lang and Che Xuming used their cultivation to relieve fatigue and sleepiness, so they could be as energetic as Youlan and the ghost employees along the way. Only Su Yun persisted completely in the human way, so naturally she fell down first.
After confirming that they were all familiar faces, Su Yun reached out and found that he still had nothing. At this time, Yan Gui quickly handed him a folding fan and said, "Director, your folding fan is still here, take it quickly. When you fell asleep just now, the folding fan fell to the ground, so I helped you hold it."
After hearing this, Su Yun paused for a moment. She tilted her head slightly to look into the ghost's eyes, with a distorted expression on her face: "Eh... a grown man pretending to be a ghost, how shameless, how shameless!"
The sexy ghost who had a worried look on her face just now immediately frowned and pushed Su Yun away. Su Yun sneered: "You've already done it, why are you still angry? Did I expose you too quickly or do you think it's embarrassing to dress up as a woman? You were not born of a woman?"
"You——" The person who looked like a sexy ghost spoke in a male voice.
Su Yun narrowed his eyes slightly: "Oh, I have heard your voice, it is Zhao Tuhu, right? Your temper is exactly the same as your master's. If you have a better temper, you won't be so passive."
After his organs were removed alive, Su Yun's memory was cut off. Later, as he gradually came across things related to Zhao Tuhu, he recalled his conversation with others in his dreams. However, the other person's voice and words were not heard in his dreams.
No one knew the reason for that dream. Perhaps it was an opportunity given by God, or perhaps the Taoist magic of that secret family did not take Zhao Tuhu seriously and the separation was not clean enough. Whenever Su Yun came across anything related, he could remember a lot of things.
Seeing that his identity could not be hidden, the "beautiful ghost" directly tore off the skin on his face, revealing a handsome face. At the same time, his height and body size also increased rapidly, at least one head taller than the beautiful ghost.
Thanks to the information provided by Jinglingmen, Su Yun looked at his photo and immediately confirmed that he was right. It was Zhao Tuhu who came here. Since he was here, it meant that Master Ziyuan must be nearby, and he might even be the one who arranged this dream.
Su Yun wanted to talk to them, but Master Ziyuan was very cautious. Seeing that Su Yun was not fooled, he remained silent. Zhao Tuhu even took off his disguise and he did not say a word. He was very emotionally stable and did not look like the kind of person who would insult his subordinates on the spot because they did something stupid.
Otherwise, he would be the boss, and Zhao Tuhu and Yu Ming would be like subordinates.
Everyone present was motionless as if the pause button was pressed, only "Lin Lang" looked alive. The core inside should be Master Ziyuan. As for Zhao Tuhu, he had returned to his original state.
Zhao Tuhu took out his weapon, a long, thin sword with twisted patterns on it. He asked grimly, "How did you figure that out?"
"Why should I tell you? Do you want to create another dream to deceive me?" Su Yun calmly picked up another burning branch from the fire, but this time he didn't stab his neck immediately. It seemed that he still wanted to talk to Zhao Tuhu.
"Hehe, I know it even without you telling me. It's the folding fan, right? You have been holding the folding fan in your hand all the time. You were looking for it when you woke up. When you woke up the second time and found that the folding fan was still not in your hand, you knew that this was still an illusion." Zhao Tuhu said gritting his teeth.
Su Yun looked up at him with a smile: "Yes, you know it is a folding fan, but you still can't do anything to me, because you can't copy that folding fan, so I asked you to speak frankly. If you keep dragging it out like this, you will be the ones who suffer in the end, not me."
Having said that, neither of them could do anything about the other. Mr. Ziyuan stopped pretending and took off his disguise, revealing a handsome and elegant face. As Yu Ming said, he did look very elegant, with a strong scholarly air. Although he was obviously older than Yu Ming, he looked to be in his twenties or thirties, with no signs of old age in his eyes or eyebrows.
After removing his disguise, Ziyuan also removed the illusions of the others, and sat down opposite Su Yun, holding a whisk in his hand: "Director Su is really amazing, I was right in my calculations at the beginning, but you are still so amazing even though your fate is so bad now, I really can't understand it."
When speaking, Mr. Ziyuan would even have an expression of curiosity mixed with a hint of distress, which could help to lower people's defenses to the greatest extent.
Unfortunately, Su Yun's heart was made of steel, and he turned a blind eye: "If you can't figure it out, it proves that there is something wrong with your knowledge reserves. So many people can figure it out, but you can't. I suggest you look for the problem in yourself, and don't be such a giant baby. I'm not your mother, why should I care about your emotions?"
Mr. Ziyuan and Zhao Tuhu were hesitant to talk. They wanted to refute but didn't know where to start. It seemed that no matter how they refuted, Su Yun would scold them back. There was no point in chatting about this.
[End of this chapter]
Su Yun: When I say such naughty words, everyone says I am good at chatting O(∩_∩)O~
I had planned to write 20,000 words in one go, but I suddenly got tendonitis and changed the keycaps all night, but ended up going back to the original one.
Then my gay friend is going to sell me a new keyboard at a discount. I hope my hand will be better by then. This is all I have to update for now. I have been up all night. I will take a nap first and then continue writing for you.
Also, the little cutie from Feifei has been asking me when I will update. I thought about it and decided to write more this month to finish this book and then come back to update Feifei, because I am so unlucky. I rarely get sick continuously, but something has been wrong since I started this post.
I used to write metaphysical articles at home. I guess my parents were taking care of me, so it’s okay. This one was started when I was living alone outside, so from now on I’ll write as long as I’m awake. I’ll update when it reaches 10,000 or 20,000 words. The time is not fixed. I’ll finish it as soon as possible. Life safety is more important QAQ
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