Chapter 196 All Mortals Will Die 18
Jiang Yuelu was shocked and gradually remembered what he had done in the past few days.
He attended classes, rested his mind, and lived a carefree life, completely forgetting about the important matters! He felt so guilty that he couldn't speak, "I shouldn't have done this... How could I... forget everything... Ahahaha..."
Tong Mian yelled, "You also know that this is not right? You have been almost bewitched by the little ghost king these days!"
Jiang Yuelu was so ashamed, "Even if I forgot, you... should have reminded me. I almost missed something important. Alas, alas... I am such a worthless person..."
Tong Mian got angry when he mentioned this, "You're still talking about this? Didn't we remind you? But you didn't even look at it! Leng Wenhan is a taciturn person. He has already looked for you several times in school, but you didn't even look at him. You were either making trouble with your friends or in a hurry to go home."
"I was wondering why you were in such a hurry to go home. Leng Wenhan watched you for a while and found out that you have a mistress in your house and you have raised a little ghost king!"
Tong Mian kept clicking his tongue, and Jiang Yuelu lowered his head even lower, feeling even more ashamed. "I don't know what happened... I was still awake when I first came here, and it wasn't long after I met Wen Han, and then... Are you guys okay?"
Leng Wenhan shook his head, "Maybe it's your identity."
Tong Mian also said: "Yes, our identities here are different from our original names, but you are Jiang Yuelu everywhere. I am really confused. How come you are everywhere? Also, you knew the Little Ghost King so early? Why does he look different from later?"
Jiang Yuelu couldn't explain these things clearly. His mind was a mess. Tong Mian's head hurt even more when he asked, "Ahhh. Forget it, let's not think about these for now. Let's--"
He was about to speak, but stopped and asked in confusion: "Tong Mian, where are you?"
Leng Wenhan was the only one here, and he could not be found anywhere, but his voice had been ringing since just now. After Jiang Yuelu finished asking, Tong Mian's voice rang out from Leng Wenhan again, "I'm at the altar. By the way, this is the jade token we use to communicate. Take one too, so it's easier to communicate."
Leng Wenhan gave one to Jiang Yuelu and told him how to use it. He listened and felt that it was similar to a WeChat group. In addition to Leng Wenhan and Tong Mian, there were other people in the group.
Jiang Yuelu felt even more guilty, "You even gathered all the people. You must have done a lot of things these days."
Tong Mian snorted, "Don't be discouraged, we haven't gathered yet. There are only three of us, me, him, and Guitou Xiaowu. Oh, and now there's you."
Jiang Yuelu counted them and said, "Why is there one missing? Where is Mo Zhixian?"
"I don't know where he went. We searched a lot these days, even dug up the whole mountain, but we still couldn't find him."
Jiang Yuelu saw that they still had something to say, so he stopped asking about Mo Zhixian's whereabouts. Sure enough, within a moment, Tong Mian said again: "Leng Wenhan told me your plan. Remember what the blind man said about finding someone? Although we didn't find the specific person, we made a major discovery."
"Tonight, the elders of these wizards will hold a meeting at the altar. It is said that many people will come. If you want to find someone, a wizard, or a wizard with a very special experience, there is no better place than this."
Jiang Yuelu suddenly realized, "So that's why you brought me out tonight? So my brother was not taken to the altar at all?"
Tong Mian said: "You still call me brother, you can't change it."
He touched his head and said embarrassedly: "It's really easy to say."
Tong Mian snorted, "That was a trick to trick you out. We want to recognize you, and we must not let the little ghost king see us. We finally found the opportunity today."
Jiang Yuelu laughed and said, "He is not the Ghost King now, why are you still afraid of him?"
Tong Mian muttered: "You are the only one who is not afraid."
Jiang Yuelu thought of the little white flower god flying around in a daze. What would Xia Yi think if he knew that someone was so afraid of him? He wanted to laugh for a moment, but soon, he couldn't laugh anymore.
What happened to Xia Yi that caused him to fall from a god to a ghost?
He was worried, and Tong Mian urged him, "Okay, time is urgent, no more words, you and Leng Wenhan come here quickly, it's about to start."
Jiang Yuelu was a little hesitant. He didn't know when he would be back. He was afraid that Xia Yi would be waiting at home. He was about to speak when Tong Mian asked, "What's wrong?" This made him speechless. He felt guilty for not doing anything, and he couldn't delay the progress any more. So he hardened his heart and followed Leng Wenhan without looking back.
The two hurried to the altar and saw torches and people talking in the distance. Jiang Yuelu's heart skipped a beat, "Oh no! There's a meeting tonight and the guards may not be strengthened. It may be difficult for us to get in."
Leng Wenhan was very calm, "It's okay."
Tong Mian said: "It's okay, I'm here, you just follow my instructions and I guarantee you'll be safe."
Although Jiang Yuelu had some doubts, she didn't say anything seeing Tong Mian was so confident and continued to follow him.
For each section of the road that followed, Tong Mian would first give the instructions of "turn left", "lower your head", "enter the door", "go through the corridor", and then they would take action.
It was also magical. Every time they were about to collide with someone, Jiang Yuelu's heart would rise to her throat, but after following the instructions, she would be able to turn danger into safety. In the dark night, the two walked in silence, with only occasional whispers to remind them. Finally, they got rid of all the guards and came to a quiet place.
Jiang Yuelu calmed down and said, "It's okay. Although it was dangerous, I got through it safely."
Tong Mian said proudly: "I dare not say anything about other places, but at this altar, there is nothing I don't know."
Jiang Yuelu became even more curious about his identity, "Who are you?"
He had been investigating the altar for such a long time without being discovered, and he was so familiar with the layout of the altar. If they accidentally entered a formation along the way, they would all be finished.
Leng Wenhan said: "We came here to take him out first."
Tong Mian also said: "Yes, take me out quickly, it's freezing here and it stinks. Even if I'm a wizard, this place is too much for me."
After they said this, Jiang Yuelu looked around carefully.
This was a courtyard with very high walls and was extremely deserted. All the palaces and courtyards along the way were guarded, but there was no one here.
In the middle there was a room made of copper and iron walls, and it was filled with cold air. They could feel the chill penetrating into their bones even from the door.
Jiang Yuelu couldn't believe it, "You're not in this room, are you?"
Tong Mian muttered, "Yes, I'll make some noise for you to hear."
As soon as he finished speaking, a strange creaking sound really came from the room. Jiang Yuelu used her nose to figure out which organ Tong Mian used to make this sound.
Jiang Yuelu waved her hand, "Okay, calm down. This room is so cold, if you keep wasting your energy, you're probably done for."
Tong Mian disagreed, "It's okay, I've been living here for a few days. I stayed here when Leng Wenhan and you went to class."
Jiang Yuelu paused, took the jade token, opened the shield that made Tong Mian invisible, and lowered her voice to Leng Wenhan, "Is this person really Tong Mian? Is this a trick?"
Leng Wenhan was stunned, "What's wrong?"
He pointed to the cold room with iron walls and said, "This room is so cold that a normal person can't stay in it for more than two days. But he said he has lived there for many days and is still alive and kicking. What else could it be but a ghost?"
Leng Wenhan suddenly realized, "Ah, I didn't tell you..."
Jiang Yuelu: "What did you tell me?"
Leng Wenhan said: "This room is an ice storage for the dead."
Jiang Yuelu: “…”
Is Tong Mian dead? He was shocked. Leng Wenhan said hurriedly: "This matter is complicated..."
"It's not complicated at all. It's just that when I came through, I happened to run into a sickly witch doctor. He was dead, but I was alive again, half dead and half alive, stuck in this awkward stage, and was even carried to the morgue."
Tong Mian said: "Hurry up and get me out. I'm not dead now, but if I stay any longer, I may die."
So Jiang Yuelu went into the house to find Tong Mian, while Leng Wenhan stood guard at the door.
After finding the frozen Tong Mian, Jiang Yuelu carried him out. He felt like a fisherman in the Arctic. He smiled when he thought about it. Tong Mian asked, "What are you laughing at?"
As soon as he spoke, he exhaled cold air, which made his ears hurt. Jiang Yuelu was still laughing: "You look like a fish just taken out of the freezer..." He stopped talking halfway through.
Tong Mian: “Is it funny?”
He immediately said: “Not funny.”
Tong Mian rolled his eyes and said, "Just follow my instructions. The place where they hold the meeting is very hidden, but I know there is a secret room where we can hide and eavesdrop without worrying about being discovered. As far as I know, no one knows about the secret room except the Great Elder."
Jiang Yuelu asked curiously: "How do you know this?"
If Tong Mian had both feet intact and walked around the altar freely to get this information, it would be understandable. But he lay in the morgue every day, and if they hadn't rescued him, he would still be a salted fish that couldn't move.
Tong Mian said silently: "The morgue is a very convenient place to gossip."
Jiang Yuelu was also silent, "That's true."
The dead are the best at keeping secrets. Even if they hear something, they won't tell on others, so you can feel free to speak ill of your leaders.
Jiang Yuelu had been a social animal for a while, so he understood this very well.
Tong Mian said gloomily: "You probably don't know that the wizards here seem to be very united and love each other as if they were wearing the same pants, but in fact they have long been scheming against each other. From what I've heard these days, if even one of them is released, a whole group of them will die."
Jiang Yuelu said: "Then let's communicate quickly."
Tong Mian paused: "Now?"
Jiang Yuelu shivered and let Tong Mian slide to the other side of his back. It was unbearable to be stuck in the same place all the time.
He said, "Yeah, it's boring to travel now anyway, so I'm just sitting around doing nothing."
"I think you are a little anxious because the progress of the mission has stagnated these days." Tong Mian snorted, "If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have done it in the first place."
Jiang Yuelu felt guilty when talking about this.
Tong Mian said, "Forget it. I've been thinking about all those things these past few days. If I say them out now, maybe if the three of us think about it together, we can come up with something different."
Leng Wenhan nodded and listened attentively.
Tong Mian became serious: "Come to think of it, do you still remember the tree god?"
Jiang Yuelu certainly remembered, "The gods that the people of Xue Village believed in? There was also a tree, which was said to be Jianmu, something from legend. But its remains have appeared in the Wei-wei Ship and Linya City."
Leng Wenhan concentrated and remained silent, subconsciously looking at his hand.
But he is no longer the Leng family's Luoyin official, and he does not have the wooden cane in his hand.
The wooden staff passed down from generation to generation by their Luoyin clan seems to be closely related to Jianmu.
Tong Mian nodded, "Yes. We reviewed it before. From Zhiren City to Linya City, there were tree gods and their followers participating along the way, but there is no record of such a god in the academy. So many people have participated in the copy of Shugao Girls' High School, but no one has mentioned this tribe... It's really strange."
"But here, I heard someone mention the tree god." He looked at Jiang Yuelu with a very strange look.
"What's wrong?"
He said: "You are right, that is Jianmu."
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