Chapter 54: Tree High School Girls 14
After much thought, Zhu Ling decided to ask Xia Yi's opinion. As soon as she turned around, she found that her classmate was leaning on a stone with his elbows folded, staring at Teacher Lu Yue without saying a word.
"Classmate Xia Yi..."
Xia Yi suddenly stopped leaning lazily against the stone, stood up straight, frowned and said, "He's not right."
"Who? Teacher Lu Yue?"
Several people followed, Xia Yi patted Teacher Lu Yue's shoulders twice, but there was no response, which made him feel even worse. He walked around to the front and placed his palm on Teacher Lu Yue's forehead, "...It's not hot."
The ghost king, who had no life experience and common sense, could only make such a judgment. Zhu Ling couldn't help but say, "Well, Mr. Lu Yue shouldn't have a fever, right?"
Xia Yi said seriously: "But he just vomited."
Zhu Ling smiled, "So that's why you think there's something wrong with his body? But if he's sick, his whole body shouldn't be stiff, and he shouldn't be unable to hear us. It's more like he's been possessed by an evil spirit."
"I'll do it." Leng Wenhan volunteered.
Although Xia Yi himself could sense the ghost energy around him, it would be more detailed to observe with these white pupils. He waved his hand and asked Leng Wenhan to start.
After opening his white pupils and gazing for a long time, Leng Wenhan leaned against the stone tiredly, "...There is no evil spirit around."
Xia Yi was a little anxious.
None of the fighting techniques he knew could solve the current problem. Jiang Yuelu couldn't be threatened, torn to pieces, or thrown directly into the snow. Placing his cold palm on her forehead was the last thing he could think of. It still had no effect, so he could only stand there anxiously.
After being stopped by him, Jiang Yuelu stopped moving, but stared into the distance for a long time.
Following his gaze, he also saw the ugly tree. Turning back, Leng Wenhan, Zhu Ling and Lihua were staring at him. He asked unhappily, "Why are you looking at me?"
No one answered him. Suddenly, three people were moving slowly on the snow, and their stiff bodies gradually passed him. Xia Yi realized that these three people were also in a state of terror.
It seems that whenever you see a strange tree, you will be attracted to it unconsciously.
Some ghosts are too weak to fight humans directly, so they often use the method of changing their ugly ghost bodies into the things that everyone wants most, the people they want to see most, and then lure them into the trap step by step. This strange tree probably uses a similar method.
Fortunately, it knew what was good for it and didn't bother him. Xia Yi muttered coldly, turning around and glancing at Jiang Yuelu again.
What did the tree make him hear?
Xia Yi thought about it, stepped back from him, and when no one blocked his way, Jiang Yuelu quickly caught up with the other three and slowly walked towards the strange tree. He followed closely beside him, keeping a distance of less than one step.
He turned his head to pay attention to Jiang Yuelu's expression, but unexpectedly a white head quietly popped out from the collar of her slender neck. It tried to shrink back when it saw him, but was quickly pulled out by Xia Yi.
Xia Yi cursed in a low voice: "Are you feeling comfortable here? Get out of here right now."
The paper doll spat twice in the corner of his sight, and when he wiped his face, he found that Jiang Yuelu's expression was not right. He heard him say: "Watch your surroundings carefully, otherwise you will be without a mother."
Putting aside all the hatred, she couldn't live without a mother, and she didn't want to live with him after her mother died. The paper doll saluted, sat firmly on Jiang Yuelu's shoulder, and looked around vigilantly.
After walking a few steps, Xia Yi let out a sigh.
Although this strange tree can be detected with 100% accuracy at a glance, it is a complete one-sided player - it only knows how to seduce people, but doesn't care how they walk. The flat road of less than 100 meters was walked by the four people like a mountain climber. Lihua and Zhu Ling often bumped into trees and tripped over rocks in front of them.
Seeing that Jiang Yuelu was about to follow suit, Xia Yi reached out to stop him, but unexpectedly Jiang Yuelu did not stop this time.
Xia Yi said to himself, "Because it's closer?"
Too lazy to talk any more, he grabbed Jiang Yuelu by the waist and carried her on his shoulders easily, bypassing the trees and rocks, slowing down and keeping steady. If Jiang Yuelu struggled too much, he would threaten the culprit, "If you still want to stay here, put away your tricks, otherwise I don't mind taking you back."
He had lost his memory and didn't know where to go back to. He only knew that the place was eerie, terrifying and full of evil. Whenever he thought about it, his heart was filled with the howling of ghosts and wolves, as well as a lingering sense of deep sin. No one would want to go there.
The strange tree really calmed down, and he quickly carried Jiang Yuelu under the tree.
He picked him up horizontally and was about to put him down gently when he saw the man in his arms suddenly become clear-headed, and a pair of eyes as bright as a deer stared at him.
They stared at each other in silence for a while.
Xia Yi suddenly said, "You are too thin, you need to eat more."
Jiang Yuelu looked over his shoulder and saw the stone stronghold they had just seen, and then saw the three people who were still trudging not far behind. The footprints that led to Xia Yi's feet were long and far away, like a line with no end.
He answered the question irrelevantly and asked with a smile: "Is this how we got here?"
Xia Yi nodded.
"Why don't you help others?"
Xia Yi was very surprised, "Why should I care about other people's lives?"
"Does my life or death matter?" Jiang Yuelu was still smiling, but a little more serious: "Xia Yi, did you misunderstand our..."
Before he could finish, there was a dinging sound from above his head, like the response of something fitting tightly against something else.
As the changes occurred, Jiang Yuelu had to put aside the doubts in her heart and focus on the business at hand, "...put me down first."
Xia Yi did as he was told.
After landing, Jiang Yuelu looked up at the big tree.
After the dinging sound just now, the tree underwent a strange change. It was seen shrinking the length of its limbs, and its slender body was pressed into the solid soil. The crown of the tree quickly fell below, and was at a suitable eye-level height with them.
"The last time Xiaochun came, Zhu Ling didn't see similar changes. Why did it happen this time?" Jiang Yuelu looked at the three people who had come to him, "We didn't bring anything. If there is any difference from last time, it should be only the people who are different."
The newcomers are him, Xia Yi and Leng Wenhan. The difference between them and Zhu Ling is that they are not locals.
After arriving under the tree, the rest of the people also woke up.
Zhu Ling and Leng Wenhan were both surprised to learn that they were silently possessed by the evil spirit. After all, they were not ordinary people, and the latter had inherited an unusual identity.
Jiang Yuelu asked Xia Yi: "Didn't you hear the sound?"
Xia Yi shook his head.
Jiang Yuelu thought for a moment and then talked about what happened just now, "I saw this tree behind the stone, and then I heard a voice that reported my life story very accurately."
Leng Wenhan nodded and said softly: "Me too."
"What about you?" he asked Zhu Ling and Lihua again.
The two shook their heads, "We heard nothing. We can see and hear, but we can't speak, and our bodies are not under our control."
As Zhu Ling spoke, she unconsciously glanced at Teacher Lu Yue and Xia Yi.
Oh my God! When she was walking behind and falling just now, what on earth were these two people doing?
She couldn't help but clear her throat and shift her gaze, "...Even if it doesn't control us, we will come here, why bother?"
Jiang Yuelu thought, "Maybe we thought of it too cleverly."
"It's close to humans, but not completely human. It can behave very similarly to humans, but it can't make further judgments or think. So it's probably not able to detect us from a distance and try to influence and control us... something that requires thinking."
Zhu Ling was puzzled, "Then why..."
"Combining what I've seen before, this thing knows how to protect itself. I guess it's using its own way to identify the humans passing by. It kicks out the harmful ones and lets the harmless ones go. Did Xiaochun get close to it last time?"
Zhu Ling shook her head. "She took a look from a distance and then left."
She didn't understand again, "Then why can we get close?"
Jiang Yuelu said: "Because we are good for it."
"I told you, this thing knows how to protect itself. It won't let a few irrelevant people in for no reason. It must have its own reasons." Jiang Yuelu paused, "We will know the reason soon. You see."
The tree had shrunk to the ground, like a lying mushroom. Its thin branches and leaves swayed and rose and fell, changing into vivid human faces, as if it was looking up at Jiang Yuelu and the others.
"Huh?" Zhu Ling exclaimed in surprise.
She pointed to the black and white paper strips that circled the tree. They were very similar to the Zala Ma strips, only the color was different, and now they were also pointing vertically to the ground.
"The black and white Zalama is used for..."
Seeing her pale face, Jiang Yuelu asked, "What is it used for?"
Zhu Ling whispered, "It's used to lock up prisoners."
It is used to lock up the prison, and even ghosts cannot escape. It has the opposite effect of the five-colored auspicious Zhalama used for protection.
There was a story circulating in the girls' high school that there were black and white Zala Ma under the Moon Altar. Unexpectedly, they also appeared in the snow outside the school...
Zhu Ling suddenly felt a little scared.
An imprisoned tree monster?
Is approaching it a good choice?
The sound seemed to come from a squeezed throat, and it felt like being pricked by needles.
[I have been waiting for you all for a long time. 】
Jiang Yuelu asked: "How do you know about my past with Wenhan?"
【Three days ago, I ate two birds. 】
Jiang Yuelu asked: "Bird? What bird?"
【Black, bird.】
Three days ago, they just happened to come here, I don't know if this is a coincidence. The black bird it describes reminds Jiang Yuelu of something else - when the fire broke out in the Fortune Mansion, he once mistook the flying black card for a flying bird.
After all, it is not a human, so it is possible that it mistook the card for a flying bird.
He suspected that the two black cards and the admission letter came from the same source, and that they recorded his past experiences with Leng Wenhan. But whether it was the black cards or the admission letter, they were all from the academy, and they were just released on the day they first arrived... If someone did these things, he must be someone from the academy, so what was his intention?
[Jiang Yuelu, Leng Wenhan, the password is correct]
[You can enter the library and start looking up information. Do you want to start? ]
Jiang Yuelu came back to his senses and said, "Begin."
[The library has a collection of over 10,000 books, periodicals and newspapers... Which one would you like to read? ]
Zhu Ling and Lihua looked at each other and saw disbelief in each other's eyes. The book corner in their class, which had more books, only had less than a hundred books.
Tens of thousands of books...are all in this tiny tree monster's body?
Jiang Yuelu asked them, "Which one do you want to read?"
Zhu Ling hesitated and said, "...Encyclopedia?" When she first learned about the existence of an encyclopedia from a picture book, she was very eager for it.
"Okay." Jiang Yuelu said, "Check the encyclopedia."
[Entry, search successful]
[Select the latest edition of the encyclopedia or book for you. From which page should you start reading? ]
Jiang Yuelu signaled Xia Yi to come and choose.
Xia Yi said casually: "Ninety-nine."
[Snow wolf, a carnivore, hides during the day and comes out during the day, moves in groups...]
Leng Wenhan said: "One hundred and thirty-four."
[Ice carp, the Yue River is rich in this species, mostly found in the upper reaches...]
Zhu Ling and Lihua also asked several times, and the answers they got pieced together the ecological environment of this snowfield. Jiang Yuelu thought for a while and asked, "One thousand and one hundred pages."
【No, content】
It looked like it was no more than a thousand pages. Jiang Yuelu estimated the number of words in the book and began to look up other books. "When was the earliest newspaper published?"
【Ten years ago】
"What's the latest?"
【Now】
"Then within this range, please help me check all the newspapers in the past ten years."
[Excuse me, what is the keyword? ]
Jiang Yuelu said without hesitation, "Mysterious death."
Ten years of calculations was a bit too much, and this time it took longer.
[Search, newspapers in the past ten years, keyword "mysterious death", collected 0 items]
Jiang Yuelu paused, "Re-search, key words: uncontrolled death."
[Check newspapers in the past ten years, key words: "uncontrolled death". Collected -]
Its sound is sharp and piercing.
【——Article 447】
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