Chapter 68 The Legend of Liu Zu
"They stole the branches of Liu Zu and tied them on their heads. They are a bunch of evil thieves who commit crimes. That's why the owner of Xinghua Teahouse scolded them like that!"
As the old man rowed the boat, the green water waves slowly spread out along with his words.
After listening quietly to the origin of the so-called Green-headed Thief, Bai Mo became interested in the so-called Liu Zu. After listening to the old man's words, he had great respect for this Liu Zu.
And the Liu Zu in those words didn't seem like a human being. He always felt that the displacement ability suddenly possessed by the seven people was related to this Liu Zu. If this group of people had not suddenly acquired the weakened ability of a high-level space mage, they might not have caused such a big mess.
In just a few days, the once prosperous Mingshui Town became depressed.
So, Bai Mo looked at Lingling, who was also concentrating on thinking, and was looking at the old man rowing the boat with floating eyes. He turned his gaze to the old man rowing the boat slowly, and asked again:
"Old man, what is Liu Zu you are talking about?"
"Liu Zu," the old man kept rowing the oars, and his eyes seemed to become distant with this sigh. He said slowly:
"This is something that everyone in the village and outsiders who have been here for a long time know. I will just tell you two little kids a story."
"Hehe, grandpa is so nice. Lingling loves listening to stories the most." As soon as the old man finished speaking, a smile immediately broke out on Lingling's face, and her sweet words spread.
The old man laughed, and his sadness was somewhat relieved. He began to tell the story of Liu Zu, his voice as gentle as the water flowing under the boat, and also with a sense of respect and pride.
"It is said that we in Mingshui grew up under a willow tree that was as tall as the sky. It brought us food, sheltered us from wind and rain, and drove away danger. It was our father and mother. Therefore, we called it Liu Zu. Because of it, Mingshui has been able to survive until now and develop into a good town. But Liu Zu passed away many years ago, and its branches remained in Mingshui, standing in the park in the center of the town, protecting us all the time."
At this point, the old man sighed, and his voice was filled with resentment.
"We have been taking care of it. Three years ago, it actually sprouted a lot of new branches. Just when we thought that Liu Zu was coming back and the old mayor was so happy that he got drunk all night, a few days ago, several wizards in the town who used to hunt monsters or had broken legs, lost hands, went blind, or were deaf. They were unwilling to go out to kill monsters in the wild or learn some professional skills. They wandered around the town all day. They thought that Liu Zu's new branches were treasures, so they pulled them all away."
"I see, then old man, why do those green-headed thieves rob guests in town?"
Lingling asked coquettishly, but saw that the old man's face suddenly became extremely angry, and his hand, which was originally holding the oar steadily, began to tremble constantly.
At this moment, a voice full of hostility came from far behind.
"Because my hand was bitten by the demon just because I was protecting those stupid rich people! What's wrong with me taking some money from them and letting them feel my pain? This is what I should do!"
These words sound as if what they are doing is natural and should be so, and is absolutely just and correct.
Lingling and Bai Mo looked in the direction where the sound came from, and saw a huge tornado rising from somewhere on the shore behind them, and they could also hear faint screams of people.
In front of their boat, a young man with green willow branches wrapped around his head, one arm missing, wearing gold and silver jewelry, with a fair face and a gloomy temperament was walking towards the river.
He landed directly on the boat, glanced at the old man rowing the boat, said in a sarcastic tone "mind your own business", then glanced at Bai Mo and Ling Ling with a perverted smile on his face.
"Young Master? I will treat you well later."
As he said that, he ignored Lingling. How much money could a little girl have? He took two steps forward, and Bai Mo only felt a few spatial fluctuations coming from the willow branches above his head.
So he did not dodge or resist, allowing the man to grab his arm. Then he felt a violent fluctuation in space.
Then a burst of spatial turbulence hit, but Bai Mo deftly dealt with it. When he reappeared, he was already in a forest.
Looking around, Bai Mo found that this place was not far from Mingshui Town. Through the gaps between the trees, he could clearly see the silhouette of Mingshui Town.
On the boat, the old man calmed down and looked at Lingling, who was looking incredibly calm. "Little girl, isn't your brother a mage? How could he be captured so easily? I'll take you to report the case."
"Grandpa, don't worry. My brother was captured on purpose. He is a high-level hunter who specializes in punishing these evil thieves!"
Shaking her head, Lingling signaled the old man not to worry. At the same time, she glanced at the tornado that had subsided in the town, took out her cell phone and looked at Bai Mo's location.
She placed a location on Bai Mo's body. She was now in a woods east of the town, about two miles away from here. It seemed that these people's spatial displacement ability was not far away.
In the woods, the green-headed man who caught Bai Mo just landed on the ground and took out a dagger from his waist, grinning sinisterly.
"Hehe, kid, be honest, the knife has no eyes."
Bai Mo didn't care about the threat of the knife, but looked at the willow branches wrapped around his head. The man was more than half a head shorter than Bai Mo.
Therefore, Bai Mo could easily observe the mystery of the willow branches without even raising his eyes.
He could sense that at the moment of spatial displacement, the willow branch burst out with a pure, high-quality spatial aura.
It was this willow branch that brought the man and him here.
Bai Mo carefully looked at the willow branch wrapped around the man's head. Why would a willow branch have the aura of space? Listening to the words of the old man rowing the boat, it is not difficult to guess that there must have been a totem in this place. The Liu Zu they mentioned is most likely it.
After a closer look, Bai Mo discovered that the veins of the tender green leaves were all light silver, so this was most likely a space-based plant totem! And among the entangled branches, many places were broken, and many leaves were withered.
Apparently, the spatial energy of this willow branch was about to be exhausted because its spatial ability had been used too many times. But then, Bai Mo began to wonder how these people were able to mobilize the spatial power inside.
This wasn't specially cast by the foundry master, so he looked at the man in front of him with increasingly hostile eyes and asked:
"How did you achieve spatial displacement?"
"I know how to do it, just be quiet!" the man said, and slashed towards Bai Mo's face with the dagger in his hand.
(End of this chapter)
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