56 Death X Follow the crowd X Why
The man still died.
This was not the first time Hua faced death. When she was in Youkexin, she had seen more than one person die. However, this was the first time she was able to save someone, but chose to watch the other person die in front of her.
This also caused Hua to feel disgusted with her own behavior. She hated herself for being like this, for not saving someone in danger and for despising life. However, Hua also understood that it would be safer if she did not seek treatment. She was basically fighting alone in this place. No one could cover her, and no one would try their best to save her.
Hua squatted on the tree and watched silently. Grandma Lai wiped the man's face and hands, gently combed his hair, and closed his eyes.
Grandma Lai held the man in her arms as if she were holding a child, humming and rocking him. The body of a person who had just died was not stiff, and the man indeed curled up with Grandma Lai's movements, and he fell asleep like a child.
In this quiet scene, Hua suddenly raised her head. She heard a lot of footsteps, which was the sound of a group of people running hurriedly.
Hua didn't have to wait too long, many villagers appeared at the gate of the yard, and Hua saw Sam among them accurately.
“Oh my God!”
A man rushed out, knelt in front of the dead man and began to cry and wail. His voice made the whole yard very lively. In contrast to him, the other villagers remained silent as they looked at the dead man, but their faces looked very unhappy.
Hua moved her body a little uneasily. It was really not easy for her to leave at this time. One reason was that she was worried about being discovered, and the other was that she was afraid that Grandma Lai would be hurt by them.
While she was squatting on the tree and moving around in various ways, the scene below was already as lively as a pot of paste.
They blamed each other and pushed each other, saying that Harper's death was not their fault, that the deceased acted on his own initiative and was instigated by others.
Several emotional people started fighting each other on the spot, and even shouted for revenge for Harper.
This made Hua very confused. She still remembered what the man said before he died, and those words did not mean that Harper was a good person.
Is it because Harper's death is troublesome?
Hua was thinking in confusion. She didn't have much impression of NGL. She only knew that it was not what it seemed on the surface. So was Harper one of those underground existences that could not be explained?
So are those people also the indirect reason why Yuan Ling can't move?
This idea suddenly popped up in Hua's mind. She still didn't move, but her thoughts began to fly around, even flying to the strange idea that the Yuan Ling turned into a human, fell in love with the villagers, and didn't want to leave.
"This must have been done by an outsider!"
A woman's sharp voice in the crowd pierced Hua's consciousness, and she tensed her body reflexively.
"That's right! It's all that outsider that Summer brought!"
The woman's words quickly gave the men around her a way out. They quickly followed the woman's train of thought and spoke up for justice.
Their eyes were focused on Summer. This collective gaze brought Summer a great fear. She first murmured no, and then shook her head frantically, but the people around her were not ready to look away.
"I didn't bring that!"
Summer immediately retorted loudly, she knew what these people were up to and she would not be the scapegoat.
She was trembling all over, her expression was tense, and she looked at Grandma Lai with red eyes, pointing her hand straight at her.
"That was picked up by Grandma Lai!"
As soon as the words came out, Shamo's face turned pale. She looked at Grandma Lai's calm face, her heart began to beat fast, and she even felt her legs shaking.
"Grandma."
The village chief took a step forward, his expression very stiff, as if covered with a layer of wax.
"For the sake of the rest of the village, hand over the outsider."
He felt very uncomfortable and even a little resentful. If Grandma Lai had handed over the outsider earlier, they wouldn't have to lose a villager to kill Harper.
"Don't forget!"
"That's my little granddaughter."
Grandma Lai didn't even raise her eyelids. She used her fingers to comb the hair of the dead person in her arms, but Hua was sweating for her.
"Grandma Lai!" The village chief raised his voice slightly. "You've been taken care of by the villagers over the years, haven't you?"
Summer watched their argument with trepidation, for she knew why Grandma Lai was acting so crazy.
Grandma Lai seems normal now, but who knows if she will go crazy again once the child dies?
Grandma Lai did not respond. She sat there silently, with mud stuck to the hem of her clothes. The villagers did not think it was inappropriate for her to do so, because she was already crazy like that.
Hua moved her body again a little nervously. She stared at the scene in the yard. When she saw that the villagers were about to attack Grandma Lai, she was about to rush over, but Grandma Lai suddenly raised her head, glanced at Hua's position, and then turned back to look at the sky.
"Run away."
Grandma Lai's voice appeared clearly in Hua's ears, which almost made Hua fall from the tree. She looked at Grandma Lai below in disbelief.
So I'm concerned about a Psychic user?
Hua was hanging crookedly on the tree, her facial features almost twisted into a ball. She didn't take Lai A-po's words "run away" to heart at all. Her mind was all on the fact that Lai A-po had the ability of telepathy.
As we all know, it is very difficult for people with the ability of Nen to die. Hua felt that it was stupid for her to bring him back because she was so worried about him.
"Old woman, I advise you to hand him over!"
A short and fat man was very anxious. He rushed forward, grabbed Grandma Lai's collar, and pulled the old woman up from the ground. The person in Grandma Lai's arms was also thrown to the ground.
"Harper said before he died that someone would be here soon."
Another woman fell to her knees at the toes of Grandma Zai Lai. Her skinny body was trembling, and she looked helpless and pitiful. The child beside her was frightened and burst into tears.
"Grandma, grandma, please save us."
Shamo couldn't bear to watch the scene and closed her eyes. She pushed the short and fat man away, looked at Grandma Lai's face, and grabbed the old woman's hand.
"Grandma Lai... after all, she was just a girl you picked up. If you really want a granddaughter, all the children in this village are your grandchildren!"
Summer spoke quickly and urgently, the desire in her eyes almost flowing to the ground.
Grandma Lai gently broke free from Shamo's hands, and she looked at the village chief with a malicious smile.
"I need to talk to the village chief..."
Grandma Lai stretched out her voice. She looked at the trembling village chief and smiled with a bit of satisfaction.
"You go first."
The village chief shook his lips and began to drive away the people present. Those who didn't want to leave were hit by him with his crutch, and he quickly cleared the scene.
"Grandma Lai..."
"Still calling me Granny, Pierre?"
Grandma Lai looked at the old face in front of her, and her expression began to distort slightly. The flowers on the branches in the distance were scratching their heads and ears. Although Grandma Lai's expression was full of ferocity, her voice was really soft and she couldn't hear clearly.
“…Sister Alai.”
"I know what you did. You used the same trick on your sister back then..."
Hua leaned half of her body out of the tree branch, but she found that she could not hear the conversation between Grandma Lai and the village chief at all. She simply hung upside down on the tree in silence, swaying on the branch and waiting for the final result.
When the treetops shook, she suddenly sensed the Yuan Ling for a moment, which made her open her eyes wide in excitement. The Yuan Ling's ether seemed to be all around her.
Hua turned over and stood on the branch, trying hard to feel the ether of the Yuanling. What she just felt was like a huge illusion, disappearing in a flash.
Hua frowned and glanced at Grandma Lai. It was obvious that nothing serious was happening there, which made Hua feel a little relieved.
She immediately jumped down from the tree and rushed in the direction she had vaguely grasped at the beginning.
Hua ran all the way. She did see traces of the Yuan Ling's movements on the way, and could even feel the Yuan Ling's ether coming from underground. Unfortunately, after she ran a long way away, she found nothing.
There is no ether of the Elemental Spirit, no Elemental Spirit, and no trace of the Elemental Spirit.
This result made Hua's expression distorted a little, but it did not mean that she had discovered nothing. At least it proved that the Yuan Ling was still active in this village.
Hua immediately turned back. It was completely meaningless for her to wait here any longer, and the cost of searching along this path was too high. Hua wanted to force the Yuan Ling out by releasing her own ether.
It is more effective to let the Yuan Ling come to you than to wait for it yourself.
Hua tried her best to return to the gate of Grandma Lai's yard as fast as she could. She looked at the sky and saw that the position of the sun had changed obviously, so she hesitated.
Hua turned around and found another tree to climb up. She looked at the yard below and there was no one inside.
This made Hua confused. Where could Grandma Lai go?
Then a loud bang came from the center of the village.
Hua immediately rushed in that direction. She moved very quickly, but she had a bad feeling in her heart.
But she felt that it was unlikely. After all, Grandma Lai and the village chief obviously had a past relationship, so she had to bail him out no matter what. What's more, the murderer was already dead, so there was nothing wrong with handing him over.
When Hua saw Grandma Lai hanging in the middle of the alley at the entrance, her eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
Hua could clearly feel that there was no ether in Grandma Lai's place, and people without ether were dead.
She blinked, not quite understanding how this happened. The men standing next to Grandma Lai's body, carrying weapons, seemed to be saying something very proudly.
Hua watched their movements, but her ears were completely deaf to their voices.
Obviously the murderer is not Grandma Lai?
Aren’t they going to find me through Grandma Lai?
Why is it Grandma Lai at the end?
Hua's expression began to gradually twist, and her thoughts were tangled in her mind.
In the end, only three words were left.
Why?
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