Chapter 290 The Caller (4)
Unlike Luo Xuanyi, who was quietly pretending to be good while gradually coming to grips with the truth, Huzhe held his head in his hands, thinking hard and muttering to himself.
"Could it be that I found the wrong place? Fuhe gave me the location, eh, so he didn't. Oh, by the way, I came to the Zhongqu Mountains to play... to try my luck! I just bumped into someone randomly!"
"Did I make a mistake from the beginning?"
No, you are right. But since there is no location, Luo Xuanyi decided to deny it.
It wasn't by positioning, but by sheer luck, that she found Luo Xuanyi. This feeling of bad luck instantly reminded her of the price paid by the Soul-Falling Formation.
Luo Xuanyi had used the Soul-Falling Formation ten times, including during her experiments, which meant she had been saddled with ten marks of misfortune. Previously, she hadn't been affected because the passive Life-Stealing Evil she'd been emitting had spread the bad luck to those around her.
When she was alone, bad luck came to her. After meeting the caller, the life-stealing evil spirit started to work again, and the bad luck was shared by the caller.
We need to sort out the current situation. We should not stay here for long, otherwise we don’t know when the caller will suddenly wake up and react.
Luo Xuanyi reached out and scooped up a strand of long hair from her back, rubbing the ends of it in her palm. She said in a low and weak voice, "Now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, I'll be leaving first."
"Hmm..." The caller pulled at his hair, his face tangled with confusion, unable to make a decision. If not now, when would he leave? Luo Xuanyi tapped her foot slightly, ready to cast a beam of light and flee, when she suddenly realized there was a five-eyed toad beneath her feet.
The five-eyed toad immediately understood what he meant, kicked off with its two hind legs, and took Luo Xuanyi away into the air!
The five-eyed toad's flight through the air left no trace; it leaped through space in short leaps, disappearing as soon as it entered. The person and the toad vanished in the blink of an eye, but the caller remained entangled in the same spot.
"Are we going to arrest her or not? Wait, who are we going to arrest?"
The skinny dog lying at the caller's feet sighed, a black cloud rising from its back and then falling. It opened its mouth lazily and said, "Woof."
"That's right, that kid Fuhe didn't explain clearly, and I'm not his servant."
"Woof woof."
"Hey, did he write a note? I didn't see it."
"Woof."
"You're talking nonsense! I didn't eat anything! I clearly ate a piece of vegetable leaf this morning!"
The skinny dog got up speechlessly. The caller didn't hear its reply and continued to mutter to itself, "You eat so little and you won't let me go out to play. I'm done with you, you little bastard!"
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. Huzhe grabbed both sides of the scroll with his hands and pulled it randomly. The whole scroll turned into powder and fell to the ground. He chuckled twice in satisfaction.
"Wait, what am I supposed to catch?"
"Woof." The skinny dog raised its front legs and kicked the caller, who lowered his head and looked at it.
"You want to catch up? Do you still think she is?"
"Woof woof."
"She looks well-behaved and doesn't seem like a bad kid." The caller raised his head in embarrassment and made a decision by clapping his hands.
"Well, let's catch up."
A white lantern on a black pole appeared in the caller's hand, the candle inside still unlit. The caller raised the lantern and shone it around, and the whole sky suddenly darkened.
Countless traces gradually appeared in the clear air, and the skinny dog barked at one of them.
“That’s it.”
The caller took out a huge pair of paper scissors from his tattered sleeve and gently cut the trace where Luo Xuanyi left.
A crack gradually appeared in the space, like an elliptical doorway. The caller and the skinny dog jumped in, and the crack on this side disappeared along with the other traces, as if it had never appeared.
On the other side, Luo Xuanyi stood on the five-eyed toad with a frown, staring at the mountains passing by below, with a hint of uneasiness rising in his heart.
The large map drawn by the six alliances showed that the Zhongqu Mountains were only one thousand miles long from north to south and eight thousand miles long from east to west. However, Luo Xuanyi had traveled more than ten thousand miles and still felt that he had not explored even the edge of the Zhongqu Mountains.
Luo Xuanyi wasn't sure if the caller would catch up. If the Yu clan ruins truly contained the ghost realm that Yu Linghe had mentioned, then hiding there should be enough to shake the caller off. However, the map Yu Linghe had given Luo Xuanyi showed the Zhongqu Mountains to be only three thousand miles north to south, with Yuqiong Mountain marked as the core point slightly to the south. At the distance Luo Xuanyi had traveled, she had already exceeded that distance.
As expected, it took ten thousand years. Luo Xuanyi reached out and pressed the ancient map on her chest, sighing helplessly.
But couldn't the maps drawn by the six alliances accurately record the changes over time? Even the migration of Guhu Town to the Twelve Towering Cloud Mountains decades ago was accurately recorded.
Luo Xuanyi was deep in thought when she suddenly felt the Five-Eyed Toad stop. Before her, standing before her were the Caller and the Skinny Dog.
"Oh, here it is." Throwing away the paper and scissors casually, the caller waved happily, "Come back with us. What's your name?"
The ghost lingered. Luo Xuanyi, already somewhat distraught because the map error had disrupted her plans, was shocked. Just as she was about to urge the Five-Eyed Toad to fly through the air again, the skinny dog suddenly took a step forward.
"Woof."
The five eyes of the five-eyed toad suddenly opened, then closed completely, and it lay on the clouds and trembled, completely unable to escape.
The skinny dog glanced at it, then turned to stare at Luo Xuanyi. Luo Xuanyi then realized that the skinny dog's eyes weren't actually eyeballs, but two stones embedded in them, swirling around like eyeballs. Being stared at by it, Luo Xuanyi felt a chill run down her spine.
No, I can't stay here anymore.
"Don't run, don't run. Grandpa has some candy here." Huzhe smiled and rummaged through his sleeves, pulling out a huge fishing net. He looked eager to throw the net over and capture Luo Xuanyi at any moment.
Luo Xuanyi exhaled.
Since the plan was disrupted, and further search might not lead to finding the Yu clan's remains, it was better to give up. Luo Xuanyi made a decisive decision, and Rong Gui passed to her. She pulled out the gold paper with the chess beast in it.
"Ah!" The caller opened his eyes wide, and the finger pointing at Luo Xuanyi began to tremble.
The skinny dog suddenly pounced in front of Luo Xuanyi, biting Rong Gui and whimpering excitedly. Luo Xuanyi was about to shake the skinny dog off when Huzhe suddenly dropped his fishing net and pounced on her like an octopus, hugging Luo Xuanyi's legs.
"Rong Gui!"
Luo Xuanyi was startled, but the caller didn't notice her expression and cried out in joy, "Bo Huixiao! You're still alive!"
"I thought I was the only one who survived!"
"Woo woo!" The skinny dog wagged its tail wildly, its few remaining hairs finally loosening and falling off. It suddenly started, turned around, and let out a mournful wail.
Bo Huixiao? Luo Xuanyi paused, a flicker of confusion in her eyes. Her gaze fell on Rong Gui, whose face was stained with the skinny dog's saliva, and she couldn't suppress her puzzled expression.
Who is that?
Second update~
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