Floating to your side (5)

Wen Ting turned around like a child, pouted, and sat on the grass with his hands folded, sulking, while his eyes secretly glanced in the direction of Shen Tang. He had seen it before. This is how modern people act when they are angry. As long as they cross their hands and turn their backs to someone, someone will come to comfort the angry person.

However, he pretended for a long time behind Shen Tang's back, but that person had no intention of comforting him at all.

Just when Wen Ting was wondering if he had done something wrong, Shen Tang had already sneaked away with the drawing board and tools.

The viewing angle was a bit poor in this place, so she had to change her position to continue painting. Shen Tang looked at the ancient temple and thought it would be better to paint closer, so she took her things and moved to a position where she could see the ancient temple clearly.

If there was anything wrong with it, it was probably that it was a little far from the camping location. However, Shen Tang did not pay much attention to it and sat back on the stool to paint the appearance of the ancient temple.

Although Mu Tang is usually gloomy, she is quite talented in painting, otherwise Liu Ling would not have dragged her here.

The brush in her hand flew flexibly across the paper. Shen Tang quickly sketched an outline according to her body's muscle memory. She drew the shape of the ancient temple and dotted the surrounding dark shadows with her fingertips. Isn't this dark and weird temple a good place for those wandering souls?

Shen Tang was about to finish sketching the rest of the painting, but suddenly dark clouds appeared in this sunny place, completely covering the bright sunshine.

She frowned and looked up. The mountain wind swept towards her, forcing Shen Tang to put away her easel. It looked like it was going to rain.

At the same time, Liu Ling who stayed in the camp also woke up. She took her coat and put it on, then yawned lazily. She reached out to Shen Tang to wake him up, but found that no one was there.

"Strange, Xiaotang woke up so early?" Liu Ling muttered softly. Normally, she woke up earlier than Mu Tang, but she didn't expect that this time he would get up before her.

Liu Ling reached her hand into her pocket. The jade was still inside, but it was much warmer than before.

Maybe I have been in this tent for too long, Liu Ling thought, and then she packed up and got out of the tent.

"Hey, Xiaoling, you're up. Hurry up and wake up your friend. We need to pack up and go." A boy passed by with an easel and saw Liu Ling rubbing her eyes. He kindly reminded her, and Liu Ling came to her senses a little.

"Leaving? But we've only been here for a day."

"Who knows? Didn't the previous weather forecast predict rain? And now it's cloudy. It's going to rain heavily soon," the man answered, holding his things and walking towards where they parked the car. "Xiaoling, you and your friend should pack up quickly."

The boy's voice gradually faded away. Liu Ling stood there biting her lip in confusion. This timing was so unfortunate. They hadn't finished their paintings yet when they came here.

Liu Ling looked back at the empty tent. She didn't know where Xiaotang had gone. Forget it. She decided to pack her things first and then go look for him.

After hesitating for a long time, Liu Ling looked up at the gloomy sky, turned around and packed up her clothes and painting supplies, without noticing the strangeness of the jade in her pocket.

Wen Ting quietly floated to Liu Ling's side, staring at her hurriedly packing things, and his depression deepened. Just now, he followed the method that the old Taoist in the temple taught him to avoid making people angry, but he waited for a long time with his back turned, and there was no reaction from the person. Instead, he sat there for a long time, not only did he not feel relieved, but he also let the person run away.

He was eager to find the person as soon as possible, so he went back to where the group of people were camping. As a result, he saw a group of people packing up their things as if they were about to leave.

Wen Ting wandered around and saw all these people's faces familiar to him, except Shen Tang.

"Hey, you came here with her. Why don't you go look for her if she's missing?" Wen Ting floated in front of Liu Ling and asked out of habit, but the next moment the other person's body passed by him.

He almost forgot that he was dead, that these people couldn't see him, and that they couldn't hear him talk. He didn't even know the name of the only person who could see him.

Wen Ting floated around Liu Ling impatiently. If this man didn't leave with his possessed object, he wouldn't be able to go anywhere farther. No, he had to do something.

Liu Ling packed the things in the tent into two large baskets and moved one basket back to the car. Then she went back to the original place and planned to move the rest of the things back to the car at once. However, this time, when she put her hand on the things, she felt a chill approaching her.

At first, Liu Ling didn't think too much about it, thinking it was just the cold wind before the rainstorm. She rubbed her cold arms and tried to lift the things again. She gritted her teeth and lifted the large basket of things with all her strength. However, after she finally lifted the heavy objects, she felt that something seemed to be pressing on the things in her hands, pressing her hands down, so that Liu Ling had to let go of her hands and looked at the basket of objects scattered on the ground in astonishment.

What is going on?

Liu Ling looked around in fear. Everyone else had already packed up their things and returned to the car. Apart from the missing Mu Tang, there was no way anyone else could be here.

"What's wrong, Xiaoling? Why did your things fall on the ground?"

The boy who had kindly told Liu Ling that it was going to rain came back to check if there was anything he hadn't taken. He happened to see Liu Ling suddenly let go of the things she was carrying, so he quickly came over to check what was going on.

"Why are you alone here? Where is your friend?" While helping Liu Ling pick up things from the ground, the boy asked about Shen Tang's situation.

Frightened, Liu Ling moved closer to the boy in a panic: "I don't know where Xiaotang is. I haven't seen her since I woke up. I don't know where she went..."

After picking up the things again, the boy patted Liu Ling on the shoulder and said, "It's normal that you can't carry them. Let me take these things. We'll go look for your friend later. Maybe she has temporarily gone to take shelter from the rain."

After that, Liu Ling nodded reluctantly and followed the boy into the car.

"Oh, it's raining! Let's get back to the car and take shelter from the rain!"

As they were about to pick up their things and walk back, they were caught in a downpour and had to run to the car in a hurry under the raindrops.

Liu Ling folded her hands on top of her head, her makeup was a little smudged, but she didn't care about that at the moment. She just ran after the boy, so much so that she didn't even notice the jade in her pocket slowly slipping out.

"Pah", the white jade stone rolled down to the side of the ditch with fast-flowing water while the girl was running, and the sound of it falling caught Liu Ling's attention.

"My jade!" Liu Ling turned around and saw the jade about to be washed into the ditch by the water. She immediately wanted to rush back to pick it up, but before she could run away, the boy reached out and pulled her back heavily.

"If you lose this jade, you can always buy it again. It's raining heavily now, and the ditch is full of collapsed mud. If you're not careful, you'll slip down!"

Liu Ling, who was dragged back, could only watch reluctantly as the jade quickly slid into the ditch under the impact of the water.

For some reason, she felt that if she didn't pick up the jade this time, she would never have the chance to come across it again.

"Don't be in a daze, Xiaoling, hurry back to the car!" The boy held up something and pulled Liu Ling back to the car they drove. After putting the things in the car, he sat in the car wet and patted his chest with lingering fear.

"It's raining really hard. Let's drive to a nearby hotel and rest." The boy suggested, but was quickly rejected by the person in charge.

"We haven't seen Mu Tang who came with Xiaoling yet. What if something happens?" The person in charge frowned and said reproachfully. Although she was not familiar with the girl, she came with them after all. It would be too unkind to just leave her here.

"Hey, but who knows where she is now? I heard that Mu Tang is a loner and doesn't like to socialize with others. Maybe she left halfway through the painting?" The boy shrugged and looked at Liu Ling again, "Isn't that right, Liu Ling? Aren't you and her roommates? Don't you know her personality best?"

Liu Ling trembled at the question and pursed her lips tightly, not knowing what to say.

Xiaotang has always been very good. She is better at drawing than her. Although she doesn't have many friends, she is not inferior to her in academic performance. Besides, Xiaotang often ran in the mountains with her grandfather when she was young. She should be able to find her way back even if it rains.

That must be the case. Xiaotang must be fine. Maybe she has already gone outside the hotel to wait for her.

The person in charge also looked at Liu Ling, as if asking for her opinion.

After a long silence, Liu Ling finally spoke softly, "Let's go back to the hotel first. I couldn't get through to Xiaotang on the phone. Maybe her phone was out of battery and she went to the nearest hotel to charge it. It's raining so hard now. It won't be too late for us to come look for her when it stops."

"You..." The person in charge never expected Liu Ling to say such a thing. He was so angry that he was speechless for a moment. He just pointed at Liu Ling with his finger.

Curse out loud.

"Okay, let's go to the hotel and take a rest first, and come back when the rain stops." The boy who was helping Liu Ling carry her things smiled and patted the boy who was driving in the front seat, "Let's pick a better place."

In the heavy rain, the car carrying a group of people drove away in a hurry. As for the jade, Liu Ling put the matter behind her after she finished speaking, and started chatting with the same group of people again in wet clothes.

At the same time, Shen Tang was sitting quietly in the ancient temple painting. In front of her was Ah Piao in red.