Chapter 36
That night, the number of talismans painted with cinnabar on the door, window, bed, lamp, and above the head of Yu Tu's ward doubled. Even the flowerpot of the green plant in the corner had a talisman stuck on it.
"I think it's all right now!" Lu Yayin clapped her hands after pasting the last talisman, and said with satisfaction, "I guarantee that even a bug with a problem won't be able to get in!"
"Tu Tu!" She waved at Yu Tu with a smile, "Now you can sleep peacefully!"
Yu Tu: “…”
As he looked around, he had the illusion that he was inside a sealed object.
The little bud on Yu Tu's head shook, and he felt the same confusion as him: "...Thank you."
"You're welcome, you're welcome." Lu Yayin stretched her back. She had taken out almost 90% of her inventory today. "When accepting commissions, especially high-priced commissions, of course I have to treat them with caution!"
She gave it one last check and made sure there was nothing wrong before leaving Yu Tu's ward.
After Lu Yayin left, Yu Tu sat cross-legged on the bed, stared at the talisman that was rustling due to the air conditioning for a while, then took out his cell phone.
I've been busy all day today. Even though it's late now, I haven't finished reading yesterday's comic forum yet!
After clicking into the green vine, the popularity of Buyehou was higher than last night, and there were more related posts. Yu Tu touched his chest, and he confirmed again that this was not an illusion.
After he visited the forum yesterday, he felt a slight increase in energy, but it was too subtle and he had no idea. After he visited the forum today, the increase in energy became more obvious.
Maybe... the more discussion and heat there is about the Lord of Nevernight, the faster his energy will grow?
Is the attention and love of others also a way to increase energy?
The real-time popularity ranking of the posts is constantly changing. The imperceptible but endless energy makes Yu Tu's heart beat faster.
This feeling was very mysterious. Yu Tu's thoughts gradually emptied, and his consciousness slowly extended out, across the floor of the ward, across the closed window, across the treetops outside the window, and slowly extended into the distance...all the way to the edge of his hospital.
He seemed to be in the perspective of a bystander, and could clearly see every blade of grass, every brick and tile in the hospital, but this feeling lasted only a few seconds before he felt inexplicably dizzy, and when he came to his senses, everything had disappeared.
Yu Tu looked down at the time on his cell phone. It was almost ten o'clock when he sat on the bed, and now it was already twelve o'clock.
Yu Tu: “……?”
He had never felt time pass so quickly!
I don’t know if it was because the previous bystander perspective was too exhausting, but an extreme sleepiness suddenly came over me. Yu Tu yawned loudly and fell backwards. The small bud on top of his head also tilted straight back. Both he and the bud soon fell into sleep.
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Yu Tu was sure that he was dreaming.
He lowered his head and saw a pair of slender hands that looked like they were carved from jade. These familiar hands were not his, but belonged to his vest, the Marquis of Buye.
He was now standing in the courtyard of the teahouse, surrounded by quaint tables and chairs. Looking up, he saw branches and leaves covering his head, lush and verdant. Through the gaps between the branches and leaves, he could see the stars in the sky. It was also night in his dream.
The feeling of his feet stepping on the ground was very real, but Yu Tu was sure that although he had enough energy, he did not summon the vest. He could now control whether the vest appeared or not.
Although he dreamed of the teahouse, there was no so-called "plot" like an ordinary dream, either thrilling, wonderful, or interesting. He was just standing there. He was sure that he was dreaming, but he couldn't wake up.
Yu Tu strolled around the courtyard in his dream. He even studied the formations of patterns on the old tables and chairs, which he could not understand with his current illiteracy level. However, the dream did not change at all.
The huge "background wall" in the night is the tree trunk that blocks out the sun. It seems as if the stars in the sky are injected into the veins of the tree trunk, thus forming a whole wall of the Milky Way.
The Milky Way was flowing, full of vitality and energy. Yu Tu stared at it for a while, then unconsciously reached out to touch it, and then he entered the background wall.
The scene on the background wall was the same as the one he saw when he first came here. The old museum shelves were lined up in a long row and immersed in darkness. The light was dim before, and there was a gloomy and depressing feeling. When night came, the light became brighter, and even the flowing galaxies on some trees were scattered here.
More and more galaxies flowed in, the light inside became brighter and brighter, the darkness at both ends of the old museum shelves slowly faded away, and finally the end was revealed.
It turned out that inside the tree trunk, which was attached to the courtyard wall and looked like a background wall, was a long and narrow passage. Inside the passage was a long row of old museum shelves, and at the two ends, there was a door on each side.
On the left is a dark grey door and on the right is a light green door.
The dark grey door was locked with a black lock engraved with a dark green vine pattern, while the light green door on the right was locked with a silver lock engraved with a golden vine pattern.
Under Yu Tu's gaze, the silver lock on the light green door was like ice and snow meeting the scorching sun, turning into a light spot the same color as the Milky Way, and then disappeared without a trace.
When people dream, they are always particularly courageous.
The moment the lock disappeared, Yu Tu was ready to walk over and open the door. When his fingertips touched the door, he felt a slightly cool and warm feeling, as if he was touching a whole piece of jade.
Yu Tu pushed hard and the door opened a tiny crack.
At the same time, Lu Yayin, who had already gone to meet Zhou Gong, suddenly sat up from the bed, her hair was disheveled, and her eyes were staring blankly: "No, it's an attack in the middle of the night!!!"
After she placed a room full of talismans in Yu Tu's ward, she also placed three sensing talismans, which were connected to the perceptions of the three members of their special group. Now, the sensing talisman she placed, which was connected to her consciousness, has been disconnected from her!
This forced disconnection is like having a noise in your head at night that is ten times louder than fingernails scratching a blackboard! People who are woken up in the middle of the night will really go crazy!
Lu Yayin picked up the special energy gun and a waist bag of talismans placed beside the pillow, quickly stood up and opened the door while cursing, and then saw two figures from behind, one was their boss Meng Ziqiu, and the other was Qin Fei, both of them were wearing pajamas.
Lu Yayin suddenly remembered something and touched her nose guiltily. The disconnection reminder sound she set for Meng Ziqiu was the suona version of "Erquan Yingyue", and the one she set for Qin Fei was the harp version of the square dance pop medley.
The combined resentment of the three people could feed a circle around the earth. The three evil sword immortals looked at each other and resignedly ran towards Yu Tu's ward.
Meng Ziqiu was faster than any of them. After he broke open the door with force, all the talismans in the room turned gray. Because of his violent action of opening the door, the gray talismans that had originally maintained the form of paper turned into dust in an instant. The whole ward was instantly filled with mist and fairy air.
“Cough, cough, cough——” Lu Yayin was bitten by the dust and couldn’t help coughing, “Who is so wicked as to drain all the spiritual energy of the talisman in an instant!”
This dust phenomenon will only occur when all the spiritual power in the talisman is drained away in an instant.
Qin Fei held a black instrument in his hand that was similar to but different from the one they used outside Huailin Town. He silently pointed at Yu Tu who was sleeping on the bed.
Lu Yayin: “……?”
She leaned over to look at the black instrument in Qin Fei's hand. There was a small vortex on the panel of the instrument, and the center of the vortex was in the direction of Yu Tu.
Within seconds of the vortex appearing, the instrument sounded an alarm.
[Warning! Warning! Warning! Abnormal aura gathering detected! Please handle it immediately! ]
[Warning! Warning! Warning! Detected...]
Lu Yayin: “…”
She raised her head and wailed, expressing the same sentiment as she did during the day: "I knew that the sky-high commission fee was not so easy to earn!!!"
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Through his own efforts, Yu Tu finally pushed the tiny gap in the door a little wider, enough for him to stick his head in and see what was outside the door.
It's just that his nose felt a little itchy and he felt like sneezing, and he didn't know who was talking about him.
After pushing open the door to leave enough space for one person to enter sideways, Yu Tu slipped in. The alarms on the instruments in the special group's ward finally disappeared. The Plant Clan leader Di Wu, who had been pulled out of bed in the middle of the night to watch a video and was so angry that he wanted to destroy the whole world, heaved a sigh of relief when he saw this.
"Our child seems to be fine, but the video is not very clear. I will check it carefully after you send him over." Diwu stared at it carefully for a while, and finally came up with a statement that even he thought was a bit absurd, "Maybe our child grew up in the surface world and lacks energy?"
He said: "The child is growing up, so nothing is surprising."
Three members of the special team: "..."
Whose child would take out a room full of talismans and the spiritual power of half a city in the middle of the night to grow up? Even if the spiritual power in the air of the surface world is scarce, this is still outrageous!
Di Wu coughed and was about to continue looking for supplies when the black instrument in Qin Fei's hand sounded a sharp alarm again, but this time the location was not on Yu Tu, but in Gu Hongying's room.
[Warning! Warning! Warning! Abnormal aura fluctuations detected! Please handle it immediately! ]
[Warning! Warning! Warning! Detected...]
Lu Yayin stayed to watch Yu Tu, while the other two people rushed to Gu Hongying's room with the chief of the Grass Tribe on the other end of the video.
The door was also broken violently. After opening the door, Gu Hongying was seen sitting cross-legged on the bed. In front of him was a piece of olive-shaped object. A silver liquid formed a small vortex inside. The vortex continuously overflowed with star-like light and scattered all over Gu Hongying's body. In addition to these energies, there were also strands of spiritual energy constantly flowing towards him.
Theoretically, one would learn breathing and formally begin practice after entering school, but now, Gu Hongying has already started along the right path. Although he is a little unfamiliar with it, there is nothing wrong with it.
"So he is absorbing the Emperor's Plasma." Diwu has lived for a long time, so he can tell that Gu Hongying has just reached adulthood. "It is a human spirit replenishment. As long as he can absorb it all, it will be of great benefit to his future cultivation."
Meng Ziqiu was a little worried. The energy contained in the Emperor's Plasma was too huge. Even the seniors with high cultivation would need several days to absorb it, not to mention Gu Hongying who had just awakened his spiritual power.
The energy in the Emperor's Plasma is pure, but too huge, which is also a deadly burden in another sense.
"If another child absorbs energy so rashly, I will definitely tell you how to interrupt his absorption path. Cultivation is also dangerous, so don't act recklessly." Di Xiu, who was called by Diwu through the clan's internal communication, appeared at the other end of the video. His long white hair was scattered on his shoulders, and he looked gentler than usual. "It's just that this child seems a little strange. Although the energy contained in this piece of Emperor Plasma is huge, it can't pose a threat to his life. It just takes him longer to absorb it."
Just as Di Xiu finished speaking, Di Wu's beautiful face appeared on the screen again—he took the phone back from Di Xiu.
"Look at it! Isn't the movement he absorbs almost the same as our child?" Diwu said righteously, "I told you, the child is growing up, nothing is strange!"