17 Chapter 17
◎The little demon plant asking for help◎
Chapter 17
Time passed slowly, and Ying Huai was paying close attention to the environment around him during this period.
If he was a little hesitant at the beginning, he felt that he had stayed on Blue Star for too long and his thirst for spiritual energy had caused him to hallucinate.
But the clues that Ying Huai observed later made him a little excited!
Although Ahri has not awakened yet, its body has obviously grown a second time.
At this time, its physique looked like a medium-sized dog. Because it did not often appear in front of outsiders, only Ying Huai and the village chief's family knew that there was something wrong with its body shape.
Although Tang Rufeng had the little mouse to calm him down later, he still often stayed under his tree.
Now that he had the little mouse in his hand, he felt better and more relaxed, but Ying Huai could always sense the ghostly aura from him.
The change in the little mouse in Tang Rufeng's hand should be the biggest change among the surrounding things that Ying Huai can observe.
Although it is not as capable of regrowth as Ali, the spiritual power in his body has been transformed from the most impactful and harmful part of Tang Rufeng's ghost energy into his own because he has been with Tang Rufeng every day. At this time, the spiritual energy in his body is very different from when he first appeared in front of Ying Huai.
The last part is the key point!
Just this morning, Tang Rufeng came to sit next to Ying Huai as usual, but before leaving, he suddenly became talkative and told Ying Huai about the news he had heard from the children in the village these days.
The peach tree on the east side of Daxi Village, which has only bloomed but not borne fruit all year round and was almost treated as an ornamental plant by the villagers, suddenly produced fruit this year in a place where no one noticed.
It can be confirmed that these fruits were not produced after spring, but appeared suddenly, although the exact time is not very clear.
Ask why the villagers are so sure that the little peaches didn’t appear in spring?
Of course, it is because people know that this peach tree will not bear fruit, so when it blooms, those who like flowers in the village like to pick a few branches when they pass by and put them in a vase at home.
The villagers picked one or two flowers each, and after one spring, there were only a few left on the tree.
The rest will not be spared either, as they will be picked by the village girls to play house.
If you pick peaches in this way, even if the peach tree is willing to give up, it will not be able to bear fruit!
But just when everyone was pessimistic about it, it changed its fate and chose to skip the flowering process and start bearing fruit directly.
If you tell this to anyone in the village, they may not believe it unless they see it with their own eyes.
But recently, the villagers have been busy for various reasons, and of course they don’t take the children’s words to heart.
The children in the village were still hoping to pick peaches when they were ripe, so of course they would not pick the healthy fruits from the trees to show them to the adults just to convince them.
Tang Rufeng believed it because so many things had happened to him recently.
First it was the little mouse, then he discovered that the stone's perception was a little abnormal, and then he discovered that when Xiao Shushu was playing in the water at their house, the direction of the water splashes was wrong.
No matter how you look at it, it seems like something big is about to happen, but it's all too subtle. Except for Ahri with an abnormal body shape who can be seen directly, everything else is happening right under people's noses, but they are all too minor to be taken seriously, which is why I have to keep talking about this with Ying Huai.
Just as Ying Huai was recalling what Tang Rufeng had said to him, he suddenly felt some movement beside him. He opened his eyes and looked to the side, and saw an old lady digging the ground next to his tree with a small hoe.
It was early in the morning and although the villagers had already gotten up, they were busy eating and getting ready and had no time to go out for a stroll.
There is only one person who can come back at this time every day, and that is Shi Tou’s grandmother.
There used to be a fitness enthusiast in the village who came back from the city at the same time as her.
However, he gets up at 4:30 in the morning to exercise, and he does it for the good of the villagers, because he cares about their health and organizes them to get up early to exercise together.
But later I found out that it was redundant!
The villagers have to work in the fields during the day, and the exercises they do are already high-intensity, so there is no need to squeeze out time to exercise.
He ran around the village for a few days while being looked at as a fool by the villagers. He found that there were no children playing around all day. After running around for a long time, they started to work in the fields obediently.
How can fitness not be fitness? Helping grandma dig potatoes and sweet potatoes is also fitness.
That man gave up, and in the end, only Stone Grandma was left. Every day when he returned home at this time, he would look at Stone Grandma as if she were an iron man when he met her in the morning.
How could he know that Grandma Shitou never went out to the fields. She just liked to stay in the mountains and wander around there.
Feeling the rustling of the treetops above her head and the leaves seeming to tilt towards her, Grandma Shitou looked up from her busy work and smiled at the trunk of the Yinghuai tree.
"Godmother, wake up! Did I disturb you? Wait a minute! I'll leave after I plant this ginseng."
As Grandma Shitou said this, she lowered her head and continued digging the hole.
When Ying Huai heard her words, he shifted his gaze and saw something wrapped in moss in her small medicine basket. Inside was the ginseng she was talking about.
Feeling the aura, Ying Huai suddenly realized that it was a little weak, no wonder it came to plant next to him.
After Grandma Shitou finished digging the pit, she turned around and took out the ginseng wrapped in moss from the medicine basket.
Only then did Ying Huai see the ginseng clearly. The whole ginseng looked miserable, with bite marks on it. It must have been dug out and bitten by an animal in the mountains.
If it weren't for Grandma Shitou's timely rescue, perhaps the weak hope that Ying Huai felt at the beginning would have been lost.
She carefully planted the ginseng in her hand. In order to help the ginseng adapt to the environment better, Grandma Shitou also put some soil dug from the mountain around it.
"Godmother, I've finished planting. Please take care of it."
As she spoke, she reached out and touched Ying Huai's tree.
Ying Huai was just about to shake the branches as usual to respond to the Stone Grandma in front of him, when he felt something strange about her hand on him.
Such strangeness did not disgust Ying Huai. He even felt some wood-type spiritual power from her hand.
Grandma Shitou put down her hand, smiled at Ying Huai, and then turned and left.
How could she not have noticed the abnormality in herself?
This morning she went up the mountain as usual. Soon after she arrived at the mountain, she felt a pulling, as if something was asking her for help.
It just so happened that she was used to walking around that area, so out of curiosity, she followed the feeling in her heart and walked over to check it out. Finally, she saw a half-eaten ginseng under a tree.
She had never seen this ginseng before, and it might have come from the deep mountains.
She didn't know what kind of animal brought it out. The bite marks didn't seem to be from a large animal, so she didn't worry about what bit the ginseng.
After squatting down and checking carefully, she found that the patient could still be saved, but her life could not be guaranteed. However, the lingering desire for help in her heart did not dissipate, which led to her action this time.
The moment she picked up the ginseng, she could feel some of the emotions it exuded, a completely different feeling from the one she had been led to find before.
She couldn't figure out what was happening to her, but she knew that her current condition was unusual.
Thinking of the Ali at home who had obvious problems with her body shape, she chose to put her hand on Ying Huai without making a sound, both to share and out of curiosity whether her godmother could feel the difference in her.
When she really put her hand on the locust tree and sensed the surprise emanating from the tree, she knew that her guess was right. Her godmother could feel that she was different.
Moreover, she could feel that the emotions emitted by the locust tree were clearer than those emitted by the ginseng that had just been planted on the ground.
Ying Huai waited until Grandma Shitou walked away before he lowered his head to continue looking at the ginseng she had planted.
"It came to me specifically, not afraid that I wouldn't care and it would just die."
Ying Huai muttered, and a leaf with a bit of spiritual energy floated down and landed right on the ginseng that had just been planted.
"Since they came here specifically to plant you and want you to live, it's okay for me to take better care of you."
As soon as Ying Huai's leaves fell, he felt that the spiritual energy on his leaf, which was arranged in the state of slow-release fertilizer spread by the villagers, was being absorbed at an extremely fast speed.
"Hmm? He's also a spirit?"
Ying Huai lowered his head in surprise, and after observing carefully, he found that it was true.
It was just that it was seriously injured before and was probably unconscious, so Ying Huai didn't notice it.
Now that he sensed the spiritual energy, he was awakened and began to absorb it non-stop.
Ying Huai looked at it trying hard to stay alive, chuckled, and threw another spiritual leaf down.
The moment the leaves fell, he felt the gratitude emanating from the ginseng.
This little demon plant is too small, probably just becoming a spirit, and it doesn't even know how to communicate with plants. It's rare that it can burst out and seek help from humans in order to survive, and it's not afraid of being stewed.
Thinking of this, Ying Huai smiled even more happily and responded with a kind emotion to the little demon plant on the ground.
"Spiritual energy, is it time for it to come?"
Ying Huai muttered softly and looked towards the horizon.
At this moment, in the direction Ying Huai was looking at, there was a place that was being strictly guarded by the officials of the Flower-Growing Country.
"Leader, this place is indeed the closest source indicated by my hexagram, but there must be more than one in this world. This change is inevitable..."
A middle-aged man in a Taoist robe stroked his goatee and spoke with a long, drawn-out tone. It was not unpleasant to the ear, nor did it make people feel irritated or impatient.
The man who was called leader by the Taoist had become accustomed to his tone of voice during this period of time, and did not pay attention to it. Instead, he fixed his eyes on the place being pointed out in front of him.
There is a crack in front, and it is very deep below. I could detect the depth before, but now I can't reach the bottom when I explore again.
When the anomaly first appeared in this world, it was so subtle that few people noticed it.
Some people who were conducting experiments at the research institute found that the reagents they had always had problems for inexplicable reasons. They wanted to find the source and then reported it.
"Boss, the detector has been extended to its full length, but it still hasn't reached the bottom. It seems like something is holding it back!"
【Author’s words】
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