Chapter 053 Fox
The ink net swayed, causing the sound of copper bells to ring. The hostile and threatening sounds of the surrounding foxes crawled onto her body and mind like ants.
Her clear eyes were fixed on the door, and the door was knocked in her eyes.
Boom boom boom——
It sounds very polite.
The door had been pried open, and the scabbard of the sword used to pry the door had some mottled black stains on it, a bit like the tongs that were used to poke fire all year round.
It's inexplicably full of life and very much like a person.
Her heart relaxed a little instantly, as if what followed in was not a fox head, but a bowl of soup, a plate of cake, and the aroma of rice.
A young man with a sword walked in.
He seemed to have sharp eyes and locked onto her position in an instant.
Her head shrunk sharply back into her shell.
Dust danced in the beams of light in the air.
There was an exceptionally humid vapor in the room, and with it came an extremely familiar feeling, as if I had seen this scene somewhere before.
A little man crawled under the bed, his tiny head tucked under the low bed, his big, round eyes full of curiosity.
"Little cub?" Bai Tanggao, occasionally whimpering, poked his head out from behind Wang Yu. His snow-white fox ears trembled, but were pushed back by the swordsman's scabbard.
"She's scared." Wang Yu said briefly and to the point. He could clearly feel the child's fear of the fox ears.
"Oh, sorry, you pretended I wasn't here." Bai Tanggao moved behind Youzhagui and tried to use Youzhagui's thin body to block him, with his two pointed ears sticking out from the back of Youzhagui's head.
She pursed her lips nervously.
It didn't seem like the kind of fox that would trick her out of her shell and then eat her whole.
She couldn't help but nod her head out of her shell again.
"Eat something?"
The hero with the sword was holding a pancake in his hand.
She took it back into the shell and began to chew it.
Those who feed her are good people!
"Why does this little girl have scales on her face? Could she be a mermaid?" Youzhagui asked curiously.
The child quickly reached out from under the bed, took a bite of the biscuit in Wang Yu's hand, and then pulled back, fearing that he would be pulled out.
"Can she still talk?" Youzhagui lifted his clothes and lay on the ground. He took out a candy wrapped in transparent material from somewhere, pressed the curled candy wrapper with his fingers, and pushed it in carefully from the outside.
Her eyes followed the glittering candy as it moved little by little, and the moment it moved into the gap, she suddenly snatched it away and chewed the candy wrapper into her mouth.
The fried dough stick was horrified: "Shit! The outer packaging is inedible!"
He tried his best to instruct, and finally, the transparent candy wrapper was thrown out, and the fried ghost breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hey, it seems like he can't speak."
Youzhagui got up and scratched his head in annoyance: "How can I ask for clues?"
Wang Yu tilted his head and asked hesitantly, "Turtle?"
The girl had scales on her cheeks, and her movement of sticking her head out reminded him of the giant turtle in the Forest of Enchantment. His intuition told him that there was something fishy going on.
"She has no shell either... Ouch!" Youzhagui suddenly yelled. She was indeed a tortoise without a shell now, but what if she had a bed? This square pear wood bed could cover her whole body. Wasn't it a substitute for a tortoise shell?
Brother Yu has sharp eyes! But is it really a variant of the ghost plague that she was infected with? From a fox to a turtle? Isn't this a huge species span?
Youzhagui couldn't help but sigh.
"Is this incomplete alienation? The shell hasn't grown out yet?" Bai Tanggao speculated at the door.
Wang Yu shook his head subconsciously, thinking: "Maybe it's lost somewhere else."
Baitanggao and Youzhagui looked at each other, both confused.
"Brother Yu? Do you mean that her shell has already grown out and was just thrown somewhere else?"
The three people's eyes were all on the child under the bed, who was eating a biscuit with great relish, eating it carefully without dropping any crumbs.
"Anyway, why not just give it a try? I have a magic circle to find a part of the body. If it has really grown a shell, then the place where the shell is left...嘤." Bai Tanggao hummed meaningfully.
Mysterious patterns spread out and rotated in the air.
Falling on the child.
The child paused in his chewing and stared at the three people with his round eyes.
A swaying red line slowly emerged from the child's body, and as if it had life, it stuck its head out, looked left and right at where it was, and then suddenly shot out.
“Follow me!”
Bai Tanggao shouted and ran out first.
The fried dough stick followed after realizing it later.
The door was closed by Wang Yu, and the ringing of the bell was clear and pleasant to the ear.
She reached out her hand in confusion to grab the red line, but failed. She swallowed again and carefully moved out of her shell. Now that there were no outsiders around, she slowly took a bite of the cake next to her and started eating it bite by bite.
The red line carries an urgent desire to return home, as if it is raining and one is rushing home to collect clothes.
During this time, they rolled around and shuttled through countless cages woven of ink nets. Several foxes cried out in anger because they could not catch the annoying red lines.
Hong Xian only needs to charge forward, while the three people following behind him have a lot of things to consider.
He beat up several fox-headed men in cloth clothes and left aside several fox-headed men in flying fish costumes.
Bai Tanggao climbed up the wall, his ears stood up and he bared his teeth.
The noise they made was really too loud.
The sound of copper bells, the vibration of the net made by the ink rope, and the humming of foxes interweave to form an extremely magnificent symphony.
The half-human, half-fox Jinyiwei grabbed the brown fox on the desk and followed out.
The red rope swayed happily, climbed over the tall city wall, and completely disappeared into the forest.
Youzhagui gasped, "So, so far?"
There are many forests around Qing County, and they are very deep.
As soon as you step into the woods, the dark and gloomy air of the dense forest pours in through your ankles, making you shiver violently.
Bai Tanggao shook his tail and curled up the snow-white fox tail at his waist.
I didn't notice the fried dough stick next to me approaching.
"It seems that this ghost plague is not simple at all. The turtle shell is actually outside the city?"
Sitting on the arm of the half-human, half-fox Jinyiwei was Hua Tuo, who whimpered solemnly.
"Master Hua said that no animals have ever been seen around here. However, they did kill a ghost before. That ghost was the resentment of a person who died unjustly. It has nothing to do with foxes."
The red thread turned transparent and struggled unwillingly to penetrate into the dense forest.
A flash of white flashed between the overlapping branches and leaves.
Wang Yu suddenly stood in front of his brother.
There was a rustling sound echoing in the woods.
The red line dissipated and they only got a general direction.
This forest is not peaceful.
***
"Boss?"
Diamond pushed open the door and was stunned. There was no one in the room. He touched his chin in surprise.
Maybe he was too tired recently and skipped work, he thought, and took out a seal from the table and stamped it with ease, then handed the letter of appointment to Wen Shu.
"Milk Tea, this is your document. You can report directly to His Majesty when the time comes. Aquarius has been in the library recently." Diamond handed the document over and said briskly, "Aquarius seems to want to bring back the history and literature of the other world. She has been there recently. You can ask her for the topic."
"...Speaking of which, is His Majesty difficult to get along with?" Wen Shu changed the subject as if nothing had happened.
Diamond thought for a moment and shook his head: "The little majesty is not difficult to get along with. She has been lonely and bored recently and is looking for friends to play with. If you are taken around by her, you will probably be able to experience all the delicious and fun things in Yujing. I personally highly recommend it."
Diamond smiled gently, "I think you will get along well."
Wen Shu nodded repeatedly.
Diamond sent his son away to review his lessons, and when he came back he saw the table full of clerks and became worried.
I hope the boss can come back to work soon today.
He sat in the boss's seat, dipped the brush in red ink, straightened his back, and started working with full of resentment.
***
The red line led to the depths of the dense forest, and they went deeper and deeper.
Wang Yu stopped.
There were traces of people, which seemed to be a pair of hands and a pair of feet falling into the mud. Under the tree with sparse grass, you could see fingerprints. There was also some pulled grass next to it, with the roots exposed.
There are many horror stories in the dense forests of Nanzhou.
Although there are no gods or ghosts in the world, ordinary people will occasionally be infected by the atmosphere of the jungle, and there are few people who are truly not afraid.
The marks looked fresh, as if they had just been dug out.
Is he someone who escaped from Qing County?
Wang Yu subconsciously observed the environment on both sides around him.
Some incomplete marks made him frown in confusion.
The traces are both heavy and light, intertwined and mixed together, yet they can outline a clearer trajectory of action.
A fox paw gestured beside him, and Hua Tuo whimpered.
"Lord Hua said that it seemed that the people passing by here walked by crawling on the ground on all fours." Jinyiwei explained.
Follow the footprints.
Everyone's face darkened, full of thought.
The extended footprints did not go outwards, but came from inside and ran into the dense forest.
This can only point to one fact.
The people digging here did not come from Qing County, but were people who had lived in the dense forest from beginning to end.
"I have been investigating in Qing County for so long, but I never knew there were other human villages here," the Jinyiwei bared his teeth on his hairy half-fox face. "By the way, this is not what Master Hua said."
This unusual omen can obviously be linked to the ghost plague in the city.
They followed the man's footsteps deeper and deeper into the forest.
It rains a lot in Nanzhou, but fortunately the dense forest's overlapping branches and leaves catch the rain, preserving some footprints. Occasionally a drop of water drips from the ceiling and falls violently on the tip of the fox's nose, causing Hua Tuo to sneeze and let out a soft fox cry.
"Master Hua didn't say anything."
The fox narrowed his eyes slightly: "Hmm."
"This sentence means there is someone in front." Jinyiwei translated.
Bai Tanggao's ears stood up, and some snow-white fluff grew a thin layer on his face like frosting on cakes. He leaned his head left and right, and sniffed everywhere with his ears twitching: "It's really the smell of a human, and it also has a hint of ink."
They walked a few dozen steps.
A long sigh gave Fried Doughnut goose bumps.
In the dark woods, a few beams of light seeped in from the gaps between the overlapping branches and leaves. Under the cold light, a scholar in white clothes was leaning on a huge rock. Mist was rising from the small pond beside the rock, and the white mist was lingering. The face that looked like a human was raised, and a dark light flashed in his narrow eyes.
He propped up his folding fan in distress to cover his face, and at this carefully crafted angle, he slightly adjusted the side of his face to make his face look even more pitiful.
The scholar sighed again, holding his forehead with his hand, and said sadly: "I sprained my ankle. If no kind-hearted person had helped me, I would have died in the wild!"
Everyone: “…”
"Hmm." The brown fox put its paws in its pockets and hummed silently.
"Shenjin, I meant that this is what Lord Hua said." The Jinyiwei conveyed with his head held high and his chest puffed out.
The scholar looked over openly, and the hand holding the folding fan immediately called out, "Ah! Kind-hearted person over there! Come over and help me! Maybe I can help you solve a big problem!"
Fried Dough hugged his chest, puzzled: "Is he stupid, or does he think we are stupid?"
"Oh, you're right!" Bai Tanggao wagged his tail in agreement.
Seeing that no one had come for a long time, the scholar slowly changed his posture. Maybe he didn't care, or maybe he didn't notice.
A very obvious brown fox tail swayed between the snow-white clothes and then hid in the shadows.
Everyone was silent again.
The fox scholar still didn't give up. He said with a seductive look: "If you miss this opportunity, you will never get it again!"
What a vivid trap. Do all the monsters and ghosts play like this now?
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