Historical issues left behind by Old Bai Wuchang
Hei Wuchang said he never thought that Bai Wuchang could be his partner?
Tian Baozhu's doubts resurfaced. Wasn't he the one who rejected her at the beginning? How come, from his perspective as the Black Impermanence, the White Impermanence was the one who rejected him as a partner?
"Didn't Old Bai Wuchang work with you before?"
"He's capable, always ahead of me in action, never waiting for me. Sometimes he'd finish something and then leave. We'd never act together. He often didn't come to meetings, and the number of times I'd seen him could be counted on the fingers of one hand."
"Ah???" Tian Baozhu's jaw dropped in shock. It was completely different from what she had imagined.
"Bai Wuchang often acts separately. Uh, I mean the first generation of Bai Wuchang." Afraid that she couldn't tell who he was talking about, Hei Wuchang added.
"At first I didn't understand. I still wanted to work with him. I tried my best to catch up with him at work, but he always left me a long way behind. After a long time, I realized that he didn't want to work with me. Maybe he didn't like having a partner. I thought you inherited Bai Wuchang's position. He had told you this before. You, like him, don't consider me a partner."
Okay, so bad... So it seems that Old Bai Wuchang is actually the difficult colleague?
"Haha, so that's how it is. I'm sorry." Tian Baozhu smiled bitterly.
"Why are you apologizing?"
"Because...after all, I am Bai Wuchang..."
As the successor to the White Impermanence position, she had to correct the mistakes made by the previous generation. She always felt that she had to do something to make amends, at least starting with her generation, to repair the relationship between the Black and White Impermanence.
Alas, Old Bai Wuchang, you were so free and willful in the past. No wonder your relationship with your colleagues is not harmonious, and it is known to everyone in the underworld.
I thought my colleagues were bad people, but I didn’t expect that the bad person was actually myself (the previous generation).
"Heibai Wuchang are partners." Tian Baozhu said seriously to Hei Wuchang.
"Okay." Hei Wuchang didn't notice that he smiled naturally, and he added, "I understand."
Tian Baozhu also laughed, "Since we are partners now, senior, do you have to change the way you address me as your partner?"
Hei Wuchang was stunned, "How did I call you?"
"You usually just call me 'you', can you call me by my name?"
"Your name? Bai Wuchang."
"No, my name is Tian Baozhu."
“…”
Hei Wuchang was silent for a long time, his face flushed red, and he hesitated for a long time. Finally, he couldn't help but speak, but it was to beg for mercy:
"Let me go, I can't scream..."
Calling her by her original name is so intimate...
Tian Baozhu frowned. This won't work? Then...
"I called you senior, so you should call me junior."
"I think we are on the same level. I can't even call you junior."
Tian Baozhu's shoulders slumped, and she compromised. "Then what do you think I should call you?"
"Let's just call you 'you'. To me, 'you' are special."
Although Tian Baozhu knew that he was just explaining his own thoughts, but when put together, the lethality was a bit strong...
You are special.
"Alright, senior, I won't argue with you anymore. You can call me whatever you want." Tian Baozhu paused, "But there is one thing you can be sure of -"
"Black and White Impermanence are partners."
The two spoke in unison.
"Right?" Hei Wuchang asked Tian Baozhu first. His smile was a little different from usual, with a vivid cunning.
Tian Baozhu was stunned by his fleeting smugness, then she came to her senses and smiled: "Of course, we are partners."
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Hei Wuchang and Tian Baozhu returned to the first branch cave and cleared out the remaining red spider eggs on the cave ceiling.
Only the third and fourth holes remain.
Tian Baozhu suggested that we check the remaining two caves together instead of acting separately, because she was still worried. If Hei Wuchang vomited blood and became weak again, at least she could be there to encourage him, although this was all she could do for him.
The third branch cave was also full of red spider eggs, but unlike the previous two caves, its top was a concave arc. With Tian Baozhu's height and the length of the rake, she could reach them and finish the job by herself.
"You take a break first, I'll take care of this."
Tian Baozhu started cleaning without waiting for Hei Wuchang to answer. Hei Wuchang was indeed very tired. He cleared a place for himself and obediently closed his eyes to rest.
He closed his eyes, feeling a strange peace in his heart. It had been so long since he had felt this peaceful.
He had never felt at ease even when sleeping, but the rustling sound of another person moving around in the cave made him feel relaxed and comforted for the first time in a long time.
It feels so good to have a partner who you can trust with your back.
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Hei Wuchang felt that he had just closed his eyes for a moment when Tian Baozhu called him.
"Senior, I have finished cleaning this branch cave."
"You finished cleaning? So fast."
"It wasn't fast. It must have taken more than 20 minutes. Fortunately, this branch hole is a dead end and closed, so it's not very deep."
Hei Wuchang felt like he had just woken up from a dream, still a little dazed. He asked Tian Baozhu, "What should we do next...?"
"Let's go to the fourth hole, which is the last split hole."
At first, Tian Baozhu thought that the fourth branch cave was no different from the previous three, but after dealing with all the red spider eggs near the entrance of the branch cave, she noticed something unusual. She believed that Hei Wuchang, who had just used the Soul-Catching Scythe to clear the remaining eggs on the top of the cave, also noticed it.
"Senior, can you tell? This hole is different."
"I can see that there are far fewer red spider eggs in this cave than in the previous three."
Tian Baozhu nodded. "Very few, indeed. Apart from the ones we just cleared out at the entrance of the cave, I haven't seen any red spider eggs at the back of this cave, not even in a single corner."
They walked a little further, and Tian Baozhu used the spirit-calling bell to illuminate the way. They stopped and observed the situation inside the cave.
After about ten minutes, no other sounds were heard in the cave, and no other red spiders crawled towards the light.
"Have we completely eliminated the Starscream in this underground cave?"
"That's the current situation. If you're worried, we'll come back and check again after a while."
Tian Baozhu understood what Hei Wuchang meant, and it was time for them to leave the cave.
But Tian Baozhu really wanted to find out why the number of red spiders in the fourth branch cave decreased drastically. Maybe if she found out, the answer to her long-cherished pursuit of efficient extermination of red spiders would be there.
Tian Baozhu didn't give up and looked around again.
When she raised the spirit bell with a rake and looked at the ceiling of the cave, she caught a glimpse of a light source at her feet.
It turned out to be plants. Small plants grew in rows in the cracks at the bottom of the cave. They looked like reeds. Although they were miniature versions, they were emitting faint light all over.
It turned out that the light of the spirit-calling bell was too bright, and she had just ignored it, so she quickly turned off the light of the spirit-calling bell.
In the darkness, these reed-like plants emitted a brighter light than before.
Red spiders tend to move towards light, but here alone there are no red spider eggs, no spider webs, and no traces of red spider activity.
Could it be that spider mites hate this plant?
There must be an antidote within three steps. Tian Baozhu thought of this proverb again.
Who would have thought that the two could grow separately in the same cave?
Maybe this is the antidote she is looking for!
Tian Baozhu told Hei Wuchang his conjecture. In order to verify the correctness of this theory, they had to continue moving forward to see if the situation ahead was the same as here.
Hei Wuchang agreed with her idea and they continued to move forward.
It was a very long tunnel, but because there was glowing grass beside it, illuminating their steps, and there were no red spider webs or insect eggs to hinder them, although the road was long, they walked smoothly.
Tian Baozhu couldn't calculate how long she had been walking. She saw a very strong natural light coming into the cave not far away.
"Are we reaching the end of the cave?"
Tian Baozhu became inexplicably excited.
Firstly, thanks to the fluorescent grass along the way, she hadn't seen any spider mites. Apparently, her guess was correct: fluorescent grass could eliminate spider mites. Secondly, she was curious about what lay beyond the cave and where it led.
Driven by curiosity, she walked faster, so fast that Hei Wuchang had to remind her: "Walk slower. Don't fall, slow down."
Hei Wuchang's voice had no effect on Tian Baozhu, because at this time, his voice was brushed behind her like running water, and the invisible attraction was pulling Tian Baozhu forward.
Tian Baozhu almost ran out of the cave, and the scene outside the cave surprised her.
This cave actually connected to the "unknown area" behind the stone mountain in the city picture.
What surprised her even more was that there were many plants in the unknown area that she had never seen before. They were dense and intertwined, completely different from the usual scenes that appeared before her eyes on the surface of the underworld.
Neither desolate nor dead.
It is the perfect life that Lord Yama is pursuing.
Tian Baozhu wanted to go forward again, but Hei Wuchang grabbed her sleeve.
"Don't go over there."
Tian Baozhu turned around, her eyes filled with excitement, and she looked at him without focus.
Oh no, the magnetic field here is very chaotic!
Hei Wuchang held her hand again, shouted loudly, and shared his strong willpower with her -
"Don't run around in the underworld! Come back with me!"
He used force to pull Tian Baozhu back into the cave.
"Strange, why are you holding me? And you're panting."
Once back in the cave, Tian Baozhu asked a question.
Hei Wuchang adjusted his breathing and asked her if she remembered what had just happened?
Tian Baozhu answered him, "I remember the plants over there were very lush, as if waving to me, asking me to explore them. Then I thought, yeah, the vitality that our underworld lacks can be found here, right? I want to go deeper..."
Hei Wuchang let go of their holding hands.
"Okay, let's get out of here. Don't go outside over there anymore, okay?"
Tian Baozhu could clearly see the worry on Hei Wuchang's face. "Okay."
She nodded and said, "Let's take some of this fluorescent grass back to the experimental flower field and plant it. Let's see if it really can repel the spider mites and keep them away."
After they finished cleaning up, they walked out of the cave and planted the fluorescent grass they brought out of the cave in the red spider lily field.
At this time the sun will also set.
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There was a knock on Hei Wuchang's door at night.
It was Tian Baozhu, and she asked Hei Wuchang to come out and see her new discovery. Although she didn't understand why Tian Baozhu would knock on the door at night, she knew her limits and knew that she must have something to tell him, so he went out anyway.
"Have you noticed something's different out there?"
"?"
In the corridor, Tian Baozhu pointed out the window. In the usual pitch black darkness, there were now some scattered but special starlights. Although they were scattered, they appeared even more dazzling in the darkness.
Judging from the direction, it was the fluorescent grass they brought back from the red spider's nest, glowing in the experimental flower field of red spider lily.
"There are new colors at night. Isn't it beautiful, Senior? The underworld will become more and more lively."
Hei Wuchang suddenly felt as if he could see a sea of bright red flowers. Within the sea of flowers, a figure appeared, rich and vivid. He wanted to see the other person's expression, but his overlong gray bangs blocked his view.
The gray color seemed extremely eye-catching in his eyes at this time, and he began to feel that it was a nuisance.
He remembered what Tian Baozhu had said to him in the cave at that time: You need to cut your hair.
He said to Tian Baozhu, who was still looking at the new night scene:
"Cut my hair."
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