A sound of pleasure
"It's him! I was saying he looked familiar. Before you passed out after falling off the cliff, I stumbled across him. He was already on the mountain. What is he doing here? Is the mountain master going to be replaced again?"
Si Xi shook his head and said, "No, as long as Yue Niang is alive, the mountain master will not be changed. It must be the appearance of this female ghost that will ruin their plan, but Yue Niang can't deal with her."
The three of them met up with Cha Suxun and the others in the house. Heqi opened the illusion barrier again, and Yuanli told them everything that happened with Si Tiao in detail.
After the discussion, Yuanli summoned Si Tiao according to the method Si Tiao taught her. When Si Tiao saw so many people, his face changed immediately, and he took a few steps back, extremely alert.
"They are all our own people, you don't have to be afraid. Tell me how you came to Yuemang Mountain, how you met Yue Niang, and what you did according to her instructions."
Si Tiao hesitated for a moment, then spoke truthfully, "We Si Tiao were born to consume miasma and feed on resentment. Our eyes are unique, naturally able to see miasma and resentment. When we see a thin black smoke pointing into the distance, we will embark on a journey to find its source. As for me, I was born in a remote stream deep in the mountains. There was a village massacre in that mountain, and less than ten people survived. I absorbed their resentment and transformed. When I first saw that thin black smoke, I set out on the journey to Yuemang Mountain. I walked for a long, long time before I arrived here. When I came here, there were many other Si Tiao on the road and on the mountain."
"How many Si Tiao are there on the mountain now?"
Si Tiao stretched out a finger, answered Yuanli's question, and then continued speaking.
Si Tiao has a weak sense of self, and those who live short lives are like walking corpses, and they cannot communicate with each other.
Because she has self-awareness, and has people she cares about and things she must do, she cherishes her life very much. She will not take more life-extending drugs every day, and will actively seek out the nearest water source to live in, in order to ensure her survival to the greatest extent possible.
However, as she left Yuemang Mountain, the black smoke stretched towards her, like sand in her eyes, painful. The further she walked, the more black sand appeared before her eyes, blurring her vision. She fell countless times, leaving her body covered in scars. She didn't care, as long as she could survive.
She could not go against her innate mission, nor could she let go of the person in her heart and give up the idea of resurrecting her, so she had to prolong her life. These two contradictions collided with each other.
The days passed like this for an unknown period of time, and other Si Tiao appeared on the mountain one after another. She had become accustomed to it.
Until that day, monsters on Yuemang Mountain suddenly began to capture Si Tiao. She didn't know what their purpose was and could only hide.
As long as the miasma and resentment in Yuemang Mountain do not completely disappear, Si Tiao will always appear in Yuemang Mountain every day. This is his nature and cannot be changed.
Many Si Tiao were captured, but gradually, she discovered a pattern: the monsters only captured those who had ingested too much miasma and resentment. Those captured Si Tiao never returned, so it must have been all killed. She tried to search for the captured Si Tiao on Yuemang Mountain, but they had vanished, as if they had disappeared from the face of the earth.
She was worried all day, afraid that she would be the next one.
Later, the leading monster responsible for capturing Si Tiao discovered her peculiarity and began to try to communicate with her. He arrived when she was being captured by other monsters and ordered them not to capture her in the future. In order to distinguish her, the leading monster gave her a wooden sign.
She didn't want it, but in order to avoid being caught, she accepted it, and no one really caught her again afterwards.
The leading monster didn't communicate with her much, but when they met occasionally, he would stare at her.
But the longer she stayed in Yuemang Mountain, the more she lost control of herself and fought against her natural destiny, suffering endlessly. When the leading monster first saw her in pain, he extended a hand to help her, relieved her pain, and then left without saying anything.
Later, he would stop and channel his demonic energy into her to ease her pain. She thanked him, and then they began to talk for the first time.
He said his name was Shan Huai.
She is also called Shanhuai.
She asked him if there was a way to resurrect her. He said that the Lord he believed in had the power to do it. He told her many stories about his Lord, saying that He never treated his followers unfairly and that anyone who had made a contribution could make a request to Him.
It is said that the Lord almost never refuses the wishes of a meritorious person.
She couldn't wait to meet the so-called master and follow him, and was willing to do anything for the chance to resurrect Shanhuai.
However, he said, no one could know the Lord's whereabouts. But one day, the Lord's people would come to take over the mountain. At least, she would have a chance. As long as she became a meritorious person one day, she would have the opportunity to ask the Lord for a reward.
She held on like this until the man named Yakong came to the mountain. Yue Niang came with Yakong and he introduced her to him.
However, Yakong did not see her, but Yueniang did, and took her in. Yueniang also gave her a treasure that could purify the resentful miasma in her body.
From then on, she began to work for Yue Niang.
Yue Niang didn't come to Yuemang Mountain often, and she wasn't often given much to do. Most of what she did was about Yakong, the mountain's current master. After spending so much time on these trivial matters, she became quite worried that if things continued like this, she would never have the chance to make any contributions.
Until Yue Niang brought several tortured and wounded Si Tiao, lying on the ground, barely breathing. Yue Niang asked her to find a way to extract the miasma and resentment absorbed by these Si Tiao intactly. Si Tiao was rare, and ideally, she could still absorb the miasma and resentment alive.
Yue Niang also said that if she could do it, it would be a great achievement and she could have whatever she wanted.
Even though she knew that she must not and was unwilling to harm her own kind, she agreed after the scene of Shan Huai dying in her arms reappeared in her mind.
Later, they went up the mountain. Yue Niang forced her to hide in the dark and kill the monsters in the mountain. She also forced her to hide in the lotus pond and never let the people in the house find her. If necessary, she could take their lives, but she must not hurt Si Xi's life.
After listening, Yuanli asked, "Is Yue Niang collecting resentful miasma? Do you know what she uses it for?"
"They were very cautious and careful with their words and conversations. When I was present, they didn't mention anything else. So, I don't know what she was using the resentful miasma for."
"Who is the Lord you are talking about?"
"I don't know his name, I know very little about him, and I have no way to find out more about him. I don't dare to ask for fear of causing trouble."
"Let me ask you again, how long has it been since you first learned that Yue Niang was collecting miasma and resentment?"
Si Tiao thought for a moment, then shook his head, saying, "I don't know how long it's been. I just remember going back and forth to the stream to save my life, at least 25,000 times. Later, Yue Niang taught me a method that didn't require much time, so I stopped counting. We Si Tiao cycle day and night as one. In these mountains, the sun and moon are not clearly visible, so I rely on my own calculations. It's not accurate, but it can serve as a reference."
Yuanli secretly calculated the days in her mind, and then said, "Can the miasma and resentment you extracted be used by others?"
"Drive? I don't understand. What kind of drive are you talking about?"
"For example, cultivation."
"It should be possible. However, no one would use miasma and resentment to cultivate. If you say it's a good thing to use to harm people, I'm afraid it's easy to go astray and explode and die if you practice it, so I'm not sure."
After hearing this, Yuanli stopped asking questions and let Si Tiao go back. The others were puzzled as to why they didn't ask more questions.
Yuanli explained, "She's just started the deal with us, and we don't know each other's details yet. She won't completely trust me and betray Yue Niang. I'll just ask for a general idea of what happened so I can have a rough idea of what's true and what's false. The fewer questions you ask, the less lies you'll find. Take your time."
Cha Suxun said, "My wife doesn't look well and seems a little tired. Did you not sleep well last night? You should go back and have a good rest."
After returning to the house and closing the door, Yuanli asked, "What's wrong? Did something happen? You can only tell me when we get back to the house."
"Um?"
After reacting, Cha Suxun walked to her side, took her hand and walked to the bed to sit down, then pulled her to sit on his lap. His chest was pressed against her back, his arms were wrapped around her waist, holding her tightly, his chin resting on her neck and shoulder, their faces pressed against each other, feeling each other's warmth.
"My dear, a moment without seeing you feels like three autumns. In your heart, how many autumns have passed?"
Yuanli was subconsciously flattered by his affection and her face flushed red.
"This is... not even a single autumn? My lady, you are a little heartless. It really makes me sad."
As he spoke, Cha Suxun still pretended to be sad, burying his head in her neck and rubbing it, but the corners of his mouth were always raised.
"Okay, I won't tease you anymore. I asked you to come back and rest, not because I wanted to continue discussing matters with you, but because I saw how tired you looked, and I wanted you to have a good rest. You've gone through so many twists and turns on this matter, and you've put so much thought into it. Even when your husband asked you to go back to your room and rest, I subconsciously thought it was to discuss something. You don't need to work so hard on yourself."
"If it's related to the Evil Abyss, then it's related to everyone in the six realms."
"My body is broken, and I can't check it even if I want to. Come on, lie down, and let's rest together."
As soon as they lay down, Cha Suxun let her rest her head on his arm, and with his other hand he put his arm around her waist, and fell asleep with his eyes closed.
After closing her eyes for just a moment, Yuanli opened them again and asked, "Do you have any idea of the identity of that female ghost?"
"The so-called female ghost you mentioned is one of ours. Okay, rest assured."
"Ours! But she killed so many mountain people, her methods were even more terrifying than Si Tiao's. How could she be one of ours? What's going on? Our original plan wasn't so brutal and bloody. What's going on?"
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