Qieyuan Chapter 60: Going up the mountain for the first time
The next day, Chao Huan slept until dawn. After rushing to Luke yesterday, going door to door to inquire about the situation was really exhausting. She was now an ordinary mortal, and her original physical fitness was not very good.
Only when she got up did she realize that there was no sign of anyone else sleeping on the bed. She felt reassured but also a little confused.
To be honest, Chao Huan is not used to sleeping with others, especially when the other person is a dangerous person, but she was too sleepy yesterday, and she can't be picky about the current situation, so she has done some mental construction for herself
Just fell asleep.
When she found out that the other person did not sleep with her, she felt relieved, but then she became confused about where the other person went without sleeping.
Chao Huan tidied up the bed and went out. The village chief and his wife had already gotten up. They saw that she slept all night long without saying anything. The village chief's wife also left food for Chao Huan. Although she was a little embarrassed, she felt that it was empty.
With a heavy belly, Chao Huan still ate all these sweet potato buns.
After eating, I wanted to help clean up, but the village chief's wife was unwilling to let Chao Huan help no matter what. Chao Huan had no choice but to ask Pei Ziyan.
"As for the adult, she went out early in the morning and said that there were some things she wanted to investigate. Oh, by the way, she said that if you ask after you wake up, you can just go to the village head to find her."
Although Chao Huan was confused, he still followed what the village chief said and went to the entrance of the village to find Pei Ziyan.
Walking on the road where he came yesterday, Chao Huan still didn't see anyone. Every house was closed. Occasionally, he saw one, and he quickly ran back. However, those secretly sizing eyes were still lingering, Chao Huan smiled slightly.
He frowned and quickened his pace.
When she was halfway there, she suddenly met someone again. Unlike the villagers who came and went in a hurry, Liu Qin still looked carefree, swinging slowly with a hoe on his shoulder.
When he saw Chao Huan, he raised his hand and said hello.
"Liu Qin." She called out, and Liu Qin came over. She looked at Liu Qin and said, "Are you going to the fields today too?"
"Yes, the harvest in the past few years has not been very good. I don't feel at ease if I don't go and see it every day." Liu Qin said seriously.
Liu Qin is indeed good-looking, but he is only in the category of ordinary people. Immortal cultivators can wash marrow and cut bones, and his appearance is not bad for the most part. Chao Huan has not come into contact with many men.
···Everyone is an extremely outstanding person, and Liu Qin is completely incomparable to them.
However, Liu Qin has a comfortable temperament that Chao Huan cannot feel in other people. When getting along with Liu Qin, Chao Huan always reminds Chao Huan of the girl who had a fate with her. They are both
In this way, it will be easier for people to get along with each other.
I don't know if the girl named Chen Yueyi is okay.
Not knowing what Chao Huan was thinking, Liu Qin saw her alone outside and thought she was lost, so he asked casually: "Are you lost? Where is the girl who was with you yesterday?"
"She is at the entrance of the village. I am just going to find her."
"The entrance to the village?" Liu Qin was startled, "Do you mean you are going to the mountain?"
There is a mountain near Qingji Village. It is not very high, but it has dense vegetation. There have been people who got lost on the mountain and were attacked by wild animals. People in the village have never dared to go deeper. Even the naughtiest children in the village have been killed by their parents.
I was told not to go to the mountains to play.
But Chao Huan remembered that when she went to investigate the situation yesterday, Liu Jie, the last missing person, liked to go to the mountains to play. But according to her parents, although Liu Jie would go there, she would never go deep.
She was afraid of insects and the dark, so she only dared to play in the water by the stream at the foot of the mountain.
Chao Huan also guessed that Pei Ziyan was going to go up the mountain. When Liu Qin asked, he nodded.
Unexpectedly, when Liu Qin saw this, he threw the hoe in his hand on the ground and actually said that he would go with them.
"What are you going to do? If there is really evil in the mountain, how can you, a mortal, escape?" Chao Huan had a good impression of Liu Qin, so he joked.
Liu Qin immediately refused to accept it. He looked at Chao Huan, whose arms and legs were still "mortal" in front of him, and counterattacked: "No matter how you say it, I am a strong man. Don't look at me as thin and weak. In fact,
I can run very fast, but you, with your thin arms and legs, don’t be so frightened that you can’t move.”
Chao Huan smiled, thinking that it would be good to have a villager to lead the way. With Pei Ziyan's strength, it would not be difficult to protect two mortals, so he agreed. Just thinking about Pei Ziyan, he still said to Liu Qin, "I
It's nothing, but it depends on whether the other colleague agrees with you."
Liu Qin wanted to know which one of the two was making the decision, so he nodded: "I know, I will come in handy."
The two of them headed to the entrance of the village together. Just as Pei Ziyan said, she was indeed here. She was not surprised to see Chao Huan coming, smiling.
"I guess it's almost time for you to come. How are you having a good rest?"
Chao Huan nodded, pointed to Liu Qin beside him and said to Pei Ziyan: "Liu Qin wants to go up the mountain with us. He is from Qingji Village and knows a lot about the situation in the mountain, so he took him with him."
"Okay." Pei Ziyan didn't care.
When she came, she used her spiritual sense to explore it. There was indeed something on the mountain, but it wasn't too strong. It was probably just a little bastard.
It’s okay to take one person with you, and it’s okay to take two people with you. Pei Ziyan allowed Liu Qin to join them.
After making up his mind, Liu Qin led the way and led the two of them along the trail to the foot of the mountain.
This mountain is not far from Qingji Village. It only takes a few minutes to walk. When you reach the foot of the mountain, you can see a winding stream. It is said that Liu Jie often likes to come here to play.
Talking about this creek, Liu Qin added: "There is a girl in our village named Liu Yue. She disappeared while doing laundry here."
Liu Yue was the second missing woman. Her father was an alcoholic and would beat and scold her.
Pei Ziyan nodded and looked along the stream towards the mountain road. When Chao Huan saw this, she knew what she had seen.
"Any clues?"
"Well, there are traces of evil spirits." When Pei Ziyan spoke, a gleam flashed in her eyes. In her eyes, there was a black mist that was about to dissipate beside the clear stream. The mist was already very light. If it comes in a few days, it will be gone.
It can't be found anyway.
The mist moved up the mountain road. When Pei Ziyan saw this, she called Chao Huan and Liu Qin to follow her.
The mountain road was relatively open at first, but as it went deeper and deeper, there was no road left. The forest had lush branches and leaves, and there were many insects and snakes. Liu Qin took the initiative to open the road ahead.
After traveling for another distance, the fog was getting deeper and deeper. The keen Chao Huan had noticed something was wrong. Her five senses were sharp and she could vaguely feel the presence of something nearby. Only Liu Qin was still stupid.
to open the way ahead.
Suddenly, Pei Ziyan shouted: "Wait a minute."
Liu Qin immediately stopped and turned around to ask about Pei Ziyan's situation, but saw Pei Ziyan looking seriously at the woods in front of him.
"Something's wrong."
It was Chao Huan who spoke. Her eyes swept through the woods. These vigorously growing trees stretched out their long branches and leaves, blocking most of the sunlight. She turned around, and the path she came from was covered with weeds, making it almost impossible to find.
to the direction.
When the two of them were like this, Liu Qin also realized that something was wrong. He looked around and suddenly found that the surroundings were exactly the same, and he couldn't find the way he came from.
"Why, how come you can't find the way you came here?" Liu Qin was dumbfounded.
Pei Ziyan watched the black mist spread into the distance, and suddenly understood everything. She said coldly: "It's a trap. It deliberately left traces to lure us here, just to get us into this confusion."
"Trap, trap?" Liu Qin was stunned. He looked at the woods where he couldn't tell the direction, and felt uneasy. He grabbed Chao Huan's hand behind him and said anxiously: "What's going on? If you can't go back,
If we go, are we going to be trapped here?"
He has been working hard all year round and is much taller than Chao Huan. At this time, he was holding Chao Huan in fear like a little daughter-in-law. Chao Huan was a little surprised and found it a little funny.
"Don't worry too much..." She wanted to explain that this kind of formation was nothing, but she thought that she was just a mortal and shouldn't understand this, so she swallowed her original words and said: "For Miss Pei,
This is nothing."
Pei Ziyan was extremely dissatisfied. She originally thought that this evil spirit was nothing, but she didn't expect that the other party had plotted against her and used this formation to try to trap her.
She snorted coldly and threw out a few talismans. The talismans flew into the air and exploded. Under Liu Qin's few exclamations, this relatively exquisite formation was destroyed by her in such a violent way.
As soon as the formation was solved, the scene in front of her suddenly changed. It was still in the woods, but she could clearly see the traces left behind her. However, when Pei Ziyan looked again, the mist had disappeared.
Once the clues were cut off, it was difficult for Pei Ziyan to continue tracking. The three of them had no choice but to go down the mountain first and then make plans.
When Liu Qin saw Pei Ziyan's skill in breaking the formation, he immediately did not dare to underestimate him. Although he had heard the elders in the village talk about the existence of cultivators in the world, this was the first time he had seen it with his own eyes.
Along the way, he quietly looked at Pei Ziyan, and the more he looked at her, the more he felt that her face, which could only be considered delicate at first, had become a bit otherworldly. However, although he felt that he had done it covertly enough, in the courtroom,
Both he and Pei Ziyan could feel his gaze. Pei Ziyan's expression did not change, but Chao Huan found it a little funny.
The three of them went down the mountain with their own thoughts. Unlike the smooth ride when they came up, it took a lot of effort to go back. When they reached the bottom of the mountain, Chao Huan and Liu Qin were both out of breath.
Liu Qin looked at Chao Huan with a reddish complexion. The more he thought about it, the more something was wrong. He whispered in her ear: "Aren't you an immortal? Why are you so tired?"
Chao Huan couldn't help it and glared at him. Pei Ziyan laughed a few times as she listened to these words completely, which made her even more unhappy.
"I'm not a fairy, I'm just a mortal." The more she thought about it, the more she felt that Pei Ziyan's laughter was harsh. When she got angry, she simply left the two of them and walked ahead.
"I'm actually angry."
Pei Ziyan murmured, glanced at the blushing Liu Qin beside her, and followed Chao Huan in front.
Today's investigation yielded no results, but the first confrontation made Pei Ziyan realize that the evil spirit still had some tricks.
"Is it difficult?" Chao Huan asked casually. After having dinner at the village chief's house, the two sat in the room talking about the day's events.
Although she was not prepared to intervene, Chao Huan was inexplicably interested. It was not that she didn't believe in Pei Ziyan's strength. After all, she was someone Qixiu trusted, and it would not be so simple.
Pei Ziyan looked at her in surprise and said, "How could that happen?"
"But to be honest, it's difficult, but not too difficult."
Chao Huan looked at her and tilted his head, "Is it because the other party hid too well?"
"yes."
It had been a day and a half since they had been in the village, and the only clue about the evil spirit was the trace of aura it deliberately left behind, and even that was a trap to lure them. Other than that, they knew nothing about the evil spirit, not even its true identity, let alone
Don't say anything else.
"But it's nothing. After all, I'm hiding on that mountain." Pei Ziyan shook her head and wasn't going to talk about it anymore. She planned to go to the mountain alone tomorrow to investigate. No matter what, there must be something wrong with that mountain. This chapter has been completed!