Spirit rhinoceros

Chapter 35

"Don't worry, she is the sister she desperately wants to protect, how can I hurt her." The scholar smiled lightly.

Xia Houfeng still hesitated, but Mo Ji became close to the scholar for no reason, pushed Xia Houfeng away, and walked in front of the scholar by herself.

The scholar stretched out his hand, and lightly tapped the center of Mo Ji's eyebrows with one finger. His pulse was warm, pouring from his fingertips... After understanding what he was doing, Mo Ji was startled, and was about to break free, but he stopped him :"do not move!"

"Hey! What are you doing..." Xia Houfeng wanted to step forward to stop him, but Mo Long grabbed him firmly.

"He is using his essence to heal Mo Ji." Mo Long said in a low voice.

Xia Houfeng was startled, and stared blankly at the scholar and Mo Ji.

After about half a cup of tea, the scholar slowly withdrew his fingers, and said to Mo Ji: "Your injury is no longer serious, don't do things like sucking gold in the future, if she knows, she will also blame you." yours."

Seeing that his face was obviously haggard, Mo Ji was both guilty and grateful: "...Thank you."

"Don't thank me, I'm not for you, but for her." The scholar didn't look at her, raised his head and picked off a green peach, put it in his palm, and rubbed it carefully, "Tell me about her, OK?"

Thinking that he missed his sister very much, Mo Ji naturally would not refuse, and immediately told about the past events in the mustard garden in detail. No one has ever heard of it.

As she spoke, it seemed as if she had returned to the carefree days when she was young. The sun was shining warmly, leaning on her sister, laughing and romping with Chonger...

He listened, with a smile on his lips, as if the years had been quiet, and he had never left that sweet-scented osmanthus tree.

Unknowingly, his figure faded little by little, and when Mo Ji came back to his senses, he was almost translucent... She was shocked: "You, you... What's wrong with you?" Although In less than half a day, she didn't know how to feel close to him, as if she had known him for many years, and her concern was beyond words.

The scholar didn't answer, and handed her the green fruit in his hand: "Can you help me take this green fruit to the mustard garden and bury it next to her, as a way to live up to the friendship on Kunlun Mountain." After rubbing his palm, the green fruit glowed. Cute and different.

Mo Ji hesitated, not wanting to take Qingtao, and said embarrassingly: "I, I... don't want to go back to Jieyuan anymore, please entrust this matter to others." I was so terrified that I never had the courage to go back.

The scholar put the green fruit into her hand: "I have injected all the essence into it, but it is actually for a glimmer of hope. If she still has stumped roots deep in the ground, maybe there will be a glimmer of life."

"Pour all the spirit into it..." Mo Ji was stunned, and repeated unconsciously. When she came back to her senses, she was shocked, "How can I do that? You won't survive!"

"Time is running out." The scholar's tone was very calm, and his body faded away, leaving only a few strokes of light ink, which seemed to disappear with a flick of his hand, "Will you help me?"

"I, I..." Mo Ji was struggling and in pain, not knowing how to answer.

"...It's fine if it's difficult."

The scholar left the last thoughtful words, his figure completely dissipated in the breeze.

Mo Ji was stunned, and looked around, but couldn't find his remnant.He looked down at the green peach in his hand, it was green and lovely.What to do?She glanced at Xia Houfeng, then at Mo Long, Dong Lichang and the others, hoping that they would come up with an idea...

Dong Lichang frowned and said nothing.Mo Long's eyes were complicated, she seemed to have something to say, but she didn't know what was hindering her, so she remained silent in the end.On the contrary, Xia Houfeng, who usually has the slowest mind, came up with a good idea: "Let's go find Lingxi! Isn't she going to Tianjing Villa? Give her the peaches and ask her to bury them in the mustard garden. I think she also It's very righteous, she won't refuse this little favor."

As soon as he finished speaking, Mo Long raised his eyebrows and glanced at him. Although he didn't express his opinion, he didn't object either.Dongli Chang's brows furrowed even deeper, like iron bumps.Bai Xi said repeatedly: "I think it's feasible, we have to chase her quickly!"

Mo Ji herself didn't want to go back to the mustard garden, and couldn't bear to live up to the entrustment of the peach blossom tree. After thinking about it, this was the only way to do it, so she nodded: "Okay, let's go after the spirit."

"Let's go, old man." Xia Houfeng urged Dongli Chief.

Dong Lichang had a reluctance on his face, and muttered: "Let's talk about it first, find her, give Qingtao, and leave after explaining the matter clearly, don't make other things happen." When he said the last sentence, he looked at Mo Long.

Mo Long didn't care and said: "Of course that's the case, she has no money right now, and she has no profit to make, so there's no point wasting time on her."

"You really think so?" Dong Lichang looked at him suspiciously.

Before Mo Long could answer, Xia Houfeng interjected slightly dissatisfied: "Brother Long, these words are not righteous!"

"Can righteousness be eaten? Or can it be used as an envoy?" Mo Long hit him with a chestnut. He was in a very good mood and didn't bother to share his knowledge, striding forward.

Xia Houfeng is not afraid of pain, he scratched his head as if it were an itch, then turned his head and asked Dong Lichang: "If Lingxi is willing to agree to help this favor, we must be righteous..."

Dong Lichang glared at him angrily: "Shut up, it's making my head hurt."

"Old man, you..." Xia Houfeng didn't understand when he had offended Dong Lichang, and turned his head to ask Mo Ji with a puzzled expression, "What's wrong with him?"

Mo Ji was so full of thoughts that she didn't hear what he said at all, and walked forward in silence.Seeing Xia Houfeng's boredom, Bai Xi took the initiative to come up to him: "He is probably tired from walking, old man, please be considerate."

Xia Houfeng thought it might be, so he stopped thinking about it, and looked at Bai Xi: "Are you still following us?" He didn't mean anything malicious, he just asked casually.

Bai Xi's face was full of duty: "Yes, in case there is anything I can do to help."

"Justice, brother!"

Xia Houfeng patted him on the shoulder, feeling grateful.

Walking along the way they came from, starting with Mo Long, everyone quickened their pace a lot, and it took less than half an hour to return to the place where they parted from Lingxi, and then headed north again.

There are fallen leaves, and the footprints of Lingxi's journey are not clear.Bai Xi asked a little worriedly: "What if she doesn't go all the way north, what if we find trouble?"

"It's okay, Brother Long is in the head, we can definitely find it." Xia Houfeng reassured him, "Brother Long's tracking technique is the best in the wild."

Mo Ji was at the end, walking, suddenly stopped, frowned slightly, raised her head to look around.

"What's wrong?" Xia Houfeng asked with concern.

"Do you think something is wrong?" Mo Ji looked at the fallen leaves around her, feeling unsettled in her heart, "There are more leaves falling than before? Isn't it?"

"may be."

Xia Houfeng is not someone who cares about such subtleties, he never paid attention to it at all.

Mo Long, who was walking ahead, also stopped, frowning and looking at the ground: "It's not right, in less than half a day, the fallen leaves almost covered her footprints. This season should not be the time when there are so many fallen leaves."

Hearing this, everyone stopped, and looked up in doubt—hundreds of peach trees, the original green leaves turned yellow at some point, and the boundless withered yellow and fallen leaves fell down; The green peaches among the branches and leaves also shriveled one by one...

Mo Ji was terrified, she realized what happened in front of her eyes—the soul was lost, this peach forest was dying, dying silently.

"No, the peaches are all shrunken, we have to leave quickly!" Bai Xi was very practical, he couldn't stop peach blossom miasma without peaches to eat.

Xia Houfeng also got a little anxious, and called Mo Long: "Brother Long?!"

The fallen leaves were heavy, and Mo Long's brows were gradually furrowed. He could no longer find the consonance by following the footprints, but could only capture her remaining scent, which was also weakening.An ominous premonition rose in his heart, and he involuntarily quickened his pace.

"Let's try to get out first!" Xia Houfeng rushed to Mo Long and said.

Mo Long kept on stepping, and said in his mouth, "Alright, you take the old man away."

"Ah? What about you... hello..."

Before Xia Houfeng finished speaking, Mo Long ignored him and walked forward quickly.

"Old man, us?" Xia Houfeng turned his head and asked Dongli Chief.

Dong Lichang sighed with drooping eyebrows, and waved his hand impatiently, signaling him to hurry up and follow Mo Long, obviously not at ease to leave first.

The wind whizzed through the forest, permeating the bone-chilling chill, and the fallen leaves were flying one after another, covering the sky and covering the ground.Lingxi's scent became weaker and weaker, Mo Long raised his breath, and chased the remaining scent for six or seven miles in one go, but he still didn't see her figure.

He stopped suddenly, and Xia Houfeng, who had been following closely, almost bumped into him.

"What's wrong?" Xia Houfeng asked in surprise.

"Disappeared." Mo Long frowned, "Her smell has completely disappeared."

"Ah?" Xia Houfeng pouted, and sniffed everywhere with his nose: "Is it the smell of seafood? I didn't smell it either." Although he grew up in the mountains, his sense of smell is far inferior to that of Mo Long.

Although Mo Long didn't count on him, he still replied, "It's the smell of East China Sea purple algae." East China Sea purple algae grows deep in the bottom of the East China Sea, and the smell is clear and pleasant. , is commonly used in daily life and diet of consonance.

"Donghai purple algae?" Xia Houfeng didn't dare to ask what it smelled like, and wanted to ask Dong Lizhang, but unfortunately they were still behind and did not catch up.

Why did her smell suddenly disappear?
Did something happen?
Could it be that there are other people besides them in this peach blossom forest?
Or did Nie Ji think of a way to restrain Tao Hua miasma, broke into the forest and took her away?

For a moment, various conjectures flew through Mo Long's mind - obviously, if Nie Ji took her away, that would be fine, but in other cases...

Under the fallen leaves, something moved, accompanied by a low grunt.

Mo Long frowned, pulled the leaves, and a small meat ball rolled towards him.

Since it is here, Lingxi should be nearby.Mo Long looked around carefully, and suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw something flashing not far away, he turned his head quickly, and the thing disappeared without a trace.He approached slowly, looked intently, and finally saw the glimmer of light under the layers of fallen leaves.

Pushing away the fallen leaves is his silver nail, and pulling away again is the consonance crouching on the ground motionless.Mo Long was stunned for a moment, even though he was so close to her, he still couldn't feel her breath, as if she was just a bubble phantom in front of him.

(End of this chapter)