Spirit rhinoceros

Chapter 41

After nightfall, the wind suddenly picked up, with finely shattered ice shards hitting the face, which was cool and a little painful.Mo Long left Shuangying Town and continued to walk north. He walked lightly and quickly, without making a sound. After a while, he arrived at the edge of Mirror Lake.The sky above the head is almost transparent, dark blue and deep, the Milky Way passes across the sky, and the stars are shining brightly.In the night, the two glaciers glow with a faint blue light, and their outlines are clearly visible. They extend straight into the Mirror Lake.

The shape of Jinghu Lake is as its name suggests, and the surface of the lake is as flat as a mirror, reflecting the twinkling stars.On the other side of Jinghu Lake is the entrance of Tianjing Villa, which is blocked by thick fog, and people outside can't see clearly what it looks like.

Compared with the bustling and bustling Twin Shadows Town, it seemed more and more chilly and quiet here.And a figure not far in front of Mo Long also looked more lonely and cold.

Mo Long looked at the familiar figure and sighed softly. As he expected, with her single-minded virtue, she was indeed trapped here.

Hearing the sound of sighing, Lingxi froze, turned his head and looked over, and saw someone by the lake, who was born and couldn't see clearly, so he had to call back: "Who? Where is who?"

Mo Long took out the fire pocket and shook it in the wind.

The moment the fire light came on, Lingxi was stunned, and then saw the playful expression on Mo Long's face, and couldn't help being embarrassed and annoyed, and asked angrily, "Why are you here?"

"It seems I should ask you this question?" Mo Long asked her back, "Didn't you go back to Donghai?"

Lingxi was at a loss for words, and muttered something vaguely.

Mo Long didn't hear clearly: "Huh?"

Lingxi had no choice but to say loudly: "I changed my mind, okay?"

"Oh."

Mo Long nodded to show her understanding, then turned around and was about to leave.

Lingxi became anxious when he saw it, and shouted: "Hey! Don't go! Can you do me a favor?"

Mo Long turned around slowly: "Huh?"

"My feet are frozen and I can't move at all. Is there anything you can do?" Lingxi asked him for help.Her feet were firmly frozen on the ice surface of Mirror Lake, and she could not move a single bit. She stood there for half an hour. What was worse, the bone-chilling chill was still spreading upwards. Covers above the knee.Contrary to her is the little meat ball, it is playing happily on the ice, gliding over, gliding over, nothing happened at all.

Seeing Lingxi suffering pitifully on the ice, Mo Long was not in a hurry: "You didn't ask beforehand, everyone in Shuangying Town knows that this Mirror Lake is not easy to step into."

Lingxi said sullenly: "Of course I inquired."

"Then you still..." Mo Long paused for a moment and understood, "You don't believe in evil, so you have to try it yourself."

Lingxi bowed his head and remained silent, which was his default.

At this moment, Mo Long understood her sister very well: "If I were your sister, I would lock you up too, and you have to be tied up when you go out."

Lingxi glared at him angrily: "It's fine if you don't help, why make sarcastic remarks."

Mo Long was also very straightforward, turned around and left.

"..." Unexpectedly, he really left, Lingxi froze, wanted to open his mouth to call him, but couldn't save face, just watched him walk out of sight and disappear without a trace.

The wind became more and more fierce, and she looked at her feet in annoyance. As a dragon, she was not worried about being frozen to death here, but she stayed like this until dawn, letting a lot of idlers point and point, It's really embarrassing to be their gossip.The carefree little meat ball ran over to look up at her from time to time, but unfortunately it couldn't help at all.

Just now she tried to hit the ice hard with the silver hammer, and with her strength, she pierced a few small holes, but then sharp ice edges emerged from these holes, sticking to her side, and there was a stick from Lingxi The side of the face was scratched, and the cheek was sore, it seemed that the skin had been cut.

This broken place!Lingxi was very annoyed, and tried to move her feet, but no matter how hard she tried, it was as if invisible dense ropes bound her feet, binding her firmly to the ice.After tossing for a while, she was exhausted and had to give up struggling, resigned to her fate, thinking that if her sister found out that she had lost face outside like this, she must be very angry, and she didn't know how to punish herself.

Just as she was thinking wildly with her head down, she heard someone calling her: "Hey! Wake up, it's not time to sleep yet."

She looked up and saw that Mo Long had returned at some point, with a thick and long pile of blankets on her left shoulder, and a pungent smell came over her face when the wind passed by.

"Oil!" she smelled.

Mo Long stretched her left arm, and shouted: "Go on!" The thick felt was thrown towards her, with an unpleasant smell of kerosene.

Rao Lingxi was so strong that he didn't get hit by the pile of thick blankets directly on the ground, and he struggled to catch it. The tentacles were wet and slippery, and he realized that all the blankets had been doused with kerosene.

"Lay the blankets around you." Mo Long said to her.

Consonance was overjoyed, and according to his words, he spread the felt into a circle around himself.

"I'll teach you the fire-avoidance spell, remember it."

The joy on her face faded after hearing the word "fire-avoiding curse", she looked up at him in frustration and said, "It's useless if you teach me, I don't have spiritual power, so I can't use it at all."

Almost forgot about this, Mo Long looked at her and shook her head: "You are really troublesome."

Just as Lingxi was about to retort, he saw him leaping up lightly, tapping his toes lightly on the ice, and he came up to her in an ups and downs.

"you……"

Before she could say a word, Mo Long stretched out her arms to embrace her, and with the other hand, she shook the lighted torch and threw it on the felt... Almost instantly, the flames burst into flames, and the blazing flames surrounded them , Mo Long chanted a mantra to protect Lingxi from the flames.

The ice surface was very thick. Fortunately, the thick felt made of yak hair specially made by Molong, with the help of kerosene, was not repulsed by the chill of the ice surface and burned tenaciously.

Lingxi was firmly protected by Mo Long's arms, and he heard the crackling sound of burning felt, the crackling sound of ice cracking under his feet, and the beating of Mo Long's heart—"Bang, bang, bang..." He Her heartbeat was slightly faster than hers, steady and powerful, even though she was in a dangerous situation at this time, she was inexplicably at ease.

"It turns out that the heartbeat sounds so nice." She thought to herself, "Does the heart beat faster on land than in the sea? It's strange."

While reciting the fire-avoiding spell, Mo Long kept an eye on the ice under Lingxi's feet, and said at the right moment, "Let's go!"

Lingxi raised his feet instinctively, feeling a little loosened, he was overjoyed, he struggled hard, and his feet really got out of trouble.Mo Long carried her, flew out, returned to the lake, and then let her go.

"So it's so easy to get out!" Lingxi looked back happily at the unburned felt on the ice.

"Easy?!" Mo Long wanted to vomit blood. In order to help her get the smell of kerosene all over her body, she estimated that her nose would not work for a day or two, "Why don't you go back and try again?"

"That's not necessary. Thank you very much this time, otherwise it would be too embarrassing to be seen on the ice until tomorrow morning." Lingxi smiled, "This time is really a coincidence, you just happened to come to the lake."

"Unfortunately." Mo Long said slowly.

Lingxi didn't understand: "Huh?"

Mo Long reached into her sleeve, picked up something with her fingertips, and handed it to her: "You left this."

Lingxi took it and saw that it was a small pearl, the one she used to wear in her hair: "Where did you find it?"

"The mountain at the back of the temple, in the bushes leading to the spring." Mo Long turned her head to look at her, and seeing her embarrassed face, she continued, "Actually, you followed the water convoy until they boarded the boat, you don't know What to do, just hide in the reeds on the shore and wait. Later, seeing that we hired a boat, you followed the boat all the way to the town of Twin Shadows at the bottom of the water."

Lingxi was dumbfounded, unable to speak.

Mo Long continued: "It's not a coincidence that I came here tonight, but I know that you must want to sneak through the Mirror Lake and enter Tianjing Villa at night."

Consonance is speechless.

"But what I didn't expect is..." Mo Long paused, looking at her helplessly, "You have already inquired about the danger of Mirror Lake beforehand, yet you dared to rush into it without any precautions. I say you Was his head caught by the door? Or kicked by a donkey?"

"You were just kicked by a donkey!" Lingxi said angrily, "I have inquired about it. I heard that there are boots soaked in deep-sea fish oil, so they are not easy to be frozen. Unfortunately, I have no money on me, so I can't afford them."

She was so generous in the past, but seeing her like this now, Mo Long sighed: "Where do you live?"

As if thinking that he asked a stupid question, Lingxi stared at him dryly, and said stiffly, "I don't have the money to stay in a hotel."

Mo Long was startled: "Have you eaten yet?"

Lingxi lowered her head and let out a muffled "hmm".

"If I were your sister, I really..." Mo Long said halfway, met her angry eyes, and finally couldn't bear to continue, "Let's go, I'll take you to dinner."

"I have no money."

"...I'm rich." Mo Long glanced at her, "Even if I help the poor, I donate money, hmph... I haven't done such a thing in 800 years."

Lingxi was stunned: "Why don't you count me on credit?"

The wind was strong by the lake, and Mo Long was impatient to chat with her, so she called the little meat ball back, and after pulling her away.

"This, this, and that..."

Mo Long stared at the painted water sign on the wall, and tapped her finger lightly, while the shop waiter listened attentively and earnestly.

"I don't want these few dishes," Mo Long said, "One serving of each of the other dishes, so that the cook can order them quickly and serve them quickly."

The shop clerk was taken aback for a moment, then realized, and nodded repeatedly.Soon, steaming dishes were served one after another. Lingxi, who hadn't eaten anything serious for two or three days, first soaked some cakes in fish soup and served them to the little meatballs.She was also extremely hungry, she moved her chopsticks like the wind, and ate most of it after a while, and then she calmed down a little.

Mo Long leaned on his elbow to watch her eat, endured it, but couldn't hold it back, and still wanted to scold her: "You are also stupid, you can't even eat a meal without money."

"...How can I eat without money?" Lingxi was puzzled, and reached out to fill himself a bowl of beef soup.

"You can still do a lot of things without spending money." Mo Long looked at her, thought for a while, and said, "Don't you want to buy those boots? I'll teach you later how you can buy them without spending a penny. arrive."

Lingxi naturally didn't believe it, and said: "Isn't it just a robbery? To let my sister know that I am doing this outside, I must break my legs."

"Who said you want to snatch it... you're stupid." Mo Long looked sideways at her, "Hurry up, I'll teach you a lot after eating."

Although Lingxi didn't really believe it, he cleared the food on the table like a storm.Looking at the empty plates on the table, Mo Long shook her head: "You haven't eaten anything for the past two days, have you?"

"I ate a raw fish in the river." Recalling the taste of the fish, Lingxi frowned, and said bitterly, "It smells like a river, it's unpalatable, it has more thorns, it's worse than the fish in our sea. Far."

"Okay, okay, who doesn't know that seafood is delicious, so what's the point?"

After eating enough, his body warmed up and was extremely comfortable. Lingxi stretched his body and smiled at him: "In the future, when you come to Donghai, I will treat you to dinner too. There are many delicious foods in Donghai. We can't finish a meal, and we can't finish it in a day." If you can’t finish it, you can stay for three months.”

Mo Long raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "If you stay for three months, even if you don't drive me away, your sister will have to drive me away."

"How come, you are a good friend I met on land, so naturally you are the guest of honor in the East China Sea." The more Lingxi said, the happier she became, "I will find you a water-proof bead, you can come if you want, even if my sister locks me up, If I can't go out, you can come and play with me."

"I don't have that much time to spare." Mo Long replied pretending to be disdainful.

He called the waiter, paid the bill, walked out, and when he turned his back to Lingxi, he couldn't help but smile on his lips.

(End of this chapter)