Dragon Seeker

After walking around in the jungle, I returned with serious injuries. I was exhausted. After lying on the kang, I could feel my legs tingling and my fatigue was gradually fading, but I was not sleepy. Every time I closed my eyes, the scene of An Ru's head being pressed on the cold bluestone and smashed alive would appear in front of me.

I didn't see that scene with my own eyes, but the picture was so real that I could even imagine the girl's twitching, wailing, and begging for mercy.

I think it was probably my conscience that had been thrown into the corner of my heart that was stung.

Near noon, there was a rustling sound of footsteps in the courtyard, and then the door opened with a creak.

An Ru's head came in from the crack of the door, with a bright smile on her face, and she still looked so gentle.

"Brother Jingzhe, it's time to eat."

She smiled and said, "I just came back and didn't have time to cook, but there are some nests that I made before, all of which are on the stove. Can I bring them in for you?"

I rubbed my sore eyes. I didn't need to look in the mirror to know that my eyes were bloodshot. After thinking about it, I said let's eat together outside. It's too stuffy in the house.

An Ru's face flashed with joy. She responded and turned to leave.

I couldn't understand her a little. After hesitating for a moment, I called her and asked about Xiao Mi's situation.

An Ru paused, lowered her head quickly, and whispered that the way out was indeed cut off. The further she went, the less she could feel the flow of the earth veins. The child was trapped. She searched for a whole night before finding him, and now he was home safely.

She didn't seem to want to say more, and left in a hurry with her head lowered.

Seeing this, I sighed, covered my stomach and walked out, moved a stool to the door and sat down, lifted up the tattered cotton jacket, and found that the wound was basically invisible, but there was a faint mark on the flesh. When I pressed it, I found that it was hard underneath, as if there was a lump, which made my waist weak, but it seemed that it would recover soon.

I was very curious about her strange skills.

Where did she learn these things? Could it be that her incompetent father also taught her? After knowing her story, I doubted it. Her father was not a doctor as she told me at the beginning.

While I was thinking about it, An Ru had come out and placed the roasted cornmeal nest in front of me. She also carefully poured me a bowl of boiled water, and then sat down opposite me. While eating, she continued to ask about things outside with great interest.

She was like amnesia, subconsciously forgetting the unpleasantness that had happened between us, even... opposition!

I secretly guessed her inner world, but I really couldn't figure out what she was thinking about.

"Brother Jingzhe, Brother Jingzhe?!"

A burst of rapid shouting woke me up from my trance. An Ru was looking at me with a coquettish look on her face, and said dissatisfiedly: "I'm asking you a question. Last time you said that there is something outside that can fly to the moon. What is it called?"

I didn't answer, looked at her, and said thank you.

An Ru's expression froze for a moment, then she lowered her head silently and muttered: "What is there to thank for."

I have always buried my gratitude to her in my heart, and now this is the first time I have said it so seriously.

However, she didn't mean to say anything about what had happened, but I couldn't just pretend to be deaf and dumb.

I held a corn nest in my hand, and watched her blushing as she lowered her head and nibbled on it. I called her softly, and she looked up in confusion. I asked, "Do you eat on weekdays? If you don't eat, will you be hungry?"

An Ru laughed and asked if I was stupid. Of course, people would be hungry if they didn't eat.

I nodded. Not far from the village, I did see a piece of reclaimed land with corn stubble. It seemed that she had been farming all the time. This situation made me a little confused. What kind of state is she in now? Why does she need to eat like a living person?

I couldn't figure it out, so I just asked directly.

An Ru's eyes turned red, and her head drooped even lower. She gritted her teeth and asked if she could finish the meal quietly first. She really liked the feeling of being with me. At least, I was the first person in my life who was willing to sit at the same table with her to eat. She liked this feeling very much. Why couldn't it be like before?

By the end, she was already crying, a flash of scarlet in her eyes, a faint black aura appeared on the surface of her skin, and her tone was almost pleading: "I haven't forgotten anything, I haven't forgotten anything, I just want... I just want to feel this feeling again, don't ask me, okay?"

This was the first time I saw her show a ghost face, but I didn't hesitate at all, but I felt an inexplicable pain in my heart. I nodded silently, rubbed my stiff face, put on a smile, and continued to tell her about the outside world.

The black aura on An Ru's body dissipated, and she returned to her gentle appearance, smiling and listening seriously...

A meal, just passed like this.

After the meal, I sat side by side with her in front of the door, staring at the mountains in the thick fog in the distance.

"It's great."

An Ru's eyes were blurred, and suddenly turned her head and asked me: "Brother Jingzhe, can I lean on you?"

I didn't respond, but just pulled the small stool closer to her.

An Ru smiled brightly, tilted her head and rested it on my shoulder, and said in a dreamy voice that she was always lonely before, no one needed her, and no one wanted to talk to her. She always looked at the distance quietly, as if only the sky and the mountains in the distance could hold her helpless soul. At that time, she was thinking, how nice it would be if someone could accompany her like now.

"You said, how nice it would be if I didn't die, so that we could stay together like this forever."

She murmured to herself, and my heart froze. I wanted to explain the difference between sympathy and never leaving, but after thinking about it, I didn't say anything in the end. The word sympathy itself was a kind of hurt. Moreover, maybe this lonely girl herself couldn't tell the difference between friendship and love. She just wanted someone to accompany her, but my heart was too complicated.

Fortunately, she did not continue to talk about this. She changed the subject and said, "It's a pity that I died after all. The Yin and Yang separated. Even if it is right in front of me now, it feels so far away..."

Later, she finally talked about what I wanted to know, as if she was talking in a dream.

In fact, even she herself could not explain the whole transformation process clearly.

She only knew that when she was killed, the stone was so cold that the sweat she had been struggling with was frozen, making her face stick to the stone. She heard the laughter of Ma Liuzhi and the brothers. The more she struggled, the more fiercely they laughed. There were many big stones there, but they only took a stone that was not much bigger than a brick and kept hitting her head. She didn't feel any pain, but heard the sound of bones breaking, and she became more and more scared.

Then, she found herself floating up and leaving her body...

At that time, Ma Liuzhi took out a knife and wanted to cut off the head of the corpse, but the knife was very blunt. When it came to the bone, it couldn't cut it. Several of his brothers tried to break the bone, but failed. Finally, in anger, they picked up a big stone together and smashed the head into pieces, and then left.

It's hard to describe what it feels like to watch your body being destroyed. An Ru was terrified and squatted beside the corpse and never left.

Later, she found that her body had not rotted, the wounds on her body had healed, and even the broken head had healed again...

At that time, she suddenly had a strong urge to get into the body.

This urge grew day by day, and one day, she couldn't hold it back and got in, like an instinct, and then... she became like this.

As for why this corpse healed itself, I think modern science can't explain it at all, and it can only be attributed to the category of extraordinary people of the Ran clan.

I think her current state is probably a kind of alternative reincarnation.

She is indeed dead, and the three souls and seven spirits are no longer called souls, but ghosts. As for all kinds of extraordinary things, such as hunger and body temperature, they can only be attributed to her body.

In this regard, I can only sigh that there are all kinds of wonders in the world.

Then, I asked about the things in the Three Gods Temple. What did Ma Liuzhi find in it?

"I don't know much, but... I have been to that temple several times and heard some things."

An Ru said softly: "They said that there is a ruin under the temple, with many books and a bed. Ma Liuzhi fell asleep on that bed. Some people say that it has been integrated into the bed, and its power comes from that bed!!"

Bed?

The first thing I thought of was something that nourishes the soul, but Ma Liuzhi has been integrated into that thing, which is not a feature of ordinary soul-nourishing things. It might be some new thing of the Ran tribe. After thinking about it, I asked, "So, as long as we break that bed, Ma Liuzhi should be finished, right?"

"That's right."

An Ru said, "But, Ma Liuzhi is with that bed day and night, and no one can get close to that bed. If we go rashly, it will only backfire. Now Ma Liuzhi has become a force to be reckoned with, and we can't fight him. We can only think of a way to lure him away. Anyway, it has come to this point, so we can only strike first!"

But An Ru had no idea how to get Ma Liuzhi away.

I fell into deep thought, thinking about what An Ru said. Gradually, a plan came to my mind. However, there were still many things that needed to be confirmed before it could be successfully implemented. I didn't say much to An Ru, except that we did it very cleanly when we killed General Gousheng, and the other party should not have reacted yet. We still have some time to slowly think about countermeasures...