Chapter 148 Qingqiu (VIII)
Everything in front of Lu Ren's eyes was white, and for a moment he thought he had returned to his own blank spiritual world.
But the voice of Li Boyang, who could not exist in the spiritual world, soon rang in Lu Ren's ears: "Follow me closely, don't get separated. This place is not far from the territory of Qingqiu. The mountain mist is probably the masterpiece of fox demons. When the foxes appear in the world, they don't want others to see their faces clearly, so they like to use mountain mist to cover their tracks. Remember, don't meet fox demons in the mountain mist, otherwise you will be captured by them and will never let you return to the human world."
As Li Boyang was speaking, he heard the sound of drums and music coming from the misty mountain. The sound of the drums and music was intermittent, and Lu Ren could not hear it clearly. Just when Lu Ren was still wondering if it was his hallucination, a desolate suona sounded out of nowhere, like a shrill cry, breaking through the mist and hitting the ears of the two.
The sound of the suona made Lu Ren shudder: "What... is this sound?"
Li Boyang also frowned . "It seems that the fox tribe is holding some kind of ceremony. I'm not sure. But just in case, we should try to stay away from where the sound comes from."
Having said that, in the open space, the sound of the drums and music was like a woven net, wrapping around the two people from all directions , making it difficult to identify the source. The mountain mist blurred the specific reference objects around them, causing the two to be unable to determine whether their route was a straight line, and they could only rush around like headless flies. In the end, they were surprised to find that they were getting closer and closer to the music.
Lu Ren was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. He thought to himself, "I can't be so unlucky. It's impossible for me to run into him head-on."
Seeing that the situation was not right, Li Boyang immediately took out two yellow talismans from his pocket and slapped them on his and Lu Ren's foreheads respectively, while admonishing: "Don't open your eyes. This talisman can only interfere with the monster's cognition. If your eyes meet the monster's, the talisman will be ineffective. Try to hold your breath for a while. Although the talisman is protecting you, a powerful monster can still smell the slightest breath of a living person."
These are all life-saving tricks. How could Lu Ren dare to neglect them? He quickly nodded in agreement.
Li Boyang was worried and reminded carefully: "Listen carefully to my footsteps, don't get lost."
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of suona exploded as if it was right next to his ear.
Li Boyang immediately made a decision: "Close your eyes!"
Lu Ren didn't dare to be vague, he immediately closed his eyes and slowly backed away. At first he could still hear Li Boyang's footsteps, but the sound of the drums and music was so loud that it gradually covered Li Boyang's footsteps, and Lu Ren gradually couldn't hear it clearly.
Unable to determine the direction, Lu Ren hesitated for a while before he mustered up the courage to grope back a few steps, and unexpectedly he heard footsteps again.
Lu Ren was delighted, thinking, "Luckily I didn't get lost." But his joy lasted only a second, and he soon discovered something was wrong - there were too many footsteps. It was as if he was in a crowded crowd.
It’s just that these groups of people are not people.
Realizing this, Lu Ren stiffened his body. He didn't dare to move at all, for fear that he would be discovered if he moved. He could already hear the sound of clothes rubbing against each other, and he was also clearly aware that his situation did not seem ideal. Lu Ren closed his eyes tightly and even held his breath, for fear that he would accidentally expose his whereabouts.
The deafening music whizzed past Lu Ren's ears. After a roar, the sound gradually became smaller, and it could be heard that the monsters around were gradually moving away.
This realization made Lu Ren unconsciously relax a little. Holding his breath for a long time had already made his face red. If he continued like this, before the monster discovered him, Lu Ren would be suffocated to death. He really couldn't hold it any longer, so he bravely took a deep breath secretly.
It was this breath that ruined things.
Only a delicate female voice was heard in the wilderness: "What's that smell?"
The voice was soft and weak, as if it had no bones, but it was very penetrating and could be accurately transmitted to Lu Ren's ears amidst the noisy music.
The originally lively drum and suona music came to an abrupt end, as if an invisible giant hand had taken away all the sounds in the world, and the whole scene suddenly became as silent as death.
Lu Ren felt his head suddenly go blank, this was a fatal mistake.
“We’ve been discovered.”
Lu Ren subconsciously continued to hold his breath, while his brain was working rapidly - now that Li Boyang was in danger and nowhere to be found, he had no choice but to save himself. He knew that the drums and music were some distance away from him, so he must have reached the edge of the monsters. If he quickly retreated, he might be able to evacuate the fox tribe before he could hold his breath again.
Lu Ren did have some gambling elements in mind, because he didn't know how the monsters around him were currently distributed. If there was anything wrong with Lu Ren's thinking, it was that he never admitted that his luck had always been pitifully bad and was not suitable for gambling.
Lu Ren took only two steps back when he hit a wall, a hard body. Then a pair of hands like iron hoops firmly controlled Lu Ren's arms. Lu Ren tried to struggle, but he was like an ant trying to shake a tree, unable to move.
At the same time, a rough voice sounded above Lu Ren's head: "Here it is! I caught him! I was scared to death!"
The soft and charming female voice sounded very excited: "Well done!" Then Lu Ren felt a hurricane rushing straight to his face, and at the same time, a soft but cold hand touched his face.
The woman's voice revealed a smile , and she murmured triumphantly, "I caught you."
Lu Ren was so shocked that he was speechless. He instinctively knew that the situation was not good and he had to come up with a countermeasure as soon as possible. The best way was to let the chaos fragments above his head attack immediately.
But a familiar feeling of trance suddenly overwhelmed Lu Ren's mind, and the blank spiritual world suddenly enveloped Lu Ren.
Before he lost consciousness, Lu Ren's only thought was: "I can't be so unlucky."
When Lu Ren returned from the spiritual world again, the first thing that recovered was his hearing. He heard the familiar drum and suona sounds. Then his sense of touch recovered. He found that his body was soft, but his whole body was bumpy, as if he was in some moving vehicle.
He closed his hand and touched his forehead, and found that the yellow talisman had been peeled off, so he opened his eyes resignedly. The first thing he saw was the red ceiling, but the ceiling was very small and low, and it didn't look like a house. Lu Ren calmed down - this was a moving sedan chair.
Bright red curtains hung from the top of the sedan chair and meandered to the bottom. The bottom was covered with red cushions, which was why passers-by felt it was very soft underneath.
Large patches of glaring red clearly revealed that this was a wedding sedan.
"Are you awake?" The soft female voice came from behind Lu Ren.
Lu Ren turned around and saw a fox in a wedding dress. Below the fox's neck was a perfect human woman, with a lifelike phoenix embroidered on the gorgeous ancient wedding dress, and a pair of moon-like hands stretched out from under the bright red gauze, making the skin look as seductive as frost and snow.
But if you look up, you can see a huge fox head firmly placed on the cloud shoulders decorated with golden tassels. The snow-white fox head is furry.
The fox opened and closed its mouth, speaking horrifying words: "I just felt the journey to my wedding was too long and boring, so I wanted to have some snacks. Who would have thought that you would deliver them to my door by such a coincidence."
If Lu Ren had heard people mention foxes getting married in the past, he would have definitely found it extremely horrified.
But maybe it was because he had been working in the Immigrant Household Survey Bureau for a long time that he had developed courage, or maybe it was because he had experienced too much during this period and was a little numb. Lu Ren now looked at the slender and protruding muzzle of the fox head, and Lu Ren had a sudden idea: "If two foxes like this kiss, with such a long muzzle, their bodies need to stand far away.
Like a rectangle.”
In this situation where he could be eaten at any moment, Lu Ren actually found it funny for no reason.
The fox-headed bride didn't know that Lu Ren was actually distracted. She only noticed that this man dared to stare at her motionlessly after hearing what she said, and he seemed quite brave.
Then he thought of the human stories he had often read before, and thought to himself, "This human being doesn't look very impressive. Could it be that he is trying to play the pig and eat the tiger and give me a slap in the face?"
The fox-headed bride felt something was not right the more she thought about it. She saw Lu Ren dressed in Taoist attire and thought he was a visitor from the human world.
You have to know that after the separation of the Mountain and Sea Realm and the Human Realm, no one has been here for three hundred years. This person not only broke through the Mirror Flower Water Moon Technique, but also dared to trespass into the wedding ceremony of the young master of the Qingqiu Fox Clan. Could he really be a ruthless character? And the smell on this person also smells a bit strange...
Thinking of this, the fox-headed bride began to feel a little apprehensive. There were only two of them in the bridal sedan. If they really angered this man, he would do everything to the death, and then she would be in trouble.
The fox-headed bride felt inexplicably annoyed with herself. She shouldn't have been so hasty in pulling the person into the sedan chair.
She was worried that Lu Ren was a master of Taoism and would hurt her, and she was also worried that Lu Ren was just bluffing. You know, Qingqiu is a very boring place. It's a pity to let go of something interesting.
While she was hesitating, the fox-headed bride rolled her eyes and said to Lu Ren, "Don't worry, I am kind-hearted and won't eat you. You just need to accompany me on the way and serve me well. After we get married, I will naturally let you go."
Stay by his side first, observe carefully, and add more food if he shows any weakness.
Lu Ren naturally couldn't fight the fox-headed bride head-on. After all, even if he beat the bride, there was still a long procession outside to welcome the bride. So Lu Ren chose to follow the fox-headed bride's wishes and sat down beside her obediently. He combed her hair with a comb, listened to her complaints, and planned his escape plan.
The fox-headed bride is named Yue Shu. She is the daughter of an elder of the Qingqiu Fox Clan. This time she is going to marry the young master of the Qingqiu Fox Clan - Li Bei.
Yue Shu complained in her charming voice: "We only met once when we were kids, and we have to walk for a whole day and night to get married just for blood purity. It's really troublesome. Hiss, be gentle, you're hurting me!"
The sound of drums and music outside the sedan chair continued, and the sound of suona made Yue Shu's already irritable heart even more irritable.
Lu Ren could only use a lighter hand to comb the fur: "Are your two families so far apart?"
Yue Shu seemed to feel comfortable with the combing, and said everything she knew: "The young master of the Qingqiu Fox Clan will go to the East Lord to meet him for marriage, and this trip is on the way to the East Lord's residence."
Dongjun lives at the source of Mirror Flower and Water Moon, close to Qingqiu's sacred Qingchi, about a day and a night away from the fox clan's residence.
Yue Shu said that she didn't want to get married at all. She was only 500 years old, still young, and hadn't practiced enough. Her brain couldn't even transform into a human. As a result, she was forced to marry the young master of Qingqiu. She didn't have a good impression of the young master of Qingqiu, Li Bei. Li Bei was coerced by the Qingqiu fox tribe since he was a child and became a tool to fight for the position of the tribe leader. He was not allowed to have his own thoughts and his emotions were suppressed for a long time.
"The young master laughs all the time and at everything, just like a fake person wearing a mask."
