Chapter 80: Searching for Relatives (Part 2)
Lu Ren was quite surprised at the arrival of the mountain ghost, because after the evil Buddha incident, Lu Ren had tried his best to invite the mountain ghost to leave together, but the mountain ghost declined.
Lu Ren remembered that he sincerely said to the mountain ghost at that time: "Ali, the mountain temple has been abandoned, and there are fewer and fewer people in the village. Why don't you come with me to the city? I am grown up now and can support you."
The mountain ghost shook her head. She looked at the lush green forest in the distance with gentle eyes and said, "No, I won't leave. I love this place. And I'm a mountain god. I can't leave the mountains for too long." After saying this, the mountain ghost turned to look at Lu Ren again. She smiled and added, "But don't worry. After I restore the vitality here, I will come to see you."
At that time, Lu Ren couldn't force it anymore after hearing this. He wrote down his contact information and address on a small piece of paper and handed it to Shan Gui solemnly: "It's a deal then!"
Lu Ren originally thought that it would take a long time for the mountain ghost to restore the mountain to life, but he didn't expect that the mountain ghost would come to see him after only two months. Of course , Lu Ren was very welcome to this.
But besides being pleasantly surprised, Lu Ren also had a hint of doubt: "A-Li, why are you here? Have you finished everything in the mountain?"
The mountain ghost gave a negative answer: "Not yet, but I came here this time to ask for your help."
Lu Ren was stunned for a moment: "Ask me for help?"
Although Lu Ren was not sure what he could do to help the mountain ghost, as long as the mountain ghost asked for help, Lu Ren would definitely do his best. So he asked, "What happened?"
However, before the mountain ghost could say anything, he saw that the door, which had only been half opened by the mountain ghost, was suddenly forced open from the inside by a huge force, and the door panel hit the wall with a loud "bang".
Then a thick black tentacle stretched out from the door and tightly wrapped around Lu Ren's waist.
Lu Ren: Hmm? Why does this scene seem a little familiar?
Just as Lu Ren was doubting his life, a huge force suddenly pulled him into the room. Li Li's legs, which Lu Ren was carrying on his back, also fell to the ground with a "snap".
Then, after a dizzy spell, Lu Ren was thrown heavily onto the sofa. Everything happened so fast that Lu Ren only had time to lie on his familiar sofa, staring at the slightly yellowish white round ceiling light in his house and blinking.
Then, a face appeared in front of him, looking down at him. It's not quite accurate to call it a face, because it was actually a bear face, a teddy bear face.
A brown furry teddy bear was lying with its face above Lu Ren. At this moment, its lifeless button eyes were squeezed into an inverted triangle shape because of anger. It was staring at Lu Ren, fully expressing its dissatisfaction. The zipper on the back of the teddy bear had a small slit, and the huge black tentacle came out from this slit. It seemed that as a substitute for cotton, the black tentacle had become the stuffing of this bear.
It was with the support of these huge black tentacles extending from the back of the teddy bear that this teddy bear, which was only the size of a watermelon, stood at an extremely high position, and its actual height even looked taller than Lu Ren.
The innocent teddy bear and the terrifying black tentacles form a terrible picture that will give every child nightmares.
Lu Ren looked at the tentacles made of black smoke and suddenly felt very familiar. Lu Ren thought for a moment, then reacted with an "ah": "This is the ruins!"
"How did this thing get out of Guixu?" Lu Ren thought in horror. He had seen the horror of the ruins before. He couldn't help but worry about the safety of the two remaining people. He almost immediately shouted towards the door, "Lu Yang, A Li! Don't come over here, this guy is very dangerous, run! Go to the Foreign Household Investigation Bureau to call for support."
The Qilin cub was not willing to watch his beloved Ah Ren being bullied, so he quickly jumped into the door and instantly changed back into his lion-sized Qilin form, then with a "woop" he pounced towards the teddy bear viciously.
Unexpectedly, the Qilin cub was stopped by the mountain ghost before he could take two steps. The mountain ghost seemed very calm about the sudden appearance of the ruins. The word "calm" may not be accurate.
The mountain ghost said, "A Bing, don't do this."
Then the teddy bear, who was still in a furious state, snorted and reluctantly let go of Lu Ren.
Qilin cub and Lu Ren were both stunned when they saw this. Xu Hai seemed to know the mountain ghost.
To be precise, it was not just acquaintance, but the remains were brought to Lu Ren's house by the mountain ghost, and the thing that the mountain ghost wanted Lu Ren to help with was about the remains.
After Xu Hai let go of Lu Ren, Lu Ren sat up from the sofa. Then, the chaotic fragments that had been quietly nestling in Lu Ren's hair suddenly seemed to sense something, and trembled as it poked its head out from between Lu Ren's hair, swaying left and right, and finally as if it had determined the direction, it firmly extended its limbs towards the position of the teddy bear, just like the tentacles of a snail.
As if sensing something, the teddy bear extended a huge black tentacle behind it towards the direction of the chaos fragments.
Despite the huge size difference between the two tentacles, the Chaos Fragment still touched the tentacles. Their ends touched each other, and the scene was like a newborn baby stretching out its fingers to its parents, and the parents responded to it. The Chaos Fragment even rubbed against the black tentacle with attachment.
As mentioned before, there are no two identical ruins in the world, so this ruin with octopus-like tentacles is undoubtedly A Bing who has not appeared for a long time.
A Bing escaped from Fengxu Village through a passage that was not sealed tightly.
This can't be blamed on Si Yuan who sealed the passage at that time. In fact, he sealed the passage very tightly. But just like a broken glass, no matter how tightly it is sealed, it can never be restored to its original state. There are still some unknown cracks on the re-sealed stone wall. But the cracks are really small, and ordinary corpses will definitely not be able to get through. But unfortunately, A Bing's mimicry is an octopus. As a soft animal, drilling cracks is just right for him.
At that time, after sending out his tentacles to cross the passage, A Bing in Guixu stood in front of the crack of Guixu and waited for a whole week. Finally, A Bing, who had run out of patience, could no longer bear it and decided to retract his tentacles. It was at that time that he found that his tentacles had been cut off.
A Bing felt very sad because that was his favorite tentacle, and he could tie the most beautiful bow with that tentacle. So A Bing looked at the broken part of his tentacle, and then looked at the passage in front of him, which he didn't know where it led to and whether it was safe. Finally, he dived in, determined to find the tentacle that could tie the most beautiful bow.
When A Bing was squeezing himself out of the crack in the passage of Fengxu Village like toothpaste, the mountain ghost who was inspecting on the opposite hill happened to find him. The mountain ghost was very alert and ran towards the crack quickly, trying to nip the danger in the bud. However, A Bing's speed of drilling through the crack was faster than the mountain ghost imagined. When the mountain ghost came to him, A Bing had completely escaped from the passage.
He was lying on his stomach by the pond, studying a frog.
As a smuggled creature from Guixu, A Bing would naturally be rejected by the rules of the human world like the evil Buddha. However, as a parasitic creature, A Bing only needed to find a host as soon as possible.
At that time, A Bing took a fancy to the frog by the pond. This was the first time A Bing saw a frog, and he was a little curious about this little creature. So he did not start parasitizing it, but wanted to study the structure of the frog first.
When Ali arrived, Bing was poking the frog's back with one of his tentacles, and the rest of his tentacles were spread out on the edge of the pond, looking gentle and harmless. Bing was so focused on observing the frog that he didn't even notice Ali's arrival.
"Just like a curious child." Ali thought so, and did not attack Ah Bing who had his back to her. Instead, she asked softly: "Excuse me..."
A Bing was actually in a very weak state due to the repulsive force of the human world. Based on the principle of keeping a low profile since he couldn't win, A Bing cooperated and answered the mountain ghost's questions obediently.
At the end of the conversation, Ah Bing cried to the mountain ghost with snot and tears: "Wuwuwuwu, my tentacles, the tentacles that can eat and tie bows, wuwuwuwu."
Since A Bing was crying so hard, Shan Gui told him that she had a brother who worked at Jie Si, and promised to help him call Lu Ren to see what the current situation of A Bing's tentacles was. After all, it was Jie Si who took A Bing's tentacles away.
So the mountain ghost took A Bing to the village.
Before leaving the pool, the very reliable mountain ghost kindly helped seal the crack that A Bing used to smuggle.
Since the incident with the evil Buddha, only a few elderly people are left in the village. Most of them have poor eyesight and memory, and when they have nothing to do, they move bamboo chairs and sit in front of their homes to bask in the sun.
When these old people saw the white mountain ghost and the black Ah Bing passing by, they surprisingly all pretended not to see them. When Ah Li and Ah Bing walked away, these old people patted their chests and breathed a sigh of relief, saying: "Too fierce. Black... Black and White Impermanence came out in broad daylight to take souls. Fortunately, I pretended not to see it, otherwise my soul would have been taken away."
Ali naturally didn't know what the old people were thinking. Her destination was the house of Uncle Lu Ren. Although the house had been uninhabited for two months after the evil Buddha incident, the landline phone inside was still usable. Shan Gui took out the contact information that Lu Ren had left for her before he left, and called Lu Ren with the landline phone.
Lu Ren, who was on an adventure in Mount Xumi at the time, was unable to answer the call.
Shan Gui made several calls in a row, but did not get a response from Lu Ren, and she felt a little worried. So she decided to go to Lu Ren 's city to confirm Lu Ren's safety and solve A Bing's troubles.
When leaving Lu Ren's uncle's house, Shan Gui took the teddy bear left by Lu Lan as the new host for A Bing.
Since Shan Gui and A Bing didn't know how to take human transportation, they walked from Fengxu Village while asking for directions.
They asked the flowers that were about to wither, the migratory birds that traveled back and forth for the winter, the fallen leaves that were sleeping in the autumn, and the west wind that decided to wander around...
Finally, after a month of trekking, we arrived at Lu Ren's home this afternoon.
