Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 43: Weird Things on a Rainy Night
"You guys stay, I'll go take a look!" Tang Zheng spoke almost immediately after he saw the nameplate hanging around the little fox's neck.
Before Meng Fenghua and Tang Zixie could answer, Tang Zheng had already flashed out of the cellar where they were hiding.
Because the little fox that snatched the "Chenpi Lengchi Rabbit" from Xiao Lingling's hand was so agile and so fast.
If Tang Zheng was stunned for even a moment, he would probably completely lose track of the little fox.
"Master... did you go to help me steal the rabbit?" Little Lingling felt that in the blink of an eye, not only the bad fox that stole the rabbit meat disappeared, but even the master disappeared. She immediately stopped crying and asked in a baby voice.
"That's right, Master will definitely get your rabbit meat back." Meng Fenghua smiled, hugged Xiao Lingling in his arms and said.
Tang Zheng was just coming out of the cellar when a loud thunderclap sounded in the sky and lightning instantly illuminated the forest as bright as day.
The little fox holding the jade bowl containing "Cold Rabbit with Tangerine Peel" did not run away. Instead, it stopped not far from Tang Zheng and looked back at him.
With the help of the lightning, Tang Zheng could see the appearance of the little fox clearly.
It was small, probably only the size of a big cat, without a single speck of hair on its skin, its entire body was snow-white, and its two amber eyes were flashing with a cunning light.
"Fuck, what did I see? The look in this fox's eyes... seems to be mocking me?" Being looked down upon by a fox, Tang Zheng felt that his personality was deeply insulted.
Tang Zhengxing poured all his strength into his legs, which suddenly started moving, and rushed towards the little fox. However, the little fox was not panicked. It shook off its white fur, turned around nimbly, and started running again.
A man and a fox chased each other in the dark and muddy forest.
What is amazing is that neither Tang Zheng nor the little fox were slowed down by the bad environment. Even their clothes and fur were not soiled by the mud and water all over the ground.
"Something is not right..." Tang Zheng was chasing the little fox, becoming more and more frightened.
First, this fox was far beyond the reach of ordinary wild beasts in terms of speed and agility. Even with Tang Zheng's peak two-star strength, he had been chasing it for such a long time, but the distance was not shortened much.
Second, this fox seems to have a serious obsession with cleanliness. After running for such a long time, its fur is still snow-white, not dirty at all by the mud and water in the mountains and forests. If it were not a monster with considerable intelligence and it did not usually live in these mountains and forests, it would probably not develop such a meaningless habit as cleanliness obsession for monsters.
After chasing for about half an incense stick of time, the little fox suddenly stopped again. Tang Zheng slowed down his pace, but without hesitation, he raised his hand and shot straight at the little fox with an almost instantaneous move.
The little fox was caught off guard and was hit directly by the tiny starlight.
"Hit!" Tang Zheng watched his martial arts hit the little fox that was very fast, and thought to himself that he was finally going to catch this little guy.
But the next scene made Tang Zheng stunned.
The little white fox, whose paw was hit by the opening move, was not injured or bleeding. The sharp star power of the opening move directly penetrated the body of the little white fox and shot into the soil behind it, leaving a deep hole.
After the little white fox once again showed Tang Zheng a cunning and contemptuous expression, its entire body gradually faded until it finally disappeared completely into the night.
"Invisibility? Teleportation? Evaporation?..." Seeing this strange scene, Tang Zheng's mind immediately emerged with several most likely situations, but he quickly denied them all.
"The nameplate didn't fall off, which means this troublesome little guy is still alive... But how did it dodge my opening move, and how did it suddenly disappear?" Tang Zheng stood there, thinking.
Before Tang Zheng figured out the problem, he felt that the entire forest suddenly became darker. The lightning that had originally flashed across the sky no longer appeared, and the temperature in the forest seemed to drop by several degrees.
"Don't look back... Please, don't look back..." A hoarse female voice suddenly sounded behind Tang Zheng, vaguely heard.
Along with this extremely creepy female voice, Tang Zheng also felt his neck getting cold, as if someone was blowing air gently on the back of his neck.
However, with Tang Zheng's hearing and combat intuition, it was impossible for someone to get so close to him so quietly that he didn't even notice it.
There's something weird! Very weird!
The female voice behind me continued to be heard, making people feel cold, and the urge to turn around and take a look became stronger and stronger.
Tang Zheng suddenly remembered a story he heard from the elders when he was a child.
Legend has it that there are two lamps on people's shoulders, which absorb yang energy during the day and expel evil spirits at night.
Ghosts can't stand the hunger at night, and human flesh is their favorite. But there are two ghost-repelling lamps on people's shoulders, and ghosts are afraid of the power of the two lamps and dare not approach. What to do? So they specifically choose people who walk alone at night to attack. They cry like babies behind people, which is extremely miserable. Cowardly people can't help but look back in fear, and when they turn back, they turn off the lamps on their shoulders, and the ghosts have a chance to attack.
When you are walking alone at night, no matter what happens behind you, even if you are scared, never look back easily.
Tang Zheng has always remembered this story very clearly.
From childhood to adulthood, he has walked countless night roads, but he has never encountered a baby crying behind him.
The hoarse female voice that suddenly sounded behind me today was somewhat similar to the story in this legend.
Tang Zheng wasn't particularly scared, but... he was very curious!
The more you are not allowed to look back, the more you want to look back.
However, as the old saying goes, if you don’t listen to the advice of the elderly, you will suffer the consequences.
In the past, he really didn't believe in gods and ghosts, but now he lives in a world that is very different from the Earth he used to live on. Scientific knowledge is not very popular in Xingyao Continent...
Think about it, a world where astrological talents can bring people back to life, a world where success in cultivation can give one the hope of immortality, a world with both gods and ghosts seems to be more in line with the setting.
Tang Zheng suddenly laughed . Well, if he wanted to see what was happening behind him but couldn't turn around and blow out the light on his shoulder, there was only one way.
Thinking of this, he suddenly bent his legs and straightened his waist, and flew into the air like a bolt of dry land.
Backflip, go!
Tang Zheng thought he had cleverly solved the paradox of not being able to look back and satisfying curiosity, but when he landed steadily, he did not see Sadako, whose face was covered by her hair, or Kayako, who was staring at him with a pair of blood-red devil eyes...
There is still nothing in front of me.
However, he soon discovered something very abrupt and wrong.
After the backflip, the scenery in front of him was exactly the same as before the backflip, with no difference at all!
This is absolutely impossible. He has been tracking the little fox from the cellar to here. He remembers the scenery along the way clearly. It is absolutely impossible for two places to have exactly the same scenery.
But now it is so weird.
"Could it be that my waist strength was too strong and I actually completed a difficult move of jumping 360 degrees in the air just now?" Tang Zheng was a little surprised.
At this moment, the hoarse female voice behind him suddenly let out a sharp laugh like nails scratching on glass, and then continued to murmur faintly: "Don't look back... Please, don't look back..."
This time, Tang Zheng no longer cared about the stories the old people had told him and turned around suddenly.
Behind, there is still nothing!
Behind me, there is still exactly the same scenery!
Tang Zheng was now completely Spartan. The night and dark forests around him seemed to have completely merged into one, turning into a huge mouth that completely swallowed him up.
The route and signs for returning home in Tang Zheng's memory have completely disappeared.
The female voice, the blowing...still continued without stopping.
Tang Zheng remembered another story he had heard from the elders when he was a child.
Legend has it that some people, when passing by unclean places at night, always feel someone whispering in their ears, and their bodies become heavier and heavier and weaker and weaker. However, when they go to the hospital for check-ups, they can never find the cause. Until one day around midnight, when they were passing by a mirror sideways, they accidentally discovered that there was a hideous evil ghost on their back, constantly licking their necks to absorb their yang energy!
Could it be that there is suddenly a ghost on my body?
Tang Zheng thought about it and felt that the current situation was quite similar to the stories told by the old people, and he easily identified with them.
"Fuck, now that I think about it, why are my childhood memories filled with my elders telling me all kinds of ghost stories... Is life always so tragic, or is it just my childhood?" Tang Zheng suddenly complained to himself.
Then, without stopping, he rushed directly to the place where the little fox disappeared.
Things started to go wrong from the moment they started chasing the little fox, so all these weird things must be related to the little fox that stole the rabbit meat.
If this little fox could be caught, all the strange and terrifying phenomena Tang Zheng is currently experiencing should be solved.
The only clue now is where the little fox disappeared.
With Tang Zheng's speed, it should only take a moment to run from where he originally stayed to where the little fox disappeared.
However, when Tang Zheng was running at full speed, he found that things were beyond his imagination for once.
The bush where the little fox disappeared suddenly looked like a path that he would never reach the end of. Tang Zheng ran forward for more than ten breaths and found that no matter how he ran, the distance between him and the bush never changed!
Tang Zheng thought about it and quickly took several steps back, but the result was the same - the bushes were still at about the same distance.
"Ghost Wall?" Tang Zheng suddenly remembered the third .
