Chapter 239

“Ah!”

“Good.”

Meng Meng crooked a finger, and the Gu insect flew back, circling her finger once before disappearing into her sleeve.

Lin Shuyou wasn’t in a hurry to get dressed. He leaned against the wall mirror, twisted his head to look, and saw a small blood hole the size of a fingertip on his back.

“No wonder it hurt so much today.”

Meng Meng took a band-aid and stuck it on Lin Shuyou, explaining, “Sorry, recently it and I have been practicing a new secret technique that Xiao Yuan-ge taught us. It might have gone a bit haywire.”

This small injury wasn’t a big deal, and Lin Shuyou naturally wasn’t angry. Instead, he asked curiously,

“What secret technique?”

“Xiao Yuan-ge created it based on its and my characteristics. It’s still in the testing phase. If it succeeds…”

“What?”

“It’s very effective at hurting people.”

“Then I’m really looking forward to it.”

After putting on his clothes, Lin Shuyou walked into Tan Wenbin’s room.

At this time, Tan Wenbin was curled up in the corner of the bed, with several books in front of him. His eyes were slightly open, and there seemed to be a layer of frost on his brows.

When Lin Shuyou came in, he instinctively felt the cold air in the room being stimulated and actively pushing him away.

Tan Wenbin’s eyelids lifted, and the repellent force disappeared.

“Bin-ge, morning.”

“Mm, morning.”

“How long did you sleep last night?”

“My consciousness was gone for a little while.”

“Does that count as sleeping?”

“Just consider it deep sleep.”

Lin Shuyou first put away the books on the bed, then helped Bin-ge get dressed, and finally carried Bin-ge downstairs to sit in a wheelchair.

According to habit, after pushing down the embankment, they first turned into the peach forest to visit Run Sheng, who was still soaking in the water at this time.

The water level in this pit was dynamic. Each time it would be full at the beginning, then gradually lower day by day, but Xiao Yuan-ge had a way to refill it.

“Bin-ge, I see Run Sheng’s injuries seem to have almost recovered.”

“Let him soak as much as he can. It’s a rare opportunity.”

“So that’s how it is.”

“Let’s go. Push me to the riverside for a walk.”

“Okay.”

After pushing him to the riverside, Tan Wenbin raised his hand to signal a stop.

“Just stop here. Let me stay here alone for a while.”

“Then I’ll come back later.”

“Mm, okay.”

After Lin Shuyou left, Tan Wenbin shrank further into the wheelchair.

Beside his ears, the two children were whispering softly.

Xiao Yuan-ge was right. After the two children woke up, Tan Wenbin’s situation became more difficult. His body and soul were enduring the pain of ice needles piercing them every day.

The two children could also sense their dry dad’s torment and tried to sleep more, not moving around much. When they occasionally communicated, they would also lower their “voices” as much as possible to reduce their ghostly qi fluctuations.

Both sides currently had no quality of life, but thankfully, no matter how bitter or difficult it was, they just had to endure this period. Tan Wenbin had a feeling of experiencing in advance parents accompanying their children during the final sprint for the college entrance exam.

In front, two young people carrying school bags walked over. Tan Wenbin knew them; they were Xiao Yuan-ge’s relatives, Pan Zi and Lei Zi.

Pan Zi and Lei Zi had already given up on the college entrance exam, so naturally, there was no urgent need to study. The two squatted in front of Tan Wenbin. Lei Zi took out a loose cigarette from his pocket, handed one to Pan Zi, and began to smoke.

They couldn’t see Tan Wenbin.

Pan Zi: “Going to school is really meaningless.”

Lei Zi: “Who says it isn’t?”

Pan Zi: “My parents know that with my scores, I can’t get in. I told them it’s better to drop out early and go to the brick factory to move bricks for a couple more months. But they just won’t let me. They want me to keep going to the college entrance exam and try my luck. Heh, for doing papers, you either know it or you don’t. How can you rely on luck?”

Dropping out here didn’t mean truly dropping out. Generally, before the middle school exam or college entrance exam, the head teacher was happy to see the students with the lowest scores in the class voluntarily give up. This way, it wouldn’t affect other students and could also increase the promotion rate. Then, they would just come back to school to get a graduation certificate.

Lei Zi: “My parents are also having the same daydream. If you ask me, the only intelligent ones in our old Li family are my little aunt’s family. Look at my little aunt, and then look at Yuan-zi. What effort are we just wasting?”

Young people have a lot on their minds, so much that they can’t finish talking about it all night. But sometimes it’s very short, so short that it only lasts for the time it takes to smoke one cigarette because they don’t have a second one in their pocket.

They casually threw the cigarette butts and stood up to leave. Coincidentally, they walked directly towards where Tan Wenbin was located behind them.

Tan Wenbin lifted a finger and gently shook it.

“Ouch.”

Pan Zi stumbled and was supported by Lei Zi.

“What’s wrong?”

“My left foot tripped over my right foot.”

“Heh, ha ha ha ha!”

The two carried their school bags, hooked arms, and walked away leisurely.

The sun gradually came out, and the sunlight became brighter. Tan Wenbin shrank back into the wheelchair and closed his eyes.

Not long after closing them, the sound of a motorcycle came from the distant village road.

Tan Wenbin was too familiar with this engine sound. Before, as long as he heard this sound appear at home, he would immediately jump up and turn off the TV and put the remote back in its place.

Cooling down meant he wasn’t completely without consideration, but he was too lazy to bother. Anyway, he couldn’t fool his dad. If he had the right attitude and his dad wasn’t in a bad mood when he came home, he generally wouldn’t find trouble with him.

Opening his eyes to look, he saw Tan Yunlong riding a motorcycle past. After a while, he saw Tan Yunlong riding the motorcycle back.

He didn’t go to Grandpa Li’s house; he really just rode around the village.

Tan Yunlong left without any results.

Tan Wenbin continued to close his eyes and enjoy the sun.

The sun gradually rose. Three hours passed just like that. Lin Shuyou came over once in the middle, saw Bin-ge was still enjoying himself, and left again.

“Ding ling ling…”

Hey, that familiar bicycle bell sound again.

Tan Wenbin opened his eyes again. This time he saw Zhou Yunyun. He was also familiar with her bicycle bell sound. Before, she always rode that bike to school.

Why was she still not back in Jinling for school? Was the holiday that long?

Tan Wenbin, sitting in the wheelchair, had a feeling of sitting at his grave and waiting for his relatives to come and pay their respects one by one.

Even stranger was that Zhou Yunyun actually stopped her bicycle at the edge of the village road, then walked along the riverbank towards him.

She walked past Tan Wenbin, then squatted down obliquely in front of him.

Tan Wenbin leaned on the wheelchair, tilted his head, and examined his target.

Thin, ah. There was less flesh on her face.

This wasn’t good. She had to eat it back quickly. Being too thin didn’t look good.

Tan Wenbin’s two children sat on his shoulders, each putting their index finger in their mouth. They looked at Zhou Yunyun for a while, then turned their heads to look at their dry dad for a while. Finally, the two children looked at each other and smiled.

After looking at the river surface for a long time, Zhou Yunyun stood up, walked back to the edge of the village road, and rode her bicycle away.

Xiao Yuan-ge said that he not only looked more like a dead person than a dead person, but in fact, he should be in a state of ‘dead and cannot be more dead’.

Therefore, for truly close people, a kind of inexplicable induction would occur, which was a feeling of emptiness in the heart, a feeling of panic and unease.

After a while, Lin Shuyou walked over.

“Bin-ge, are you going back?”

“Did you guide her over?”

Tan Wenbin believed in love, but he didn’t believe that love could break through his ghostly technique illusion.

“Ah?” Lin Shuyou scratched his head somewhat awkwardly. “I thought Bin-ge, you wanted to see her. I just met her in the village and just told her that Bin-ge, you liked to sit here and enjoy the breeze and daze.”

“Mm, not bad.”

“Heh heh.”

“Okay, A Friend, push me back.”

“Okay.”

“Woof woof woof. Woof woof woof!”

A yellow and white dog was barking almost madly. Several villagers were hitting it with tree forks and stones.

This dog had just bitten someone, so it was obviously mad and couldn’t be kept. But because they didn’t have any handy tools, no one dared to go up easily. It was too troublesome to get bitten and then need to get so many shots.

At this time, Lin Shuyou pushed Tan Wenbin over. The mad dog glanced at the crowd opposite, turned its head, and immediately pounced towards Lin Shuyou, wanting to bite him.

Lin Shuyou just let go of the wheelchair and was about to kick it to deal with it, but before the mad dog got close, it suddenly let out a wail, its limbs stiffened, and after friction on the ground, it fell down. Immediately, fresh blood flowed out of the dog’s mouth.

A Friend turned his head in surprise to look at Bin-ge.

Dealing with a mad dog was a very small matter, mainly the way it was dealt with.

Just now, Lin Shuyou didn’t detect any killing intent from Bin-ge’s body, nor did he perceive how Bin-ge cast the spell. The mad dog just died violently.

“Bin-ge…”

“Spell.”

Tan Wenbin had just spelled the mad dog to death.

“Bin-ge, this means you have now is a bit scary, ah.”

No killing intent, instant spell kill.

Although he knew it wouldn’t have such a strange effect against real Xuanmen people or evil things, even if it was just targeting ordinary people, it was already very terrifying.

“This suffering wasn’t endured in vain.” Tan Wenbin narrowed his eyes. “If my body isn’t well but I don’t get a promotion in strength, wouldn’t I be dragging the team down?”

After those several villagers ran over and confirmed that the dog was dead, they left. When they left, they still pointed at Lin Shuyou, indicating that he should deal with the dog’s corpse. No one dared to eat this kind of mad dog.

Lin Shuyou picked up the mad dog’s corpse and pushed Tan Wenbin back to big beard’s home.

Xiao Yuan-ge stood on the embankment.

“Xiao Yuan-ge!”

Li Zhuiyuan walked towards them, first signaling Lin Shuyou to lift his clothes to check his body, and then slightly frowned.

“Xiao Yuan-ge, what’s wrong?”

“You should find time to talk to the children and tell them that body transformation doesn’t need to be overly refined and seek perfection. The later it gets, the higher the cost, and the less worthwhile it is. He is currently picking at details.”

“Okay, I understand.”

Li Zhuiyuan looked at Tan Wenbin sitting in the wheelchair: “Regret it?”

Tan Wenbin tried to act relaxed and said, “How could I? I feel like I’m simply unbeatable right now.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “What’s wrong with this dog?”

Lin Shuyou: “A mad dog bit someone. Bin-ge spelled it to death with one go. I’m planning to find some grass to burn it.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Keep it for now. It’s just right for Meng Meng to use.”

Lin Shuyou said in surprise, “Can Meng Meng even use a mad dog to make poison now?”

At this time, Meng Meng walked out of the house hugging a pile of array materials.

Li Zhuiyuan handed a stack of array design maps to Lin Shuyou: “Go help Meng Meng set up an array for Run Sheng-ge.”

“Okay.”

Lin Shuyou threw the mad dog’s corpse into a corner, washed his hands, and then walked into the peach forest with Meng Meng.

Li Zhuiyuan went to push Tan Wenbin’s wheelchair. The wheelchair was very heavy. Although Tan Wenbin was now thin and weak, he wasn’t without weight. However, the boy pushed it up very easily.

“Xiao Yuan-ge, Run Sheng is about to wake up.”

“Mm. My original intention was to let him soak for a while longer, but his wild nature has awakened first.”

Arriving at the edge of the pit, Lin Shuyou and Meng Meng had already inserted many array flags around it.

Li Zhuiyuan was certain that no matter how crazy Run Sheng became, he wouldn’t hurt himself, but if Run Sheng left here, he might not show mercy to ordinary living creatures.

Therefore, before helping Run Sheng recover his self-consciousness, he must first restrict his freedom.

The array was set up. Li Zhuiyuan squatted at the edge of the pit and stretched out a finger to knock on Run Sheng’s forehead.

Run Sheng’s eyes opened, and they were all white, with no black visible.

He instinctively opened his mouth and exerted force in his waist, as if a wild beast wanted to tear and bite the boy.

But his body still hadn’t left the water surface. As soon as Li Zhuiyuan activated the array, Run Sheng was forced to lie back down, only struggling slightly in the water.

Li Zhuiyuan said to Lin Shuyou and Meng Meng: “You two take turns. Every six hours, someone must come here to check and replace damaged array materials.”

Meng Meng: “Xiao Yuan-ge, Run Sheng he…”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Actually, I can start helping him wake up his consciousness now, but right now his wild nature is just rising. For him to be able to better face and suppress this wild nature later, we must wait until his wild nature is thoroughly stimulated before proceeding with the next step of treatment.”

Tan Wenbin: “Only then will he not easily lose control in the future, and Run Sheng will be able to better master this power.”

Li Zhuiyuan: “It seems you’ve been reading a lot recently.”

Tan Wenbin: “There’s nothing else to do, I can only read books. It’s a pity I didn’t fall into this state when I was in high school, otherwise I would have done better in the college entrance exam.”

Li Zhuiyuan asked Meng Meng: “Is the temporary array on the embankment set up?”

Meng Meng: “Not yet, I’m going now.”

Soon, the temporary array on the embankment was also set up.

For this, Xiao Yingying specially collected all the paper offerings that were originally placed there into the house, then hugged Stu Stu and went to Li Sanjiang’s home.

Meng Meng stood inside the array, with the mad dog’s corpse placed in front of her.

Lin Shuyou stood to the side, his face full of anticipation. He was very curious about the secret technique that Xiao Yuan-ge had tailor-made for Meng Meng and the Gu insect.

Li Zhuiyuan: “A Friend.”

“Here, Xiao Yuan-ge.”

“Don’t just watch, be ready to respond at any time.”

“Understood.”

Lin Shuyou straightened his back and stood at the edge of the array.

Li Zhuiyuan: “Meng Meng, you can start.”

Meng Meng nodded, stepped forward, and waved her hands to tie the seals.

Because she was not skilled enough in coordination and had not yet deeply understood the true meaning of the secret technique, the preliminary steps were more complex. Meng Meng didn’t dare to miss any one step.

Lin Shuyou felt that Meng Meng’s steps were somewhat familiar, but Xiao Yuan-ge was here, so the child didn’t dare to openly communicate with him.

Tan Wenbin, sitting in the wheelchair, opened his mouth and said, “Sacrifice dance?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Star Host Yin Yang Step, a kind of Nuo dance, belonging to the witch branch, used to communicate with gods and ghosts, and also often used for ancestor sacrifice.”

After the steps were finished and the seals were tied, Meng Meng let out a low shout, holding incense in her left hand and a talisman in her right. After swinging them three times, the incense and talisman burned up. She raised both arms high and performed the kowtow ritual.

The next moment, the Gu insect flew out from Meng Meng’s body and drilled directly into the mad dog’s corpse.

Soon, the mad dog’s corpse began to swell like a balloon being inflated. Just when it looked like it was about to explode, dense holes appeared, and the corpse quickly flattened back. The skin and flesh on it began to rot, and then it started to bubble like boiling water.

Tan Wenbin: “Offering sacrifice… who is this being offered to?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Who else could it be?”

Tan Wenbin: “Fengdu Great Emperor?”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Mm.”

Why did the food Meng Meng made have poison? Ordinary people had no blessings to enjoy it because what she made was a tribute.

Li Zhuiyuan just used Meng Meng’s characteristic to let her perform a sacrifice ritual to offer this mad dog’s corpse to Fengdu Great Emperor, thereby guiding down feedback from the Great Emperor.

Ordinary people wouldn’t dare to do this. After all, who would dare to offer a mad dead dog to the Great Emperor?

Li Zhuiyuan wasn’t worried about this. After all, on the day he was captured back to Fengdu and the Great Emperor announced his crimes, this… wasn’t qualified enough to be at the top of the list.

Suddenly, from inside the rotting flesh, a group of black insects crawled out. Among them, one was the Gu insect’s body, emitting a golden light.

Meng Meng was just trying to control these newborn insects through her Gu insect.

The insect group began to arrange and combine on the ground. Everything seemed orderly.

But when Meng Meng planned to control them to fly up, their pairs of wings, like ladybug wings, unfolded and fanned. The insects collectively flew up.

But soon, the originally neat queue began to become chaotic. Insects constantly collided and fell, bumping into each other everywhere. The whole scene became a mess.

Next, whether they were falling or flying, all the insects fell into intense unease and agitation. Finally, they actually collectively pounced towards Meng Meng. This was a reversal of phagocytosis!

Li Zhuiyuan: “A Friend!”

Lin Shuyou’s figure appeared behind Meng Meng, pulling her out of the array. The Gu insect’s speed was also not slow, and it quickly drilled out and fell back into Meng Meng’s sleeve.

Li Zhuiyuan grasped his palm, the array activated, and all the insects inside were instantly crushed.

Meng Meng: “Xiao Yuan-ge, I’m too stupid, I failed…”

Li Zhuiyuan: “Mad dog corpses are still more difficult. Let’s start practicing from the simplest ones. You ask Aunt Liu to buy more meat every day when she buys vegetables. The kind isn’t limited, as long as it’s fresh.”

Meng Meng: “Okay, I understand.”

Meng Meng walked into the house and moved out a sacrificial table from inside, solemnly offering a sacrifice again.

This was what Xiao Yuan-ge taught her. Every time she practiced this secret technique, whether she succeeded or not, she had to offer a proper sacrifice to the Great Emperor, purely as an apology.

The candle flame on the sacrificial table swayed. Meng Meng lit the yellow paper and sent it into the fire basin.

Suddenly, there was clearly no wind, but the burning yellow paper spun out on its own, finally falling into the wine bowl on the sacrificial table and turning into fly ash.

Meng Meng: “Xiao Yuan-ge, there’s a message…”

“Calling you back home to sacrifice to your ancestors again?”

“No…”

Li Zhuiyuan walked over and lowered his head to look.

In the bowl floated four twisted words – [Return to Sect, Worship Master]

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