Chapter 791
Want to Tear Something
Chapter 791 Want to Tear Something
Finally, with Xue Shao narrowing down the area and kicking away a stone under a locust tree, Xiao Hong finally sensed something and stared blankly at one spot.
Upon seeing this, Xue Shao immediately went to dig with Xi Jin.
In contrast, the encounters between Miao Zhen and Miao He, and Tao Yanbai and Bangchui on the other side were much simpler.
They had just gone their separate ways when Tao Yanbai, who was indecisive, glanced down at the clumsy boy in his arms whose eyes were darting around, and decisively turned around to find Miaozhen.
"Fourth Junior Sister, let's go together." Tao Yanbai hugged the club tightly and said, "I'm afraid it will run away."
Miaozhen glanced at the ginseng doll in his arms, its eyes gleaming with excitement, and said, "Even if it runs away, we'll find it. Someone like it would have a chance to survive if it hid deep in the mountains and forests. Here, if it shows its face, it's doomed. It's better for it to stay with us than with others. At least we can wash its feet and give it a bath occasionally. At most, Junior Uncle will pluck a couple of its tendrils. If it falls into someone else's hands, it will probably be stewed up along with its tassels immediately."
The eager-to-try stick calmed down and silently squatted in Tao Yanbai's arms. As if afraid that Miaozhen would make a move, it even turned around and hugged Tao Yanbai's neck, looking like it was about to cry.
Miaozhen then stopped threatening it and said to Tao Yanbai, "But it's better if we go together. This forest is so big, we can't just search for it by force."
Miaohe: "Then how do we find it?"
Miaozhen sat cross-legged, took out a handful of yarrow stalks, and directly used the Great Derivation Divination Method to perform divination.
Tao Yanbai stared in disbelief: "Fourth Junior Sister, you... you've even learned the Great Evolution Divination Method?"
“Hmm,” Miaozhen replied casually, fiddling with the yarrow stalks in her hand. “After returning from Japan, my master wrote to say that I was going to learn divination. The essence of divination is numbers, which is to resolve doubts.”
She looked up at Tao Yanbai and said, “They brought Xiao Hong’s three pieces of remains all the way here, just so that she could not take revenge even after death and would be bound for eternity. This shows that some of them know about the way of gods and ghosts and believe in it without a doubt.”
“Raising ghosts has specific conditions, as does binding and eliminating them,” Miaozhen said thoughtfully, laying out three yarrow stalks. “And this place is not far from Longhu Mountain, especially in the west, and the fire in the south is also strong, so only the north and east are options…”
Miaozhen laid out the yarrow stalks in her hand one by one until all the conditions were arranged in the correct positions, and then she began to deduce the results.
Because she had only recently begun learning divination, it took her quite a bit of effort.
Tao Yanbai and Miaohe trusted her and didn't urge her. They just squatted down and watched her calculate for almost half an hour. Finally, she clapped her hands and said, "I've calculated it. There is a banyan or locust tree at 30 degrees east of north."
The three of them immediately grabbed their clubs, took out their compasses, and headed directly northeast at 30 degrees.
It's a straight line, without any turns. If it encounters a tree blocking its way, it goes around behind the tree and continues. If it encounters bushes, it flies over them. In any case, it never turns.
Moreover, the three of them were incredibly fast, using their light-footed skills to run and fly until the compass started spinning unsteadily. Only then did Miaozhen come to a sudden stop.
The two immediately leaned forward to examine the compass, and Bangchui poked his head out from Tao Yanbai's arms, urging, "How is it? How is it? Did you find it?"
Miaozhen pressed its head down: "What's the rush?"
She walked a few steps and turned around, walked a few more steps and turned around again, finally pointing ahead with a look of surprise and exclaiming, "Look, a locust tree!"
It was indeed a locust tree. There were no other trees or even weeds within a two-zhang radius around it.
They walked around the locust tree, frowning: "We can't tell exactly where it's buried. Where do we start digging?"
Miaozhen glanced at the compass, which was trembling and appearing chaotic. She felt that she couldn't calculate anything at this moment.
Moreover, the area has been shrunk infinitely, so all that's left is to dig.
So she took out a shovel and spade and said, "Come on, start digging from under the locust tree and dig outwards. I don't believe we can't dig it out."
Bangchui jumped down from Tao Yanbai's arms, tilted his chin up, and said, "Now you'll have to rely on me, right? Just you wait!"
With that, it burrowed completely into the ground with a "poof." Tao Yanbai and Miaohe were startled and pounced to grab it, only to bump heads and fall to the ground with a thud. Miaozhen also took two steps forward, but quickly sensed the club moving back and forth underground and stopped.
With a "poof," the club popped out of the ground again, spitting out a mouthful of mud: "There's a dirty thing over here, it's horrible, and I think it's what you're looking for."
Miaozhen and her two friends exchanged a glance and began digging down next to where the club had emerged.
They wanted the club to take the things out for them, but it was very reluctant, saying that the things made it very uncomfortable, so they had to dig them out themselves.
A moment later, the three of them dug up a red cloth bag.
The three exchanged a glance, then gently took out the cloth bag, which was wrapped with yellow talismans and nailed to the top and bottom.
Miaozhen: "That's so ruthless..."
She pulled out the nail, removed the yellow talisman, and opened the cloth bundle. Inside was a bone with a nail still embedded in it.
Less than a mile away, Xue Shao also dug up a red cloth bag. As soon as he opened the yellow talisman, Xiao Hong looked up and howled in pain, then slammed her head against a locust tree with a thud, writhing in agony.
Hongyan immediately hugged her, but Xiaohong suddenly pushed her away, rolled up her red cloth bag, and disappeared in an instant.
The woman was terrified and immediately followed her scent to catch up.
Xue Shao hurriedly followed behind, asking, "Where are you all going—"
Pan Yun also dug out a red cloth bag. As soon as she got it in her hand, she suddenly looked up, not even having time to greet the weasels, and grabbed Wang Cong and ran away.
Aunt Weasel: ...
Miaozhen and the others were squatting on the ground, trying to figure out how to remove the nails from the bones, when a cold wind blew. When they looked up, all they could see was blood red, and Xiao Hong, with her hair flowing, appeared above them.
The three of them were startled and almost threw her bones away.
"That was terrifying, Xiao Hong! Don't you know ghosts can scare people to death?"
Xiao Hong stared intently at the bones in the cloth bag and said coldly, "Those are my bones."
“Yes, this is yours.” Miaohe picked it up and handed it to her, asking, “Do you need us to help you pull out the nail? We just checked, and if we pull it out by force, the bone might break.”
Tears of blood streamed down Xiao Hong's face, one by one, until she cried out, "This is my bone, it hurts so much!"
Miaozhen sighed, stood up, hugged her, and said, "If you want to cry, then cry."
Xiao Hong gripped the bone tightly in her hand, tears streaming down her face: "I want to tear things apart now."
The three of them stepped aside in unison, and seeing that Bangchui was still squatting in front of her, Miaohe grabbed his hair and pulled him over. Then the three of them pointed at the locust tree and said, "They planted this locust tree, tear it down!"
Xiao Hong rushed forward.
When Pan Jun arrived with Wang Cong, Xiao Hong was tearing apart a tree while screaming.
She broke off the branches of the locust tree and tore them into pieces. She couldn't break the main trunk, so she used her long fingernails to tear off the bark.
Pan Jun paused, silently put Wang Cong down, and squatted down with Miao Zhen and the others to watch her peel the bark from the tree.
(End of this chapter)