The Spirit World

Chapter 248 The more I miss you, the clearer it is, and the more I can’t express it in words.

The Arc Forest is located in the northern part of Wenti County. It is a wide area formed by two uplifted hillsides. It is flatter than the hills and wider than the valleys. It is like a green painting connecting the two mountains. The mountain close to Wenti County is called [Dragon Vertebra Mountain], and the mountain close to the north is called [Dragon Wing Mountain]. According to legend, the two mountains were transformed from giant ice dragons that fell and died here. The long mountain ranges in Wenti County are all named after this.

Longzhui Mountain is steeper, while Longyi Mountain is flatter. If you look down from a high place, the names of Longzhui and Longyi will appear more appropriate. Whenever the moonlight shines on the forest vegetation, a silver arc of light will appear across the entire valley.

The entire arc of light is as silver as bright snow, with ice crystals everywhere. Looking down, it looks like a star-colored belt spreading out like a fierce fire. Looking up, it looks like ice and snow in the sky condensed into a bracelet. With the light of the moon, this beautiful arc of light hangs above the forest, and the Arc Light Forest gets its name from this.

White jade stars dripped slowly, and two silver dragon-like caravans were speeding on the avenue of the Arc Forest. Chang Yufeng seemed to be sitting in his seat in a daze.

There were four people in the carriage, Rosades, Shirley, Mami, and him.

Rosades closed his eyes and rested, Shirley was reading a book, Mami was quietly packing her backpack, Chang Yufeng approached the window, sat upright beside the window, and just stared at the forest scene flashing by outside the window.

But the scenery in this forest is mostly dim, and the eyes cannot catch a point that can be looked at for a long time. It passes by in a flash and then is empty, wasting time in vain.

Without Xun Huangying and Lin'er by his side, he suddenly felt an unprecedented loneliness. This loneliness was no longer the kind of loneliness that had lasted for a long time and was completely lost, but a kind of loneliness that was in vain in the mundane world.

If Lin'er and Xun Huangying were in this car, what would he say to Lin'er and Xun Huangying...

He may not know it, but the Lin'er he is familiar with is Xun Huangying.

He may not say anything, but he will always feel at ease and don't have to think about anything.

He suddenly touched his pocket and felt something in it. He felt it with his hand and heard the crisp sound of candy wrapper. Then he realized that this candy, which was stuffed into his pocket at some unknown time and place, was quietly accompanying him.

"Open the window! Open the window!"

A sheep's hoof suddenly slammed against the window, and Chang Yufeng suddenly saw Xun Huangying's big face.

"what happened?"

Chang Yufeng opened the window, attracting the attention of people in the car.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Is that a place for people to stay? It's suffocating." Xun Huangying jumped into the car and suddenly crashed into Tomoe Mami's package: "Ah~ What is this?! Ah!"

Xun Huangying jumped out of the package and landed on Chang Yufeng's shoulder.

There was a strong wind blowing, and the wind in the window was like a tornado, catching everyone off guard. The girls covered their skirts and Chang Yufeng hurriedly closed them. He accidentally saw something pink, but there was almost no pink object in the entire carriage. He thought he was dazzled.

"I'm sorry." Chang Yufeng apologized awkwardly. Tomoe Mami hurriedly said it was okay. Shirley was more angry and annoyed than Chang Yufeng had expected. But when Chang Yufeng looked at him for no apparent reason, she picked up the book angrily and said nothing.

"Hehe, it's still fun to be with an angry little kid."

Xun Huangying looked at Shirley meaningfully. Shirley glared at her, but before she could look away, Rosades' cough stunned everyone in the car.

"Who is this……"

Rosades looked at Xunhuangying.

Xun Huangying has four sheep hooves, two of which he uses for walking, and the other two sometimes turn into fingers and sometimes into hooves. His tiny horns are exposed on his head, and his body is covered with sheep wool. Although he has braids in the summer, revealing his small figure under the fluffy wool, he still looks silly.

"Xun Huangying, you can call me Lord Xun Huangying, old man."

"Old man——"

Rosades glanced at Chang Yufeng. He didn't look at Xun Huangying. For a moment, he actually stunned Chang Yufeng. Chang Yufeng hurriedly wanted to apologize.

Xun Huangying put his hands on his waist, rubbed his nose, and said with a smug smile: "Huh~ What? Can't I call you old man? Just because I'm much older than you?"

At that time, Xun Huangying realized that Rosades was not looking at him, but at Chang Yufeng. He saw hostility and oppression in Rosades' eyes.

That threat is a chilling one.

Obviously the person who offended him was Xun Huangying, but he accurately confirmed that Chang Yufeng was the culprit of the "farce"!

How smart this is.

"Okay, stop messing around! Look for the deserted shadow!"

Chang Yufeng held Xun Huangying in his hand and shook it left and right.

"I'm sorry, Master Rosades. That's just the way he is."

"Arrogant!"

Rosades answered for Chang Yufeng and slowly closed his eyes.

"You will suffer a great loss if you do this. Sir Jack, I hope you can understand this."

"Yes Yes."

Chang Yufeng was called again, and the momentary loss made Xun Huangying notice his expression.

"Hey! Did you say something to my sheep?!"

Xun Huangying jumped out of Chang Yufeng's hand in anger and rushed to Rosades.

"You bad old man!"

"Looking for the shadow of the wilderness!"

Chang Yufeng called Xun Huangying, and Xun Huangying turned around suddenly. He saw a very conflicted face.

Neither the eyebrows, nor the eyes, nor the lips appeared where they should have been like before, but were tangled together in a strange, pleading look.

It seems like I'm saying, stop making trouble.

Chang Yufeng never had this expression before. No matter how Xun Huangying made a scene, he knew that Xun Huangying had the ability to do so. He was the only one in the world.

Xunhuangying, when have you ever cared about anyone other than sheep?

Just like, that time...?

[Ying, who have you ever cared about? ]

That shadow, that shadow was speaking the words that made him sad and suddenly enlightened.

He doesn't need to care about anyone. But only...

"..." Xunhuangying was originally excited with his hands on his waist, but now he felt deflated and put his hands down.

The air inside the car suddenly cooled down.

No one seemed to fit in with the speeding carriage.

Rosades stopped moving. Shirley turned the pages slowly. Mami was originally looking at Xun Huangying, but when she saw Chang Yufeng leaning against the window, she could only focus on her own things.

Xunhuangying should have broken the silence in the car, but now in the dead air in the car, Xunhuangying put in most of the effort.

Suddenly, a powerful force caused the wheels of the entire carriage to slip, and everyone tilted sideways for a moment, then straightened up in an instant.

Everyone was still in shock and looked at each other, but before they could say a word, rapid shaking followed.

The bumps were like a storm that came without warning, concealing the damp bloody air.

Chang Yufeng smelled the blood in an instant. He and Xun Huangying looked at each other for a split second and immediately called out!

"What happened?!"

Chang Yufeng shouted to Tilong in front of him. "What happened?!"

Xun Huangying shouted loudly.

"What happened?!"

Rosades roared and flung open the car door.

The shaking continued, and the voices of the three people were trembling.

A howling wind and blood rushed into the car. Obviously, the others who were protecting outside had already smelled the amazing smell of blood.

"Lord Rosades, it's the Dark Claw cat demon!"

Bachi, riding a white horse, suddenly stepped forward from the middle and responded loudly to Rosades: "The body of the Dark Claw Cat Demon! It was abandoned in the middle of the road!"

"what?"

As soon as Butch said this, everyone in the car looked at the ground as much as possible!
Under the white arc of light, the dark-clawed cat demons were like salted fish drying in the middle of the road, being quickly crushed under the wheels of the carriage one after another. Whether it was the filth or the splattered blood from their friends, the entire road was covered with a layer of terrifying, bloody and strange blood patterns.

The girls screamed that it was disgusting, and Chang Yufeng also felt a little sick. He covered his mouth and nose and watched Rosades slam the door shut.

"Lord Rosades, it was mentioned in Kairi's message. I've already told the guys in charge of the coachmen."

Bucky continued to report to Rosades, but Rosades calmed his face and closed his eyes again in an instant. Although the bloody smell had penetrated into the car, he did not evaluate whether Bucky's instructions were correct, and Bucky continued to return to the center of the team.

"how come……"

Mami Tomoe had already vomited, and was now quite weak and her face was much paler.

"I didn't notice either! Sorry!"

Chang Yufeng quickly apologized,
Although no one would have thought that the road conditions on the highway that everyone is traveling on would be so complicated, as a guide, you must have some self-knowledge.

You can’t just say a few words to get away with it!

Chang Yufeng closed his eyes and searched for any abnormalities around him under the gaze of Mami Tomoe.

There were countless, countless, it seemed that tens of thousands of dark claw cat demons had died on this road. Unless it was a large-scale magic, it was impossible to do it.

It was as if the fleeing Dark Claw cat demon clan was instantly wiped out by the tremendous power of unknown magic.

There aren't even any recognizable magical wounds on their bodies!

Chang Yufeng suddenly opened his eyes, but Xun Huangying's slow words interrupted his exclamation.

Xun Huangying said, "He froze to death."

"What??!"

The children looked at each other again.

"The dark claw cat demon was frozen to death in an instant."

Xun Huangying also began to ponder.

"How is this possible?"

Tomoe Mami looked at Chang Yufeng who was also shocked and said, "How is that possible? It's summer now! It's the height of summer!"

Obviously, she didn't think that anyone would use magic that could kill so many cat monsters in an instant on insignificant cat monsters.

That would be a waste, and how many people would need to be alerted by releasing magic of this magnitude? This was incalculable.

Then, she prefers the more common sense and understandable "natural cause" - winter.

But it's summer now!

Big summer!
Only summer nights can be so cool. If you travel during the day, no one can imagine how hot you will be.

"Can't people freeze to death in the summer? Haven't you heard of snow in June?"

Xun Huangying’s explanation was totally unreliable, but he said seriously: “However, these dark claw cat monsters all over the ground are indeed frozen to death, there is no other way.”

"Yes, he froze to death."

Chang Yufeng also nodded in agreement. Even though Tomoe Mami was still shocked, Chang Yufeng interrupted her shock: "I just don't know why there are so many dark claw cat demons gathered together... and then froze to death together."

Bachi did not stop the carriage. Kerry, a member of the Wolf Fang Guild, was not in the team delivering goods to each other. Instead, he walked alone in front of the team as a vanguard.

This is a very dangerous location, and it is very easy to be targeted by "monsters" and robbers. If you are not careful, you will lose your life. Kaili, who received intelligence from the front, must have known that there were cat demons everywhere. His expression at that time must have been shocked.

But he did not have the power to change the route. This power was all in the hands of Bachi, the commander. Bachi notified his companions who served as coachmen to move forward, so they should move forward and not take a detour.

As guides, Chang Yufeng and Tomoe Mami planned such a route, so this route must be less risky than other routes. It would be unnecessary to take a detour or return to the original route and choose another route at this time.

It's nothing but a pool of blood and mud. Running over them with wheels is a sign of respect. After all, they are not good things to begin with.

"Maybe it's because there's a huge source of magic power."

Shirley joined in the conversation, her book still in hand, but her eyes kept switching between Chang Yufeng and Tomoe Mami.

"The book says that dark claw cat demons like darkness and are timid. They usually survive by absorbing the magic power of smaller monsters. Occasionally, they fight in groups, besieging and killing large monsters, and absorbing magic power in groups. But this kind of spirit of teamwork is almost non-existent among dark claw cat demons."

"The only possibility is that they were attracted here by a magical beast with enormous magical power, and then they all died here inexplicably."

Tomoe seemed to be trying to find out what was in the book, and everyone realized that the book she was reading was a monster encyclopedia, not a serious book.

"Interesting." Xun Huangying nodded thoughtfully.

"Attracted by the huge magical power..."

The bumpy ride calmed down as everyone got used to it. The sounds of liquid bursting came one after another, and no one could help but cover their ears to imagine what the wheels had crushed. Shirley and Mami shook their heads violently, and only when the bumps finally stopped and the sounds of liquid bursting finally stopped did they slowly breathe a sigh of relief.

"It's really scary."

They sighed in unison.

"I think so too. Huh."

Xun Huangying laughed at the girls for being timid and patted his own butt.

"The big monsters are in the Arclight Forest area. No, the reason why the Arclight Avenue was built into an avenue is because there are few and small monsters. There are basically no local monsters that can attract the Dark Claw Cat Demon."

Chang Yufeng also fell into deep thought.

As a guide, he naturally understood what this meant.

This means that there is probably a terrifying monster hiding in the forest that came from somewhere else.

In the end, there is no contradiction between the real and the fake. Because if you take it seriously, you have to be on guard.

But, if that is the case, then his life is over.

(End of this chapter)