Minors are not allowed to enter

Chapter 43

Qing Yi was silent for a while, and then said: "He wants fire, Bai Ling's soul is really fire."

"Fire?" Qing He asked curiously, "If you want fire, wouldn't Qingluan's Tianyang True Fire be better? Then why is he willing to let you all go?"

Qing Yi shook her head: "The attributes of Tianyang True Fire don't match."

As soon as she said this, the other two people understood - because Bai Ling had half of the blood of the ghost race, their flame was the only Yin attribute flame in the Three Realms.

When the Tianyang True Fire burned on the ghosts, eight out of ten were seriously injured on the spot, but the real fire of the soul was different, its lethality was not that great for the ghosts, and it could even be used by the ghosts under special circumstances.

That is to say...

Qing He: "The Ghost King himself wants to use fire?"

"Well, I guess so." Qing Yi nodded, "The strangest thing about this is not that he wants to use fire, but that he used to use it in the past. Every year, he goes to the territory of the Bailing Tribe to beg for fire. We have never refused to give it. I don’t know why he suddenly went to the door to snatch it that year.”

"What is he going to do?" Qing He asked.

"Then who knows?" Qing Yi was also very puzzled, "However, since he needs to use fire, it means that all the larks who were captured should still be alive—for the Fire Feather Clan like us, the fire goes out after death—this It should be the only good news, right?"

"I don't think so," Qing He said while drinking water, holding his chin, "he has become more and more nervous in recent years. Look at the ghost world now, what has he made of it? Drive the ghosts out, and then nest Bullying the dead souls of the human race in the palace. I heard that even the birth rate of the human race has dropped in the human world, right? If there are so many less dead souls to reincarnate, it will drop!"

Xie Ran, who has been silent all this time, blinked and raised his head: "Mother, you said that the ghost king used to come to the clan every year to beg for fire? Then I..." He opened his mouth, only to find that his pronunciation was trembling, "Follow me The one we played with...?"

Qing Yi nodded: "That one is Lord Ghost King."

Xie Ran: "..."

He didn't know how to describe his inner feelings, and the "friend" he was thinking about turned out to be the so-called "enemy".

absurd?Shock? ……betray?

Or heartbroken?

Maybe both.

He searched for a while but couldn't find his own voice, and then he realized that his lips were trembling, and his eyes were unconsciously rounded. When he recovered, he managed to adjust to a "normal" expression.

Qing He exclaimed in amazement: "My God, Xiao Bailing, you are really amazing! You can still play with a crazy tyrant!"

Xie Ran: "..."

I feel even more worried.

"What's the matter, son?" Qing Yi looked at him worriedly, "You don't know it until you know it?"

Xie Ran pursed his lips, and said with difficulty: "Well... I don't know that the one I played with... Uncle... is the ghost king."

"Poor child." Qing Yi reached out and touched the black hair on top of his head, with a look of regret, "The childhood dream was shattered like this."

Xie Ran hid for a while: "...don't touch it."

Not only was he heartbroken, but he was also a little uncomfortable.

To be honest, even if his own mother came to touch him, he wouldn't be too comfortable with his hair.

Seeing that his complexion was not very good, Qing Yi pulled him a bamboo chair, which was covered with the air-dried millet grass leaves that Xie Ran liked to squat on when he was a child, it was dry and cool, and had a nice fragrance.

But Xie Ran, who is doubting the bird's birth, is not interested in cuddling, he urgently needs to do something to make himself forget about that "old friend".

The old does not go and the new does not come.

Maybe it's time for him to find Jing Xuan.

"If you're not happy, don't think about it. Since you're back, just rest here for a night before leaving." Qing Yi patted him.

"No, I..." Xie Ran calmed down, "I'd better find a friend first."

Qing He opened her mouth, looking like she wanted to say something, but was stopped by Qing Yi.She walked up to Xie Ran, looked at him with a smile in her eyes: "Son, you are worried."

"Yes, I do have a little..."

"It seems that he is your very good friend." Qing Yi said.

"Forget it... right?" Xie Ran thought for a while, "Mom, I don't have many friends, so I can't tell if it's good or bad."

"Son," Qing Yi stroked his hair and looked at him gently, "Mother will not stop you, I only have one thing to tell you. We are monsters and beasts. When you encounter something hesitant, believe own intuition."

Although Xie Ran didn't quite understand why his mother said this, but he read some deep meanings that he couldn't express from his mother's eyes.

He was slightly touched, and nodded: "...Okay, then I'm leaving."

"Go."

With Qing He's disapproving gaze, Qing Yi sent Xie Ran to the gate of the valley.Before leaving, she quietly put a pendant in Xie Ran's palm.

"Your cousin was born, and your grandfather was very happy, and he probably figured out something... It was given by him. Mother doesn't need to live here, so I will protect you."

Before Xie Ran had time to thank him, Qing Yi had already pushed him out.He stumbled and took a few steps down, stabilized his figure and then raised his head, Qing Yi was no longer visible.

The palm of his hand felt cold to the touch, Xie Ran looked down and saw a rhombus-shaped pendant in the shape of cyan transparent crystal, he didn't know what it was for.

Grandpa, that is, Qing Yi's "father".

If Xie Ran remembers correctly, when she was a child, she once heard her mother complaining in private that her father didn't understand her choice, why she fell in love with the ghost clan and left Qingluan's territory.Qing Yi smiled and said, "There's no reason why I like it."

She looked gentle, and she was quite self-talking in her bones.

Qingyi has a younger sister, and "cousin" probably refers to her younger sister's child.

Her younger sister is not like her, she may not have left the territory of the Qingluan clan since she was born, and the child she gave birth must be a purebred Qingluan, no wonder that grandpa is happy.

Xie Ran claimed to be "on the same front" as his mother, and he disdained this grandfather who had never met and ignored his mother, and he naturally didn't think much of what he gave.

But, mother would not harm him anyway, Xie Ran took all this stuff away, there was no reason to send it back, so he put the pendant around his neck and left along the mountain road.

……

"Why didn't you stop him?" Qing He anxiously grabbed Qing Yi's shoulder, "What if the King of Ghosts captures him?"

"Back then he was only so young, so he wasn't taken away?" Qing Yi compared a ball that was about the size of her upper body, "Besides, Xiao He, we've lived in this valley for too long. Not to mention, I really want to go out again. I think the Bailing clan belonged to Ran Ran and had the best time with that ghost king. Later, the ghost king changed his temperament and chose to invade the Bailing clan. Ran Ran just happened to be Not in the clan... To be honest, I have an intuition that to solve this matter, I have to rely on burning."

"You..." Qing He was dumbfounded by her analysis of "seemingly reasonable but in fact nonsense", and sighed, "Just brag about your son! If he is taken away, don't cry! "

"Go to your crow's mouth, what are you talking about!"

"You are the crow! Crows are so ugly!"

……

After leaving the yin and yang forest, Xie Ran turned into a bird together and flew forward.

Knowing that the clansmen might still be alive, he relaxed a lot this time, and finally had the heart to take a closer look around.

The untrimmed dark clouds grow wildly, the ghost locust trees are scattered all over the place, and the Youmeng willows are entangled in clusters, making the not-so-bright space in the ghost world even darker.

Even very out of the way.

As Qinghe said, the ghost world has changed a lot, and the so-called "desolation" actually means that it has not been maintained for a long time.

According to Xie Ran's unclear memory, there used to be a lot of ghosts coming to these places he passed by, whether it was maintenance or just hanging out, in short, it would not be as dead and silent as it is now.

For the first time, he had the idea of ​​"wanting to know the reason for the change of the ghost king".

But the top priority is to find Jing Xuan first.

Xie Ran originally thought that with his familiarity with the ghost world, he would be able to find the other party quickly. However, when he really felt that the flame mark he left was nearby, three days had passed.

He accidentally discovered that this place turned out to be the outer area of ​​the ghost king's palace. If he was not careful, he might be discovered by passing ghosts at any time.

Xie Ran landed on a Youmeng Willow that grew into an abstract shape, shrank his small body behind a leaf, and looked out from the gap in the leaf.

After silently counting for three hundred seconds, he took a deep breath and flew out from the gap between the two groups of ghosts patrolling.

Last time, when he learned that the territory had been overthrown, he went deep into the ghost king's palace alone, and he also followed this rhythm.

Decades have passed, and the gang of ghosts has not even changed their patrol time.

And this time, Xie Ran is not going to enter the palace, he is just chasing his own flame mark, which is on the periphery, which is easier than entering the palace.

The only problem is that Jing Xuan seems to be moving all the time, and he has to hurry up and find someone before he changes locations next time.

...I originally thought so.

Unexpectedly, during the flight, Xie Ran was caught by a big hand protruding from nowhere.

That hand is very cold, it is a ghost.

Here and now, "ghost clan" means danger to him.Xie Ran frowned, trying desperately to fly out from between his fingers before closing his palms, but that hand seemed to be very familiar with his flight path, and clasped his fingers tightly before he flew out.

Immediately afterwards, the other party sighed: "Little Que'er, can you stop moving, it's very itchy."

Very familiar voice.

It's Jingxuan.

Xie Ran froze at first, and then barely controlled his body in the stressful state of being "touched", and stopped himself.

The big hand was finally released, and Jing Xuan's big face was revealed.Hiding in a hiding place, he stared suspiciously at the little bird in front of him, which was no bigger than a bean curd bowl, and asked, "Why are you here?"

The little bird flapped its wings and flew to the level of Jing Xuan's eyes, looking at him with a pair of small green eyes the size of beans: "I took that old gentleman home, and suddenly felt that the yin energy in the city was flowing abnormally, so I chased after him. I saw... a ghost door opened in the development zone."

Jing Xuan let out a "huh" and said, "Then you jumped in?"

"I asked the ghosts over there, and guessed that you probably opened the door, so I chased them in." Xie Ran paused at this point, "Didn't you say we can wait until the Ghost Festival?"

"I didn't agree." Jing Xuan said, "I can't wait."

"... Can't wait for anything?"

Jing Xuan suddenly stretched his head forward, his dark pupils flashed a dangerous light, his mouth fell near Xie Ran's body, and he lowered his voice, "I was misunderstood by you."

Xie Ran: "..."

He suddenly flew up three feet high, and when he landed again, he felt that he had turned into a red bird, his whole body was burning.

——Is the point of this sentence "you" or "misunderstanding"? ? ?

"but……"

Xie Ran, whose hair was blowing up all over again, felt that this topic was not very good, and hurriedly changed the subject: "Why did you take off your glasses—what did you say 'but'?"

"Take off the glasses when you don't need them." Jing Xuan stared at Xie Ran, "I mean——"

The aura around him became a little strange, it was clear that they hadn't seen each other for a few days, but it seemed like they had been separated for centuries, and the good-natured silly, white, sweet and black turned into the feeling of a boss behind the scenes.

Then, Xie Ran heard a sentence that almost made him fall to the ground.

"I mean, but, you may not have misunderstood me—it seems that I really am the ghost king."