The Tale of the Kraken

Chapter 122 The Spirit of the Mountain God
"Is this here?" Yu Zhongwu stood at the place where they saw the piece of Meng Ji's fur yesterday, turned around and asked Meng Xiu, "Is this where you smelled us?"

"En." The boy was not very interested, and just nodded as an answer.

Wu Zhongwu couldn't say anything when he saw this situation. He had never played a role that would comfort others, so he could only turn his attention to other people for help.

"Don't be sad. They did this in the hope that you would be safe. Now that you are with us, it is a fulfillment of your parents' wish." Unexpectedly, it was Chacha, who has always been hot-tempered, who spoke comforting words." If you really can't let it go, why not search hard to see if you can find any other clues to help us catch the murderer who killed your parents."

"Well, I will." The young man was silent for a while before he opened his mouth, "Although my mana is low now, I will try my best to do as long as Master Long and Bai Ze ask me to do it. For the sake of revenge for my parents."

"It's natural." After listening to his words, Yu Zhongwu nodded and agreed: "Don't blame me for not being sympathetic if the Daoist sect bullies people too much. They think that if the four gods and beasts are not around, we Yaozu can let them bully them at will!? What a wishful thinking !"

"Meng Xiu thanked the lord here." Hearing Wu Zhongwu's promise, the boy suddenly knelt down, bowed his body and made a big salute.

"Hurry up and look for clues." Yuan Mu didn't stop him when he saw this, and only waited until the young man stood up before reminding him, "Don't be too forceful, if it really doesn't work, we'll think of other ways."

"Yeah." The boy nodded, but he obviously didn't take his words to heart. He bowed his head and let out a soft cry, then went into the woods while making a prototype and disappeared.

"So his prototype is a white leopard?" Yang Yang said after seeing the boy's figure disappear. He was almost suffocated to take care of Meng Xiu's mood along the way.

"Meng Ji originally looked like a leopard." Yu Zhongwu said, and looked at Yang Yang contemptuously: "Have you read the Beishan Jing I let you read?"

"Hehe... I'm watching... I'm watching." Yang Yang, who was exposed, scratched his head in embarrassment, and replied vaguely.

Seeing this, Yu Zhongwu rolled her eyes, out of impatience that she didn't want to say another word to him.

Yuan Mu looked at the two of them and smiled, and then said to Yang Yang: "The books I let you read are useful, don't be lazy in the future." After speaking, he looked at Wu Zhongwu again, "Okay, stop making trouble, now I Let me tell you my guess."

These words made everyone serious, and they all turned their attention to him, waiting for him to continue.

"According to common sense, there should be mountain gods in the ten mountains of the Northern Jing. But I don't know if you have noticed. When Meng Xiu just mentioned Shizhe Mountain, he only said that the mountain gods of Shizhe Mountain are getting weaker and weaker. Don't you find it strange that you didn't say anything after that?"

"Maybe he doesn't know?" Chacha frowned and said, "At that time he was just a child, how could he know this?"

"There are not many monsters in Shizhe Mountain. Meng Ji is the largest one, so he has a close relationship with the mountain god. If anyone knows what happened to the mountain god in Shizhe Mountain, it must be him, but he is in Some kind of concern didn’t tell us, let’s not mention these things, what I want to talk about now is what happened to Yang Yang last night.”

"Me?" Yang Yang, who didn't know why the topic suddenly jumped from the mountain god to himself, pointed to himself in surprise, "What happened to me last night?"

"As I said before, the first thing I do when I go back is to see if there is anything wrong with you. What I see is you who fell asleep just like I touched before I left. The rest is fine, but You are sleeping in a sleeping bag.

According to what you said, you passed out after seeing the snake body. If so, who put you in the sleeping bag?As far as I know about you, it is unlikely that you will be able to crawl into your sleeping bag and go to sleep after passing out. "

"..." Are you talking nonsense!Yang Yang looked at Yuan Mu and complained in his heart, who the hell can crawl back into the sleeping bag to sleep after fainting!
"What do you mean?" Zhou Liang frowned and said, "Before we came back, there was another person or something who entered the camp and put Yang Yang in a sleeping bag?"

Zhou Liang's weird description really scared Yang Yang, and he filled up all kinds of scary and weird pictures in his mind. He hugged his head and wailed: "My God! Big brother! I beg you, don't say it so scary. Okay? Are you trying to scare me to death?"

However, no one cared about his wailing. Yuan Mu glanced at him, patted him on the shoulder to express comfort, and continued: "According to Yang Yang, he passed out after seeing the snake body." , We checked the call records of his mobile phone before to prove that he did receive a call from Lu Fu, and he was still awake, and we found the Medicine Master Bead tonight, which also proved that those things were not his hallucinations."

"But here comes the question. First of all, is the snake that Yang Yang saw the Danxun Mountain God?" Yuan Mu said, looking around at the crowd, "As far as I know, there is no snake demon in Danxun Mountain, so there can be The one with the snake body will only be the mountain god. But since Yang Yang sees the mountain god, why would he, as Danxun mountain god, choose to see Yang Yang instead of protecting the ear mouse clan that has lived here for generations? This is one of them."

"Secondly, since Yang Yang didn't have hallucinations, it proves that the mountain god really came to our camp, so why didn't Zhou Liang's barrier react at all? You have seen it today, even a little monster like Meng Xiu Even a barrier that can be touched, why can such a powerful mountain god sneak in silently without leaving a trace?

Note that what I'm talking about here is not only on the enchantment, but also in our camp. According to Yang Yang's narration, such a big snake body will definitely leave traces in the camp, but when we go back, everyone Didn't find anything wrong.Don't you think it's strange? "

"It's really strange." Yu Zhongwu nodded. As Yuan Mu's friend for many years, he knew Bai Ze's nature very well, so he asked, "So what do you think?"

"My idea is that what Yang Yang saw at that time was indeed the mountain god of Danxun Mountain, but not all the mountain gods."

"What do you mean?" Chacha frowned when she heard the words, and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it all at once. Don't be a fool."

"I mean, what Yang Yang saw at that time might be the soul of the mountain god Danxun." Hearing what Chacha said, Yuan Mu directly omitted the cause and effect, and threw out his own thoughts.

After he finished speaking, everyone fell silent. Yang Yang, who didn't know what he said at all, noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere. He quietly looked at the others, and found that everyone except himself and Yuan Mu had a look of "you Are you kidding me" expression.

"As far as I know, mountain gods don't have souls." Zhou Liang said after a long time.

"Actually, the soul is not very accurate, but I can't find an accurate term to describe that state. We all know that the mountain gods are the incarnations of mountain spirits after all. They protect the living beings, so they are regarded as gods. It is said that they have no soul because they are originally the spirit of the mountain.

Because of their strong spiritual power, they can use their souls to condense into entities, so this is why the bodies of the same great god Pangu are transformed, but the mountain gods in each place look different. "

"Because they take shape according to their own preferences, there is no uniform standard, and the images of mountain gods who are often similar will be closer. So, there is nothing wrong with that?"

Yuan Mu said, glanced at everyone and continued: "Because the mountain god was transformed from the body of Pangu, we never thought that they would be weakened. Of course, they have not weakened since they were born, even if it is because of changes in the land veins. As a result, the mountain disappeared, and they just belonged to the leylines."

"Therefore, no one has ever seen what a weakened mountain god looks like, but let's think about it, what would it look like if a mountain god who was purely transformed from spirit was weak?

When there is not enough spiritual power to maintain their entities, or when there is something that prevents him from using spiritual power to maintain their entities, will he slowly become a state of spirit? "Yuan Mu asked like this.

"Theoretically, there is nothing wrong with what you said, but all this is just your guess." After hearing Yuan Mu's words, Zhou Liang said.

"Whether it's my guess or not, just ask him." Yuan Mu said, pointing his finger to the forest beside him. Following his finger, a snow-white leopard slowly came out of the forest, isn't it? Who is Meng Xiu?

"You're right." Meng Xiu walked up to several people, changed into the appearance of the boy before, looked at Yuan Mu and said, "Now I believe that you are really Master Bai Ze."

Hearing what he said, everyone realized that the child had never trusted them until just now.Chacha was about to get angry as soon as she raised her eyebrows, but Yue Bing held her down, shook her head at her, and signaled her to stay calm.

"Lord Bai Ze is right. Our Mengji clan has always been close to the mountain god of Shizhe Mountain, so he let us leave Shizhe Mountain and take refuge in Danxun Mountain when he was gradually declining. At that time, I I know, it turns out that the mountain god will also disappear.

But at that time he told me not to be sad, he just returned to the earth veins, if there is a destiny, we will still be able to meet each other in the future.At that time, his translucent soul, which was already like a soul, could no longer maintain a solid body. "

When the boy recalled the past, his expression was a little lonely, but he still told everyone clearly what happened.

"Shizhe Mountain is due to the continuous collection of ores by the human race, which leads to the loss of spiritual energy in the mountain range, so that the mountain gods have to return to the ground to recuperate, but Danxun Mountain is different. There is a thriving scene in this mountain, how can the mountain god weaken?" Zhou Liang asked in puzzlement after hearing his words.

This is not only Zhou Liang, but also Yuan Mu's question.

(End of this chapter)