Aggrieved Fish Sprite

The snow in the mountains is gone, and it is no longer a piece of whiteness.

The rocks were pressed on the mountain road, stacked crookedly, the stream was filled with falling rocks, and the valley changed its appearance.

"Here?" Meng Qi asked uncertainly.

The sky was pitch black, and there were no stars for comparison. The river changed course again, and it was impossible to tell the direction.

"I'm not sure, but I can feel it." Mo Li pointed to the ground.

Standing on a high place, they could clearly see that the cliff landslide on this side was more serious than other places, and the crack extending here also suddenly expanded, and there were obvious bifurcations and turns.

"Is this how the veins are distributed?"

"perhaps."

Mo Li stretched out his hand to undo Si Zhuan's acupoints, and the latter panted heavily, turning over and sitting up abruptly.

"you--"

Si Zhuan, covering the wound on his wrist, looked around and found that the ruins of Sijiabao could no longer be seen here, and the surrounding landscape had changed drastically. He really couldn't see the exact location, only that he was still in the mountains.

"Where are my subordinates? Did you kill them all?" Si Zhuan asked vigilantly. He lost his martial arts and lost his subordinates. Just now, he felt that he was about to bleed to death. Looking at it now, the wound was not deep at all. , Is it an illusion?

The origin of these two people is unknown, and their behavior is weird. It seems that they want to ask for an explanation for those refugees, but what do they do with a tree?

Si Zhuan was about to speak, when suddenly his feet were hanging in the air—Mo Li picked him up and hung him on the edge of the cliff.

"I can give you as much gold as you want." Si Zhuan made a decisive decision without hesitation.

He didn't report the specific number, and he didn't show an ugly begging for mercy. If someone else looked at it, he might even praise a hero in troubled times, quite ambitious and courageous, but it's a pity that he went the wrong way.

However, the ink carp is not an ordinary person.

Mo Li brought Si Zhuan here not to intimidate him, let alone to watch him beg for mercy.Doctor Mo didn't care whether Si Zhuan was ambitious or courageous.

"Do you recognize this place?"

Mo Li let go of his hand, and Si Zhuan quickly grabbed the stone.

This cliff is not high, and no one can fall to death. The trouble is that a slope is formed at the bottom of the cliff, and when you roll down, you will find that deep crack.Si Zhuan subconsciously wanted to climb up, but his dantian was empty, and his hands were weak, so it would take a lot of effort to hang in mid-air like this, let alone get out of danger.

Mo Li ignored him, and he performed lightness kung fu and landed on the slope.

The crack was bottomless, but there was an obvious hole on the side of the slope, it was dark, and a broken mining pick was lying across the hole.

"It is indeed here." Meng Qi also came down, leaving the tree on the cliff.

Dismal white lumps were faintly visible in the soil.

On the stone wall on the left side of the crack, there are dots of light shining, because it is covered with mud, it is not very obvious.

Mo Li raised his hand and pulled Si Zhuan back, the latter's expression was full of anger and unwillingness.

"You said that the Si family has already dug out the gold mines, isn't there still here?"

Mo Li signaled Si Zhuan to look at the entrance of the cave.

When Si Zhuan heard the words, he intuitively thought that the two people came here for the gold mine, revenge or something, but it was an antecedent, who wouldn't be moved when they heard that there was gold?Those righteous people who claim to be chivalrous and righteous will be even less polite when they encounter money from so-called "wicked people".

With such a large gold mine, the Si family dug out those ores that tend to have higher gold content, and the ones on the stone wall were not missed, but just ignored.

"...It takes a lot of energy to mine gold, and it takes time to refine gold. It's better to open a new mine if you dig out ore with a lower gold content. Now I'm the only one left in the Si family. , I can leave it all to the two of you." Si Zhuan turned his gaze around Mo Li and Meng Qi.

Money has always moved people's hearts, and there are many close friends who turn against gold. Si Zhuan gritted his teeth and thought, he must live, and only by living can he take revenge and make a comeback with pride. The gold hidden by the Si family is his best bargaining chip.

"what!"

Si Zhuan was thrown towards the entrance of the cave.

He waved his arms hastily, and finally grabbed the pickaxe lying on the ground, his eyes terrified.

Letting go was a bottomless crack, the pickaxe was already on the verge of falling, and at the critical moment, a strong force pushed him from behind and threw him into the hole, almost hitting his head on the rock wall.

Si Zhuan got up and wanted to rush out of the cave, but just after taking two steps, the ground shook, and the pickaxe, together with the soil at the entrance of the cave, fell into the crack below.

Aftershocks struck again.

Stones continued to fall on both sides of the crack, and Meng Qi and Mo Li quickly left the gentle slope. In just this moment, half of the area of ​​the slope disappeared.

"I don't think it's right here, we should leave as soon as possible." Meng Qi said with a frown.

The ink carp held its breath, the cave smelled of decay and soil.For some reason, he also faintly felt something was wrong.

In the smoke and dust, Si Zhuan struggled to hold on to the rock wall. Originally, he jumped out of the cave, and if he landed in a good position, he could return to the slope, but now the cave entrance is already in the crack, like a cave whose exit is in the middle of the cliff. If you can't climb up, jumping down is a dead end.

Si Zhuan coughed, vaguely saw the two people turn around and leave, and couldn't help shouting in panic: "Wait!"

When the ink carp returned to the cliff, he could still hear vague shouts from below.

"...the gold hidden by the Si family...you..."

Si Zhuan finally realized that those two people were going to leave him here, and he couldn't care less about hiding his sect anymore, he blurted out, "Patriarch Qingwu will not let you go!"

The constantly falling rocks forced Si Zhuan to step back step by step, and finally his eyes went dark, and the entrance of the cave was completely blocked.

The dirt under his feet made a crackling sound.

The shaking stopped, and the dark cave was filled with faint blue phosphorescent fire, and Si Zhuan saw that what he stepped on was a bone.

He belatedly realized that the abandoned mine tunnels were all sealed.

"No!"

This cry could not be transmitted to the ground, and the ink carp could only see that after the vibration stopped, the position of the hole completely disappeared.

"Dead?" Meng Qi looked up.

"Probably not, I can still live for another two or three days." Mo Li thought for a while, and then said, "Unless this mine tunnel is completely sunk into the ground, and there are no ventilation gaps on all sides, then it won't be long."

"It seems that he really regrets not dying in the previous earthquake."

"The Si family is the chief villain. If there is no earthquake, they should be locked in the burial tunnel."

Doctor Mo doesn't like to kill people, but it doesn't mean that he will watch the villains roam freely. There are many things in this world that are more painful than death.

"People who behave like the Si family, even if they feel remorse in their hearts, just ignore him when they hate him. They talk about success and failure, and don't take seriously the evil deeds they have committed. The doctor's actions are quite innovative. "Meng Qi said with a smile, but unfortunately, his body was covered in mud, which ruined his haughty and disdainful posture.

"Whether Si Zhuan regrets or not, I don't know, but before he died, he must have felt the helplessness of the refugees." Mo Li turned his head and said in a low voice, "I am not the lord of suffering, nor the way of heaven. It is not me who judges life and death." what should be done.”

Meng Qi asked with interest: "What does the doctor mean?"

Mo Li stared at the bottomless crack for a long time before saying, "Brother Meng, why are there no ghosts in this world?"

Even though so many people died and the crimes of the Si family were too numerous to record, those who died were dead, and they could no longer stand up and seek justice for themselves.

When I was alive, I was a duckweed in troubled times, unable to control myself.

After death, there is no trace.

"The doctor wants to talk about the cycle of cause and effect, or is it about ghosts taking their lives?" Meng Qi shook his head slightly, and said in a dejected tone, "The cycle of cause and effect is just a word of comfort. The world is always unfair. Repaying kindness with kindness and revenge with blood sounds really happy. , but ghosts are also created by humans. As long as they are humans, they will make all kinds of mistakes; What about the ghosts of those who did evil in life? I am afraid that after death, they will continue to be tortured."

Mo Li couldn't help thinking deeply, and finally sighed.

He has seen too few things in the world.

It is said in the book that there are seven sufferings for human beings, but living in the world, the sufferings endured are not limited to birth, old age, sickness and death, meeting with hatred and hatred, parting from love, and not getting what you want?Those who suffer the most are those ordinary people who try their best to live, but are not regarded as human beings after all.

What is recorded in the history books is that there are disputes in the world, and all heroes rise together.

The storybook talks about heroes, chivalrous and tender.

Those who were wrongly killed and became ghosts under the knife of the hero, but only a handful of money.

As human beings, this is still the case, let alone the mountains and rivers that can be seen everywhere.

Destroy it without hesitation, trample it without hesitation, it doesn't matter at all.

"Brother Meng..."

In the middle of speaking, Mo Li stopped again.

Meng Qi didn't know his identity at all. If he said it rashly, he didn't know if Meng Qi would be able to accept it. Now Doctor Mo didn't even have a tranquilizing pill on him.

But there was no more to what he said, and Meng Qi asked suspiciously, "Why?"

Mo Li hesitated for a while, then whispered: "Do you believe that mountains have spirits?"

Meng Qi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, first it was a ghost, then it was a mountain spirit.

Why does a smart person like a doctor rely on these illusory things to solve the injustice in the world?

Having said that, this earthquake was really weird.

Meng Qi pondered, the Si family said they dug out a mountain, but in fact they just dug out veins, and they haven't dug out the gold ore with poor quality.Landslides often occur in mining, but such a terrible earthquake cannot be explained by large-scale landslides. After all, even Qiuling County near Silang Mountain also suffered.

Mining landslides are man-made disasters, and earth dragons turning over are natural disasters. There is an essential difference between the two.

——The sudden loss of internal strength during the earthquake, seeing the growth of vegetation after entering the mountain, and the tree at the foot!

"Don't you want to say that this tree is a mountain spirit?" Meng Qi stared at the tree, looked left and right, but didn't see anything special about it.

Mo Li bent down and injected a spirit energy into the trunk, but the tree didn't respond. He touched the rough bark, and Meng Qi almost thought that the tree was Mo Li's pet.

Would a normal person keep a tree as a pet?

"It... is not the mountain spirit, the mountain spirit is dead." Mo Li said in a heavy tone.

Meng Qi squatted beside him, imitating the ink carp, and felt an inexplicable sadness.

This kind of sadness didn't feel different at first, but when I thought about it carefully, it seemed like this deep crack in front of me, bottomless.

"Why did Shan Ling kill the people in Qiuling County?" Meng Qi asked subconsciously.

"Even in Sijiabao, there are innocent servants. Isn't a servant stealing the account book? But they are all dead. Mountain spirits and people, before life and death, can't help themselves."

"Are there many mountain spirits in the world?"

"possible."

Moli hadn't left Pingzhou yet, so he didn't know what other places were like.

Meng Qi paused, then asked again: "Are those mountain spirits still alive?"

"……maybe."

The ink carp only knows that the dragon veins of Taijing are alive, and there are so many mountains and rivers in the world, how many dragon veins are there?Are they transformed, are they still alive?The real body of the dragon veins can't move, and if there is a disaster, they can't escape.

Mo Li thought of the mountain torrent in Qimao Mountain. The flood flooded the cave where Lingquan was located, and forced himself out. In order to hug the driftwood in the flood, he turned into a human form.

If he hadn't met Mr. Qin, what would happen to a silly child who couldn't even speak?

What if it's not Zhushan County with its simple folk customs?A fool, mixed among the refugees, wouldn't he be trafficked?What about after the kidnapping?Illiterate people don't understand human affairs, and they can't protect themselves. If they are unlucky, the dragon veins that can transform will encounter more dangers than dragon veins without self-awareness.

Mo Li turned his head to look at Meng Qi, he didn't know why Taijing Longmai became what it is now, it belonged to the past of the state master of the Chu Dynasty, and it was just a part of Taijing Dragonmai's life.

Mo Li has long overturned the previous speculation. Judging from Meng Qi's various behaviors, Meng Qi may be the dragon vein of Taijing.

Before, Mo Li didn't like the golden dragon who teased him and asked him to go to Taijing, but now he remembered what the golden dragon said to him at the end——

"You are the dragon's veins, and I am also the dragon's veins. Protect yourself."

Meng Qi, who has lost his memory, will appear in Ma County. Is it subconsciously driving him to find him?Mo Li was not sure, but he knew that he had to go to Taijing.The same dragon veins, they are closely related.

Meng Qi's cause of disease is not as simple as a panacea.

Meng Qi can stand here well, what happened to that fat mouse?

There are so many things going on at the moment, Mo Li can't figure it out, so he simply put it aside for the time being.

"Let's go." Mo Li said, reaching out to carry the tree.

"I'll do it." Meng Qi took the lead, not as if he was trying his best, but as if he wanted to feel the wonder of this tree carefully.

Mo Li was speechless and let him go.

Meng Qi asked as he walked, "Where are we going to take the mountain spirit?"

He doesn't mind carrying it all the way, but the tree can't stand it!Even if the roots are covered with mud, it will not be good if they leave the soil for too long.

"It's not considered a mountain spirit...well, you can call it that if you want. We need to find a place that is inaccessible to people, and then plant it." Mo Li added, "By the way, it must be in this mountain."

"I know, the mountain spirit, you can't take it out of this mountain."

After walking for several miles, Meng Qi suddenly felt that the branches and leaves of this tree were blown closer to him by the wind, rustling, as if asking for something.At first, Meng Qi didn't pay attention, and stretched out his hand to push it away. After all, the feeling of branches and leaves rubbing against his face was still a bit painful.

Unyielding, the branches and leaves continue to attack with the help of the wind.

"..."

Terrible, doctor!This mountain spirit doesn't like my face!

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