soul seeker

On the way back, Wu Ci and Bai Jiang walked in front, while Xiao Guang was still pestering Yingchen, so he walked behind.

"Say it or not! Can you tell it or not! Tell me quickly, I'm very curious!"

"Oh, can't you be curious about something else?" Yingchen changed the topic in order to stop her talking, "By the way, why are there so many tree demons recently?" He scratched his head awkwardly and smiled.

"It's not a tree demon this time, why? Didn't Wu Ci tell you? This time it's just an ordinary tree spirit transformed into an evil spirit."

"Oh... so, what kind of love and hatred is it for?"

"It's not love or hatred." Xiaoguang's face suddenly became serious, "Do you think trees don't have greed? For water, for nutrients, for soil, as long as it is a life, it will have greed for this world. If there is greed, there will be nostalgia, not to mention that these two trees grew up crowded in a flower bed since they were young, and they are even more nostalgic for these."

Yingchen stopped, squinting at Xiaoguang, "Baijiang told you this, and you copied it to me, right?"

"Hey? How do you know?"

"How can you be so serious."

"Oh, then answer my insincere question! How are you two doing!"

"Why are you so annoying! Go away, I can't keep up with the two of them, they are all chatting with you."

While he was chatting with Xiao Guang, Wu Ci and Bai Jiang in front of him also chatted about this mission.

"Tell me, where is the tricky problem this time? I think if it's just two simple 20-year-old tree souls, you won't let them run away, even if they are evil spirits."

"Battle method, ah, I will tell you when I encounter it. I can't explain why I just said it now. This is a situation that cannot be described in words alone."

Back in Tongzilou, Wu Ci saw the task paper hanging on the fax machine.

He tore off the paper and looked at it. Bai Che thought it was about the mission of the two tree souls, so he walked over and asked, "Is it about this mission?"

"No, it's another task, then I'll go first."

"Then do you want me to follow?" Yingchen pointed at herself.

"No, you stay here." After finishing speaking, Wu Ci left.

"Hey, I have time now, and I don't have to hurry so much, can you tell me?" Seeing Wu Ci leave, Xiao Guang immediately started to press hard again.

"What are you asking him?" Bai Jiang asked curiously, "I've been asking him since we first met, is there anything interesting?"

"No!" Yingchen replied angrily.Really, if I knew it earlier, I would have resigned with Wu.

"If you don't tell me, I'll tell Baijiang..." Xiao Guang murmured with Baijiang's inaudible voice with his lips closed.

"How good are you as a human being!"

"Are you out of your mind? I'm not human!"

"Being a ghost requires moral integrity!"

"Ah, isn't it just to ask about the progress? Why are you so stingy! You can be more reserved."

"It's as if something unpretentious has happened!" Ying Chen's face completely darkened.

Bai Jiang made a report on the failure of the arrest this time, turned around and asked, "What the hell is it?"

At this moment, the important report about the two tree souls finally came.

Bai Jiang immediately turned around and pulled it off. After reading it, he turned around and asked Yingchen eagerly, "Do you know how to get to Weibai's area?"

"I know, come with me." Only then did Yingchen understand why Wu Ci kept him.

Before they left, they put the task paper on the sofa to prevent Wu Ci from knowing where they went when he came back.

Baijiang, Yingchen, and Xiaoguang rushed to the border of Weibai's area and started searching. About an hour later, Wu Ci rushed over with a new task paper, "Don't look for it, it's not here anymore."

"No way! Has it gone to another area?!" Bai Jiang was surprised.

"I didn't go to another district, but to a place where I threw myself into the net."

"Where is it?" Yingchen came over and took the task paper and looked at it, "Ivy?!"

"That's right, the higher-ups only sent the exact address after receiving a report from Wei Bai. Hurry up, I'm afraid he won't be able to handle Wei Bai alone."

When the three of them arrived at the Ivy, they found a "rest" sign on the gate.

"Has the battle really started?" Bai Jiang leaned in front of the glass, covering the sun with his hands, wanting to see inside.

"Then how do we get in? There are so many people, and the door is pushed open suddenly, it's hard to feel like it's wind?" Yingchen asked.

"That's right..." Bai Jiang lowered his hands and looked at the bustling street, "Why are there so many people at seven or eight o'clock?"

"Go to work rush hour." Xiaoguang replied.

"This way." Just when they were at a loss, they heard Lin Xue's voice.

"Is this a soul seeker? Aren't there only four in your city?" Bai Jiang turned around and looked at Lin Xue who was waving at them from the side of the ivy.

"Let's go first, and I'll explain it right away." Wu Ci said as he took the white paste and they ran towards the side of the ivy that Lin Xue pointed to, and of course Lin Xue followed.

"This is the back door. If you go in from the back, no one will see it." Lin Xue led them to the back door prepared for Wei Bai.

"What's going on inside?" Wu Ci walked to the door and asked as he opened it.

"I don't know, before the battle, Wei Bai let me out first."

"What is this?" Wu Ci, who opened the door, frowned at the scene in front of him.

The ivy that grows against the glass wall and is used for decoration and shelter, for some reason, has grown a lot of thin white aerial roots like mung bean sprouts, entangled and coalesced to form a thin wall, not to mention completely blocked , but it is not an exaggeration to describe it as airtight.

"I don't know." Lin Xue replied, "Anyway, I already grew these when I came to the store today, and then Wei Bai asked me to come out and wait for you."

"This is one of the strange things about fighting that I said." Bai Jiang stepped forward to activate the red ring, and put his hands covered in Hades on the aerial roots, and those aerial roots immediately cut off and shrunk to the sides, just like molluscs Like touching fire. "As soon as it touches, Hades will shrink. Alright, let's go in quickly."

"You don't want to go in," Wu Ci activated the tail ring, "You guard at the back door, let the two of them guard at the front door, lest the evil spirits escape."

"Okay," the white paste retreated to the side of the door, and turned off the red ring, "you have to be careful."

After Wu Ci went in, Xiaoguang asked nervously, "Then what do we want to do after we go to the front?"

After all, they are newbies, and they will face the evil spirits for the first time. The two of them seem very nervous, especially Yingchen.

"After arriving at the front door, focus on staring, don't activate the red ring to save energy, just activate it when you find something, try to stop it, and don't try too hard, safety is the first." Thinking of Feng Minghai Bai Jiang still had lingering fears about that injury, because this was the first time a soul seeker suffered a devastating injury. Before, they generally believed that they were already souls, and there would be no fatal blows.

Because the air roots are too thick and block most of the light sources, the ivy is very dark. Although the tail ring has night vision function, the ivy is not small after all, and Wu Ci doesn't know where they are, so he can only listen to the battle With a voice, move forward step by step carefully.

Finally, when he was approaching the center, he saw Wei Bai who was panting and squatting on the ground, supporting himself with a knife, "Why did you come here?"

"I wasted some time on the road." Wu Ci said as he walked in front of him, holding a knife in both hands and taking a defensive posture, "You should shut down and rest first. Since there are two of them, let's fight with wheels."

"En." Wei Bai responded, turning off the tail ring.

It was quiet for a while, and then a small figure swooped towards Weibai at a high speed. Wu Ci quickly turned around and slashed with the knife. The thing used to attack hit the knife together. Wu Ci felt that the thing The hardness is not very great, and it was bounced off.

The figure in the darkness flew obliquely upwards and landed on the top of the air root wall. After standing still, Wu Ci could see it clearly.It has the same appearance as the pear tree demon last time, except that instead of thick branches at the waist, it has much thinner aerial roots, and it looks like a child of two or three years old.

But just looking at it for a second or two, the part of its hand that was cut by a knife and sent to Wujie immediately recovered.

"strangeness……"

When Wu Ci was surprised, Wei Bai behind him activated the tail ring again and stood up, "It's those air roots. At first I thought they were sucking the ivy's nutrition to supply myself, but then I found out that they just use ivy When the medium absorbs the nutrients of the soil."

Wu Ci turned his face slightly, looked at Wei Bai from the corner of his eye and asked, "But these air roots belong to the other one, right? The air roots around its waist are all hanging down. Also, aren't they for you to rest? Why did you activate the tail ring again?"

"Wheel battles don't work on them. I caught one just now and stabbed the knife into its stomach, but it didn't work. The souls of these two seem to be living together. It seems that they must be caught together and stabbed into it. Just go."

At this moment, Wu Ci also understood what was so special about Bai Jiang, "Then how long can you last?"

Wei Bai frowned, and estimated his physical strength, "About 5 minutes. The other one is right in front of you, can you see it?"

"Ah."

"I'll deal with the one on the roof, you deal with the one in front, and get rid of it in one go."

As soon as Wei Bai finished speaking, Wu Ci swung his knife and rushed towards the evil spirit in front. He felt that the air roots on the ground were mainly used to enclose the wall, and it should be resolved soon. However, the evil spirit was very far away. When he got close, Wu Ci felt a fast and sharp airflow coming towards him from all directions. He stopped to change the direction of the saber, turned around and used the saber as a shield to block it.

The blocked air root also changed direction to bind Wu Ci's hands and feet, but was blocked by Mingwen.Although the air roots followed one after another, they still couldn't do anything about Mingwen. Not long after, Wu Ci had arrived in front of the evil spirit, and quickly swung his knife to cut off the air roots connected to the evil spirit, pulling it off and pressing it to the ground.

Just wait for Wei Bai.But there was a problem with Weibai, because Weibai's physical strength was too much, and because the speed of the restraint of this evil spirit without air roots was too fast, it took more than half of the time just to catch it.

Wei Bai grabbed it beside Wu Ci, and pressed it face down on the ground. Then he and Wu Ci exchanged glances, and at the same time advanced the knife.

Just when the two of them thought that this matter was about to end, Wei Bai suddenly lost consciousness and fell down.

Wu Ci was startled, distracted, and suddenly his men were empty, and even lowered his head, the two evil spirits had already slammed into the gate at high speed.

"Oops!"