soul seeker

"What's the matter this time?" Yingchen couldn't help but start asking again after following Wu Ci.

"What could it be? Isn't it just that the soul of a cat has not entered the reincarnation gate? If you want to say something special, you can only say that it is a cat that has been resurrected from the dead."

"What? What do you mean?" Yingchen became interested and walked to Wu Ci's side.

"Actually, it was already dead before, and it was only renewed by a locust tree that became a spirit."

"Acacia tree?! Tree demon, Montenegro old demon?! There really are monsters!"

"You can't say it's a monster. If you live a long time and have thoughts, you will become special."

"Oh... so what's going on now? Didn't you renew your life? Can't you renew it?"

"I'm afraid it can't, because this time, it can't protect itself..." Wu Ci raised his hand and pointed.

It was only then that Yingchen noticed that they had arrived at a suburb that had been blown up by the construction team, and there was a big felled tree on the small slope, which Wu Ci was pointing at.

"Hey, it was chopped off, so it's no wonder."

"Yeah, it's probably because of the construction going on here." Wu Ci said as he approached the fallen tree, "What a pity, the last time I saw you was still so lush and green."

"Since it can save the cat, why doesn't it save itself? What a monster!"

"Let's see, he's not like you, an ordinary person. Didn't I say that life, old age, sickness and death are the laws of nature, why go against it?"

"Hey, you're deep, you can do it!" I don't believe that you didn't feel wronged when you died... Yingchen looked dissatisfied, "Oh, do the souls of plants have to be reincarnated?"

"No, after they die, their souls will return to the earth, just like water will turn into water after it freezes. Their souls were originally given by the earth." Wu Ci squatted down and looked around, "strange , where did you go?"

"What are you looking for?" Yingchen also squatted down, "Contact lenses?"

Wu Ci rolled his eyes impatiently, "I'm looking for the cat's body, how could it not be there? It should be nearby..."

"Could it be somewhere else, why must it be here?"

"This tree saved it, and their lives are interlinked, so once this tree dies, it shouldn't last long."

"What does that have to do with why it must be here?"

"Huh? Because this cat can't be too far away from it, just like the wifi you use, it won't work if it's far away, so it can only be nearby. It seems," Wu Ci stood up, "this time the job is not easy .”

"Why? Just because the body couldn't be found? Maybe it was taken away by someone else, maybe there was a carnivore."

"It should have died more than a year ago. As soon as the power of the tree disappears, it will turn into a pile of bones. Can you eat bones? Really, I'm not good at animals and trees, and I don't dealt with."

Wu Ci rested his chin and frowned in distress.

"I remember," he turned his head to look at the smoky boundary line not far away, "he seems to owe a favor, just...go." Wu Ci stepped over the tree trunk and walked straight to the boundary line go.

"Where are you going? Do you have any idea?" Yingchen followed up in shock.

"No, but if you don't understand, of course you have to ask. Let's find someone who knows."

Yingchen was about to ask who it was, but when he saw the boundary line, he immediately understood, and exclaimed excitedly: "You want to find other soul seekers?! Someone who is older and knows more than you?"

"Yes, if you count age, he is indeed the oldest in this area."

"Ah, it's so hot..." The girl with the ponytail was sitting on the steps of the bungalow door, fanning the wind with the book in her hand, her body was still covered with sweat.

"Hey, grandma, didn't I say that you really should ask dad to install an air conditioner for you, aren't you hot?!"

"It's only been a few months and it's hot. I think you're just blowing too much air conditioner. You're used to it!" The old man in the room came over with a glass of juice, "Hey, drink it, put it in the refrigerator."

"What are you talking about..." The girl took the cup and drank it in a big gulp, "We are all on summer vacation, summer vacation, summer vacation, just because we are afraid of students getting heatstroke!"

When the girl was chatting with the old man, many people from the village on the dirt road in front of them ran towards the entrance of the village noisily.

"Where are you going in such a hurry on a hot day?" the old man grabbed a middle-aged man and asked.

"You don't know! I heard that the pagoda tree at the entrance of the village is going to be cut down, let's take a look!"

"Why do you want to cut it?"

"It's getting in the way of construction, do you want to go together?"

"Go, take a look, let's go, Xiaotong!"

"Oh, what's so interesting about cutting down a tree! It's noon!" the girl yelled frantically while jumping around, but she couldn't break free from the old man's strong hand.

The sharp saws have been embedded for thousands of years, and sawdust, large and small, fell everywhere.

"Ah~~~ It's crazy hot, is there something wrong in Grandma's mind... Sigh~ I want an air conditioner..."

"Meow~"

The meow was soft but sharp, as if it could penetrate everything and reach people's ears. The girl stopped complaining, raised her head slowly, squinted her eyes against the light, and looked at the crumbling green tree crown, where there was a ball between the branches. The big shadow was rushing towards her, and the girl reflexively raised her hands to cover her face, but after waiting for a while, no imaginary object touched her arm, only a strange wind blowing towards her face.

The girl felt as if a bomb had exploded in her head, and a huge wave of pain engulfed her will.

She fell silently in the crowd.

"Tongtong! Xiaotong! Huatong!" The old man hugged her and patted her face, calling out to her one after another.

The middle-aged man next to him squatted down, "Grandma Xiaotong, is she suffering from heat stroke?"

"No way! She just stayed for a while!"

"Oh, the children in the city, how can they stand the air conditioner every day?! Hurry up and take it home first!"

"Oh oh oh, give me a hand!"

Wu Ci and Yingchen turned back to the city.

"Hey, where does that colleague live? Does he live in a haunted building like you?"

"Probably, I remember that he seemed to tell me that it was an abandoned greenhouse."

"Are they haunted too?"

"I don't know." Wu Ci began to perfunctory his boring question.

"I said that those haunted things were done on purpose by you, so as not to let people get close?"

"Other people don't know. As for my place, it was because a guy who refused to reincarnate hid there and made a lot of noise, so people thought it was haunted... Although it is indeed haunted, I caught him After I went back, I saw that it was good there, so I stayed.”

"Oh……"

Wu Ci suddenly stopped under a road sign.

"Ugh~ you're lost?! I thought you were supernatural!" Yingchen looked at Wu Ci who was looking for his way seriously, and started teasing with a snicker.

"It's strange to be familiar with it." Wu Ci glanced at him impatiently, and then looked for the way. "The area under my jurisdiction is in the east of the city. Soul seekers will not go to other areas without a special job."

"Aren't you lost after talking so much?! Come on," Yingchen rolled up his sleeves proudly, "Tell me the address, I started working part-time to deliver food after I was ten years old, there is no place in this city that I am not familiar with! "