blueteamnovel #696 - Passionate seeds
#696 - Passionate seeds
"Three academy disciples? Which three?" Lu Jing was stunned when he heard this, and then quickly asked.
"Besides a disciple from the Guan family of Huizhou, the identities of the remaining two have not yet been confirmed." The man in blue said, paused, and then added, "In addition, there are four supervisors and one academy disciple trapped."
"So many people?" This time, even Lu Jing was shocked, "Why are so many people in Huizhou?"
"This time, there were originally four groups of people going to Huizhou, but they were handling different cases. One group solved their case first and then went to help another group."
"But unexpectedly, things turned out to be unexpectedly tricky, so the other two groups also put down their work to deal with that strange creature together. Besides them, there are also five supervisors in Huizhou. One of them was going home to get married, and the other four were his friends, who were invited to drink wedding wine together."
"After receiving the news, all five of them rushed to help overnight, resulting in two deaths and three disappearances. The supervisor who got married also… failed to make it through." The man in blue said with a gloomy tone.
"What kind of thing is so deadly?"
"It is currently unknown." The man in blue said, "We have collected intelligence that children are missing in Huizhou, most of them are children of refugees. At first, we didn't pay much attention to it. The world is difficult… and refugees sometimes starve and resort to exchanging children for food."
"But later, more and more children went missing. The office found something was wrong. Not only outside the city, but also children from families in the city disappeared. So we sent out Wind Chimes. According to the news brought back by Wind Chimes, there were strange creatures with insect bodies and human faces causing trouble."
"Is that monster very strong?" Lu Jing raised his eyebrows.
"Not particularly strong. After Supervisor Shao arrived in Huizhou, he killed the monster with a flying sword on the same day." The man in blue said, "However, after the monster died, Supervisor Shao followed the tunnel it had dug and found a cave."
"Soon after Supervisor Shao entered the cave, he sent a messenger out to ask the academy disciple waiting outside the cave to send for help."
"It happened that another group of people arrived at this time. They learned their lesson and entered the cave together. They soon found the body of the previous supervisor, and then sent a message out, but after that, there was no news."
"The people who came later did not dare to enter the cave easily until Supervisor Zhou and his friends arrived."
"Supervisor Zhou is that…"
"That's right," the man in blue nodded, "He returned to his hometown to marry a wife, and the wedding date is today. In addition, he is also a disciple of Senior Ye, and is very good at controlling beasts."
"Is Senior Ye, Senior Ye Gongmei?"
Lu Jing didn't expect to meet a senior brother.
"Yes, Supervisor Zhou used a group of rats to explore the cave, but failed to find Supervisor Shao's body and the missing Supervisor You, but found the academy disciple who was partnered with Supervisor You. He is still alive, but his leg is broken, and he looks to be in a bad condition."
"Supervisor Zhou ordered the rat swarm to be on guard while entering the cave to save people. There were ten people in their party, but in the end, none of them came out."
After hearing this, Lu Jing planned to take a trip to Huizhou.
One was to confirm the safety of Wen Xiaochuan, Yan Yun, and Liang Tao, and the other was that Guo Shouhuai was also there, so he could explain the dragon's matter to Guo Shouhuai in person.
Thinking of this, Lu Jing didn't delay any longer. He asked the man in blue for the location of the cave and the nearest [Well], and set off.
Ignoring the gazes of the people around him, he directly used his lightness skill after leaving the Si Tian Jian's resident in Huizhou, and it only took him half an hour to reach the outside of the cave.
At this time, a strong man with a big beard just walked out of the cave, holding a paper lantern emitting a faint green light in one hand, and holding an academy disciple with his eyes tightly closed and in a coma in the other. It was actually the little monk Zhaoming.
"Where are the others?" Guo Shouhuai, who was waiting outside the cave, asked.
The big bearded man blew out the lantern in his hand after leaving the cave, and shook his head.
"It's hopeless. One was parasitized, three were poisoned, and their minds were already confused. There are at least six strange creatures in this cave. Including the previous insect, there are seven strange creatures, and the threat of two of them should be high-grade."
"I have never seen so many strange creatures gathered together before… No wonder the people who went in before were all caught. They probably didn't expect the number of opponents this time to be so large."
"The conditions for obsessions to transform into strange creatures are actually very harsh," an old man in the crowd said, "There have also been some very powerful strange creatures that caused large-scale deaths, even killing tens of thousands of people at once, but those victims did not become strange creatures."
"Could it be related to the changes in the secret power between heaven and earth?" Someone speculated again.
"The spells used by strange creatures and the spells performed by our cultivators, although they are both collectively called spells, are completely different in nature. The spells used by strange creatures are quite chaotic and have no clear rules, and there are no secret power fluctuations when casting spells." Someone quickly retorted, "This has been verified by countless predecessors."
"But the academy does have statistics that in the past thousand years, whenever the concentration of secret power increases, the traces of strange creatures will decrease, and vice versa, like now."
"… … … …"
Guo Shouhuai remained noncommittal, but only said to the supervisors, "First find a way to clean up this cave, then collect the corpses inside, and bury them properly. For those who cannot find the corpses, make a cenotaph."
After a pause, he added, "Also, remember to notify Supervisor Zhou and the families of other victims…"
After speaking, he turned his attention to Lu Jing, "You came at the right time. Yan Yun and Wen Xiaochuan are not among the dead. Let's find a quiet place to talk."
Lu Jing's expression was greatly embarrassed when he heard this.
He originally thought that there were a lot of people here, and he wanted to hide his intentions, but he didn't expect Guo Shouhuai to see through him at a glance.
And now it's good, so many supervisors and colleagues from the Si Tian Jian know that he ran so far to come for Yan Yun and Wen Xiaochuan.
Connecting the things that happened in Zhuangyuan Building before.
It seems that his reputation as a sentimental seed cannot be escaped.
Lu Jing couldn't argue, so he could only follow Guo Shouhuai into the nearby woods in a dispirited manner.
Guo Shouhuai didn't immediately get to the point, and suddenly said after walking for a while, "What do you think?"
"Ah… Yan Yun and Wen Xiaochuan are both pretty good."
Lu Jing felt guilty.
Guo Shouhuai glanced at him, "I'm asking you what you think about the recent increase in strange creatures."