blueteamnovel Chapter 32 Croak! The Second Blood Jade!
Chapter 32 Croak! The Second Blood Jade!
Lu Feng and Lu Yong's faces turned extremely ugly in the candlelight, their suspicious gazes scanning the not-so-spacious hall like tangible probes.
Who? What? Where?
Can……
They saw nothing.
The candlelight was steady, the shadows were normal, and apart from their own rapid breathing and heartbeats, and the unusually stiff frog in Nan Nan's arms, nothing seemed amiss.
The frog remained motionless and did not croak.
It was as if all its actions on Nan Nan's head were just an illusion.
……
"What's wrong..." Lu's mother hadn't reacted yet, looking at her two sons' unusual behavior with some confusion.
"Mother, Nannan, don't move!" Lu Feng roared, enduring the pain and chilling fear, and quickly came to his mother and Nannan, using his fairly broad body to block them.
Lu Yong struggled to his feet. Although his legs were weak, he grabbed a heavy bronze candlestick from the table, gripped it tightly with both hands as a weapon, leaned against the wall, and scanned the doors, windows, and corners with sharp eyes.
"Who? Who's here?!" Lu Yong's voice trembled with barely suppressed emotion, but was filled with unwavering resolve. "Playing tricks! Get out here!"
They were on high alert, their hair standing on end, scanning the entire hall.
However, they kept glancing at "Master Lu" standing by the table without noticing anything.
……
Fang Yuan barely dared to breathe or make a sound, and could only stiffly stay in Nan Nan's arms.
This feeling is extremely uncomfortable.
It's as if...
They were all like lambs to the slaughter.
Fortunately, "Master Lu" showed no interest in Lu Feng and Lu Yong's intense reactions, as if their violent actions and shouts were just irrelevant background noise.
He didn't care about their reaction, and even seemed to have expected it.
He didn't even glance at anyone else; he simply walked calmly to the table and gently placed a piece of blood jade on it.
Um! ?
Blood Jade!?
Caw! It's a Blood Jade!?!?
Blood jade imbued with Daoist principles?
Fang Yuan's gaze was immediately drawn to the Blood Jade! Compared to the enigmatic Lu Ye, whose ability to resist was unknown, and whose method of resistance was also unclear, the Blood Jade held a greater allure for him!
Fang Yuan subconsciously looked at Lu Ye, trying to deduce something from his expression.
Ke Luye simply glanced at him calmly.
Then, Master Lu slowly walked towards the hall door, but stopped in front of it, taking one last look at the dark red blood jade he had placed on the table, as if to confirm that it was in place.
After completing a series of actions, he turned around and walked silently out of the hall, across the courtyard, and to the courtyard gate, just as he had come in.
His movement trajectory happened to pass by Lu Feng, who was on high alert, just half a foot away.
Lu Feng seemed to sense an extremely faint, indescribable disturbance in the airflow. The hairs on the back of his neck stood on end. He abruptly turned in that direction and shouted sharply, "This way!?"
Lu Yong immediately aimed the candlestick in that direction, his palms sweating with nervousness.
However, there was nothing in front of him.
Nothing at all...
……
Fang Yuan watched as Master Lu walked past Lu Feng, opened the courtyard gate, stepped out, and disappeared into the darkness, gently closing the gate behind him.
Click.
The latch went down and the door closed.
The sound was so clear.
Lu Feng and Lu Yong instantly looked towards the courtyard gate...
Master Lu has already left...
Inside the hall, only the heavy breathing of the Lu family members, the flickering candlelight, and an indescribable, oppressive silence—a silence that felt like a survivor's ordeal yet shrouded in mystery—remained.
……
The silence lasted for a good ten seconds.
Lu Feng and Lu Yong remained stiffly on guard, their foreheads dripping with cold sweat, their eyes fixed on the tightly closed courtyard gate.
"Quack... quack quack..."
Fang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, his body went limp, and he almost slipped out of Nan Nan's arms.
"Little Frog!" Nan Nan exclaimed and quickly hugged him tightly.
"Little frog... Little frog moved??" Lu Feng turned around abruptly, his pupils shrinking as he saw the frog had regained its vitality. "Did... did that thing leave? That thing left?!"
Fang Yuan took a few deep breaths and then nodded vigorously.
quack!
They're gone! That bastard is finally gone!
I was so scared!
Why would something like that suddenly knock on the door?!
Thank goodness they're gone!
Lu Yong breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had been pulled out of water. The candlestick in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter, and he slumped back into his chair, his face as pale as paper: "Something really...came in?"
"Nonsense!" Lu Feng plopped down on the ground, panting heavily. "Otherwise, why would the frog be so scared? We just... we just brushed past that thing?"
The thought of this possibility instantly soaked his back in cold sweat.
Lu's mother was already pale, and her lips trembled as she couldn't speak.
Nan Nan was also frightened and her face turned pale, but she still clung tightly to Fang Yuan, as if that would give her courage.
Fang Yuan took a while to recover and finally regained some strength.
He struggled to jump out of Nan Nan's arms and landed on the table.
Then, he looked at the blood jade.
The dark red jade lay quietly on the table, gleaming with an eerie luster under the candlelight.
This was the second time Fang Yuan had seen this thing.
But... why would Master Lu just leave behind such a piece of blood jade for no reason? And what is the connection between this piece of blood jade and the ones from Lu Family City before?
Fang Yuan stared at it for a few seconds, then raised his paw, pointed at the blood jade, then at himself, and nodded heavily.
"Little Frog means..." Nan Nan translated softly, her voice still trembling, "that...that rock..."
"What stone?" Lu Feng was taken aback and looked over. "There's no stone here..."
His words abruptly stopped.
When did a red stone suddenly appear on the table?!?
"What, what time is this—"
There was clearly nothing on the table before!
When they ate, there were only a few simple dishes on the table besides the bowls and chopsticks!
When?!
When did this blood jade appear?!
"This is..." Lu Yong swallowed hard, his voice hoarse, "Blood jade? The kind of blood jade the frog wanted?"
Fang Yuan nodded vigorously.
Quack! That's right! This is it!
but……
He looked at the blood jade, his heart filled with indescribable complex emotions.
That eerie Master Lu, that being who almost scared him to death, that thing that Lu Feng and Lu Yong couldn't see or hear at all...
He left behind the blood jade that he needed most.
Why?
"That thing...was left behind?" Lu Feng's voice was filled with disbelief. "It...it knew the frog wanted this?"
An eerie silence fell over the room once again.
An entity they could not see, hear, or feel entered their home, placed a piece of blood jade, and then left.
It didn't hurt anyone.
It even... sent a gift?
"Could it be..." Lu Yong suddenly spoke, his voice hoarse, "Could it be... Father?"
When this guess came out, everyone was stunned.
Lu's mother suddenly raised her head, her eyes instantly reddening: "Ye... Ye Zi?"
"Impossible!" Lu Feng retorted instinctively, but his voice lacked conviction. "How could Father possibly... Didn't Lord Zhang say that everyone in Lujiacheng..."
He couldn't continue.
Lu Yong remained silent for a long time, finally whispering, "But after that thing came in... I always felt... a sense of familiarity. The rhythm of the knocking... and..."
He didn't finish speaking, but everyone understood.
The rhythm of his knocking was indeed very similar to what Master Lu usually did when he came home.
Moreover, after "Master Lu" came in, he didn't harm anyone; instead, he left behind what the frog needed...
This doesn't seem like a malicious eeriness.
"But..." Nan Nan asked softly, "If he really is Dad... why can't we see him? Why can only Little Frog see him?"
No one can answer this question.
Fang Yuan looked at the blood jade, then glanced in the direction of the door.
He recalled "Master Lu's" last glance.
What is he thinking?
Quack... I don't know.
Fang Yuan was silent for a moment, then stretched out his claw and pressed it onto the blood jade.
Regardless of whether that was Master Lu or not, regardless of what it actually was...
He was determined to have the Blood Jade.
In this bizarre world, only by becoming stronger can you protect yourself and... those around you.
Warm Daoist energy surged from the blood jade, flowing into his body through his claws.
[Taoist Rhyme +1.77]