The mountain collapsed and the entire mountain situation changed. If it wasn't for the huge size of Shenmu and the torrent could not completely cover it, Mi Wan would almost have found a place where his body was buried. But Rao was so, she still couldn't tell the exact location.
"Where exactly?" Fan Chen asked.
"In..." Mi Wan floated around Shenmu. After the flash flood, the ground was full of mess. The surrounding Shenmu looked almost the same, and Mi Wan couldn't remember where his body fell for a while.
"It seems... it's with my back facing the direction of going down the mountain, yes, Guyuan Village is behind me." It took Mi Wan a long time to come up with this information.
"That's it." Fan Chen gestured for a piece, but Rao had Guyuan Village as a guide, and the scope of digging was not small.
"Can't you use the vines to probe?" Mi Wan asked, because it made her recall so, wouldn't it be more convenient for Fan Chen to use the vines to probe from the ground.
"I can't lose my demon power anymore, otherwise I won't be able to maintain my human form." Fan Chen replied.
"Oh~~" Mi Wan knew that Fan Chen was very weak now, but he didn't expect to be so weak now, "If only I was in the water, if you send me back to my body, I can swim back by myself, but in the mud Here, if this goes back..."
"I don't have to dig hard." Fan Chen rarely spit out a groove.
Mi Wan stuck out her tongue, then squatted on the ground in distress: "Otherwise, we'll dig when your demon power has recovered."
"The longer your soul leaves the body, the more the body's functions will degrade, and it won't work for at most two hours." Fan Chen looked at Mi Wan, "Are you sure you want to wait for me to recover my demon power before digging?"
"..." Fan Chen has spent an hour trying to stop the debris flow, if he waits for him to recover his demon power and then digs himself, it will really only be a corpse, "You say, I can still find a fresh body. Possessed?"
Fan Chen didn't answer, but squatted down and started digging the wet mud on the ground. With no tools and no demon power, he could only dig mud with his bare hands. Fortunately, the demon clan's body is strong and cannot be hurt by ordinary objects.
Fan Chen digs very seriously and very quickly, Mi Wan watched him throw a handful of dirt out, and pick up one stone at a time, but he couldn't see his body. About ten minutes later, Fan Chen dug a half-meter deep pit, and his fingers touched the harder surface. They knew that this was the end, and Mi Wan's body was not here.
Mi Wan looked disappointed.
Fan Chen didn't show much expression, he kept getting up from the pit, and continued digging in another place, again holding piles of soil, one stone after another, and soon he dug to the bottom, but he was still missing. Miwan's body.
Fan Chen pursed his lips, continued to get up, and continued digging in another place.
Mi Wan followed Fan Chen quietly. At this time, she was in a state of soul and couldn't do anything at all. She was the best she could do without making noise or making trouble. After watching Fan Chen dig one hole after another, and still unable to find his body, Mi Wan's mood gradually became calm from irritability. This terrain is too big, and under the impact of the torrent, his body is likely to be washed out with the torrent. According to Fan Chen's random digging of pits and pits, within an hour, the chance of finding himself is very slim. .
Mi Wan didn't know why Fan Chen was willing to help her with such an inconceivable thing, but he had already done his best.
"Stop digging." When Fan Chen started digging the fourth pit, Mi Wan finally said, "Maybe I can go to reincarnation this time."
Fan Chen's movements stopped, but soon returned to normal, he continued to dig the fourth hole: "There is still half an hour."
Mi Wan didn't speak, she squatted in front of Fan Chen, watching his faster and faster digging, a strange feeling slowly emerged in her heart, like the candied haws that her master gave her when she was sick as a child, sour Sweet and sour.
"jiji~~"
"啾啾~~"
"Roar~~"
Suddenly, dozens or hundreds of animals appeared around them one after another. There was still mud from the torrent on the hair of these animals, but they rushed down from the safe mountains that had not collapsed and surrounded Fan Chen. around. As if they knew that Fan Chen was their savior and that Fan Chen was looking for something, the animals silently waved their claws and dug around Fan Chen.
After a while, dozens of pits appeared around Fan Chen.
The scene at this time was so incredible that Mi Wan was stunned on the spot. She remembered what her master told her when she was a child that all things have animism, but apart from the demon clan, she had never seen any animal with human nature. When she grew up, the sect master told her that people who were not my race would have different hearts. She killed countless monsters, and finally was killed by the monsters. Five hundred years after she died, she often wondered what the so-called animism meant, but she never understood, but at this moment... she suddenly understood.
"jiji~~"
Suddenly, a gray squirrel crawled out from the ground. It ran quickly, stopped in front of Fan Chen, and pointed its paws forward.
Fan Chen threw the stone in his hand, stood up, and the gray squirrel immediately ran back in the same direction as when it came and went. Fan Chen quickly followed, and came to the big pit where the gray squirrels were chirping. He lowered his head and saw Mi Wan's face covered in mud and water and could barely see his facial features.
Fan Chen jumped down and carried the person up from the pit.
Even if it was his own body, Mi Wan couldn't help but dislike it at first sight.
"Why don't you wash first, the nostrils are blocked." Mi Wan deeply doubted that once her soul returned to her body, she might die from suffocation due to blocked nasal passages and unable to breathe.
"Are you sure?" Fan Chen raised his eyebrows.
"Sure." Mi Wan was extremely sure.
Thanks to the help of the animals, they managed to find Mi Wan's body at about an hour and forty minutes, so if they wanted to clean up the body, they had time. After confirming Mi Wan's wishes, Fan Chen looked down at the squirrel under his feet and asked, "Is there a water source nearby?"
"Jiji~~" The little squirrel stretched out its paws to the left.
"lead the way."
"Jiji~~" The little squirrel hurriedly led the way, Fan Chen hugged Mi Wan and followed closely behind.
Mi Wan, who was in a state of soul, did not leave with Fan Chen in a hurry. She looked at the animals that were spreading out one after another, slowly bent down, and solemnly said, "Thank you."
The animals couldn't hear Mi Wan's voice, or they heard but could not understand Mi Wan's language. They continued to retreat up the mountain one after another, and disappeared into the forest after a while.
Mi Wan turned back and found that Fan Chen was standing not far away waiting for her. Seeing her looking over, he continued to follow the little squirrel down the mountain. The two walked with the little squirrel for about five minutes, and found a small pond on the mountainside. Because the mountain collapsed on the other side, this side was not affected, so the water in the pond was still clear.
Fan Chen walked to the pond, loosened his hands, and threw the person directly into the pond without pity.
"Hey!" Mi Wan stared at this scene in a stunned manner, and said dissatisfiedly, "What are you doing?"
"Didn't you say you want to wash yourself?" Fan Chen looked innocent.
"Are you washing? Are you throwing a corpse?"
"Otherwise, how do you want me to wash you? Put it in the bathtub, and then put another bathtub of hot water?" Fan Chen raised his eyebrows.
"..." Mi Wan thought about it for a while, but couldn't seem to think of a better way, so she just mumbled a few words in dissatisfaction, "Then why don't you act gentle."
"You're a human, and I'm a demon. It's good to be able to save you. There are quite a lot of demands."
Mi Wan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered the conversation between herself and Fan Chen before she broke up with Fan Chen half a month ago, but before she could recall carefully, a familiar suction suddenly appeared, followed by a biting chill, and the river water. A feeling of drowning that you can't breathe. Mi Wan struggled hard, and managed to swim out of the pond.
"You take the opportunity to take revenge." Mi Wan deeply suspected that Fan Chen was revenge for her broken promise half a month ago, so instead of taking her body out of the pond, she directly gave her soul to her. sent back.
"You said it yourself, if you were in the water, you would definitely be able to swim back by yourself." Fan Chen teased the little squirrel on his shoulder with his fingers.
"Okay, I deserve it." Regardless of whether Fan Chen did it or not, Mi Wan didn't plan to care. She hurriedly got up from the pond, and was shivered by a gust of mountain wind. It's better to be in the water, it's colder up.
"Chichi~~" The little squirrel stood on Fan Chen's shoulders, and kept chirping, not knowing what he was talking about.
"What happened to it?" This little squirrel was also her life-saver, Mi Wan couldn't help but asked curiously.
"It wants to go down the mountain with me." Fan Chen replied.
"Did it activate spiritual consciousness? But there is no demonic energy on it?" Mi Wan observed the little squirrel and found that although the little squirrel looked smart, it did not have any demonic energy.
"It should be just beginning wisdom, if the opportunity is good, maybe you can cultivate into a demon." Fan Chen said.
"Then are you going to take it down the mountain?"
"No, I don't have time to raise it." Fan Chen shook his head.
"Jiji~~" The little squirrel understood Fan Chen's words, and his excited claws tightly grasped Fan Chen's collar, begging desperately.
"You are clever, but unfortunately I really don't have the spare energy to support you. You should still practice in this mountain. If you succeed in your practice one day, come find me again." Fan Chen rejected the little squirrel.
"Jiji~~" The little squirrel lowered his head in despair, and his tail, which was as big as his body, also drooped down.
"I'll raise it." Mi Wan suddenly said, "It's also my life-saving rat. If it doesn't want to stay on the mountain, I'll take it back to raise it."
Fan Chen glanced at Mi Wan, as if to confirm whether what she said was true, then turned to ask the little squirrel: "If you want to go down the mountain, follow her."
"Jiji?" The little squirrel glanced at Mi Wan suspiciously, as if observing whether this human was reliable, and then it felt a familiar spiritual power on the human body, which was the last power that Shenmu radiated before he died. The little squirrel's guard was relieved for the most part, and then he carefully took two steps in the direction of the human.
Seeing this, Mi Wan stretched out his hand to the little squirrel.
The little squirrel didn't hesitate, jumped directly from Fan Chen's shoulder, and squatted in Mi Wan's palm obediently.
Mi Wan held the little squirrel in front of her eyes, looked at the little thing with round eyes, and assured: "I tell you, it's not necessarily a monster if you follow me to cultivate, but you must eat a lot of yours."
"Jiji~~" The little squirrel's winter pine nuts were washed away by the mudslide. Hearing Mi Wan's words, he jumped up and down happily.
"Ah..." Mi Wan couldn't hold back and sneezed.
Fan Chen looked at the girl who was wet and dripping with water, and suddenly began to regret the act of throwing someone directly into the water just now. Although even if he didn't throw people in, people buried in muddy water for more than an hour would not be any better than they are now.
"Go back." Fan Chen said.
"Ah? What about you?" Mi Wan also felt that she had to go down the mountain to change clothes. Even if her physique was good, she had consumed a lot of spiritual energy. If she continued to blow like this, she would definitely get sick.
"I'll stay on the mountain and go back when the demon power recovers." After speaking, Fan Chen found a place and sat down directly. The mud and grass clippings all over his body could hardly see the color of his original clothes. And the hands, because of the digging, the slender and clean fingers that were originally slender, now even the nails are full of mud.
"You... do you want to wash it too?" Mi Wan stared at Fan Chen's fingers.
"It's okay~~" Fan Chen chuckled lightly, "I'm a tree, where there are trees that don't like soil."
Mi Wan thinks it makes sense, but seeing Fan Chen always clean on weekdays is a little uncomfortable at this time: "Then, I'll go down the mountain first."
"Go."
"That..." Mi Wan turned around hesitantly, and asked in Fan Chen's puzzled eyes, "Are you going home tonight?"
"Yes." Fan Chen nodded lightly.
"See you later." Mi Wan became happy then, smiled and waved, hugging the little squirrel and running all the way down the mountain.
Fan Chen looked at Mi Wan's retreating back, and suddenly had an illusion: Could it be that Mi Wan has been waiting for him to go back all this time
With the help of the little squirrel, Mi Wan found a shortcut and went down the mountain. At this time, the rain had already stopped, and the villagers at the bottom of the mountain were also safely evacuated because of the warnings given by Liu Gu and the others. Although half of the houses at the bottom of the mountain had been crushed by the mudslides, it was the greatest luck for people to be okay.
Ambulances and rescue teams also came one after another. After hearing from the villagers that no one was missing, the rescuers immediately breathed a sigh of relief and quickly set up tents to bandage the wounds of some villagers who were injured while escaping.
Han Xiao, Liu Gu, and Jin Mingxuan were traveling between tents to find them. They couldn't get through to Mi Wan's phone, so they could only use this method to find someone.
"Have you found it?" Han Xiao asked the other two nervously.
"No, I also looked for the village next door, but I didn't see Mi Wan." Liu Gu shook his head in disappointment.
"I don't have it here either, Han Xiao, is it possible that Mi Wan didn't run down?" After two hours of searching, and still no sign of Mi Wan, Jin Mingxuan couldn't help thinking in the worst direction.
"Impossible!" Han Xiao decisively rejected, "Before the mountain collapsed, Mi Wan and I called and she said she came down."
"Where's that person?" Jin Mingxuan tugged at his hair irritably. He didn't want to curse Mi Wan, but they really couldn't find anyone.
"Let's look again, I'll ask the people in our village." Liu Gu made a gesture to go out again.
"What are you looking for? It's just such a big place. We've searched back and forth three or four times. Ma Dan, we shouldn't leave her alone on the mountain." Jin Mingxuan kicked the stone on the side of the road angrily.
Although Han Xiao and Liu Gu didn't want to admit Jin Mingxuan's words, the facts were in front of them and they couldn't refute them at all. The three big boys actually left a girl on the mountain. If Mi Wan did something else, they would not be at ease for the rest of their lives.
"How about... Let's let the rescue team go up the mountain for search and rescue?"
"It's been two hours, is there any help if you find it?"
"Then why don't you find it?"
The three big boys have red eyes, you are arguing with each other, you are blaming yourself and the other party, you can't wait to fight directly. At this time, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted.
"Look, did someone come down from the mountain?"
"Where, where, is it really a person?"
The three of them immediately turned their heads to look, and they didn't care whether that person was Mi Wan or not. As they got closer, the three finally saw clearly that it was Mi Wan who came down.
"Mi Wan!" The three big boys almost cried in surprise. When they ran to Mi Wan and saw that she was wet, the three of them took off their coats without hesitation. In the end, it was Han Xiao's action. The fastest, put on Mi Wan first.
"Are the villagers all right?" Mi Wan asked with concern.
"It's okay, the people in our village ran out early, so it's okay. The people in the next village ran slower, but they were farther away from the mountain, and the landslide stopped quickly, so there were no casualties. , just crushed some houses." Liu Gu replied.
"What's the matter with you, how did you come down from the mountain, why didn't you answer the phone?" The three of them also had many questions to ask Mi Wan, and they immediately asked in a row.
"Can I tell you after I change my clothes, I'm cold!" Mi Wan said pitifully.
"I'll go get you clothes."
"I'm going to prepare ginger soup for you."
"I'll take you there." Jin Mingxuan and Liu Gu both ran away, Han Xiao could only accompany Mi Wan, suddenly, he saw a little squirrel emerge from Mi Wan's clothes, and said in surprise, "What is this? "
"Save the mouse."
"… "
Back in the tent, changed clothes, and drank the ginger soup, Mi Wan was refreshed. Only then did she have the strength to explain to the three of her where she was just now: "When the mudslide happened, I didn't have time to run down the mountain, so I ran back up the mountain. Fortunately, the landslide was not serious, and there was no landslide in the mountain range where I was hiding. , so I'm fine. I didn't answer the phone because I lost my phone, and I ran too fast and didn't know where I lost it."
"Then you didn't go down the mountain, why did you lie to us that you went down the mountain?" Han Xiao asked with a bit of annoyance, because Mi Wan said she had already gone down the mountain, so he didn't immediately ask the rescue team to let them go up the mountain for search and rescue. . This is because Mi Wan was lucky to avoid the landslide. If he hadn't avoided it, he would feel cold all over his body just thinking about it.
"I was afraid that you would come back to me halfway, and Shenmu had already given me guidance at that time. I knew I would be fine, so I said that." Mi Wan explained.
"But… "
"I'm already like this, can you please stop blaming me." Mi Wan didn't want to worry about this topic anymore, she immediately lowered her head and said in a pitiful tone with a bit of pleading. Sure enough, as long as she said that, Han Xiao and the three of them, like her former senior brothers, couldn't bear to blame her anymore.
"We're not blaming you, we're worried about your accident." Han Xiao said hesitantly, but he didn't dare to ask Mi Wan about lying, "I'll go get you something to eat."
Han Xiao made an excuse to go out, but Liu Gu and Jin Mingxuan were curious about what happened to her on the mountain.
"Mi Wan, when you went back, what did Shenmu say to you?" Liu Gu asked.
"Shenmu said it was dying, it could only hold on for another fifteen minutes, and then let us run." Mi Wan said.
"Shenmu... dead?" The two of them were stunned, especially Liu Gu, who subconsciously dug out the branch he picked up from the mountain from his pocket, "It's going to die, and it's still protecting us."
Mi Wan thought of something, and said, "Liu Gu, do you know? It's not only Shenmu who saved you, but also you."
"Me? What did I do?" Liu Gu looked up in surprise.
"You believe in it." Mi Wan said, "because of your devout worship, and because of the incense candles you lit, it was you who gave the divine wood power, so it can send out warnings. Think about it, did you just finish worshipping? , I just heard the sound."
"I..." Liu Gu clenched the branch in his hand and said lonely, "But, Shenmu, it's dead."
Mi Wan didn't know how to comfort Liu Gu, because Shenmu was indeed dead. Its demon core, its body, and its roots that covered half of the mountain range all died in this torrent. When the spring breeze returns in the coming year, its body will be turned into nutrients to nourish new life, but these lives are no longer sacred trees.
The cultivation of grass and trees takes thousands of years to obtain spiritual consciousness. A mudslide ruined the thousands of years of cultivation in Guyuan Mountain.
After resting for another half an hour, Mi Wan was afraid that Butler Ye would be worried, and insisted on returning to Cannes. Han Xiao and Jin Mingxuan also followed, and only Liu Gu stayed at home. Mi Wan didn't want a reporter to interview him, and told Liu Gu not to spread the news that he heard Shenmu's voice, Liu Gu nodded and agreed.
When he got home, in the face of Butler Ye's question, Mi Wan casually found an excuse to drop his phone in the water while walking and fell. After taking a shower, someone who didn't have a mobile phone used a cup to smash the next window.
Seeing that the cup was entangled by vines again, and a small purple flower quietly appeared on her windowsill, Mi Wan smiled happily.
"Why did you lose something again?" Fan Chen asked.
"Because the phone was buried in the mountains."
"Why didn't you say it just now, I'll dig it out for you together." Fan Chen frowned.
"It's okay, I'll just buy another one."
"I'm afraid of polluting the environment."
"… "