"Bai Zhuxuan? Are you serious?"
As soon as get out of class was over, I chased after Zhu Xuan, catching up with him in three steps and two steps, and complained about his nondescript name.
"What's your opinion on my name?" Zhu Xuan looked at me amusedly, "I think it's more like a name than 'Wen Jiubai'."
"Speaking of Wen Jiubai, can't you tell me what's going on?" Zhu Xuan walked quickly, as if deliberately avoiding the crowd. I can only keep up with him by trotting.
"I've been kept in the dark by you and Wen Jiubai for long enough, can't I discuss something with me just once?" I asked out of breath, the displeasure in my tone was obvious.
"It's not that I don't want to tell you, but I don't want to involve other irrelevant people." Zhu Xuan stopped suddenly, and at this time I had chased him to an empty corner, "I tell you that you can , but can you promise not to tell anyone any relevant information about this matter?"
I felt that I was deeply distrusted, and I couldn't help frowning, "Zhuxuan, I haven't even revealed these things to my two best friends, Su Xiaoyun and Shi Yitong, do you still think I will tell others? I am The one who least wants to involve innocent classmates!"
Zhu Xuan was noncommittal to my argument, but just nodded, "That's the best. Because this time is different from those petty cases you have dealt with before. Ling Xiao's matter, if you are not careful, it will be a bloody rain Fishy."
I directly interrupted Zhu Xuan: "When did you become so verbose? Tell me what happened to Yu Ruyi, are you looking for it like Wen Jiubai? Why did you find Yu Ruyi and find my school? "
"It's not being wordy, it's being cautious." Zhu Xuan defended, but under my strong tone, it seemed very unconvincing, "Well, I have known about Yu Ruyi for a long time. Although for you humans This may be just a legend, but know that all legends are forgotten history. For those of us who have lived a long life, the past is vivid. Long ago, Yu Ruyi was a giant monster The treasure of the snake, the demon snake ruled most of the hills by relying on that Ruyi. However, as the sky always goes, soon after, the demon snake was resisted by other monsters and died under the cliff. After the demon snake died Afterwards, all the monsters tried to snatch that jade ruyi, but no one was able to find it. It was as if it had grown legs, and it has disappeared mysteriously since then."
I listened carefully and nodded.
"Until the Nine-Tailed Fox disappeared, this mysterious treasure surfaced again, triggering a new round of competition. Countless greedy monsters are eager to get it and realize their wishes."
"Like world domination or something?" I couldn't help but interject.
Zhu Xuan glanced at me in surprise, and shook his head slightly, "No, of course not. In fact, most of the wishes may not be what you imagined, but they are the wishes of the monsters at all costs."
"What wish?" Zhu Xuan's words aroused my curiosity.
Zhuxuan pondered for a while, and said: "I have seen a ghost. He has been looking for Yu Ruyi for more than three hundred years. His wish is to see his wife again. I have also seen a cat demon. She In order to fight for Yu Ruyi, she fought with other monsters several times, and she was bleeding every time, and almost died once, and her wish is to forget a memory of killing her former master... "
I looked at Zhuxuan in surprise, I really never thought that the monsters would compete for Yu Ruyi for such a wish. This greatly exceeded my expectations, because the wishes of these monsters are so...
human. Obviously they are not human at all.
"However," at this time, Zhu Xuan suddenly changed the subject, "in this battle, I found that all the monsters who had obtained Yu Ruyi gradually disappeared. No one really got the so-called happiness, but Through Yu Ruyi, the monsters disappeared one after another as if they were cursed. But even so, they were still fighting for it. I only had the chance to see one monster who got Ruyi. He got Ruyi the second I threw it in the wilderness one day, and when I found him, he was lying under a big tree, and he said angrily, 'This is a deal with the devil', and soon It turned into a pile of loess, and disappeared.”
"Dead?" I asked in surprise.
Zhu Xuan nodded and confirmed my guess, "After that, I realized the danger of Yu Ruyi. It is not a magic weapon that can satisfy people's wishes, it is just an evil curse. So I am very Quickly find a way to find Yu Ruyi, and then bury it with my own hands, this is the end of the struggle among the monsters."
I hesitated, "Wait, that is to say, you hid Yu Ruyi from others to find it? Is that what you mean?"
Zhu Xuan nodded, I don't know if it was my illusion, but his face seemed to become darker.
"But Gu Yu, when I found Yu Ruyi, I finally understood what the monster said before he died. When he said 'demon', he meant it literally."
I was even more confused, "What?"
"That thing is not a cold dead thing, it has life." Zhu Xuan shook his head, "That thing is a living thing."
Zhu Xuan's words made goose bumps pop up all over my body, "What do you mean it has life?"
"That's what I meant." Zhuxuan narrowed the distance between me and me, looked at me very seriously, and said word by word, "Gu Yu, do you know about Cordyceps sinensis?"
I nodded hesitantly, "Of course...it's a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. It's bugs in winter and grass in summer."
Zhuxuan nodded, "Grass is actually a kind of mycelium, which parasitizes the larvae of a moth. In spring, the internal organs of the insect are eroded by fungi, and the 'grass' will come out of the head of the insect at this time. .”
Evil... I didn't expect such a precious Chinese medicine to have such a disgusting history.
"That thing, Yu Ruyi is also the same as Cordyceps sinensis." Zhu Xuan said, "On the surface, Yu Ruyi seems to be just an ordinary jade ornament. But it is actually just the body of some kind of monster living in it. Usually It sleeps in the jade ornaments, and if touched, it will come to life and cast a vicious curse on you."
"That is, what kind of monster?" I asked half curiously and half fearfully, but Zhu Xuan shook his head.
"I don't know. When I found it, out of caution, I never touched it directly. But even so, just approaching something like that, I felt a sinister and powerful force emerging from it. But Since I didn't touch it directly, I didn't see the monster inside. I just hid it quickly before it harms more monsters or even humans."
I nodded and asked, "Then what happened next?"
"This is the main point I want to tell you." Zhu Xuan said, "You all know that when I was in Diecui Mountain, I was in a coma for 30 years in the deep mountains. Not long after I woke up, I met you. Then I sealed the anger beast, met the nine-tailed fox again, and was involved in a series of things, which caused me to completely forget about Yu Ruyi. It didn't occur to me until two days ago that I hurried back to my Searched for the place where it was buried, and found…”
"Missing?" I couldn't help asking.
Zhu Xuan sighed and nodded, "That's right, that's what you guessed. The place where Yu Ruyi was hidden was destroyed horribly, and all the barriers that were set up in the past were also torn apart, and Yu Ruyi It's gone too."
"It's Ling Xiao!" I blurted out, and immediately came to a conclusion, "It must be him! He's doing something bad again!"
Unexpectedly, Zhu Xuan frowned and asked, "Why are you so sure that Taoist Ling Xiao did it?"
"Does it need to be said?" I looked at Zhuxuan in disbelief, "He has been disrupting our plan behind the scenes. He tricked Su Xiaoyun to attract evil spirits, destroyed the enchantment and released Gu sculptures, and even helped the angry beast to destroy it. Get rid of you, aren't these enough for us to doubt him? Besides, Wen Jiubai told me that what he wants most now is probably this Yu Ruyi... "
Zhuxuan interrupted me in the middle of my sentence, "Wait, what did Wen Jiubai tell you? What did he tell you?"
I looked at Zhu Xuan's face and hesitated. I wasn't sure if there would be any problem just telling Wen Jiubai what Wen Jiubai told me, but Zhuxuan's next words reassured me of my worries.
"Don't worry about it. Even if Wen Jiubai knew that you told me secretly, he would definitely come and beat me up, and he wouldn't do anything to you."
I was at a loss for words for a while, and this reason made people unable to think of a rebuttal.
"Okay." I scratched my hair, and tried to summarize the content of Wen Jiubai's conversation with me last night in the most concise language. Tell Zhuxuan about Ling Xiao's sealing of Wen Jiubai, and what Wen Jiubai revealed about Yu Ruyi's power.
"So you mean that Wen Jiubai told you that Ling Xiao was able to seal him because he got Yu Ruyi?" Zhu Xuan asked.
I nodded.
"And he wants to get Yu Ruyi now because he wants to use this magic weapon to kill Wen Jiubai again?" Zhu Xuan asked again.
I nodded again, "Yes."
Then for some unknown reason, Zhu Xuan suddenly fell silent. He stared at me with those deep eyes that didn't match his appearance at all, which made my heart shudder.
"What, what's wrong?" I shook the goosebumps on my body and complained, "If you have something to say, hurry up and say it, okay? Don't keep staring at people like this, it's scary."