The next moment, a bright light appeared in front of Bai Xiaohu, then in a vast vision and distant sky, there were rolling green mountains, peaks surrounded by clouds and fog, a cascading stream, and a green and peaceful Spiritual Lake.
Birds flying in the clouds, fish breaking out of the water, and some small animals grazing, walking, jumping, and having fun in the meadow.
The cool, refreshing, and spiritual air was inhaled into the lungs and then slowly exhaled. This was the feeling that Bai Xiaohu had not felt for two months. In all honesty, the air in the human world was terrible.
She smiled happily, she was finally back in this space.
When she was on Baishou Mountain, she didn’t come in here often, because the environment of Baishou Mountain was also perfect, and there was not much difference between the inside and outside. At most, the spatial treasure was larger and had more places than the single mountain of Baishou Mountain, but she didn’t like the feeling of being isolated from the world. However, at this time, she felt like she was back home.
Like her, the big demon chicken was also very happy. It flew out of Bai Xiaohu’s hand and jumped on the soft meadow. Its round body looked very flexible.
The big white cat Dapan on the other hand was stunned. It hung on Bai Xiaohu’s arm like a soft cat tapestry. Its eyes widened bigger and rounder. It looked at everything in disbelief, as if it couldn’t understand why it suddenly came to a new world.
Seeing Dapan like this, Bai Xiaohu gently touched its forehead and softly put it on the ground. Watching it shrinking beside her and not daring to take a step, she petted it with some pity: “It’s okay, go play, it’s safe here.”
The white cat looked up at her, its eyes full of trust, and meows softly like a newborn kitten, and then tentatively stepped out with its claws to explore this new place.
Bai Xiaohu looked at the two of them playing on their own, and with a thought, she teleported to a different place in the spatial treasure. Here was her exclusive territory. As long as she had consciousness, she could come wherever she wanted. After patrolling and making sure that this place was no different from before, she was satisfied and then teleported to a foggy valley.
This valley was a bit special. It was the place with the most spiritual energy in the spatial treasure. The spiritual energy here was so dense that it appeared in fog form. She walked around and ensured nothing, not even a bird or an ant was here. Then she felt relieved and sat on the ground with a constipated expression.
The next moment, her figure suddenly shrank. The black clothes and black pants she was wearing, which were convenient for night travel like the ones Lu Ye always wore, suddenly deflated and fell to the ground. Only a bulging thing in the clothes was moving its body. After a moment, a pointy snow-white fox head peaked out.
She was very pretty and cute, with no impurities in her fur, and a bit chubby. Her two black eyes looked naturally smiling, giving people a friendly feeling. Her two ears stood up on her head, trembled slightly, and then she crawled completely out of her clothes.
Her body was about double the size of an ordinary adult cat, and her whole body was snow-white. Her white, fine, and smooth fur was like the finest silk, shining softly. The only flaw was that her butt was bald, with no tail, which looked a bit weird.
The fox turned her head to look at her butt, twitched her black nose in a grievance, turned her head back as if she didn’t dare to look at it again, and covered her face with her two furry front paws.
But soon she put down her paws, straightened her chest, opened her mouth, and a small bead emitting light floated out of her mouth.
This was her spiritual core. The spiritual core of more than 800 years should be red-gold, but this one is dim and covered with cracks, it was severely damaged during the Heaven’s Trial.
Bai Xiaohu stretched her claws to fiddle with the spiritual core floating in the air. After careful inspection, she found that there was not much sign of repair in the past two months. She sighed deeply, and a trace of melancholy appeared on her fluffy fox face. The fox eyes that should have been smiling seemed filled with sorrow.
She opened her mouth again and swallowed the spiritual core back. Then she squatted there upright and began to practice. The mist of spiritual energy around her quickly got absorbed and thinned out little by little.
After a long time, Bai Xiaohu stopped and opened her eyes. A ray of light seemed to burst out from the fox’s eyes. Blue light on the left and red light on the right flashed then turned back to black pupils. She looked a little satisfied. This is how cultivation should’ve been. Whether it is absorbing the crystal core of zombies or eating fruits to replenish spiritual energy, it is too slow.
She spit out the spiritual core again and looked at it carefully. She found that the spiritual core was still dim, without much change. Only a few of the hundreds of fine cracks seemed to have healed. She was a little discouraged. She swallowed the spiritual core back and slowly turned back into human form.
Ordinary clothes are troublesome. They will fall off after changing back to the original form. If it is a robe with a spell attached, it will not be this troublesome.
She put on her clothes and walked out. She thought as she walked. She originally wanted Lu Ye to follow her and practice the cultivation method of the spirits to awaken his demon cat bloodline, but it would take a long time. If Lu Ye has a partner, she must not go to him often. So it is not appropriate to use this method.
She felt a little depressed when she realized that she could not approach him often now.
She believed she felt like this because her original plan wouldn’t work now, so the fastest way left was to put her spiritual core into his body and let it cycle a round.
But her spiritual core was very fragile now. For safety reasons, the spirit would not easily let their spiritual core leave the body, let alone a damaged spiritual core, unless the other party was someone she trusted very much.
Bai Xiaohu was a little undecided. Does she trust Lu Ye enough? Would Lu Ye really not take the opportunity to do something to her spiritual core?
Forget it, let’s find the person first.
She returned to the original place and found the chicken and the cat. She told them she was going out to continue her journey and asked if they wanted to stay inside or follow her.
The big white cat immediately ran to her legs and rubbed her legs with its chubby body, indicating that it wanted to go out with her. The cat was probably worried that it would be left there by her. Mengmeng didn’t want to go out at first, but seeing this annoying cat so attentive, it also chirped to indicate that it wanted to go out.
So Bai Xiaohu took the cat and the chicken with her, as well as her little electric scooter. On the same deserted street in the middle of the night, an electric scooter began to set off quickly.
…
Lu Ye was confused by the two questions that came out of nowhere. Why did she suddenly ask such questions?
He wanted to send a message in reply, but he couldn’t. There was no signal. She didn’t contact him at the moment. Looking at the two messages, it was sent after noon today.
Lu Ye suppressed his irritability and waited for a while. The message still couldn’t be sent, and no new message came. He finally couldn’t wait any longer, stood up, gave an order, and went to the Base army’s station.
He plans to borrow the mobile radio.
There aren’t many such radios that could be used for long-distance communication, because they were expensive. The Zhongyang Team didn’t have one, but on this trip, Lu Ye has been using this radio to contact Wen Liansheng at a specific time every few days.
In fact, while clearing the zombies on this trip, the signal towers in these cities were also being repaired, but at present, they could only rely on the radio to contact the Base.
Now was obviously not their agreed time, but the officer saw Lu Ye coming over with a gloomy face to borrow the radio and thought something had happened, so he approved easily.
In the Jiangcheng Base, Wen Liansheng was half asleep when he received a notice from the Base that Lu Ye had sent a radio. He immediately got up and rushed to the base communication station.
He thought something urgent had happened, but the other party just asked about Bai Xiaohu as soon as he answered the phone.
“Bai? She’s fine. What happened today?” Wen Liansheng thought for a while and told him about Zhuang Shixian’s visit, although he didn’t think it was something important that needed to be mentioned at this time.
Lu Ye’s eyes were ice cold after hearing what Zhuang Shixian said. Bai Xiaohu must have heard those words, but she probably didn’t know that one of the parties involved was herself, so she asked the two questions.
Did she have doubts? Was she mad? Was she asking questions out of curiosity?
Lu Ye thought for a while and then said to Wen Liansheng: “Go and check on her. If she’s asleep, forget it. If she’s not asleep, tell her I have something to say to her.”
Wen Liansheng was stunned: “Now? Let her come to the communication station?”
Wen Liansheng looked at the time. It was the middle of the night. It was okay for him to torment him, but it was not Lu Ye’s style to let a little girl run so far to make a phone call.
Lu Ye simply said, “No, just tell her to contact me, she will understand.”
Although Wen Liansheng was puzzled, he did not ask more questions. He went to the furniture store of the Baishou Team. He did not knock on Bai Xiaohu’s door directly, but first found Shi Jian and asked her to see if Bai Xiaohu was asleep.
Shi Jian frowned. It was the middle of the night and the room was dark. How could she not be asleep? But she still took a look, and this look brought shock.
“No one is in the room!”
Wen Liansheng was also shocked. How could she not be in the room this late?
When he went in, he saw a piece of paper on the table with a few lines of elementary schooler-like written on it.
–I’m going out! Don’t find me. I will be back soon. I told Wen Liansheng!
Wen Liansheng laughed. She didn’t tell him that she was going out like this!
He asked someone to search quietly. Other than the electric scooter being missing in the yard, nothing else was missing. No one knew when she left.
Wen Liansheng did not make a fuss about Bai Xiaohu going out alone. Oh, maybe not alone since she also took two pets with her. She has the ability to protect herself if this is the case. Although she only showed her ability to make medicine and a space that seemed to contain endless things after coming to the Base, she had beaten a tricky level 4 space zombie, waving it as a club, before coming to the Base.
So Wen Liansheng was not too anxious, and he knew that it was best to keep this news secret. He thought about it and went back to the communication station saying that Bai Xiaohu was asleep. In fact, he used a very obscure way to pass the news that Bai Xiaohu “ran away from home” to Lu Ye.
Lu Ye understood, and then his heart sank.
Did the little girl hear “he had a partner” and leave in a rage?
It’s impossible, there’s no reason for her to do that. Could it be that she…she does have feelings for him? Jealous?
No, she left a message saying that she would come back, but where would she go, without anyone, would she be in danger?
Damn the Zhuang Family!
This was the first time that Lu Ye hated someone so much, and it was also the first time that he knew what it meant to be in a state of anxiety. He immediately decided to return to the Base.
Although the army leader was surprised by his decision, the Zhongyang Team had helped to wipe out the zombies in two cities already and had made great efforts to resolve the attack of zombie tides in Ningcheng. Also, many who set out at the same time as the Zhongyang Team, whether from other teams or the army, had gone through rotation to go back and rest.
So he agreed very readily.
After returning to the camp, Lu Ye immediately told the team members to have a good rest and they will return to the Base immediately after dawn.
To be honest, he wanted to leave right now, but now he was in Ningcheng, where zombies were densely populated. As the captain, he could not just leave like this, at least he had to wait until he could safely evacuate Ningcheng. Ningcheng was also adjacent to Jiangcheng. After leaving Ningcheng, there were no more zombie-dense areas on the way back, in other words, most of the last zombies in the cities near Jiangcheng were concentrated in Ningcheng at this time.
Lu Ye said, “Don’t worry, the Base is fine, it’s just the Zhuang Family who has come.” He comforted everyone.
Hearing that the boss had to go back because someone from the Zhuang Family had come, everyone was not so worried. They just felt that the Zhuang Family was very annoying, but after all, they were the boss’s blood relatives, so no one said anything. Regardless, they were already planning to go back in the next two days, so no one had any objection to going back earlier.
Everyone went to rest, but Lu Ye looked at his phone with a frown, feeling uneasy, constantly wondering what Bai Xiaohu was thinking, where she was now, leaving the base this late at night, was she mad?
Will she really not come back?
This thought made him restless. He realized that he knew so little about her. He had no idea where she would go after leaving the Base. If she wanted to leave, he had no way to stop her, and no excuse to keep her.
An unprecedented sense of powerlessness and anxiety ran over him.
Then he comforted himself, no, it’s very possible she had kidnapped his cat, there’s no way she isn’t planning to return. If she didn’t come back, he would use the cat as an excuse to look for her all over the world!
He spent two or three hours like this, constantly turning on his phone to see if there were any messages as if waiting for a trial. For the first time, he was so restless and impatient like an inexperienced little boy. At this time, he finally realized how much influence Bai Xiaohu had on him.
Until the battery of his phone ran out, he simply went to the car to charge it.
At four o’clock in the morning, when he thought there would be no news, his phone suddenly vibrated.
Bai Xiaohu rushed all the way to the junction of Jiangcheng and Ningcheng, looking at the city in front of her. This is a city shrouded in demonic energy. Even in the dark, you can see the thick demonic energy that cannot be dissolved.
Bai Xiaohu sighed. She was not afraid of danger, but she was a little uncomfortable to plunge into such a thick demonic energy. But she cheered up immediately. Knock off demonic energy! The tail is the most important! The more dangerous the situation, the more she can show her loyal friendship!
She took out her phone, plucked a fur for the communication spell, and sent a message to Lu Ye: Where are you? Can you send a location?
Lu Ye in the car was shocked when he heard the notification tone. He found that it was indeed Bai Xiaohu who sent him a message. He felt relieved. He was glad that she was willing to contact him.
But when he saw this sentence, his heartbeat tightened. An absurd guess came to his mind. He immediately replied: Where are you?
He stared at the screen closely, and his palms were even sweating.
Bai Xiaohu: I’m in Ningcheng. Send me the location and I’ll find you.
Original Author’s Note:
Lu Ye: She cares about me so much that she came all the way here overnight just to ask about a scandal.
Bai Xiaohu: It’s time to show my loyal friendship!
