Morning Star

What did she do to irritate him? Why is he so weird? Is he sick?

Mo Xinglan was very upset when he saw her terrified look. He put down his hand without looking at Chujiu again, and turned around and left.

Chujiu cautiously took a few steps forward to the door of the room and looked at Mo Xinglan's back. He frowned and felt that he was really inexplicable.

But thanks to him, she is not sad now. It was all because of him scaring her.

She just wanted to finish the task quickly and go home early. No matter what he had experienced in the past or how pitiful he was, it was his business and had nothing to do with her.

An hour later, Chujiu went out alone, bought a bunch of things on the street, and heard some rumors.

I heard that the fog in the psychedelic forest is about to dissipate.

Speaking of this psychedelic forest, the fog dissipates once every two years. Only when the fog dissipates can you enter, otherwise you will die.

She was also very curious about this. What was in the psychedelic forest that made these people risk their lives to go in?

When she looked up, she saw a group of people gathered in front of her. She walked over with curiosity and asked a man in blue clothes, "Brother, what are you doing?"

The man turned around and was surprised when he saw her. He replied, "Young lady, are you a new disciple?"

Chujiu nodded. The man continued, "Have you ever heard of the psychedelic forest that disperses fog every two years?"

She nodded slightly: "I have heard of it, but what does it have to do with this?"

At this time, another man in black clothes said, "Little girl, you are new here, you don't know, although the fog in the psychedelic forest has dissipated, the danger inside is still there. You must form a team, so that you can take care of each other. Otherwise, if you go in alone, you will die without knowing how, and there will be no one to help collect the body."

He spoke in a frightening voice, his eyes glancing from time to time at the small section of Chujiu's collarbone that was exposed.

Chujiu noticed his gaze and frowned, feeling a chill in his heart.

Just as I was about to leave, I heard the blue-clothed man say, "Don't listen to him, he's trying to scare you. There are many sects and organizations in Piaomiao Domain. You just need to join them. When they see that you are a newcomer, they will still protect you."

After he finished speaking, the man in black looked at him with disdain, then turned to look at Chujiu with a smile on his face: "I'm telling you the truth, I'm not trying to scare you. How about it, do you want to come with me? Then your brother can protect you."

The man in blue gave him a disdainful look and said, "Don't listen to him, little girl. He doesn't look like a good person at first glance."

"Hey you, do you want to get beaten? You are not a good person."

"Who's afraid of whom?"

Chujiu took advantage of the gap between the two people arguing and quickly slipped away.

She felt that neither of them seemed like good people, so she should hurry back to the inn.

But I walked for a long time and didn’t see the inn.

"..."

She stood in the middle of the street watching people coming and going, and she felt terrible in her heart.

It was over, she was lost.

If she had known, she wouldn't have come out alone.

She came out without saying hello to Chu Furong and the others. Although the old shopkeeper knew about it, would he think that she was a person with poor sense of direction?

Woohoo...the child is lost! Who will come and claim the child?

Chujiu knew that no one would come to take her back to the inn, so she had to follow her intuition.

The other side of the inn.

Mo Xinglan came out of the room and saw Chu Furong and Gao Yashan walking up the stairs.

The three of them greeted each other and passed each other.

Chu Furong glanced at Mo Xinglan oddly. Why did she feel something was wrong? She always felt that he was a little quiet.

Hmm? Why do I feel like he's so noisy around me? He doesn't talk as much as Chujiu.

Wait, Chujiu? Yes, the silence around him is because Chujiu is missing. Where is Chujiu?

So Chu Furong turned around and shouted to Mo Xinglan's back: "Xinglan!"

Mo Xinglan stopped and turned to look at her in confusion: "Huh?"

"Why isn't your third sister with you?" Chu Furong asked.

Mo Xinglan was slightly stunned, wondering why she thought Chujiu should stay with him?

But he still asked back: "Isn't she in the room?"

Chu Furong nodded. But then the old shopkeeper suddenly said, "She left an hour ago."

Chu Furong was puzzled after hearing this: "Why didn't she tell us when she was leaving? Does she know the directions? How dare she go out alone?"

"I'll go find her." Mo Xinglan's face darkened and he said this before going downstairs and out the door.

How dare this idiot go out alone? Want to sleep on the street?

……

At this time, Chujiu was walking aimlessly on the street alone.

Ah!!! We have been walking for more than three hours, my legs are almost broken, why haven’t we found the inn yet?

She swayed left and right on the street like a wandering ghost.

Suddenly he stopped moving and looked behind him vigilantly.

Why did she feel like someone was following her? She should leave quickly. She didn't know if the other party was strong enough. What if she couldn't beat him?

So he quickened his pace, turning left and right, and he didn't even know where he was going, so he just walked around aimlessly.

It was the first time I was being followed. I was so nervous that my breathing became disordered and I didn’t even realize I had run into an alley.

"Ouch!"

"ah!"

Chujiu rubbed her forehead, took a step back, and looked forward. The person in front of her was the man in blue she had asked about before.

The man in blue rubbed his chest, raised his eyes and was stunned, and asked in surprise: "Hey, aren't you the little girl from before?"

Chujiu was also startled, and subconsciously stepped back to keep a distance from him, with a look of vigilance in his eyes: "Why are you here?"

"I just happened to be passing by. But you're in such a hurry, what's the matter? Did you meet a bad guy?" The man didn't seem to notice the vigilance in her eyes, and smiled instead.

Chujiu hesitated and shook his head: "I passed by too."

"Is it true?" He didn't believe it.

Then he smiled again: "I didn't expect that you and I are so destined to meet each other twice in one day."

"..." Chujiu doesn't believe in fate. This man doesn't seem like a good person.

He said hesitantly, "By the way, the fog in the psychedelic forest will dissipate in ten days. I didn't have time to ask you before. Do you want to team up with me?"

He said this and took a step forward.

Chujiu stepped back again and smiled calmly: "I, I'm new here, I still won't go to such a dangerous place."

"I see." The man murmured in a low voice, seemingly thinking about something.

Seeing this, Chujiu's bad premonition became stronger and stronger, and he became more and more nervous. He laughed and pointed to the alley entrance: "My friend is waiting for me there. I won't disturb you. I'm leaving first."

After saying that, she turned and left without waiting for the man to reply.

"..."

The man, who had just looked thoughtful, suddenly put on a gloomy smile.

How naive! Knowing that he is not a good person, you still dare to leave the back to him.

The smile on his lips became more and more wild and twisted. He quietly gathered spiritual energy in his palm and raised his hand to chop forward.

Chujiu, who was unaware, had just taken a few steps when he saw Mo Xinglan appear from the left side of the alley and walked towards him in surprise.