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Xu Xiaoxian was lying in the haystack, the wound on his shoulder was aching. Although he was tired, he could not fall asleep after lying down with his eyes closed for a long time. With his eyes open, he looked at the figure on the top of the cave that was flickering under the light of the fire, and followed the shadow with his eyes. .

"Chen Yao," he suddenly called softly.

Chen Yao turned his head, thinking that his wound was in pain, so he approached the haystack carefully, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I'm fine, don't you take a rest?" Xu Xiaoxian looked at those bloodshot eyes, feeling a little sorry.

"No one is guarding me at night, so I can't sleep well. Why don't I wait until dawn, go down the mountain, and get a good night's sleep when I return to the city."

Xu Xiaoxian struggled to sit up, put his coat on his shoulders again, sat down beside Chen Yao, and said, "I'll talk to you."

"What do you do with me, you need to rest more for your injury!" Chen Yao frowned, he still wanted the patient to have a good rest.

"When you are Xiaoxian, you are willing to accompany you. If you can't sleep and stare, it is torture." Xu Xiaoxian rolled his eyes, put his hands on the haystack behind him, and looked up at the two people who were bumping back and forth on the top of the cave under the light of the fire. A shadow, probably because the time of vigil was too boring, he didn't feel tired after watching it for a long time.

"If you don't take a good rest, your body will be overwhelmed."

"With the great doctor Chen around, I can't die."

"The genius doctor Chen is in the city, so he has no time to take care of you." Of course Chen Yao was referring to his uncle, the grand master of the Chen family, the genius doctor recognized by Nanyuan.

"That genius doctor, Xiaoxian, can't afford it." Xu Xiaoxian shrugged, patted Chen Yao's shoulder lightly, and said, "I'm talking about this Doctor Chen."

Chen Yao glanced at the people around him, and remembered that day he accidentally saw the scary scar on Xu Xiaoxian's back, like a huge centipede, extending from the shoulder blades to the waist, he couldn't see what it was. Something hurt him, but just thinking about that scar made him tremble all over.

"What is the great genius doctor thinking?" Xu Xiaoxian squinted his eyes to meet that gaze, his hands were a little tired, so he withdrew his hands, sat up straight, and thumped his sore waist.

Chen Yao thought for a while, then asked cautiously: "The injury on the back of the half-immortal is..."

Xu Xiaoxian froze for a moment, opened his clenched hands, touched the ugly scar on his back against his clothes, raised his eyes to look at Chen Yao, twitched the corners of his mouth in embarrassment, and smiled stiffly: "Did you see that scar?" Ah, did it scare you?"

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to see it." Chen Yao saw that Xu Xiaoxian didn't want to be known about that scar, and said, "If you don't want to tell, just pretend I didn't ask."

Xu Xiaoxian stared blankly at the fire, not knowing what he was thinking, suddenly turned around and smiled at Chen Yao, and said, "Mr. Chen wants to say that, but Xiaoxian can't do without it."

"I didn't mean that!" Chen Yao felt inexplicably annoyed when he heard that he changed his name to "Mr. Chen" again, as if deliberately keeping a certain distance from him.

Hearing the anger in Chen Yao's words, Xu Xiaoxian couldn't help laughing out loud. This laugh touched the wound, and the pain made him almost cry the next second.

Although Chen Yao was a little idle in his heart, he was soft-hearted. Seeing Xu Xiaoxian bent over in pain, he quickly supported his shoulders, tapped a few acupoints, and frowned, teaching: "Smile, smile, the wound will open soon." , I think you can still laugh!"

"Yes, yes, I will follow the order of the great doctor Chen, and I will never dare again." Xu Xiaoxian had a few acupuncture points pressed by him, and the corners of his mouth twitched. He couldn't laugh for a moment, so he could only talk.

Looking at the man's playful smile, Chen Yao didn't get angry. The idleness just now dissipated, and he didn't know how to answer the conversation. He lowered his head and picked up some branches and threw them into the fire. Going to have something to say.

Xu Xiaoxian: "Chen Yao, are you going to the palace too?"

Chen Yao's uncle worked as an imperial physician in the palace, so Xu Xiaoxian naturally thought that he would follow the same path as his uncle in the future, as all big families have always been like this.

But Chen Yao was different, he was not an authentic heir of the Chen family, his uncle never taught him the medical skills of the Chen family, and he probably didn't want to pass on the family mantle to him at all.

"If you can't be an imperial doctor, you can still be a champion."

Chen Yao smiled and asked back, "Do you want to go to the palace?"

"Do not want to."

"why?"

"I'm afraid that if I tell the emperor's fortune, he will send me to see the fairy grandpa if he is not happy."

"That's true, but you are so smart, you naturally know what to say and what not to say."

"You think I'm smart?"

Chen Yao was stunned for a moment, and asked back, "Is this the point?"

"Of course it's the key point. I have to remember that it's not easy to get a word of praise from Mr. Chen. Back then, you were all thinking of making trouble for me."

"When did I make trouble for you? How can you be reasonable if you play tricks yourself?"

"Who pretends to be a ghost, did I tell you not to go out that night, did I tell you that you would be unlucky, did you get beaten by your housekeeper, did I let the little goddess save you?"

Chen Yao remembered the four river lanterns that night.

"Was the river lantern that night for your parents?"

Xu Xiaoxian only gave a soft "um" and didn't continue, he didn't like to talk about his parents.

The two of them sat silently again, thinking about their own thoughts, the flames beeping and beeping.

The sky outside the cave gradually turned white, and Xu Xiaoxian fell asleep at some point, with his head tilted heavily on Chen Yao's shoulder next to him, which made people jump.

Chen Yao looked at the sleeping person, and sighed helplessly. He wanted to put the person on the haystack, but he was afraid that he would wake up and refuse to sleep again, so he sat quietly and waited.

He looked out of the cave, for some reason, but he didn't look forward to the dawn. He enjoyed the silence and the gentle leaning on his shoulders very much.

After an unknown amount of time, a faint fragrance suddenly wafted from the cave. Chen Yao felt that something was wrong, but it was too late. His eyes were dazzled, the weight on his shoulders became heavier and heavier, and he even fell to the haystack with the two of them, confused. In the middle of the day, he saw a black figure walking in from outside the cave. He struggled to get up, but he couldn't use his strength.

Xu Xiaoxian fell into a drowsy sleep, only felt that his body was a little hot, stretched out his hand and opened the skirt of his clothes a little, the wound on his shoulder hurt, and woke him up, when he opened his eyes, he found that he was lying on someone's lap Pushing his head up and down on his chest, he quickly got up, lowered his head to check his clothes, except for the helm he had just opened, it was clean and uncluttered.

Only then did he exhale, patted his face, and bent down to look at the man on the haystack.

Chen Yao was still in a deep sleep, and was not awakened by the movement around him at all.Xu Xiaoxian looked around again, it was still the cave before falling asleep, the fire was a little smaller, it was already bright outside the cave, and the sound of birds chirped into the cave.

Only there was no sign of the little goddess. He called softly several times, but there was no response. He thought that the little goddess must have woken up and felt bored, so she ran out to play by herself.

He got up, and just about to kick Chen Yao's waist, he stopped suddenly, tilted his head to look at that face, bent down again, and stretched out his finger to poke Chen Yao's face lightly. Responding, he suddenly became playful, searched left and right, pulled out a slender piece of grass from the haystack under him, grabbed it in his hand, and slapped Chen Yao's face back and forth, seeing that the other party still didn't wake up , simply played a prank to the end, and stuck the grass into Chen Yao's nose.

"Ahhh—" Chen Yao sat up all of a sudden, and Xu Xiaoxian was so frightened that he almost fell back, and the wound involving his shoulder began to ache again.

Chen Yao rubbed his nose, and when he came back to his senses, he saw Xu Xiaoxian squatting aside, covering the wound with one hand, and holding the grass in the other. He immediately understood, he was angry and funny, and asked, "Half a while?" What is the fairy doing?"

"I told you to get up, what are you doing? Didn't you say you were watching? Why did you fall asleep? Where did the little goddess go?"

Chen Yao froze for a moment, turned his head to search in the cave, and then he remembered the black figure before he passed out, and immediately stood up from the haystack. Xu Xiaoxian saw that his expression was tense, and he couldn't care less about the injury on his shoulder. Then he got up and asked, "What's wrong?"

Chen Yao told Xu Xiaoxian the fragrance he smelled and the black shadow he saw before he passed out, and said, "I'm careless, it's all your fault that I should have noticed the fragrance."

Xu Xiaoxian felt baffled, so he asked, "What's my fault? I've been asleep for a long time!"

Chen Yao stood in front of Xu Xiaoxian, stared into his eyes, and said word by word: "You went to bed early, and you fell asleep on top of me, making me unable to get up. Don't blame you?"

Xu Xiaoxian was stunned for a moment, then quickly took a few steps back, gathered the clothes on his body, and stammered, "What nonsense are you talking about! Who, who wants to sleep with you!"

Chen Yao is not in the mood to play tricks on Xu Xiaoxian now, but he couldn't help laughing and coughing a few times after hearing him talk so nonchalantly, before saying seriously: "Stop playing, it's important to find the little goddess."

Xu Xiaoxian glanced at Chen Yao vigilantly, thinking that none of these rich playboys is serious, maybe this one is a master of both sexes, he'd better stay away.

He looked down at a coat that had fallen by the haystack. He had originally put it on the little goddess. When he picked it up, it was dirty with a lot of grass roots.

Xu Xiaoxian frowned, carefully tidied up the clothes in his hands, held them in his arms, and sat down on the haystack, but couldn't calm down, and began to scratch his scalp with his hands.

Chen Yao didn't have time to worry about him, so he looked inside and outside the cave, but couldn't find any traces, even if he listened carefully, he couldn't hear any useful sounds.

He stood outside the cave for quite a while, and when he returned to the cave, his eyes couldn't adapt to the darkness inside the cave. The fire had already been extinguished, so he found Xu Xiaoxian's location by the light that leaked in from outside the cave.

Xu Xiaoxian was still holding the dress, staring blankly at the cave wall in front of him with a dazed expression.

Chen Yao patted him on the shoulder, and he came back to his senses.

Chen Yao: "Let's go, look outside."

Xu Xiaoxian didn't look at him, just shook his head, pointed to the cave wall in front of him, and said softly: "Look, Grandpa Immortal is here to show you the way."

Chen Yao was stunned for a moment, thinking that Xu Xiaoxian was talking nonsense again, and stretched out his hand to pull him up, but the corner of his eyes caught a bit of blue fire, he looked along Xu Xiaoxian's fingertips, between the cracks in the cave wall, from time to time popped A little blue flame came out.

Chen Yao helped Xu Xiaoxian up, walked to the cave wall by himself, stretched out his hand to touch the cave wall, pushed it hard, and a lot of soil particles fell around the gap, he looked back at Xu Xiaoxian, Xu Xiaoxian nodded, he So he used more strength to push the big rock in front of him to the side.

A passageway wide enough for one person was exposed on the wall of the cave, and a ball of blue flames floated leisurely in the air. Xu Xiaoxian stretched out his hand and pulled Chen Yao away a little, preventing the fire from touching Chen Yao's clothes.

A blue flame floated into the hole, and within a short while it went out by itself, leaving no trace.

"Be careful, those are will-o'-the-wisps." Xu Xiaoxian said, walking sideways into the passage, Chen Yao frowned, and walked in behind Xu Xiaoxian. One or two will-o'-the-wisps appeared, but they were not too dark. They floated in front of them for a while, and fell behind them for a while, but they didn't get close to them.

Just like what Xu Xiaoxian said, these will-o'-the-wisps are leading the way.

After walking for a while, the passage widened and the two of them could walk side by side. The road ahead no longer sloped downwards and became flat. However, the number of will-o'-the-wisps seemed to increase, illuminating the entire passage in a strange blue.

Chen Yao felt that the back of his neck was a little cold, and he always felt that something was following him, but when he turned his head, he saw only two or three blue will-o'-the-wisps floating far behind them. When he turned his head again, he saw a white flower in front of him. The skull fell straight on his face, and he quickly stepped back, but he stepped on something round and fell to the ground.

He was about to pull out the sword in the umbrella from behind, but he heard a burst of giggles, and he looked closely, and saw that the skeleton had long since changed into Xu Xiaoxian's smiling face, and was walking over and reaching out to help him up.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I scared you. Haha, is Mr. Chen okay?" Xu Xiaoxian smiled and helped Chen Yao up from the ground, and apologized without sincerity. Not taboo.

Chen Yao frowned, and looked down at the thing that tripped him just now. With the help of the blue will-o'-the-wisp, he could tell that it was probably the thigh bone of some unlucky ghost. All brought out the soil layer.

Since ancient times, places where there have been will-o’-the-wisps are either cemeteries or mass graves. Only places where dead people can produce such gloomy fires.

"Half Immortal, aren't you afraid?" Chen Yao couldn't help feeling a chill down his back as he watched Xu Xiaoxian still playing with the skull.

"Are you afraid?" Xu Xiaoxian tossed the skull up, and gently caught it with three fingers when it fell. After playing for a while, he suddenly stared blankly at the head. There was a ticking sound, as if water droplets were falling from the top of the cave. When it came down, it just hit the forehead of the head.

Xu Xiaoxian was about to see what the water drop was, but Chen Yao grabbed his hand first and told him to put his head down.

"What are you doing?" Seeing his nervous expression, Xu Xiaoxian put his head on the ground obediently, only heard a thin sound above his head, like wind brushing against the treetops, but there was no wind and no trees here.

Xu Xiaoxian sniffed and smelled a bit of rotting meat, but was a little pleasantly surprised. While looking up at the cave ceiling carefully, he called Chen Yao: "Listen, is it a bat?"

"It's a bat, and it's a vampire bat. What are you so happy about?"

"Of course I'm happy, at least it can show that the little goddess is fine."

"What do you mean? What is the relationship between the little goddess and the bat?"

"Well... I can't tell. Anyway, the little goddess can talk to bats, and bats won't bite her."

Chen Yao sighed. The lack of light in the cave amplified his hearing range. His ears were filled with the sound of bats flapping their wings. He felt that the hungry animals were getting more and more impatient. He asked softly, "What about you? Can't you tell them not to come and bite us?"

"This," before Xu Xiaoxian could finish speaking, he rushed down from the top of the cave with a sharp cry. He quickly took the umbrella from behind Chen Yao, pulled out the sword and handed it to Chen Yao, while he held up the umbrella himself. Leaning on Chen Yao to fend off a bat rushing towards them, he let out a breath and said, "Mr. Chen, do these things look like they can become immortals?"

"How do I know!" Chen Yao said, and swung his sword to chop off a few bats that had jumped down. The smell of blood caused more bats to fall from the sky. Where is Grandpa Immortal? Hurry up and ask what to do now!"

"Grandpa gods don't come to such a ghostly place," Xu Xiaoxian waved the umbrella indiscriminately. The umbrella was so big that most of the bats hit the umbrella and fell unconscious, but one or two could only jump over the barrier and pounce on the neck Go, Xu Xiaoxian felt a little pain, and quickly reached out to grab the bat, pulled it off and fell to the ground, he quickly covered the part of his neck that was bitten by the bat, blood continued to overflow from the wound.

"Half-immortal? Half-immortal! Are you okay?" Chen Yao felt the people behind him slide down against his back. While dodging, he turned around to support Xu Xiaoxian, and ran two steps forward. The bats rushed towards them, but Chen Yao saw that he couldn't dodge, so he blocked Xu Xiaoxian behind him, and opened his umbrella to meet the bats who were hungry and crazy.

Enduring the pain, Xu Xiaoxian cursed in a low voice, pulled out a stack of talisman paper from his sleeve, stained the blood on his neck with his fingertips, drew a few strokes on the talisman paper, and quickly moved a few pieces of paper with his fingers The talisman was folded into a butterfly shape and thrown out before the bats came.

Chen Yao didn't see what he was throwing, but saw a few butterflies rushing towards the black bats. The bats were terrified, scattered all at once, and let out a shrill cry. Xu Xiaoxian held Chen Yao's hand and screamed. He closed the umbrella, while pulling him to run in the direction of the butterfly.

The swarm of bats quickly gathered again and rushed towards them.

Xu Xiaoxian spat, and took out another talisman from his cuff, this time he didn't even have the time to draw, and directly wiped a pool of blood on his neck, kneaded it into a ball, and threw it directly into a ball of blue will-o'-the-wisps.

The talisman paper hit the will-o'-the-wisp, and with a bang, the blue will-o'-the-wisp gradually extinguished, but a larger and brighter purple-red flame burst out from the talisman paper, and the bats that were close were instantly ignited. Only one fell to the ground, and the surrounding bats seemed to be frightened by the fire, and began to fly back to the top of the cave in all directions.

Chen Yao was attracted by the fire, and forgot to run away for a while. Those butterfly-shaped talismans flew into the fire one by one, making the fire burn hotter and lighting up the ceiling of the cave. Just fled to a darker place.

Xu Xiaoxian was not interested in watching these "defeated soldiers" fleeing. He grabbed Chen Yao's arm and ran along with the blue will-o'-the-wisp. He didn't even have time to deal with the blood on his neck. He knew that the fire would go out when the talisman paper was burned. , when the time comes, the bat swarm will continue to chase them down.

They ran with the will-o'-the-wisps for a long time, and the surrounding environment was much brighter than before. The last will-o-wisps following them went out, and there was no more will-o'-the-wisps in front of them. They heard the sound of water, glanced at each other, and continued Run in the direction of the sound of water.

A ray of light came in from outside the cave, and Chen Yao heard the sound of the water a little louder, so he stopped quickly, covered his eyes with his hands, and the fresh water vapor rushed directly to his face, feeling cool for a while.

"Waterfall!" Xu Xiaoxian stood in front of the water curtain, panting while holding his knees, and looked behind him, from a distance, he could still see one or two blue will-o'-the-wisps floating up and down.

Xu Xiaoxian breathed a sigh of relief, raised his hand and waved at the will-o'-the-wisps, shouting: "Go back quickly, the water will be extinguished in a while."

Chen Yao also looked back, the two will-o'-the-wisps were still swaying in the distance, but they were getting smaller and smaller, I don't know if they were extinguished, or they went back to the cave after listening to Xu Xiaoxian's words.

Chen Yao looked at Xu Xiaoxian and asked, "What should we do now?"

Seeing the rushing water, Xu Xiaoxian took a step forward, lowered his head to look down, suddenly felt the world spinning, his feet went limp, and he fell forward.

"Half Immortal—"