Chapter 324: Boiled Vines
Chapter 324: Boiled Vines
Qiqi looked at the clean room and the furnishings inside. These must be the old man's collection. If Mo Lv had treated the old man like his father, the old man wouldn't be dead now. Perhaps he could return to the divine realm in this life.
Dark Green shrank underground, its vines severed, trembling with pain. Its roots, eroded by the toxins, had turned somewhat black. It hated the creature, wishing it could drain the blood of Pegasus and Feixiang dry, turning them into mummies.
It also wanted to torture these two mortals, drag them underground as its nourishment, and torture them every day until they died. Mo Lu was still dreaming.
Qiqi and the others rested for a moment. She stood up and went to the spot where she had just fallen. She found a transparent silk thread and pulled out a few shovels from her space, giving them to a few of them. She shook the thread and had the three of them watch.
"Just dig here, the dark green is right below."
"I understand. When you saved me just now, you tied a silk thread to the vine. You are so smart. Why didn't we think that it would shrink and we couldn't find it. Dig, dig quickly, dig it out, chop it up, and boil it. Don't throw it away. It is still alive, but if you boil it, it won't be able to take root and sprout." Pegasus said.
Qiqi, listen, Pegasus is smarter than Feixiang and knows not to leave any way out for Mo Lv.
The three of them began digging along the silk thread. Soon, dark green roots emerged. Its roots twitched, knowing they had discovered it. No matter how hard it tried, it couldn't escape. It, too, had been poisoned, and many of its roots had turned black.
Qiqi looked at Dark Green and didn't ask it any more questions.
Feixiang and Pegasus dug up all its roots. They also asked Qiqi for some poison and sprinkled it on the soil around the dark green roots, fearing that the roots wouldn't be dug out properly and the dark green would sprout again.
The two of them carried the dark green root to its kitchen. They chopped it into sections with a knife and put it in a pot with water. Pegasus brought in plenty of dry wood and started a fire. Soon the pot was boiling. The dark green tossed and turned inside, trying not to die, but poisoned, it chopped into pieces again. No matter how it struggled, it couldn't escape the hot pot. Soon, the dark green was cooked, and it stopped tossing and turning, and was boiled to death by the two of them.
Pegasus and Feixiang both looked at Dark Green and cried. They had a special bond with it, having been the ones watering it since it was young. If it hadn't harmed its master, they would have lived together like brothers. Their master wouldn't have died.
They cooked it in hatred. But when Mo Lv really died and was gone, they would not be able to bear it and would be in great pain.
They both knelt on the ground and burst into tears. "Master, we have avenged you. Dark Green is dead. Rest in peace!"
Qiqi and Zhou Jingze didn't try to persuade them, just letting them vent. Once they vented, they would feel less pain.
Roar! A black bear roared as it ran over. Zhou Jingze drew his sword. Qiqi also became alert.
"Don't kill it, it's our friend." Pegasus said quickly.
The black bear ran over, and when it got close to the two of them, it fell to the ground with a thud.
"Xiao Hei, what's wrong with you? Are you hurt? Why did you run here? Aren't you upstairs with your master? We thought you were upstairs?" Feixiang asked.
Pegasus also saw the wounds on Xiao Hei's body, each one a whip wound, old wounds mixed with new ones.
"Xiao Hei, you had a fight with Mo Lu. Did it hurt you? Why are you so thin? When you were fat, you could carry us. Now that you are thin, you are not as heavy as us." Pegasus also said.
"Get out of the way, I'll take a look at its injuries," Qiqi said.
The black bear's body rose and fell rapidly, its clumsy frame concealing boundless strength and fortitude. These were scars from fighting with Dark Green. Scars from being whipped by Dark Green. Scars also covered the black bear's claws.
Qiqi examined the bear carefully. The bear's wounds were inflamed. It also had a fever. She took out some anti-inflammatory medicine and disinfectant. Zhou Jingze also squatted down, took the medicine from her hand, and cleaned the bear's wounds.
Qiqi also took out a few pills and stuffed them into the black bear's mouth. It seemed to know they meant no harm. It swallowed the pills. Qiqi took out two fever-reducing pills and two anti-inflammatory pills and put them into the black bear's mouth as well, asking Pegasus to feed it some spiritual spring water.
The black bear drank it all obediently, and immediately the pain was gone.
Qiqi and Zhou Jingze simultaneously cleaned the wound, removing any rotting flesh and applying anti-inflammatory powder. While they were treating the wound, it was painful, but Black Bear didn't cry out in pain.
Pegasus asked Black Bear why he dared to come here even though he knew he was no match for Dark Green.
Black Bear slowly recovered. He transformed into a ten-year-old boy. Qiqi's elixir had given him the ability to transform into a human. "Thank you for your help," Black Bear said.
It turned out that Xiao Hei was taking care of his master. He knew his master's condition best and knew he wouldn't live much longer. So his master went into seclusion. He also brought him food every day and left it outside the door. His master also brought food in and left the food basket outside.
He delivered the food for several years, but the basket finally just sat there and was never touched again. He wept bitterly. He didn't dare open the door to check on his master, believing he was in seclusion and no longer eating.
The master had been in seclusion for decades, refusing to eat or drink. He hoped the master would remain like this, but he felt uneasy. He felt as if something precious was slowly slipping away from him.
He hated Dark Green. They had grown up together, and they had taken such good care of it, because even though it was a plant transformation, it couldn't stray too far from its original form. Unlike them, even after transformation, it was still its own body. They could go anywhere.
They also didn't know when Dark Green became so vicious that he dared to poison his master and wanted to take over this place.
Xiao Hei missed his master every day and hated Mo Lu more and more. He came down to kill it. He rushed to the bottom floor with an iron rod and started fighting with Mo Lu.
He cursed Mo Lu as he fought, "You betrayed your master, harmed your master, poisoned your master, you deserved to die. Your master took good care of you. He treated us all like his children. We've been with him for thousands of years, don't you have any feelings for him at all?"
The master once told me that you can't go far with the rest of us. After we leave, this place will be your base. The entire secret realm is yours, what else can you ask for?
Mo Lu said that the old man was just fooling him and making them work for him for free. That day, the old man was unhappy and killed them all and dug it up.
We started fighting. I couldn't beat it, so it whipped me with its vines, leaving me covered in wounds every day. It would retreat, and I would crawl out of its reach and repair myself.
After the wound scabs over, I will fight it again.
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