Chapter 41: The Hero’s Embarrassment

My mood suddenly became tense again, but what comforted me was that the dangerous warning in my heart slowly faded away.

At the foot of the mountain, Yang Sheng stayed for at least five minutes, looking up at the mountain the whole time. I couldn’t see his face, so I couldn’t tell what he was feeling, but I could tell that he was filled with some kind of doubt and hesitation during the whole process.

In the end, Yang Sheng got back into his car and drove away, but just before he got in, he suddenly turned around and looked up at the mountain. This glance made my heart race, because I felt that he was definitely looking at the place where my master and I were hiding.

At that moment, I felt a dangerous warning in my heart, and my head couldn’t help but lower.

But Yang Sheng finally turned around and got into the car. The car, with its tires changed, started up again and drove toward the other end of the road. The two people in the car with binoculars were still looking around with their binoculars.

The road was winding and twisting, and my master and I were in a high place. I didn’t dare to move for a while, until the car turned a big corner and it was impossible to see us anymore. Then I stood up from the grass.

When my master saw that I had stood up, he followed suit, shook off the grass and asked me, “Are you safe?”

I was at peace, and there was no sign of danger, so I nodded to my master.

Without any more nonsense, we both rushed down the mountain at the same time. After all, Yang Sheng and his group were driving a car and should be searching in this area. They might come back at any time, so we had to hurry.

“Master, I think we can’t go on the road for now. Let’s go to that house first,” I said, referring to the one house in the sparse row of houses in the depression across the mountain.

“Okay,” replied the master, his reply unusually concise.

The wind whistled past our ears, and my master and I were even more disheveled than before, almost rolling down the mountain, and I simply sat down on the road… and then got up and ran non-stop towards the depression.

This made me smile wryly. Look at what Yang Sheng has made us into. And one day, we will have to face him.

The road to the depression was much easier to walk than the mountain slope. After all, there were irregular roads where there was human habitation, but my master and I ran even more nervously because there was no cover like on the mountain slope. We were afraid that during the running process, Yang Sheng and his group would turn around and drive back again.

Fortunately, we made it through the whole journey without any accidents. My master and I finally ran to the front of the house. We quickly turned around and went to the back of the house. According to our physical fitness, we couldn’t help but pant heavily after such a crazy run… We were so tired that we both lay on the ground in a big “T” shape and couldn’t even speak.

It was almost three minutes before we recovered a little… Then we sat up at the same time and couldn’t help laughing, but we were afraid of disturbing the people in the house, so we didn’t dare to let out such emotions.

Only those who have experienced danger and escaped can understand this joy.

After laughing, the master’s expression became confused at first, and he whispered, “According to the theory, Yang Sheng should be a vampire, close to or already in the body of the vampire king. Vampires have always had a weak soul, and they need special soul nourishment. But this time…”

Master’s brows were furrowed tightly, as if he was thinking.

I didn’t hesitate to say, “But this time, he seems to have a very strong spiritual awareness, right? I also have this feeling, that is, Yang Sheng only searched so carefully because he sensed that we were hiding on that hill. Because later, the car left, and after such a long distance, they drove slowly past.”

“Yes, this is too strange. In the previous contact with Yang Sheng, I didn’t feel that he had this ability.” The master took out a pipe and wanted to smoke a few puffs, but unfortunately he didn’t have any tobacco leaves.

I habitually thought about reaching for a cigarette, but I also realized that I didn’t have any cigarettes on me. I had been in the mountains for so long that I had run out of cigarettes long ago.

“Hey…” The master sighed and put away his pipe. I could only reluctantly withdraw my hand and swallowed a mouthful of saliva, saying, “But, Master, don’t forget that Yang Sheng has a mysterious person who is proficient in divination.”

I could only attribute it to this… But the master shook his head and said, “It’s not divination, definitely not divination… If it’s a rough estimate, and he personally ‘patrols’ this road, I would believe it… After all, the matter of an abnormally accurate diviner is simply inconceivable. But, didn’t you notice that Yang Sheng seemed to have a sense of his own situation? That means his soul has become stronger, he…”

The master’s voice gradually became low, and slowly it became inaudible. I also grabbed my head and fell into thought… Suddenly, my master and I looked up at the same time and almost said in unison, “The stone of the heavenly pattern.”

The key to the matter was not the stone, but the fact that the stone contained the remnant soul of Kunlun. If Yang Sheng’s soul had become stronger, it must be related to this.

But how exactly it is related, my master and I could not figure it out.

Sometimes I feel that the world is incredibly magical. For example, the power of the mind, the power of the soul, and even the soul, metaphysical people can actually sense and even solve these problems.

But things like the legacy of Kunlun are not taken seriously by people in the circle of cultivators. Even if they do, they don’t know how to use them. Yang Sheng used science to do this, and then… I don’t know what happened next, but at least Yang Sheng did something we never imagined.

I remembered the story that Lushan told me about, the underground laboratory, the mysterious lizard, and the mutated scientist… Yang Sheng still has his teacher’s handwriting in his hands. It must be extremely precious, right?

“Forget it, don’t think about it. We’re like this… I’m afraid we have to find a way to solve it. And…” The master looked at me, his face turning a little strange, and he looked a little embarrassed.

“What?” I scratched my itchy hair and realized that what my master meant was that we looked like beggars everywhere we went. And we can’t keep looking like this on the endless roads of Tibet, can we?

As for what the master was embarrassed to say, I really don’t know what it is.

“That is, Chengyi, do you have any money on you?” The master blushed and said this sentence.

“Ah…” I subconsciously looked for money on my body, but there was no sign of it. In fact, it’s okay to be together, just like Chengqing, Chengxin, and especially Chengzhen, they are all “money-making” machines. Most of the money we made on our journey was earned by them, and even now there is still a lot left.

I don’t care about money, and this time I came out with my master under such a forced situation, and I was even packing my luggage. How could I deliberately put money on my body? If there was any, it would be some small change… but these small change also mysteriously disappeared.

It is not hard to think that it is magical. We have been running around in the mountains for so many days, and it is not certain when the money was lost… And our clothes are tattered, and I don’t know what is broken in the pockets. This is also some of the reasons why money will fall.

But whether it fell or not, it didn’t matter much because it was only a few tens of dollars in change… In any case, it wouldn’t support me and my master to go to Tibet! Moreover, the snow-capped mountains are hidden so deeply. At least I know that I have to walk through a no-man’s-land. How can my master and I get there?

If we had to beg our way there, how long would it take? My face suddenly turned red. I had never really thought about money in all the years I had been traveling around. I always felt that it had nothing to do with me. Now, looking at my master, I realized that even a penny could be a problem for a hero.

“Hey,” the master sighed, stood up and said to me, “no matter what, ask people for a drink and some food. If you’re lucky, see if you can get some old clothes, it’s better than looking like a savage.”

“Hmm.” I also stood up, but I felt that the room was so quiet that I decided in my heart that I would leave the asking for help to my master. He was very experienced, and when he was a child in our village, he was already like this.

The master had already walked towards the courtyard of the house, and I followed behind him. However, after just a few steps, I suddenly felt dizzy.