Chapter 294: Tuoba

Chapter 294 Tuoba

The cotton wadding stuffed in his ears for so long was pulled out; with a hum, all manner of sounds flooded Li Huowang's ears.

The chatter from the neighboring guest room, the hawking cries outside the window, even the sound of his own heartbeat was incredibly clear and loud.

Li Huowang painfully closed his eyes, forcing himself to distinguish among the sounds; finally, after the time it took to burn an incense stick, he managed to hear that distinctive, stuttering voice of the Black Tai Sui amidst the cacophony.

"I'm talking to you! Can you hear me!!" Amidst the noise, Li Huowang stretched his throat and screamed loudly.

Soon, the Black Tai Sui responded; its response was not terrifying whispers or various dark, unfamiliar languages, but still some simple words and characters not much related to each other.

"Mouth.... Sky... Wu....."

"What on earth are you saying!! Can you understand me! If I die, you won't live either! Let's talk!!"

This thing could easily drill out of his nose and throat; leaving it unchecked was definitely not feasible, he had to find a way to solve it.

He originally intended to negotiate with this thing; no matter what its purpose was, they could discuss it.

But reality would not follow Li Huowang's script; facing his questions, the Black Tai Sui still responded with those simple syllables.

Hearing these overly simple single-character sounds, Li Huowang felt as though he was conversing with a toddler just learning to speak.

"Toddler? Toddler?!" Li Huowang suddenly thought of something; he climbed off the bed, called the waiter to bring the four treasures of the study, and began enduring the increasingly noisy sounds around his ears to record the Black Tai Sui's words.

"Mouth...... Wood...... Water....... Fire....... Field...... Script......"

One by one, characters with simple strokes were written on the paper; looking at this sequence and these familiar characters, a hint of understanding appeared in Li Huowang's eyes.

"No wonder the words in its mouth sounded so familiar; turns out everything this guy said was what I previously taught Scholar Lu!"

The truth was now revealed; this was also why the Black Tai Sui always spoke these simple-sounding words, because it only knew this!

It merely happened to learn a few things while taking advantage of him teaching the scholar.

The Black Tai Sui didn't understand the meaning of these characters at all; the only thing it did was repeat them endlessly.

"This Black Tai Sui can't even speak properly; how am I supposed to communicate with it?"

Li Huowang, who had restuffed the cotton wool into his ear holes, paced around the room with hands behind his back for a long time; Li Huowang thought of various methods, but ultimately rejected them all himself.

It was now inside his belly; to suppress hallucinations, driving it away was definitely impossible; to solve this trouble, he could only think of other ways.

After thinking it over again, Li Huowang found he could only use a clumsy method: that was to teach the Black Tai Sui to recognize characters and speak.

Once it learned to speak, he could communicate with it; during the last battle with the Sitting-forgetters, it achieved an unexpected effect.

As long as communication was established, perhaps this thing could also be used as a hidden weapon.

To teach a pile of tentacles to speak, Li Huowang didn't know how long it would take, but he could be certain it wouldn't be short, hence why it was a clumsy method.

"Fine, if I have to teach, then I'll teach; it's better than having no solution." Li Huowang struggled to sit down, picking up another sheet of wax-yellow rice paper and spreading it out.

Wanting to teach the Black Tai Sui to speak, Li Huowang understood this was not something achievable overnight, so he could take it slowly.

Compared to this, he had other more important matters; that was to go get his reward from the Big Head Doll, this was the first job he took from the Sky Monitoring Bureau.

Feeling his injuries were mostly healed, Li Huowang told the others to pack up and start the journey; this time, no amount of persuasion worked.

Bai Lingmiao argued with him for a while; finally, Li Huowang stepped back, bought a carriage, and during this time on the road, he only lay in the carriage.

After the long trek on the road, when Li Huowang arrived back at the exceptionally prosperous and bustling Yinling City, the wound on his chest had completely healed.

However, the lost eye, and the two ribs at his waist had not grown back well.

For some reason. Compared to skin, flesh, and fingernails, bones and eyeballs grew very slowly.

"Senior Brother Li, according to the map drawn, we don't necessarily have to enter the city; taking this small path is faster, Master Lu sings everywhere he goes. Maybe he isn't even faster than us.

" Standing at the gate of Yinling City, Gouwa offered his suggestion to Li Huowang.

"Stop talking nonsense, enter the city, still the same inn as before, go book a guest room."

Li Huowang certainly wouldn't tell this big-mouthed fellow that he was coming to collect his reward from the Sky Monitoring Bureau.

Wasn't all his previous hard work and turmoil just for this purpose?

Li Huowang originally thought that if the other party didn't come, he would stay a few more nights, but obviously, the entire Yinling City was full of their eyes.

On that night, during the second watch, when Li Huowang arrived at the stable, that Big Head Doll was already sitting on the horse feed waiting, holding a yellow cloth bag in hand.

Before Li Huowang could open his mouth to speak, the Big Head Doll flipped over and jumped down from the horse feed, came to stand before him; the tone was noticeably softer compared to before.

"Hehe, really didn't see it coming, you kid actually have some skills; the affair in Ganyuan Village was handled beautifully, surprisingly not a single person died."

Hearing this, Li Huowang's hanging heart finally settled; the test was passed, he had officially successfully joined the Sky Monitoring Bureau.

"Where, where, I was just lucky."

"Sigh, good luck is also a kind of ability, you kid shouldn't belittle yourself; by the way, are you injured? If injured, whether internal or external, someone within the Bureau will help heal you."

Seeing Li Huowang shake his head, that Big Head Doll grabbed the doll mask on his head with his hand and pulled it off directly.

Li Huowang discovered that under the Big Head Doll's mask was actually an exceptionally kind, plump face; those mung-bean-sized eyes blinked and blinked, quite amusing.

This smiling chubby middle-aged man clasped his hands together, bowed respectfully towards Li Huowang, and piled a smile onto his face.

"Truly sorry, but without testing your skills and figuring out your background, I really dared not pull you into the Bureau."

He reached into his sleeve pocket and fished around; five Life-Span Pills wrapped in yellow talismans were taken out by him. "Here, this is what you gave me before, I'm returning it to you now."

"Senior, what are you doing? Since the item was given away, what logic is there to take it back?" Li Huowang reached out to push it back.

"You hold it, you hold it first, then listen to me." That person forced the Life-Span Pills into Li Huowang's hand, then slowly said: "You also know, I brought you in, so if anything happens to you in the future, I will suffer the consequences; this is equivalent to an insurance policy."

"However, if you truly want to join the Sky Monitoring Bureau, then this insurance policy isn't needed. You agree, right?" This chubby man said with a smile, making it truly hard to refuse.

"I am a few years older, compound surname Tuoba, name Danqing, younger brother Erjiu; if you don't mind, you may address me as Brother Tuoba."

This was the first time someone kindly told Li Huowang their surname; this clearly represented something.

Li Huowang was immediately moved and performed a bow towards him. "Thank you, Brother Tuoba,"

"Sigh, consider this my congratulatory gift to you; from now on we are all one family, wishing Brother Erjiu a bright future!"

Looking at the Life-Span Pill in his hand before him, Li Huowang instantly felt warmth in his heart; he didn't care about this one Life-Span Pill, but rather cared about the other party's attitude.

Ever since he crawled out of Clear Wind Temple, aside from that deceased Abbess, everyone else either beat or killed him; everyone wanted to harm him, never a moment of peace.

Li Huowang was not a greenhorn; he of course knew the other party was likely pretending, but for such a long time, even pretended kindness he hadn't enjoyed.

Tuoba Danqing extended his hand, pulling Li Huowang towards the outside of the stable. "Come, come, younger brother, this is not the place to talk; let's switch to a more comfortable place."

(End of Chapter)