Chapter 298: Niuxin Village

Chapter 298 Niu Xin Village

"Father! Mother! Where on earth are you!!" Bai Lingmiao, tears streaming, searched endlessly throughout the entire Niu Xin Village.

Behind her was Li Huowang, following her in the search, even though he could see that besides them, there truly was no one else left in the whole village.

Just then, Lu Zhuangyuan, carrying a hint of caution, approached with a forced smile.

"What exactly is going on?" Li Huowang, brows furrowed tightly, asked Lu Zhuangyuan who had arrived a step earlier beside him.

Lu Zhuangyuan looked utterly innocent. "Little Daoist Master, how would I know? The moment I arrived here, there wasn't a single person in the entire village."

"I was curious before, thought Old Man me had gotten the location wrong, so I specifically went around searching for several li, but I scoured all of Niu Xin Mountain and only saw this one place."

Hearing this, Li Huowang said no more, took a deep breath, lifted his foot, and followed towards Bai Lingmiao in the distance.

Bai Lingmiao just kept searching and searching throughout the whole village like this, yet still found nothing.

When Li Huowang saw Bai Lingmiao, sweating profusely from anxiety, turn back to the village entrance to start searching from the first house again, he rushed over, grabbed her shoulders with both hands, and pulled her into his embrace.

At this moment, Bai Lingmiao couldn't hold back anymore, leaning against Li Huowang's shoulder she wailed loudly, "Senior Brother Li, my family is gone, my family is gone!!"

All this long anticipation turned completely into bubbles at this moment, Li Huowang knew what kind of feeling this was, he could empathize deeply.

"Don't cry, perhaps they just temporarily left, not necessarily met with some misfortune. Think positively."

Lu Zhuangyuan on the side also comforted, "Miss Bai, Little Daoist Master speaks correctly, perhaps they too fled disaster like us, wait until they return from fleeing, they can meet you."

Seeing this, others also gathered around, chattering to comfort Bai Lingmiao.

However, these weightless words did not comfort Bai Lingmiao much; she was no fool, with everyone in the village gone, this matter clearly was no small thing.

Bai Lingmiao's cries diluted the joy of reunion, casting a shadow over the village, so that by the time dinner was finished, not a single person spoke.

After dinner, Li Huowang walked around the entire village under the moonlight, he wasn't looking for people, but for traces.

It was impossible for everyone in the village to suddenly vanish, surely something happened, even if eaten by evil spirits or deceived by the Zuo Wang Dao, there must be traces left behind.

"Little Daoist Master, actually, when I told Miss Bai their family went to hide from disaster, it was actually to make her feel better in her heart, in my view, they probably didn't go to hide from disaster."

"Who hides from disaster without locking the door? And when we first entered the village, the pig in the backyard was so hungry it didn't look like a pig anymore." Lu Zhuangyuan followed Li Huowang, talking incessantly.

Li Huowang squatted down, looking at the patterns on the paving stones on the ground, "When you first came in, was this village messy?"

"No, not messy at all, clothes were still hanging outside, cows, dogs, everything was fine, it was just the people disappeared."

"And I specifically went to check, the clothes in every household's wooden cabinets were not missing, at a glance one knows they didn't travel far."

Li Huowang's gaze searched inch by inch for details, and potential dangers.

When Li Huowang pushed open a door and found no clues after all, he took the cotton wool out of his ears, carefully listening to all sounds around.

Circling around the village, even summoning Lord You out to dig three feet deep.

But this time it was different from things encountered in the past, there were no hostile gazes here, no bizarre evil spirits, there was nothing here.

When Li Huowang returned to the Bai family's courtyard with three gates, he saw inside the bright main hall, Luo Juanhua and Chun Xiaoman, one on left one on right, comforting Bai Lingmiao.

While others stood around, in twos and threes discussing something, seeing Li Huowang return, they all looked over.

"You all go sleep first, whatever matters can be discussed tomorrow." Seeing Li Huowang speak, others persisted no longer, leaving in twos and threes.

Because she had cried, Bai Lingmiao's pink eyes became redder. With deep sorrow in her eyes she gazed at Li Huowang choking up constantly.

"It's late enough, where is your room? Wash up and sleep."

Bai Lingmiao, lips pressed together, stood up, walking towards the water vat in the kitchen.

After an incense stick burned, the two lay silently in a bedroom drifting with faint fragrance.

Looking at the furnishings around, and that white mosquito net, this was obviously Bai Lingmiao's past boudoir.

On the bed Bai Lingmiao curled up lying on the bed, shoulders trembling constantly, she held back from crying out.

The next moment, she felt herself being pulled over, leaning against a sturdy chest.

"Don't cry, encounter trouble solve trouble, we now are people with supernatural powers. Still afraid of not finding people?"

Bai Lingmiao's twitching shoulders stopped, her head nuzzled against Li Huowang's chest, suddenly she broke free from Li Huowang's embrace, picked up the skin bone placed before the bronze mirror, rushing towards outside the room.

"Dong dong dong! Dong dong dong! Matters in heaven flying immortals handle, matters on earth red yellow rush! If underworld has matters, invite Sad King to help... I stop horse head ask country name, pull reins seek hometown, surname Zhang or surname Wang, surname Li or surname Huang... Zhao Qian Sun Li Li Cunxiao, Zhou Wu Zheng Wang Wang Yanzhang..."

Listening to the rhythmic drumming outside, Li Huowang slowly closed his eyes.

Waiting until the next day, Li Huowang opened his eyes, finding Bai Lingmiao who usually rose early was lying silently on the bed.

"How? What did the Immortals say?" Li Huowang asked while dressing.

"They cannot find," Bai Lingmiao suppressed grief answering. "Even Immortals cannot find... Senior Brother Li, do you think my father and mother are really gone?"

Li Huowang walked over, reached out patting her shoulder, turned walking out the door. "I'm leaving, while I am away, you keep watch for me."

Just as Li Huowang turned, Bai Lingmiao opened the door, she with a pair of red eyes somewhat startled said: "Senior Brother Li, where are you going?"

"Where else could I go? Immortals aren't useful anyway of course think of way to clear up where everyone in village went, you are like this, how can I not care?"

Bai Lingmiao hearing this immediately pounced up, hugged Li Huowang's waist using face resting on his back, tears wetting Li Huowang's clothes. "Thank you, Senior Brother Li...."

Seeing Li Huowang's reaction always very cold, she thought the other party completely didn't take her family's matter to heart.

But unexpectedly the other party had long thought about how to act, just didn't say it out loud.

(End of Chapter)