Chapter 181 - The Curse from the Demon (2/2)
Lin Luoran stays alert with her spiritual mind. She can rescue Baojia anytime if she is in danger, so Lin Luoran doesn’t pay much attention.
Baojia is sitting on a sand dune, staring blankly. Suddenly, she makes a curious sound “En?” and runs towards the other side of the dune. After a few steps running, she mysteriously disappears in the desert.
Lin Luoran suddenly loses track of Baojia and opens her eyes. She gets off the car and runs towards the dune. The wind blows at night and there is sand everywhere. In the chirp of owls, Lin Luoran looks at the desert and finds no trace of Baojia at all.
So fast!
She hears the “En?” and gets off the car. She is very fast already but Baojia just disappears in a few seconds!
Lin Luoran is about to run into the sand when she is suddenly held by someone.
Wen Guanjing has been woken up already. Seeing that Lin Luoran is going deep into the dune desperately, he stops her,
“Sister Lin, something is wrong… If we go in recklessly, we may not be able to save her!”
Lin Luoran is blinded by her concern about Baojia. With Wen Guanjing’s words, she now realizes that worrying will only make things worse. They discuss next to the bonfire and wake Barney up.
Hearing that one employer is missing, Barney is worried as that might have a bad influence on his reputation. He attaches great importance to Baojia’s missing as well.
“Taken away by the sand…” Barney recalls something and his expression changes. Lin Luoran asks him about it several times and he finally tells them about a curse popular among the Bushmen, something related to demons of wind and sand. However, he cannot recall the details as he was very young when he left the tribe.
“The sheik!”
“Go find the sheik!”
Lin Luoran and Wen Guanjing speak with one voice. They both remember the look of the sheik when he saw the photo. It seems that he pa.s.sed out because of fear.
There has to be a connection between the photo and Baojia’s missing… Lin Luoran gets extremely worried and she cannot consider the feeling of their “international friend” anymore. She sneaks into the tribe and takes out the sheik, who is still asleep.
He was just shocked, so there is no need to use any spells to heal him. Barney gives him some cold water. The sheik is choked and he wakes up soon.
With the light of the fire, the sheik recognizes that the two people standing in front of him are Lin Luoran and Wen Guanjing. He is still in shock and he says something pointing at Wen Guanjing’s bag — where he took out the photo.
Barney translates his words with fear. It turns out that the sheik is repeating the same phrase, “Curse from the demon!”
No way… It is the mural they saw underwater with the halo and cultivators flying towards the halo. It is about the disappearance of masters on the level of Gathering Vitality. How can it be a “curse from the demon”?
Seeing that the sheik cannot express himself clearly, Lin Luoran doesn’t want to push him. She frowns and talks to Wen Guanjing, “I think there must be a connection between Baojia’s missing, the murals and this so-called curse from the demon… Where was your photo taken? Let’s go and find it on our own!”
Wen Guanjing feels embarra.s.sed, “It was taken by an experienced field worker. He couldn’t identify directions in the desert and he almost died in his way out. However, he can never find the place again… I won’t keep it from you that before we are here this time, I have searched this region on my mission, but I haven’t found the place… I think no one other than the owner of this place, the Bushmen, can help us find it.”
Lin Luoran is shocked. However, she cannot blame Wen Guanjing as she is the one who got excited and forgot to ask about the source of the photo.
Looking at the sheik who is warming himself by the fire and who is still in shock, Lin Luoran makes up her mind to persuade him to help!
The curse from the demon?
That sounds terrible. Lin Luoran hopes that nothing bad happens to Baojia, or she will be guilty for the rest of her life.