C17 (1/2)

The leopard was stunned for a moment. Without saying a word, it entered the house and closed the door.

It was obvious that the leopard knew her name, because his first reaction was to ask, ”Why are you asking this?” not to say, ”I don't know.” But why wouldn't he? The first time I came, he was able to explain so much about Mrs. Zhao, including her family. How the hell did he know? At the beginning, I thought that the flower leopard cat would be able to calculate, but he calculated all of these. This is because the flower leopard cat's abilities have long been deified by humans, so it's natural for me to think this way. But last time, the leopard cat's words revealed her pity for Old Madame Zhao. How could she explain this?

Now that my mind was in a dead end, a single word from the leopard blocked my path. There was nothing I could do now, but the glass was still tangled.

No, I still have one way out, and that is to remove the Soul-Nailing Spike, but this path is a bit risky. And the question I've been worrying about, what kind of credibility did that dream have? Could they really bring him down? From the looks of the current situation, he could only fight with his back against the wall.

I called Uncle Fu and met him again on the way. He was always jumping up and down behind me. No matter how I chased him away, he refused to leave. He followed me all the way to Uncle Fu's yard.

It was almost noon, and the sun was very hot outside. However, because Uncle Fu's yard was covered by the poplar trees, it was not that hot as the entire courtyard was immersed in darkness. I told Uncle Fu about the situation. In the beginning, he didn't want me to remove the Soul Nail because he was afraid that they wouldn't be able to clean it up after they came out.

I helped him analyze his interests in the long run, then bragged to him about the power of the town gossip on the door before he agreed to what I was doing.

Because I didn't know what the consequences of this decision would be, I didn't dare let them stay in the yard. Laifu and Laifu were both hiding behind the main house door to prevent anything from happening to me. Although Tap was also hiding behind the door, he would look into the yard from time to time. When I looked at the time, it was already noon.

It's time for our appointment.

I walked slowly to the poplar tree and found three Soul-Nailing Nails. I didn't know which one to pull out first. Starting from the nail in the southeast direction, because that angle is closest to the town's gossip. Even if something were to happen, that town gossip might be able to block it.

The southeast direction should be the place where the gossip flows, which is the wind.

I used the shovel I had prepared to remove the dirt from around the nails, because the glass had only been two inches high when I first buried the nails, and it had been hammered into the hard soil, so it was impossible to pull it out by hand.

The soil was quickly removed and a large section of the Soul-Nail was revealed. It seemed that he could pull it out with his bare hands. I turned my head to look at Uncle Fu and the others. They were also staring at me, as if they were worried about me.

I raised my head to look at the poplar tree. The poplar tree was exceptionally calm without a trace of wind. The dense foliage blocked all of the sunlight. I wiped my hands on my pants because my palms were sweaty, maybe because of the weather, but mostly because of the tension.

I leaned over and swallowed, trying to calm myself. With both hands tightly holding the wooden wedge, he exerted all his strength and pulled out the wooden wedge with a sudden force from his waist.

I pulled out the Soul-Nailing Nail. After pulling it out, I quickly took two steps back to the front of the door. I intentionally retreated to the front of the town gossip, hoping to get the protection of it, but nothing happened next. Uncle Lai Li stuck his head out and asked, ”How was it?”

I said it was all right.

Just when I said that I was fine, my forehead suddenly started to itch. I hurriedly used my hands to scratch it, but I didn't understand or feel itchy at all. I really wanted to slash my forehead in hatred.

”Something's going to happen, hide —” Before I could even utter the word ”good”, two loud ”bang” sounds could be heard, as if thunder had exploded on the ground, causing my ears to buzz. Following these two loud sounds, I could faintly hear a burst of laughter. It was the kind of laughter that comes from the whispers. I don't know if it was due to the ringing in my ears. I looked at the poplars and saw a cloud of dust rising from beneath them. It was misty and there were two holes in the ground, southwest of the tree and north of it, where the other two nails were. From the looks of it, the fifth brother and the little boy had been hiding inside for too long. After one Soul Nail came out, the remaining two did not seem to be in formation, which was why they rushed out.

I was very nervous at first, but I didn't expect such a big commotion to occur, which immediately confused my mind and left me at a loss.

At this moment, two whirlwinds suddenly appeared in the middle of the courtyard. The two whirlwinds turned towards the same direction, both of them rotating counterclockwise. In other words, they turned left. The whirlwind spun around in the yard and slowly rose upwards, stirring up the branches of the poplar. Judging from the current situation, it was only a matter of time before the branches were cut off.

In the past, he had heard from the old man that the whirlwind was formed by Yin people, which meant that ghosts appeared. The left side became the male, while the right side became the female. According to the legend, when Liu Mu was on patrol in Shandong Province, he was found guilty of the murder of his husband by a whirlwind obstructing his carriage. Today, there were two left turns. Could it be the fifth brother and the little boy?

The two gales grew stronger and stronger, sucking in all the dust on the ground and mixing it with the leaves on the poplar. That was nothing. The two tornadoes were nearing me slowly. That's not right, I thought to myself, once Cao Lao Wu leaves the Soul-Nailing Spike he will enter the Yin and Yang category. If that's the case, he should have been captured by that man in black, how can he still act so arrogantly here? Could it be that the dream was simply a dream? Everything in the dream was fake, then why did I have to voluntarily wade through this muddy water?