Between mountains and seas

Chapter 19 2 Difficult to choose

The sparrow that broke in through the window was much bigger than the one Huang Yu caught. As soon as it rushed into the room, it raised its head to the sky and let out a scream, as if an iron spoon was scraping the bottom of a stainless steel pot, piercing people's eardrums. Feeling uncomfortable, followed by dizziness and nausea.

Ji Xiaojiu covered her ears and yelled, "Must!"

But Garfield had already got into the cupboard, leaving only a long tail dangling outside, and there was no hope for it.

Huang Yu grinned and endured the crowing of the sparrow, and muttered something in his mouth, while pulling a string of eighteen seeds from his wrist: "There is still one! How dare you call me!"

This string of eighteen seeds is all made of Tiantai beans, and I don’t know how many years they have been played with. The black skin has a faint layer of pearl, which shakes like eighteen irregularly shaped black pearls. Li Yuyu shines brightly.

"You know how to mobilize the power of the Big Dipper and the Nine Stars, right?" Huang Yu jumped up and shouted at the sparrow hovering on the ceiling, "I have eighteen Tiantai beans here! I'm afraid of you if you beat two of them? Come down for me!"

Shao Jingxing felt uncomfortable when the sparrow started to sing. He raised his head to look hard, and found that after the thing spread its wings, the black and white feathers under the wings were like stars in the sky. As it flapped its wings, the stars also disappeared from time to time. Now, the shaking made people even more dizzy.

The more he wanted to see the movement of this thing clearly, the more he felt that those black and white stars seemed to be turning into a vortex, trying to pull him into it...

At this moment, golden light shot out, and a few rooftop beans hit the sparrow's body, causing it to tilt half of its body, feathers flew in the air, and the vortex of stars suddenly disappeared.Shao Jingxing just rubbed his eyes, and then he heard a loud cry from the sparrow and swooped down towards him.

what is this?Are the persimmons soft?

Before Shao Jingxing could finish thinking, he was so disgusted by the scream of the sparrow, but in the next second, the unpleasant sound stopped abruptly, and a small knife shaped like a willow leaf was inserted into the sparrow's neck, cutting off the sparrow accurately. Its trachea—even though it is a strange beast, it seems that the vocal organs are still the same as before.

Shao Jingxing touched his face in a daze, and then saw the bright red on his fingers, and suddenly the small shrimp wonton he just ate started to rebel.He retched twice, and heard Ji Xiaojiu's joyful voice: "Brother Huo, it's really time for you to come back!"

Ten minutes later, Shao Jingxing came out of the bathroom leaning on the wall, and returned to the state of caring for his heart again—the delicious little wontons were eaten for nothing.

This shouldn't be the case... Shao Jingxing thought feebly.Even if the sparrow's blood was splashed on his face, since the third brother's eyeballs were blown out by Huo Qing in front of his eyes, it's impossible for him to react so strongly to this bit of blood!

"Have a bowl of soy milk." Gu Sheng and the others were gone, only Huo Qing was sitting in front of the table eating noodles, and pointed to Shao Jingxing at the bowl of hot soy milk, "Are you okay?"

"It's okay, it's okay." Shao Jingxing crawled over and sat down feebly, still wanting to justify himself, "It's not supposed to be, it's not like I can't see blood..."

Huo Qing lowered his head and ate the noodles: "I don't blame you, it's the bird's business."

"Oh, by the way—" Facing Huo Qing, Shao Jingxing felt that it didn't matter to ask anything, "What is that strange bird? At first, one of them took a look at me. Why do I feel... like..." He After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't come up with an accurate description, "If Uncle Gu hadn't called me, I wouldn't have recovered."

"Bi, refers to the Nine Stars of the Big Dipper—that is, the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper plus a star next to the sixth star, plus the star on the spoon end of the Big Dipper." Huo Qing already knew a lot about this thing, so he first pointed out the correctness of the Big Dipper. "It is named after it because it can borrow the power of the stars."

"Borrow, borrow the power of the stars?" Shao Jingxing almost choked on a mouthful of soy milk, "How can I borrow it!"

Huo Qing was silent for a while.This question is actually very difficult to answer.Just like a scumbag asking a scumbag "how can I recite this English word", you may not be able to explain clearly to others what you know yourself.

Considering Shao Jingxing's knowledge reserve in this area, Huo Qing put it another way: "The character for 鬿 is bordered by ghosts, so 鬿鹏 has the ability to charm."

"Oh——" Shao Jingxing suddenly realized, but then felt something was wrong, "You just said something about the Big Dipper and Nine Stars..." Why did you suddenly turn to the question of ghosts?

Huo Qing directly ignored his question, and just continued: "The sparrows use this to eat people."

"Eat, cannibal?" Shao Jingxing was taken aback, and he didn't care about the Big Dipper, "Just this reed chicken?" But thinking about how the chicken broke through the window and hovered on the ceiling, it really looked like It is very fierce, as if it can peck a hole in a person's head with one mouth.

Huo Qing looked him up and down: "You have to exercise." When he came in, the bird was paralyzed by Huang Yu's eighteen sons, and Shao Jingxing jumped down so crookedly. I can't dodge it, I don't even know how to release a fireball, and I'm still standing there in a daze.Fortunately, it was an injured sparrow, what if it was replaced by another beast?I'm afraid it's too late for him to save him!

Shao Jingxing bowed his head in shame and took a sip of soy milk.At that time, he was dumbfounded when he saw Huang Yu's shot, and he completely forgot that he still had the ability of a lighter, and the sparrow jumped down so fast - that's it, or did he slow down after being injured?This is too powerful!

"The sparrow is not a powerful beast." Huo Qing made Shao Jingxing even more dejected in one sentence, "It can only use the power of the Big Dipper to confuse people's hearts. Other than that, it is just an ordinary bird of prey That's all." At that time, Huang Yu's eighteen sons hit the sparrow, and it had temporarily lost its power of charm. To be honest, it could beat an ordinary owl.

"What's more, you have the ability of fire." Huo Qing continued to criticize, "Beasts are beasts after all. Except for a very few animals that also have the ability of fire, they are all afraid of fire. If you gave it a fireball at that time, Even if it can't be scared to change its target to attack, it can still block it. At worst, you can still escape, as long as you keep a little distance, both Huang Yu and Uncle Gu can save you."

Neither Huang Yu nor Gu Sheng probably expected that Shao Jingxing would stand still stupidly. Coupled with their poor positions, it was too late.Otherwise, he didn't have to slash the throat of that sparrow, and he could keep it for research.

Shao Jingxing's head almost fell into the bowl of soybean milk.Obviously he was the one who was attacked, but Huo Qing said so, he was a hindrance—forget it, even if Huo Qing didn't say it, he was a hindrance.

Huo Qing looked at his drooping head and made a conclusion: "I'll draw up a training plan for you, you can start training today."

"Ah, good." Shao Jingxing agreed dejectedly.Ji Xiaojiu was right, he really should train.

By the way, where is Ji Xiaojiu?Why are people gone?

Shao Jingxing didn't notice that after he agreed to train, Huo Qing breathed out quietly, and then answered him: "The two sparrows just now are a female and a male, which is very rare. Uncle Gu is afraid that they will lay eggs, so I went to the site to check again." If they really left the eggs and hatched the chicks, it would be a lot of trouble.

In other words, everyone is out and busy.So far, Shao Jingxing has a little understanding of the work of the Special Affairs Department: "Are you busy with this every day?" Not only is it dangerous, but it is also trivial.Who knows if the sparrow laid eggs, and where they laid them.

No, think about what Huang Yu said just now, he just listened to his classmates talking about a chicken on a tree outside his house.But according to Ji Xiaojiu, he should have analyzed from this sentence that it might be a sparrow, and then brought the corresponding tools to catch it... This is even more difficult than the police's job, at least he still has 110 You can call the police, but who will call the police because there is a chicken in the tree?Of course, posting a circle of friends is probably still possible...

Huo Qing nodded earnestly: "The responsibility lies." Whether it is trivial or dangerous, it must be done.

Shao Jingxing felt ashamed again.To say that Huo Qing's stewed chicken soup of "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility" is not very delicious, but he himself has been stewing it seriously and drinking it seriously, without any perfunctory.

"Woo--" There was a timid call from the cabinet, Garfield stretched out his big face, looked around carefully, and then got out.

"Stupid—" Shao Jingxing stretched out his hand to pick up the cat, "Why is this cat—" Ji Xiaojiu called out to it during the battle just now, but it plunged into the cupboard. Why does it look... more cowardly than him?Tengu sounds so majestic, is it also so cowardly?

Huo Qing reached out and touched the fuzzy back hair: "After all, it's just a cat. It's normal to be afraid."

"So you're scared too..." Shao Jingxing lifted Garfield up and looked at the expression on that face full of lovelessness, and felt a sense of sympathy for each other.

Garfield looked at him dejectedly, his limbs hang down weakly: "Yo-oooo..."

This strange cry.Shao Jingxing felt that he suddenly understood - when you suddenly can't even pronounce the language of your own race correctly, you probably have doubts about life, no, born of a cat, right?Who am I, where am I, what am I going to do?

However, he could doubt Maosheng vaguely, but Shao Jingxing did not have the freedom to doubt life.After drinking the bowl of soy milk, he followed Huo Qing up to the second floor and entered the dormitory where the two of them lived together.Then Shao Jingxing adjusted a training plan from the computer, and it took up the entire screen!

"This, so many!" Shao Jingxing's eyes straightened.Look at what devilish projects are on it!500 push-ups, 500 pull-ups, 500 sit-ups, 500 weight-bearing squats, 500 leapfrogs, 40 bench presses of 500 kg, 500 deadlifts... Does Huo Qing only know the number 500?

Huo Qing looked him over: "This is my daily training schedule. If you——start, cut it in half."

Daily... training... Shao Jingxing only felt that the voice echoed infinitely in his ears like a curse: "Big, everyone usually trains like this?"

"Everyone's situation is different." Huo Qing swiftly changed all the 500 in the training plan to 250, "Xiao Jiu is a clerical worker, just do daily fitness. Huang Yu is still young, and now basically the training volume is halved ..."

When he said this, Shao Jingxing had nothing to say.Huang Yu looks skinny and he is still a half-grown child. He only pays 250 per day. He is ten years older than Huang Yu, so he has the face to say that he can't do it?

But... I really can't do it...

Shao Jingxing had a bitter face: "Can you reduce it a little more, can you take it slowly? I, I can't..."

"You can do it." Huo Qing said simply.But seeing Shao Jingxing's sad face, he still explained a few words, "People who awaken supernatural powers will improve their physical fitness. It's just that you have never undergone such training before, so you are afraid of difficulties. You will know when you actually practice. The potential is huge."

It's rare for him to say so many comforting words, but Shao Jingxing didn't get the slightest comfort, but he couldn't refute it—his physical fitness is indeed stronger than before, otherwise, when the third brother appeared in the garage, he might not have time to drill Once he got into the car, he wouldn't be able to wait for Huo Qing to rescue him.

But this training schedule looks so scary...

Shao Jingxing patted his fuzzy fur dejectedly—the only way to relieve his worries was to pet the cat.But after he licked his hand twice, he remembered what Huo Qing was going to do today: "By the way, how is Hu Yuan?"

I don't know if it's because of his eyesight, but I always feel that the roots of Huo Qing's ears are turning red again.

"Hu Yuan——his condition is better than yours." Although his ears were a little red, Huo Qing's tone of voice was as calm as ever, sounding very believable, "The curse on him is very slight, I have already solved it .”

Shao Jingxing felt that this was unfair: "Why is he so slight..."

Huo Qing coughed: "Maybe it's because the main target of the other party is not him." In fact, it seems that Shao Jingxing and Hu Yuan are both incidental, and the one the other party really wants to kill is probably Xiao Zheng's wife. And Lao Zheng who opened the shop.

"Judging from the current situation, the other party may have taken something from your body to cast a curse, such as hair or nails... The biggest possibility is hair." Because this is the easiest to get, "Think about it, there are no impression?"

Shao Jingxing was shocked immediately: "Hair? This, this..." Although he didn't lose his hair, it was inevitable that he would lose a few strands of hair every day physiologically. It couldn't be easier for the cleaning servants to get his hair!Wouldn't this be impossible to guard against?Does he have to wrap his head with something all the time?

Huo Qing waved his hand: "Don't be so nervous, not everyone understands curses." Otherwise, no one would dare to get a haircut.

"But, I really can't think of it..." Shao Jingxing had thought about it carefully when Gu Sheng asked, but the people around him had been with him for several years, and he didn't think any of them would harm him like this.

"Then think about it slowly." Huo Qing already has a direction to investigate, and he asked Shao Jingxing just to find some more clues. Since he can't remember it, there is no need to worry, "Anyway, you must be safe if you live here. .”

Just as Shao Jingxing was about to nod, he suddenly remembered the reed chicken that almost pecked his forehead just now, so he couldn't help but fell silent.

Of course Huo Qing didn't know what Shao Jingxing was thinking.In fact, in his opinion, a sparrow is really not an "unsafe" factor. As long as this thing seals the power of charm, it is not as dangerous as a mountain spider, and it is not qualified at all!Shao Jingxing could handle it after a few months of training.

So he thought that Shao Jingxing didn't want to live here, thought for a while and said: "I remember the matter of the Ganoderma lucidum, and Uncle Gu also entrusted colleagues from other teams, if he finds out, he will notify me immediately."

Shao Jingxing really didn't think about the Ganoderma lucidum at the moment.After all, Director Zhou had said that he still had time to think about it, but the curse suddenly brought death before him, completely startling him.Now that Huo Qing mentioned the Ganoderma lucidum, he remembered that he still had a terminal illness, and suddenly felt even more doubtful about life—he was already like this, why did he still need to train?

Huo Qing was silent for a moment, then said, "I will find the ganoderma lucidum."

Shao Jingxing said dejectedly, "How long will it take..."

It's not that he doesn't believe Huo Qing.On the contrary, after hearing Huo Qing's words, he felt very credible.But the question is, is Ganoderma lucidum so easy to find?The world of mountains and seas is such a dangerous place...

Huo Qing hesitated for a while, and finally said softly: "If you join the special affairs department, there will be a way to delay your illness." Until he found the Ganoderma lucidum.

"Ah?" Shao Jingxing's eyes widened suddenly, "Is there such a way for the Special Affairs Department?" This is going to be announced, so what's so terrible about these terminal illnesses?

"It's a certain person's ability." Huo Qing shook his head at his thoughts, "It's only effective for the person with the ability. And every time she uses it, it will be detrimental to herself." Ability can do many things, but it doesn't It is not infinite, otherwise, why would human beings still do scientific research?In fact, this member of the Special Affairs Department was once recruited by many departments. This enthusiasm did not fade until it was confirmed that she could only treat people with supernatural powers.

Shao Jingxing finally understood that this was equivalent to a kind of welfare within the special affairs department, and he couldn't enjoy it if he didn't join the special affairs department.But this is also very normal. Only those who work hard can gain, and those who don’t work don’t get food.

This metaphor seems to be wrong, but the meaning is the same anyway, so Shao Jingxing fell into a dilemma again - should he enter the world of mountains and seas to face those terrible things, or should he find a way to borrow money to treat his illness?In other words, if you really want to borrow it, you can only go to Shao Zhongyan, right?

"Anyway, you should stay here first." Seeing Shao Jingxing's troubled face, Huo Qing coughed lightly, "At least it's better not to leave until you find out who cast the curse."

"Ah——" Shao Jingxing wailed suddenly, yes, how could he have forgotten, and the shadow of the curse followed him.Anyway, no matter what he chooses in the end, he must stay in this private restaurant with a strange name at this stage.