Chapter 20.1 - Tian Yan Clan - Lonely Island: Behave in a spoiled manner

Chapter 20: Behave in a spoiled manner

The place where Xiangnu appeared was in the mountain in front of the main house, and behind the mountain was a long and wide river.

Qiuyuan was behind the mountain behind the house, it looked like a flat field, about the size of a small playground but it couldn’t really be called plain flat ground.

After Qingfeng took them down the hill, the six walked to the ground. Xiangnu found that the hill was very, very uneven. From the place where they settled down, they encountered upside-down but even more deflated bowl-shaped hills about the size of two washbasins, densely clustered together, occupying the mound.

If this was a human face, it must be more terrifying than an adolescent’s face full of pimples.

Looking at these hills, everyone probably understood what the ‘Qiuyuan’ mentioned meant.

Qingfeng stood at the edge of the mountain, but did not dare to step into the place ‘Qiuyuan’.

He directed the taskers and said to them, “Junior and younger brothers, this is Qiuyuan, and the earth soul that the master wants you to capture is only here, so you go down.”

Everyone didn’t move, Ding Zeming asked humbly, “Senior brother, we have never caught an earth soul, and we don’t know how to do it. Can you come down and teach us and show us a demonstration?”

Qingfeng was hesitant, everyone stared at him closely, always feeling that this little fat man seemed to be very cautious of Qiu Yuan, standing on the mountain and afraid to step on that place.

What’s so weird about this hill?

Does it mean that only Qingfeng is afraid of this place or are all the ghosts in this copy world afraid?

Just as everyone was thinking about it, they saw Qingfeng slowly climb down from the mountain and tread carefully on the ground.

After landing, everyone could see that his body was tense, and he looked very nervous.

However, after a few seconds after landing and realizing that nothing had happened, Qingfeng immediately relaxed, he kicked the soil under his feet, scratched his head and said, “It’s not difficult to dig earth souls, as long as you make a hole on this hill. After a while, they will automatically crawl out of it.”

He pushed aside, squatted in front of the hill, pointed his fat fingers at the hill and poked it hard, poking a small hole in the hill.

At the moment when the hole was poked open, Xiang Nu moved his ears, feeling as if he heard a crisp sound.

After the hole was poked out, Qingfeng jumped up instantly, he pointed to the hole and said, “That’s it, don’t worry, the earth souls will climb out soon, because they can’t stand the air outside, if the hole breaks, it will definitely climb out to mend the hole, and you can just grab it at that time.”

Qingfeng didn’t seem to lie to them, and sure enough, after a while, something similar to an earthworm stuck its head out of the hole.

Qingfeng hurriedly called out, “The earth soul came out, junior brothers, grab it quickly!”

Everyone didn’t move, Zhong Liyun deliberately showed a look of fear, rubbed her arms and screamed in a pretentious way, “Ah, don’t catch it! I’m most afraid of small bugs, don’t let it get close to me!”

Everyone looked at Qingfeng hesitantly, Miao Dong said helplessly, “The fifth sister is actually afraid of bugs, then let’s catch them later, and we haven’t prepared the tools to hold the bugs, and there is no place to put them. Fortunately, It’s still early, we can catch later ones if we can’t catch them this time.”

Qingfeng looked at Zhong Liyun strangely, tilted her head curiously, and asked, “So you’re afraid of them too?”

Zhong Liyun’s eyes flickered, and she whispered, “I’ve always been afraid of bugs…”

“Bugs?” Qingfeng looked blank and seemed puzzled.

But he didn’t have much curiosity, he didn’t understand and didn’t ask. He looked at the sun above his head, shook his head and said, “Hurry up, if you can go back earlier and go to bed earlier. Tomorrow you have to get up early to learn Taoism.”

Taoism? Everyone’s expressions became very strange. They always thought that this copy was a copy of the customs of the mountain village type. How could it be related to Taoism again?

As time went by until noon, the temperature gradually increased, and the little fat man couldn’t stand the heat.

Qingfeng wiped the sweat that overflowed from his forehead, grabbed his collar and gasped, “It’s too hot, junior brothers and sisters do your work properly. I’ll check on your situation later. Remember, you must get it done before it gets dark. Well, if you don’t make it right, you will have to be here too after dark!”

After Qingfeng finished speaking, he quickly left without waiting for replies.

Xiang Nu looked down at the hill and said softly, “This is an isolated island.”

“There are only a few households, no food, no flowers and plants, only a vegetable garden in front of each house where some vegetables are grown.”

Miao Dong touched his chin, “Taoism, master and apprentice, seem to have something to do with each other, but aren’t these things ghosts? Are they teaching Taoism or ghost arts?”

Zhong Liyun walked to the hill that had been dug out by Qingfeng just now. The earth spirit that was pulled out had not yet climbed back and was bulldozing around, trying to cover the small hole. Zhong Li Yun expressionlessly pinched the earthworm up, staring at it for a while and said coldly, “Those are secondary, the most important thing now is the earth soul. The senior brother is afraid of the earth soul, not only him but probably the master and others in the village. Everyone is afraid. This earth soul may be of great use in dealing with the ghosts in this village, but I don’t know what they are. Master also asked us to capture the earth soul for him. If we do, will we dig a pit for ourselves?”

Shu Jian looked at Zhong Liyun in amazement, and said in surprise, “Aren’t you afraid of bugs? Why are you catching it with your bare hands!”

Zhong Liyun gave him a strange look, and said casually, “I was just showing it to Senior Brother. After all, we haven’t discussed it yet, so it’s not good to act rashly.”

Shu Jian scratched his head and sighed, “I thought you were really afraid of bugs…”

Jiang Chao said impatiently, “Right now it’s more urgent whether we catch these bugs or not!”

Hee said word by word, and from his expression, there was a feeling of gnashing of teeth.

Everyone didn’t know why he was so angry, but after watching him for a few seconds, Xiangnu asked thoughtfully, “Jiang Chao, do you have a speech disorder?”

Jiang Chao was stunned for a moment, his cold expression immediately collapsed, and his fair face turned red.

Miao Dong asked curiously, “What kind of speech disorder?”

Xiang Nu glanced at Jiang Chao, the young man who held his breath, and said sullenly, “Can’t speak fluently…..”

As the saying goes, stuttering.

Everyone suddenly understood the reason why Jiang Chao had always been reticent.

Well, a cool guy like him stuttered, the contrast was too big.

Xiangnu was a little curious, and asked, “Can’t life points cure this problem?”

Xiangnu asked directly, but fortunately Jiang Chao was a guy with a strong mentality. Before, the disguise was mainly because he was ashamed. Seeing Xiangnu’s words and expressions were not discriminatory or strange, plus he was good-looking, Jiang Chao also felt quite calm, and he replied, “It can’t be cured. It said that I have mentally ill. Life points do not work on spirits, that is, the soul, lest some lunatics suspect that their soul has been controlled and go crazy.”

Xiangnu thought of Mr Yu inexplicably, and sighed regretfully, “So that’s how it is…”

Ding Zeming coughed lightly and drew everyone’s attention back, “Let’s get down to business first. Let’s talk about this earth soul, should we dig it? If we don’t dig, we can’t get along with the Master. If we do, if it is beneficial to us, will we send our helper to the enemy, will it affect our next dungeon mission?”

Everyone pondered, Shu Jian couldn’t help but straighten his chest, and volunteer, “Let me dig, you guys wait by the side!”

Everyone looked at him in amazement, and Shu Jian begged, “I, I’m not very smart, and my reaction is slow, and I can’t think of useful advice on tasks and clues most of the time, so I can only rely on this method to earn some dungeon contribution rate. You have concerns, and it just so happens that I also need this kind of behaviour to express myself, this is a win-win situation, let me help you catch the soul of the earth!”

Ding Zeming pondered, “But this may put you in a bad situation. Master takes digging earth souls as a punishment for us, which proves that digging earth souls is not good for us…”

Shu Jian shook his head, “But apart from this, I can’t improve my contribution rate. If the contribution rate is too low…”

Shu Jian’s face turned pale, and Xiangnu looked at it thoughtfully, realizing that the repeated copy of ‘Sent to Prison’ really caught everyone’s attention, otherwise Shu Jian would not behave like this.

Of course, this may also have something to do with Shu Jian’s character. He should have the character of an honest person, and he was not the type of person who liked muddling through and waiting to die.

Everyone agreed with Shu Jian’s opinion and asked him to dig earth souls for six people, focusing the risk on him alone.

Ding Zeming glanced at Zhong Liyun and Xiangnu awkwardly, and asked, “You two, do you mind if I take off my clothes?”

Xiangnu felt a little weird. He knew that Ding Zeming asked himself because he changed his clothes to avoid suspicion, but when he was asked with Zhong Liyun, he suddenly felt inexplicable. He felt more than ashamed but It didn’t reach the level of guilt, in short, it made Xiangnu feel weird.

He nodded uncomfortably in response, and Zhong Liyun had no objection, so Ding Zeming took off his coat and let Zhong Liyun throw the earth soul in her hand into his clothes.

Zhong Liyun put the earth soul into Ding Zeming’s clothes, and the earth soul arched inside but did not disappear suddenly. Everyone was relieved to see this.

Shu Jian said, “Then I’ll start!”

Everyone nodded, and Shu Jian went into the hill and started grabbing earth souls.

Ding Zeming fought behind him and wrapped the earth souls in his shirt. The other people watched from outside the hill. Jiang Chao’s disguise was shattered by Xiangnu, he didn’t pretend anymore and stutteringly said to Xiangnu, “Shu Jian is the third senior brother, and he ranks very high from you! If you give him and do everything, the master may be angry! Therefore, little junior brother, it is best to dig a few earth souls!”

Xiangnu was pulling the thorn ball on his trousers at the moment, and the skin on his calf was red, looking horrifying.

Xiang Nu tried his best to hold back the itch, and after hearing the words, he said, “No problem, I think you are all very reliable. You should be able to find out the clues on Earth Soul without me participating.”

The other people smiled lowly, and Zhong Liyun smiled, “I will live up to your expectations.”

Xiangnu also urgently needed something to divert his attention, so that he couldn’t help but break the skin on the itchy, red and swollen part.

Digging earth souls was not a technical job, but the speed of the earth souls crawling out was a little slow, but when the sun in the sky was not so hot and the wind blowing on them became cool, the task of finding eighteen earth souls was basically completed. 

Ding Zeming didn’t miss the abnormality of the skin on Xiangnu’s leg, he glanced at him worriedly, and said to Xiangnu, “The things in the copy can’t be used without any need and no one knows what the raw materials of those things are and whether they are stained and unclean things. Just bear with it, and use life points to heal the injury on your legs after you go out of the copy. If you don’t have enough life points, you can add my contact information, and I can lend you some.”

Xiangnu couldn’t help but glance at him, Ding Zeming was packing his clothes with his head down to prevent the earth soul inside from running out, and he didn’t look up knowing that Xiangnu was looking at him.

Xiang Nu retracted his gaze and whispered, “No thanks, I have plenty of life points.”

Ding Zeming couldn’t help but say, “Then we can still add contact information first…”