freenovelworld Chapter 164 Watery Land
Chapter 164 Watery Land
Although Rongming and the others relayed the message to other countries, they didn't reveal much information. They were busy finding their own energy gathering point and didn't have time to help them.
Long Xiaoxiao was also very anxious, but since the system couldn't provide much help, she could only helplessly follow behind Tang Xuan and the others, waiting for their actions.
Within the Department of Supernatural and Mystical Arts, Tang De was the most proficient in divination. On a sunny afternoon, Tang De, dressed in formal attire, held his breath and concentrated, fiddling with his divination tools on the table for a long time. Finally, he lit an incense stick and slowly exhaled before revealing several locations.
The hexagram indicates a land of water and marshland, which should be in the south, and most likely a coastal city.
With these messages, everyone immediately had a goal and quickly began heading south with their team.
Seeing that everyone had a direction, Long Xiaoxiao felt relieved. After hesitating for a few seconds, she still wanted to follow, but in order not to cause too much of a commotion, she still had the system activate the holographic projection to cover their tracks.
Their mode of transportation was no match for Long Xiaoxiao's. When Long Xiaoxiao arrived at their first destination, they were still halfway there. Seeing this, Long Xiaoxiao simply waited for them silently in the sky for a while.
In the meantime, Long Xiaoxiao noticed something was amiss.
Why do all the people below look so drowsy and listless?
Long Xiaoxiao curiously peeked out for a while, and after observing for a long time, she became even more certain of her observation: the people here had no energy or spirit, and looked as if all their energy had been drained.
Long Xiaoxiao was puzzled and said to the system, "Uncle, they look so tired."
The system glanced at it briefly, pondered for a moment, and then analyzed, "Indeed, it's probably because they have a habit of taking a nap."
It's noon now. According to the data retrieved by the system, most of the residents here have the habit of taking a nap. They often feel sleepy after lunch, which may be related to this reason.
Long Xiaoxiao still felt something was wrong. She also liked to sleep, but she would never be so listless.
However, she couldn't quite figure out what was wrong. After all, she had checked carefully and there was no dark energy here. In Long Xiaoxiao's understanding, only dark wizards would deliberately cause trouble. Since no abnormalities were detected, Long Xiaoxiao didn't know what the reason could be.
Her doubts didn't last long before the official team arrived in the city. Led by Tang De and Tang Xuan, they quickly went to the hotel they had booked in advance and planned to have Tang De perform another divination.
Tang Xuan frowned slightly, walked to the window, and peered out to survey the street scene, her expression somewhat subtle.
From the moment she stepped into the city, Tang Xuan felt an involuntary fatigue, as if something had drained her energy, leaving her listless.
Even Tang De, the old man who never admitted to being old, began to look tired. While preparing the materials needed for divination, he said to Tang Xuan with a puzzled tone, "Strange, we didn't ride in the car for long today, how come we're so tired?"
Tang Xuan ignored him and stood quietly by the window for a few minutes before suddenly looking up at the sky.
At this moment, Long Xiaoxiao, whose figure was hidden by the projection, was startled. Her gaze met Tang Xuan's, and her first reaction was that Tang Xuan seemed to be staring at her.
"Uncle, can she see me?" Long Xiaoxiao asked the system in confusion.
The system also noticed Tang Xuan's gaze, carefully checked the projection equipment repeatedly, and only after confirming that there was no problem did it say with some doubt, "Logically speaking, it shouldn't be able to see it."
As soon as she finished speaking, Tang Xuan calmly looked away and went back into the house to talk to Tang De.
Seeing this, Long Xiaoxiao put aside her inner turmoil and curiously wanted to fly down to see what was happening inside the hotel. However, considering that dangers were lurking everywhere and the system firmly disagreed with Long Xiaoxiao transforming into human form and running around, she had to give up on the idea. Instead, the system retrieved the hotel's surveillance footage for Long Xiaoxiao's reference.
The hotel had excellent privacy protection. Long Xiaoxiao could only see the surveillance footage in the corridor. The people in the group were all resting in their rooms at the time, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
Long Xiaoxiao watched silently for a while. Just as she was getting bored and wanted to leave, the surveillance camera suddenly moved. A tall man dressed entirely in black, with a discreet appearance, walked out of the emergency exit.
Everyone's attention was involuntarily drawn to it.
"Uncle, that person is so strange," Long Xiaoxiao couldn't help but say, but she couldn't quite put her finger on what was strange about him. He was just wrapped up so tightly that he seemed a bit out of place, but his behavior was very natural.
Perhaps they were just guests?
As Yilong Yitong pondered this, his gaze wisely fixed on the man.
But this conjecture was quickly shattered. The man stopped in front of Tang De and Tang Xuan's door, looked down and seemed to take something out of his pocket, then threw it on the ground. The thing disappeared in a flash.
Inside the room, Tang De, who was burning incense in preparation for divination, suddenly looked alarmed. He stared at the incense that had suddenly gone out without any wind, and after a long while, he solemnly put down the divination tools in his hand.
“Something’s not right here…there’s something around here,” Tang De said in a deep voice.
Long Xiaoxiao panicked when she saw the man's actions. She remembered a story her mother had told her before: a dark wizard had poisoned a group of people in a spring, killing them all. Now, seeing the man throwing things at Tang Xuan and Tang De's door, Long Xiaoxiao couldn't help but think of that story.
"Uncle, we have to stop that person!" Long Xiaoxiao said anxiously.
The system was also taken aback. It could tell that something was wrong with the man, but if Long Xiaoxiao transformed into her dragon form to chase after him, she would definitely hurt others by mistake. If these actions were automatically detected, she might be forcibly ejected from the world.
However, if she were to transform into human form, the system worried that it would be too dangerous and cause Long Xiaoxiao to get injured.
The system had previously explained the consequences of hurting people to Long Xiaoxiao, and Long Xiaoxiao knew that her dragon form was too large and could easily cause accidental injury. So when she saw that the system was not responding for a long time, she flew to a hidden corner and transformed into human form in a flash. Then she couldn't wait to run towards the hotel.
When the system saw that Long Xiaoxiao had taken the initiative to move, it was immediately alarmed and quickly turned off the projection when Long Xiaoxiao walked into the blind spot of the monitoring, so that Long Xiaoxiao's figure could be seen normally.
Projection can only confuse people's vision, not their sense of touch. If Long Xiaoxiao were to bump into other passersby, it would probably become a sensational story about a haunted hotel.