Chapter 22: The Strange Old Man

  "Mei'er! Mei'er!" I frantically searched for Mei'er's figure, but no matter where I looked, I couldn't find her. It was as if she had vanished into thin air, just like she never existed before.

  Why do I feel a pang in my heart when I found out that Mei'er is gone? Mei'er... where did you go?

  According to the situation when I left, Mei'er's face was still slightly pale at that time, and it was impossible for her to move on her own. Was she taken away by someone?

  "I can't leave your side more than ten meters away..." The words Mei'er once told me echoed in my mind, ten meters... beyond that distance, I couldn't conceal the dark energy on Mei'er's body. I knew it, but still left her alone at home after she had exhausted herself. Why didn't I remember those words back then?!

  But if I don't leave and go to the hospital to see Pangzi, wouldn't that be disregarding my friend's safety? What I'm doing is right or wrong.

  Mei'er, why is it that now my heart is filled with thoughts of Mei'er? What exactly did that nine-tailed fox spirit steal from me?

  "Su Mei'er! Come out for me!" I let out a huge roar in the house, using all my strength, but Mei'er still didn't respond. Instead, I was met with curses from the neighbors, which I completely ignored. Why did Mei'er disappear? Was it the demon catcher who took her away? Or was it that old man she mentioned years ago who took her away?

  Moye can live for 500 years, what about that old man whose magical power is even stronger than Moye's?

  "Slap!" I gave myself a slap on the face. Normally, I would have cried out in pain, but this time, I seemed to feel nothing at all.

  I walked slowly to the side of the bed, looking at this bed where I first met Mei'er. It's not big, but it witnessed my first encounter with Mei'er.

  "Hmm..." I let out a deep breath, slowly walked out of the house, sat down at the door, lowered my head, thinking about Mei'er, that fox who stole something from me.

  "Hey young man, I see your face is dark, you must have been possessed by an evil spirit these past few days. Am I right?" Just as I was lost in thought, an old man stood before me, smiling at me.

  I turned my head and stopped looking at the old man, saying irritably: "What's it got to do with you?"

  "There's a fox spirit fragrance on you, you must have been with the fox demon. Let me get rid of that fox demon for you and resolve the trouble in your heart!" He said as he was about to walk into the house. I heard the old man say this and quickly got up from the ground, blocking him: "What are you going to do?!"

  "Hey young man, humans and demons are different paths. This fox demon staying with you is just trying to drain your yang energy, why do you want to protect the fox demon?" The old man asked me, I was stunned for a moment. Although respecting the elderly and loving the young is a traditional virtue of my China, this old man is taking advantage of his age and saying some nonsense. I don't need to be polite with him: "What fox demon? There's only one person living here, which is me! Old man, you can leave!"

  "Hey kid, you're quite stubborn, but I still advise you to keep a distance from that fox demon, otherwise you'll die young! This old man is still talking nonsense, I gritted my teeth: "You're spouting nonsense, don't blame me for being rude!"

  "Oh, I'd like to see how you're not being polite!" The old man stretched out his dry and withered hands, and suddenly pulled me over, feeling me all over my body. Ah! This old man wouldn't have some kind of special perversion, would he? Just as I was about to resist, the old man stopped abruptly, looking at me in surprise: "Haha, a good person for nine lifetimes, a fox demon for a thousand years, wonderful, wonderful! With his virtue, offset her guilt, haha, wonderful, wonderful!" The old man spoke wildly like a madman, and finally looked at me and said: "Today's cause will have tomorrow's effect, and today's effect also originated from yesterday's cause. Take good care of yourself, young man!" As he spoke, he patted my shoulder, and I was about to push his hand away when I suddenly discovered that the old man had disappeared from before my eyes.

  "What...what's going on?!" I'm already confused in my heart, but thinking of Mei'er disappearing makes me feel lost. Just as I was about to lock the door and go to the hospital to see Pangzi, I suddenly heard a heavenly voice: "Xiatian, where are you going?" I turned my head to look, and it was actually Mei'er!

  "You ask me where I went, but I want to ask you too! Didn't they say we can't leave each other's side for more than ten meters? What are you running around for!" I looked at the lovely Mei with some anger, but actually, I knew that the annoyance in my heart was far less than the happiness.

  Mei'er heard this and furrowed her eyebrows: "Are you scolding me? If I hadn't woken up to find you gone, would I have gone out and run around?" I was taken aback and said apologetically: "Sorry, something happened to my friend, I went to the hospital..."

  "You... summer, are you really summer?" Mei'er said, using her jade hand to pull my hair, and I let her pull it: "I am summer, why ask like this?"

  "Ordinary summer is just a shameless fool, but today he actually apologizes, are you someone else impersonating him, or maybe it's Summer's younger brother, Autumn... or Winter?" Mei'er said with a serious face. I couldn't help but smile: "Alright, you're back, that's all that matters, I thought you'd been caught by those professional monster catchers..."

  "I've already unsealed the second tail, how could I be caught so easily!" Mei'er exclaimed with excitement, while I was shocked. Mei'er's second tail has been unsealed? Didn't she just unseal her first tail a few days ago?!

  "You... you've unsealed the second tail?" I stared at Mei in surprise, and she looked back at me with a puzzled expression, saying "Is that strange?"

  I swallowed my saliva and nodded: "Your first tail was unsealed just a few days ago, how did your second tail get unsealed so quickly? Didn't you say that the spiritual energy on Earth is scarce now, and it's not easy to unseal?"

  "I'm also surprised, the seal of the second tail, with the spiritual energy in this place now, if you want to open it, at least half a year is needed, but I don't understand why the second tail can be unsealed so quickly..." Mei'er said seriously.

  Mei'er said that, my doubts deepened even more. Why didn't she know either? Why was the seal released so quickly? I suddenly remembered what the old man had said: "Nine generations of good people, a thousand years of fox demon..." Could it be that I am the tenth generation of good people he spoke of? What a joke! If I were a good person, I wouldn't have killed so many of my descendants!

  But why did Mei'er's seal break so quickly? Never mind, the more I think about it, the more confused I get. Anyway, it's a good thing that Mei'er broke the seal, what's the point of thinking so much?

  I went back home with Mei'er and plopped myself down on the sofa. Suddenly, Mei'er rubbed her belly and said: "Xiatian, I'm hungry..."

  I was staring at Mei's twin peaks without blinking, and when she said that, I subconsciously said: "I'm also hungry, can I have a bite..."