Chapter Forty-Four: Turning Point

  "Ula-"

  "Don't interrupt me! Don't you want to know why I became like this? Today, I'll let you understand. Back then, when we came to the mountain to pick 'herbs', just as we were about to reach the top, Lü Chi suddenly wanted to go down the mountain slope to relieve himself, but he didn't come back. Song Jian and Shi Shengli went to look for him, but they also didn't return. I had no choice but to go down the mountain slope to find them, but as soon as I arrived near this cave, I felt a voice in my heart telling me to enter the 'cave'. At that time, I met Wang Lizhi who came to take photos and enjoy the scenery. Hmph, he was very gentlemanly, afraid that I, a 'girl', would encounter danger, so he walked with me into the cave together. He stepped on the grass first, and I followed behind him - so Shi Shengli's head on the tea tray took away his body, and he immediately took mine away too, leaving me alone here!"

  You should feel lucky because I absorbed some of the witch's power, so this tea tray no longer has the power to influence people's minds. Otherwise, as soon as you stepped onto this hillside, your mind would be controlled and you would unconsciously walk into this 'cave', onto the lawn, until your body was taken away before you could realize what was happening!

  I waited and waited, and finally a poor guy came in, Zhang Baoqiang. I urged the tea tray's power to move him to the lawn, took away his body, and blocked the 'hole' with stones. Haha, don't have any illusions, I'm not being kind, I just fear that this human chain will add another person, increasing the difficulty of my task. In this year on the tea tray, I've already thought it through, I want to find these people with mismatched heads and bodies, find every link in this human chain, and one by one, take back my body.

  "After these people switched bodies, they all ran away. How did you find them? Also, why did they want to run away in the first place? If the difference between their heads and bodies was too big, then it's understandable, but if the difference is very small, why didn't they just go back to their original lives?"

  "No wonder you don't understand. Only those who have had their heads placed on this tea tray know that if the head and body don't match, they can't go back to their original lives. Otherwise, they will rot to death." Wu La cruelly smiled: "No one told us this, but the idea almost instantly transmitted into our brains, so people whose bodies have been swapped have no choice but to escape. But everyone can't let go of their past and always involuntarily return to their loved ones to spy on them, because the head and body belong to two different people. As a result, they will be running back and forth between two places."

  "So you're the one who's been using these people's homesickness to find them. It makes sense, most of the missing persons in the Two Stages Mountain area are from 'Nüren' village, not many from other places." Yanfeng's hands unconsciously slid back and forth on his waistband, as if it was a subconscious habit when thinking.

  "You think this is easy? Do you know how sensitive and cautious people like us are? I spent ten years finding each link in the chain. Ten years, the best ten years of my life, what have I been doing? Besides desperately searching for others like me, going to see you was my only comfort. But my brain told me to go see you, while my body wanted me to go see Zhang Baoqiang's family. People like us are constantly tormented by our own will, non-stop, non-stop. Do you know what it feels like when I saw Wang Lizi next to you? Seeing his head on top of my body, what kind of feeling is that? You don't understand. You'll never understand!"

  Wula's words became more and more agitated, her hands waving wildly.

  Ah!

  A faint knocking sound came, and Zhang Baoqiang's corpse suddenly smiled. His one eye moved, as if he had stared at Wula, then fell over. Wula was so frightened that she let out a shrill cry, and in the chaos almost stepped onto the lawn, fortunately Zhang Baoqiang's body had fallen in front of her, although his body was lying on the lawn, his feet were stretched outwards. Wula's foot landed on the corpse.

  She looked down and saw Zhang Baoqiang's face facing her, with a grayish-white complexion, the bullet hole staring at her like an eye that would never close.

  "I didn't mean to take your body!" Ula shouted in extreme panic, repeating the sentence loudly while squatting down and frantically flipping Zhang Baoqiang's corpse, finally turning it over and pressing that terrifying face into the lawn.

  Despite this, Ura was over-stimulated and knelt on the ground with his body wrapped around *** , constantly saying something, sweat covering his entire skin, illuminated by the dim light of the fire inside the cave, as if he had been coated with a layer of dark light, like a wax figure about to melt.

  Yan Feng saw it clearly, the place near the cave was originally small, and Ula was excited, hitting Zhang Baoqiang's face with his hand. Zhang Baoqiang was still standing in a strange posture, his mouth wide open, staring blankly with one eye, but after being hit, his eyes and mouth suddenly closed, the corner of his mouth twitched, looking like he had smiled strangely. Moreover, the balance of his dead body was disrupted by an external force, so it naturally fell to the ground. Seeing Ula's behavior, Yan Feng felt both heartache and intolerance, but this also made him certain that the dead body could not be replaced, and the magical lawn had no effect on the corpse.

  "Don't be crazy!" Cui Meng shouted in anger, "Quickly let Yan Feng come and replace me, then I'll destroy this changing platform, and everyone will be safe from now on!"

  His violent drinking suddenly sobered Ula, who was on the verge of collapse due to stimulation. He mechanically and weakly raised his gun-wielding arm, aiming at his own head, wanting to use Yanfeng's nostalgia to force him to make a choice between his life and hers.

  But her hand had only lifted halfway when Yanfeng, who had been very cooperative until now, suddenly sprang into action. With a wave of his arm, a silver light flashed through the air, and Wula hadn't even realized what was happening before she felt a sharp stinging pain in her arm, causing her to loosen her grip, and the gun fell to the ground. Then, Yanfeng explosively jumped up, leaping from the lawn on the opposite side directly into the cave behind the mountain.

  The place was really small, and the impact of the swallow's wind was huge. The two bodies were entwined together and crashed into the mountain wall. At that moment, Yan Feng instinctively twisted his body to protect Wu La with his own body, sparing her from injury, although he himself was hit so hard that his spine almost broke.

  Ula's body was tightly locked in Yan Feng's arms, unable to move at all. She struggled for a moment, but the familiar feeling spread throughout her body, his heartbeat, his breathing, his solid chest and strong arms, making her go limp all over.

  Ten years have passed, and every day and night she thinks of his embrace, his body temperature. Although she no longer has a body to hold, the warm memories in her mind constantly remind her of the happiness they once had. Now the body he holds is not hers originally, but it doesn't stop this body from emitting longing for him from every pore.

  Yes, they last met with a quarrel, she was infatuated and resentful, and leaned on Song Jian, but when her head was placed alone on the tea tray, she thought of him, whether it was love or dependence, in her life, only he was real!

  "Let me go!" she cried, but her voice was weak.

  Yan Feng ignored Wu La, although in his arms was an absolutely beautiful 'female' body, and although her trembling *** had brushed against his arm, but at this moment he was completely focused, single-mindedly wanting to resolve this crisis.

  "What else do you have to bargain with?" He coldly sneered at Cui Meng's head.

  Chui Meng's eyes widened in shock, staring at the man in front of him in disbelief. His lips trembled for a moment before he could speak. Originally, everything was under his control: he had ruined Wu La's plan, broken the chain of people connected to each other, shaken off the burden and trouble that had been chasing him for twenty years, found the male body he had always yearned for, kidnapped Cheng Linglong to lure Yan Feng, knowing full well that Yan Feng would not notify the police and would come alone. He had calculated every step and checked that Yan Feng had no weapons on him, so why did Yan Feng first break free from the unbreakable rope, then use a flying dart to knock the gun out of Wu La's hand, wiping away his advantage?

  It seems that he underestimated the captain who had been through many battles and overestimated his own plan! Yanfeng did not carry any weapons and dared to take risks alone, although there was a reckless element in order to rescue the hostages, but wasn't this also a kind of 'confidence'? Why didn't he guard against it? As the saying goes, "no desire is just", he wanted to get his long-lost body back, or had his heart messed up!

  Actually, all the secrets were on Yan Feng's leather belt. In the interlayer at the back of his waist, he hid a blade, and in the wide silver buckle, two very small triangular steel darts were hidden. When he was captured by the enemy, he deliberately struggled constantly, making Wula and Cui Meng think he was playing some trick behind his back. In fact, it was just his technique to numb his opponents. When they got used to his struggling, he took out the blade and cut off the rope.

  Then, in the process of talking to Wula, he pretended to be unconscious and fiddled with the belt buckle, actually waiting for Wula to let his guard down. He didn't expect that the one who helped him was Zhang Baoqiang, the stubborn and aimless Zhang Baoqiang, the last innocent person in this witchcraft.

  This magical lawn was fan-shaped, the narrowest part was more than two meters wide. If there was no run-up, Yanfeng could not jump over it. At this time, Zhang Baoqiang helped again. His body fell on the lawn, allowing Yanfeng to step on his body and then jump to the other side of the lawn, preventing Wula's threat.

  "Come on, Ula, let's go and destroy this evil thing." Feeling that Ula was no longer struggling, Yanfeng hastily advised: "I guarantee that no one will know about this matter, and even - if you're willing, we can go back to the way things were before." As he spoke, he unconsciously glanced at Linglong who was still in a daze.

  Can he really go back to the way things were? But he must! This is what he owes Ula, and he has to pay it back!

  "I've been poisoned." Ula whispered, with a double meaning.

  "It's okay, with modern medicine being so advanced, we can definitely detoxify. Follow me, don't make another mistake."

  Can she? Can she get rid of this nightmare? But leaning on him like this, it's really easy, and for the past ten years, she had almost forgotten this feeling. Even if it was just for one more day, wouldn't that be good enough? Wura struggled in her heart, wanting to hold onto this moment's warmth, yet also wanting to listen to Choi Mung's words and continue living.