AWB Chapter 34 Dark Night Operation
Chapter 34 Dark Night Operation
After Lin Yue and her family finished discussing and prepared to leave, it was already 11:12 PM. Going down to the basement, Gong Yong stepped on the gas and drove to the park, with 10 minutes until midnight. Lin Yue called to Gong Yong, and they drove around the park twice before parking the car behind some bushes, which happened to be a blind spot for the security cameras.
After getting off the car, the old man from the Fire Cloud Immortal Cauldron reminded her, "Lin Yue, take the pebbles and take out those surveillance cameras near the willow tree." Lin Yue agreed. With Lin Yue's skillful movements, she took out several surveillance cameras near Willow Tree Village. Several police officers in hats also noticed the noise and started patrolling. They found the surveillance cameras were damaged and were about to call their superiors when the little mouse, holding a lit incense stick, circled the officers three times. The three police officers collapsed with thuds. The little mouse quickly turned the incense stick upside down and stuck it in the ground. After confirming it wasn't burning, it gave the incense stick to Lin Yue, who casually tossed it into her spatial storage. The officers then got to work.
Gong Yong dragged the officers in hats together. Then, carrying a flowerpot, he went to the willow stump and looked at the almost completely transparent little willow spirit. Lin Yue poured two more ladles of well water from her space onto the willow stump, and the little willow spirit's form improved slightly. The little willow spirit quickly pulled its roots out of the flowerpot and jumped into the big willow stump. It was seen that the little willow spirit walked directly under the willow stump, like an ancient tree spirit that had lived for thousands of years. Slowly, it pulled out one root and one leg at a time, and the roots that had spread for hundreds of meters were being pulled out one by one.
After a while, the old tree stump suddenly stopped moving. Then, Lin Yue heard the little willow tree say, "Little Bao's mom, I'm so tired, I can't move." Lin Yue took out a large water ladle from her spatial storage and poured several more ladles of spiritual spring water onto the stump. Lin Yue asked, "Is the little willow tree spirit feeling any better?" The little gray rat spirit also chimed in, "Little willow tree spirit, you have to keep going! We need to take you away before anyone else comes, otherwise you'll be separated from us forever." The little rat spirit kept encouraging the little willow tree spirit.
The little willow tree spirit, with a tearful voice, replied, "Brother Gray Mouse, I'm trying my best, I don't want to leave you either." Suddenly, the little gray mouse brought all the cherries from his space to the willow tree stump. "Little willow tree spirit, eat quickly, eat quickly, you'll have strength after eating." Then all the cherries floated up, turned into juice, and dripped onto the willow tree stump, finally giving it strength.
When one-third of the root system was pulled out, the little willow tree spirit completely gave up. Unable to maintain its form any longer, it gently lifted the little mouse spirit with its willow branches. "Brother Gray Mouse, I'm sorry, I really have no energy left. My essence has been almost completely absorbed, leaving only a grain of rice. I can't move," the little gray mouse spirit said. "Don't panic, don't panic, rest a bit. Let me and Xiao Bao's mother think of something else," Lin Yue said. "What happened?" the little gray mouse spirit asked. "The little mouse spirit said, 'Lin Yue, please help the little willow tree spirit. Do you have any more spirit fruits? Could you get some more? His essence was originally the size of a football, but now it's only the size of a grain of rice, and he can't move.'" The little gray mouse spirit told Lin Yue with a tearful voice. Lin Yue took out three boxes of cherries and one box of mangoes from her spatial storage. Nourished by the cherry juice, the little willow tree spirit seemed to gain new energy, and its previously stagnant roots began to twitch slowly again. Each time a stick was pulled out, it was accompanied by a rustling sound, making everyone both nervous and expectant. Lin Yue and Gong Yong watched anxiously from the side, their palms sweating. The little gray mouse kept encouraging the little willow tree spirit, its eyes full of concern and anxiety.
Just as the little willow tree spirit finished absorbing all 20 mangoes from a box, dark clouds suddenly filled the sky, and thunder rumbled. The little willow tree spirit quickly consolidated all the mango essence into its own core. What was originally the size of a grain of rice now grew to the size of an egg, continuously solidifying, solidifying, and strengthening that single bead, that one core of its essence. Originally, the core the size of a soccer ball was rather sparse, but this time, the egg-sized core possessed far greater power than the soccer ball-sized core. It continued to solidify, continuously solidify.
The thunderclouds in the sky rolled and swayed incessantly, as if warning the little willow tree spirit in the mortal realm that its tribulation was imminent. The little willow tree spirit stopped sprouting roots and focused on strengthening its own essence. Suddenly, the little gray mouse looked up at the sky, jumped onto Lin Yue's shoulder, and whispered in Lin Yue's ear, "Get out of here quickly! The little willow tree spirit might be about to undergo its tribulation. Hurry, get out of here!"
Hearing the little gray mouse's words, Mingyue was startled, knowing full well that the power of the lightning tribulation was not to be underestimated. "Gong Yong, let's go quickly!" Lin Yue shouted. Gong Yong didn't dare to delay either, picked up the flowerpot, and the group quickly retreated into the distance. At this moment, the thunder in the sky grew even more deafening, and streaks of lightning flashed through the clouds, seemingly about to strike the little willow tree spirit at any moment.
When Gong Yong ran to the car with the flowerpot in his arms, he handed it to Lin Yue. Gong Yong said, "There are still those officers in hats over there. Quick, let's drag him a little further away." Then Gong Yong ran back, and Lin Yue put the flowerpot next to the car and ran back too. They started dragging each other, quickly moving to the other side, further and further away from the willow stump.
The rat spirit also tried to drag a police officer in a hat, grabbing his collar with its teeth and pulling him along. This officer suffered terribly, because the little rat was too short, and stones and twigs kept hitting his head, causing his hat to fall off. In this tense and hurried dragging, everyone was focused on getting the officers to safety as quickly as possible, to prevent them from being affected by the willow tree spirit's lightning tribulation.
The three officers in hats had moved about 1 kilometer away from the willow stump. Lin Yue, Gong Yong, and the rat spirit quickly ran back and dragged the other three officers in hats from the other direction about 1000 meters away from the willow tree in the same way. They found a thatched-roof pavilion in the park and placed them in it. Lin Yue also kindly brought a new wool blanket, thicker than an air-conditioning blanket, and covered the three officers with it.
Then they quickly moved away and switched the three officers' locations on the other side, placing them in a shed that looked like a car park, the kind children play in. They dragged them inside. Luckily, the shed was made of wood, and they also brought a new wool blanket weighing about 4 kilograms to cover the three officers.
After doing all this, they breathed a sigh of relief and hurried back towards the willow stump. At this moment, the thunderclouds in the sky grew thicker and thicker, and the muffled thunder seemed to explode right next to their ears.
Suddenly, a clap of thunder sounded, and a bolt of lightning struck straight at the willow stump. That wasn't all; after one strike, less than a minute later, a second strike, then a third, then a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, then a seventh, an eighth, a ninth, until the ninth lightning bolt struck.
Suddenly, the little mouse spirit cried out in terror, "No! Little willow spirit, no!" With a snap, the little willow spirit's egg-sized essence cracked open, revealing numerous lines. The bead split open, but had not yet dispersed.
The little mouse spirit cried, "Freeze quickly! Freeze quickly!" The little willow tree spirit's transparent figure swayed again, its head already charred. The eight leaves that had painstakingly grown before were now all gone. The fingers that used to have five leaves were gone, with only one leaf remaining on the left finger. The little willow tree spirit's heels were completely blackened. Another toe was still on fire, and the entire willow stump was ablaze.
Suddenly, the little mouse spirit darted onto Mingyue's shoulder: "Little Bao's mother, hurry, water, hurry, your well water, quickly pour it out to put out the fire, be quick!" Gong Yong suddenly grabbed Lin Yue's hand and started running quickly towards Willow Tree Village. They ran faster than the nation's sprinters, reaching Willow Tree Village at top speed.
Lin Yue quickly took out a large water ladle from her spatial storage and started splashing water outwards. She then brought out a large bucket from her storage and placed it beside her. Gong Yong also used a water ladle to splash water, focusing on the areas with fire. The little mouse spirit took a bottle of water and poured it all over the little willow tree spirit, from top to bottom. As the leaves were splashed, Gong Yong and Lin Yue could only hear the little mouse spirit's pitiful cries.
Whether it was the little mouse's heart-wrenching cries that worked, or the sheer amount of spiritual water Lin Yue and Gong Yong poured, suddenly the broken egg-sized bead emitted a dazzling light along its cracked lines. Most of the energy dissipated, leaving only a tiny bead the size of a grain of rice floating in the air, and the little willow tree spirit became almost transparent.
The willow tree spirit circled around the bead, endlessly spinning. Suddenly, its speed increased dramatically, and the dissipated energy gradually solidified, becoming the size of a pea again. It solidified further, growing to the size of a broad bean. It solidified again, remaining only the size of a broad bean. Finally, the little willow tree spirit stabilized.
A light drizzle, a spiritual rain, fell from the sky. Spiritual flowers and herbs rapidly sprouted in the grass near the little willow tree spirit. Where the spiritual rain had nourished, spiritual flowers and herbs that hadn't grown for thousands of years suddenly blossomed and flourished. The park within a one-kilometer radius of the little willow tree spirit was vibrant with life, a riot of colors, and the air filled with the fragrance of ripe fruit.
The remnant soul Xueyang and the old man Huoyun Xianding finally spoke up. The remnant soul Xueyang said, "Quickly, I'll take you away immediately. Willow spirit, hurry up and leave." Huoyun Xianding said, "Quickly release me. I'll collect all the spiritual flowers and herbs around here. Quickly, we must leave here within 5 minutes."
The little willow tree spirit quickly returned to Willow Village and swiftly pulled out all its roots, causing the soil within a 100-meter radius to churn rapidly. The willow tree roots had many charred parts, but the little willow tree spirit discarded them, simply severing a leg and a root, and quickly pulling them out.
Lin Yue quickly summoned the Fiery Cloud Cauldron. After the cauldron emerged from Lin Yue's body, it harvested all the spiritual flowers and herbs within a one-kilometer radius of the willow tree spirit's successful tribulation, like a harvester, and filled it into the cauldron. Once it was full, it instructed Lin Yue to put the spirit into her spatial storage.
The Fire Cloud Immortal Cauldron didn't collect everything; it only collected the densest and most abundant flowers and herbs within a 100-meter radius of Willow Tree Village. Unable to collect those beyond 100 meters, it instructed Lin Yue to store them in its spatial storage. The Fire Cloud Immortal Cauldron's venerable master quickly poured all the spiritual flowers and herbs from the cauldron into Lin Yue's flower field. Lin Yue would then distribute the remaining flowers to the flower field when she had time.
The old man from the Fire Cloud Immortal Cauldron emerged from Lin Yue's body again and continued harvesting. Because the entire area within a kilometer radius was a park, the old man only harvested the area from the willow stump to Fang Yuan within this 5-minute radius. The remaining 500 meters, although there was some harvest, was not much and was sparse. The area closer to the willow stump had more harvest, while the area farther away from the willow tree village had less.
The enemy was about to arrive. The remnant soul Xueyang immediately appeared and said, "Lin Yue, Gong Yong, hurry, hurry, hurry! Rat spirit, go, go, go!" Lin Yue collected Gong Yong, the rat spirit, the little willow tree spirit, and the little willow tree spirit's large tree stump into her spatial storage. She ran quickly towards her car. Reaching it, she jumped in and drove away rapidly. The enemy would arrive at their destination in two minutes.
Lin Yue was still out of breath when she stepped on the gas and drove quite a distance. To avoid being seen, she ran two more laps around the park before slowly driving back to her underground garage. After parking, she quickly ran home.
After leaving the underground parking garage, Lin Yue released Gong Yong and the little rat spirit. Gong Yong sat in the passenger seat, and the rat spirit sat in the back seat. They got out of the car and went home. Sitting on the sofa, they recalled the thrilling experience of the night and were still shaken.
Lin Yue leaned back on the sofa, panting heavily, her forehead soaked with sweat. Gong Yong also looked exhausted, while the little mouse spirit huddled in the corner, seemingly still recovering from the tense atmosphere.
"Tonight was really thrilling," Lin Yue exclaimed.
Gong Yong nodded, "Yes, who could have imagined it would turn out like this."
The little mouse spirit said timidly, "I never want to experience something like this again."
After a moment of silence, everyone couldn't help but start discussing the various details of the evening.
During the discussion of details, the rat spirit realized what was happening and asked, "Where is the little willow tree spirit?" Lin Yue replied, "In my space." Lin Yue then led Gong Yong and the little rat spirit to her space, where they saw the large willow tree stump had found a spot to settle down about 10 meters from the well, very close to the water.
The little willow tree spirit was currently floating cross-legged atop the willow stump, constantly spinning. The little mouse spirit glanced at Lin Yue; the little willow tree spirit was still recovering, so it should be fine. The remnant soul Xueyang said, "It should be alright; it's repairing itself." The Fire Cloud Immortal Cauldron Elder said, "I just harvested so many spiritual flowers and herbs; I can refine some pills for it later. Lin Yue, hurry up and plant all the spiritual flowers and herbs I harvested in your spiritual field."
Lin Yue and Gong Yong immediately ran back to the spirit field, where they saw spirit flowers, herbs, and trees as tall as small mountains. They quickly took out their sleds, pickaxes, and shovels, and began working. They worked until 5 a.m. before emerging from the space. There were still some plants that hadn't been planted, so Lin Yue sealed them away in the small warehouse, since there was no more land to plant.