"It's a long story. I'll tell you all about it later. Long Lin, I'd like you to help me investigate what's going on with Gu Yuan. There must be something he can't tell others. What on earth has he been through? And what is that thing he can't suppress? I think as long as I find out these things, all the mysteries will be solved naturally. Will you... help me?"
I looked at Long Lin full of expectation. After all, I'm just a mortal. It's impossible for me to investigate the identity of a celestial being on my own. Now I can only pin my hope on him.
Long Lin frowned. He was extremely helpless about my behavior. He raised his hand and felt my forehead. A golden light shone from top to bottom like a scanning machine until it slowly disappeared after sweeping over my feet.
After the examination, Long Lin let out a sigh of relief. He changed his sword finger into a "flicking magic skill" and flicked my forehead.
I grimaced, rubbing my forehead and saying, "It hurts."
"Fortunately, you still feel pain. You're not stupid enough to use your heart - tip blood to help Gu Yuan out of trouble."
"What?"
I had already done that. He had just examined me from head to toe. Didn't he detect it?
"What do you mean by that? What would happen if I gave Gu Yuan my heart - tip blood?"
"Let's talk outside."
Long Lin kicked the monster at his feet. A drop of scarlet blood had somehow splashed on the white satin corner of his clothes. Disgust spread across his face. With a gentle wave of his fan, the blood - stained part of the satin was cut off.
It seemed that he couldn't wait to leave this place for a single moment.
He pulled me and intended to leave the grotto, but we wandered around inside for quite a while without finding a way out.
"This guy is really cunning. They say a wily rabbit has three burrows. This grotto has at least dozens of entrances."
Long Lin led me for a while. It was just like a large - scale maze here. No matter how we walked, we couldn't get out.
Long Lin had never been very patient. This maze seemed to be teasing us. After walking around for several circles without getting out, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and said to me:
"Hide behind me."
I immediately understood what he meant and obediently hid behind him, covering my ears.
"Bang, bang, bang..." Long Lin's jade - bone fan spun rapidly in the cave. The stones on the wall fell down one after another. All of a sudden, the whole cave was filled with dust, making me cough continuously.
Seeing this, Long Lin quickly hung the veil that had been on my face before on my face again. The feeling of dust choking my nose disappeared instantly.
As the jade - bone fan whirled back into Long Lin's hand, a straight path leading outside the cave had been blown open in front of us.
Long Lin walked in front, and I followed behind him carefully, dodging the stones and walking towards the outside.
"Please, save me..." A weak female voice came from the ruins of the cave.
To be honest, it was really creepy to hear such a voice in this situation.
But fortunately, I had someone with me, so I wasn't that scared.
I looked in the direction of the weak voice into the darkness.
My eyes fixed on the huge iron cage in the ruins. There was actually a woman locked inside. She was lying prone in the cage, in ragged clothes, looking as if she had been locked up for a long time.
"Long Lin, there's someone inside."
I called him from behind and wanted to rush in to take a look, but Long Lin stepped in front of me, asking me to stay back. He stepped forward to the iron cage. With a gentle wave of his jade - bone fan, the door of the iron cage banged on the ground. He dusted off the dust with his fan before going in to check on the woman's condition.
I waited outside for quite a while. Long Lin draped his clothes over the woman and took her out of the cage.
The woman walked up to me shiveringly. When she raised her frightened eyes, I always felt as if I had seen her somewhere before, but I couldn't quite remember.
The woman looked a bit scared. She nodded slightly at me and said, "Thank you, miss, for saving me."
I waved my hand repeatedly, saying it was okay.
"How did you get trapped here?" I asked curiously.
"I was captured by them to make medicine. Who would have thought that Xue Liang was a... a... Wuwuwu..." She tightened the clothes wrapped around her. I already understood what she wanted to say.
As the woman said this, tears streamed down her face.
I quickly stepped forward to comfort her, asking her not to cry and trying to change the topic as much as possible.
"What's your name and where's your home?"
"What's my name? Where's my home? Right, what's my name? Where's my home?"
The woman seemed to be a bit muddled - headed for a moment. She kept grabbing her messy hair with both hands. It seemed that there was something wrong with her mind.
"All right, stop asking. We'll talk after we get out."
I soothed the woman's emotions and led her out of the grotto. In the sunlight, I finally saw her face clearly.
This person was none other than Dan Zhu.
I looked at her in disbelief and blurted out, "Dan Zhu?"
She hadn't seen my face clearly in the cave just now. When I called out her name, she was stunned for a few seconds and then immediately asked anxiously, "You know me? My name is Dan Zhu?"
I waved my hand in front of her. It seemed that she really didn't remember me.
"Lan Lan, we don't have time to explain too much to her now." Long Lin said. Just then, two little white - robed celestial maids walked over.
The two little celestial maids bowed to Long Lin: "What are your orders, Crown Prince Long?"
So Long Lin was already a crown prince now.
"You take Fairy Dan Zhu to my palace and take good care of her."
"Yes..." The two little celestial maids led Fairy Dan Zhu away from the grotto.
"She's clearly a celestial. How could she end up in such a state?" Looking at her back, I felt really sad.
"Why do I think she's pretending? She doesn't seem to be Dan Zhu." Long Lin stood side by side with me. His peach - blossom eyes squinted slightly, and his gaze also stayed on Dan Zhu.
"Pretending? How did you tell?"
"Intuition." After Long Lin said this, he turned around and continued, "Just like you. What exactly are you hiding from me?"
"Me? What do you mean? I'm not hiding anything from you." I was a bit confused by his question.
"Just now I examined your soul and your heart. After I said, 'Fortunately, you still feel pain. You're not stupid enough to use your heart - tip blood to help Gu Yuan out of trouble.', your expression has already betrayed you. What on earth did you do?"
"Really? Was my expression that exaggerated? My soul was damaged before. I didn't expect it to recover so quickly. Maybe I have the ability to heal myself. It's probably self - healed, so you didn't detect anything." I said casually.
"A soul injury can never be repaired by one's own ability. Unless it's repaired with the sweet dew from Mount Miao Gushe, even a great celestial being can't repair it."
"Mount Miao Gushe? Sweet dew? Where is that?"