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Chapter 633: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Fairy 5

Chapter 633: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Fairy 5

In order to avoid being seen by the locals and misunderstood as a monster, Ruyi had no choice but to walk. Not long after walking, he came to the official road again. It must be said that although this official road was dilapidated, it was an official road after all. While walking in broad daylight, Ruyi slowly met several pedestrians.

"Hey, girl, are you also going to Guobei City in front?"

A pale-faced scholar in blue clothes carrying a book box saw Ruyi, a woman traveling alone, and suddenly approached her and started a conversation, not knowing whether out of kindness or for some other reason. Ruyi raised her eyes and glanced at the scholar vaguely. He had a handsome face and clear eyes, so she thought he was not a bad person.

"Yeah." Ruyi didn't want to pay attention to this man. She casually responded to the scholar in a low voice, then lowered her head to avoid the scholar and didn't want to talk.

The scholar in blue thought that Ruyi, a young woman, was a little embarrassed to face a man like him, and didn't think much about it. He patted his chest confidently and said, "I plan to go to Beijing to take the imperial examination. Now I am passing through Guobei City in front. It is not safe for a young woman like you to go alone on the road. Why don't you go with me so that I can take care of you on the road?"

Ruyi wanted to refuse, but then she remembered that this was the world of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" and the man who was chatting her up was a scholar with all kinds of buffs stacked on him. Maybe she could understand the true face of this world faster by being with him.

"Since you have such good intentions, I would be honored to accept your invitation." Thinking of this, Ruyi smiled friendly at the blue-clothed scholar and agreed to the scholar's request to go with him.

Seeing Ruyi smiling gently at him, the blue-clothed scholar's eyes suddenly lit up and then he also smiled along with Ruyi. From his dazed look, it was obvious that he was mesmerized by Ruyi's beauty.

He rolled his eyes silently and didn't care. After all, this scholar only had appreciation for beauty in his eyes, and didn't show any disgusting or bad intentions.

With someone to accompany him, even if he was walking in the desolate mountains without seeing anyone around, it didn't seem so scary. The blue-clothed scholar was very talkative, and seeing that Ruyi didn't talk much, he started by himself and told her everything.

"My name is Ning Caichen, I am from Zhejiang, and I only have an elderly mother left at home. May I know your surname, young lady?"

"Mr. Ning, my surname is Song." Ruyi raised her eyebrows. She didn't expect that the scholar she met was actually Ning Caichen. However, she realized that the county she wanted to go to was called Guobei County. There was a Yinshan Mountain on the way. There was a temple on the mountain called Lanruo Temple. It was normal for a scholar named Ning Caichen to appear there.

"Miss Song, we have already been walking for two hours. Why don't we find a place to rest for a while before we continue?"

Ruyi is now an immortal spirit, so she would not feel tired even if she walked for another two hours, but she was reluctant to show it. However, she felt that Ning Caichen's suggestion was not a good one.

"Master Ning, it's getting late. Why don't we speed up and get through this mountain as soon as possible and find a place to rest in front?"

"When I came here, the lady from Gujing Village ahead specifically told me that there was a man-eating monster on this mountain, and told me to be careful."

"This..." Ning Caichen was a little tired, but he turned his head and looked around. It was broad daylight, but the sunlight shining on his body still made him feel cold. There were trees everywhere around him. It should have been a bright and refreshing environment, but it always gave people a gloomy feeling.

"Forget it, let's just listen to Miss Song." Ning Caichen shrank his neck in fear, thinking, "It's already so scary here in broad daylight, what will it be like at night?"

Ning Caichen was no fool. After thinking for a while, he nodded and agreed to Ruyi's proposal: "Miss Song is right, let's go quickly!"

Unexpectedly, not long after the two of them left, the whole sky suddenly darkened. Ruyi looked up and saw that the sky was full of dark clouds. With a burst of thunder, the sky instantly became darker.

"It's going to rain, let's go!"

Ruyi was a little worried. She didn't know if they could leave Yinshan before dark after the rain. Besides, Ruyi was more worried that if things continued like this, she would be doomed to spend the night in Lanruo Temple with the 'male protagonist' Ning Caichen.

"Boom, boom--"

The thunder was getting louder and louder. After a flash of light, heavy rain poured down. Ning Caichen took out an oilcloth from the bookcase behind him and spread it on the books to prevent them from getting wet. Seeing Ruyi getting wet, he took off his outer robe and held it above his head, "Miss Song, come here quickly. Let's use my clothes to block the rain together!"

Ruyi shook her head and rejected Ning Caichen's kindness. The rain was falling too fast and her clothes had already been soaked. There was no point in blocking it now.

In the heavy rain, a man and a woman were running around in the dark woods in a panic. The originally neat official road had become increasingly muddy, and a puddle would appear from time to time, causing Ning Caichen to fall.

Ruyi, who was soaked all over, helped Ning Caichen up again with an increasingly serious expression on her face. She looked up at the seemingly endless mountain road, then turned around and looked at the official road that had become a small path at some point in time. Her mood became increasingly heavy.

Ning Caichen fell again and was helped up by Ruyi. He felt a little embarrassed. He originally invited Miss Song to travel with him because he thought it was unsafe for a woman like Miss Song to travel alone and he could help take care of her. But who would have thought that after encountering the problem, it was Miss Song, a weak woman who took care of him more.

Seeing Ruyi's ugly face, Ning Caichen felt more and more sorry, "I am a burden to Miss Song. Why don't you go first? I will find a place to wait for the rain to stop before leaving."

"No, I can't leave you here alone." Ruyi did not agree, because the current situation was obviously wrong. Even if she ignored Ning Caichen, she might not be able to get out.

"Mr. Ning, look back. Is the road we came from still there?"

Ning Caichen turned around and saw that he had clearly been walking on a wide official road when he came here, but it had turned into a forest. Ning Caichen's heart sank, and he suddenly remembered what Ruyi had said before about the monster on Yinshan Mountain.

"Miss Song, the road is gone!"

"Could it be... a monster?!!!" Ning Caichen kept saying the word monster while desperately leaning against Ruyi, trembling all over. "Miss Song, don't be afraid. I, I will protect you!"

Looking at the coward who kept hiding behind her while saying he would protect her, Ruyi smiled speechlessly, "Who is protecting who anyway?"

"Forget it, it seems that the two of them have been targeted by the monsters on the mountain since they entered the mountain. Since they can't hide, they have no choice but to fight!"

The worlds Ruyi had experienced before were either the end of the law or the end of spirits. After practicing for such a long time, he had never encountered a real battle. After coming to the world of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", Ruyi's concept was not changed for a while. When he met the monsters from the Huang, Bai, and Hu families, he only wanted to hide, completely forgetting that he had the practice to fight.