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The three of them turned their heads and found that a golden kitten had appeared in the snow at some point.
A gleam of light suddenly flashed in Zhu Zhen's gray eyes, and the liveliness of a young girl remained on her face for a moment again: "What a cute kitten."
As she said this, she picked up the kitten.
The kitten wanted to struggle at first, but then it stretched its head to sniff Zhu Zhen, focusing on his chest and legs for a long time. It seemed to smell a familiar scent that made it feel at ease, so it stopped struggling.
"Where did this wild cat come from?" Taoist Yuzhu was puzzled. "There has never been a cat on the mountain. Could it have run up from the bottom of the mountain during the chaos?"
Hearing this, Zhu Zhen shook the kitten in her arms with some concern, as tenderly as a mother holding a baby: "If you really ran up from the mountain, you must have been very tired and exhausted."
Ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine steps. God knows how much suffering such a small cat must have endured.
Lu Qing originally just thought of it as an ordinary pitiful kitten, but after noticing that it was a female cat but kept trying to get into Zhu Zhen's chest, he thought of some of the habits of cats, and a strange idea suddenly popped up in his mind, and then he took the kitten from Zhu Zhen's arms as if possessed.
Unexpectedly, after a brief moment of uneasiness, the kitten found a sense of security in Lu Qing and began to burrow into her chest. It even behaved more comfortable than when it was with Zhu Zhen, and even made a purring sound.
She realized.
He lowered his head and sniffed the kitten, and sure enough, he smelled Jiang Lu's scent.
"This is his cat! So he will feel at ease after he smells his scent on us."
Zhu Zhen reacted instantly, remembering which parts of her body the kitten had sniffed for the longest time. Suddenly, several fresh memories flashed through her mind, and she blushed and became shy.
The longer she smelled, the more likely it was that Jiang Lu had stayed there the longest and had picked up more of the scent.
Compared to Zhu Zhen, Lu Qing was even more impressive, so the kitten felt more secure and began to coo happily.
However, Taoist Yuzhu didn't know this and asked curiously, "Who? Whose cat?"
Lu Qing did not answer directly.
After experiencing the betrayal of her closest junior sister, she has now become a sensitive little girl, and everyone looks like a mistress to her.
"Master, please hug me."
After saying that, she stuffed the kitten into Taoist Yuzhu's hands.
The latter took the cat without knowing why, but the kittens, who had been so well-behaved in Zhu Zhen and Lu Qing's arms, actually had a stress reaction, arched their backs, and even had their fur standing on end.
"Ow!"
Even the screams became rougher.
"It seems that she is not very close to me..." Taoist Yuzhu felt a little sad when he saw this.
Even she was a woman after all, and she naturally had a tendency to feel close to cute things. However, such cute things seemed to dislike her, which made her somewhat sad.
Then she heard Lu Qing say inexplicably: "You passed."
"Hmm?" Taoist Yuzhu was full of questions.
Lu Qing took the kitten back and explained, "This is Jiang Lu's cat. Maybe it followed him all the way here."
"You can find it from such a distance?" Taoist Yuzhu was not quite convinced: "A cat is not a dog, how can it have such a keen sense of smell? I'm afraid he brought it here secretly, right?"
"No." Lu Qing said with certainty: "Since he went up the mountain, I have been with him all the time. He definitely didn't bring a cat with him."
"Never leave..." Taoist Yuzhu pondered over these words, and her expression suddenly became a little ugly. It was obvious that she thought of something that made her, her master, very unhappy.
But she couldn't say it directly in front of Lu Qing, for fear that Lu Qing would feel ashamed if her, the head of the family, knew his secret, and then get angry and blame her for prying into his secrets or something.
So she changed the subject and said jokingly, "Since you insist on thinking so, I remember that Jiang Lu also went up the mountain with Master Xuannv at that time. Why don't you let it go and see if you can smell Jiang Lu's scent and lead us to Master Xuannv and the others."
Unexpectedly, Lu Qing took the joke seriously: "I'll try."
Afterwards, Lu Qing took the kitten and flew to the vicinity of the big pit.
When the kitten came here, it was obviously a little confused. It stretched its neck and looked at the big pit, blinking its two big eyes again and again.
Lu Qing put it down, and it jumped into the deep pit in three steps, turned around a few times, turned back, and jumped back into Lu Qing's arms.
Its head kept turning, looking in different directions. Finally, as if it had finally confirmed something, it looked in one direction and stopped moving.
Then he called out softly, as if to say: This is it, I'm sure.
"Master!" Lu Qing was very surprised when he saw this: "I really found it!"
He was communicating with Zhu Zhen, wanting to find out why Zhu Zhen was unhappy, and ended up judging the truth from just a few words. Taoist Yuzhu, who was suppressing his anger and feeling a pain in his heart, was stunned when he heard it.
"Don't be ridiculous. It's a cat, not a dog. How can it really smell something?"
"Really, Master, it just barked."
"Can you understand cat language now?"
Taoist Yuzhu is having a headache. His two disciples are more troublesome than the other, and they both fall for the same person. He even becomes obsessed with finding the person and can even understand a cat's meow. This is really... Alas.
"No." Lu Qing returned to the two excitedly: "Look."
She turned around in front of the two men, and then something amazing happened.
The kitten's head is always facing the same direction, just like a compass. No matter how you turn it, the direction it faces never changes.
"This..." Taoist Yuzhu looked surprised.
But this is not the end. In order to eliminate randomness, Lu Qing flew into the air again and flipped at various angles and directions.
But no matter how she changed, the kitten's head didn't move at all, and it was even steadier than a chicken's neck.
Taoist Yuzhu was greatly shocked.
“Is this a cat?!”
Lu Qing returned to the ground: "Don't worry about what it is, but this is really not a coincidence. It may really lead us to find the ancestors."
Taoist Yuzhu thought for a moment and said, "The mess is too big now. We really need to find them. Let's give it a try."
Lu Qing was overjoyed and felt that he had been recognized. He subconsciously looked at Zhu Zhen and smiled as he did in the past.
But then she remembered something and her smile turned into a cold one.
Zhu Zhen, who had just felt a little relieved and was about to smile to please her, lowered his head guiltily when he saw this.
Taoist Yuzhu saw it all, but she didn't know what to say, let alone how to reconcile the situation. In the end, she could only sigh with mixed feelings.
Yao Chi’s affairs have been arranged, so they don’t need to worry about them anymore.
So soon, the three of them set off.
On the road, the kitten played the role of navigation perfectly.
In Lu Qing's arms, the three of them would adjust their direction accordingly, depending on which direction its head turned.
Lu Qing believed in it very much, but in the eyes of Taoist Yuzhu, this was a bit blind. Many times she wanted to ask whether she was deceiving herself because this might be the only way to find Jiang Lu now.
It's not her fault.
Looking at the path they have taken, normal people would probably have such doubts to some extent, and their confidence in kittens would decrease.
Starting from Kunlun Mountain, they passed through snow, forests, canyons, swamps, deserts, an oasis, a crack left by an earthquake where magma could be seen, and even crossed a large plain where a tornado was blowing.
Taoist Yuzhu wanted to know, how strong is Jiang Lu's body odor that even a tornado can't blow it away? !
She finally couldn't bear it anymore.
"Lü Qing, are you..."
She wants to ask if you are a little crazy.
But before she could finish her words, she heard Lu Qing call out softly, "Master, it's just ahead!"
Taoist Yuzhu looked from afar and saw a small wooden house lying quietly in the lush forest in a quiet place surrounded by mountains.
The wooden house is accompanied by soft sunshine, a clear spring gurgles, the sound of water is crisp, the breeze blows, and the sound of pine waves interweaves with each other. All around it, the fields that were once cultivated are now abandoned, and the traces of time have quietly settled here.
"The style is very similar to the courtyard built by our ancestor on the top of Mount Kunlun." Taoist Yuzhu said.
But they did not continue forward. Instead, they stopped, descended from the air, and disappeared into the dense forest.
Because they knew very well that the work of digging away the top of Kunlun Mountain was most likely not done by the Queen Mother of the West, so they did not dare to go deeper.
"But I didn't see anyone..."
Just when Taoist Yuzhu was feeling strange and wondering if this might not be the end, the kitten in Lu Qing's arms saw that they suddenly stopped leaving and suddenly became anxious.
While Lu Qing was not paying attention, it broke free from her arms and ran towards the wooden house.
"Don't!"
Lu Qing wanted to catch it, but it suddenly turned sideways and slipped away. He couldn't catch up with it anymore...
Chapter 370 The Cat Team makes great contributions
Lu Qing watched the kitten dash out in one leap, like a flash of golden light.
This was unbelievable to her.
You know, she is the eldest sister of Yao Chi who will transcend the tribulation and become an immortal in a few years. She is a rare genius who can be said to be "I am invincible below the immortals, and I can be defeated one by one with those above the immortals." Although it was just a casual grab, it was too outrageous that she couldn't even catch a kitten.
"It's indeed not an ordinary kitten!" Lu Qing said in surprise.
Upon hearing this, Taoist Yuzhu's eyes narrowed into slits, with confusion and doubt written all over his face.
Oh, you just discovered it?
Can an ordinary cat smell something from such a distance and also act as a compass without its head turning no matter how it shakes or bumps?
Lu Qing subconsciously wanted to chase after him, but was stopped by Taoist Yuzhu.
"Be careful!" She warned seriously, "There is a wooden house in a deserted place, and there are no traces of monsters around. This is a strange thing in itself."
Lu Qing and Zhu Zhen immediately understood what Taoist Yuzhu meant.
The wooden house is not the most important thing.
The most important thing is that this area is not only beautiful with mountains and rivers, but the air is full of spiritual energy and has not been damaged by any human activities. There is not even any trace of human existence. It should be the most suitable place for mountain spirits to live. But here, let alone mountain spirits, there are no larger beasts, insects or fish. The whole forest is completely silent.
There is only one possibility. There is definitely some creature with absolute dominance in the forest, which intimidates all intelligent creatures and makes them dare not appear at will, or even avoid and migrate to other places.
For this reason, the wooden house looks particularly abrupt and strange.
"But it..." Zhu Zhen was very worried when he saw the golden light heading towards the wooden house disappear from his sight.
"Leave it alone."