I Am Your Natural Enemy

Right now, this fried chicken probably won’t cure illness, but it’s already enough to ease the problem.

Wen Yan settled the young girl in, not treating her as a patient, just behaving as usual, which made the little girl feel more comfortable, at least no pressure from everyone’s concern.

If it had been before, if she started bleeding profusely from nose and mouth, she would definitely be sent to the hospital immediately.

After experiencing ups and downs, the girl, who didn’t even know why her father was arrested, finally went to sleep tiredly.

Wen Yan went home, and the house was in a flurry, with a few of the non-fried-chicken-eating folks squabbling with Sparrow Cat, discussing whether the still-sleeping Mole Cricket that Wen Yan brought back should be given some fried chicken.

Little Zombie meant that they don’t eat because they can’t or don’t like it.

But that Mole Cricket looked alive and seemed to love meat, so they definitely should share.

Sparrow Cat said the Mole Cricket was still asleep and couldn’t eat, but the Little Zombie faction stubbornly insisted that one could eat regardless of being asleep.

Wen Yan arrived home to see them earnestly discussing these topics.

He didn’t join in or show any bias, just sat beside them listening.

There wasn’t any sign of a fight, with both sides trying to reason with each other.

After a bit of debating, when Chen Qimo came back from school and joined in, Wen Yan, feeling bored, put a phone on the coffee table, dialed it, and put another phone in the basement, letting the big shot in the basement listen to the commotion.

While Wen Yan was amidst all the noise and bustle, Wei Jing, whom Wen Yan didn’t pay attention to, was already on the high-speed train heading to Caiyun County.

No need for a flight, he could arrive in just a few hours, and Wei Jing would always express some emotion whenever traveling.

A few hours later, he got off at a mid-way stop, not going to Caiyun County’s County Town.

Off the train, he called for a ride share, reaching his destination in an hour.

In the mountains, the roadside vegetation thrived impressively well, with plants that needed special care in Nanwu County, dying at the slightest, flourishing like weeds here.

Oh, wrong, to the locals, these are just worthless weeds.

Locals going to other places are shocked to hear a bouquet can cost two to three hundred.

The herbs Wei Jing sought were here, and only here, he was pretty sure what he saw years ago is still likely in the same area.

With tools and a herb basket, he climbed the mountain, traversing for two hours, and saw beneath a shrub a hint of bright color, immediately moving closer.

Pushing aside the leaves, he found a wilted, blue-green colored, deadly-looking fungus. Wei Jing inspected it and instantly showed a smile.

"Lucky me."

After picking it, he continued onward in the mountains.

Two hours passed, arriving at a mountain, gazing at the unchanged scenery from before, Wei Jing bowed to the mountain.

"Long time no see, once again I disturb you, I wish to gather some herbs."

With Wei Jing’s words, stones rolled down the slope, and stone statues emerged from the ground.

The statues were divided, standing to the sides of a path like sentinels.

Ahead, on the mountain, a Stone Gate emerged, the exotic beast carvings on the gate shifted, opened their eyes, gazing at Wei Jing from a distance.

"Doctor Wei, long time no see, why are you here picking grass over my master’s grave again?"

"Please forgive me. I can’t be sure if other places have it, or if it’ll be effective."

"You know the rules, coming to pick grave grass, you must give an explanation."

"I’ll give you a piece of news, Mountain Ghost is dead, is that enough?"

"Hmm?" The exotic beast carving’s eyes instantly widened, it emerged from the Stone Gate and slowly landed, transforming into a gray stone beast: "Doctor Wei, such words can’t be thrown around lightly."

"I’m not speaking lightly, someone found a way a long, long time ago.

Digging out roots, destroying mountains, shattering the body.

Before, the hardest part was shattering the body, but now the hardest and final step is actually the simplest.

Some parts of the mountain have been suppressed beneath some crossroads, becoming the foundation.

It happens that the city I live in now has received a little piece.

One day I was bored, looking nearby, if I wasn’t mistaken.

Those fragments should be buried three feet under the road surface."

Wei Jing spoke lightly, the stone beast’s eyes bulged in disbelief.

Now it believed.

As the foundation beneath crossroads, buried three feet deep, it was the standard of eternal unrest.

If that Mountain Ghost had any life, any chance to resist, it could never be treated like this.

Thus there’s only one possibility, the first two steps are completed excessively, the once-immortal Mountain Ghost is utterly dead.

The stone beast was dazed, taking quite a while to process.

Wei Jing didn’t rush, waited for a moment, then asked.

"Is this news enough?"

"Enough! It’s enough!" The stone beast stepped aside, making way and gestured: "Doctor Wei, feel free, take as much as you like."

"Not too much, it has to be fresh to be useful, just enough for one use."

The stone beast led Wei Jing along the path guarded by stone statues all the way forward.

As they walked, the ordinary mountain became eerie, with the woods vanishing, turning the lush hill into a massive burial mound.