Da Hei felt happy knowing that he could help his new colleague solve their problem.
He spent the whole morning teaching Lin Mu step by step on how to go through basic work process. After lunch, he rubbed his hands together and shuffled over to Lin Mu’s side, “I’ll be skipping work this afternoon? I have a little something on.”
Lin Mu paused for a moment before nodding. “Sure, I can should be able to it on my own.”
“Okay!” Da Hei grinned widely and pulled out a new white collared shirt and a pair of jeans from the cupboard.
As Lin Mu looked at the clothes Da Hei had taken out, he understood why his colleague was skipping work.
“Recently, Old Turtle seemed to have encountered some sort of problem during his work, and it’s always been just me here alone, which is so troublesome,” Da Hei said as he changed his clothes.
Lin Mu no longer expected this dog to have the same sense of shame as humans.
He turned his head away in order not to look, and upon hearing what Da Hei said, he asked, “what kind of trouble?”
“It seems that it was the nine-tailed fox who came in before and asked him to cast a divination. He managed to divine some kind of serious matter,” Da Hei answered. “Because of this thing, I’ve been running around, delaying things until I didn’t have any time to see the old lady.”
Lin Mu was slightly startled upon hearing what Da Hei said. “The old lady…?” he asked.
Da Hei’s voice was calm and measured. “I visited her over the weekend. Probably because of her terminal lucidity, she had a healthy glow and was full of energy. Many of her relatives, friends, and former students came to see her after hearing the news, and she seemed content. It’s a good sign.”
The old lady had always been a gentle and quiet person, even when she was at her fiercest, she was still always the same warm and gentle person. Lately, however, she had become more active, and her son and daughter, who had rushed back from abroad, knew the truth in their hearts.
People always knew when they reached the end of their natural lives.
Her time was coming, and with her terminal lucidity, it was clear that she would soon depart.
“The old lady’s great-granddaughter is only three years old,” Da Hei paused before continuing. His clothes rustled as he adjusted them. “I’ll return when the workday ends. You keep working for now.”
Lin Mu nodded, “okay.”
He watched as Da Hei left. With no one else coming in, he made his way up to the reference room on the second floor.
Five days later, Lin Mu could already make out the shadow of the office’s second floor.
The entire area was massive, dark, and black. The reason why it was called an ‘area’, was because it had almost covered the entire street’s sky.
It had a distorted and irregular shape, as if it had been built by an inexperienced child who had simply stacked one block on top of another, with the occasional protruding piece.
The building’s twisted shape did not conform to architectural mechanics and aesthetics at all.
The sunlight flowed down from crooked and twisted gaps in a way that defied scientific explanation, casting a warm glow over the entire street. This resulting in a towering building that was blocking out the sky, but the light still shone down on the street below.
The building’s exterior was made up of dark brick walls and dark golden tiles, arranged in an orderly manner. Bright lanterns of different colors hung under the eaves, providing a stark contrast to the dark building. Even in broad daylight, the red lights from the lanterns were visible.
There wasn’t a single window in the entire building, and all the lights were tightly shrouded.
This was Lin Mu’s first time on the second floor.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Although it was called a reference room, it was actually a massive library, with more books and references than any other known library in the world.
Apparently, there were about five such units within the country.
The main reason why the area was so wide was because the number of books it contained had data recorded since ancient times. Even the Old Turtle who had guarded the area for over 3000 years, wasn’t sure what the earliest available data was.
To maintain the integrity of their history, all the monsters had collectively decided to keep their battles away from these five locations. As for human wars, they didn’t matter, as they couldn’t see or touch these references.
When someone wanted to look up information, all they had to do was step onto the platform and say the relevant keyword. The platform would then send them to the area where the relevant information was preserved.
Da Hei had emphasized to Lin Mu that this reference room had been around for so long that it had achieved spiritual awareness. Once, some evil monsters had entered and wanted to play some tricks, but they were quickly turned into corpses and thrown down the stairs.
Thus, to ascend, one must possess good intentions.
Although Da Hei had instructed Lin Mu on how to use the room, experiencing it for the first time was still a peculiar sensation.
Lin Mu let out a small exclamation and raised his head to survey the reference room. He asked softly, “may I take this with me? I still have work to do.”
The platform beneath his feet quivered slightly and rumbled as it transported Lin Mu back to the entrance.
Lin Mu expressed his gratitude and carefully went down the stairs with the data. He sat down and began to read.
Da Hei had previously explained to Lin Mu that the Great Wilderness was reliant on the existence of the Central Plains. At first, Lin Mu didn’t fully understand what he meant, but the book explained it clearly.
The Great Wilderness, the Heavens, the Netherworlds, and all those other legendary places in myths and legends were all dependent on the Central Plains, like projections.
Monsters, Gods, and Ghosts, all resided in these projections. They could observe what occurred in the Central Plains, but to the ordinary humans in the Central Plains, they were mere illusions that did not exist.
Furthermore, the book provided detailed information about the key influences in these special regions. These contents were extremely detailed, even including their personal interests.
The country to the east of the Great Wilderness, The Land of Green Mountains, was prominently featured, with current head Yan Gui and his successor Yan Xuanjing listed at the forefront of the information.
Lin Mu suspected that the monster in the reference room had deliberately arranged these materials.
He carefully examined the contents and, after reading the first few pages about the Land of Green Mountains, he found found clear information about Yan Xuanjing and his father, including pictures of their original form, on the personnel side of the information.
The enormous snowy white foxes loomed like mountains, using their nine furry tails to cover a good half of their bodies, as if they were aware of something.
Lin Mu skipped over the section about Yan Xuanjing’s father and focused on Yan Xuanjing’s information. He noticed unfamiliar words in the column about Yan Xuanjing’s favorites.
However, there was an explanation below. Lin Mu read it and found out that this fox seemed to prefer eating birds.
Lin Mu had spent an entire afternoon reading this information. In the middle, he stumbled but still managed to complete a good portion of his work. When it was time to get off work, Da Hei returned.
As Lin Mu tidied up the information on the table, he asked, “how is the old lady?”
“It’ll be within these couple of days,” Da Hei replied, unbuttoning several buttons on his shirt. “Let’s go. We’re off work now.”
Lin Mu nodded and brought Da Hei back to his place. He dropped by the market on his way back and bought two pigeons. As he made his way past Uncle De’s place at the village entrance, he bought another alive old hen from him.
Da Hei looked at the two pigeons and a chicken that he was helping Lin Mu carry, “why did you buy so much?”
Lin Mu also wasn’t too sure why he had bought these birds all of a sudden. He thought about it and felt that perhaps it might have been Yan Xuanjing’s love for a variety of birds that aroused his appetite.
“Just suddenly felt like eating them.” Lin Mu replied as he drove the small electric scooter. “You don’t like them?” He asked Da Hei who was sitting on the back seat and heading over to his place for dinner.
Da Hei shook his head, “I’m fine with anything.”
Lin Mu was relieved and, upon seeing his yard’s door, said, “I’ll roast one pigeon, turn the other into soup, and how about fried chicken?”
Da Hei considered it and felt that raw food wasn’t bad either. Just as he was about to respond, he smelled an incredibly threatening and aggressive scent that someone had deliberately left behind in order to mark out their territory. It was accompanied by a strong, ferocious killing intent full of warning signs. Da Hei was so startled that he jumped down from the back seat of Lin Mu’s scooter and looked suspiciously at the nearby yard.
Startled by Da Hei’s actions, Lin Mu quickly pressed the brakes before turning around to look at him, “what are you doing?!”
Carrying two pigeons and a chicken, Da Hei was extremely cautious, “whose yard is that?”
Lin Mu followed his gaze, “mine.”
Da Hei: “……?”
Da Hei was stunned for quite a while, “did any monster recently come to your house?”
“Uh……” Lin Mu looked at Da Hei’s reaction, and simply replied, “a ginseng.”
“Ginseng.”
“Yes, a ginseng.”
“……” With hesitation, Da Hei looked at Lin Mu again before turning back to the yard. “Ginseng?” He confirmed once more.
Lin Mu nodded, “yeah, a pretty cute little ginseng.”
“……” Da Hei frowned, “it didn’t hurt you?”
Lin Mu looked down at himself and said, “look at me, I’m fine.”
Da Hei looked at Lin Mu and thought about how he could help this ignorant little half-monster get rid of the threat. Thus, he placed the old chicken in his hand on the ground, sent a message to the Old Turtle just in case, and gave the other things in his hands back to Lin Mu before changing back to his own familiar and more powerful form. He said very seriously, “I suspect that a fierce monster came to your home.”
Lin Mu grew nervous as he noticed Da Hei’s guarded demeanor. Slowly, he pushed his electric scooter into his house and said, “that might be the case. The little Ginseng in my house seems to be the type that would attract monsters, but can’t the Morning Dusk prevent them from entering?”
Da Hei heard Lin Mu say so and felt that what he said was right, and felt somewhat relieved. He looked at the circle around Lin Mu’s small yard and paused, “why did you grow the Morning Dusk into a fried egg?”
Lin Mu paused, “…… I grew them into a sun.”
Da Hei fell silent for a while and dryly said, “…… oh.”
Lin Mu looked around his yard with hesitation, “it really looks like a fried egg?”
“No, no. It looks like the sun.” Da Hei hurriedly corrected himself. his words. He then closed his mouth, and carefully approached the yard with extreme vigilance.
Just as they entered into the yard, a ball of white fluff came out from the side path. He was still holding a struggling sparrow in his mouth as he ran into the person and the dog who were planning to open the door.
Lin Mu didn’t notice anything. He placed the stand of his electric scooter down, then ran over and squatted down to persuade his family’s Milky into letting go of the sparrow.
Lin Mu really couldn’t understand the reason why Milky was obviously a dog, but his posture and habits were like a precious cat that had been delicately raised.
The old father in Lin Mu sighed sadly, “don’t eat these kind of unfamiliar and wild things. What if you get some sort of illness? You also don’t want to go to the hospital……”
At this point, Lin Mu realised that his dog’s eyes weren’t looking at him. Instead, they were staring at Da Hei, unblinking and unnaturally focused.
And Da Hei was crouched in his original spot, also looking at Milky, unmoving.
“This is Da Hei.” Lin Mu said.
Milky’s ears shook, and Da Hei trembled under his gaze, but didn’t dare to look away. He was a afraid that a single move would cause the nine-tailed fox in front of him to rip him to shreds.
Lin Mu looked at Da Hei and then looked at Milky, and couldn’t really quite understand the eye contact between the two dogs.
He hesitated for a moment, and still said, “I’m planning to raise him.”
Milky turned to look at Lin Mu upon hearing his words, before looking back at Da Hei. He scanned the other man up and down.
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“……”
What!!
What’s going on!
Da Hei felt that he was going crazy.
Dammit, you didn’t fucking tell me before we arrived that your Milky’s formal name was Yan Xuanjing!!
Lin Mu, you sabotaged me!!!
The author has this to say:
Da Hei: I’m coming! I’m leaving.
Lin Mu: ?
Bwahahah Da Hei! 😂
Honestly though, I wonder how similar Yan Xuanjing’s fox form is to a dog’s! You simply can’t mix those two up!
Thanks for the chapter!
… his coworker isnt gonna mention it or anything??? Dudeeeee
Lmao poor Da Hei🤣
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Sometimes your little naive is your super power
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