ushernet Chapter 224 A Similar Aura
Chapter 224 A Similar Aura
The plaintive melody, melodious and lingering, seemed to be telling people about an endless longing and sorrow.
Huan Yuechu was drawn in by the captivating flute music and involuntarily followed the direction from which the sound came.
After passing through a lush forest, he finally saw the source of the flute music—a man dressed in a long black robe stood quietly under a huge, ancient peach tree.
The man had been looking down, lost in his own thoughts.
Suddenly, a light and steady footstep sound came from afar, like a pebble thrown into a calm lake, creating ripples.
The man seemed startled by the sound and slowly raised his head.
The moment his gaze met Huan Yuechu's, time seemed to freeze.
A variety of complex and unfathomable emotions instantly flashed through the man's deep, pool-like eyes.
A barely perceptible look of surprise crossed her face, as if she hadn't expected to meet someone else at this moment.
Immediately afterwards, an overwhelming wave of sorrow surged forth, completely drowning out the surprise.
However, before Huan Yuechu could recover from the shock of that fleeting glimpse,
She didn't even have time to ask the stranger in front of her what had happened.
The man said softly, "Who are you to him?"
The tone was gentle, but the emotions contained within were like oppressive clouds before a storm, heavy and suffocating.
Huan Yuechu's heart skipped a beat, and she asked in confusion, "Who are you referring to?"
Before he finished speaking, the man suddenly exerted force without warning, like a ferocious wild beast.
With lightning speed, he grabbed Huan Yuechu's slender neck tightly.
Huan Yuechu suddenly found it difficult to breathe, as if the air was being forcibly sucked away by a pair of invisible hands.
Her hands trembled violently like a candle flickering in the wind as she desperately tried to pry open the man's strong and powerful hands, which were like iron clamps.
She tried to break free from this sudden, suffocating constraint, but all her efforts seemed to be in vain.
The man's strength seemed to come from a primordial beast, far beyond imagination.
No matter how hard she struggled, it was like an ant trying to shake a tree; she couldn't budge it an inch.
That face, which was originally as fair as jade, turned bright red due to extreme lack of oxygen, just like a ripe apple.
Not only that, even the veins on his forehead bulged out like dragons, clearly visible, as if they were about to burst through his skin at any moment.
Huan Yuechu never dreamed that the pressure exerted on her by the man in front of her would be so strong that she was completely powerless to fight back!
At this critical moment of life and death, Huan Yuechu gritted her teeth and, with her last ounce of strength, squeezed out a few words with extreme difficulty: "I...don't understand..."
However, the man had by then fallen into a state of madness, as if he had completely lost his mind.
He completely ignored her words, let alone listened to any explanation.
His eyes were wide open, his teeth were clenched, and he roared with a ferocious expression.
"Don't play dumb with me! You clearly have his scent on you; there's definitely some kind of relationship between you! Speak now, or today will be your death day!"
Just then, Huan Yuechu felt as if an invisible hand was tightly gripping her chest.
Just as he was about to faint from lack of oxygen, the man seemed to suddenly break free from some kind of frenzy.
Having regained some of his senses, the hand that had been gripping her neck like an iron clamp slowly loosened its hold.
Huan Yuechu felt as if she had been granted a pardon, and immediately began to greedily inhale the fresh air, her body trembling involuntarily as she gasped for breath.
At the same time, it was accompanied by wave after wave of heart-wrenching coughs, as if trying to cough up all the fear and pain that had almost suffocated him.
The man, as if he had lost all his strength, slumped down in a chair next to the tree.
He clutched his head in his hands, muttering repeatedly, "It's impossible... He'll never come back..."
His voice was low and hoarse, filled with despair and resentment.
Having finally caught her breath, Huan Yuechu gently rubbed her still slightly aching neck as she cautiously moved closer to the man.
When she was only a few steps away from the man, she stopped and mustered her courage to ask softly.
"Who are you talking about? Maybe... I really can help you."
Upon hearing Huan Yuechu's words, the man suddenly raised his head and looked her up and down with a suspicious gaze.
However, after seeing Huan Yuechu's sincere and concerned eyes...
The man hesitated for a moment, then finally let out a long sigh and spoke.
"That person... he once saved my life at the brink of death, but after that, he disappeared completely as if he had vanished into thin air, leaving me only with an object with a special aura as a memento."
"But today, when I saw you, I was surprised to find that you were emanating an aura that was extremely similar to mine..."
Upon hearing this, Huan Yuechu felt as if the clouds had parted and the sun had shone through, bringing a sense of clarity to her heart.
Her bright eyes sparkled, and she was about to open her lips to explain the reasons to the man before her.
However, at that very moment, a sudden, deafening cacophony of noise erupted.
Like a bolt of lightning ripped through the night sky, it suddenly boomed from outside the peach grove.
The sound was initially distant, but in an instant it came rolling in like a stampede of ten thousand horses, unstoppable.
This uproar was like a surging, devastating torrent, instantly breaking through the tense and solemn atmosphere that had been almost stagnant.
For a moment, the air in the peach grove seemed to be stirred and churned by this powerful force.
Huan Yuechu and the man's eyes met unexpectedly at that moment.
Two gazes collided fiercely in the air, as if countless sparks were being ignited.
In that brief eye contact, they both keenly detected a hint of undisguised doubt and wariness deep within each other's dark eyes.
This brief and subtle silence was as if time had suddenly frozen, freezing the entire world in that moment.
The surroundings were deathly silent, with only the faint breathing and heartbeats of the two people clearly audible.
Even the peach grove, which usually rustles in the breeze.
At this moment, there was complete silence, as if shrouded in an invisible pressure, plunging into a suffocating stillness.
However, just a moment later, as if they were of one mind, they made the same decision at almost the same moment—to put aside the pressing and difficult matter at hand for the time being.
We must go out and investigate to find out what earth-shattering event has occurred outside.