Who Stole My Eggs?

Li Ling’s anger overshadowed his fear, and he yelled with his half-numb tongue shaking: “What on earth are you going to do?!”

He was also aggrieved. When he was still a teenager, he excitedly shared his discovery with his relatives and friends: he had seen the true form of the Deity of Medicine, and she was a very cute girl. What he got in return was ridicule and beatings. He learned to shut up and never mention it to anyone, but these people came and forced him to talk.

Xie Zuo urged Li Ling: “Didn’t I tell you? I want you to tell me where the Deity of Medicine is and how to find her.”

Li Ling’s determination rose, and his heart skipped a beat: “Kill me, I won’t tell you!”

Xie Zuo said with a smile: “Why should we kill you? If you don’t cooperate, we won’t waste time. Baby girl, just eat him.”

“Kakaka,” the sea scorpion waved her pair of limbs climbed up along Li Ling’s trouser legs.

Li Ling finally saw clearly what had stung him. Seeing the sea scorpion’s curved stinger was getting closer and closer to his eyeballs, he burst into tears: “Don’t touch my eyes, please, I still want to see the Deity of Medicine again, please let me go!”

The sea scorpion stopped, waiting for Xie Zuo’s next order.

Xie Zuo said impatiently: “You are really troublesome. We are just seeking medical treatment and we are not harming anyone. You should have said it earlier. Say it quickly!”

Li Ling stopped crying. He had seen what they could do. They begged for help so forcefully. When things didn’t go according to their plan, they stung him with poison and wanted to feed him to scorpions, and they said they would not harm anyone!

“I saw the Deity of Medicine with the help of the three-color stone.” Li Ling was paralyzed, so he had to ask for help from Xie Zuo, “Please take off the stone piece hanging from my neck.”

Xie Zuo was about to reach out, but was stopped by Huo Yao. Huo Yao stepped forward to untie Li Ling and patted him on the back. Li Ling felt a warm current spreading from his back, and he was able to move freely.

Li Ling thanked him embarrassedly, “Thank you.”

“Take out your three-color stone quickly.” Xie Zuo was also very curious as to whether Bian Zhong, the Deity of Medicine who could avoid him so thoroughly, was round or flat.

Li Ling took off the pendant he had been wearing. It was a large translucent round piece that looked black at first glance. When Li Ling turned it toward the light in the mine, three colors of blue, purple, and yellow-brown appeared at different angles, and the transparency became higher and higher.

“I polished this with a good three-color stone. Standing in a damp and cold environment, put it in front of your eyes. When it turns yellow-brown, look at it from that angle, and you can see the Deity of Medicine.”

Xie Zuo was doubtful. He took the three-color stone and lifted it up. He slowly turned it toward the light to find the angle. “…From here, it looks yellowish brown and there is nothing…”

Li Ling was very dissatisfied with his casualness. In a stiff tone, he said: “The Deity of Medicine is very busy. She is busy treating diseases and saving people all day long. You can find her anywhere. I only said that I can see her this way, but I didn’t say she must be here.”

“Really?” Xie Zuo slowly turned the three-color stone and walked toward the underground sea, “But I think she should be here, peeking all the time.”

“You are not allowed to be rude to the Deity of Medicine. How can she peek?”

The further they went to the underground sea, the more humid it became, the temperature dropped, and the light became darker and darker.

Xie Zuo held up the three-color stone and searched for a long time but couldn’t even see the shadow of the Deity of Medicine. Just when he was wondering if Li Ling was deceiving them, a handful of jet-black hair suddenly fell down in front of his eyes!

The hair was slowly parted, revealing a cold and pale face, with a pair of gray eyes looking straight at him.

Anyone else would have jumped up in fear at this scene. But since Xie Zuo was born, he had seen and eaten countless demons and all kinds of scary things. He was the only one who scared others and had never been scared by others.

Xie Zuo calmly moved the three-color stone away. As expected, the face was no longer visible. He placed the three-color stone in front of his eyes again, found a good angle, and saw her again.

Xie Zuo looked up at her, “Why are you hanging upside down? Are you trying to scare me?”

“Found it?!” Li Ling shouted excitedly, “Where is the Deity of Medicine? Let me see!”

Xie Zuo looked at Bian Zhong, “If you are seen by him like this, you will probably lose a believer forever.”

Bian Zhong came back with an expressionless face, her feet hung in the air in front of Xie Zuo, and she suddenly disappeared again.

Li Ling snatched the three-color stone from Xie Zuo’s hand and looked for her desperately, “Medicine Deity, Medicine Deity, are you there?”

No one responded to him.

Huo Yao said, “Look at the water surface.”

The water in the underground sea twisted and formed a sentence: [Come to the top of the mountain and wear thicker clothes!]

Before Xie Zuo said anything, Li Ling became excited. “I’ll go right away!”

Li Ling desperately tried to break away from Xie Zuo but found that he seemed to be weighed down by a heavy burden.

“Don’t go over there and cause trouble.” Xie Zuo threw Li Ling aside as easily as he threw a piece of fruit. “She wants to see me and my… little wife.”

Xie Zuo winked at Huo Yao teasingly. The Deity of Thunder just shook his head helplessly.

“I want to see her too!” Li Ling said unwillingly.

“Okay, for the sake of your help, I’ll persuade her to come out and meet you.” Xie Zuo turned back to Li Ling, “Do you still have the three-color stone? Lend me two pieces.”

Li Ling glared at Xie Zuo. He never saw such a shameless person, beating and robbing people without any shame. He was clearly a man, but he dressed as a woman. Wait, was he a cutsleeve? That tough guy who was scarier than him was his wife?!

Li Ling weighed it, looked at Huo Yao, and then looked at the sea scorpion next to him who was holding a curved hook and wanted to stung him again. He gave in, “Yes, I’ll get it.”

Li Ling took Xie Zuo and Huo Yao along. They left the mine and came to the surface of the mine, and his home was nearby.

He quickly took two polished three-color stones and handed them to Xie Zuo, “Don’t forget what you promised me.”

“Don’t worry.” Xie Zuo raised the three-color stones, “Why can this thing see the Deity of Medicine?”

Li Ling said, “I don’t know either. Tricolor stone is the most inconspicuous ore in this medicinal mine. The raw stone can be held in the hand to calm the mind. After being ground into powder, it can be used as medicine to treat insomnia. It is named after the trichromatism. It appears blue in strong light, purple in weak light, and yellowish-brown in the shade. Maybe the deity doesn’t like the sun, so she always stays in the backlight and I can follow the yellowish-brown light to find her in the right direction.”

Li Ling said it unintentionally, but his words flashed through Xie Zuo’s mind like a bolt of lightning, tying together everything about the Deity of Medicine. She didn’t like light, always appeared in humid places, and the colder it became, the clearer it became, allowing so many mortals to live on her mountain of medicine…

Xie Zuo only glanced at Huo Yao and knew that he had the same idea as him. The answer was about to come out. They finally knew why the deity of medicine could hide for so long!

Xie Zuo told the sea scorpion, “Stay here, watch this guy, don’t let him follow us secretly.”

The sea scorpion nodded obediently, “Okay daddy.”

Xie Zuo saw it was so well-behaved and very smart and brave, so he squatted down and touched its big head, “Do you have your own name?”

Sea Scorpion shook its head. What was its name? It was just an ordinary sea scorpion before. It relied solely on instinct to find food and move around, and its consciousness was chaotic. It wasn’t until recently that it finally opened its mind and cleared away the fog in its mind.

Xie Zuo thought for a moment, “Let’s call you Xie Jiao. My mother is the most famous demon king in the world. Just follow her step and practice hard.”

“Okay daddy!” Sea Scorpion was very happy.

Huo Yao frowned, “Don’t let others call you daddy casually. Let’s go.”

Note

This is what the sea scorpion looks like, obviously a bit bigger than this but the shape is right.