165: Chapter 163: Specks of Green Light 165: Chapter 163: Specks of Green Light “As the saying goes, children speak with no inhibition, their words are never taboo.”
Yu could definitely sense something binding his bare feet, which is why he said those words.
Zhu Fang and Ye Qingqing exchanged puzzled looks.
Because in their line of sight, Yu, clad only in a pair of shorts, had nothing but air around his feet, showing no trace of any object.
Not only Zhu Fang and Ye Qingqing, but even Chen Hai himself, using the ten compound eyes of his Divine Soul, saw nothing out of the ordinary—no anomalies were detected.
Seeing this, Chen Hai’s brows furrowed until they formed a straight line.
If Yu wasn’t lying and indeed something was binding his feet,
then either some unknown force was affecting his perception, or his situation had some similarities with what Chen Hai had encountered in Shuang State after his college entrance exams.
Back in Shuang State, in that room, despite the presence of anomalies, Chen Hai, even with the aid of his Divine Soul Eye, could only see through some illusions, unable to detect the true location of the Spirit of Obsession.
The reason was quite simple.
The Spirit of Obsession had only cast some of her power; her actual being, in strict terms, was not present in the Material World.
At that time, Chen Hai used the mahjong set, which served as the anchor point for the Spirit of Obsession, as bait and deployed a secret weapon to finally force her, who existed between the True Realm and the Material World, to fall to the mortal plane and reveal her True Form.
However, now, if the situation was indeed as Chen Hai had speculated, Yu’s condition could be even more troublesome!
“Sister Fang, what do you make of this?” Zhu Fang spoke up to inquire.
Both her and Ye Qingqing’s gazes were now fixed intently on Chen Hai.
“Sister Fang, I am not omnipotent; as for those bizarre and eerie beings, I only have a rudimentary understanding at best!”
“I’ve tried to figure out what’s wrong with Yu, but I can’t discern anything peculiar,” he said with a helpless smile on his face.
After pondering for a while, he looked at Yu, who had been picked up again by Zhu Fang.
Then, he gently patted Yu’s head and asked with a smile, “Yu, you said something is wrapping around your feet; can you tell uncle what it is that is entangling them?”
“Uncle, I can’t see the thing,” said Yu, shaking his head vigorously like a rattle drum, and then he added, “But I can feel them—they’re some sort of long, strip-like things wrapping around my feet.”
Shape, sound, scent, taste, touch—these are the five human senses.
Unable to see, but Yu could feel that they were some long, strip-like objects—this was the sense of shape at work.
“Sister Fang, put Yu back on the bed, and then, please cover his eyes for me,” Chen Hai said, his brow furrowed, after taking a moment to think.
While instructing Zhu Fang, he himself promptly sat down cross-legged on the floor.
“Whoosh…” A chilly breeze swept through, and his Divine Soul leapt out from his body.
Sensing the life magnetic field of others and then fine-tuning his own Divine Soul to match the same frequency was something Chen Hai had long been capable of.
He wasn’t yet sure what frequency the entity binding Yu was on.
But he thought, once his Divine Soul’s frequency matched with Yu’s, he should be able to sense whatever Yu could feel.
Having Zhu Fang cover Yu’s eyes was also for his own good; it was to avoid frightening him!
After all, once his Divine Soul’s frequency matched Yu’s, the boy would surely be able to clearly see the presence of his Divine Soul.
And his Divine Soul’s form was too terrifying—if Yu saw it, who knew how the little guy would react!
After all, Zhang Yong, Qian Bing, and even Director Tao from Liuyuan No.1 Middle School had been terrified and trembled at the sight of his Divine Soul.
“So cold!” Zhu Fang, who was about to cover Yu’s eyes after placing him on the bed, and Ye Qingqing at her side, involuntarily shivered.
Divine Souls lean towards the chill of yin.
Although Chen Hai did not intentionally target the two women, the moment his Divine Soul departed, they both felt a slight chill.
Yu, though sometimes unruly when angry, was usually well-behaved in front of his mother.
After being laid on the bed and having his eyes covered by Zhu Fang, he neither cried nor made a fuss, just lying there quietly.
Watching this, Chen Hai, floating in the void, began to adjust himself.
Soon after he managed to match his magnetic field frequency with Yu’s, he still couldn’t clearly see what was afoot with Yu’s feet!
However, he vaguely sensed a wisp of green fleeting across his line of sight.
As he descended beside Yu’s feet, using his sense of shape and touch, he finally started to perceive that indeed there were some strip-like things entwined around the tops of Yu’s feet.
Above the rectangular object, it seemed as if there were some branch-like things growing!
Chen Hai’s Divine Soul, although incapable of interfering with physical objects, could influence ethereal ones as long as they were within his sensing range.
“Let it open!” he silently commanded in his heart.
The huge suction pad at the end of Chen Hai’s Divine Soul directly bit onto the elongated object he sensed.
Perhaps the rectangular object was merely a slight power projection of some spirit.
Under the leech-like Divine Soul’s bite, it was completely defenseless and crumbled away, turning into specks of green light that dissipated into the void.
As these green specks dissolved, their nature changed and they manifested in the Material World.
“Sister Fang, look quickly, what are those green specks under Yu’s feet?”
“I saw them earlier, Qingqing, how would I know what these green specks are?
Maybe we should ask Chen?”
“Chen Hai, Chen Hai…”
Zhu Fang and Ye Qingqing had been closely monitoring Yu’s condition, and they noticed the green specks at their first appearance.
Seemingly out of nowhere, little specks of green light appeared under Yu’s feet, which was rather strange.
The two women were at a loss for words, their complexions turning pale.
Thankfully, Chen Hai was there; otherwise, they might have been scared into screaming.
After calling out several times without a response from Chen Hai, they looked at each other, their faces turning even paler.
“I’m fine!” Just as the two women were somewhat at a loss, Chen Hai finally returned to his body and stood up.
“You scared me to death, Chen Hai.
When I called you and you didn’t answer, I thought something had happened to you!” Ye Qingqing patted her chest, seeming still a bit unsettled.
“What could have happened to me?
You saw those green specks too!”
“If nothing unexpected happens, those should be the things that were binding Yu, preventing him from walking!” Shrugging his shoulders, Chen Hai smiled and explained.
“So now…” Zhu Fang hastily interjected, asking for clarification.
“Sister Fang, you can let Yu try walking a few steps!”
“From what I estimate, he should be fine for now.”
“But as for whether those green specks will continue to bind his feet, I’m not entirely sure.
We’ll have to wait a few days to see how it goes!”
Chen Hai sighed as he spoke.
Based on his deduction, the elongated object that turned into green light upon dissolving was likely just a minor power projection of some spirit.
Although they had turned into green lights and dissipated under the bite of his leech-like Divine Soul, this was after all only a temporary solution, not a cure to the root cause.
Who could be sure that the owner of this strand of power wouldn’t cast another projection to bind Yu’s feet again?
“Ah…
there’s still a chance it might recur!” Zhu Fang, who had just relaxed, tensed up once more.
“Sister Fang, there’s really no need to worry, what I said was just a possibility!” Chen Hai chuckled as he explained.
“Okay!
Well-wishers have their own blessings from heaven; I hope our Yu will ultimately be safe and sound!”
Zhu Fang sighed and, following Chen Hai’s instruction, picked up Yu from the bed.
“Here, Yu, try taking a few steps and see!” Carefully placing Yu on the ground, Zhu Fang’s hands, tucked under his armpits, gradually loosened bit by bit.
One step, two steps, three steps…
Although Yu’s footsteps were still a bit wobbly, he didn’t fall.
That in itself was a good start.
“Mommy, I can walk, I can walk…” Yu’s face lit up with joy as he plunged into Zhu Fang’s arms.
Seeing how excited he was, it seemed that simply being able to walk normally was already a huge delight for him.
Seeing her son like this, Zhu Fang’s beautiful eyes seemed to twinkle with tears.
“Chen, thank you!” She looked gratefully at Chen Hai and, after a moment’s thought, continued, “You’ll stay in Haizhu City for a couple of days, won’t you go back?”
“If you could solve the problem with Yu once, you can surely do it a second time.”
“Sister has no other choice but to depend on you, Chen!”
With a bittersweet smile, Zhu Fang heaved a long sigh.
Her husband, a man of high position and preoccupied with public affairs, meant she was the one who had to run around with her son Yu looking for medical help.
The misery of it was known only to her.
At just twenty-eight years old, and having once looked only in her mid-twenties a couple of years ago, she felt as if she had aged significantly from over a year of troubles.
“Chen Hai, our school started a few days ago.
I’ll go back myself in a few days!”
“You don’t need to attend military training and have nothing to do for the time being, so just stay here a bit longer and help Sister Fang!”
At this, Ye Qingqing also quickly interjected, speaking up for Zhu Fang.