The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#586 - Zuan Pool

"I apologize, I came here to find a relic of my ancestors, and I didn't intend to disturb you. Also…"

Lu Jing paused and then continued, "You don't need to be so angry, it's just a fish. If you don't like it, you can return it to me."

"What do you mean, 'just a fish'?!" The white carp became even more enraged at the mention of this, "It may be just a fish to you, but it's not to me."

"What do you mean?"

"This pool was originally empty," the white carp said, "I was doing perfectly fine in it, without having to think about anything or worry about anything. It couldn't have been more comfortable. I couldn't even feel the passage of time.

"But one day, I don't know when, a sparrow suddenly fell from the sky and plunged into the pool. From that day on, my good days were over," the white carp sighed, "Not only did a new tenant squeeze into my nice house, but I could also know what almost all the sparrows within a thirty-mile radius of this pool were thinking.

"Isn't that a good thing? You've become more powerful."

"Good my ass!" The white carp couldn't help but curse, "You're just a mere human, you have no idea how noisy those birds are. As soon as they're hungry, they keep repeating 'food, food, food' in my head… When they encounter a natural enemy, they frantically think about 'escape, escape, escape'…"

"They think when they're hot, they think when they're cold, and I even know what they're thinking when they're pooping. I'm almost annoyed to death. The key is that this connection can't be severed at all. In short, I'm constantly being tortured by them.

"Those sounds don't stop, and I'll never have peace. And that was just the beginning. Later, many other things fell in. The dragon you just saw was one of them.

"Fortunately, there were no dragons near me, so I escaped a disaster. But other things weren't so lucky. More and more thoughts that didn't belong to me at all drilled into my head, making me feel disturbed every day.

"If this continued, I would be driven crazy by these sounds sooner or later. During that time, I was frantically thinking about how to prevent other things from falling in. As a result, one day, I found that I could suddenly control those things.

"Not only the wild animals that fell in, but also the wild animals similar to them, I could control them. So I let them patrol near my pool to prevent other wild animals from breaking in."

The white carp paused to catch its breath. When it raised its head again, it saw a slight change in Lu Jing's expression, and it let out a strange laugh, "What's wrong, are you scared too? If I remember correctly, you also went into the pool earlier."

However, as soon as it finished speaking, it saw that Lu Jing's face had returned to normal.

"If you could control me and know what I was thinking, you would have told me to get lost long ago, and you wouldn't have let me put the fish in."

The white carp snorted, "My ability is only effective on birds and beasts. As for humans… perhaps they're too complicated. If I could really hear what people were thinking, I'd probably be annoyed to death. And it's not like anything that falls into the pool will affect me. Strictly speaking, only the beasts that fall in during the period from midnight to the early hours of the morning can never leave.

After a pause, it continued, "In short, after having the guards, my life was a little better than before, but I still couldn't have peace. In order to prevent other wild animals from breaking into the pool, I had to expand the patrol team, but the more people there were, the more thoughts I heard.

"I thought that I could only live like this from now on, until one day I met a person who was different from others. When he passed by here, he seemed to notice the wild animals I had arranged to patrol, and he stopped. He watched for three full days.

"At first, I didn't take it to heart. It wasn't until three days later that he came to the pool and then said, 'Are you quite troubled?' I ignored him. He said again, 'Why don't you want those wild animals to come in?'

"Only then did I realize that he was indeed talking to me, which surprised me a little. In fact, although the place where I am is relatively remote, over time, I have also seen many passers-by. Some of the more careful ones can also notice the abnormality of those wild animals, but he was the first to find me.

"But at that time, I was upset and didn't want to answer him, so I released the dragon from the bottom of the pool, wanting to scare him away directly. But I didn't expect that he wasn't afraid at all. Instead, he asked me if I had ever killed anyone."

"I controlled the dragon to tell him that I hadn't killed anyone yet, but if he didn't leave, I might have to kill someone to try it out."

"Did you fight later?" Lu Jing asked.

"No." The white carp shook its head, "I told him that I just wanted to stay quiet and didn't want anyone to bother me, so he brought me here."

"He brought you here?" Lu Jing was surprised, "But aren't you a pool? Can you be packed up and taken away?"

"I don't know. That guy was quite powerful, probably some kind of Shao Jian from the Si Tian Jian, but he's been dead for hundreds of years." The white carp said, waving its tail impatiently.

"But I can barely accept this rate of increase. And after moving here, I cancelled the patrolling wild animals, leaving only one to keep watch, which is much quieter. It's just that a lunatic kept harassing me some time ago.

"He threw a white fish into my pool, but unfortunately I couldn't catch him. As a result, you threw a black fish in."