pillow mountain river

The twilight is falling, and there is a hazy blue-gray in the distance, and the village has fallen into a deathly silence.The lanterns hanging in front of every house are swaying in the evening wind, and there are many shadows of lights.

Er Dong sat on the steps, yawning.

The snowy night was bitingly cold. Er Dong was wrapped in a cloak, his face was flushed by the cold wind, but he was protected by fur, so he didn't feel cold.

He dozed off, and when he opened his eyes, it was dark.

"Have you heard it?" Chi Jin bumped Er Dong with her elbow.

Er Dong sniffled.The smell in the air was very mixed. There was the smell of burning candles, the smell of earth, and a...strange smell.

The smell seemed to emanate from rotten fruit, but it was even more disgusting.

A gust of wind blew by, and the candle flame swayed in the wind.The smell became more and more obvious, like the smell of dead fish and rotten shrimp fermented in the dog days.

"Coming soon!" Chi Jin said.There was uncontrollable excitement in his tone.

There was a sound above the two of them.

Er Dong suddenly raised his head, and a cloud of snow hit him.The snow on the roof was thick, and some bits and pieces of snow fell down.

He stood up and patted the snow off his body.For some reason, Er Dong felt that the steps under his feet seemed to move.

Er Dong pulled Chi Jin down the steps, he glanced at the place where he was sitting, and there was nothing unusual.

Is it an illusion? However, the feeling of shaking just now was terrifyingly real.

It's not an illusion!

The ground under the feet suddenly became soft, and the flat ground seemed to turn into a swamp, and Er Dong's feet sank involuntarily.

Just when Er Dong was stunned, Chi Jin grabbed the clothes on his back, tapped his toes, and jumped out of the sunken land like a sensitive swallow.

"The ground has collapsed," Er Dong said.

Chi Jin replied, "There is something in the soil." He quickly took out a stack of talisman papers from the storage bag, pasted one on Er Dong's forehead, and another on his chest. They were all pasted with talisman paper, there was really no place to stick them.

Chi Jin still had a lot of talisman paper left in his hand, so he stuffed it into Er Dong's hand, "Take it!"

The talismans of twelve taels of gold and one piece were given to Er Dong by Chi Jin like waste paper.

The talisman paper in front of Er Dong's forehead was blown by the wind, and it stuck tightly to his eyelids. He was very uncomfortable with this thing, so he tore it off.

The play in the soil was very angry when he saw the prey escaped, and he didn't hide it anymore.

The flat ground protruded a little, and suddenly turned into a small hill, and the hill rushed towards the two people not far away.

Chi Jin took out her feather fan and swiped at the mound. In an instant, sand and rocks flew away. A piece of the mound was sliced ​​off by the strong wind, and the soil scattered around.

"I'd like to see, what is it?" Chi Jin held a feather fan and snorted.

The thing hidden in the mound turned towards Er Dong's direction, but before it approached, the amulet on Er Dong's chest emitted a golden light.

The talisman ignited without fire and turned into a cloud of green smoke.

The thing in the mound let out a muffled hum. This sound seemed to come from the mouth of an old dying old man, and it made people feel terrified.

Unbeknownst to Er Dong, this talisman had already blocked an attack for him.

Chi Jin waved the lupine fan again, and a hole was opened in the ground between Er Dong and the mound, widening the distance between the two.

The invisible sharp blade swung by the lupine tore through the ground like a knife cutting tofu.

A sharp howl pierced the sky.

All the candles in the farmer's house were extinguished.The child lay tremblingly by the window, peeping out of the house through the gap in the window.

Dust was everywhere outside, and the child couldn't see what was causing the trouble.Seeing a black shadow flashing past, he screamed in fright and sat down on the ground.

The black shadow just now was just some unknown viscous liquid, which was stuck on the window.A strong and pungent smell spread in all directions, and the child's parents rushed into the house, picked up the child, and the three of them hid in the wooden cabinet tremblingly.

"It stinks, I'll give you a sachet," Chi Jin untied the sachet from his waist and threw it into the crack in the ground.

There was a dull howl in the soil.Er Dong said, "It's going to run away."

Chi Jin said angrily, "You didn't even say thank you?"

The feather fan set off a series of sharp airflows, forcibly scooping up the entire surface.

By candlelight, Er Dong finally saw what the thing that had been buried in the ground looked like.

...just a huge rock.

"Finally Ken came out," Chi Jin continued to wave the feather fan with one hand, while fumbling in the storage bag with the other.

The strong impact broke the rock from the middle. The surface of this stone is no different from ordinary rocks, and even has moss growing on it. It is afraid that no one will notice it when it is placed on the side of the road during the day.

However, the inner layer of the rock was actually a puddle of viscous liquid, which looked like the green slime inside the caterpillar.There are all kinds of broken objects wrapped in the slime, including animal fur, remains, and broken clothing.

The strong rancid smell is particularly pungent.

The moment the mucus sprayed out, Chi Jin opened the umbrella, which protected the two of them without any liquid splashing on them.

A wisp of black air on the stone fluttered slowly, just about to disappear into the night.

Er Dong picked up the missing wooden bowl by the side of the road and covered the black air, and the black air sank to the bottom of the bowl like smoke.

"Do you know what this is?" Chi Jin was a little surprised when Er Dong stopped the escaping black air.

Er Dong said blankly, "I don't know."

Chi Jin was so angry that he choked, "Then you still touch it randomly, if this thing touches your body, won't you be cold?"

Er Dong let out an "oh", and threw away the wooden bowl casually.

"You really want to piss me off," Chi Jin rolled her eyes, and quickly took out a gold cup inlaid with gems from the storage bag to put back the black air.

"What exactly is this?"

Chi Jin poured the black gas into a jar, closed the lid, and put it back into the storage bag. He threw the used gold cup on the ground.

"magic."

"What is a demon?"

Chi Jin thought for a while and replied: "It's very complicated to say. There is a saying among human monks that people are good and bad, and demons are divided into good and evil. There are only demons, and they must be eliminated when they are seen. Anyway, demons are not good things."

Er Dong looked at the broken stones on the ground, and said to himself, "Stones, demons..."

"It's not that stones are all demons, it's just that dead things like this without intelligence are easily possessed by demon energy and become monsters that devour living things."

"Can people also be possessed by demon energy?" Er Dong looked at Chi Jin.

Chi Jin felt uncomfortable being stared at by him, so she could only look away.

"It's not that there is no such thing. Whether it's a human or a demon, if you are entangled by the three evils of greed, anger, and ignorance, you may also become a demon."

Chi Jin continued, "In the past, there was a large family. The family favored older brothers and younger brothers. The youngest daughter was not favored all the time. Her father often hung her up and whipped her. The youngest daughter was resentful, but there was nothing she could do. Later , The weak little daughter killed the whole family, including her tall and burly father."

"Officials went to investigate, only to find that the youngest daughter had been possessed by a demon. She was insane, but she had great strength. Several people were injured by her. If the demonic energy entangles a person or demon with enlightened intelligence, it must be much more terrifying than this stone. "

Chi Jin glanced at the dark sky and said, "Let's go, let's go back."

He walked a few steps and looked back at Er Dong, only to realize that he was still standing there, thoughtful, "Hey, you seem to be very interested in demons?"

"I don't know either," Er Dong hurriedly followed.

Chi Jin said, "If you want to know more, please ask me, maybe I will tell you more."

Er Dong lowered his head, looking at the snow under his feet.Chi Jin is good at being a teacher, even though Er Dong didn't beg him, he has already confide what he knows.

"My mother said that the heaven and the earth nourish all things and endow humans and demons with spiritual wisdom. However, after the enlightenment, humans and demons lost their fear of the heaven and the earth, and blindly competed and invaded. It is because of this that the demonic energy exists. Hundreds of years ago, the northern The dragons and human monks in the domain fought in the dark, causing countless casualties, just to grab the land."

"Legends say that there was a ruthless character in that battle. That person lived with the devil, he used the devil's energy to improve his cultivation, and restrained the devil so that it wouldn't take away his mind. No matter how high the cultivation base is, it will not end well."

"I've said so much, can't you reply?" Chi Jin said impatiently.

With a dull face, Er Dong said sullenly, "I seem to have seen him before."

"Who? That person?"

Chi Jin said in astonishment, "How is it possible? I was just a bird's egg at that time! Besides, with your small body, is it enough for that person to eat?"

Er Dong suddenly had a severe headache. He leaned over and pressed the temples on both sides of his head, but the pain was still there. The piercing pain seemed to tear his body apart.

His eyesight went dark, and what he saw became confused, clearly in front of him was a field covered with snow, but Er Dong saw a stream formed by congealed blood.

Going up the blood river, there are broken limbs and arms all over the ground, and the eyes of the people who have been taken from their lives are still open, with fear and unwillingness remaining on their faces.More and more corpses fell on the ground in all directions.

The wind howled, crying like a ghost.

At the end of the river of blood, Er Dong saw the back of a man.This man is tall and tall, with white hair fluttering in the strong wind. He is holding a long sword. The groove of the sword body has been blocked by dried blood. The flowing blood snakes down the sword body and drips from the sword tip. on the ground.

Er Dong's breathing was stagnant, his nose was blocked by the strong smell of blood and it was difficult to breathe.

The man turned his head, revealing a pair of beautiful eyes.However, these eyes are scarlet and fierce, no matter how beautiful they are, no one will appreciate them.

"Er Dong! Er Dong!"

The anxious shout of the young man came from next to his ear, and Er Dong raised his head, but the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood were gone, and the man with the sword was gone.

It was a silent night in front of me, without the sound of howling wind, or the sound of sharp knives piercing flesh and blood.

Er Dong wiped off his cold sweat, showing a blunt smile, facing Chi Jin, "I'm fine."

"It really scared me to death! I shouldn't have kept you here, let's go, I'll send you back immediately," Chi Jin was still worried, if he didn't know that the devil's energy had left the owner, he wouldn't have returned in a short time. Parasitic elsewhere, he thought... Er Dong had fallen into a demon.

Otherwise, how could the eyes look like knives?

Chi Jin took out the magic weapon of teleportation, and prepared to return directly to Su Nu's small courtyard.

The magic weapon lights up and becomes dim again, Chi Jin thinks she has bought a fake, throws the magic weapon away, and is about to transform back into her real body, and goes back with Er Dong in her mouth.

Suddenly a strange voice came from behind.

"Little prince, I heard that you traveled around, did you encounter any interesting things?"

It is difficult to tell whether this person is a man or a woman just by the voice, because the voice is too feminine.Although it is soft and charming, it is like a poisonous snake spit out a letter, making one's hair stand on end.

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