Chapter 3 Thinking Differently
"Hey, you just said ...... Do you want to 'achieve positive results'? I heard you right?"
"That's right. ”
"I've lived for more than 4,000 years, and I haven't heard of a monster trying to 'achieve a positive fruit' for hundreds of years! Oh my God, you're ridiculous! Hahaha...... I can't do it! You're ...... You're so funny, you're laughing at me...... Hahaha......" Xiao Yao couldn't help laughing again, laughing so hard that she almost couldn't stand steadily, and finally she simply lay on the front cover of the car, slapping the car cover with her hand and laughing wildly.
"Isn't the purpose of our monsters' survival just to succeed in cultivation and get positive results?"
Jin Ying looked at the "woman" who was laughing so hard at this time, slapping her car again and again, he couldn't help frowning in distress, this guy is really sick, is there a problem with his words? Can she laugh like this?
"Hey, don't call 'us', 'we', now you are the only one left with this kind of thinking, I'm good, and the other monsters, except for you, I haven't heard of any of them have this kind of thought!" Xiao Yao finally couldn't hold back a laugh, wiped the tears from laughter and stood up straight.
Xiao Yao looked at Jin Ying, who was standing silent, and said, "Of course, it may have been like this in the past: I remember when I was young, my kind was still busy absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, collecting and cultivating, just to one day be able to achieve positive results, but that was already an old-fashioned thing thousands of years ago. Now that human civilization is becoming more and more developed, there are bustling metropolises everywhere, and our lives are becoming easier and easier, who else wants to cultivate any positive fruits?"
Xiao Yao looked at Jin Ying, who was quietly listening to what he was saying, and continued: "Let me make an analogy, if it was changed to eat a person in the past, no matter how clean it was, the disappearance of that person would cause panic and discussion in the villages and towns where he lived. But now it's different, in such a large and crowded modern metropolis, one person is missing, ten people are missing, and even a hundred people are missing, they will not suspect it. ”
"Even if they suspect that as long as we clean our hands and feet, we can eat as much as we want, and these people eat into our stomachs, as if the world has evaporated, no matter how smart human beings are, where can they go to find out? If this is in the past, you have to make up a lot of lies to blend in with the crowd, because the people around you will always ask you where you are from, what have you done in the past, and you will keep asking. Speaking of this, Xiao Yao winked mischievously at Jin Ying.
Xiao Yao looked Jin Ying up and down: "It's different now, the current human beings are selfish and indifferent, and they take care of each other, you only need to hand over a few legally valid forms, and you are an upright human being." Respect Luo Yi first and then people, as long as you become a decent human and stand there, no one will care at all, what is wrapped under your human skin. ”
She suddenly became a little excited, and couldn't help sighing, looking at Jin Ying, who was listening to her quietly: "What is the purpose of 'cultivating positive fruits'? To put it bluntly, it is to make yourself stronger and have a better life." Nowadays, there are basically no professions such as spiritual powers, so few of them can subdue us. Besides, I think it's good to have a human tooth sacrifice once in a while, and enjoy all the entertainment and comfort that humans have invented. ”
She spread out her hands and snorted disdainfully: "Most of the monsters have similar ideas to me, as long as they live well, why do they have to spend thousands of years and painstakingly cultivate? What if they achieve positive results? What if they become gods, demons, and immortals? Will they definitely live better than if they eat and drink well in the human city now? I can see through it, even if we can live for thousands or tens of thousands of years, our time is not infinite, so we should have fun in time." ”
"There may not be one out of 100,000 who can really achieve positive results, I advise you to give up as soon as possible, you don't like to eat people, next time I will introduce you to play other interesting things, don't waste your energy on that kind of boring thing." After Xiao Yao finished speaking, she saw Jin Ying fall into deep thought, she waved her hand to him, disappeared in the soil, and left.
Jin Ying watched Xiao Yao disappear in front of his eyes, and for the first time in three hundred years, he began to think about why he wanted to "cultivate to the right fruit".
Among the demons, the mangrove moss is considered the lowest. The moss is the lowest of all plant demons, and it started out as a plant in the swamp with little mana and mental power. Jin Hotaru can now have her own ideas and cultivate into a demon, which is simply an outlier in miracles.
It took him two hundred years to cultivate into a "demon", and another hundred years to become a humanoid "golden firefly".
He came to this city to learn to be a "human", because he instinctively knew that if a "demon" wanted to become a "human", he must first learn to "be a man".
Cultivating to achieve positive results is the only goal of the golden firefly, but since other demons don't do this, why do you insist on doing it? If the demons don't cultivate to achieve positive results, what can they do? Do you eat people? Do you enjoy it? What is all this for?
Jin Hotaru tapped his head with his hand, he really couldn't figure it out.
He knew he couldn't do anything, and although he eventually had his own body and mind, he hadn't learned how to be a human being, or even how to be a demon.
"I still can't find it!" Xiao Yao sighed and leaned weakly on Jin Ying's car.
They have been trying to find the yokai that has been eating people for the past two days. Recently, humans have been killed every day, but Jin Ying and Xiao Yao can't find any clues.
"This guy started eating one person every other day, and now he eats one person a day, and he has to deliberately leave a human head every time, and if it continues like this, I will definitely starve to death. Xiao Yao was very annoyed when she mentioned this.
Jin Ying thought about it seriously and asked her seriously: "If you don't eat people and eat something else, can you eat enough? Will you starve to death?"
"The human food was very tasty. I can fill my stomach with whatever I eat. To say that if you don't eat people, you'll starve to death, of course, is joking with you. It's just that human flesh is more delicious, and recently I really want to eat a person to satisfy my cravings, why do you ask this?"
"How often do you usually eat people?"
"Depending on the mood, many times I don't eat for a few years, and when I eat less than ten days, it depends on whether I meet someone who wants to eat. Aren't you a vegetarian? Why are you asking?"
"The other man-eating youkai are like you?"
"I told you earlier, the monsters here are almost the same! What do you want to ask? If you want to learn to eat people, I'll teach you!"
Jin Ying stared at her thoughtfully and asked, "Why does 'it' eat every day?"
"yes, why didn't I expect it to eat people so often, it wouldn't be hungry like this, ......right?"
"It eats people as a staple food!" the two men looked at each other, and suddenly said in unison.
"How many youkai treat people as staple food?"
"Usually there is no such thing, unless it deliberately lets its temperament run wild. Xiao Yao smashed his fist on the roof of the car.
"It's crazy, isn't it! It is arrogant to eat people like this, leaving the head for the police to solve the case, no matter how stupid the human beings are, sooner or later they will find out that something is wrong, in case it attracts human mages with spiritual power or fairies and spirits who like to meddle in things, wouldn't the monsters in the city be unlucky with it!" Xiao Yao became more and more angry the more she thought about it.
"But since we all know he's in this area, and he's still eating people every day, why can't we find him?"
"That's because...... It's at a higher level than ours...... It's not a demon, maybe it's a spirit, a spirit, so it can hide its demonic aura in front of us, maybe it sees us looking for it, and thinks it's funny......" Xiao Yao said, and couldn't help but shudder.