Chapter 8: Take Me In

"Hurry up!" 'Humans' are coming!" The figure that suddenly rushed out, regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one, pulled the car door and drilled into the car, shouting at him.

"'Human'?" asked Jin Hotaru as she glanced at the woman in the back seat of the car from the mirror, "Miss, where are you going?"

"Whatever!"

"We're all the same kind, you won't die without help!"

Jin Hotaru started the car, and when the man chasing the woman arrived, all he could see was a taxi speeding away. He has been left far behind.

Jin Ying glanced at the woman in the car from the reflector, with an average figure, ordinary facial features like passers-by, and the demons mixed in the human race often turn themselves into extremely low-key appearances in order not to attract the attention of human beings.

"We're not of our kind. Jin Ying replied coldly.

Although Jin Hotaru couldn't tell which type of youkai she belonged to for a while, after she said "We are all of the same kind", he still took a stand indifferently.

"None of us are human anyway, so let's treat them as our kind!"

"Alright, get out of the car. ”

If the other party knew that he was a monster, he wouldn't call him "the same kind", right? After all, "Monster" is a low-level plant monster that even monsters don't want to be with it. Jin Ying didn't bother to explain, and the two stopped talking all the way, he parked the car on the side of the road and said to the woman.

"Earth shrinking technique", a spell that Jin Hotaru is good at casting, as long as it is not a human guest, he will cast this spell to quickly reach the destination specified by the guest.

"Fifty dollars, thank you. "Although the use of spells has shortened the travel time, he will not lose a cent of the fare.

"Where is this?" the woman in the car looked out of the window, and she asked Jin Ying suspiciously, "Why is it dark outside, and there is not even a street lamp." ”

"Xijiao, it's far away from the people chasing you. ”

"You want me to get off here, and how do I get back?" the woman cried out in disbelief.

"With spells. Hotaru reminded her.

"No!" the woman crossed her hands on her hips, "If I knew how to spell, would I still be chased by humans all the way for stealing a wallet?"

"Hey, I don't care so much, you have to take me back to the city!" the woman couldn't get down in the car.

Jin Ying sighed and asked her, "Then where are you going?"

"No. 56 Zhongshan Road. The woman immediately reported her address.

It was difficult for Jin Hotaru to understand, he knew how to devote himself to cultivation like he didn't even care about demons, but these demons who were born with mana, wisdom, and form didn't, and he found that most of the monsters living in this city thought that cultivation was a ridiculous thing.

Even his only friend, Ji Ao, thought so. For them, "hard work" seemed unacceptable, and Hotaru looked at the "woman" from the mirror as she drove, then shook her head again.

At half past seven in the morning, Jin Hotaru returned to her residence as usual, taking the food she had bought at the supermarket as usual: the meat for Yan'er and the vegetables he ate. He likes to have a regular life and hates anything that disturbs his life, but when he opens the door, he accidentally sees a woman on the couch.

"Hey, you've just come back!"

Even Jin Hotaru, who was described by his friend Ji Ao as "the human expression has not improved", couldn't help but immediately frown and sink his face.

"Because I didn't have a few dollars in my stolen wallet last night, which wasn't enough to pay the rent I owed, I was kicked out by my landlord. You're the only one of my kind I know, and I can only come to you, and you won't take me in!"

"We're not the same kind. Jin Hotaru reiterated again and again, squinting at the question of whether to push out the door of this guy who had ruined the order of his life.

"But she's a 'female', Ji Ao should be glad to meet her, right?" When he thought of this, Jin Hotaru picked up the phone and called a friend who liked to socialize with "females".

When the woman saw Jin Ying calling, she stared at him with wide eyes in surprise, and when no one answered on the other end of the phone, she shouted in disbelief: "I didn't expect that such an old-fashioned monster as you would use the phone! Who are you calling?"

"My friend, see if he's willing to take you in. ”

"You have friends, too? You mean you don't want to take me in, so what are you going to do with me?" she stared at Jin Hotaru mischievously, looking ready to play tricks.

"You can stay here for a while until I call him. Jin Hotaru finally made a decision.

After all, they are all outliers in the eyes of humans. As long as it was within the limits of what he could tolerate, he didn't want to act too ruthless, and he felt that Ji Ao would definitely come to him today. At that time, it is also a good choice to throw this trouble to him by the way. Besides, he might be happy to accept this 'female' baggage.

"My name is Li Yao, what about you?" she tilted her head to look at Jin Ying, "Since you have become a human, there will always be someone to call ...... Names, huh?"

"Your house is really good, it seems that the income as a taxi driver is really good. Or did you get the money in some other way? Sometimes I really envy you skilled, it's so much easier for you to make a living in a big city like this than I am. ”

The woman sat on the sofa with her buttocks, unceremoniously poured the water by herself, and then chattered a lot of things by herself, but after talking for a long time, Jin Ying didn't even answer a word, she couldn't help but feel very bored, and stopped squeaking.

She began to look around at the house: as she said, very spacious and bright with two bedrooms and a living room, a living room with a sofa and a TV, DVD player and a large pile of neatly arranged CDs, all cleaned. At first glance, this one is no different from ordinary people, if the owner of this house is not a youkai.

The owner of the monster house was lying on the floor next to the window, allowing the sun to shine directly on him. Although he lay there without saying a word, Li Yao knew that he was not asleep. The sunlight through the glass window, to the eyes of non-humans, looked like large golden particles of millet, and the body of the golden firefly was surrounded by these particles, and then slowly penetrated into his body. Li Yao knew that he was absorbing the essence of the sun.

Absorbing the essence of the sun and moon is one method of cultivation. It is the use of the essence collected from the sun and moonlight, the cycle is endless, little by little, to replace and replace the cells, flesh, bones, and fur in one's body, and solidify one's own primordial spirit.

As time passes, the cultivator's body will get closer and closer to perfection, and the mana will become stronger and stronger. However, this kind of cultivation is very time-consuming. Li Yao had heard that even the most diligent and talented, even the most talented cultivators, would need about two hundred years to absorb the essence of the sun and moon to carry out this kind of reincarnation. If you only rely on this method to cultivate, if you want to achieve positive results, thousands of years will not be enough.

There are three ways to cultivate: absorbing the essence of the sun and moon, collecting supplements, and getting help: sincerely believing in one of the gods, demons, and immortals of a cultivator who has already attained the right fruit, so as to get guidance and help from the other party, is a shortcut to cultivation. But few lucky people take this shortcut. They often go to worship all their lives, but they rarely receive a response.

So the other two methods are the main choices for cultivators: absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon is one of the easiest of the three methods to learn, and even beginners can easily master it. But the easiest way is also the hardest way to go. If you want to use this method, you have to have perseverance beyond the ordinary. Cultivators who use this method but give up halfway can be seen everywhere. Li Yao once heard an ancestor say that there are many gods and demons in the world who have achieved positive results, but none of them have succeeded in using this method. This is the second approach.

The third method of cultivation: If a cultivator does not have extraordinary luck and perseverance, then the remaining option is to take supplements. As the name suggests, this method is to collect the essence of other living beings and even other cultivators to replenish their bodies and spirits, whether it is to collect medicine and alchemy, seduce, absorb or simply "take" directly, it is a method of collecting and replenishing. In fact, most cultivators employ the method of absorbing the essence of the sun and moon and combining it with the collection of supplements. Li Yao didn't know which one Jin Ying used.

Li Yao kept staring at Jin Ying, thinking that he was really asleep this time, because the process of condensation in the sunlight had stopped, and he was just lying there quietly.

Li Yao stepped forward and leaned closer to him, looking at this "man" carefully, just as Jin Ying couldn't tell what kind of monster she was, she couldn't tell Jin Ying's original form. He transformed into a human form, and for a youkai who wanted to blend in with humans, it can be said that he transformed so perfectly that he couldn't find a flaw at all.

She found that the most rare thing about this "man" was that he didn't have any of the characteristics or personality that humans call him, so ordinary that you couldn't remember him at all. It will definitely not impress anyone. Could this be explained by the fact that his spells were too skillful?