Jiang Da Niu still brought a lot of firecrackers according to Li Yu's instructions.

"Why are you buying firecrackers, give my son a way to drive away the evil!" Jiang Da Niu's wife chattered.

Now I'm worried about my son, what do you usually do, did you go to play mahjong...

Li Yu just said indifferently.

"Firecrackers are used to ward off evil spirits. ”

Under the hooded expressions of the two couples, Li Yu came to their door and directly lit the firecrackers with a lighter.

Firecrackers exploded.

The first sound of the new year in the village was deafening, and some of the elderly and children left behind laughed happily when they heard the firecrackers.

Maybe it's because of poverty, maybe it's because it doesn't matter, maybe it's because the children are too far away, or maybe it's all because of the firecrackers that people don't want to be reunited.

The smell of the New Year, the sound of firecrackers, and the sound of fireworks are all indispensable.

"Sure enough, the Chinese New Year always feels like something is missing without firecrackers and fireworks..."

The sound of firecrackers was loud, and Xiaobai, the closest to the firecrackers, began to twitch wildly.

This convulsive appearance startled Xiaobai's mother, and immediately said excitedly: "What are you doing, setting off firecrackers in my son's ears, what happened to my son and you want to pay money, at least 1 million..."

Jiang Da Niu was also stunned, and he didn't know why Li Yu wanted to set off firecrackers in his son's ears.

However, the miraculous thing is that after the firecrackers sounded, Xiaobai first shook violently, and then his expression became boring...

Importantly, he calmed down.

Soothed by the sound of firecrackers, no more twitching and yelling.

"I... My son he is now... Is it okay now?" Jiang Da Niu asked cautiously, judging from the current situation, his son is indeed fine.

"It's just okay for the time being, maybe there's something going on in the future..."

At this time, Li Yu squinted his eyes and got up and walked out of the house.

Just walked out of the house.

A low roar that resounded through the soul was heard.

Soon, a huge beast with a whole body of emerald green appeared in front of him, with a hideous face and fangs, a tail like a sword, and a body like a unicorn, but it didn't mean anything auspicious, but it was irritable from the heart, and the roar was also very shocking to the soul.

"This image is a little familiar, exactly like the one recorded in the book..."

The sound of firecrackers had not disappeared, and the emerald green giant beast immediately convulsed as if it was taken aback, and finally looked at Li Yu viciously, and stuck out his tongue very humanely, shook his big butt, and left.

Li Yu just muttered.

"Actually... There really is a year beast. ”

It was just a guess before, but I was still very shocked when I actually saw it.

Year Beast, the legend will come out to forage for murderous beasts during the New Year, set off firecrackers, and the custom of pasting couplets is at the very beginning, in order to drive away the New Year Beast, of course, Li Yu thinks it's quite nonsense, if it's really an evil beast, a firecracker and couplets can be sent away It's too cheap.

In the past, Li Yu only thought that this was a folk legend, but in modern times it has evolved into a custom, but he didn't expect to see it with his own eyes this time, and the image is exactly the same as in the local legend.

"Brother System, that's... Nian Beast?Fierce monsters that appear in traditional Chinese legends?" Li Yu confirmed again.

Yes, but as a kind of belief in God, He is harmless. The system said: "For the host, it is just a virtual shadow without a physical body, and it is not much different from ordinary ghosts. ”

"The famous year beast is actually such a dish..."Li Yu muttered, looking at the body of this year beast, he thought that his combat power was very strong.

"In ancient times, the prototype of the year beast should have been just snakes, insects, beasts and the like, and it was symbolized later, with the image of [beast], it was human beings who gave him the image, and human beings gave him a mission, and he as a symbol of the year, the meaning of his existence is like a legend, every year on the New Year, he was scared away by firecrackers, whether people saw him or not, he had to fulfill his duties and exist as a [year beast]. ”

Li Yu was a little stunned.

In fact, for modern times, this village is the best example, the Chinese New Year is no longer as sacred and reunion as before, at least for this generation, it has become a reason for holidays.

And the Nian Beast is still performing its duty, although this duty is not known to others, it is just a joke.

"It feels a bit miserable, it appears at a certain time every year, and it is just a one-man show, and it is just a firecracker," Li Yu muttered.

"The existence of faith and symbolism is like this, there is only one meaning of existence, and after losing that one meaning, they lose the value and meaning of existence, and the loss of the meaning and value of existence also means that their lives will come to an end. The system paused and said: "Like the [year] just now, he is just the year of your region, the land of China is vast, there are deviations in faith, and the image of the year is also different, and now in this land, there are still I don't know how many year beasts born of faith are being driven away by firecrackers... In fact, for the Nian Beasts, firecrackers are more like things that remind them of their existence than things that drive them away. ”

His expression was very human, not like a creature that existed just to be driven away. Li Yu thought of the naughty appearance of the young beast just now, it was really a bit humane, like Xiao Hei, and it was certain that the beast was consciously looking for trouble with Xiaobai.

"Elves and ghosts, after experiencing more, naturally there will be desires, but this system still thinks that it is better not to have too many desires to believe in God, and having too many desires means that it is not pure, and when it loses its role and loses everything, it will be more sad to leave. The system said lightly: "The animal spirit in the Taoist temple is because of the appearance of the year beast and ran over, the dead animal is also instinctively to seek advantage and avoid disaster, for the powerful soul body, the weak soul will have a sense of awe for it, and no matter how incomplete the year beast is, it is much stronger than the spirit of the small animal." ”

Although the tone was unfluctuating, Li Yu could hear it, and it was a little heart-piercing.

This creature of faith is also a little sad...

"Anyway, why can my Taoist temple be broken into by a ghost casually, what else is this Taoist temple called..."Li Yu suddenly wanted to complain, why his home was unsuspecting and invaded by a large number of fleeing animal spirits, obviously he should be quite strong.

Even small animals that are instinctively afraid can break in, so what kind of resentful spirits and wild ghosts are not the same as entering and leaving their own homes.

"The Jade Void Palace won't be invaded by geistes, but do you have one?"

Li Yu: "......"