Chapter 18: Ancient Beasts

We searched inside and out of the grove many times, but we never found Xiao Wu's body, and the corpse and bloodstains of Linghu last night, the traces of the battle between the elephant snake and the big snake, all disappeared without a trace. If it weren't for the venom of the snake on my body last night, I would have thought that yesterday's events were just another big dream I had.

Back at the inn, Mo Junxian finally mentioned the incident of last night, but even he didn't know how he got there and what he encountered, he said that from beginning to end, his consciousness was not clear.

No matter how powerful those strange beasts are, even if they can temporarily seal that small piece of wood, I don't think they have the ability to take a big living person away from under my nose without realizing it, and I still have this confidence.

Moreover, in the woods just now, although everything was well disguised, I still felt a trace of the residual aura of Dao Technique, if Mo Junxian was not lying, and my self-confidence was not my blind arrogance, maybe this matter was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

However, my self-confidence can only end here, and my strength has ended here. In order to find the tilt before, I sacrificed too much strength, it was not something that could be recovered overnight, and now I have poisoned Mo Junxian, which has hurt my vitality. Coupled with the snake venom accumulated in my body, I don't know when it will be completely dissolved by myself, and I, for the sake of a face that I didn't care much about before, once again sacrificed my already weak true element.

I sat in front of the vanity mirror and looked at my miserable face, the painful look of Mo Junxian when he said that my skin was festering in the morning kept repeating in my mind, I don't know if I made this decision because I didn't want him to continue to suffer because of guilt, or because I didn't want to make him remember this ugly appearance.

It's ridiculous to say, I have always felt that human beings have a very one-sided view of demons, and those who are beautiful are demagogues, those who are powerful are harmful to the common people, and they refuse to admit that their man-made disasters are more hateful than others. The so-called common beings refer to all living beings in the world, but they human beings only see their own interests, human beings are the primates of all things, but they regard other sentient beings as dogs.

So when human beings compliment me on how I look, I don't care more and more in my heart, as if this can refute those ignorant and ignorant human beings, what you value is the least of us.

But now, for these things I didn't care about, I once again sacrificed what little true yuan I had left to save my life. I've tried to make an excuse for my behavior, but the only explanation I can think of is that I'm crazy. I can't relate my recent actions to the old self other than I'm crazy, at least, I don't make such a mess of myself, and no one deserves me to do that for him.

I'm not sure, the only thing I know for sure is that from the time I met him, everything I did had taken a strange trajectory that pushed me to the unknown, I didn't know if it would be a new starting point, a paradise full of flowers, or the end of my confused life, a boundless abyss.

The next day, when Mo Junxian saw me for the first time, I clearly saw the shock in his eyes, and then returned to calm, and the eerie calm made me a little uneasy. The owner of the inn didn't see my face yesterday, but he didn't have anything, but he came to me and asked me what was going on with the message I asked the shopkeeper to bring back.

I smiled and told him that I knew some astrology, which I had observed yesterday by observing the celestial phenomena at night, and asked him to prepare for it, and that it was up to him to believe it or not.

Mo Junxian also heard our conversation, and looked at me, obviously, he didn't believe it, and I didn't intend to hide it from him, so I went out of the inn, sat in the carriage he rented, and I told him about the three strange beasts.

In the ancient wilderness, there is Yangshan, its mountain has a beast like a cow, a red tail, there is a sarcoma on the neck, this beast is called 'Linghu', eat its meat, can cure the disease of madness. There is also a kind of colorful bird on Yangshan, which is shaped like a female pheasant, hermaphroditic, and is named after it because of its song like a 'snake elephant'. Then there is a big snake with a bare head and a white body in the mountain, its sound is like a cow, and when you see it, it is a great drought.

The corpse I saw last night was the corpse of Linghu, and the one who fought with the big snake was the elephant snake, and it looked like that, most of the time the big snake killed Linghu, and when he was enjoying the delicious food, he was bumped into by the elephant snake, and he would fight. Mo Xiaowu, who was waiting for me outside the forest, should have been caught there by an elephant snake, and I seemed to have caught a glimpse of the sharp claw prints on his shoulder and throat in a hurry. But how Mo Junxian, who was reading a book in the house, appeared there, I really can't imagine.

"That's why you said that to that shopkeeper?" After listening to my narration, Mo Junxian asked, and then seemed to remember something, and wondered, "But you also said that those are all strange beasts in the ancient wilderness, and no one has ever seen them, whether this kind of strange beast really exists in this world is still unknown, how can you be sure, that is the ancient beast you are talking about?"

I was thinking about how to answer, but he thought of something, and turned back to concentrate on the car with a cold face, as if he had never asked the question he had just asked. I wanted to ask him if he wanted to seal the family letter to explain the situation here, but this person has always been yin and yang in the past two days, so I also asked him, so I leaned on the cushion and closed my eyes to recuperate.

I walked for a few more days, because of my injury, we all went on the road three poles in the day, and we stayed early before the sun set, and we didn't dare to hurry up and hurry, and we walked for a few days, but we only went out for more than a hundred miles.

On this day, not long after we hit the road, we saw a crowd of people on the road, supporting each other and facing us. I have been much better these days, and I am in the mood to look out, but I didn't expect that the people I saw from the car window were all yellow-skinned, unkempt, and all the strength in my body seemed to have been drained away.

However, even so, none of them would stop to rest, but they persevered and moved forward, and every man, old and young, had a deep fear in their eyes.

I suddenly had a bad feeling that I had seen such a look. Just many years ago, when Wu'er left, the people of Yingxian Town came to the end of their lives one by one with such fear, which became one of the few deep memories for me.