Mu Ziqi could sense that something was wrong with this place. 『』

The air was filled with the smell of food, a little burnt, and a hint of faty meat. He tried to ignore it repeatedly, but the scent seemed to envelop him out of nowhere.

The hunger that was so strong that it burned his internal organs lingered, and cold sweat oozed like pulp, and he dragged his weak legs, and his mind was dizzy and spun around on the mud.

He didn't know where he was going, all he had was food in his head, and he wanted to eat, and he was going crazy.

But on this barren mudflat, he could not find anything to satisfy him except wet mud and muddy salty water.

He was so hungry that he couldn't walk, so he had to hold down his empty stomach and sit down.

The little monster curled up motionless in its coat, if it weren't for the fact that it was still pulsating, Mu Ziqi would almost have thought it was dead.

He carefully wrapped it tightly with his coat, and then took out the string of copper coins and examined it.

As long as the very ordinary copper coin is aimed at the moonlight, it will show a few strange patterns, and a few clear small characters are tangled together, like a strange mark.

"Santuchuan" he squinted, and it took a long time to recognize the small lines.

Just by reciting the three words Santuchuan, he unconsciously gave birth to an indescribable cold air.

A gust of meaty night breeze blew in his face, he subconsciously shivered, thought about it and got up and continued to walk.

I don't know how long he walked, his eyes were already hungry for a while, and in a trance he felt that something seemed to be moving in his arms, he subconsciously lowered his head, and when he saw a pair of strange big eyes, he was caught off guard and finally fainted.

Tsing Yi was awakened by a knock on the door.

She got up and opened the door, and saw Xiuxiu standing outside with a large bowl in her hand.

"I've slept," Tsing Yi suddenly remembered the hour, and said in a whisper, "It's a shame that you came to wake me up." ”

"Sister Tsing Yi, you must not have eaten the morning food yet" Xiuxiu blinked, only raised the bowl in her hand and said to her, "Xiuxiu sent it to you, you can eat it now"

"But I haven't washed yet" Tsing Yi was embarrassed, "or you put it down first"

Xiuxiu hesitantly retracted her hand, she subconsciously glanced back at the aisle, and saw the stern Fang Zhou standing there straight and looking at them, so she hurriedly stuffed the big bowl into Tsing Yi's hand and said, "Eat first and then go wash up, say it's cold and it's not delicious."

As she spoke, she yelled and pushed Tsing Yi into the house.

Tsing Yi, who rarely saw Xiuxiu so impatient, only felt a little strange, and when she was about to ask a few more questions, she saw her eyes widen and looked at her expectantly.

Tsing Yi had a stalk in his throat, and he couldn't ask anything for a while.

Puzzled, she opened the lid and saw a steaming bowl filled with a pigeon with its head and feet gone.

"Where's the pigeon?" she muttered strangely, stabbing it open in the stomach with her chopsticks.

Mushrooms, minced meat, ginger and garlic, she picked up and pulled for a long time, and only recognized a few things.

"Is it a pigeon?" Xiuxiu was also surprised when she heard this, "Didn't you say it was a pheasant?"

Tsing Yi chuckled twice, and the doubts in his heart were immediately dispelled. She picked up a piece of meat and sent it to Xiuxiu's mouth, and coaxed with a smile: "I know you must have had enough along the way, eat it"

Xiuxiu really swallowed her saliva, but she didn't open her mouth to pick it up, but covered her mouth with her hand and said in a sullen voice: "They told me not to be greedy, this is all for you to replenish your body, wait for you to finish eating, they will make me delicious pastries to eat."

Saying that, she urged Tsing Yi to eat quickly, so that she could go back and ask for a reward.

Tsing Yi was so urged that he couldn't do it, so he had to rinse his mouth with water before he started.

I don't know if it is because she didn't clean her teeth with green salt, but she always felt that this pigeon tasted a little wrong. But if it is a pheasant, the taste is not very similar, and if you taste it carefully, it has a bit of toughness like beef and horse meat.

After eating it in a daze, she put down her chopsticks and said, "Who burned this pigeon pheasant, it seems to be old, and the meat is a little chewy." ”

"The Ark did it." Xiuxiu casually said the name of the ark.

Tsing Yi's expression froze for a moment.

"Sister Tsing Yi, you didn't drink the soup cleanly" Xiuxiu glanced at the big bowl and saw that there was still half a bowl of chicken soup left in the bowl, so she reminded again, "He said that the chicken soup is also very replenishing, so don't waste it." ”

Tsing Yi glanced at Xiuxiu helplessly, and had to lift the bowl again to drink the soup, then pushed the bowl back to her and said, "It's feasible now, let's ask for your reward."

Xiuxiu cheered, and sure enough, she picked up the bowl and ran out.

Tsing Yi, who had been put on a table, raised his hand and lightly beat his chest, and only after half a sound did he put on a face to find the ark.

Fang Zhou, who was busy decocting the medicine, heard the movement, and when he looked up, he saw Tsing Yi saying to him seriously: "If you have anything to give me in the future, send it directly, don't instruct Xiuxiu"

Fang Zhou nodded in agreement, and then lowered his head and was about to continue decocting the medicine, when he heard Tsing Yi say hesitantly: "And then what is in that bowl?"

"Pheasant." Fang Zhou replied without changing his face, "The little lady has just given birth, and she needs to make up for her body." There are many things in the inn, no more than at home, I can only catch a pheasant and come back. ”

"Really" Tsing Yi looked at Fang Zhou scrutinically, and saw that Fang Zhou had a righteous face, not like a person who could lie.

In this way, the only idea left in her heart was uncomfortable, and it disappeared.

Master Gao, who was burning the fire, listened to it for a long time, and as soon as Tsing Yi left, he came to Fang Zhou's side and said curiously: "It's really a pheasant, how do I remember that your Ji Li Kingdom is a demon eater?"

Fang Zhou fanned the fire silently, and Master Gao choked on the smoke and coughed twice, and then dodged away again.

"Even if it's really a pheasant, the material for filling the chicken's belly is definitely not simple." Master Gao, who didn't get an answer, muttered to himself, "I smell this bowl, well, it seems to smell a little bit of Ziling grass meat, it seems to be Luo Luo."

I don't know what spices the ark used to get rid of the fishy smell, Master Gao smelled it for a long time, but he couldn't smell it. The wild bull who happened to come back from going out pushed the door in, and Master Gao, who was concentrating on identifying the materials, suddenly smelled a strong smell of flying locusts, and even patted his thighs and shouted: "Oh, Lao Tzu smelled it, you put locust eggs in it, right, Lao Tzu should have thought of it, there are so many locust eggs outside the inn."

"What are you yelling about alone," Manniu pinched the back of Master Gao's neck, and then said in a deep voice, "Get me some food, and I'll go out after eating." ”

Master Gao shouted, and when he turned his head, he found that the ark had long since disappeared.

The brute bull in silver armor looked a little tired, and Master Gao could smell the heavy blood as long as he got a little closer.

"Qingqing, do you want to take a rest," Master Gao, who felt sorry for the bride, said busily, "I'll go out for you to find those flying locust mothers, and you just sleep in the room." ”

"I only came back to pay back to my lordship, and I have killed the last adult locust mother." Manniu pushed Master Gao away and said, "Now there are some eggs left, and I don't know how many they have born, we have been looking for a long time, and we haven't cleaned them up yet." I met a lot of larvae on the way."

Saying that, she was very worried, and after thinking about it, she didn't even eat, and got up and prepared to go out.

Master Gao saw that he didn't eat the wild cow rice, so he hurriedly chased after him with a leg of mutton and said: "Qingqing, Qingqing, don't be in a hurry to leave, even if the locusts are plagued, don't be in a hurry to roast the leg of lamb for a while."

The bull shook his head without looking back, and Master Gao was very anxious.

He followed closely behind with a leg of raw lamb, and the monsters who were squatting on the ground eating roasted eggs scattered in all directions.

Tsing Yi, who was leaning against the window, was very amused when he saw this.

Hei Saburo, who didn't know when he came back, came over slowly with an egg in his hand, and gently rested his head on Tsing Yi's shoulder.

Tsing Yi's shoulder socket was a little tickled by him, so he raised his hand and pushed him and said, "Where did you go in the morning?"

Hei Saburo muttered, and said lazily for a long time: "I'm going to work, otherwise Hu Ji should give me a look at it again." ”

At the mention of Hu Ji, he felt a little angry.

Tsing Yi was amused and laughed again. The two of them, one is a thousand-year-old fox demon, and the other is the famous Lord of the Three Paths, I really don't understand why they are so childish, they can't be provoked at all

"We're still buddies now, so we're supposed to do the work." Tsing Yi touched his head comfortingly, and at the same time said uneasily, "Haven't I been too lazy lately?"

"I'll give you a hundred of them for one." Hei Saburo hugged Tsing Yi tightly and said, "You just have to rest, there is me"

With that, he glanced out the window.

From time to time, a thick cloud of smoke rose from the barren mudflats, and even in the inn, he could still smell the scent of flying locusts in the wind.

"There is another one," he muttered to himself, and Tsing Yi turned his head in confusion, and saw a cold light quickly passing through his deep eyes.

His mouth was full of fishy mucus, and the feeling of nausea was intense. Mu Ziqi, who was in a coma, was woken up by vomiting.

He rolled over suddenly, and began to vomit in a position that he was lying on the ground.

"Don't you like to eat," a slightly familiar voice said disappointedly, "It's a pity, this is the food I found for a long time."

Mu Ziqi vomited until bile appeared, and then he barely stopped vomiting. He raised his head with difficulty, and saw a female doll about ** years old squatting on the side.

It was obviously very strange to see a female doll in such a barren and bewishing place, Mu Ziqi wiped her eyes with her sleeve in surprise to make sure that her vision was no longer blurry, and then raised her eyes to look at the female doll again.

This time he saw details he hadn't seen before.

This female doll has the same big dark eyes as the little monsters. As she looked down and fiddled with the bird in her hand, he could see the familiar pair of small wings prominently resting on her shoulder blades.

He had an almost impossible idea.

He looked down and opened the coat to take a closer look, only to see that there was only an empty shell that resembled a cicada.

"Don't you really want to eat it," the little monster who grew up raised the bird in his hand to his nose inquiringly, "and there is nothing else to eat in the vicinity other than this." ”

Mu Ziqi smelled the bloody gas, so he couldn't help but cover his twitching stomach and said, "No"

The little monster no longer forced him. It has just shed its shell, and it is when it is hungry, and it is better for Mu Ziqi to share it with food.

Mu Ziqi watched with horror as the little monster devoured the bird raw, and when it licked its fingers and looked at him, he unconsciously shrank for a moment.

"My wounds are healed." The little monster with only a bottom of his stomach couldn't sit still, so he could only approach Mu Ziqi patiently and said, "You said that when I get better, I'll sing to me." ”

Mu Ziqi was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and could only find a way to delay: "But my piano hasn't been found yet."

"How long will it take?" asked the little monster, "tomorrow?"

Its expression was too expectant, and Mu Ziqi really couldn't bear to say no.

He pondered for a moment, and said in his heart that if they could get to the Santu River tonight, and when they returned to the mortal world by boat, why would they not be able to get the qin

Thinking like this, he said to the little monster with relief: "Yes, tomorrow." ”

The little monster smiled happily.

Mu Ziqi chuckled lightly and said, "But before that, we have to go to the Santu River first." Do you know where the Samtu River is?"

"I know," the little monster immediately jumped up and pointed in the opposite direction, "The monsters all know where the Santu River is, there, and there is the Santu River all the way." ”

As soon as the little monster got up, Mu Ziqi found that it was defenseless. He subconsciously picked up the coat that had wrapped around it and tentatively draped it on.

The little monster shook off his shirt and said, "Don't put your worm on me, it's very uncomfortable." ”

With that, it shook its wings and flew ahead of it.

Mu Ziqi sighed, could only pick up the coat and shake it clean, and put it on his body again.

With the little monster leading the way, he walked much more smoothly. Just walking, he noticed that the mudflats under his feet had changed drastically.

The wet and muddy scene was gradually replaced by a black, dry and cracked hard surface. Massive, a hill taller than him, towered densely above the scorched earth. Every time he walked through the mountains, he could smell the rich aroma of barbecue.

The little monster who led the way was lying on a small hill wall sadly, and when Mu Ziqi came over strangely, it whispered sadly: "The natural enemies killed them all." ”

"Ah" Mu Ziqi didn't understand the little monster's words.

"These are my brothers and sisters." The little monster touched the charred eggs and explained, "You see, they were burned alive before they hatched. ”

Mu Ziqi was taken aback, and when he was about to retreat away from the hill where the eggs were piled up, he found that there were countless piles of the same eggs behind him.

He rubbed his arms with affection, and then urged: "It's not early, let's hurry up." Otherwise, your enemies will come after you. ”

The little monster hummed quietly, and then began to fly again.

There is one more molt left, and it will become an adult. When it reaches adulthood, it will go to a mate and then give birth to more and more eggs.

Thinking of this, it couldn't help but glance back at Mu Ziqi.

"Your wings," it asked again uneasily, "is it possible to grow back tonight?"

"If we can get to the Santu River sooner, it's possible." Mu Ziqi saw that the little monster was anxious, so he comforted, "Wait patiently first, wait for the new piano after crossing the river, and listen to it for as long as you like." ”

The little monster didn't say anything, but just sped up its flight.

It deliberately chose a route that deviated from the aura of natural enemies, and under the cover of the corpses of its dead compatriots, it and Mu Ziqi were finally able to get all the way unimpeded.

Before it got dark, they were about to reach the Santu River.

"That's the Santu River." The little monster didn't fly over directly, but hid in the corner in fear and said, "But there are many natural enemies there, and I don't dare to go there." ”

Mu Ziqi also felt that those ghosts and monsters waiting to cross the river were terrifying, and he didn't dare to step forward for a while.

In this way, they invariably chose to wait.

As soon as the group of youkai crossed the river, they immediately went over to take a boat.

But there are too many youkai to cross the river, and before the one in front of me can finish getting on the boat, new youkai will come.

They waited and waited until it was dark, and they did not wait for a chance.

The Santu River, which was full of ghosts, constantly exuded a cold atmosphere, and Mu Ziqi, who was hungry and tired, couldn't stand the cold, and couldn't help but fall asleep.

I don't know how long it took him to sleep before he woke up with a sore body.

He carefully peeked at the river, and after nightfall, there were fewer monsters crossing the river.

Mu Ziqi, who had been waiting for a day, felt that he couldn't wait any longer, so he stared at the ferry that was gradually approaching, and his subordinates began to push the little monsters around him.

But the little monster lay there motionless, unable to push him up.

Mu Ziqi was shocked and hurriedly turned his head to look.

Just like last night, the little monster curled up, and there was no reaction other than a faint pulsation.

The ferry boat has docked, and the youkai and the ghost who are about to cross the river get on the boat in turn. The ferryman put the pole against the embankment and was ready to sail at any moment.

Mu Ziqi, who was in a hurry, hurriedly got up and chased: "Wait, wait, please wait for us."

The ferryman and the river woman turned around and shook the boat they were about to drive, and then stopped again.

Mu Ziqi was overjoyed, and hurriedly turned back and picked up the little monster.

I didn't think that he had only run a few steps with the little monster in his arms, and then he felt that the little monster seemed to move.

He bowed his head in surprise and said, "Are you awake, the boat is coming, and we will cross the river." ”

The little monster's body was quiet for a moment, and then it trembled violently again.

Then before Mu Ziqi could react, a snow-white and smooth back broke out.

Mu Ziqi, who was caught off guard, was so frightened that he froze in place. His eyes widened as he watched as a woman squeezed out of the body of a little monster.

First a delicate snow back, then a cloud of hair. Her delicate arms wrapped around his neck at some point, and he held her slender waist and slender, smooth thighs.

He vaguely guessed that the woman was the little monster.

He never knew that the monster could grow up so quickly, and in just two nights, the baby-like little monster when he first met turned into a little lady who had already reached the end of his eyes in the blink of an eye.

When the little monster who had grown up looked up and smiled at him, he realized that she was not in the right direction. In an instant, his heart was like a drum, and he was extremely embarrassed.

"Hurry up and get dressed" He hurriedly let go of the little monster, and wrapped her ** body tightly with his own coat.

The little monster glanced at Mu Ziqi fixedly, and then clinged to him like a boneless vine.

She knew that when it dawned tomorrow, she would never hear such a nice chirp again.

The death of males after mating with females is something that all locusts know. As long as it is related to reproduction, there is no need for the mother worm to teach, she knows it clearly. It was an innate instinct that flowed in the blood of worms like an appetite.

She has already chosen Mu Ziqi, and in her opinion, there is only one spouse who can fulfill her duty of reproduction with her.

"Take me across the river." She said softly, "I can only wait for you one more night." ”

As she spoke, she was already a little and thirsty, rubbing her body against her chosen spouse.

"You let go of me first," Mu Ziqi pushed away the little monster with some embarrassment.

The way the monsters by the river looked at them was so weird that he couldn't deal with it calmly.

He nervously took the little monster's hand and walked over the ferry as fast as he could.

He Po took the string of copper coins and looked at Mu Ziqi carefully with her cloudy old eyes, but when she saw the little monster hiding behind Mu Ziqi, her eyes widened.

"Flying Locust"

The monsters on the boat suddenly stirred, and the ferryman waved his arm, but he pushed the boat away.

The little youkai who was recognized looked around uneasily at first, and when she saw dozens of unkind-faced youkai rushing towards them, she immediately realized that they were all her enemies.

She approached Mu Ziqi in fear, and said in a trembling voice: "Take me on the boat, the natural enemies are chasing after me."

Mu Ziqi was in a hurry when he heard this, seeing that the ferry had already taken a step away, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and let go, and he was about to jump over.

But before he could lift his feet off the ground, he felt his body fly involuntarily.

He turned his head to look behind him in surprise, and saw a female soldier in silver armor raising her extremely sharp heavy sword and swinging it at the little monster.

At the moment when her body shattered, she smiled regretfully at him. After all, she still didn't hear the sound she liked anymore.

A dull wave of excruciating pain suddenly hit him in the back.

"It's a shame that we arrived in time." The brute bull waved his arm to shake off the insect blood on the heavy sword, and ordered in a deep voice, "In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, inspect it again"

"Yes"

The ferry swayed towards the other side, and Mu Ziqi collapsed motionless on the board, just watching the terrible place get farther and farther away.

He knew that he was about to return to the mortal world, and he would never meet a bosom friend like a little monster again.

The author has something to say: sigh, or kill ruthlessly