Chapter 63: The Way of the Ghost Eaters

Chao Xing didn't understand that before he could rest, the leopard hurriedly called himself and Lu Yun what was the matter before, but when he heard the leopard look incredulous, he asked, "Didn't you say yesterday that you wanted to settle accounts with Yu Qian?" Let's discuss it a little and let's go. Lu Yunzhi was dumbfounded and said, "Leopard, you mean to go directly to Beijing to find him desperately." The leopard smiled: "Of course not, how can I be so stupid." What I mean is to divide and crush, consume the enemy's strength with guerrilla attacks, and finally smash the Yellow Dragon, and then Yu Qian will have to be captured no matter how powerful he is. ”

"Haha, leopard, you still think of Yu Qian too simply, behind him is a country as his backstage, it is far from easy to overthrow him, we have to think about it in the long run." Lu Yunzhi said with a smile. The leopard touched its head, sat on the ground with some dejection, and said, "Do what you say." "The leopard and Qin Rufeng's personalities are somewhat similar, they are both good at fighting and leading soldiers, and they are both bloody men with extremely irritable personalities, but they are a little worse at strategizing. Although they are similar, there is still a slight difference in the personalities of the two, Qin Rufeng is irritable with a hint of vanity, and he cares more about what others think of him, but he loves to pretend not to care. The leopard, on the other hand, seems to be iron-blooded and ruthless, but in fact it is like a child, with a lot of frankness, which may be caused by the isolation of this paradise-like valley.

Lu Yunzhi sighed, sat cross-legged for a while, recovered most of his spirit, and then asked, "Leopard, since you are here, you can tell us about this valley and the iron tower." To be honest, this tower is very similar to the structure of the Treasure of the Town Soul Tower, which is in our Zhongzheng lineage, and I don't think it's a coincidence, plus what you said yesterday when you entered the valley, this iron tower was even more suspicious of me. ”

After hearing this, the leopard nodded and said, "That's true, let me first talk about the origin of this valley, it is called Shuanglong Valley, because it is next to Shuanglong Slope, so it is named." When I was a child, we were once ostracized by the people of the Northwest Territory, and escalated from a quarrel to a fight, and in the end we were numerous, and they were not opponents, in short, there were many people and one person was killed. So several branches of heaven, earth and man near the local area sent a request for help to the Zhongzheng first line, and sought the support of all heaven, earth and people. My father, the leader of the Oni-Eaters at that time, led us to move to more remote places, and we were not afraid of the heavens, the earth, and the people, but if all the branches worked together against us, we might perish. We have been incognito just to preserve our traditions, hundreds of years ago, the ancestor of your heaven and earth people, Xing Wen, hunted us down, so that our strength is not as good as before, and some of the traitors of the ghost eater clan in southern Xinjiang have thrown themselves into the door of the heaven, earth and people, and they are no longer the real ghost eaters. We were not fleeing but to fight back, and when we fled to Ssangyongpo, we happened to be on top of this high mountain and found the black hole we had entered the valley before. ”

The leopard's throat was a little dry, coughed twice and ran out, and after a while, he took a pot of water and took a sip and handed it to Lu Yunzhi, and then said to himself: "I'm dying of thirst, our ghost eating clan is not as you imagined that we can only live by eating ghosts, yesterday you also saw that we also drink wine and eat meat, and it doesn't hurt if Yingzi doesn't eat ghosts when he is with you." It's just that we are born with a killing intent towards ghosts, and we can't help but kill and devour them, I think it may have something to do with our ancestors devouring ghosts after going mad, in short, this is the nature that flows in our blood. We can eat ghosts once and still have energy for days without eating, and people who have tried the taste of ghosts once will never be able to quit this feeling. In addition to receiving some training from an early age, we also have to soak our eyes and hands in potions, and practice kung fu such as eagle claws and tiger claws to ensure that our hands are strong and powerful. Soaking the eyes is to be able to observe those weak ghosts more intuitively. The main reason why the heavens, earth and people call us soul eaters is that we use our teeth to bite ghosts in addition to our hands, they think that we are extremely barbaric, and it is even more unfavorable to reincarnation, but who can say clearly whether ghosts can be reincarnated, this is just a hypocrite's justification for our killing. Okay, let's not talk about that, let's move on. Our teeth were soaked in potion, and later we engraved the spirit rune on the tooth, and then we invented the miniature carving on the tooth for the sake of beauty, so that the spirit rune engraved on the tooth can not be seen. The leopard said and grinned and rushed towards Lu Yunzhi, asking Lu Yunzhi to observe his teeth.

Lu Yunzhi still has some understanding of the ghost eater clan, and he has also taken this opportunity to carefully observe Yingzi's teeth, but what Yingzi said is not as detailed as what the leopard explained, so he wants to take a closer look at it at this moment. Lu Yunzhi just put his head to the leopard's mouth, but the leopard suddenly burped, which made Lu Yunzhi retreat again and again. The leopard seemed to have succeeded in the conspiracy, laughing, Lu Yunzhi had to cover his nose with his sleeves and said: "Leopard, you are too vulgar, this is unreasonable." ”

"You looked like a reckless man when you drank at the table yesterday, you were a strong martial artist on the battlefield, and now you have become a sour scholar, you are so changeable, no wonder my sister likes you, you are fun, so fun." The leopard laughed and said, "Don't make a fuss, I'll continue." We fled to Shuanglongpo and found this black hole, and there are many ghosts guarding the entrance of the cave, they are all earth bound spirits, and they are sealed at the entrance of the cave, so they guard the entrance of the cave. At that time, we were tired and tired, and we were short of food and clothing, and we were in a state of melancholy when we saw so many ghosts, so we killed all these ghosts, and after devouring them, we recovered our spirits. When our father had rested, he sent men to explore the cave, and found this canyon, which was tortuous but not dangerous, so we went into the cave and built these dwellings, planted flowers, trees, crops, raised livestock, dug wells for water, and lived from here. My father also ordered people to arrange various mechanisms along the path of the black hole to prevent the heavens, earth and people from stumbling into us by mistake, and those who did not know the path would definitely die if they entered. Even if we went into the cave with torches and lanterns, we couldn't find these hidden mechanisms, although we built these houses, but when we entered the valley, we found that the iron tower where we were now stood, just as it is now, and we pushed open the gate without difficulty, and the inside was empty. It's just that the first floor is empty, but there is another door on the second floor, and we tried a few times but couldn't break through that door. After studying for a long time, my father made a family rule, telling us that we were not allowed to open that door, and there must be a big secret behind the door, which would bring death to the ghost eaters, and the secret inside that door was buried from then on. Later, we got used to it, and anyway, the first floor was big enough for us to gather, so there was no need to look for those troubles. ”

"Well, what about later?" Lu Yunzhi asked. The leopard replied: "Later, my father and mother met with the sixteen evil ghosts outside, and both died in battle, at that time Yingzi was still young and I was not big, and we grew up slowly with the help of the clan, and I was elected to be the patriarch, and then I established this cottage, which is naturally the owner of the village." ”