Chapter 44: Shadow
However, at night, when they saw a faint flame with a bright green light floating in the air, the villagers only felt creepy, but they didn't dare to say anything, so they followed Watanabe Yuki tremblingly, getting closer and closer, closer and closer.
Watanabe Yuki was very helpless and pushed the people on both sides who were so crowded that they couldn't even walk, and wanted to say something, but finally thought about it but didn't say it.
- He could also see that these villagers were really scared to death, and it was not easy to keep up with them like this.
Watanabe Yuki comforted himself in his heart, and followed Qiao Xi intently.
After about half an hour, the abandoned shrine that the heavenly demon said had arrived.
As soon as it stood in the doorway, it grinned and said, "My lord, this is it, there are six human children in it." β
Qiao Xi glanced at it, raised his eyebrows with a subtle expression, and said, "Are you sure?" β
The Heavenly Evil Ghost nodded and pushed the door open, bringing Qiao Xi and the others in, and then looked at the messy straw on the ground in front of him, his eyes widened in shock and began to be in a daze.
This shrine is very dilapidated, and I don't know which god was enshrined before, but there is nothing in it now, only some straw scattered on the ground, but there is a candle as thick as a man's arm on the table inside, which illuminates the shrine a lot, and it looks like it is indeed a trace of human life.
Qiao Xi didn't have a look of surprise on his face at all.
As soon as he walked to the door, he found that although the aura in this shrine was mottled and complicated, and the chaotic demonic aura was mixed with the breath of three or two humans, he could still be sure that there was not a single human in it at the moment.
The heavenly demon was stunned for a while, and one of the villagers hid behind Watanabe Yuki and plucked up the courage to ask, "What about the child you are talking about?" There's no one in there! β
"Onmyoji-sama! It's just trying to trick us into coming here and eating it, so get it ...... Yes!!!! β
Before the villager could finish his sentence, he couldn't help but scream in pain, and a firewood knife slashed at his back behind him, and a rich bloody aura emanated in an instant. He looked back in shock, only to find that it was his companion who had slashed him.
Yuya Watanabe looked over in shock, looking both shocked and frightened.
The five or six villagers standing behind him were all in a trance, except for the one who had been slashed, and he was so stunned that he didn't know how to react, but subconsciously looked at the heavenly demon with a distorted face.
As a result, he didn't expect that the heavenly evil ghost looked even more surprised than himself, and he cried and explained to Qiao Xi with a sad face and a wolf howl.
"My lord, it's not me! It's really not me! I do not know! Really grown......
Qiao Xi squinted his eyes, listening to the heavenly evil ghost arguing in his ear, so he shouted coldly: "Shut up!" β
While he spoke, he was already pulling Watanabe Yuki's collar with one hand and pulling the firefly with the other, and by the way, he raised his foot and kicked the heavenly demon out of the door, and he followed out, and then stood at the door with an uncertain expression and watched the five or six humans inside kill each other.
He thought about it, and when he was about to turn his head to say something to Watanabe Yuki, he saw Watanabe Yuki with his eyes open in a trance, and there was no light in his pupils at all.
Qiao Xi couldn't help but hold his forehead, and slapped him unconscious with a neat palm, and then put him on the ground to study it.
He watched for a long time, but he didn't see any accidents on Watanabe Yuki, the screams of those people in the shrine kept ringing, and the night wind blew this rich bloody smell everywhere, and the ground of the shrine with black-red blood spread little by little under the night, soaking those straws into a darker color.
Qiao Xi paid attention to the movement inside, and his face couldn't help but turn a little dark.
- Shame! What a shame!
actually killed people in front of his dignified Fengyue God, this guy is amazing.
Qiao Xi hooked the corners of his lips, and his eyes fell on Watanabe Yuki's shadow that looked a little distorted in the blurred moonlight, his eyes suddenly sharpened, and the folding fan in his hand was inserted into the ground like electricity, which happened to insert his shadow squarely.
Today's moonlight is not bright, and the layers of dark clouds cover it, and people can only vaguely see mottled black shadows, and at the moment when Yuki Watanabe's shadow was inserted on the ground by a folding fan, a sharp roar suddenly sounded in the air.
And his shadow did twist and crawl away from under the folding fan like a living thing.
Suddenly, the Heavenly Demon jumped up from the ground.
"I see! It's a shadow! β
It looked at Qiao Xi excitedly.
"My lord! It's a shadow! β
Qiao Xi blinked, listening to Firefly's very dutiful explanation in his ears, but he unhurriedly opened his folding fan in his hand.
A folding fan turned into sixteen white jade bones in his handβit was supposed to be seventeen, but there was one that was now stuck in the ground with Watanabe's shadow.
He hooked the corners of his lips, and with a slight movement of his fingertips, several fan bones shot towards the shrine, and in an instant, the voice inside suddenly became sharp.
It is different from the miserable howl of human beings because of pain, but it is a more piercing sound, mixed with unwilling anger.
Qiao Xi shouted at the same time as he made a move, "Fireflies!" Firefly understood his intentions very tacitly, and threw a few "rays of life" towards the people in the shrine, moving skillfully and quickly.
Qiao Xi glanced at her appreciatively, and then thought about the introduction of Firefly just now.
Shadow is a very bad youkai that was born out of human resentment.
Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a child named Katsuko in a certain village, who was born with six fingers, and was regarded as an ominous existence by the people in the village, and was bullied by the people in the village all day long.
By the time he was sixteen years old, it had not rained in the village for a whole year, but the village next door to them had a good day.
I don't know why, some people say it's because of victory.
Katsu was born as evil spirits, and they raised them to anger the gods, and the gods punished them for this.
The enraged villagers tie up Katsu, who has become strange because of his childhood experience, and want to burn the evil spirit to death in full view of everyone to ask for forgiveness from the gods.
- What they don't know is that what they burned was indeed an evil ghost, and this evil ghost was released by them themselves.
The bright light of the fire shone brightly, casting a bright and extinguishing light and shadow on the ground, and also leaving a long shadow behind the surrounding villagers.
Katsu controlled the shadows and dragged the villagers into the flames, which had been burning for a long time - and the fuel was the entire village.