Chapter 8: The Year Beast
Time is fleeting like flowing water, a year has passed in the blink of an eye, and it is said that the years are not forgiving, and the slag on Liu Zun's face is the traces left by the years. Time has diluted a lot of things, and the life and death that Liu Zun encountered before has faded out like a nightmare, only Nangong Shangxiang lingers in his mind, he desperately wants to forget her, but his heart tells him that it is impossible. He can only look at her circle of friends when he thinks about her, but although she has a lot of photos, they are all sad and distressing.
Today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and after calling his parents, Liu Zun came to the side of the road where he first met Nangong Shangxiang with two bottles of white wine and drank stuffy wine. It was late at night, and a crescent moon hung alone in the sky, surrounded by only a few stars, and they formed the shape of a tear, as if God was weeping for him. With the sound of firecrackers coming from all directions, it was already twelve o'clock at this time, and the two bottles of liquor were also drunk by Liu Zun, and when he was about to go back to sleep, a huge monster chased a little rabbit and ran over from him, Liu Zun sighed that people were unlucky, and they really drank cold water and stuffed their teeth!
Because of the effect of alcohol, Liu Zun at this time was top-heavy, and he couldn't run if he wanted to, so he could only watch the little white rabbit jump into his arms, people said that he was seeking skin with the tiger, but Liu Zun was grabbing food with the monster at this time, probably no one except him!
The monster's whole body is red, its body is five or six meters long, its head looks like a lion but it has two antennae, and its mouth has a pair of fangs like a saber-toothed tiger, which is also red, and its body is like the body of a horse, with a pair of wings more than ten meters long, and its four legs are as thick as an elephant's legs.
"Do you know where my master is?"
"I've never seen your master, you better look elsewhere!" Seeing its fierce appearance, Liu Zun planned to send it away as soon as possible.
"You are the only person I have ever seen who has three souls and eight spirits besides him, but unfortunately you lost one, you must have a great relationship with each other!" the monster said to Liu Zun.
Hearing it talk about the Eight Spirits, Liu Zun suddenly became interested: "You don't even say who your master is, how do I know if I've seen it!"
"My master is the ...... of heaven" Speaking of its master, it stammered, and couldn't say anything else except the word heaven, and after a pause, the monster took a deep breath and said, "The world calls him Emperor Xudu!"
"Didn't Judge Zhong Kui say that he was in retreat a few days ago, why did he disappear?" asked Liu Zun with a puzzled face.
"My master disappeared many years ago, and the underworld said that his retreat was just a cover-up, and I have been looking for him for nineteen years since he disappeared!" said the monster, with a look of worry on his face, which made people look very sympathetic.
"If you tell me the secrets of the underworld, do you believe me so much? Aren't you afraid that the people of the underworld will punish you?" asked Liu Zun.
"You are so much like him, you will not be a bad person, I have said nothing but you, and as for punishment, no one is qualified to punish me except my master!" replied the monster.
According to the monster, he is the leader of the Nian Beast clan, in ancient times, the Nian Beast fed on human flesh, under its leadership the human race suffered heavy casualties, and no one could stop it for a while, so at this time the Emperor Xudu defeated it, accepted it as a mount, and named it Rainbow, since then the Nian Beast clan is no longer a human race, returned to his hometown in the East China Sea to feed on fish and shrimp, but nineteen years ago its owner disappeared, Rainbow had to sneak into the world to find the master, this search is nineteen years.
"I also sympathize with you, but I really haven't seen him, I'll tell you when I see him, can you go back first?" Liu Zun said seriously.
"But I'm hungry. Looking at the little white rabbit in Liu Zun's arms, Rainbow's saliva flowed down.
"Go aside, it's mine and you can't hurt it. Knowing that Rainbow was not bad, Liu Zun became bolder.
"I haven't eaten in a year!" Seeing that I was so fierce, Rainbow said aggrievedly.
Liu Zun rode the rainbow to the grove not far from the company, released the little white rabbit, and returned to the company after telling it not to hurt the little white rabbit. At this time, Liu Zun ran into the canteen, carried a pot of more than 30 kilograms of rice and ran out in front of everyone, and a few minutes later brought a pot of meat, and the people who watched the meal were stunned, and some people laughed.
"It seems that the door of the mental hospital has not been closed these days, and this goods have come out!" the aunt who cooked in the cafeteria scolded.
After eating, Rainbow said with a smile: "You are so good to me, when I have time to go back to my hometown, I will bring my second uncle's eldest brother to you as a mount, it is also quite powerful!"
Hearing that he was going to have a bull fork mount, Liu Zun was overjoyed, and said shamelessly: "I never ask for anything in return for doing good deeds, but your hospitality is difficult, so I reluctantly agree, I don't know when you will return to your hometown?"
"Wait until you find my master. Rainbow said seriously.
Liu Zun said in his heart, I will go, you are a personal essence! Phew, beast spirit, don't you mean that you didn't say it? When Liu Zun greeted the ancestor of Tianhong in his heart, its stomach gurgled and remembered, and said with a wicked smile that it was hungry again, and said that it had a long body, and Liu Zun was also speechless about this, you are a thousands of years old beast and still have a long body, believe you are a ghost! In desperation, Liu Zun pointed to the Yinyang Cave and said that there is delicious food there. Half an hour later, Rainbow flew back satisfied, dragging a mouse tail more than a meter long in her mouth.
Tianhong said that you can find the owner by following Liu Zun, but how can Liu Zun take it to work, so that it is strange not to scare people to death, and finally Liu Zun let it live in the Yin Yang Cave, and when there is news to notify it, it nodded obediently and flew away, it just left, and the sound of ghosts crying wolves was heard in all directions, and a group of zombies were surrounding Liu Zun. Although he is immune to corpse poison, there are so many zombies, and one bite of Liu Zun is not enough!
Liu Zun had no way out, he could only climb a tree of more than ten meters, as long as he could survive until dawn, he could survive. But zombies are not so easy to dismiss, seeing that Liu Zun can't bite on the tree, they frantically hit the tree, and the big tree with a pot thickness has been broken by them in less than five minutes, and Liu Zun's body began to fall. "Dad, Mom, my son is not filial, I will be filial to you in the next life, Xiangxiang, we will love each other again in the next life!"
But the expected situation of being eaten by zombies did not happen, I saw a girl in a white dress catch Liu Zun and fly away from the zombie encirclement, she just put Liu Zun down, and the zombies rushed towards the two of them. The girl was in danger, slowly stood up and waved her little hand to meet her, only to see her light steps as if dancing, the little pink fist hit the zombie's head one by one, and then the zombies' heads were all crushed, and the girl's body was not stained with blood, not even on her hands.
"How did you do that, teach me. Liu Zun happily ran to the girl and said to her.
"That's how it was done, hehe. The girl tapped Liu Zun's head lightly with her small hand, which was so soft that it seemed to have no bones, and said with a smile.
The girl is very beautiful, and she is only a little worse than Nangong Shangxiang, and she is also a country and a city. She told Liu Zun that her ancestors were exorcists, and she also learned some skills to defend herself, and she also came to apply for a job nearby, because she temporarily lived in her cousin's house nearby during the Chinese New Year.
Because of the way, the two went down the mountain together, and they were very happy to talk and laugh along the way, and they didn't separate until the door of the company.
The next day, Liu Zun went to Zhong Gangyi to tell him the news of Emperor Xudu, and Zhong Gangyi sighed after hearing it and said: "If something happens in Beiyin, the world will be in chaos!"