Chapter 23: Jiang Kui appears
After the smoke and dust gradually cleared, the huge figure of the octopus monster appeared in front of Guo Jia and them, looking at the behemoth in front of him, Guo Jia felt a little powerless.
Through his vision, Guo Jia clearly saw that the octopus monster held its head high, and its barbed mouthparts spewed out a bundle of jet-black ink, which rained on the ground, and the place where the ink was poured was corroded into a deep hole. Guo Jia fought and retreated, and while beckoning Zhou Kui to retreat, he waved the seven-star sword to resist the tentacles of the octopus monster.
"Samadhi True Fire Array!"
Guo Jia used up the last few Samadhi True Fire Talismans in the yellow cloth bag and built a wall of fire made of Samadhi True Fire on the ground, trying to temporarily block the octopus monster's progress.
However, the ink that spat out of the octopus monster's mouth quickly extinguished the burning samadhi fire. Guo Jia was busy protecting Zhou Kui, and was accidentally hit in the back by a tentacle of the octopus monster, and under the action of the strong collision force, Guo Jia was blown out more than ten meters away, and finally smashed on a big stone.
"Big brother!"
Seeing that Guo Jia was injured, Zhou Kui ran over anxiously to help Guo Jia.
"Quick, run, with my strength, it's hard to defeat this monster!" Guo Jia wiped the bloodshot from the corner of his mouth, and said in a trembling voice.
Taking advantage of the fact that the octopus monster had not caught up, Zhou Kui helped Guo Jia and staggered to the entrance of the cave, Guo Jia pointed to the entrance of the cave and explained to Zhou Kui: "When you entered this stone room from the beginning, you have been under the mind control of the octopus monster, in fact, there is no maze or 'ghost hitting the wall' at all. After a lot of hard fighting, I didn't manage to damage the octopus monster, but I succeeded in blocking its mind control over you. ”
Zhou Kui listened to Guo Jia's explanation, and suddenly became enlightened, the road in front of him was clearer than just now, and the entrance to the cave was close at hand.
At this critical juncture, a familiar voice sounded behind Zhou Kui and Guo Jia: "The two Dao Chiefs are leaving, they have discovered our secrets, do you still want to get out alive?" ”
Guo Jia looked back, only to see a figure out of the huge black shadow of the octopus monster, and as the figure gradually became clear, Guo Jia whispered out a name: "Jiang Kui!" ”
Zhou Kui was taken aback, and he also looked back at the place where the figure appeared.
"Sure enough, it's that Mr. Yin and Yang Jiang Kui, but what is his intention when he appears here?"
Jiang Kui, who was unarmed, had a confident smile on his face, he walked forward slowly, approached Guo Jia and Zhou Kui, and pretended to be polite and said, "The two Dao Masters are really capable, they almost destroyed our stronghold in one night. ”
Guo Jia didn't take Jiang Kui's words, and asked with a serious face: "Is this octopus monster refined by you with evil methods?" ”
Jiang Kui agreed very simply: "That's right, it was indeed made and cultivated by us. ”
"What is the purpose of creating such a terrible monster?" Guo Jia continued to ask.
Jiang Kui didn't reply immediately, he turned around and glanced at the octopus monster, as if he was looking at his own child, and said gently: "The octopus monster in your mouth is called 'Ketulu' on our side, which means the family of the gods. Twenty years ago, I and a few other companions came to Broken Dragon Village, and since then we have used Broken Dragon Village as our refuge, and the cultivation of Kturu has taken place in the past twenty years since we settled. ”
Guo Jia clenched the seven-star sword and asked righteously, "After so many years of settling in Broken Dragon Village, how many innocent people have you killed?" ”
Jiang Kui raised his eyebrows, and a hideous smile appeared on his face: "Daochang Guo, I don't know if you have found it?" The population of this village is very sparse, and most of the villagers are middle-aged and elderly, and young people are rarely seen. ”
Hearing Jiang Kui's words, the confusion in Guo Jia's heart was finally solved, and a reasonable explanation was found for the sense of disobedience that occurred when he entered the village yesterday afternoon.
"Even you mortals want to defeat the 'Divine Family'? What are you kidding, none of you want to get out alive today! Jiang Kui shouted with a hideous face, and his speech was a little incoherent.
Guo Jia calmed down, he stared at Jiang Kui with his eyebrows, and asked tentatively: "Master Jiang, we are a dead end anyway, and we can't escape from the palm of your hand." But if you die like this, you don't feel very willing! Before we die, I want to know more about Ktulu, can you tell us? ”
At this time, Jiang Kui was already carried away by the victory in front of him, he saw that Guo Jia and Zhou Kui had no room to fight back, and said in an arrogant tone: "Okay, then I will fulfill you and let you go to the Yin Cao Road to be a ghost!" ”
When Guo Jia heard Jiang Kui's words, he couldn't help but laugh: "This guy is too easy to deceive, right?" ”
"It all started 20 years ago......"
Jiang Kui talked endlessly for almost half an hour, listening to Zhou Kui drowsy, Guo Jia extracted a few useful pieces of information from his rambling and illogical tirade.
In a certain province in the Central Plains, there exists a mysterious organization called the "Séance Society", and Jiang Kui and his three companions are members of this organization.
What kind of organization is the "Séance"? Even Jiang Kui himself couldn't say clearly, he was only a member at the lowest level of the organization, obeying orders from his superiors and doing things according to orders.
One day in July 20 years ago, Jiang Kui and his companions were ordered by their superiors to go to a city in South China to carry out a confidential mission, but they did not expect their whereabouts to be known in advance by the Heavenly Master Mansion of Longhu Mountain, and the four of them were surrounded and intercepted by the Taoist priests of the Heavenly Master Mansion as soon as they entered the city.
With the assistance of their local colleagues, the four of them finally escaped from the pursuit of the Heavenly Master's Mansion without danger, and fled all the way south to the area of Broken Dragon Mountain in the southeast of Y Province.
Fortunately, with the guidance of well-wishers, Jiang Kui and his companions came to Broken Dragon Village, and the four of them settled here from then on.
Broken Dragon Village is a very poor, backward village, the local villagers' feudal superstition is deep-rooted, for these few Mr. Yin and Yang from other places, the villagers can be said to be respectful, treat them as guests, delicious food and drink to serve.
In order to further win the trust and support of the villagers, Jiang Kui and his companions cast spells in front of the villagers many times and helped the villagers in difficulty solve many problems.
Over time, the villagers of Broken Dragon Village admired and respected the four of them even more, and none of them dared to raise their voices of doubt.
During the twenty years that Jiang Kui and his family stayed in Broken Dragon Village, they used the secret evil method of the séance society to refine and cultivate many monsters, including the octopus monster.
Due to the fact that the growth of monsters requires living people as food, many villagers in Broken Dragon Village have unfortunately become the food of monsters. Before the arrival of Jiang Kui and the four people, the total population of Broken Dragon Village was 1,000 people, and twenty years later, there were less than 100 people left in Broken Dragon Village, most of whom were middle-aged and elderly, and there were few strong young people left.
In order to save the precarious village, Lin Zhengwu negotiated with Jiang Kui and others, and the two sides agreed: At the end of each month, Broken Dragon Village must offer three to five newborns or the elderly who are about to reach the end of the month as living sacrifices to the monsters.
But this is not a long-term solution, as the tourist attractions near Broken Dragon Village have been developed one after another, Lin Zhengwu found a business opportunity, that is, by cooperating with illegal travel agencies from other places, recruiting some young tourists to travel to Broken Dragon Village, these unsuspecting tourists will unknowingly become a delicious meal in the mouth of the monster, thus effectively solving the problem of the supply of living sacrifices.
Whenever an outsider is devoured by a monster, the village will announce that the whereabouts of such and such a tourist are unknown, so that the police will send a large number of police to the remote village to investigate, and the rest of the matter is needless to say.
In short, Lin Zhengwu and Jiang Kui colluded with each other and committed unspeakable heinous crimes.
As for Li Si's corpse transformation, it was purely an accident, and even Jiang Kui and the others did not expect it.
The night before yesterday, Li Si went to a friend's house for dinner, and he was drunk during the banquet. After dinner, his friend helped Li Si go home and came to the vicinity of Green Snake Ridge, Li Si was full of wine, insisting that he could go home alone and didn't want others to help him.
The friend was not worried about Li Si, so he secretly followed him for a while, but he didn't expect Li Si to climb the Green Snake Ridge and walk to a mound of dirt halfway up the mountain.
Only a minute later, I heard Li Si let out a scream, and my friend saw Li Si fall into the mound and disappear.
In the early morning of the next day, under the guidance of Jiang Kui, the village chief Lin Zhengwu found Li Si's body from a cave in the back mountain.
According to Jiang Kui's statement, Li Si did not die when he fell into the hole, but because he fell from a height, his whole body was fractured and he could not move, and Li Si, who was paralyzed in place, became food for the octopus monster.
"Ketulu usually swallows the person into the stomach with mouthparts, and then slowly digests it, and finally only a small amount of bone residue is excreted to the outside. Of course, there are exceptions, and people like Li Si who are in a near-death state are no longer fresh in Kturu's opinion. Instead of devouring this type of food whole, Kturu pierced the human head with his tentacles and sucked the marrow of the human brain, leaving a deep hole in the back of the human head. ”
"Maybe it's because Ketulu's tentacles are contaminated with a strong yin aura, and Li Si died tragically in the process of being sucked into the brain marrow, which has produced an unusually strong resentment. The resentment of the dead combined with the sinister aura of Kturu himself gave birth to an extremely rare monster called the white-haired zombie. ”
Jiang Kui calmly told the truth of everything, which was a trivial matter that was not worth mentioning in his opinion, but Guo Jia and Zhou Kui had already heard it with righteous indignation, and they wanted to cut Jiang Kui and Lin Zhengwu, these heinous bastards, with a thousand knives.