Chapter 50: The Corresponding Price
"You're Snow Boy, Xue Fei's younger brother?" Dong Sizhi looked at him seriously, and then asked.
"Yes."
"Sure enough, it's as beautiful as your sister, it's a pleasure to know you."
"It's been awarded, and I'm also very honored to know you, beautiful Miss Dong Si."
I stared at them in disbelief with wide eyes. Is this still the Snow Boy I know? Why is talking to Dong Si like this?
"Hey, why do you talk to Dong Si so softly, but talk to us so coldly?" I had some doubts about what I was seeing.
The snow boy glanced at me out of the corner of his eye. "What people, what treatment." The tone was still cold.
Oops, I can't bear this little temper anymore, "What is the name of who and what is treated, Dong Si, you get out of the way, I want to have a good chat with him about who I am." ”
"Oh, don't make trouble with the two of you, were you two enemies in your last life? I don't want to think about what time it is, and have you forgotten something? Before I could get any further, Xuan Xuan was between the two of us.
Forgot something? Ah! By the way, and the shaman on the high platform! I looked to the high platform with hindsight. And the building has long been empty.
"Oh no, let that guy run." I said with annoyance.
"No, look over there." Dong Si said to me in the distant sky.
I looked in the direction he was pointing, and it turned out to be a bird. In her hand was a man who had escaped at some point.
In a turbulent current, the bird landed. With a "poof", the shaman was casually thrown in front of us, and then bowed his head to greet the snow boy next to him.
Seeing his accomplice frozen into an ice sculpture by the Snow Boy, this guy was almost frightened. Trembling, he knelt on the ground, not daring to raise his head.
"See what happened to them?" Snow Boy asked.
"Look, I see, please, let me go, whatever you ask me to do, just spare my life."
The shaman knelt there and pounded his head repeatedly, so that even some of their companions saw it, and there was shame in their eyes. What a spineless guy.
"I ask you, what is in the middle of the lake? You control what you want to do with it. It's better that you tell the truth, or else......" Snow Boy said as he condensed an ice spike in his hand and dangled it in front of the shaman.
"I said, I'm telling the truth." Looking at the ice spikes that were only a few centimeters away from his eyes, and feeling the biting chill, the shaman's heart was in a state of complete collapse. So, like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, he told the ins and outs of the monster in the lake.
It turns out that they were originally just a group of second-rate gods, and they usually relied on pretending to be gods and ghosts to fool around and spend some money. But by chance, they learned the secret of the lake, that is, there was a monster hidden in the lake all along. If it weren't for the fact that one night, they bumped into a monster exhaling on the surface of the lake to absorb spiritual power and were discovered by them, maybe everything here would be untouched.
When they found the monster, they were planning how to catch it. And I believe that as long as they have this monster, it will be easier for them to deceive and make a fortune.
So, in order to successfully catch the monsters in the lake, they almost moved their old books, and turned out all the charms left by the ancestor to press the bottom of the box. After months of crouching, when the yokai finally surfaced again, he used a charm to control it.
They don't know what kind of monster it is, but it doesn't matter. The important thing is that with this youkai. They became the representatives of the river gods in the hearts of the local population.
The fog that this monster spits out can cover a large area, and they take advantage of this characteristic to regularly feed the monster some hallucinogenic drugs, and over time they have that colored haze. Once people enter the fog, it will have the same effect as taking drugs, which gives some people who are already living a difficult life an outlet for catharsis, and they even lie that it is a blessing from the river god and can bring happiness to believers. Slowly, these people spread to ten, ten to hundred. Soon their names, along with the fame of the river gods, became known to everyone on the island. And there are more and more believers, and thus there is the scene we see.
At this time, Gu Xuanniao walked over and stretched out his hand, revealing a charm in his palm that exuded a quaint aura and had long been yellowed.
"This is the spell they used to control the monsters, and this spell was originally very powerful, and if it was used by its original owner, I guess even I wouldn't be able to compete with it. It's a pity that it fell into the hands of these guys who don't know how to learn. It really tarnished the glory of their ancestors. ”
As she spoke, Gu won the bird's hand, and this originally very powerful auxiliary turned into ashes in her hands, followed its original owner, and disappeared between heaven and earth.
"As for that youkai, it's actually just an ordinary mirage. That is, a big clam with a spiritual root. Because it absorbs the spiritual power of heaven, earth, sun and moon all year round, it can exhale qi to form a fog, and if you continue to practice, it can even form a mirage. After I took off the charm, I set him free. After all, he didn't really hurt anyone. Gu Xue Bird said.
"So, are all the blessings of the river gods deceitful? Every time we donate so much grain to harvest, are we all in the water? A hoarse voice asked.
I looked back, and I didn't know when the fog had lifted. And those who had lost themselves in the fog also came to their senses. Presumably, they have heard a lot of things just now.
"Those tributes are our blood and sweat! Have you been greedy for ink like this? We all trust you so much, do you repay us like that? ”
A fisherman asked the kneeling shaman with red eyes. I recognized him as the father who was leading the child.
The shaman knelt on the ground, not daring to answer, let alone raise his head to meet the eyes of the people.
The five fingers of the snow boy's right hand on the side moved slightly, and the four guys who were like ice sculptures were thawed in an instant and collapsed to the ground. However, they did not rejoice in the time they had been freed. Because the angry crowd has already gathered around......
After stepping out of the crowd, I looked back with some concern.
"Is that really good?"
The Snow Boy didn't even look back and said, "Everyone has to pay the corresponding price for what they do, and only in this way can it be fair to treat all living beings." ”
"Don't worry, although the inhabitants here are a little ignorant, they are still simple and kind in nature. So it won't kill anyone, at best, it's just a meal of flesh and skin. Gu Xuaniao guessed my mind and said to me with a smile.
I looked behind me suspiciously, and then at Gu Huoniao.
"Well, that's all there is to it."