Chapter 22: The Child's Cry

Feng Yi heard what he said solemnly, and wondered: "What strange thing? ”

The man looked frightened and said, "All those who do not return at night will become a madman the next day, and they will lose their minds, and they will not even know their families." ”

Feng Yi was shocked when he heard this, and he was skeptical, and said, "There is still such a thing?"

The man accepted a piece of Kunlun jade, and he wanted to walk away, but when he saw that Feng Yi kept pulling, he was afraid that he would not let go if he didn't hear the details. In desperation, he had no choice but to say, "Of course there is." Every night, someone will hear the cry of a baby, which is very scary. There is a legend in this Yuge city, more than ten years ago, for a time, the newborn babies in the city would disappear for no reason, and people said that it was the ghosts of those babies who sought revenge against the people in the city. ”

Feng Yi has never believed in this kind of ghost and god statement, and scoffed at it. But suddenly noticed that the fairy beside him showed a trace of strangeness.

After the man finished speaking, he also said, "Brother Tai, let's find an inn as soon as possible, don't stay." ”

Feng Yi was noncommittal and waved his hand. The man strode as if he had been pardoned, and disappeared at the end of the road.

Feng Yi waited for the man to leave, and couldn't help but say: "Sure enough, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, the city lord of this Yuge City is a demon, and there are so many strange things in the city." Fairy, did you just find something?"

The Yuxi Fairy was silent for a moment, and suddenly said, "The legend of this Yuge City may be related to my people. ”

Feng Yi had already vaguely guessed in his heart, but the details were not clear, so he asked, "Oh, what is the relationship?"

The fairy said: "Now in the wilderness, the nine-tailed fox has become a synonym for enchantment. But few people know that Qingqiu Country was on a fairy island in the East China Sea hundreds of years ago, and there were many fairy trees and beautiful jade on the island. ”

Feng Yi nodded when he heard this, thinking of the fate of the nine-tailed fox clan for a hundred years, he couldn't help but sigh, and then secretly thought: "The culprit of all the blame is Ji Wenming, my ancestor can really do a lot of evil, but he is a saint who controls the flood and saves the people of the world." Hey, there's really only a thin line between this saint and the demon!"

The fairy said: "Later, the reason why the nine-tailed fox was shouted and killed by the people in the Great Wilderness, in addition to the reputation being tarnished, there is another reason, that is, the blood of the nine-tailed fox is rumored to be one of the medicine sources of immortality. ”

Feng Yi Daqi: "Immortal medicine?"

The fairy nodded and said, "Yes, this immortal elixir was originally an immortal elixir, and mortals cannot obtain it." But among the laypeople in the world, who doesn't want to live forever, many people secretly catch the nine-tailed fox and kill it for blood. Speaking of which, if it weren't for the pure fox catching up with Yu Hanxun, I'm afraid the nine-tailed fox clan would have been wiped out long ago. ”

Feng Yi was shocked when he heard this, and said, "But the pure fox is just to take advantage of the clansmen, and he is still a big bad person." ”

The fairy was noncommittal and said, "Actually, the blood of the nine-tailed fox is just some spiritual power, and if you want to make immortal medicine, you are still far away." The reason why the people in the Great Wilderness believe this rumor is because of a characteristic of the nine-tailed fox. ”

Feng Yi was a little curious and asked, "What characteristics?"

"When the nine-tailed fox was first born, it was actually like an ordinary fox, with only one tail, and it could only live for a hundred years at that time. After a hundred years, the nine-tailed fox will become very weak, and slowly become like a baby, and must be protected by others, absorbing the spirit of heaven and earth, before slowly growing up and growing a second tail, and then it can live for two hundred years. ”

"If the cycle continues, when the ninth tail grows, you will live for a thousand years!"

"But after the destruction of Qingqiu Country, the nine-tailed fox came to the Great Wilderness, and there were dangers everywhere, and the spiritual power was extremely weak, and there were very few people who could grow the nine-tails. ”

Feng Yi was greatly surprised and sighed: "Sure enough, it is a natural spiritual creature, no wonder some people think that the blood of the nine-tailed fox can be used as an immortal medicine." ”

The fairy said: "Those who have bad intentions are taking advantage of the weakness of the nine-tailed fox to take the opportunity to kill it. In the past hundred years, there are probably no less than 10,000 clansmen who have died like this. ”

Feng Yi said angrily: "It's too much, there are so many life-prolonging elixirs in the world, isn't it enough for them to eat?"

The feather fairy sighed: "How can the elixir satisfy them, if they can, they can't wait to pluck the sun and moon in the sky and eat it." ”

Feng Yi laughed and said: "I heard that a few decades ago, there was a Hou Yi who shot the sun, and he shot the sun in the sky, so he didn't want to eat it." ”

The fairy smiled: "This Hou Yi is a big hero, and what he shoots is not the sun, but a kind of divine bird." ”

Feng Yiqi said: "Divine Bird?"

The fairy said angrily: "Don't talk too far. Let me ask you, if you are a member of the Nine-Tails, you are shouted and killed, caught and eaten. What should you do?"

Feng Yi thought for a moment and said, "I don't know, I can only hide far away." ”

The fairy said, "What if you can't hide?"

Feng Yi clenched his fists and said, "That Lao Tzu fought with them." ”

The fairy smiled: "There are many masters in the Great Wilderness, and there are countless evil hearts. How many can you fight? Let me ask you, if there is a way to get you back up quickly when you're weak, can you do it?"

Feng Yixi said: "There is such a way, of course we have to do it." After a pause, he suddenly felt a little strange and asked, "What is the solution?"

The fairy put away her smile and said lightly: "Cannibalism!"

Feng Yi trembled in fright and stammered, "Eat...... Cannibalism!"

The fairy nodded, "Yes, and it is not an ordinary person who eats it, but a newborn baby." ”

Feng Yi was dumbfounded, not knowing what to say, and said after a while: "Fairy, you just said that the missing baby in the city is related to your people, is that what you said?"

The fairy said, "Exactly." According to my guess, when the pure fox settled 3,000 clansmen in Yuge City, the clansmen ate a lot of babies. That's why there are legends in the city. ”

Feng Yi was stunned for a moment and said, "Eat, it's always wrong to eat people." ”

The feather fairy looked angry, and said coldly: "Why can people in the Great Wilderness eat nine-tailed foxes, but nine-tailed foxes can't eat people?"

Feng Yi didn't know how to deal with it, and he was afraid that he would make the fairy unhappy by saying the wrong thing, so he said after a while: "Both sides are wrong." However, if you eat people for self-preservation, you have no choice but to do so. ”

After a while, Feng Yi suddenly remembered something, looked at the fairy in horror, and asked, "Fairy, are you...... Have you ever eaten someone?"

Seeing his appearance, the Yuxi Fairy laughed and said, "Silly boy, this fairy worships the Queen Mother of the West as his teacher, and lives in Kunlun Mountain, so why should he eat people? ”

Feng Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he was still thinking about the scene of the fairy with blood on the corner of his mouth just now, eating the baby's little hands, it was really the coexistence of beauty and evil, and it was indescribably thrilling. Hearing this at this moment, he smiled and said, "What I said is that I was too worried." ”

The feather fairy said gloomily: "You are right, it is always wrong to eat people. As a holy woman, I can't watch my people being besieged and killed, and I am guilty of conniving at it. ”

Feng Yi was relieved: "This has nothing to do with you, fairy, if I were a nine-tailed fox, I would definitely eat people without hesitation." It is better to kill someone than to be killed. He said this from the bottom of his heart, Feng Yi has been mixed at the bottom since he was a child, and he has never been a saint with compassion.

When the fairy heard what he said, he suddenly felt a warmth in his heart, and immediately said: "Since I heard about the clansmen eating people, I have stopped eating any living creatures, and I rarely eat even fruit elixirs. Every day, he only eats and drinks dew, and makes a living by absorbing spiritual power from spirit Gu. ”

Feng Yi praised: "The fairy comes from the sky, so naturally it is not the grain of the world." A layman like a kid still thinks that chicken, duck and fish are a little more delicious, haha!"

He smiled and asked, "Then the crying of the children who appeared in the city at night, and those people who went crazy for no reason, are also related to the nine-tailed fox?"

The feather fairy looked puzzled and said, "I don't know. Now that the nine-tailed fox is protected by the pure fox, it will no longer be surrounded and killed, and they don't need to eat babies. ”

Feng Yi said secretly: "This may not be. But it was hard to say this, so I had to say, "Let's find an inn to stay in first, and then inquire about the news." ”

After that, the two walked forward and saw a restaurant, there were no customers at the door, and it was about to close. Feng Yi hurriedly walked over and was about to open a room, when the shopkeeper looked at Feng Yi and suddenly said, "The guest officer stays, there is no room left." With that, he slammed the door shut.

Feng Yi scolded, and looked for the next inn, so he found four or five, but there were no guest rooms.

Feng Yi was puzzled and felt that something was wrong.

I was about to go further, but I heard the fairy say, "Don't waste your efforts. ”

As soon as Feng Yi turned around, the fairy said again: "It seems that the shopkeeper of the first Drunken Immortal Mansion has a wide range of means, and has notified all the inns in the city to not let us live in it." ”

Feng Yi knew the fairy's means of reading people's minds, and was furious when he heard this: "That fat guy is like a pig, and his mind is so vicious." Looks like he's trying to force us back. The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, especially when I thought that the fat shopkeeper was probably doing this because he coveted the fairy, and I was even more angry.

"His grandmother's, I'm going back to settle accounts with him, dare to bully me. ”

He was about to turn back, but he saw the fairy standing still, looking ahead.

Feng Yi followed her gaze, but saw that there was no one on the road, and all the restaurants and shops on the side of the road were closed. At some point, a little mist arose around, and through the misty moonlight, there was a strange aura.

Suddenly, in the mist, there were faint bursts of baby crying, hoarse, crying that made people's hearts tremble.

Feng Yi was shocked when he heard this, and couldn't help but think: "Could it be ...... The nine-tailed fox in the city is still stealing babies?"

He was a little indignant, but he didn't dare to confirm it, so he hurriedly lifted his divine pupils to look over, but saw a few graceful figures appear in the dense fog, walking between them, their waists and limbs twisted, and their temperament was bewitching, which made people's blood rage.

When the figure approached, Feng Yi saw that they were each carrying a cage in their hands, and in each cage was a baby, white and fat, with a big mouth, and crying.

Feng Yi was furious, and was about to step forward to snatch it, but suddenly saw that the leading woman was quite familiar, he recalled it, but he had not yet spoken.

But I heard Yu Xi say lightly: "Xuantao, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”